'Tis the season for shopping! Finding the most perfect Christmas presents can be a challenge. That's why MINI Lifestyle Collections is offering some of the most creative gifts for the holidays.
The MINI Folding Bike Lime will be the star under any Christmas tree. Built with an aluminum frame, 20-inch wheels and eight gears, this folding bike is fast and agile. With just a few hand movements, the whole thing can be collapsed and folded up. Special features include the air pump that is integrated into the seat post and the KLICKfix adapter for attaching accessories (bike pictured in gallery, below).
The MINI Rooftop Cabin Trolley is the perfect companion for any business trip or weekend away. This hard-case travel trolley with racing-stripe design is lightweight and offers the perfect amount of storage space for a few nights away. Also, the case's four wheels sport the MINI Cooper wheel rim design. Cute.
The MINI Chronograph Watch (in silver or black) stands out from the crowd with its sporty design and diverse range of functions. The watch is waterproof up to 320 feet, and its special features include a stopwatch function, tachymeter scale, date indicator and luminous hands (pictured).
The MINI Big Duffle Bag is the perfect gift for travel and sports enthusiasts. This retro-style bag has hand straps and a detachable shoulder strap. Available in a choice of eleven striking colors, including gold (pictured).
Keeping ears warm this winter will be easy with the MINI Lapeer Hat, because this faux fur-lined trapper's hat incorporates cozy ear flaps (pictured).
The MINI Sweat Hoodie is a sporty, hooded jacket with a pouch pocket at the front, making it perfect for cozy evenings at home. The pink lining and zipper give the jacket an appealing splash of color (pictured).
Tangled cables are a thing of the past with the MINI Zipper Earplugs. The innovative zipper design of these in-ear headphones prevents knotting. They also deliver top sound quality and are available in either black or white.
The MINI Liquid USB Mouse will add a splash of novelty to any boring work space. A miniature MINI Cooper is frozen inside the clear mouse, which also has a white button casing and a festive, bright red cable.
The MINI iPad Sleeve (suitable for iPad 2 and 3) offers perfect protection for tablet computers. This zip-up case comes in two clean and stylish designs: checkered or bonnet stripes.


Throwback Thursday in Bristol TN~VA 9.10.15 ...It's Coming!
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Posted March 31, 2014 & filed under Artists, Musician.
Tommie Lee Bradley sings an eclectic mix of blues based rock and roll, Texas Blues.
She's taken her critically acclaimed music to Japan, with Soul Shock, to Canada, with Jean-Pierre Ferland and Ginnette Reno, and throughout the United States, both as a headliner and with acts such as Jim Messina. She's a stellar songwriter with tightly crafted, highly visual lyrics. Her vocals are those of a soul drenched Southern song stylist, able to make any song her own, no matter who composed the material.
Her solo CD Soul Soup was released in 2006.
She was featured in American Musical Theatre's productions of "A Little Night Music," "The Taffetas," and "Beehive, The Sixties Musical." Her starring role in "Always Patsy Cline" won coast-to-coast critical praise. "The show's strongest element is Bradley's singing," wrote Houston Chronicle reviewer Everett Evans.
As a solo artist, she's recorded for Columbia (with Janis Joplin's producer Paul Rothchild at the studio helm) and PolyDor Records, and her big, husky vocals have been heard on recordings by artists including Harry Chapin, Joe Sample and Will Jennings. Her big-screen credits include lead and background vocals on "Stayin' Alive," starring John Travolta, directed by Sylvester Stallone; "Lookin' To Get Out," starring Ann-Margaret and Jon Voight; "Never Too Young To Die, " starring John Stamos, Vanity, and Gene Simmons; and under Tony Berg's direction on Robert Altman's "A Perfect Couple," starring Paul Dooley (Grace Under Fire) and Ted Neely (Jesus Christ Superstar.) Altman was so impressed with her, he also cast her in a featured role in the film.


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Reports & Initiatives
Digital Literacy Committee
Vanderbilt students should reach the end of their academic career equipped with the skills needed to thrive as well-informed citizens; this includes the ability to both consume and produce information in a thoughtful and reflexive way. In addition to the emphasis on standard written and oral communication skills that Vanderbilt students receive as part of their education, there is an increasing need to develop a strategic approach to teaching digital communication skills. The members of this committee are charged with (1) providing a definition of digital literacy that will apply to undergraduate, graduate and professional students in the context of their degree programs and professions, and (2) recommending curricular and co-curricular initiatives to facilitate the development of the digitally literate student.
John Sloop, associate provost for digital learning, professor of communication studies, Office of the Provost and College of Arts and Science; chair;
Clifford Anderson, associate university librarian for research and learning, Jean and Alexander Heard Library;
Kelly Christie, assistant dean, academic programs and student life, Owen Graduate School of Management;
Robert Grajewski, Evans Family Executive Director of the Innovation Center, Office of the Provost;
Julie Johnson, associate professor of the practice of computer science, director of undergraduate studies in computer science, School of Engineering;
Stacey Johnson, assistant director for educational technology, Center for Teaching; senior lecturer of Spanish, College of Arts and Science;
Kevin Leander, associate professor, Peabody College;
Melissa Mallon, director of Peabody Library, director of liaison and instruction services, Peabody Library;
Sara Manus, music librarian for public services, Jean and Alexander Heard Library;
Gayathri Narasimham, associate director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning, Office of the Vice Provost for Learning and Residential Affairs;
Neil Osheroff, John G. Coniglio Chair in Biochemistry, professor of biochemistry, professor of medicine, School of Medicine;
Thomas Palmeri, professor of psychology, co-director of scientific computing, College of Arts and Science;
Lynn Ramey, associate professor of French, College of Arts and Science;
Doug Schmidt, associate chair, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering, professor of computer science, professor of computer engineering, School of Engineering; and
Bill Smith, career coach, Career Center.
'Dialogic praxis' enhances psychotherapeutic success for youth
Engineers advance efforts to speed blood test results
Vanderbilt-led team discovers new genetic disease and defines underlying mechanism
Post-9/11 wars may have killed twice as many Americans at home as in battle: Analysis
Vanderbilt archaeologists discover important medieval and Roman artifacts in ancient port city of Caesarea

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Football Fans News
Cure Bowl: Georgia Southern Eagles vs. Liberty Flames
Home / Real Fans of the Bowls
The FBC Mortgage Cure bowl was the last college football bowl played out last Sunday. The game featured the Georgia Southern Eagles and the Liberty Flames. The Flames burned the Eagles and won the match 23-16.
Quarter 1
Johnny Huntley was first to score during the match in the early minutes. He got a touchdown after receiving a marvelous pass from Stephen Calvert. This allowed the Liberty Flames to set up a lead.
Each of the teams got a touchdown during the second quarter. Wesley Kennedy III scored the first touchdown of the quarter for the Eagles. He had caught the ball after a Tyler Bass kick and proceeded to the Flames' end zone to ensure the touchdown. Later on, Joshua Mack made a 3-yard run to score a touchdown for the Flames. Then, Alex Probert scored a 46-yard field goal for the Flames.
Antonio scored a touchdown for the Liberty Flames to ensure that they maintained the lead. Then, Tyler Bass scored two field goals from 28 and 30 yards out for the Eagles.
Tyler Bass was last to score. He successfully converted a 35-yard field goal attempt. The Gasparilla bowl will be played out on Monday night. Stay tuned for the game's highlights.
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Szepesi, Balázs and Czakó, Erzsébet (2012) National Competitiveness Policy: Actions and Actors – a Concept for Implementation. Working Paper. Vállalatgazdaságtan Intézet, Budapest.
Abstract: National competitiveness and competiveness policy have been advocated by several nations and the European Union since decades. Though there are many critiques on the concept and its content they are well elaborated. The reasons for the mismatch between the requested and realized measurable and sustainable outcomes are much less discussed and covered by the competitiveness literature. The assumption of this paper is that one of the reasons for that is rooted in the policy nature of competitiveness. The paper is based on Balázs Szepesi's presentation on the First Working Conference on Competitiveness. This written version recommends a three-pillar concept for understanding the national competitiveness initiatives as a policy. Out of the sketched three-pillar concept it describes the characteristics of policy action, and that of the actors. The future research is needed and intended to enrich this concept by the policy framework, and then its application onto competitiveness policy.


