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Bubble Breakdown: Who's In, Who Isn't – 2011 Daytona 500
November 16, 2022 February 10, 2011 Frontstretch Staff
Greetings race fans, happy Friday to everyone. The Bud Shootout is less than 48 hours away and qualifying for the Daytona 500 begins on Sunday (Feb. 13). Even though it only locks in the front row, I have always thought it is the most dramatic qualifying session we have all year. It gives us the starting line up for the Gatorade Duels and it also gives three teams outside the Top-35 cutoff a chance to secure a starting spot in the Great American Race.
Earlier this week I wrote in the Bubble Breakdown about some of the teams that went through some sort of points exchange in the offseason. In somewhat of a sequel to that, here is a look at the teams that finished 26th or worse in owner points last year – and who will get to race and who will have to race their way in.
LOCKED IN
Bobby Labonte – No. 47 JTG Daugherty Racing Toyota
After 14 months of being a field-filler at TRG Motorsports, Labonte is now with a team that has the potential to win races. During that time, he depended on his past champion's provisional to keep his consecutive start streak alive (which is now at 616 by the way, one behind the active leader Jeff Gordon). Now that he is at JTG Daugherty Racing, the 2000 Cup champ can rely on owner points to keep that streak going.
Regan Smith – No. 78 Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet
Smith heads into 2011 with no worries about making the Daytona 500 or the four races that follow. This underdog team based out of Colorado continues to make steady gains and seem to have found a solid driver in Smith. While this organization hasn't had a single top-10 to date, it came close on a couple of occasions last year and saw its average finish end at a team best 24.6, with Smith behind the wheel for every race.
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Robby Gordon – No. 7 Robby Gordon Motorsports Dodge
Since Gordon became an owner again back in 2005, he has attempted to run the full schedule every season. This year he will be scaling back; he will run about 16-20 races, including the first five for which he is locked in. Gordon will return to running Dodges this year after two seasons of driving Toyota Camrys. Gordon's energy drink, Speed Energy, will be the sponsor for his 2011 campaign.
Travis Kvapil – No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford
Robert Richardson and sponsor Mahindra USA Tractors will again be racing this car for the Daytona 500. After that, the plan is to have Kvapil in the seat for most of the season. Since he is committed to competing for the Camping World Truck Series championship, Kvapil will be the first Cup regular not to run for drivers points. Instead, the focus for FRM will be all about the owner standings and staying in the Top 35.
MUST QUALIFY
Casey Mears – No. 13 Germain Racing Toyota
Mears returns to the GEICO Toyota after running 12 races for them last year. Since they finished 38th in the owner standings last year, the team will have to make it on speed the first five races. How they do in the first five could dictate the rest of their season; Bob Germain has said they will run at least 20 races and possibly more depending on their performance in the first few events.
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Dave Blaney – No. 36 Tommy Baldwin Racing Chevrolet
After reuniting with his former crew chief Tommy Baldwin in 2010, Blaney returns to run more races for TBR in 2011. Regardless of sponsorship, the team hopes to run the whole distance in 16 of the events. Without funding, the team will be forced to start and park in the remaining races. Even with sponsorship, Blaney will still have to qualify on time as the team finished 40th in the owner standings last year.
Joe Nemechek – No. 87 NEMCO Motorsports Toyota
Nemechek is back for another year as an owner/driver. He will be bringing two cars down to Daytona with Kevin Conway and his Extenze sponsorship on the No. 97 Toyota. Nemechek also has sponsorship from AM FM Energy LLC for his car, but will likely continue to start and park in the following races as he struggles to find full-time funding.
Terry Labonte/Mike Skinner – No. 32 FAS Lane Racing Ford
Crew chief turned car owner Frank Stoddard is bringing this startup team down to Daytona with Labonte behind the wheel for the first race. The team will have backing from U.S. Chrome and the Air National Guard for Daytona and funding to run about 8-10 races. Since the team doesn't have any owner points to fall back on, Stoddard is depending on Labonte's past champion's provisional to make the race. After Daytona, Stoddard plans for former Truck Series champion Skinner to run the rest of the schedule, depending on sponsorship.
Bill Elliott – No. 09 Phoenix Racing
The 1988 Cup champ joins James Finch's operation this year to run at least 18 races, including Daytona. Elliott, who holds the track qualifying record for the Daytona 500, will need to qualify on speed. Elliott will be pulling for Terry Labonte to make the race on speed – Texas Terry gets the champion's provisional before him due to his championship coming more recently than Elliott's.
Michael Waltrip – No. 15 Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota
I briefly mentioned Waltrip the other day in the Bubble Breakdown. This will be the only race the two-time Daytona 500 winner is scheduled for, but he didn't acquire any owner points to secure a spot. Waltrip will be sporting his paint scheme from 2001, with black on the sides. The scheme and color is out of respect for the man who gave him that ride, Dale Earnhardt. What a story it would be if Waltrip could not only make the race, but win on the 10-year anniversary of that bittersweet day of his first win and his friend's death.
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Triangular in shape and dominated by the Pyrennes in the north and its coastal mountains to the east, Catalunya enjoys a huge diversity of terrain and climate. Generally, the whole coastal region enjoys a Mediterranean climate, which gradually becomes drier and more extreme further inland. Typically, the terrain determines the level of rainfall; in Costers del Segre the annual rainfall is only 300mm, compared with 500-600mm of rain in the more windy Apmurdán-Costa Brava, but all regions enjoy over 2,500 hours of sunshine a year.
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Slender: The Arrival Review
Richard Seagrave
If you see this man... RUN!
Parsec Productions' Slender: The Eight Pages was a hit when it was released in 2012 on Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX.
Tasked with finding eight pages within a woodland area at the dead of night, it was the first opportunity for many players to meet the mysterious and utterly terrifying Slender Man.
Now, Blue Isle Studios, with the assistance of Parsec Productions, hope to expand upon the title by releasing its sequel, Slender: The Arrival, on consoles. Promising more varied and developed gameplay, along with a story that will go some way to put the events of Slender: The Eight Pages into context; can the Slender Man once again scare the pants off us?
The game begins with you controlling a lady named Lauren, who has gone to her friend Kate's house after hearing of her disappearance. It doesn't take long for you to realise that something isn't quite right, but with your car immobilised due to a tree falling on it, you have nothing left to do but explore the area. Upon finding a burnt out house, you encounter your first sign of life – a human that appears to be severely malnourished – and being the inquisitive creature that you are, you obviously go to investigate. This is the first time that the game will probably scare the bejeezus out of you, and trust me, unless you have nerves of steel, it sure won't be the last.
Besides the Slender Man, there's other creatures to scare the bejeezus out of you…
Split across eight chapters, Slender: The Arrival is a fairly simple game. To progress, you generally need to find objects in the environment such as mysterious pages, power generators or gas canisters. However, to make things challenging and scare your socks off, you are usually pursued by some supernatural entity such as The Slender Man or The Chaser. Tension constantly runs high as you have no means of defence bar your torch, which can be used to sometimes blind your pursuer, halting their approach temporarily. Truth be told, the game can be quite challenging, especially on harder difficulties. The constant threat of the unknown means you spend much of your time running, and whilst your character eventually tires, rendering your running pace nothing more than a slow jog, your pursuers are relentless. The frenzy of being pursued also sometimes saw me getting stuck on scenery as I fled, but I quickly accepted this as the typical thing I would probably do in real life if I was running as a result of panic. It took me around 3 hours to complete the game my first time on easy mode so it is admittedly short, but replayabilty is offered in the form of multiple difficulty modes and some unlockable bonus chapters. The brevity of the title may be an issue to some, but for me it felt just about right. The horror would be hard to sustain for any longer and the gameplay mechanics are too limited for a full length title.
At times the game can look photo-realistic, but up closer the graphics aren't the best
Graphically, Slender: The Arrival is a mixed bag. Upon starting the game I was mightily impressed by the near photo-realistic outdoor environments. Unfortunately, as I progressed I discovered that the indoor environments and character models were not up to same standard – though they weren't ugly enough to affect my enjoyment of the game. Perhaps more crucial to a horror game however, is the audio, which I found to be impeccable. All the locations have a foreboding ambience that is heightened by excellent use of sound effects to put you on edge. What truly makes the hairs on the back your neck stand up though, are the audio and visual noises signifying the proximity of your pursuers.
If you're looking to experience pure horror then Slender: The Arrival is one of the best games currently available. Although its gameplay mechanics are monotonous, its varied locations and constant tension throughout create a unique experience that will stay with you long after the credits have rolled. I liked that the story was non-intrusive and still left a lot of mystery with regards to the titular Slender Man, maintaining your fear of him on subsequent playthroughs. While its short length may be off-putting to some, anyone looking for a good scare would be wise to invest in this game and a clean pair of underwear.
Slender: The Arrival is available digitally on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC and Mac. We reviewed the PS4 version of the game.
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Karol Adwentowicz ps. "Edwin" (ur. 19 października 1871 w Wielogórze, zm. 19 lipca 1958 w Warszawie) – polski aktor i reżyser teatralny, dyrektor teatrów, m.in. Teatru Kameralnego w Warszawie. Reprezentant szkoły Tadeusza Pawlikowskiego przełomu XIX w XX wieku. Znany z charakterystycznej wibracji głosu. W filmie wystąpił zaledwie dwa razy. Jest zaliczany do grona wybitnych polskich aktorów tragicznych 1. połowy XX w., głównie z uwagi na stworzoną przez siebie kreację Hamleta w sztuce Williama Szekspira, w której występował przez 23 lata.

