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The goal of this project is the creation of a crucial building block of the research on AI and Architecture – a database of 3D models necessary to successfully run Artificial Neural Networks in 3D. This database is part of the first stepping-stones for the research at the AR2IL (Architecture and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory), an interdisciplinary Laboratory between Architecture (represented by Taubman College of Architecture of Urban Planning), Michigan Robotics, and the CS Department of the University of Michigan. A Laboratory dedicated to research specializing in the development of applications of Artificial Intelligence in the field of Architecture and Urban Planning. This area of inquiry has experienced an explosive growth in recent years (triggered in part by research conducted at UoM), as evidenced for example by the growth in papers dedicated to AI applications in architecture, as well as in the investment of the industry in this area. The research funded by this proposal would secure the leading position of Taubman College and the University of Michigan in the field of AI and Architecture. This proposal would also address the current lack of 3D databases that are specifically designed for Architecture applications.
The project "Generali Center' presents itself as an experiment in the combination of Machine Learning processes capable of learning the salient features of a specific architecture style – in this case, Brutalism- in order to generatively perform interpolations between the data points of the provided dataset. These images serve as the basis of a pixel projection approach that results in a 3D model.
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Q: Ansible, Juniper CLI commands. Timeout Error? I am trying to transfer an automation script I made in Python, to ansible (company request), and I have NEVER worked with ansible before. I have tried the "wait_for:", but I have not gotten that to work either. In the script, I could set dev.timeout=None or whatever I needed. I am finding it hard to figure out where I can do this in ansible. I have tried setting the timeout in the "ansible.cfg" file. But that doesnt work. I can do simple commands, like:
cli="show version", or
cli="show system firmware".
The following is my playbook:
    - hosts: local
  roles:
  - Juniper.junos
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:
  - junos_cli:
      host={{ inventory_hostname }}
      user=root
      passwd=Hardware1
      cli="request system snapshot slice alternate"
      dest="{{ inventory_hostname }}.txt"

After I run that, around 120 seconds later, I get the following error:
fatal: [192.168.2.254]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "module_stderr": "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jnpr/junos/device.py:652: RuntimeWarning: CLI command is for debug use only!\n  warnings.warn(\"CLI command is for debug use only!\", RuntimeWarning)\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/home/pkb/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1457428640.58-63826456311723/junos_cli\", line 2140, in <module>\n    main()\n  File \"/home/pkb/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1457428640.58-63826456311723/junos_cli\", line 177, in main\n    dev.close()\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jnpr/junos/device.py\", line 504, in close\n    self._conn.close_session()\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ncclient/manager.py\", line 158, in wrapper\n    return self.execute(op_cls, *args, **kwds)\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ncclient/manager.py\", line 228, in execute\n    raise_mode=self._raise_mode).request(*args, **kwds)\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ncclient/operations/session.py\", line 28, in request\n    return self._request(new_ele(\"close-session\"))\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ncclient/operations/rpc.py\", line 342, in _request\n    raise TimeoutExpiredError('ncclient timed out while waiting for an rpc reply.')\nncclient.operations.errors.TimeoutExpiredError: ncclient timed out while waiting for an rpc reply.\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE", "parsed": false}

I think it is the timeout, I could be wrong. But it is doing my head in that such a simple task is eluding me.

A: Okay, I managed to fix the problem.
The module for Ansible that does the CLI (junos_cli) doesn't support timeout. I therefor went in to:
/etc/ansible/roles/Juniper.junos/library/junos_cli

And below line:
dev = Device(args['host'], user=args['user'], password=args['passwd'],
                     port=args['port'], gather_facts=False).open()

I added:
dev.timeout=None

This sets the timer to infinity, so I have time for the formatting when doing "request system snapshot slice alternate".
Hope this helps anyone else doing something with the junos cli through ansible automation.

A: It's suggested to increase the timeout value to some decent number (say 300 sec) which we think should be good for the call, rather than making it infinite.

