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Looking At Pictures — debut of my new novel #ourstoriesmatter #storieseverywhere
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged #Ourstoriesmatter, #StoriesEverywhere, author, Casa Duende, Devise Literary, feminist memoir, Janet Mason, LGBT Authors, LGBT writers, Looking At Pictures, Philadelphia writing teacher, Queer Writers, Tea Leaves a memoir of mothers and daughters, Unitarian Universalist writer, writing teacher on November 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Looking at Pictures is the novel that I spent last winter writing. It gives us a glimpse into the loves and lives of well known artists and ordinary people, both queer and not, all of whom live outside the box. It is a novel influenced by history — it takes place in 1926 — and by the people who lived in that time. Many of the characters are actual artists, including fine art photographers.
This novel was inspired, in large part, by the work that I have been doing with Jeanette Jimenez on the archive of her father Alexander Artway (an architect and photographer who photographed New York City in the 1930s). The archive is extremely interesting and the photographs brilliant!
The first short fiction excerpt –titled Looking At Pictures — of my novel was just published by devise literary and is partially excerpted below. Very shortly after I finished the novel last Spring, I heard from David Acosta (formerly known as Juan David Acosta) who invited me to be one of the readers at his new series at Casa de Duende. The piece that I read was a chapter set in Mexico which features the characters Frida and Tina. The YouTube video, below, includes David's wonderful introduction. If I were to rate this YouTube piece, it is definitely PG-plus. It's called "Ecstasy" and is influenced by lesbian sex, philosophy and LOVE. (A photograph of all the readers is below the YouTube video.)
Fiction: Looking at Pictures
Issue 1.2
by Janet Mason
Tina looked at the image in front of her and wished she still had her camera.
She was walking along the deepwater port looking into the hold of a ship that had backed up to the cement pier. She could see both levels. Initially she assumed that first class was on the top and that steerage was down below. Then she noticed that the people below were almost all women and children. They looked like immigrants from Europe wrapped in their drab shawls and holding their squalling infants. None of them looked up.
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"Ecstasy"@ Casa de Duende:
The readers at Casa de Dunende's queer reading series last Spring at the Da Vinci Art Alliance: (first row — left to right) David Acosta; Susan DiPronio; Lamont Steptoe; (second row – left to right) Cyree Jarelle Johnson; Janet Mason; Thom Nickels; (third row back Maxton Young-Jones.
Many thanks to David Acosta, Artistic Director for Casa de Duende, for bringing us all together!
Save the date — Nov 8th #VoteBlue #NastyWomenVote #VoteHillary
Posted in #VoteBlue, Uncategorized, tagged #DumpTrump, #NastyWomenVote, #NeverTrump, #VoteBlue, @VoteHillary2016, @Vote_Hillary, Feminism, feminist author, Grab Your Pussy and Vote, Hillary, Hillary supporter, LGBT Authors, MadamePresident, Pussy power, Tea Leaves a memoir of mothers and daughters on October 26, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I walked into an art gallery opening in Germantown Philadelphia recently and saw this poster on the wall. There are lots of reasons that I support Hillary — but this poster says it all. So metaphorically or not — grab your pussy — and vote!
As my partner says, "Nasty women are his biggest nightmare!"
In Celebration of Queer: Two Books Testify To The Power Of Difference — in The HuffPost
Posted in Queer, Uncategorized, tagged Australian Drag Queens, author, books, Civil Rights, Death, Drag Queens, Dying Words, Dying Words The AIDS, Feminism, From Darkness to Diva, GLBT, HIV/AIDS, Jeff Schmalz, lgbt, LGBT Authors, New York Times, Queer, Queer Books, Skye High, Times Gay Reporter, writers with HIV on February 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »
"To the queerest person I know."
This is how my childhood best friend signed my high school year book. I am now in my fifties and don't remember that much from high school — that I want to admit to — but I do remember this comment.
She was right. I was different. I read books rather than watching the TV. I followed the news — and in a working class milieu this meant that I was an oddball. Then in my early twenties, I came out as a lesbian-feminist.
It wasn't easy being different when I was a teen in the 1970s. But being different is a good and necessary thing. People who dare to be different make change. As I write in Tea Leaves: a memoir of mothers and daughters, a few of us girls on the elementary school playground hung upside down on the parallel bars in protest of girls not being allowed to wear pants — before the women's movement: "It was 1969. The following year, having learned the power of showing out (almost) bare asses, we were wearing bell bottoms."
I came out in the early eighties. About ten years later, I began hearing the word "queer" in the gay and lesbian community. This was before we had the term LGBT. I had some resistance to the word "Queer" until I talked to a younger friend who embraced the term. She explained to me that "Queer" included everyone that didn't fit the gender and sexual orientation expectations of society. In other words, queer was not heterosexual — or "het," as we said in those days.
We are still figuring out gender. A older friend who is a strong feminist began researching transgender issues when her nephew, who started out life as a niece, transitioned. My friend had some old school feminist notions at first but quickly came around to supporting her nephew whole-heartedly. At one point she said to me, "I've been gender non-conformist my entire life." So my friend (who is a celibate bisexual), her nephew, and I, are all queer.
So I applaud the HuffPost for changing "Gay Voices" to "Queer Voices." Queer recognizes our commonalities — in the fact that we are all different. We are a community and we do have enemies — although that is not the only thing that makes us a community — and there is strength in numbers.
I recently read two books about queerness back to back. One from the other side of the world — is called From Darkness to Diva by Skye High, a leading Australian drag queen. The other, about a man who grew up near me in a neighboring suburb of Philadelphia, is Dying Words: The AIDS Reporting of Jeff Schmalz And How It Transformed The New York Times written by Samuel G. Freedman with Kerry Donahue.
In From Darkness to Diva (O-Books, an imprint of John Hunt Publishing Ltd. in the U.K.) the tall gay man who took Skye High as his drag name writes of his growing up gay and being so badly bullied that he had to leave high school. High writes unflinchingly about the beatings he endured, but also delves into the self examination and spiritual lessons that he experienced. He also writes of the trials and triumphs of finding a gay community and of the liberation he experienced in entering the transformative world of drag.
I was on the journey with him — as someone who was a teen who was bullied (to a lesser degree) and as someone who came of age and found my place in the world. But at no point was I more riveted as when he stood up to a bully in his second high school. He had to leave his first high school because he was bullied and after working several for several years returned to another high school for his degree and was bullied again. High explores how he felt as he eventually stood up to the bully:
"I now had the power over him. I was in control. In that moment, I finally felt vindicated. It was as though my actions would have been justified had I wanted to snap his neck and kill him."
But ultimately he showed mercy on the bully and let him go, explaining that he felt "saddened by the sight of him helplessly lying on the floor."
Dying Words, The AIDS Reporting Of Jeff Schmalz And How It Transformed The New York Times (CUNY Journalism Press) is a moving tribute to Jeff who died at the age of 39. It is arranged in the form of interviews with colleagues, friends, relatives (including his sister the literary agent Wendy Schmalz Wilde) of Jeff's and by the time the book presents his reportage on the AIDS epidemic, the reader feels a kinship with him.
"I think often of the dozen friends who have died of AIDS, and I feel them with me. It's not that I am writing editorials, avenging their deaths. It's that I feel their strength, their soothing me on. They are my conscience, their shadows with me everywhere: In the torchlight of the march. Over my shoulder. By my desk. In my sleep."
Jeff had to break out of the box of the Times impeccable third-person reportage into the finding of his own voice. Participant-journalist doesn't quite describe it, but it comes close.
Former Times colleague Samuel G. Freedman writes eloquently in the foreword about the reasons that he put the book together:
"For a lack of a better term, I felt survivor guilt. And beyond it, I grieved that as the years passed, fewer people would remember who Jeff Schmalz was and what tremendous work he had done."
What impressed me about both books was how different they were — yet universal to the human experience. Who isn't different in some way? In my view, anyone who says they are the same as everyone else is either lying, extremely boring or both.
previously in The Huffington Post
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Therese and Isabelle and Living Large: two books to think about — on This Way Out
Posted in Gay and Lesbian Books, tagged censored books, feminist memoir, fine-art photography, Joseph P. Eckhardt, lesbian artists, lesbian writers, LGBT Authors, lgbt books, lgbt memoir, Living Large: Wilna Hervey and Nan Mason, memoir, The Feminist Press, Therese and Isabelle, Violette Leduc, Woodstock Arts Press on October 13, 2015| Leave a Comment »
This review aired on This Way Out (the international radio show) — click here to listen
(This post originally appeared in The Huffington Post and OpEdNews.com)
Lesbian Author Tackles Edmund White, Gains a Deeper Understanding of the Gay Icon, the Writer, the Human Being
Posted in GLBT Authors, tagged authors, books, Civil Rights, Edmund White, feminist, Gay authors, Gay Books, Gay Rights, Gay Voices News, lgbt, LGBT allies, LGBT Authors, Queer Literature Gay Voices LGBT Queer Studies Gays and Lesbians Queer Sexuality Studies Gay Writers Lesbian News Queer Writers Gay Literature Gay Studies Feminism Lesbian American Literature Gay Righ on May 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I knew about Edmund White as a writer long before I read his books. I knew that he was a gay icon and had written many books, fiction and nonfiction. I knew that he was especially known for his coming of age novel, A Boy's Own Story, written in 1982, around the time that I came out. I knew that he had lived in Paris for a time and had written a biography of Jean Genet, the controversial French poet, playwright and novelist who was born in 1910.
When I heard about White's latest book, Inside a Pearl, My Years in Paris (2014, Bloomsbury), I decided that it was time to read Edmund White. As a lesbian writer, even as one who has known many interesting people, I have very little in common with White. When I started reading Inside a Pearl — which is replete with namedropping — complete with a description of one of Elton John's parties, this became clear to me. But for whatever reasons I have long been interested in Paris thanks to Gertrude Stein and the Left Bank Sapphic crowd — I kept reading. And what I found was an Edmund White I could relate to — one who could lay his life on the page.
It was when I read about White's experiences as a caretaker of friends and lovers with HIV and being HIV positive himself — along with the ups and down of his friendships with both men and women — that I began to relate to him. His vulnerabilities made him human. He ruminates about his decision to live in Paris:
"I asked myself why I was here. Sure, I'd won a Guggenheim and a small but regular contract with Vogue to write once a month of cultural life. Right now I was writing a piece about why Americans like Proust so much. Back in America I'd worked around clock heading the New York Institute for the Humanities and teaching writing at Columbia and New York University. I never seemed to have time for my own writing. When I was president of Gay Men's Health Crisis, the biggest and oldest AIDS organization in the world, I hadn't liked myself in the role of leader; I was power mad and tyrannical… And secretly I'd wanted the party to go on and thought that moving the Europe would give me a new lease on promiscuity. Paris was meant to be an AIDS holiday. After all, I was of the Stonewall generation, equating sexual freedom with freedom itself. But by 1984 many gay guys I knew were dying in Paris as well — there was no escaping the disease."
White goes on to write about his life in Paris about the friendships that he forged, many through his writing projects, about his lovers — his "great love" was "from Zurich, the manager of a small chain of Swiss cinemas, whom I met in Venice" — and his familiarity with French customs. "The French seldom drank after the wine was cleared away with the meal — wine is a good, not a conversation enabler to be poured hours after the dinner."
He also writes about the European tradition of older gay men calling their younger lovers, their "nephew." He writes about an interaction between two gay men when one says to the other, "Do you know my nephew?" and the other replies, "Yes, he was my nephew last year."
He writes about taking care of his former lover turned friend John Purcell who was in the advanced stages of AIDS. White tells us that he told John he would take him anywhere he wanted:
"India? France? He chose Disney World in Orlando. I thought it might be a hoot, but I found it boring and tacky. At Epcot, we went to some horrid replica of the Eiffel Tower when we'd lived in the real Paris for years."
When White lived in Paris, he took many trips to England. He recounts the conversation at one London party. "Pat (who was notorious is London literary circles for her affair with Jeanette Winterson), looked around and said, "What's annoying about Paris is that every woman looks like a lesbian but none is." White goes on to write, "Pat was one of my favorite people."
In his sardonic style, White introduces us to the cast of characters that he has met and interacted with on the road of life. Not surprisingly, many, such as Susan Sontag, did not like being written about in his previous works and he writes about that also. It is true that Edmund White has been in the company of many well-known people. But Inside a Pearl left me with was a deeper knowing of Edmund White, the gay icon, the writer, the human being.


