WIRED, AIGA, Clios, HOW, The Webby's, Comm Arts, Awwwards, Rolling Stone and Ad Age. Below are a few things about me.
I love to draw and paint. You can see my artwork featured nowhere.
My design background started in digital. My first website was made in 1996. It was terrible.
I love how digital product design constantly evolves, but design modernism is timeless.
I collect design books. Working on a screen all day, it's nice to hold something tactile and inspiring.
Another obsessive collecting habit – sneakers. I've helped Michael Jordan become a billionaire.
My favorite movie is Star Wars. I've probably watched it over 100 times. And I agree, that is sad.
I grew up in a small Minnesota town in the 80's–90's. Fun fact, it's home of the largest Ox Cart.
I was forced to be in 4-H when I was ten. I nerdily won several Grand Champion titles in art.
Skate decks were my first appreciation for graphic design. I sucked at skateboarding.


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In "A Wound Posthumously Inflicted" (1994), a staple that punctures his hand leads John Updike to reflect on his Harvard roommate, the recently deceased Christopher Lasch, and their friendship.
Years before Updike would become a famous novelist and Lasch a professor of history, a cultural critic and author of the bestseller "The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations" (1979), they were freshman Harvard roommates, assigned to each other, Updike presumes, because they were
"Both 'interested in writing,' both white,
Both Gentile..."
(Though I, in turn, presume that description would have fit many freshmen at Harvard in the early 1950s.)
The protruding staple from a "book-envelope" containing the galleys of Lasch's book "The Revolt of the Elties and the Betrayal of Democracy" pricks Updike between the fingers, moving him to muse that his roommate "was prickly, even then, in 1950".
Hard workers, they plugged away, competing literary and scholarly alpha males, different enough in temperament for friction to be regular. Twice Updike addresses him by the nickname Kit, reminding of the great, combative Christopher (Kit) Marlowe.
And yet, Updike notes, in the poem's most surprising stanza:
"Love, of a kinf. He cleaned up the mess
when I returned blind drunk, throwing up,
from my Lampoon initiation.
In beds side by side, we improvised
musical comedies and, bored at last,
suppressed the rustle of our masturbation."
In his biography "Updike," Adam Begley offers a view of the collegiate Updike through Lasch's eyes, courtesy of a letter Lasch wrote to this parents:
"He is a very intelligent kid; his i.q. is round 150 or something like that. He writes poetry, stories, and draws cartoons.... He is very funny, and is the first person I've met who seems to appreciate my own humor."
Please join me Feb. 24 to continue exploring this collection.
If my weekly encounters with Updike leave you wanting more, visit The John Updike Society's blog. They're diligent about finding and linking to Updike news and commentary on the web.
Previous blog entries in this series (Updike stories with a ** would go in my hypothetical Best of John Updike collection):
"Selected Poems" Part 11: "Not Cancelled Yet"
"Selected Poems" Part 10: "Fall" and "Perfection Wasted"
"Selected Poems" Part 9: "Enemies of a House"
"Selected Poems" Part 8: "A Pear Like a Potato"
"Selected Poems" Part 7: "Small-City People"
The Library of America's 'John Updike: The Collected Stories' each Wednesday. For the next few weeks, I'm delving into Updike's "Selected Poems" (Knopf). Christopher Carduff, who edited the LOA story collection, has also edited this volume.
The three sonnets that comprise "To Ed Sissman" (1977) eulogize Updike's friend and fellow poet L.E. Sissman (1928-'76). "The two men shared, among much else, a fascination with the dailiness of late-twentieth-century middle-class life, including its merchandise and merchandising," Brad Leithauser writes in his introduction to the Updike collection. Sissman was also an advertising executive.
As beautiful as his sentences and lines could be, Updike didn't flinch when describing the awkward and the ugly. Note his description of his dying friend's countenance:
"Your sallow owlish face
with the gray wart where death had kissed it"
He feels his friend's death as a dimunition of his world: "the impossible shrank to the plausible."
But "To Ed Sissman" is also a poem about writing poetry and respecting the mystery source that generates it. Updike declares:
"I loved your stuff, and the way
it came from nowhere, where poetry
must come from, having no credentials."
And while he casts Sissman as a nonbeliever, he cites his late friend's mystical description of composing poems:
" 'Receiving communications from beyond': thus
you once described the fit of writing well."
You can sample Sissman's poetry at The Atlantic.
Please join me Jan. 13 to continue exploring this collection.
"Selected Poems" Part 5: "Dutch Cleanser," "Calder's Hands"
"Selected Poems" Part 4: "Marching Through a Novel"
"Selected Poems" Part 3: "Dream Objects"
'Selected Poems' Part 2: 'Dog's Death'
'Selected Poems' Part 1
My dozen favorites from "Collected Early Stories"
"Love Song, for a Moog Synthesizer" **"Problems"
"The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals"
"A Constellation of Events" "The Chaste Planet"
"Killing" "Augustine's Concubine""Transaction"
"Ethiopia" "Daughter, Last Glimpses Of" "Son" "Nevada"
"How to Love America and Leave It at the Same Time"
"Believers" "The Gun Shop" "Commercial" "Jesus on Honshu"
"The Invention of the Horse Collar"
"The Beloved" "When Everyone Was Pregnant"
"The Tarbox Police" "The Baluchitherium"
"Minutes of the Last Meeting" "The Carol Sing"
"Plumbing" "The Orphaned Swimming Pool"
"The Hillies" "One of My Generation"
"I Will Not Let Thee Go, Except Thou Bless Me"
"The Deacon" "Cemeteries" "The Day of the Dying Rabbit" "The Corner"
"Under the Microscope" "The Slump" **"The Pro"
"The Witnesses" The best ones so far "During the Jurassic"
"The Hermit" "Man and Daughter in the Cold"
"The Family Meadow" **"The Bulgarian Poetess"
"God Speaks" "The Dark" "The Rescue"
"The Music School" "Eclipse" "My Lover Has Dirty Fingernails"
"The Christian Roommates" "At a Bar in Charlotte Amalie"
"The Morning" "Four Sides of One Story" "Avec la Bebe-sitter"
"Museums and Women" **"The Stare" "Leaves"
**"Solitaire" "My Uncle's Death" "A Madman"
"The Indian" "In Football Season" **"Unstuck"
"Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car"
"The Blessed Man of Boston, My Grandmother's Thimble, and Fanning Island"
"The Crow in the Woods"
"Lifeguard" "The Doctor's Wife" "A & P" **"The Astronomer"
"You'll Never Know, Dear, How Much I Love You"
"The Sea's Green Sameness" "Archangel" "Home"
**"Pigeon Feathers"
"Wife-wooing" "A Sense of Shelter"
"Dear Alexandros" "Should Wizard Hit Mommy? **"Flight"
"The Persistence of Desire" "Walter Briggs" **"The Happiest I've Been"
"The Alligators" "Intercession" "A Gift From the City"
"Incest" "A Trillion Feet of Gas" "The Lucid Eye in Silver Town"
"Sunday Teasing" **"His Finest Hour" "Who Made Yellow Roses Yellow?"
"Snowing in Greenwich Village"
"Toward Evening"
"The Kid's Whistling"
"Dentistry and Doubt" **"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and So Forth"
"A Game of Botticelli" "Friends From Philadelphia"
"Ace in the Hole" "An Introduction"
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"The Hillies" The Library of America's 'John Updike: The Collected Stories' each Wednesday until I finish the collection or give up.
"One of Our Generation," published in 1969 in The New Yorker, reeks of its time. The narrator, encountering students with "drug begentled eyes that have seen Krishna and the connection between a baby-pink-dean and a canister of napalm," thinks back to his college roommate nearly 20 years ago, Ed Popper.
A Nebraska farmboy, Ed in his rural isolation discovered literature and the poetry of Robert Lowell, which became his passion. Updike's narrator enumerates of a list of literary gems the college student Ed already owned, including a first edition of Wallace Stevens' "Harmonium," Faber's four pamphlets of T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets," and the 1923 edition of Hemingway's "Three Stories & Ten Poems." (If you're sitting near any book collectors or antiquarian dealers, you might want to hand them a cloth to wipe the drool off their faces.)
Ed's a snob, too, in the way that well-read college literatuers can be. Assigning poets their places on a ladder of excellence, he calls Gerard Manley Hopkins "minor" and Alexander Pope "Twaddle, and his only saving grace was that he knew it."
Ed's snobbishness and judgmental doesn't lead to an easy path after college, but the narrator reveals that his former roommate does eventually find a home: in the CIA.
This small story seems to be some kind of lecture to an activist student generation that Updike was not at ease with, though the specific message of this lecture isn't easily diagrammed.
In his biography "Updike," Adam Begley identifies one of Updike's Harvard roommates as a model for this story: Charles Neuhauser, "a poet, high-strung and uncompromising."
"The story is weak and sour," Begley writes, "but it opens a window, somewhat distorted by caricature, on the book chat of Harvard English majors circa 1954."
Please join me March 25 to consider Updike's story "The Hillies."
Previous blog entries in this series (titles with a double asterisk would go in my hypothetical Best of John Updike collection):
"Wife-wooing""A Sense of Shelter"
'>"One of My Generation"