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Total Cook Time: 2 hours and 45 minutes.
Add all ingredients to a crock pot. Stir, and cook on high heat for 2 hours, stirring occasionally. After 2 hours, mash the potatoes a little (but not all the way) with a potato masher. Reduce heat to low, and continue cooking for another 20 to 30 minutes, stirring when necessary.
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A Response to Ken Opalo: Lessons to be learned or over-thinking the problem?
Washington M. Osiro
In this post, Washington M. Osiro responds to Ken Opalo's thought provoking and popular post on Policy Lessons From COVID-19 in Africa, which you can read here.
In the book "The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor," Professor of Economics William Easterly uses the expression "linguistic evasion" to describe the World Bank's use of language and terminology that illustrates the institution's lack of commitment to ideals it frequently lectures Africa about. After reading Prof. Ken Opalo's article "Policy Lessons From COVID19 in Africa" in the April 2020 issue of the Democracy in Africa newsletter, I could not agree more with the characterisation.
Prof Opalo's piece illustrates how Africans have allowed discussions about potential solutions to what ails their often – but not always – resource-rich but incompetently governed and underdeveloped continent to become mired in esoteric and abstract exchanges accompanied by abstruse language. Lost in these discussions are publicly available data (from organisations such as the World Bank, African Development Bank-ADB) that show a continent falling further behind in nearly every metric used to measure social and human development. Also overlooked – and certainly crowded out – are pointed discussions about practical solutions to the continent's many problems and commensurate follow-through by its Western (and Chinese) benefactors.
Prof Opalo writes that Africa "needs a lot more descriptive studies about her various economies." Now, Scribbr defines a Descriptive Study as one that seeks to "accurately and systematically describe a population, situation or phenomenon – by answering What, When, Where, and How questions, but not Why questions."
The way I see it, countries that have been independent and self-governing for an average of forty-plus years do not need more studies to describe What ails their respective economies – and When and How these economic maladies (first) came to be. While Opalo is surely right that more data is always better than less data, these countries surely have sufficient data that illustrate the many challenges facing them – including misuse of funds that should have been spent improving the continent's network of roads, railways and airports. Aside from using that data to improve her infrastructure, African leaders should use it to prosecute those implicated in misappropriating the funds. Similarly, the billions that have been appropriated towards improving the continent's agro-industry should have made a dent in the continent's endemic food insecurity were it not for the rampant corruption and their misappropriation – both perpetrated at the highest level of the continent's leadership.
Presenting the use of data to formulate policies as a novel process is what Prof. Easterly refers to as the "tyranny of experts." It strains credulity that Kenya's leaders are oblivious to the fact that inhabitants of Kibera, land of the "Flying Toilets," do not have access to reliable running water – to drink or to wash their hands – or power with which to charge their cellphones and access the electronic cash transfers – to soften the economic hardship caused by the coronavirus lock down.
A continent whose best and brightest walk the corridors of the world's most prestigious academic institutions, organizations, and multi-nationals should not have a dearth of expertise in its political economy or economic history. Putting to use economic development theories that students of the field have seen succeed elsewhere should be less about discussions about "strengthening policy transmission mechanism" and more about Why Africa has failed to put into practice what many of their leaders should have learnt or experienced in these institutions, organizations, and corporations.
The discussion should therefore seek to answer the question: What prevents Africa from transforming its highly sought strategic minerals/natural resources into high-priced consumer goods for sale elsewhere?
Expecting the continent's clearly selfish leadership to ask itself how the COVID19 shutdown will impact the lives of people in the rural areas is another example of the rote intellectualism African leaders along with foreign "experts" i.e., "outsourced thinking," have engaged in since independence. Most of them do not ask how their policies will impact the lives of their constituents because they already know the answers. These leaders know that they never built the stadiums they promised their constituents, structures that could have been used to stage COVID-19-related logistics activities. Likewise, they know that they never delivered the laptops which could have facilitated online learning for students whose lessons were disrupted by the virus. These leaders also know that no one will be held accountable for misappropriating the funds allocated for these projects.
There is nothing surprising about the dilapidated state of the continent's healthcare sector or how it came to be. And couching the discussion in grandiose terms such as "elite mediocrity," "utility of aid," and "elite-level African alliances" only serves to obscure the problem. This kind of jargon also provides cover for those directly responsible for running down the sector by funneling away its resources and funding. I also find it misleading to credit the current pandemic for exposing the dire state of the continent's healthcare system and its non-existent safety net because both states-of-affairs have been in plain sight since independence. Expecting the supposed "domestic crises" currently engulfing Western countries to spur Africa's leadership to use the continent's vast resources to improve African lives is reactive and continues to see the source of political and economic renewal in the global system. If Western countries and China can set out to make their respective societies "great" again, why can't Africa do the same?
A "woke" Western elite and coronavirus-chastened China should not be the reason Africa's leadership chooses to do right by their constituents. The allusions of dependency embodied in this thinking explains why the continent's elite still seek medical treatment abroad – instead of developing their domestic healthcare capabilities. If African's best and brightest can decode the machinations behind a global health system whose design intent is to "to police and contain disease outbreaks in low-income countries," they can decode its main beneficiaries. The continent's brain trust can also put in place mechanisms to counter the negative impact of this system on the continent.
In their book "Decolonization & Independence in Kenya: 1940-1993," B.A. Ogot and W.R. Ochieng write that at independence "Jomo Kenyatta and his associates preserved what they most needed from the colonial state……" They did this to maintain power much like the colonialists did. Journalist and human rights' activist Maina Kiai echoed this sentiment in his March 2013 piece titled "Homeguards never quite went away, their spirit is still strong among us." Kiai argued that "Uhuru did the same thing his father did including staffing his family's British education curriculum-based Peponi School" by British-trained educators. Even his legal team during his crimes-against-humanity case at The Hague was led by Queen's Counsel and British citizen Steven Kay. Summarized, the seemingly novel construct of "elite complacency" – a term used to define the smugness of African leaders and their continued efforts to emulate the colonial administrators of yore – is not new. Like many post-independence attempts at economic development, Africa's elites, probably feeling a kinship with the former colonialists, have allowed themselves to be co-opted or bought – by the same colonialists they supposedly freed themselves from.
During the 1961 Conference on Tensions in Development hosted by the Council on World Tensions at New College, Oxford, Tom Mboya spoke of an "underdeveloped Africa where mass poverty is universal…..(and was deficient in) schools, social services, hospitals, universities, and technical institutions….." Mboya also talked about an Africa whose people were "entitled to a better life." Unfortunately, the reality of a continental history repeating itself becomes obscured by terms such as "African Progressivism" – its history notwithstanding. Lost in this highbrow characterisation of continental ineptitude is the infidelity of African leaders towards the democratic ideals to which they only pay lip service. In his speech, Mboya – who would be assassinated in 1969 – offered a pragmatic solution to Toby Green's construction: that overcoming the historical, cultural, social, economic, and political "tensions" that remain at the root of all that ails the continent's many groups depended "on the honesty and quality of African leadership."
Unfortunately, rather than resolving these tensions, African leaders have used them to rally their supporters against their opponents. Added to this consideration is the wily way that successive leaders have intimidated, harassed and censored opposition. Given this reality, I fail to see the "viable political programs" that Prof Opalo has in mind as antidotes to the continent's entrenched presidents-for-life and permanent opposition parties.
Using Kenya's Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) as an example, I do not see a critical mass of African leaders rethinking how they have led their countries thus far. I also do not see them reorganizing their governments in any meaningful way – to "infuse (them) with new thinking and moral foundations of social contracts." I say this because leadership across the continent remains the same or beholden to a kitchen cabinet dominated by the same "complacent elites" – all with ties to the past. These are people ready to protect their personal interests by any means necessary. Those providing cover for these continental leaders are the usual suspects – a cabal of foreigners from the west and now the east – only too willing to underwrite their ineptitude for a share of the continent's reserves of natural resources.
At the most basic level, then, African governments need to channel a very different model of leadership, looking to figures such as Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew. They must focus in on reducing corruption, improving governance while crafting cohesive societies. Until they do that, it will take at least another generation for the continent to rid itself of the current crop of "Big Men" and match the socio-economic (and political) development of its erstwhile Asian peers.
This is a fundamental political reality that Prof. Ken Opalo and other thought-leaders know only too well and must be much more careful not to evade or gloss over.
Washington M. Osiro is a Kenyan based in Northern California, and studied Political Science at UC San Diego's John Muir College while writing for The Voice & Viewpoint, then-San Diego's premier African-American newspaper.
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"Using Kenya's Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) as an example, I do not see a critical mass of African leaders rethinking how they have led their countries thus far. I also do not see them reorganizing their governments in any meaningful way – to "infuse (them) with new thinking and moral foundations of social contracts." I say this because leadership across the continent remains the same or beholden to a kitchen cabinet dominated by the same "complacent elites" – all with ties to the past." I totally agree. Uganda is a case in point.
Please see a wonderful blog by Dr. Munini Mulera, 'Museveni playing parliament with world class footballer's finesse' – Its worth a read. Kindly look it up by visiting, https://blog.mulerasfireplace.com/engage/museveni-playing-parliament-with-world-class-footballer-s-finesse-20782
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Summary of The Drover's Wife by Henry Lawson: 2022
September 9, 2022 July 28, 2017 by Website Contributors
Last updated on September 9th, 2022 at 03:48 pm
In "The Drover's Wife" Henry Lawson acknowledges the hardship of Australian women living in the bush.this story was unique in its time, as a female protagonist was uncommon. Stories from this period focused on the men living in the outback; the drover's and their struggle, they dismissed the life of the woman waiting at home suffering in silence during their husband's long periods of absence.Lawson sheds light on the life of such woman, allowing the reader insight into their often heroic actions as he creates authentic depictions of their existence in the bush and their fight to make it a home. In this story we learn about one such woman, struggling against all odds to protect her family against the elements and being shaped by the landscape that she inhabits.
Summary of The Drover's Wife:
The story opens with the drover's wife and her children alone in their house in the bush. One of the children discovers a snake and calls for the mother. The bush-woman reaches for her stick and rushes to her children, but meanwhile the snake hides in a hole between the wall and floor. As the snake disappears the woman puts the children to sleep and waits up with her dog Alligator for the reptile to come out. As she waits, she starts to recall several dangerous situations she had to face throughout the years when her husband was away with the sheep. She fought bush-fire, flood, dangerous men, and even illness that spread among the cattle. She is mostly content, but still feels isolated, dreaming of the fashion pictures in her ladies' magazine.
By the morning she runs out of candles and gets up to go get more wood to keep the fire burning. She seizes a stick, pulls it out and the whole woodpile collapses, injuring her, and she begins to cry. She had paid an aboriginal man to stack it for her and assumed it was actually full of wood. She takes out a handkerchief to wipe away her tears, but she pokes her eyes instead as the handkerchief is full of holes. This ridiculous situation makes her laugh.
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It is near daylight, but the bush-woman and her dog are still on the watch for the snake. Suddenly, the snake comes out of a large crack in the partition slabs. The dog starts to chase the snake and eventually kills it. The woman lifts the reptile on the point of her stick and throws it into the fire. Tommy, the eldest boy, wakes up and notices the tears in the eyes of his mother. He promises never to go droving.