Życiorys
Urodził się w Wielogórze, gdzie jego ojciec Antoni był właścicielem niewielkiego majątku ziemskiego. Po śmierci matki, Katarzyny z Lorensów (1874), został oddany pod opiekę jej przyjaciółki, zamieszkałej w Opocznie. Jako ośmioletni chłopiec przeprowadził się do Radomia, aby uczyć się w gimnazjum. Zadenuncjowany jako posiadacz zakazanych książek Mickiewicza i Słowackiego, został usunięty ze szkoły. Przeniósł się jednak do prywatnego gimnazjum prof. Biernackiego, które porzucił po dwóch latach nauki. Jako piętnastolatek wyjechał do Warszawy, gdzie rozpoczął pracę w fabryce motorów gazowych Machczyńskiego. W 1887 powrócił do Wielogóry, aby objąć gospodarstwo po zmarłym ojcu. Ostatecznie zdecydował się na kontynuację nauki, kończąc gimnazjum prof. Biernackiego i zdając maturę. Następnie pracował jako telegrafista, później urzędnik kolejowy.

Pierwsze kroki na scenie postawił w amatorskim teatrze K. Hoffmana w Radomiu. W 1893 związał się z wędrowną trupą teatralną L. Czystogórskiego. Zadebiutował 4 lutego 1894 w roli Edwina z Odludków i poety. Wiosną t.r. teatr Czystogórskiego wyjechał do Ostrowca, później do Suwałk. W latach 1895–1896 występował już w stałym teatrze w Częstochowie. Zajęcie to nie przynosiło jednak dochodu, pozwalającego na utrzymanie się. Wyczerpująca praca (zagrał wtedy ponad 30 ról) oraz złe warunki socjalne przyczyniły się do wyczerpania organizmu aktora. Leczył się w szpitalu w Mieni. Później powrócił do pracy, ale już mniej wytężonej. Występował w teatrach Poznania, Krakowa i Warszawy. Na przełomie 1898 i 1899 wyjechał z zespołem G. Morskiej i J. Popławskiego do Rosji, występując w wielu miastach imperium. W 1900 został zaangażowany do zespołu Teatru Miejskiego we Lwowie, gdzie grał do 1912, zdobywając sławę jednego z najwybitniejszych aktorów modernistycznych, m.in. dzięki rolom Oswalda w Upiorach H. Ibsena (1907) i Hamleta (1907).

Na początku XX w. zaangażował się w działalność polityczną, wstępując do Polskiej Partii Socjalno-Demokratycznej Galicji i Śląska. Wspierał rozwój pracy oświatowej wśród robotników lwowskich, aktywnie uczestnicząc w organizacji życia kulturalnego tego środowiska. W 1903 założył i prowadził amatorską grupę teatralną robotników.

W 1912 wyjechał do Krakowa, gdzie podjął pracę w Teatrze im. J. Słowackiego. W sierpniu 1914 wstąpił do Legionów Polskich, służąc w I Pułku Ułanów. Ranny w czasie ćwiczeń został wysłany na leczenie do Wiednia, gdzie występował w Teatrze Polskim. Następnie, jako oficer kulturalny, wyjeżdżał do teatrów Zagrzebia i Brna. W 1915 został zwolniony z wojska i powrócił do kraju. Do 1929 występował gościnnie w wielu teatrach warszawskich (Letnim, Małym, Rozmaitości, Polskim i Narodowym), z żadnym nie wiążąc się stałym kontraktem (m.in. w inscenizacjach L. Schillera: Hrabia Henryk w Nie-Boskiej Komedii Z. Krasińskiego w 1926; Lucyfer w Samuelu Zborowskim J. Słowackiego w 1927). Wyjeżdżał też grać do teatrów Krakowa, Lublina, Wilna, Białegostoku, Katowic i Poznania. W tym okresie angażował się również w życie teatralne mniejszych miejscowości. W składzie zespołów wędrownych odwiedził m.in. Częstochowę, Piotrków Trybunalski, Opoczno, Płock, Radom.

W latach 1929–1930 kierował Teatrem Miejskim w Łodzi. W 1930 ostatecznie osiedlił się w stolicy. W latach 1933–1934 był kierownikiem artystycznym Teatru Ateneum, jednocześnie podejmując próbę usamodzielnienia się. W 1932 zorganizował własny Teatr Kameralny, który prowadził do wybuchu wojny. 26 kwietnia 1934 aktor obchodził benefis 35-lecia pracy artystycznej. W ramach świętowania jubileuszu zagrał Wojewodę w Mazepie J. Słowackiego w Teatrze Narodowym. W t.r. zagrał tytułową rolę w filmie Przeor Kordecki – obrońca Częstochowy w reżyserii E. Puchalskiego.

W wyniku zajęcia Warszawy przez Niemców w 1939 został zmuszony do zamknięcia Teatru Kameralnego. W połowie 1940 otworzył przy ul. Boduena kawiarnię "Znachor", która szybko stała się miejscem życia artystycznego okupowanej stolicy. W sierpniu 1942 aktor został aresztowany przez Gestapo i osadzony na Pawiaku. Został zwolniony z więzienia w połowie marca 1943. Bezzwłocznie zaangażował się w artystyczny ruch konspiracyjny, współpracując m.in. z Radą Teatralną. po wybuchu powstania, 15 sierpnia 1944 uczestniczył w wykonaniu Kantaty na otwarcie Teatru Narodowego pod kierownictwem L. Schillera. Po upadku powstania przedostał się do Krakowa, gdzie pozostał do końca wojny.

W 1945 przywrócił działalność Teatru Śląskiego w Katowicach, którego był pierwszym powojennym dyrektorem. Na przełomie roku 1945 i 1946 kierował Teatrem Powszechnym Domu Żołnierza w Krakowie, a w latach 1948–1950 Teatrem Powszechnym w Łodzi. Od 1950 był związany na stałe z Teatrem Polskim w Warszawie (m.in. prof. Sonnenbruch w Niemcach L. Kruczkowskiego w 1949). W t.r. obchodził 55-lecie pracy aktorskiej, które świętował w Warszawie i Łodzi.

