Most artists have mentors or schools or, at least, other artists with whom they compare notes. "Outsider" artists have only themselves. Self-taught — and, in some cases, incarcerated, whether in mental institutions or prisons — they make art that's shockingly individual, whether they're working in watercolors or shredded postage stamps.
See for yourself at this weekend's Outsider Art Fair. Sixty-five exhibitors from New York and as far afield as Paris, Dallas and Turin, Italy — dealers whom show runner and gallery owner Andrew Edlin calls a "community of zealots" — are offering roughly 2,500 works priced from $500 to $500,000.
That last is for canvases by Henry Darger (1892-1973), who spent most of his life working as a janitor in a Chicago hospital. Only after his death were his vivid watercolors and fantasy-themed collages discovered.
Also on exhibit are works by Judith Scott. Born with Down syndrome and deafened by scarlet fever, she spent 35 years in an institution for the disabled until her sister became her guardian, bringing Scott to California and enrolling her in a creative workshop. A visiting fiber artist struck a chord; soon Scott was making her own yarn works — amazing, beautiful creations now selling for $50,000 and more.


A school in Norway has replaced chairs with large rubber exercise balls — and the pupils love it.
Dag Voigt, the headmaster of Bjerkreim School in Rogaland, south of Stavanger, decided to experiment with the balls with two classes back in 2005 after a local physiotherapist Tore Jakobsen came to him with the idea.
According to a documentary on the initiative, Ball versus Chair, the children quickly developed better core muscles and stronger backs, without any adverse impact on their studies.
The school now uses balls instead of chairs for all pupils between the ages of 10 and 13, arguing that as the balls are actually cheaper than chairs, it is not a major additional cost.
interviewed for the documentary, Jakobsen said that the benefits appear to come simply from increasing the movement children made during lessons.
Ball vs Chair (Ball vs Stol) was made by the Oslo-based film company Heisholt Inc, and has been broadcast on the website of the Aftenposten newspaper.
Terese Aalborg, the film's director, said that she had had the idea when she was researching ways to improve school for her own daughter, who found it hard sitting still in the classroom.
She said pupils at the school had all said they liked having balls in the classroom.
"Everyone I talked to loved it: they wouldn't go back to sitting on chairs," she said. "A ball is softer, a chair is very hard, it's very static and you can't move very easily. They could see that they were getting stronger. They could really feel the difference."


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Manhunt underway after married couple accused of murder overpower guards, escape
Posted: Aug 30, 2019 / 09:43 AM CDT / Updated: Aug 30, 2019 / 09:43 AM CDT
TUCSON, Ariz. – A married couple wanted for murder escaped custody in southern Utah by faking a medical emergency, according to the US Marshals Service.
"We believe that they used some kind of a medical emergency or medical bathroom break for them to pull over to the side of the road," said David Gonzales, US Marshal for the district of Arizona. "And once they got over to the side of the road, they were able to overpower them, bind them and threw them in the back of the van they were in."
Blane Barksdale, 56, and Susan Barksdale, 59 escaped custody Monday night as they were being transported from Henrietta, New York, to Pima County, Arizona. They were being extradited to face charges of arson, burglary and murder in connection with the death of Frank Bligh, a 72-year-old Vietnam veteran who was killed in April in Tucson, Arizona.
Their escape set off a manhunt across the Southwest, and the US Marshals Service is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for each for information leading to their arrest.
After the couple tied up the male and female guard in the back of the van, they drove to a remote area in northeast Arizona to meet with another person and get a new vehicle. The Barksdales then drove to an isolated area and left the van and the guards behind.
The guards managed to free themselves after a few hours, and they notified the Apache County Sheriff's Department, Gonzales said. By that time, the Barksdales had been gone for about six hours.
"We are trying to make up for lost time," Gonzales said.
Tucson police said the Barksdales are armed and dangerous and should not be approached. Gonzales said he was particularly concerned because the couple need money and perhaps another vehicle.
On Tuesday, Tucson Police said the couple's direction of travel is unknown, but investigators have information that they are possibly traveling through Arizona.
They were last seen driving a red GMC Sierra pickup, Arizona license plate No. 127XTY, with damage to the front passenger side and rear bumper, police said. Blane Barksdale has numerous tattoos on his arms and hands.
The Pima County Sheriff's Department suspended its use of Security Transport Services, the company tasked with moving the suspects across the country, pending a review of the incident.
Suspected of a fire and a murder
The investigation into the couple began in April when police responded to a fire that led to an explosion at Bligh's home. But he and his vehicle were nowhere to be found, and investigators discovered evidence that the fire was set intentionally, and that Bligh had been killed, Tucson police said.
On May 1, an arrest warrant was issued for the Barksdales on charges including first-degree murder, first-degree burglary, arson and auto theft, police said.
But the Barksdales had fled the state, sparking a nationwide search. They were found in Henrietta, New York, a suburb of Rochester, and arrested without incident on May 24, Tucson Police said on May 24.
Bligh was a veteran of the Vietnam War and was in the Air Force Reserves after the war, the victim's brother William Bligh said. He said that his brother and Susan Barksdale were good friends, but she had changed since meeting her new husband.
CNN was not able to identify an attorney for the couple.
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Endymion announces musical performances for the 2020 Extravaganza

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Innumerable musicians are in "cover bands," wherein they reproduce other artists' usually well-known songs, but singer and guitarist Jim Kweskin turns this common precept on its ear.
Mr. Kweskin, who plays Claremont's Folk Music Center at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, November 3, has made a name for going on 60 years by finding old songs—in most cases very old songs—and adding his own imprint.
He's been providing this service to songs of a certain age since the early 1960s, when along with Fritz Richmond, Geoff Muldaur, Maria Muldaur, Bob Siggins and Bruno Wolfe, he founded the influential Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band. The Boston-based group took pre-World War II material from blues, jazz, pop and country and filtered it through their lens to arrive at something that struck a chord with the burgeoning folk scene.
Also atypically for the early-1950s, he would scour antique stores for obscure 78s from such "uncool" to the teens of the era artists such as doomed early jazz cornetist Bix Biederbecke and legendary folk/blues 12-string guitarist, singer and composer Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter.
But this is not to infer he was unmoved by the carnal thrum of the raw early rock 'n' roll of the 1950s; He was, after all, a teenaged boy.
As musicians say, the kid's ears were wide open.
The Jug Band hit its stride in 1963 with the release of its debut, "Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band," on Vanguard. The band quickly won a following with its blend of humor, stellar musicianship and eclectic song selection.
By the time they released their fourth record, "Garden of Joy," in 1967, they'd hosted up and comers Janis Joplin and Linda Ronstadt as opening acts, and had influenced younger musicians on both coasts, who would go on to form the Lovin' Spoonful in New York, Long Beach's The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (which for a time included Claremont musical legend Chris Darrow, son of longtime COURIER cartoonist Paul Darrow), and in San Francisco, a little band called The Grateful Dead.
After the Jug Band disbanded, Mr. Kweskin went on to release about a dozen more records on his own or with various collaborators, with the latest, "Unjugged," coming out in 2017.
Along with his interpretive skills, Mr. Kweskin is also a highly-regarded guitarist. His playing is influenced by the ragtime and blues fingerpicking of Blind Boy Fuller and Mississippi John Hurt. He overlays these distinct styles with sophisticated jazz voicings, creating a unique hybrid.
Aside from a gap in the 1980s and '90s, where he was publicly inactive in the music business, Mr. Kweskin has been at it since his early 20s. He's approaching 80 years old now and has lived in West Hollywood for about a dozen years, so a solo gig in Claremont isn't too much of a production.
He's grateful that he's able to continue to record and tour and shows no signs of slowing down, save an appropriately modest travel schedule.
He's currently in the midst of mixing a new album featuring singer Samoa Wilson that he hopes to release in spring 2019.
Tickets for Jim Kweskin's 7:30 p.m. November 3 show at Claremont's Folk Music Center, 220 Yale Ave., are $20, and are available at the store or at the door.
For more info, visit jimkweskin.com.