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Interview: Bella Hird of Molton Studios
Tom Wicker speaks to Molton Studios' Bella Hird about supporting new production Two-Headed and the challenges facing younger theatre companies today.
Salt Lake City-based writer Julie Jensen's Two-Headed tells the story of Lavinia and Hettie – two women facing the challenges of polygamy, betrayal and intolerance in the male-dominated Mormon community of nineteenth-century Utah. The play is set against the backdrop of the Mountain Meadows massacre, which saw the passengers of an emigrant train slaughtered by a militia of Mormon settlers and Native Americans.
Mylovely Productions, formed by actresses Liz McMullen and Noor Lawson, are bringing their staging of Two-Headed to the Rose Theatre Bankside. This follows a successful run at this year's Brighton Festival.
The show – which opens this week – is being executively produced by Molton Studios, a company set up to "generate income from the arts, for the arts." I spoke with Molton Studios' Bella Hird about their involvement with Mylovely Productions, what appealed to her about Two-Headed and the challenges facing emerging artists when it comes to publicising their work.
What persuaded you to get involved with Mylovely Productions?
What we found most impressive about Liz and Noor was that they came to us again and again! They sent us lots of information and had a good, well-made show reel for Two-Headed. We knew that they meant business, which was why we met them initially. Once they came to us, they demonstrated a huge amount of enthusiasm and motivation. Everything we asked for, in terms of figures and things like that, they gave to us pretty much straightaway. So we knew that we were working with people who were not going to let us down.
Is a business-focused attitude even more important these days?
Oh my goodness, definitely. Actors and start-up theatre companies face all kinds of issues. The difference between Mylovely Productions and some others is that extra bit of discipline, spending time on the things that actors may not think they are good at but which they need to do in order to make things happen.
What prompted the creation of Molton Studios?
The company existed informally for quite a while. But since the arts cuts it has become much more formal. We are coming from a film-producing background and this is our first step into the theatre world. With the cuts, there are a lot more projects out there in need of support. We can help make them viable and potentially profitable. Everybody wins.
What form does your support take?
It depends on the project. We work across the board with lots of different artists and their needs are different. Normally, we assist with press, publicity or marketing and provide financial support. We are on the lookout for companies that are to all intents and purposes up and running and heading in the right direction but missing something. This could be a structural issue or how to work out cash flow and profit loss – things that actors and artists may not have thought about before. These are incredibly talented people but sometimes they don't recognise where there is potential revenue or success or how they can take things to the next level. We set them on their way again.
What attracted you to Two-Headed in particular?
Liz and Noor initially came to the play because they were looking for writing that was interesting for women, which is a long-term issue in the industry – it can be hard. They fell in love on an emotional level with both of the characters and felt that they understood their journey. When they showed us the play – incidentally, Molton Studios is all-women – we loved it as well.
The story is set a long time ago in a country that is alien to us in London, about a religion that we do not necessarily understand. But at the end of the day it is about these two women and their relationship. And the issues they face as human beings do come up, but in different forms, in our world today. With a well-written play, you can take it and perform it at any point in history and still be able to relate to it. This is one of those plays.
Do you think that finding good roles for women still a problem?
It is easy for me to say that, speaking on behalf of women. But the thing is that, historically, if you go back in time there weren't even any actresses. So we are kind of fighting against years of brilliant plays that were written without women in mind. We still have a long way to go before we counter-balance those years. But as more people create projects like this one and produce new writing with a female focus, we will get there.
Is it true that Two-Headed's writer, Julie Jensen, will be coming to the show?
Yes, it is very exciting. As I say, the girls fell in love with the piece right from the start and have kept in contact with Julie to let her know their progress. They are so honoured that she is taking the time to fly over. But I think there is equal excitement on her part. If you create something and then somebody on the other side of the world recognises something in it and decides to share it with others, well, that is also an honour. Julie will be around for much of the first week and will be giving a talk on the Friday.
Why was the Rose Theatre Bankside the right venue?
The Rose is historically such a massive place for theatre in London and the world. And I think that if you stage a play in a place as special as this one, you add gravitas to the story you are telling. I know that the girls are particularly honoured that theirs is going to be one of the first contemporary pieces to be shown in that space. I believe that the Rose is planning more projects like this, so they are at the start of something exciting. Also, way back when, I studied drama and, personally, the Rose is where I caught the theatre bug.
What do you hope audiences will take away from Two-Headed?
Liz and Noor want to bring audiences on a journey. The play covers two women's lives from childhood until they are very elderly, so they hope that anyone watching it will be able to empathise on some level. There is also an overriding sense of the importance of friendship; something that can overcome everything if you invest in it. No matter what is thrown at you, it is the strongest thing. And that is hugely life-affirming.
What is up for Molton Studios next in terms of theatre?
As far as MyLovely Productions goes, depending on their success here, we are hoping to be able to support them in the future. We are looking to get more involved in the industry generally. We are in conversation with various companies that are in a similar place to the girls, in that they are packaged and ready to go. We are particularly interested in new writing.
Two-Headed is on at the Rose Theatre Bankside from 3 July to 22 July. For more information, and tickets, go to: http://www.offwestend.com/index.php/theatres/shows/90
For more information on Molton Studios, visit their website: http://www.moltonstudios.com/
First published by OffWestEnd.com
Tagged as: Julie Jensen, Molton Studios, Mylovely Productions, Rose Theatre Bankside, Two-Headed
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HomeEditorialsHaving Learned from Past Missteps – Clinton is Ready to be the First Female President
Having Learned from Past Missteps – Clinton is Ready to be the First Female President
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Sometimes two unprecedented movements cannot survive at the same time. One has to precede the other. The Civil Rights Movement paved the way for other humanitarian movements around the world – including the ending of apartheid in South Africa.
Back in 2008 political history was made in the United States. For the first time ever, a woman and an African American were in position to be a major political party's candidate for President of the United States.
What's interesting is that some people recognized the magnitude of the battle between Hilary Clinton and Barrack Obama at the time, but many did not. For the first time since this country declared its independence in 1776, a woman and an African American were in position to be a major political party's candidate for President of the United States.
That was profound. I am guilty as well. I watched the battle unfold and almost missed the magnitude of it until it was over. Using a "David versus Goliath" analogy wouldn't be out of line because the Obama movement did exactly what Sen. Bernie Sanders tried to do this election cycle – derail the Clinton machine.
The unprecedented nature of Obama v. Clinton was the political opportunity that proved the success of Civil Rights Movement. Well, let's take it back even further – it was what black folk and Abolitionists had been fighting for since the Emancipation Proclamation.
Again, sometimes two powerful movements cannot coexist. Hillary Clinton was the right woman, but at the wrong time in 2008.
It was Obama's time to challenge the hearts of Americans. It was his time to test the waters and see if this country was ready to live up to it's founding creed that all men are created equal. The race between Senator John McCain and Obama was essentially for more than the presidency of the United States – it was a race that would forever change politics in America.
Hillary Clinton would have challenged the establishment in the same way Obama did in 2008. No woman had come close to being a major party's nominee for President. Fast forward to 2016 and Clinton is back in position to become the Democratic Party nominee.
But much like 2008 when many assumed that Clinton would cruise to the nomination, there was one major obstacle – Senator Bernie Sanders. And no – he's no Barrack Obama, but he proved to be the real deal. His progressive movement took a hold and although Clinton is the Democratic nominee for President, Sanders will continue to play a role in shaping policy.
Again, in 2008 Clinton simply ran into an immovable force. That force was the message of change and hope. That force energized young folks who have never voted before and re-enegerized those who have felt disenfranchised for years.
Obama was the figurehead, but was his message that won so many people over. All it takes is to look at any of the rallies he held. From Oregon to Iowa, he packed arenas. He did extremely well with his base of well-educated, affluent voters, minorities, and the younger generation.
At least three out of the four groups would have been Clinton supporters if not for Obama, with affluent voters being a possible exception.
Fast forward to 2016, and it is crystal clear that Clinton learned from her mistakes from eight years ago. The biggest of those was the fact that she underestimated Obama early on. She assumed that she would run away with the nomination and before she knew it she had been punched in the mouth (figuratively), and didn't quite know what to do next.
By the time she realized that Obama was real, his machine was fine-tuned and well organized. From fundraising to grassroots fieldwork, he out-organized her, and his people were much more passionate.
It almost sounds like Déjà vu in many ways. Sanders and his supporters are passionate and dogged in their approach to pushing a progressive agenda.
Speaking at this week's Democratic National Convention, Sanders said, "It is no secret that Hillary Clinton and I disagree on a number of issues. That is what this campaign has been about. That's what democracy is about."
He added, "But I am happy to tell you that at the Democratic Platform Committee there was a significant coming together between the two campaigns and we produced, by far, the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party."
For those who thought that the Sanders speech would be like the fake out endorsement that Ted Cruz gave Donald Trump at the Republican convention, the Vermont Senator was direct and to the point. "Hillary Clinton will make an outstanding president and I am proud to stand with her here tonight," closed Sanders.
For Democrats, now the party just has to unite and turn out voters in order to beat The Donald and make history by electing the first female president of the United States.
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In Numaigarh one Presiding officer was found drunk during polling duty. Drunken presiding officer named Sailen Neog had created chaos in the booth. He was found to be intoxicated in the polling booth premises, was behaving in an extremely unruly manner.
This incident took place in Daigrung Tea garden Middle English Medium School Booth. The polling booth was listed as 74No Booth.
According to sources, Voting was also disrupted in the booth because of him.
Numaligarh police were successful in arresting Sailen Neog for being drunk during his duty hour of LS election polling.