W grudniu 1948, jako członek PPS, poparł "zjednoczenie" polskich ugrupowań socjalistycznych i wstąpił do PZPR.

Jako aktor pracował do śmierci w 1958. Został pochowany w Alei Zasłużonych na Cmentarzu Wojskowym na Powązkach w Warszawie (kwatera A 26-tuje-4).

Życie prywatne
Był trzykrotnie żonaty. Wszystkie trzy małżonki były aktorkami. Pierwszą została Aniela Połęcka. Następnie ożenił się z Janiną Nosarzewską, z którą później się rozwiódł. 2 lipca 1936 w kościele ewangelicko-reformowanym w Warszawie zawarł związek małżeński z Ireną Grywińską. Jego synem był malarz Lucjan.

Aktor spisywał wspomnienia i inne tworzył notatki z życia prywatnego oraz bogatej działalności teatralnej i publicznej. Rękopisy były prowadzone w sposób sugerujący chęć autora, żeby zostały opublikowane. Stało się to po jego śmierci w 1960, otrzymując tytuł Wspominki.

Upamiętnienie
Jego nazwiskiem nazwano ulice w Łodzi (os. Widzew), Katowicach (os. Stara Ligota), Radomiu i Tarnowie.

Spektakle teatralne

Role

Inne teatry
 Teatr Miejski im. Słowackiego, Kraków
 1908 – Źródełko jako Stefan
 1911 – Aglawena i Selisetta jako Meleander (reż. Marian Jednowski)
 1921 – Hamlet jako Hamlet (reż. M. Jednowski)

 Teatr im. Bogusławskiego, Warszawa
 1926 – Róża jako Czarowic (reż. Leon Schiller)
 1926 – Nie-Boska komedia jako mąż (reż. L. Schiller)

 Teatr Polski, Warszawa
 1928 – Człowiek i nadczłowiek jako don Juan Tenorio, John Tanner (reż. L. Schiller)

 Teatr Narodowy, Warszawa
 1933 – Obiad o ósmej jako Larry Renauld (reż. Karol Borowski)

 Teatr Kameralny, Warszawa
 1935 –  Budowniczy Solness jako Solness (reż. Karol Adwentowicz)

 Teatr Miejski im. Wyspiańskiego, Katowice
 1945 – Zemsta jako Cześnik (reż. Wilam Horzyca)
 1945 – Lompa jako Józef Lompa (reż. Stanisław Kwaskowski)

 Teatr Powszechny im. Żołnierza Polskiego, Kraków
 1945 – Burmistrz Stylmondu jako Cyryl Van Belle (reż. Emil Chaberski)
 1946 – Dwa teatry jako dyrektor teatru (reż. Irena Grywińska)
 1946 – Tajemnica lekarska jako profesor (reż. I. Grywińska)

 Teatr Polski, Bielsko-Cieszyn
 1947 – W małym domku jako doktor (reż. K. Adwentowicz)

 Teatr Wojska Polskiego, Łódź
 1947 – Burza jako Prospero (reż. L. Schiller)

 Teatr Powszechny, Łódź
 1948 – Lisie gniazdo jako Horacy Gidens (reż. K. Adwentowicz)
 1948 – Madzieja jako Kobus (reż. K. Borowski)
 1949 – Klub kawalerów jako Sobieniewski (reż. K. Adwentowicz)
 1949 – Dwa teatry jako dyrektor (reż. I. Grywińska)
 1949 – Przełom jako Komendant Krążownika "Aurora" (reż. K. Adwentowicz)
 1950 – Niemcy jako profesor Sonnenbruch (reż. I. Grywińska)

 Teatr Polski, Warszawa
 1953 – Horsztyński jako Ksawery Horsztyński (reż. Edmund Wierciński)
 1955 – Lorenzaccio jako Filip Strozzi (reż. E. Wierciński)

 Teatr Ludowy, Warszawa
 1957 – Upiory jako pastor Manders (reż. K. Adwentowicz)

Inscenizacje
 1946 – Ojciec – Teatr Powszechny im.Żołnierza Polskiego w Krakowie, potem – Teatr Miejski im. Jaracza Olsztyn
 1947 – W małym domku – Teatr Polski, Bielsko-Cieszyn
 1948 – Lisie gniazdo – Teatr Studio w Warszawie, potem Teatr Powszechny w Łodzi
 1949 – Klub kawalerów – Teatr Powszechny w Łodzi
 1949 – Przełom – Teatr Powszechny w Łodzi
 1957 – Upiory – Teatr Ludowy w Warszawie

Filmografia
 1912 – Pomszczona krzywda
 1934 – Przeor Kordecki – obrońca Częstochowy jako Aleksander Kordecki

Ordery i odznaczenia
 Order Sztandaru Pracy I klasy (22 lipca 1949)
 Krzyż Komandorski z Gwiazdą Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (15 lutego 1950)
 Krzyż Niepodległości (9 listopada 1931)
 Krzyż Oficerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (11 listopada 1934)
 Złoty Krzyż Zasługi (trzykrotnie: 9 listopada 1931, 15 czerwca 1946, 13 listopada 1953)
 Medal 10-lecia Polski Ludowej (19 stycznia 1955)
 Złoty Wawrzyn Akademicki (7 listopada 1936)

Nagrody
1947 – Nagroda Spółdzielni Wydawniczej "Czytelnik" za rolę Prospera w spektaklu Burza w Teatrze Wojska Polskiego w Łodzi,

1949 – Nagroda (150.000 zł) na Festiwalu Sztuk Radzieckich i Rosyjskich,

1955 – Nagroda Państwowa I stopnia za całość artystycznej działalności teatralnej.

