Fun, vertical to overhanging conglomerate matrix of metamorphosed sand and mud with inclusions of smooth, rounded cobbles of all sizes. The cobbles, and the holes they leave when they fall out of the matrix, form excellent holds that allow relatively moderate climbing for such steep rock. Fully overhanging routes can be below 5.11, and anything less than vertical will probably clock in at 5.8 or below. All routes are sport bolted, so you can concentrate on the climbing instead of the protection. Text copied from Gary Clark's online guide.
The primary parking area is relatively small. Please park head-in and save space for other vehicles.
Gary Clark created free PDF guides for the El Rito sport and trad climbing areas. Gary has moved away from New Mexico and Jason Halladay has adopted the guide updates. The most recent update is from 2014 but is still quite valuable and helpful for navigating the areas.
It is imperative climbers pack out their used toilet paper. The sport climbing area is very concentrated. The steep, loose slopes make it more difficult to find a place to use the bathroom resulting in some very popular "poop spots." Unfortunately. there is a large amount of used toilet paper floating around these popular spots. This is gross and disrespectful to the area and other climbers. Do your part--put your used toilet paper (and poop for bonus points) in a baggie and take it home for disposal. Also, always pack out what trash you brought in.
Shot of the Milky Way from the El Rito campground.
Ryan getting the HIV on everything!
Looking at the sport area from the trad area.
Unless you have titanium testicles bring a stick clip. B1 is consistently well off the deck. This is an odd concept for my feeble mind to grasp. Why create a route with a serious groundfall risk on the start, then bolt the remainder into submission?
For purposes of comparison: If these routes were in AZ or CO they would usually get a full number grade less than the online guide gives for the difficulty.
Kudos to the developer(s) for the excellent lower out anchors. All sport routes would benefit from a similar setup. I'm sure the cost was not minimal.
"If these routes were in AZ or CO they would usually get a full number grade less"
It should be OK in March. The cliffs mostly face west so if it is cool you can just get a lazy start and climb in the afternoon. I doubt it will be too warm to climb in the sun but it can be hot in the summers forcing you to find shade after the sun comes around. I would guess 60-70 for day time highs but pretty cold in the mornings.
While I don't doubt the rock throwing incident, that is by no means the norm as I've driven in many a late Friday night and have never even seen a party.
A full number grade? Seriously. Often, the ratings seem off by a letter, but never more.
This page is kind of funny, probably the most I've seen grade argued about on this site.
I went to El Rito for the first time last week and in my opinion it felt like gym grading. So yes, a little soft for your average crag, but not too far off.
I got on a 5.10b for warm up thinking it was a 5.8 and thought it was a little stout for a 5.8 but not by much. Also sent my first two 5.12s.
Ultimately it's all very relative though, to location and individual style/preferrence of climbing.


Judges 7:5 So Gideon brought the people down to the water, and the LORD said to him, "Separate those who lap the water with their tongues like a dog from those who kneel to drink."
So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the LORD told him, "Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink."
So he brought the people down to the water. And the LORD said to Gideon, "You shall separate everyone who laps the water with his tongue as a dog laps, as well as everyone who kneels to drink."
So he brought the troops down to the water, and the LORD said to Gideon, "Separate everyone who laps water with his tongue like a dog. Do the same with everyone who kneels to drink."
When Gideon led his army down to the spring, the LORD told him, "Watch how each man gets a drink of water. Then divide them into two groups--those who lap the water like a dog and those who kneel down to drink."
Gideon took the men down to the water, and the LORD told him, "Separate everyone who laps up the water with his tongue like a dog, from everyone who gets down on his knees to drink."
So he brought his soldiers down to the water, and the LORD told Gideon, "You are to cull out everyone who laps up water with his tongue like a dog from everyone who kneels to drink."
So he brought the men down to the water. Then the LORD said to Gideon, "Separate those who lap the water as a dog laps from those who kneel to drink."
So he brought down the people to the water: and the LORD said to Gideon, "Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall put to one side; likewise everyone who kneels down on his knees to drink shall be on the other side."
So Gideon took the men down to the water. The LORD said to him, "Separate those who lap water with their tongues like dogs from those who kneel down to drink."
So he brought the people down unto the water, and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that laps of the water with his tongue as a dog laps, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that bows down upon his knees to drink.
So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, him shall you set by himself; likewise every one that bows down upon his knees to drink.
So he brought down the people to the water: and the LORD said to Gideon, Every one that laps of the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, him shall you set by himself; likewise every one that bows down on his knees to drink.
And he brought the people down to the water; and the Lord said to Gedeon, Whosoever shall lap of the water with his tongue as if a dog should lap, thou shalt set him apart, and also whosoever shall bow down upon his knees to drink.
And when the people were come down to the waters, the Lord said to Gedeon: They that shall lap the water with their tongues, as dogs are wont to lap, thou shalt set apart by themselves: but they that shall drink bowing down their knees, shall be on the other side.
So he brought down the people to the water: and the LORD said to Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
So he brought down the people to the water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, "Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink."
Then the LORD said to Gideon, "There are still too many people. Take them down to the water, and I will sift them for you there. If I say to you, 'This one shall go with you,' he shall go. But if I say, 'This one shall not go with you,' he shall not go."
And the number of those who lapped the water with their hands to their mouths was three hundred men; all the others knelt to drink.
He will drink from the brook by the road; therefore He will lift up His head.
(5) Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue.--Josephus (Antt. v. 6, ? 4) says that Gideon led them down to the spring in the fiercest heat of the noonday, and that he judged those to be the bravest who flung themselves down and drank, and those to be the cowards who lapped the water hastily and tumultuously. Theodoret also thinks that the Divine aid was shown by the fact that the greatest cowards were chosen. This may have been a Jewish legend (Hagadah); but it seems more reasonable to suppose that greater self-control would be shown by stooping and drinking the water out of the hand than by flinging themselves at full length to drink, which would be the natural instinct of a thirsty man. Rashi says that those who went down on their knees to drink were secret idolators, who had "bowed the knee to Baal" (1Kings 19:18).
As a dog lappeth.--Some commentators fancy that this is an allusion to Egyptian dogs, who, out of fear for the Nile crocodiles, only venture to lap the water while they are running along the banks.
Verses 5, 6. - The water, viz., of the well or spring of Harod. That lappeth, etc. It showed a much more soldierly and self-controlled spirit just to quench the thirst by lapping the water out of the palm of the hand, than to kneel down and drink without stint out of the spring itself. The Lord saw the difference of character indicated by the two actions, and chose his instruments accordingly.
7:1-8. God provides that the praise of victory may be wholly to himself, by appointing only three hundred men to be employed. Activity and prudence go with dependence upon God for help in our lawful undertakings. When the Lord sees that men would overlook him, and through unbelief, would shrink from perilous services, or that through pride they would vaunt themselves against him, he will set them aside, and do his work by other instruments. Pretences will be found by many, for deserting the cause and escaping the cross. But though a religious society may thus be made fewer in numbers, yet it will gain as to purity, and may expect an increased blessing from the Lord. God chooses to employ such as are not only well affected, but zealously affected in a good thing. They grudged not at the liberty of the others who were dismissed. In doing the duties required by God, we must not regard the forwardness or backwardness of others, nor what they do, but what God looks for at our hands. He is a rare person who can endure that others should excel him in gifts or blessings, or in liberty; so that we may say, it is by the special grace of God that we regard what God says to us, and not look to men what they do.