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Piero della Francesca (Piero di Benedetto de' Franceschi) (1416?-1492)
One of the towering figures of the Italian Renaissance, he was born in the Umbrian town of Borgo San Sepolcro between 1414 and 1420-probably in 1416. The earliest document referring to him (1439) finds him in Florence working with Domenico Veneziano on frescoes in Santa Maria Nuova. Prior to this he may have been in contact with the Sienese painters Domenico di Bartolo and Sassetta in Umbria. When he returned to Borgo, shortly after 1441, he was in complete possession of his own style, which incorporates elements of form, modeling, geometry and perspective that he could have learned only in Florence. It is probable that while there he was in contact with the architects Brunelleschi and Alberti and the sculptor Donatello, who were the promoters of the new theory of perspective that Piero had mastered by the time he returned to Borgo. Masaccio's frescoes in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, were also a profound influence. He was made a councilor of the people in Borgo in 1442. In 1445 he was commissioned to paint the Madonna della Misericordia (now in the Palazzo Communale, Borgo) ; it was finished many years later, with a predella and smaller panels probably executed by assistants. He visited Ferrara to paint some decorations in the Este palace (now lost), and exerted some influence on the Ferrarese school. In 1451 he painted the fresco of $igismondo Malatesta with his patron saint in the Tempio Malatestina at Rimini. Alberti also worked for both of these patrons and Piero's friendship with Alberti lasted until the latter's death in 1472, and influenced Piero profoundly.
During the period 1452-66 he painted his chief work, the magnificent frescoes of the Legend of the True Cross, in the choir of San Francesco at Arezzo. This series, drawn from several literary sources, especially the Golden Legend of Jacopo Voragine, has been called one of the greatest achievements of fifteenth-century Italian art. Piero's art here comes nearer than any contemporary work to the quality of ancient Greek classical style, yet without any specific reference to antique art in figures or accessories. According to Vasari he was called to Rome to decorate papal apartments by Nicholas V, but the work is lost and there is no other evidence of this trip except for a much damaged fresco in Santa Maria Maggiore thought to be by Piero. In the early 1460's he painted the profile portraits of Federigo da Montefeltro of Urbino and his wife, Battista Sforza. Between 1454 and 1469 he worked sporadically on an altarpiece for the church of Sant' Agostino in Borgo, of which four panels are extant in Lisbon, London, the Frick Collection, and the Brera. About 1472 he painted the Madonna and Child with Saints and the kneeling Federigo da Montefeltro (Brera) commemorating the birth of the Duke's son and the death of his wife. During the 1470's he was close to the ducal court at Urbino and held civic offices in Borgo. About 1478 he ceased painting and until his death occupied himself with a treatise on perspective, another on the "five regular bodies," and a small book on arithmetic and geometry. In the treatises he sets forth how the visible world might be reduced to mathematical order.
Of undocumented major works by Piero the outstanding are the Baptism and the Nativity (London), the Flagellation (Urbino, gallery), the Madonna del Parto (Monterchi, cemetery chapel), and the Resurrection (Borgo, Palazzo Communale). Piero's style was austere, impersonal and monumental. Once formed, it changed very little, which accounts for the difficulty in dating many of his important works. His color is cool and light, with frequent combinations of blue, grey and pink. Several paintings include extensive landscape backgrounds which reproduce faithfully the hills and valleys of his native Umbria. His influence was felt throughout Umbria and Tuscany (especially Siena), and is found in Melozzo da Forli and Signorelli, and ultimately in Perugino and even the early Raphael.
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I would encourage travel is important in our life, at any age but when you are younger; the earlier you can learn the lessons travel teaches better. When you are young, you are busy to finding new thing yourself and preparing for your school and career.
If you are planning for travel the world then you can easily gain some skills and experience from traveling abroad can give you life-long personal benefits as well as a leg up in the professional world. Otherwise you will lose lots of moment to see the, how is the world look like and different cultures of counties that god made beautifully.
Reasons why students go abroad?
Some students after schooling or college move to abroad, the reason for it is simple or common i.e. to do more advance study by facing challenges, earn money and travel the world for get rid of all the problems or enjoying the completion of the study. The culture, tradition and Rule of every country are different to each other. This is why study of every country is different to each other. Somewhere the study is advance, so the students want to go there and do higher study.
Firstly without any hesitation the number one reason why I love to travel. By traveling I tested my confidence and assumptions, awareness, overcome my fear, facing new challenges. While traveling internationally as you conquer the obstacles of figuring out how to use public transport and asking for a simple things in a store/shop. These all small things help you to building a confidence and ability to adapt in abroad situations. When you facing challenges/obstacles again and again then you will become habitual of it and suddenly the obstacles seem less obstructive.
When you are in home with mom, dad and all known peoples then probably you spend best part of your life. You have your established, friends that make you happy and Hangouts with friends and possibly jobs. The thinking about breaking out them can be scary and uncomfortable. In the abroad when you are alone and learn the most in uncomfortable unfamiliar situations. In our daily manual you know how to respond to peoples and the surroundings. Once you figure out that you can connect with people despite differences and in few days you become familiar with abroad environments, you become smarter and you can say that travel is important helping you grow.
Now day's internet is the powerful tool to make globalization easier and faster. In our globalizing world travel is important to be cultural sensitive. In the world of business having lived abroad can give you a competitive edge. Some peoples want to globalize our business then travel is important that helps you develop and help it make you successful.
The people are generally very friendly and love to talk about their hometown and tradition or culture. This may be the chance of making friendship in abroad can make this big world and generate network fell more connected wherever you go. Meet new peoples as much as possible while traveling .This will make your time abroad more joyful and memorable since the local know best!
Before I lived abroad I never noticed the beauty of fluent, efficiency and proficient in another language. But slowly I become familiar of it and speaking good English with fluently. In some century you don't need to know any another language for talking, or many world argue that. Living in abroad you can learn many languages with regional language.