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import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.soap.MessageFactory;
import javax.xml.soap.SOAPBody;
import javax.xml.soap.SOAPException;
import javax.xml.soap.SOAPMessage;

import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

public class XmlResponder {

	private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory .getLogger(XmlResponder.class);
	public static final String ENCODING = "UTF-8";
	public static final String LOG_MESSAGE_DEFUALT = "Generating xml response";
	public static final String OPEN_LABEL = "<";
	public static final String CLOSE_LABEL = ">";
	public static final String SLASH = "/";
	public static final String COLON = ":";
	public static final String SPACE = " ";
	public static final String NAMESPACE = "xmlns";
	public static final String EQUAL = "=";
	public static final String QUOTES = "\"";
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			response.append(OPEN_LABEL);
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		}
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		this.namespacePrefix = namespacePrefix;
	}

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		return mainContainer;
	}

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		this.mainContainer = mainContainer;
	}

	public String getFirstChildContainer() {
		return firstChildContainer;
	}

	public void setFirstChildContainer(String firstChildContainer) {
		this.firstChildContainer = firstChildContainer;
	}

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Vaikunta Ekadasi, Festival of Hindus
Mukkoti Ekadasi or Vaikunta Ekadasi is the Ekadasi that occurs in the Hindu calendar month of Marghazhi or Margasirsa (corresponding to late December - January in English calendar). Vaishnavism (Worship of Lord Vishnu) culture believes that 'Vaikunta Dwaram' or 'the gate to Lord's Inner Sanctum' is opened on this day.
Special prayers, yagnas, discourses and speeches are arranged at Vishnu temples across the world on this auspicious day.
According to Vishnu Purana, fasting on Vaikunta Ekadasi is equivalent to fasting on the remaining 22 Ekadasis of the (Hindu) year.
Lord opened the gate of Vaikuntam (his abode) for two daemons inspite of they being against the Lord. They also asked for the boon that who ever listens to their story and see the image of Lord coming out of the door (called Dwaram) called Vaikunta Dwaram they reach Vaikuntam as well. Temples all over the India makes a door kind of structure on this day for devotees to pass through that.
According to Padma Purana, the female energy of Lord Vishnu slains demon Mura in the form of a damsel and protects `Devas'. Impressed by the act, Lord Vishnu names her as `Ekadasi' and gives her the boon that those who worship `Ekadasi' on the day of her victory over Mura would reach `Vaikunta' (His abode).
In Mahabaratha, Bhagavad Gita - the conversation between Lord Krishna and Arjuna at the beginning of Kurukshetra War is said to have occurred on this day.
In Srirangam
Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangam Vaikunta Ekadasi celebrations in Srirangam -- foremost of Vaishanvite Shrines, lasts 21 days and is divided into two parts of pagal pathu (morning part) and Ira pathu (night part). Lord Vishnu as Lord Ranganatha is adorned is an armor of diamonds (rathnaangi) and is brought to the Thousand-Pillared Hall from the sanctum sanctorum through the northern gate known as Paramapada Vasal, the gate to the heaven. This gate is opened once in a year, only on the Vaikuntha Ekadasi day.
In Tirumala
Tirumala Venkateswara Temple also has a similar concept. Thirumala has a special entrance called Vaikunta Dwaram that encircles the sanctum sanctorum. The dwaram (passage) is opened only on Vaikunta Ekadasi and it is believed that any person who passes through this `Vaikunta Dwaram' on this particular day attains salvation. The temple witnesses heavy inflow of pilgrims and dignitaries for Vaikunta Ekadasi.
Significance of Vaikunta Ekadasi
The significance of Vaikunta Ekadasi can be traced back to the Padma Purana. The Purana indicates that Lord Vishnu took the form of 'Ekadasi' – female energy – to kill demon Muran. This happened during the month of Margazhi. Impressed by 'Ekadasi,' Lord Vishnu told her that whoever worships him on this day will reach 'Vaikunta' (heaven).
Like all Ekadasi days, devotees fast on this day and observe vigil the whole night. Some people indulge in meditation, Japa and singing of Hari Kirtan. Rice is avoided during ekadashi days as it is believed that the demon Mura finds a dwelling in the rice eaten on Ekadasi day.
It is widely believed that the gates to the heaven open - the Gate of Vaikuntha - on the Vaikunta Ekadasi day. It is one of the most auspicious days in Lord Vishnu Temples in South India.
The 'Vaikunta Dwaram' or 'the gate to the heaven' is opened on this day. This is the passage encircling the innermost sanctum of the Lord. Scores of devotees queue up to pass through the Gate of Vaikunta in the temples.
Vaikunta Ekadasi occurs in December or early January.


Were you aware that each day six individuals give up their jobs because of a kind of repetitive strain injury?
Bearing this in mind (and hampered by a dodgy wrist) I chose to have a look what I could purchase to relieve my disease and possibly help others make an informed decision in precisely the exact same moment.
After sifting through the net for a while I came across a fantastic choice of wrist supports created by Fellowes.
I was especially interested in their Health V range since they're made to help people having difficulty with their median nerve (the difficulty that I have), by lessening the pressure that you put in your wrist when you are moving your mouse around daily.
I took the plunge and Purchased a Fellowes Professional Collection Palm Service in black! When it came, my initial thoughts were"what a curious appearing item" and"The Way reassuringly weighty".
Whenever I began using it, I felt significantly less strain and managed to transfer my mouse around having considerably greater ease. A few hours later I was happily mousing away. I have been using my service for more than a couple of weeks and am quite satisfied with the outcomes.


"After about three weeks, I started noticing where my hair was the thinnest, that it was starting to get fuzzy and the hair was starting to grow again. After the fourth week, there was a big difference in the fact that the "peach fuzz" regrowth turned into actual hair that is now covering those bald spots I had! I can now wear my hair up without embarrassment and I owe that all to RevivSerums! They have an amazing product that works! "
Danilenko, Dimitry M.; Ring, Brian D.; Yanagihara, Donna; Benson, William; Wiemann, Bernadette; Starnes, Charles O.; Pierce, Glenn F. (1995). Keratinocyte growth factor is an important endogenous mediator of hair follicle growth, development, and differentiation. Normalization of the nu/nu follicular differentiation defect and amelioration of chemotherapy-induced alopecia. American Journal of Pathology 147: 145-54.
Richardson GD; Bazzi H; Fantauzzo KA; Waters JM; Crawford H; Hynd P; Christiano AM; Jahoda CA. (2009). KGF and EGF signalling block hair follicle induction and promote interfollicular epidermal fate in developing mouse skin.
Jang, JH (2005) Stimulation of human hair growth by the recombinant human keratinocyte growth factor-2 (KGF-2). Biotechnology Letters, 27:749-52.


This is Clementina, the doll I just finished. She has light mocha cotton skin and dark brown mohair boucle hair in two fat ponytails.
Her ponytails are tied with bows.
I love to mix patterns in the dolls' clothes. Clementina is wearing a dress with little farm scenes, and an apron with Mr. Duck on it. Her pantaloons are light green.
Like all of my dolls in my shop, primroses, Clementina is one of a kind. Click on the title of this posting if you want to visit my online doll store.


