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There can be different causes of ptosis or droopy eyelids but plastic surgeons can correct them. If you have god droopy eyelids, look no further than our droopy eyelid surgery in Dubai. This page discusses how droopy eyelid surgery works followed by some discussion about the benefits, causes, and FAQs.
By ptosis or droopy eyelids or blepharoptosis is a condition of eyelids where the border of the upper eyelid falls to a lower position than normal. Despite cosmetic concerns, this issue can cause hindrance in seeing things clearly. The sever forms of drooping eyelids, the drooping eyelid can cover all or part of the pupil and interfere with vision.
This issue can happen to just one eyes or both eyes. Doctors use different methods to fix this issue. For some people, minimally-invasive techniques are enough. However, some people qualify as a good candidate for the surgical option.
Who Can Take Eyelid Surgery?
The candidate has upper eyelids fine line and excess skin.
The candidate with eyelids drooping or eye bags can take it.
The candidate enjoys good overall mental and physical health.
The candidate has excess fat deposits and extra skin on upper eyelids.
The candidate must not be affected by a serious eye disease or condition.
The candidate must be a non-smoker; else, smoking should stop 2 weeks before the treatment.
The candidate must not be an alcohol taker; else, drinking must be stopped 2 weeks before the surgery.
The candidate must have realistic expectations; it is surgical procedure, not magic.
There can be many causes of droopy eyelids and this problem can occur to anyone at any age. Children and young individuals are less likely to suffer from this problem. There can be natural causes to serious conditions behind ptosis. A doctor or surgeon can identify the actual cause.
The aging people often get this condition due to natural aging process. Some younger people may also experience this condition thereby looking 5 to 10 years older than their actual age. There can be a neurological issue behind it as well. Some people suffer from it due to trauma.
What is Droopy Eyelid Surgery?
The condition causes embarrassment and the quality of life of the affected person suffers. A droopy eyelid surgery in Dubai is a procedure that uses a surgical method to fix problems with the eyelids. Here, the plastic surgeon makes incisions to make adjustments. Actually, the extra fat, tissue, and skin is fixed in a typical surgery for droopy eyelid. There are other options to address this issue and one can try one of those options to avoid the surgery. If you are not a surgery kind of person, discuss your non-surgical options with your surgeon.
How Droopy Eyelid Surgery Works?
Injectable Fillers: These are relatively simple injection type that where a professional just inject a specific medication to remove eye bags and other issues.
Botox Injections: A specific medication is injected through a syringe to make the muscles relax. This option is helpful in fixing wrinkles, and fine lines.
Fat Injections: To perform this procedure, the plastic surgeon first removes extra fat from the same person's body followed by inserting that fat into eyelids.
Eyelid Surgery: This option is surgical and thus involves incision and stitches. Though seems a kind of trouble, this option is the only treatment that delivers promising results.
When it comes to performing the eyelid surgery, both upper eyelids and lower eyelids can be considered. In general, just upper or just lower eyelids are fixed but it is also possible to adjust both lower and upper in the same procedure.
Step 1: The procedure starts with cleaning the treatment site followed by administering local or general anesthesia.
Step 2: The surgeon will mark the problem site and make minor incision accordingly.
Step 3: Now the surgeon will start making adjustments and will remove the excess fat, skin, and muscles.
Step 4: After making the required adjustments, the surgeon will conclude the procedure by stitching the incision sites carefully.
The patient does not feel pain and discomfort due to anesthesia.
The procedure boosts the self-esteem and confidence of the person.
The plastic surgeons use this technique to make your eyes refreshed.
The person will look much better after this and it will save enough makeup.
Due to proper eyelid adjustment, the vision of the person will be restored.
Have you read about our droopy eyelid surgery in Dubai? Do you need this treatment? If you are interested in it, please do not hesitate to contact us anytime. By consulting one of our experts at eyelid Surgery in Dubai, you will be able to learn how this treatment can help you. So book an appointment by calling our number or filling our online form. You can also write to us using our chat box.


When the time came to pick a horse for the Zoetis $1 Million Grand Prix at HITS-On-The-Hudson, Egyptian rider Nayel Nassar only had one choice.
His other mount, the stallion Raging Bull Vangelis S was still in quarantine after competing in Europe over the summer, so it was up to the young Lordan to step up to the plate. While only 9, the Hanoverian gelding (Lordanos—Lamona, Landor) had jumped around enough grand prix tracks that Nassar knew he'd be up for the challenge.
Sure enough, he did, winning the class—and a check for $350,000—after a two-horse jump-off with Todd Minikus and Quality Girl.
"It was really surreal," said Nassar. "He jumped unbelievable and I knew I just had to put the pressure on [Todd]. He's only 9, but this is easily the biggest class he's jumped." The 23-year-old has been on a roll with the diminutive Lordan. In the weeks leading up to the class, they won a World Cup qualifier at Del Mar [Calif.] and came second at Thunderbird [Canada] in another.
Minikus, Loxahatchee, Fla., was happy to take second place after his mare lost a shoe in the first round in front of the second fence. She pulled two rails in the jump-off before Minikus pulled up, knowing he'd already lost the win.
Third place went to New Zealand's Sharn Wordley on Ashland Stables' Derly Chin De Muze.
Wordley has had the ride on the 10-year-old Belgian Warmblood mare (For Pleasure—Werly Chin De Muze, Nabab De Reve) for about a year. She had previously been ridden by Canadian Eric Lamaze, who competed her as a 9-year-old in the 2012 Olympics.
While it was unfortunate that Wordley had a time fault in the first round, Petersen, Jr. had to make a quick decision about the time allowed after the first three horses jumped, and he stuck with his gut. More than 20 of the 39 starters fell victim to the clock and picked up time penalties.
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Shayda is a 2023 Australian drama film directed and written by Noora Niasari. The film stars Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Mojean Aria, Leah Purcell, Jillian Nguyen and Osamah Sami. It had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival on 19 January 2023.

Cast

 Zar Amir Ebrahimi as Shayda
 Osamah Sami as Hossein
 Leah Purcell as Joyce
 Jillian Nguyen as Vi
 Mojean Aria as Farhad
 Selina Zahednia as Mona
 Rina Mousavi as Elly
 Eloise Gentle as Downtown Shopper
 Eve Morey as Lara
 Lucinda Armstrong Hall as Renee
 Meaghan Fahy as Downtown shopper
 Bev Killick as Cathy
 Aurnab As-Saber as Persian Man
 Justine Jones as Commuter
 Korab Shasivari as Festival Attendees
 Victoria Babatsikos as New Years Eve Party Goer
 Eliza Hall as Downtown Shopper
 Mert Ergec as Passenger

Reception

Critical response
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 100% based on 17 reviews, with an average rating of 7.6/10.