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The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes
We have to interrupt our series on the Bill of Rights to share this with you. This astounding animation by Andrew Kahn and Jamelle Bouie shows all of the slave ships that left Africa for the Americas between 1546 and 1860. Larger dots are larger ships.
You see that until about 1600, almost all of the ships went to the north coast of South America and the Caribbean islands. Then Brazil becomes a destination, and that's really how it continues right through the end: Brazil and the Caribbean like some horrible magnets drawing slave ships. Conversely, from today's Senegal to Angola, the west African coast literally has the life sucked out of it as dots fly and fly for centuries from its shores.
Surprisingly, through the 1600s the main and almost only destination for slave ships going to today's United States is what is now the Washington, DC/Chesapeake Bay area. Only a fraction head directly for the Carolinas. After 1750, the already heavy traffic picks up even more, and the Atlantic is almost blotted out by slave ships. Now slave ships are heading directly to the Carolinas, and, unexpectedly, the number of slave ships heading to French Canada picks up tremendously. The American Revolution slows things down remarkably—it was Britain running the bulk of the slave trade at this point, and its focus on the war meant a big loss in profits from the slave trade. But a thin stream of ships still heads relentlessly to the sugar islands of the Caribbean. As soon as the war ends, the traffic resumes at its original density.
Then it's 1808, and the U.S. withdrawal from the slave trade shows in the complete lack of ships heading to the Atlantic seaboard. Even the number heading to the Caribbean falls, and Brazil is left as an insatiable market for the hundreds and hundreds of ships leaving Africa.
A lull in the 1820s is followed by an upswing in the 1830s and 40s, and then the traffic trails off to a few sporadic seasons, and then we end in 1860. Nearly 16,000 ships carrying human beings to slavery have crossed the ocean. Brazil would not abolish slavery until 1888, the last of the Latin American nations to do so.
Many, many thanks to Kahn and Bouie for doing this work and putting it in a form that is instantly clear and powerful. Viewing this resource leaves you with a sick feeling, and a strong sense of never being able to make up for all those lives lost. But we can and must work every day to undo the damage of black slavery in our own countries by ending the racism that is its strongest legacy. And we can work to end the slavery of Africans and Asians that is ongoing today.
thehistoricpresent	Slavery, What History is For	1 Comment June 29, 2015 June 29, 2015 2 Minutes
The Fifth Amendment: not just about the right not to incriminate yourself
It's part six of our series on the Bill of Rights, and here we consider the Fifth Amendment, which reads:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Why is it we only think of "I take the Fifth?" being said in court when we think of this portmanteau amendment? The Fifth Amendment does four distinct things:
—It does indeed give people the right to refuse to say anything in court that might prove them to be guilty of a crime, or essentially make a person a witness for the attorney prosecuting her/him. However, you must explicitly say that you are invoking your Fifth Amendment right not to answer a question: you can't just remain silent.
—It requires grand juries to be called to hear cases of felony ("Infamous crimes"), except in the case of military personnel accused of committing crimes during wartime (these are handled by military trials/tribunals).
—It gives people the right not to be tried twice for the same offense in federal court. Clearly, people are often tried and re-tried through appeals, but someone cannot appear as a defendant in the same case before the same federal court (that's why things move up to district and circuit courts and finally to the Supreme Court). This is called the "double jeopardy clause".
—It grants citizens due process under the law, in a preview of the Fourteenth Amendment. No one can be arrested or have their property taken away without being explicitly told which law they have broken (or that they have broken a law at all).
—It forces any state or federal authority that takes away someone's property by right of eminent domain to reimburse the person(s) who lost their property with something of equal value ("just compensation").
That's a lot. Most Fifth Amendment cases have addressed the self-incrimination aspect. During the Red Scare of the early 1950s, people hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee who refused to testify against themselves by even answering questions about whether they were communists invoked the Fifth Amendment, but were lacerated as cowards and liars for doing so. Since being a communist was not actually a crime in the U.S. legal code, many people were not allowed to invoke the Fifth because it is specifically meant to prevent people from being forced to admit criminal activity.
In the following decade, this history was revisited when the Supreme Court decided in Griffin v. California (1965) that taking the Fifth in court cannot be used to persuade a jury that the person refusing to testify is guilty.
Many cases have dealt with whether police officers used harsh interrogations, intimidation, threats, or torture and violence to force confessions out of suspects in their custody. The 1966 Miranda v. Arizona case threw out Miranda's confession because it was forced out of him by police officers who did not tell him he had the right to remain silent. The Supreme Court said that the police are required to tell people that they have a Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate themselves—a right now usually referred to as "Miranda rights".
Other rulings include one saying that someone can't refuse to provide their tax records because they will incriminate them, and another that said, conversely, that someone can refuse to provide computer hard drives on that basis.
Next time: the long-abused Sixth Amendment
thehistoricpresent	Bill of Rights, U.S. Constitution	Leave a comment June 18, 2015 July 9, 2015 3 Minutes
The Fourth Amendment: what is a search? what is property?
We've reached part five in our series on the Bill of Rights. Here we look at the Fourth Amendment, which gives us the old chestnut "a man's home is his castle". Sort of.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Readers of the HP will feel these words are familiar, and they are: the very first law of the 1641 Body of Liberties—the first codification of English law in North America—states:
No man's life shall be taken away, no man's honor or good name shall be stained, no man's person shall be arrested, restrained, banished, dismembered, nor any ways punished, no man shall be deprived of his wife or children, no man's goods or estate shall be taken away from him, nor any way indemnified under color of law or countenance of authority, unless it be by virtue or equity of some express law of the country warranting the same, established by a General Court and sufficiently published, or in the case of the defect of a law in any particular case by the word of God. And in capital cases, or in cases concerning dismembering or banishment, according to that word to be judged by the General Court.
Every tenet of the Fourth Amendment is here. This concept has a fairly long history in English law. Seizure of goods became an issue in the run-up to the American Revolution, as early as 1754, when the Excise Act of 1754 gave tax collectors expansive powers to search people's homes and shops under the aegis of uncovering and destroying smuggled goods. The problem was how general the search warrants were—they did not specify what the tax collectors might be looking for, and thus allowed them to go through anything and everything they wanted.
As an unknown writer at Wikipedia succinctly puts it,
Fourth Amendment case law deals with three central issues: what government activities constitute "search" and "seizure"; what constitutes probably cause or these actions; [and] how violations of Fourth Amendment rights should be addressed.
The Fourth Amendment typically requires "a neutral and detached authority interposed between the police and the public," and it is offended by "general warrants" and laws that allows searches to be conducted "indiscriminately and without regard to their connection with [a] crime under investigation", for the "basic purpose of the Fourth Amendment, which is enforceable against the States through the Fourteenth, through its prohibition of "unreasonable" searches and seizures is to safeguard the privacy and security of individuals against arbitrary invasions by governmental officials.
Nowadays, what constitutes "houses, papers, and effects", as well as "the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized" is up for grabs. Are text messages "papers"? Are phone calls? How can these be seized? Can anyone's calls or emails or tweets be somehow removed from them and taken into government custody? And if the place to be searched is the Internet, how can searches be narrowed down to be very specific? If a video goes viral and is picked up by ten thousand websites, should all 10,001 sites be shut down? If the "paper" is a phone call, is the "place to be searched" the data-minimal phone records, or wiretap recordings of the calls?
If the police stop someone because they suspect that person was texting while driving, do they have the right to ask for the person's cell phone to see if it has a recent text on it? Some courts have said yes, others no because the contents of the cell phone are private and a search warrant is needed to read them.
Other recent cases involve drug-sniffing police dogs, including the issue of whether a person arrested for some other crime who is then found to have drugs in their possession by a police dog can be arrested and held for drug possession when that was not the original reason for the arrest. If you're stopped for speeding, then a police dog finds drugs in your car, the police officer should only be able to arrest you for speeding since that's why s/he stopped you—that's the specific "warrant" for the stop. The dogs become an added, general search warrant that might turn up other problems. The courts have generally found in favor of the police in these cases.
And of course the NSA's surveillance of all phone calls in the United States has been attacked on Fourth Amendment grounds because it is the definition of "general". The constant monitoring of phone calls represents a constant, general search that is most likely completely unwarranted in 99% of cases. You can't search every house in New York City because there might be a gun in one of those houses.
This amendment was so clear and simple when it was ratified; the Founders would be grateful they aren't around now to revise it to suit 21st-century life.
Next time: the famous Fifth Amendment
thehistoricpresent	Bill of Rights, The Founders, U.S. Constitution	Leave a comment June 12, 2015 June 18, 2015 3 Minutes
The lonely Third Amendment and its defense against quartering of troops in private homes
Hello and welcome to part four of our series on the Bill of Rights. Here we shine a rare spotlight on the Third Amendment, the lonely wallflower of the Bill. Here is its unanimously undisputed text:
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
When we read it, we are immediately taken back to the tumultuous lead-up to the Revolutionary War. After the Boston Tea Party, one of the Coercive Acts issued by Parliament stated that British soldiers were to be quartered wherever housing existed—including people's private homes. This only really had an effect on the Boston area, because the Coercive Acts were accompanied by a surge of soldiers to enforce them. Suddenly there were many times more British soldiers in the Boston area, and there really were not enough barracks or official military housing for them. And so the Quartering Act of 1774 read thusly:
WHEREAS doubts have been entertained, whether troops can be quartered otherwise than in barracks [within] any town, township, city, district, or place, within his Majesty's dominions in North America: And whereas it may frequently happen, from the situation of such barracks, that, if troops should be quartered therein, they would not be stationed where their presence may be necessary and required: be it therefore enacted [that] it shall and may be lawful for the persons who now are, or may be hereafter, authorized by law, in any of the provinces within his Majesty's dominions in North America, [at the request] of the officer who, for the time being, has the command of his Majesty's forces in North America, to cause any officers or soldiers in his Majesty's service to be quartered and billeted in such manner as is now directed by law, where no barracks are provided by the colonies.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if it shall happen at any time that any officers or soldiers in his Majesty's service shall remain within any of the said colonies without quarters, for the space of 24 hours after such quarters shall have been demanded, it shall and may be lawful for the governor of the province to order and direct such and so many uninhabited houses, out-houses, barns, or other buildings, as he shall think necessary to be taken, (making a reasonable allowance for the same), and make fit for the reception of such officers and soldiers, and to put and quarter such officers and soldiers therein, for such time as he shall think proper.
So ominous. That Quartering Act was a long way of saying "Britain now considers the people of America to be an enemy population which will not only be placed under martial law, but will be forced to give up its own property to the soldiers commanding them." Did they really station soldiers in "out-houses"? Luckily, or unluckily, depending on your viewpoint, "out-houses" here does not mean privy pits (outdoor bathrooms) but buildings in the yard of a house (stables, smokehouses, etc.).
During the Revolutionary War, General Washington won the hearts of many of his compatriots by refusing to let his men take anything from local people when they passed through an area—no food, firewood, clothes, or any other much-needed supplies. And he never forced people to house his soldiers anywhere on their property. Thus when the American people came to enumerate the rights they felt were most important to their life and liberty, they wanted Washington's voluntary example to become mandatory law. And so the Third Amendment was written.
It's interesting that it does not really completely preclude quartering. It just makes quartering a legal matter. "No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law"—that is, the government/Army is free to ask any property owner if soldiers can stay in their houses during peacetime, but during wartime there might be a law passed allowing quartering. This would be a temporary law, one feels, but it could happen. Quartering is not ruled out, it is taken out of the realm of official whim and placed within the realm of democratic law.
There has never been a major Supreme Court case predicated on the Third Amendment. That's because the amendment immediately takes us back to the Revolutionary era, and that's because, aside from the War of 1812, we haven't had a war fought in our country since the Revolution. (The Pearl Harbor attack did not involve foreign soldiers landing on our soil.) During the War of 1812, our army was too small and too much on the run to trouble anyone with quartering. And so the problem that was so fresh and real in 1789 when the Third Amendment was written has become a museum piece (so far).
There have been a handful of court cases that referenced this amendment. As recently as February 2015, the District Court in Nevada rejected an argument that police officers cannot enter people's homes without their permission because that would be a kind of quartering by saying that the police are not soldiers. (The case was sparked by police entering a home to help a victim of domestic abuse when the owner of the home [and the accused abuser] was not there.)
One colorful attempt to invoke the Third Amendment was in United States v. Valenzuela in 1951, when the defendant stated that rent control law was "the incubator and hatchery of swarms of bureaucrats to be quartered as storm troopers upon the people in violation of Amendment III of the United States Constitution." This plea was not heard by the Court.
Let's all hope that the Third Amendment continues to be a moot point as we move forward in our history.
Next time: the all-too-relevant Fourth Amendment
thehistoricpresent	Bill of Rights, Quartering Act, U.S. Constitution	Leave a comment June 4, 2015 June 12, 2015 4 Minutes


