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Community Novel unites local writers
Ryan Thompson
Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library released "Twisting Topeka," their community novel for 2016, Sept. 25.
TSCPL hosts the Community Novel Project each year. Librarians Lissa Staley and Miranda Ericsson organized the project.
"Community Novel is a year long project at the library to introduce skills based programing to writers so that we can do a hands on project together to create, write, edit, publish and market a book from start to finish as a way to help everyone learn those skills," Staley said.
The project started in January and ended in September. During that time, the library hosted a series of education programs open to all, even those not participating in the project.
In the past, writers took turns writing one chapter for the novel. This year, the project took a different approach and participants made a collection of short stories. The premise of speculative fiction and alternate history in Topeka tied all of the stories together.
Staley and Ericsson required all contributors to provide feedback on three other stories in the collection.
"The requirements [for Community Novel Project] are more based along participation to make sure you're participating collaboratively," Staley said. "We work hard to make it not just an anthology, but be more interactive than that."
Some of the writers shared their experience participating in Community Novel Project.
"I am very much an amature at all of this, so community novel project was really attractive to me because there were deadlines set," said Jamie Crispin, Community Novel participant. "Each month there was a workshop, so if I needed education I could attend. I knew throughout the whole project what needed to be done and when.
Crispin joined the project without any background in creative writing.
"I wanted to start something and finish it and see it go through all those phases of life," Crispin said. "That's what the community novel project did for me. I don't think I would have a short story right now, or the short story wouldn't be at the level that it is if I hadn't gone through this process. I am way more confident."
Accomplished writers participated as well. Duane Herrmann published for the first time while in high school in 1969 and has continued to write since.
"I haven't stopped because I never wanted to stop," Herrmann said. "I wanted to write. It's all I ever wanted since I was a little kid."
Even with decades of experience, the project provided a challenge.
"I've written straight fiction and I've written straight history, but to take what I knew happened and then change it in believable ways was difficult because you had everything set and you had to keep people in their own character and these were real people," Herrmann said. "The struggle was where do I leave the real history and go into fiction."
He was also unused to the collaborative side of things.
"[Trading feedback] was hard. It forced more interaction."
"Twisting Topeka" is available for purchase at TSCPL.
The premise meeting for the 2017 Community Novel Project is scheduled for Jan. 28 in the Marvin Auditorium of TSCPL. Anyone in the area can participate in the project.
"Next year will be a collection of creative nonfiction," Staley said. "We don't know more about next year's project yet because we [are waiting] for the premise meeting for community members to actually decide through consensus what kind of topic they think would work well."
More information about Community Novel Project and getting involved can be found at tscpl.org/novel.

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Ethiopian Airlines Receives its Second Airbus A350 XWB
Its another moment of pride for Ethiopian Airlines as it received its second Airbus A350 aircraft.
Being the first African airline to purchase Airbus latest aircraft, Ethiopian Airlines is strengthening its long haul fleet with the Fuel efficient A350 XWB. This aircraft promises to deliver maximum comfort for the passengers while delivering outstanding fuel economy due to use of light weight construction material.
Ethiopian commands the lion's share of the pan-African passenger and cargo network operating the youngest and most modern fleet to 93 international destinations across five continents. Ethiopian fleet includes ultra-modern and environmentally friendly aircraft such as Airbus A350, Boeing 787, Boeing 777-300ER, Boeing 777-200LR, Boeing 777-200 Freighter, Bombardier Q-400 double cabin with an average fleet age of five years. In fact, Ethiopian is the first airline in Africa to own and operate these aircraft.
Currently Ethiopian is executing its 15-year strategic plan called Vision 2025 that will see it become the leading aviation group in Africa with seven business centers. Ethiopian is a multi-award winning airline registering an average growth of 25% in the past seven years.
Ethiopian has 12 remaining orders of the A350, which are expected to be delivered within this fiscal year. The latest addition of A350, increases Ethiopian fleet to 80.
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As the winner of WCLT's Earth Day essay contest, Nicole Benoit received the 2011 Westborough Community Land Trust Scholarship at graduation. This award recognizes a deep appreciation and concern for the natural environment on the part of a graduating Westborough High School senior.
Nicole's essay focused on growing up in the out-of-doors and the need to protect Westborough's backyards and open space.
In the fall Nicole plans to attend the University of Delaware to study business, hospitality, and environmental science to become a "green" event planner.
Another senior, Christopher Smith of 16 Butterfield Drive, received honorable mention for his essay about the lifestyle and other changes that people of his generation can make to live more sustainably on Earth.
The Scholarship Committee enjoyed reading all the Earth Day essays and thanks the WHS seniors who entered the contest for their skill and commitment in communicating their feelings and concerns about Westborough's environment.
Trail-mix, juice boxes, a whistle, bug spray, paper, and a pencil all went into the backpack. I was prepared for my great adventure. I bid farewell to my mom, promised to be back for lunch, and started hiking- across the street to my neighbor's backyard. Behind their humble house I frequently entered the woods, crossed the small stream, and reached my destination: open space. There was a small lake surrounded by woods and paths that backed up to the open field on Smith Street. Whether it was trying to build a shelter out of sticks, seeing how far I could walk on the paths, or playing on the ice in the winter, I just loved being outside and limitless.
One day I decided that I would explore the untouched woods to the right of the lake for a change. Excited by curiosity and adventure, I moved quickly to see where I would end up. After a while I started to see an opening; I aimed towards it. When I emerged from the woods I was startled to see the unnatural gleam off of a parking lot full of cars. I felt like I was at the edge of two different worlds. One was full of life, all green and moving with different animals. The other one was black cement, shiny metal, and brick buildings of the Route Nine Office parks. Suddenly my place of escape did have boundaries. Then I remember a house was recently built in the open field. I started wondering where I would play if houses and offices kept being built.
Being able to play outside amidst the plants, animals, and fresh air can almost sum up my childhood. It taught me independence and creativity. Even if I wasn't "roughing it" in the woods, I was playing capture the flap or kick the can with my neighbors in our backyards. One of my favorite activities was tree-climbing; I even named about five or six trees in my yard. A much anticipated event at my house was the arrival of a mother robin every spring. She builds a nest by our front door and starts her family. For that month, nobody is allowed to use our front door, and we even have footage of the baby birds from several years. Additionally, every Sunday our whole family would take our dogs for a walk at Tufts. While all these things may seem insignificant, they all slowly built my respect for the environment. This respect then translated into wanting to protect it. All children deserve to have this type of childhood. Aside from the health benefits of running around outside, as opposed to sitting inside playing video games, they too will love the natural world around them. Then as they realize that this beautiful world is disappearing, they'll want to conserve it.
While they may not seem particularly important, our backyards and open space need to be protected. There may not be any endangered species residing behind our houses, but there is the place where our children's imaginations grow. Westborough is known for being a great suburban, family town. With this reputation, more and more people want to move here, meaning more houses have to go up. At some point we have to regulate this. As president of Westborough High School's Environmental Club, I try to always raise awareness for the environment. Sometimes it's hard for people to connect their daily habits to the world problem of global warming. However, it's easy to see that when a development goes up, some animal's habitat goes down. Right now, our society is caught up in a vicious cycle: people's focus is on material objects and consumption, so they spend more time indoors, and then they don't experience the natural world, and therefore feel no need to conserve it. However, if we start a new cycle with our children it can only improve our environment.