Accolades

References

External links

2023 films
Australian drama films

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Syfy's "The Magicians" Premiere Tour
For the launch of its highly- anticipated series, The Magicians, Syfy partnered with Mirrored Media to launch a buzz worthy promotional campaign. Syfy needed to create a promotional campaign that would cut through the entertainment clutter and reach the show's target audience – Millennials.
To reach millennials, the campaign hit on key millennial passion points like music, social experiences, and events and partnered with Warner Bros. Records and Fullscreen to embark on a five market college tour to promote The Magicians. Each tour stop was hosted by a different popular social media personality and featured an advance screening of the first episode, a live acoustic performance by millennial musician Bebe Rexha, cast appearances, branded concessions and shareable social activations.
Mirrored Media partnered with millennial musician, Bebe Rexha to reach true music fans and generate buzz surrounding The Magicians. Bebe is a songwriter and singer who penned what would become Eminem's global hit song "The Monster" and currently her duet with G-Easy, "Me, Myself & I" is #1 on Billboard hip hop. The partnership married the two brands together by debuting Bebe's new, never before heard single "No Broken Hearts" in a Magicians trailer. The trailer ran on-air, on Syfy.com and was posted on Syfy social handles garnering over 750K views on YouTube alone.
– The Magicians Premiere Night garnered the largest % of P18-34 than any premiere on Syfy in 3 years, with 55% of them being new Syfy viewers
– The Magicians Premiere Night brought in a higher % of P18-34 than the average of all Syfy originals since 2008, with 55% of them being new Syfy viewers
– P18-34 continued to climb the second week
– Fans joined in on the conversation with #TheMagicians generating over 84.4MM impressions over the course of the campaign (1/4/15 – 1/23/15) with chatter spiking by an average of 600% on the days of the tour events.
– 2,386 consumers attended the five events
– TheMagiciansSyfy Snapchat handle followers grew by 10 times through the duration of the tour and The Magicians Snaps made it into several local campus and city stories on Snapchat
– With the help of Bebe Rexha and the five social media influencers driving people to watch the pre-linear episode, The Magicians Episode 101 was sampled more than 6.7MM times across Syfy owned and operated platforms and partner sites between 1/8/16 – 1/25/16.
The Magicians, written by American author Lev Grossman, is a trilogy of fantasy novels about a group of students who attend a college of magic in New York City, which The New York Times described as "Harry Potter for adults". The Magicians presented a unique opportunity to reach millennials and connect them to Syfy. The success of the novels offered access to millennials and Syfy wanted to build on that, expand it, and transform it into new Syfy viewers by creating a disruptive experience that would complement their overall media campaign and generate buzz amongst consumers, press and social media influencers.
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On Wednesday, May 13th, we had a dinner reservation at the Coral Reef restaurant in Epcot, so we decided to spend the entire day there. First, we stopped for breakfast at Pop Century's restaurant. The boys loved devouring Mickey Mouse waffles. Then it was on the bus to head on over.
As we approached, the kids loved seeing the "giant ball" (aka Spaceship Earth). We entered the park and made our way over to Soarin'. We quickly "Fast Passed" this to come back to it and then went to "The Seas." Here we saw (what else) "The Seas with Nemo and Friends." This ride sees you through a condensed version of Finding Nemo (well, a new story, not a retelling of the movie). The gimmick is that the ocean life (except for the main characters) are real. You ride through a real (giant) aquarium with real fish. Projected "inside" these tanks are Dory, Marlin and others. The only downside is that it's so dark, no photos of mine came out at all. Oh well.
After Nemo, we wandered around looking at fish and manatees before going to see Turtle Time with Crush. This was quite fun as Crush comes out on screen and interacts with the audience – and by The Audience, I mean mostly the kids. They even seat the kids up front for maximum interaction. In a cute quirk, Crush will call on "the youngling with the red shell" if the child has a red shirt on. Since this is a question and answer session (driven by questions the kids have), the show changes every time. Some of the kids in our group had trouble getting their questions out. (They seemed so sure until they got the microphone.) Crush took it all in stride though. He's really good with kids. I guess when you're 150 years young you develop some patience.
Leaving Crush behind, we saw Bruce and some of his fellow sharks. NHL, JSL and I got gobbled up by Bruce, but we somehow managed to make it out alive.
After this, we left "The Seas" and traveled into our imaginations. By this, I mean the Imaginations ride featuring Figment. Figment is a favorite of B's so she was eager to show it to the kids. They liked this ride and some of the interactive exhibits there were at the end.
Now it was time to use our Fast Pass. NHL came on this ride with me. It was simply amazing. First, you walk through an "airport waiting area" to take a "flight" to California. I joked with NHL that we were back in the airport now and leaving Disney World. I don't believe he quite believed me.
Once you board your "plane", you buckle up and take off for a flight through the skies – quite literally. Your seat rises in the air. In front of you is a giant screen that takes up just about your entire field of vision. Add the fact that your seat can tilt with the movement of your flight and that air is blown at you and the realism is amazing. During some downward dips, I found myself automatically lifting my feet up so they wouldn't get wet in the ocean below. I did have a little problem with vertigo in the beginning, but that quickly passed.
Leaving Morocco, we decided not to return immediately to Orlando. Instead we took a leisurely stroll through Japan, America, Italy, Germany, China, Norway and Mexico (in that order… I think our world map was a bit screwy). More topiaries were spotted on this journey as well.
In Norway, we went on the Maelstrom ride which the boys liked, but JSL was getting tired. At the end of the ride, there was an optional movie to watch, but we decided to skip it. JSL had fallen asleep. When we got to Mexico, JSL was still asleep as we met up and had our picture taken with Donald Duck in a Sombrero.
Finally, we made it back to Orlando. Around the world in 2 hours! That's got to be some kind of record, right? Anyway, we headed on over to Test Track, but decided to Fast Pass it. Instead, NHL and I went on Mission Space. We had quite the thrilling adventure in space, though we opted to join the Green Team (that's the less realistic simulation which doesn't spin). NHL enjoyed being part of the four person team and liked that he had a specific job to do which would help ensure the success of the mission. After we got off the ride, B took NHL on it again. Thank you Child Swap! We spent a little time looking through the shop at the end of Mission Space. I even let NHL try on a "NASA hat", but didn't let him buy it.
Then we went on Universe of Energy where Ellen DeGeneres is assisted by Bill Nye in learning about the importance of Energy. This ride was doing well, until it broke down. I guess Universe of Energy needed some more energy. We had to stay in place for awhile until we could be "rescued" by some Disney employees. We weren't in any danger, but we were a few feet off the ground and someone could have been hurt if they simply tried to jump down.
Now it was time to eat again so we went to the Coral Reef Restaurant. You actually dine under the sea here. One wall is a giant tank showing sea life swimming by (and the occasional diver). I had a wonderful mushroom lasagna, B had NY steak strip and NHL had pizza, although JSL ate most of his. For dessert, NHL had an ice cream sundae, B had creme brulee and I had a delicious chocolate lava cake.
On my plate was a Mickey-shaped sugar candy which JSL wanted. Deciding to try it first before JSL took a bite, I bit into it. Or should I say I tried to bite into it. It was quite hard. I tried biting, sucking on it (thinking it'd soften in my mouth) and even breaking it, but it was just too hard. I could tell it was sugar and not plastic (or some other inedible substance), but it was made in such a way that it was impossible to consume.
After we finished with our meal, B and NHL went with B's parents on Soarin'. I took JSL for a walk and wound up by the fountains near Imaginations. JSL loved seeing the water spraying uphill and jumping around. It was quite a blast simply seeing him enjoying himself so much.
Eventually, we met back up with the others and made our way to Epcot's lake to get a good spot for the Illuminations fireworks show. This is quite an impressive display of aerial (and sea-based) pyrotechnics. Unfortunately, JSL and NHL were both quite tired and barely remained awake till the end. We had to constantly wake them up so they wouldn't miss anything. The minute the show was done with, they were too. We wheeled the sleeping kids back to the bus and took them back to the hotel room for a much earned rest.


