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Shannon Cuykendall
Screendance
Virtual Reality Dance
Proceedings Body of Knowledge Conference
Publications, Uncategorized
The proceedings for the Body of Knowledge Conference 2016 are now available: https://escholarship.org/uc/bokconference!
My paper, Untying the Knot of Dance Movement Expertise: An Enactive Approach is also included in these proceedings.
March 14, 2018 scuykendall
News on A Performer's Perspective
Dance Performance, Research
The SFU Faculty of Communication, Arts and Technology (FCAT) has featured the A Performer's Perspective documentary on their blog. Check it out here: http://www.sfu.ca/fcat/blog/fall-2017/a-performers-perspective.html
Photo Credit: Reese Muntean
November 2, 2017 November 2, 2017 scuykendall
A Performer's Perspective Launched!
I am pleased to announce the launch of a performer's perspective, an interactive online documentary transmitting the dancer's perspective and data in Judith Garay's multimedia dance work, THE FINE LINE ~ twisted angels.
This project has been in the works since 2015 and is the culmination of my PhD thesis research at the School of Interactive Arts + Technology at SFU. The overarching goal of this project is not only to translate and extend one's perceptions of dance movement, but to explore how interaction and digital technology can be utilized to better communicate bodily knowledge to a broad audience.
The design of the site is inspired by a close reading analysis I conducted of The Synchronous Objects website (published in the MOCO 2014 conference proceedings) and seeks to present the dancer's data through three interactive categories: instructional, exploratory, and translational.
Photo Credit: Marina Khvan
Visualization by Omid Alemi that reimagines Judith Garay's THE FINE LINE ~ twisted angels
The Instructional portion of the website includes each dancer's verbal description of selected scenes from THE FINE LINE~twisted angels and short documentary videos related to the making of the THE FINE LINE ~twisted angels and each dancer's perspective on their role in the work: Vanessa Goodman, Bevin Poole, and Antonio Somera.
The Exploratory part of the website depicts the dancers' movement data, collected with various motion sensors such as, the Myo armband and the Microsoft Kinect camera. In future versions of the site, this section will be expanded to include more options for viewers to interact with the data.
The Translational section re-imagines the dancers' data through varying artistic representations including music, animations, and visualizations.
I am extremely grateful to the design/implementation team that has made the creation of this site possible including: Omid Alemi, Ethan Soutar-Rau, Theo Wong, Linda Nguyen, Professor Thecla Schiphorst, and the many other researchers that helped out along the way. Please see full credits here.
September 7, 2017 September 7, 2017 scuykendall
EVA London 2017 Conference
Dance Performance, Presentations, Publications, Research
I presented a paper at EVA London 2017 on VR, AI, dance, and performance.
A Framework for Hybrid Multimodal Performances
Our artwork, was also featured throughout the conference in the lobby. A full description of the work is published in the conference proceedings.
Fractured Perspectives: Movement and Light
July 24, 2017 July 24, 2017 scuykendall
A Performer's Perspective
I am so excited to share this project, which has been in the works for more than a year! This summer we plan to launch an interactive documentary that transmits the perspectives of three performers in Judith Garay's multimedia dance work, The Fine Line ~ twisted angels.
I have recently completed a video documentary that discusses more about our process of data collection for this project.
April 21, 2017 scuykendall
Fractured Perspectives
Dance Performance, Interactive Movement Installation, Presentations
Rehearsing for our interactive video artwork, "Fractured Perspectives: Movement and Light" that we will present in London this summer at EVA.
Created in collaboration with prOphecy Sun, Steve DiPaola, and Reese Muntean. Photo courtesy of Steve DiPaola.
February 27, 2017 February 27, 2017 scuykendall
Body of Knowledge Conference
Presentations, Research
I am so excited to present at the Body of Knowledge Conference at my alma mater, UC Irvine, on Thursday December 8, 2016. For a complete schedule of presentations and workshops see: http://sites.uci.edu/bok2016schedule/.
Many cognitive scientists are turning to dance experts to explore the relationship between bodily knowledge and perception. Dancers have a unique skill set that integrates physical and expressive abilities, making them intriguing participants in studies that examine how the action observation network, action prediction, learning, memory, and aesthetic preferences are related to one's physical experiences. While findings from these studies suggest that dance experts perceive movement differently than novices; the definitions of what constitutes a "dance expert" are far ranging, making it challenging to compare results across studies.
We discuss the variety of dance experts that are recruited for scientific studies in movement perception and draw upon research in dance education to form a richer definition of dance expertise. One possible way to parameterize expertise in dance is by role (e.g. performer, teacher) and style (e.g. ballet, hip-hop). However, the challenge in differentiating expertise by style or role is that many many dancers have trained in multiple styles of dance and commonly have overlapping roles–thus creating a knot of expertise.
To untie this knot, we propose an enactive approach. Rather than label dancers as experts or novices based on an arbitrary requirement of the number of years a dancer has trained in a particular style or role, we suggest that broader categories of expertise will emerge from the data that go beyond both style and role. We predict four main types of expertise: Virtuosic, Expressive, Kinematic and Expressive expertise. Through combining methodologies such as psychometric measurement, eye tracking, brain imaging, phenomenological and analytical accounts of movement we can develop a more complete understanding of how expertise relates to the ways in which dance experts observe, learn, and articulate movement. This research can both inform the study of movement perception and help define gaps in dance education.
December 7, 2016 scuykendall
PhD Proposal
Presenting my PhD dissertation proposal Thursday, November 3rd at 10am. The presentation is open to the public and will be held at SFU Surrey in room 2995.
Photo by Reese Muntean. Pictured: Antonio Somera, Vanessa Goodman, and Bevin Poole in The Fine Line ~ twisted angels, choreographed by Judith Garay. Costume design by Margaret Jenkins.
NDEO Movement Sesssion
Classes and Workshops, Presentations, Research
I am very excited to be leading a movement session at NDEO on Friday, October 7 2:15-3:15 in room Washington A. See below for a description of the session.
Exploring Embodiment: Applying Research in Embodied Cognition to Dance Practice
What does it mean to be embodied? The idea of embodiment is widely discussed in cognitive science, philosophy, technology design, dance research, and somatic practices. In this movement workshop we discuss and physically explore various viewpoints on embodiment–as well as the possibility of disembodiment.
Embodied Cognition is a theory that is becoming widely accepted in scientific communities. Its main premise is that cognitive processes do not only take place in the brain, but are shared between the body, brain and environment. Many scientists have turned to the dance community to study and validate this theory. For example, recent research suggests that our physical experiences influence how we perceive and observe movement. While this research is relevant to dance practice, it has not yet been fully integrated in teaching curriculums for dance.
The intersection of cognitive science and dance is an emerging field of study that can inform ways in which we teach and learn dance. In this workshop I explore ways of transferring knowledge in cognitive science to dance practice. Through guided movement exercises, participants experience concepts such as, cognitive interference, theories of attention, and modes of learning.
Through dance we can also explore bodily processes of cognition. In the last few years there has been a surge of government support in the United States to study the brain. However, as theories of embodied cognition gain traction in scientific domains, it becomes more apparent that it is difficult to study the brain without also studying the the role of the body.
Integrating cognitive science research into dance curriculum ensures a future where dancers are not only participants in experiments, but also researchers that develop theories of cognition based on their bodily expertise and experiences. The future of researching embodiment cannot be studied in a jar. Embodiment must be experienced, moved, and danced.
October 6, 2016 October 7, 2016 scuykendall
Dance for PD
Taking part in the introductory training Dance for PD workshop with David Leventhal this weekend. I am extremely inspired by this work. It is so rewarding to see the power of dance, music, and the arts.