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Denton, Texas was ranked the Number 1 "Best Small Town in America" by Rand McNally and USA Today in 2012. Today, Denton and Denton County are home to several terrorist front organizations, including the Islamic Society of Denton. The Islamic Society of Denton was formed in 1980 and opened its doors in the summer of […]
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This war of the Global Islamic Movement versus the Free World is primarily a war of narratives. One narrative says what ISIS, Al Qaeda and all of the other jihadi organizations are doing has nothing to do with Islam. The other side of this coin is called truth. As UTT has documented in articles here, […]
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Hawai'i is committed to athlete safety, and so is Galiher DeRobertis & Waxman. The State of Hawai'i passed legislation passed to ensure concussion awareness and management for our athletes, coaches, parents, teachers and administrators. Still, there are inherent risks to playing sports, especially football. Brain injury in football is not incidental—it is built in to the game—and many other sports have a significant risk of brain injury. Today, our youth athletes are in danger of severe and frequent blows to the head that could produce lifelong changes in mental processes.
If you or someone you know has had sports-related concussions at the high-school or college level, there may be legal grounds for a lawsuit. Long-term effects of repeated mTBI include ALS, dementia and other costly disease.
Galiher DeRobertis & Waxman is dedicated to protecting the brains of our young athletes so that children can participate in sports without risking serious injury. Supporting concussion awareness is key, but so is maintaining accountability and justice.
Prompt action is required. The laws vary from state to state, but the statute of limitations in every state requires that lawsuits be filed within certain time periods. In Hawai'i, an injury lawsuit must be brought within two years of the incident. To successfully bring a lawsuit against those who were responsible, it is important to act quickly so that none of your legal rights are lost.
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The accompanying data is given to teach those new to the idea of misfortune counteractive action over the retail business. The data beneath is in no way, shape or form broad and is given exclusively as a prologue to misfortune aversion.
For more itemized data and particular proposals and backing for your misfortune counteractive action needs, contact LP Innovations.
Misfortune Prevention is the idea of setting up strategies, techniques and business practice to keep the loss of stock or monies in a retail situation. Adding to a project around this idea will help you to decrease the open doors that these misfortunes can happen and all the more particularly, work to keep the misfortune instead of exclusively be receptive to them after they happen.
Why does a retailer need to comprehend misfortune aversion?
At the point when a retailer encounters a misfortune, they are losing direct, to the main issue gainfulness. Lost stock obliges renewal at an expense to the retailer and lost monies can't be supplanted. The expense of these misfortunes goes direct to all that really matters of a retail asset report creating lost benefits. Benefits that could have been utilized for new stock, new store openings, worker advantages, expanded profit or enhanced EBIDTA.
Why do you require a misfortune counteractive action capacity?
Like whatever other piece of your business a misfortune aversion capacity or set up system helps improve the business. You have business capacities around deals, advertising, HR and that's only the tip of the iceberg – is there any good reason why you wouldn't have a business capacity around the security of stock and the anticipation of losing it?
The extent of your misfortune aversion capacity, office or system relies on upon your business – the quantity of areas, what you are offering and the potential dangers, dangers and concerns confronting your business. Having a built up capacity that incorporates program components and assets to build up, actualize and screen misfortune will make your business more gainful and less vulnerable to specific misfortunes.
Interior (Employee) Theft is the biggest patron to misfortune for most retailers, paying little mind to size or portion. Albeit some may ask why worker burglary would be the biggest class of misfortune, hands down, each overview, study and examination crosswise over sections has demonstrated consistently that the individuals who take from a business the most are representatives.
Representative burglary happens through various strategies. From straightforward stock burglary to plot with companions or other store workers, stock misfortunes by representatives can undoubtedly exhaust your benefits (and the stock accessible available to be purchased to clients). The purpose of offer (register) carries with it numerous different types of worker robbery. Just expelling cash from the till to expound "change cheats" that incorporate discount, void or markdown burglaries, purpose of offer robbery can regularly bring about a "twofold plunge impact" where you lose cash and stock at the same time through a solitary occurrence.
Outer Theft is frequently brought on by shoplifting, break-ins, burglaries or different acts by outside sources. In spite of the fact that it doesn't bring about as much misfortune general contrasted with interior burglary, shoplifting and outside robbery most certain reasons a significant measure of misfortune every year to the retail business. Controlling outside robbery obliges a guarantee to instructing your representatives on great client administration, attention to the indications of a potential misfortune and how to best ensure the store and stock against outer misfortune. This requires the foundation of methodology and preparing in ranges, for example, shoplifting aversion, theft mindfulness, wellbeing and how to handle different circumstances managing individuals. What security estimations you have set up inside of your retail store can likewise enormously help you in your endeavors against outside misfortune (albeit not generally).
The last real region of created misfortune in the retail environment is through Errors. Regularly considered research material slips, these oversights can contribute upwards of more than 15%-20% of a retailer's yearly misfortune. Humorously, the vast majority of the blunders found in retail are worker brought about, in this way making a retailer's representative maybe the most elevated patron to the business misfortune consistently!
Lapses can happen anyplace – from checking in shipments, to ringing on the register to exchanging stock. These slips can incorporate the incorrect tallying of stock to the dishonorable reducing or bookkeeping of a deal or delicate. Straightforward errors brought on again and again have brought about a huge number of dollars lost to a solitary retail foundation.
How would I know whether I may have a misfortune counteractive action issue?
These are just a couple of the potential markers that your area may have a misfortune anticipation issue.