A collection of 6 cream textured favour boxes each featuring traditional wedding images and words based on the rhyme; Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, designed by East of India, we think they would be perfect for a traditionally themed wedding.
All of our Wedding Favours are made to order and by hand, before being filled and despatched to your address, please allow 5-10 working days for despatch, if your order is required urgently please do not hesitate to call us to discuss your requirements or message us via our Contact Us page.
This collection includes 6 cream textured favour boxes each measuring 47 cm x 47 cm x 47 cm and topped with a beautifully designed East of India Label, once filled they are then wrapped cellphone ready for despatch.
Traditionally wedding favours included 5 sugared almonds to symbolis;. Health, Wealth, Happiness, Long Life and Fertility, today there are lots of different choices, from Chocolate Foiled Hearts to little packets of Love Hearts, all you need to do is chose your favourite.
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Kodak Retina II – Vintage Camera
Kodak Retina II (three quarters, open}
Kodak Retina II (front view, open}
Kodak Retina II (front view}
Kodak Retina II (rear view}
Kodak Retina II (top view, open}
Kodak Retina II (with 35mm cassette for scale)
Kodak Retina II Specifications
Manufacturer: Eastman Kodak Company
German Reich
(modern day Germany)
Made in: German Reich
Introduced: 1936
Type: Folding, Rangefinder
Format: 135 Film
Dimensions: 12.2 x 8.1 x 4.1 cm (closed)
12.2 x 8.1 x 8.5 cm (open)
Kodak Retina II Review
The Kodak Retina II is a high end 35mm folding camera introduced in 1936 by Kodak AG, Eastman Kodak's branch in what was then Nazi Germany. Like the original Retina, the Retina II was designed by Dr. August Nagel, founder of Nagel (which he sold to Kodak) and Contessa as well as co-founder of Zeiss Ikon. There are a number of different variants of the Retina II, the first three of which were manufactured before and during the early stages of World War II. In 1941, the Kodak AG factory in Stuttgart halted operations and began contributing to the war by making time-delay fuses for shells used by the much-feared 88mm Flak anti-aircraft gun. Then, shortly after Germany's surrender in May 1945, camera production resumed and more versions followed. The exact Retina II pictured here is a type 142 (produced from 1937-1939) which is characterized by having separate viewfinder and rangefinder windows as well as a knurled knob for advancing the frame.
To open this Retina II, one must first go to the bottom plate and press the small silver button located between the tripod socket and the depth of field calculator (the words here imply that this particular example was most likely manufactured for the French market). Once the lens (a Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenon 50mm f/2.8 in this case) is out, the outermost ring on it can be used to adjust focus. The next ring in chooses the shutter speed and the aperture is selected by moving the small metal marker at the bottom of the lens. The shutter cocking lever can be seen at the one o'clock mark.
Moving to the top plate, we find the film rewind knob on the user's left hand side, a rotating frame counter, a shutter button and threaded shutter cable socket (both mechanically linked to the actual shutter button found at 10 o'clock on the lens barrel), and finally the film advance knob. On the back behind the shutter button is a rewind switch that uncouples the film advance knob from the spool beneath it. Once this switch is in the "R" setting, the user can then activate the spring-loaded "arrow" lever located above the film door latch on the user's left hand side of the camera and use the rewind knob to wind exposed film back into the cassette for processing.
My brother purchased this Retina II on my behalf for just a couple of dollars at a St. Louis area flea market. It's a good thing he got such an amazing deal on it because this camera has seen much better days. The aperture, shutter speed controls, and the shutter button on the lens itself all seem to work correctly but the shutter button on the top plate is frozen in place and the focus ring has become disconnected. Cosmetically speaking, however, The camera looks great for its age. The leatherette is intact with minor scuffing and the body is free of dents and major scratches which makes the mechanical faults all the more difficult to accept.
Want one for yourself?
Find your very own Kodak Retina II on eBay.
McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 2001-2002. (Grantsburg, WI, USA: Centennial Photo Service, 2001), 362-368.
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Hayden Stevenson (2 de julho de 1877 - 31 de janeiro de 1952) foi um ator de cinema estadunidense que iniciou sua carreira na era do cinema mudo, alcançou a era sonora, e atuou em 130 filmes entre 1915 e 1942.

Biografia
Stevenson nasceu em Georgetwon, Kentucky. Seu primeiro filme foi The Great Divide, em 1915, pela Lubin Manufacturing Company. Depois atuou pela Fox Films, e pela Universal Pictures, em Let's Go (1922), o primeiro filme da primeira série Leather Pushers, produzida pela Universal, num total de 25 episódios, baseados nas histórias de H. C. Witner para a Collier Magazine. Continuou atuando nessa série entre 1922 e 1924, no personagem Joe Murphy. O último episódio foi Big Boy Blue, em 1924. Atuou ainda em Westerns, como The Lone Hand (1922), ao lado de Hoot Gibson e Helen Holmes; em dramas, como Flesh and Spirit (1922); em filmes de mistério, como Dark Stairways (1924); em comédias, como a série de comédias da Universal The Collegians, entre 1926 e 1929, em que fez o  personagem do treinador Tom Jones. Pela Universal fez o seriado Blake of Scotland Yard (1927), e pela Mascot Pictures fez o primeiro capítulo do seriado The Lightning Warrior (1931). A partir dos anos 1930, passou a atuar em pequenos papéis, na maioria das vezes não-creditado. Seu último filme foi Reap the Wild Wind (no Brasil, Vendaval de Paixões), de Cecil B. DeMille, em 1942, num pequeno papel não-creditado.

Atuou também em teatro, na Broadway, na peça The Copperhead, escrita por Augustus E. Thomas, baseada na história de Frederick Landis, produzida por John D. Williams, no Shubert Theatre, entre fevereiro e junho de 1918 (120 apresentações).

Vida pessoal e morte
Stevenson faleceu em Los Angeles, aos 74 anos, em 31 de janeiro de 1952.

Filmografia parcial
 The Great Divide (1915)
 Where Love Leads (1916)
 Let's Go (1922)
 Round Two (1922)
 The Lone Hand (1922, no Brasil, A Represa)
 Flesh and Spirit (1922)
 Big Boy Blue (1924)
 Dark Stairways (1924)
 The Collegians (1926)
 Behind the Front (1926)
 Blake of Scotland Yard (1927)
 Man, Woman and Sin (1927, no Brasil, Arrependimento)
 The Diamond Master (1929)
 The Lightning Warrior (1931)
 The Gilded Lily (1935, no Brasil, O Lírio Dourado)
 Easy Living (1937, no Brasil Garota de Sorte)
 Rulers of the Sea (1939, no Brasil, A Conquista do Atlântico)
 Birth of the Blues (1941, no Brasil, Sinfornia Bárbara)
 Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

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Ligações externas

 Hayden Stevenson no IBDB

Atores dos Estados Unidos
Cinema mudo
Nascidos em 1877
Mortos em 1952


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I used to walk for miles all over the city. Most days I would walk to the park, looking at all the tourists and making a circle around the fountain. Some days I would walk to my husband's office and have lunch with him. Other days I would walk down and pick my husband up after work and we would walk home holding hands and sharing information about our day. For the last six months I haven't walked much, because the arch on my left foot collapsed making that foot at least an inch longer than my right foot. My left leg is longer than the right one now too so I have an awkward limp.
I miss walking, so on Monday I called my husband and asked him when he would be finished at work. He said, "I can be done by five." It was four-thirty so I said, "I'll leave now." It used to only take me twenty minutes to get to his office, but now it takes thirty or more.
I put on my sandals, grabbed my keys and my wallet and headed out the door.
I walked slowly down our street to a dead-end then headed West toward the water. I had to pass under the freeway where many people sleep at night and use what protection there is as a bathroom, but because of the recent rain it didn't have a strong odor of urine. I could see the water while walking downhill, but when I turned on India Street the buildings blocked my view.
We passed each other both of us smiling.
I didn't have money to give her, but in her opinion I gave her something more valuable, kindness.
I often find life's lessons from the people on the street. They are the unknown and lost philosophers, preachers, and teachers.
They have something of value for all of us, their humanity, and their simple, but profound view on life.
I don't avoid the street or the people that call it home, I sometimes give them what they ask for, and more often than not they give me something far more valuable in return – a lesson in giving and living.
This is beautiful. I love to walk too because you see things/meet people that you never would if you were driving. I'm sure you made that woman's day by being kind and smiling.