September 18, 2016 scuykendall
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To resize a renderer and container according to the limits of an HTML element without care if the result gets distorted or not.
What my problem is:
I use the resize function to set pixi.stage.width and pixi.stage.height to the HTML element's clientWidth and clientHeight, and also resize the pixi.renderer to the HTML element's dimension.
Upon loading the page, I only see a blue canvas, but when I change the window size it works as intended.
I found out that the reason for this is, that pixi.stage.width and pixi.stage.height take a scaling factor in the first execution of resize, but upon a resize via a window.onresize they take concrete pixel values.
What my goal is:
I don't care if I have to put in the pixel values or have to calculate a factor, but I would like to use one method for resizing the renderer and stage the first time and one every resize.
That is how my current code looks:
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If a referendum on assisted dying were to be held today, I'm certain that those in favour of legalisation would win hands down.
My confidence has been boosted by an article I wrote for Stuff and that they published on 21 February, albeit with a few commendable and less-commendable changes made by their editors.
But it's not my article that deserves attention. It's the huge number of comments and "Likes" it attracted. If you scoot down to the bottom of the page below the coloured photos, you will see them displayed.
Read my article here and see the comments.
Yes, you read correctly. Overwhelmingly, the comments are favourable to assisted dying. These writers would certainly vote YES in a referendum.
The opposition voices are much fewer and you will note one particular submitter who dominates the negative commentary over and over, refusing to acknowledge the reasoning of anyone else. She features prominently because of her repeated postings, but she'd only get one vote in the referendum.
Stuff is Fairfax Media's online national publication reaching readerships around the country with a very diverse offering of news items: they range from political to local news, topics of general interest and celebrity gossip. Its readership is as varied as the patrons of a movie theatre: all ages, genders, ethnicities, beliefs and persuasions, limited only by the ownership of an internet-enabled device such as a computer or Smartphone.
Stuff readers are a microcosm of the voting public.
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Expectations meet reality
Six Somali men experienced a difficult journey getting to Europe. Some were imprisoned, and most of them lost friends in the Sahara. Despite having made it, they do not feel it was worth the struggle or the money.
Searching For A Home
Originally from Mogadishu, Halima has been through a great deal during her journey to Europe. And despite her eventual arrival there, the last seven years have seen her traveling between different countries seeking asylum without any success.
Sagal's Story: Living in limbo
Sagal is a young Somali woman who fled her homeland because her family demanded her daughter should be circumcised. She refused. She says she is an educated woman and does not want her children to go through what she had been forced to endure as a child.
Aman's Story: Treated like a piece of commodity
"They see you as money. Imagine that your life is valued in terms of money and you are shipped around like a piece of commodity." Aman describes how he and his friends were kidnapped in Libya and sold from one band of traffickers to another, like animals in a market. Watch his story!
Fathia's Story: Saving loved ones from torture and death
"He said, Mum, I'm being held hostage by the traffickers! When I heard that I almost died. I knew what that meant." Watch Fathia's story!
Mehari's Story: Surviving Chance
Mehari, an Eritrean refugee, made the difficult journey from Sudan to Sweden.
Refugee Dentist: Dr Amal Ali's Story
Dr Amal Ali's family fled Somalia in 1991. She grew up in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Dr.Ali has always wanted to make a difference, which is one of the main reasons she moved to Oslo to work within the practice and help her community.
Adal and his brother
Adal Nigusse began his irregular journey to Europe in 2002. His embarked from Kassala, a small town in the eastern part of Sudan, and then proceeded on to Khartoum. This was a time in which irregular journeys via Libya were starting to gain in popularity.
Fahad's years on the run
Fahad began his irregular journey at the age of 13. "It was never my intention to embark on a journey to Europe," says Fahad, a young Somalian man in his twenties who was born and raised in Mogadishu. When Fahad was 13 years old, Al-Shabaab forcefully tried to recruit him. It was then that he made the decision to run away to Ethiopia. He ran away without his family's knowledge, in fear that they would be forcefully asked to reveal his whereabouts.
Abdi's unforgettable journey
Abdi was 17 when he embarked on his irregular journey in 2014. He felt the need to leave Somalia due to what he describes as a difficult situation—living in a war-torn area. Abdi left on his own, leaving his family behind, with an aim of getting to Europe. Despite allowing him to embark on the journey, Abdi's family was oblivious of the dangers associated with it.
Hassan's decision
Hassan had heard about the difficulties that come with an irregular journey, but he decided to try his luck anyway. His family did not support his decision to embark on the journey and tried to discourage him. But Hassan's mind was already made up. His focus was locked on the destination and the new standard of life it represented.
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New York, NY Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. Paperback First Edition USA (1969); Ninth Printing (1981). Very Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of very careful use: light wear to the upper corner of the front panel; mild rubbing to wrapper covers; a price has been neatly blacked out at the upper corner of the rear panel; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text, but the first three front endpapers are very slightly rumpled at the upper corner. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and minor, unobtrusive flaws. Remains close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.25 x 0.45 inches). 140 pages. Translated from the German by Michael Roloff. Language: English. Weight: 5.8 ounces. First Edition USA (1969); Ninth Printing (1981). Trade Paperback.
Title: Kaspar and Other Plays.
Edition: First Edition USA (1969); Ninth Printing (1981).
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IMAGES OF '81
A wild year in the peaceable kingdom
Peter C. Newman December 28 1981
A wild year in the peaceable kingdom Peter C. Newman December 28 1981
Peter C. Newman
As 1981 ended, the lenten tedium and oppressive conformity of Canadian life had vanished. With all the fervor of born-again agnostics, Canadians in every region, occupation and economic circumstance spontaneously and angrily challenged their governments, their bosses and their banks. By year-end, the craving for order and obedience, historically so dominant in this peaceable kingdom of ours, had been replaced by confusion reminiscent of the swaying bleachers at a Stones concert.
The widening dichotomy of trust between the governors and the governed no longer was limited to the radical young or the financially strapped. Pent-up resentment of authority burned across the land, with ordinarily placid middle-class citizens accusing the politicians of lies and damned lies. Only the most faithful of retainers still believed that national problems had political solutions.
Besieged federal parliamentarians responded by throwing up such mind-blowers as the National Energy Program, Eugene Whelan and a brand new constitution covered with beaver tracks. The politicians' fatuous pronouncements continued slithering off Ottawa's photocopiers like limp herring. But no one paid attention. While Pierre Trudeau was levitating in a space all his own, Joe Clark succeeded in giving banality a bad name. Ideology was dying, and authenticity became an overrated virtue. The world watched as Poland struggled for freedom.
It was a bruising process, a time of anarchic impulses and lost touchstones.
What really happened during 1981 was the unruly passage from an acceptance of closed-shop authority to a militancy that questioned most traditional power groupings. The once-smug burgh-
ers of a once-smug country staged a coup d'état against the notion of having the big personal decisions made for them by self-selected hierarchies. This was true not only of governments, but of business, union ranks—and families.
It was Pierre Trudeau who inadvertently set off the process. His insistence on drafting a new charter of rights prompted voters to re-examine past dues, present entitlements and absent powers. In gaining their own constitution, Canadians came of age in a curiously uncharacteristic way.