1. Smoking is prohibited within 50 feet of the barn, bedding, hay or manure storage areas.
2. Customers are not permitted to consume alcohol in conjunction with equine activities. Those who choose to visit Hunter's Run Wine Barn may do so after all CRS activities are completed and when the customer's vehicle has left CRS property. Noncompliance may involve police notification.
3. Releases must be signed before anyone may handle or ride any horses. If parent/guardian is not to be present, Medical Releases should be completed for riders under (18) years of age. Please ask CRS Management for forms, as necessary.
4. No guests may ride or handle horses without prior permission from CRS Management. ALL arena usage and trail time must be scheduled and is "first come, first serve" at management's discretion.
5. Helmets are mandatory while mounted. No exceptions! All riding school participants must wear an ASTM Approved helmet. It is also recommended that you wear your helmet while working in the barn area.
6. Jumping is only allowed during instruction or with prior consent from CRS Management.
7. The stabling area, aisles and arenas are off-limits to everyone except staff members, boarders and students tacking up for the next scheduled lesson or event. Loitering is prohibited.
8. Parents and visitors are welcome to observe students during their lesson by standing or sitting outside the arena(s). Please control small children and keep them in sight at all times. Parents and visitors may only enter the arena with premission from the instructor. Please park all vehicles at least 20 feet from the barn and in a manner that will not interrupt the flow from the barn or block delivery areas. Do not park on the gravel road, directly by the barn, or at the private residence without prior permission. Do not park directly adjacent to the barn as this area is needed for horse movement, deliveries and instructor access. Please do not park on the grass unless directed to. If you have special needs, please consult with CRS Management.
9. Pets are allowed at CRS Management discretion only. All dogs must be leashed and under control. Pets may be refused at any time at the discretion of the CRS Management. Pets are not allowed in paddocks for any reason.
10. The barn aisle and wash rack areas are to be kept free of grooming tools, equipment, hair and manure. Hoses should be coiled after use. PLEASE clean up after your horse. Please do not waste water; turn off water after use and use buckets whenever possible. Please do not drive over hose couplings. Repeated offenses will be billed a $25 repair fee.
11. Report any change of address, telephone number or horse status to CRS Management. If you board or lease a horse and plan to leave town, please advise management where you can be reached and what arrangements you have made for your horse.
12. Lunging and turn out: Lunging is allowed in the lunging arena only. Horses may only be turned out in their pre-approved paddocks. Horses may not be moved to a different paddock at any time without the notification and permission of CRS Management.
13. Clinics, lessons and special events will be offered. These events will have precedence in facility and horse usage. CRS Management will try to keep you informed of these activities whenever possible. Please call ahead for appointments.
14. CRS Management shall have the right to assign and re-assign paddocks and stalls in order to minimize dangerous or nuisance situations or wear & tear on the facility.
15. Please notify CRS Management of any necessary repairs, maintenance, problems, complaints or needed supplies.
16. Boarding is a privilege. Actions such as stealing, use of narcotics, flagrant damage or destruction of stable property, abuse of animals, physical or verbal abuse of personnel or any other actions which are deemed detrimental will not be tolerated and will result in the immediate expulsion from the premises.
17. You are hereby advised that direct loss, damage or injury to your horse, tack, equipment or trailer is not covered by our insurance, while on these premises. You as the owner of these personal property items have the financial interest in same; therefore it is up to you to be sure that they are insured under a homeowner's, tenant's, or other insurance policy, or under a separate policy as in the case of loss, injury, damage or death of a horse.
Failure to adhere to barn rules can result in removal of barn privileges until further notice.
Barn Rules apply to all persons on CRS premises where applicable, including management, clients, and guests, during operating hours. Facilities are off-limits outside of those hours; established by CRS management. Management is defined as only Jessica Raithel, Brandon Raithel and Assistant Instructors during their work periods.


I have been reading Walter Isaacson's biography of Einstein (Simon and Schuster, 2007). I picked the book up because I wanted to learn more about Einstein's contribution to physics and what is really at stake with the special and general theories of relativity. I also wanted to learn about his life – what it was like to live in as a Jew in many antisemitic pockets of Europe in his earlier years, how he balanced his brilliance and his later academic fame with his personal life, what set him apart as a truly great thinker, and so on. Its a very well-written biography and has been worth the time spent on it. What I judge to be the book's greatest strength is that Isaacson makes Einstein intelligible to non-scientists without watering him down.
My overall impression of Einstein from this book was the sense that what drove him and made him such a great scientist was his curiosity, his sense of wonder and reverence before the immensity of the universe, his imagination, his passion, his willingness to question both authority and the mundane, his intuition, his willingness to dream. How opposite to some rationalistic stereotypes of science! Einstein relied upon "thought experiments" to arrive at his most famous ideas, guided by an intuitive sense that the structure of reality must harmonious, beautiful, and simple. He claimed that his inspiration for science was the same as the poet's inspiration – "a sudden illumination, almost a rapture" (549). Einstein shows that scientific inquiry is anything but detached, objective observation of the world: it has a non-linear, imaginative side to it.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world" (387).
"When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way" (551).
"I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious" (548).
Other aspects of Einstein's personality that will stay with me from this book include his extreme absentmindedness (which was truly hilarious at times!), his rebelliousness and loner mentality, his non-conformism, his sense of humor, his pacifism, his socialism, his Zionism, his determinism, his love of music, his social conscience, and his sheer gusto. He truly would have been fascinating to sit down and have a conversation with!
"A spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe – a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble" (388).
"Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune intoned in the distance by an invisible player" (392).
"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable" (384).
You could perhaps call Einstein a deist flirting with theism (note: not a deist flirting with Christianity). What is very clear is that Einstein has nothing of the "science has disproved God" mentality that is so common among many contemporary scientists. On the contrary, the more he became acquainted with the laws of the universe, the more he suspected Something beyond the universe, animating these laws and breathing life into them. You could say that his passionate study of this world gave him the eerie feeling of another world behind it. While he certainly rejected the idea of a personal God as this ulterior force, he did not do so on scientific grounds.
Einstein: "I'm not an atheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, its the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God" (386).
I think the metaphor Einstein gives about the child in the library is a very understandable position within the categories of common grace and general revelation. The proper Christian response to this is not to deny the complexity and vastness of the question of God in relation to human minds. The metaphor is indeed appropriate, given God's immensity and our frailty. The Christian, however, believes that the metaphor does not end there, but ends with the Librarian showing up, walking over to the child, and explaining to him what the books mean. "No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known" (John 1:18).
Reading this book made me a better theologian. I think above all else it reminds me of how inescapable the Reality of God is. His beauty and glory are all over creation, and they press in on us from all sides, whispering at us of the world beyond this world. As Einstein himself put it: The child knows someone must have written those books.
great post! I love you and am proud of you.
You are much more of a nerd than I anticipated.
However, this is cool stuff.
Garrett, my nerdiness has depths to which you have never plummeted.
That child in the library idea contrasts so much with someone like Richard Dawkins. I love it that Einstein was so humble.


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Dam Bursts in Indonesia, Killing Dozens in Flood
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Heavy rains caused an Indonesian dam to burst, sending a cascade of water and mud through hundreds of houses.
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Heavy rains caused a large dam in a crowded urban area on the outskirts of this city to burst early Friday morning, sending a deadly wall of water and mud crashing through hundreds of houses and killing at least 60 people, the police said.
The dam broke about 2 a.m., tearing through a low-lying valley and surprising residents in their sleep, witnesses said. Within minutes, several whole neighborhoods were engulfed by mud and water.
Rescue workers clawed through thick mud and dredged houses and roadways Friday afternoon looking for survivors. Hundreds of residents were being taken to a nearby university, where family members were searching through bodies for loved ones. The police said the death toll could be higher as more victims were found.
"They lived right here, but their house is destroyed," Sobi Ahmansur, 62, said of her missing daughter and 5-month-old granddaughter. "I'm scared. I love them so much. I have to keep searching."
Residents of the mostly middle-class university neighborhood described the disaster as similar to a tsunami — a wall of water almost 33 feet high crashed through the valley, they said, ripping up everything in its path.
"I woke up to the sound of my neighbors screaming for help," said Jarko, 34, whose house was flooded up to his chest. "I ran out of the house, found my friends and ran for higher ground."
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono; the vice president, Jusuf Kalla; and Aburizal Bakrie, the minister for people's welfare, all visited the disaster area on Friday afternoon, speaking with rescue workers and residents. Mr. Kalla told reporters that the government would help relocate people who lost their houses.
The dam was built during Dutch colonial rule to contain water from the Pasanggrahan River. The authorities have long been concerned about the dozens of aging dams and levees in Jakarta, a city that regularly suffers from severe flooding in the rainy season.
Prolonged heavy rain on Thursday is thought to be responsible for causing the dam to finally give way, causing Situ Gintung, a nearly 50-acre lake, to flood the area.
"The dam will be rebuilt, and we will reconsider how it is constructed," Mr. Yudhoyono told reporters on his visit to the scene.
The military cleared debris to help reduce the level of water, while rescue teams with long poles searched for victims in both the water and the mud into the evening on Friday. Other rescue workers searched through gutted houses, tossing aside debris in the hope of finding survivors.
A local leader, Nana Suharna, said that dozens were still missing in his neighborhood of 60 families, and that so far he had counted at least 70 people killed by the flood, though that number could not be confirmed by officials. The entire family of a local Islamic leader, who performed the call to prayer at 4:30 a.m. from high in a tree, were missing and presumed dead, Mr. Suharna said.
"The water came so fast and just kept getting higher and higher," said Mr. Suharna, 48. "I am in charge of about 60 families here, and many of them are still missing."