Really a good one. I miss leuenda posts.
By the way, I like your moto.
Terrific! What audience would not like this? It would be a treat indeed!
Thanks, I like it too. A good reminder.
Great performance, all three parts!!!


Background: The determination of organic acids and glycine conjugates in urine is key for the diagnosis and follow-up of several inborn errors of metabolism (IEM). However, clinical interpretations may still be hindered by ambiguity in the sources of some urinary organic acids and acylglycines as well as in the relationship between their excretion and IEM.
Approach: Relevant data have been compiled from major books and references on the topic and by exhaustive bibliographic searches through the Medline and Current Contents databases.
Content: A comprehensive table has been designed according to organic acids and conjugates. This table is intended to assist in the interpretation of organic acid profiles because, in addition to IEM, it also refers to other pathologic causes and to physiologic, nutritional, iatrogenic, and artifactual sources. Some preanalytical issues, including possible misinterpretations, are reviewed with regard to IEM.


This study, conducted on the Crow Indian reservation in Southwest Montana, examined the incorporation of written Crow in teaching Crow language through a series of semi-structured interviews with Crow language teachers and others in the Crow language maintenance movement. The grounded theory qualitative approach yielded recommendations regarding the need for teacher training, for material development, for curriculum planning, and for expanded visibility of written language in the community. The study presents evidence to support an eclectic approach to Crow language teaching.