I'd like to start with a story. Many years ago, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, someone gave my seven-year old son a bound book with blank sheets. He immediately decided he was going to write a novel on it. The novel's hero's name was Otto, meaning eight: a grown-up version of himself. In the opening scene, Otto is frying a couple of eggs in a pan. Suddenly, the eggs start screaming: We don't wanna be eaten, we don't wanna be eaten… So Otto puts out the fire and puts away the pan.
After reading the manuscript, I interviewed the author. I asked, so, what does Otto do after he's put the eggs away? Well, the author said, he gets other eggs and fries them. And did those eggs like to be eaten? No, he said; but they didn't say anything.
To give my kids whatever the heck he's yelling for.
We want our freedom, and we want it now, sang the American civil rights movement. The voice of children raised in insistent demand is to Woody Guthrie the matrix of political protest and action: we want our rights, and we want them now.
The original flag of the American revolution was a coiled snake bearing the words "Don't tread on me:" At the origins of rock and roll, stands Carl Perkins' and Elvis Presley's militant anthem, "Don't step on my blue suede shoes." And at the origins of Woody Guthrie's education and teaching, sands a little song called "Don't you push me down".
But don't you push me down.
Don't you push me down.
Don't you push me down, because dust can't kill me, and I ain't gonna be treated this-a way. We are familiar with Woody Guthrie as the singer of uprooted farm workers and Dust Bowl migrants, the voice that tells from the inside and less rhetorically the story of the grapes of wrath – and we are familiar with Woody Guthrie as the singer of the beauty of his land and the anger against those who steal it and possess it. We think of Woody Guthrie as the singer of the American working class and its history, from Mother Bloor to Sacco and Vanzetti, from Ludlow to Calumet. Yet, his children's songs are no less political and no less full of meaning and beauty than his ballads on the Dust Bowl or on Sacco and Vanzetti.
Woody Guthrie often puts on a child's persona, as if to get back to basics, get rid of all unnecessary detours and complications, speak clear truths to power in the plain, common language of the West. There is a clarity of vision in this mask, an awareness that the roots of rebellion go back to a space before politics and ideology, but grow from a sense of the meaning of one's presence in the world, from the awareness and affirmation of the self as a person with needs, wants and rights – and with a voice to claim them.
On the other hand, the individual pride and dignity of these songs are the source for a sense of communal solidarity. Woody Guthrie's concept of a participatory democracy and of a labor commonwealth to come begins at home.
Well, it shouldn't take long.
Woody Guthrie never forgets that the primary purpose of music is pleasure and community. "I don't want to see you use my songs to divide nor split your school nor your family all apart. I mean, don't just buy this records and take it home so your kids can listen to it while you go off and do something else" – which is what TV is mainly used for these days.
Let me make another digression, with another story about the way Woody Guthrie's example helped me with my own children.. When he was barely two years old, my younger son was absolutely terrified of, and fascinated by, cars. The noise they made frightened him, and he was always worried that they might get off the road and invade his pedestrian space. So I took a page out of Woody's book – after all, he had a song about cars – and made up a little rhyme – "parte la macchina, la macchina, la macchina…". As in Woody's children song, and in a lot of gospel songs, the song went on ad lib, with a verse for each member of the family: "la macchina di Matteo… la macchina di papà…" Turning his worries into song and ritual, and singing the song together, completely dissolved the child's fear and allowed to cultivate his fascination instead.
In children, Woody Guthrie recognizes the multiple meanings of the word play – as music, as games, and as theater - and the connection between play, rhythm, and work. In one of his poems, he explains that the difference between himself and the poets of literature is his relation with time: unlike them, he cannot take time to look for the ideal word, to revise and hone every line. In the guise of an oral poet, Woody Guthrie's way is "composition in performance", or improvisation – and, again, he learns from children. Children, after all, are the ultimate bulwark of oral culture, all their performances are improvised and invented on the spot.
Howdy doozle doodle doozie Howji hijie heejie hojie, Howji hojie heejie hijie, Howjido, howjido, howjido, sir, Doodle doosie, howjido.
Yet, he doesn't miss the opportunity of including a message, of peace and brotherhood, even in this small nonsense song: a welcome to every one, good or bad, friend or foe. Long as they're human.
Just as all fieldworkers and oral historians do, Woody Guthrie does not "give voice to the voiceless": children, as he knows very well, are endowed with what Grace Paley called once "the loudest voice", and they can squawl and bawl real loud. So, rather than "giving" gthem a voice they already have, woody Guthrie learns his own voice from listening to the voices around him. In one of his most eloquent essays, Woody Guthrie describes himself as a watcher and listener to the "people I owe": "I remember your face as it was when I saw you. I hear your voice in its own loose words like it spoke when I heard it… I have heard a storm of words in me, enough to write several hundred songs and that many books. I know these words I hear are not my private property. I borrowed them from you, the same as I walked through the high winds and borrowed enough air to keep me moving." In the same fashion, he watches and listens to children, learns from them, sets himself as a conduct, a mediator through which their words and songs are amplified, organized, and returned to them. Much in the fashion of what Gianni Bosio described as the "upside down intellectual", bent not on teaching the masses but learning from them, and arming them with their own strength.
When these days come on which I am left entirely alone in the house with Cathy, Miss Stackabones, I'm whipped, I'm outwitted, our run, out classed, and out maneuvered. My mind leaves off where hers begins. My brain is no match for her with her sly and slick ways of making me do everything she wants me to do.
She sang songs while she drew her pictures after her paste was all gone, and forced me to take down the words as she sang them. I've got several hundred of her songs already written down. I've sold two albums of phonograph records of kids' songs just by putting little tunes and guitar notes to her songs she sings. I've planned a twelve months' concert tour of the dances of Cathy's to be done by Marjorie (our mama), with two hours of Cathy's songs (by me), and still I've not scratched the first crust of top dirt in her garden of the soul.
What does this song say?Read me this song?Hey daddy, what is this?
Aren't you playing with me?
As he listens and learns from children, he also deconstructs the hierarchic relationship of adult and child. On the one hand, he is fascinated by how their absurd questions – "Why can't a mouse eat a streetcar? - suddenly turn into stringent denunciations of other absurdities: "What make the landlord take money?". And his answer, I don't know that one myself, places the all-knowing adult on the same level as the wondering child: why don't you answer my questions? Because I don't know the answers.
A long story about the experience of Woody Guthrie and his friends Cisco Houston and Jimmy Longhi after the Al lied landing in Sicily bears the title "Us Kids," and is about the adventures of a band of children in the Sicilian hinterland d near Palermo. Some of his most memorable songs about anti-workers violence in American history - 1913 Massacre, Ludlow Massacre – are, ultimately, stories about the death of children. In country music, the pathetic death of children is a metaphor of existential injustice; Woody Guthrie placet this injustice in history as a metaphor of the violent injustice of capitalism. Yet, he does not forget that these are children an d their death – like his sister Clara's, like his daughter Cathy Ann's – is the ultimate absurdity.
This may be the reason why the folk revival generation of the 1960s - Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Mark Spoelstra (some of his spongs about children deserve a re-discovery), Richard Fariña, and Bob Dylan – were dubbed "Woody's children." After all, they positioned themselves, if not as children, certainly as a generation of youth: trust no one under thirty, they said. And the mage of the "children's crusade" was much in evidence in places like Woodstock.
Bruce Springsteen has said once: "There is something in Woody Guthrie that doesn't let you forget other people, that always makes you think of the next guy." Springsteen's The Ghost of Tom Joad is the last installment in the epic of Tom Joad, from John Steinbeck's novel on to John Ford's film, and Woody Guthrie's Tom Joad in the Dust Bowl Ballads. Yet, Woody Guthrie changes the story significantly. In the novel, Tom Joad tells his mother that human beings are all part of "one big soul." In his song, Woody Guthrie changes it and sins, "everybody might be one big soul." Rather than the nostalgia of a lost golden age, Woody Guthrie envisions a future utopia to struggle for. We are not old people with a past to regret; rather, we are all children with a future ahead of us. And if we b awl and stamp our feet loud and hard enough, perhaps we won't be fried and eaten for breakfast.
Ci sono autori italiani che hanno scritto per i bambini dei quali si può dire ciò che lei dice di Woody Guthrie.
C'è una letteratura per l'infanzia che racconta attraverso la lingua e la forza dei bambini. E sarebbe bello mettere insieme quella letteratura e questo Woodie Guthrie. In questi giorni la voce dei bambini e il loro senso di affermazione di se stessi e dei loro diritti diventa possibilità di salvezza da un paese che ha ratificato la Convenzione per i diritti dell'infanzia e che ora, negandoli, mostra la sua vera natura.