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Where In The World Is Satoshi Nakamoto
Five Layer-1 Blockchain Options for DeFi to Watch in 2020
By cinerama January 12, 2020 DApps
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One of the killer applications for blockchain technology is decentralized finance (DeFi). The DeFi movement allows the democratization of functions that were traditionally reserved for large, centralized financial institutions, such as borrowing and lending, derivatives, margin trading, and insurance. Since DeFi platforms make use of smart contracts, they need a reliable blockchain to run on. In this article, I will take a look at some promising Layer 1 blockchains and how they can provide services to DeFi projects.
Being the most widely used smart contract platform, Ethereum is naturally the blockchain network with the highest number of active DeFi projects. Listing them all would go way beyond the scope of this article, but the website DeFi Pulse tracks some of the most well-known DeFi platforms, of which all, except the Lightning Network, are hosted on Ethereum.
Representing Ethereum's DeFi ecosystem is, of course, MakerDAO, which uses collateralized debt positions to create the world's first truly decentralized stablecoin, called DAI. Since the value of DAI is pegged to the US dollar and does not rely on the intransparent backing through USD reserves, many other DeFi projects use DAI as their primary payment and staking method.
Although having by far the largest user base, Ethereum suffers from poor scalability. This will change with the advent of the proof-of-stake Ethereum 2.0 blockchain, but ETH2 is still under development and will not have smart contract capability during the first release iterations. Since Ethereum 2.0 will not become an option in the near future, many DeFi projects that want to scale up towards mainstream adoption should consider an alternative.
Polkadot is a layer 1 blockchain project focused heavily on scalability. In a nutshell, their network runs a number of parachains that are secured by a central relay chain. The process of securing the rights to operate a parachain is in itself a DeFi function, as these rights are distributed through recurring auctions. The winners of the auctions are required to lock up their bid in DOT tokens for the duration of their lease.
While this does not consume DOT per se, it nevertheless creates opportunity costs for parachain operators. It is then up to the operators to get a return on these opportunity costs. This can, for example, be achieved by using the parachain's transaction capacity exclusively to fuel proprietary projects, or by renting out transaction capacity to third-party projects in exchange for a fee.
Polkadot provides various bridges for blockchain intercommunication. Besides communication between parachains, these bridges can be used for communication with external chains, making the Polkadot interoperable with the already established blockchains. This makes Polkadot an excellent choice for DeFi projects that want to graduate from Ethereum towards a more scalable solution. The Polkadot ecosystem already features various DeFi projects, including ChainX, Akropolis, Laminar, and Digix. Despite being an ambitious project under active development, Polkadot has missed its target to launch the mainnet by late 2019. A concrete launch date has not been announced yet.
EOS is a fast enterprise-grade blockchain with zero transaction fees. This is made possible by using a semi-centralized delegated proof of stake consensus algorithm. Under this consensus model, EOS holders vote for block producers with the top 21 candidates getting the exclusive right to produce blocks and earn rewards.
Notable DeFi projects on EOS include the EOSREX lending platform and the EOSDT stablecoin, as well as several wallets, decentralized exchanges and infrastructure projects, such as oracle services. Additionally, some gambling DApps operate on the EOS blockchain.
While their semi-centralized approach allows for fast transactions without any fees, critics see EOS as somewhat of a loose cannon as their governance model relies heavily on the trustworthiness of the 21 block producers. Already, the block producers showed their ability to work together to freeze accounts suspected of theft only days after the EOS mainnet launch in 2018. While such arbitration processes are a feature of the EOS "constitution", it is clearly a sign of centralized governance.
What aggravates the situation is the fact that the majority of block producers are located in China, which sparks the fear of governmental intervention. On top of that, Block.one, the development company behind EOS, holds so many EOS tokens that they could, theoretically, choose all of the block producers themselves.
Another problem comes in the form of vote sharing, where block producers may collude in order to improve each others' ranking. This has pushed many of the smaller supporters down to the ranks of standby block producers who only earn miniscule rewards, or down to completely unpaid ranks. As a result, some of these candidates have banded together to reuse the EOSIO codebase in projects with an improved governance model, but none of these have gained significant traction as of now.
Tron is another blockchain based on a delegated proof-of-stake consensus. Unlike EOS, Tron does not rely on the messy politics of arbitral bodies that have the power to freeze accounts and undo transactions. Thus, Tron has largely avoided the problems EOS had, although Binance has the absolute majority over the network's voting power, holding a vast amount of TRX tokens in custody. Instead of voting themselves to the undisputed frontrunner among all of Tron's delegate candidates, Binance could theoretically abuse this power by splitting up the votes and appointing 25 of the 27 delegates. It is, however, unlikely that Binance would make this move, as this would blatantly go against the interest of their customers.
In lieu of Ethereum's gas costs, Tron uses bandwidth points to allocate the network's transaction capacity of 2000 TPS, while every Tron account receives a daily supply of bandwidth points in order to give the account holder a limited number of free transactions. If a user needs more transactions, she can obtain more bandwidth points by staking TRX, or by paying a small transaction fee.
Being most well-known for its acquisition of BitTorrent, Tron positions itself as a platform servicing content creators with decentralized storage. The BTT token incentivizes BitTorrent users to actively contribute to the filesharing network. Just recently, the streaming platform DLive joined the Tron ecosystem in order to make use of BitTorrent for peer-to-peer video streaming. Additionally, Tron features a multitude of gaming and gambling DApps.
For core DeFi use cases, the Poloni Dex and TronTrade, as well as the Zethyr lending platform, are the most notable projects. Besides Tether, which already operates on Tron, among other blockchains, Loom, a major partner of MakerDAO, aims to create a multi-chain DeFi ecosystem, bringing the DAI stablecoin to Tron. For achieving an outstanding ecosystem growth throughout the last year, Tron won the 2019 Jinse Finance Award.
With their pure proof-of-stake consensus model, Algorand has found a healthy middle ground between transaction throughput and decentralization. What makes Algorand stand out are the technological features that were built into their layer 1 protocol by their recent 2.0 protocol upgrade. Standardized token models, atomic multi-party transfers, and smart contracts on layer 1 have the potential to make Algorand an attractive option for a wide array of DeFi projects.
Especially the latter two are attractive for decentralized exchanges, as they enable complex transactions without the need for external smart contracts. IDEX seeks to utilize these layer 1 features by building a next-generation decentralized exchange. Securitize, a platform for creating and issuing compliant digital securities, is one of Algorand's leading DeFi partners. In collaboration, Algorand and Securitize will host the hybrid IPO for World Chess, in which World Chess will set roughly 5% of their equity as digital securities, which can be converted into stocks once World Chess completes the IPO and gets listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Another DeFi platform on the Algorand blockchain is AssetBlock, which seeks to democratize investment opportunities in the real estate market through tokenization. BitGo is a digital asset custodian providing staking services to ALGO holders, as well as multi-signature ALGO wallets. In contrast to many other custodial providers, BitGo holds the vast majority of funds in cold storage and has a $100-million insurance against hacks and the loss of private keys.
DeFi will be one of the hottest topics in the blockchain industry in 2020; however, there is still a lack of scalable smart contract platforms. While Ethereum is the undisputed leader with its DeFi ecosystem, their proof-of-work blockchain has severe transaction limitations and it could take a long time until Ethereum 2.0 becomes a viable solution.
Polkadot looks like it might become a serious contender, but it will also take several months until their mainnet is ready to launch. EOS and TRON, with their delegated proof-of-stake networks, have achieved a high-transaction throughput at the expense of centralization. This may act as a deterrent for DeFi projects and their eventual users.
Although the basic services for DeFi (decentralized exchanges, wallets, and custodians) are all present, Algorand does not have an extensive DeFi ecosystem yet. With their impressive layer 1 features, they may, however, become an attractive option for DeFi projects that seek to migrate to a more scalable smart contract platform.
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Audiences bring culture to life
With a strong belief in the value of art for society and a curiosity for what diverse audiences think and how organisations work, I set up InsightUnlocked to support cultural organisations to be audience focused.
Cultural organisations are for visitors as much as for artists, historians and culture professionals – in fact they only come to life with an audience.
Diversity not only adds richness to the world but an inclusive culture is essential for organisations' long-term relevance and sustainability. With the population becoming more diverse and public funding challenges growing, it is more important than ever that the exciting cultural programmes attract, inspire and delight a broad range of visitors – audience focus is essential for cultural organisations to thrive in the 21st century.
What are the some of the challenges:
Turning audience insight into strategy and action
A wealth of audience research exists in the sector and in cultural organisations, but it is often under-used. This can be due to a fear of audience research and audience focus ("will audiences tell us what to do?") or that audience research is often not easy to understand (long reports, complex charts).
Approaching audience development as a multi-functional effort
Audiences are sometimes not considered at the core of the organisation – programme and audience strands work separately or audience development is seen as the responsibility of a department (often Learning or Marketing). Yet audience development is only successful and sustained if it is a joint effort by all functions.
Developing audiences strategically and continuously
There is an array of projects in the sector that develop audiences and diversity, yet often they are short-lived. For audience development to be sustainable, audiences need to be considered consistently rather than in one-off projects. A clear audience strategy and a clear picture of what success means in relation to audiences (beyond just numbers) understood and lived by the whole organisation is essential to enable that.
Increasing diversity and inclusion for long-term sustainability
Organisations need to grow audience numbers, income and diversity. They need to be relevant to larger parts of the more and more diverse population for moral, legal and creative reasons, and also to be financially sustainable in the long-term. This is particularly true for public institutions, but private funders are increasingly considering this, too.
To overcome these challenges, organisations need audience insight that can be acted upon, a rigorously strategic approach and a look at how the organisation works in relation to audiences. This might call for some transformational change for organisations.
Unlocking insight – unlocking strategy – unlocking audiences