Telling the Eden Mill story to thousands of visitors throughout the year, the Eden Mill tour guides' days are powered by interactions with people. On any day, we can welcome visitors from as far afield as Japan, Australia, Canada, USA, or Motherwell. All want to learn more about our gin, whisky and beer and to soak in the passion that goes into crafting them.
Each day begins with a quick walk around the brewery and distillery. Mainly to find out what the distillers and brewers have planned that day; but also to remind them to start our "tidy hours" for the many guests that will soon be coming through. We also try and do this immediately before each tour, because in a moment the brewery floor can become crowded with casks ready for filling. When the brewers and distillers are absorbed in their work, it can be easy to lose track of time. We don't want visitors to be wandering through and seeing an area that's not tidy. We're pretty sure that if it weren't for their coffees going cold, they would never leave the brew-floor or still room!
Once we're up to speed on the goings-on and the gossip in the brewery and distillery, we begin setting up the shop and tasting area for the day's visitors. This can involve everything from cleaning glasses and cutting up garnishes, ushering out any stragglers from the day before who perhaps imbibed a little too much and have spent the night sleeping it off in our tasting room (only kidding…). Next, we take a look at that day's tour schedules to action any special requirements for the tours and give us time to prepare (both mentally and physically) for any hen-parties and stag-dos that may be coming our way later in the day. Telling the Eden Mill story is part of our culture and we love it.
Sometimes within a single day, sometimes even on a single tour, groups can be made up of a wide variety of folk. Individuals with specific interests in either gin, beer or whisky. Couples looking for a delightfully different way to spend an hour or two whilst on holiday. Large groups of students from nearby Universities looking for more in-depth information about the chemical processes involved in making the alcoholic beverages that are so close to their hearts. Our aim is to structure each tour so as to give everyone a great experience, whether they are looking for a good pint, a refreshing gin, a lovingly crafted dram, a wholehearted laugh, or some informative bits of trivia.
Guests often comment on the strong community spirit that flows through the brewery. None of our departments are guilty of "keeping themselves to themselves". It's a regular occurrence to find one of the brewers behind the bar in the tasting area, offering out samples of a new creation or a 'work in progress' to anyone that happens to be in the vicinity (be it staff, customers or customers' dogs). This community spirit is also noticeable on a walk around the brewery. No-one is too busy to answer any questions, from the simple "How's your day going?" to the more pressing "Is that dog drunk?".
Some of these things happened. Some I (slightly) exaggerated. The best way to find out which is to visit. We can't wait to welcome you but if you can't come to a tour, at least you can still buy your gin and beer online.
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Ulysses Owens Jr. & Generation Y
Drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr. makes his third Jazz Series appearance - but first as a leader when he arrives with Generation Y, his quintet comprised of some of the most dynamic young jazz musicians on the scene. Owens, Jr's group is dedicated to moving the music forward, with a love of the jazz traditio, which the leader has himself absorbed over having performed with numerous significant artists such as Nicholas Payton, Christian McBride, Wynton Marsalis and Mulgrew Miller, among many, many others. It is through his relationship with such important bandleaders he learned and absorbed the "how to" of leadership, much in the same way the aforementioned learned from the likes of Art Blakey and Betty Carter - two seminal examples of people renowned for their ability to develop future bandleaders and launching the careers of scores of musicians spanning multi-generations.
In much the same way that Blakey's Jazz Messengers and Carter's ensembles served as "educational institutions," so it is with Owens Jr. During the course of the the past five years, the drummer's career has shifted from being a "young lion" to grooming the next generation of talent via his performance, production and educational career. It is in the Blakey-Carter tradition that Owens Jr. introduces us to "Generation Y," paying it forward by selecting a new crop of a talent through his professorship at The Juilliard School as well as young musicians he has discovered. Generation Y is a dynamic group that conveys the power of the jazz tradition by showing that the future of the music is in good hands.
Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022
Ulysses Owens, Jr. & Generation Y
Ulysses Owens, Jr.: Drums
Philip Norris: Bass
Luther Allison: Piano
Erena Terakuba: Saxophones
Benny Benack III: Trumpet
Heralded as a "powerhouse of a showman" (Glide Magazine), a "legitimate jazz triple threat" (Critical Jazz) and a drummer who "take[s] a back seat to no one" (The New York Times), performer, producer and educator Ulysses Owens Jr. goes the limit in the jazz world and beyond.