Przypisy

Bibliografia

 Natanson, Wojciech: Karol Adwentowicz. Warszawa: PIW, 1955.
 Adwentowicz, Karol: Wspominki. Oprac. Marczak-Oborski, Stanisław. Warszawa: PIW, 1960.
 Wielka encyklopedia powszechna PWN. Red. Kotarbiński, Tadeusz i in. T. 1. Warszawa: PWN, 1962, s. 42–43.
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People have built a glacier in the desert using a huge tower of ice
Humans 22 January 2020
By Jason Arunn Murugesu
Greg White
THE Himalayan desert of Ladakh is home to this majestic tower of ice, known as an ice stupa, after the domed Buddhist buildings. It is effectively an artificial glacier, created by local people to store water and designed to start melting when they need it.
In winter, temperatures in Ladakh rarely rise much above -40°C, and can fall below freezing even on summer nights. The area receives little rain, so local people rely on melting glaciers to obtain water for irrigation and livestock.
But climate change has caused the glaciers to shrink and the flow of their meltwater to become erratic. To get around this, in late summer, local people catch glacial meltwater in underground pipes. The water is sprayed onto a domed structure at night, where it freezes.
The ice stupa starts to melt in March and will continue to do so until around July, when rainfall is at its lowest. Its conical shape shields much of the ice from the sun. This means the tower, which can reach 50 metres in height, melts slowly, feeding surrounding streams. The following summer, the cycle repeats.
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Community Event to Focus on Tips for Improving Home Energy Efficiency
October 1, 2015 — by Greg Olgers
Tips for improving home energy efficiency; presentations on topics ranging from the winners of a video competition for area students, to a new energy-saving contest for Holland residents, to the Holland Energy Park; and multiple family-friendly activities will be featured during "Energize You! A Better House, A Better Holland" on Thursday, Oct. 8, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Midtown Center.
The program is the first annual community event organized by the Holland-Hope College Sustainability Institute. The public is invited, and admission is free.
The evening will begin with a family friendly hands-on-activity expo running from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. that will feature interactive displays and activities for children. Participating groups will include the Center for Exploratory Learning at Hope; Herrick District Library; the Holland Board of Public Works; the Green Home Institute; and more.
A program running from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. will include the announcement of the winners of a video competition for students in seventh through 12th grade addressing energy conservation; announcement of a "Biggest Energy Loser" competition for residents of Holland; and updates about the Holland Energy Park, the Community Energy Plan and Holland's status in the two-year Georgetown University Energy Prize competition for $5 million that is running through the end of 2016.
The student videos are available for advance viewing on the institute's website at Hope.edu/Sustainability-Institute. There will be "best of" winners for seventh-eighth grade, ninth-10th grade, and 11th-12th grade, as well as a winner for the video most viewed on the site.
From 8 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., the expo will continue and there will also be an opportunity to meet the students who created the videos.
The Holland-Hope College Sustainability Institute is a partnership between the City of Holland, Hope College, and the Holland Board of Public Works, and is housed on the Hope campus. Its purpose is to support growing efforts to encourage, engage, educate and drive sustainable culture in water and air quality, energy efficiency, land use, and environmental innovation.
The city and college announced the institute in May of 2014, along with a $65,000 grant in support of the project through a national initiative: the Local Sustainability Matching Fund, a project of the Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, in partnership with the Urban Sustainability Directors Network. The Fund is supported with leadership grants from Bloomberg Philanthropies, JPB Foundation, Kendeda Fund, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, New York Community Trust, Summit Foundation, and Surdna Foundation. The Fund is designed to catalyze partnerships between local governments and local, place-based foundations and to advance community-based sustainability initiative.
The Holland-Hope College Sustainability Institute has also received a three-year grant of $25,000 each year ($75,000 over three years) from the Community Foundation of Holland/Zeeland, in addition to receiving support from the city, Holland Board of Public Works and Hope.
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Dolph references in other media
by dolphage on 05 Mar 2012, 15:25
In the movie "Goon (2011)" - the main character is a jewish icehockey fighter and gets described by his friend as "a hebrew Dolph Lundgren"
Re: Dolph references in other media
In the movie "The Sitter" (2011) Jonah Hill watches "I come in peace", specifically the "i come in peace", "...and you go in pieces"- scene, on television.
by bomaz on 05 Mar 2012, 17:21
Main character from Quentin Dupieux' new movie is called Dolph.
In "just go with it" with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, the fake boyfriend of Anniston goes by Dolph Lundgren, "not the actor by the way".
In the Postman by kevin reynolds/costner, they watch Universal Soldier in the camp.
In a Batman / Spider Man comicbook crossover, the joker tell Carnage that his one of his line wouldn't even be in a Dolph Lundgren Movie.
Will Haven made a song called Dolph Lundgren.
a belgium band also has a song named Dolph Lundgren.
French hip hop artist Venom made a song alled "Le Punisseur" (the punisher) where he sweeps street "just like Dolph Lundgren as Frank Castle".
I don't remember his name or his accurate sport, but a player (I think it's american foorball) reefer to himself as a "Dolph Lundgren looalike" player.
As well as a soccer player in my hometown team who is called "The Dolph Lundgren of the TFC".
Give another 24 hours and I can think of a couple more
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bomaz wrote: I don't remember his name or his accurate sport, but a player (I think it's american foorball) reefer to himself as a "Dolph Lundgren looalike" player.
Oh yeah I remember that;
http://www.weei.com/sports/boston/this- ... h-lundgren
American band Biohazard uses a monologe of Dolph in The pUnisher for the song Punishment
by Dawn on 17 Mar 2012, 21:17
I also remember a brief mention back in the early 90s in a magazine of how much Vanilla Ice looked like Dolph Lundgren when Ice Ice Baby was a hit. I think it was the Max Headroom, stoic look that did it.
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by bomaz on 14 Apr 2012, 22:30
Dolph appears on a huge standee/ poster in SseoNi (2011) a korean hit movie (3 biggest hit of the year, behind Transformers 3 and MI4).
At 1 hour and 2 min, the main heroines are involved in a fight with their foes, in a middle of a riot between authorities and anti-captialist protesters. For a couple of frames, we can catch Sly and Dolph fighting on a hugfe Rocky IV poster, opposing the west and east, as on the battle happening on the screen. ;o)
by Ringy on 17 Apr 2012, 16:57
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Based in London UK, ENDURANCE celebrates the music and themes of ELECTRONIC BODY MUSIC, a genre of synthesized dance music that first emerged in the early 1980s. The aim of ENDURANCE is to treat the genre as a valid form of dance music in itself, playing down but respecting it's links to other genres like GOTH and INDUSTRIAL whilst highlighting the links to late 80s/early 90s dance styles like NEW BEAT, ACID, HOUSE and the current new wave of artists creating similar sounds.
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by Mosquito on 17 Apr 2012, 18:10
That's heavy Dolph usage. Wonder if he gets a share. But I don't think the video or the remix is very creative. Nice to see Dolph and Max Headroom though.
Hello Mosquito
Maybe, club/indie scene of every country is anything goes world. They live in bohemian culture. I take notice of the idea that they made a music video, poster and flyer featuring Dolph. I think that is very interesting
Hello Ringy, you are absolutely right and I thank you for the interesting link!
by Nikolai Cherenco on 20 Apr 2012, 10:15
In a German episode of South Park Dolph's name was mentioned negatively.
by Jox on 16 Jun 2012, 16:02
Funny Dolph/Drago stuff in the Daily Show (at 3min45 mark)
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-m ... scow-mules
by whiteandblank on 26 Jul 2012, 11:38
His name was mentioned in louis theroux weird weekends (UFO episode), describing a 'perfect human being'
Is there an off switch to your mouth?
whiteandblank
by Mosquito on 27 Jul 2012, 00:20
whiteandblank wrote: His name was mentioned in louis theroux weird weekends (UFO episode), describing a 'perfect human being'
Yeah, that's what I always think when I watch the end of Maximum Potential. He looks so perfect that it's just unreal.


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Țările de Jos Caraibiene sau Caraibele Neerlandeze (în ) este numele dat vechii grupări de insule neerlandeze
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius și Saba (de unde acronimul insulele BES). De la 10 octombrie 2010, după dizolvarea statului Antilele Neerlandeze, cele trei insule au reintegrat Țările de Jos în calitate de entități publice cu statutul de municipalitate (în ).

Cele trei insule au mari diferențe culturale și geografice. Bonaire este situată la est de Curaçao și de Aruba, în timp ce Sint Eustatius și Saba se află la sud de insula Sfântul Martin și la nord-vest de insula Sfântul Kitts. Se estimează populația celor trei insule la un total de  de locuitori, repartizați în mod foarte inegal. Aceste insule sunt departe de coasta europeană a Țărilor de Jos, la circa  kilomètres.

Guvernarea

Țările de Jos Caraibiene sunt, potrivit legii neerlandeze, «entități publice» (). Guvernările acestor trei insule funcționează de facto în calitate de comune cu caracter special ale Țărilor de Jos.

Aceste insule s-au integrat statului olandez după dizolvarea Antilelor Neerlandeze la 10 octombrie 2010. Legea descrie în special organizarea administrativă, componența și competențele conferite consiliilor insulare. Înființarea acestor organisme publice a fost modelată după sistemul municipal olandez. Populația este reprezentată în consiliul insular, care este condus de un consiliu de administrație (în neerlandeză bestuurscollege) compus dintr-un locotenent-guvernator și din delegați insulari. Țările de Jos Caraibiene nu fac parte din Spațiul Schengen și nici din Uniunea Europeană. Ele fac parte din țările și teritoriile de peste mări ale Uniunii Europene, conform anexei II din Tratatul de la Lisabona. De la data de 1 ianuarie 2011, moneda utilizată, florinul Antilelor Neerlandeze, a fost înlocuită cu dolarul american. Această decizie fusese luată la 8 noiembrie 2008.

