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HMAS Sydney: The most famous ship in the fleet
by Dr Adrian Threlfall. The four ships which have, thus far, carried the name HMAS Sydney have seen action in half a dozen wars spanning more than 100 years. As construction has just begun on the latest HMAS Sydney it is an appropriate time to look back at the ships and actions which helped create that legend.
First World War (1914-18), Second World War (1939-45), Vietnam War (1962-73), Korean War (1950-53)
SMS Emden binnacle
photographer Vlad Bunyevich
The SMS Emden binnacle housed the ship's compass and is currently on display at the Shrine's Galleries of Remembrance, First World War Gallery.
RAN Heritage Collection (NAVY3977)
On 11 November many Australians take a moment to pause and reflect on the anniversary of the armistice in 1918. While not as momentous as the end of the First World War, for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and one ship in particular, November is also a very special month.
The original HMAS Sydney was a Town Class Light Cruiser, built in Govan, Glasgow in 1912. She arrived to a rapturous reception at Sydney Harbour when she joined the newly created Australian Fleet on 4 October 1913. Less than a year later she would find herself tasked with seizing German possessions in New Britain and New Guinea following the outbreak of war on 4 August 1914. On 1 November she, along with her sister ship Melbourne, sailed from Albany as escorts for the first ANZAC convoy. The 38 troopships carrying Australian and New Zealand personnel sailed north-west across the Indian Ocean, bound for the Middle East. Early on the morning of 9 November a distress signal was received from the wireless station on the Cocos Islands less than 50 miles to the east and Sydney was dispatched to investigate.
It was quickly discovered that the German commerce raider SMS Emden had launched a landing party to seize the wireless station. It was a race against time as Sydney was faster and more powerful than the German ship. Captain Karl von Muller in command of Emden knew his only chance was to run so he immediately weighed anchor as his gun crews prepared for action. Almost as soon as they sighted the Sydney von Muller opened fire. Salvos of gunfire fell nearby and soon Sydney returned fire. On her third salvo hits were registered. Now that they had the Emden's range, Sydney bracketed her and she staggered under the fire. Within minutes she was wrecked and von Muller ran his ship aground on North Keeling Island reef to save the remainder of his crew. Eventually the German ensign was taken down and a white flag of surrender replaced it. After the devastating Royal Navy losses at the Battle of Coronel only eight days earlier off the coast of Chile, this Australian naval victory was received with jubilation. For the rest of the war Sydney operated in the Atlantic Ocean and North Sea. The first HMAS Sydney then spent the remainder of her career as Flagship of the Australian Squadron until she was decommissioned in 1928.
HMAS Sydney (II) c May 1941
In wartime camouflage.
Australian War Memorial (007065)
Only six years later Sydney (II) would be launched in September 1934, having been built at Wallsend-on-Tyne, England. She and her sister ships Perth and Hobart were Modified Leander Class Light Cruisers and all would see service during the Second World War. Sydney's station on the outbreak of war was Fremantle and she spent most of the next eight months on patrolling and convoy escort duties in the Indian Ocean. In May 1940 she sailed for the Mediterranean to join the Royal Navy. Here she would be engaged in multiple battles as the Axis forces, with air superiority, ensured every sailing was fraught with danger. On 18 July her finest hour in the Mediterranean arrived as she left Alexandria to support Royal Navy destroyers in the Aegean Sea. At dawn the next day the destroyers were attacked by two powerful Italian cruisers. Fleeing southwards the British destroyers were in dire straits as they neared Cape Spada off the north-western coast of Crete, before Sydney opened fire at ten miles range. Stunned, the Italians were soon hit by well-aimed salvos and attempted to escape behind a smokescreen. The Giovanni Delle Bande Nere managed to get away but the second cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni was clearly in trouble, having been repeatedly hit. The Royal Navy destroyers were ordered in to finish her off with torpedoes and pick up any survivors. What became known as the Battle of Cape Spada was Sydney's finest hour and she returned to Alexandria Harbour to a rousing reception from the rest of the Mediterranean fleet. At home the news of her victory was equally well-received.
But the celebrations were short-lived and soon she returned to her normal duties of patrolling, convoy escorts and shore bombardments, both in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. In January 1941 things would change as she was ordered home to Australia. On 9 February she berthed at Circular Quay, Sydney and was met by many thousands of well-wishers. Now that she was posted to Australia Station, Fremantle, her duties saw her on patrols and convoy escort work in the Indian, Southern and Pacific Oceans.
On Armistice Day 1941 Sydney departed Fremantle to escort the troopship Zealandia to Sunda Strait, Dutch East Indies where she would hand over her duties to the cruiser HMS Durban. Sydney was then expected back at Fremantle on 20 November. It was not to be. As is now known, the German commerce raider Kormoran, disguised as the Dutch merchant ship Straat Malakka, had been operating for several months in the Indian Ocean. At approximately 16:00 hours on 19 November 1941 Sydney noticed a single vessel steaming 130 miles off Shark Bay, WA. Over the next hour Sydney signalled with searchlight and flags, slowly drawing closer. At 17:30 the two vessels were only a mile apart, dangerously close and the Kormoran could no longer keep up the subterfuge. She opened fire with her full armament, devastating Sydney's bridge and fire control. The battle raged for half an hour with Sydney burning furiously and the Kormoran sustaining critical damage. The two ships drifted apart and those on Kormoran last saw Sydney at 18:25 disappearing to the south-south-east. Over the next few days more than 300 survivors of the Kormoran were rescued from lifeboats but none from Sydney. Eight days later a badly damaged Carley float was recovered but no survivors. The loss of Sydney and her complement of 645 crew was a devastating blow to Australia. Theories discussing exactly what had happened to her, and how she was lost, circulated for years. Most of these finally ended when, on 16 March 2009, she was located, 2,500 metres below sea level, near where she had fought her final battle.
HMAS Sydney (III) c 1968
Australian War Memorial (P01539.020)
Only seven years later another ship would bear the name Sydney. A Majestic Class light aircraft carrier, she was originally laid down at Devonport, England in 1943 as HMS Terrible but had not been completed when the war ended. Three years later HMAS Sydney (III) became the first aircraft carrier to serve in the Royal Australian Navy. In April 1949 she arrived in Australian waters and took on her complement of Hawker Sea Fury and Fairey Firefly aircraft.
HMAS Sydney (III), Sea of Japan c January 1952
photographer B Miller
In October 1951 she was deployed to Korean waters where her aircraft flew hundreds of missions in support of United Nations operations. On 9 November 1951 she suffered her first combat casualty when one of her Sea Furies was shot down. Early in 1952 she departed the combat zone but late in 1953 she would return to Korea for another tour of duty. Following modifications in 1962 she next saw service as a Fast Troop Transport. Once the Australian commitment to the Vietnam War increased in 1965 she had a new role—as the Vung Tau Ferry.
Between May 1965 and November 1972 she would visit South Vietnam 25 times, ferrying troops, weapons and equipment to and from the combat zone. She would become a familiar sight to many thousands of Australians involved in that war. On 1 November 1972 Sydney would make her final voyage to Vietnam with supplies for the South Vietnamese, arriving at Vung Tau on 23 November. There she collected the final Australian equipment and turned for home for the last time. In November 1973, after nearly 30 years' service, the third HMAS Sydney was paid off and eventually sold for scrap.
Ex-HMAS Sydney (IV) departs Sydney Harbour
Commonwealth of Australia
HMAS Sydney (IV) an Adelaide-class guided missile frigate, constructed in the Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle, Washington State, USA, was not as well-known as her forebears, but she too gave many years meritorious service and received her own battle honours. Commissioned in 1983, she would serve with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) for longer than any of her predecessors. In December 1990 she would enter the Persian Gulf and serve for several months with Coalition forces providing air defence to the Allied naval forces in the brief Operation Desert Storm. Later she would support INTERFET in East Timor and return to the Persian Gulf several times throughout the 2000s. November would be a momentous month for her, as it was for all her namesakes, as she was decommissioned on 7 November 2015. Only days later on 19 November 2015 the keel of the fifth HMAS Sydney was laid down at the shipyard in Osborne, South Australia. In 2020 she is scheduled to be commissioned, as one of three Hobart-class air warfare destroyers. And so the most famous name in RAN history will continue for the foreseeable future.
Dr Adrian Threlfall is a regular contributor to Remembrance. Adrian has seen service in the Australian Army Reserve and lectured in military historian at Victoria University. He is an educator at the Shrine of Remembrance, where he provides learning experiences to students on Australian service in times of war and peacekeeping operations. Adrian's first book entitled Jungle Warriors: From Tobruk to Kokoda and Beyond is for sale in the Shrine bookshop. His second book, Reg Saunders: An Indigenous War Hero, is also available.
Reviewed 18 June 2021