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Political considerations forced [John Leslie] Powell and [Walter Ashby] Plecker to amend their iron-clad, white-supremacy law [The Racial Integrity Act of 1924] that defined as white only a person with no trace of non-white blood. Some of the leading families of Virginia, who took pride in claiming descent from John Rolfe and Pocahontas, took umbrage at being classified as inferior non-whites. This concern led to the creation of the "Pocahontas clause" which classified as white those individuals with no other non-caucasic blood than one-sixteenth or less the blood of the American Indian. Following this amendment, the bill sailed through the legislature. Thus, once all "historically-white", upper-class Virginians were protected, the law gained tremendous support. Racism, science, and social control interacted to mediate the law's provisions. The law would remain in effect, unchanged, for 43 years. Throughout that time it would be enforced by vigilant county court clerks and local vital statistics registrars. As late as 1945, Plecker lobbied a lawyer to push for a conviction under the miscegenation statute: "We attach great importance to this case, and we hope that you will fight it to a finish in the effort to secure an annulment for miscegenation, not for desertion or any other cause." Plecker sought validation of the law through strict racial classification and a mass of successful precedent-setting prosecutions.
Gregory Michael Dorr, "Principled Expediency: Eugenics, Naim v. Naim, and the Supreme Court,"�The American Journal of Legal History (Volume 42, Number 2, April, 1998), 127-128.
"Often race is used as a variable without people really defining it biologically, and that is a very minimum we should expect from a scientific variable that you'll be able to define it biologically."
Posted in Excerpts/Quotes on 2019-11-22 23:24Z by Steven
"Often race is used as a variable without people really defining it biologically, and that is a very minimum we should expect from a scientific variable that you'll be able to define it biologically. They just treat these social categories as though they are biological without really doing the legwork to figure out why that is a valid way to think about these things." —Angela Saini
Bob McDonald, "The return of race science — the quest to fortify racism with bad biology," Quirks & Quarks, CBC Radio, November 15, 2019. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/nov-16-watching-wildfire-with-radar-the-return-of-race-science-and-more-1.5359599/the-return-of-race-science-the-quest-to-fortify-racism-with-bad-biology-1.5359610.
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The return of race science — the quest to fortify racism with bad biology
Posted in Articles, Audio, Health/Medicine/Genetics, Media Archive on 2019-11-21 21:03Z by Steven
Quirks & Quarks
Bob McDonald, Host and CBC's Chief Science Correspondent
An anti-racism demonstrator holds a placard during a protest march in 2018 in London, U.K. Author Angela Saini said when she grew up as an ethnic minority in the city, there was a lot of racism in her area. (Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty)
A look at the re-emergence of 'scientific' attempts to explain perceived racial differences
In an era of rising ethnic nationalism and white supremacy, a British science writer's new book explores why old notions of "race science" are finding new popularity.
This revival drew Angela Saini to explore the history and new life that's been given to the idea that science can justify old ideas of human difference based on skin colour, nationality or religion — what she called the biologization of race. The persistence of this idea in the modern era can be seen in a variety of ways, from the popularity of dubious DNA ancestry testing to shadowy online groups repackaging scientific racism for the 21st century.
In her new book Superior: The Return of Race Science, Saini traces the history of race science back to the Age of Enlightenment, when philosophers and European thinkers started to classify human beings based on colour or other superficial features, the same way they classified plants or other animals.
Quirks & Quarks host Bob McDonald spoke with Saini about a range of topics: how modern science shows that racial categories are social constructs, not well-defined biological categories; how notions of race science are fed by and feed into politics; and how well-intentioned scientists should think about studying questions about human difference, including marginalized groups who may share susceptibility to disease…
Read the article an listen to the interview here.
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She was being raised as a white child in Texas while her Haitian father was fighting racism in Montreal
Posted in Articles, Audio, Canada, Family/Parenting, Media Archive, Texas, United States on 2019-11-12 19:54Z by Steven
The Doc Project
Shari Okeke, Producer
Rhonda Fils-Aimé and her father, Philippe, at a family gathering this year in Braunfels, Texas. (Submitted by Rhonda Fils-Aimé)
Rhonda Fils-Aimé was adopted by a white family as a baby, and her biological father, Philippe, had no idea
Until she was 49 years old, the only information Rhonda Lux had about her family background was that she was German, French and Indian. That's what her adoptive mother had told her, and for most of her life, Rhonda didn't question it.
Rhonda was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1968 and was left in a children's shelter.
"I was adopted by a white family and raised in a white community," she said.
Only recently, in 2017, did Rhonda discover the truth about her racial heritage and manage to find her father, Philippe — who she learned had been part of an historic protest against racism in Montreal…
Read the article and listen to the story (00:28:31) here.
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"Historically, in the United States, if you had one drop of black blood, you were defined as black. You had various names for people who looked as white as their master, but they were defined as black. I didn't grow up identifying as black because of that — for me it was more about pride, culture and my parents' politics."
"Historically, in the United States, if you had one drop of black blood, you were defined as black. You had various names for people who looked as white as their master, but they were defined as black. I didn't grow up identifying as black because of that — for me it was more about pride, culture and my parents' politics. But Maria, like me, walks into a room and people don't see that she's black. She deals with that as a conflict more than just the fact of being mixed. If you pass as white in the world but know yourself not to be white, you're privy to all those uncensored comments about black people that other black people sort of in liberal circles are shielded from. You're constantly aware of this kind of mask falling away." —Danzy Senna
Eleanor Wachtel, "Danzy Senna's darkly comic take on racial identity," Writers & Company with Eleanor Wachtel, CBC Radio, June 15, 2018. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/writersandcompany/danzy-senna-s-darkly-comic-take-on-racial-identity-1.4707804.
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Danzy Senna's darkly comic take on racial identity
Posted in Audio, Interviews, Media Archive, Passing, United States on 2018-12-31 04:21Z by Steven
Writers & Company with Eleanor Wachtel
Eleanor Wachtel, Host
Danzy Senna's novel New People follows graduate student Maria through bohemian Brooklyn in the 1990s as she wrestles with her identity and her future. (Mara Casey)
American novelist Danzy Senna draws on her experience growing up in an interracial family in her edgy, prize-winning fiction. In her latest novel, New People, she writes with insight and subversive humour about what it means to be half-black and half-white.
Senna was born in Boston in 1970 to parents from very different worlds, who wed a year after interracial marriage became legal. Her mother, the poet and novelist Fanny Howe, came from a privileged background, with English/Irish family roots going back to the Mayflower. Her father, the African-American editor and academic Carl Senna, grew up in poverty in the South, the son of an orphaned black mother and absent Mexican father. In her 2009 memoir, Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History, Senna traces her father's family story and her own complicated upbringing following her parents' breakup when she was five years old. Raised with an acute black consciousness, during a time when, as Senna describes it, "'mixed' wasn't an option; you were either black or white," she brings to all her writing an awareness — and astute analysis — of class, race and identity…
Read the entire story here. Listen to the full episode (00:54:47) here.
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"I definitely want to reach people who not only are of mixed ethnicity but who also identify as Black."
"We always hear people say there are no Black people in Vancouver, but there are. I identify as a Black woman. I know there was a larger Black community in Vancouver many years ago, but people have been displaced. I definitely want to reach people who not only are of mixed ethnicity but who also identify as Black."
"I'm writing this for the community that I wish were here now. So whether you are Black, of mixed race or can identify with the trauma parts of the book, I think there are different layers in the work where you can see something different every time. That's what I like with the hybrid form, of poetry and prose." —Chelene Knight
Ryan B. Patrick, "Why Chelene Knight wrote letters to the current occupants of the houses she lived in growing up," CBC Books, March 6, 2018. http://www.cbc.ca/books/why-chelene-knight-wrote-letters-to-the-current-occupants-of-the-houses-she-lived-in-growing-up-1.4533897.
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Why Chelene Knight wrote letters to the current occupants of the houses she lived in growing up
Posted in Articles, Autobiography, Canada, Interviews on 2018-05-10 19:41Z by Steven
CBC Books
Ryan B. Patrick, Associate Producer
Chelene Knight is an author based in Vancouver. (Chelene Knight/BookThug)
Chelene Knight is a Vancouver-based writer and editor. Of Black and East Indian heritage, Knight's Dear Current Occupant mixes poetry and prose to tell a story about home and belonging, set in the 1980s and 1990s of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
The book plays with genre by way of a series of letters addressed to the current occupants now living in the 20 different houses she moved in and out of with her mother and brother. Knight tells CBC Books how she wrote Dear Current Occupant.
A bus ride beginning
"The first draft was originally all poetry, but my publisher suggested I rewrite it as creative nonfiction. I tried to write this book in generic memoir form. I sat down wanting to write about some of my childhood experiences. But it couldn't come out. I thought maybe it's not the right time.
"Then I was on the bus one snowy day and I passed by one of the houses that I lived in as a child and something sparked in me. I got off the bus and I stood in front of this house. I had a notebook with me and I started scribbling. The memories were coming back to me — flooding in — and it was this visceral thing where I needed to be in that place and then be transported back to those times."…
…Writing for others
"I'm writing this for the community that I wish were here now. So whether you are Black, of mixed race or can identify with the trauma parts of the book, I think there are different layers in the work where you can see something different every time. That's what I like with the hybrid form, of poetry and prose."
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'A dirty deed': Fort McMurray Métis demand apology after historic eviction of an Indigenous settlement
Posted in Articles, Canada, Media Archive, Native Americans/First Nation, Politics/Public Policy, Videos on 2018-05-02 15:29Z by Steven
David Thurton, Mobile Journalist
Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Moccasin Flats is the unresolved story of how at least 12 Indigenous families were evicted or relocated from a Fort McMurray riverside community in the late 1970s to make way for a city expanding feverishly to accommodate oilsands growth.
That history still pains Fort McMurray Métis president Gail Gallupe.
"It was really a dirty deed," Gallupe said. "To be ignored and to be treated so shabbily in those days. There was so much discrimination and so much racism."
On Monday, the Fort McMurray Métis local announced it will commission an academic study that aims to clarify details of the contentious removal of the predominantly Métis settlement for oilsands development…
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Bedside Books: How Half-Breed by Maria Campbell connected musician Nick Ferrio to his grandmother
Posted in Arts, Audio, Autobiography, Canada, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive, Native Americans/First Nation on 2018-04-25 23:50Z by Steven
Musician Nick Ferrio examines Maria Campbell's autobiography, Half-Breed, and its depiction of race issues in Canada. (Jeff Bierk/Goodread Biography)
Musician Nick Ferrio is based in Peterborough, Ont., but his roots are in Saskatchewan. He recently read Maria Campbell's memoir Half-Breed and its account of an Indigenous woman's encounters with racism, and the book resonated with him, thanks to his own Cree ancestry.
Ferrio's album Soothsayer also mixes several influences to create a personal style and sound.
Mapping internal conflict
"I think every Canadian should read Half-Breed. It's an incredible story of a mixed woman whose ancestry is part Cree. She explains the racism she faced in Canada. It resonated with me as my paternal grandmother is Cree. Because of the Indian Act, her family was forced to leave the reserve. When she moved to Toronto, she had internal racism. She was ashamed of her identity. She passed as white, so she blended into white culture in Toronto. That's a dark thing."..
Listen to the story here. Read the story here.
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'You Don't Look Black': How I'm Talking to My Kids About Being Mixed Race
Posted in Articles, Canada, Family/Parenting, Media Archive on 2018-04-22 20:48Z by Steven
CBC Parents
Kara Stewart-Agostino
Photo by @criene/Twenty20
"Mama, am I black or white?" This was the question I received one night before bed when my son was in grade 1. A boy in his class had been called the N-word at school and he was full of questions.
He wanted to know what it meant and if someone could call him that. Some of the kids had insisted that he is black because (to their eyes) I am black. Others insisted that he's not because he doesn't "look black."
Although the kids on the school yard perceive me as black, I am the child of a Jamaican born mother and a Scottish/Irish-Canadian born father who met in Winnipeg in the 1970s. As a mixed child, questions of racial identity are not new to me. I think of my kids as second generation mixed Canadians — the cultures of their grandparents are layered and entwined. Their skin is fair enough that they could "pass as white" but both have a head full of curls and tan to a golden brown in the summer sun. Meanwhile their Italian-Canadian born father will burn on a partly cloudy June day…
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Of recent years there has been a significant increase in infrastructure works around Australia, after numerous years of relative inactivity.
When the Victorian government compulsorily acquired a small number of houses in the CBD area, for then planned (but now cancelled) eastern freeway tunnel, there was public outcry and a lot of argument about the merits and rights of the property owners.
This prompted me to re-visit one of my university text books entitled An Anatomy of Risk (Rowe, 1977) which explores a variety of social issues around dealing with risk.
You can never achieve 100 percent agreement on any major project, so clearly our governments need to be able to make changes to prepare our cities for the needs of the whole community in the years to come.
It would appear every major monument ever built has had some level of controversy. Even the iconic and now much-loved Eiffel Tower in Paris was resisted by the locals and leading artists and intellectuals before it was built as a temporary structure for the Paris Exhibition (World Fair) of 1889.
It was planned to be demolished but events leading up to World War I saved it, as it served as a long-range radio antenna for the military. Today the Eiffel Tower earns significant income from tourists, and over 250 million people have visited the tower since it opened to the public.
Imagine the outrage if someone proposed building a large pyramid on the outskirts of Melbourne. The critics would cite the; exorbitant cost, shadows over neighbouring land, miss-use of public funding and dust, traffic and noise during construction and so on.
Now look at Egypt and ask what has been their best investment ever? The answer will almost certainly be the great pyramids of Giza, which continue to earn billions of dollars every year for the country 5,000 years after they were built.
These examples tell us we cannot wait until we have full consensus and that well designed infrastructure will create benefits for many generations.
So, returning to our original question – should governments be allowed to compulsorily acquire private homes? The essential answer is YES!
However, Rowe explains in his book how we should deal with the fairness and equity aspects of such decisions, which benefit the community but adversely affect individuals.
3) Families subject to compulsory relocation are generously compensated, not just given the current market value for their home.
What constitutes "generous compensation" is not possible to state conclusively, as once again you will never get full consensus. However, 30 to 50 percent loading on the value of the home seems a good starting point.
If we follow these simple principles, we should experience less resistance and avoid perceptions of unfair treatment of individuals adversely affected by infrastructure projects.