It was not pride of independence that dominated the national conscience of a country about to be untied from Mother Britannia's apron strings. It was a scream of defiance against usurious interest rates and spirit-crushing inflation. Unemployment in Canada had created a horde of jobless greater than the ranks of the country's entire armed services during the Second World War. What should have
been a time of national celebration turned sour.
Protests and strikes grew commonplace. Instead of obediently following march organizers, the frustrated men and women who took part in the demonstrations eyed their own leaders with the wariness of starving foxes.
Cecil Taylor, militant boss of the United Steelworkers' local who led a 17-week strike against Stelco Inc. and caused it $70 million in lost profits, was shouted down as he was announcing the victorious settlement at Hamilton's Ivor Wynne Stadium. When his members started setting the building on fire by lighting copies of the new contract, Taylor adjourned the meeting with the taunt: "If you want to light fires, I'll be at the union hall this afternoon. You can burn that down!"
The 100,000 angry workers Dennis McDermott organized and led to Ottawa on Grey Cup weekend set their own bonfires on Parliament Hill, and the Canadian Labour Congress chief threatened that next time he would forcibly take over Parliament itself.
No one seemed immune from this mood of spreading sedition. Convicted kidnapper and FLQ revolutionary Jacques Rose was hailed with two standing ovations at the Parti Québécois' policy convention in Montreal, while René Lévesque's pleas for provincial sovereignty, based on some lingering association with Canada, were postponed. In response, Alex Paterson, a mildmannered Montreal lawyer and copresident of the province's Englishspeaking Positive Action Committee, huffed: "The mood of our community has shifted from reason to hostility, from moderation to calls for civil disobedience, from hope to a search for new solutions." Violence was becoming a habit. Vandalism cost Toronto schools
about $1 million, while in Halifax
the murder rate doubled, with reported rapes up by 40 per cent. More than two million Criminal Code offences were committed across the country in 1981. In such formerly placid backwaters as Ontario's Bruce and Grey counties, hooded and armed farmers, infuriated by high interest rates, threatened bankers, particularly those of the Commerce, which raked in an unprecedented 61-per-cent profit increase.
The revolutionary spirit flourished everywhere. Only Ruhollah Khomeini remained unperturbed, contemplating the legacies of terror. Even though Iran under his bloody stewardship had massacred or deposed two presidents and four prime ministers, the ayatollah maintained that what gave his country stability was how fast its leaders could be replaced.
The grisly killings of Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh (and the attempted assassinations of
Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II) underlined the vulnerability of the international order. By year-end, invasions and insurrections had created more than 10 million refugees, with new victims from Guatemala and Nicaragua swelling the ranks of the dispossessed in Pakistan, Somalia and the Sudan. Cuba exported its revolution by maintaining 50,000 soldiers in Angola, Ethiopia and the Yemens. The United States sold Pakistan $3.2 billion worth of arms—even though that country (with Libya's support) moved further in its atomic bomb development than Iraq had before the Israeli bombing on June 7.
Such thunder of distant apocalypse was matched at home by dour predictions that North America during 1981 had moved into a major recession, the worst since the economic blight of the '30s. Paper losses on the Toronto Stock Exchange alone amounted to more than $20 billion, and businesses across the country were going bankrupt at the rate of 2,500 per month. Stockbrokers'
Christmas cards were featuring gallows humor, such as this verse sent out by Loewen, Ondaatje,
McCutcheon & Co. poking fun at Allan MacEachen:
Our spending programs are a hit So let's forget the deficit
Let 's make sure that no one mentions Or thinks about our indexed pensions
While MacEachen's enterprisedestroying budget attracted most of the criticism, it was the Bank of Canada's drum-tight monetary policy that deserved more of the blame, by raising interest rates to an unprecedented peak of 23 per cent. Governor Gerald Bouey (who won his war on inflation by accepting a 1981 salary increase to $104,500) admitted that unemployment was "disagreeable and unpleasant" but stubbornly stuck to the monetarist-style diktats that helped increase it. His approach was all too reminiscent of the barb delivered to the November conference of British Conservatives at Blackpool by Robert Jones, one of the party's activists: "They tell us that monetarism is only a theory.
Perhaps then they should try jumping off the Blackpool Tower.
Gravity is only a theory."
Hardest hit was the North American automobile industry, its Canadian branches suffering from protracted layoffs. The prestigious Moody's Investors Service took the unheard-of step of downgrading the credit rating of General Motors Corp., long the symbol of America's industrial strength, after third-quarter earnings showed a net operating loss of $468 million. G M's Canadian subsidiary managed to find a new market by shipping 13,500 Chevrolet Malibus to Iraq where they were used to partially compensate the widows of soldiers killed in the interminable war with Iran.
While Toronto retained its dominance as the country's leading financial centre, industry, money and people continued shifting westward. So much so that during the pregame banter at the Grey Cup game in Montreal, Ontario Premier Bill Davis casually suggested to Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed that they make a little wager: Ontario's budgetary deficit (about $1 billion) against the Alberta Heritage Fund (about $9 billion). With a half-time score for the Ottawa
Rough Riders of 20-1, Davis thought he had it made, but Lougheed (whose Eskimos won in a 26-23 squeaker) never did take the bet.
Not all the economic prognostications were gloomy. In a little-noted speech delivered to an international energy forum in Mexico City, Joel Bell, the executive vice-president of Petro-Canada, predicted that the oil discoveries off Newfoundland might rival the North Sea. Jack Gallagher of Dome continued to walk the Beaufort, fooling his cynical critics by delineating a giant Arctic oil pool estimated at 9.5 billion barrels—adding 50 per cent to Canada's recoverable reserves.
Corporate cannibalism flourished throughout the year, with companies worth $27 billion (representing one-fifth of all stocks listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange) being swallowed up in mergers and acquisitions.
To divert themselves from the burden of all the sombre economic and political news, Canadians took up fads, new and old, some spilling over from the U.S. and Japan. Rubik's Cubes and Sony Walkmans became "must" items for the urban chic, who started sending each other Strip-A-Grams and gift certificates for fitnessdance classes. Jelly beans came in with Ronald Reagan, the Rolling Stones were back on the road, a pacifist wave was sweeping Europe, and Toronto's Four Seasons Hotel was judged the third-best in North America (and 24th in the world). The best news of 1981 was that in June, 109 episodes later, Charlie's Anyels finally halted production; the year's non-news event was that Brooke Shields lost a court decision to halt publication of nude photos of herself.
Canadians drank more beer than usual (18'/2 gallons each), and recreational bicycling became our fastest-growing sport. It wasn't a vintage year for whooping cranes: out of 25 eggs, three reached the flight stage and of these, only two survived. Poodles remained Canada's favorite dogs. The most significant book published in 1981 was the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, while the U.S. best-seller lists sparkled with such gems as Alexandra Penney's How to Make Love to a Man, which The Washington Post dismissed in a one-line review: "So much for lying back and thinking of England."
If 1981 had an appropriate swan song, it may have been the one-man exhibit of a hundred Canadian flags painted by Toronto artist Charles Pachter. "I discovered something magical about that image," he says. "I turned something banal into something mysterious. But more than one of my flags is staggering halfway down the pole, all knotted up against itself, which represents the whole feeling of pent-up frustration and tension in this country." In some of Pachter's final canvasses the red maple leaf has torn away from its moorings. It is an angry emblem, not soaring with pride but plummeting in free fall like a spent rocket.
"There's no question my show is documenting something that's going on in this country—a pulling apart—the tearing away at the strings trying to hold us together."
Last stand at Szczecin
It was that kind of year
December 1981 By Allan Fotheringham
A tale of dollars and derring-do
Begin grabs for the Golan
THE YEAR AT HOME
December 1981 By Robert Lewis
Backstage IN THE NORTH
September 1959 By Peter C. Newman
The enduring mystery of Hibernia's creation
October 1990 By Peter C. Newman
A watchdog for the Asian connection
April 1989 By Peter C. Newman


