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Pangai is the administrative capital village of the Haapai Group in Tonga.

Town
The village is on the western shore of Lifuka and has a population of 1,026.

The village center is around the Catholic Church (Siasi Katolika) and Holopeka Road by the harbor. There are only a few shops and markets and one bank.

There are few historic sites besides some churches, a few Colonial styled houses and cemeteries.

Transportation
The island's Pilolevu Airport (Lifuka Island Airport, IATA code "HPA") is situated about 5 km north of Pangai.

There is a ferry dock, called the Pangai Ferry Terminal.

History
The Methodist missionary Shirley Waldemar Baker, who was prime minister of Tonga under king George Tupou I, died in Pangai on 16 November 1903. His grave and monument in the cemetery still stand as a tourist attraction.

References

External links
 Pictures from Pangai

Populated places in Haʻapai


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Tony DiVirgilio
Title: Strength and Conditioning Coach
Tony DiVirgilio joins the Wilmington University men's soccer program for his fifth season in 2016 after completing a successful three seasons as a defender under head coach Nick Papanicolas from 2008-10. He will work with and closely monitor the team's strength and conditioning workouts in 2016.
As a senior in 2010, DiVirgilio earned First Team All-CACC as well as Daktronics Second Team All-Region. He also earned a spot on the CACC All-Tournament Team after helping the team to the fourth seed during the regular season. He was also named a team captain in 2010.
Following graduating from Wilmington, DiVirgilio started his own personal training and endurance business, Enduro5 Fitness, and serves as the head fitness trainer. He is certified, licensed and insured through AAAI and NASM and is a certified group endurance instructor. He is also a nutrition specialist and an NCAA speed coach.
Outside of business, DiVirgilio competes in fitness challenges around the northeast, finishing in the Top 10 of the 2014-15 Men's Health NYC Urbanathalon Elite Wave and in the Top 30 of the Spartan Elite Super Beast Pennsylvania Race. DiVirgilio has also produced a New York City modeling and fitness background, appearing in ads for Johnnie Walker, Nicole Miller Men's Wear, Titleist Golf, and Huggies.

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The intellectual and artistic labour of Black women are largely absent from the Canadian art history canon, ushering the continuous urgency to name, visualize and celebrate their contributions.
Tomorrow a historical event will occur at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). 100 Black women artists will gather at a table in Walker Court. For too long the work of Black Canadian artists has absent from arts institutions. Time for that to change.
The public is welcome to come witness the event.


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Turbo Street Funk's New Album MOMENTUM Comes out July 6, 2016, Toronto
WHO: TURBO STREET FUNK w/ opening act Kunlé
WHAT: Album release party for MOMENTUM
WHERE: The Horseshoe Tavern, 370 Queen St W, Toronto, ON | (416)-598-4226
WHEN: Wednesday, July 6 – Doors @ 8:30 pm / Opening act: 9-9:45 pm / Turbo – 10-11:15 pm
TICKETS: $10 – Purchase advance tickets here: http://goo.gl/3MqHZ5
WEBSITES: www.turbostreetfunk.com / www.horseshoetavern.com
Toronto's own high-energy, horn-band sensation TURBO STREET FUNK accelerate their forward motion with their new, sophomore album, MOMENTUM. Known for their explosive, infectious live performances, that have consistently drawn huge crowds – from their beginnings busking on the streets of The Six, to intimate club dates, and massive festival stages – the band will bring their hyper-engaging live show to The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern as they release the new album on Wednesday, July 6th. The doors open at 8:30 pm, opening act Kunlé starts at 9:00 pm, and Turbo Street Funk hits the stage at 10:00 pm.
Momentum is a very apt name for the new Turbo Street Funk album: most of the self-penned songs encourage forward motion through our lives, and the recording captures the epic thrust and drive of their live show. Most of the players in the band are music school graduates and they're all skillful, talented musicians, but it never gets in the way of their musical fun – or ours. If this album doesn't make you want to smile, laugh, or dance, you might wanna check your vital signs. This is lease-breaking music at its best.
The title track "Momentum," with its climactic chorus and stadium-friendly refrain, is an inspirational, feel-good anthem that lives up to the band's turbo-charged name.
"If I Think Twice" finds ska and klezmer mixing it up in the alley with gypsy rock, with a surprisingly funky tuba, fun backing vocals and a crazy-ass guitar solo.
Although one of the songs is called "Never Been To New Orleans," judging by the performance on this song, it sure sounds like they have. It showcases double-time tempo for the featured bluesy harmonica and sax solos, as well as the party finish, replete with growling horns and cheering crowd.
"Seven" – an instrumental mashup of The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army," The Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)," and Grieg's "In The Hall of the Mountain King" – employs a ska rhythm to get to the funky soul of these classic, and classic-rock gems. It takes great verve and imagination to pull this inventive medley off, but Turbo Street Funk does.
Their cover of the Ghostbusters' theme – perfectly timed to coincide with the blockbuster reboot movie of the summer of 2016 – rides an ultra-rhythmic beat and a wailing sax solo to end the album on a high.
All of the songs on Momentum were produced by Chris Birkett and engineered by James Finnerty at Revolution Recording in Toronto, except track four "Whoever You Are," which was produced and engineered by Ross Hayes Citrullo at Media One Creative in Toronto.
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The LF 5 is the northern branch of the Flanders Cycle Route. It covers a distance of 300 km from the historical "Book Town" Damme to the "White town" Thorn on the Maas. This route mainly follows traffic-free paths alongside rivers and canals, but also winds its way on quiet roads through the woods and heathland of the green Campina.


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1987: When the Day Comes is a 2017 South Korean political thriller film directed by Jang Joon-hwan and written by Kim Kyung-chan. The film stars Kim Yoon-seok, Ha Jung-woo, Yoo Hae-jin, Kim Tae-ri, Park Hee-soon and Lee Hee-joon. Set in 1987 and based on a true story, the film focuses on the events that led up to the June Democratic Uprising in Korea, triggered by the death of a student protester during police interrogation which the authorities conspire to cover up. Jang has compared the overall structure of the film to a relay race, with the focus of the story shifting between several characters to convey the collective effort of the political resistance. The film was released in theaters on December 27, 2017.

Plot
	Under the military regime of President Chun Doo-hwan, a student activist named Park Jong-chul dies during interrogation. Park Cheo-won, a ruthless commissioner in charge of investigating suspected communists, has oversight of the interrogation, and opts to cover it up, quickly cremating the body before an autopsy can be carried out and reporting the death as a heart attack. Commissioner Park's men approach a drunken Prosecutor Choi to approve the hasty cremation, but he refuses and resists their efforts to strong-arm him. The autopsy takes place despite Commissioner Park's efforts, with Jong-chul's uncle present as it is made evident the student's death was the result of foul play. The uncle declares this outside the hospital building, and Prosecutor Choi, after being fired, leaves evidence from the autopsy to Yoon Sang-sam, a reporter hoping to investigate the story despite a country-wide regulation against reporting on the death. Yoon's findings reveal to the public that Park Jong-chul died by asphyxiation, rather than the official police report of a cardiac arrest.

	With the public aware that the student was killed by his interrogators, Commissioner Park chooses two detectives to take the full blame for the crime. He promises one patsy, the loyal detective Jo Han-kyung, that he will serve a reduced sentence for involuntary manslaughter rather than murder, but is unable to fulfill this promise, leading to a number of intense altercations between Jo and his colleagues when they visit him at the prison. Prison guard Han Byung-yong, who overhears some of these exchanges, is revealed to be in contact with high-ranking political activists, and attempts to convince his warden to disclose the records from the visits, which provide incriminating evidence of a cover-up.

	Guard Han's niece, Yeon-hee, is a college student who occasionally helps him deliver messages, but is otherwise disinterested in activism. Yeon-hee finds herself in the middle of a violent clash between protesters and police, and is saved from a violent policeman by a handsome student activist. The two reconnect on campus, and Yeon-hee attends the activist's club where footage of the Gwangju uprising is shown during a meeting, but she remains resistant to joining the cause. Meanwhile, the warden finally agrees to disclose the visitation records after witnessing Commissioner Park threatening Detective Jo and his family, and being violently beaten by Park's cronies when he protests. Han asks Yeon-hee to deliver the records to his contact, but she refuses. Han attempts to do so himself, but Commissioner Park's men locate his contact before he gets the chance, and one of Park's men recognizes Han. They later abduct Han, and torture him in the same interrogation room where Park Jong-chul was killed. Commissioner Park reveals details of his childhood in North Korea, in which he watched a radical communist murder his family, while torturing Han.

	Remorseful over her uncle's arrest, Yeon-hee independently delivers the information to Han's contact. The information finds its way to the Catholic Priests' Association for Justice, who make a public statement that Park Jong-chul was killed during interrogation by the two detectives arrested along with three others, and Commissioner Park had direct oversight and attempted to cover up the killing. A flashback to Jong-chul's death is shown, in which Detective Jo taunts him by claiming that if he dies in that room, nobody will care. Commissioner Park discovers that President Chun has personally approved to have him arrested and blamed entirely for Jong-chul's death. Han is released, and returns to his family. Later, Yeon-hee sees a picture in a newspaper of the handsome activist she met, severely wounded at a recent protest — he is revealed to be Lee Han-yeol, a real-life student protester who was shot in the head and killed by a police tear gas canister. Devastated over the death of her new-found friend and benefactor, Yeon-hee finally joins the movement for democracy.