It's been a while since my last post … again, I know. To those of you who are interested why: most of my time I was working in the lab during the past year and therefore did not have so much time to spend on baking and especially taking pictures and writing down recipes. Now that I got my Bachelor's degree and finished my internship in another lab, I have a few weeks of free time until continuing my studies with a Master's program in Berlin. Yep, that's right, I'm moving to Berlin and I am freaking excited about it! Living in a big city again after nine years since I moved away from Yokohama is something I am so looking forward to!
Preheat oven to 170 degrees Celsius. Grease your baking pan and set aside.
Grate zest of 1 1/2 medium-sized (or 1 large) lemons into a measuring cup, add juice of the 1 1/2 (or 1 big) lemons and fill up with water, then put aside.
Mix flour and baking soda and set aside.
In a medium-sized bowl whip together the vegan butter and cane sugar until creamy. Add vanilla and vinegar, mix in.
Add dry and wet ingredients alternatingly to the butter-sugar-mixture, stirring after each addition and mix until combined.
Pour batter into the prepared cake pan and bake for around 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. To prevent burning of the surface, cover the cake with aluminium foil after 15-20 minutes of baking. After baking, let the cake cool for around 5 minutes, then remove from cake pan carefully and let sit on a rack until cooled completely.
In the meantime, prepare the icing: for the white lemon icing, mix 60g powdered sugar with 1 1/2 tbsps. lemon juice from the remaining half lemon, and if desired, add more liquid until desired consistency is reached.
For the mint icing, mix 1 tsp. chopped mint leaves (I used about 15 small to medium-sized leaves), 2 tsps. mint liquor and 80g of powdered sugar together. Add more liquid (lemon juice or water) if necessary until desired consistency of the icing is reached.
It looks beautiful! Love how you styled this!


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Coffin box incense Burner decorated with the Statue of Liberty. Dimensions: 12" x 2 "x 2.5" on the outside, and 1.6" X 11" on the inside. Light your incense, and close the lid. The smoke will come out trough the beautiful carvings on the lid. This coffin has a compartment at its bottom for storing your incense sticks keeping the aroma and freshness of the incense while you keep them handy! (Incense in the picture is not included). A fine work of art made by hand. A very decorative and safe way to burn incense, and a nice gift for Home Decor.


David and I have done quite a significant amount of traveling around the world during our first three years of marriage. We have traveled to over 15 countries and lived in New York, Paris, and Sydney. We are blessed to have seen the world and all the unique cuisine each culture has to offer. Being such food obsessed individuals, we always take ourselves on self guided food tours (with gluten free options of course) every time we travel to a new city. I've provided you with a guide to gluten free restaurants and experiences that I'd recommendations in some of our favorite cities. Your key to successful gluten free traveling is in good hands with me!


Art historian, educator, art dealer, artist, media personality and author, Richard H. Love has covered nearly every facet of the art field. Throughout his nearly 50 years of work in the community, Love has contributed a vast body of art-historical research in the field of 19th – early 20th century American paintings.
Love's profound interest in the promotion of the arts was recognized by the numerous positions he filled including general trustee of the Lincoln Academy of Illinois, president of the Illinois Academy of Fine Arts, and member of the panel that directs the Illinois International Cultural Exchange Program, among others.
Love has been a teacher of both art and art history. Accordingly, his painting style evolved in two directions, the first, representational which focused on surrealistic subjects, the second abstract expressionist which were entitled "Quantum Images." In recent years Love has exhibited his own works in many national shows for which he has earned several awards. A two-year traveling exhibition of his abstract paintings was seen in a number of museums and galleries.
Love's most widely recognized achievements in the field of American art history have been the numerous books and catalogs he has written on art and artists such as Mary Cassatt, Theodore Earl Butler, John Barber, and Louis Ritman, only to name a few. The forthcoming publication of "Cyclopedia of American Impressionism" by Richard H. Love is the result of nearly 35 years of research and portends to be an unparalleled contribution to the history of American art.


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Richard Corcoran just fired Lisa Miller, Florida's best ESE advocate. Why? Because he's a bad person with power.
Billy Townsend January 10, 2020 2 Comments on Richard Corcoran just fired Lisa Miller, Florida's best ESE advocate. Why? Because he's a bad person with power.
My fellow Polk County School Board member Lisa Miller is a former teacher and the parent of a profoundly disabled child, who requires constant care. I consider Lisa the most knowledgable, compassionate, and effective real world ESE advocate in the state of Florida. As a courageous and giving person and parent, who has somehow managed the full-time jobs of caregiver and school board member, she is a model for all of us.
Lisa also volunteers this expertise freely to the state of Florida — and has for years. She was recently re-elected as vice chair for the Florida Advisory Committee on Exceptional Student Education.
And then, even more recently, she was fired from this volunteer position. Why? Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran, who fired her, wouldn't say. Here's how Lisa put it in a recent Facebook post:
I have served on the state of Florida Advisory Committee on Exceptional Student Education for several years. I was recently elected as vice chair of this committee. I will not be able to continue this volunteer service after receiving notification that my term was not renewed by our current education commissioner. The bylaws state there are no term limits and the terms run 3 years and renews every two after the first term.
The only conclusion that I have is that the tough questions that were asked were not favorable of the current climate at the Department of Education. I served on the sub-committee with the fewest members. We were charged with discussing students on ACCESS curriculum. These are the most significantly disabled students in our schools. I served next to a principal of a private center school and a representative from the Juvenile Justice Department. There are very few people in education with the knowledge and understanding of our ACCESS students. I advise our advocates for this population to be even more vigilant in their efforts to make sure these students have a seat at the table when decisions are made.
Lisa was advocating for the most vulnerable children in our society at the state level, in practical and realistic ways. Richard Corcoran likes to brag about his Christianity. But deeds reveal. I think Richard Corcoran fired Lisa Miller because he is a fundamentally bad person who is here to hurt you and your kids because he thinks it advances his political career somehow.
The Florida education way: punish people for doing their jobs well on behalf of citizens
I cannot possibly count the number of people in this county to whom Lisa has served as a resource. I cannot count the number of people I sent to her, before her election in 2018, for help, whom she has helped. She has been a tremendous resource for me as a board member — both before and after her election — in trying to learn and improve how ESE functions.
Believe me when I tell you that any superintendent of schools in Florida would be wise to consider Lisa for his or her ESE director. Moreover, Lisa's advocacy is both practical and cross partisan. Disability transcends party and division like almost nothing else. And Lisa's productive network is extraordinarily diverse, as is her ability to work with all different types of people. And Corcoran (and Gov. DeSantis) fired her for it.
And Lisa won't suffer because she was fired. This takes a responsibility off her plate in life. But it's a responsibility she was willing and committed to exercising. Now the people she's advocating for — our most vulnerable and those who serve them — have lost a brilliant and formidable voice on their behalf. I'm sure Corcoran and Ralph Arza are high-fiving each other.
Where was Kelli Stargel? And the rest of our delegation?
As evidence of Lisa's apolitical approach to advocacy, she has always maintained cordial and productive professional relations with Sen. Kelli Stargel and her staff.
So where was the supposed Polk County "education senator" when Corcoran was firing Lisa Miller and harming her constituents?
We've heard not a public peep from Kelli or Chad. Much less any of the other inconsequential people Polk County has sent to Tallahassee to slavishly obey the Senate president or House Speaker. Silence and indifference to everything. What can I do? It's not like you elected me to exercise power on your behalf and advocate for your interests. You sent me here so I could have a cool parking spot and a stepping stone to the next useless job. What do you want me to do about it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe Kelli was helping concoct the insane new pre-school bill that proposes to let the Department of Education seize First Presbyterian and First UMC and all the other pre-Ks out there — and turn them into test factories for 3-year-olds that produce school grades even more fraudulent than K-12 school grades. This is happening, folks. Wake up. Even your 3-year-olds are just sellable data to Corcoran, DeSantis, and Stargel.
Both bills would dissolve the Office of Early Learning, putting the BOE and the DOE in charge of 30 regional early learning coalitions.
They create stricter accountability measures grading programs on a new standardized test administered 3 times a year to Florida's youngest
— Andrew Atterbury (@ALAtterbury) January 9, 2020
By 2021-22, the Department of Education would be expected to have a letter grading system ready to roll out to score pre-K providers across the state. The new system would give higher payments to providers with strong performance.
By the way, if you think this approach works, consider that chasing test scores has left Florida with the worst test score growth performance of any state in the country; one of America's worst teacher shortages; and by far the largest drop in kids attending college of any state in the country in the last year.
(There are very legitimate debates to have about the cost/benefit of modern college and who should go. But the modern test-and-punish system, which Kelli and Corcoran now want to impose on 3-year-olds, is built to drive mass amounts of kids into college by putting sharp teeth into measures of academic – as opposed to skills-based — performance. It's a failure in every way.)
March Monday to restore basic decency and humanity to education and government
The core crisis in Florida education and state government is that bad people are in charge of it. Bad people have power. We, the citizens, put them there — either through direct choice or indifference or a willingness to tolerate harm to done to others.
People, including me, are rallying in Tallahassee on Monday for many reasons. I want to be with teachers and education employees to thank them and advocate for them. That's certainly a massive part. But I'm also going to advocate for the return of basic decency and humanity to the application of state power. That's a more abstract sounding goal.
But as Lisa's experience shows — and the FSA for toddlers will show — these abstractions about power detonate in the lives of flesh and blood human beings.
The Red Monday "strike" and the collective bargaining rejection: the teacher party begins to demonstrate its power →
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2 thoughts on "Richard Corcoran just fired Lisa Miller, Florida's best ESE advocate. Why? Because he's a bad person with power."
Craig B. McKee says:
A word to the parents, guardians and students who are unable to attend the rally in Tallahassee. ( cf. Ledger: "Polk Teachers Jobs Threatened" Jan. 11)
Don't let the politicians use our children as pawns and bargaining chips now that they have resorted to bullying our teachers.
Stay home from school on Tuesday, Jan. 14, to show your support for your real educational future in Polk: your teachers!
John Jordan says:
Lisa Miller's firing was not personal. Having a knowledgeable person on this committee only serves to highlight that Corcoran's charter schools do not do ESE well…if at all.