This is a question that is mostly common with people who have little information concerning mouth wash. By the end of this article, you will find out how instrumental mouth wash can be in solving your oral problems. In fact, it is thought that mouth wash has had a magical effect in a number of cases. Let us discuss a few oral issues that mouth wash has managed to solve effectively.
Mouth wash is widely known for its effect of causing numbness. This is the secret behind its pain relieving effect. Clearly, it causes the pain sensory cells inactive thus preventing you from feeling pain. As a matter of fact, it has been widely used in dentistry surgical operations to prevent the patients from feeling pain especially when a tooth is being extracted. Therefore, yes mouth wash is a perfect fit for pain relieving purpose.
Radiation treatment is a correct move where treatment of head, throat cancer and mucositis is concerned. However, there is a high feasibility of inflammation resulting from the therapy. This is where the quest of mouth wash steps in. It has been used to assist in relieving the inflammations that result from the therapy. This is due to its effect of preventing production of prostaglandins which mainly result from certain conditions or diseases. It is these elements that are responsible for the mist inflammation cases that are there.
If you have any concerns, please visit your dentist for an accurate assessment.
One of the best ways in which mouth wash helps is to prevent ulcers and sores. These are thing that mostly result from microbial activities that are known to wear out any surface. Therefore, as we apply the oral hygiene use of mouth wash as an antiseptic, mouth sores and ulcers are also prevented. Thanks to the invention of mouth wash. It has approached this oral menace in a pretty ideal way.
In chemotherapy of mucositis or throat cancer, mouth wash has been found to be really instrumental. By its effect of reducing inflammation and destruction of microbial activities, healing process occurs super fast. This is among the main reasons as to why mouth wash is widely applied in cancer therapy cases.
After all is said and done, medical specialists recommend the use of ethanol free mouthwash rather than the alcohol containing type. This is because; the latter has an effect of causing dryness and also making the oral cavity highly susceptible to cancerous cases. This is why you should confirm to ensure that you are buying an alcohol free mouth wash. Clearly, the answer to the question on the topic is a definite yes. These are not the only uses of mouth wash. Others are such as: anti cavity, anti septic and anti inflammatory only to mention a handful of purposes among the endless list.


Alloys with high electrical resistivity, used as heating elements in furnaces. General composition iron 67%, chromium 25%, aluminium 5%, cobalt 3%.
The main constituents are kaolinite, a hydrated aluminium silicate, and illite, a mica-like aluminosilicate together with potassium, magnesium and iron. Basis of porcelain and bone china and used as a filler for paper, rubber and toothpaste. Also china clay.
The process by which the feldspars in a rock such as granite are converted to kaolinite.
A propeller-type water turbine in which the pitch of the blades can be varied in accordance with the load, resulting in high efficiency over a large load- range.
The seed hairs of the kapok tree, Ceiba pentranda. They are light and fluffy and in loose form are used as an insulating or flotation material eg in life jackets. They are not spun or converted into fabrics commercially.
A form of phase advancer for use with slip-ring induction motors. It consists of a small armature connected to each phase of the rotor circuit and allowed to oscillate freely in a dc field so that it has a leading emf induced in it.