I created this page really just to give you guys an opportunity to ask me or anyone else that frequents this site any questions you might have about dramas, film, books, music or life. Sometimes we just want a place we can ask our drama questions without ridicule or a mikkiins minds and answers. I've been watching dramas for a very ling time and consumed and discarded more than I can even begin to count now. So feel free to ask you will get an answer!
I leave it open to you guys to decide what is discussed here. Just remember to be kind and no question is dumb enough NOT to be answered.
The craziest thing you've done? Let's begin with the K-drama fandom.
It was over some holiday or something a couple years ago and I had come back to my mom's house. It was winter and the heat in my room was out so I would float from room to room.This night I was with my sister and I had just started Cain and Abel a couple hrs prior. Well, I was really the only one on extended holiday, so my family had to work in the morning and was all in bed, therefore my plan was to get in a couple more eps and turn in as well.
My sister can't sleep with any speck of light, so, in a corner I propped up an old comforter over a chair and an ottoman creating a little hut for me, my comp and So Ji Sub. Little did I know, this rig would turn into a smudging tent! I sat under that thing nibbling on half n half Oreos and Cheetos, swigging ginger ale and pouring sweat but somehow I was so sucked into "Sub sadness," I forgot all about sleep and the heat. Fourteen hrs later, I emerged dehydrated and exhausted, finishing C&A in a total of 23hrs.
That's crazy. I wish I set up a tent like that filled with junk food and myself watching dramas.
Haha. Honestly, I'm a little ashamed I did this. But, when you're in the throws of something you really don't notice how caught up you are, ne?
True, though I've never done anything as crazy as that.
BTW, would you recommend Kehas See Daeng? I want to watch it because of Andrew, but I've heard mixed reviews about it. I'm certain, however, that one day I'll watch it when I find time to do that.
If you like Andrew, it's worth the watch. I've yet to see a performance with him, that I was disappointed by. I go into more detail in "LLL" (I just updated) but my initial thoughts rang true throughout the entire story for me. There were one or two major issues I had with the story but those were personal pet peeves that crop up in almost all dramas.
If you do get around to watching, let me know! I'd love to hear what you thought.
I love Andrew. Since I was introduced to him in 2000, I've seen everything he's in since then and beyond (anything earlier than that was too old for me lol). The only ones I haven't seen are Sadud Rak and Kehas See Daeng. Oh, and Game Loon Rak. I caught the first episode, I think, but I moved houses around that time, so I can't remember where I put my copy. I'll probably watch KSD if I can find a decent copy somewhere. I can't wait for his upcoming lakorns!
I watched both on Youtube through the Andrew Gregson FC channel. I download from YT as well. GLR was insane with no plot and mostly disjointed isolated episodes but I laughed tremendously cause it was all in good fun.
And don't get me started on "Mafia." Andrew and Taew?! Aaah! But I'm actually looking forward to the entire series. His newest (next) drama seems interesting as well and I like the extended cast so I'll probably check that one out as well.
Well I can understand why GLR wouldn't have a plot. It's a sitcom, so it's supposed to be in good fun with one major theme running through it (which, if I can sort of remember it, was the whole dynamics between the leads and the show they were hosting(?)).
I know, right? Andrew and Taew! I so can't wait.
Hey just wondering whats going on with the Stone cities site? Like are you still updating it? I really miss running man Updates and your drama reviews with ExtraKun.
Stone Cities is still very important to both of the site's bloggers, however, Lore is the one who posts on RM. And currently, her personal and familial priorities and obligations leave her little time to post. That also means collaborative reviews with Ekun are on hold as well. As for Ekun and I (Unnichan) to be honest, we haven't seen a drama recently we wanted to discuss. But when we do, believe me, we will certainly have something up that will be shared on both sites.


