Flex Magazine Articles: - Beware of the Experts!
Only by ignoring the experts, was I able to build the world's largest muscular arms. I refused to be held back by baseless rules and psychological restrictions of the experts. I was a nine-year-old sickly, skinny kid who started boxing at the Catholic Boys Club, to build up his body. But instead, I got beat up. I knew then that boxing was not for me. Two years later I started bodybuilding.
One important tip I want to stress for your educational agenda is to beware of the experts. Give a man the title of expert forces him to be one; even if he doesn't have any idea of what he is talking about. How about a few utterances of the so-called experts of old: the world is flat; man will never fly; weight training will make you muscle bound; nutrition has nothing to do with disease. Those were the utterings of self-style experts who didn't have the foggiest idea of what they were talking about. Millions of people believed them as though they were gospel.
Yet there were always people who didn't accept the wisdom of the so-called experts and you know the results; rapid progress in all fields of endeavor, by people who refuse to be hampered by the experts. It is human nature to seek answers and bodybuilders head the list of seekers. I hear more crack pot schemes to build muscles overnight, from bodybuilders, than I can count. Hence, people out to make a buck will promise anything, knowing someone will buy into it.
I hate to disappoint you, but there are no magic solutions to building your body. Please don't waste your time seeking them, searching out self-style experts, who will claim to have all the answers is truly an exercise in futility. If diligence, hard work, and intelligent application to the science of training and diet is magic, then spread it as if was butter, because it will certainly work like magic.
Of course there are experts in many fields, science, medicine, etc. I am talking about those "know-it-all, absent-of-facts" experts. I look back to my active training days when my arms were really growing. There standing in front of me, was a guy with 12 inch arms pumped up, telling me I was doing the curls wrong according to what he read. Here was a guy with no appreciable development, telling me results do not matter, it was the expert who wrote the book.
I read this story a while back and I thought I would pass it on to you as a graphic example of the blindness of the "know-it-all" experts. In the early era of auto making, the legendary pioneer of the auto industry, Henry Ford, was getting horrendous reports of severe injuries from shattered glass in auto collisions. He asked his company experts to produce shatter proof glass, but they told him it couldn't be done. Ford's answer was to go to the local universities where they hadn't yet learned what "could not" be done. Consequently, shatter proof glass was invented. Listening to the experts is fine but ask questions, it will help sharpen your common sense in detecting what may be real and what is self-serving fantasy.
Not too long ago, you were at the top of your game with 16-inch biceps. Well-developed arms of 16 inches put you in the elite class of bodybuilders. It was almost an unwritten law that you weren't going to get much bigger than that. The prevailing expert wisdom of the time was you were approaching your physical limit. At the time, being psychologically constricted by the experts, I was ecstatic when my arms reached 16 ½ inches. I thought, maybe I could get to 17, or the astounding size of 18 inches; now I am really dreaming because the experts say the human body is not designed to maintain muscles that large. The so called experts in bodybuilding had a laundry list of rules you dare not break if you wanted a muscular body. One unbreakable rule was not to do over three sets for a body part three times a week or you will over train and lose muscles instead of building them. We took the the self-help expert's advice to heart, and studiously avoided doing more than three sets. Everyone at the gym religiously followed the three sets per body part dogma. I was so obsessed with wanting big arms, I felt three sets might be enough, but my arms needed more work, yet I was fearful of breaking the three set rule. I decided I was going to try more sets and see what happens. I was only 15 years old, who am I to have the temerity to challenge the experts. I was frustrated with the prevailing wisdom. I decided to try doing six sets and see what happens.
To my elated surprise, my arms responded almost immediately to the extra work. I became embolden by the progress; I jumped from 3 sets to 6 to 12 sets. I began to accelerate my entire bodybuilding routine to an intensity guided by my body's response. After initially watching me train so hard, with disdain, the boys in the gym watched in awe as my arms grew from 16 inches to 17 ¼ in three months. Seeing my rapid improvement convinced everyone to eagerly reject the now discredited advice of the experts. We pushed our muscles to the extent we had not dared to do previously.
Despite my success in dumping the overwork theory, I still hadn't lost my awe for the experts. I heard that David Willoughby could scientifically tell your size potential by measuring key bones in your body. Dave got out the caliper and measuring tape, and in a very knowledgeable manner said, "Leroy, carefully measuring your bone size, the maximum biceps you could hope to develop is 18 1/2 inches. That is the largest size your bone structure could possibly handle. I advise you not to set your goal that high because that's the max." I was disappointed in Dave's expert opinion because I had begun to dream of a record breaking 19 inches. Well, I built my arms to 21 1/2 inches. The bone size theory didn't hold up, it looked and sounded good, but in the end, just fanciful theory. Ironically, David was the expert that officially measured my biceps at 21 1/2 inches. "Absolutely astonishing, beyond all calculations," David embarrassingly said. I felt sorry to see David's so called science collapse before his own eyes.
The self-style experts have been attempting to predict man's physical achievements for years, telling athletes what their maximum potential could be and what records will never be broken. Yet there is always someone who defies the experts and breaks the records that couldn't be broken. The experts once emphatically said running a four minute mile was beyond human capacity, until Roger Bannister said, "I can do it" - and he did it. Today, running a mile under four minutes is taken for granted. The psychological barrier was destroyed.
The experts scared off a lot of potentially great bodybuilders with the muscle-bound theory; if you lift weight you will become stiff and inflexible. None of this nonsense was based on fact. How about the so called supplements experts claiming the taking of vitamins was a waste of time, you don't need them, you will just urinate them out. Now the so called experts have changed their tune, vitamins are drugs and you have to be careful overdosing on them. They are now saying the "worthless" vitamins must be regulated. If they knew what they were talking about in the first place, they would have not come to the conclusion vitamins were worthless. Are we suppose to believe them now that they claim vitamins are drugs?
I have gotten to the point that I laugh at most of the pronouncements of the so called "experts." Stick to the proven journals of knowledge, Flex and Muscle and Fitness, the magazines that will give you all the pertinent information for you to digest and apply to your physical fitness. You must not look to be lead by the hand, just guided to fitness. Use all the information as a guide. It may apply perfectly for Ronnie Coleman but not for you. Don't be afraid to experiment, but avoid at all cost, seeking the magic solution because there isn't any!
Most champions throughout their careers are constantly adjusting, improvising, and experimenting. Trying this and trying that, more reps - less reps, more hours - less hours, more intensity - less intensity, heavy – light, etc., they learned to fashion their program to their body's response. Never give up your ability to reason and apply the knowledge you obtain. Never surrender your instinct and common sense to anyone. From the earth is flat, to man will never get to the moon, the experts were wrong. So keep focused and BEWARE THE EXPERTS!