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Tom is trying to get his own reality TV show. They do interviews on the characters.
Before going to a contest. Tom loses his voice.
Ben and Tom made an assertiveness app… and, well, things got a bit out of hand!
You gotta check this out! Ben's Future Tron 6000 app showed us what the future could look like and it was totally whack!
Ben learns how to control his magnetic powers after being exposed to electromagnetic radiation.
Tom and Angela go to a Scarf contest.
Ben & Hank have a score torment on the app Flappy Tom.
Tom and Angela go on a date and pretend to kiss.
While on a best friends trip, Ben befriends The Moon.
Ben has a date with The Moon.
Hank wins a million dollars & spends it on burgers.
Ginger wants the gang to go trick or treating with him. But they don't want to. So he makes them. & if they disobey his orders he puts them in a scary app that they can't get out.
While trying to make his audience laugh but doesn't work, Ben gets really fat then the audience laughs at him. Ginger does the same. And now Tom, Hank and Angla try figure out how to make him back to normal.
When Ginger pretends to fall of a roof Hank tries to save him.
Ben and Tom make a germ that goes big and he makes friends to be friends with them. Everyone but Ben anyways.
When Hanks favorite TV show gets cancelled. He becomes a director and tells the gang to make his favorite show once again.
The gang waits for a new tech device, The Glove Phone.
Hank gets an online medical degree. It turns out his lollipop cure can heal everyone but Ben.
When Angela has a heckler. Tom and Hank try to find who the Heckler is.
When Ginger and Hank build a fort in the basement of Tom's house, it kinda gets in the way. So Tom, Ben and Angela try to reclaim the fort.
When a person from the CEO comes into the gangs house during the winter. Tom releases that he is somebody famous and the gang try to help him.
After when the power goes out, the gang try to not use technology for a whole day. And who ever wins will go to an island.
In order to win the 8 and under tennis tournament. Ginger asks Tom to prepare for the tournament. Meanwhile Angla wants Ginger to win and beet a guy by the name of Darren.
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Q: Can you prove that hypergraphs with n-1 edges are partially 2 colorable? I can. But my proof uses a theorem (which I do not reveal yet to avoid influencing you) and it feels like an overkill, so I wonder if there is a simple proof. Now the problem.
Suppose we have a hypergraph on n vertices with n-1 edges. Can we color some (at least one) of its vertices with red and blue such that every hyperedge either contains both colors, or all of its vertices are uncolored?
The motivation is this question. In fact, one can similarly define partial k-polychromatic coloring, where every hypergraph with less than n/(k-1) edges seems to be partially k-colorable, if my proof is correct. Note also that these bounds are tight as shown by disjoint edges of size k-1. And this cannot be improved by requiring some lower bound on the size of each hyperedge, as we observed yesterday with my usual set of friends, Cory, Dani, Keszegh, Nathan and Patkos.
Please do not post links to Beck-Fiala and other well-known, similar theorems! At the moment I am only interested in a short, elementary proof of my question.

A: Let $E_1,\ldots, E_j$ be the sets of edges spanning vertex sets $S_1,\ldots,S_j$ such that for each $i$ in $[j]$, $|S_i|\leq |E_i|$.  Let $S'$ and $E'$ be their respective unions.  We will leave $S'$ uncoloured.
Let $G'$ be the subhypergraph of $G$ reached by deleting $S'$ (here if an edge of $G$ partially intersects $S'$, it may still exist in $G'$).  Observe that in $G'$, there is no set of $k$ edges spanning at most $k$ vertices for any $k$.  For now assume that $G'$ is connected.  Take some vertex $v$ of $G'$ and delete it to reach $G''$.  By Hall's theorem, we can now find an injection from the vertices of $G''$ to the (nonempty) edges of $G''$.
We can now find a spanning tree ordering of the edges of $G'$ with the root being some vertex of $G''$ that is in an edge with $v$.  Give $v$ colour $1$.  We traverse the tree in, say, DFS ordering, and when we come to an edge $e$, we choose for its matched vertex $v_e$ a colour that will make $e$ dichromatic.
If $G'$ is not connected we do the same thing with each connected component.

A: Here is a different approach, also using a theorem; I do not know if it is elementary in your view.
Let $A$ be a set of $n$ vertices, and let $B_1,\dots,B_{n-1}$ be its subsets. Introduce $n$ variables $x_a$ ($a\in A$) and consider a system of $n-1$ linear equations of the form $\sum_{a\in B_i} x_a=0$. It has a nonzero solution $(x^0_a)_{a\in A}$. Now paint all the vertices $a:x_a^0>0$ in red, and $a:x_a^0<0$ in blue; you are done.
Right now I do not understand how to extend this argument for $k$-coloring...

A: The proof of the statement of the question is implicitly contained, along the lines of
the proof by Ilya Bogdanov, in Paul Seymour's MSc thesis, where the relevant part is
published in

Paul D. Seymour, On the two-colouring of hypergraphs, The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Oxford University Press), 1974, Volume 25, Pages 303-312.

If the hypergraph 2-colouring problem is translated (in the canonical way) into a satisfiability problem (SAT problem), then the statement is precisely that there
exists a so-called "autarky". The theory of autarkies is outlined in my Handbook
of Satisfiability article on autarkies, available at
http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csoliver/papers.html#Handbook2009MUAUT
(see Subsections 11.4.5 and 11.12 for connections to the problem at hand).
An article extending Seymour's result is
http://cs.swan.ac.uk/~csoliver/papers.html#SNSSAT2007

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Kevin said that he likes swimming.
Takayuki thinks he can do anything if he puts his mind to it.
Dieter bumped into a Ritchey on his way to school.
Kathryn was awoken by a Jayant singing in the next apartment.
"Why did Matti do that?" "I don't know."
Florian got Calvin's file and put it in his briefcase.
Emil is leaving at 2:30.
I was surprised when Niall said he was planning to go to Boston.
You should give Kemal a harmonica for his birthday.
We need to know where Kurt is now.
Teriann has a part-time job at a burger joint.
Darci didn't give me any advice.
Why don't you leave Dawson?
Benjamin should have told Sean right away that he wasn't single.
Sofoklis doesn't necessarily have to go there by himself.
Roberta aimed at the target.
Louiqa won't stand a chance.
Milner held the ice pack against his head.
I can't believe Ron still uses it.
Jerrie knows this is how it has to be.
I couldn't think of anything to say to Vicki.
Mayo didn't want Les to get a tattoo.
We're no longer working for Chuck.
Edith is always in a bad mood.
Izumi has earned the right to say whatever he wants.
We offered Erwin a gift.
Milner knows the Secretary of State.
Loren accused Sonja of not being honest.
Clifford doesn't have a good memory.
Uri and Kazuhiro don't seem to be happy to see each other.
Kee is really successful, isn't he?


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Winnie The Pooh Spending Time Comforting Boy with Cerebral Palsy Will Melt Your Heart
By Meredith Ganzman
(RADIO.COM) — Winnie the Pooh and this little boy too had a magical meeting at the happiest place on earth.
The 18-month-old, who has cerebral palsy, was with his family enjoying a character breakfast at Walt Disney World when Pooh stopped by their table.
His mom, Jessie, says her son can only communicate with facial expressions. But the classic Disney character still knew just how to interact with him. Pooh held the toddler's hand and nuzzled his head with his nose.
The two spent about 10 minutes together, and Jessie says it was definitely one of the sweetest parts of their Disney trip.