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Jam (, also Romanized as Jāmʿ) is a village in Gheyzaniyeh Rural District, in the Central District of Ahvaz County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 148, in 29 families.

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Populated places in Ahvaz County

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Jesús Manuel Orlando Álvarez Monge (February 28, 1952 – March 31, 2016) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player. An outfielder who threw and batted right-handed, he appeared in 25 games in Major League Baseball over portions of four seasons (–) for the Los Angeles Dodgers and California Angels. Álvarez was born in the municipality of Río Grande; during his playing career he was listed as  tall and .

Álvarez signed with the Dodgers in 1970 and had a 12-season career in minor league baseball, during which he batted over .300 three times. In 1973, he led the Double-A Eastern League in hits (139) and was selected to the All-Star team. He had three consecutive past-September-1 trials with the Dodgers from 1973 through , garnering only one hit in nine at bats and ten games played. Traded to the Angels on March 31, 1976, he had his most extended stay in MLB that season; appearing in 15 games during May and June, he collected six hits, including his only two big-league home runs, and was credited with eight runs batted in.

His professional career ended in the Triple-A Mexican League in 1984. Orlando Álvarez died from complications of diabetes in his native Canóvanas at the age of 64. He was buried at the Río Grande Municipal Cemetery in Río Grande, Puerto Rico.

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Before 1970 season– Signed as a free agent with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
March 31, 1976– Traded to the California Angels in exchange for Ellie Rodríguez and cash.

See also
 List of Major League Baseball players from Puerto Rico

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Rieleros de Aguascalientes players
Salt Lake City Gulls players
Senadores de San Juan players
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Bosses to try weaning workers off Facebook
Employers are encouraged to introduce 'Facebook breaks', so workers can get their daily fix.
Last Updated: 31 Aug 2010
We've all been there: sneakily uploading our holiday snaps to Facebook while the boss isn't looking. But this could soon be a thing of the past, if UK employers can be persuaded to introduce 'Facebook breaks' – an attempt to regulate the amount of time employees spend on social networking sites during working hours. Proponents have been trying to tell employers for months that these networks can actually be beneficial for their businesses – but as the likes of Portsmouth City Council will attest, you can have too much of a good thing...
According to Employment Law Advisory Services (which, believe it or not, advises people on employment law), employers are getting downright fed-up with employees' social networking habits. And perhaps rightly so: some studies have suggested that UK plc could be losing millions of pounds every day as their staff fritter away hours on sites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. In fact, says ELAS, the habit is so bad for companies' health that it's become like smoking – users are desperate for their next Facebook fix in the same way smokers long for their next nicotine hit. A bit melodramatic perhaps, but you get the point.
Some staff have taken drastic action and banned social networking sites altogether; one notable recent example was Portsmouth City Council, which discovered that staff were logging on to Facebook up to 270,000 times a month (fair enough, you might think). However, some employers might not want to resort to such draconian measures just yet. So as an alternative, ELAS suggests introducing two five-minute Facebook breaks a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon – much like a standard fag break, but less life-threatening – with anyone caught logging on outside these designated slots getting a rocket from HR.
Incidentally, further evidence of the pernicious influence of Facebook et al is provided today by boffins at the Cranfield School of Management, who reckon that 'technology addiction' among teenagers is ruining the quality of their English, innit. Apparently teenagers are forgetting how to use 'real English', opting instead to converse in 'text speak' (LOL). What's more, internet use is turning our young into cheaters: 60% of the 11-18 year-old respondents admitted to inserting information straight from the internet into schoolwork, without so much as reading it.
So if UK plc thinks it has a problem now, it's only going to get worse as these technology addicts enter the workforce. And if addiction really is the problem, maybe we'd be better off trying to wean people off it slowly, rather than making them go completely cold turkey in the office...
In today's bulletin:
Bank holds rates - as banker breaks ranks
More reasons to invest in Morrisons
Ball's up for ITV
UK lags behind as leaders hide away


GRIP TIGHT is the electronic project of English producer Benjamin Gregory.
The video for 'Never Enough' is a smooth cinematic replica of the track. Robotic beats of 808 drum machines and the oscillations of synthesisers, with the vocals captured in the crypt of Kirche Luisenstadt, a Polish Church in Berlin.
The track – written about one night in two lovers' lives – emerged in an apartment by a canal in Berlin's Neukölln district – Gregory's home for almost two years, and where he explored abandoned places for inspiration and recorded sounds to document this period of time in his life.
'Never Enough' is released June 24th through FEINT (cd, digital) and Musclemilk (cassette).