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Movie Palaces and Houses of New York City – Lost in Time
Vic's Note: I wanted to share this fantastic article from The New York Post written by Lou Lumerick and published and posted back in July of 2012
It focuses on some of the dwindling Great Movie Palaces and Houses of NYC. Some of which I have been to myself to see some of the most brilliant and wonderful films of my childhood years and beyond. Enjoy!
NYC's Lost Movie Houses
By Lou Lumenick
Posted: 10:12 AM, July 8, 2012
As I report in today's print edition, the beloved Ziegfeld, one of only two remaining single-screen movie theaters in Manhattan, is losing money and is in danger of closing with the entire Clearview Cinemas chain on the block. Which, as far as I'm concerned, would be a real tragedy for a city that has seen more than a dozen theaters — including the Baronet/Coronet , Art Greenwich, Chelsea West (nee RKO 23rd St), Tower East and the Coliseumin Morningside House– close in Manhattan alone since I began working the movie beat in 1999.As my pal Ross Melnick of Cinema Treasures points out, New York has one of the worst records of any major city in the country for movie-theater preservation, largely "because the land they're sitting on is just too valuable."
The magnificent Loews Triboro in Astoria, Queens, an Moorish atmospheric theater with twinkling stars on the ceiling where my graduation from William Cullen Bryant High School was held, was razed a decade later in 1977 to make way for a row of two-family homes. A couple of blocks up Steinway Street, the Astoria Theatre — where I saw the Three Stooges do a live show to promote "The Three Stooges Meet Hercules" (1962) — was gutted years ago to house a Duane Reade. A few, like Loews Valencia in Queens, have survived more or less intact as churches, while the Beacon and the Gramercy are music venues — and the massive Loews Kings in Brooklyn has stood forlonly empty for decades as restoration plans were discussed.
The situation has been far worse for Manhttan's historic movie theaters, which have been closing for more than half a century. Follow the links to more information, and photos at Cinema Treasures:
Reputedly the city's most beautiful Art Deco movie palace with all-wood interiors, it opened in late 1932 and was originally known as the RKO Roxy (until the owners of the nearby Roxy threatened a lawsuit). The 4000-seat Center was doomed a few months later when its even larger sister theater in Rockfeller Center, Radio City Music Hall, switched from being a strictly live-performance venue to showing high-profile movies with a live stage show. Movies were quickly abandoned and the Center struggled as a sporadic home for opera, ice shows and radio programs before being demolished in 1954 to make room for an addition to what is now known as the McGraw Hill Building on Sixth Avenue between 48th and 49th Street. The Music Hall narrowly escaped the wrecker's ball when its movies-and-stage show format ended in the mid-1970s and it reverted to being used for the live shows it was originally designed to host.
THE ROXY
The world's largest and most famous movie palace when it opened under the sponsorship of Hollywood mogul William Fox 1927, the Roxy boasted six lounges and an on-site hospital and hosted a nationally broadcast radio show. But this 6,000-seat venue always struggled to meet its heftyy operating expenses, even after its trademark stage shows were abandoned and the proscenium was enlarged to accomodate 1950s CinemaScope epics like "The Robe." The building housing the enormous auditorium was demolished in 1961 (see this striking photo of Gloria Swanson in the rubble) and the space that housed its spacious lobby in an adjoining hotel is now home to a TGIF at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 49th Street.
THE PARAMOUNT
Famous as the site of a near-riot by teenage girls that erupted when Frank Sinatra appeared in support of "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay" in 1943, the ornate Paramount, boasting an enormous chandelier and theater organ, opened in 1926 at the base of a then-new office tower still known as the Paramount Building at Broadway and 43rd Street. The theater space was gutted in 1966 to make room for more offices. A replica of the Paramount's famous original curved marquee stands outside the entrance to the current tenant, the Hard Rock Cafe. The equally well-known Brooklyn Paramount was converted into a gymnasium for Long Island University in 1962.
Many of MGM's most famous hits appeared at this fabled 1919 movie palace — often accompanied by stage shows with the likes of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland — right up to the Capitol's final attraction, a 70mm run of "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 1968. The office tower known as Paramount Plaza (no relation to the movie studio) has long occupied the site.
THE RIVOLI
Opened in 1917 Paramount, whose Oscar-winning "Wings" ran here for more than two years. Instantly recognizable by the imposing columns outside its auditorium on Broadway and 49th Street, the Rivoli hosted months-long road-show engagements of films like "The Sound of Music" into the mid-1960s. But like a number of other Times Square movie palaces that survived into the 1970s it was twinned and became increasingly seedy before closing in 1987 to make room for another office tower. Similar fates befell the nearby Loews State andthe Warner (aka Strand and Cinerama ) which were demolished around the same time.
THE CRITERION
An art moderne gem from 1936 that was run as a first-run showplace at various points by RKO and Loews, the Criterion sank to barely more than a Times Square grind house after its balcony was turned into a separate auditorium and four dank screens were added in the basement in the 1980s. The opening of two new megaplexes on 42nd Street finally finished off Broadway's last surviving movie palace in 2000, and the space was gutted for a Toys R Us Store.
THE BEEKMAN
The most luxuriously appointed of the mid-sized (587 seats in this case) theaters that opened after World War II, this Second Avenue landmark hosted exclusive runs of many Woody Allen movies and even had a cameo in "Annie Hall." It was still a successful art house when its landlord, Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital, refused to renew Clearview Cinema's lease. After a brief public outcry, the Beekman was torn down in 2005 for an outpatient cancer treatement center. The name was transferred to a theater across the originally known as Loews New York Twin.
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mistylayne says:
<3!!!
Victor De Leon says:
Glad you liked it! 😀 Gracias!
filmscorehunter says:
I hadn't realized that the Beekman had been torn down. I went there once in June 2003 for a preview screening of Ang Lee's "Hulk" (which was a part of the Museum of the Moving Image's Ang Lee retrospective). It was a really nice theater; it's too bad the original is gone.
Very nice! I enjoyed myself many times at The Beekman. It was there that I first experienced stadium style seating and I loved the opening and closing of those curtains. Thanks for stopping by! 😀