I wanted to create a colorful rice salad to go along with some black bean tacos I was making. This salad is flavorful and beautiful! It packs in the antioxidants too! Red peppers, mangoes, carrots, and green scallions provide the rainbow of color. Lately-I guess I've been seeing rainbows, like my Rainbow Kale Salad! Wow-these would actually be awesome together, now that I think of it!
The carrot ginger dressing that I made for this is super easy to whip up and, unlike most dressings, you can actually have it as a smoothie it's so good for you! For a sweeter dressing, omit the onion, and you've got a smoothie or a sweeter dressing!
For rice salad base: cook rice with 2 cups of water, preferably in a pressure cooker. If rice cooker or pressure cooker, bring to pressure, reduce heat to low and and cook 12 minutes, turn heat off and allow heat to drop. Alternatively: bring water and rice to boil, reduce to low and cook until water is absorbed and rice is chewy, not mushy, about 45 minutes. This can be done ahead of time, 1-2 days.
Serve with Black Bean Tacos or a big kale salad and this root veggie soup!
A colorful rice salad with mangoes, peppers, scallions, and herbs-perfect as a side dish with a plate of black bean tacos!
293 mg potassium, 72% Vitamin C, 64% Vitamin A, 6% iron, 3% calcium per 6 servings, using ½ of the carrot ginger dressing recipe.


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Q: Dreamweaver CC Color Coding Is Not Working I just got Dreamweaver CC and the color coding is not working what-so-ever.  I've already done the following:

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*I tried to put checkmark by "Syntax Coloring"under the View menu, but it will not let me check it.  It's not grayed out; it just won't let me check it.

*I downloaded a new Color xml file,and placed it in the Configurations folder.

*I tried changing the colors around in a file in the Preference menu, but it won't apply the colors.

*I deleted the Configurations folder so it will reset to default, but nothing.
You guys are my last resort.  If I can't get it to work I will have to re-install the entire program.  Any suggestions?

A: Honestly, your best bet after going through all of those steps would be to, unfortunately, utilize your final option of re-installing Dreamweaver CC. Sorry if this isn't the answer you were expecting but that's what I would do at this point. Good luck!

A: I figured it out; and, I'm posting the solution to my own problem so readers won't endure as much suffering as I did trying to find the solution to this problem.  This little bitty tinny issue made my life miserable for several days.  Anyway, look below for the answer:
I had my HP Envy laptop running Win 8.1 color displayed set to high contrast.  Big mistake! I changed it back to display colors and my problem was solved.

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Trouble doubles for Mike Ashley: exit of Sports Direct from FTSE100 after value halves
Angela Gonzalez-Rodriguez
Tuesday, March 01 2016
Sports Direct, the retailer founded by Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley, faces a highly likely exit from the FTSE100 on Wednesday when the quarterly review of the benchmark index' members is announced.
In barely five months, various profit warnings, declining sales and a series of labour and public relations bumps have taken their toll on the company's value, now halved to 2.3 billion pounds.
Sports Direct has been part of the FTSE 100 for two years and a half yet, as of this week, the athletic apparel retailer is likely to join Aberdeen Asset Management in the FTSE 250 as several contenders queue up to take their places, reports Reuters.
Sports Direct entered the FTSE 100 in September 2013, and two and a half years later, it is likely to be ousted from it. The reason? The company's market value has since August 2015. In one week in January, the company lost more than one billion in market cap, recalls 'The Evening Standard'.
Sports Direct place in the FTSE100 at risk
The most likely replacement for Sports Direct within the British benchmark index are Paddy Power Betfair, the resultant company of the merge of the two betting houses earlier this month, valued at 8.9 billion pounds; and private healthcare group Mediclinic.
"Sports Direct has become the latest victim of the tough trading conditions on the UK High Street, exacerbated by weather. The group is now unique in the sector for having warned either side of Xmas that trading had worsened further," said Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
Its shares are currently trading at more than 50 percent below its August 2015 high of 817 pence, points out 'Business Insider'.
On another note, the sports retailer announced earlier this week that it will no longer borrow via Ashley's investment vehicle. It said it had previously used a 250 million pounds loan facility with Ashley's Mike Ashley/Mash Holdings.
Meanwhile, investors in Sports Direct are increasingly at unease with the way that the company is run, and are calling for chairman Keith Hellawell to be fired, reports the 'Telegraph'.
Also, and according to a report from the 'Financial Times', several of the biggest investors in Sports Direct have lost faith in founder and majority shareholder Mike Ashley.
The company's founder owns around 55 percent of shares in Sports Direct, giving him effective control over the company.

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This is an exciting decade for science in southern Florida.The department is rapidly growing, and is poised to meet the new challenges for the field of physics in today's environment at a research university.
We are augmenting and integrating our core expertise in condensed matter physics with the growing field of the Physics of Biological Systems. Additionally, we are in the process of forming the Center for Spacetime Physics. This center will pull together our current expertise in supernova astrophysics, cosmology as well as classical and quantum gravity. Our growing effort in the Physics of Biological Systems is tightly integrated with the expanding efforts here at FAU within the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science in the areas of Biomedical Science, Mathematics, Biology and Biochemistry. We will also be filling faculty lines in areas aligned with, and supporting, the charter of the Scripps Institute that will be establishing a new campus in Palm Beach County.
Our Spacetime Physics effort here already provides numerical and mathematical support for the DOE's TSI initiative as well the NSF's LIGO observatories. In addition to these three general-relativistic astrophysics areas, a major thrust of the center will be the search for the origin of the concept of space and time and will involve fundamental research in the foundations of gravity, and quantum theory.
The department has a strong doctoral and bachelors program in physics. We provide graduate support, scholarships, tuition, assistance and fellowships to over 20 graduate students. We routinely arrange for summer research positions for many of our graduate students at numerous National Laboratories.
I extend a warm welcome to you from the faculty, staff, and students of the Physics Department of Florida Atlantic University!


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Cristian Chivu
Cristian Chivu is one of the celebrated names in Romania football after the defender went on to make it big with the likes of Roma and Inter Milan. The defender recently retired from football after failing to recover from a spate of injury problems in the last few years. However, he has not done so without winning major titles in his career. In fact, Chivu may just be the most remembered name in recent football history of Romania after the star lifted several titles including the Champions League and at least five Italian Serie A titles.
Chivu was a regular in the Romanian national team when he played for them between 1999 and 2010. This helped him get 75 caps and also three goals from these matches at international level. The celebrated success came in the club football. After representing Ajax, Roma, and Inter Milan, he lifted a whopping 13 different titles. He was also named in the Romanian footballer of the year on three occasions. Following the conclusion of his stellar playing career, the possibility of getting into football punditry or management beckoned the 33-year-old. It seems that he has chosen the managerial route.
He says that he would be willing to become a coach in the near future and is currently looking at the prospects of doing so. "I had been thinking in these recent months of becoming a coach because I miss certain things like the locker room and the smell of the field. I'll see what I want to do in the future, but the idea of becoming a coach has been teasing me a lot," said the defender, who can recall the experience from working with some of the top managers in the world like Jose Mourinho and Roberto Mancini. It remains to be seen if he will start his coaching career in Romania.
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Myopini is a tribe of flies from the family Conopidae.