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Rahim (Amir Jadidi) is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor (Mohsen Tanabandeh) to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don't go as planned. From two-time Academy Award®-winning director Asghar Farhadi, A HERO arrives in US theaters 1/7/22 and on Amazon Prime Video 1/21/22.SHOW LESS
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Cori Anika Bush is a representative representing Missouri's first congressional district who is also a pastor, trained nurse, and Black Lives Matter activist.
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Cori Bush was born in St. Louis and was the first woman elected to her district as well as her first Black woman and nurse to represent Missouri. Black Lives Matter activist and single mother of two children, she participated in the Ferguson revolt when 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr. was killed by an officer of the white race in 2014. In all her years, Brown has been outspoken about her experiences of homelessness, sexual assault, and various other forms of assault. Bush was conceived on July 21, 1976, in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States. By 2021, she will be 45 years old. Cancer is the sign of my birth.
Real Name Cori Anika Bush
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Height (approx.) centimeters– 170 cm
meters– 1.70 m
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Weight (approx.) in kilograms– 68 kg
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Age (as in 2018) 45 Years
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In 1994, Bush received his high school diploma from Cardinal Ritter College Prep. Later, she spent a year at Harris Stowe State University. In 2008, she graduated from the Lutheran School of Nursing with a diploma in nursing.
In 2001, Cori started her career as a nurse by working at SSM Health St. Louis Hospital.
Bush founded the Kingdom International Church in St. Louis, Missouri, later that year.
Bush, a triage nurse, and organizer during the 2014 Ferguson uprising turned into a political activist.
She joined the Democratic Party in 2015, and in 2016 she entered politics for the first time by running for the Missouri U.S. Senate. In Missouri's 1st congressional district in 2018, Bush ran a primary campaign against then-representative Lacy Clay, a Democrat, but lost to Clay.
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Perry Bush, Cori's brother, and Kelli Bush, her sister, were all of her life.
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Throwback Thursday: Mariah Carey & Hilary Duff Rocked New Year's Eve 10 Years Ago
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Do you remember where you were on New Year's Eve 10 years ago? No? We don't blame you. YouTube was less than a year old, and we were still six months away from the birth of Twitter. Snapchat and Instagram? Please. For modern day archaeologists of the internet, it's hard enough to piece together what happened when the ball dropped on New Year's Rockin' Eve 2006.
We do know that Hilary Duff performed some songs:
And the Pussycat Dolls performed, too. (The quality of the video is about that of a camcorder held up to a television screen, but remember, 2005).
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But the 2005-06 campaign really was a watershed year for the annual New York City New Year's extravaganza. Dick Clark returned to his longtime post after a stroke made him sit out the previous year. His speech was hampered, but he powered through, announcing several acts and providing the voiceover for the final midnight countdown. Clark wasn't about to back down, but he did have some help on set. Ryan Seacrest (who hosted Fox's New Year's show the year before)? shared hosting duties on the ABC edition for the first time, a position that's now completely his (Jenny McCarthy since became the Times Square correspondent).
And then there was Mariah Carey. This was eight months since the release of her massive comeback The Emancipation of Mimi, so of course she got some prime stage time. About 15 minutes before midnight, Mariah Carey performed the album's first three singles — "It's Like That," "Shake It Off," and "We Belong Together" — from a stage right in the middle of Times Square. She was the first artist to do so.
According to IMDB, the motley crew of Sean Paul, Chris Brown, 3 Doors Down, Sugarland, and the Bangles also performed, presumably not together. We could not track down any videos, however, so maybe it was all one big collab. Does anyone really remember 2005?
This year, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve will run for the 43rd consecutive year. Clark passed away in 2012, but the show still bares his namesake. Seacrest, now 13 years since the launch of American Idol, is the host. He still looks young. You're getting old. MySpace as we know it is no more, and you'll never lay eyes on your top eight again.
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Anna Faris 'Liked' a Tweet About Divorce One Week Before Chris Pratt Split Announcement
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Anna Faris "liked" a tweet about divorce exactly one week before she and husband Chris Pratt announced their separation on Sunday, August 6.
Celebrity Splits of 2017
"So far the hardest part of divorce is not having anyone to yell with when the printer isn't working," author Kelly Oxford wrote on Twitter on Sunday, July 30, referring to her fall 2016 split from husband James.
Anna Faris and Chris Pratt attend the world premiere of 'Guardians of the Galaxy' at the Dolby Theater in 2014.
The tweet has since amassed more than 1,600 likes, one of which came from none other than Faris, 40, herself. The message appeared under the "Likes" section on her own account.
So far the hardest part of divorce is not having anyone to yell with when the printer isn't working.
— kelly oxford (@kellyoxford) July 31, 2017
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The Mom star and Pratt, 38, surprised fans when they announced that they had called it quits after eight years of marriage. "We are sad to announce we are legally separating," the former couple, who share 4-year-old son Jack, wrote in a statement shared on their social media accounts.
"We tried hard for a long time, and we're really disappointed," the statement continued. "Our son has two parents who love him very much and for his sake we want to keep this situation as private as possible moving forward. We still love each other and will always cherish our time together and continue to have the deepest respect for one another."
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Faris and Pratt met on the set of Take Me Home Tonight in 2007 and tied the knot in July 2009. She was previously married to actor Ben Indra for four years until 2008.
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GNSS Data and Products is one of the EPOS projects Thematic Core Services or TCS's. The general objective of this TCS is to develop an open source platform with programmatic and web interfaces to store and disseminate raw data and metadata from GNSS stations operating in Europe, thereby providing access to an integrated European network of data providers.
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The Case for Stewardship (not Ownership) of Antiquities, Language, DNA and More
In this age of marauding markets, it almost seems quaint to ask, "Who owns culture?" We know the answer. When push comes to shove, the owners of copyright, trademarks and patents own everything. We may think that the music, images and stories of our culture belong to us, but as a matter of law, in the 165+ countries that have signed the Berne Convention, our designated role is....to buy (and not use someone else's "property.")
A new book of essays complicates this picture. Negotiating Culture: Heritage, Ownership and Intellectual Property -- just published by the University of Massachusetts Press -- points out some of the distinct limits to "intellectual property's" dominion. The book is a series of essays by academics from various disciplines that explores how social practice and culture have their own moral legitimacy and social power -- enough to push back on claimed property rights.
The book chronicles controversies over who should have legal rights of ownership and control over Native American remains, Green and Roman antiquities, works of art looted by the Nazis, among many other objects and resources. We are asked to consider whether culture should be treated as property that can be bought and sold (and treated accordingly), or whether it must be considered inalienable, or not suitable for sale on the market, and treated with the utmost dignity and respect.
These are the magic words: It seems that the core issue in so many of these disputes is a matter of identity, dignity, respect and, of course, power.
Museums are increasingly at the epicenter of cultural ownership issues these days. The 2005 trial in Italy of Marion True, the former curator of classical art at the J. Paul Getty Museum, is a beautiful case study of how social norms about the ownership of ancient antiquities have dramatically shifted. Prior to that trial, museums often bought or accepted donated antiquities without too much thought about the provenance of the work. After all, antiquities don't usually come with title deeds or receipts, and it was an open secret that many of them were dug up by looters and spirited out of the country into the hands of profit-minded dealers.
In a chapter on the Marion True trial by Laetitia La Follette, who is also the editor of the anthology, we learn how ancient artifacts often smile at us blankly, posing unanswerable riddles: Who should be entitled to "own" the sculpted torso of the god Mithras, or the large Greek kylix, or drinking cup, that the Getty had acquired?
One can make the case that the museum bought it fair and square. But without papers proving their provenance, museums adopting a "don't ask, don't tell" policy are essentially sanctioning the illegal plunder and trafficking of priceless historical artifacts from archaeological sites around the world.
But critics may respond: The nation-states of Greece and Italy were not even around when those works were created. Why should they be entitled to claim ownership of such antiquities? Perhaps we should regard such works as belonging to all of humankind, as a shared cultural legacy. And let's be realistic: premier museums may be better able to protect than countries without the proper funds and curatorial staff. (The limitations of Greece and postwar Iraq come to mind.)
Answering these questions has all sorts of cascading implications that are not necessarily obvious. For example, if stolen antiquities can be sold to museums with impunity, it will only encourage the looting of antiquities for their aesthetic and resale value, at the expense of the historical knowledge that would come from careful archaeological extraction and study. The interests of museums in acquiring beautiful, historical objects often clash with the interests of art historians and anthropologists in studying the historical significance and context of antiquities.
As a result of the Marion True trial, museums around the world have changed their acquisitions policies for ancient art to ensure that the provenance of artifacts is carefully scrutinized. The return of antiquities to the originating countries is another frequent outcome. Significantly, the US Government has since agreed to collaborate with international partners to stop the looting of antiquities from the Mediterranean, which replicated similar agreements for antiquities looted from Mali and several Latin American countries.
What is emerging in the aftermath of the True trial, writes La Follette, is "a new model of international collaboration over cultural property, one based on stewardship instead of ownership."
This controversy – like the ones over Native American's remains and indigenous people's sacred objects – highlights the way that our identities in a sense merge with objects. We can see more clearly how certain objects become morally, culturally and personally "necessary" for our collective identities.
Consider the skull of Kennewick Man," prehistoric human remains found along the banks of the Columbia River in Washington State. American Indians have been disturbed by the scientific study of these remains. Yet anthropologists and scientists regard such Kennewick Man as an invaluable specimen that can shed more light on early human societies. Whose interests should prevail? The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 has sought to provide a framework for resolving such disputes in more respectful, predictable ways.
In a chapter on the "politics of archaeology," Joe Watkins, an indigenous archaeologist who is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, explains how the "trade-offs" implied by such arguments are really specious: "To me, repatriation [of remains] has created opportunities for archaeologists to draw from the indigenous knowledge held by those people whose ancestors created the archaeological record we write about. It has opened up hitherto untapped pools of knowledge that can help inform archaeological understanding…."
There are other interesting essays here about who should be able to own or control or act as stewards for a given body of cultural knowledge or objects. Linguistics professor Margaret Speas notes that Microsoft once proposed creating a Windows operating system based on the Mapudungun language, the ancestral language of the Mapuche People in Chile. Far from welcoming their integration into global computing, the Mapuche People objected strenuously. They complained that "only the Mapuche People must and can safeguard, maintain, manage, develop and recreate its cultural heritage."
This is one of those rare clashes between a bounded commons and an open network platform. The latter is often mistaken as a commons, but in reality open networks are often closed systems controlled by the corporations that own them (think Facebook, Google and Twitter).
The Microsoft/Mapuche confrontation mirrors similar ones that linguists have had in trying to study indigenous languages of the Americas. Linguists may have only the best intentions – to study and help preserve languages that are in danger of dying out. But when working as a coauthor of a textbook of Navajo, Speas found that her expertise as a linguist was sometimes beside the point; what the community wanted and needed was culturally relevant and appropriate materials.
In another essay in the book, Banu Subramaniam, who studies feminist science, writes about "DNA and the Politics of Belonging." It turns out that some ethnic groups in India are trying to use DNA as a "material-semiotic object" to indicate their genealogical proximity to Europeans vs. Asians, and thus make the case for their more elevated social caste. To some, Indians with a European genetic heritage should be considered more upper caste, and those associated with West Asian genetic lines would be more lower caste.
"Does the proving ort disproving of the genetic basis of caste serve to justify inequality, inequity and a disproportionate access to power and education for fair-skinned Indo-Aryans over their darker Dravidian neighbors?" asked Subramaniam. In the end she concludes, "claims of identity and ancestry cannot be reduced to genetic or biological simplifications but must necessarily be complex, grounded din the multifaceted lived realities of our histories." The more telling revelations of this episode, she writes, is what "tracing claims of ownership tells us about the complex machinations of power."
I have my own essay in this volume – "Digital Commons: The Rise of New Models of Collaborative Ownership." Readers of this blog will find nothing surprising in the essay, but it does nicely summarize the waning powers of exclusive control in the context of the Internet.
Negotiating Culture was the outcome of a faculty seminar – the Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities and Fine Arts – that I participated in as a non-faculty outsider, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in 2006-2007. It's fantastic to see this work in print, finally. A salute to Laetitia La Follette for pulling it together!
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Q: Get http status codes after link was clicked I have next code which gets http code when url has been opened directly:
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