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Q: Avoid word wrap (and "...") in long tab titles using ViewPager Tab [landscape] How do I avoid word wrap and incomplete tab titles ( like the three '...') in Tabs using ViewPager
See screenshot below:

UPDATE
When I set the following in styles.xml:
<style name="MyTabTextStyle" parent="Base.Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar.TabText">
    <item name="android:maxLines">1</item>
    <item name="android:width">80dp</item>
</style>

it partly works when I DO NOT ADD A LOGO in ActionBarStyle:
<style name="MyActionBarStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar.Solid">

UPDATE 2 - PROBLEM STILL EXIST WITH LOGO
This is the result, when I use ActionBarStyle to add a logo

Thank you in advance

A: The problem is in the width of your TabText widget:
<item name="android:width">80dp</item>

As you see sometimes 80dp is just enough for your content, but sometimes - it's not. You should avoid using fixed width or height. Instead you can use the wrap_content (wide or high enough to fit the content) and match_parent (match the parent size exactly, possibly leaving a lot of "blank space") values.

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Low angle lieback corner with some pods that goes up to a tat anchor at about 90 feet. Mostly baggy fingers and .75, with a few #1s, #2s. A bit dirty and plenty of the feet will crumble off while you climb it but still a nice route.
left of the Monk but right of the 2 tiered Unknown 5.10.
Corner on left. Amazing finger lieback w/ pods.