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After a long legal procedure, the Court recently put an end to the dispute between two private horse owners. The seller, represented by mr. Loeffen and mr. Schelstraete of Schelstraete Equine Lawyers (EUAEL Alliance Partner), sold a horse to an amateur rider. The buyer argued that after the purchase the horse suffered from a defect (a tumour in the head which caused the horse to tilt his head) as a result of which the horse could not be used as a sport horse. The Court ruled that the buyer didn't have enough evidence that the alleged defect was present at the time of delivery and, therefore, rejected the claims of the buyer.


Omar Kinnebrew is a luxury clothier and style consultant in Atlanta, GA. His company provides high-end custom suits, shirts, coats, shoes, and casual wear for men and women across the globe.
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Konami And Bloober Team Announce Partnership
Layers of Fear developer working with Konami
Konami has some incredible IPs but recently has not done much with them. Recently rumors state that the publisher is seeking third-party developers to create news games using Konami's IPs and now the company has announced a partnership with Bloober Team.
Bloober Team is notorious for making horror games like The Observer, Layers, of Fear, and Blair Witch. So it's likely that the company would be working on a Silent Hill project. However, nothing has been confirmed as of yet.
This would be a stake in the many rumors that Hideo Kojima's Silent Hills would get a revival. Many have been holding out to any hope that the project would resume development but considering how long it has been, PT's demo being pulled, and Kojima working on Death Stranding, and now the Director's Cut of the game perhaps we can put it to rest. Bloober Team could be working on that same project but without Kojima, at the helm, it won't be the same. Not to mention that it's unlikely that Norman Reedus, who was confirmed to be the VO and model for the game's protagonist, would work for Konami again considering the negative fallout following Silent Hills' cancelation.
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Epic Games Offering Costume Quest 2 And Layers of Fear 2 For Free, Blair Witch And Ghostbusters Next
By Grayshadow, Posted Oct 26, 2020
Epic Games is offering new free games this week. With Costume Quest 2 and Layers of Fear 2 until October 29th and Blair Witch and Ghostbusters: T
Layers of Fear 2 Launching Next Month
Layers of Fear was a huge hit among horror fans and the second game is shaping up to have the same terrifying experience. Ever since its release fans have been asking when&nbs
Layers of Fear 2 Announced, Coming in 2019
The 2016 horror title Layers of Fear was a hit with fans and critics for its dark and uneasy atmosphere. Now it has been confirmed by publisher Gun Media and developer Bl
Platform(s): Xbox One, PS4, Switch, PC
Publisher(s): Gunfire Media
Developer(s): Bloober Team
Genres: Horror
Themes: Supernatural