What do you get when you cross business with leisure? Bleisure, of course! Business travel is a lifestyle for many of our guests. But why settle for a business trip when you can make it a bleisure trip? Just about any business stay-over can be turned into a pleasant getaway. And Copenhagen is particularly well suited to the bleisure model. But don't take our word for it. We've asked expert business traveler Mattias Storm to share all his secrets on combining work and play when staying in Copenhagen.
As a young entrepreneur and co-founder of BlogLovin', Mattias travels several months per year (from New York to London, and Paris to Copenhagen). During a recent stay at the Radisson Collection Hotel, Royal Copenhagen, we asked him how he makes the best of a business trip. Learn from the pro below.
If you could give our guests your top tips, what would they be?
Get on the local schedule - if you're jetlagged, skip the nap and force yourself to stay on the local time. Sleep when the locals sleep. Eat when the locals eat. It will make you feel much better faster.
Did you get to experience Copenhagen 'like a local'?
I'm a huge Copenhagen fan I and did get to visit some of my favorite places, including Glyptoteket (beautiful museum right around the corner), Ved Stranden 10 (one of my favorite wine bars in the world) and Geist (amazing restaurant that serves cotton candy with your coffee).
What things are important to you when you travel for business?
One thing that is very important for me is location. I was happy to see that Radisson Collection Hotel, Royal Copenhagen is extremely central, only two minutes' walk from the central train station, making it very easy to get to the airport or any train to Stockholm. It's also a short walk away from my favorite museum in Copenhagen, the Glyptoteket.
The Radisson Collection Hotel, Royal Copenhagen is known for its stunning design, architecture, and history. What did you think?
It was a pleasure to stay at Radisson Collection Hotel, Royal Copenhagen and I was delighted to hear about its rich design history. This really manifested during my tour of the Arne Jacobsen suite (room 606) where you could see how he wanted the rooms to be an extension of nature and how deliberate he had been with everything, from doorknobs to what kind of wood is used in the rooms.
Psst! Leading design magazine Wallpaper has published a story on the Radisson Collection Hotel, Royal Copenhagen's unique design history and modern take on what the designers think Jacobsen would have done. Check it out!
What top 3 design elements stood out during your stay?
How do you manage to combine business and leisure as you travel?
There's no better way to experience a city than by combining work and leisure. When traveling for leisure, it's great to meet with local people to learn more about what they enjoy doing in the city and what you shouldn't miss. While when you're traveling for work, it's great to reserve time to just enjoy where you are. Even if that's just going out for a jog in the morning or having a drink somewhere you've always wanted to go.
Anything you find often missing in hotels when you travel for business that you'd love to see?
Jump on board the bleisure trend and book a central hotel like the Radisson Collection Hotel, Royal Copenhagen to make the best of your next business trip.


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Q: Exception recursing through SpecialFolder directory on non-english OS I am trying to recurse through a SpecialFolder (Environment.SpecialFolder.StartMenu and Environment.SpecialFolder.DesktopDirectory) in my application and it works for English installations.
However I am having the following issues on non-English installations:

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*When I use the non localized paths I get UnauthorizedAccessException for any subfolders I try to access

*If I localize the result of Environment.GetFolderPath and attempt to get a listing of sub directories I get a DirectoryNotFoundException on the localized path. An example of the localized path:
Original -> C:\Users\tony\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
Localized -> C:\Utilisateurs\tony\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Menu Démarrer
I use Environment.GetFolderPath to get the directory, and then search through the locations for a specific file with the following method:
private static IEnumerable<string> LocateAppShortcut(string dir)
{
    foreach (string directory in Directory.GetDirectories(dir))
    {
        foreach (string file in Directory.GetFiles(directory, "MyApp.appref-ms"))
        {
            yield return file;
        }

        foreach (string file in LocateAppShortcut(directory))
        {
            yield return file;
        }
    }
}

I am looking for a method that will allow me to reliably recurse through a directory path returned by Environment.GetFolderPath when given a starting point where the starting directory can contain reparse and/or junction points.

A: AFAIK, localized system folder are just aliases, if you run a cmd and dir your main drive, you'll see that the "users" folder is called, well, "Users", independently of your system language, so check your paths. I've confirmed this, as my system is configured in Spanish:
C:\>dir
 El volumen de la unidad C es ----------
 El número de serie del volumen es: ---------

 Directorio de C:\

10/12/2013  12:26    <DIR>          inetpub
06/10/2013  17:51    <DIR>          Intel
18/02/2014  14:34    <DIR>          Mis lugares Web
03/12/2013  17:52    <DIR>          NVIDIA
22/08/2013  17:22    <DIR>          PerfLogs
24/02/2014  14:35    <DIR>          Program Files
12/06/2014  09:18    <DIR>          Program Files (x86)
18/09/2013  20:41    <DIR>          Toshiba
10/12/2013  12:42    <DIR>          Users
11/04/2014  15:08    <DIR>          Windows
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C:\>

I dno't have enough data to diagnose your problem, but you could test your function by getting random paths from a FolderBrowserDialog and passing them to debug your function, see which of them work and which doesn't, see if it's the main call which is failing or is it one of the recursions...