Okay, here this goes. Kel Tec has created two of my favorite weapons. To be fair to everyone else, I have a rather extensive favorite list that is based mostly off of practical application of novel and helpful changes to what seems like the "standard" weapon designs. As expressed in my short article highlighting some first impressions on the Kel Tec SU-16CA I am a huge fan of the efficiency of this gun, and having put it through its paces (although I was not able to be there for much of the testing) it has proven to be a very sturdy weapon as well as a novel idea. Some day when funds allow I would love to keep one around for a bugout bag.
Since I had very little range time with the SU-16CA I'm going to keep this part brief.
-Had no jamming problems/misfeeds while I was firing other than the SIG magazines which didn't want to feed the last two rounds.
-I love the piston driven gas system for its simplicity and brutal efficiency.
-Not much you can do with the gun as it was shipped to us. (Notably it has a few accessories built in.
-Not the most comfortable gun. I wasn't a fan of the blocky charging handle and it just didn't sit right on the table. More than likely that has to do with my gangly arms though.
On another note, and partially an apology for the lacking amount of content in my most recent posts, I will be taking a bit of a writing sabbatical due to extenuating circumstances. Hopefully I will soon regain both the time, and mental capacity to continue writing for GoG. Until then, Shoot smart and have fun!
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Robotics Professors: Top Experts and Pioneers in Robotics at Indian Colleges
Here are the top robotics professors affiliated with Indian colleges
Robotics has become an important part of education. Almost every college and institute today offers robotics courses. That's because introducing robotics to education means making technical skills and knowledge hands-on and fun, and preparing students for the future. Robotics is a well-rounded approach to educational technology and learning. It is a widespread education subject that could lead to more community and educational opportunities. Education is nothing without good professors. So today, we are going to list the top robotics professors in Indian colleges who exceptionally contributed to the field of robotics.
1. Madhava Krishna
Ph.D. (IIT, Kanpur)
Prof. K Madhava Krishna is currently an Associate Professor at IIIT Hyderabad where has been heading the robotics activities at Robotics Research Center since 2005. His research interests lie primarily in Robotic Vision and Mobile and Multi Robotic Systems, including Aerial Robots and Mechanism Design. He has published papers and research in premier conferences in the areas of robotics, multi-agents, control, and vision. Madhava was awarded Microsoft Young Researcher award for 2008-09 and the best paper award in ICVGIP 2010. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur in 2001. Madhava was a postdoc fellow with Robotics and AI Lab, CNRS in 2002, and visiting faculty with CSCE dept at University of Arkansas 2003 and 2004.
2. Prof. Indra Narayan Kar
Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur)
Prof. Indra Narayan Kar received the Bachelor of Engineering degree from Bengal Engineering College, India, in 1988, and the M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1991 and 1997, respectively, all in electrical engineering. He worked as a research student at Nihon University, Tokyo, under the Japanese government's Monbusho scholarship program from 1996 to 1998. He was a Lecturer of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India from 1998 to 1999. He is currently a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Indra has several research projects from BRNS, Ministry of Information & Technology (one is completed and the rest are in progress). He has more than 95 papers to his credit published in refereed journals and presented in conference proceedings. He also has conducted short-term courses and workshops. His research interests include robust control theory and its applications, system identification, intelligent control, and mechatronics.
3. Prof. Kolin Paul
Ph.D. (BE College, DU)
Prof. Kolin Paul is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Delhi India. He received his B.E degree in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering from NIT Silchar in 1992 and Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2002 from BE College (DU), Shibpur. During 2002-2003, he did his post-doctoral studies at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA. He has previously worked at IBM Software Labs. His last appointment was as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol, UK. Kolin's research interests are in understanding high-performance architectures and compilation systems. In particular, he works in the area of Adaptive/Reconfigurable Computing trying to understand its use and implications in embedded systems.
4. Laxmidhar Behera
Ph.D (IIT Delhi)
Laxmidhar Behera received his BSc (engineering) and MSc (engineering) degrees from NIT Rourkela in 1988 and 1990 respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from IIT Delhi. He has worked as an assistant professor at BITS Pilani during 1995- 1999 and pursued post-doctoral studies in the German National Research Center for Information Technology, GMD, Sank Augustin, Germany, during 2000-2001. He is currently working as a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. He joined the Intelligent Systems Research Center (ISRC), University of Ulster, United Kingdom, as a reader on sabbatical from IIT Kanpur during 2007-2009. He has also worked as a visiting researcher/professor at FHG, Germany, and ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. Laxmidhar has more than 180 papers to his credit published in refereed journals and presented in conference proceedings. His research interests include intelligent control, robotics, semantic signal/music processing, neural networks, control of cyber-physical systems, and cognitive modeling. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
5. Prof. B. Ravindran
Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts)
Prof. B. Ravindran is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He completed his Ph.D. at the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He worked with Prof. Andrew G. Barto on an algebraic framework for abstraction in Reinforcement Learning. His current research interests span the broader area of machine learning, ranging from Spatio-temporal Abstractions in Reinforcement Learning to social network analysis and Data/Text Mining. Much of the work in his group is directed toward understanding interactions and learning from them.
6. Rahul Kala
Ph.D. (University of Reading, UK)
Rahul Kala serves at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, as an Assistant Professor. At this institute, he strives to get a Sangam of teaching, administration, and research. He belongs to the brand new Centre of Intelligent Robotics, which as per the institute map is not the center by any known metric. Here he used to solve all challenging global problems, play with expensive robotic toys, post fun videos online and exhibit the same videos in research conferences/journals; until some sponsors from ministry and industry bribed me for solving their problems.


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My teen son, Zack, has an intense addiction to screens. The minute he wakes up in the morning, he wants to know when he will be able to play his allotted time on his electronics. This fixation overshadows everything. On his bad days, it even strips him of his creativity and patience.
It's a double edged sword for me. On the one hand, I feed his obsession because I can use it as a motivational tool. That kid would scrub my bathroom floor with a toothbrush if it meant the reward of more screen time. On the other hand, if I hear, "When can I play screens?" one more time, I'm going to jump out a window!
As I struggle with how to manage the issue, I realize I can't fault him all that much. He's not the only one with an obsession that he puts first.
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Yes, Claire… I believe that young people, like your son Zach, as well as we adults, even Abraham of the Old Testament need to be honest and alert when obsessive preoccupations and activities take us regularly from our daily responsible tasks. Such obsessions eventually evolve into idols which we may unintentionally be worshiping for huge spaces of time , for so many of us, the screens, both computer and TV, in place of giving our Loving Father first place in our daily responsibilities and worship that each of us are called to prioritize daily, whether young child, teenager or adult. Zach is blessed to have a caring mother like you on his case, for his own well-being, awareness, growth and protection. Hope he listens!
Me too, Jackie! But first, I have to lead by example. I need to overcome my own obsessions and stop making idols of so many things in my life. Oh how the journey never ends!


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At Knowledge17, we got to talk to ServiceNow product management regarding the big new features expected for the Jakarta release of ServiceNow Express.
We've taken this information, and overlayed it with screenshots and resources found on the Enterprise version of the product to provide insight into upcoming Jakarta features for ServiceNow Express.
Access Controls are the enterprise grade security mechanism in instances. Today, you're probably familiar with editing the access controls of a field or table using the 'Dictionary' record, and adding roles to the Create, Read, Write, or Delete options. There were two key limitations here: 1) access could only be role based, and 2) access could only be restricted by column or table, and not by row. This old dictionary method will be replaced by access controls.
Access Controls allow for more granular security definitions that include restrictions at the row level – this means you can limit the incident table based on the assignment group, or limit end users to seeing only their companies incidents as opposed to just their own.
Support for Mid Server use for LDAP is new, and will allow customers to connect to LDAP without opening any inbound connection into their firewall.
An enterprise feature coming to Express is Change Management conflict detection. Change management offers the ability to define blackout windows (when changes should not occur), as well as maintenance windows (when changes should occur). This information is combined with existing change information for a given CI to determine if there is a conflict between either multiple changes, or a change and a maintenance/blackout window.
We were told a number of existing features in Enterprise had been simplified and brought into Express in a 'script free' manner. We will see how these features behave if and when they do get included in the Express platform. Until then, here's information gathered from the Enterprise side!
Create Request UI Action – The ability to right click and incident, and automatically select a Create Request option. This takes a user to the catalog and links the incident to the created request.
List Controls – Ability to fix a query, add/remove buttons on lists, edit cell editing, etc. This is useful to enforce a query where an ACL is also present, to prevent the 'Security Constraints' message from appearing. Also import for adding/removing the 'Edit' option on related lists.
Other features mentioned included additional system properties, alongside a redesigned system property page that would be easier to navigate.
We look forward to an exciting release of ServiceNow Express! Comment your favorite feature below!