The production of fizz by way of secondary fermentation in bottle is nothing to be ignored in Alsace. More than one in every five wines forged from the region's vines is filled with bubbles. Most recently (in the past 18 to 24 months), certain things have come to light. A salient spike has been witnessed, with Sparkling wine increasing from 15 to more than 20 per cent of the region's annual wine production. This means that Alsace now ranks second in France with a yearly production of more than 30 million bottles.
Six grape varieties are permitted for the production of Crémant d'Alsace; Auxerrois, Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir and Riesling. Chardonnay can only be used for Crémant and only Pinot Noir may be fermented to bottle a Rosé. More rules must be followed like grapes having to come from vines into its' 3rd growing season and wines must rest a minimum nine months on the lees before bottling. Most lay longer, which helps to define this genre of Crémant's creamy texture, matched in contrast by its stony, flinty and mineral style.
The effervescence of Crémant d'Alsace is known as prise de mousse. Basic wine is bottled with liqueur de tirage for second fermentation. Bottles are left to rest sur latte. Autolysis occurs and the dead yeast is removed by way of remuage. After aging on the fine lees, bottles are turned, deposits form in the collar, brought to the freezing point, evacuated by carbonic gas and replaced in volume by liqueur de dosage or liqueur d'expedition which yields a Crémant d'Alsace of three styles; Brut, Sec, or Demi-Sec. A balanced vintage for sparkling in 2012 yielded 270,000 hl of Crémant d'Alsace.
During my week in Alsace and with thanks to the Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins d'Alsace (CIVA) I was able to taste more than 30 producer's Crémant. Here are my notes on 14.
Exemplary bubbles from Soultzmatt in la Vallée Noble, 20 km south of Colmar, from out of clay-limestone soils. Grapes here are Pinot Blanc, Pinot Auxerrois, Riesling, Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir. A close-knit aridity and platinum tang are pronounced in an idiomatic lees-inflected language with a lightly oxidized lilt. A retaining wall of freshness and a slice of bitter honey-almond tart round out the complexity, intended or not, with elevated levels of Pinot vibrations making themselves known. Calls for a must return to see if it's a one-off or a truly significant house style. Drink alongside a salty buffet.
The old vines blend from Clos Liebenberg is predominantly Pinot Auxerrois (95 per cent) with minor amounts of Chardonnay and Pinot Gris. It's important to note the non-sulphur designation in that the not insignificant practice takes the wine to another level of Crémant sophistication. There is a savoury nut character to the Auxerrois but never in a fat, round or blanched way. The caryopsis are not like an almond but more like a roasted pistachio upon the mid-palate. Moving forward it's like the smell of a nut-based, warm cereal. It's quite intoxicating and lingers well into the finish.
From 100 per cent Chardonnay, this is a fine, subtle, stylish, finessed and elegant interpretation that is a different sort of Alsace discrimination. Spent 11 months on the lees and sports more citrus than most others. Subtle bubbles here, with less froth and more Chardonnay character. Very good length.
The smell of strawberry cream and the crème fraiche sapidity by way of sudoric lees. Fun and characterful if a bit of an ancestral taste.
Though the label denotes this as non-vintage, the blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Blanc is essentially from the 2011 vintage. This is what Lorentz describes as 2nd-tier house sparkling, with more ripeness in this bottle. That fruit maturity is all apple, with a minor note of oxidation and the full effect of 16 months on lees felt through texture. Once again the inclusion of Chardonnay takes the Crémant schematic condition to another level. Bring on the top-tier.
The Sipp Crémant comes from various parcels in Ribeauvillé, from Weinbaum, Sulz and Rengelsbrunn. Etienne tells us it is made from Pinot Noir and Pinot Noir, playfully mocking the AOC's rule that only that variety can be used for sparkling Rosé. Sipp's Pinot is grown in mainly heavy and deep clay soils. Picked at optimum ripeness, this is fizz that has spent 18 months aging in bottle after not having gone the way of malolactic fermentation. The result is a dry, dense, savoury and layered Pinot Noir Rosé. This third Crémant in a group with Mann and Lorentz proves that though tonight is not a competition, we see that all three have won.
An efficient, sparkling requiem for success in a blend of three vintages and varieties; Pinot Noir (60 per cent), Chardonnay (30) and Pinot Blanc (10). A soft receptive, inviting and proper amalgamation in which mousse apropos peach and soft French cream delight without needing to be tough or street savvy in any way. Crémant giving like une crème de luxe, to sip with Hummus, La Table de Gourmet style and with nary a difficult moment.
Jean-Christophe Bott's may be the most complex and intriguing bottle of Crémant you would have a chance to taste in the course of a week in Alsace. Bott gathers top quality Pinot Blanc, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from growers then lays the fruit low for four years on their lees. The rich and sunny vintage is vinified in what is really an Extra Brut style without any dosage whatsoever. This is small production Alsatian bubbles (2500+ bottles) disgorged in 2011 and in very early stages of development. The acidity stands in upright attention while the fruit submits to wait. The rocks and salinity raise upwards to march in extreme lengths. A sublime match to an Amuse Bouche of Cured Watermelon, pistachio, basil and mustard flower.
Binner's exotic-scented sparkling is from Kayserberg, "the emperor's mountain," next to the Schlossberg Grand Cru site. Old vines out of colder parcels more appropriate for making Crémant consist of Auxerrois, Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris. The terroir here is granitic and poor in soil, if that is what it can be called. The house style is quite oxidative and distinctively earthy, as if the rocks were breaking down into a fine, funky soil remineralization. The most terpenes yet from bubbles tasted in Alsace, with a bruised apple hematoma, a pickle of some colonialist kind and a spice cupboard to fill a curry recipe. In the end this is unusual, yet vivid and jazzy fizz.
Jean-Pierre Frick poured two just bottled yet raw examples meant to set a perspective table for the 2013 finished wine that followed. The 50/50 Pinot Blanc et Noir (NV and 2013) were both picked ripe (nearly overripe), pressed direct and treated with nothing, nada, niente, zilch, rien. No sulphites, yeast or sugar. With zero dosage and opening too soon in evolution, these bottles were marked by arrested fermentation. The absence of the second fermentation meant for a flat, oxidative result. The experiment may have meant no Crémant but it helped to organize, define and ultimately assess the '13. Same minimalist method but with a secondary ferment, this bottle (though warm) offered high citrus and biting, forceful, sharp acidity. When returned to an hour later and from a cold bottle, the wine was much brighter and atomically fresh. Frick's method and style mean his sparkling must spend a minimum one year in bottle before it can be sold.
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Future Promises Playing Out on American Campuses
Tags: Anti-Semitism, Arab, Christians, College, Hate, Human Rights, Islmists, Israel, Jews, Left, Minority, nations, Nazis, Professors, United Nations, United States, World
There is a truthism spoken by Vladimir Lenin which goes, "Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world." We would like to make a slight alteration which will be just as valid a statement but ours goes, 'Look to the colleges and you will see your future ruling elites.' This should frighten anyone familiar with what passes for normal on today's college campuses. There are forces who have been making inroads to indoctrinate the youth and many have gotten into position as professors at some of the most prestigious universities in America as well as across Europe. They are assisted in selling their new view and plans for the future by instigators and NGOs which hate Israel and America looking to overthrow the elective systems of governance and replace it with totalitarian socialistic governance. Their initial protests were against Israel, as blaming the Jewish State and claiming the Jews stole Arab lands was an easier sell than attempting to vilify the United States. But with the election of President Donald Trump and the media storm which has ensued ever since, selling that the United States is an oppressive regime which denies equal rights to minorities has become an easier sell. Additionally, they can equate the Trump Border Wall with the Israeli anti-terror wall/fence and the border fence around Gaza. Additionally, they paint President Trump and with it the Congress, which had a Republican majority until the last election, as serving the upper one-percent and denying even a decent living to the other ninety-nine-percent, as ludicrous a statement as the claim that Israel is attempting genocide against the Arabs. First thing is if Israel was attempting genocidal practices against just the Palestinian Arabs, then how can one explain that their numbers since 1950 have gone from approximately seven-hundred-fifty-thousand to presumably over five-million. Further, the expanded version of that slanderous trope has been that the Jews wish to destroy the Arab and Muslim worlds, as if the around fifteen-million Jews on the planet today would even consider making such a war against the approaching two-billion Arabs and Muslim worldwide. But such claims against the Jews and Israel are often fed to college age youths who have little knowledge of Israel and at best neutral feelings with no real basis for understanding Judaism or Jews take such information, especially when it is presented as fact by professors, specifically those hired in departments of Middle East studies which are very often funded by Saudi Arabia and other wealthy oil producing Arab nations and even Iran through intermediaries such as Qatar. The latest, which is explained far more eloquently by Lee Kaplan who heads Defending America for Knowledge and Action (DAFKA) and has links to places backing up and also further expounding on his article and can be read here.
The root of the program to co-opt the minds of students in universities and colleges is not a new idea on how to plan a takeover of a nation. This was part and parcel of the Communists recruiting in Russia which led eventually to combining student revolutionaries and labor union leaders and their members to man the ramparts of the revolution. Thus, it should not be surprising to find the same approach being used today by the Islamists as they are slowly infiltrating the United States and were swarming into Europe until many nations froze their immigration and closed their borders. The first target of these groups is the Jews; of course as some things seldom if ever change. The Jews were the initial target of the Nazis claiming the Jews were all Bolsheviks and Communists while in Russia the Communists also were targeting the Jews claiming they supported the Nazis and were a danger to Russia and the revolution. Now, it was true that there were Jews who were Bolsheviks and Communists just as there were Jews who initially supported the Nazis, as they were, in both cases, useful idiots. Today, the Jews are being used as the threat and the controllers of the halls of power where they are abusing their influence to threaten numerous minorities, the integrity of the nation and numerous other nefarious activities. These are not new derogatory claims against the Jews as these are old blood libels which go all the way back to Haman and King Ahasuerus (Xerxes I) in Persia around 500 BCE. Even the Pharaoh who enslaved the Jews because he did not know Joseph, as explained in Torah, was convinced by his advisors that the Jews were too numerous and powerful and might join an invading foreign power against the Pharaoh and thus needed to be brought low. This was closer to 1800 BCE. This threat that the Jews are going to destroy the nation if they are not prevented from exercising their influences to the detriment of every other group, this is often made group sensitive depending on the audience being addressed. The saddest thing about this is there are Jews who willfully assist such tropes sometimes going so far as to echo them with some being professors who repeat such deceits and teach them as fact. Think about it carefully, as the Jews make up a mere two-percent of the population of the United States and despite being prominent in numerous fields, they simply do not have the numbers to accomplish those threats they are so often accused of perpetrating. When it comes to the United Nations, where Israel is constantly under assault and the Jews are often grouped as attempting to make the world subservient to Israel through their influence around the world; the Jews, less than zero-point-two-percent of the world's population are going to do exactly what? But the Jews are and always have been a juicy and opportunistic target to funnel hate towards.
The main starting point is almost always Israel in these attacks, but as has now been witnessed on too many campuses, Jews are being targeted for violence, hatred and exclusion from college student government positions, positions on school newspapers as well as numerous other problems at numerous universities. These problems on American campuses are a recent development of the past quarter century and are a direct result of the moves by the Arab world to demonize and isolate Israel, and if they need to demonize Jews in general, that is just fine with them and possibly a bonus. Some of the accusations leveled against Israel include that it is a racist nation ruled by white European men who exclude people of color and women from power; Israeli Arabs are not permitted to live, work, join groups, be in the government and a host of other claims; Israel is working towards establishing a Greater Israel on all Arab lands, Jews are genocidally murdering Palestinian Arabs; the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) is killing Arabs for body parts to transplant and various other regurgitations of old canard and blood libels including stealing money, causing illnesses, poisoning the water, candy, food etc. and many, many more. Just to poke a small gaping hole, let us kill two accusations, possibly more, with one example; Haneen Zoabi is currently in the Israeli Knesset (parliament), though she is retiring and not running again, as an Arab, woman, pro-Palestinian who desired the destruction of Israel and has called for exactly that numerous times, so, any questions? The problem is the vast majority of Americans, and even more so amongst the youth, even those of college age, know little or nothing about Israel, know just barely more about Jews or Judaism, many have never knowingly met anybody who was a Jew or especially a religious Jew and are willing to believe what they are fed, especially when it comes from one who appears to be or is in a position of an authoritarian, which professors are especially believed and there are hosts of them, especially at some of the more prestigious institutions as they have been targeted by the Arabs and Islamists so as to indoctrinate the leaders of the future (if you skipped a link above, allow us to repeat it as it lists universities where Jewish students are prone to find difficulties, more so if they support Israel, and the list is frightening as many of those listed are prestigious halls of learning) and this is exactly where they hope to take the United States and are taking Europe, at least western and northern (Scandinavian) Europe. This is also evidenced by votes taken in the United Nations General Assembly and votes in the Security Council condemning Israel, disproportionally condemns Israel.
Conspiracy Theory of a Greater Israel
These events are troubling if one believes in a free world with mostly democratic governance and believes that people should be free to worship as they please and that religion, gender, race, national origin, sexual preference and all other human rights remain protected for all peoples. Unfortunately, there are forces at work which are diametrically opposed to these concepts but they are hiding often behind, of all things, human rights. Most of such organizations use Israel as their first and foremost punching bag because they can use latent or outright anti-Semitism to camouflage their true identities and purpose. These groups have targeting youth, especially those in universities, as their prime focus and are seeking to change the world to bring it under the sway of Islam. Many even disguise their Islamist roots while others are being exploited by those whose goals are an Islamic World Caliphate as described in the Quran. The Islamic world through these groups will often claim that Israel oppresses their Christians but they will never tell you that of all the nations within MENA (Middle East and North Africa) which is also called the Arab world plus Iran, only in Israel are the numbers of Christians increasing. They will claim that the Israeli occupation has forced the Christians out of Bethlehem. The problem here is that Bethlehem is currently ruled by the Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas and the Christians fled Bethlehem due to their stores being stolen or destroyed and then their homes and many left after death threats, all beyond anything Israel did or could do. They claim that Israel refuses to allow the Arab Palestinian from voting. Arab Palestinians are not permitted to vote in Israeli elections for a very simple and basic reason, they are not Israeli and live either under the virtual dictatorship of Mahmoud Abbas who refuses elections as he knows he would lose or they live under Hamas dictatorial regime in Gaza. Would the United States allow Mexicans or Canadians or Chinese to vote in their elections and is this denial the reason for a complaint that they deny these people a vote? Of course not, that would be ludicrous. Another reason these accusation succeed is simple, those spreading these largely false accusation are backed by nations with vast wealth as well as the numerous anti-Semitic forces and far-left and far-right political groups, neo-Nazis, and slowly but surely the left-wing political groups across the globe. The next potential and even likely Prime Minister of Britain, Jeremy Corbyn, the man who befriended Hamas and Hezballah but did not hate Jews, but cracks have appeared in those explanations which he swore by. Jeremy Corbyn is far from alone on the left, as some of the new members to the United States Congress have been proving. These are either Muslims (Ilhan Omar), Palestinians (Rashida Tlaib), or wide-eyed youths full of exuberance and short on knowledge (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez). Whatever their reasons, hatred of Israel and demands that it be erased from history, again, have been perched on their lips and we can expect many new faces with similar attitudes as time progresses. If screaming for people to wake-up, read-up, learn-up and if necessary, act-up before such things are no longer permitted is insufficient, then likely all is lost. Political correctness is not a polite way of speaking, it is controlling the language to control all debates and silence all who are opposed to those things which are inclusive and contained within intersectionality, which is designed to exclude Israel and her friends as Israel, and eventually this will be broadened to include all Jews, is considered beyond the pale and to be quashed. "The hate that begins with Jews (or the Jewish State) never ends with Jews," former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom.