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Universal BIS/EMG monitoring would reduce anesthesia drug usage by 30% – a big hit to anesthesia drug makers who, in turn, provide millions of various forms of support dollars to organized anesthesia.
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 1:17 pm.
We do not blame the automobile for the reckless drunk driver's deaths. By his own public admission, Conrad Murray was reckless by giving Jackson propofol & leaving the room.
Conrad Murray was practicing as a cardiologist with hospital privileges to catheterize & stent diseased coronary arteries under propofol sedation & pulse oximetry. Despite this knowledge, he chose to buy the cheapest pulse oximeter monitor for Jackson – one that made no sounds & had no alarms.
Clearly, Murray does not believe the normal safety measures apply to his practice, behavior that defines him as a sociopath that never again deserves a license to practice medicine.
Posted on October 21, 2012 at 1:17 pm.
Since both drugs are given in the same syringe, having observed vasoconstriction, the surgeon 'reasonably' concludes the problem must be in the level of sedation when the patient moves during surgery.
Prior to the ability to directly measure the patients' brain response to anesthesia, every patient movement necessitated more (& different) sedative treatment to insure no awareness or recall was responsible.
Posted on October 2, 2012 at 1:18 pm.
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Would be honored if you would consider sharing this information with your network of colleagues, friends & trainees.
Posted on July 14, 2012 at 1:22 pm.
When anesthesia is given without a brain monitor (i.e. the 20th century model of anesthesia care), over-medication is always given for fear of under medication or anesthesia awareness.
The customary monitors (EKG, pulse oximeter, & blood pressure) do a fine job of measuring your brain STEM function. However, thinking, hearing, feeling and remembering are CORTICAL functions.
Brain stem measurements are notoriously unreliable measures of your cortical function. Poor or sub-optimal cortical function is revealed in brain fog or POCD.
FYI, the only post-anesthesia brain function test you will get is 'able to move all 4 extremities on command,' an abysmally low level of cortical function.
Only a brain monitor like the BIS measures your cortical function.
means no need to give anti-nausea medication to treat narcotic associated postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV).
Anesthesia awareness is the least important function of a brain monitor.
The avoidance of the nefarious practice of routine over-medication is clearly the greatest benefit of routine brain monitoring (i.e. the 21st century model of anesthesia care).
FWIW, anesthesia fog or POCD lasting more than a year is called anesthesia dementia that, unfortunately, does not go away.
I hope all those affected with POCD resolve in less than a year.
BIS brain monitors can be found in 75% of US hospitals but only used 25% of the time simply because patients do not know to DEMAND them for surgery under anesthesia.
While there may well be many factors involved in POCD, why let anyone play Russian roulette with your brain if you must have surgery?
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1. Mathews DM, Clark L, Johansen J, et al. Increases in Electroencephalogram and Electromyogram Variability Are Associated with Increased Incidence of Intraoperative Somatic Response. Anes Analg 2012;114:759-770.
2. Friedberg BL: The effect of a dissociative dose of ketamine on the bispectral (BIS) index during propofol hypnosis. J Clin Anes 1999;11:4-7.
3. Friedberg BL: Propofol ketamine with bispectral (BIS) index monitoring chapter in Friedberg BL, ed.: Anesthesia in Cosmetic Surgery. Cambridge University Press, New York 1-13, 2007.


Grassy area in the lower portion of the image. There is a grid-wire fence with wooden posts across the center of the image. There is a man and child with hats in front of the fence. There are a few clouds in the sky.


Halo Wars 2 Operation SPEARBREAKER Campaign DLC Playthrough. 2 New Missions focused on a team of ODSTs as they attempt to thwart a Banished plan on the Ark.
In the missions of "Operation: Spearbreaker" you'll discover a new Banished plot in Atriox's ongoing war against Captain Cutter for control of the Ark and you'll be called upon to overcome massive enemy odds in order to save every soul fighting aboard the UNSC Spirit of Fire.
After a notable absence from this year's Xbox E3 press conference, many fans began speculating when they would get their first glimpse or tease for the next installment of the franchise. 343 Industries has responded to many questions and speculation posts, informing us that Halo 6 won't be revealed soon, not at Gamescom, not at Pax, but when 343 Industries is ready. Let me explain why that is a good thing!
Halo 5 now has Platinum REQ Packs, let's find out if they're worth buy. Short answer: No.
You're better off buying 2 Gold REQ packs for the REQ point price of 1 Platinum REQ pack. I feel that 343 Industries needs to re-work the Platinum packs to justify the price. Rewards need to be increased instead of offering fewer rewards with a better chance of higher rarity items.
Halo 6 will not be at E3 2017. No trailer, no beta this year, and still no Halo 3 Anniversary. However something else will be shown.


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Home / About the College / Columbia to the Core / Lukas Matern CC'14 Combines Music and Medicine
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Lukas Matern CC'14 Combines Music and Medicine
"From performing, I've realized that the arts and human interaction offer temporary reprieves from suffering, if not lasting cognitive benefits."
Lukas Matern CC'14 started playing cello in nursing homes in his hometown of Rochester, Minnesota in 8th grade because it gave him an opportunity to hone his musical talent. Nine years later, Matern still plays in nursing homes — not only for practice, but to see the joy and healing that music brings to the residents.
"I started cello in 7th grade and was still pretty new at the instrument, so I wanted a setting with a willing and perceptive audience," Matern says. "They always enjoyed it so much and a concept was forged in my mind between healing and music."
Today, Matern, a pre-med music and biochemistry double major, volunteers once a week at Amsterdam Nursing Home in Morningside Heights, where he has branched out from his role as a performer and into the hands-on field of recreational therapy — a role that has influenced his decision to become a doctor.
This decision was reinforced the summer before his junior year, when Matern worked at St. Luke's Hospital, now called Mt. Sinai St. Luke's, where Matern had the opportunity to assist in clinical research in local Emergency Departments through the Academic Associate Program (now a part of the Sinai Research Associate Program).
"My experience at St. Luke's was very different from my work in nursing homes, and after that summer I had a very clear vision of the direction that I wanted to go in medicine," Matern said. "I realized that I would rather work bedside than in a lab."
As a result, Matern has become increasingly interested in doctor-patient relationships. Last year he wrote an article for the Columbia Science Review about the application of narrative medicine programs, which focus on the individual stories of patients, their illnesses and the healthcare professionals that assist them, and the benefits for both physicians and patients. In many ways, he believes his pursuits in music and the arts have informed his approach to such topics.
Matern was born in Germany to a doctor and musician before moving to the States at the age of five. While he was always inspired by the amount of meaning his parents derived from their respective careers, Matern considered fields such as paleontology and marine biology before uniting his parents' passions to forge his own path.
Along with his pursuits in medicine he has continued to delve into music as a member of the Columbia University Orchestra for all four years at the College. He has also found time to play in various student ensembles and to take lessons at the Manhattan School of Music through the Columbia Music Department's Dolan Prize, a scholarship that allows students to study with teachers that are not on the Columbia faculty. He highlights playing at Carnegie Hall in a chamber music ensemble as one of his favorite College memories.
"I think there's a mentality at Columbia that whatever you want to get out of your college experience, you can," Matern says. "And I definitely latched onto that."
In the fall, Matern will be attending the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago, where he plans to continue participating in and soaking up the cultural opportunities and musical outlets afforded to him by living in a metropolitan community. Matern can't say for sure what he'll pursue after acquiring his M.D., but he knows it will involve a field of medicine that is centered around forging a doctor-patient relationship based on hands-on care and face-to-face interaction.
"From performing, I've realized that the arts and human interaction offer temporary reprieves from suffering, if not lasting cognitive benefits," says Matern. "I have [nursing home] residents come up to me after I play and say, 'That meant so much. Thank you.'… I want to bring this kind of individual connection to my work as a doctor."
Stella Girkins CC '15, from Garberville, California, is a student web editor for the Columbia College website and a correspondent for Mandarin Quarterly NYC.


Devil's Canyon Brewery in San Carlos got its start in 2001 as a home-brewing project, but quickly developed into a private-label contract brewery and later a full-scale commercial brewing operation. Now the brewery operates full-time as both a production facility and event center.
The motto of Devil's Canyon is "Crafting Beer, Building Community." And for this family-owned craft brewery, community is not just about people – it's also about the environment.
Devil's Canyon has always operated with sustainability in mind, but in January 2017, the craft brewery took its eco-credentials to the next level, getting certified as a Green Business through the County of San Mateo's Green Business Program.
direct-install lighting retrofit program for small businesses and nonprofits. The lighting replacement not only improved the quality of light – which is important to many of the beer-brewing processes – but it also reduced the brewery's carbon footprint by the equivalent of the annual air pollution from over 1,500 cars.
Devil's Canyon also installed ultra-efficient LED lights in the main bar, front hallways and several restrooms to save even more energy and low-flow water faucets to conserve water.
It's common for commercial breweries to use heat exchange systems. Rather than purchase a new system, Devil's Canyon built its own using a tank that was originally headed for the landfill, as well as a tube and shell heat exchanger purchased at an estate sale. This "recycled" heat exchanger saves about 3,000 gallons of water a week and thousands of dollars a year on the brewery's energy bills. It also cost 75 percent less than buying a brand-new system.
Devil's Canyon asks its patrons to bring their own pint glass or purchase one from the brewery to reuse.