Genera
Myopa Fabricius, 1775
Thecophora Rondani, 1845

References

Conopidae
Brachycera tribes
Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius

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Ah, processed foods. The term has become a sweeping generalization for anything that comes in a bag or a box. Even my nutrition advice usually includes the general statement "eat less processed food and choose fresh food instead." But that sentence really simplifies a more complex story.
Of course, how we process the food matters. Some ingredients can undergo changes — like being frozen, fermented or sprouted — that makes them equally or more nutritious than they once were. Not all processes are detrimental. Here's how to tell the difference.
Have you heard of ultra-processed foods?
• Group 1 — Unprocessed and minimally processed foods: This group includes basic whole foods such as vegetables, fruits, nuts, eggs, meat and milk. If processing is used, it's to preserve shelf life, such as freezing vegetables and vacuum-sealing meat. This group makes up about 30 percent of the calories we eat — but the number should be higher for these nutritious options.
Dietitian Ellie Krieger, Nourish Schools co-founder Casey Seidenberg and certified health education specialist Elaine Gordon offer picks for everything from breakfast to dessert.
• Group 2 — Processed culinary ingredients: These foods enhance the flavor of meals and include olive oil, salt, honey and dried herbs. Some like olive oil are more nutritious than others like sugar, but they only account for 3 percent of our calories when used in basic cooking, so they aren't the main concern.
• Group 3 — Processed foods: Foods that undergo some processing and contain just two or three ingredients fall into this group. Examples are canned fish, salted nuts and sourdough (fermented) bread. We get about 10 percent of calories from these foods. Many of these items are nutritious and make it more convenient to cook at home.
• Group 4 — Ultra-processed foods: If you take processed (groups two and three) foods such as enriched flour, sugar and high fructose corn syrup, add food coloring, and put them into a Pop-Tart, you get an ultra-processed food. The foods in this group are the result of industrial formulations of five or more usually cheap ingredients. These foods provide almost 60 percent of our calories, but that number needs to be much lower. Collectively, ultra-processed foods are high in sugar, fat and salt, and lack fiber, vitamins and minerals. People who consume more ultra-processed foods have a greater risk of obesity, hypertension and high blood sugar levels, which can lead to heart disease and diabetes. Other examples of ultra-processed foods are candy, instant soups, ice cream, breakfast cereals, soda and hot dogs.
Sprouted foods are nutritious: Whole grains and beans are living seeds, and a little "processing" with the right moisture level and temperature can make them sprout. In terms of health benefits, sprouted grains and beans are easier to digest, have minimal effect on blood-sugar levels, and contain more protein, fiber and B vitamins than their non-sprouted counterparts. So, look for whole grains, beans and breads that say "sprouted" on the package.
Fermented foods contain probiotics: The recent focus on fermented foods such as yogurt and kimchi is because of the beneficial probiotics they provide. Probiotics help support the immune system, relieve constipation, help prevent some types of cancer, and are being studied for their role in managing cholesterol and treating neurological disorders. Want to get more probiotics in your diet? Buy yogurt, kefir (an effervescent milk beverage) and tempeh (fermented soy). Or try refrigerated sauerkraut or kimchi — but not the shelf-stable ones. They have been heated or pasteurized, which kills the probiotics.
Frozen foods retain more vitamins: If fresh vegetables wilt in your crisper, use frozen options instead. They are blanched and quick-frozen, which isn't detrimental to their nutrients. In fact, a comparison study of fresh vs. frozen vegetables and fruit showed that vitamins C and E are the same or higher in frozen compared with fresh. So, stock up on frozen mango, kale and blueberries. They are great in smoothies!
My nutrition counseling comes with a revised message. Rather than avoid all processed foods, I explain the different groupings. I recommend eating less ultra-processed food and replacing it with fresh food and some slightly processed (not ultra-processed) items.


This is an ethnographic study of the drumline of the LSU Marching Band and the mock-fraternity they created called Phi Boota roota (ΦBr). I argue that ΦBr was created as a site to flesh out the various tensions members experience as members of the LSU drumline; they create a rite of passage ritual that functions as a carnivalesque and celebratory inversion of the system they find themselves submerged within. Phi Boota roota marks a created articulation of the transition members make when they become part of the larger ritual of Tigerband; it is a voluntary or liminoid ritual that allows members to deal with the excess parts of their own personalities and individuality while fully embracing, though at times parodying, their inherited identity and image as members of the LSU Band. Through the use of performative writings combined with more traditional ethnographic field reports and descriptions/interpretations, this thesis strives to give voice to the tensions felt within the rituals of Tigerband and ΦBr, the tension of representation within ethnographic study, and the tension of creative experimentation within academic writing. Throughout the study, I use the metaphor of "audiation" to experiment with representing ethnographic experience and knowledge. Audiation is the practice of thinking and comprehending music with your mind, and it functions as a pedagogical tool for creating and remembering sound. Metaphorically, audiation illustrates an action that requires both memory and creativity; a process that gives sound/motion to a sounding/action by re-creating it in the mind. These audiations provide a forum for both the traditional and the inventive to resonate within the context of an ethnographic exploration of the performance of ΦBr.
Causey, Andrew Michael, "Audiating the LSU drumline: an ethnographic performance" (2004). LSU Master's Theses. 744.