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The focus for SHEFS is on bridging the gap between science and practice to understand and solve current social and environmental problems. The project unites partners in different countries to work closely together and share methods, data, knowledge and expertise from a wide range of sources.
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The programme is made up of two linked research components:
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The study cultivates a comprehensive understanding of the links between the environment, food systems and public health, and the policy environments in which those structures are at work. This allows SHEFS to develop policy options and assess their viability in the existing policy environments, before ultimately ensuring policy uptake.
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Food systems are changing rapidly and influencing what we eat, our health and the environment
At the same time, environmental change is challenging food systems' ability to produce enough nutritious food in a sustainable and socially equitable way.
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SALINAS: Perfect for a paddle.
NOT all perennial visitors to Calpe are human tourists. Around 300 flamingos are currently cooling their feet in the Calpe salt beds and like many tourists, they will not be stopping for long.
They tend only to break their onward journeys at the Calpe salinas although many have been there since the spring when 30 young were hatched.
Most of the birds are from the Camargue in France or the Fuente de Piedra lagoon in Malaga. Nevertheless, the rings on birds currently in Calpe show that others came from the Odiel marshes in Huelva, the Macchiareddu lake in Sardinia and Garraa Ezzemoul in Algiera.
The flamingos do not have salt beds all to themselves as the black-winged or pied stilts born earlier this year are still there and grebes – absent for several years – have returned.
The Salinas are an explosion of life at present, with grey herons, shelducks, black-headed gulls and plovers also in residence.
Unnoticed by human visitors, but not the waterfowl, brine shrimps have been detected in the salt beds, again after an absence of some years. This demonstrates that the salinas are in optimum environmental condition, said Calpe's municipal biologist.


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No point putting links to his interview with Gilchrist up, if you haven't heard or seen it by now, that's a pretty big rock. He's a right-handed batsman who has opened for Australia in the past, making his debut against England in the 2017/18 Ashes series, before following it up with one of the all-time bone headed on-field actions against the Saffas in Cape Town. Has played 8 test matches, strikes it about 40%, roughly same as Marcus Harris, and has a top score of 82 not out, with 3 fifties.
Not exactly setting the game alight and didn't really have a big impact in first class cricket before hand, averaging less than 40 runs.
As one of the three cricketers to be suspended, he's the first available for national selection. It creates an intriguing situation, with Warner and Smith all but guaranteed their spots on return from suspension, does Bancroft get a look back in?
He did a pretty good hatchet job on Warner on live TV, personally throwing him under the bus and then reversing over a few times.
Does he make it back? His return to BBL didn't leave anything to be desired.
The letter and the interview reeked of someone who has disappeared up their own bumhole and probably not learned a great deal.
Blatant cheating and then lying about it aside, I just don't know if he has the talent long term.
Go back to shield and see how he goes. Rather persist with Harris for the moment.
Never really rated him as a batsman, and after that interview I don't really rate him as a person. Don't want him back in.
Yep. Even ignoring his actions and interview he has a horrible technique.
He gets the same chance as the other batsmen in the country should.
Shouldn't be a big ask at the moment.
Wouldn't have a problem with him getting back in if he plays the same season in the Shield as he did to get selected the first time. Behind Burns as it stands, but not by much.
Regardless of if he makes it back, suggesting that a poor t20 game should factor into his comeback chances is pretty silly.
He'll get plenty of chances in the Shield. The rest is up to him.
Also, did bugger all at Test level.
How many different threads do we need about these three not so wise men?
I'd have thought his return to the team was about as likely as Marnus Laubuschagne batting at #3 in a deciding Test match against the #1 team in the world.
Leaving aside all the personalities and the interviews and all the rest: Smith and Warner are both good enough to be automatic selections if they are considered available for selection. They are by some margin the best two bats in the country. Bancroft, on the other hand, will need to make FC runs to earn a spot. Questionable whether it would be wise to have him open alongside Warner so if Warner is considered available once his suspension ends and then makes runs on his return, it might be hard for Bancroft to get back in for a few years.
From the same poster no less.
Why doesn't this idiot get anywhere near the same level of backlash as James Hird.
Both cheated, both blamed other people for their mistake. Bancroft is even worse, because it's not like he was whacking Dank or the AFL, he chose to bury his own team mate under the bus, even though they're both equally responsible. People like him are cancer to team morale.
I know BigFooty is a big part of your life, but believe it or not, every user on this site isn't one collective entity.
Incredible. How can he be susceptible to the pressure of big bad Warner but also be captaincy material. Steve Waugh or Ricky Ponting wouldn't have let David Warner tell them what to do at 26 year old.


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Brantwood Football Club is an intermediate, Northern Irish football club playing in the Ballymena & Provincial Football League. The club, founded in 1901, hails from Belfast and plays its home matches at Skegoneill Avenue. Club colours are royal blue.  The current manager is Graham McConnell.
In 2009, the club, which had failed to gain a place in the IFA Championship in 2008 and instead played in the IFA Interim Intermediate League, elected not to apply again for membership of the IFA Championship and announced that it would step down into the Ballymena & Provincial Intermediate League for season 2009–10, ending over 50 years at national intermediate level.

History
Formed in 1901 and named after Brantwood Street, the club first played at the Glen, Alexandra Park Avenue. They won the Irish Junior Cup in 1913-14. From 1920 until 1930 they played at Dunmore Park, during which time they won the Intermediate League twice (1920–21 and 1924–25) and Steel & Sons Cup once. After 1930, Brantwood were unable to secure an extension to the lease at Dunmore Park and became homeless. For the next 22 years they played at various venues, including Ligoniel, Whiteabbey, Donaldson Crescent, Oldpark Avenue, Greencastle, York Park and another four-year spell at Dunmore. During this nomadic period the club won the Steel & Sons Cup twice, the Intermediate League and the Lyttle Cup. The club eventually bought its own ground and opened Skegoneill Avenue in 1952.

Honours

Intermediate honours
Irish Intermediate Cup: 4
1951–52, 1952–53, 1972–73, 1990–91
George Wilson Cup: 1
1972–73
Steel & Sons Cup: 9
1920–21, 1931–32, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1955–56, 1976–77, 1985–86, 2005–06
Irish Intermediate League: 5
1920–21, 1924–25, 1947–48, 1951–52, 1953–54
 McElroy Cup: 1
1924–25 (shared)
Ballymena & Provincial League: 2
2010–11, 2013–14

Junior honours
Irish Junior Cup: 1
1913–14

References

External links
 Brantwood FC Website
 Irish Premier League Website
 Irish Football Club Project
 Irish FA Website
 Irish League Forums
 Ground Hopper's tour of Skegoniel Avenue
 nifootball.co.uk (fixtures, results and tables of all leagues)

Association football clubs established in 1901
Association football clubs in Northern Ireland
Association football clubs in Belfast
1901 establishments in Ireland

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The hospitality industry is particularly susceptible to minimum wage violation because of the unique compensation methods used industry wide. Minimum wage violations can result in potential civil litigation which can be both costly and time consuming for an employer. As a result this article attempts to highlight various issues surrounding minimum wage compliance.
Generally, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes minimum wage regulations affecting both full-time and part-time employees. Workers covered under the act (which includes bartenders, servers, valet personal etc.) are entitled to a minimum wage rate of $5.15 an hour.
Typical compliance issues include: (1) failure to maintain records, (2) illegal deductions from pay for items like cash register shortages, uniforms, errors, bad checks etc. (3) insufficient tips to make up the difference between the employer's direct wage obligation and the minimum wage (4) employees receiving tips only and (5) sharing a portion of tipped employees' tips with employees who are not eligible because they do not normally receive tips.
Where an employee has been underpaid in violation of federal law, the Department of Labor has the authority to recover back wages administratively or through court action. Violations may result in either civil or criminal action. In 2005, the Employment Standards Administration's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) recovered more than $166 million in back wages for over 241,000 employees- a 26% increase over 2001. WHD specifically monitors low-wage industries (restaurants, hotels and motels, janitorial services etc.) because of a history of chronic violations. Specifically, last year, 4,829 cases were handled regarding restaurants resulting in $13,800,956 in back wages awarded. Hotel employees were awarded $2,847,607 and custodial engineers were awarded $3,408,819. These awards can have devastating effects on some employers particularly mid to small sized restaurants.
For more information regarding compliance, contact the nearest WHD office of the United States Government Labor Department.