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Five Finger Death Punch's Jason Hook says he's "liberated" as Zoltan explains Tilburg show
Posted by Bram Teitelman on June 15, 2017
Well, the press release has gone out, Tommy Vext is filling in for Ivan Moody in Five Finger Death Punch for the remainder of their European tour while the troubled frontman returns to rehab. Since then, several members of the band have spoken out via social media. Yesterday's press release suggested that the band was fully committed towards their frontman via a quote from guitarist Zoltan Bathory. In a Facebook post, he also gave some context about the ill-fated Tilburg show, calling it "an avalanche of clusterfucks."
Claming that a crew member started the band's intro before Moody was in the building, it was apparently up to Vext to help them out. Apparently, seeing the rest of his band onstage without him set Moody off, and the wrong intros and the being handed the wrong instruments contributed to the decline of the show. He promises that they'll return to the Netherlands.
While not addressing the Tilburg show directly, FFDP's other guitarist, Jason Hook, seemed a lot less forgving about his frontman. In a now-deleted Facebook post, Hook, who clashed with Moody during the set, wrote "Feeling liberated after a long cvancerous painful toxic useless anchor has been cut from my legs" with the hashtags "thrilled," "Movingon" and "gofuckyourself." Also, on a Five Finger Death Punch fan Instagram that posted a picture of Moody, Hook reposnded with "piece of shit." He's certainly letting his feelings be known. Meanwhile, footage has surface from Austria with Vext filling in for Moody:
It certainly doesn't seem like the band is on the same page, but we'll have to see how things shake out after the European tour is over. They've got plenty of festival dates over here too, and if Moody and Hook can't make up, it could be a pretty contentious Summer.
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Rod Stewart Reveals Railway Modeling Side Passion
For nearly 60 years rocker Rod Stewart has entertained music lovers across the globe, hauling in a Grammy and numerous other awards in a career that has spanned generations.
Now, the singer is showing the world his other passion, building a railway models.
For more than two decades, Stewart reportedly spent long hours working on his 124ft long x 23ft wide railway city model that shows a vivid image of an American city during the 1940s. The masterpiece has hundreds of buildings, skyscrapers, cars in traffic, people walking and railroads.
Stewart told "Railway Modeller" magazine in a exclusive interview that his inspiration to create this epic model came from American railways and memories of his childhood home view. Stewart's house overlooked train tracks, Daily Mail UK write-up of the interview said. The magazine is only available to subscribers and the print edition is sold out on its website.
As his side passion, the rock star took the project very seriously. During concert tours he would take his painting tools and book an extra room to work on his model in between concerts.
When home in Los Angeles, Stewart worked on his masterpiece in his house attic, where his masterpiece reportedly lives.
During the time he was building the model, Stewart released 13 studio albums and had 19 tours, BBC reported. "A lot of people laugh at it being a silly hobby, but it's a wonderful hobby," he said.
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I come from an academic background, as a doctoral candidate, tutor, and lecturer in German and Linguistics at the University of Oxford, and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In autumn 2013, I completed an MA in History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London, writing papers on the Contemporary Sublime; Art Nouveau, Rodin and Hysteria; imagery of the Madonna and Child in Renaissance Art; a research project on LGBT art; and a dissertation on Presence and Absence in the Representation of the Female Body in the Work of Marina Abramović and Ana Mendieta.
Since January 2011, I have been working as a freelance art writer and editor. In March 2017, I became full-time Assistant Editor at Art Quarterly magazine (with Art Fund). I am former Arts Editor for DIVA magazine (2012-2016) and Deputy Editor for State media (2013-2017). I still freelance and write catalogue essays, reviews, interviews and profiles for various online and print publications, including Studio International, Photomonitor and Elephant. I also conduct interviews to camera (for Studio International) and live, at in conversation events, in galleries and art schools.
An archive of my writing, with links to full articles where appropriate, can be found on my blog, art-Corpus.
I am an NCTJ qualified production journalist.
My particular interests lie in art that relates to representations of the body, gender and sexuality.
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To demonstrate the importance of sharing.
You will need two bananas.
Explain that you are very hungry because you missed out on breakfast/break/lunch (whichever is appropriate to the time of day). Say you hope that, while you are talking, no one minds if you have a snack.
Produce a banana from your pocket or bag and say how much you like bananas and how healthy and delicious they are, etc. Begin to peel it.
Part way through peeling it, stop and say that perhaps you are being a little selfish, and maybe someone would like to share your banana with you. Ask for a volunteer who really likes bananas.
Choose an older child who is emotionally robust(!) and say you will 'go halves' with him or her.
Continue to peel the banana, and then give the skin to the child while you begin to eat the fruit, saying: Half for you and half for me.
Look disappointed that the child isn't eating the banana-peel, and say something like, I thought you liked bananas - what's the problem? Hopefully the child will say something along the lines that s/he can't eat the skin, and so hasn't really had half, etc.
Make the point that sometimes we think we are sharing and being generous, when really we are keeping the best for ourselves and giving away rubbish. Can the children think of any examples, such as sharing sweets but only giving away the ones we don't like? Christians believe that everything we have really belongs to God, and we need to be responsible with it and not greedy. In the Bible we are called to be generous and ready to share (1 Timothy 6.18). You might expand this to talk about the need for us to share the world's resources appropriately so that no one goes hungry.
Finish by apologizing to the volunteer and giving him/her the second banana.
as she grabbed her brother's ice cream.
to his mates one day.
But when they looked there were only two.
the boy was heard to say.
and others have nothing - is it fair?
We're sorry for the times we've been selfish.
Teach us to be generous to others.


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prucedural textures and other stuff?), but still not exactly a huge project.
then use the best method.
they had their own textures, without having to upload the entire bank texture.


Thigh strain for Mario Rui?
Mario Rui is expected to be out of action for at least a week after suffering a thigh strain during Napoli's 0-0 draw with Fiorentina.
The Portugal international pulled up just a couple of minutes into the match at the Stadio Franchi on Saturday.
According to Calciomercato.it and others, Mario Rui has a suspected thigh strain in his left leg.
That would keep him out for around seven to 10 days, meaning he'd miss the Europa League clash with FC Zurich and next week's Serie A meeting with Torino.