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Stocks rise as debt limit talks continue
Stocks rose for the second day in a row Friday as investors bet against a US debt default. Signs of compromise in Washington have pushed stocks up.
Trader Jeffrey Vazquez works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday. Stocks rose for the second day in a row as Washington showed signs of compromise on the debt limit.
By Joshua Freed AP Business Writer
The closer Washington gets to a deal over the debt ceiling, the higher stocks go.
Stock prices rose for a second day in a row on Friday as investors bet against a U.S. debt default. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 111 points Friday, bringing its two-day gain to 434. Its jump on Thursday was the biggest this year.
Call it the Sigh of Relief Rally.
A partial government shutdown pushed the Dow below 15,000 this week before President Barack Obama and House Republicans met on Thursday to talk about the outlines for a possible deal. Obama and Republican senators met on Friday, too.
Stocks set new highs in mid-September but declined steadily since then as the federal government got closer to the partial shutdown that began Oct. 1. That shutdown entered its 11th day on Friday.
Even more troubling for investors is the expectation that the government will reach its borrowing limit on Oct. 17, which raises the possibility of a default on government borrowing. U.S. government bonds are usually considered the world's safest investment, so even the possibility of a default has rattled investors.
"It's nice when the world does not revolve around politicians making decisions for Wall Street," said Ralph Fogel, investment strategist and partner at Fogel Neale Partners in New York.
The Dow rose 111.04 points, or 0.7 percent, to close at 15,237.11. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 10.64 points, or 0.6 percent, to 1,703.20. The Nasdaq rose 31.13 points, or 0.8 percent, to 3,791.87.
Kim Forrest, an equity research analyst at Fort Pitt Capital Group in Pittsburgh, said it's too soon to assume that the meetings in Washington will avert a default.
"That's super that they're talking to each other, but what on Earth is the agreement going to look like, and is it going to stave off default? I don't think we know that yet," Forrest said. "I think the stock market is getting ahead of itself."
All 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 index rose, led by energy and technology companies.
Gold fell, and took gold mining stocks down with it. Gold for December delivery fell $28.70, or 2.2 percent, to $1,268.20 per ounce, its lowest price since mid-July. Mining company Barrick Gold fell 73 cents, or 3.9 percent, to $17.81. Newmont Mining fell 68 cents, or 2.6 percent, to $25.62.
The price of crude oil fell 99 cents to $102.02 a barrel after a report showed growing supplies of oil outside of OPEC.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose slightly to 2.69 percent from 2.68 percent.
The stock gains were enough to put the big indexes back into positive territory for the week, other than the Nasdaq, which fell almost a half-percent this week.
Among other stocks making notable moves:
— Safeway rose $2.18, or 7 percent, to $33.75, the biggest gain in the S&P 500 index. The grocery store operator said late Thursday that it plans to sell its Chicago-area Dominick's stores, allowing it to concentrate on its more profitable business.
— Micron Technology fell $1.59, or 9 percent, to $16.84 after the flash memory maker's quarterly profit left investors wanting more.
— Gap sank $2.65, or 7 percent, to $36.83 after it reported a 3 percent drop in sales for September. Analysts had expected a gain of 1.6 percent. Micron, Gap, and Newmont Mining were the three biggest decliners in the S&P 500.
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English Amiga Board > Main > Retrogaming General Discussion
This video would put ANY newcomer off of all Amiga Games
Foebane
Location: Cardiff, UK
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Edited to remove my rant, I'm clearly in the minority.
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Originally Posted by Foebane
most Amiga games suck balls
I just find Amiga games unplayable, boring, and repetitive.
Amiga games are overrated
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Tigerskunk
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I just clicked into the timeline, and most games I saw looked actually quite nice and with a lot of charme.
On the contrary, no idea what appeals to you about the current demo scene. I just see the same few effects over and over, especially in AGA60 demos.
Things feel incredibly stale over there currently, imo. EON two years ago felt like a blip of fresh air, but otherwise no idea what you are talking about here.
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Originally Posted by Steril707
What timeline? The video is an A-Z.
The music appeals to me, even if the effects are repetitive, sometimes.
Most Amiga demos impress me, much more than the games, at least. I guess it's all subjective.
Timeline of the video. Or how you call that thing where you can click to show the video at that point of time you want.
Demos are a highly controlled scenario compared to games where you have to deal with user input, and are usually made up of look up tables that are prerendered in tools usually coded on a PC, doing effects that have been usually done better 30 years ago.
What's making it worse is, that in AGA60 demos the Amiga chipset isn't really used most of the time, and stuff gets rendered into a buffer that's translated via C2P in the end. The only reason I see that this category is still existing is, that it's kind of a protected niche so people there don't have to compete with the big guns in PC territory.
I concur that there are some nice tracker productions in demos, but so there are in modern Amiga games.
So yeah, I think what the Amiga demo scene puts out is vastly overblown and overhyped because of nostalgic reasons. With some notable exceptions, though.
I am a lot more impressed by what Metro Siege tries to accomplish than what I have seen over the last few years in Amiga demos on Revision and others. With the notable exception of EON, that is. Which, as Photon has stated, is basically a huge LUT. But I don't care, it looks, sounds amazing, and gives me the feels.
This cat is no more
let's face it, most of pre 1990 games are crappy 16 color ST or C64 ports. They suck
It's like playing all music CDs in the world and saying that only a few are good. That's probably true
the video is interesting.Yes, there are a lot of crap titles. And only a few good ones, but those few, we're talking hundreds of them so that's already enough
And I must admit sometimes that the games I still play aren't many. Let's not make lists again, but I can't stand to play a lot of games that I could play 30 years ago. Even if they are "good". Just too bored for that.
Let's face it: there are no newcomers on the amiga machine. I mean: who on his/her twenties is going to get interested in the Amiga, Atari or other computer from 30 years ago just NOW?
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I always used to call them "progress sliders".
But why? Demos are a highly controlled scenario compared to games where you have to deal with user input, and are usually made up of look up tables that are prerendered in tools usually coded on a PC, doing effects that have been usually done better 30 years ago.
True, and I can spot a mile off which logos are hand-drawn and which are simply processed images, but it's not just Amiga demos that are affected, I've seen several C64 demos that obviously look like they've been developed on PC tools, and no doubt other platforms too. I wouldn't say they don't put in the effort like they did in the past, they just do it differently. But most things are done on PC these days, anyway.
I remember there was a big controversy when Amiga demos started looking like PC demos in the late 1990s, and a boycott by some groups of AGA when it came out. But the Amiga chipset is still used for some demos, and I've seen demos with detailed 3D objects and amazing Copper effects, and those C2P effects use sprites for the overlays.
Oh, don't get me wrong, many tunes I heard in the video were quite catchy, and I have in the past collected Amiga games for the soundtracks alone, but for some works like Chris Huelsbeck, getting hold of the non-MOD formats is quite tough.
To each his own.
Imagine it done on AGA60, though(!)
Originally Posted by jotd
I recognise several public domain titles from that video, so non-commercial, and the quality control obviously wasn't there.
Um, a retro gamer who hasn't tried them yet?
Havie
Watched just a little and saw a few I'd like to try so each to their own (and yes there was a lot of rubbish games).
Seems to me that it just all the whdload games as it seems to match my whload directory.
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Originally Posted by Havie
Yes, those are WHDLoad filenames. I wish they contained the release years of the games in the names, could put the whole quality changes aspect into perspective.
That would be a really good idea and must have taken a lot of time to put together!
7 hours is a bit much but watching it definitely will give you some games to try and not try!
I personally like the "exhaustive / no opinion" video. Of course 7:30' is a long time to view crap.
Thanks for sharing the video.
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Why did you delete your comment about hating cutesy games? Are you afraid you will be called out on it? I started a whole THREAD about it a couple of years ago and got roasted over the coals, because it seems people here LOVE "cutesy".
Adropac2
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A great game will remain that and I'd say the Amiga definitely has games you can put into this category out of the many more that aren't so good of course. To be fair though it can be very hard to define exactly what great is but in the case of Speedball2 for example, this is greatness I think. Stunt car Racer obviously is and many more