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Effron Center for the Study of America
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An interdisciplinary curriculum that traverses the arts, humanities and social sciences, the program is designed to provide a broad understanding of the emergence, transformation and consolidation of Latino/a/x as a pan-ethnic group central to the development of the United States as a nation. The course of study also highlights transnational connections and contexts of Latino/a/x peoples across the Americas, including dynamics of globalization, migration, colonialism, imperialism, citizenship and diaspora.
Students from all departments are welcome to the program. Students may enroll in the Latino studies certificate program at any time, including the first year. There are no prerequisites, and courses taken prior to enrollment may count towards the certificate requirements. Students may take the gateway course AMS 101 at any time during their studies, including after enrollment in the certificate program. To enroll in the program, students should complete the online enrollment form. New students should plan to meet with the associate director or program coordinator before the end of their first year of enrollment, to review their plans for fulfilling the certificate requirements.
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AMS 101: America Then and Now
Three courses in Latino studies, either originating in the program or cross-listed and preferably representing disciplinary breadth in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. No more than one course taken in fulfillment of the student's concentration may be counted toward the certificate. With the approval of the associate director, a student may substitute a comparative race and ethnicity course that contains substantial Latino studies content for one of these courses.
An advanced seminar in American studies, preferably taken in the senior year.
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Latino/a/x Identity in Politics
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LAO 305 / POL 429
In this seminar, you will read, discuss, and write about published and unpublished research from political science, psychology, and media studies to examine Latino/a/x identity in the U.S., and the ways in which electoral politics affects and is affected by this social identity. The class will situate Latino/a/x identity and its political targeting and mobilization in U.S. elections in comparison to that of other ethno-racial and religious identity groups. Similarities and differences between groups and their effects on politics will be considered to better understand the broader landscape of identity politics in U.S. elections and campaigns.
Ali A. Valenzuela
Latino Urban History
HIS 465 / LAO 465 / AMS 465
Using cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Miami as case studies, this course seeks to understand the history of Latinos in urban places. Casting a geographically broad net and focusing largely on the 20th century, this course will comparatively analyze Latinos of different national origins (e.g. Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans, Puerto Ricans, Dominican Americans). In addition, the course will look at a broad cross-section of the Latino community to get at changing understandings of gender, class, race, and immigration status. This course will include readings from traditional historical monographs and autobiographies.
Rosina A. Lozano
Race Across the Americas
LAS 313 / ANT 313 / LAO 313 / AMS 305
This course explores transnational and diasporic formations of race in the Americas. Drawing on Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, and anthropological and historical approaches, we explore racial formations in Latin America and its transnational communities. A central goal for this course is to understand race and racial formations as culturally contextualized and situated within the politics of difference. How are U.S. racial-ethnic categories embraced, contested, or reconfigured across the Americas, and vice versa? Topics include multiculturalism, mestizaje, border thinking, transnationalism, and racial democracy among others.
Alberto E. Morales
Introduction to Latin American Cultures
SPA 222 / LAS 222 / LAO 222
An introduction to Latin American cultures and artistic and literary traditions through a wide spectrum of materials. We will discuss relevant issues in Latin American cultural, political, and social history, including the legacy of colonialism and indigenous resistance, the African diaspora, national fictions, popular and mass culture, gender and racial politics. Materials: essays by Ángel Rama, short stories by Julio Cortázar and Samanta Schweblin, poems by Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén and period Cuban son music; paintings by Mexican muralists, films by Patricio Guzmán and Jayro Bustamante, writings by indigenous activist Ailton Krenak.
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Spanish in the Community
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This course examines the paradoxical position of Spanish in the United States. The course aims to place the issues and controversies related to linguistic subordination and the maintenance of Spanish and in the broader context of Latino communities and their social and historical position in the United States. In addition, it tries to equip students with critical resources to address topics such as the relationship between language and identity, political debates around Spanish and English, and bilingualism and the processes of racialization of linguistic minorities.
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Every life delivers a story (or three) worth telling well. This workshop rehearses the writing and performance skills necessary to remake the raw material drawn from lived experience into compelling autobiographical storytelling. As we engage the thematic focus of "Princeton, History and Me," we will explore autobiographical storytelling as both a practice and a process as we also evince (and confront) the personal, moral, ethical and artistic dimensions of the stories we choose to tell about ourselves, about Princeton, and the stories that remain to be told about both.
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'Rapping in Spanish' brings students together : Feature Article
The course explored Spanish rap and hip-hop as urban poetry, studying lyrics for rhythm and meter and considering the music as social commentary.
Carolina Espinoza Cartes (left), an anthropologist, journalist and editor from Chile, leads a class in the course "Rapping in Spanish," where students created their own books that were compilations of rap songs that they selected and edited themselves. Photo by Julie Clack, Office of Communications
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package com.jnape.palatable.lambda.functions.builtin.fn3;

import org.junit.Test;

import static com.jnape.palatable.lambda.functions.builtin.fn3.LTWith.ltWith;
import static java.util.Comparator.comparing;
import static java.util.Comparator.naturalOrder;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

public class LTWithTest {
    @Test
    public void comparisons() {
        assertTrue(ltWith(naturalOrder(), 2, 1));
        assertFalse(ltWith(naturalOrder(), 1, 1));
        assertFalse(ltWith(naturalOrder(), 1, 2));

        assertTrue(ltWith(comparing(String::length), "ab", "b"));
    }
}


Whether you are planning a home or hospital birth, hiring a professional labor support companion is one of your most important considerations. In our opinion, all parents need the continuous support of a trained and experienced professional.
Doulas are hired in addition to, not instead of, a primary care practitioner (midwife, physician, certified nurse midwife, etc.). Doulas provide emotional support, information, pain management and comfort measures as well as facilitating the participation of the father or partner. While some partners feel threatened by this idea, it's usually because they don't understand the doula's role in a birth. Most men have scant if any experience with the birthing process. One of the intentions of the doula is to include partners in meaningful ways so the mother can benefit from his support and love. Emerging fathers need support too, and having a doula there to help him know what helps and when to do it usually makes a tremendous difference.
The birth of a child should be as enjoyable as possible for both parents. If you are choosing to give birth in a hospital there will be literally hundreds of procedures you to be aware of and knowledgeable about. If you are interested in having an advocate with you, some doulas provide this function as well. While the doula is there to support you in making decisions for yourselves, it often helps to have a knowledgeable and informative perspective. Avoiding unnecessary interventions is much easier if you feel fully informed on the available options. The doula will also go to your home in early labor so that you can stay calm and relaxed. You can often avoid unnecessary interventions just by staying at home for most of your labor.
Choosing the person you are going to work with makes a big difference. You will meet beforehand and plan together in addition to being together during the birthing event. You can call your doula if you have questions. Often parents feel rushed or intimidated during their primary care practitioner visits and a doula can be address your questions and concerns. The doula should also have a back-up to cover for her just in case she can't make it to your birth.
In the Chicagoland area, doulas usually charge a flat fee ranging from approximately $500 - $1500 per birth (for middle to very experienced doulas). Rates are based on levels of experience and knowledge and many have payment plans available. While insurance usually does not cover this service, it is recommended that you still submit a claim as some clients have successfully sought reimbursement. If you are challenged financially we can help you find a doula in training that will charge less than $500 per birth. Please feel free to contact us.
There is a national certification process from Doulas Of North America (DONA) but keep in mind that not all doulas are certified and levels of experience and expertise vary irrespective of certification. They are not licensed by the state. Practice philosophy can vary a great deal so screen carefully to avoid disappointment. Read all contracts carefully and avoid anyone that says there will be no refunds if the doula does not attend the birth. If you have any questions please contact BirthLink.
Be sure to check references before you hire any doula. You may also want to check with the Better Business Bureau and Google to see if there have been any complaints.
See alphabetical listings below. Please contact the practitioner directly to schedule an appointment or if you have any questions. Be sure to let them know BirthLink sent you! Also see: Labor Monitrice.
Matching you with the doula that is right for you! Grounded in evidence-based perspectives and offering mindful, compassionate and nonjudgmental support, Birthways doulas have exceptional experience and training. Senior doulas have attended hundreds of births, and mid-level or apprentice options are also available.
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Henri Hisquin (1876-1975), est un romancier et conteur français.
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We do love to educate our kids at our playhouse.
It has long been proven that kids learn fast than adults. And it is very crucial for them to learn important things in life at this stage of their lives.
The things they learn while at this stage will never be forgotten and they will carry it for the rest of their lives.
That's why here in ikidhouse, we make sure that our children learn important things that will be valuable and useful as they grow.