Cast

Main
Kim Yoon-seok as Commissioner Park Cheo-won
Ha Jung-woo as Prosecutor Choi Hwan
Yoo Hae-jin as prison guard and activist Han Byung-yong
Kim Tae-ri as Yeon-hee, niece of Byung-yong
Park Hee-soon as Lieutenant Jo Han-kyung
Lee Hee-joon as Reporter Yoon Sang-sam

Supporting
Kim Eui-sung as Lee Boo-young
Yoo Seung-mok as Yoo Jung-bang
Hyun Bong-shik as Park Won-taek
Jo Woo-jin as Park Wol-gil
Kim Jong-soo as Park Jung-ki
Kim Gook-hee as Han Byeong-yong
Han Joon-woo as Black suit man
Kim Soo-jin as Yeon-hee's mother
Choi Kwang-il as Warden Ahn Yoo
Yoo Jung-ho as Reporter
Park Kyung-hye as Jeong-mi

Special appearance
Sol Kyung-gu as Kim Jeong-nam
Yeo Jin-goo as Park Jong-chul
Gang Dong-won as Yi Han-yeol
Moon Sung-keun as Lt. Gen Jang Se-dong
Oh Dal-su as Yi Doo-seok
Ko Chang-seok as Jeong Gu-jong
Woo Hyun as Director General of Police Kang Min-chang
Jung In-gi as Priest Kim Seung-hoon
Moon So-ri as Woman in the plaza (voice)

Production
Principal photography began on April 20, 2017 and ended on August 27, 2017.

Music
The soundtrack music was composed by Kim Tae-seong. There are 22 songs as listed below.

 "When the Day Comes" - Lee Hanyeol Choir & Daegun Chamber Choir
 "1987"
 "Namyoung-Dong"
 "The Portrait of the Deceased"
 "Father Has No Words"
 "1980"
 "Hidden Road by Yeonheui" - Kim Tae-ri & Gang Dong-won
 "The Funeral"
 "Reporters"
 "A Time When the Wind Starts To Blow"
 "Press Guidelines"
 "Counter-Communist Branch of the Police"
 "I Didn't Kill Him"
 "Indirect Election"
 "Chase"
 "Heartbroken"
 "The Clue"
 "The Decision"
 "Final"
 "The Judgement"
 "When the Day Comes (Choir Version)"
 "Hidden Road by Lee Hanyeol" - Kim Tae-ri & Gang Dong-won

Reception
Released on December 27, 2017, the film has drawn more than 7.2 million viewers in South Korea.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

2017 films
2010s historical films
2017 thriller drama films
South Korean political thriller films
South Korean historical films
South Korean drama films
South Korean thriller films
CJ Entertainment films
Political films based on actual events
Drama films based on actual events
Films about democracy
Films about revolutions
Films set in 1987
2010s political thriller films
2017 drama films
South Korean films based on actual events
Grand Prize Paeksang Arts Award (Film) winners
2010s South Korean films

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Customised, tailor-made furnishings with functional design. Italdecò revitalises the appearance of venues, bars, patisseries and ice-cream parlours, bringing together functionality, sophistication and modernity in its lines. Design your space together with us, be inspired by the unique style of our furnishing lines and discover the cutting-edge performance of our refrigerated and plug-in display units.
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La Leaders Cup 2015, o Disneyland Paris Leaders Cup LNB per ragioni di sponsorizzazione, è la 19ª Leaders Cup (la 3ª con il nome di Leaders Cup).

Tabellone

Finale

Voci correlate
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Collegamenti esterni

Pallacanestro nel 2015
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Alonzo Hampton (born January 19, 1967) is a former American football defensive back. He played for the Minnesota Vikings in 1990 and for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1991.

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1967 births
Living people
People from Butler, Alabama
Players of American football from Alabama
American football defensive backs
Pittsburgh Panthers football players
Minnesota Vikings players
Tampa Bay Buccaneers players


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Cassette Review: Wrist Like This - Self Titled
Review by Adam Wujtewicz
Wrist Like This! is probably one of the most schizophrenic sounding hardcore punk bands ever. They are, in some ways, a perfect mix of all of the members other bands Todd Romanella (Estrogen & Tonic), Matt Potter (Fatal Film/Street People), Christian Moore (Estrogen & Tonic/A Honey Wagon), and Jay Curland (We Got Mouths /A Honey Wagon), only sped up and cranked. In other ways they sound like a bunch of crazy people thrown into a room with instruments and amplifiers. The self titled cassette, (yes that's right… cassette tape), by WristLikeThis! is 8 songs, 15 minutes and one of the most intense aural beatings you'll take ever.
Front and center of this freight train of lunacy is Todd: screaming, yelling, shouting and grumbling. Most of the vocals are done in a sort of Keith Morris, "spit out as many words as I can before this minute and a half is up", sort of way but there are bursts of bizarre singing and full on hardcore screams scattered throughout each song. The variations make things much more interesting but you still have to have pretty thick skin to listen to Todd yell at you for 15 minutes straight.
Matt's guitar provides the melody for the album. With far more high end and far less thick distortion than most punk players the guitar becomes cutting and jangly. This works incredibly well to break up the complete destruction of Todd and the rhythm section. When he wants to join in with the super fast strumming it also turns into a complete noisy dagger. "EMT Polka" is a great example of the polar opposite sounds he's making work throughout the album.
Feeding this beast is one of my favorite rhythm sections ever. Jay (drums) and Christian (bass) play together in A Honey Wagon as well... and even though WristLikeThis! isn't even the same ballpark sound wise, they play off each other in very similar ways. I feel like Jay Curland studies a style of music to death before he joins a band and then adds his own take to it when the songs are written. This is some of the most solid punk rock drumming I've heard in a long time. It's fast, yes, but it's also varied to help the songs along and that's something punk rockers tend to forget. Christian is playing much more of a traditional punk rock bass player role but still doing an exceptional job. His tone and attack is what gives this album all its heaviness. He plays completely in the pocket and allows Matt and Todd all the room in the world to work. On "Uh, Dragons", my personal favorite song on the record, Christian shows off the melodic bass playing he's known for without sacrificing even the smallest amount of intensity.
Jason Banta (Recur Occurrence) had his work cut out for him recording these maniacs and he was able to capture their madness without ever making them sound caged. If you're into off the wall hardcore punk or are a complete masochist then this is your perfect band making your perfect album. If you're a sadist then you should sneak this cassette into your grandmother's car when she's not looking.
Contact Jay Curland from Wrist Like This to purchase the cassette tape -
or stream/purchase and download the tracks here:
www.wristlikethis1.bandcamp.com
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An hours-old baby girl was found alone in a field Tuesday morning in south suburban Chicago Heights.
Officers received a call at 10:56 a.m. from someone who had found the infant alone, lying in the grass in an open field, according to a statement from Chicago Heights police. When officers responded, the newborn, African-American girl was about 100 feet west of the intersection of 195th Street and Chicago Heights-Glenwood Road.
The girl, who was responsive at the time, was taken to St. James Health in Chicago Heights, where her condition was stabilized, police said.
Medical staff said the infant was born about two or three hours before she was found, police said.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the newborn's mother or any other family member is asked to contact the Chicago Heights Police Department Detective Division at (708) 756-6422. The mother may be in need of medical care or other support services.


Today I'm running to get flowers for my wedding this weekend. I'm hoping that perhaps it will be cooler down there! It was 108 yesterday, ugh. (and humid) last night when I went to bed, at 11pm, it was still 92 degrees!
And I've been busy busy busy the past couple of days!
And I'm thrilled! I had a 75% success rate with my French Macarons yesterday! (well, maybe more, I have 38 "macawrongs", and 160 Macarons) I did them in a pale lavender to match the brides color palette.
Only a handful of entries so far! Stay cool and have a wonderful day.
This entry was posted on August 9, 2012 by katespadegirl. It was filed under Giveaway, Outfit of the Day and was tagged with Banana Republic, eBay, Forever 21, Freebie, French Macarons, Giveaway, Jimmy Choo, Kate Spade, Kohls, Old Navy, Thrift.
you should tell us where you got your jewelry. Also, you have nice friends to get you such lovely gifts.
Hi! The necklace I had on this day was from Kohls, I snagged it off the clearance rack. I must have forgotten to put that down! 🙂 thank you for stopping by!


The Embassy Church is committed to a progressive spirit of ministry excellence driven by a genuine passion for serving and advancing The Kingdom of God with love. We invite you now to join us in our vision and continue to produce a higher quality of living through Christ Jesus.
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The 27.07m Asha yacht (ex: Ma Mu VI) was built in 1992 by Palmer Johnson. She features an exterior design by Vripack and an interior by Vripack. She cruises at 10.0 kn and reaches a top speed of 12.0 kn. She can sleep up to 6 guests.
The 27.07m Palmer Johnson motor yacht Asha is currently not listed for sale. Visit our yachts for sale section to find similar superyachts on the market.
Asha yacht owner, captain or broker, if your yacht is available for sale, please contact us and we will update the photos and details.


Our vision at Newcrest is to be the Miner of choice™. We will lead the way in safe, responsible, efficient and profitable mining.
We strive to achieve this by ensuring that we live and work by our values. At Newcrest, we value caring about people, integrity and honesty, innovation and problem solving, high-performance and working together.
These values are encapsulated in our Code of Conduct which acts as a blueprint for the way we do business. Through this Code we are committing to strive to be the best employer, business partner and community participant and for continuous improvement of performance.


Victoria, Canada, January 21, 2019 — From January 22-24, the town of Davos, Switzerland will host the Canada Cannabis House, where international industry leaders will gather for an unprecedented event, and Plena Global is proud to be a part of it. Among the thought-provoking panels taking place throughout the three-day exclusive event, Plena SVP of Global Affairs Mike Dacks will participate in the discussion entitled "How to Build International Brands in the Cannabis Industry" on Wednesday, January 23rd.
"I believe participating in the Canada Cannabis House at Davos is an excellent opportunity for industry leaders to connect away from the distractions of the North American markets, and explore the massive global opportunities in infrastructure, licensing, r&d and supply chain relationships that must be built across borders and regions," says Dacks on Plena Global's involvement in the exclusive event. With the rapid global evolution of the legalization of cannabis, Plena Global Holdings Inc. is at the forefront of the industry by meeting the ever-increasing demand for reliable and affordable cGMP cannabis raw materials and API around the world.
The unique CannaTech Pavilion event co-hosted by the Canadian Securities Exchange, Kapoor Kapital, and OTC Markets Group Inc. is a side event of the World Economic Forum and will bring together industry thought leaders, top cannabis trade organizations and C-suite executives from around the globe. With an array of engaging panel discussions and an exclusive interview with Israel's 10th Prime Minister Ehud Barak, guests attending the Canada Cannabis House will gain a comprehensive overview of trading and investment options for growth-oriented, innovative and entrepreneurial cannabis companies.
Plena Global Holdings Inc. is a cannabis production company meeting the soaring demands of a rapidly expanding global marketplace with cGMP grade cannabis products and assets.
Based in Canada, the Plena Global team has broad experience in the industry and brings together some of the world's top cannabis horticulturists, extraction specialists, and medical leaders. Driven by a passion for helping people in need, Plena brings medical cannabis from plant to patient-naturally, purely, reliably and transparently.
With expansive farmland dedicated to cannabis growth, Plena Global has positioned itself to be the world's largest producer of cGMP cannabis, adhering to the strictest quality standards, and is a strong ingredient supply partner for licensed producers and distributors worldwide.