The thing with the Amiga in particular I've always found is in it's atmosphere which you get with any device no doubt. But I just love that cozy warm surrounding feel from playing Amiga games and it's a reason to invest your time into the system for many. I wouldn't be surprised that new folk still are when they see these type videos
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There are several diamonds in the rough, to be sure. But there's also a LOT of rough, too.
To be fair though - this true is of any computer system (maybe outside of Japan) as none of them had quality control and there was certainly a lot of dross on the pc. In fact, before the advent of graphics and sound cards for the masses, Amiga version of games was generally the best.
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Location: Auburndale, Florida
Sure there was a lot of terrible games released, but lets put it into perspective, every computer had this problem. The Amiga was one of the most popular computers to release games on, right up to Commodores demise so the library is larger than most for the time. It had the advantage of having capabilities other systems wish the had. For many of the games released on multiple platforms the Amiga had the best version available. I would say that some games that were passable on the Amiga were utter wrecks on other systems, so that brings up the average. I think why many games are considered bad was because the Amiga when used properly, raised the bar so much higher than other systems, and it's hard to keep making top tier games.
Recently I started looking at the PS3 game catalog so that I have a library of games to collect and what I found was a vast majority aren't worth my time. And lets not forget that this is a system that has Sony as it software curator determining what get released.
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Originally Posted by Daishi
I know the Amiga was usually the best for specific games when compared to versions released for other platforms, but it took a lot of effort to achieve, and by the look of a lot of the games in the video, the time, effort or money just wasn't invested in them.
The problem with the video is that it shows EVERYTHING, not just the most highly-regarded games by opinion, consensus or votes, but practically all of the Amiga's gaming output in its lifetime, all in one place, completely regardless of quality or not.
I mean, watching the video can be a chore seeing poor game after poor game going by, and then a classic pops up and the viewer perks up, only to fall into a stupor again when more poor games come up.
There is a reason "Top Of" lists were created.
roondar
Two small comments:
1) This video doesn't show anywhere near all of the Amiga games. It does 15 seconds per game, which means it shows 1728 games in total. In reality, the Amiga has several thousand games.
2) The quality argument has never really worked. All systems, including the Japanese ones and the consoles, have far more poor/bad games than they have good ones. You can argue about percentages, but I find that doing so is usually more of fan-boy approach than anything that even remotely approaches realism.
I missed the whole discussion on cute games last time round, so here's my two cents:
In short, I'd say: to each their own. I personally care more about playability than what the game's art style is, so I'd rate for example Rod-Land on the Amiga a good deal higher than say Forgotten Worlds on the Amiga (and vice versa, I'd rate Turrican a good deal higher than Dennis).
Luckily (and as the video neatly demonstrates), for those who don't like cutesy games, there's tons of non-cutesy games out there as well
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Matt Hancock, Jill Scott, Mike Tindall and Owen Warner are the final four
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26th Nov 2022, 10:15pm
I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here's start time will retun to normal for the final, ITV has confirmed.
The hit reality series' semi-final took place on Saturday (26 November). It will be followed on Sunday (27 November) by the grand final where the next king or queen of the jungle will be crowned.
The final contestants will be Matt Hancock, Jill Scott and Owen Warner. Rugby player Mike Tindall was the eight celebrity to be eliminated from the show.
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ITV has confirmed its TV schedule for Sunday, 27 November. Here is all you need to know:
What time is I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here on tonight?
The semi-final of the hit series will aired at a slightly later time than usual on ITV on Saturday. I'm a Celeb usually airs at 9pm on weekdays and weekends, but due to the World Cup the schedule has been disrupted throughout the last week.
ITV are splitting coverage of the tournament in Qatar with BBC. However the broadcaster will only show one game on Sunday (27 November) at 10am, meaning it won't cause any changes to the schedule for I'm a Celebrity.
The I'm a Celebrity final will start at 9pm on 27 November and will run until 10.40pm.
Jill Scott is widely expected to make the final three of this years I'm A Celeb. Picture: Lifted Entertainment/ITV.
Mike Tindall was eliminated in the final eviction before the grand finale on Sunday. Prior to that the celebs competed in the famous cyclone and then hunted for hidden choc ices.
Comedian Seann Walsh was eliminated on Friday, leaving a final four of Matt Hancock, Jill Scott, Mike Tindall and Owen Warner. He was the seventh celeb to be evicted from the jungle.
He told hosts of the ITV show Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly that the former health secretary is a "lovely guy" and "he's still in there for a reason". "No one was expecting Matt Hancock to be there," he added.
Hancock told the Bush Telegraph on Friday: "We're so near the end and I'm delighted to be still here. I never thought I'd make it to the final five and here I am, so I'm very grateful."
Hollyoaks star Warner said earlier, after the campmates got ingredients for a fry-up: "The jungle giveth and the jungle taketh away. It's given me another day in this beautiful place, but it's taken my beautiful boy Chris, which I'm devastated about, he's an absolute legend."
Lioness Scott said: "I'm so sad to see Chris go. He was a great campmate. He's so funny, so hilarious. I'm going to literally miss him so much."
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In the Bush Telegraph, Warner said: "Didn't go very well at all. I sounded nothing like him and I know Jill sounded nothing like him. I'll stick to the acting and Jill will stick to the football, leave the impressions to Seann." Back by the creek, he said: "I can do David Attenborough. 'Here we have Seann, sitting on a rock, the sunlight hitting his face elegantly… watch how he swills the water around his mouth and then licks his lips…'"
He also revealed he can "cry on cue" as he learned to do so after watching X Factor and Britain's Got Talent auditions. Warner then taught Scott how to cry by saying: "Pick a point, don't blink… focus your eyes… really focus on your breathing. Think about how your breathing goes when you cry."
Walsh said: "It's just making me want to go to sleep."
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Gallup polling reveals that President Trump remains more popular than the same institutions that have unrelentingly attacked him since he descended the escalator in Trump Tower and declared his run for President of the United States five years ago.
Despite a full-frontal assault on the President for half a decade, Donald Trump remains more popular than other institutions in the United States.
Congress had a pitiful approval rating of 15 percent in December, with a whopping 82 percent of Americans telling Gallup they disapproved of the job Congress was doing.
GALLUP CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL.
The last time Congress was popular was immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when all American institutions rode a wave of patriotism.
And the media's numbers are even worse.
A stunningly low 9 percent of Americans said they trusted the corporate media "a great deal" while another 31 percent said they trusted it "a fair amount."
Sixty percent of Americans polled said they had "not very much" or "none at all" when asked about trust in the media.
GALLUP MEDIA POLL.
Meanwhile, despite two, partisan impeachments, a Russia hoax, a Charlottesville hoax, a Chinese Communist Party pandemic, and the media and Democrats spinning the Beijing line, the President's approval rating was 43 percent in November and 39 percent in December.
Just three weeks ago, the President won the accolade of the "Most Admired Man in the Country," according to Gallup.
Raheem Kassam is the Editor-in-Chief of the National Pulse, and former senior advisor to Brexit leader Nigel Farage. Kassam is the best-selling author of 'No Go Zones' and 'Enoch Was Right', a co-host at the War Room: Impeachment podcast, a Lincoln fellow at the Claremont Institute, and a fellow at the Bow Group think tank. Kassam is an academic advisory board member at the Institut des Sciences Sociales, Economiques et Politiques in Lyon, France. He resides in Washington, D.C.
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Separated & Counting
Father separated from his 3-year-old son for 6 months
Yujany Paz-Rosa fled Honduras with his 3-year-old son Maikol after he was shot and refused to join a gang
Father accused of being in a gang reunited with his children after 184 days
Adolfo said Border Patrol falsely accused him of being a gang member
7-year-old reunites with father 326 days after being separated
Angie was released to her mother in Houston, but she hadn't known her since she was a baby
Honduran man reunites with the brother he raised like a son after 183 days apart
The two were separated the day after they arrived at a border crossing in Texas, hoping to seek asylum
Father and son separated at the border reunite after 326 days
Jose Alvizures crossed the border with his son to seek asylum after getting death threats from gangs
The test is the last major hurdle before the Crew Dragon blasts off with astronauts aboard.
Winter storm affecting millions in the Midwest is headed for the Northeast
All flights in and out of Chicago's O'Hare Airport were halted Friday night.
"We made a mistake," the Archives said in a press release.
2020 Women's March
The 2020 Women's March is the fourth annual.