Oficiul Național al Țărilor de Jos Caraibiene
Oficiul Național al Țărilor de Jos Caraibiene (în neerlandeză Rijksdienst Caribisch Nederland), o agenție administrativă a guvernului olandez, oferă educație, transport, securitate publică, reglementarea imigrației, administrarea și colectarea taxelor, sănătatea și serviciile sociale pe aceste trei insule. Țările de Jos Caraibiene nu fac parte din nicio provincie olandeză și nu formează una nouă. Puterile conferite în mod normal guvernelor provinciale olandeze au fost împărțite între guvernul fiecărei insule și guvernul central (Oficiul Național al Țărilor de Jos Caraibiene).  Directorul actual al acestei agenții guvernamentale se numește Sybren van Dam.

Cultură și limbi
Diferențele culturale notabile dintre cele trei insule pot să se explice prin istoria, geografiile deosebite precum și prin depărtarea lor de părțile europene ale Țărilor de Jos. La Bonaire, papiamento este limba cea mai utilizată, urmată de engleză și de neerlandeză. La Sint Eustatius și Saba, limba comună a locuitorilor este engleza. Neerlandeza rămâne limbă oficială, însă utilizarea sa este mai degrabă marginalizată la agenții oficiali neerlandezi și la metropolitanii rezidenți pe insule.

Comunicații
Fusul orar este UTC-4, iar indicativul telefonic internațional este 599 (neschimbat față de fostul stat Antilele Neerlandeze, prin urmare folosit în comun cu Curaçao). Organizația Internațională de Standardizare a atribuit codul BQ acestor trei insule.

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Țări caraibiene


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Table Mountain voted Africa's leading tourist attraction
Publish Time:2020-11-11 09:42:50Source:iol.co.za
【Introduction】:Table Mountain has been named Africa s leading tourist attraction at this year s World Travel Awards.
Table Mountain has been named Africa's leading tourist attraction at this year's World Travel Awards.
Table Mountain was up against Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt and two of the fellow Cape Town Big Six attractions – Robben Island and the V&A Waterfront.
Table Mountain took home the same accolade in 2019 and 2013.
Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company (TMACC) encouraged South Africans to cast their votes last month.
With more than 29 million visitors over the decades, the win has cemented the destination as one of the top attractions on the continent.
Wahida Parker, the Managing Director of TMACC, said they are excited about this accomplishment.
"At this point where tourism and travel have suffered greatly as a result of Covid-19, we are extremely pleased to bring this accolade home to South Africa and Cape Town in particular. We are excited about the recognition, honour and responsibility that this places on us, and inspired at the prospect that we could claim the distinction of leading attraction of the world.
"We would like to thank everyone who voted for Table Mountain and made this dream a reality," she said.
Jean-Paul da la Fuente, Director of New7Wonders Foundation, said that he was not surprised that Table Mountain won the sought after award.
"It is one of the leading attractions in the whole world. And let us not forget that Table Mountain is also a symbol of continental unity, reaching up to the only surviving Ancient 7 Wonder, the Pyramids of Giza," he said.
Table Mountain is still up for the running to be voted as the world's leading tourist attraction. The announcement of the world winners is set to take place in late November.
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Her life is wrecked! If her friends, family and colleagues haven't seen the interview yet, they will.
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The longest-serving councillor in Wolverhampton has lost his seat amid a battle for power among members of the city's Labour party, it has been claimed.
Councillor John Rowley was first elected on Wolverhampton council in 1982, but he was de-selected from his Blakenhall seat in a ballot of ward Labour party members.
It comes amid upheaval among the Labour's ranks in the city that a senior party member has described as being 'like a game of musical chairs'.
Mr Rowley said he plans to lodge an appeal, adding: "I am very disappointed after working hard for the local community for 33 years." He declined to comment further.
Only 36 members of the Blakenhall Labour group turned up to this week's ballot. The group was more than 200-strong at its height but numbers have dwindled over the last year. In 2015 the group was suspended by the party's regional office amid claims of irregularities over membership.
Numbers are now said to be down to around 60.
Wolverhampton's Labour group is in the process of finalising candidates to contest May's local council elections.
Mr Rowley has been replaced by Councillor Jasbinder Dehar, who was recently de-selected from her seat in Bushbury North. Mrs Dehar was subsequently put forward and rejected for seats in East Park, Ettingshall and Bilston East, before landing the Blakenhall seat.
In East Park Councillor Payal Bedi has been de-selected in favour of Anwen Muston, who contested seats in Penn in the last two council elections.
Mrs Bedi has moved over to the Bilston East seat vacated by the late Bert Turner.
One senior party member, who asked not to be named, told the Express & Star: "The process needs to be looked into really because we have a situation where people are going for numerous seats until they finally land one.
"It's a bit like a game of musical chairs."
Changes are also afoot in Oxley, where Councillor Lorna McGregor is to step down. Former Bilston councillor Louise Miles has been selected as her replacement.


When Gary Warmker flew into Denver International Airport last month, he was prepared to pay tolls on E-470 while driving a rental car to Colorado Springs for a business meeting.
Yet when Warmker got socked with $125 in penalties in addition to $11 or so in tolls that he owed, the Overland Park, Kan., marketing executive cried highway robbery.
Since E-470 moved exclusively to cashless tolling on July 4, the process of accounting for toll-road use by people renting cars at DIA has become complex and confusing.
Nine different rental car companies use three private toll-collection companies to administer at least five separate plans for charging users of toll roads in metro Denver.
Warmker rented his car from Dollar, which along with its sister company, Thrifty, offers unlimited toll road access to its renters for $8.95 a day, or a maximum of $32.95 a week.
If Dollar or Thrifty customers don't sign up, and they use E-470, say because — like Warmker — they don't know about the toll-plan option, they are billed for the tolls they incur plus an extra $25 penalty fee per toll transaction.
"I am more than willing to pay the tolls I owe, but the way they set this up smells like a scam," said Warmker, adding that his bill of about $65 for a two-day rental ballooned to $200 after $125 in fees were tacked on top of about $11 in tolls that he incurred.
As a frequent traveler, Warmker said he uses rental-car express services that allow him to bypass counter transactions and simply climb in the car and go.
He said he never saw a flier Dollar includes in the rental-car contract packet that informs customers about the toll-payment program.
The toll option at Dollar and Thrifty has caused problems for consumers since E-470 went cashless last summer, acknowledged Richard Klier, the companies' general manager at DIA.
But "it's getting better," he said, adding that Dollar and Thrifty are "doing our best to plaster" information about the toll-payment plan all around their facility so customers are aware of the options.
When Wayne Tack stepped up to Dollar's counter at DIA recently, he said he wanted the quickest way to get to Colorado Springs.
Normally, that would include a trip south on E-470 from the airport to Interstate 25, but when Dollar's counter clerk learned that Tack would only use the toll road for the trip down and then back from the Springs more than a week later, she suggested he forgo the $8.95-a-day toll option.
"I do not recommend it," she said, routing her customer instead to I-25 via Peña Boulevard, Interstate 70 and Interstate 225.
The wide variety of rental car toll-payment plans at DIA only adds to the confusion.
Until recently, Hertz charged its customers for the tolls they incurred in metro Denver plus $2.50 a day up to a maximum of $10 per rental week in add-on fees. Because of complaints from renters, Hertz altered the plan to make it a maximum of $10 a month, company officials say.
Alamo and National charge $2.50 a day or $10 a week in administrative fees plus tolls for their customers, but Enterprise, a sister company, instead charges $7.99 a day for unlimited use of toll roads in Colorado.
"Once they went to all-electronic tolling it became more challenging," said Laura Bryant, spokeswoman for Enterprise, Alamo and National.
Warmker, the Dollar customer, was so irate about the $125 in fees added to his rental-car bill that he called the state attorney general's office and Denver Metro Convention & Visitor's Bureau, seeking relief or at least a sympathetic ear.
"I can't think of anything worse to do for the convention business" in Colorado, he said of the confusing collection of toll-payment plans for rental cars at DIA.
Warmker's vow to fight the fees apparently paid off. He said Dollar recently agreed to waive the $125 in fees levied against him if he paid the tolls he owed.