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Tillandsia balbisiana es una especie de planta epífita dentro del género  Tillandsia de la  familia de las bromeliáceas.

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Son planta acaulescentes, que alcanzan un tamaño de 10–60 cm de alto. Hojas de 23–51 cm de largo; vainas de 2–3 (–3.5) cm de ancho, pálidas, con indumento adpreso- a subpatente-lepidoto denso; láminas angostamente alargado-triangulares, 0.8–1.3 cm de ancho, densamente adpreso- a subpatente-lepidotas. Escapo (12–) 16–27 (–40) cm de largo, brácteas con vainas abrazadoras más largas que los entrenudos; inflorescencia pinnada a subdigitado compuesta o raramente simple, erecta, brácteas primarias 2–5 (–15) cm de largo, desde más largas que las espigas hasta más cortas; espigas 3–10 cm de largo, con hasta 9 flores, erectas a ligeramente divergentes, brácteas florales 1.7–2.3 cm de largo, imbricadas, erectas a divergentes en la antesis, ecarinadas a carinadas, frecuentemente nervadas marginal y apicalmente o raramente nervadas por completo, indumento lepidoto esparcido, cartáceas a subcoriáceas, flores sésiles; sépalos 1–1.7 cm de largo, los 2 posteriores carinados y connados menos de la 1/2 de su longitud, libres del sépalo anterior; pétalos púrpuras. Los frutos en cápsulas 2.5–5 cm de largo.

Distribución y hábitat
Es una especie común, que se encuentra en los matorrales, bosques caducifolios, bosques de pino-encinos, bosques perennifolios, a una altitud de 0–900 (–1100) m; fl may–sep, fr la mayor parte del año; desde Estados Unidos (Florida) y México hasta el norte de Sudamérica, también en las Antillas.

Cultivares
 Tillandsia 'Dura Flor'
 Tillandsia 'Florida'
 Tillandsia 'Polly Ellen'
 Tillandsia 'Red Fountain'
 Tillandsia 'Royale'
 Tillandsia 'Timm'

Taxonomía
Tillandsia balbisiana fue descrita por Schult. & Schult.f. y publicado en Systema Vegetabilium 7(2): 1212. 1830.
Etimología
Tillandsia: nombre genérico que fue nombrado por Carlos Linneo en 1738 en honor al médico y botánico finlandés Dr. Elias Tillandz (originalmente Tillander) (1640-1693).

balbisiana: epíteto
Sinonimia

 Platystachys digitata Beer
 Tillandsia cubensis Gand.
 Tillandsia dressleri L.B.Sm.
 Tillandsia urbaniana Wittm.

Referencias

Bibliografía
  CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, Mexico City.
  Correa A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Cat. Pl. Vasc. Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá.
  Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater. 1994. Alismataceae a Cyperaceae. 6: i–xvi, 1–543. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater (eds.) Fl. Mesoamer.. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D. F.
  Flora of North America Editorial Committee, e. 2000. Magnoliophyta: Alismatidae, Arecidae, Commelinidae (in part), and Zingiberidae. Fl. N. Amer. 22: i–xxiii, 1–352.
  Funk, V. A., P. E. Berry, S. Alexander, T. H. Hollowell & C. L. Kelloff. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55: 1–584.  View in Biodiversity Heritage Library
  Hokche, O., P. E. Berry & O. Huber. (eds.) 2008. Nuevo Cat. Fl. Vasc. Venez. 1–859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela, Caracas.
  Holst, B. K. 1994. Checklist of Venezuelan Bromeliaceae with notes on species distribution by state and levels of endemism. Selbyana 15: 132–149.
  Idárraga-Piedrahíta, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello. (eds.) 2011. Fl. Antioquia: Cat. 2: 9–939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.

Enlaces externos

balbisiana
Plantas epifitas
Flora de América
Plantas descritas en 1830
Plantas descritas por Schultes
Plantas descritas por Schult.f.