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The system processing and visualizing corporate information, STATVIZ, developed by "Mercator" at the request of the Russian Television Academy was used again, like in 2004, to organize the process of voting by Academy members during the national contest "TEFI-2005".
From September 20 to 22, 2005 the conference hall of the Central Election Committee (CEC) daily hosted working sessions conducted by the Academy sections, and on the 24-th of September the general assembly of all members was held there. In the course of these sessions Academy members selected three finalists in each nomination out of an extensive list of contestants (all in all there were 39 nominations and up to thirty contestants in each) using the electronic voting system with the help of Ballot Processing Complexes or BPCs (KOIB, developed by the "CROC" corporation).
It was the so-called first round of voting. For it to be carried out we produced a special version of software, developed design and technical scenario of the voting process.
The information gathered via BPCs was immediately fed to displays located in the conference hall using "Mercator"'s software and visual solutions, and that enabled Academy members to begin discussing this information immediately.
Besides, "Mercator" created the graphic design of the "TEFI-Professions-2005" ceremony that took place on November 16, 2005.
The system of technical support to summarizing voting results of the "TEFI-2005" contest was implemented by the Central Election Committee of the Russian Federation ((www.cikrf.ru), the Federal Informatization Center of the CEC RF (www.fci.ru), the "Mercator" Group and the "Croc" Company (www.croc.ru).


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7. POOR OLD LU, SIN
There were two institutions in mid-90s Portland that kept me semi-enthusiastic about not losing my religion. The first was called Skate Church, and it was, uh, a church for skating. Every Tuesday night, a carload of Mountain Dew-fuled teenage friends and I would arrive to shred our, er, "butts" off in the recreation room of Greater Portland Bible Church, which was converted into an pentecostal plywood playground by a group of sanctified skaters. The only hitch was that you had to stay for a 30 minute sermon between shred sessions. No problem there. We were all used to spending every Sunday morning sitting on hard pews listening to far more stale messages with nary a vert ramp in sight.
The second place was called The Push, and its moniker was less descriptive. The Push was an all-ages Christian rock club (let me know if there's such thing as a 21+ Christian rock club) located in the basement of a church in Southeast Portland. I was there at least once a weekend; it didn't matter who was playing. I figured other Christian artists besides Stryper, Amy Grant, and U2 (fittingly, The Push was named after a line in "Zoo Station", where Bono stated the fact that he too was ready for the little venue) had to exist out there somewhere, but I had little motivation to seek them out. I figured I had already achieved immoral musical perfection with my Alice In Chains and Spin Doctors CD's. When I first started hitting the godly alt-rock scene in late 1994, all of the bands were foreign to me.
The Push was known to drip sweat off the ceilings when the club was at capacity; a frequent occurrence due to the amount of Tooth & Nail bands traveling up to Seattle and back. Ah, Tooth & Nail. All I wanted in life from 1994-1996 was for my band to be on that heavenly record label's roster. They had a Christian doppelganger for every prominent secular band at the time, and the Christian Supply book/record store I frequented proudly displayed this fact on a "Recommended If You Like" cheat sheet next to their CD aisle (yes; aisle, singular). It looked kind of like this:
MXPX - R.I.Y.L. NOFX, Green Day, Rancid
Starflyer 59 - R.I.Y.L. My Bloody Valentine, The Smiths, Hum
Danielson Familie - R.I.Y.L. Beck, Ween, Daniel Johnston
Poor Old Lu - R.I.Y.L. Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers
Bede - R.I.Y.L. Live, Pearl Jam, The Beatles
I ate this handy little photocopied comparison guide up. Not only was I saving my own soul from raging hellfire, I was consolidating and streamlining my own CD collection as a result. I could get the same testosterone-laden growled vocal fix from one record by the Tooth & Nail band "Sometime Sunday" as I could from an entire catalogue of Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgardens, or Pearl Jams, without all the excessive demonic baggage. Best of all, there was a pawn shop right down the street from the Christian Supply. Heck, I could unload all of my pre-righteous Columbia House purchases at the former, and stock up at the latter!
And I should probably also confess that I never really saw that last one on the list, outside of my own sick fantasies. "Bede" was my first band. Our name was taken from a first-century monk called The Venerable Bede, and was chosen by our bassist Justin Harris, with whom I still happen to be bandmates. It was pronounced "bead", contrary to most peoples' insistence to call us "bidet" (and now with Menomena we get the occasional "man-enema" pronunciation, a cruel cosmic consistency if I ever heard one). I remain entirely embarrassed of that era.
I was the singer and lyricist, which is a huge deal in a Christian band. A good phrase or chorus doesn't just give your fans (of which we had approximately 14 at our peak; mostly blood relatives or reluctant girlfriends) something catchy to hum to themselves, you just might be saving them from eternal damnation. And try to save them, I did. An early masterpiece was a number I liked to call "Blue Light Temple". It was a rocking little ditty that oh-so-subtley compared a sinner's body ("the body" being the temple of Christ, duh) to the sale section at K-Mart. The only thing about it (as with most of our other songs) that wasn't directly stolen from Pearl Jam were the words, which would have been a vast improvement had I decided to lift those from Eddie as well. Rough stuff.
So I'd go to the Push every weekend, seeing band after band, taking mental notes. I was immediately drawn to a quartet from Seattle called Poor Old Lu. I think the name was a reference to the Chronicles of Narnia, which was A-OK with me. C.S. Lewis was a total Christian, you know? And this was a decade before the decidedly average movie (and subsequent SNL hip hop classic). The band was amazing. Scott, the singer, was absolutely spellbinding to watch onstage. He didn't just rock out mindlessly up there. He actually had moves! I wanted to have moves! Alas, the only thing I was moving were my bowels, approximately 37 times in that tortuous hour before each performance.
The rest of the band was riveting up there too. Aaron and Jesse were siblings and played their guitars and drums - respectively - like they were oblivious to the fact that every arm, leg, and finger movement was being silently analyzed and worshipped by the cluster of awkwardly silent virgin male teenagers crowding in front of them. Justin referred to Nick, the bassist, as "the limp noodle" because of his loose, wiggly stage presence. I believe this was somehow meant as a compliment, but the rationale escapes me now. We loved that band.
After a few months of nervous spectating, Bede got an important call from The Push. Poor Old Lu was scheduled to play that weekend but had to cancel at the last minute. Could we play in their place? Of course! The next best thing to sharing a bill with your favorite band was to fill in for your favorite band, right? We said yes.
I don't remember much about the show, other than the fact that I was probably out of my mind on a psychedelic mixture of sleeplessness, fear, and bottled water. I do remember afterwards though, when an unfamiliar guy came up to me and introduced himself. He said he drove all the way there to see Poor Old Lu and was planning to leave in disappointment when the promoter (a hulking, tattooed, pierced, gentle giant of a man called Mikee) basically strong-armed him into staying to see us instead. His name was Brent Knopf, and I was immediately convinced he was romantically interested in me. I was such a homophobe. Regardless, I said yes to meeting him for tea the next week.
Brent and I kept in touch over the next five years as he traveled Europe, wrote feminist musicals, invented instruments, and graduated from an Ivy League school. Not to be outdone, I lived with my dad, played in Bede (we were finally evolving from Christianized Pearl Jam ripoffs to Christianized Radiohead ripoffs), and held down a minimum-wage job at a beauty supply warehouse in the suburbs. When Brent finally moved back to Portland in 2000, Justin and I needed no convincing to drop everything and start a new band together. Thank you, Poor Old Lu.