Characters in The Drover's Wife:
The drover's wife is the central character in the story. She inhabits the Australian bush together with her four "ragged, dried-up looking children," and has to encounter various hardships during her husband's absence. She is lonely and poor, but remains strong, dreaming of fashion and another life. As she waits up for the snake, she recalls various dangerous situations she had to face in her life. It is apparent she is accustomed to the hardships that life brings her, and that she is capable of taking care of herself and the children. The snake that represents another threat is also eventually defeated. She has no other option than to continue being strong and brave; however, her tears at the end of the story suggest that even she has her limits and that these limits may be reached some day.
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The Drover- He is often away droving, although he had wanted to give this profession up to be a farmer. He takes care of his family as best he can and is a decent husband, though his wife knows he sometimes sleeps with other women. His fate is unknown at the end of the story.
Theme of The Drover's Wife:
It is a story the lives of people in the Outback are molded by the environment so that they, too, become hardened, desiccated, silent, and of necessity even predatory. However, in spite of all this, the occasional blossoms of the bush have their equivalents in the tender, soft, beautiful, yet temporary moments of life of the drovers and squatters.
Solved Questions from The Drover's Wife:
1.Is the drover's wife winning or losing her battle with the bush?
To some extent it looks like the drover's wife is losing. After all, the farm failed; droughts, floods, and cattle flu devastated the family's holdings. Snakes and bullocks menace them. Storms pummel them. Their abode is humble, their provisions limited. However, the drover's wife wins her battle with the snake just as she won her battle with the bullock and the grass fire. She is, despite everything the bush throws at her, still there. There is still a house, still a family, and still a woman prepared to battle with the bush until it kills her.
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2.Is it likely that Tommy will keep his promise not to go droving?
Tommy is fiercely independent and strong-willed; if he says something he is committed to it. He also loves his mother and sees what being alone in the bush can do to someone. On the other hand, he will probably be forced into it for lack of other opportunities. It is unlikely he will escape to the city. It is hard to know whether nature will cooperate and allow him to farm; his father tried this and failed. Life in the bush is difficult and requires a person to overcome immense odds just to survive. Tommy will probably have to be a drover as well, though we do not wish that fate for him.
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Health conscious humans put credence in smoothies they create for themselves, firmly believing that these blended drinks provide superior nutrition for their bodies and they're right. When smoothies are made in a high performance blender fruits, vegetables and other plants are broken down finely enough to release the powerful phytonutrients hidden beneath the plant's cellulose. Those valuable phytonutrients are essential building blocks of a strong immunity.
Humans aren't the only ones who reap the benefits of smoothies. Dogs love the nutrient rich concoctions as well. You can make green smoothies, fruit smoothies, or protein smoothies to pump up your dog's health. There are medleys of ingredients that work well in smoothies for pooches but there are some elements you should never feed your pets. After all, the objective is to improve your dog's health, not harm it.
The following foods should not be fed directly to your four-legged friends nor should they be added to smoothies that they will be consuming.
As juicy and flavorful as grapes are and as much as many of us like raisins, dogs should not eat them. We don't really know why but these fruits can cause kidney failures in canines. One of the early symptoms of grape or raisin poisoning is recurrent vomiting and within 24 hours the dog will begin acting depressed and lethargic. Don't leave grapes laying on the table or the counter or anywhere else your dog may be able to reach them.
Some dogs don't digest milk well and it may cause them to suffer from diarrhea or other digestive disturbances. Milk and milk-based products are also substances that some dogs are allergic to and it will cause intense itching. As tempting as it is to share your ice cream with your pooch on a hot summer day, resist it, for your dog's sake.
As few as six macadamia nuts can cause severe reactions in dogs. Symptoms include paralysis or weakness in the hindquarters, vomiting, muscle tremors, increased heart rate and an elevated temperature.
A large enough amount of caffeine will kill a dog. There isn't any known antidote so once a dog suffers a caffeine overdose its chances of recovery are slim. The symptoms include rapid breathing, restlessness, muscle tremors, heart palpitations, bleeding, and fits. Caffeine can be found in coffee beans or grounds, colas, chocolate, cocoa, teas, and energy drinks. It's also in some medicines and cold treatments which, of course, should always be kept out of reach of pets.
Garlic and onions in any of its forms may cause damage to your dog's red blood cells resulting in anemia. The occasional small dose may not cause problems but any large amount or regular consumption may be harmful. Signs your dog may be anemic include listlessness, lack of interest in food, vomiting, weakness, and breathlessness.
The jury is still out on avocado but we recommend that you err on the side of safety. Persin, a substance found in the fruit, seeds, and leaves of avocados, may be toxic to dogs when consumed in large quantities so keep your pet on an avocado free diet.
Uncooked eggs are sources of bacteria like E coli and Salmonella. It also hampers the absorption of Vitamin B which can lead to skin and coat issues. So it's best to ignore the old farmer's advice about giving your dog a raw egg a day to make his coat shiny.
As you may know, chocolate is toxic to dogs. Dark chocolate and baker's chocolate are the most harmful but every type contains theobromine, an agent harmful to canines. Symptoms of excess theobromine can include diarrhea, vomiting, and extreme thirst, tremors, seizures, irregular heart rhythm, and even death.
Although humans find this spice a tasty addition to holiday favorites, smoothies and baked goods, it's dangerous for your dog. Nutmeg poisoning symptoms include central nervous problems, tremors, seizures, and death.
Apples, pears, peaches, plums, and other fruits are good for your pet but the pits and seeds are not. Not only can they cause a digestive obstruction, many of these also contain cyanide. Don't restrict your dog from fruits; just make sure to avoid the seeds and pits.
There are numerous other foods that your dog shouldn't eat but you most likely wouldn't put in a smoothie to improve health. Some of those include salt, sugar, fat trimmings, bones, baking soda, baking powder, and alcohol. These may cause problems ranging from pancreatitis to obesity to death.
Even though you love your dog like family, it's best not to always feed him like family. Here's a tasty treat for Fido that has only healthy ingredients. I just whip this up in my JTC Omniblend and in moments I have a tasty, wholesome treat my dogs love.
Have you ever noticed your dog eating grass? It may strike you as odd to see your dog grazing on greens like a cow, but their instincts are telling them they need something found in green matter. You can help them satisfy that craving by supplementing their diet with the addition of nutritious fruits and vegetables. By creating quick, inexpensive green smoothies for your dogs, you'll provide them with numerous health advantages and a treat they'll love.
Just like humans dogs need a healthy, balanced diet. Unfortunately, many commercial foods fail to provide the best nourishment. Many manufactured dog foods contain corn, wheat, and soy but those are not very digestible and often irritate food allergies. They also add a lot of unessential calories to a dog's diet and contribute to obesity. Choose a kibble that is grain free then give it a boost with the addition of green smoothies.
Fruits and vegetables help build your dog's immunity and ward off illnesses. Because they provide potent vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, particularly when they are raw, green vegetables are a great way to help your dog stay healthy. They are a rich source of Vitamins A, C, E, and K and fiber, calcium, and protein. Like you, your dog is susceptible to colds, flu, and other illnesses. Why not head off those problems with a daily dose of prevention?
Green smoothies also aid digestion, though because dogs have a short digestive tract fruits and vegetables you give your pet are best served in the form of a smoothie to aid the absorption of the nutrients. The best way to do this is to use a 3 horsepower blender powerful enough to break down the cellular walls of the vegetables to release the potent phytonutrients trapped inside. That is where the real nutrition lies.
Another benefit of green smoothies for dogs includes improved skin and coat. After just a couple of weeks of enjoying green smoothies you'll notice your dog's coat has taken on a brilliant sheen and feels softer and more luxurious. This is a result of the extra vitamins and the added hydration smoothies add to your dog's diet.
Exercise is also important to your dog's wellbeing and green smoothies will boost their energy levels so they feel more like running and playing. Dogs who lack energy wind up overweight, uncomfortable, and bored. They'll always feel up to taking a run with you when you make sure they get the right diet to energize them.
Green smoothies for both humans and dogs traditionally contain about 40% green vegetables and 60%fruit. You can follow a recipe or get creative and make up your own. Many recipes are designed to be enjoyed by people and animals alike or you can add some special ingredients to please the canine palate. Those might include items like low sodium chicken, beef, or turkey stock or the addition of some lean meat.
It only takes a couple of minutes to whip up a batch of smoothies but the benefits last a lifetime. It really is as simple as throwing the ingredients in your high performance blender (I prefer the Omniblend) and letting it whir away. There's no cooking and cleanup only takes a minute. Isn't your fur baby worth it?
Here's a recipe that both the dogs and their humans will enjoy.
Blend in high power blender until smooth and enjoy.
Those of us who are dog lovers and have taken one or more furry friends into our family know how deep the love between canine and human can run. Many people think of their dogs as precious family members and make their health a top priority. We want them happy, healthy, and with us as long as possible. Like humans, good nutrition is vital to a pet's health and can add years to your dog's life.
There has been a lot of talk recently about the best way to feed dogs. Should we use purchased kibble or feed raw? Grains or no grains? Do raw meats put your dog at risk of ingesting dangerous bacteria or parasites? There are many questions and no one really knows the exact formula for the perfect dog food.
A combination of the possibilities can be an excellent option. Many pet parents have chosen to follow the raw food diets but many others simply don't have the time or desire to make their own dog food. Another factor is that manufactured kibble offers consistency which is often hard to duplicate in raw diets you make yourself. If you choose a manufactured kibble carefully, you can offer your dog a wholesome diet. Whichever diet you choose, however, delicious, nutritious smoothies help ensure that your dog is getting the best nutrition possible and your dog thinks of them as a yummy treat and a sign of your affection.
Smoothies are an excellent way to add vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants to your diet and are just as nutritious for your pets as they are for you. They are also a great source of phytonutrients, special nutrients found only in plants that, when broken down, help build strong immune systems and play a vital part in long term fitness. The best way to release phytonutrients? By using a powerful 3 horsepower blender that is capable of fracturing the cellulose that traps the phytonutrients inside the plants. If that is not broken down enough the beneficial phytonutrients are never released and the body fails to ingest those hidden healthy resources.
It's easy to make smoothies for yourself or your pets. When making smoothies for your dog, choose a base of plain, unsweetened low-fat or fat-free yogurt, low-fat or fat-free cottage cheese, low sodium chicken or beef stock, or water. Smoothies may be served to your pet just as they are, mixed in with their regular food, or you can freeze individual servings in ice cube trays for a frosty treat. Here is a recipe for one of my dog's favorite smoothies.
Like human food, the ingredients are listed on dog food labels in the order of amount of content, highest to lowest, so the first five ingredients are what make up the majority of the food. Dogs are carnivores so it is important that a meat protein is the first ingredient. It can either be listed as meat or meat meal. The difference is meat meal has had most of the liquid removed from it so it can be weighed more accurately.
There is an ongoing controversy over whether dog food should include grains or not. Healthy grains like brown rice or oatmeal are good sources of carbohydrates and easily digested, however, it is often advised that grains like corn, soy, and wheat be avoided because they offer little in the way of nutritional value, are hard to digest, and many dogs have developed allergies to those particular grains. Grain free foods often substitute potatoes or peas as an alternative source of carbohydrates.
It is most beneficial for your dog to eat as natural a diet as possible. Artificial dyes and preservatives are best avoided. If you choose to feed commercial kibble, select one that is holistic or organic. Look for a food that is rated four or five stars on a reputable dog food rating site.
Place all the ingredients in your high performance blender and puree until smooth. My dog loves frozen treats so I like to freeze this in ice cube trays to make individual servings. It will keep in the freezer for up to six months or can be stored in the fridge in its liquid state for one week.
Remember, whenever you offer you dog new foods start with small amounts and be alert for allergic reactions. Most dogs can eat fruits without any issues and enjoy healthy benefits when it is added to their diets.