Food. Glorious food. The ability to cook is just one of many things that separates us from the lower animals of the world—by which, of course, I mean college students . I'm lucky enough to have a decently well-stocked kitchen, but there's already room for a few more gadgets and gizmos for tasks that are still elusive.
For example, a Home Pizza Maker Oven. The problem with trying to make a good pizza at home is that it's hard to get the crust properly crispy . You either need a pizza stone or a professional-grade oven; which, unless your initials are WHGIII you probably have neither the space nor money for. But the Home Pizza Maker Oven, which includes a removable stone base, only runs for about $120. Not only does it let you get your crust crispy—if you know what I mean—but the removable stone means you can use the oven for deep dish pizzas, omelets, and pancakes—that's all the major food groups right there.
Plus, with a warm up time of five minutes and a cooking time of five minutes, you can have your delicious pizza in no time at all, with whatever toppings you desire. Finally, the banana and salmon pie I've always wanted .


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Can Damians, també conegut com a magatzems El Siglo, és un edifici del carrer de Pelai de Barcelona, catalogat com a bé cultural d'interès local.

Descripció
Es tracta d'un edifici entre mitgeres i consisteix en una àmplia planta baixa amb ús comercial seguit de quatre pisos, també de grans dimensions. Aquesta magnitud vindria donada per la funcionalitat amb què va ser projectat aquest immoble.

En general, a la façana s'hi succeeixen elements propis de corrents moderns d'estil art-déco i d'altres de tipus clàssic. Aquesta combinació fa interessant aquest immoble. La planta baixa es correspon amb l'accés al comerç, que es troba flanquejat per dues esveltes columnes amb capitell. Per sobre i abans de canviar de pis, un fris presenta figures masculines clàssiques que es troben als costats, mentre que el centre és buit. El desenvolupament de les plantes primera a tercera és molt homogeni. En tots els casos hi observem la presència de quatre pilars que estan units per tres grans vidrieres convexes, sent la central la més gran amb diferència. Cadascun d'aquests pisos està separat dels altres per unes petites cornises decorades amb motius trenats esgrafiats. En canvi, la quarta planta té uns cànons diametralment oposats. Els dos pilars centrals són substituïts per dues cariàtides i les dels extrems, per pilastres decorades amb garlandes i ondulacions. La presència de vidre, també important, no arriba als extrems i sobrietat de les plantes anteriors.

Per sobre, l'edifici es veu coronat en dos passos. El primer és una cornisa ondulant molt protuberant, en tres cossos i motius decoratius ovals. En el segon, per sobre, hi ha una cúpula amb lluerna.

La façana secundària, que mena al carrer de Tallers, paral·lel al de Pelai, té pocs trets comuns amb la façana principal. La riquesa que es detecta a la banda de Pelai es veu substituïda per una gran sobrietat, plantejada sobre la base d'un geometrisme latent. Tot i que els tipus de pilars i també l'abundància de vidre s'hi acosten.

Tot i algunes variacions dutes a terme en relació amb el projecte inicial i la desaparició de bona part de l'estructuració interna original, la façana no sembla haver patit massa canvis respecte a la construcció de l'immoble. La conservació és bona, encara que alguns elements publicitaris tant de la planta baixa com de l'àtic són massa vistosos. Cal no oblidar que va ser una peça imbricada amb els nous corrents, tant per la seva configuració estructural com per la solució donada a la compartimentació d'espais, la coberta i la façana. Ferrés va ser el veritable introductor de les variacions respecte al projecte original d'Agustí Mas.

Història
El 1913, Alexandre Damians i Rovira, titular de l'empresa Fill d'Ignasi Damians, dedicada a la fabricació de reixes, llums, gerros, escultures i altres objectes decoratius fets de metall, va presentar una sol·licitud per a la construcció d'uns grans magatzems amb façanes als carrers de Pelai i Tallers. El projecte inicial del mestre d'obres Agustí Mas, va ser força modificat per l'arquitecte Eduard Ferrés i el seu equip, que va desenvolupar un edifici de gran impacte a la ciutat, seguint els patrons d'una moda nascuda el 1900 a l'Exposició universal de París i que posteriorment va fer furor als Estats Units, l'Art déco.

Tanmateix, els magatzems van patir aviat problemes econòmics, derivats de la gran inversió realitzada i una facturació insuficient per a cobrir les despeses de manteniment, que no tenien res a veure amb les dels seus antics magatzems del carrer d'Escudellers, 24-28 i d'Obradors, 2-8. Finalment, el 1933 els van vendre als magatzems El Siglo, que havien estat en funcionament des del 1881 a la Rambla, i van patir un gran incendi el dia de Nadal de 1932, que els va destruir completament.

El 1979, l'edifici es va tornar a incendiar i posteriorment va tancar, passant per diferents mans fins a acabar en les de la multinacional C&A.

Referències

Enllaços externs

 Los grandes almacenes en Barcelona
 La Barcelona de El Siglo, a El Periódico, 2010
 «El Siglo» de Barcelona , a ABC, 2015
 Guia temàtica Biblioteca ETSAB: Casa Damians, "El Siglo"

Patrimoni monumental del Raval
Centres comercials de Catalunya
Edificis del Raval
Edificis art déco de Catalunya
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Chic Memphis: trend alert: dare to crop?
trend alert: dare to crop?
making a comeback for spring?
i believe it can be tastefully done.
i am excited to give this one a try!
and rihanna is working those ribs, which is the effect of a crop + high waisted combo.
alright, so who is cropping with me this spring?
Labels: midriff, runway spring 2013, trend report.
I´d say, if you have the body and the dress doesn´t look tacky...go for it!!
This is one of the few trends, making a comeback, that I like.


A stunning late Myford Super 7 with power cross feed for sale. One owner from new. Still clearly has the original manufacturing marks on the front edge of the bed indicating very little use. (SK166154). Imperial.
These lathes are original and not refurbished or repainted.
This is one of the finest examples on the market. There are two small marks on the back edge of the bed.