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[Digital Download] "Seersucker" MP3s (Full Album) - 2006
"Seersucker" is the first release by the Adam Douglass Trio (now Triage), a jazz/rock instrumental featuring guitar, bass & drums. Memorable compositions featuring virtuosic playing by all three members. 2006.
With a handful of the ten tracks clocking in over 5 minutes the songs don't rush anything, even when given over to blistering rock solos, but neither are they directionless jams. Themes are well developed & yet there's obviously room for the band to let loose in concert, as the jazz style drum solo in "Jug Dancer" so perfectly demonstrates. Adam Douglass stirs up a mix of rock & jazz with a bit of funk to make something that never goes to any extreme. You can dance to it. You can rock out at times. There's no lyrics to distract from the music.
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Communication is a vital human skill. It involves appropriate use of language, reading non-verbal cues, such as facial expressions and gestures and understanding the intonation of the human voice. All of these are important in social situations.
Making and keeping friends relies on social communication skills. Many children with developmental issues struggle with this and feel they have no friends. It often causes considerable distress.
It must be very frustrating to be unable to make oneself understood, or to understand. Many a meltdown has been caused by communication breakdown.
There are many influences on communication. Even a child who has difficulty with concentrated listening will find life difficult. Interpreting language literally or lack of fluency or unclear speech can attract ridicule.
Much of our learning takes place through communication. Because communicating is so complex it can be affected in many ways. Improving developmental maturity can positively influence a child's communication.


Prepping the research for a thesis project is a labor of love. Fortunately for me, at almost every turn yogis and spiritual leaders were willing to share stories of their experiences with yoga and worship. I am thrilled to share with you this inspiring interview with the Lady Pastor, Emily Carson.
This lovely lady pastors a Lutheran church in Minnesota. One of many things that endears her to me is that she goes by Emily or Em over her Pastor title. Like all people with titles, Emily is a person just like the rest of us, looking to serve her community and honor the Lord. For me, being able to call Emily by her name makes me feel more at ease and connected (how very yogic of her!). I find Emily to be so relatable. She blogs about fashion, photography, her church, and I la la love her taste in music. Thank you for sharing your yoga story, Em!
What does the practice of yoga look like in your life?
I haven't been in a regular yoga practice for the past year. I have been walking/cardio/strength focused. Since I moved to Minnesota 4 years ago, I haven't found the exact right fit in a studio – so I'm still on the search. The last chapter of my life in Chicago was the time I really connected with Core Power and a hot yoga practice. LOVED that chapter of my life. I miss my yoga practice deeply – and hope to recommit to some form of regular yoga this summer.
But I do carry the breathing, disciple principles with me in daily life. I regularly find myself taking deep breaths in and out through my nose. I do incorporate regular stretching and breathing into my life and the life of the congregation I serve. We often take stretch and breathing breaks in meetings and in confirmation classes with the teens. (Wendy's note: LOVE THIS!).
Do you have a religious worship practice? If so, what does worship look like in your life?
As a Lutheran pastor, religious worship is a huge part of my life. We have worship at 8:30am and 10:30am on Sundays – there are regularly additional services at local care centers and in homes for private communion to the homebound. Worship involves silence, music, prayer, preaching, and sharing of the peace. There are often baptisms as well, and communion.
Where do you see similarities between these two responses?
Many similarities. The main similarity between my yoga practice and Christian worship was "intentionality" – a time and space set apart for connecting to something greater.
If you see yoga as nourishment to a person's faith, how can yoga create a worship experience?
Yoga can absolutely be worship – individual yoga or a communal yoga experience. All it takes at the intention, I think. Worship takes a multitude of forms.
Do you feel that yoga could compliment or enhance*any* faith system?
Definitely – as long as the person was open to that approach. I think some people are very fearful about yoga, and I'm not sure why. Maybe because it is something that they haven't fully experienced. I think yoga is compatible with all of life. For me, It's about connecting, breathing, and intention.
Where do you see the union of Yoga and Christianity?
Everywhere. Truly. If Jesus had been exposed to yoga, I think he would have practiced it. He often went off to pray and be silent. There are such a range of yoga forms – many of which are very compatible with a Christian life of faith.
Is there any "non-union" of yoga and Christianity; in other words do you see any aspects of yoga practice that does NOT compliment the Christian faith?
There may be some, but I'm not aware of them.
Do you see a use / place for the chakras in an experiential worship?
I do see a place for this. But I'm not as in tune with chakras – as I haven't really learned much about it except through some reading. But I do think in the right context, there would be a place.
What opportunities do you see for yoga teachers to impact students in leading a worship-full experience on the mat?
We had a yoga class here at church for about 9 months – led by a volunteer. It was very worshipful. Yoga teachers have the special/unique opportunity to empower their students to live more peaceful, intentional lives. It's definitely a kind of ministry.
If you have any other thoughts you would like to share on the intersection of yoga, Christianity and worship, I would be honored to learn from them.
I feel like the Holy Spirit led me to yoga – and I've heard many others say the same. I think Yoga and Christianity are definitely compatible, and it is TERRIFIC that you are doing this project! Great work! You can find more of Emily's insightful commentary in her weekly online column The Lady Pastor.


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Homeowners may get queasy
Susan Strother Clarke, Sentinel ColumnistTHE ORLANDO SENTINEL
No one disputes that things have leveled off in Orlando's housing market.
But do we soldier on in a world of slower sales and flat prices -- or will there be a collapse, with some of us headed for foreclosure and the rest stuffing any free cash in the mattress?
If you're among the folks with super-low, adjustable loans, the future may be bleak.
I spoke with Christopher Cagan, a researcher at First American Real Estate Solutions of Santa Ana, Calif., who did a report on high-risk loans and equity levels.
First, the good news: Floridians are doing well on equity. Rising home values have ensured that even people who made small down payments quickly built equity in their homes.
Among loans originated in the past two years, fewer than one in five in Florida has less than 15 percent equity, Cagan's research shows.
If you're thinking that doesn't sound great, consider this: In Tennessee and Colorado, nearly half of all new homeowners have less than 15 percent equity.
But don't get too cocky. "Equity can go away," Cagan says.
How true. Everyone looks brilliant when home prices increase 30 percent a year. But the price-swing cycle that helped Floridians can head the other way.
In Central Florida, prices are flattening. If values begin a wholesale decline, people could end up owing more than their home is worth.
If you're a homeowner who needs to sell in that kind of market, you're in trouble.
That's exactly what could happen with a segment of the population that has no equity and very low adjustable-rate loans. These are the so-called teaser loans that get homeowners hooked with low interest rates that eventually move up to market rates.
Nationally, Cagan says, $110 billion in loans could be headed for default because homeowners may be unable to afford the new rates.
It's one thing getting into an interest-only loan of 3 percent. It's quite another when a homeowner has to start paying down the principal and the interest increases to more than 6 percent.
And without equity, they can't refinance or sell -- creating the "double whammy" Cagan refers to in his report.
In Orlando, about 7 percent of all mortgage loans and refinancings in the past two years -- or 8,000 loans -- have teaser or other below-market interest rates, according to LoanPerformance, a subsidiary of First American.
Using estimates similar to those Cagan employed in his study, about half of those loans, or 4,000, could be in the extremely risky zone and go into foreclosure.
"Teaser loans can blow up," Cagan says.
So where does that leave Orlando?
The majority will indeed soldier on. But not all.
When the adjustables come due, there will be pain. Still, even if each of the 4,000 Orlando loans goes belly up, that's still well below 1 percent of local home ownership.
Considering that the discomfort would be spread over several years as the loans adjust, it will be a hit, though not a huge one, to the local economy.
Even nationally, Cagan says, the billions that will be lost will amount to only about 1 percent of the nation's total amount of homeowner equity.
"Most people are going to go on with their lives," Cagan said.
But among those who get hit? "That slice is a war zone."