So we're back up and running. The cable guy came and set-up the phone, but I was on my own for the modem(saves a $100)... up until the point where I had to get it to work with my wireless router it was pretty easy. The biggest issue there was forgetting the username and password for the damn router, and then not being able to reset it... somehow I broke the button I guess. I actually had to pull my old computer out of mothballs to get it to work. Then, once I had my router set correctly, it was mainly a matter of figuring out what order to turn things on so that the cable modem was tuned to my router and not my computer.
Played some WoW and watched some No Reservations in HD on Netflix and everything seemed flawless. Note that the download numbers posted above are probably artificially inflated because of "Speed Boost" which ups your speed for the first 50 megs or something... a fairly transparent attempt to juice these tests, but whatever.
Strangely, the guy left us an extra modem that I'm not sure what to do with. I guess I should see if I'm paying for two before anything else.


Antipasto Salad with Italian Dressing | What's for Dinner?
Simply Dressed® Light Red Wine Italian Dressing tops this classic Italian salad of Genoa salami, green olives, pepperoncini, mozzarella and artichokes.
Combine all ingredients with Simply Dressed® Light Red Wine Italian Dressing and toss together. Serve. This salad is best right after it is tossed. Serve.


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Becoming King
by Troy Jackson
This biography sheds new light on King's development as a civil rights leader in Montgomery among activists such as Rosa Parks, E.D. Nixon, and others.
In Becoming King, Troy Jackson demonstrates how Martin Luther King's early years as a pastor and activist in Montgomery, Alabama, helped shape his identity as a civil rights leader. Using the sharp lens of Montgomery's struggle for racial equality to investigate King's burgeoning leadership, Jackson explores King's ability to connect with people across racial and class divides. In particular, Jackson highlights King's alliances with Jo Ann Robinson, a young English professor at Alabama State University; E. D. Nixon, a middle-aged Pullman porter and head of the local NAACP chapter; and Virginia Durr, a courageous white woman who bailed Rosa Parks out of jail.
Drawing on countless interviews and archival sources, Jackson offers a comprehensive analysis of King's speeches before, during, and after the Montgomery bus boycott. He demonstrates how King's voice and message evolved to reflect the shared struggles, challenges, experiences, and hopes of the people with whom he worked. Jackson also reveals the internal discord that threatened the movement's hard-won momentum and compelled King to position himself as a national figure, rising above the quarrels to focus on greater goals.
Troy Jackson - Author
Clayborne Carson - Author of introduction, etc.
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
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Biography & Autobiography History African American Nonfiction Nonfiction


What does a hearing exam involve for adults?
Otoscopic Exam: we will look in your ears to ensure that the ear canals are clear of earwax, debris, or foreign objects. We observe anatomical markers, check that the eardrum is intact, and look for any visible abnormalities such as infection.
Tympanometry: we use a device (a tympanometer) that changes the air pressure in your ear canal while measuring the sound that bounces back from the eardrum. This helps us detect infections, perforations and other conditions of the outer and middle ear that may not be visible during the otoscopic exam.
Puretone Audiometry: we present sounds to find the softest sounds that you can hear at different pitches. These scores, called puretone thresholds, are compiled into a graph to illustrate which environmental and speech sounds you are able or unable to hear.
Speech audiometry: you will listen to recorded words through a pair of headphones and repeat them. This allows us to observe how well you are able to detect and recognize speech.
Most Comfortable Loudness (MCL)/Uncomfortable Loudness (UCL): you will listen to sounds to find the loudness that is most comfortable for you and the loudest sounds that you can tolerate. These scores give us the dynamic range of your hearing.
How long does it take to complete a hearing exam?
It takes about an hour to complete the exam portion of a hearing evaluation and then we always go over the results. Please account for up to an hour and a half for your appointment to ensure that we can address all of your questions and concerns.
We fax a complete report to your family physician with any recommendations included.
We follow strict procedures with all the tests required and have our equipment calibrated every year to make sure the test results are accurate. We strictly adhere to infection control to make sure to protect our clients health.


All the communications the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights has addressed since the establishment of the mandate in 2009 have been made public in the joint communications reports of special procedures mandate holders, issued three time a year for the sessions of the Human Rights Council. These communications reports, including the original letters sent by the Special Rapporteur and the response received by concerned States, can be accessed through the joint communication reports page, or the communication database.
In the table below, you will find the most recent communications of the mandate. A document listing all the communications ever addressed by the mandate can be found here. The lists are organized in alphabetical order by country. Allegation letters are identified with (AL), urgent appeal with (UA). Most communications are addressed jointly with other Special procedure mandates, and are therefore joint communications, identified with as JAL or JUA. Past communications can also be searched chroNOlogically through this page.
Information received in connection with the attacks perpetrated against Muslims by Sinhalese groups between 5 and 8 March 2018 in several locations in Kandy district and the destruction of Muslim owned businesses and houses as well as Muslim places of worship.


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FILE- In this Aug. 9, 2018, file photo a wildfire burns near homes in the Cleveland National Forest in Lake Elsinore, Calif. California homeowners may find themselves facing insurance issues even if they were not directly hit by this year's blazes. The California Department of Insurance warned in January that the increasing number and severity of wildfires in the state were making it more difficult for homeowners to find and hold on to insurance. And now they say that recent massive fires may make the problem more acute. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)
Glacier latest US park to be scorched by Western wildfires
A wildfire destroyed structures and forced evacuations Monday from the busiest area of Montana's Glacier National Park, as officials in California prepared to reopen Yosemite National Park following a two-week closure at the height of the summer season. Meanwhile, a Utah firefighter died Monday...
Workers clean up debris swept into the street during flooding in Upper Darby, Pa., Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. Authorities say heavy rains have been causing flooding and prompting road closures and rescues of people from stranded cars in central and southeastern Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Drenching rains close roads, prompt rescues in Pennsylvania
DARBY, Pa. (AP) — Heavy rains triggered flash flooding in parts of central and eastern Pennsylvania on Monday, closing down a heavily traveled interstate and sending water into homes in the mountainous coal regions. State highway and emergency management officials reported numerous closed roads in...
FILE- In this file photo dated Tuesday, July 24, 2018, firefighters stand on the cliff top where burned trees hug the coastline in Mati east of Athens, after wildfires raged through the popular seaside areas near the Greek capital. The prime minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras pledged Thursday Aug. 9, 2018, to overhaul the national disaster response agency, as authorities publicly named all the people killed by the country's deadliest forest fire in decades. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, FILE)
Greek island wildfire that forced villages to evacuate eases
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A large forest fire in Greece that forced the evacuation of two villages overnight on the island of Evia was abating Monday but was not fully controlled yet. The fire service said four water-dropping planes and another four helicopters were participating in Monday's operations...
Kim Burns sifts through the charred rubble of her home burned in the Carr Fire, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, in Redding, Calif. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Cooler weather helps crews fight Southern California fire
LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (AP) — Aided by slightly cooler temperatures, firefighters made steady progress Sunday in battling a wildfire that destroyed 16 structures as it raged through Southern California's Cleveland National Forest. The Holy Fire was 41 percent contained Sunday afternoon after burning...
An Andean flamingo swaddles a surrogate Chilean flamingo chick, supplanted to replace its own infertile egg, in Slimbridge, England, in this undated photo. The British conservation charity Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust says recent record-breaking high temperatures encouraged a rare flock of Andean flamingos to lay eggs for the first time since 2003, but their eggs were infertile so the WWT gave them eggs from their near relatives, Chilean flamingos, to look after and satisfy their nurturing instincts. (Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust via AP)
Heat wave put flamingos in the mood for 1st time in 15 years
LONDON (AP) — A British conservation charity says record-breaking temperatures have encouraged a rare flock of Andean flamingos to lay eggs for the first time since 2003. The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust says six of the exotic birds laid nine eggs, all of which were infertile. The charity's...
August 11, 2018 - 12:31 pm
British charity says heat wave put flamingoes in the mood
Homes destroyed by a wildfire are seen from an aerial view in the Keswick neighborhood of Redding, Calif., Friday, Aug. 10, 2018. Fire crews have made progress against the biggest blaze in California history but officials say the fire won't be fully contained until September. (AP Photo/Michael Burke)
Crews battle growing wildfire near homes in California
LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters worked furiously Friday to keep a Southern California wildfire from burning more homes while crews in the north finally gained ground on deadly and destructive blazes that have burned for two weeks. Aircraft have been making flight after flight, dumping...
FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, July 24, 2018, burned cars are seen outside a damaged house in Rafina, east of Athens, after wildfires raged through the holiday resorts near Greece's capital. The prime minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras pledged Thursday Aug. 9, 2018, to overhaul the national disaster response agency, as authorities publicly named all the people killed by the country's deadliest forest fire in decades. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, FILE)
Toll from Greek seaside resort wildfire rises to 94
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek health officials say the death toll from the July 23 fire at the seaside resort of Mati, near Athens, has risen to 94 after a 57-year-old woman in intensive care died of her injuries. The Ministry of Health announced that the woman, who died Saturday morning, is the 11th...
A truck and a street are covered in fire retardant dropped by an air tanker as crews battle a wildfire Friday, Aug. 10, 2018, in Lake Elsinore, Calif. Firefighters fought to spare homes Friday from a growing Southern California forest fire, a day after flames came perilously close to neighborhoods and destroyed one house. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters fought to spare homes Friday from a growing Southern California forest fire, a day after flames came perilously close to neighborhoods and destroyed one house. Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for Orange and Riverside counties as the fire...
A home appears cut off as a torrent of water rushes past, in Saint Ambroix, France, Thursday Aug. 9, 2018. Heavy rain has caused flash flooding, transforming rivers and streams into torrents, the interior minister Gerard Collomb said on Thursday. (Loic Spadafora via AP)
The Latest: French police detain 2 in flooded campsite probe
PARIS (AP) — The Latest on floods and poor weather in Europe (all times local): 6:50 p.m. A French prosecutor says police have detained two members of a German association that operates a campsite in southern France where the danger of flooding prompted evacuations and a man was reported missing...