Of what kind is the world that surrounds us? Where are we located? And which are the extensions of our physical shape?
Digital Bodies shows explorations, journeys and trips to distinct realities. The art videos and experimental films deal with environments – existing ones, familiar or far away, fictional, or places of the past. The protagonists are captured in a multi-facetted world and create a connection between real eyes, human flesh and digital bodies in digital films. 2013-2016. Curated by Alisa Berger.
Thursday, April 14, 2016: 6:00 p.m.
Friday, April 15, 2016: 7.30 p.m.
Saturday, April 16, 2016: 7.30 p.m.
Sunday, April 17, 2016: 6.00 p.m.
'Desert Miracles' is a cinematic exploration of a commercialized architecture of desire. Across 22 different tableaus the film meditates upon the interiors of Nevada's wedding chapels, considering how the excessive scenery opens up to constitute a cultural organisation of "Love". A woman's' voice is heard reading out an ambiguous letter to an unknown lover in which she finds herself troubled by the challenges of modern relationships, unable to negotiate a balance between self-fulfilment and optimization.
The text is based on anonymous posts by different women in various internet wedding forums.
One fictional female character is composed out of many assembled perspectives on desire, relationships and social expectation.
Window Shopping ll indicates and captures subtle notions of cultural and social conventions in the realm of public showcases. Diverse fragments of public displays in Tehran (an Eastern City) and Cologne (a Western City) are comparatively observed through a rhythmic montage. Window Shopping ll is a twofold essay on cultural and personal identities, in between the public notion of east and west. The film also evokes the personal narration of a journey. Merely through the tandem images of windows, the film calls into question the personal perception of a culture in relation to one's identity. Clothing items, mannequins, lighting and backdrop, as well as the supposed viewer position of each window reveals characteristics of the two cities accordingly.
Furthermore, the relationship of each culture to aesthetics, gender and consumerism is present. The film reflects on conception of public or private, East and West, gender, as well as personal and cultural identity.
Who is the evil? Is it me? Or you? The other?
Interweaving documentary images from the two matrilineal tribes of the Moshu (China) and the Kuna (Panama) this film connects alleged female societies from continent to continent. The link between these two worlds is the filmmaker herself, trying to cope with the otherness of what is seen and the strangeness of the inner experience.
The single channel video STICK IT combines television footage of women's gymnastics with recordings of myself attempting the same routines. Merging myself and the young gymnasts of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta into one composite character, I enter an ambivalent position between envy, identification, rejection and critique of these highly controlled bodies and their restricted performative roles. The video follows the preparation and execution of a floor routine, suspending the marginal moment right before the action, encapsulating ambition, the pressure to succeed and the looming possibility of failure.
The video Inland Freaks explores the particular atmosphere of family relationships. Oscillating between intimacy and distance, brother and sister trust each other just enough to be honest, demanding and unfair to each other. They want to confess to each other that they are not human and that they have known this about each other all along, but they don´t know how to start. By collaging fragments of authentic dialogue with scripted fictional elements the boundaries of what is real and what isn't become blurred.
The melodramatic encounter takes place somewhere in space, but the illusion of a three dimensional space is constantly disturbed by the camera zooming in on the surfaces of objects and bodies. Nothing stays the same—both the bodies and the environment they inhabit perpetually implode and explode into one another.
The film "Rest in Me" describes an everyday routine oscillating between devotion and surrender. Malz's rapid rhythmic montage of found footage from feature films from over the last twenty-five years chronicles in visual terms the increasing outsourcing of physical presence in favour of virtual identity. What began as the opening up of the world through the internet has mutated into an increasingly comprehensive encryption and surveillance of the individual subject.
For the project Polarflux Sebastian Thewes was concerned with the topics landscape, wilderness and nature and our relationship to it and the way we are picturing and documenting it.
Sebastian Thewes traveled to the polar region in the northern Scandinavia to collect photographs and audiorecordings from the unique landscape of the region above the polarcircle.
Awakening is an ongoing hybrid piece at the border between happening, internet art, installation, staged documentary and performance, trying to blur the line between artistic action and real experience. In the videoloop Awakening I, the origin of the piece as a whole, we use texts from pop-songs and photographs that we found online. The call to personal enlightenment consists of quotations such as "You can see clearly now", "the rain is gone", "Come as you are", which seem to be translated live into sign language. By merging pop-cultural elements and new-age aesthetics, a new functional and perhaps ironic layer of narration is created.
In the pulsating metropolis of Berlin, the artist Britta Thie and two of her friends paint the portrait of artists inspired by the development of digital technology. The series examines how the Internet has become a natural working environment over the past years and how it has changed human interaction. Nowadays, communication and creation are inherent to digital devices which change our intimacy and emotions. With her friends, Thie questions ironically the consequences of this world stimulated by social networks and unending updates.
Britta Thie produzierte zuletzt für die Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt die autobiografische Webseries "Translantics" und führte sie als Einzelausstellung im Kunstverein Göttingen installativ weiter. "Translantics" wurde als Portrait einer selbstbezogenen Kreativgeneration kontrovers diskutiert und zu Festivals in u.a. New York, Paris und Berlin eingeladen.
Friday, April 15, 2016: 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 16, 2016: 4:30 p.m.
Produced by Artists' Association MUU, Performance Voyage 6 is a series of international video performances that will have its world premiere at the Finnish Institute in Stockholm from 11 March to 9 April 2016. The show comprises 17 works by 17 artists or groups. Performance Voyage 6 has three facets – the exhibition, a world tour, and a DVD publication. The works were selected by a jury composed of Annette Arlander (artist and professor), Juha-Heikki Tihinen (curator, Pro Artibus Foundation) and Timo Soppela (director, MUU).
The selection of works in the series attests to the many ways in which performance art can make us see things with new eyes, sensitise us to perceive change and meaning. In the shorter works, a state of affairs changes into something different and evokes a sense of wonder, in the longer pieces new worlds open up more slowly, with the viewer sharing the same time and pace with the work. The selection reflects diversity and future visions in wildly different ways.
After the exhibition, Performance Voyage 6 will go in a world tour that covers several countries including Germany, Italy and the United States. In 2016, the Performance Voyage 6 compilation will be presented internationally in 15 different locations, including Scandinavia, Continental Europe and Canada.
PERFORMANCE VOYAGE SINCE 2011 – The Performance Voyage project was launched in 2011 as an ancillary event of the Amorph! festival. Since then it has become a staple part of the annual project operations of MUU, and it has increased in prominence every year. The purpose of the Performance Voyage project is to record and document transitory performances and thereby to extend their life also beyond the moment itself.
Montreal-based artist Caroline Blais studied cinema, graphic design and languages in Montreal and Lapland. Her art practice situates itself at the intersection of art and graphic design, often shown in the public space. She gets inspired by the everyday life, people she meets and travelling in unfamiliar places.
Ball Don't Lie is the representation of a contemporary oracle. Questions about the future are made. Ball answers to them.
Roberto Fassone lives and works in Florence, Italy. Part of his research focuses on making simple artworks that can be explained in few words. The other part of his research consists on explaining how to make these type of artworks, but it is impossible to describe it in few words.
A film by Andrew de Freitas is scored by Hidrogenesse, and filmed in Hội An, Vietnam.
Andrew de Freitas uses a wide range of tools and production processes in order to explore the peculiarities embedded in everyday experiences. His activities often reconfigure the materials and information surrounding existing situations so that our relationship with otherwise familiar objects, events and situations is altered or challenged. He studied art and philosophy in his hometown of Auckland, New Zealand, as well as in Canada and later in Frankfurt am Main as a student of Simon Starling and Peter Fischli. Currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.
James Duesing is an animator and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His animations have evolved from hand drawn and early digital forms to 3D and motion capture.
The moment of now – Henri and his endless search. When is the right moment and how can one recognize it?
Time, space, rhythm, and being present.
Henri Hütt is an artist/performer who values hybrid connections in arts. He formed Distant Artist position before the popular Nothingness trend and deals with the introvert exotics of "not"-polarities. During past years he has been intensively focused on concepts as "Staged exhibition" ; "Absent theatre" and "Pre- and Post-performative variations" (in its widest sense) Vanity and ambition forces him to move towards his dream and while doing that, he is constantly creating work for himself.
When not working at a full time job, raising his young children or researching genocide, Winnipeg based video artist Rick Fisher makes videos over extended periods of time. After undergraduate art school, he worked underground in a mine for ten years. He subsequently worked at video artist run centers on the Canadian prairies for twenty years. His artwork has manly elegance as he explores themes of humanity and darkness.
Don Rice is a digital media artist based in Winnipeg. Rice has created work in the mediums of video, world wide web, print, audio, cd rom, performance and photography. The main body of his work is in video, mainly with fellow prairie artist Rick Fisher.
How do computer algorithms used in face detection applications on smartphones, Facebook and Google actually know what a face is? They learn it from faces datasets that were solely created to train these programs. From the program's perspective these portraits are so to speak the blueprint for all our faces. In the video «Double Make-Up» Stefan Hurtig uses these databases' pictures along with other visualization imagery as a backdrop for a video performance. Being inspired from Bruce Nauman's 1967 video «Art Make-Up» the artist applies various camouflage patterns to his skin. As the video proceeds he gradually erases his own image from the screen.
Stefan Hurtig a video artist based in Leipzig and Berlin. Hurtig's video performances and installations fathom the influence of digital image culture on our conception of the self. Methods of sampling, remixing and reenacting images, language and text characterize this interdisciplinary approach.
A line parallel to the horizon is coming out of the mist. It is getting closer and closer into view. The boundary between the visible and the invisible is becoming tangible, like a line you can grasp and take homeward.
Linda Lenssen is an artist based in Oirlo, The Netherlands. In her works, she departs from her fascination for concepts like 'fulness' and 'presence'. The desire to attain these matters can never be met and always remains at a distance. Her works can be seen as moments in which the principle of the difference is solved and we can forget ourselves for a moment.
A satirical film told through the perspective of a religious fundamentalist. All of mankind is punished with a great flood except for one old man with a boat full of zoo animals. Religion plays a key role in climate change denial.
Michael Mallis currently lives and works in New York City. His work has been shown at festivals and art galleries throughout the world.
With the hand stretched out the artist is holding a smartphone in front of her face. The smartspone is turned on "App-of-existence-camera-mode": usually the smartphone camera would show the artists face. This time not. The "app of existence" makes the user disappear to offer him or her a break of nothingness in the middle of the high flood of digital images.
Johanna Reich is an artist living and working in Cologne, Germany.
The video is a loud scream in the deafness of a country which hasn't taken any law against homophobia and transphobia attacks or discrimination for sexual orientation and gender identity yet. Roberta Orlando develops her artistic research through video, photography, performance and sound. A big part of her works is dedicated to social, cultural, environmental and political issues, human rights and equality in particular. She works with visual and performative arts in Europe and USA.
In Kukkuu a construction worker builds a high-speed forest in the corner of a white room, and finally becomes part of the landscape.
Pia Sirén is a Finnish artist working mainly with sculpture and installations. She builds vast spatial landscapes using common construction materials.
"Feedback: I<3U" is time lapse footage of an online meta-performance held on Instagram. Skorpio posted screen captures of his profile page's image grid recursively, until the images appeared as grey blocks. He lost at least 3 followers during the process. Niko Skorpio works mainly with sound, video, photography and miscellaneous stuff and activity. He has previously worked in graphic design and experimental music.
"O" is a part of Not Ready Yet project of 2012, a collaboration between Willem Wilhelmus and Tomasz Szrama. "O" pictures a full cyclus in twelve phases.
SADNESS IS AN EVIL GAS INSIDE OF ME is an absence of present, set in a future that holds an infinite potential for manifold pasts, pasts that show through the subconscious that determines the objects and spaces that shape this ambiguous future: escalators, pastries, parking lots, microwavable popcorn, highways, deserts and shopping malls.
The series offers little of the spectacle typically inherent to its form. There is almost no spoken dialogue, unless it is for instance part of a commercial break that has managed to bleed into the fabric of the video piece. Instead, a set of disembodied voices leads us through mysterious events with quicksilver charm. "A single moment of true sadness connects you instantly to all the suffering in the world," one of the voices quotes Chris Kraus. Yet in a tomorrow that might as well still get cancelled due to lack of demand, the hungry bodies that populate it avoid conventional interaction. Connections are appropriately interior in a world of surfaces.
In SADNESS IS AN EVIL GAS INSIDE OF ME, Stine Omar and Max Boss use video as its own form of writing, where images juxtapose, irritate and enhance the spoken word; where the unsayable finds shape and expression. It is a soap opera in the guise of an essay film, or an essay film in soap opera drag. Its main characters are in a constant state of transition, from Mersad towards Yung Corn and from Holidays Bossi to Max, their distant bodies moving rhythmically in isolation. It is an introvert's soap opera, where conflict, drama and romance aren't acted out but instead reflect in the brain like the after image of a strobe light.
Stine Omar and Max Boss are Berlin-based artists creating under the name of Easterjesus Productions. Their sonic identity is bolstered by a playfully clinical visual language – their numerous self-directed music videos show the sophisticated DIY aesthetic they have crafted, equally suitable for laptop screens as in white cubes.
Sunday, April 17, 2016: 3.30 p.m.