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Reflection on Covenant
April 12, 2022 • Ben Ogilvie
This blog post is an excerpt from a past worship service about the concept of covenant. If you have any questions or comments for Ben or any of our church leaders and members, please do get in touch! You can also connect with us via our online communities on Facebook and Instagram. Let's chat!
Good morning! In the next few minutes I'm going to share a few things I believe, and ask a lot of questions. My goal is to start a conversation — in coffee hour, in meetings, in private conversations. If you have an answer to any of my questions, or if you agree or disagree with anything I've said, I'd love to hear it. And I encourage you to talk with others as well. Our topic today – covenant – touches the very heart and soul of our church community — now and in the future.
When I was working on the canvass a few years ago, I wrote that worship is the single most important thing we do together. It's what distinguishes us from a support group, a social club, or a political action group. It's what makes us a church. Even though we have differing views of what it means, what it's all about, it's still a time when we come together as a community to celebrate something larger than ourselves, something sacred and life-affirming; to gather strength; to share wisdom and comfort and joy; and to recommit ourselves to living as people of faith.
What Does It Mean to Live as People of Faith?
But what does that mean? "Living as people of faith?" We have these 7 Principles we tout to the world. What do these principles mean to us? What role do they play in our lives? In our individual lives, our family life, or the life of our church? Do they have a role? What do we do differently because we have these principles? Do we do anything differently?
How do you see our 7 Principles? Are they descriptive? "This is who we are"? Or are they aspirational? "This is who we want to be." Since most things in life aren't binary, maybe it's somewhere in the middle.
To me, this is a crucial question. Because to the extent that we see them as descriptive, then we don't have to DO anything to live our principles because this assumes that we already are. We're done. We've arrived. This is who we are.
If we see them as aspirational, as goals we aim for and miss and try again and miss again, but – we hope – get closer every time, then we have work to do. Together.
Do you see what I'm saying?
Who Do We Want to Be?
What happens when some someone, some brave soul, dares to assert that we're missing the mark in some way. We can reject this input because it conflicts with our idealized self image, OR we can embrace it – with gratitude even – because it gives us an opportunity to move closer to who we want to be.
I'm asking these questions because they're fundamental to what it means to be a covenantal community. Who do we want to be? Are we satisfied with who we are? Do we want to maintain that in a kind of stasis, or do we want to become something different – and if so, what? What do we want as a community? What do we agree is important? Are there ways we aren't living our principles as fully as we'd like? What do we need to do – how do we want to be – to enable our church to not only survive but thrive in the years to come? Let's talk about it!"
Ben Ogilvie