Instead of straining your budget and subjecting your church to costly SEO, here are seven simple tactics that will help your church's website rise in the local google search rankings.
Though these techniques are more for the DIY (do it yourself) crowd, if you wish to learn how search engine optimization (SEO) can help grow your church membership, you will want to get your free SEO analysis by completing the short form in the footer and we'll be happy to follow up with what we can do to make sure you receive the maximum exposure possible online.
Watch this short video to learn everything you need to know about SEO.
Seven tips for improving your church website rankings.
1. Disburse the power of your home page's link to your most eminent (relevant – main) pages. Put simply, spread the link juice around your website.
As one could assume, your homepage draws in many more online consumers than any other part of your website. It is important that link authority is easily directed from your homepage to your most evident subpages. Your most secure bet is through HTML links.
Even if you have already made sure that your most crucial category pages are incorporated in the top nav, it is critical that you include links to your most prized products, or articles (content) and landing pages. Footer and navigational links will not pass much authority; however, links in the body of a homepage will be most likely to attract more views and direct more traffic to your important subpages. And you can always remember, where the viewer goes, so does Google bot.
When designing a website, it is important to consider the file size and resolution of an image prior to including it on the webpage. Although putting large images on a website because of the quality you will get is tempting, it can drastically slow down the sites load time.
An image with 600 dots per inch that was shrunk down using height and width features not only gives online consumers the idea that the website designer was lazy, but impedes them from further using the website. Remember, a slow website will timeout on some devices and browsers, leading the visitor to click away never to return. Also, an image too large or the webpage can significantly slow down the load time- hindering the consumer's experience on the website. And as Google is using page load time as a ranking factor, this can and will affect your local search ranking.
Lucky for you, it's incredibly simple to change that image to a smaller-more reasonable-size, and then re-upload it. This will not only increase your website's aesthetic appeal but it will also optimize your site speed.
Make sure to check the file sizes of your images prior to publishing your website. An easy tool to use is WebPageTest, which will check the file sizes of all the aspects of your page. Teach your design team to not upload images that are too large to your webpage. Checking images before including them on a website is a good habit to get into. A powerful tool for optimizing images is JPEGmini by Beamr.
3. Ensure that other sites aren't linking to pages that are returning a 404 message.
If URLs are returning a 404 error (dead link) on your website it not only impedes the visitor from getting the information but it will damage your site's link authority. Google Search Console is a simple and reliable tool that allows you to check for 404 pages on your site and whether or not they are being linked to. If the web service reveals that you have an externally linked page that leads to a 404, it is crucial that you fix it immediately.
TIP: To check 404's using Google Search Console, just navigate to 'Crawl' – then – 'Crawl Errors' – 'Not Found', and select every URL that is linking to a 404 error page.
Google will prioritize the errors, and the most prominent errors they will include their external links. Click the URL and then select the "Linked From" tab which will display the URLs linking to the 404s. Ensure that these misleading URLs are permanently redirected to the correct link on your site.
As your link recovery skills begin to develop it is important that you increase GSC utilizing other helpful tools like Link Research Tools, Ahrefs Broken Links report and Link Juice Recovery Tool. However, we'll focus on more pressing matters right now.
4. Optimize videos, articles or microsites that aren't on your home page. Web 2.0's make for amazing "supporting sites" to your main website.
While videos, article's, and microsites are a fantastic way to gather support for your business, they are not nearly as effective if you're hosting the content on other domains. You will lose the opportunity for higher SEO rankings if your content's links are pointing to another business's website.
For example, when Victoria's Secret's article "12 Things Women do Every Day That are Fearless" was posted on Buzzfeed's front page, they missed the opportunity to increase traffic on their website because the article didn't link back to their main webpage. Buzzfeed benefited, but Victoria's Secret lost all that link juice that Buzzfeed was throwing off.
By far, the best way to increase your website's ranking is to include videos, article's, and microsites on your website. From there, you can expand and find ways to direct even more traffic to your website through you most prominent products and landing pages.
One technique that is proving extremely powerful is to leverage site builders or so called web 2.0's. Examples include Tumblr, Wiseintro, Wix, etc. The way this works is to build a microsite or landing page on one of these sites that serves as a feeder to your main site. Not only does it allow you to dedicate an entire site to a very narrow aspect or topic relating to what you do, but it allows you to benefit from the power of the domain. Essentially, Google gives you credit for having such a powerful "friend" connecting to your website.
5. Utilize social hubs and forums to discover important keywords prior to your competitors.
If you notice a persistent mention or question in social media, you can take advantage of the keyword before your competitors! Then, you can easily find a way to include it in your website and improve your SEO rank (score).
Discovering recurring keywords before your competitors will not merely improve your ranking, but give you a head start on the popular questions online consumers are likely to ask. Becoming the first to jump on popular keywords will set you up as a leader among other businesses.
The keywords you discover will not always directly relate to your product. A good example of this is a company who makes baby furniture including the phrase "baby names" in their website content. Even if the phrase is barely related to your product, if it is being searched by your direct target market it is a good idea to include it in your website plan. Learn how our brand authority service can grow your church.
6. Augment the "visual richness" of your SERP listing with intriguing (rich) snippets.
Snippets are the cherry on top of a delicious ice cream and hot fudge sunday. The sunday (your website) is already great; however, there's always room for improvement. Leveraging snippets are one of my most recommended SEO strategies. Along with an enticing title tag and meta description, your snippet will radiate above all others.
For example, if you are interested in a safe and trustworthy crib for your newborn baby, you will be most interested in a listing that looks like it's a remarkable product with great quality.
Every new snippet added to your website is a new opportunity for your business. Ratings on your website provide reliable reviews of your product from previous consumers. The "in stock" and price disclosure depicts what online customers need to know in order to make a buying decision for your product.
Although rich snippets won't directly increase your ranking, they will draw more potential customers to your website by increasing your click-through rate.
7. Utilize link analysis techniques to decipher your competitors' best links.
Despite the fact that commanding links are incredibly important when vying for high search rankings, obtaining such links is a confusing process for many. Finding hubs (common connection points for devices in a network) that link to multiple sites is an easy way to get on track. Hubs can be review sites, trade magazines, city wide resource/review sites, or even blogs. An easy way to uncover these hub sites is through the Majestic tool "Click Hunter" or SEOprofiler. It shouldn't be a big deal for hubs to link to you because they are already linking to similar websites and in fact many just need you to complete a short form on the site with your information and it will be added in minutes, hours or weeks at the longest.
An easy way to build your links is to search for websites linking to other churches in your area and analyze which of those sites may be willing to link to you too. From there, reach out to the sites that make the most sense to approach. By using this technique, your competitors did all the hard work of qualifying sites that could possibly link to sites like yours, but you can still benefit.
If your head is spinning, feel free to reach out and we can take a look at what will be required to get your church the massive exposure in your city that you deserve. Complete this short form to get started with a no obligation discussion.