After a series of personal challenges in the past six months (fire, three moves, close deaths, and associated challenges), I'm baaaaack . . . . Now that I've dusted off, it's back to teaching, pulling out the poetry manuscripts, mixing things up (big-time), greasing wheels, feeding my inner nerd, hoping I remember how to see upside-down through my legs like a kid, or, as Fitzgerald famously said, breathing underwater.
I've been reading poets new and ancient, the most ancient of whom is Rumi. From eight centuries back, he speaks more clearly through translators like Coleman Barks than most, regardless of their epoch or their age, as in these lines from "Who Says Words with My Mouth?": "Who looks out with my eyes? What is my soul? / I cannot stop asking" (Selected Poems by Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks [New York: HarperCollins, 1995]). On September 11th this year, at an interfaith community commemoration at Hudson River Music Hall featuring preachers, poets like Paul Pines, and musicians including Duke Ellington's granddaughter Mercedes Ellington, I had the privilege and joy of reading Rumi. Preparing for that event, I immersed myself in Rumi's ecstatic love and wisdom, a tasty tonic for the soul.
If you had told me two decades ago that very soon our culture would broadly celebrate a thirteenth century Persian ecstatic mystic poet, I wouldn't even have believed you. Rumi's appeal transcends his faith tradition, eschews false piety, embraces all humanity. You just have to sip his work to get it.
So, if you're here, if you read or write poetry, what revives your soul? For whose poems do you head when your head is down? Scroll down a little and post a comment, please.
In the past two weeks I've had a house fire, attended a magical manuscript conference, and lost Adrienne Rich. While I won't forget any of these occurrences, one of them I can now acknowledge with this piece. For the way she championed the oppressed of all types–gays and lesbians, men and women of color, the imprisoned, the marginalized, the impoverished, and the politically oppressed (all people who have been silenced or ignored)–and did it with beauty, grace, and always, compassion, I am deeply grateful.
Rich helped to show the world the value of the women's liberation motto that "The personal is political." This is a good time to reread some of her unforgettable poems like An Atlas of the Difficult World, "Sources," "Integrity," "Diving Into the Wreck," "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law," and "Twenty-One Love Poems." Or you may want to read one of her landmark essays such as "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision," "Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson," "Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying," "Split at the Root," or her historic rejection of the National Medal of Arts in 1997, when she dared to write to Jane Alexander, then head of the National Endowment for the Arts, that she could not accept an award for a few privileged artists when "the people at large are so dishonored" in this country.
Poetry–like music, like theater, like many arts and community activities–brings people together. And when people get together, as the world screen has displayed prominently in the past year, stuff happens–good stuff. Empowerment. Liberation. Education. Social justice.
Political rallying is not the only kind of populist empowerment. Poets do it too. And the powers-that-be are threatened.
As an adult educator, I warn students that some of the sacred cows of their childhood are about to be put to pasture. Education is subversive. So is the message of Jesus (you know, the Jesus that tossed the money-grubbers out of the temple; that showed up the Romans by feeding the hungry that the powerful would rather conscript or enslave; that said, and showed, that love is a verb.) So poetry, too, is subversive.
Some exciting developments here in the States render clear and apparent the links, the possibilities, between poetry and justice. Split This Rock! in Washington, D.C. is a great example. There, March 22-25, poets gathered for "four days of poetry, community building, and creative transformation." The lineup there includes such literary luminaries as Alice Walker, Jose Padua, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sonia Sanchez, and others.
And I was at the Colrain Conference in Massachusetts with Jeffrey Levine of Tupelo Press, Ellen Dore Watson of the Masschusetts Review and Smith College, and founder Joan Houlihan with a dozen other poets who constantly reminded me that poetry without authentic compassion is worthless. Poetry requires compassion.
Here's to poetry. To subversion. To justice. To love as a verb. And to those who are willing to risk their freedom for the sake of truth, love, justice–and poetry.
Pull up a chair. Have a cuppa whatever. Read a little poetry, ruminate . . . Welcome to my web.


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Phnom Penh Post - In Cambodia's Chinese-language schools, a hard push for soft power
In Cambodia's Chinese-language schools, a hard push for soft power
James Reddick and Cindy Co | Publication date 18 December 2017 | 06:43 ICT
Students in a classroom at Phnom Penh's Toun Fa Chinese language school last month. Hong Menea
James Reddick and Cindy Co
At Toun Fa, every classroom is packed. Students sit in rows dutifully reciting their Mandarin lessons, scrawling Chinese characters into their notebooks. Demand has been so high at Cambodia's oldest Chinese-language school, principal Doung Sitha says, that there is barely any more room to expand.
"More people wanted to learn Chinese since our ties became closer with China and there has been more business, factories – so the need is big," he said. "We originally said that the maximum number of students in a classroom would be 40-45, but now it's more than 50."
Since it was founded in 1914, Toun Fa has catered to Cambodians of Chinese descent, especially the large community of Teochew people from Guangdong province, but these days the student body is diversifying. Alongside students with Chinese heritage are more and more Khmer students looking to get a leg up on their peers as Chinese investment – and the opportunities for locals that come with it – pours in.
With 8,000 pupils, Toun Fa is the largest Chinese-language school in Southeast Asia, and one of 55 in the country, according to the Cambodian-Chinese Association.
Its growth mirrors the spread of Mandarin throughout Cambodia, with efforts to expand language education rapidly picking up steam, in large part funded by the Chinese government. Through the local branch of the Confucius Institute (CI), whose network of language schools is in more than 140 countries, China is expanding its reach in the Kingdom and finding the Cambodian government more than happy to accept its services.
The local CI works in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Cambodia. At night and in the early morning, students come to the Institute for language classes, but much of the work CI conducts takes place elsewhere, including within government ministries.
Eight years since Cambodia's CI was founded, it now has 80 teachers in the country sent by Hanban, the language promotion wing of the Chinese government. Sixty of them are volunteers. The Institute also has 27 "teaching classrooms" in the country, where Mandarin is taught by Hanban teachers – at high schools, private companies, in government ministries and elsewhere.
And in July, a "Mandarin Center" was inaugurated at the Ministry of Defence's headquarters in Phnom Penh to teach officials and soldiers in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces. Bradley Murg, a professor at the University of Washington and Seattle Pacific University, and an expert on China-Cambodia relations, sees the opening at the Defence Ministry as a "highly significant signal". He points to two reasons: it coincided with the discontinuation of military exercises between the United States and Cambodia, and the first batch of students consists of upper-level officials.
"That is a pretty strong signal of where your future intentions are as regards military cooperation," he said.
Sok Touch, the head of the Royal Academy, explained that the Academy offers courses in many languages, not just in Mandarin, but that the military "is a special case" in its needs.
"Most weapons and equipment [in the Cambodian army] are imported from China, and the instructions to use them are in Chinese, and there are different terminologies for different [military] divisions," he said, explaining that a soldier from the parachute unit would need to understand specific terminology related to his area of focus. "Military officers also need to learn Chinese in order to communicate with Chinese military officials within their work. They need to translate military documents from China," he added.
Requests for Chinese training have also come from at least seven other ministries, with the Ministry of Commerce in the process of setting up a "teaching classroom", and the Phnom Penh police department also planning classes.
The flood of Chinese tourists, alongside investment, has created challenges for local officials, said Xiulong Xia, the Chinese director at Cambodia's Confucius Institute. "Many many Chinese come here, they pick up the [police] hotline and they can't understand Chinese," he said.
"That's the problem. So the first batch will be those working the hotline."
Xiulong Xia, the Chinese director of the Confucius Institute at the Royal Academy of Cambodia, is photographed at the institute's offices in Phnom Penh in October. Pha Lina
On top of providing courses free of charge for government officials, CI focuses on expanding Mandarin proficiency among the general public. It works to train local Chinese teachers, has helped to set up classrooms in provincial areas of the country, and also selects 50 Cambodian students each year to study abroad in China.
The effort is part of the Chinese government's global attempt to expand its soft power by exporting its language. China specialist and George Washington University professor David Shambaugh has estimated previously that the Chinese government invests $10 billion each year on its soft power efforts.
As Xia points out, language institutes are not just a Chinese phenomenon, with most Western powers providing government-sponsored language classes abroad. But the scale of China's investment in its language expansion is incomparable, and has come with controversy. In the United States especially, Confucius Institutes have been criticised as propaganda arms of the Chinese.
But Xia insists that Cambodia's CI serves as a bridge enabling greater understanding between two cultures that are interacting more and more. Students are taught about Chinese culture and habits, while the teachers are steeped in local norms.
"We have to know Cambodia. Cambodia also has to know China. Then you have a friendship. That's the value for this" for the Chinese government, he said. "Because many conflicts – even war – are caused by misunderstanding, and lack of communication."
Regardless of controversies elsewhere, in Cambodia the demand for Chinese education is largely about opportunities, with students at Toun Fa telling The Post they saw Mandarin as more useful than English. Beefing up Mandarin education is also welcomed by Chinese businesses setting up roots here and struggling to find qualified staff.
"One of the concerns of Chinese enterprises here is that they simply don't have enough Mandarin speaking staff," said Murg. "China does bring in its own folks [as employees] on occasion but it is a limiting factor when you have this massive demand and such a limited supply. Hence we see the massive expansion of Chinese education."
Shi Guanghui, the owner of translation company Guanghui Service, said that many companies now provide Mandarin language training for their employees. The benefits for workers are obvious, Xiulong said. "Cambodian people in the factory get paid around $200 to $300 a month. If you speak Chinese, you get $400 or $500," he said.
Offering an admittedly controversial opinion, Murg said he believes that in the next decade and a half, Mandarin will become the dominant second language in Cambodia, due to the "sheer scale" of investment. He recalled a recent conversation with a Cambodian friend whose mother had chastised him for sending his 3-year-old son to study English.
"She said, 'Why are you wasting your time learning English? You should be learning Chinese'," he said. "That was the first time I've had a non-Sino Khmer friend basically say 'we switched over'. I was surprised – this is real."
Additional reporting by Rinith Taing
Contact authors: James Reddick and Cindy Co
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Build Your Own Camera, One 3D-Printed Block at a Time
By Rudie Obias
Researchers at Columbia University have developed a new modular imaging system called Cambits, which allows users to build their own cameras from an array of multicolored, 3D-printed blocks. With the system, photographers can change out sensors, flashes, optical attachments, and lenses in mere seconds by switching them out from the camera base.
"Traditional cameras are really like black boxes that take one type of image," Shree K. Nayar, a computer science professor at Columbia University and co-developer of the system, said in a story on Columbia Engineering's website. "We wanted to rethink the instrument, to come up with a hardware and software system that is modular, reconfigurable, and able to capture all kinds of images. We see Cambits as a wonderful way to unleash the creativity in all of us."
Each of Cambits' modular blocks are color-coded and attach with magnets instead of screws and cables, making it easier—and faster—to change them out. Once connected, these blocks have the ability to transfer data, get power from its base, and control signals and options through spring-loaded pins throughout the camera. According to Gizmodo, Cambits can also be used as an on-the-go microscope and for stereoscopic 3D imaging.
"We hope this reconfigurable system will open the door to new avenues of creativity, bringing new dimensions to an art form we all enjoy," Nayar said.
[h/t Gizmodo]
Images courtesy Columbia Engineering/YouTube.