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Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 19 June 1947. He went to school in Bombay and at Rugby in England, and read History at King's College, Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge Footlights theatre company. After graduating, he lived with his family who had moved to Pakistan in 1964, and worked briefly in television before returning to England, beginning work as a copywriter for an advertising agency. His first novel, Grimus, was published in 1975.
Rushdie's third novel, Shame (1983), which many critics saw as an allegory of the political situation in Pakistan, won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. The publication in 1988 of his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, lead to accusations of blasphemy against Islam and demonstrations by Islamist groups in India and Pakistan. The orthodox Iranian leadership issued a fatwa against Rushdie on 14 February 1989 – effectively a sentence of death – and he was forced into hiding under the protection of the British government and police. The book itself centres on the adventures of two Indian actors, Gibreel and Saladin, who fall to earth in Britain when their Air India jet explodes. It won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1988.
Salman Rushdie continued to write and publish books, including a children's book, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990), a warning about the dangers of story-telling that won the Writers' Guild Award (Best Children's Book), and which he adapted for the stage (with Tim Supple and David Tushingham. It was first staged at the Royal National Theatre, London.) There followed a book of essays entitled Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 (1991); East, West (1994), a book of short stories; and a novel, The Moor's Last Sigh (1995), the history of the wealthy Zogoiby family told through the story of Moraes Zogoiby, a young man from Bombay descended from Sultan Muhammad XI, the last Muslim ruler of Andalucía.
The Ground Beneath Her Feet, published in 1999, re-works the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the context of modern popular music. His most recent novel, Fury, set in New York at the beginning of the third millennium, was published in 2001. He is also the author of a travel narrative, The Jaguar Smile (1987), an account of a visit to Nicaragua in 1986.
Salman Rushdie is Honorary Professor in the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was made Distinguished Fellow in Literature at the University of East Anglia in 1995. He was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 1993 and the Aristeion Literary Prize in 1996, and has received eight honorary doctorates. He was elected to the Board of American PEN in 2002. The subjects in his new book, Step Across This Line: Collected Non-fiction 1992-2002 (2002), range from popular culture and football to twentieth-century literature and politics. Salman Rushdie is also co-author (with Tim Supple and Simon Reade) of the stage adaptation of Midnight's Children, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2002.
Shalimar The Clown, the story of Max Ophuls, his killer and daughter, and a fourth character who links them all, was published in 2005. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Novel Award.
Salman Rushdie's latest novel is The Enchantress of Florence (2008). He became a KBE in 2007.
Novelist, essayist, travel writer and screenwriter, martyr for free speech and purveyor of story as political statement, Rushdie has not only achieved the singular distinction of being recognised as an artist in his own lifetime but is also arguably the most prominent novelist of the late 20th century, both for his literary achievements and for the controversy surrounding them. Like Marquez in Spanish, Rushdie has taken history as his subject and fictionalised it, thus instituting a new genre. He has received almost every award in the course of a near 30-year career and has become the living image of the romantic writer; worldly, erudite and knowing, equally at ease with the purveyors of pop culture and the intellectual arbiters of literary taste, scabrous critic of colonialism, be it political, social or cultural, and, despite his deep connection to the events of his time he remains somehow removed from the ordinary sphere of existence; abstract, aloof, distant.
In his novel Shame (1983), Rushdie writes, 'is history to be considered the property of the participants solely?' and in Imaginary Homelands (1991), a collection of essays on racism in Britain, he calls for 'books that draw new and better maps of reality, and make new languages with which we can understand the world.' Both of these quotes offer keys to an understanding of the author. Rushdie is renowned for taking symbols and figures from different myth systems and religions and interweaving them with different juxtapositions: themes from Islam and Hinduism are interwoven with figures from English literature and English literary references. His work advocates that the cultural exchange brought about by Empire has enriched rather than cheapened contemporary literature; in his fiction Rushdie has demanded the right, in a fractured and confused post-colonial climate, to be a part of the telling of one's own history. Rushdie has challenged official historical truth, launched vituperative attacks on petty nationalism and the censorship of the state, all the while wrapping his readers in the magic realist swirl of dreamscape and fairytale in which the conventional is challenged with astonishing wit and intellectual daring.
Rushdie's narrators are unreliable and intrusive; the 'I' narrating is essentially an essayist, Rushdie's literary default setting. These narrators cajole and harry, taunt and tease with a thunderous irreverence; what is the significance of fictions they ask, what purpose do they serve, what role do they play? Rushdie's belief is in the transformative power of fiction; stories posit alternative realities, they reclaim the past and through the smashing of convention via the element of the fantastical, proffer a utopian vision of the future.
Rushdie's first novel, Grimus (1975), is often overlooked in any overview of the writer's oeuvre, perhaps because it lacks the marked sense of geographical and historical context which characterises his later and more acclaimed work. Grimus, the tale of Flapping Eagle, the novel's immortal hero, who travels to Calf Island after seven hundred years of sailing the seas with the hope of regaining his mortality, is a beautiful book; funny and often surprisingly touching. A science fiction based hybrid of religious myth and literary pastiche, Grimus has all the simplicity and sense of magic of folktale, and all the complexity of a deeply questioning philosophical novel. Grimus introduces in raw form many of the themes developed by Rushdie in his later writing, such as displacement, unstable identity and cultural hybridity.
Rushdie followed Grimus with the Booker Prize for Fiction winner, Midnight's Children (1981), which traces India's development from independence and partition in 1947, through the secession of Bangladesh to the state of emergency under Indira Ghandi. The history of India is given phantasmagorical form by the novel's protagonist and narrator Saleem Sinai, a Hindu child raised by wealthy Muslims, who comes to believe his own life is a metaphor for the state of his country. Saleem has decided to tell his life story and the story of India as he is, quite literally, falling apart, 'I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug.' The children of the book's title are all born at midnight on the day India's independence is declared. There are 1,001 of them and all have a special ability. Saleem's is telepathy and it is this gift which allows him to discover the truth about his own identity and those of the other children. Considered by many to be Rushdie's masterpiece, Midnight's Children is extraordinary for its vast historical sweep and the confidence of its archly modernist prose. It recalls Gunter Grass's Tin Drum but distinguishes itself by its dazzling pyrotechnic display of style: the dizzying array of puns and alliteration, word play and rhyme is at times breathtaking for its exuberant bravery. Rushdie has stated that Joyce and Grass taught him that anything was possible in literature, that boundaries are arbitrary limits imposed by man, that art with belief in itself can rewrite any set of conventions, however firmly entrenched. With Midnight's Children, Rushdie proved that he was more than capable of upsetting the literary apple cart.
Following Midnight's Children was Shame (1983). Set in the fictional country of Peccavistan, it is a thinly veiled satirical history of Pakistan and recalls historical events through the prism of a family drama involving a military dictator and his mentally retarded, ultimately murderous daughter. Less effusive and energetic than Midnight's Children, it is a darker, subtler, work.
As politically contentious as these books were, Rushdie is most famous, however, for the extraordinary furore surrounding the fatwa-inspiring The Satanic Verses (1988), which earned him international notoriety amongst Muslims for its unfavourable depiction of the prophet Mohammed, and its fictional reworking of an apocryphal episode from Islamic history. Coloured by the controversy surrounding the novel, the actual merits of it are, even now, often overlooked. Although it may not, stylistically speaking, be Rushdie's most accomplished work, it is none the less an astoundingly ambitious novel: a cutting satire on the state of migration in the United Kingdom and a vivid and compelling exploration of good and evil, religious faith and fanatical belief. It asks us to discern reality from the illusory and although Islam charged Rushdie with incorporating events depicted in the Koran, this is something that Rushdie vehemently denied.
In recent years Rushdie has looked to the West for his inspiration. The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) retells the myth of Orpheus through the lives of two 20th century Indian-born rock stars as well as detailing the history of rock and roll in America, whilst Fury (2001) is the tale of a brilliant man, in decline and exiled in New York, groping for meaning as he stumbles through his increasingly tense liaisons with women half his age.
Whatever Rushdie does next will be a literary event: it could not be anything else.
For an in-depth critical review see Salman Rushdie by Damian Grant (Northcote House, 1999: Writers and their Work Series).
'It seems to me, more and more, that the fictional project on which I've been involved ever since I began Midnight's Children back in 1975 is one of self-definition. That novel, Shame and The Satanic Verses strike me as an attempt to come to terms with the various component parts of myself – countries, memories, histories, families, gods. First the writer invents the books; then, perhaps, the books invent the writer.
But whenever I say anything about my work I want to contradict myself at once. To say that beyond self-exploration lies a sense of writing as sacrament, and maybe that's closer to how I feel: that writing fills the hole left by the departure of God.
But, again, I love story, and comedy, and dreams. And newness: the novel, as its name suggests, is about the making of the new.