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Feeney Commission Scores
Bookmark:https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb150-fcs
University of Birmingham, Cadbury Research Library, Special Collections
GB 150 FCS
John Feeney
47 volumes, 1 file
Scores of musical works commissioned by the John Feeney Charitable Trust as first performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Administrative / Biographical History
The John Feeney Charitable Trust was established by the will of John Feeney (1839-1905). He was the son of the founder of the 'Birmingham Post' and he worked for the newspaper from 1863 until his death and for the last 10 years of his life was its proprietor. He was a collector of pictures and arts objects, a traveller to many countries and a benefactor of Birmingham Art Gallery. He had a deep interest in the life of Birmingham and was a generous contributor to its hospitals, its University and its many charitable institutions. The Trustees use the trust fund to further those causes that John Feeney supported during his lifetime and the trust has commissioned works from leading composers since 1955 and these are first performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under its Principal Conductors and other guests and sometimes the composers themselves.
Access to all registered readers.
Please see the full catalogue for further details.
Permission to make any published use of any material from the collection must be sought in advance in writing from the Director of Special Collections (email: special-collections@contacts.bham.ac.uk). Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often difficult. Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material.
A condition of each commission was that the autograph full score was supplied to the Trust and these were then deposited in the Barber Institute Music Library. In more recent years only photocopies of manuscripts have been deposited rather than the original score. In 1999, scores were transferred from the Music Library in the Barber Institute to the Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections.
Regular deposits of new scores are made after performance.
Music -- 20th century
Feeney, John. ( 1839-1905)
John Feeney Charitable Trust
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra -- CBSO


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Ћерамиџија је мајстор занатлија који се бави производњом ћерамиде (земљани кровни прекривач).

Процес прављења
Ћерамиџија израђује ћерамиду, у процесу који се састоји од више операција. Квалитетна и одговарајућа земља иловача се кваси и меша, након тога се исеку комади одговарајуће величине који се стављају у дрвени полукружни калуп. Ћерамида се простире, суши и пече у ћерамиџиници (специјална рупа у земљи за печење).
У процесу  производње учествује више (типова) радника:
 мајстор - он реже ћерамиду
 радник који је помоћни мајстор
 радник у промету

У раније време служила је за покривање кућа, а данас се углавном користи у декоративне сврхе.

Занимљивост
Почетком 1889. године у Србији је било 148 грнчара мајстора, од тога у Нишавском округу чак 38. Циглара, црепара и ћерамиџија 1015 и од њих чак 864 из Пиротског и Нишавског округа.

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Steve Ruwe; Maria Pallante; Board Members Dan Ekback, Ted Goldthorpe, and Jill Napier.
The Copyright Society of the South, in partnership with the Nashville chapter of AIMP, recently held an event with the U.S. Register of Copyrights, The Honorable Maria Pallante, at The First Amendment Center. Pallante discussed several court cases on copyright and technology, the proposed Next Great Copyright Act, and briefed the crowd on legislative updates.
Pallante is the 12th Register of Copyrights and director of the United States Copyright Office, effective June 1, 2011. She served as the Acting Register for five months, following the retirement of Marybeth Peters on December 31, 2010. Pallante has had wide-ranging experience in copyright transactions, policy and litigation, in both the government and private sectors.
The Copyright Society of the South was formed in 1988, in Nashville by music publishers, attorneys, business people and others interested in copyright law. It provides a forum for study and discussion of domestic and international copyright law and other matters pertaining to the entertainment industry.


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Bob Spitz é um jornalista e escritor estadunidense mais conhecido por suas biografias de personagens conhecidos, incluindo Reagan: An American Journey, o best-seller do New York Times The Beatles: The Biography, o também best-seller do New York Times Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child e livros sobre Bob Dylan e o festival de Woodstock.

Artigos de Spitz aparecem regularmente em The New York Times, GQ, Conde Nast Traveler, Men's Journal, In Style, Esquire e The Washington Post.

Em seu início de carreira, ele trabalhou como gerente de Bruce Springsteen e Elton John, começando no Pocket Full of Tunes, de Wes Farrell, uma empresa de produção e publicação de música. Quando Mike Appel assinou contrato com Bruce Springsteen, Spitz seguiu Appel.

Spitz vive em Nova York.

Livros de não-ficção
 Reagan: An American Journey (Penguin Press, 2018-10-02, )
 Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child (end notes available on author's site) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012-08-07, )
 The Saucier's Apprentice: One Long Strange Trip through the Great Cooking Schools of Europe (W. W. Norton and Company, 2008)
 The Beatles: The Biography (Little, Brown and Company, 2005)
 Barefoot in Babylon: The Creation of the Woodstock Music Festival, 1969 (W. W. Norton and Company, 1989)
 Dylan: A Biography (McGraw-Hill, 1988)
 The Making of Superstars: Artists and Executives of the Rock Music Business (Anchor Press, 1978)

Livros de não-ficção juvenis
 "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Beatles, Beatlemania, and the Music that Changed the World" (Little, Brown and Company, 2007)

Jornalistas dos Estados Unidos
Pessoas associadas aos Beatles


Sam Houston opened in 1994 as the first Class 1 Horse Racing venue in Texas. Following hurricane Harvey in August 2017, Sam Houston offered refuge to over 100 displaced horses in the area.
Sam Houston's biggest stake: The $400,000, Grade 3 Houston Ladies Classic, run every January.
Get Equibase PPs for Sam Houston here!
Handicapper Jarrod Horak's best bet for Sunday is the John B. Connally Turf Cup.