The eastern mourning dove is Wisconsin's official symbol of peace. It's also Michigan's state bird of peace. But in Ohio, the mourning dove has a much higher status. Because only in Ohio can a mourning dove build a nest on a cop car and get away with it.
That's what happened recently, when cops in Parma discovered that one of their backup patrol cars had been turned into a nesting place for one plucky dove. But instead of turning the feathered felon into a jailbird, the cops not only forgave this particular misdemeanor: they decided to make her even more comfortable. They attached an umbrella to the windshield to keep her safe from the elements and they taped off the parking spot so nobody would bother her. Then realizing that the dove (which they nicknamed Gerty) was probably hungry, the cops even dug up a bunch of worms to keep the expectant mom well nourished.
"We care for all lives, human and animal," Parma Police spokesperson Kevin Riley told Fox 8 news. Now that's what we call serving the community!
So instead of removing her, they used an umbrella to protect the dove and even dug up worms for her!
I hope these cops get a heap load of good cheer, blessings and CAKE! They're awesome.
such a special lucky bird ????
What colour is the umbrella? Purple or black?
Neither. It's obviously blue and gold.
OMg no, lol aint it obvious, its pink and yellow!!
notice the frame, the black umbrellas frame is smooth curve, the purple has an elbow causing an edge.


We are shutting down the business to retire. We'll miss so many of our customers who have become good friends over these 52 years, we would like to wish each and every one of you good health and a prosperous and happy life.
Ray-Ban and Randolph Engineering complete sunglasses are all gone, we do have some replacement parts left and a fairly small supply of replacement lenses for them.
We no longer offer prescription lenses, we have cut our ties with the labs. So please don't send us your frame asking for prescriptions.
Since we have entered semi-retirement, we won't be able to take phones calls, best to contact us by email at hidalgos2020@gmail.com.
Website orders are handled a little differently than the old phone method, due to new credit card security, we no longer have access to your complete credit card number, so if we need to change the order by increasing the amount, we can't do this, we can only lower the amount of the original charge, especially important now since we are selling out and may not have everything as we did before. If you need to increase the order, the best way to do it is to cancel the original order and put in another one.


I'm on the same quest! I recently started following a site that has a lot of recipes for making your own products. It's call Wellness Mama. I'm going to try making some things myself and see how it goes. I'm starting with sunscreen bars. Pretty sure she has a recipe for deodorant too.
JoDee, thanks so much for the tip. I'm headed over to her blog right now! Sunscreen bars = brilliant!
I use 70% isopropyl alcohol… If I'm feeling fancy and like taking my time, I'll scent it with a lavender and tea tree blend of essential oils, or even a tangerine or sweet orange one. Both will leave you with a light scent for a few hours.
I do agree that "natural" alternatives can be very expensive, including this particular brand of deodorant. Your suggestion is a great alternative idea!