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Gyalopion is a genus of small nonvenomous colubrid snakes. Species in the genus Gyalopion are commonly referred to as hooknose snakes, and are native to the southwestern United States and Mexico.

Taxonomy
The following species and subspecies are recognized:

Gyalopion canum  – western hook-nosed snake
Gyalopion quadrangulare  – desert hook-nosed snake
Gyalopion quadrangulare desertorum
Gyalopion quadrangulare quadrangulare

Nota bene: A binomial authority or trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Gyalopion.

Geographic range
G. canum is found in the United States (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas), and in Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Zacatecas).

G. quadrangulare is found in the United States (Arizona), and in Mexico (Sinaloa, Sonora).

Habitat
Hooknose snakes prefer shortgrass prairie habitats.

Description
Dorsally, the base color of hook-nosed snakes is light brown, which is overlaid with darker brown crossbands. The ventral color is white or cream-colored. The most distinguishing feature of hook-nosed snakes is an upturned snout, which has a concave rostral scale, as opposed to hognose snakes which have a keeled rostral scale. Species of Gyalopion rarely grow beyond 25.5 cm (10 inches) in total length (including tail).

Behavior
Hooknose snakes are nocturnal and secretive snakes, generally found hiding under rocks, or buried in the soil.

Diet
The primary diet of hook-nosed snakes consists of spiders and centipedes.

Reproduction
Species in the genus Gyalopion are oviparous.

References

Further reading
Cope ED (1860). "Catalogue of the Colubridæ in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with notes and descriptions of new species. Part 2". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 12: 241–266. (Gyalopion, new genus, p. 243).

External links
Herps of Texas: Gyalopion canum

Colubrids
Snake genera
Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope


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The board of directors, members and staff of the Jamaica Manufacturers Exporters Association (JMEA) are mourning the passing of Douglas Vaz, past president of then Jamaica Manufacturers Association (JMA), now JMEA, for the period of 1973 to 1974 and 1975 to 1976.
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In his work as minister, manufacturing was still a part of his mandate, as he played a key role in the improvement of job creation opportunities within the island.
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 * A skeletal implementation of Hadoop Combiner class which uses {@link SegmentedWritable} as it key/value.
 * @param <KEY> the key type
 * @param <VALUE> the value type
 * @since 0.1.0
 * @version 0.5.1
 */
public abstract class SegmentedCombiner<
        KEY extends SegmentedWritable,
        VALUE extends SegmentedWritable>
        extends Reducer<KEY, VALUE, KEY, VALUE> {

    /**
     * The method name of {@link #getRendezvous(SegmentedWritable)}.
     */
    public static final String GET_RENDEZVOUS = "getRendezvous"; //$NON-NLS-1$

    /**
     * Returns the {@link Rendezvous} object for processing the target segment.
     * @param key the segment information
     * @return the corresponded {@link Rendezvous} object
     */
    protected abstract Rendezvous<VALUE> getRendezvous(KEY key);

    @Override
    protected void reduce(KEY key, Iterable<VALUE> values, Context context) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
        Iterator<VALUE> iter = values.iterator();
        if (iter.hasNext() == false) {
            // may not occur
            return;
        }
        Rendezvous<VALUE> group = getRendezvous(key);
        if (group == null) {
            while (iter.hasNext()) {
                VALUE row = iter.next();
                KEY current = context.getCurrentKey();
                context.write(current, row);
            }
        } else {
            group.begin();
            while (iter.hasNext()) {
                VALUE row = iter.next();
                group.process(row);
            }
            group.end();
        }
    }
}

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"""
http://community.topcoder.com/stat?c=problem_statement&pm=1599