Steffen Mengel, quarter finalist at the German Open did have troubled waters to negotiate at the tournament. First up, the qualification stage was easily managed for the 26 year-old. In the round of 16 though, he faced the powerhouse of table tennis, world champion and three times Olympic-champion Wang Hao from China, and the Number 100 in the World was reduced to the role of underdog for this match.
Playing a big tournament in front of a home crowd can be a source of inspiration for a player. Some players tend to crumble under the pressure of expectation from the audience, others give 100% in order to make things happen. Steffen Mengel belongs to the latter category.
The semi-finals stage of a World tour super series tournament is usually populated by the top Asian players, and Steffen Mengel, with his starting no 100, had to work extremely hard to be part of this elusive group. In his qualification matches, he beat Martin Heimberger (Austria, WR 301), Yu Ziyang (China, 180), Alexander Shibaev (Russia, 34), Zhou Kai (China, 178) before meeting Wang Hao in the Round of 16, and with that, his sure demise. But it was one of these rare moments in table tennis, where everything went different than expected. Steffen Mengel played the match of his life, holding his own against Wang Hao, defending 3 matchpoints in a fantastic match and had one of his own in the 7th. Game. And he used it.
And there it was, the sensational victory of the underdog Steffen Mengel over the giant Wang Hao. Mengel rode the wave of euphoria all through the following quarter finals match against Cho Eun Rae, whom he easily beat 4:0. In terms of upsets, it almost made no difference that he was finally beaten by Jun Mizutani in the semi-finals. The deed had been done.
"Steffen is sometimes able to cause upsets among the top players in the world. I distinctly remember his match against Chuang Chih-Yuan, where Steffen was already close to a victory, but there were some small details missing in his game." And of course, everyone remembers the Steffen Mengel, who beat Timo Boll in the finals and subsequently becam German national Champion in 2013. He even managed to progress into the finals of the Hungary Open.
Prause is certain, that Steffens success and climb in the world ranking (from 100 to 49 in one month) can be attributed to his recent time of being uninjured. Are injuries a general problem for tall players (Steffen is 1,95m) in table tennis?
"I do not think that his physical build is a problem for Steffen." Prause explains. He has had bad luck with different injuries in the past though. During the European Championships 2009, Mengel had tendinosis, and later a spinal disc herniation. Shortly after a painful comeback, he had to endure knee surgery, which completely set him back as he was unable to train for weeks. All the time that he spend injury-free recently has changed his potential immensely.
If you watch Steffen Mengel play, you immediately see it, this special character, focused on the task at hand. "Steffen is a born winner, powered by the desire to win big tournaments", Prause adds. "He always believes in his ability to win and uses every chance to do so. He does not care if he plays against No. 1 or 500 in the world, he only wants to win." Mengel draws his energy at the table from the excitement of the spectators as well. "Playing in front of a home crowd was a big advantage for Steffen." Adds Prause.
Aside from the powerhouse Wang Hao, Steffen Mengel was able to beat two more players from China, namely Yu Ziyang and Zhou Kai. These two are admittedly not top players yet, but still, beating 3 chinese players in one tournament was a feat that only Timo Boll accomplished at the World Cup 2005, when he overcame Wang Liqin, Ma Lin and Wang Hao.
Analysing Steffen Mengels game comes rather easily to Richard Prause, who has been closely following his progress over the years. "Steffen has a very good serve, high quality and very unpredictable for the opponent. He anticipates very well and plays equally good on both sides. And for his height, Mengel is extremely flexible, so much that he can still vary his placement on the forehand topspin hit in front of his body. Against Wang Hao Steffen could hold his own and answer to the quality of the forehand topspin on an equal level." Mengel plays Timo Boll ALC Blade and Tenergy 05.
Playing for the German Bundesliga Club TTC Frickenhausen, Steffen Mengel now lives and trains in the city of Düsseldorf. He is part of the training group of the German national team and benefits from the excellent coaching of the renowned Helmut Hampl as well as Jörg Rosskopf, Zhu Xiaoyan and Qiu Jianxin.
Mengel was already playing at the World Championships 2013 in Paris and he just received a last minute call to replace the injured Bastian Steger on the German National Team in Tokyo 2014. Prause says: "Steffen surely needs more experience on this top international level." Accompanying Timo Boll, Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Patrick Baum to Tokyo, he will have the opportunity to do just that. "He has showed to be an option for the future." Prause concludes.


Author and comedienne Amy Borkowsky is attempting to raise 3 million bucks so she can place a personal ad during the Super Bowl. Online relationship sites aren't gonna cut it!
"I used to work in advertising... I wrote commercials, so I know these things work if you want to sell a product and think I have a pretty good product here," she told "Extra." Is she truly desperate? Amy says, "I'm definitely not desperate... I can find dates... been through the dating mill and tried online dating sites."
When asked about her dating history, she said, "I did all the obvious things to meet people. Last Valentine's Day I actually went to a single's Valentine's party. I figured I had to try something different." She added, "I once had a blind date with a guy who I had broken up with a year earlier."
Even if Borkowsky finds love prior to February's Super Bowl telecast, she claims, "The only way you're not going to see me on the Super Bowl is if you happen to go to the bathroom during the commercial."
When asked which qualities she looks for in a man, she responds, "I'm trying to keep open... thought I knew but I'm still single... he has to have a good heart, good head on his shoulders."
As to how much money she's raised on her site, www.superbowlsinglegirl.com, she tells Calloway that, "So far I've raised over $1,100... in this economy I really appreciate anything that people give. Times are hard. Keeping my fingers crossed."
Borkowsky reveals her dream celebrity date, saying, "David Hasselhoff seems like such a sweet guy... like he has a zest for life, like he would have a good heart. That's what I'm looking for!"
Watch "Extra" on Monday, October 27th for more with Amy!
For the full story on Amy Borkosky, go to NYPost.com, and watch Monday's "Extra!"


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El Huerto de Calisto y Melibea es un jardín de 2.500 metros cuadrados ubicado en el casco antiguo de la ciudad de Salamanca (España). Se denomina así por estar inspirado en el famoso jardín de la tragicomedia de  Fernando de Rojas, la Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea (publicada en el año 1502). Se encuentra ubicado en la ladera de la antigua muralla salmantina a los pies del río Tormes. En la actualidad es un parque visitable de carácter romántico por la historia de amor de los personajes enamorados de la obra de Fernando de Rojas: Calixto y Melibea. Fue inaugurado el 12 de junio de 1981.

Características
El Huerto se encuentra en el casco histórico de la ciudad. Es un jardín cuidado que posee diversas variedades arbóreas, arbustivas y florales. Al huerto se añade el denominado jardín del Visir. Cuando se inauguró el jardín en 1981 se produjo el hermanamiento de la ciudad con Coímbra tal y como se refleja en una placa conmemorativa ubicada en las paredes del jardín.

Las especies más llamativas por lo inesperado a 800 m. sobre el nivel del mar en la Submeseta Norte son una Phoenix canariensis, una Washingtonia filifera, una Cordyline terminalis, un parterre de agapantos y un plumbago ofrecidos al Huerto en 1991 por un granadino residente en Salamanca que se sentía fugazmente transportado a un jardín romántico andaluz en el Huerto, y quiso completar el hermanamiento introduciendo especies ornamentales nunca vistas en los jardines públicos de la ciudad.

Más adelante la colección del Huerto se ha enriquecido con otras plantas inusuales en los jardines de la ciudad como el hipérico, los agaves, las carrascas, los nísperos e incluso un haya.

Véase también
 Cueva de Salamanca

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Jardines de Salamanca
Parques y jardines de España de los años 1980
Arquitectura de España de 1981
Arquitectura en Castilla y León en el siglo XIX


Get to know where our 27 year old business started!
Altman's Body shop opened in 1990 with owner Terry Altman and one employee. The two men simply hoped to earn enough to provide for their families while doing quality repairs for their customers. Since equipment was not readily available at the time, these two handcrafted some of their own tools needed to get the job done. The men took pride in their work giving each customer special attention and caring about them as individuals. The business grew substantially and in only 2 years a new facility was needed. A large lot was purchased allowing the construction of a new building with room to expand in the future.
Now 27 years since the beginning, a new facility and 3 expansions later, we have once again reached our capacity. The facility now covers 15,000 square feet, all of which are heated and cooled, and there are security devices both inside and out to protect customer vehicles. We are the largest owner operated body shop in the River Valley. The creativity and talent of owner, Terry Altman, has brought him national recognition as a car builder and as an innovator of specialty parts. He has appeared in several magazines as well as on the Velocity Channel TV show Motorhead Garage. He is the creator of the Altman Easy Latch and founder of Trique Mfg. His passion for quality and ingenuity is well known and it's one of the reasons why people who are particular about their car bring it to us for repair.