("A Proportional Response") Charlie rapidly demonstrates a fearlessness whether it's guarding a man a foot taller than him on the basketball court ("The Crackpots and These Women"), defusing a situation and defending Zoey at a bar ("Mr.Willis of Ohio") or standing up to various influential people who want to get into the Oval Office.
He has not only been a prolific actor but his dancing is commendable as well.
He belongs to the ethnicity black and nationality American.
He is a tall man as he has a good height of 1.78 meters.
Because of this, he was the target of an assassination attempt by a white supremacist group at the end of Season 1.
He and Zoey later broke up, though he often professed his love for her, much to her chagrin (and secret delight).
C., but later said that he would have preferred to go to Gonzaga High, a Catholic school with a better academic reputation and a comparatively crime-free history.
Though he had high grades at school, Charlie decided not to go to college until Deena finished school.
The names of his parents are Bertholomu Hillshire and Jennifer Hillshire and they must be very proud of what their son has achieved in his career. He was dating his girlfriend Nicole Lyn before the couple decided to convert their alleged affair into a marital relationship and got married to live as husband and wife.
The couple got married in the year 2004 but sadly they could not take their relationship forever and because of this reason it ended in a divorce. It does not seem like he has children but this does not means he is gay at all.
He has a very impressive 50.7 thousand followers in Instagram and he is fond of uploading his pictures in the site to share them with his fans and loved ones.
He has already posted in the site more than 350 times and this proves how engaged he has been.
He has been a masterpiece in all of his roles in TV shows and movies. Lee in a movie called Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood in the year 1988 and this can be taken as his debut role.
The Palm Bach Post reported Judge Ted Booras ordered de Lesseps released without bond.
He became successful in the modeling community and soon began auditioning for acting roles.


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BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin returned to the safety of the International Space Station's Pirs airlock compartment Friday after a trouble-free spacewalk, setting a new Russian endurance record with a seven-hour 29-minute excursion.
The cosmonauts ran ahead of schedule most of the day, successfully unreeling and routing two long power lines and an ethernet cable along the outside of the Zarya storage module that will be connected to the new Nauka laboratory after its arrival next year.
Misurkin also mounted a space exposure experiment pallet on a handrail outside the upper Poisk module.
The cosmonauts extended a telescoping space crane early on to help move large cable reels from Pirs to Zarya. They originally planned to leave the Strela 1 boom extended, but flight controllers opted to lengthen the spacewalk to give the cosmonauts time to retract it.
The spacewalk began at 10:36 a.m. (GMT-4; time revised by Russian mission control) and ended at 6:05 p.m. when the Pirs airlock hatch was closed.
The seven-hour 29-minute duration set a new Russian spacewalk record, eclipsing the old mark of seven hours and 16 minutes set by two cosmonauts outside the Mir space station in July 1990. Two NASA astronauts hold the record for longest spacewalk ever conducted, a marathon eight-hour 56-minute excursion in 2001.
Today's EVA was the 172nd devoted to station assembly and maintenance since construction began in 1998, the sixth so far this year, the seventh for Yurchikhin and the second for Misurkin. Today's EVA pushed Yurchikhin's total time outside to 45 hours and 55 minutes, moving him up to 12th on the list of most experienced spacewalkers.
As it now stands, 112 astronauts and cosmonauts representing nine nations have logged 1,082 hours and 51 minutes of ISS EVA time -- 45.1 days -- building and servicing the space station.
The next major assembly task will be attachment of the Nauka -- "science" -- multi-purpose laboratory module.
The Russians originally planned to launch the MLM aboard a Proton rocket at the end of the year, but officials say the flight is expected to slip several months into the spring of 2014.
During the past several spacewalks, astronauts and cosmonauts have been installing cables and attachment fittings needed to route power and data to and from the new module, which will replace the Pirs airlock and docking compartment.
The Russians eventually plan to launch a multi-hatch node that will be attached to Nauka's Earth-facing end, providing additional ports and the attachment point for a Russian solar power module that will extend to the right side of the space station.
Yurchikhin and Misurkin plan to venture back outside next Thursday to install a telescope mounting platform and to remove docking components from Pirs.


Robinson said the event was also organized to help educate people on what they can do to protect the environment.
The event featured live entertainment and about 50 vendors, including Penn State and State College-area organizations.
A group of students from the State College Area School District Delta Program were also on hand to help with cleanup and facilitate projects such as poetry writing, face painting and making crafts from recycled material.
Sophomore Walter Keiler said he helped pick up trash from the event downtown. He then assisted people who wanted to try their hand at writing poetry inspired by the surroundings.
"At school, they require us to do community service, so this was a good cause to help out at," he said.
Keiler said the school makes it mandatory for each student to complete 30 hours of community service each school year.
Classmates Alice Hamilton and Helen Grace Hoffman, both sophomores, and junior Emma Galley also said they were able to check off community service hours and see firsthand some things they learned in the classroom.
"This kind of stuff comes up in science, but it's nice to see how the community is doing their part," Hamilton said about climate change and taking care of the Earth.
She was also encouraged by her mother, Nancy Hamilton, to tag along. As a hobby, Nancy Hamilton creates art from recycled goods, and had set up an arts and crafts booth on Fraser Street for the event.
Her booth encouraged visitors to make collages from old magazine clips and make magnets from bottle tops.
"It's simple and easy things you can make and they're not going in the garbage and landfill," Nancy Hamilton said.