Single Round Match 146 Round 1 - Division II, Level Three
"""

class BridgeCrossing:
    def minTime(self, times):
        if len(times) == 1:
            return times[0]

        times = sorted(times)
        min_time = times[1]
        slowest_waiter = len(times) - 1

        while slowest_waiter >= 2:
            if slowest_waiter == 2:  # 3 people left
                min_time += times[0] + times[2]
                slowest_waiter -= 1
            else:  # more than 3 people left
                min_time += min([
                    times[0] + times[slowest_waiter] + times[1] * 2,
                    times[slowest_waiter] + times[slowest_waiter - 1] + times[0] * 2])
                slowest_waiter -= 2

        return min_time


In case you haven't noticed, we're pretty excited that there is now less than one month until our annual Evening with Emily's Entourage Gala on Saturday, December 5th! We know that many of you have questions about what the evening will entail- will this Gala be similar to others you've attended or heard about, what can you expect, and how can you prepare? We wanted to address these potential questions for you, in a fun, playful way, so we figured we would help squash the myths and provide some helpful hints at the same time.
The Evening with Emily's Entourage Gala isn't for ME, it's for people my parents' age.
SO FALSE! The Gala is for YOU, your friends, your parents, your parents friends, your friends parents…well, you get the picture! The event is specifically designed to include elements that appeal to a range of ages and interests, and it is a rewarding, interactive evening for everyone involved.
I guess I need to start saving my rent money in order to afford an expensive ticket just to get through the door.
The Gala is not an open house event, but rather has a specific timeline and program so it's best if I arrive as close to 7:00pm as possible.
SO TRUE! To make sure you have the pleasure of enjoying all the parts of the Gala, we encourage you to arrive promptly at 7pm, as we try our best to stick to a clear timeline. We wouldn't want you to miss a chance to bid on awesome auction items, taste some special treats or participate in our interactive elements before the speaking program begins. Please note: of course we understand if circumstances necessitate you arriving late or leaving early, and we still hope to see you there!
I can just ignore all the emails and social media reminders and I'll buy my ticket at the door on the night of the event.
SO FALSE! In past years, the Gala has sold out in advance and attendance has reached maximum capacity. To ensure you are able to attend, please purchase your tickets in advance via our website.
If I'm going to the Gala, I better step up my online shopping and find a one-of-a-kind, straight off the runway ball gown so I fit in with the black tie dress code.
SO FALSE! Although many in attendance may choose to dress up, our event strikes a decidedly casual tone. Our goal is for everyone to feel comfortable. No formal attire or designer dresses required! We do not have an official dress code and you'll see attendees dressed in a wide range of attire—from cocktail dresses to jeans and a nice top.
While a full sit down dinner will not be served, I can count on eating a variety of tasty appetizers and light snacks, paired with delicious wine or beer.
SO TRUE! We aim to please and you can bet on an abundance of delectable options to choose from as light fare will be provided at the Gala. We also have a reputation for serving up a robust dessert spread and we promise this year won't disappoint—so bring your sweet tooth!
Since there is not a seated dinner, I guess I need to choose comfortable shoes because I'll have to stand on my feet for the entire night.
SO FALSE! Your comfort matters to us! Prior to our speaking program, hundreds of chairs will be set up in our event room so that attendees can focus on the moving content while relaxing comfortably and spending some time off their feet.
After I arrive and snap a few pics with my friends, I can leave early without missing anything.
SO FALSE! We like our events to pack a big punch, so the evening has been carefully crafted to flow from one activity into another. We aim to provide a full evening of programming and we're willing to bet that once you arrive, you'll quickly realize that there's more than enough planned to keep you busy for the duration of the event.
I'm so relieved that even though I can't make it to the event this year, I can still bid on the awesome auction items!
SO TRUE! This year we are pleased to offer mobile bidding via GalaBid, making it possible for you to bid on items from ANYWHERE. In addition, the silent auction will open the week of November 19th and you can start bidding before anyone even steps foot through the door. What a fun way to get in on the action and score some of the awesome items available this year!
Parking at these types of events is so expensive and it's always impossible to find a spot.
SO FALSE! You're in luck because there is ample parking at the gala AND even better,it's all free! When you arrive, there will be both signage and volunteers to guide you and make the parking process seamless. There will also be handicap parking spots reserved- and the venue is handicap accessible with an elevator, but feel free to contact us if you have additional questions about mobility options.
Have a question that isn't answered here? We would love to hear from you! Contact us at admin@emilysentourage.org.


I just watched the 2013 adaptation of The Great Gatsby. I was not expecting much given the drubbing it got form critiques. I was very pleasantly surprised.
Critiques panned it for being shallow, over sensationalized and placing style above substance. That was the whole point of the Great Gatsby. This is the film F Scott Fitzgerald would have made.
Waiting for the film to arrive in Spain. Don´t say too much or you´ll spoil it for me.