The water metering guidelines detail conditions that apply when servicing new developments, making alterations to existing developments and for general water metering arrangements.
These Guidelines are shared with City West and South East Water, Yarra Valley Water has prepared an addendum as some conditions vary between water authorities. The Water Authority Addendums are now contained at the end of the document.


LONDON - The death toll from Ebola in the three West Africa countries hardest hit by the epidemic has risen to 7,518 out of 19,340 confirmed cases recorded there to date, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
The latest data reflect more than 140 new deaths since the last update, posted by the WHO barely three days earlier. The epidemic, centred in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, is the world's worst ever outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever.
Sierra Leone accounts for the most cases, 8,939, while Liberia has 7,830 and Guinea 2,571. But Sierra Leone's death toll of 2,556 is much less than the 3,376 recorded in Liberia, leading some health experts to question the credibility of the figures reported by Freetown.
Sierra Leone's government last week launched a major operation to contain the epidemic, where the public health infrastructure is flimsy and poverty widespread as in other West African countries.


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Die Bremer Kreditbank Aktiengesellschaft (kurz BKB Bank) war ein deutsches Kreditinstitut in der Rechtsform der Aktiengesellschaft mit Sitz in Bremen. Die Bank wurde im Jahre 2018 mit der Oldenburgischen Landesbank verschmolzen.

Geschichte
Am 18. November 1863 wurde der Bremer Vorschussverein von sechs Personen gegründet. Zu den Gründern gehörte der Rechtsanwalt Albert Gröning, der später Senator wurde. Im Jahr 1869 wurde der Verein in eine Genossenschaft umgewandelt und in das Genossenschaftsregister eingetragen. 1872 erfolgte eine Umbenennung in Bremer Gewerbebank. Die Zahl der Mitglieder wuchs von 98 im Jahre 1863 bis auf 2763 im Jahre 1875. Im Jahr 1885 wurde die Genossenschaft in eine Aktiengesellschaft umgewandelt.

1882 zog die Bank in ein neues Gebäude in der Langenstraße Nr. 4. Das Bankgebäude wurde 1891 erweitert und erstreckte sich nunmehr auch auf die angrenzenden Häuser. 1897 wurde das Institut in Bank für Handel und Gewerbe AG umbenannt. In den Jahren 1900 und 1914 erfolgten weitere Ausbauten.

Es entstanden Niederlassungen in Findorff, Oberneuland und Thedinghausen. 1921 gab es wieder eine Umbenennung, diesmal in Bankverein für Nordwestdeutschland AG. Nach der Inflation der 1920er Jahre wurden die Zweigstellen in Bremerhaven und Geestemünde an die J.F. Schröder Bank übergeben.

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg schlossen sich die Bankverein für Nordwestdeutschland AG und die Bremer Kreditbank AG zur Bankverein Bremen AG zusammen. Die Gebäude in der Langenstraße wurden wieder aufgebaut und blieben Hauptsitz der Bank bis 1977.

Ein Neubau wurde an der Wachtstraße errichtet und 1977 bezogen. In den 1980er Jahren entstanden Niederlassungen in Düsseldorf und Frankfurt am Main.

Die belgische Kredietbank N.V. in Brüssel erwarb ab 1982 Aktien der Bankverein Bremen AG und erlangte schließlich mit 99,7 % die Aktienmehrheit. 1990 wurde das Bremer Unternehmen in Kredietbank-Bankverein AG umbenannt.

Nachdem sich die Kredietbank N.V. im Jahr 1998 mit den ABB-Versicherungen und der CERA Bank zur KBC Group zusammenschloss, wurde der Name der deutschen Tochtergesellschaft zum 1. Juli 1999 in KBC Bank Deutschland AG geändert.

Im Jahre 2013 wurde bekannt, dass eine Gruppe von internationalen Investoren die KBC Bank Deutschland AG übernehmen wolle. Die Übernahme durch die US-amerikanische Investorengruppe aus Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Apollo Global Management und Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance wurde zum 1. Oktober 2014 vollzogen. Mit diesem Datum wurde auch die Firmierung in Bremer Kreditbank Aktiengesellschaft (kurz BKB Bank) geändert.

Übernahmen
Im März 2016 erfolgte die Übernahme des Bankhauses Neelmeyer von der Unicredit Bank. Seit 1. April 2017 ist das Bankhaus eine hundertprozentige Tochtergesellschaft.

Am 23. Juni 2017 wurde die Übernahme der Oldenburgischen Landesbank bekanntgegeben. Die BKB übernimmt von der Allianz Deutschland AG rund 90 Prozent der Anteile für 300 Millionen Euro.

Eine weitere Übernahme wurde am 27. März 2018 öffentlich, der Erwerb von Wüstenrot direct.

Weblinks
 Website der Bremer Kreditbank AG

Einzelnachweise

Ehemaliges Kreditinstitut (Bremen)
Ehemals börsennotiertes Unternehmen (Deutschland)
Gegründet 1863
Ehemalige Aktiengesellschaft in Deutschland


There are schools offering criminology degrees in Oklahoma!
Around 0.1% of Oklahoma's graduates graduate from criminology degree programs every year. Thus, Oklahoma's 2 criminology schools put out approximately 58 criminologists each year.
Oklahoma Wesleyan University, which is located in Bartlesville, is the top-ranked school in Oklahoma that has a criminology program. It received a ranking of 82nd in the country in 2010. no students graduated with a degree in criminology from Oklahoma Wesleyan University in 2010. The tuition rate at Oklahoma Wesleyan University was $19,200 per year.
Cameron University, which is located in Lawton, is the second-ranked school in Oklahoma that has a criminology program. It received a ranking of 86th in the country in 2010. In 2010, 58 students graduated from Cameron University criminology program. The tuition rate at Cameron University was $4,336 per year.
Take a look at the graphs and charts below for additional Oklahoma statistics regarding a career in criminology and to compare salaries with a variety of related fields such as sociology or criminal justice.


Funny Women Awards: national comedy talent competition nears its climax!
Funny Women is at the vanguard of nurturing and promoting female comedy talent.
We are delighted to welcome Lynne as a regular contributor and in advance of that we are delighted to announce the climax of the 2010 Funny Women Awards.
After a summer spent scouring the country in search of new female talent, Funny Women has invited 24 of the best new acts to be discovered to perform in two nail-biting, back-to-back penultimate rounds at the Leicester Square Theatre in central London on Monday 6th September.
The selected acts are: Abigoliah Schaumaun, Arhondia Rocca, Hayley Ellis, Jessica Fostekew, Jill Baxter, Jojo Georgiou, Julia Clark, Katrina Thompson, Kerry Herbert, Lindsay Sharman, Louisa Theobald, Sarah Hendrickx, Shaista Aziz, Sunna Jarman, Twayna Mayne, Alison Thea-Skot, Claire Lomas, Gemma Layton, Helen Arney, Gemma Whelan, Iona Dudley-Ward, Kate Lucas, Rachel Parris, and Freya Slipper and Liz Black as duo, Thankless Child.
Compiling the 2010 shortlist has been no easy task for the Funny Women team. Following a record number of entrants, the eighth year of this unique comedy competition has proven to be its biggest and arguably best, yet.
A panel of top industry movers-and-shakers, are now tasked with whittling down the hopefuls to just 10 finalists on the night of the two semi finals. The judging panel includes Michael Buchanan-Dunne, development editor for BBC Comedy; Karen Rosie, BBC Comedy producer; Newton Velji, BBC Comedy Development; Al Cowie, promoter, Llaugh; Angie Avlianos, SSVC, which entertains and informs Britain's Armed Forces around the world; Gillian Thorpe, director of the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond; Harry Deansway, editor of www.thefixonline.com ; Bidisha, journalist, author and presenter on Woman's Hour; Norma Burke, comedy producer; Jan Etherington of www.comedycourse.biz , comedy writer and coach; Jonathan Grant of Red 24 Management and Sophie Gagon, of leading talent agency and production company, Avalon.
In a further thrilling twist to this year's Awards climax, Funny Women have teamed up with top London venue The Roundhouse. As part of the iconic Camden Theatre's Turning Point Festival, Funny Women will be inviting eight featured semi-finalists to take part in a very special "Laugh Chance Saloon" event on Saturday 18th September. Those eight semi-finalists who fall just short of qualifying automatically for the Funny Women Awards final on Monday 20th September, in support of OBJECT, will battle it out for two reserved wildcard slots and in a true test of comedic mettle, it'll be the audience on the night deciding who goes through.
First prize for the overall Awards winner will be a week's luxury holiday for two at the five-star contemporary boutique Londa Hotel in Limassol, Cyprus. The winner and other finalists also have the opportunity to perform at the Londa as part of the increasingly successful Funny Women tour which takes place at the hotel and attracts big audiences on the island.
The winning Variety act will be awarded with a full-length show in the Leicester Square Theatre's Basement space in early 2011.
Previous winners include 2009 victor and CBBC star, Miss London; Canadian Katherine Ryan in 2008; 'Stand Up For The Week' star Andi Osho in 2007 who also hosts this year's final; Suzy Bennett, who took the title in 2006; Debra-Jane Appelby, winner 2005; Zoe Lyons, who won in 2004, and Sarah Adams, who triumphed performing as Jade The Folk Singer in 2003. Other successful Funny Women Awards finalists include Katie Wix, Anna Crilly, Bridget Christie, Susan Calman, Diane Morgan, Emma Fryer, Kerry Goldliman, Sara Pascoe, Holly Walsh and Sarah Millican who have all gone on to have successful comedy careers performing on the circuit, winning other awards and appearing on radio and television.
Tickets for the semi-finals of the Funny Women Awards are already on sale at £12.50 per show, or £10 per show for those on the Funny Women mailing list. Both shows can be booked together for £18.00. Visit www.leicestersquaretheatre.com or call 0844 847 2475 to book.
Tickets are also available for the Turning Point Festival, £18 which includes the Funny Women Awards show and a full programme of other entertainment. Visit www.roundhouse.org.uk for more information, and to book.