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More Gruden emails reveal problematic comments…
More Gruden emails reveal problematic comments from Raiders coach
Raider coach already under fire over racist comments revealed in earlier emails
Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden speaks on his headset during the first half of an NFL football game against the Chicago Bears, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
By New York Times |
PUBLISHED: October 11, 2021 at 5:40 p.m. | UPDATED: October 12, 2021 at 4:00 a.m.
By Ken Belson and Katherine Rosman | New York Times
When the vaunted N.F.L. coach Jon Gruden was confronted with a racist email he had sent in 2011 to insult the head of the players' union, he said he went too far but didn't have "a blade of racism" in him.
But league officials as part of a separate workplace misconduct investigation that did not directly involve him have found that Gruden, now the coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, casually and frequently unleashed misogynistic and homophobic language over several years to denigrate people around the game and to mock some of the league's momentous changes.
He denounced the emergence of women as referees, the drafting of a gay player and the tolerance of players protesting during the playing of the national anthem, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.
Gruden's messages were sent to Bruce Allen, the former president of the Washington Football Team, and others, while he was working for ESPN as a color analyst during "Monday Night Football," the sports network's weekly prime-time telecast of N.F.L. games. In the emails, Gruden called the league's commissioner, Roger Goodell, a "f****t" and a "clueless anti football p***y" and said that Goodell should not have pressured Jeff Fisher, then the coach of the Rams, to draft "queers," a reference to Michael Sam, a gay player chosen by the team in 2014.
In numerous emails during a seven-year period ending in early 2018, Gruden criticized Goodell and the league for trying to reduce concussions and said that Eric Reid, a player who had demonstrated during the playing of the national anthem, should be fired. In several instances, Gruden used a homophobic slur to refer to Goodell and offensive language to describe some N.F.L. owners, coaches and journalists who cover the league.
Gruden, Allen, the N.F.L., and the Raiders did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Although not with a team at the time, Gruden was still influential in the league and highly coveted as a coach. He had won a Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers following the 2002 season. And in 2018, he was hired for his second stint as the head coach of the Raiders franchise, which includes defensive lineman Carl Nassib, the first active N.F.L. player to publicly declare that he is gay.
The league said last week that it shared emails with the Raiders in which Gruden made derogatory comments.
Gruden told ESPN on Sunday that the league was reviewing emails in which he criticized Goodell, and explained that he had been upset about team owners' lockout of the players in 2011, when some of the emails were written. Gruden said in that interview that had used an expletive to refer to Goodell and that he did so because he disapproved of Goodell's emphasis on safety, which he believed was scaring parents into steering their sons away from football.
But Gruden's behavior was not limited to 2011. Gruden exchanged emails with Allen and other men that included photos of women wearing only bikini bottoms, including one photo of two Washington team cheerleaders.
Gruden also criticized President Obama during his re-election campaign in 2012, as well as then-vice president Joe Biden, whom Gruden called a "nervous clueless p***y." He used similar words to describe Goodell and DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the N.F.L. Players Association.
The league is already investigating Gruden as a result of another email he wrote to Allen in 2011 in which he used racist terms to describe Smith, who is Black.
In that email, Gruden, who is white and was working for ESPN at the time, criticized Smith's intelligence and used a racist trope to describe his face. The correspondence was first reported by The Wall Street Journal and confirmed by The New York Times.
The league, Smith, and Mark Davis, the owner of the Raiders, all denounced Gruden's comments, but the coach thus far has not been penalized and he coached his team in its game on Sunday against the Chicago Bears. Gruden said Friday that he did not remember sending the email and that his language "went too far," adding, "I never had a blade of racism in me."
Gruden's emails to Allen, who was fired by the Washington Football Team at the end of 2019, were reviewed as part of an N.F.L. investigation of workplace misconduct within the franchise that ended this summer. Goodell instructed league executives to look at more than 650,000 emails during the past few months, including those in which Gruden made offensive remarks. Last week, Goodell received a summary of their findings and the league sent the Raiders some of the emails written by Gruden.
In the exchanges, Gruden used his personal email account while Allen wrote from his team account. In some cases, Allen initiated the conversations and Gruden chimed in, while in other cases, they trade vulgar comments several times.
Some of the emails between Gruden and Allen also included businessmen friends, Ed Droste, the co-founder of Hooters; Jim McVay, an executive who has run the Outback Bowl, annually held in Tampa, Fla.; and Nick Reader, the founder of PDQ Restaurants, a Tampa-based fried chicken franchise. The exchanges begin as early as 2010 while Gruden was an analyst for "Monday Night Football." In 2018, he signed a 10-year, $100 million contract to coach the Raiders.
Droste, McVay, and Reader did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Gruden and Allen are longtime friends and colleagues. Allen was an senior executive with the Raiders from 1995 to 2003, when he worked with Gruden, who was head coach of the team from 1998 to 2001. Gruden became head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2002 and beat the Raiders in the Super Bowl that season. Allen became the general manager there in 2004. Allen and Gruden both left the Buccaneers after the 2008 season. While Gruden moved on to a broadcast role with ESPN, Allen became the general manager in Washington in 2010 and later the team's president.
Taken together, the emails provide an unvarnished look into the clubby culture of one N.F.L. circle of peers, where white male decision makers felt comfortable sharing pornographic images, deriding the league policies, and jocularly sharing homophobic language.
Allen, who is the son of legendary N.F.L. coach George Allen, and Gruden — whose father coached at Notre Dame and whose brother, Jay, was head coach in Washington from 2014 to 2019 — are part of an exclusive network that cycles between N.F.L. teams, networks and companies affiliated with the league.
Their banter flies in the face of the league's public denouncements of racism and sexism and its promises to be more inclusive amid criticism for not listening to the concerns of Black players, who make up about 70 percent of rosters. The N.F.L. has in the past struggled to discipline personnel who have committed acts of domestic violence and been condemned for failing to adequately address harassment of women, including N.F.L. cheerleaders.
In June, the N.F.L. congratulated Nassib after he became the first active N.F.L. player to publicly declare that he is gay. Goodell said he was "proud of Carl for courageously sharing his truth today. Representation matters."
Privately, Allen and Gruden appeared to have few boundaries in expressing homophobic and transphobic language. In one email from 2015 that includes Droste, McVay and others, Gruden crudely asked Allen to tell Bryan Glazer, whose family owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers where Gruden coached until 2008, to perform oral sex on him. Allen said Glazer would "take you up on that offer."
Allen and Gruden also mocked Caitlyn Jenner, who received an award from ESPN in 2015 after she transitioned.
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In an email from 2015, Allen and Gruden criticized a congressional bill that aimed to force the Washington franchise to change its name, which some Native Americans and others have denounced as a slur. Again using a vulgar term, Gruden took aim at Goodell and his staff even though the commissioner had initially defended the team's right to keep the name.
In 2017, Droste shared with the group a sexist meme of a female referee to which Gruden replied, "Nice job roger."
That same year, Gruden was sent a link to an article about N.F.L. players calling on Goodell to support their efforts promoting racial equality and criminal justice reform. Gruden had advice for Goodell:
"He needs to hide in his concussion protocol tent," he wrote.
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In March of 2013, work began on the WRA New Main Outfall project along the Des Moines River. The first step of this project was to remove approximately 80 feet of the river wall on the East side of the river and approximately 55 feet of river wall on the West. The historic balustrade railing needed to be cut and carefully removed for reinstallation after the new river walls were installed. Henriksen Contracting was hired by the prime contractor, Oscar Renda Contracting, to perform the sawing of the balustrade railing and the sawing of the river walls, pilasters, and river box for removal to install a series of new concrete pipes running beneath the river bed.


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The Minister of National Defense has handed over other self-propelled mortars RAK
- I had the opportunity to transfer the second Company Fire Module Rak for the 17th Wielkopolska Mechanized Brigade, but this is the seventh such module for the Polish Army. This is not the last module that will go to the Polish army. This is a weapon that is being created in Poland, it is a product of the Polish defense industry, praised by soldiers of the Polish Army - said Mariusz Błaszczak during the handing over of keys to self-propelled mortars Rak for equipment of the 17th Wielkopolska Mechanized Brigade.
On Friday, August 23. the head of the Ministry of Defense handed over another self-propelled mortars RAK to equip the 17th Wielkopolska Mechanized Brigade. Thus, the unit will receive a second fire module, which consists of 8 self-propelled mortars RAK, 4 artillery command vehicles, armament repair artillery vehicle. Huta Stalowa Wola S.A. finalizes the next phase of the contract for the supply of equipment for eight Company Fire Modules RAK concluded on April 28, 2016.
- We are implementing the next stage of the contract concluded with the Ministry of National Defense in 2016 with next timely delivery of company fire modules. We strengthen our position as a reliable producer of modern equipment and armaments for artillery troops. The competences that we build during work on such complex programs as RAK and REGINA will allow us to efficiently implement future orders under the technical modernization program of the Polish Armed Forces - said Bartłomiej Zając, President of the Board, General Director of Huta Stalowa Wola S.A.
The first elements of the company fire module of the 120 mm self-propelled mortar RAK on a wheeled chassis Huta Stalowa Wola handed over to the 17th Wielkopolska Mechanized Brigade on June 30th, 2017. This delivery inaugurated the supply chain of new artillery equipment for the Polish Armed Forces. 2nd CFM went to the 12th Mechanized Brigade named after Gen. Józef Haller in Szczecin, 3rd CFM was delivered to the 15th Mechanized Brigade. 4th CFM went to the 21st Podhale Riflemen Brigade. 5th CFM is included in the 5th Battalion of Podhale Riflemen Brigade named after Gen. Brig. Andrzej Galica in Przemyśl, and the 6th went to the 15th Giżycka Mechanized Brigade.
It is worth recalling that on August 13 this year. Huta Stalowa Wola S.A. in the presence of Mariusz Błaszczak, the Minister of National Defense, she signed a contract with the Armament Inspectorate worth over one hundred million zlotys for the supply of Artillery Ammunition Vehicles for the needs of fire modules of 120 mm RAK self-propelled mortars.
Self-propelled mortar Rak 120 mm on the Rosomak chassis, designed in the Huta Stalowa Wola. It has an automatic charging system and is able to conduct an accurate fire at a distance of 8 to 12 km. Deliveries of "Rak" for the Polish Armed Forces are implemented in 2017-2019 as a result of the agreement concluded in 2016 for the amount of over PLN 968 million. Mortar service requires 4 people. It is worth mentioning here that Huta Stalowa Wola also offers a track version of the 120 mm mortar. At the same time, HSW is continuing work related to the delivery to the Polish Armed Forces of accompanying vehicles, ie Artillery Vehicles for the Renovation of Armaments (in the course of deliveries), Artillery Ammunition Vehicles (at the final stage of negotiations with the Ministry of Defense) and Artillery Reconnaissance Vehicles (during the implementation of development work) .
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Orange County Animal Services is calling on animal lovers to adopt a dog after 98 animals, including 27 small dogs from one woman, were impounded Wednesday.
On Wednesday night, a 73-year-old woman surrendered 27 small dogs and puppies after she realized she did not have the means to take care of them, officials said. The dogs appear to be in good health and will soon be evaluated by Animal Services clinic staff.
With Wednesday's new additions, the shelter is nearly full and many of the kennels have multiple dogs in them, officials said.
"We are in need of anyone who is ready to take on the responsibility of owning a pet to visit the shelter and adopt, " said Dil Luther, division manager of Orange County Animal Services.
For the month of April, the shelter is waiving the standard adoption fee for pets who have been surrendered to the shelter, calling these "certified pre-owned pets."