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Magnificent Bamburgh castle provides a backdrop at this beach, which has been popular since the Victorians first 'invented' the seaside. The sands run almost unbroken between Seahouses and Bamburgh, with dunes and just a couple of rocky areas that always prove popular with the children.
The area of beach in front of the castle is quite sheltered, so usually gets busy when the weather is good with, of course, sand-castles galore! The dunes at this point used to be home to a number of private beach huts but they have all but disappeared now.
A short distance away to the north there is a small white lighthouse on a rocky outcrop and, beyond that, a huge sandy bay that tends to be quiet even during the main holiday season. This is probably because it isn't easily accessible from the main road.
The best way to reach the bay is along the small road that leads to the Bamburgh Golf Club, then down a path to the sand. When the tide is out, the expanse of beach is tremendous and it is a good place for a quiet walk, paddling in the surf.
The beach beyond Bamburgh golf club. Photo: © Copyright Oliver Dixon / CC BY-SA 2.0
Continuing northwards, a few ancient wooden posts mark the site of an old jetty. It's difficult to imagine that centuries ago this area was a busy port for Bamburgh which, for nearly 100 years, was the capital of Bernicia - a kingdom that encompassed what we now know as Durham, Northumberland and the Borders Region.
The coastline curves around into the mud-flats of Budle Bay, which is a popular bird-watching spot and the scene of many an impressive sunset.
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Jung-Chi Chang explores the hidden personal detachments sown throughout Taiwanese culture in this atmospheric high school thriller, which quickly sets pace with a merry ghost hunt.
We are launched into the technological connections of youth as classmates blog to find the murderer; our trio break into Wei-chiao's old apartment to sneak through her underwear, diary and seedily strip her computer for clues.
Every scene is poignant whilst sown throughout are the seeds of teenage discomfort. The action gets increasingly frantic and the group's social stalking is a frank contrast with the technological detachment that other teens around them face.
The biggest reflective element of Partners in Crime are the comments about society in Taiwan that show a true element of disconnection in the teenage culture, a disconnection that ironically they try to plug with social media and faking digital friendships or personalities.
SYNOPSIS: Three teenage boys come across the body of a school girl lying in the street. The girl is dismissed as troubled, but the boys strike up an unlikely friendship as they play amateur sleuths to uncover the real reasons for her death.