  def visit_page(url, response_code: false)
    @browser.goto(url)
    if response_code
      page_status_code(url)
    end
  end

  def page_status_code(url)
    uri = URI.parse(url)
    connection = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)

    # If SSL.
    # connection.use_ssl = true
    # connection.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

    request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
    response = connection.request(request)
    response.code
  end

In scenario it looks next:
response_code = page.visit_page('https://www.google.com', response_code: true)
puts response_code

And how I can apply this to get http code if I click on link?
page.link_element(text: 'lorem ipsum').click

A: If you are click on anchor tag and it has href attribute the you try with the following code.
    Hrefvalue = page.link_element(text: 'lorem ipsum').get_attribute ('href')
    response_code = page.visit_page( Hrefvalue, response_code: true)
puts response_code

A: I've found another solution:
mylink = @browser.link(:text, 'Lorem Ipsum')
url = URI.parse mylink.href
status_code = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) { |http| http.head(url.request_uri).code }
puts url
status_code.should == '200'

In this case I even do not need to click on link and its code will be got.

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Mairi Thomson introduces the dance film Three, which was made at Dundee Contemporary Arts.
Scottish artist Alan Hayman, introduces some of his work. Mainly painting in oils, Hayman is a self taught artist, and takes his knowledge and inspiration from the wildlife and landscape.
Edinburgh Television interview with David Bailey and filmed by Robert Morgan.
Raj Chakraborti's interview with David Bainbridge at 'Reconstruction and Fabrication' as part of the Edinburgh International Art Festival in 2004.
Hilary Lloyd presents her work at the 5th British Art Show in Edinburgh in 2000.
Paul Nesbitt introduces the 5th British Art Show in 2000 sitting amongst Martin Creed's balloons at Inverleith House, Edinburgh.
Laura Owens discusses her exhibition of 2000 at Inverleith House, Edinburgh.
David Austen at the Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.
Robert Morgan's film of David Thomas and Wilma Tabacco preparing 'Painted Spaces' at the Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh in 2001.