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Right here goes...this has been a hot topic on everybody's lips this last few months after drowning in plastic was shown on The BBC and then closely followed by Stacy Dooleys Fashions Dirty Secrets. What can i say!! it is not something we don't already know but after watching you realise the facts and figures are getting alarmingly real and we really do need to up our game in order to save our planet...at least for a little while longer as i think that we have done enough of a job on it to ensure its finality.
So what can we do?.. well for starters you can look at your plastic use in your home namely your bathroom and your kitchen. Swap out shampoo in bottles for shampoo bars the same goes for bottles and tubes of shower gel...ditch it and go back to a good old fashioned bar which have of course had a modern overhaul, i get mine form either Lush or check out the fab range at The Alternative stores in Benton and on-line www.alternatvestores.com all packed full of natural ingredients and fully vegan of course so you are doing your bit for our earth in more ways than one.
Look around your kitchen and check out your recycling to see what you throw away and really think about whether you actually needed it in the first place, think about what you are putting in your trolley in the supermarket...do you really need to buy the ready vac packed broccoli or could you just pop it naked in your basket? check out if there are any zero packaging shops near you so you can stock up on pantry essentials like nuts, flours, seeds etc by the kilo and buy veg boxes from places like Riverford or check to see if your local greengrocers deliver boxes for you i know our local whitley bay grocers Tom Owens does and he has gone back to using paper bags instead of plastic bags... so high five there Tom, rather than use cling film you can get wax covers and silicon stretch over covers too to keep foods fresh in your fridge...in other words every time you have a piece of plastic in your hand think is this necessary? and is there and alternative?
When out shopping or eating in cafes check out there ethos as so many establishments produce so much waste in this world not just plastic but also rubbish in general which also ends up in our seas, the more you do for the earth the better you will feel about the impact you have on this earth and the more it spreads out until it is not even something you think about anymore it is just something that you do. Here at pulp fiction we try to be as eco friendly as possible we..
Use Too good to Go... an app to save food being wasted at the end of our day.
Offer free water bottle filling up, part of an initiative with Northumbrian water.
We recycle all plastics we are able to along with glass, paper and cardboard.
One great thing about living here at the cast is that we have a fantastic community of people doing their best to save our oceans including Driftwood Life, surfers against sewerage, The sea shepherds and so many more..... check them out and see what you can do to help out within your local community.
Keep an eye out on our events page as we will soon be announcing a night with Driftwood Life for the New Year..challenging you to live for 30 days plastic free, he evening will be to answer questions and get help in areas that you are finding difficult to make that switch as well as meeting like minded folk with fab ideas to swap...kinda like a plastic free self help group Lol.
Hey! My name is Holly Johnson and I am very excited about starting to write a few guest pieces for PulpFiction! I am currently working towards my Level Three Nutritionist qualification and am a fully qualified special needs teacher. I have a passion for health and fitness and being diagnosed with coeliac since age of nine I have always been very interested in how food effects everything we do.
Recently I went to Pulp Fiction to find out more about the fascinating relationship between diet and the wondrous world of our gut. The evening consisted of good company good food and good tea, which in my book can not get better. The food made for us by Paula the owner of Pulp Fiction. It was made especially to be 'gut' beneficial to help us understand what is good for our gut. It also showed us that Paula can make the most wonderful tasty gut friendly food in front of our eyes! The Pharmacy series which are being held at Pulp Fiction are insightful, creative and learning evenings where you can meet like minded people talk about what you know what they know and learn about your body.
Red Aert signs for a unproductive gut!
These are the hallmark symptoms of gut dysfunction. In large, this is due to the health; both number and diversity, of the bacteria living inside your gut, intestines, stomach and colon.
Scientists have found that gut bacteria actually secretes special proteins that are similar to hunger-regulating hormones; leptin and ghrelin. These proteins affect both our food cravings and mood.
Chronic bad breath is called halitosis. In most circumstances, halitosis stems from odor-inducing microbes that reside in between your teeth and gums, and on your tongue. It can also be caused by bacteria linked to gum disease.
If you suffer from food intolerances such as gluten or dairy, this is almost always a result of leaky gut. The gut barrier is your gatekeeper that decides what gets in and what stays out.
Part of the reason micronutrient deficiencies affect mental health is because of compromised gut function. Even if a person with mental heath associated issues did have access to appropriate nutrition or levels of micronutrients, a leaky gut may mean they are unable to absorb them.
A common sign of food intolerance is eczema. Take a look at this article on what's driving your eczema which investigates the link between the health of your microbes and eczema conditions.
Research is now showing the health of your microbiota can give clues as to whether or not you have type two diabetes. Recently, four Russian researchers studied differences in the changes in the microbes of the large intestine, reporting their findings on the link between gut bacteria and type two diabetes in the journal of Endocrinology Connections.
An increasing amount of research has linked gut health to disease and wellbeing, whether it's digestion, immunity, mood or even metabolism. Our microbiota (the trillions of bacteria in our gut) has such complex, specific functions in the body, it's sometimes referred to as an organ in itself. Furthermore, we know we can affect our microbiota and the health of our gut via the food we eat. The gut microbiome refers to all of the microbes in your intestines, which act as another organ that's crucial for your health.
Humans have evolved to live with microbes for millions of years. During this time, microbes have learned to play very important roles in the human body. In fact, without the gut microbiome, it would be very difficult to survive. The gut microbiome affects the body from birth and throughout life by controlling the digestion of food, immune system, central nervous system and other bodily processes. Eating a wide variety of high-fiber and fermented foods supports a healthy microbiome. Taking probiotics and limiting antibiotics can also be beneficial.
People forget the simple, basic things which effect our gut and digestion. For example, three healthy, balanced meals per day; not eating when stressed; not drinking loads of coffee. These small simple changes can make a huge difference to the workings of your gut. Dietary advice is completely individual and there is no "one size fits all" fix. Just because it works for Joyce next door, doesn't mean it will work for you!
Top tips for your diet.
• Eat a diverse range of foods: This can lead to a diverse microbiome, which is an indicator of good gut health. In particular, legumes, beans and fruit contain lots of fiber and can promote the growth of healthy Bifidobacteria.
• Eat fermented foods: Fermented foods such as yogurt, sauerkraut and kefir all contain healthy bacteria, mainly Lactobacilli, and can reduce the amount of disease-causing species in the gut.
• Limit your intake of artificial sweeteners: Some evidence has shown that artificial sweeteners like aspartame increase blood sugar by stimulating the growth of unhealthy bacteria like Enterobacteriaceae in the gut microbiome.
• Eat prebiotic foods: Prebiotics are a type of fiber that stimulates the growth of healthy bacteria. Prebiotic-rich foods include artichokes, bananas, asparagus, oats and apples.
• Eat whole grains: Whole grains contain lots of fiber and beneficial carbs like beta-glucan, which are digested by gut bacteria to benefit weight, cancer risk, diabetes and other disorders.
• Try a plant-based diet: Vegetarian diets may help reduce levels of disease-causing bacteria such as E. coli, as well as inflammation and cholesterol.
Your gut microbiome is made up of trillions of bacteria, fungi and other microbes. The gut microbiome plays a very important role in your health by helping control digestion and benefiting your immune system and many other aspects of health. An imbalance of unhealthy and healthy microbes in the intestines may contribute to weight gain, high blood sugar, high cholesterol and other disorders. To help support the growth of healthy microbes in your gut, eat a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and fermented foods. Make sure you give yourself time to eat without television or your phone constantly giving you distractions. Gut health is important. There is no escaping that! Look after yourself you are the most important person in your life!
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Hi guys, my name is Isabelle and i work here at Pulp Fiction. So i will tell you a little about myself so you can get to know me a little.
So you are probably wondering what is this all about? Well, I am passionate about people. Specifically people being happy and feeling good in their skin. I firmly believe that feeling good starts from within.
We all know the saying 'you are what you eat' However I believe that there is way more to it than that. Let's put it this way ; when you eat good food, within the first few days you will notice a change. Your skin cells etc regenerate every month or so. This is how you feel the positive effects so fast. We all know that when our bodies feel good from the inside, we feel good on the outside. And then we in turn feel happier and more positive.
When you start giving back to your body and you start looking after it, you will feel the rewards! Because your body is thanking you. These are just baby steps, when you start eating healthy and taking care of your body, you will learn to love yourself and truly respect yourself and take care of yourself. Which not many people do. Happiness starts with you, It starts with loving yourself. And like i mentioned above i am passionate about people's happiness.
If you don't know where to start and you are confused or you are thinking 'how the hell am i supposed to make healthy food that tastes as good as a cheeseburger' come and visit us! We can tell you all about it and how easy it is! You don't need to spend hours in the kitchen or eat letuce for the rest of your life!
Well after a whirlwind few weeks since our festive break in Brighton i finally get to sit down and tell you all about it... first of all for those not in the know Brighton is packed with a plethora of vegetarian/vegan restaurants and believe me i wanted to try them all but time was of an essence and due to it being over Xmas and new year some of the places were closed for a few days so i did my research and had a little list of must go to places...most were for evening dining which we seem to lack here in the North East, don't get me wrong we do have choice within omni restaurants and there are a few vegetarian places open on evenings but we do lack some real grown up fine dining experiences serving up works of art on a plate with a flavour bursting menu to choose from.
MThe Month of december is all about go go go... shopping, meeting friends and family, doing seasonal activities such as ice skating, pantomimes, ferrying kids to christmas parties, picking teenagers up at all hours from xmas parties, cooking, cleaning, decorating ....need i go on? thought not. Here is the first of my recipe ideas that are tried and tested out in the cafe. Thought i would keep it simple with a raw no cook recipe that you can make at home with the kids or knock up in the morning for your busy day ahead. We make and sell power balls from pulp fiction and they are so simple...but if you like the sound and have no inclination to make yourself dont worry as they can be bought from us every day or why not pop over to our Made to Order Page and order a whole batch made fresh just for you.
Power balls are a perfect go to snack for those on the run, packed wit loads of energy using a base of Medjool dates and nuts then you can just add what you want, thought i would give you the run down on my christmas power balls being that time of year.
Something to roll in...coconut, chia seeds, poppyseeds, raw cacao or acaiberry powder.
Place the nuts in a processor and pulse for a minute then add everything else except the syrup and turn on processor then when it starts to get mixed drizzle in the maple until the nmixture starts to ball together, you may not need all the maple it all depends on how seet you eant them and how moist your dates are. When done remove from bowl and roll into balls that weight around 35g each and roll in your desired coating.
gifts at xmas...easy for children to make with no bake but maximum satisfaction.
I am sitting in my little cafe now on a Saturday with not a soul in...on a SATURDAY and it is small business Saturday at that, people are out and about on the street laden down with bags of shopping with gifts galore for family friends buying outfits for nights out. Not our quietest Saturday as looking back over the books we took half of what we have taken today this time last year ...but it does make you feel a little deflated non the less. Luckily i am not a crazy spender at christmas buying sensibly for my nearest and dearest, i shop within my limits to ensure i dont have hefty bills coming in.. and with quite days like this you worry about paying staff, electric bills so worrying about what i am going to buy at xmas is defo a no no for me. My mind often wanders at this time of year thinking about those whom will be alone or homeless, people with no work and finding it hard to even put food on the table never mind buying gifts so on the other hand i do feel very lucky indeed...even though i do get paid way less than the minimum wage. December is a troubling time for many out there so dont forget to look after you with simple things like diet and wellbeing, instead of buying 3 for one at boots or buying into all those deals on things that people dont even need in their life why not pick up vouchers for holistic treatments for your loved ones or a block booking of yoga sessions or even encourage those that are always talking about sorting their diet out to a health on a Plate course... which Julia Ebbens Health Coach shall be running very shortly from Pulp Fiction (details will be reveiled soon). We also sell gift vouchers to come and dine in our cafe and we also run our very own Pulp Fiction Pharmacy that you could book friends onto as a special gift... a gift of giving.
A lot of local holistic centres... i recommend Cloud 9 in cullercoats... have a range of life enhancing gifts for sale too... crystals, salt lamps, natural homemade beauty products and candles. So not only will you be supporting local but you will also be giving a useful gift which believe me when the real stresses and strains hit in January when bills come in, when the big clean down comes and you get time to stop and actually think about what the whole thing has all been about that is when a gift meant for you...truely just for you to indulge your mind body and soul will be very much appreciated. So i guess what i am trying to say is take time out for you and if you cant do that then give gifts that enhance the wellbeing of others...hoping they get the hint and return that favour next year.
No by healthy advent i dont mean that we will be opening little doors to reveal a healthy food item and fact about said item.....instead we will be opening our door to you and inviting you try one of our healthy options for half price every day...be it a salad, curry, clean treat or a life enhancing hot or cold drink from or very tasty menu.
December is of course a time for most to celebrate and most over indulge with the excuse that "its christmas" forgetting that our bodies are not used to consuming all that alchohol, rich food and of course chocolate so get overloaded and become ill. So this month we are going to promote healthy eating now rather than in January when it is too late.
 The season to be jolly soon turns sour when you have that banging headache after your works night out so why not prepare beforehand and make sure that you dont go out on an empty stomach, try drinking water alongside your wine while drinking and dont forget that your body takes 1 hour to process 1 unit of alcohol so if you are at work the next day set yourself a time limit have your last drink so that the process can begin before you go to bed... you may just be thankful in the morning. Start the day with a Pulp Fiction Juice... we open at 8.30am so perfect time to call in en route to work and grab one of our Soothers which is a slow pressed juice with... grapefruit to restore your electrolite balance to stop you becoming dehydrated and replenishes lost vitamins caused by drinking alcohol, Red cabbage...listen to the ancient greeks as they were the first to do this, cabbage clears the body of congeners (my memories as a cocktail bar manager are coming flooding back) which are toxic by products of the fermentaion process which give us a hangover in the first place so red cabbage is always a good place to start, Red apple helps with your blood sugar levels which drop drastically after alcohol consumption and parsnips which have many benefits including helping to aid gut health and lets face it all that alcohol and rich food cant be doing your gut that much good now can it. When they are all juiced together it makes a perfect hangover cure... so lets start the season as we mean to go on... Eat well...live life to the max and be happy. Oh and dont forget to follow our instagram, facebook and twitter posts to the daily healty advent deal.. helping you help yourself.