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Daniel Burnham Saved From Drowning
We're embarking on a new series, Chicago 2019, in which we hope to draw on the lessons of the past year, including the city's bid for the 2016 Olympics, and the Burnham Plan Centennial celebration, to start talking about where we go from here.
Tomorrow, or soon thereafter, we hope to publish our post mortem on how the architectural elements of the celebration played out as the year went on, but for today, we give you . . .
For now, we're beginning with an expanded - and copiously illustrated - version of the Burnham piece I wrote for the Chicago Reader earlier this year, in which we attempt to rescue Daniel Burnham from the murky waters of the sea of adulation marking this year's centennial celebration of his 1909 Plan of Chicago. This is Burnham with the bark off, and a tale of how the architectural component of the celebration was hijacked by academics and ideologues who were about as far from the spirit of Daniel Burnham as nature allows. Read the full story in all its gory detail, follow the links to all things Burnham, and see the images here.
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Working on year-end piece - so here's a Cat Blue
special bonus: from Roger Corman, the cat with the X-Ray eyes
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This is Living? MAS Context's winter edition rich, fascinating - and free!
For a publication with no visible means of economic support, MAS Context manages to keep churning out great content, for sure. Case in point is Living, the just-issued Winter edition of the quarterly edited by architect Iker Gil. It's another real keeper.
Your Living is Not My Living, And That is Fine, is how Gil titles his introduction, and it's reflected in another cornucopia serving of images and ideas, beginning with photographic case studies of five projects, from old icons - Kisho Kurokawa's metabolic Nagakin Capsule Tower, where living is compacted to stacked units of 100 square feet - to new icons, Steven Holl's Linked Hybrid complex in Beijing - to abandoned icons - Taiwan's pod-like UFO houses.
Among the great essays are Chicago architects Karla Sierralta and Brian Strawn's tale of living in Venezuela's Maracaibo, a boom town where gasoline can be bought for next to nothing but water for a family of four runs $300 a month. There's a fascinating interview with Eric Bricker, the director of Visual Acoustics, the documentary on legendary architectural photographer Julius Shulman that derives its title from Shulman's description of the interior of L.A.'s Bradbury building, featured in films from Jack Nicholson's Wolf to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. The 90-year-old+ Shulman's response to Bricker's proposal to create a film on his life could well become my new manta: "Well, I don't see why not."
For his photoessay Assembly Required, Andrew Clark has actually taken the time to count up all the packages, steps and pieces required to put together all the furniture featured on individual pages of the Ikea catalogue (this living room, at 32/235/1234, will send chills down the spine of even the most dedicated DIYer).
Pride of place, however, goes to Living in Cabrini, where photos of the infamous housing project run next to vivid memories of former resident James Lockhart to provide one of the most eloquent expressions I've ever encountered of the actual experience of a specific architectural space.
There's much more, it's all good, and it's free. Check out Mas Context here, and download the Living issue here.
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Happy After Christmas! Chicago makes No. 5 on list of 100 Places to Remember Before They Disappear
photograph: Jim Richardson/Getty
So much for warm holiday spirit. We just caught up with this slideshow from England's The Guardian depicting 16 of the 100 places the International Panel on Climate Change is betting won't be around a century from now. Bhutan, Caracas, Australia's Kakadu wetlands, and, Chicago?
"That's today weather, and now, the forecast for the 21st century:"
a gradual, dramatic increase in heatwaves and flooding due to global warming . . . an increase in hot summer days . . . unpredictable heavy rain and flooding . . . damage [to] Chicago's tourism industry.
Guess those $500 cases of pop at McCormick Place don't seem such a big deal now, do they?
The good news: Chicago's climate will be just like that of Texas and Alabama. They'll be a lot more good country western bars, our college football teams will win more games, and the Indiana Dunes will really come into its own. A Daley will still be mayor; she'll just be mangling the English language with monophthongized dipthongs.
See the entire slideshow here.
Christmas in Chicago 2009 - in photos and video
Yes, it's finally here. Christmas in Chicago, 2009. Watch for that special visitor coming to the subway.
Check out all the photographs here. And if you're still not Christmas'd out, check all the great photo essays and stories from previous years.
Chicago Christmas 2009 - We're Working on It
Yes, there will be a Christmas 2009 photo essay, hopefully by Thursday. Here's a small preview.
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The stunning overlooked details of Chicago Architecture, courtesy Gregory Jenkins
Gregory H. Jenkins, AIA, has practiced architecture in the Chicago area for a quarter century. More recently, however, he's developed a sideline that's resulted in two remarkable web sites, and a great new book, on the Chicago architecture and sculpture you've probably glanced at countless times, but never have really seen.
Chicago Architecture in The Loop combines commentary, information, and Jenkins' striking photographs. Most recently, he's had an extended series on the Daniel Burnham/Peirce Anderson 1905 Edison Building. Formerly known as the Commonwealth Edison Building, it's one of two derelict buildings (the other the 1927 Bankers Building) around the Mies van der Rohe Federal Plaza. The Chicago Board of Education, the Edison's current occupant, has treated its facades with malign neglect, slumming them up with cheap, incongruous replacements for terra cotta panels that seem less an expression of the CBOE's thrift than to its indifference to doing anything right. (This photo not by Jenkins) Jenkins's photos let you see the underlying grandeur of the building.
What he's especially good at is the details, all those ornamental expressions that we've probably overlooked even in a building we walk by several times a day. You may have noticed that Burnham and Anderson loved lions on their buildings, but did ever notice the variations? Jenkins has, and he gives you photos of all of them: lions with rings in an open mouth, lions with rings in clenched jaws, abstracted lions with no rings at all.
Chicago Sculpture in the Loop is Jenkins' second website, and it may be even more interesting. You'll find out who was behind all the those sculptures that have become visual icons of their respective buildings, and see them close up. You'll discover the importance of sculptor Henry Hering, a student of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who first gained fame at age 17 for his work on the Fine Arts Building of 1893 World's Columbian Exposition (now the Museum of Science and Industry). His work is everywhere in Chicago, including the four allegorical figures overlooking the Great Hall of the Field Museum. Ever wonder about those two statues atop the soaring columns at Union Station? One is Allegorical Night (complete with owl), the other is Day, and they're by Henry Hering, as are the figures on the Michigan Avenue Bridge.
How many times have you walked by Tribune Tower? Have you noticed the remarkable gargoyles designed by Rene Paul Chambellen? Jenkins has, and you can see them on his site.
Now Jenkins has assembled 177 of his best photographs in a new book, Chicago Figural Sculpture: A Chronological Portrait 1871-1923, which "documents extant figural sculpture in the heart of Chicago." Did you know there's a casting of Jean Antoine Houdon's George Washington on the fifth floor of City Hall? It's there in Jenkins' book, along with Johannes Gelert's Herald, which originally graced Burnham & Root's 1891 Chicago Herald Building on Madison, then stood on the roof of the parking garage that replaced, then, briefly, in a niche in the even larger parking garage that replaced that, until finally winding up in the garden collection of St. Ignatius Prep on Roosevelt Road. You can see where all of the Richard Bock busts of German writers that once graced the facade of Adler & Sullivan's Schiller Theater have wound up, as well as such overlooked wonders as this ornament from Charles Atwood's Marshall Field store.
You can preview the first chapter of the book here. You can buy it on-line here or here. As usual, I'm telling you this too late to make it a great Christmas gift, but maybe you can just give a gift card with a printout of the cover photo. It looks to be one of the best Chicago architecture books of the year.
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David Steele's Buffalo Rediscovered
American society is propelled by a powerful desire for change and replacement. We consume the new and toss off the old . . . Although cities can not be so easily hauled away to the dump, they can become removed from our collective national consciousness. These used-up cities become forgotten places. One such forgotten place is Buffalo, New York. - David Steele
Buffalo is one of America's most remarkable cities. At the turn of the 20th century, it was a boom town. Built, like Chicago, on railroads, grain and steel, the "Queen City of the Lakes" was the 8th largest city in the U.S. Also like Chicago, it's population peaked in the 1950's, but it's fall from grace was more dramatic. The opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway diverted the lake shipping and, over time, Buffalo's key industries withered and died. By 2008, it had lost over half it's population.
Yet much of the architecture has remained. And Chicago architect David Steele, who grew up in Buffalo and studied architecture there, has a great new book, Buffalo: Architecture in the American Forgotten Land, that documents the richness of that architecture in striking black-and-white-photographs. If you've shuffled off to Buffalo on Friday, December 18th, you can meet the author and have him sign a copy of his book, from 4:30 to 7:00, with a presentation at 5:15, in the Council Chambers of the Buffalo's Art Deco City Hall, whose 393-foot height is almost as tall as the tip of the dome Daniel Burnham proposed for the new city hall in his 1909 Plan of Chicago.
Frank Lloyd Wright's great Larkin Building may have been demolished in 1950, but the house he designed in for Darwin Martin not only endures, but it's undergone a major restoration and has a new, glass-walled visitors center designed by Toshiko Mori. There's also the twin towers of H.H. Richardson's State Asylum for the Insane (not to be confused with his State Capitol, which serves a similar purpose)(pictured above, photo not by Steele), Adler & Sullivan's stunning Guaranty Building, and Daniel Burnham and Charles Atwood's Ellicott Square, which for nearly two decades after its 1896 completion was the largest office building in the world. There's also modernism, not only the aforementioned City Hall, from 1930, but Eliel and Eero Saarinen's Kleinhans Music Hall, and the spectacular, abandoned Art Deco Central Terminal, two and a half miles from downtown. (The photo below, by Dave Pape, was taken during a 2007 fundraiser. Steele's book, however, covers more than just the most famous buildings. It's truly a walking tour of the fabric of a great city, from streetscenes, to churches and shops, to Buffalo's striking homes, in an encyclopedia of styles. Although the city has about 15,000 abandoned homes, and about an equal number of vacant lots, much survives. In a recent USA Today article by Rick Hampson, local preservation activist Harvey Garrett's explains why so much quality architecture survives:
"Buffalo was rich at just the right time" — 1870-1914, when great architecture was still relatively inexpensive — "and poor at just the right time" — after 1950, when many older buildings in cities with better economies were demolished.
Steele describes his handsome book as "a love letter to Buffalo's built environment," but it's also a striking documentation of how architecture defines the character of a city over time. You can see the photographs here, and buy copies of the book here, hardcover $45.95, softcover $31.95 here.
Also, from 2008, New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff on Saving Buffalo's Untold Beauty, here.
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Make No Little Plans on WTTW tonight at 8:00
Judith Paine McBrien's new documentary, Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City, makes its television debut tonight, Thursday, December 17th, at 8:00 on WTTW, Channel 11. Insomniacs may also catch the film Saturday, December 19th, at 2:50 a.m. A DVD of the documentary is now available for purchase.
The film has taken some critical hits - probably nothing less than a Citizen Kane could fully capture the drama and contradictions of Uncle Dan's story - but it's an accomplished, compelling overview, with some stunning images, of Burnham's life and work.
Chicago Streetscene: Industrial Sunset
Chicago Streetscene: Junk
Chicago Streetscene: Light Well
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Sayaka Shoji - empty technique or the real thing?
New Red Shoes - Must-Have Items, only available through Thursday
I've always avoided watching Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Red Shoes when it popped up on television. With its smudgy images and color bleeding at the edges, the compromised prints on display gave the impression of a hoary, shopworn artifact of an obsolete style of filmmaking.
That was then. After a seven-year campaign by Martin Scorsese, The Red Shoes has undergone a miraculous restoration that again lets us see one of the most remarkable films of the past century the way it was meant to be seen. It's being shown at the Music Box through Thursday.
The restorers at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, led by Robert Gitt And Barbara Whitehead, had their work cut out for them. The Red Shoes was shot in three-strip Technicolor, a process in which three separate strips of black-and-white film ran through the camera at the same time, with a prism and filtering gelatin creating three black and white negatives, capturing color separations of cyan, magenta and yellow which were then used to create positive prints. The three original negatives the UCLA restorers had to work with shrunk at different ratios down through the decades, a problem compounded by mis-adjustment of camera settings during filming. The negatives were filthy with dirt, scratches, and, worst of all, mold, which had begun to feed on the very images themselves.
Each of The Red Shoe's 579,000 individual frames were scanned digitally at a 4K resolution and painstakingly repaired back to their original quality. The restorers quality-checked their work against an original Technicolor dye transfer print of the film.
The plot of The Red Shoes is pretty basic. World famous impresario takes a gamble on two unknowns - a ballerina and a composer. Gestative tribulations are followed by triumph. Romantic complications. Conflict between life and art. Tragic death. Anguished remorse. As Pop Liebel once said, "There are many such stories."
What sets The Red Shoes apart is, first, the quality of the performances, especially that of Anton Walbrook as the Pygmalion/Henry Higgins Boris Lermontov, who wills the ambition of Moira Shearer's character, Victoria Page, to became a great dancer into reality. Walbrook was gay, and some writers have also pointed to Walbrook's Lermontov, as gay, as well, as he shows no romantic inclinations and surrounds himself with a coterie of male collaborators.
Even so, Lermontov's obsession with Page, his jealousy of her amant, the composer Julian Craster, played by Marius Goring, is as intense as any lover's, and it's the savage fight for control of Vicky between Lermontov and Craster as she prepares in her dressing room to go on stage for her comeback, that sends her fleeing them both, down a winding, constricted stair, a mirror to another stair at the beginning of the film, which Craster and a mob of his fellow students race up to claim a seat in the gallery for a Covent Garden premiere.
The title may be The Red Shoes, but it could more accurately - if less commercially - have been called The Impresario. Walbrook is the magnetic core of the film, portraying a man, as observed by Roger Ebert "who imposes his will but conceals his feelings." His Lermontov is the Deus ex machina that, far from resolving the complications of the plot, sets them diabolically spinning, only to have them turn brutally back on him in a way that make him the tragic victim of his own actions.
The extraordinary images sear The Red Shoes into the audience's emotions, creating a visual dialectic between the realism of the every day - the bustling workaday Covent Garden district post World War II - and the rich fantasy of dreams and ambition. When Vicky Page is summoned to Lermontov's villa - she arrives in an almost surreal teal outfit, complete with tiara - it's not just any abode, but the Villa Leopolda, which just last year changed hands for a mere $750,000,000. Vicky moves her way through a mazelike landscaping, to a steeply rising, seemingly endless stairway, lined with soaring cypresses, that makes her journey seem like Orfeo's ascent to Olympus.
The center of the film is The Red Shoes, itself, a 17 minute ballet created by Robert Helpmann expressly for the movie. It's based on a Hans Christian Anderson tale about an evil cobbler who places a pair of magical red shoes on the feet of a young dancer, who dances, and dances, and dances. In fact, she can't stop dancing, The red shoes have taken control of her, and she can't take them off. Her clothes turn to rags and she dances to her death, collapsing before a group of worshipers outside of their church, where the controlling spirit at least lets them go home after the epiphany. Think Dance Sacrale with drabber clothing.
Visually, the sequence is one of the most stunning in all of cinema. It begins with a stage stuffed Zeffirelli style, dazzling but concrete, and then veers out into the pure fantasy that only film can create, veering into a kind of dream state in which the physical world keeps transforming in the service of stream-of-consciousness wonder, fear and desire. As created by master cinematographer Jack Cardiff and production designer Hein Heckroth, the incredibly vibrant colors become, in themselves, an indelible expression of emotion. Thanks to the restoration, we can again experience these images at their original, hypnotic power. A Blu-Ray version of the restored film has been released in Britain and will undoubtedly eventually be released here. But scale is as much a part of the composition of this film as anything, and even a 60 inch flat panel fails to do it full justice. You have a rare opportunity, only through this Thursday, December 17th, to really see The Red Shoes, at the Music Box, at 3733 North Southport. If you're smart, you won't let it pass by.
Chicago River really steamed
. . . you'd think it was winter or something.
Nokia dumps Deco
Crain's Chicago Business is reporting that, after only three and a half years, Nokia is closing both of its United States showcase stores, including its outlet here, in Philip Maher's stately Jacques building at 543 North Michigan.
Nokia never got around to carving cell phones into the hands of either of the two bas relief women above the doors. They remain very much an expression of their time, when high fashion was expressed not in high tech gadgetry but designer gowns. Reports that the site will now become the first American site for a ZhuZhu Pets store remain mere rumors. Personally, I'm holding out for making it the elegant Chicago outpost of Peeps & Co.
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Community Meeting on plans for Gropius Michael Reese site tonight
4th ward alderman Toni Preckwinkle will be holding a community meeting for Prairie Shores and Lake Meadows residents tonight, December 9th, 7:00 p.m., at which "there will be a discussion of plans for the Michael Reese site," where an assembly of irreplaceable Bauhaus-influenced buildings designed with the collaboration of Walter Gropius are currently in the process of being obliterated. The meeting will be at Olivet Baptist Church, 3101 S. King Drive. Dress warm, and if you want to double-check the meetings still on, call Ald. Preckwinkle's office at 773/536.8103.
In related news, Urban Remains is offering up items from Michael Reese "in the form of misc. equipment, furniture signs, teach aids . . . and other odds and ends." Urban Remains website describes their role: "Architectural artifacts were essentially off limits, pending the city of Chicago's purchase of the hospital campus . . . unfortunately, a good portion of the mid-century furnishings were badly damaged from vandals, lack of building maintenance or outright abandonment of the buildings containing the furniture."
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van Berkel in Winter
The two Burnham Centennial pavilions closed to the public October 31st. The Hadid, the last to arrive - six weeks late - was the first to go, all traces now removed. The more angular steel frame of the van Berkel, stripped of its glossy white melting ice cream scoops, endures, long enough to become, covered in the first snow of the season, the lovely geometric sculpture you see here. (Photo courtesy our indefatigable correspondent Bob Johnson.)
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Free Day
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Oh, wait - how about a cat in a box? Will that do for today?
Art Institute Lions go Mod for Christmas
In celebration of the opening of the Renzo Piano designed Modern Wing earlier this year, the 18th annual holiday wreathing of the Art Institute's twin bronze lions has taken a contemporary turn.
Instead of the traditional evergreen wreaths, this year's were designed Yves Behar out of multi-colored aluminum leaves. On December 16, they'll be replaced by the traditional evergreen wreaths, and Behar's leaves distributed to Chicago kids to use for their own home decorations. (See a small slideshow of pics on Behar's fuseproject website here.)
Gang Nifty, Valerio Gothic, three centuries of type - Sunday reading
Jeanne Gang is number 22 in the New York Time's Style Magazine Fifty 50: The Names of America's Up-and-Coming ("for your guest list or cocktail patter"), citing Aqua as "Chicago's coolest new skyscraper." (Teddy Cruz is number 14) Page 90, online non-html mag here. We're promised an expanded version of the profiles in January at nytimes.com/tmagazine.
And in the inevitable pushback department, Aqua's sinuous balconies are criticized for being heat sinks leeching energy out of the building (I live in Marina City; touch one of my external columns on a sub-zero day - I dare you), and an architecture student at Drury University claims Gang copped a "I'm better than this place" attitude when she sat in on a critique. But he still thinks Aqua is beautiful.
25th Anniversary issue of Chicago Life, bundled with the Times, includes Lois Weisberg interview with a great story of how John D. MacArthur helped fund her first major project, a 1956 George Bernard Shaw Centennial celebration. There's also a neat Joe Valerio article on the U of C and Gothic architecture. (Henry Ives Cobb originally pushed for the Romanesque.)
Bauman Rare Books ads on back cover NY Times Book Review features copy of Robert F. Kennedy To Seek a Newer World inscribed by the author in perfunctory fashion to "Herm" Kogan. Yours for $4,000. Also, review of The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer will leave you never hearing That Old Black Magic quite the same way again. Taschen's brought out A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, Volume I, 1628-1900. But what about Kabel?
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What Is God's Plan For Me and The Church?
18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. 19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.