I've been trying to use Google's Inbox for the last few days, without much luck. It's kind of a similar situation to Mailbox, a few months back.
I'm really on board with the idea of reimagining email, though. My conclusion at this point is that the design of this rather similar apps is that they just don't work well for me.
The thing is, to really make use of either of them to their full ability, I have to go into Gmail and turn off all the filters that automatically sort most of my messages into folders and bypass the inbox. I also need to think about a new model of handling the "to do" emails. I don't typically think of my personal* emails as "do now" or "do in a week." Mostly, they are "do this as soon as you have the energy to do it," which means that my emails stick around in the inbox or relevant folder, marked unread, until I can handle them. Also, in the past year I really started using Evernote for many things, including keeping track of tasks. I hesitate to open up another source of to-dos.
The ability to make email disappear until I'm ready to handle them sounds really cool, but it's just not the way I've worked – I generally don't have specific dates where I think I can deal with them.
The bundling capability in Inbox also looks pretty cool but, again, I've gotten a pretty good handle on my email through heavy use of folders (or labels, if you will).
What I really want to do is try out Inbox for my work email. That's where I always have emails that I want to follow up with at specific times and have a continuous stream of topics where I can't really predict how I'll want to support them. Maybe one day.
This entry was posted in Product Design on January 29, 2015 by admin.
Late last year, I was involved in usability testing and encountered something I did not expect to find. Multiple participants were completely defeated by Apple's Magic Mouse.
Specifically, they couldn't figure out how to scroll. This problem was compounded by the way that scrollbars vanish by default in more recent versions of OSX. To top it off, the default scroll direction recently reversed in OSX, meaning that even if these participants learned how to use the Magic Mouse, they kept scrolling the wrong way.
I didn't expect to be helping participants learn how to use a mouse in 2014. Twenty years ago, usability texts discussed how you might find test participants that don't have computer experience (meaning you might have to train them) and of course the older someone is, the more likely it is that they're not experienced with computers. And I'm just coming at it from the perspective of usability testing in the USA—of course there are places in the world where people don't use a mouse.
But we were working with American college students, and Apple made them feel stupid. I like the Magic Mouse, overall. Having the scrollbars vanish doesn't affect my workflow. And I spent a couple of days training myself to use the new scrolling direction. For someone used to Windows or older versions of Apple's computers, or someone that just uses a laptop all the time, walking in off the street and trying to use this lab setup was challenging and distracted them from the test tasks.
I'm not sure what to do about it yet. I'm not ready to say that we need to screen people or offer a short training session. I did go back and change the scroll direction, restore the scrollbars to always displaying, and get another mouse with a scroll wheel. Doing these things solved the immediate problem, but I'm just not sure what the long-term implications are.
This entry was posted in Product Design, UX Profession on January 22, 2015 by admin.
I got a copy of the fourth edition of About Face for Christmas because obviously that's the kind of gift that I would appreciate. I read the second edition almost ten years ago and it's a book that stuck with me over the years.
The thing I valued most when I read that book was that it altered the way I thought about design problems. The example I always reach for is the extended riff on the ubiquitous "Save" button you find in things like Word. It's a button that you have to click (or a menu command you must choose) to commit any changes you make to the computer's permanent memory. Sure, there is auto-save functionality but even in 2015, it is… not quite satisfactory.
Cooper argued that this is a button that shouldn't even exist in the first place. Why doesn't our software simply remember everything we did? It should save everything as we go. If we make mistakes, it can be corrected by also having extremely effective "Undo" functionality.
The key idea here isn't to design a better "Save" button. The better design is nothing at all. The idea that sometimes it's better to design nothing at all has stuck with me over the years. I'm pleased that the core of this idea, saving everything as you go, has been incorporated into more tools (though notably still not Word).
Years back, I joined Tim Keirnan for his Design Critique podcast to talk about shaving technology. Learning about the evolution of the straight razor, safety razor, and finally the cartridge and electric razors that most people use now was what kickstarted my interest in the ways that we build knowledge into our artifacts.
When you use a straight razor—that is, a very sharp knife—you must take care of the blade, keep it honed, and hold it at a precise angle and move it in specific ways. Without the knowledge of how to use the razor, you have a suboptimal experience.
The safety razor has a lot of this knowledge built into it. It's built to hold the blade at the right angle. Rather than maintaining the edge of the blade, the blades come sharp and are discarded once blunted.
As our artifacts become more advanced, we build more knowledge into them. More people are capable of doing more because of the spread of the knowledge. We lose the need to learn as many skills, though, and to understand the way our devices really work. Overall, I think we're better off, but it's interesting to keep in mind what we lose.
This entry was posted in Product Design on January 8, 2015 by admin.
I want to research and write a history of the user experience field in Southeast Michigan. I think the heart of this effort will be, unsurprisingly, research. Other than poking around in organizations' websites, I think the heart of this research effort will be interviewing people that were involved in our history.
That third part in particular has a lot going on, so it's ripe for subdivision. It's also worth noting that this division is chronological, but it may make more sense to slice up the material by themes or to follow particular threads. My concern is that simply covering everything year by year would just result in a jumbled-up timeline.
This entry was posted in UX Profession on January 1, 2015 by admin.


Sonntags-Vibes jeden Tag: Willkommen zurück, Banoffee!
Denyo ist zurück: Derbe gut.
Und schwupps verpufft das Auslandsjahr!
PonyDanceClyde is a collection of happiness, curated out of Berlin.
Send us a love letter if you want to get in touch about collaborations, share music or a random stupid joke. We love those, too.


Polemi village gives you a traditional village lifestyle with all the amenities of a small town including, bakery, supermarkets, a flower shop, winery, local tavernas, coffee shops and schools from nursery to high school.
This wonderfully well maintained bungalow is located just on the outskirts of the village yet walking distance to amenities.
The property consists of a spacious open plan living-dining-kitchen area, with a modern designed kitchen. Patio doors allow great natural light and access to your covered terrace and private swimming pool.
A short corridor from the living area leads to the 3 double bedrooms with fitted wardrobes (The master bedroom has an en-suite shower) and a family bathroom.
Outside you have an easy maintenance landscaped garden with irrigation system, private pool with raised decking area for sunbathing and a large covered veranda and bar/kitchenette area.
This bungalow offers spectacular views across the surrounding countryside of vineyards and orchards.


Imphal, Apr 2: The drivers of Manipur have expressed unhappiness over their frequent harrassment in Nagaland.
The All Manipur Drivers and Motor Workers Union said in January last a driver identified as Md Ibothem along with his nephew were reported missing from Nagaland after they entered Dimpaur from Assam.
The truck they were driving were allegedly with a militant outfit of Nagaland. The duo disappeared in between Dimapur and Patkai police station, the union members said.
When a driver was found killed in Manipur, the Manipur government had even sent a ministerial team to Nagaland to discuss the matter and immediately apprehend the people allegedly involved in the killing. The union appealed to the Nagaland government to reciprocate the good gesture given by the Manipur government.
The union further said it will start agitating if the Manipur government does not take up appropriate action on the matter.


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Cutting Ball Variety Pack!
I'm excited to announce that I'll performing in the new short play Vally of the Dead by playwright Chris Steele and an excerpt of Ibsen's Lady from the Sea as a part of Cutting Ball Theater's Variety Pack: Short Cuts!
Cutting Ball's signature festival - half shindig, half artistic salon - returns, delivering a sumptuous line-up that's sure to delight the creatively curious. With directorial shorts, new play workshops, and roundtable readings, The Variety Pack challenges a small army of artists to propel past the outer limits of their imaginative capacities and create the art that even they didn't see coming.
The festival opens with Short Cuts, an anthology performance featuring four short pieces helmed by four different directors. Cutting Ball's Artistic Director Ariel Craft will direct The Spurt of Blood, an 'impossible' mini-play by Antonin Artaud, theorist of the Theatre of Cruelty. Cutting Ball's Associate Artistic Director Maya Herbsman will helm a queer re-imagining of the Greek myths of Eurydice and Persephone. Bay Area favorite Susannah Martin (Shotgun Players, San Francisco Playhouse) makes her Cutting Ball debut with a selection from Henrik Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea. Rounding out the program, Erik Pearson will contribute a piece exploring audience engagement through the lens of the Cyclops myth. Combining four very different pieces into a single evening of exploratory performance, Short Cuts is divvied by three jovial mini-intermissions featuring the music of local bands, free snacks, and raffles.
Variety Pack runs from November 8th through 18th. For more information, visit www.CuttingBall.com


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Traveler-friendly Danico Brewery opens near DIA
Danico Brewing owners David Lotierzo and Nikki Harwood. Photo courtesy: @danicobrewing/Instagram
It's every traveler's dilemma: you have to check out of your hotel by 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 if you're one of those platinum members big-shots – but your flight doesn't take off until that evening. In Denver, with an airport two dozen miles away from the city center, it's especially tricky. Now, you're stuck trying to figure out what to do for the afternoon, roller bags in tow. Well, presuming you don't actually have to fly the plane, beer gurus David Lotierzo and Nikki Harwood have an answer for you in the newly-constructed Danico Brewing at 66th Avenue and Tower Road.
"People need to post up somewhere while they wait," Lotierzo told The Denver Post. "There are thousands of hotel rooms out here, with business travelers, especially, during the week. We think we'll get them here."
Lotierzo and Harwood, opened the 6,400-square-foot Danico (DAvid and NIkki's COmpany, get it?) brewery on December 10th, bringing a wealth of experience with them. Harwood was a master brewer at Anheuser-Busch in California, and Lotierzo was the global director of warehouse and safety for A-B, as well. The duo started their project in 2020. and while the pandemic delayed the opening, and changed their plans somewhat – replacing, longer, European-style community tables with individual ones, for example – the final design is essentially what they've envisioned for years.
The brewery is ready for prime-time, with Harwood telling The Post they'll initially sell a pilsner, a porter, a dunkel and two different kinds of IPAs, along with a kettle sour, with an apricot wheat forthcoming in a collaboration with artist Kelsey Montague, who pointed the bespoke mural that adorns the exterior wall of the brewery. "It's been quite a journey for us," Harwood said.
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