Uses - Temporarily relieves the symptoms of fever, pain, throbbing, irritability and occasional sleeplessness associated with earaches after diagnosis by a physician. Relieves common pain and itching of "swimmer's ear".
Discharge from the ear is present.


Today, I worshiped with real Nazarenes for the first time in my life.
Today, the day of Resurrection, we took things more slowly. We really only made two stops. We went back to Nazareth (we went yesterday too and saw the Church of the Annunciation...AMAZING...but that's for another post), driving almost two hours north to worship with the Nazareth Church of the Nazarene.
First century Nazareth is where Jesus came from. Now, it can be said that Jesus came from a number of places (born in Bethlehem, raised in Nazareth, lived in Capernaum later in life), but Jesus is from Nazareth kind of like I am from Windham, NH. It was the predominant place of our up-bringing.
When a few people began a new church in Los Angeles in the late 1800s including Phineas Bresee and J.P. Widney, they chose the name "Church of the Nazarene". Bresee and Widney wanted this new group of Christians to never forget their calling to the downtrodden and poor. One night, it came to Widney that the fact that Jesus came from Nazareth was not necessarily considered an honorable thing. Nazareth was apparently a rather dingy and sleepy place. In the gospels, when a dude named Nathanael heard that this so-called Messiah (Jesus) was from Nazareth, he replied, "Nazareth? Can anything good come from Nazareth?"
So Widney, and subsequently Bresee, wanted the name to reflect the fact that they weren't afraid to minister to and with people from places that others couldn't care less about.
The Church of the Nazarene.
Anyway...today I truly worshiped with real Nazarenes.
The Church of the Nazarene in Nazareth is an Arabic-speaking church, pastored by Pastor Nazir Touma. Back in the 1980s, Rev. Lindell Browning (an American) pastored the church in Nazareth. He met Nazir one day when he was pumping his gas. He invited him to a meeting with the church. Nazir resisted, but then came. And that's that. Today, I watched Pastor Nazir lead worship in a packed sanctuary of some 125 people (his wife, Kaity, later said that many people were missing today). We stayed for lunch with them in their home after and talked, laughed, and prayed together.
It was great to be with other "members of the Church of the Nazarene" today too. The picture below is of (from left to right): my father, father-in-law (Ron Parker), missionary to the Mid-East and (I think) Mid-East Field Director (Lindell Browning), and MNU Professor (Kelvin St. John). These guys were all in seminary together.
While it is a unique and interesting fact that I worshiped with Nazarenes in Nazareth today, the experience goes beyond the trivial.
We all have prejudices because we're human. We remove prejudices by getting to know people. I'm just being honest here.
Despite the fact that before I came to the Middle East, I tried to have an open mind, I still have prejudices. Despite the fact that I have tried to mostly ignore the various streams of American populace and media that strive to portray one side or another as the worser one in the whole Palestinian-Israeli conflict (even sometimes assuming that the Palestinians are the victims before even coming here...likely just to play the devil's advocate among those who are in my circles), I still have prejudices. Despite the fact that I know a lot of Middle Eastern-Americans who are wonderful people who love the Lord (I even officiated at the wedding of one of them), I still have prejudices (after all...these have been "purified" by their American experience...). Ugh...see? We have prejudices.
So being here, staying in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood, in a hotel run by Arab people, walking to the Old City of Jerusalem through the two gates that lead to the Muslim quarter (Herod & Damascus), well it has been an experience. I have learned with first hand experience now that Middle Eastern Muslims are people. Not just faces on TV and unknown people in a distant land...but people. Humans. Their kids do the same things as mine.
I know. I've been watching. And they're incredibly cute.
The only thing that has caused fear in the last couple of days are words from the government in the land from which I come. Now I'm not saying that the US government is lying, not at all. Or that they are trying to make us fear (although...it sure seems like the media WANTS something to happen). I would not be surprised if something happens tonight. But if it does, it will not be the fault of the Muslim world, but the fault of a vast minority of the human populace corruptly bent by extreme political persuasions excused by their own understanding of religious belief.
Already, CNN (the one site I have looked at tonight - I have no care to look at any more) has used Muslim assumptions to over-generalize.
Okay, enough of this. All I was saying is that my prejudices - even though I've tried hard not to have them - have been slowly unfurled by being here.
And this morning was so helpful. Now I know I've been generalizing about Muslims, but the fact is that most Americans wouldn't know the difference between "Arab" and "Muslim". I think I have it correct to say now that "Arab" refers to ethnicity while "Muslim" certainly refers to religion. Arabs are from the Arabian Peninsula while Muslims are all over the world (in fact, I think I'd be correct in saying that there are many, many more Muslims outside of the Middle East than in it).
On the way to Nazareth this morning, I mentioned to my father and father-in-law that I wished I could speak and read Arabic. Most all of the road signs over here are in three languages: Hebrew, Arabic, and English (there are exceptions depending on what region we're in). Arabic has generally been an odd and even scary language to me, both in print and out loud. Again, despite my effort to make it otherwise, it just has been. (It's likely true that any foreign language can feel this way, I know). So I'd love to know the language so that when I hear the call to prayer from the minarets or people shouting down my hotel hall, I can understand what they're saying and not assume the worst.
So, to worship this morning in Arabic (well, not me, but those around me) and to read scripture this morning in Arabic and to hear a Nazarene missionary speak with an Arab pastor in Arabic today...was great for me.
May our prejudices fall apart.
After we departed from Nazareth, we went back to the Sea of Galilee and turned north this time, to go to Capernaum, the ancient town of many stories, miracles, and New Testament characters. Many of the disciples, including Matthew & Peter were from Capernaum. The gospels say that Jesus centered his public ministry in Capernaum and that it was his home.
After being there today...I can totally see why he would.
It's right on the Sea of Galilee, which is a rather big freshwater lake. For you New Englanders, it's about the same size as Lake Winnepesaukee. Today, the wind was powerful, creating beautiful white-capped waves. We spent more time in Capernaum than we have at any other spot (other than Masada, but that's kind of a given). I think we were just ready to take something in for a good while. And being the fact that it's Sunday, it seemed appropriate to just sit on the water, watching the waves and birds, and seeing what Jesus actually saw.
...because many of the sites have been less than what one might have expected or anticipated. Please don't get me wrong - being here is incredible and anyone who can have the chance to should come. And I didn't really come with all that many expectations. So the inspiration in being here for me has not been like I can hear God better or anything, just that as pilgrimage, these places are revered and venerated both by the stories of scripture and by the history of pilgrimages by millions before me. But the changes over 2000 years are enough to make a literalist like me note that it is nothing "like it was."
The Sea of Galilee, however...those waves were rolling like Jesus must have seen them, and experienced them, and loved them.
While there were some ascetic moves in Jesus' life (wilderness time and prayer on the mountains, etc.), his move to Capernaum was not among them. It's beautiful. And it was a fishing village. On the water. With sunrises over to the left and sunsets over to the right. Both over huge, beautiful mountains. A totally livable area.
One of the surprises to me here in Israel has been the weather. I expected mostly dry, desert heat. And while it has been very hot at some points (late in the day at Masada), it has been very pleasant much of the time we've been here, and we are supposedly here in the hottest time of the year. The mountains we've driven through (and we've driven a lot of territory, we passed over 1000 total kilometers today) have been beautiful. There are mountains that are mostly rock like all the Jesus movies you've seen might imply, and there are dry vegetative mountains not unlike those in the desert of Southern California that I saw two weeks ago. But most of the mountains are very beautiful, particularly around the Sea of Galilee. Jesus picked a good home.
There is a monastery and church building built right among the ruins at Capernaum. It was a small town 2000 years ago, scholars guessing somewhere around 1500 people. So the ruins are that extensive. But the church was one of my favorites that I've seen. It's a very modern-looking Catholic Church, octagonal in shape, built over an ancient church (4th century) of the same size, which was built over the traditional site of Peter's house. I could totally worship in this sanctuary.
We also saw the ruins of a synagogue that some experts think was built on top of another synagogue in the 4th century as well. So the first one would have been Jesus'. It was kind of like seeing where his own local church was for me.
We drove back and are back in our hotel room. We barely thought about the terror threat today, and the return to our room was pretty much the only reminder that we're supposed to be afraid. We even kind of laughed about it with Revs. Browning and Touma. We should take terror seriously, but we need not let it cause us to fear.
Two thousand years ago there was an oppressive regime with way more power than Al Qaeda called the Roman Empire who used two pieces of wood strung across one another to cause fear all over the land. These things may hold us down for a little while, but we cannot live in fear. Otherwise we're not really winning. The terrorists are. That's why they're called terrorists.
We cannot live in fear. The Lord has shown us that in the end, life wins. Love wins. It's not about strength-power over-coming strength-power, but about love through submission overcoming strength-power.
For the Christian, there is no other way.
We have one more full day in Israel.