Already a highly automated process, the manufacturing of flour tortillas has gained efficiency, speed and reliability from the application of computer control technologies. Like most other bakery processing technologies, tortilla manufacturing methods benefit from step-wise advances rather than quantum leaps. Over the past few years, heat-press lines moved from intermittent pressing to continuous motion systems, and counter-stackers continue to improve in reliability and accuracy.
One significant change at the supplier level was the merger of Stewart Systems, Plano, TX, into AMF Bakery Systems, Richmond, VA. The joined company formed a tortilla technology division to manage the design, manufacture, sale and service of corn and flour tortilla processing equipment.
THREE MEANS. Wheat flour tortillas are made by three separate methods, each resulting in products with different characteristics and applications. Hand-stretching and pressing result in the most traditional styles favored for table tortillas, while die-cut flour tortillas find use fried as edible salad bowls and in entree preparation for food service and frozen foods.
Pressed tortillas are smooth and slightly shiny in appearance. They tend to be pliable and slightly elastic and can be easily rolled or folded without tearing. Their texture and crumb are light and fluffy, with pronounced layering and flake. Hand-stretched tortillas generally have a dull appearance and dry, powdery feel caused by residual dusting flour from the manufacturing process. They have a tender bite and are dense with little layering or flake. Die-cut tortillas have a dry, powdery feel from the dusting flour and are generally tough, chewy and very dense, with no flake or layers.
Dough for pressed tortillas tends to be under-mixed and is set at 90 to 100°F (32 to 38°C). The higher dough temperatures and under-development help the dough pieces relax more quickly after dividing and rounding, thus facilitating pressing and stretching operations. Flour tortilla dough goes directly from the mixer to the divider, with no floor time, and is very similar to that of hearth bread and roll doughs. It is very stiff and dry.
Dough balls fall from the overhead proofer down chutes into a template that positions them correctly on the belt below. The template head descends to lightly press the dough balls so they don't roll out of place. The press and the plate under it are heated to 350 to 450°F (177 to 232°C), with a dwell time of 1 to 2 seconds. The press operates at 400 to 1,000 lb per sq in. The exact pressure, time and heat depend on the tortilla's formulation, hence the ranges noted here.
Flour tortillas bake in a compact 3-tier oven. The tortillas move on a conveyor chain and are, thus, inverted or flipped twice during the baking cycle. A 3-pass oven reflects the home method of placing the dough piece on a hot griddle and flipping it twice. This sets the starch. Oven temperatures range from 375 to 500°F (191 to 260°C), and baking time varies from 25 to 40 seconds. Nearly all of the browning takes place by conduction from the hot (500°F, or 206°C) surface of the oven's baking plates or mesh bands.
Often, tortillas emerge from the oven puffed up like partially inflated basketballs. The heat of the oven causes leavening gases supplied by yeast and/or chemical agents to expand quickly, and moisture inside the dough flashes into steam. All these gases are held inside the tortilla by the skin created during heated pressing. The gases dissipate quickly, and the tortillas collapse into their normal form.
Flour tortillas are still relatively fragile hot out of the oven and must cool sufficiently for packaging, or they will stick together. A cooling conveyor carries the warm tortillas along multiple tiers for 2 to 5 minutes. Enclosed coolers maintain a temperature of 40°F (4°C) for the air circulating through them; ambient coolers are open to the plant environment and are typically cooled by fans.
Formulation requirements for hand-stretched flour tortillas are generally leaner than for pressed tortillas, with reduced amounts of water, shortening and salt. Mixing time is longer because this tortilla style is sheeted twice during makeup, thus requiring additional gluten development. Again, no floor time is needed, and the dough goes directly to the divider /rounder and into an intermediate proofer. The 2-stage sheeting process first reduces the dough ball into a flat round. The piece is turned 90°, and a second sheeting pass produces a flat ellipse.
Operators stretch the dough piece by hand, turning out a fully circular piece. Stretching takes place over a heated plate that interrupts the conveyor line, and the extra heat helps set the skin of the tortilla. Hand-stretched tortillas bake for a very short time, 17 to 25 seconds, and are conveyed out of the oven onto cooling conveyors.
Die-cut flour tortillas are made on a sheeting line. Dough, extruded in a continuous ribbon onto the line's conveyor, is sheeted and cross-rolled to achieve a thickness of 0.125 to 0.1875 in. (3 to 5 mm). A cylindrical die roller cuts circular shapes out of the continuous dough sheet, with scrap dough returned to the extruder for reuse. Die cutting is harder on the dough physically than either the pressed or hand-stretched method, so dough conditioner levels in the formula are generally increased. Baking and cooling times are similar to those of pressed and hand-stretched tortillas.
Tortillas should be as close to plant ambient temperature as possible when packaged. Higher temperatures will cause moisture to condense inside the package, encouraging mold growth.
PLC PACED. Today's flour tortilla lines such as the Mega OP/AL system from Lawrence Equipment, South El Monte, CA, have been steadily increasing in output capacity. This line delivers up to 4,500 doz 6-in. tortillas per hour. KB Systems, Bangor, PA, offers a tortilla line with output at 2,000 doz 6-in. pieces per hour.
Sequencing via programmable logic controller (PLC) is a must for such systems. For example, the Lawrence Equipment line's One Touch Control system allows the operator full control over all processing variables. For example, when changing the press cycle rate, the controls automatically adjust divider, proofer and cooler speeds. The press transfer belt speed is automatically calculated to ensure that transfer speeds are kept as low as possible, and controls make it impossible to feed pressed tortillas into the oven faster than it can receive them, thus eliminating folds.
The large platens used for tortilla pressing require precise temperature control. To achieve this level of performance, Casa Herrera, Pomona, CA, uses a touch-screen PLC terminal to govern the 18 heaters per platen on the company's TP-4242 programmable flour tortilla press.
up to 12,000 inspections per minute. An automatic air ejection system removes "out of spec" products.
Programmable counter-stackers such as the Genesis system from ARR-Tech, Yakima, WA, and the Counter Stacker CSPS from J.C. Ford, La Habra, CA, offer improved accuracy. Designs accommodate 1,800 to 5,400 doz per hour, counting stacks of four to 60 tortillas each. While the Genesis counter-stacker features a universal product laning air chute system designed for quick changeover, J.C. Ford designed its new stacker with adjustable feed angles and quick change canisters to allow two, three or four row stacking of flour tortillas.
DIVIDING ADVANCES. Rotary dividing is making headway in flour tortilla production. AMF and its Stewart Systems Tortilla Equipment Division recently put this technology to work on the company's Solstice S3 line. The divider, designed and manufactured in accordance with BISSC sanitation standards, requires no divider oil or dusting flour.
A dual-auger design handles dough gently, and the patented ultra-high molecular weight (UHMW) plastic free-flow manifold evenly distributes dough for 4-, 6-, 8- and 9-across output. Servo motors control the action of the UHMW rotary cut-off mechanism, which operates at 110 to 200 cuts per minute. Divider pressure is set deliberately low at 15 psi to be gen- tle to the dough, and dough temperature varies less than 1° from hopper to discharge, so no cooling is required for the rounding bed, according to the manufacturer.
Tortilla processers who prefer conventional dividing can opt for the Oddy Novatek dividerrounder , available from J.C. Ford and Kaak Group North America, Lithia Springs, GA. This system's low-stress scaling cylinder gives a weight range of 10 to 500 g (0.3 to 17.5 oz), using change pieces and lane reduction. It requires no divider oil and runs at 50 strokes per minute.
CONTINUOUS ACTION. Until recently, pressing was an intermittent process. The press' conveyor stopped while dough balls were deposited on it and tapped into place to prevent them from rolling out of position. Then the platen would descend to flatten the balls and then rise out of the way. The belt resumed travel to move the pressed tortillas to the oven. New "flying head" technology from AMF/Stewart uses continuous horizontal and vertical movement of the press to complete more than 20 strokes per minute. An automatic dough detection system allows pressing only when dough balls are present, and the press maintains exact product spacing.
Servos drive J.C. Ford's new continuous tortilla press. Its capacity ranges from 990 doz per hour for 12-in. tortillas to 2,200 doz per hour for 6-in. tortillas.
ENERGY EFFICIENT. In the past, tortilla ovens had been notorious for wasting energy. To get enough oxygen to the burners, some operators would prop open or completely remove the oven's insulated panels. There's no need for that with the new energy-efficient oven designs now available.
For example, the new Solstice S3 tortilla oven from AMF/Stewart is designed to proportionally mix combustion air. Other heating improvements include individual burner controls and pilotless active flame management. The doublewalled microporous insulation has an increased intralayer air gap that functions as a heat sink to cut air loss from the oven chamber and reduce the temperature of the outer walls.
Finally, engineers of flour tortilla equipment are giving more attention to sanitation. Clean-in-place capability is part of many new designs such as Lawrence Equipment's Legend cooling conveyor. Its washdown design eliminates standing water and debris collection.