Israel and Human Rights
Tags: Dictatorship, Elections, Gaza, Hamas, Human Rights, Israel, Jews, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Arabs, Palestinian Authority
Virtually all of the accusations filed against Israel concerning human rights have to do with the "occupations" and the horrific state the world is led to believe makes up the fate of the Palestinian Arabs. Israel has been condemned regularly for the Palestinian Arabs not having had an election since 2006 when Hamas won the majority of seats in the Palestinian legislature. Yes, there is a Palestinian legislature, the body which Mahmoud Abbas ignores as he continues in his twelfth, going on thirteenth, year of his five-year term as Palestinian Arab President. Yes, he is the Palestinian President. He is also the chairman of the Fatah Party, the head of the PLO and holds every seat of power in the areas under the direct rule of the Palestinian Authority of which he is the President, pardon the repetition. Everything concerning the Palestinian Arabs is beyond Israeli control politically and all of it is in the hands of Mahmoud Abbas. That takes care of the regions where the Palestinian Arabs reside in areas of Judea and Samaria. The Israeli "settlers" are all within Area C which according to the Oslo Accords was under purely Israeli control and thus are not imposing on actual Palestinian lands. If one is to go by what the Arabs claim as their land, then Tel Aviv, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Netanya, Nahariya, Eilat, Be'er Sheva and all of what you believe is Israel are all parts of the lands they claim are rightfully Arab lands and the Jews have no rights to anything, that is their official position. They state their truths constantly in Arabic while speaking niceties in English so as to put up a good front. Why has nobody heard about what they say in Arabic? Because for the most part nobody bothers to read what is put in plain sight by MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute), PMW (Palestinian Media Watch), Honest Reporting, Jihad Watch and other related sources which reveal the reality behind the propaganda and lies. The other reason is it is considered standard practice by the United States State Department and virtually every Western news service to be completely unable to translate anything said in Arabic as to have that capability would undermine their Israel is the problem policies.
Another fraudulent accusation is that Israel is an Apartheid state just as was South Africa with the Arabs being second-class citizens. The central fabrication used to prove this has been the lack of elections in either the Palestinian Authority or in Gaza. The Palestinian Authority has not held elections simply because Mahmoud Abbas knows he would lose and thus has used every ruse in the book, and invented a few new ones, in order to push elections off claiming emergency after emergency and then blaming Israel to the world. And of course, the world just swallows his lies and joins in a chorus of condemnation of Israel for Abbas refusing to allow elections in the region over which he has become their dictator. Gaza is an even more straightforward reason; Hamas decides who will lead and appoint whoever will fight Israel with the greatest zeal and ingenuity. So the Palestinian Arabs live under one of two dictatorships, Gaza under Hamas and the Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas. The next question posed is always, what about the twenty percent of Israelis who are Arabs. That usually is followed by the claim that they are denied rights. This is completely false and mendacious as the Arabs, Druze, Bedouin, Baha'i and every other Israeli have all the same rights. Arabs and others have served on the Israeli Supreme Court, are members of the Knesset, judges, teachers, physicians and every other occupation in the book. Arabs and Jews work side-by-side in companies with often Arabs in management over Jewish employees. Israel is not perfect, but tries to treat everyone who is legally a citizen with complete equality. Israel even granted the Arabs residing in Eastern Jerusalem the right to vote in local Jerusalem elections and they were granted permission to join any of the various medical services which other Israelis use despite their also still being considered Palestinian Arabs under Mahmoud Abbas. Many of the East Jerusalem Arabs have elected to obtain West Jerusalem mailing addresses so they will not have to return to being under the Palestinian Authority should Israel ever be forced to surrender East Jerusalem to Abbas. Israel is also a multicultural nation as Jews have returned home from many places one never would have thought Jews had migrated such as Ethiopia, Yemen, India plus the nearly one-million Jews evicted or forced from their centuries old homes throughout the Arab world across all of MENA (Middle East and North Africa). Jews of Israel are just as likely to have origins outside of Europe and North America as to be from such. The accusation that the Jews should just go back to the European countries from which they arrived in Israel would leave half of the Jews still in Israel as they came from across the globe and not from Europe. For a real treat, one only need accompany me to morning services at my small and plain synagogue with some of the nicest people and you would see a congregation made up of many varying origins and a number of distinctly different accents.
The accusation about Israeli human rights abuses are patently false and most of those making the claims know this but simply do not care that they are peddling lies. They hate Israel because of numerous reasons but most will eventually trace back to anti-Semitism. There are also those who hate Israel on political motivations as they despise capitalism and the fact that Israel is a successful capitalist nation. What they refuse to recognize is that Israel has many social services and safety net programs which assist those with many various problems and needs. Further, at least from our perspective and what we have witnessed and also performed ourselves is the generous giving to those in need by the people. In our not so small little town, our downtown neighborhood almost seems to be a community to itself, there are some who are homeless and they are cared for by the rest of the community who give them a few shekels whenever they pass one another. Many of the food vendors and small mom and pop grocery stores will give them some food with each place caring for their own small group. This is above and beyond any social programs and the charity performed by the Synagogues where people put into the charity box, Tzedakah Box, when attending services. These are the means by which we take care that all are not going hungry and are cared for as best as we are able.
Then there has been the more recent but repeated accusation that Israel uses deadly force against unarmed peaceful protesters. The slings used by Arab rioters are not the playthings many American kids used back in the middle of last century but more along the line of what David used to fell Goliath. These are deadly weapons and have been a staple in wars in the Middle East over the centuries. Further, peaceful demonstrators do not use balloons and kites to propel incendiary devices over a border in efforts to burn down fields, towns, forests, wilderness preserves and any or everything they can hopefully set ablaze. Peaceful demonstrators do not attack border fences with machetes, wire cutters and other devices and such attacks on the border fences are often accompanied by others with rifles. Peaceful demonstrators do not send large tractor tires soaked in petroleum and set alight at the border. What the news coverage of the Gaza rioting did not show was what was occurring between the photographers and the border while they took pictures of families picnicking or youths playing soccer while behind them a war was raging. For an excellent article which puts on display the intentionally inaccurate reporting, in this case the New York Times, on Israel and Gaza, please read this article.
The reality is that Israel has done more to protect human rights even of her enemies and gone beyond what any other government would consider in protecting civilians even when fighting a war such as has occurred against Hamas in Gaza and Hezballah in Lebanon and even back a decade against the terror forces of the Palestinian Authority. Israel has sent e-mails, made phone calls, dropped leaflets and taken other steps considered to be so counterproductive as to be insane simply to warn Palestinian Arabs where the Israelis will strike next just to prevent civilian casualties. This has placed the IDF often in grave danger as ambushes are set and traps placed in homes all in efforts to kill the soldiers after the tip off where they would be operating. We have covered this often before and in the following places have included testimonies from officers who have monitored IDF actions and other revelations of the lies and distortions leveled against Israel. A sample of such articles can be read here, here, here and here. Whenever an objective study has been conducted into how nations rate when it comes to human rights, Israel is rated as one of the leaders in protecting human rights. The IDF has been said to go to such lengths to protect the innocent that other Western powers have complained that Israel is setting a standard which they find impossible to meet and are not even going to attempt to emulate. The real problem which places the Palestinian Arabs into such presumed calamitous conditions had nothing to do with Israel and everything to so with their own leadership. But it is so much easier and accepted to blame Israel, the Jewish State and the Jew amongst nations than to face the reality that the Palestinian Arab leadership is their people's worst enemy and responsible for their plight.
A Question to Balance Tradition and Progressivism
Tags: activists, Civilization, couples, Demands, Equality, Gender, homosexuality, Human Rights, LGBTQ, Minority, Rights, society
Currently the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) activists are pressing for what they refer to as equal basic rights to establish their definition of what constitutes a normative family. As part of this drive, they are demanding they be granted equality in adoptions as well as to employ a surrogate mother for having their child through artificial insemination. This raises a question how can such be normative if it requires artificial insemination. But before we reach any conclusive discussion of this, we require having a discussion of how we have reached this point. This is where things will become very problematic and complicated. If we go back far enough we find that historically this was not even a problem. In the ages of the Greek and Roman civilizations homosexuality was fully acceptable. Back in these societies, things were quite different. This becomes obvious in the statement; we have our young boys as our lovers and our wives for children. This arrangement took care of any questions or problems as to how men would have families as well as the acceptance of homosexual relations even to the point of what today would be called pedophilia. Moving a couple of thousand years to the pre sexual revolution world of the first half of the twentieth century, homosexuality existed but was kept in the closet, as became the expression. Right after this period came the insistence that homosexuality be permitted to have equal rights to be part of the public as heterosexual relationships.
The first demand was that the stigma of homosexual relations being considered sinful under the existing Judeo-Christian ethics be altered. The idea was that homosexual couples be permitted to practice their relation openly in public. This idea took a fair amount of time before it became largely acceptable and same-sex couples were accepted to hold hands and even kiss in public without people being shocked or acting adversely. This was presumed to be the entirety of the demands by the LGBTQ community, but that was not true. The next demand became that the LGBTQ community be permitted equal treatment with heterosexual couples, a form of civil unions which had the same rights. This led to the concept of allowing a legal union which would be treated equally to marriage but not having the same name. This gave the LGBTQ couples equal rights such as visiting rights when their mate was in hospital, for insurance within company provided insurance, inheritance rights and so forth. Finally, the LGBTQ community was seen to have attained their final goal of equal rights and treatment. But this was insufficient for the more extreme in the LGBTQ community as they now demanded that marriage be redefined such that it would no longer be between a man and a woman but must include alternative couples. From this, we found that no matter how many concessions were given to the demands of the activists of the LGBTQ community, they always demanded more. This has, step by step, led us to this current demand; but now we have realized that these activists, almost exclusively coming from people on the far left of politics, were not after equal rights and not even actually after superior rights, they have another agenda, and that is where the discussion must be placed.
The agenda which has become revealed is that these activists actually wish to destroy the underpinnings of the Judeo-Christian ethos as the basis for society. They wish to redefine society as a whole. Their desire is to alter Western society until nothing of its underpinnings and traditions remain. Their desire is to make any behavior acceptable with no restrictions upon human desires or behavior. The most ardent and extreme of these activists, different pockets, have demanded that pedophilia between consenting couples be accepted, multiple family units where they become group marriages and numerous other such demands have been put forth with likely even more to come in the future. They wish to make the Bible simply an oddity from history which will have even less relevance in their desired society than Aesop's fables. This minority is demanding that the majority relent on every demand and they have been joined through intersectionality by other leftist groups. Proof that their target is only Western society is that while they have demanded to hold Gay Pride Parades in Rome, Jerusalem and almost every other major Western city, we have yet to see a demand to hold Gay Pride Parades in Beijing, Damascus, Cairo, Tehran, Riyadh, Qom, Mecca or Medina. They have not demanded to hold Gay Pride Parades anywhere outside the Western world. Why is this if their target is general, world-wide acceptance. That is not their target; the destruction of the Western world is their target.
Many here accepted their demand for civil unions and we know many who even went so far as to accept same-sex marriage. That was as far as most whom we know went willingly and everything since then has seen an ever-growing pushback. People have realized that this minority of a minority have gone from requesting acceptance to demanding superiority and to control all sections of our society. They have demanded that all references to sexuality be erased from society and they started pushing for this in public education. This has had what we fear was the desired result where many more youths are growing up confused about what is their sexuality. Their demands have had ramifications of which some are rather severe such as at the University of Minnesota where they are considering making any professor or staffer referring to any student by anything other than his or her "preferred" pronouns, could become a fireable or expulsion-worthy offense. Imagine the predicament this places on the professors and staffers when another new right is one is permitted to choose their preferred gender by how they feel each morning. Actually, this right may permit one to choose a different preferred gender second-by-second making it imperative upon the professors and staffers to literally ask each student moment to moment how they feel and by which gender, if any, they wish to be referred to at that instance. This would leave any disliked professor or staffer easily targeted to destroy their careers by simply presenting oneself as an offended student who was mis-gendered. Imagine a society where referring to anyone by the wrong gender becomes a criminal offence or considered so offensive that it opens one to a lawsuit. Such a society could only lead to people refusing to communicate with one another unless they are a member of our own social circle as it would be far too risky to speak to strangers. Such a society would make retail sales a dangerous profession where the only way they could greet a customer would not be by he or she but instead use 'ze' as the gender neutral pronoun. This would still be problematic for anyone who strongly identified with any standard pronoun such as he or she. They could simply use you, but that is considered very impersonal and was taught that such was to be avoided.
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This is the point which we have been pressured to and reaching this point could be the critical point where we either fight back and impose some normalcy back into our societies or just simply lie down and surrender. One can only wonder what ever happened to the rule of the majority. Thanks to the courts and soft-willed politicians, our society has been slowly but ever so surely been deconstructed by a small but loud and active minority. We will watch this latest threat for a superior equality for this minority being pressed against the politicians and should that fail they will most certainly press their demands through the courts. This is simply another misuse of the laudable concept of human rights, but this is not about rights as much as it is about forcing the political agenda of the few on the many. This is a directed attack upon our social fiber and accepted morals by those who would like to change society into a free-for-all where anything is permitted and there exist no boundaries. We need to choose what kind of civilization within which we wish to reside. What is being pushed can barely be referred to as a civilization as any civilization has those things which are accepted and those which are prohibited. What is being pushed is simply a wall-to-wall orgy of anything one feels like at any moment as far as activity, their identity, gender and virtually anything one can dream up. People would be permitted to use any bathroom be it the one for men or women or the either or neither gender bathroom, showers at the gym, or any other situation where gender once was a defined reality. Societies cannot function without certain agreed upon norms but this is exactly what is attempting to be removed from our civilization, all norms and definitions are being erased or blurred to the point of being completely expunged. Time is now to decide how, where and with what rules we wish to live our lives, raise our children and what we wish to pass forward. We can choose to take a stand or be found by history to be where rules died and the West came to ruin. It is our choice and we can decide each for their nation and its civilization within which it desires to be associated.