Southern Evia is gifted with fabulous natural landscapes, such as the Styra massif, the mountain range of Ochi, the Dimosaris river gorge, monuments of history such as the mythical Dragon Houses (Drakospita), castles, the picturesque villages of Cavo D'Oro, that is literally a journey back in time.
Pristine beaches in the Evian Gulf and the Aegean, isolated forests, villages clinging to the slopes, full of myths and taverns with delicious dishes and flavors from the local cuisine such as the famous Karystos kids and the unique flavor of Evian fish.
Styra offer wonderful hiking trails and places where nature remains untouched.
Get yourself a pair of sneakers and good mood and enjoy walking, the colors, scents and images of the magical corner of Southern Evia. Styra is an ideal destination near Athens.
Styra have the privilege to be surrounded by many beautiful beaches on the Evian Gulf and the Aegean Sea.
Almyropotamos, Dilisso, Nea Styra and Nimborio on the Evian Gulf and Mesochori and Tsakaioi on the Aegean coast, are easily accessible by car, a real challenge to swim in crystal clear waters.
The megalithic monuments of Evia.
The legend of the Dragon Houses is alive for thousands of years on the mountains of Southern Evia.
Mythical supernatural beings with great power have passed through the centuries and lived in the Dragon Houses on the mountains of Styra and Karystos.
These megalithic structures, existing for centuries on our mountains, have witnessed the prehistoric era and challenge the imagination.
Huge stones artfully arranged and assimilated by the environment form a perfect architectural creation.
Most Dragon Houses, are located in Styra, complex of three near the village, offering the opportunity to enjoy a magnificent hiking trail.
Visit them and a guide will take you to a trip of fantasy and reality.
Enjoy both the nature and history of Styra, easy hike for the whole family.
Starting from the hotel, after 4km of paved road, we approach Styra. Follow the signs towards Chalkida, after 500m we meet a sign to "Dragon Houses/Drakospita" n the right.
We follow the marked path to the Dragon Houses, the Ancient Quarries and Armeno castle.
Traveling time by car is 30 minutes. From where we get off the car, the small path leads to the Dragon Houses, hiking lasts 5 minutes.
Hiking trail Starting from the Styra square and through the cobblestone streets of the village on the back of the church, follow the path marked with red arrows and find the signs, leading to the Dragon Houses.
A magnificent hiking experience is going down the road from the Dragon Houses to the prehistoric castle of Armeno, in the archaeological site of the Styra Mountain, passing by the ancient quarries.
Huge volumes of shale, invulnerable to time, are telling the history of thousands of years, when Styra was known for its green marble, the Styrian stone.
A trip with the time machine in the field of marble artists, an activity that continues to our days.
At the top of Mount Kliosi over Styra, stands a castle with important role in the prehistoric, ancient and the Venetian times. Its stone gate overlooks Styra and hides secrets that call hikers to explore inside.
High walls, stones safely arranged, the chapel of Panagia (Virgin Mary) and the cave of Aghios Nikolas (St. Nicholas) overlook the Evian Gulf and reward the guest.
Kellia is a mountainous village in the broader Styra area.
Fifty years ago, the last resident left the village and since then, peace and nature incessantly create images and are the story tellers.
Deep shadowed gullies, old oak trees and fragrant myrtle and plane trees, houses with open doors, courtyards, springs with fresh water, form a scenery and travel visitors in bygone times.
Facing the village, you are almost confident that doors will open, children's voices will be heard and the houses will be filled with life.
Wonderful images within unspoiled nature.
Megali Vrysi (Great Fountain) is the natural monument of Styra.
Stroll through the cobblestoned streets of the village with traditional houses, thousand-year-old plane trees, myrtle trees, lentisks and fresh water.
In the traditional cafes, drink your coffee or your tsipouro under the imposing church.
Southern Evia combines everything enthusiasts of adventure, nature and ecotourism look for.
The eastern part of the Ochi Mountain hides a green treasure; the Dimosaris River Gorge.
Half an hour from Nea Styra by car, turn left at Marmari intersection and follow the road to the village of Aghios Dimitrios.
Turn left at the sign to Kallianos a dreamy half-hour route with an amazing view to the deep blue Aegean Sea.
After crossing the Dimosaris River Bridge, follow the road uphill and turn right at the sign to Lenossaioi. After three kilometers of dirt road, you reach the starting point of the path that leads to the Dimosaris gorge.
The gorge is 10km long, but just half hour of hiking is enough to get into its "heart" and enjoy swimming in the "vathres" (pools) created by nature, under the shade of huge plane trees and bird songs, the real delight to your senses.
The Dimosaris River Gorge is ideal for both nature lovers and people with specific interests.
Dozens of springs, waterfalls, small lakes, ancient riverine forests, wildlife, offer consecutive images to hikers.
The river flows into the Kallianos beach in the Aegean Sea, a dreamy pebble beach with crystal clear waters. Enjoy relaxing moments under the Aegean breeze.
Hiking in the Dimosaris River Gorge, one of the most beautiful gorges in Greece, is a life experience that will remain unforgettable.
On the road to Karystos, images change on the background of the Evian Gulf, the island group of Petalioi, the game of light depending on the time shows a different landscape.
The town of Karystos is well-structured with wide streets, beautiful sea, taverns, ouzo bars and restaurants and the historic Giokaleio Foundation which houses the Museum, a gem of our history.
The beach is dominated by the presence of Bourtzi. The small Venetian castle was built around 1350AD. Still guard of the town with its wonderful gallery and battlements, battling time and emerging victorious.
Every year it hosts cultural events such as exhibitions of painting and photography, small ensembles and more.
4 km from the center of Karystos, between Grampia and Myloi villages, Kokkinokastro dominates through its robust presence. Its name is due to the red stones with which it was built and the Latins used to call it Castello Rosso ("The Red Castle").
It was built by the Lombard baron Ravano dalle Carceri between 1209-1216.
The Byzantines, Franks, Venetians and Turks claimed Kokkinokastro occasionally.
Impressive high walls and battlements, ramparts, threatening fire pots, a fantasy with knights, soldiers and abundant myths.
Castello Rosso offers a great ride and breathtaking sunsets in Karystos of history and legend.
Karystos is built below the summit of the Ochi Mountain.
Ochi is a mountain-museum, full of history and with one of the few pure chestnut forests in Europe.
15 km from the city center, after Aetos and Metochi villages (there are signs to Kastanologos), at an altitude of 900 meters lies Kastanologos.
It is a primeval forest of chestnut trees, vitally important for the flora of the region.
The age-old chestnut impress with their huge trunks and lay their leaves like a carpet to greet initiated visitors in an environment like setting for fairytales with ancient gods, dragons, fairies and elves.
The University of the Aegean has included the chestnut forest in a protection and development plan as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
A unique experience and easy hike, full of surprises.
The path goes uphill on the left side of Kastanologos, passes next to the refuge and leads to the mountain summit.
After an hour we see the monastery of Prophitis Elias with the church and the four cells. The monastery is located among huge rocks and is built like a Dragon House.
200 meters north of the monastery, a small breezy plateau is formed.
Here, at an altitude of 1400m, stands the best constructed and preserved Dragon House, a building raised by Proto-Greek tribes that impresses with its massive stonework.
According to Pausanias, it was a temple dedicated to Hera, Ocheia Hera.
Myths, legends, mystery and reality as you take the road to the mountain.
Moderate hike, lasting one hour, requires hiking shoes or sneakers, water, a hat and a light summer jacket.
Kafireas is the cape in the southeastern end of Evia, also known as Cavo D'Oro.
Touring around the villages is an experience that will remain unforgettable.
Just two hours from Athens and time seems to stop.
The villages of Kafireas are seventeen, remote and clinching on the slopes like eagle nests overlooking the Aegean.
Residents are few but always hospitable and eager to share a tsipouro, engaged in farming, honey production and a little of agriculture for home supplies.
Beaches in the arms of the Aegean Sea, deep shadowed gullies, fresh water and vegetation of plane trees, oak trees, olive trees and vast heaths coexist in the terrain that at several points reminds a lot of the Cycladic islands.
The road to Amygdalia village is paved with asphalt but afterwards is dirt. The journey from Nea Styra and around Cavo D'Oro and back takes about six hours.
Beautiful fishing village built amphitheatrically on a picturesque bay with beautiful beaches of the Aegean Sea and the Evian Gulf.
In Marmari you can enjoy the ride and good food at the ouzo & meat taverns on the beach.
Pothi and Giannitsi villages are famous for their cuisine.
Ideal for short trips to the surrounding villages with good road network and the characteristic feature of Karystia, the continuously changing landscape.
It is half an hour from Nea Styra.


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Q: Composer always fails to install symfony/var-dumper I'm trying to install the latest version of Laravel 8 on the latest version of Homestead. When I run composer install or composer update, installation of symfony/var-dumper always fails:
Installing symfony/var-dumper (v5.2.6): Extracting archive
Install of symfony/var-dumper failed

[ErrorException]
file_get_contents(/home/vagrant/code/vendor/symfony/var-dumper/Resources/bin/var-dump-server):
    Failed to open stream: No such file or directory

Despite the error exception, the file /vendor/symfony/var-dumper/Resources/bin/var-dump-server does exist.
Things I've tried:

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*Deleting the lock file and re-running composer update

*Manually specifying specific versions of var-dumper, e.g. composer require symfony/var-dumper:5.2.0
I always get the same errors.

A: Remove /vendor folder, then run:
composer update -v

A: This turned out to be a compatibility issue with Composer 2.x. I downgraded to the 1.x channel using composer self-update --1, then ran composer install again, and the installation succeeded.

A: Composer version 2.2.4 2022-01-08 12:30:42
and
symfony/var-dumper  v5.4.3
is working just fine


Time was Citroen made some truly stand out cars, both for ride quality and looks. Financial pressures mean this once idiosyncratic maker is now a little more mainstream and its cars fit in with the crowd. That's all relative though, as the distinctive Citroen C5 proves.
Time was Citroen made some truly stand out cars, both for ride quality and looks. Financial pressures mean this once idiosyncratic maker is now a little more mainstream and its cars fit in with the crowd. That's all relative though, as the distinctive Citroen C5 proves; it's still very much one of the best-riding and most distinctive choices in the ever-competitive family saloon segment.
Citroen might be well known for its old hatchback models but the C5 is only available as a saloon (with a concave rear window nonetheless) or as a 'Tourer' badged estate. Both are spacious enough, though the latter really is an impressive load-lugger.
The range of engines is a little larger than body styles, topped with the 3.0-litre V6 twin-turbo HDi unit, though this and the 2.7-litre HDi engine that preceded it remain incredibly rare on the used market. There was also a 1.8-litre four-cylinder petrol model, but this is also a rare sight due to it offering none of the benefits of the economical or strong-performing diesels.
Much more plentiful are the 1.6-litre and 2.0-litre HDi models, with power outputs varying from 110- to 160hp. There was a choice of gearboxes too, both manual and automatic in six-speed flavours as well as the Electronic Gearbox System (EGS6) as fitted to the latest e-HDi Airdream models.
Specification wise it's pretty simple, the range kicking off with VTR (which isn't necessarily as sporty as it sounds) and followed by VTR+ models, the latest of which were designated as VTR + Nav - unsurprisingly they came with satellite navigation. Top of the tree is the Exclusive model, though its high price means this remains rare.
We'd opt for a Tourer if you can find one - it remains distinctive without being quite as oddball as the saloon and offers a huge load bay and extra flexibility. Stick with a manual gearbox though, and if you can stretch to the 160hp 2.0-litre diesel in later models all the better - if not then the 1.6-litre HDi with 110hp is acceptable. Don't set your sights on an Exclusive trim car though, as these remain rare - much more common is the excellent VTR + or VTR + Nav as it was later known.
It doesn't drive as well as a Ford Mondeo, lacks the image of a Honda Accord and isn't as well-built as the Skoda Superb, but that doesn't mean the Citroen C5 shouldn't be under consideration. In Tourer spec especially it is practical, comfortable and refreshingly different while both body styles are well-equipped and frugal - making for a terrific all-rounder.