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GatesAir, a global leader in wireless, over-the-air content delivery solutions for radio and TV broadcasters, announces a substantial FM Radio win in Thailand.
Public Relation Department (PRD), a division of the Thai Government, will take delivery of six Flexiva™ FAX air-cooled transmitters for its Radio Thailand expansion project.
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Top 10 Surprisingly Affordable Shows to Hire on Vastari Exhibitions
Posted on 22nd February 2017 Touring Exhibitions
On Vastari Exhibitions you'll find close to 200 of the most popular, family-friendly, thought-provoking exhibitions from the world's leading public institutions and private producers. From expensive blockbusters to affordable shows, we have a little something for everyone.
If you're at a loss as to what to host without breaking the bank, or have recently joined our platform and want to get started with a few high-quality, budget-sensitive shows, we've put together a selection of the most surprisingly affordable exhibitions currently available. Here is our top 10, in alphabetic order:
Heureka Goes Crazy
Heureka Goes Crazy won the Roy L. Shafer Leading Edge for Visitor Experience Award in 2014 and is the first science exhibition to tackle the issue of mental health in a critically constructive manner. It aims to dispel prejudices surrounding mental health and encourage people to take care of their mental well-being. This is achieved through thoughtful exposure to heartfelt stories from people diagnosed with mental disorders, interactive exhibits which allow people to experience simulations of these disorders, and engagement with art and scientific explanations.
The exhibition is highly interactive, with some exhibits specifically designed for children. Art and science merge into an attractive package at an affordable price. Login in here to find out more.
Inspired Excellence: The Story of Marie Curie and Lise Meitner
As some of the most respected scientific organisations and vocal activists continue to purge the sciences of irrational and demeaning gender bias, the stories of Marie Curie and Lise Meitner are highly instructive: two women, working in an age when education and work opportunities in research were scarce for women, won three Nobel prizes between them, discovered half a dozen heavy elements on the periodic table (some of which now bear their name), and laid the foundations for the study, and epoch-changing applications, of radioactivity and nuclear fission. Inspired Excellence is a story of grit, intellectual perseverance, omission and redemption.
We found the content and educational potential of this exhibition to be excellent for its low price, so get in touch with the producers here.
National Geographic: 50 Greatest Photographs
Comprised of 50 iconic photographs that have graced the covers of National Geographic Magazine along the years, this exhibition features the work of celebrated photographers such as Steve McCurry, Nick Nichols, and Thomas Abercrombie. It tells the fascinating and often overlooked stories of the shots which cemented National Geographic Magazine's status as an channel of unprecedented importance in the diffusion of ideas and discussions on pressing global issues.
Insurance and shipping are included in this affordable exhibition. Find out more and contact producer by logging in here.
Prehistory. The Investigation
A discovery was made in 1928 on Téviec Island, just off Quiberon, France: two bodies closely buried together with mysterious objects seemed to have been laid down according to a ritual. Intrigued? What if we told you that the bodies are prehistoric? This fantastic exhibition aims to transform your visitors into "investigative pre-historians". Models, casts, videos and other multimedia material will guide them in deciphering the mystery behind the prehistoric burial, as they learn more about the misty beginnings of human culture.
A unique take on an archeological exhibition, Prehistory is surprisingly affordable for the amount of materials it comes with. Find out more by logging in here.
Salvador Dalí - Divina Commedia
Commissioned in 1957 and completed in 1968, Salvador Dalí's illustrated version of Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia is, in the words of its producers, "a grandiose depiction of the poem". Every illustration requires dozens of different colours, and over 3,000 woodcuts were necessary to produce the images in Dalí's rendition. This exhibition is a great example of what a creative mind can achieve when it builds on the imagination of another, centuries apart.
Salvador Dalí is another of our featured big-name-artist exhibitions that comes at a very reasonable price. Get in touch to find out more here.
The Great Modernists
An amazing integrated experience awaits visitors of this exhibition, with over 500 square meters of displays, projecting over 1000 images related to the work of ten of the most famous modernist painters: Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Rousseau, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Gustav Klimt, Paul Signac, Edvard Munch, Amedeo Modigliani, Wassily Kandinsky, and Kazimir Malevich. Before diving in, visitors have the chance to learn more about the cultural milieu of Modern Art and the reasons which compelled the featured artists to uniquely reject the precepts of the artistic Establishment.
The producer is very much open to negotiating how to tailor this exhibition for your venue, and this exhibition is offered at an unbeatable price for its kind, so get in touch by logging in here.
The Renaissance Engineers
The Renaissance Engineers illustrates the animated landscape of technical skills achieved in central Italy during the Renaissance. From Brunelleschi's ingenious solution for constructing the Duomo of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, to Leonardo da Vinci's marvelous flying machines, the exhibition traverses some of the most important engineering milestones of this extraordinary period of creative flourishing.
A large-scale exhibition, featuring real-world mock-ups for a great price. Find out more by contacting the producer on Vastari Exhibitions.
Toulouse Lautrec and His World
19th century Paris was the scene of one of the most extraordinary creative periods in the history of Western art. The work of Toulouse Lautrec has galvanized studies of this period due to the artist's astuteness in transcribing Paris' social milieu into popular art. Allow your visitors to step into the world of Paris' great cabarets, theatres and streets, to experience Paris in the age of Picasso, Matisse and company through the eyes and hands of an iconic artist, for a fraction of the price of similarly themed exhibitions. The exhibition includes almost 200 original works and has no crating costs.
If you are looking for a big-name-artist exhibition that comes without the exorbitant prices associated with this kind of show, look no further than Toulouse Lautrec and His World. Contact the producer and find out more here.
Travelling Bricks
The work of over 20 LEGO® Professional Artists, using over 500.000 LEGO® bricks, this exhibition features 120 pieces on topics such as the history of transportation, the evolution of vehicles, trains, airplanes and space ships. Among the highlights are a huge model of the Titanic, a Zeppelin and a 3 meter-long replica of Carl Sagan's Ship of the Imagination. The producer likened Travelling Bricks to "a time machine, bringing the audience to the entertaining and educational history of travel: an impressive journey from prehistory to the future." Highly interactive, and a hit with children of all ages, Travelling Bricks is sure to enthrall, amaze and educate your visitors.
For the price, a play area with over 200.000 LEGO® for children to engage with is included, and the exhibition comes with copyright for all images. Contact producer by logging in here.
Works from the Norman Seeff Photography Archive
For the ultimate flexibility of a photographic exhibition tailored to your venue's size and thematic focus, why not curate your own exhibition from the Norman Seeff Archive, integrally uploaded to Vastari Collections. Norman Seeff has photographed the world's most iconic cultural figures for over four decades. On Vastari Collections, you can put together a musically themed exhibition, with images of Whitney Houston, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Michael Jackson and Diana Ross, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash and many others. You will be surprised by the cost of putting together such a show!
To get in touch with the Norman Seeff Archive and discuss a potential collaboration, please contact our Collections Specialist, Bálint Ferenczy by email or phone.
Not what you are looking for? Then head to Vastari Exhibitions and browse through dozens of affordable, high-caliber shows for your venue. If you are an accredited public institution, you can register for free to browse and contact producers.
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Art's Role During a Global Crisis
When dealing with a global crisis, art is more often than not seen as a 'non-essential'. Anxiety, uncertainty and traditionally 'essential' needs take precedence, making it hard to dedicate time to appreciate art, absorb its message and get inspired. This is exemplified in today's climate by the fact that
How has COVID-19 impacted the travelling exhibition industry?
There are multiple headlines at the moment about how the crisis has impacted the leisure industry, from museums to theatres to shopping malls, but the current global situation in 2020 is significantly impacting a subsection of the cultural industry: travelling exhibitions. Museums usually define themselves by their permanent collections; it
Six Touring Exhibitions for Equality for International Museum Day
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Ready to take your passion for music to the next level? We've created the ultimate go-to guide of dj equipment for beginners.
If you have a passion for music that you are looking to turn into an occupation, then becoming a DJ could be the right choice for you.
DJing is more than just a fun way to make money on the weekends. If you work hard at it, it can be your entry into a profitable music career. In fact, successful musicians like David Guetta got their start as DJs.
So if you are ready to start your DJ career, the first thing you will need is the right equipment. We have the ultimate guide of DJ equipment for beginners to help you get started in the right direction.
As the saying goes, "You get what you pay for." So if you want to have the right DJ equipment that will make your music sound great, it is going to come at a cost. This raises the question of whether it is best for folks looking for DJ equipment for beginners to rent or buy their first pieces of equipment.
First, you want to think about how experienced you are with music, and where you want to go in your career. If you have already been assisting other DJs for a while, and know that you want to make your living as a DJ, it may be worth it to buy equipment.
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Ultimately though, if you decide to dedicate serious time to DJing, you will want your own equipment. Buying your own equipment will allow you to customize your setup. Also, you most manufacturers provide warranties.
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In the part atmosphere, it can be hard for DJs to hear their music with precision. This is why it is essential for DJs to wear high-quality headphones so they can hear exactly what they are playing.
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Many of the venues you play at will likely have their own sound systems that you can hook your equipment up to. That said, many DJs prefer to have their own sound equipment so they can have better control over the sound quality.
More and more, DJs are turning to a controller for their input and mixing needs rather than traditional turntables. A controller and a laptop can use digital tools to provide a similar experience to using a turntable and mixer.
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Other events, however, may require you to provide your own lights. For instance, if you DJ a wedding that takes place in a restaurant or museum, the venue might not have the kind of lighting you need.
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Front-running national series race team, CGR Performance has confirmed reigning Virgin Australia Supercars Pirtek Enduro Cup Champion Steve Owen as the final piece of the puzzle in their driver line-up for the 2018 Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour.
Owen, who won the mini-series encompassing the Sandown 500, Bathurst 1000 and Gold Coast 600 with Chaz Mostert last year, will team up with experienced endurance racer Danny Stutterd in the CXC Global/Hi-Tec Oils Mitsubishi Evo IX, joining the Dylan Thomas/Tim Slade combination already confirmed in the team's Evo X.
For Owen, the event marks a return to Mount Panorama aboard a type of car in which he has already achieved success – he was a two-time Bathurst 12 Hour polesitter in an Evo IX in 2008 and '09.
"I really enjoyed my time in the Evo during the production car era of the 12 Hour, so I can't wait to head back there for the 6 Hour," Owen said.
"I haven't raced in the 6 Hour since it started two years ago, but I've been following it closely and I'm thankful to CGR Performance for giving me the opportunity to race in it.
"I'm looking forward to joining the CGR Performance team and teaming up with Steve – he's a driver with a lot of experience at Bathurst in different types of cars, so it will be great learning experience," Stutterd added.
CGR Performance team owner Dylan Thomas said Owen completes a very strong driver roster across the two cars.
"Probably the strongest aspect of our drivers is that all of us have recent miles at Mount Panorama, because we all competed in the Bathurst 12 Hour in February," Thomas said.
"Steve is highly-regarded as a very versatile driver; his record shows he can slot into any sort of race car and be fast straight away.
The confirmation of CGR Performance's driver line-up follows last week's announcement that Hi-Tec Oils – naming rights sponsor of the Bathurst 6 Hour – has joined the team as a major partner.
As part of the arrangement, Hi-Tec Oils is the official lubricant supplier for the CGR Performance workshop on Sydney's Northern Beaches, while also enjoying a prominent presence on the team's Mitsubishi Evo, Toyota 86 and Formula Vee race cars.
The 2018 Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour will feature live streaming and live TV coverage on Fox Sports on Sunday, 1 April.