Applications that are not received by May 1 or that are not complete may not be considered. All applicants will be notified (whether accepted or not) by May 17.
The GIG: Giving Is Good Summer Volunteer Program is an opportunity for teens entering the 8th – 12th Grades to do more with their summer. This program (formerly known as Jean Teens) has been a part of our organization for decades. In fact, many former teen volunteers have returned to work at United Ability or have enrolled their children in our services.
Who can be a GIG?
Be a responsible, compassionate individual entering 8th – 12th Grades.
Commit to serving a minimum total of 32 hours during the 7-week program.
Attend 1 of 3 scheduled orientation training sessions before starting service.
If accepted, submit schedule availability and pay $20 volunteer fee (covers t-shirt and other program items).
What does a GIG do?
Help staff prepare lessons, supplies, etc.
Where does a GIG serve?
All volunteer service will be conducted on the United Ability campus on Oslo Circle – off Lakeshore Parkway between Red Mountain Park and Ross Bridge.
Volunteers will be able to indicate whether they prefer to serve in our Hand in Hand Early Learning Program, LINCPoint Adult Day Program, or both.
Why should I be a GIG?
Volunteers get to know the amazing participants in our programs, learn more about helping individuals with different ability levels, and have fun. For teens who may study education or rehabilitative therapy, this is a special firsthand experience with these fields.
Contact Lee Thrash – lthrash@unitedability.org or 205.944.3909.