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Flair for Fixes / Film celebrates vanishing breed
News // Bay Area & State
Carolyne Zinko
April 30, 1999 Updated: Feb. 1, 2012 8:28 p.m.
1of4George Lynch had plenty of parts to choose from as he prepared to repair a vacuum cleaner with a bad motor. Chronicle Photo by Carlos Avila Gonzalez Show MoreShow Less
2of4Bill Wagner checked an iron whose owner said it was leaking. After tinkering for a few minutes, he discovered the problem and fixed it Chronicle Photo by Carlos Avila Gonzalez Show MoreShow Less
3of4A supply of blades often provides new life to mixers. Chronicle Photo by Carlos Avila Gonzalez Show MoreShow Less
4of4George Lynch brings in the next item for repair, a vacuum with a bad motor. Chronicle Photo by Carlos Avila Gonzalez Show MoreShow Less
In a room the size of a walk-in closet, a clump of vacuum cleaners -- 23, to be exact -- huddle in disrepair, next to shelves full of toastless toasters, lightless lamps and other broken appliances.
Drawers from floor to ceiling burst with odds and ends for mending, from toaster handles and hair dryer switches to beaters for every electric mixer imaginable.
It's enough to give a neatnik the shudders.
But Bill Wagner, perched on a stool in his workshop at Menlo Vacuum & Fix It, considers the tiny Menlo Park shop where he has tinkered with all things mechanical
for the past 27 years an operating room, and himself an appliance doctor of sorts.
"I like to give things a new lease on life," he said. "And I feel bad for the environment that people are throwing things away."
That waste-not, want-not philosophy -- increasingly rare in a throwaway culture -- is getting Wagner his 15 minutes of fame as the subject of a new short documentary by award-winning filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman.
"Fix-It Shops: An Endangered Species," actually a six-minute film, celebrates a dying breed of local business but also serves a deeper purpose: to present a new dimension in environmentalism.
Fadiman has focused in the past on the weightier topics of abortion and elementary education. "When Abortion Was Illegal" was nominated for an Oscar in 1993 in the documentary short subject category; "From Danger to Dignity," won a TV Emmy in 1997. "The Fragile Promise of Choice" was released to acclaim two years ago.
"Fix-It Shops" was intended to be a breather.
In many ways, it is a lighthearted piece that puts a name and face to anonymous people, in this case, those laboring to restore mundane household items and family treasures.
On another level, the film is a tool to spur discussion about conservation. Fadiman hopes to encourage similar screenings and community meetings around the nation.
"People can go above and beyond recycling cans and bottles," she said. "I want to raise awareness -- that this is the next step, that people don't have to throw away small household appliances that can be fixed."
Wagner and associates George Lynch and Greg Page are among those featured in the film, which captures their hands at work and also their contemplations of the value of what they do.
By fixing appliances, Wagner says, they make them "live again."
Page describes the instant reward in making a lamp work, turning it on and off. "You don't need anyone to applaud," he quips dryly.
"Fix-It Shops" also indirectly raises questions about society and intensive marketing that drives consumers' perceived needs for ever new and improved products.
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Wagner, like owners of other fix- it shops around the Bay Area, said he considers repairs just one part of his job.
The other is education about the value of paying more for well-made appliances that will last, rather than buying inexpensive products with plastic innards that cannot be repaired and end up in landfills after a year of use, Wagner said.
About 5 percent of the waste stream consists of discarded appliances, according to a recent study in Alameda County, and that percentage will grow as the use of plastics increases, said Ann Schneider, a recycling market development manager at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
For Wagner, particularly frustrating is the trend toward more flash to satisfy consumers' desires for trendy appliances, such as toasters with digital displays.
"A lot of things that involve electronics shouldn't, like heating appliances where you're combining heat and high current with circuit boards. It makes the appliance fail more often," Wagner said.
In Oakland, Mike Conley, president of California Electric Service, which has 15 repair shops across the state, said manufacturers are partly to blame for increasing the loads in the landfills, by making and promoting products on the basis of low price.
Toasters from the 1960s can function as well as they ever did, with a few minor repairs, he said. By comparison, a $15 toaster made today usually works for no more than a year or two, and is virtually impossible to repair, he said.
"Consumers want things at a certain price and manufacturers accommodate that, but they do it by making things more cheaply in Asia with inferior parts," Conley said. "We're importing garbage from overseas, because that's where it ends up. We use it and then it stops working and we throw it out."
Warranties on inexpensive products are virtually useless, he said, because many products cannot be opened up without destroying them. In other cases, manufacturers do not even make replacement parts.
As a result, service centers simply replace the broken product with a new one.
"It defeats the whole conservation effort we're trying to make," said Conley, who has canceled service contracts with manufacturers whose products cannot be fixed.
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What is this 18th or 19th century muzzle gun recently used in a robbery?
The spanish newspaper describes the weapon, incorrectly IMHO as a "trabuco" (blunderbuss). I ask for a more accurate description.
https://lacronicadesalamanca.com/196620-detenido-en-aldeatejada-tras-robar-en-varios-hoteles-de-avila-a-punta-de-trabuco/
I offer a translation to the news below, but I don't know if it's appropriate. Feel free to delete that text if you want.
The Salamanca Chronicle
Arrested in Aldeatejada after robbing several hotels in Ávila at blunderbuss-point
He took about 500 euros and ran away in a cab.
The Civil Guard of Salamanca arrested this Wednesday morning at a > gas station in Aldeatejada an individual who fled after carrying > out two robberies hours earlier in hotel establishments in Avila > at blunderbuss-point.
The agents believe that he could also be the author of a third > > robbery committed in another hotel in the capital of Avila on Wednesday night. At the National Police Station in Ávila on Wednesday was received the notice from several hotels alerting of having been victims of robberies by a man who carried an old muzzle gun, which led to an investigation that allowed the identification of the criminal. Meanwhile, the alleged robber, who had fled by taxi, stopped at first to refuel at a gas station in the province of Avila, where he required the employee to exchange coins for bills, at which time the worker realized that the man had a gun, something he reported to the Guardia Civil
After these communications, the police officers began working together to determine that the individual who had exchanged money at the gas station was the same one who had previously docked at the hotel establishments.
After being intercepted at the second stop at a petrol station, this time in Aldeatejada, the agents checked that the suspect was the same, and when they searched him they found the pistol and nearly 500 euros in banknotes and coins, which led to his arrest.
On the other hand, the Avila Police are investigating whether the detainee is also the author of another robbery of a hotel in the city that was committed on Wednesday afternoon. If this fact is confirmed, there would be three hotels in the capital of Avila that suffered the same type of crime.
weapons identification
GinasiusGinasius
It's just a pistol. – Daniel Apr 5 '19 at 5:36
It doesn't look like a "trabuco". Those tend to have a trumpet like ending, and use a flintlock.
It looks more like a short barreled percussion cap pistol. (No idea of the maker though.)
Denis de BernardyDenis de Bernardy
Could be a conversion from an older flint lock to cap lock. Also, possibly, the barrel is a cut down from an old rifle. Maybe lock, stock and barrel all started life separately. – J. Taylor Apr 6 '19 at 20:39
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The effects of txt
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If you've ever transcribed a free-form conversation, you have probably been struck by how little of a spoken exchange is made up of true grammatical sentences. Listen to your conversations—we hardly ever talk "properly." We interrupt each other, we lose our train of thought or we misconjugate verbs and get flustered.
We're not all careful speakers at all times: redundancies, mistakes and misinterpretations are as central to human language as descriptiveness and precision are.
Despite this, our educational system—in fact, all of literate society in every language—demands that we write in grammatical sentences. We can't write our academic essays in phrases and incomplete thoughts. Our literate culture requires completeness and grammaticality. Deviations from this sentence model are dismissed, at best, as art projects or, at worst, serious misunderstandings of grammar.
Not everyone believes writing should be this way. Thirty years ago, a composition theorist named Winston Weathers proposed "Grammar B," an alternate style providing, in his words, "options that do not yet exist but which would be beneficial if they did." His Grammar B sought to convey information from author to reader in the same way it travels from speaker to listener. He promoted a written representation of human thought that mimicked the mechanisms of spoken language—with interruptions, redundancies and visual elements (in lieu of cues like intonation).
Winston Weathers.
It was a radical idea with several merits. In fact, for a writing project three years ago, I rewrote a sociology essay into Grammar B. The result was easier to read and understand than the "Grammar A" version. It was also more engaging and conversational.
But it's not a coincidence that Weathers' book is out of print. Writing, especially academic writing, is driven by a cycle that rewards Grammar A and produces it too. I would never have actually submitted my Grammar B essay to my sociology professor and have expected a positive response.
So if we write in Grammar A and speak and think in Grammar B, are we being cognitively torn apart? Are we being required to think in two different ways? To use language incongruously and inconsistently?