Russian knapweed is a native of Eurasia, probably introduced to North America about 1898. This plant is considered a noxious weed and is included on the Colorado and the Adams County Noxious Weed Lists. Russian knapweed is an aggressive perennial (lasts several years) weed that reproduces from seed and adventitious buds on a creeping root system.
This plant is allelopathic, which means it exudes toxins into the soil so that no other plant species can grow around it. Dense colonies are usually formed by the widely spreading black, bark-covered roots. Stems are covered with fine, white hairs that give the stem a blue-green color. Stems are erect, openly branched, with plants standing up to 3 feet tall. Flowers are pink to lavender in color, and are surrounded by pearly, rounded bracts with papery margins that are smooth to the touch.
Russian knapweed invades open, disturbed land, cultivated fields, along ditch banks, fence rows, roadsides, and in waste places. Once established, it tends to form a single-species stand and is very difficult to control or eradicate. Russian knapweed infestations reduce forage for livestock, and greatly reduce biodiversity for wildlife habitat. Plants ingested as fresh or dried forage are toxic to horses, causing a nervous disorder called "chewing disease".
Approximately 1,400,000 acres in the western United States are infested. Roughly 30,000 of those acres are infested in Colorado.
Seeding and maintaining aggressive grasses such will help in competing with Russian knapweed and slow its spread. Proper fertilization, grazing, and supplemental irrigation of grasses are always effective cultural control methods.
Due to the allelopathic properties of this weed, supplemental control methods, such as judicious use of herbicides, may be needed to give grasses a chance to compete. Additional herbicide treatments after grass establishment may be needed to keep Russian knapweed populations reduced to an acceptable level.
Mowing and other mechanical methods can be employed every 14 to 21 days to prevent seed set and to stress the plants. Whether these efforts will reduce root mass and plant stand is unknown. As a creeping perennial, Russian knapweed is difficult to control by hand-pulling or grubbing. Cultivation is marginally effective on crop lands.
No effective biological control agents are known currently for this weed. Horses cannot be allowed to graze this knapweed as they can develop chewing disease. A root nematode (Subanguina picridis) Has provided poor control.
A number of herbicides are labeled for use on Russian knapweed. Those that have been effective when used independently or in combination with each other are: chlorosulfuron (Telar), picloram (Tordon), 2,4-D, glyphosate (Roundup, Rodeo), dicamba (Veteran 10G), and Curtail. Refer to table below for more information.


Handmade Or Mass Produced Jewellery? What Would You Choose?
One of the main issues in the jewellery trade, when you are an individual jeweller who hand makes your pieces, is competing with the mass produced jewellery market and bigger brands.
I often get asked to make pieces which customers have seen in a big brand jewellery shop or a design that they have seen online but they want it cheaper. Unfortunately it is extremely hard to compete with the big boys as they can get things in bulk and stock reproduction jewellery. While a jeweller who hand makes the pieces will only have a one off, limited amount of samples to show and will be individually hand making your piece to your own specifications. They won't have a massive supply of diamonds or precious stones and metal to show you as they will order it in, especially for your commission.
With the popularity of Bake Off and The Great Sewing Bee, emphasis is moving to handmade, locally sourced and ethnically made products. However, the words "handmade" or "hand crafted" or "hand finished" are getting miss used by brands and online stores.
With the growth of online selling, it's easier to purchase jewellery direct from your own home, without having to meet the seller. It opens up more choice for you the consumer, however are the websites actually telling the truth about how and where it's being made?
So how will you know if it is handmade?
One thing to note is when you go into a high street jewellers, they have a nice range of finished jewellery in trays with lots of the same pieces in different sizes. They have members of staff who have excellent customer service and sales skills, however, they may not know the making process behind making the piece or specialist knowledge of where the stones and materials have came from or how long it took to make.
In the jewellery industry there are a lot of trade suppliers who have various catalogues of custom designs. You won't get to change the design, except from a different shade of stone or other type of metal. These catalogue designs are cast (an initial mould has been created to reproduce that same design over again) and then they are hand finished in a production workshop and stones are set. Big companies outsource the production abroad to save money. The high street shops choose a selection of products from these catalogues to stock in their shops. Normally they won't even have a jeweller in the store, they will send repairs off to a jewellery workshop elsewhere.
With the growth in technology including computer aided design (CAD) and 3D printing, this also makes it easier and cheaper to reproduce products (if the designer or company has the money to invest in the software and equipment.) With the online jewellery stores you will sometimes see a render of a product, a computer drawing made to look like the real finished article but it's not an actual picture of the piece of jewellery.
I recently had a client come to me because the manufacturing process was not made clear to them. The company had told the customer that the piece would be handmade locally, but he was confused when told the piece had been held up in customs. He had to wait another 4 weeks to pop the question to his fiancee. The jewellers then told them that they outsourced their work abroad and the client wouldn't have been none the wiser if it wasn't for the delay, where does it matter where it was made? It would still have been a lovely ring?
Companies need to be straight and honest with their customers about where the pieces are getting made. This particular client wanted to support an independent business and shop locally but the company had totally mislead them.
So how can you make sure the piece is going to get handmade locally? You can source a small, independent designer maker, who has their own studio or shop with their own work bench. If the workshop is well kitted out you can be sure that the jewellery is handmade on the premises. If you are going to spend a lot of money on a special piece it's worthwhile doing some research into the jeweller/company before going ahead. Look for customer reviews or testimonials on their website and if you can, meet them face to face by visiting their workshop.
I hope this has increased your understanding of the making process a little bit more. And you will hopefully be more aware of how to spot the images you see online for a CAD render or an actual piece of jewellery. So much photoshop happens these days that it's sometimes really hard to tell either way.