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I love the idea of being organized. I REALLY want to be organized. In fact...I'm great at organizing, but it falls apart when things get busy. So this year I'm vowing to STAY organized.
So I'm joining my sweet friends in kicking off the New Year.
First off I thought I'd show you all how I organize my library. Here is a picture of my library in its entirety.
Each of my baskets is labeled by theme.
Each of my books has a sticker inside that matches my labels. This way students can put the books back in the proper basket.
Each of my books is also leveled using a rainbow I created.
The level is then marked on the sticker on the front of the book.
If you check out the bucket above. You can see a blue and purple square. That lets my kiddos know that the books in that bucket are all blue and purple.
My students get to pick their "rainbow books" or "just right" books for their Reader's Workshop book boxes.
Next up...Planners. Who doesn't love a little Erin Condren in their life? I have the life planner at home, the teacher planner and the desk calendar. Here is my desk.
My teacher planner stays on by guided reading table. We all know, know first grade teacher ever really sits at their desk, until the end of the day.
Speaking of my guided reading table. I put drawers underneath to keep all of my guided reading tools and extra pens, dry erase, etc. I also have the Ikea shelves behind me to put my books and other supplies.
I also love a good primary colored tub for organization. Here are my math manipulatives.
Here are my centers and art supplies.
I also love a good binder. Here is my teacher binder. It holds all my week to week craziness.
I also love organization at home. Although with 3 boys (one big, two littles)...it lasts for about 5 seconds. So I won't even show you my disorganized organization at home.
But I do have goals!
So instead I'll just share where I get my inspiration. I love these blogs.
Hop over to Hope's blog to get some inspiration and win some great items!
Michelle, you are truly an inspiration! I just love how colorful and organized your room looks. I need to get some of those bins and get cracking in the New Year :) I am just thrilled to be your newest follower!! Thanks for sharing your FABULOUS ideas!
We know what your super power is!! Everything looks fabulous! Your cleared off reading table is amazing. My always has piles-one on my left and one on my right. I love the idea of rolling cards under them. Maybe you have the solution to my piles!
Thanks for the great tips! I love when I see things I already do...but better. :) Inspiring for the new year!
Oh lord, you put my organization to SHAME! You should have professional developments to teach us all this stuff!
LOVE the drawers under your reading table! May need to try that!! And the stools just make me smile--bet your kiddos love them!
I completely envy your classroom! I cannot wait for a classroom of my own so I can organize too!
Your classroom is simply gorgeous!
Is there anyway you would share your lesson plan template? I wouldn't have a clue how to set one of those up.