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The Masterpiece of All Times
From the time it was built, Hagia Sophia, the Church of Divine Wisdom, has astonished and entranced all who beheld it, with its magnificent dome symbolizing unattainable infinity. Considered as one of the eight wonders of the world, very few structures of that age made it to the present day. Used as a church for 916 years and as a mosque for 481, Hagia Sophia served as a place of worship for nearly one and a half millennia.
When it was initially built as a Christian basilica almost 1,500 years ago, it was known as the Megale Ekklesia (a colossal/large church) or the Great Church (being also the largest church of its time for nearly 1000 years). Finally, it was named "Hagia Sophia" which is regarded as one of the names of God according to Christianity.
After the Turkish conquest, it was converted into a mosque but continued to be known by the Turkish rendering of its Greek name, Ayasofya. In 1934, at the wish of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic, the Council of Ministers turned the building into a museum.
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Hagia Sophia was constructed by the Byzantine emperor Justinian between 532 and 537. It was the third church of this name on the same site.
The first was a basilica erected on the site of a former Roman temple, and according to the historian, Socrates was dedicated on 15 February 360. It was destroyed by fire in the year 404 in an uprising against Emperor Arcadius.
The second church was built by Emperor Theodosius II and dedicated on 10 October 415, only to be burnt down in the Nika Revolt on 13 January 532, during the fifth year of the reign of Justinian I (527-565).
Crushing the revolt, Justinian commanded that a new church be built on a far grander scale than the previous two. The chronicler Procopius relates that two architects, the Mathematician Anthemius of Tralles and Geometry specialist Isidorus of Miletus, were appointed for the task. One hundred master craftsmen, one thousand journeymen, and ten thousand laborers were employed.
After 5 years of ruling, Emperor Justinian I became unpopular and people were aggrieved at the high taxes. While Justinian was able to suppress the Nika Riots, it was time to build the new Hagia Sophia which was considered as a victory for both Justinian himself and Christianity.
Justinian wanted the church to be completed in the shortest possible time and sent orders out to all the provinces of his realm, commanding that columns and marbles from ancient cities be sent to Istanbul. Shiploads arrived from Syria, Egypt, and Greece, as well as from Asia Minor. Construction commenced on 23 February 532 and apart from the decoration was completed in an astonishingly short time of 5 years, ten months, and 24 days.
The church was dedicated on 27 December 537 at a magnificent opening ceremony. Justinian drove up to the church in his victory chariot and was welcomed in the atrium by Patriarch Menas. The two men entered the church hand in hand. Justinian was so impressed by its splendor, that he exclaimed, 'Thanks be to God for blessing me with the good fortune of constructing such a place of worship.'
At the inauguration, one thousand bulls, six thousand sheep, six hundred stags, one thousand pigs, ten thousand chickens, and ten thousand roosters were sacrificed, and alms were distributed to the poor.
Four minarets were added to the outside of the building at various times after its conversion into a mosque. The vast buttresses against the exterior walls were built in the 16th century by the Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan to support the building, and have enabled it to survive to the present day.
Additions within the church are the mihrab or prayer niche inside the apse, the bronze lamps to either side of the niche which were brought here from Buda, and the pulpit and imperial and muezzin galleries of carved marble. The library beyond the south aisle was built by Mahmud I in 1739.
All the additions were designed with the character of the existing building in mind, the use of marble for the Ottoman additions reflecting the extensive use of this material in the Byzantine building.
The inscriptions in the dome and the large calligraphic panels bearing the names of God, Muhammed, and the four caliphs, are the work of the celebrated 19th-century calligrapher, Kazasker Mustafa Izzet Efendi.
The total cost to build the church was around 4660 ounces (approx. 145,000 kilograms of gold equals to a worth of US$3 billion).
Hagia Sophia is the most outstanding example of a domed basilica, the first sample of its history for a great combination of classical basilica plan with a central dome. (exp. Pantheon in Rome). One can quickly feel the style of architecture is a great harmony of the Early Byzantine architecture, Roman architectural traditions, and Eastern arts.
The central space has an area of seven thousand square meters and is flanked by two aisles, each divided from the nave by four verd antique columns. These eight columns were brought from Ephesus, while the eight porphyry columns beneath the semidomes were brought from Egypt.
Referring to the central space of 7500 square meters, you can easily fit in over 3000 people inside at such a space. However, we can assume 750-800 proper seating, considering the aisles and other unused spaces.
Altogether, the building contains 107 columns, whose capitals are among the most excellent examples of Byzantine stone carving. These capitals bear the monograms of Emperor Justinian and his wife, Theodora.
The dome rises to 56.6 meters at its apex and has a diameter of 32.37 meters, supported by four pendentives and two semidomes.
The original dome collapsed in an earthquake just 22 years after the church was completed and was rebuilt in 562 by Isidorus the Younger, nephew of Isidorus of Miletus. Isidorus the Younger raised the height of the dome by 2.65 meters to lessen its outward thrust.
This engineering masterpiece survived earthquakes for 15 centuries, and simulations and other studies show that it can survive up to 7.5 magnitudes. The 40 windows decorating the dome absorbs the shocks, distributing it on the pillars. The special mortar used for construction carries a high quality of calcium–silicon mixture, which helps the cracks repair itself over time.
During the Latin occupation of Istanbul by the Fourth Crusaders between 1203 and 1261, the church was used for Roman Catholic rites. In addition to all the great damage done, numerous church items were taken to Europe.
Emperor Alexius IV was forced to hand over many of the sacred objects belonging to the church in repayment for debts to the Latins, and these are now in Venice. The mosaics of Haghia Sophia are exquisite works of art. In the semidome of the apse is a large mosaic depicting the Mother of God with the Infant Christ, which makes abundant use of gold and silver.
The dress of Mary is worked in a dark blue glass mosaic, and she sits on a magnificent bejeweled throne reminiscent of an imperial throne. The faces of the mother and infant are entrancingly beautiful.
Another mosaic not to be missed is above the Imperial Gate showing Leo VI (886-912) bowing before Christ and asking his sins to be forgiven. A mosaic on the side door of the inner narthex depicts two emperors with Mary and the Infant Christ. One of the emperors is Constantine I, shown presenting Mary and Christ with a model of Constantinople, which was named after him, and the other is Justinian I, who is presenting a model of the church that he founded.
In the south gallery is the Deisis mosaic and two others depicting Constantine IX Monomachos and Empress Zoe (11th century) and John Comnenus II with his wife Eirene and son Alexius (12th century), respectively. In the north gallery is the mosaic depicting Emperor Alexander (10th century).
If possible or if you are visiting on your own, purchase your tickets in advance. Otherwise, you may have to wait up to 2 hours in the queue during peak and usual tourist seasons.
You need to spare at least 90 minutes or simply 2 hours to visit Hagia Sophia. Anything less than an hour would be too rush as there is a lot to see.
Since there are not a lot of information or notices throughout the visit, book your guide in advance. Stay away from the guides waiting at the entrance of sites and museums in general as they are most probably unlicensed officially and looking for a tourist to scam one way or another.
Blue Mosque is only two minutes walking distance. So, don't forget to plan a full day around the old city wisely.
Best time to visit: the interior will glow much better if you plan to visit in the morning hours.
Try not to hit public holidays or weekends as it will make it harder to visit comfortably.
Visiting Hagia Sophia
The museum first started to welcome its guests from 1st Feb. 1935. Since then, it has been one of the most iconic structures not only within the country but the world. Hagia Sophia hosted more than 30 million people since 2007, meaning more than 3 million visitors annually.
Became a Mosque Again
Hagia Sophia started to serve as a mosque starting from 24 July 2020.
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Is the software still being supported?
I was on the official forum and it didn't appear that there are any new updates lately.
Steve retired so don't think software is being updated anymore. I'm not sure if there is technical support or not but if forum is open there maybe.
I've been using whatever last desktop version was 1.94 and just use the wiki if I need answers. Also some here can help.
As far as I understand there is no plan to update the original Cumulus, with version 1.9.4 (build 1099) being the latest release and available in the download section.
The newer multi platform CumulusMx is at v3.0.0 build 3043 and Steve has not made any update or changes to it since Jan 2017.
Maybe these guys (Softwx, too!) should just open source it when they "retire"?
Steve is retired from his day job and relocating his home, not retired from Cumulus!
<chuckle> I'm running 1.9.4-b1079. Uh, I'll get up to 1099 one of these days.
Seriously, Cumulus is such a stable program that I've had it run on my old Dell laptop for six months without ever rebooting. It just runs, and runs, and runs... I'll even go so far as saying it is the *most stable* software that I've ever ran!!! Personally, I don't hesitate recommending Cumulus to anyone who wanted to set up a weather station website. Add Ken's Saratoga templates and you're off to the races!!!!!
Paul, the last time I heard from Steve he was in Spain or Portugal (can't remember, comes with the territory ). I had sent him a small, annual "Cumulus gratuity" and he responded that it would buy him and his wife supper and a bottle of wine...apparently where he was at was an affordable area. I think, unless something has changed for them, that "mobile" is there home at the moment...I'm a bit envious, I must admit! More power to them!!!!!!!!
I believe he has bought and moving in to a permanent place in France, but some more mobile travelling is also in the planning.