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mps2341	Uncategorized	 January 24, 2010 January 24, 2010 1 Minute
Georgia native Kenny Hall thoroughly enjoying a Thompkins jam
After last night's win, CBS Sportsline has the Dawgs RPI at 73 (almost on the coveted first page!) and their Strength of Schedule is 6th hardest in the country.
On Feb 14,2004, the Dawgs beat Kentucky 74-68 in Athens…this was the last time Georgia beat an opponent ranked in the Top 10 (and they've had 9 tries).
As my friends and I were walking into the game, we heard people negotiating ticket prices in excess of $75 dollars apiece. Coach Fox definitely is generating some interest in UGA basketball around the Bulldawg Nation.
Bruce Pearl played both Cameron Tatum and Melvin Goins against Georgia on Saturday. This was the first game that these two players saw action in since the "incident". That means that not only did the Dawgs end the Vols' 5-game post-Tyler Smith win streak (something the Kansas Jayhawks couldn't do), they did it against a stronger Tennessee lineup (with 8 scholarship players).
Calling out Mark Bradley – after the Georgia Bulldogs upset the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in Athens earlier this season, Mark Bradley of the AJC made the bold statement that the Bulldogs had merely one player (Trey Thompkins) who would make Tech's 10-man rotation.
First off, I would take Trey Thompkins over any player on the Yellow Jacket roster – he is averaging more points than anyone on Tech and he beat them in a head-to-head matchup. Gani Lawal is a great forward that plays very hard, but he doesn't have the outside game or ball-handling skills that Thompkins possesses.
What about Travis Leslie? Does Bradley really believe that Paul Hewitt wouldn't prefer to have Leslie (13.9 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.2 ESPN Highlights) instead of D'Andre Bell, Iman Shumpert, Brian Oliver, Glen Rice, Jr., etc? I won't even list these players statistics because they are not comparable – click here if you like numbers.
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I really love newspapers, and I hate what is happening to them, but maybe it will be a good thing when the AJC inevitably collapses so that Mark Bradley can never slam our school again.
Andy Katz referred to Travis Leslie as the "best dunker in the biz this season" in his Weekly Watch – http://espn.go.com/ncb/notebook/_/page/notebookweeklywatch0910/week-10
Peanut Butter Kid is enjoying 15 minutes of internet fame:
http://deadspin.com/5455802/the-ballad-of-peanut-butter-kid-a-firsthand-account
Congratulations to Travis Leslie on his SEC Player of the Week award – http://www.secsports.com/news/mens-players-of-the-week125.aspx.
Hopefully this will be the first of many for the young sophomore.
Leslie is absolutely the most improved player on the Georgia roster in my opinion. Isn't it amazing that the previous coaching staff sould not find a way to coach (and thus, use) this guy. I finally came to the realization that a coaching change was necessary by the mismanagement of Leslie land Jeremy Price–two players that could have been ruined by the way they were handled. All it takes to turn things around is a coach!!!
I totally agree with you…Leslie has got to be one of the most improved players in the nation.
He and Price played together at Columbia High School in Decatur, GA, and they won a state championship.
I played basketball for Lakeside High School in Atlanta, GA, and we used to play Columbia twice a year since they were in our region.
They still have the same head coach, Dr. Phillip McCrary. Once their season ends, I am going to try to get some time to sit down with him (hopefully he still remembers me) and interview him about Leslie and Price for a blog entry.


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This is in line with the requirements of the biotech- and pharmaceutical industries for more selective and potent medicines. In addition, ongoing research in proteomics continues to generate an incredible amount of knowledge regarding proteins and peptides derived thereof.
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Spring is here! There are loads of people who utilize spring as a time to 'reset' and shake off the winter sludge with a dietary detox or cleanse. Spring cleaning season is also here, and you may be finally seeing the extent that the dust has accumulated on the blinds now that the sun is shining. While seasonal detoxes can be a great mental reset, if toxins are a concern it is of primary importance not to cleanse your diet for X days, but to first minimize exposure to harmful chemicals every day. I encourage you to go through your cupboards and garage this spring and get rid of harmful pesticides, herbicides, and heavy-duty cleaners which have warning labels on them. While you can pick up some non-toxic cleaners at the store, some of these still contain questionable ingredients and all of them are far more expensive than the DIY recipes I have here that work just as well. Give these a try and let me know what you think!
DIY everyday cleaner – I have a couple bottles of this in the house in various places. Some essential oils have strong antibacterial and antiviral properties; these are the ones I like to use in this cleaner.
1 cup white vinegar (If your countertops are made from marble, granite, or stone, use rubbing alcohol or cheap vodka instead of vinegar (its acidity can harm these surfaces).
10-20 drops of your favorite essential oils (lemon, tea tree, orange, pine, and clove all have great antibacterial action).
Mix all in a spray bottle and use when needed.
Shower Cleaner – 1 cup water, 1 cup vinegar, 5-10 drops of lemon, pine, or lavender essential oils. Spray on tile and let sit for several minutes before wiping away.
15-30 drops lavender essential oil or grapefruit, tea tree, lemon, orange, or whatever you like!
Using a small funnel, add the liquid ingredients: water and castile soap to a squirt container or bottle. Then, add the baking soda. Shake to combine the ingredients, except the hydrogen peroxide.
Place the top on the bottle (make sure the squirt top is closed!). Shake the bottle vigorously until the ingredients are combined.
To Use: Squirt the interior sides of the toilet bowl with cleaner. Spray hydrogen peroxide over the cleaner. Allow both to rest for 5-15 minutes, then scrub the toilet bowl with a cleaner brush. Store the cleaner (sans peroxide) at room temperature and vigorously shake before using. Separation of the ingredients is normal. You may wish to store the peroxide in a spray bottle next to the bowl cleaner. Alternatively, it can be omitted, but it will then not have as strong as a disinfectant effect. Read more here.
Mildew killer – spray vinegar directly onto the affected area. Let sit for 30 min, then rinse away with warm water, scrubbing if needed.
DIY Window Cleaner – This is originally from Crunchy Betty, but nabbed from WholeNewMom.com.
To use: Combine everything in a spray bottle and shake well to mix. Spray onto glass surface and wipe clean with newspaper.
These cleaners will leave your home smelling fresh and your surfaces shining! In my next post I'll share some other tips to keep toxin exposure low inside your home.
Thank you for these extra ideas!!!
You are very welcome, Josie! I'm glad you have found them helpful!