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Dark Realm 2: Princess of Ice
Posted by ponytaorponyboy in games
Dark Realm, facebook, Game, games, hidden object, hidden objects, HOG, Mad Head Games, Munchlax, Princess of Ice, strategies, strategy
Title: Dark Realm 2: Princess of Ice
By: Mad Head Games [Facebook]
Started: August 25th, 2015
Finished: August 26th, 2015
Duration: 4 hours and 35 minutes (they even give you the time of your game play too! How awesome is that)
Played with: Munchlax
Difficulty level: Blizzard
Ratings: 9/10
Full Screen off available on laptop
How's everyone doing? I've been doing… all right… and I hope that this post finds you in great shape and health! This is the first Hidden Object Game that I've played for the month of August 2015, and I must say that it quite impressed me, here's why [by the way there may be some spoilers to the game though, so please read with caution]:
First of all, wow, the story was pretty nice, even though obviously, the main interest of the Princess would be someone that has appeared since the beginning, that would only make sense… since he loves the Princess of Ice so much that he would help her from the shadows, going as far as reaching another Kingdom's Queen – that's right, we play a Queen [I think we played the Queen of Fire (which is the first installment of the Dark Realm series) before, but I can't be certain, I'll have to verify this, because this game is so good I wouldn't mind re-playing the first one either, and this is why I wouldn't be able to tell you if there were continuity and callbacks for the first game – however, I know that there were because characters from the kingdoms that we'd realistically probably helped in the first game came to our rescue a couple of times in the story, and it blended pretty all right too (even though by the end of the game, I'm not sure what happens to that romance story (I really hope that it gets touched upon later in the next installment of the game))] – in order to help her. By the end of the game, most loose ends were tied up – except, again, the romance between two of the protagonists, which I'm still hoping they'll touch up on in the third game, especially since they sort of hinted at some kind of development? I hope they don't leave us hanging, I'd hate that…
Now, for the Bonus Game, you should know I'm not a fan of Bonus Games that go into the past, especially if you play the character of the antagonist, as almost like an attempt to redeem him/her. However, in this one, I liked, because you found out the reason why the antagonist became such a character, and that he really wasn't that bad before. I hope that we'll see his sister team up with the Princess of Ice and the Queen of Flames, and kick the dark demon's butt in the third game (indeed, they've hinted (both in the main game and in the bonus game) that there would be a third installment, I can't wait!!!
Tonight's early #FridayNightGame is presented to us by @MadHeadGames this looks amazing! I missed this #Munchlax #HOG pic.twitter.com/bttHPJs6j0
— XxPonytaorponyboyxX (@PonyboyorPonyta) August 25, 2015
While the characters didn't all appear for a long period of time [so obviously, there weren't much development there], it was nice that the creators took care of making sure the characters had different 'accents' or something dissimilar to the other characters in their tones, in their accents and/or in their mannerisms. Not only that, but they did well in making sure that we knew where to go without providing us with too many hints (then again, I was in Blizzard mode, so who knows, maybe it was just as easy for easier levels? I'm not sure). Also, I guess, what kind of shady father/king would send his daughter to wed a prince who's so incredibly and obviously evil? I don't know, it was pretty obvious from the start that he was up to no good, I wonder if that's why his wife only appeared in flashbacks [question: can Queens divorce their Kings and still get away with their lives?].
The voice actors were really good, as you might imagine, I was really surprised. The dialogues were fine, if not a little bit on the 'cliche' side, but they did such a brilliant job with making the adventure interesting that it made up for it in my opinion. It was difficult to follow the flow of certain dialogues because you'd have to click on their 'subtitle' in order for the NPC (or your own character, Queen Valera) to speak. I do understand that some people love skipping the story/dialogues because they don't feel like they need it, but I thought it was pretty nice, so I would endure with it.
And what shall I say about all the effects that came into this story?! The art style was amazing, the details were great [just look at this Work in Progress that they posted on their Facebook Page]! Sometimes, I just stopped a little bit and stared in awe at the eye candy [in terms of landscapes and fine attention to detail] that they provided for us in multiple tableaux. I liked the 'visual effects' for the way the characters' mouths moved to the way they illustrated magical things also [perhaps my only complaint would be that the bear claw holding a "special" required item (in order to somehow upgrade it into a more powerful level), took a bit too long and was somehow redundant. The counter-argument to this is that while I waited for that particular animation to be done, at least I had time to think about what the next course of action was, or had time to go write down some notes for my review of this game, haha, so it wasn't completely bad?].
Something else that was pretty nice and, even more important: unique, was the interactiveness of multi-panels [for lack of better terminology]. You could have one panel that opened when you reached a certain area of a board, but then you could open other "panels/windows" that also were other areas of the same board. And you would have to interact with each one of them in order to acquire/solve whatever it is you acquire/solve.
@PonyboyorPonyta NB I suck at finding Morphing Objects… Thank gods it was only optional… #Achievements pic.twitter.com/fnyeVhDfYe
Not only that, but the soundtrack was pretty nice and diverse too, providing us with the proper "action" music whenever we were attacked [it provided which the sense of urgency for, which sort of made me want to solve the puzzles faster], or when "time is of the essence". We also had pretty good 'puzzle' music and traveling soundtracks. It wasn't too redundant as to make me go "GUH THIS IS SO ANNOYING *head-desks*" and it definitely didn't make me focus only on the music and not on the game.
In terms of Hidden Object Boards, they were pretty standard, interactive lost-and- found that we'd already experienced before, so they weren't anything too difficult [I will note that some of these Hidden Object Boards were fun because they didn't always feel like Hidden Object Boards, some of them were that well integrated into the game]. The Puzzles, now, were well varied and, depending on their difficulty, pretty fun to go through. One of them was a type of race where you'd have to click on arrows in order to avoid colliding with certain objects. A notably difficult puzzle was one in which we would have to turn discs around in order to arrive to a particular solution, it was difficult because the knobs kept turning other discs as well. Both Munchlax and I had much difficulties in that one, haha. I loved the "fight scenes" that we had against certain characters, those were pretty innovative as well [some of the better integrated and well-made fight moments that I've seen from a HOG anyway]!!
The Collectible in this one is sort of like a "crown" which you can find in every single map. Not only that – and this isn't the first HOG that features this – some Hidden Object Boards will also have a Morphing Object (I did NOT come back to waste my time on that because I know I'm just THAT BAD with Morphing Objects). I love this, especially because you can actually go back and collect them in the locations you might have missed. I actually spent a good thirty minutes on this when the game was over. It offers you a chance to study the landscape that Mad Head Games have worked really hard on, which I absolutely loved! Once you found all of the crowns, they also give you the possibility of doing their ultimate Hidden Object Board, which is full of objects, with a LOT of items to find. It was crazy, and also really fun to do [and try to achieve with 100% accuracy, which I succeeded the second time]!!
All right, that's it for me tonight,
I'll go hit the hay now if you don't mind!
See you all next month!
《/( ̄(エ) ̄)ゞ》Ponyta's out 《/( ̄(エ) ̄)ゞ》


"The Manu'an tradition is that all Samoan life started in the village of Fitiuta and that all Samoans originated there. They have a spot on the eastern edge of the village where the suns rays first strike Samoa before it moves westward, where the coral reef is supposed to always be yellow from the sun. I was supposed to go there at sunrise the next day, but who can get up without an alarm clock after going without sleep the previous night? I missed it. Also, my stomach just wasn't up to handling Samoan dishes of raw fish, greasy pisupo (fatty New Zealand corned beef) and raw taro, but the few cans of Spam and Vienna sausages I brought along proved very helpful. The Samoan couple who hosted me were quite disappointed that I wasn't up to taking advantage of their hospitality.
The teachers toured the schools during the day and observed the activities in the classrooms. Their final night on the island, they were honored with a traditional fiafia. Asked to contribute some type of entertainment to the party, two of the lady teachers pooled all their knowledge of the history of America dance and ended up teaching the entire group how to do the Hokey Pokey. Putting their right foot in and their right foot out elicited a huge response from the crowd, and the women then stripped down to their bathing suits and were oiled all over until they both had a glossy sheen. Lava lavas were wrapped around their waists and woven leaf bracelets, anklets and headdresses were crowned. The teachers were then told that they were being made Honorary Village Virgins, and the evening progressed with more dancing and great hilarity. Hopefully the PTA never found out about this evening.
Living surrounded by water did not guarantee that the natives would all be good sailors. The swells were high and the decks slippery on the return trip, and among the passengers was a group of Manu'an high school students on a field trip to Pago Pago. One young Samoan lady seemed to be trading her lovely bronze skin tone for a replacement shade of green. But before the girl could embarrass herself by losing her lunch all over the deck, one of her traveling companions whipped off his lava lava and shoved it at the girl, who promptly barfed into the fabric in a ladylike fashion. Bad weather or not, chivalry was alive and well in the land where all of Polynesia began.
Welcome back Chris! Love the new post and your determination to finish the damn thing. Now if you'll excuse me I really should launder that lava-lava.


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Francisco de Assis Martins Amaral, conhecido simplesmente por Francisco Amaral (Pedreiras,  — Nova Iguaçu, 9 de novembro de 2020) foi um advogado e político brasileiro. Foi prefeito de Nova Iguaçu, Deputado Estadual do Rio de Janeiro por dois mandatos consecutivos, Vice Governador do Estado do Rio de Janeiro e Juiz de Direito.

Em 2007 foi homenageado pela Câmara Municipal de Nova Iguaçu com a medalha de mérito Comendador Soares.

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Naturais de Pedreiras (Maranhão)
Prefeitos de Nova Iguaçu
Membros do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (1980)
Deputados estaduais do Rio de Janeiro
Vice-governadores do Rio de Janeiro


Woo hoo! I think this is my first ever challenge completed for an online challenge where I carry through from start (finding the challenge) to finish (posting it, or in this case, a link to it, on the challenge blog) so I am feeling almost virtuous. Don't get me wrong – I've seen challenges and used them (but for more of a "journal jar" sort of thing, like "oh No Where's my MoJo?" solution) and even done the challenges as specified but never took the final step and shared it. So this feels fairly momentous for me LOL!
The challenge over on the Stampotique Designers Challenge blog is to use a template. I've always wanted to make one of these pyramid boxes so it seemed a good way to kill two birds, as it were. The Stampington template was a good one. and resized up nicely and printing the existing template as A3 makes the pyramid part pretty perfectly 12 x 12 then you can use scraps for the square part.
And the slightly grip-y nature of the foam holds it in place fairly well. You can see the "set up" of the piece on the holder with the … punch line, I guess, inside.
The four sides of the box each have a Stampotique image – Rocky and Three in a Round here, each image over a Distress Inked then stamped with water and dried triangle.
Now when you open the box….
Girl with Heart Purse and Uncle Buck make such a cute couple! I thought skewering their heads might be a bit too gruesome, which is why I omitted it LOL!
I had to trim off a bit of their shoes before I buried their feet in the middle of the roses to make them short enough to fit inside the box when it was closed.
Damn this was fun! I have to say these are def. my fave stamps – I feel a bit of a shopping trip coming on cause I know I need MORE.
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This is so adorable and funny. Love your selections of stamps.
that is just stunningly brilliant!!!
Wow, this is absolutely amazing!!! I love how it turns out once you open it as well-very cool! Thanks for joining us at Stampotique Designer's Challenge & Congrats on being one of the top 3 picks of the week!
An absolutely brilliant piece of art!
So inventive, original and funny and beautifully made!!
Somuch fun and I love what you have done with them…they look so in love!!!!
oh great job mary~anne…these designs are so fun to play with aren't they???


Pudhu Metro Rail Song Lyrics From The Movie Saamy2… It Features Vikram, Keerthy Suresh, Bobby Simha, Prabhu Ganesan In The Lead Roles. Devi Sri Prasad Composed This Song And Sung By Vikram, Keerthy Suresh. This Film Is Directed By Hari.


In Technothon Quiz the 1st Prize was won by the team of Lakhan Goel and Akshit Sharma of class 10.
In Web Page Designing the 2nd Prize was won by the team of Anirudh Saini and Vinayak Gandhi of class 9.
In PowerPoint Presentation the 2nd Prize won by the team of Tanish Tuteja and Chirag Sharma of class 8.