The hotel features various services and facilities, including a restaurant, a café, a bar, room service, a conference room and a business centre, for a comfortable and relaxing stay. Wireless internet access is available to travellers in the public areas.
Each of the rooms is appointed with air conditioning and a bathroom. A double bed ensures a good night's sleep. Guests will also find a fridge included as standard. Other features include internet access, a TV and WiFi. Bathrobes is provided in the bathrooms.
Free onsite parking. Excellent value for money. Complementary breakfast.
"Best value for money." "Fair breakfast prices." "Free internet."
Very close food shops. Excellent location. Spacious parking.
"Good location, close to public transport." "Excellent sightseeing, restaurants and bars nearby." "Average parking." "Convenient car access and well-priced parking."
Dry croissants. No complimentary breakfast. No egg station.
Thanks to manager. Excellent staff. Excellent housekeeping service.
"Reception and housekeeping are okay, but not rated as professional." "Friendly service, especially in the restaurant." "Good shuttle service." "Room service could have been improved." "Booking process is sufficient." "Hotel security can be an issue."
Hotel security was horrible, thought 57%.
Remote not working. Toilet too small. Dusty carpet.
"Out-dated, poorly maintained rooms with complaints about beds and minibars." "Small but relatively clean bathrooms." "Decent rooms and views." "Small rooms with insufficient A/C and subpar furniture." "Shower can be a problem."
No room wifi. No internet service. No wireless internet.