The @AppStoreGames account will be controlled by App Store editors, meaning posts are likely to include more than just basic app advertisements. The feed promises to bring tips and tricks, game challenges and behind-the-scenes information about popular, and perhaps lesser-known, gaming titles.
An Apple representative told the The Verge to expect profiles of gamers and sneak previews, features not usually seen on other Apple-owned Twitter accounts. The gaming feed will also be a hub from which editors can interact with game developers, the company said.
The new account puts a focus on the App Store's bread-and-butter gaming section, while at the same time freeing up the general App Store Twitter feed to concentrate on non-gaming titles.
The public push in gaming comes days before Apple is expected to unveil new Apple TV hardware at its annual iPhone event next week, leading some to believe the new Twitter account will be used to hype Apple TV games. Rumors and speculation suggest Apple is planning to build rich gaming functionality into the next-gen set-top streamer, including potential support for game controllers and a dedicated App Store.
Apple is expected to discuss future plans for iOS, as well as debut new iPhone and Apple TV hardware, at a special event on Sept. 9.


Amongst all the hustle and bustle of this time of year, we must remember that Jesus is the reason for the season.
Take some time to sit down with your family and read them the Christmas story.
And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in they womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of The Lord appeared unto him in a dream , saying, Joseph thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
And she shall bring forth a son, and though shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanual, which being interpreted is, God with us.
And knew her not til she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.
And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said on to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of these shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, til it came and stood over where the young child was.
Therefore The Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that they world through him might be saved.
I wrote this scripture down after reading it and put a big question mark beside it. Huh???
If you try to save your life, you will lose it, but if you lose your life, you will save it?
This seems so backward to our natural way of thinking, but you have to look at the whole context to gain a better understanding of what it means.
In this chapter of Luke, Jesus is talking to his disciples about the end times and his return.
He explains how some will be left behind while others are taken up into glory with Him.
He then gives reference to the days of Lot and how Sodom became a wicked place.
As they were leaving Sodom, Lot's wife turned back because she cared so much for the things that she had.
She was hoping to save the life that she had and did not want to lose it, but because she turned back she lost everything, including her life.
If she would have just left it all or lose it, as the verse says, she would have preserved her own life and future.
I think that Jesus is simply telling us that if we hope to be saved, then we must be willing to leave everything behind.
When he says that we must lose our life, he is not talking about death, but our way of living and the life that we have lived in this world.
Yes, sometimes it is better to lose your life, if you want to save it and preserve your future.
I would love to hear your point of view on this verse.
Are you willing to lose your life to preserve it?
Jesus tells us why it is best to be humble in Luke 18:14.
…for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Prior to saying this Jesus was telling a parable of how 2 different kind of men prayed.
The Pharisee was very boastful and proud, exalting himself, while the publican was very humble in his prayer.
Jesus said those that exalt themselves shall be abased.
Abased means to be put down or degraded.
He also said those that humble themselves shall be exalted.
To be exalted means to be lifted up high or at a powerful level.
Jesus often tells us the reverse of what our flesh wants to hear.
Our flesh wants us to think that to humble yourself places you lower than everyone else and that can't be a good thing.
But, according to Jesus, to be humble is the highest position that one can attain.


Many Windows 10 computer users may have encountered an error when they try to troubleshoot anything, as the error message reads: An error occurred while troubleshooting. A problem is preventing the troubleshooter from starting.
When they click error details, the error code is: 0x803C010A. Every troubleshooter gives them this error message.
This problem is a common problem in Windows. It occurs when you try to run built-in troubleshooting feature of Windows to fix issues or when you try to run Microsoft's Fix It tools.
A problem is preventing the troubleshooter from starting.
An unexpected error has occurred. The troubleshooting wizard can't continue.
Usually, there is a random error code in the interface of "An error occurred", like 0x80070057, 0x8000FFF, 0x80070005, 0x80070490, 0x80070002, etc.
Windows Troubleshooters not working is quite annoying, especially if you are solving a problem that has been bugging you for a while. How to fix troubleshooting? Follow the solutions and see if they work.
System File Checker (SFC) allows you to scan for and restore corruptions in Windows 10/8/7. Some users claim that it is helpful to fix their issues by running an SFC scan.
Step 1: Run Command Prompt as administrator.
Step 2: In the CMD window, input sfc /scannow command and hit the Enter key.
Step 3: Then the SFC scan starts. Keep in mind that the verification may take some time, please wait patiently until the system scan completes.
If you experience the issue again or SFC is not working, you can try using DISM scan instead.
The security software or firewall can be the cause that keeps Windows Troubleshooters from searching for solutions on the Internet or sending the required information to Microsoft servers. To get rid of an error occurred while troubleshooting, you can try to temporarily disable the antivirus program or firewall and see if the troubleshooter works well. Unless necessarily, you may have to completely uninstall the security program and switch to another antivirus software or program.
Step 1: Press Windows logo and R key on the keyboard at the same time to open the Run dialog.
Step 2: Enter regedit and press Enter key.
Step 4: Right-click on ScriptedDiagnostics key and choose Delete option.
Step 6: Right-click on the registry key ScriptedDiagnosticsProvider and delete it.
Step 7: Exit the Registry Editor and restart your computer.
Step 1: Type UAC in the search box and click Change User Account Control settings from the search results.
Step 2: Drag the slider all the way down to Never notify. Finally, click the OK button to apply the change.
In this method, Windows Troubleshooters not working issue may be solved. If it won't work, try other methods.
This is the most common way that users have used. If the Cryptographic Services process is not running in the background, an error occurred while troubleshooting issue will happen in Windows 10/8/7. That way, you need to enable the service.
Step 1: Press Windows and R keys on your keyboard at the same time to call out the Run dialog. Then, input services.msc in the text box and click the OK button or Enter key.
Step 2: After running Services window, scroll down the list to find Cryptographic Services, double-click it and set the Startup type to Automatic under the General tab. If Cryptographic Services is not running, you can click the Start button to run it immediately.
Step 3: Click Apply and OK to make all changes effective.
After all the steps, you can run the troubleshooter to see whether the error still existed.
Step 1: Just create a notepad file or text document on your computer.
Step 3: Save the file as a .bat file, for example, repair.bat.
Step 4: Right-click on this file and choose Run as Administrator.
Now, restart your computer and check whether Windows Troubleshooters not working still persists.
Step 1: In Windows 7, right-click on the Start button to go to Control Panel and enter Programs and Features section. In Windows 10, go to Settings > Apps > Apps & features.
Step 2: Find .NET Framework from the list of installed programs, and click on Uninstall/Change or Change.
Step 3: Choose the Repair option. Then, follow the wizards to fix your .NET Framework.
Once you complete the repair, perhaps an error occurred while troubleshooting issue will be completely resolved.
When troubleshooting error happens on your Windows 7/8/10 screen, if you have created a system restore point beforehand, you are able to solve this issue by using System Restore feature to revert your computer to a previous restore point to undo system changes.
Step 1: Right-click on This PC or Computer and click Properties.
Step 2: In the pop-up window, click System protection to enter the System Properties tab. Then, click System Restore button to start a system restore.
Step 3: After entering System Restore window, click the Next button to continue.
Step 4: The created system points will be listed, just choose the desired restore point and click the Next button.
Step 5: Confirm your restore point and complete the restoration process by following the instructions on the screen.
After finishing the restoration, check whether troubleshooting error still persists.
To avoid experiencing the same issue or other computer problems and perform a quick recovery, I strongly recommend you to back up your computer system so that you are able to quickly restore the system in the event of system accidents or data loss.
For Windows system backup, MiniTool ShadowMaker, the professional backup software for Windows, will be your good choice. It enables you to easily back up your crucial files/folders, Windows operating system, partition or the entire disk. It is a reliable Windows built-in backup utility alternative which will save you a lot of work.
With a few simple steps, you can back up your system or files easily.
Step 1: Run this tool in Windows 10/8/7, click Keep Trial and choose the Connect in the Local section.
Step 2: In the Backup page, you will find this backup software backs up the Windows system by default. And the destination folder may be chosen if you have more than 1 disk. Just click Back up Now button to run the task immediately in Manage page.
Once you finish the system backup, you are able to restore the PC to a normal state when the troubleshoot problems or other system accidents happen. Now, don't hesitate to use it to protect your PC.
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Thanks for this glorious article. Yet another thing to mention is that nearly all digital cameras can come equipped with any zoom lens that allows more or less of that scene to become included by means of 'zooming' in and out. All these changes in the aim length are usually reflected from the viewfinder and on big display screen right on the back of your camera.