Whether it is an icy road or blinding blizzard, commercial drivers need to be prepared for whatever hazardous conditions they may face this winter.
Operating a commercial motor vehicle during the winter months is a challenge, especially when dealing with rapidly changing weather and road conditions. Now is the time — before the hazardous road conditions occur — to go over the basics on how to stay safe during winter months.
In addition to the items that should be in commercial vehicles at all times — such as warning devices, jumper cables, tool kit, and first-aid kit — drivers should have a winter survival kit.
proper outerwear (extra coat, gloves, hat, boots).
Knowing how to react if stranded on the road during a snowstorm is key to driver safety.
First and foremost, if a driver is stranded in his/her vehicle, he/she should stay in the vehicle. He/she should never leave for assistance, unless help is visible and close (within about 100 yards). Leaving the vehicle is a dangerous decision, as it is easy to become disoriented in blowing and drifting snow.
If able to safely do it, the driver should hang a brightly colored cloth outside the vehicle.
He/she should run the vehicle's engine (with the heater on) for about 10 minutes every hour to keep warm. While the engine is running, the driver should open a window slightly to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning.
Also, to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning, the driver should make sure the vehicle's exhaust pipe is clear and free of snow.
Retaining body heat is important to avoid hypothermia, a condition brought on when the body's temperature drops to a dangerously low level.
Symptoms of hypothermia include uncontrollable shivering, slow speech, memory lapses, and drowsiness.
Ways to stay warm and prevent hypothermia include trying not to stay in one position too long, dressing in layers, and using any additional blankets and coats to insulate the body's heat.


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On Behalf of Law Offices of Fred D. Crawford, IV | Jun 21, 2021 | Motorcycle Accidents
In our area of the country, we are blessed with some of the most scene roadways in the country, perhaps, the world. This is a huge reason why motorcycles are so common on our roads. But, for motorcyclists, they cannot afford to be too distracted by our area's natural...
Other driver fault a major factor in many motorcycle accidents
On Behalf of Law Offices of Fred D. Crawford, IV | Apr 2, 2021 | Motorcycle Accidents
Perhaps due in part to the weather, motorcycling is a fairly popular means of transportation in the State of California. As of 2017, there were 1,465,322 licensed motorcycle drivers in the state. Unfortunately, more motorcyclists also correlate with more motorcycle...
Hit-and-run driver kills motorcyclist in Echo Park
On Behalf of Law Offices of Fred D. Crawford, IV | Dec 15, 2020 | Motorcycle Accidents
Motorcyclists are especially vulnerable to the mistakes of careless drivers. The greater mass of an automobile means that the motorcycle driver will suffer greater injury in a collision between the two kinds of vehicles. A recent collision in Echo Park that was caught...
The stats show that motorcycle helmets do work
On Behalf of Law Offices of Fred D. Crawford, IV | Nov 18, 2019 | Motorcycle Accidents
People have many different reasons for choosing to ride a motorcycle without a helmet. Some of them think that the helmets do not make that much of a difference, so they choose not to wear them. Others do not like the weight or complain about how they feel the helmets...
Why intersections are especially dangerous for motorcyclists
On Behalf of Law Offices of Fred D. Crawford, IV | Oct 2, 2019 | Motorcycle Accidents
As a motorcyclist, you always need to be aware of exactly what is happening in traffic around you. That's the main key to defensive driving. You need to react as soon as you can when someone else makes a mistake. When you get close to an intersection, though, it's...
The main rules for a 4-way stop
On Behalf of Law Offices of Fred D. Crawford, IV | Sep 25, 2019 | Motorcycle Accidents
Issues at a four-way stop can be catastrophic for a motorcyclist. If another driver makes a mistake and proceeds through the intersection at the wrong time, they can cause a devastating accident. Motorcyclists properly riding through the intersection may literally...
Do motorcycle helmets make it harder to see and hear?
On Behalf of Law Offices of Fred D. Crawford, IV | Aug 13, 2019 | Motorcycle Accidents
It's fairly clear that motorcycle helmets can protect you during a crash. However, many riders point out that they need to be able to see and hear perfectly to avoid getting into an accident in the first place. Any restriction on their senses could make an accident...
Woman dies in 3-motorcycle accident
On Behalf of Law Offices of Fred D. Crawford, IV | Jul 3, 2019 | Motorcycle Accidents
Three motorcycles were recently involved in a crash in California, and one woman tragically lost her life in the accident. She was riding along as a passenger on one of the bikes. Per the California Highway Patrol (CHP), a previous accident on Ortega Highway had...
Symptoms of a severe brain injury
Take all brain injuries seriously. Let's start there because the following will address the symptoms of a severe TBI, as opposed to a more mild TBI. But that is not to say that you should ignore mild symptoms and not get medical help. All brain injuries can have...
Motorcycle officer airlifted after crash in California
On Behalf of Law Offices of Fred D. Crawford, IV | Apr 17, 2019 | Motorcycle Accidents
A motorcycle officer with the California Highway Patrol got into an accident that left his bike smashed and lying on the interstate. His injuries were so bad that, even though an ambulance showed up at the crash site, the emergency crews had to call in a helicopter....


The rail fence block design is one of the first blocks many quilters learn to sew. It is easy to cut (all of the pieces are the same), easy to sew (no matching corners or tricky bias edges) and it looks great! I love the way that the quilter has arranged the blocks to look like a basket weave. I love to help quilters finish their quilts. I chose an allover (edge to edged) design with leaves and swirls which echoed the fabric design and gave the impression of vines growing on the fence.
The quilting group at my church received a donation of a gigantic box filled with plaid flannel triangles–all shapes, colors and designs. We were overwhelmed. However we started to sew the triangles into squares, trimmed them to several different uniform sizes and then sewed them together. For some of us it was a challenge to work without a pattern, but I believe the quilts we produced will provide warmth to those who need it in during the winter months.
Clean out your machine regularly–flannel produces a lot of lint which can clog up the bobbin area. Every time you change your bobbin, make sure to take a brush to clean out the bobbin case according to your machine's owner's manual.
If possible, pre-wash flannel. Doing so will help make it less stretch-y, it will reduce lint, and there will be less fraying (because the fibers have shrunk).
Flannel frays badly. You might want to use a slightly larger seam allowance or finish the fabric edges with a stay stitch. Before sending the quilt to your long arm quilter, stay stitch around the outer edge.
Choose a design which is easy to sew–squares and rectangles are easiest. Bias edges on pieces like the triangles are more challenging because they stretch. Trimming to a uniform size after sewing ensures that blocks can be sewn together accurately.
Blocks with lots of seam intersections should be avoided. Flannel is thicker than quilting cotton, so it is more difficult to avoid bulky seam intersections. Consider pressing seams open. Quilting through bulky seam intersections threw the timing of my long arm off and resulted in several days of frustration as I readjusted it. I am now well versed in the art of adjusting my needle bar height.
Because flannel frays and stretches, allow extra border width so that the quilt can be trimmed square after quilting.
To see amazing quilts, such as this stunning Best of Show, AQS Des Moines 2016 (plus many additional ribbons) quilt by Bethanne Nemesh. It is a whole cloth quilt with an Art Deco inspired peacock design as it's central motif and beautiful feathers. The quality of the machine quilting was excellent. I particularly noticed that despite the heavy quilting the motifs stood out from the back fill. In addition she used 'advanced' edging techniques such as covered beaded piping and tiny scalloped edging.
To discover new gadgets, such as how my Gammill Dealer attaches a tablet to her longarm.
To get inspiration and ideas for my own quilting projects–how to fill up negative space. I liked how Judy Mercer Tescher used block design along with back fills to complete the stars in her quilt Stars and Sparks.
To take classes–I took a class with Judy Woodworth, an amazing quilter, about back fills. I can hardly wait to try some ideas and practice in my studio. I won the class demo with Judy's stitching. I love those little feather blooms.
To meet old friends and new friends. I always have fun going through a show with friends because they see things I don't notice. It's also fun to meet new friends–sit at a table with someone or on a chair next to someone and ask about their quilts.
I hope you enjoy some quilt shows this fall!!
On my longarm today–White on White??
I look all over for inspiration for my own quilting. I found this amazing piece when visiting the nearby town of Winona, Minnesota. I love the way that the borders and center are different, yet all are related to one another. Notice the graceful curves and organic shapes.
Who is this amazing quiltmaker??
Yes, it is the embossed tin ceiling of the Winona Art Center. Tin ceilings were popular in buildings beginning in 1880s as an economical way to decorate a room's 'fifth' wall. Many historic buildings still exist with their tin intact. Don't forget to look up for design inspiration!!
Builders use levels and plumb lines to keep houses 'square'. A house that is level and plumb is less likely to fall down. Likewise a quilt which is flat and whose angles are intentional is more likely to survive washing, hanging on a wall or in a quilt show. In every step of the quilt making process we introduce a chance of error. I have learned through the years (by painful experience mostly) to reduce some of the errors. My worst quilt ever was a lap quilt made from a brocade fabric, I pieced each block and then had to ease them to fit each other, then because I 'knew' that I pieced 12″ blocks, I calculated the 'theoretical' length of the borders and quilted it. It had more waves than a surfer's convention.
I took out the quilting, ripped off the borders, measured the quilt, reattached the borders, and quilted it. It still was wavy–I took out the quilting, blocked the top, quilted it, blocked it and attached the binding. It was as good as it was going to get. My friends labeled it the 'quilt from h***". I never wanted to see it again.
I have another quilt, a pleated log cabin with a heavily embellished border, hand appliqued with dimensional flowers. It also does not lie flat, it hangs 'pregnant' (with the center bulging out). I took out the quilting twice, measured and reattached the borders 3 times–it still does not hang straight. I gave up, it is finished and resides in a very comfortable place in the closet. Both of these quilts were finished several years ago and they inspired me to improve my technical skills so that I would not ever have to take out quilting stitches again.
Fabric matters: The 'gold' standard for quilts is 100% Cotton fabric made for quilting. Yes, you can quilt with fleece, silk, wool, fur, pleather, leather, satin, jersey, polyester, brocade….But if you choose another fabric choice you will have to change some of the techniques and perhaps add some steps in order to achieve accuracy. For example, the brocade in the quilt above should have had a stabilizer, such as French Fuse or Shape Flex 101, fused onto it. Then the fabric would not have stretched to create waves. I also should have stay stitched with a walking foot around the quilt top before quilting it. 100% Quilting Cotton has minimal stretch, creates a defined crease when pressed, and can be washed.
Cut accurately: Know where to place the lines of your ruler, use sharp blades in your rotary cutter, use accurate templates. Make sure that the fabric is folded parallel to the selvages and only layer your fabric thick enough so that your rotary cutter will cut through it easily.
Use an accurate 1/4″ seam allowance: Even if you have been using a machine 'forever' and you 'know' it has an accurate 1/4″ seam allowance, test it before starting a new project. I sewed all day without realizing that somehow my needle position had been changed. aargh!
Measure frequently: Before putting on sashing or piecing blocks together, measure your blocks. Fabric moves and small errors can add up quickly. I measure and fix things as I go along. It may slow me down, but I don't have to 'frog' (rip it, rip it) as often.
Before putting on borders measure your quilt top 6 times in 6 different places.
Add the horizontal measurements together then divide by 3: this is the horizontal measurement of the quilt (note: If the measurements differ more than an inch, I would double check the measurements, then I would double check the construction of the top).
Use these measurements to determine the length of your border cuts of fabric.
Be a Quilt Engineer: None of the above techniques would have helped my heavily embellished and appliqued pleated log cabin. The combined weight of the pleated log cabin blocks sewn to a muslin foundation and the weight of the applique was too much for the borders. I should have stabilized the borders with a heavy stabilizer. I think that sometime in the future I might add a heavy stabilizer to the back of the quilt or frame it.
Every quilt has it's own unique challenges, I problem solve through out each step of the process in order to get the results I want. At the same time I leave myself open to creative opportunities. Some times there are happy accidents along the way which require me to change my plan.
One of the best times of the year for me is coming just a few short months from now–Christmas. I love to give gifts, to make gifts and to decorate my house with special things which are made by 'makers' or 'artisans' such as the tree skirt above. The tree skirt, which can also be made as a round table topper, was made on my longarm, then I assembled and bound it. It is beautiful in this pure white Kona cotton, but it would also be beautiful in a variety of different fabrics. I'm thinking of making another version in silk.
In addition to tree skirts, I plan to quilt pillows, placemats and table runners for the Christmas season. . . I need to get started today, to get everything done in time. Last Christmas everyone received a UFO under the tree (not my finest moment). We did have some laughs over that and I'm sure my family won't let me forget it. I plan to pace myself this year and manage my time time better. My goal is to have everything done by Thanksgiving, so I will be posting ideas and finished projects until then.
Today I finished this beautiful fall quilt sampler with a wonderful oak leaf pattern by Kim Diamond. Th!e autumn colors make me want to snuggle into this quilt with a warm cup of tea (at least for a minute or two–it's in the 90s and humid). I know that soon the trees will be losing their leaves and temperatures will drop. This quilt is big! 120″x 122″!! The quiltmaker did a beautiful job keeping the points in the quilt pointy and the seams matching where they were supposed to match.
I chose an edge to edge design which reflected the season of the color palette, which would allow the piecing to be the 'star' of the show and which would give the quilt a soft and cuddly texture.
You can see the oak leaves and meander on the back of the quilt. On the front of the quilt the quilting only shows in the borders where it adds texture and movement to the piece.
Are you ready for fall? I'm sending my youngest son off to college in the next couple of weeks–I'm not sure I'm old enough for that to happen yet! (lol.) Enjoy your quilting adventure!!