Consider, at least, that spoken language dwarfs writing in our species' timeline. We started speaking at least 200,000 years ago, around when Homo sapiens emerged. Written language, on the other hand, appeared no earlier than 10,000 years ago, and it wasn't until about 200 years ago that mass literacy became common.
Significant swaths of today's world remain illiterate. All societies in the world are still based fundamentally on spoken language. In fact, all literate societies are both oral and written—and the conventional wisdom until recently was that a society can be completely oral, but it cannot be completely written.
World rates of literacy. (Click to enlarge and for source information.)
If our spoken language is different from our written language, what does it mean that the literate establishment requires such rigidity in writing? It's obvious that I'm writing this post in Grammar A. I write all of my papers in Grammar A, and you probably do too. That's considered normal. But when I speak in Grammar A, you think I am working hard to be a careful speaker: I am being formal, or I am delivering a speech.
So we recognize the merits of Grammars A and B in different situations. But I'm no fool to think that academic writing will ever comprise Grammar B works. It's a fun idea, but it's not sensible for any mainstream academic or student to discard the established rules of grammar, even if Grammar B is clearer.
I once wondered if the dichotomy between written and oral traditions would continue to grow until they had little to no relationship to one another: whether Grammar A's rate of change would be so much slower than Grammar B's that they eventually split.
In my family's first language, Kannada, a beautiful literary tradition spanning 15 centuries continues to flourish. But today's formalized Kannada grammar and vocabulary has very little obvious relation to the spoken form—so much so that a Kannada-user like me, familiar only with speaking the language, can barely understand formal text.
This phenomenon is called diglossia, and I wonder if English is headed toward it. To be sure, all literary languages have some spoken/written diglossia. When we have the luxury to be careful (like in writing), we are generally more grammatical. And written language usually changes more slowly than spoken language because of various forces—compare English spellings to pronunciations, for example.
But forms of communication like short and ungrammatical text messages, or even longer, conversational emails, have thrown us a linguistic curveball.
For the first time in our species' history, we are constantly and continuously using written communication for real-time conversations. We IM, we text and we e-mail. Just 20 years ago, the only written communication reliably employed by most people was letter writing. Now, there are entire online communities whose primary, if not only, form of communication is through written language.
What does this mean for the future of human communication? Will diglossia be thwarted? Or will there be an even greater divide between spoken (including instant, written messages) and formalized written English?
Spoken language uses subtle cues like intonation, pausing and volume to deliver meaning. Written language lends itself to longer reflection and more careful word and phrasing selection. I'm not constructing the two in opposition to each other, although it is obvious which is more fundamental to our species.
We have used spoken and written language mostly for different purposes, so they may have developed divergent characteristics for that reason. But as we communicate more and more through text, our use and understanding of language will change fundamentally—even if we never actually write our essays in Grammar B.
(A version of this post appeared in The (Duke) Chronicle on September 23, 2010.)
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Lane	10:58 am on November 17, 2011	Permalink | Reply
In my book I argued that really successful prescriptivism, which enforces the rules of "Grammar A" religiously in writing and encourages them sternly in "proper" speech, leads inevitably to diglossia in the long run. My exhibits are Arabic, with its early, successful prescriptive grammar tradition freezing Classical Arabic while spoken Arabic changed normally over the centuries; and French, where nearly 400 years of a French Academy has also frozen a formal version of the language that no one speaks. (An alien linguist would give the French verb paradigm as "je parl, tu parl, il parl, on parl, vous parlé, il parl." Our alien would conclude that one negative particle, "pas", is sufficient in nearly all cases. Etc.)
So I think even those who value stability in formal language must either let Grammar A (I'd just say "writing") change gradually in line with natural change in Grammar B ("speech"), or watch diglossia take root, with its inevitable plaints that "nobody speaks real Arabic anymore."
The Diacritics	3:35 pm on November 17, 2011	Permalink | Reply
Fantastic. Is that "You Are What You Speak"? Can't wait to read it over winter break.
The Diacritics 7:01 pm on September 2, 2011	Permalink | Reply
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I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.
Bern Williams
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Work and play hard: English as metaphor
posted by Sandeep
Slam poet Mayda Del Valle minced no words when she took Duke University by storm last year:
And I'm speaking in tongues
blending proper with street talk
everyday meets academic
bastardizing one language
creating new ones.
Her first piece that night, the frenetically melodious "Tongue Tactics," was a send-up of the social dichotomy between "high-class" and "low-class" Spanish. Others can have their haughty tongues, she spat, but leave her the passionate, earthy, real street talk.
Although the poem was about Spanish, the English she used was "street" as well. And it was mesmerizing. The passion, simplicity and attitude of her language made it fantastically engaging. It just wouldn't have been the same if it were delivered as a staid speech.
And yet, almost 300 miles north of Durham, North Carolina, President Obama and his speech writers were collaborating to enchant audiences, too. Although Obama is no slam poet, with his refined and multisyllabic English, his words are poetic in a totally different way.
Do their different styles resonate with different aspects of our identity?
English-speaking societies delineate high- and low-class speech in many ways. For example, your accent, especially in Britain and the U.S., can give others information about your socioeconomic background. Non-standard grammar might lead others to stereotyped conclusions about your education or neighborhood.
Vocabulary choice, too, has been a marker of socioeconomic status in English for at least the last millennium. When the Normans invaded the British Isles in 1066, they brought their language, a Latin-derived Romance tongue related to French. For well over a century, Norman-speaking people formed most of the ruling class in Britain. Their language, and all of the Latinate words it carried, became known as high-class speech. Later, as the Normans assimilated into the local Briton culture, the English language that emerged was stratified between Latinate vocabulary (high-class) and native Germanic vocabulary (neutral or low-class).
The distinction persists today. Latin-derived vocabulary is perceived to be more intelligent and eloquent, whereas Germanic words are seen as earthier, simpler and unpretentious.
It's incredible how the social atmosphere of southern Britain nearly 1,000 years ago is still determining our performance of language and identity today.
Think about the dichotomous connotations of these pairs: ask/inquire; do/execute; begin/commence; drink/imbibe; speak/converse; lie/repose; small/diminutive. Which would you use in daily conversation, and which might you use in an essay or a speech? Would you feel comfortable crossing them over to the opposite situation? (The first word in each pair is Germanic and the second is Latinate.)
The deliberate choice of certain derived vocabulary is informed by our social surroundings. We speak in certain ways to impress certain people. Most socially aware native English speakers can suss out when to use different vocabulary.
What identity are we attempting to embody? Are we Del Valle or Obama? Is it possible to be both?
The unofficial motto of my alma mater, Duke University, is "Work hard, play hard." It speaks to our dual identity as a university: academic strength coupled with social acumen. We bust our brains during the week in class, and on the weekends, we let our pent-up stress out in uniquely vigorous ways.
But in a linguistically metaphorical way… suppose we can describe our academic life, mostly confined to classrooms and professors' offices, as our "Latinate" identity, and our social life, passionate and street, as "Germanic." We use different social "vocabularies" throughout our day, with different people and in different locations. When we cross over these vocabularies—acting informal in a presentation, or speaking stiltedly at a section party—the effect is jarring: not necessarily always bad, but always noticeable.
It's not that we owe a particular allegiance to either vocabulary: After all, we do work hard (Latinate) and play hard (Germanic). But for many of us, the "work hard, play hard" mantra implies a strict dichotomy.
The truth is that even though Latinate and Germanic vocabularies share a complex, stratified and sometimes dichotomous history, modern English wouldn't work without constant interplay between the two. We cross over our lexicons constantly. Just look at this column, for example—I oscillate between "big" and "small" words, between Latinate and Germanic vocabularies.
English, because it has absorbed the ideas and mannerisms of so many different social strata and geographic variations, is one of the most expressive languages in the world. Both Del Valle and Obama can exist in the same linguistic sphere. English's heritage and character gives it power.
I wonder what would happen if we saw more crossovers between work and play. What if we brought the same vigor we apply to our co-curricular activities and weekend parties into the classroom? And what if we brought more intellectual dialogues onto the quad at our colleges?
If Latinate and Germanic English words don't have to be used separately, maybe we can bring the best of both worlds together—"work and play hard." Maybe it doesn't have to be a separated proposition. It already seems to have worked in the English language. I wonder if it can work in our lives, too.