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IWRM Data Portal
Tracking country progress in implementation of IWRM
Enhanced capacity of countries and regions to utilize integrated approaches and principles of IWRM in management of their water resources is a particularly relevant work area of UNEP-DHI. The centre has completed a number of activities in capacity building for IWRM, development of national IWRM policies and plans, as well as publication on global status reports on the progress towards implementation of IWRM approaches globally.
UNEP-DHI's work in the domain of IWRM to date has shown that there is a growing need for systematic data collection on IWRM, which is instrumental in establishing a baseline, monitoring improvements and ensuring informed decision making for better management of water within countries and basins. In addition to the national relevance of such data, the proposed Sustainable Development Goal on Water has drawn attention to the increasing need for global data on water governance and management, and particularly on the progress in adopting IWRM practices in countries.
Trying to address these needs, UNEP-DHI has recently launched the IWRM Data Portal - a powerful online tool to keep track of the global progress in implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in countries. You can assess the IWRM Data Portal at http://iwrmdataportal.unepdhi.org/.
This data portal offers a comprehensive collection of national IWRM implementation progress data drawn from two global country IWRM progress surveys. The data made available through this portal allows to both, examine the progress of IWRM implementation within the individual countries, and to track the global progress towards better management of our water resources.
The information available via IWRM Data Portal includes:
Global overview of IWRM implementation status
Details of implementation of IWRM in countries
Tool for tracking country IWRM implementation progress
Extensive database of country IWRM policies and plans
Compilation of country and global IWRM resources and water datasets
The primary data sources of this data portal are the two global IWRM surveys (years 2007 and 2011) containing self-reported country survey data assessing the progress and outcomes of the application of integrated approaches to the development, management and use of water resources.
In addition data from the global IWRM surveys, IWRM Data Portal contains a comprehensive database of national IWRM policies, plans, roadmaps and related resources. All data and resources can be searched by country and are updated on ongoing basis.
The main aim of this portal is to enable tracking of global IWRM implementation progress in countries (across a number of dimensions of IWRM). It is also envisioned that in time this data portal will include data from future global country surveys (possibly under the monitoring framework of SDG), as well as data from other high quality regional water governance and management assessments.
For more information please contact: Maija Bertule mabe@dhigroup.com or Chengzi Zhew czc@dhigroup.com.


So, the school holidays are finally here! And with most of you students are now with so much free time, that does not mean you can't be productive and creative this school break.
That said, this school holidays, TikTok wants you to have fun and creatively express yourself with its celebrity-studded #runfreefun campaign.
From Nov 10 to 24, join Janna Nick, Nazim Othman, Anzalna Nasir, Shukri Yahaya, and Saharul Ridzwan in their journey to discover exciting and fun TikTok features and trying out unique video challenges.
Don't be left behind and start shooting creative videos of yourself while using the hashtag #runfreefun and tag your favorite celebrity to show off your talent.
Who knows, you might even get a call out by your favorite star!
Whether you're a beginner or a pro, old or young, TikTok is a unique platform that encourages creators to express their passion and creativity without borders.
For many, it is also a platform to feel closer to their favourite celebrities, friends or set foot into the world of fandom.
Used in over 150 countries, TikTok is the world's fastest growing global short-form video app.
In September, it became the most downloaded app in the US, surpassing other popular social media apps.
In Malaysia, TikTok continues to be a trending platform for users, brands, TV programs and celebrities to reach out to a wider audience with exhilarating local challenges.
Post the video on TikTok and your other social media channels to get more views!
Use stickers and AR effects – Get creative by adding popular stickers and visual effects. Tapping the sticker icon on the bottom-left will allow you to browse the various face filters and AR effects. Popular effects include changing hair color, make up palette, and raindrop control.
Cool transitions – Record in small batches or in slow motion to allow space for you to include transitional effects. Click on the filter or time effect to set your video pace. The trending TikTok challenge, #pillowchallenge is an example where you can use multiple short shoots to create an awesome transition video.
Duet screen – Want to sing alongside your favorite artists? Or mime to a funny conversation? Pick a video that you want to duet, and hit the share button to choose the duet option from the bottom of the screen. Now, just record your own video while the selected video is automatically playing on another side of the screen.


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Q: Extending a holomorphic map continously Let $\Omega = \mathbb{C} \setminus [-1, 1]$.
a) Give an example of a non-constant bounded holomorphic function on $\Omega$.
b) Show that such a function cannot be extended continuously to all of $\mathbb{C}$.
So, part a) is easy. We consider the Joukowski map $F(z)=\frac{1}{2} (z+1/z)$, which maps the inside of the unit disk to $\Omega$. Then solving for the inverse and choosing the correct sign of the square root, we get a map from $\Omega$ to the unit disk.
However, I am stuck on part b). If the map extended to a continuous map, would it be necessarilly holomorphic in the entire plane so I could apply Liouville's theorem? What are some general statements that can be made about extending maps continously to the boundary?
Many thanks in advance!

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The Medieval Dungeons
From bread house to prison
Judgment and sentencing in past centuries
Criminal jurisdiction
The early development of criminal jurisdiction in Nuremberg remains hazy. In the beginning, jurisdiction was the privilege of the Empire and was controlled by the Royal Steward. In the thirteenth century, the Burgrave took over jurisdiction. And finally, from the beginning of the fourteenth century, the Imperial Bailiff was obliged to carry out the judgments delivered by the Jury (part of the City Council).
The "Gerüft"
Whenever a culprit was caught red-handed, they had to be brought to court with the corresponding "Gerüfte" (court cry). In the Middle Ages, the word "Gerüft" or "Gerücht" signified a call uttered by someone who had been wronged, the so-called "hue and cry", such as "O Weh!" or "O Wappen!" or similar. Any adult who heard this cry was supposed to rush to help overwhelm the wrongdoer, tie them up, and attach the "Handhafte" (the stolen goods, or the hand or the finger of the murdered person) to their back.
The formal accusation of the person arrested or pursued with these cries also had to begin with a "Gerüft": for example, "Murderer!" or "Thief!" The arrestee was then dragged to the judge in the City Hall, accompanied by the continuous calling out of their crime.
In later years, it was sufficient for the accused to be convicted by seven sworn witnesses. This procedure was superseded in 1320 by the procedure of establishing one's "good repute".
In the early fourteenth century a criminal code – the "Halsgerichtsordnung," with the title "How to Sit in Judgement Over A Person" – was drafted and written in a book of statutes. In 1532, Emperor Karl V published a criminal code applicable to the entire Empire.
The torture of the accused was only abolished in 1813 by the Bavarian Criminal Court.
Last meal before the execution
The only room with natural daylight was the "Hangman's Room," furnished only with a table and a chair. This is where those condemned to death could have their last meal before their execution.
The food provided in the last three days before the execution was quite rich, which was probably intended to pacify the prisoners.
A specification of costs lists the food served during the final three days: for example, this was the menu for one final meal:
1 egg gruel
2 potted chickens
1 roasted leg of veal
1 ½ liters of wine
The execution site was the "Rabenstein" scaffold in the Galgenhof area of town just outside the city walls, roughly where today's main railway station is situated. The place of execution, a brick structure of considerable proportions, was established there in 1441. This has been concluded from a report on the renovation of this site in 1605.


Everyone that owns a home wants to take pride in it. When a home looks like it hasn't been kept up with properly, it can really be hard to be proud of it. Thankfully, with landscaping, you can turn your home from just a regular house into a spectacular one! Continue reading to learn a few professional landscaping tricks.
Be creative and use several plant types in your landscape design. This will protect your landscaping from insects and invasive diseases. If you plant the same plants, chances are they'll all be lost. To insure the health of your plants, incorporate diversity in your landscaping.
Your yard will look great continuously with different evergreens and foliage plants. A lot of plants will blossom for only a short time, and you might end up with a dull yard in between seasons. Use foliage plants or evergreens to fill in your yard so it stays green.
If you want a nice yard but don't have a lot of cash, consider completing your project in stages. Know which projects suit each space or season. Doing so is much easier to handle financially. Write down every step in the process and pick the ones you need to finish first.
Now that you know a little more about landscaping, you should be more comfortable with practicing your skills. The only way to really get good at something is to get hands-on with it. By using the tips and tricks that were presented in this article, you will be landscaping like a pro in no time.


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