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I am asking this question in regards to 1 Corinthians 6:14, to those Masons here who are active Christians who are avid Bible readers. I am very drawn to Freemasonry and I don't share the common Christian beliefs that Freemasonry is into evil stuff like Satan worship. I believe that it would be a good thing for me. However, in Freemasonry I would be sharing membership with people of many other faiths. On the other hand, I am pondering the actual context of the Bible verse at hand. It speaks of being "yoked" which symbolically means "teachings." I wouldn't be yoked in the sense that Freemasonry would take precedence over my own beliefs. And if yoked means teachings, then that would mean that a yoke is something altogether different and apart from an oath of membership, correct?
From my perspective, I think you've come to the wrong place to ask your question.
Freemasonry does not interpose itself between a Freemason and his religious beliefs, nor does it attempt to interpret meanings of Bible passages. I suspect that you would be better served finding a Christian discussion forum or even batter speaking to your Priest, Vicar or Pastor for his or her advice.
Welcome and thank you for your question. While this is not the place for a discussion of religion, I will try to answer your question as a Christian who is also a Mason.
First off, not to be picky, but I think you are meaning 2nd Corinthians VI:14, which talks about not allowing yourself to be unequally yoked to unbelievers.
I am not a great theologian and am, frankly, somewhat skeptical of some claiming to be. Nonetheless, none of the commentary I have read on this verse centres on 'yoke' equaling 'teaching'. (I would of course be interested in a reference.) To me, the verse can be taken more literally than that, being an admonition about not tying yourself to those with non-Christian values. Marrying a person not of your faith, for instance, brings strain to that relationship and might draw one away from Christianity.
Yet can we take it as across-the-board advice for daily living? It may have been possible 2,000 years ago, for people lived in small groups then. It would have been completely possible for a man or woman to only live among and deal with fellow Christians. Today? I would say that for most of us, no matter how devout, it would be almost impossible. Our society is too homogeneous and our lives too complicated for that. From that, I do not think it possible for us to follow Paul's advice in a complete and total fashion. We can of course keep to the the core of it.
Cutting to the chase - Christians and Freemasonry. First off, in 40 years as a Mason, I have seen nothing which in any way contradicts my Christian faith. Masonry's tenets encourage upright behaviour, treating all people well, being honest, obeying the Creator's commandments and so forth. Such things are entirely consistent with Christianity.
Yes, in lodge, one associates with men of other faiths. Does that violate the observation on 'yokes'? I don't think so, for all are working for the same aim - being a better man. Not a better Christian or a better Jew or a better Muslim (my lodge had all three, and others), but a better man - more charitable, more honest, more loving. It is to me no different than a town council or a university class or pickup softball - you don't have to agree with the other members' religion to be there.
Back to 'teachings'. In the same way that a sports enthusiast might use sports analogies ("It's a home run!") in a lecture or speech, Masonic teachings use a great deal of symbolism and allegory. The square in our square-and-compasses symbol, for instance, serves as a constant reminder that we should treat all men squarely - fairly, ie. The building of King Solomon's temple can be taken as a study in fortitude, devotion and keeping faith in the face of adversity, be it a major project or just a man moving through life. In other words, our teachings are a philosophic system of morality, using symbols and allegory as teaching aids.
If it matters, the actual discussion of religion in any form is banned inside a lodge. Nobody will challenge a Christian's beliefs. We are not obligated to adopt another's faith, merely to accept their faith in it and accept their good will. That does not conflict with Paul, I think.
I personally think that too many people forget that Paul was writing at a time when Christians were relatively small in numbers, were subject to persecution, and under considerable pressure to give up their (at the time) new-found beliefs. Small wonder then, that a great deal of his letters were to do with encouraging his fellow Christians - many who would not have been so secure in their faith as he was, not to give up and be strong in the face of persecution. Is that true today? Maybe for some who's faith is not as strong as they would have you believe, but I don't think that is likely to apply to many -if any, masons; on the contrary, I suspect that we -regardless of the individual's personal faith, are strong in our love of God - however the individual chooses to worship Him.
The decision to join or not is entirely yours. We always encourage the men who are curious about our order to make the decision prayerfully and carefully. In my experience, those who comb scripture for reasons to not join are disposed against joining for other reasons and are really looking for a graceful way out. Cherry picking the Holy Bible allows anybody to find a passage supporting the decision they've already made.
My advice is to look deeper into yourself, pray and contemplate your reasons for and against joining our Fraternity. If you find there is fear, seek understanding. If you find doubt, seek answers. The Fraternity has survived for a very long time and it is my fervent hope that it will continue to florish. We all are men who believe in the teachings of the Grand Architect, whatever name you give Him outside of lodge. I can assure you without hesitation or equivocation that my faith was deepened, not deminished by my experiences in the Craft. The most wonderful part is being in the company of so many good men wherever I travel who feel the same and call me brother.
This is a big decision. Take it not only seriously but honestly.
Very well explained and written Brother John. I agree 100% with your analysis. Great answer.
As a devout Evangelical Christian, I've found no conflicts with my faith and Freemasonry in any way.
I don't know what the religions of my Lodge brothers are because we don't talk about it. And honestly, for the "work" we do, it doesn't matter any more than the faith of the guy who makes your pizza matters. I know that at least one brother is Jewish because when he is at Lodge, we ad Torah to the altar where the Bible already sits. Do I care if the guy who makes my pizza is Jewish? Nah.
I honestly believe my connection to my faith and Bible stories probably gave me a deeper experience with my degrees than some of the other Brethren may have had >IF< they simply view the teachings as symbolic.
I also don't generally advertise that I am a Mason. I never talk about it with my church members because I am aware of potential anti-Mason push back. I also don't talk about church with the Lodge. Neither activity is effected by the other. It's not a secret, but I've just seen no reason to dig my heels in over it.
My wife trusts the man she married, that if I ever see anything in lodge that conflicts with my relationship with God, I'll just leave. My son (26) knows I am a Mason, and at least 2 of my three daughters know (24,20 and 17), but they are so caught up in their own social activities that they have no idea what Masons even do. They just know we get pancakes before we go to church once a month!
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Leica Camera AG announces partnership with Leica Ambassador, Jamie Cullum, at photokina, Cologne.
Leica Camera AG will be making an appearance in Hall 1 at this year's photokina, with a widely varied programme of events, including a unique exhibition concept - the Leica Galerie. The focus of this year's exhibition concept is on impressive photography from the world of music. It embraces all facets of music photography, from concert images and extremely personal artist portraits to reportage photography with exciting glimpses behind the scenes at concerts. In addition, the exhibition will also showcase the work of musicians who have embraced photography as a second passion, such as award winning broadcaster, songwriter and celebrated musician Jamie Cullum.
The exhibition of Jamie's photographs taken during his US tour, will coincide with the release of his upcoming album 'Interlude', featuring Laura Mvula and Gregory Porter, which is released in the UK on 6th October 2014 through Island Records.
The partnership has enabled Jamie to fulfill his passion for photography. Jamie has long been a keen amateur when it comes to capturing a moment in time, using a Leica M Monochrom when on tour. When considering artwork for the album, Jamie turned to his photographer friend Michael Agel of Leica Camera for help. Leica cameras in hand they took advantage of his recent US tour to develop Jamie's skills behind the lens, taking shots of the people and places he encountered along the way, and Michael capturing Jamie, both off and on stage.
Jamie says, "I have been fascinated by photography since rescuing my mum's old camera from the attic as a child. It has been such a privilege to work with Michael and Leica and to share my own photos alongside the new music"
The resulting images, which were taken by Jamie using a Leica M Monochrom and Agel using the Leica T camera system and S-System can be seen on the front cover of Jamie's new album 'Interlude' and in an exclusive photo booklet included in the deluxe version of the album.