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A Mefo-váltó () 1934-től a Harmadik Birodalom állami hitelteremtésének eszköze, Hjalmar Schacht elképzelése alapján.

A Mefo-váltó a nem-konvencionális állami hitelteremtés alapja. Hjalmar Schacht (a birodalmi gazdasági miniszter) vezetésével a "Mefo-váltó" lett a fegyverkezést szolgáló központi fizetési eszköz. A Mefo-váltókat öt évre lehetett meghosszabbítani, s ezeket a váltókat a Reichsbank (a Birodalmi Bank) leszámítolta, vagyis beváltotta. A Schacht vezetésével  megteremtett állami hitelrendszer a Nemzetiszocialista Német Munkáspárt kezében talán a legfontosabb ütőkártya volt a nyolcmilliónyi munkanélküli számának másfél millióra csökkentésében.

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Schacht, Hjalmar: 76 Jahre meines Lebens. Bad Wörishofen (Kindler und Schiermeyer), 1953.
Statistisches Handbuch von Deutschland, 1949.
Stucken, Rudolf: Deutsche Geld- und Kreditpolitik 1914-1953. Tübingen (Mohr), 1953.

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Hotel collapses in central India, killing 10
A four-storey rickety hotel building collapsed in central India, killing at least 10 people and injuring three, police said Sunday.
Rescuers working through the night with sledgehammers and chain saws pulled alive 10 people from the debris of the building, which came crashing down Saturday night in Indore, a city in Madhya Pradesh state, said police officer Sanju Kamle.
Up to five people may still be trapped under the rubble, said Nishant Warwade, the district collector.
The Times of India newspaper said the dilapidated building collapsed after a car smashed into its front portion.
The hotel with 25 rooms was located in the commercial hub of Indore, close to railway and bus stations. Indore is around 900 kilometres south of New Delhi.
Building collapses are common in India as builders try to cut corners by using substandard materials, and as multi-story structures are erected with inadequate supervision. The massive demand for housing around India's cities and pervasive corruption often result in builders adding unauthorized floors or putting up illegal buildings.
In August 2017, 33 people were killed when an apartment building collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai.
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