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Stocks Making the Biggest Moves After Hours: Lululemon, Boston Beer, GameStop & More
By Maggie Fitzgerald, CNBC • Published September 8, 2021 • Updated on September 8, 2021 at 5:52 pm
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Check out the companies making headlines after the bell:
Lululemon — Shares of the athletic retailer surged more than 10% in after hours trading on Wednesday after reporting fiscal second-quarter profit and revenue that topped analysts' expectations. The retailer also offered a better-than-expected outlook for the third quarter and for the year.
Boston Beer — Shares of the alcoholic beverage company tanked 9% in after hours trading on Wednesday after pulling its earnings guidance amid slowing growth in its hard seltzer brand. "The Company now expects to incur hard seltzer-related inventory write-offs, shortfall fees payable to 3rd party brewers, and other costs that will be expensed during the remainder of fiscal 2021," the company said in a press release.
RH — Shares of the furniture retailer rose 3% in extended trading on Wednesday after beating on the top and bottom lines of its quarterly results. RH earned $8.48 per share, topping estimates of $6.48 per share, according to Refinitiv. Revenue came in at $989 million, above expectations of $975.4 million.
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GameStop — Shares of the brick-and-mortar video game retailer slumped 2% after the bell on Wednesday after reporting a loss of 76 cents per share. The company said it made $1.8 billion in revenue. EPS and revenue were not comparable to estimates.
Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Nio, PayPal, Western Digital and more
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Please note: For the correct frame size, measure the outside of your artwork and matte if using. The molding will overlap your artwork approximately ¼" around.
The finish on White Wash frames will vary from batch to batch due to the effects of the wood showing through the glaze.
Frames have a 7/8" face with a crisp clean line and are 1.5" deep allowing you to frame almost any standard sized canvas you paint on. Select from six lovely finishes: Natural, Black, Mahogany, Cherry, Walnut and White Wash. Simply put there is not a better value in framing on the planet. Now available in new miniature sizes!
For the correct frame size, measure the outside of your artwork and matte if using. The molding will overlap your artwork approximately ¼" all the way around.
Please note: The finish on White Wash frames will vary from batch to batch due to the effects of the wood showing through the glaze.
Ambiance Gallery Mini Wood Frames is rated 4.6 out of 5 by 90.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Ginna from They aren't exactly perfect...but I really love these little frames (I got 2"x3" and 2&1/2" by 3&1/2 They're pretty, plain enough to not overpower the small sized art I do...and not so expensive that I hesitate to use them...I hope they still carry the plain gold finish...and hope they'll carry a copper or "rose gold" finish as well...I've painted a couple of them to suit the piece I'm framing, and that works well too... Well worth the price!
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Rated 4 out of 5 by Quiet from Easy to Work With I used the product to frame paintings for presentation at an art opening. The frames added a finished look to the canvases. The frames were easy to work with, affordable and met the needs of the special occasion.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Pugaboo from Really like these frames I use these small frames for tiny canvas paintings. It makes it really easy to frame a piece and have it displayed nicely. The frames are wide enough you can stand them up on a shelf or hang on a wall. The only thing I do not like are the saw tooth hangers. I wish they did not have them installed as I have to remove them for the gallery I display at and then install hooks and wires instead.
Frames are sized by the opening, not by the outside of the molding. To determine the size of frame to order, measure the outside of your artwork, including mat, and order that size frame. The frame will overlap your artwork ¼" all the way around, so your artwork will fit nicely behind the frame's molding. In this case, you would order a 3x5" frame. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.
Would the Acrylic "glass" that comes with these frames work for pastels?
Thank you for contacting us. The acrylic glazing might work as a substitute for glass in your circumstance if you use a frame spacer like Econospace https://www.jerrysartarama.com/frametek-econospace-art-and-glass-separator EconoSpace© is a clear, neutral pH plastic "peel & stick" type of art-glass separator that bonds to the edge of the glass in a picture frame. This is used to make the proper airspace between the art and glass in either wood or metal picture frames. This airspace helps prevent mold growth, paper buckling, image transfer and adhesion to the glass. Using spacer's is important when framing pastel artwork. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.
I am entering artwork in a show that mandates maximum exterior size of not more than 6" x 6" x 6". What is the optimal canvas size to paint on, and best size frame for it?
Frames are sized by the opening, not by the outside of the molding. To determine the size of frame to order, measure the outside of your artwork, including mat, and order that size frame. The frame will overlap your artwork ¼" all the way around, so your artwork will fit nicely behind the frame's molding. The Ambiance Gallery frames that you are looking at have a 7/8" face with a crisp clean line and are 1.5" deep allowing you to frame almost any standard sized canvas you paint on. If you plan to use this frame the largest canvas that you could paint on would be 4x4" and you would order a 4x4" frame. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.
What are the outside dimensions of a 6" x 6" frame? I need to frame something, but the outside dimensions can not exceed 7" in either direction and I'm wondering if the 6" x 6" would work.
Will this frame allow a 1 1/2 inch canvas to fit inside?
no, the most that will fit is a 1 inch depth, and thats if you remove the glazing. I have the 6x8 and the 5x7. If you seal the back yourself and dont not use the mfd board that comes with it (and remove the glazing too), you can maybe get away with 1 and 1/8. I use canvas panel boards which are alot thinner and then use various foam core depths to find the exact right fit with the mfd board/clips. I dont use the glazing because there's too much of a glare. I do like these alot though, especially for the price.
What type of wood is the Natural Frame? Is it finished?
I ordered the natural recently, just assuming it was unfinished, but it does have a glaze on it. At least the ones I received. Not a stain or paint, but it is sealed- so you would have to sand it down in order to customize it.
Do these frames fit a canvas that is thinner,..7/8" deep?
Thank you for contacting us the Ambiance Gallery mini frames accepts up to ¾" depth stretched canvas. 3/4" is typically the shallowest depth available unless you are using a panel. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.
I need a frame to take a 6"x6" panel. Is the size listed the outside dimensions of the gallery frame or the outside dimensions of the artwork (inside dimensions of the frame? So should I order 6x6 frame e for a 6x6 panel?
The size listed for the frame is for the size of artwork that will fit in the window of the frame. If you have a 6x6" image you would buy a 6x6" frame. Please let us know if you have any other questions.
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It's back to "normal" after a week of retreat. It really is a little jarring when you first come out of retreat, isn't it? The schedule was different, demands on your time, even of yourself, were very different--not to mention the sleep schedule--and most everything else that's part of the "normal" day was suspended for a week.
All that changes today---normalcy returns.
A new idea came to me in one of my relaxing moments last week, so here begins a series: "This is the way it was, pre-email."


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Q: Service / repository design in DDD I'm currently learning DDD, for testing purposes I'm developing a simple blog system, but I can't figure out how to correctly design my services and repositories.
I have:

*

*Post entity

*Post comment entity

*Post tag entity

I have a page where I would like to display all comments and tags for one specific post.
I started with the following controller action:
function showPost($postId) {
    try {
        $postEntity = $this->postService->find($postId);
    } catch {PostNotFoundException $e) {
        // ...
    }

    $postComments = $this->postCommentService->findAll($postEntity);
    $postTags     = $this->postTagService->findAll($postEntity);

    // return to view...
}

In most of the examples available on the internet i read that it's not a good idea to work directly with entities in the controller (application layer), entites should be used only in domain services. So i tried to move them there:
function showPost($postId) {
    $postComments = $this->postCommentService->findAll($postId);
    $postTags     = $this->postTagService->findAll($postId);

    // return to view...
}

But now i have duplicated code in my services, and I have to inject PostRepository in both services:
// in postCommentService
function findAll($postId) {
    try {
        $postEntity = $this->postRepository->find($postId);
    } catch (PostNotFoundException $e) {
        // ...
    }
    $postComments = $this->postCommentRepository->findAll($postEntity);
    return $postComments; // convert to DTO before return
}

// in postTagService
function findAll($postId) {
    try {
        $postEntity = $this->postRepository->find($postId);
    } catch (PostNotFoundException $e) {
        // ...
    }
    $postTags = $this->postTagRepository->findAll($postEntity);
    return $postTags; // convert to DTO before return
}

The third problem is that I need the postEntity (or its DTO equivalent) in my view also, so there would be another (the third) query for that in the controller.
Is there a generic solution for my problem? Query for an object (post) based on an id (postId) and its "subobjects" (comments and tags)?
Or is it okay to query for an entity in the controller and directly use it for querying the services?