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}

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House in Tamatsu, Japan | Ido, Kenji Architectural Studio
This narrow house in Osaka, Japan, is recently designed and completed by Ido, Kenji Architectural Studio.
The three-storey house on the small plot of only 43.21sqm maximizes living space and optimizes natural daylight through voids above the staircase and a rotated second floor towards a large corner window. The main staircase is formed out of angular white boxes that cantilever out from the wall to create a set of floating steps.
Photos © Yohei Sasakura
Description by Ido Kenji Architectural Studio:
The house is designed for 4 members of a family with two kids.
The house is placed at urban district and a small plot of only 43.21sqm in Osaka, Japan. Around the site is the mixed-use area where small houses, small factories, and small office buildings coexist together without any harmony.
The client's former house, which stood at this site, was a wooden two-story house. The adjacent sites were close and natural light didn't enter into the old house. Therefore the client requested the family room (living area, dining area and kitchen) to be as large as possible without pillars or road-bearing walls, and that natural light that comes into the house, especially into the family room.
First, since the site was narrow, the volume of the building took up as much of the site as possible.
According to the lifestyle of the client, the bedroom of the couple and wet areas were placed in the ground floor, the family room was placed in the first floor, the rooms of children were placed in the second floor and the terrace was placed on the roof. For a structural reason, the large openings were not able to open out on the road side of the first floor of the building. So, I rotated the volume of the second floor 14 degrees for the axis of the building, and interstitial spaces between the rotated wall and the outer wall of the building became voids. The skylight was set up in the upside of the void, and is intended to allow natural light to drop on the family room of the first floor.
Moreover, one of two walls rotated 14 degrees on the plan of the second floor is also inclined to the verticality, and the part which overlaps with stairs is turned up, and has become like origami or a facet. This inclined wall frees people's feeling by deviation from the norm, simultaneously the sense of touch of the degree of inclination and the light to reflect of that inclination cause a new physical sense.
The building's white box is completely different from the building of the neighborhood. It is the appearance which the cylindrical volume of the second floor rotated 14 degrees penetrates into the building. Box-shaped cantilevered stairs are floating in the void.
Source: Ido, Kenji Architectural Studio
Labels: Architecture, Interiors, Japan
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Kate Grenville AO
Kate Grenville completed an arts degree at the University of Sydney and worked as a film editor before spending several years in the UK and Europe, where she began to write. After completing an MA in creative writing at the University of Colorado at the beginning of the 1980s, she returned to Australia in 1983 and worked at SBS Television's subtitling unit. In 1984 she published the collection of stories Bearded Ladies. The novels Lilian's Story (1985), Dreamhouse (1986) Dark Places (1995) and Joan Makes History (1988) followed. Lilian's Story (loosely based on the life of Bea Miles) was filmed starring Ruth Cracknell, Toni Collette and Barry Otto, and Dreamhouse was filmed as Traps, starring Jacqueline MacKenzie. Grenville's international best-seller The Secret River (2005) won many prizes, including the Commonwealth Prize for Literature and the Christina Stead Prize. It also formed the basis of her doctorate in creative arts from University of Technology, Sydney. The Idea of Perfection (2000) won the Orange Prize (a prominent British award for the best book by a woman) in 2001, edging out Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin. Grenville's novels have been widely published in translation. She has also written or co-written several books about the process of writing, which are used in school and university writing courses.
2 portraits in the collection
'The secret river'
Kate Grenville reads a passage from her novel The secret river and describes its creation.
'Making Stories'
Australian writer Kate Grenville discusses her career and portrait by Jenny Sages.
Kate (Kate Grenville)
by Jenny Sages
encaustic and oil on board
support: 180.0 x 190.0 cm
Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Gift of Jenny Sages 2014 Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
by Tim Georgeson
gelatin silver photograph
sheet: 50.5 x 40.7 cm
image: 45.4 x 35.8 cm
Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Purchased 2008
Tim Georgeson
Jenny Sages
Records held at the National Library


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In December 2020 the EU submitted an updated NDC with a more ambitious emissions reduction target of at least 55%, including emissions sinks in the land use, land-use change, and forestry sector (LULUCF).
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Due to the inclusion of LULUCF emissions, the new emissions reduction target cannot be directly compared with the earlier one adopted in 2015. When accounting for a sink of 225 MtCO2e—maximum amount that, according to the European Climate Law, can be used to account for meeting this goal—the goal is weakened to 52.8%. However, if intra-EU aviation and navigation is excluded from this goal, it increases to around 54%. When it comes to LULUCF, the Commission's proposal would oblige member states to increase the total emissions sink to a least 310 MtCO2e—whereas only 225 MtCO2e can be accounted to meeting this goal. This creates an additional sink of 85 MtCO2e, which is not considered in this assessment.
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When measured against a fair-share emissions allocation, we rate the EU's emissions reduction target as "Insufficient". The "Insufficient" rating indicates that the EU's fair share target in 2030 needs substantial improvement to be consistent with the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C temperature limit. Some of these improvements should be made to the domestic emissions target itself, others could come in the form of additional support for emissions reductions achieved in developing countries in the form of finance. If all countries were to follow the EU's approach, warming would reach up to 3°C.
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