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Undead and loving it: Zombies gets reanimated in a new location
by Nicole Chavez
About four months ago, Northeast bar and live music venue Zombies was forced to close down. Owners Steve Freeman and Toni Torres opened the horror-themed establishment in the fall of 2009 (see "Land of the dead," November 11, 2009), and quickly cultivated a loyal following of Nacogdoches/Thousand Oaks area beer guzzlers and hard rockers. Rumors swirled about problems with the landlord and a few "Save Zombies" fundraisers popped up.
But it wasn't long before these same loyal patrons (and a few former bartenders) started talking about a new Zombies location in the works. Apparently, Freeman and Torres (who double as publisher and editor, respectively, of San Antonio's Edge Magazine when daybreak hits) were hard at work on a new spot. Though they kept the exact location secret until days before last week's three-day, grand re-opening bash, regulars were assured that it was only a couple blocks away from the cradle and grave of the original location.
Bets between barflies were settled last Thursday when a black-and-white Zombies banner appeared on the side of a brick strip center at the corner of Thousand Oaks and Bulverde Road (Frost Bank is the most obvious nearby landmark, and Nacogdoches the easternmost cross street). I pulled into the already-crowded lot around 9:30 p.m. Thursday night.
Nice, I thought, as the door opened on a large crowd clad in black and studded with metal. Zombies was already packed to the hilt (how were there so many people here already?). The front room was flanked by a single pool table on the left, dart boards on the right, and opened up to reveal high ceilings, a full-sized stage, and a long bar with black and white band photos plastered behind it.
While the old location's punk-rock vibe was comfy and minimalist, the new locale improves upon it — Zombies has maintained street cred while upping their game considerably. The red-and-black color scheme and gory design elements remain, as does live music of the rock and metal variety. The size of the stage gives fans the feel of a big show, but the bar successfully maintains the intimate feel of a neighborhood dive. I elbowed my way through the crowd to check out the bartop, which is plastered with grisly images of blood splatters and spilled brains, a fitting tribute to the living dead. There's even a screen grab of one of the most iconic skeletons from AMC's late-fall sensation The Walking Dead in the decoupage.
I grabbed a Heineken ($3) but noticed that almost everybody else was swilling their brews from gigantic mugs. I asked about them, and was informed that Shiner, Dos Equis, Bud Light, Miller Light, and Alien Ale were $4 per 24 oz. draft, while PBR and Lone Star were $3. Lone Star tallboys were standard fare for everyone who wasn't sporting the 24 oz. mug. Zombies serves beer and wine only, but they usually have a handful of bottled specialty beers available. BYOBottle is also available for those who want liquor; setups can be purchased from the bar.
A swift scan of the crowd revealed a who's-who of SA's rock and metal scene and service-industry folk from other bars and live music joints across the city. I spotted reps from The Mix, White Rabbit, and Dixies, and members of Top Dead Center, Tension Speak, and Lokey, among others. My first thought was that it was great to see several San Antonio nightlife outlets coming together to celebrate the rebirth of what could be considered a competing establishment. The "united scene" mentality was refreshing, and San Antonio needs more of it.
Freeman and Torres thanked diehard patrons for their patience and support before giving way to the first and only band of the night. In Ovo hit the stage at 11 p.m. and entertained the tittering crowd with their brand of metal for over an hour. The crowd grew steadily through the night, and people started being turned away at the door during In Ovo's set. Torres said Zombies hadn't done any radio advertising to promote the grand re-opening, and the only advert I saw was a flourishing Facebook thread. That's some great word of mouth. •
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BEST USE: Neighborhood hangout for the rock and metal set during the week; doubles as a live music venue on weekends.
PRICES: 24 oz. draft: $4 Shiner, Dos Equis, Bud Light, Miller Light, and Alien Ale, $3 PBR and Lone Star.
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So Seo-no este a doua soție a împăratului coreean Jumong, întemeietor al Goguryeo.

A fost fiica lui Yeon Ta-bal, o personalitate bogată și influentă din Jolbon. Inițial, ea a fost căsătorită cu Wootae, căruia i-a născut pe Biryu si Onjo. Apoi a fost, pentru mai mulți ani, împărăteasă a Goguryeo până a plecat în Sud împreună cu fii săi pentru a fonda un nou stat.

Oameni din secolul I î.Hr.


This time I'm revisiting my first training plan. When I started this set-up back in April, I didn't know what to expect - of it, or myself. It ended up being the key to a happier life. Why?
1) no cardio. I hate cardio. I mean, really hate it. Kickboxing and Muay Thai is the only time I can do it; anything else is torture.
2) it shifted my focus away from losing weight and on to ability and muscle gain, instead, which meant that my goals changed, were met, and the goal posts moved. I saw amazing progress in my own abilities. I began caring less about how my body looked, and more about what it could do.
3) I started eating more.
4) I didn't get bored as quickly, which saved money - no buying new DVDs every month. In fact, this workout - and all since - have cost me £3.99 a piece. The price of the magazine that I get the total body workouts from. All others are from Youtube.
I'm revisiting the first of my training plans and giving it three months rather than two. That said, I've also started on bigger weights. When I first started out, I was using a 12.5kg barbell (£30 from Women's Health with a total weight of 20kg). After 8 months of training, I come back to this now and I'm starting it with a 22.5kg barbell. I bought a new 10kg plate.
But I am approaching it differently. I've hinted time and again towards my experiment with calories, which I plan on writing about in 2-3 months' time once I have some solid information and experience to share. In short, though: I'm eating more. When I started out, I was eating 1,600 calories a day. I'm at 2,000 a day now. I'll elaborate - how, why, when - soon. But I will tell you this: I'm still a UK size 8.
Because of that experiment, though, I'm only riding this workout for one month, then taking a month out for the Core de Force I would usually have done this month, then picking it back up for two more months over April and May. I'll finally explain the experiment then.


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P3.06-009 How does screening for the early detection of lung cancer facilitate smoking cessation?: a qualitative study of screened smokers
Young, Ben and Vedhara, Kavita and Kendrick, Denise and Robertson, John and das Nair, Roshan (2017) P3.06-009 How does screening for the early detection of lung cancer facilitate smoking cessation?: a qualitative study of screened smokers. Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 12 (11). S2297. ISSN 1556-0864
© 2017. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Screening; Lung Cancer; Early Detection;Smoking Cessation; Smokers
University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Medicine > Division of Primary Care
University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Medicine > Division of Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtho.2017.09.1691
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As a painter and printmaker my artwork focuses on the search for an essential energy – the essence of a chosen subject.
The vital energy of the land and the constant movement of the skies above are used as a personal language to convey a moment in time, a specific note on a journey travelled. An exploration of contrasts, a sense of place, visited, recorded and remembered, offer the starting point to my work.
These are the images I search for and find, in the most ordinary and extra ordinary of destinations. The very act of printmaking with its varied repertoire and moments of chance, offer up a personal language full of exciting and ever changing possibilities.


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Slaid Cleaves October 6th
Cleaves is a full-time touring musician, but like most musicians has held many day jobs: janitor, warehouse rat, ice cream truck driver, rope-tow operator, film developer, groundskeeper, meter reader, and pizza delivery driver. He was even a human guinea pig. He was paid to be a subject in drug studies by a pharmaceutical company.
Cleaves's musical roots extend back prior to his days playing in a high school "garage band" with his childhood friend Rod Picott. The two shared a love of music, especially Bruce Springsteen and named their band The Magic Rats, after a character in Springsteen's song "Jungleland."
He brought his love of American artists such as Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Tom Waits, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and more with him to Cork, Ireland, where he spent his junior year of college. To help pass the time he learned how to play the songs on guitar and on November 18, 1985 he made his debut as a busker—a street singer—in Cork City, Ireland.
After several false starts he started to gain notice around Portland, Maine and in 1990 released his debut cassette, The Promise. Only a few songs off this album, "Sweet Summertime", "Lonesome Highway" and "Wrecking Ball" still occasionally get played in concert. The original tape has unfortunately been lost, and only copies remain.
That was followed a year later by Looks Good from the Road. By the end of the yearhe and his band were the darlings of the Portland press and touted as one of the bands "most likely to succeed."
However, Cleaves's solo acoustic side took over and in 1991 he moved with his wife, Karen, to Austin, Texas. In 1992, he was a winner of the prestigious New Folk competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival, an award previously given to such artists as Nanci Griffith, Robert Earl Keen and Steve Earle.
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Hermès Reimagines One of its Most Iconic Fragrances for Fall
Head perfumer Christine Nagel's Terre d'Hermès eau Intense Vétiver is a perfectly playful take on the masculine classic.
By Phoebe Neuman	 on August 27, 2018
Photo: Courtesy Hermès
Fragrance is a tricky business–one that's equal parts molecular chemistry, alchemy, and art. Creating a new scent from the ground-up takes an olfactory maestro (something that noses at top houses around the world train lifetimes to be able to do), but re-imagining an existing scent—and an extremely popular one at that—for a new generation? That takes guts.
But this is exactly what Christine Nagel, head perfumer at Hermès and one of the few top female noses in the industry, has done. And her take on the house's iconic Terre d'Hermès men's fragrance hits shelves this week. Interestingly, the scent—originally created by the house's longtime nose Jean-Claude Ellena—was not its first men's fragrance. Yet in the 12 years since its release, Terre's mix of woody, mineral scents have become the defining notes of the Hermès man. "I wanted to understand the masculinity of Hermès, so naturally I chose Terre," Nagel explains. "I must be one of the only perfumers in the world that can do the craft completely free. Hermès puts all of its trust in creators, [so the house] didn't demand that I recreate it . . . I wanted to do it because it is such a huge monument of the brand."
To build her version of the fragrance (called Terre d'Hermès eau Intense Vétiver and available for $132 for a 3.38 fl. oz. bottle), Nagel worked backwards. "I was not afraid to rework the scent," she says, "I [approached the project] as trying to understand it further, so I took it into pieces." Once deconstructed, the vegetable, green notes of the perfume stuck out the most (terre does translate to earth, after all). She leaned into this—amping up the vetiver factor to keep the fragrance warm, swapping out the original's black pepper notes for bright, almost spicy Sichuan pepper, and finishing it off with Queen of Hesperidia bergamot, picked just before maturity specifically for Terre.
The resulting scent—approved by Jean-Claude Ellena himself (he was the first to smell the finished product after Nagel had perfected her version)—is an intoxicating balance of the three notes. It's masculine, but never serious, with just the right amount of that playful signature Hermès energy.
"[The original] Terre d'Hermès was such a success because it captured a feeling," Nagel says. "Perfume is really personal—it's all about sensibility." And this one's spirit of easy, unfussy hopefulness is a feeling we all could use a splash of.
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