A:
Is there a generic solution for my problem?

There's no magic.
You should probably be thinking in terms of a "view service"; something that takes a postId as an argument, and returns a DTO with what you need to build the view.
The view service in turn is going to need three methods

*

*postId -> post

*postId -> list(comments)

*postId -> list(tags)

The key idea is this once you have the post, the list of comments, and the list of tags, you don't actually care where they came from.  That's the point of the repository - it hides the decision about how to persist the data from the parts of the code that don't care.
try {
    $postEntity = $this->postRepository->find($postId);
    $postComments = $this->postCommentRepository->findAll($postId);
    $postTags = $this->postTagRepository->findAll($postId);

    return $this->createDTO($postEntity, $postComments, $postTags);
} catch (PostNotFoundException $e) {
    // ...
}

For use cases that are only reading from the data model, once you have the raw data that you need, you don't need to think about the repositories any longer.  It's often useful to have a clear logical separation between the code that is interacting with the repositories, and the code that is doing the work against the in memory representations of the entities.
If you wanted a more "object oriented" looking API, you could put the work of constructing the DTO into the post entity itself
try {
    $postEntity = $this->postRepository->find($postId);
    return $postEntity->createDTO($this->postCommentRepository, $this->postTagRepository);

} catch (PostNotFoundException $e) {
    // ...
}

Here, the repositories are standing in as a sort of "domain service" giving the postEntity the read capability that it needs to construct the DTO.

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This remodel project in the Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis presented unique challenges to us at Kuechle Construction. It was a complete ground up restoration, converting the 1 ½ story 2 bedroom 1 bath cute craftsman style home to a luxurious full 2 story 4 bedroom 4 bath home. Because of its age (built in 1936) it wasn't quite up to the structural demands of the extra square footage, as we were over doubling it. We fixed this by installing a new foundation throughout the entire house, updated all of the exterior framing around the windows and created a remodel project that really shines in the neighborhood. And even though we completely changed every aspect of this house, we were able to keep that south Minneapolis charm. Staying true to the period of the neighborhood from custom fireplaces to hand selected oak trim.
This home in the Tangletown area of South Minneapolis became a stand out in the neighborhood. From a small one and a half story to a full 2 story with 9 foot ceilings and enough room in the attic for storage and contained HVAC this home is truly stunning. From its detailed soffits, to beautiful cabinetry and hardwood floors the project is a shining example of our dedication to perfection. Open spaces and a warm and welcoming flow make it great for kids as well as entertaining. From the master suite to the basement playroom no detail was overlooked. It went so well we were graciously invited back to finish the homeowners vision with a new 2 stall garage with a Playhouse and attic storage above.
This was a fun project to work on. The client was looking to find new value in their home. They wanted to remodel as well as add a 14X20 addition off the back of the house. They chose Kuechle Construction to help them obtain their goals. Kuechle Construction was contracted to complete the exterior structure, as well as rough in the interior remodeling including: electrical, plumbing, Sheetrock and taping as well as various trim areas. They chose James Hardie Lap Siding, GAF Timberline shingles, and Marvin Windows. We also were able to re-use the windows on the second level. This was accomplished by building custom frames for the replacement windows they had purchased and installed a number of years earlier. It turned out fantastic and we were happy to help them create beautiful project.
This custom home can only be described as elegant. From the Brazilian Cherry hardwood floors and custom Brazilian Cherry cabinets, to the sauna in the basement this home has everything. A fabulous 5 bedroom 3 bath includes a music room, two fireplaces and a billiards room. With dynamic views this home is perfect for relaxing as well as entertaining a crowd. Space was utilized efficiently with attic storage above the3 stall garage and a woodworkers shop below. The gym in the basement truly bring its utility to higher level. It also sets the bar for energy efficiency, and is ranked #1 in the area due to high quality foam insulation, windows, and HVAC including a Boiler heating the lower level through in concrete radiant heat. We believe this is one of the finest homes in the twin cities area, and the homeowners agree.


The Lighting Controls Association is proud to announce that it has entered into a five-year agreement with the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) to sponsor a new Control Innovation Award as part of the IES's prestigious Illumination Awards.
The Illumination Awards recognize professionalism, ingenuity and originality in lighting design. The new Control Innovation Award recognizes projects that exemplify the effective use of lighting controls in nonresidential applications.
The LCA helped draft the award criteria and will be represented in the judging process. Information about the award, with special criteria for submissions, can be found here: www.IES.org/programs/ia.cfm. The specific submittal criteria can be found here: http://www.ies.org/PDF/Awards/ia/LCA-Project-Entry-Suggestions.pdf.
Online submissions for the 2011 Illumination Awards program are being accepted January 18 through February 11, 2011. Final judging will take place on May 16, 2011 in Philadelphia during LIGHTFAIR International.Craig DiLouie, representing LCA, will participate in the judging of the award.


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adidas Originals presents their Fall/Winter 2014 collection with another vibrant lookbook. This season has a wide set of casual and sportswear pieces, all incorporating intricate prints and colorways. It also looks like the apparel will have matching adidas Originals' sneaker models, including the ZX and Torsion ranges. You'll start seeing these pieces in stores beginning July 1.


*Who is craving some comfort food?
*Update 2018: This blog is no longer online. Here's a similar recipe from The Curious Coconut.
*Because garlic is awesome, fighting everything from candida to colds. Use coconut oil in the soup to keep it AIP.
To see the favorites from this week + a whole new group of recipes, visit Roundtable #4!