HyeRan Kim (金慧爛) is going to get bachelor's degrees in International Trade and Liberal Arts program, at Dong-A University, Republic of Korea. While studying at Ming Chuan University (銘傳大學), Taiwan as an exchange student for one academic year, she joined this project <How to Start a Business in Taiwan> through Enspyre internship program.
Cooperating with other 4 teammates – Benjamin, Cynthia, Elias, and Tal – who have totally different cultural backgrounds, HyeRan Kim has learned how to communicate with various people. For the project, she particularly invested her efforts on financial issues including general business environment of Taiwan and import/export part for the book and resources part for the website.
Actually this project <How to Start a Business in Taiwan> is the first time in her life to participate establishing a website and publishing a book as a collaborator. Compared with her first intention, she definitely achieved her own goal through this project; in terms of internet marketing, how to control the categories and information organizationally, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), and HTML. Besides, one of reasons she came to Taiwan was to understand Taiwan business environment and this project provides her valuable experiences in that part.
Thanks to a number of interviews and meetings with foreign entrepreneurs in Taiwan, HyeRan Kim is inspired to make a plan for her own business. Now she is looking for another interesting opportunity especially related with international trade, logistics, and e-commerce.


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How a DeKalb summer tennis camp plans to play on in the age of COVID-19
Camp begins the week of May 26 at the DeKalb Tennis Center.
DeKalb County | May 13, 2020
By J.D. Capelouto, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A summer tennis camp in DeKalb County will continue to serve lessons this year despite worries over the coronavirus pandemic.
Agape Tennis Academy, which operates the DeKalb Tennis Center, will hold camp sessions beginning May 26, the academy said. It plans to implement new safety protocols to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
"It's important that people are still able to get exercise and get outside, and as long as we're practicing safe precautions and measures, we felt that it would be OK," said Amy Pazahanick, founder of Agape.
Gov. Brian Kemp announced this week that summer camps will be allowed if they follow a list of 32 regulations, though overnight camps aren't yet permitted to open.
Still, Agape's decision goes against the trend among large camps this year. Many will not open, while some academic-focused camps are moving online for at least the first part of summer over worries the virus could spread.
READ MORE: Kemp issues safety rules for summer camps, says day camps can open
Sports camps at Emory, which usually offer tennis and other sports, are not happening this year, for example. The Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta announced that all in-person camps are eliminated through Aug. 9. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta canceled camps in June, while the Alliance Theatre in Midtown Atlanta told parents that online camp would replace in-person sessions.
Katie Landes, director of the Georgia Statewide Afterschool Network, previously told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that only about a quarter of camp operators she spoke with had tentative plans to open.
Agape is adjusting its tennis camp so no more than five children will be on a court at one time. It also plans to spread out participants and their belongings, and stagger breaks to avoid large groups from forming. Staff will allow time for kids to wash their hands and wipe down surfaces, "just being a whole lot more aware of spacing and germs and touching," Pazahanick said.
IN-DEPTH: Lack of summer camps could hurt working parents, disappoint kids
The academy plans to host campers ages 4 to 18 on weekdays until the end of the July, according to its website. Agape is also holding tennis camps in the Macon-Bibb County area beginning in June.
Some worry summer camp closures could cause problems for parents who have to go to work.
Pazahanick said fewer people than usual have signed up for tennis camp, but she has heard from parents who are happy it is still happening.
The DeKalb Tennis Center has been renting out courts and holding hundreds of private, one-on-one lessons this spring.
"Most people are very appreciative that we are still open," Pazahanick said.


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Once you receive these trays, you will be able to whiten as often as needed by just purchasing the gel tubes from our office!


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Q: WCF Ria DomainService - Initialize WebService on StartUp Currently, my DomainService does perform an Initialization of a resource everytime a client is connecting to him. Every client should access the same instance of this resource.
I would like to initialize this resource on the StartUp of the WebService. Is there any chance to do that with WCF Ria Services?
EDIT:
Okay, don't mention it. I wanted to use this for an global DbContext object. This isn't a good idea anyway, because there will be multiple threads managed by the HttpApplication which would access the DbContext simultaneously. I will change my implementation to an "per Thread", respectively "per HttpContext", approach. Thanks anyhow.

A: You can define a class that contains a static property for that resource. In the DomainService you can then access that property. It would then be initialized only when it is accessed the first time.
Example:
public class ResManager {
    public static MyObject {...}
}

In the DomainService:
public IQueryable<SomeClass> GetSomeObjects()
{
    // you can access it here and it will not be initialized
    // every time the DomainService is called
    MyObject obj = ResManager.MyObject;
    return new List<SomeClass>().AsQueryable();
}

If you want to initialize it when the Service is started, then you should be able to do that in the Global class.


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Threonine dehydratase, ACT-like domain (IPR001721)
Short name: TD_ACT-like
Overlapping homologous superfamilies
Threonine dehydratase, ACT-like domain superfamily (IPR038110)
Domain relationships
Threonine deaminase (threonine dehydratase, TD) is the first enzyme on the pathway for the biosynthesis of isoleucine. TD is organized into two domains. The larger N-terminal domain is considered the catalytic domain as it contains the essential pyridoxal phosphate cofactor. The C-terminal regulatory domain folds as an eight-stranded antiparallel sheet. The holoenzyme is a homotetramer in which the intersubunit contacts lie between pairs of C-terminal regulatory domains and pairs of N-terminal domains [PMID: 9562556].
The ACT domain is a 90 amino acid long domain, which has been named after three of the allosterically regulated enzymes in which it is found: aspartate kinase, chorismate mutase and TyrA (prephenate dehydrogenase) [PMID: 10222208]. The ACT domain is found in a variety of contexts and is proposed to be a structurally conserved regulatory domain involved in the binding of small ligands, such as amino acids. There is a close structural and functional relationship between the regulatory domain of TD and the ACT domain [PMID: 11751050].
Gallagher DT, Gilliland GL, Xiao G, Zondlo J, Fisher KE, Chinchilla D, Eisenstein E.
Structure and control of pyridoxal phosphate dependent allosteric threonine deaminase.
Structure 6 465-75 1998
Aravind L, Koonin EV.
Gleaning non-trivial structural, functional and evolutionary information about proteins by iterative database searches.
J. Mol. Biol. 287 1023-40 1999
Chipman DM, Shaanan B.
The ACT domain family.
Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 11 694-700 2001
Contributing signatures
Signatures from InterPro member databases are used to construct an entry.
PF00585 (Thr_dehydrat_C)
PROSITE profiles
PS51672 (ACT_LIKE)


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This offer includes 4 nights at Svalbard Hotell Polfareren or The Vault, in shared double/twin room, activities, transfers and concerts as described below, 2 dinners at Huset Restaurant and lunch on the boat trip. Limited availability - there are still a few packages left!
The concert repertoire will vary from opera arias to beautiful violin concertos and some of the greatest music written for chamber orchestras. Meet the renowned soloists from the festival programme, together with musicians from the Arctic Philharmonic. After the concert, we invite you to a social gathering in the Bistro at Huset with a three-course dinner followed by a night cap to conclude a wonderful evening.
08:00 Meet-up in the reception, transport to the boat.
Enjoy a day cruise by boat to the Russian settlement of Barentsburg. A guided walk in the settlement will be followed by a special and intimate concert in the Culture Hall in Barentsburg. Lunch will be served on deck overlooking the impressive Esmark Glacier.
We invite you to experience something very special this evening. We will transport you from downtown Longyearbyen to the Arctic wilderness. You will enter a warm and cosy lavvu (Sami herdsmen's tent) where great music awaits you. Although it's late in the evening, remember to bring your sunglasses because the sun will not set. The lavvu, surrounded by the spectacular Svalbard nature, will be filled with the sound of Nordic folk music, performed by top notch musicians from the Arctic Philharmonic. You may buy food and drinks in the lavvu.
We leave the centre of Longyearbyen, travelling to the top of a mountain with a stunning view over the Advent valley. Then we will enter the hall of Longyearbyen's only working mine, to experience a very special concert of classical music. In contrast to the grit of the inside of the mining hall, Henning Kraggerud and the Arctic Philharmonic will perform beautiful music for chamber orchestra, by Richard Strauss, which was composed during the final months of World War II.
Welcome to an evening where food, wine and music intertwines perfectly! We invite you once again to the historic venue of Huset for a lovely seven-course music and dinner experience. Together with the finest food and wine, you will hear, and learn the story behind, some of the greatest chamber music and vocal repertoires, carefully chosen to fit each course. What could be a better way to end the festival weekend than fine dining and music on a Sunday evening?
Possible to book package excluding flight, book your own flights.
** The programme is subject to change.
Packages including flight tickets will be charged at confirmation of booking.
There's no refund on cancellation of packages.
Please advise of any foodallergies at the time of booking.