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Box set released by EMI in August 1996. Project co-ordinator, compilation, tape and archive research, liner notes, discography, film annotation and art direction (with Peter Lewry).
Nowadays if a pop artist releases a single there is almost always a pop video to accompany it. It is expected. It is required. Some would say it is vital. But in 1958 when Cliff Richard made his first film, the notion of the pop video was decades away, yet the song sequences in all his films were not just renditions of songs, but carefully rehearsed, meticulously choreographed and immaculately executed performances. Even now, years down the line, the songs and dance routines are inextricably linked in the eyes of fans who packed the picture houses to see their idol and hero "singing, dancing and swinging". They were, without question, the high points of the films, and usually became the performance that seemed to epitomise Cliff in his early years. Today, they are the ones most fondly remembered by the millions who were there at the time, enjoying every cinematic moment when Cliff came to life on the giant screen.
In 1958 Cliff was THE "boy who rocked the world". Having barnstormed the United Kingdom with his stage shows, giving interviews, cutting records, selling them by the lorryload in unprecedented amounts, appearing several times on national television, and making his debut in motion pictures only months after his first record had climbed to the penultimate spot in the hit parade, young Cliff was, despite being frequently compared to Elvis Presley, the pioneer of British rock'n'roll.
Cliff's rise from television to cinema screen was almost as meteoric as his rise from obscurity to fame. As Hollywood had done with Elvis, British film makers sensed that Cliff would be a box-office sensation in the right vehicles. In fact it was a British Elvis that Mickey Delamar was looking to cast in a film version of the British play, Serious Charge. It was a tale of juvenile delinquency about a vicar who incurs the wrath of a teen gang leader who tries to frame him for indecent assault. It's rock 'n' roll background and risque subject matter elevated the picture into an intense drama that equalled most of the American rock'n'roll vehicles of the time. The film was made in black-and-white, and in fairness, the plot and the mood of the film suited a monochrome format more so than colour.
The same could be said for Cliff's second feature, Expresso Bongo. It was probably the best British rock 'n' roll movie of the period. Adapted from a stage play that was loosely inspired by Tommy Steele's rise to fame, it ruthlessly exposed the shady fringe of showbusiness and the seamy jungle of Soho with it's strip joints, jazz clubs, and get rich quick operators by telling the story of an unscrupulous agent discovering a young singer with a new sound in a coffee bar and then launching him into a national sensation. In fact, Cliff's character of Bongo Herbert most probably shared some of the events of Cliff's real life. His appearance, his controversial performing style, and his mesmerising effect on his female fans. We must also remember that the setting for the film was based on the "2i's" coffee bar where Cliff started his rapid climb to vocal success, and where he and the Drifters performed probably in much the same way as depicted in the movie. Maybe it is the only one of Cliff's films that could be loosely seen as a glossy, fictionalised version of his own early career.
If Cliff did recognise anything of himself in that film, he made no comment about it. Instead, he widened his appeal with a move from playing supporting roles in harsh rock'n'roll movies to a clean cut leading man in the first of his technicolour vehicles. The Young Ones remained faithful to the old MGM musicals but in addition to the musical score incorporated half a dozen pop songs
to hook the teenage audience. The idea of having a group of young people getting together to save their youth club from being torn down by a rich property developer came from the Rodgers and Hart musical Babes In Arms that starred Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland as the teenage children of retired vaudevillians who put on a show to raise money. Audiences responded by making the film number two at the box office for 1962, and Cliff the most popular film star of that year. And the critics responded with rave reviews calling it the best musical Britain has ever made and the finest screen entertainment produced for a longtime anywhere. The soundtrack for The Young Ones ranked number one on the charts for six weeks, far outselling his previous studio album, 21 TODAY.
In America the film was retitled It's Wonderful To Be Young by Paramount Pictures, who disastrously re-edited the movie to the point of shooting a new opening sequence using the audio track to replace the familiar Friday Night opening, and consequently, the track became the title cut on the album. Although it was not the only occasion when title changes were made, The Young Ones was the only one to have new footage filmed for both the movie and the trailer.
If The Young Ones was the prototype for the Cliff Richard musical, then Summer Holiday proved to be the archetype. Grossing record box office receipts upon it's initial release in 1963, the success of the film, the soundtrack album and accompanying singles all ranked number one on the charts probably helping the film industry to convince Cliff that this was the type of film his fans wanted to see him in.
In Summer Holiday, Cliff stars as a London Transport mechanic, who with a group of his colleagues turn a London bus into a hotel, and drive it across Europe to Greece, and on route become entangled with an internationally famous singing star escaping from her ambitious mother dressed as a boy. The film reflected some of the basic characteristics of the next two Cliff Richard musicals – exotic locations, the adventurous occupations of Cliff and his gang, and the pursuit of the female lead which usually concluded with a romantic union of Cliff and his leading lady.
And no matter what Cliff and gang's occupation, their characters could also sing and dance, which of course, was a major function of all Cliff's vehicles from the sixties. They were generally important to the storyline in that they advanced the plot and related something about the characters to the audience.
That was particularly true of Wonderful Life which although was deemed disappointing after the financial successes of The Young Ones and Summer Holiday still managed to be ranked number five in the top grossing films of 1964, a remarkable feat considering it was not released nationally until September, and even though the critics responded with good reviews, the film surprisingly remained the worst received of the three with a reported lacklustre box-office performance. Maybe the setting and storyline of Cliff and friends making a movie within a movie did not embody the ideals and attitudes of the younger generation, who by now had altered their musical tastes and preferences at the movie box office through a change in the music scene with Beatlemania and A Hard Day's Night. Although it's academic now, we will never know what Wonderful Life may have been had the original story been filmed instead of what resulted. But what we must remember is, by this time, the popularity of the boy-meets-girl musicals were beginning to wane …
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25 year old Wonderkid Freddy Adu leaving Finland to start MLS team on the moon.
Finnish-club Kuopion-Palloseura have announced to ESPN that, 25-year-old wonderkid, Freddy Adu is leaving Finland to start a MLS team with Pele "the old Freddy Adu" joining as manager.
Moonchester United tie American wonderkid down to a 6 year deal, worth 6 million bitcoins a-lunar-year.
"It's an amazing opportunity to join the Cosmos like Pele." Some confusion between New York Cosmos and literal cosmos.
Freddy "the new Pele" Adu has agreed personal terms to sign for Moonchester United football club, the moon's first football team in the city of New Miami in the south east of the moon. He is set to be joined by Brazilian legend Pele who becomes the club's first manager.
Adu, having played for over 97 teams in his 12 glittering years of football, has been to all the great clubs and left his mark on each and every one. From not playing at Serbian powerhouses FK Jagodina to failing to play a single game for Finnish giants Kuopion Palloseura, Adu's done it all. Who could forget Adu's stunning season at Portuguese heavyweight C.F. Os Belenenses where he failed to score in 3 substitute appearances.
– Freddy Adu leaving Finland to David Beckham's newly formed Moonchester United.
Adu, the 37 25-year-old wandering wizard, has recently left Finnish club Kuopion Palloseura but quickly realised that Finland was a lot colder than initially thought. The -233°C night-time temperature on the moon is not thought to be an issue for Adu.
Freddy Adu hopes that once he has finally beaten Pele's record his long time muse JoJo would take him back. JoJo (pictured below) hit rock bottom and was found working as a prostitute in Detroit after then-boyfriend Freddy Adu turned down Real Madrid and Manchester United and favouring Philadelphia Union.
JoJo was unavailable for comment.