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Sonae´s Management team is composed by:
Cláudia Azevedo
Board Member & Chief Executive Officer
See CV João Dolores
Board Member & Chief Financial Officer
See CV João Günther Amaral
Deputy to the Executive Committee & Chief Development Officer
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Cláudia has served as Chief Executive Officer of Sonae since April 2019.
Cláudia has been with Sonae since 1994, having held several positions in different businesses and sectors. Cláudia began her professional career at Sonae with the Universo credit card project, and in 1998 became responsible for the Consumer business unit and Marketing at Optimus.
Between 2001 and 2018, Cláudia led Sonae Investment Management, a company dedicated to managing investments in information technology for retail and telecommunications. In 2013, Cláudia was appointed CEO of Sonae Capital, a publicly listed company with a diversified portfolio of investments in energy, real estate, tourism, fitness and industry.
Cláudia currently acts as Board member of several other companies, including Efanor, Sonae MC, Worten, Sonae Fashion, Sonae FS, Sonae Sierra, NOS, SonaeCom and Sonae Capital, among others.
Cláudia holds a Bachelor degree in Management from Universidade Católica Portuguesa, an MBA from INSEAD and has attended several management courses at Harvard University and Stanford University.
JOÃO DOLORES
João has served as Chief Financial Officer of Sonae since April 2019.
João joined Sonae in 2014 to lead the Corporate Strategy team, having been responsible for strategic planning in collaboration with the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors. In 2015, João also became responsible for Planning and Control at the holding company.
João currently acts as a Board member of several other group companies, including NOS, Sonaecom, Sonae MC, Worten, Sonae Fashion, Sonae FS and Sonae Sierra.
João holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Porto and an MBA from London Business School, having attended several executive management courses at New York University, Wharton School of Business and Chicago Booth.
Before joining Sonae, João worked at JW Burmester S.A., McKinsey & Company and Portugal Telecom.
JOÃO GÜNTHER AMARAL
João has served as Chief Development Officer and Deputy to Sonae's Executive Committee since April 2019.
Since 2001, João has worked in different companies and positions at Sonae, providing him with a global knowledge of the group. Between 2001 and 2014, he held the positions of Information Systems Analyst, Information Systems Manager, Innovation Manager and Continuous Improvement Manager.
Between 2014 and 2019, he was a member of Sonae MC's Executive Committee. He was previously responsible for Logistics, Production Centres and Supply Chain Management. In 2017, he also became Sonae MC's CIO.
João has an MSc and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and an Executive MBA from Porto Business School. He has attended several executive management courses at London Business School, Stanford University and Singularity University.
Before joining Sonae, he worked at Agência de Inovação, S.A. and Leica Camera AG, leading the IT function in both organisations.


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The Food Lab Video Series, for You, for Free
Unraveling the mysteries of home cooking through science.
In 2015, we tried to answer the question, what would a Food Lab video series look like? Now, you get to see what we tried out.
Published: September 12, 2019 Last Updated: November 1, 2019
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[Photographs: Nick Perron-Siegel, Video: Written by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt and produced by Chris Mohney and Nick Perron-Siegel ]
Classic Smashed Burgers
A few years back, we raised some money and spent some time asking ourselves, "What would a Food Lab television show look like?"
We came up with a ton of ideas that boiled down to a few basic parameters:
No standing and stirring: It would be a science show, not a cooking show.
Rather than having each episode based on teaching a recipe, the episodes would be designed to teach a concept or technique.
Like the column, the show would strive to communicate complex scientific concepts, and more importantly, show how understanding those concepts can improve your cooking.
It would present the science of cooking in a way that hadn't been done before.
It wouldn't be dumb (by which I mean, pandering to the lowest common denominator, or dictated by the whims of ad dollars and product placement).
It would be fun to watch.
We pulled together a production team, I enlisted the help of my good friend and former Serious Eats intern Katie Quinn to up the on-camera charisma factor, we wrote some scripts, and we shot and edited the episodes. They came out pretty well, I think.
Then...pretty much nobody saw them. This was our own fault—due to a partnership we made to get the series funded, we were unfortunately required to distribute them behind a paywall. (I said the show would not be dumb, not its production.)
The videos went the way of Blockbuster and were lost to the dusty corner of some hard disk in the cloud, until Vicky recently stumbled back on to them.
The good news is, our restrictions are no longer in place so we are now able to post the videos the way I would have liked them to have been done in the first place: 100% free.
The very first episode is about hamburgers and the science of ground meat. The science bits all hold up pretty well. The acting/screen presence, on the other hand, maybe not so much (I think I've gotten much better in the last few years, you tell me). Overall, I think it's a good watch, and you will probably learn something in the process. Personally, I consider the whole thing to have been a worthwhile experiment in what one version of a Food Lab show would look like, and we learned a lot about what works and what doesn't along the way.
If you've been to one of my live events, or maybe caught me on an episode of the Burger Show, you've probably seen me throw hamburger patties against the wall to show the difference it can make to salt the meat before forming the patties (I'd recommend neither salting your meat before forming patties, nor throwing said patties against the wall). But have you ever seen me fling burgers at 44MPH from our patented Meat-A-Pult (a.k.a. Burger-Sling?). Also in this inaugural episode: I wear a big cow mask and Katie points to my tastiest muscle groups, which, now that I think about it, Chris Kimball probably did first. We shove burgers up close to the camera to make them look all BIG, knowing this trick is something that both overcompensating fishermen and Guy Fieri have in common.* We grind meat four different ways. I'm not sure that's been done on a cooking show before!
*I jest, nothing but respect for Guy and the good work he does for folks.
Let us know what you think, and stay tuned—there are five more episodes to come on subjects ranging from boiling water (Action! Excitement!) to the importance of emulsions (Romance! Intrigue!).
J. Kenji López-Alt Chief Culinary Advisor
J. Kenji López-Alt is a stay-at-home dad who moonlights as the Chief Culinary Consultant of Serious Eats and the Chef/Partner of Wursthall, a German-inspired California beer hall near his home in San Mateo. His first book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science (based on his Serious Eats column of the same name) is a New York Times best-seller, recipient of a James Beard Award, and was named Cookbook of the Year in 2015 by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Kenji's next project is a children's book called Every Night is Pizza Night, to be released in 2020, followed by another big cookbook in 2021.
the food lab video series
Aloo Paratha With Spiced Potato Filling
Crisp yet tender flatbreads stuffed with spiced mashed potatoes.
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