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SUVs tend to be among the safest cars that you can own. To keep your SUV safe you need to also make sure that you have safe tyres. The car is only as safe as its weakest link.If you have bad brakes, the car might not be as safe, the same goes with the tyres. If you have worn out tyres with a bad tread depth, they will not be safe to drive with. You need to have at least 4mm tread depth, so if you are running close to that you should purchase a new set of SUV summer tyres.
Low tread depth impacts your braking distance, which makes you more likely to be in an accident. When cornering you are also more likely to skid and lose control over your SUV. In addition, low tread depth is much more likely to cause aquaplaning, as there is less volume to push away water from the contact area. Aquaplaning is something you want to avoid as it can lead to total loss of control over your vehicle. This can easily cause you to crash your SUV. Both these factors support that you need to change tyres to keep your SUV as safe as it is intended to be.
If you have proper tread depth in your tyres, you might be able to manage a bit longer with your current tyres. Especially if you are happy with them and they look to be in good condition. Make sure that the tyre pressure is according to the owner's manual, as low tyre pressure causes higher tyre wear and higher fuel consumption. Both these can be avoided by just putting some air into your tyres. Tyre pressure will increase with increasing temperature and decrease with decreasing temperature. Due to the big impact as it has on your tyres, it is recommended to check it on a regular basis.
Winter tyres are available as studded or non-studded versions. The studded tyres will use metal studs to gain traction on ice and packed snow, while it will use unique tread design to have good traction on snow. The non-studded tyres will use other technologies to provide excellent grip on snowy roads and good wear durability. Non-studded tyres may, for example, have tiny crystal like particles in the rubber compound to create a sand paper feeling surface that is great on snow and ice. This Cryo Crystal concept provides both longitudinal and latitudinal grip for winter conditions. The tread in non-studded tyres has a unique design with lots of features that improve the grip such as zigzag and pump sipes to ensure good grip even on wet ice.
The metal studs tend to be a bit superior on ice, but the difference keeps getting smaller with the amount of improvements that is being done on the non-studded tyres. On snow both tyres perform equally well. The tyre choice depends on the weather conditions of your area and on your personal preferences.
It is important that the tread depth of a tyre is above the 4mm, as your tyres will lose the key properties once the tread depth goes below the 4mm. To ensure that the tread depth is equal between the front and the rear tyres, you should rotate the tyres every now and then. It is important that you mark the position of the tyre before you store them for the next season. When it is time to rotate the tyres, remember that the studded tyres are directional. You should change the rear left position with the left front position and the same with the right side.
The tyre change should be done in line with the local regulations. If you suspect that there might be some winter weather returning, it may be better to wait a little bit longer before you change your tyres.
Summer is finally on its way, daylight savings time has struck Europe for maybe the last time and it should make the days feel longer. Next year we will have to do without daylight savings time, but hopefully summer will arrive anyways. This is also the time to start thinking about summer tyres for your vehicle. If you have SUV non-studded tyres on your vehicle, then the change might not be so urgent, but winter tyres perform worse in warm weather and the tyre wear is increased as the temperature increases.
If you have SUV studded tyres, then you might have to obey some timelines for when they have to be removed and summer tyres have to be mounted to your vehicle. If you have SUV All weather tyres, you can continue driving through spring and summer all year round with the same set of tyres. These tyres are good if you have not too harsh winters. All-weather tyres that have been approved for winter use provide safe driving on snow, ice and slush.
If you live in an area where there are harsh winters and real summers, it is always better to use seasonal tyres that are specifically developed for the particular conditions. They will keep you safe and you will get better grip and stability throughout the year. The only challenge is when to change from the winter tyres to summer tyres. You don't want to change too early, as you don't want to be left with having summer tyres and the winter weather returns for another spell.
What people don't always realize is that the rubber in the summer tyres will become hard at temperatures below zero degrees Celsius and you will loose the traction even on dry roads. In these circumstances even rugged looking SUV summer tyres will not be as good as you anticipate. Don't try driving your SUV in winter conditions with summer tyres mounted, it is not safe.


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Torsion of normal adnexa in a 31-year-old woman: A case report and literature review
Nao Wakui, Ai Miyoshi, Yuji Kamei, Takeya Hara, Akiko Fujishiro, Serika Kanao, Hirokazu Naoi, Hirohumi Otsuka, Masaaki Nagamatsu, Takeshi Yokoi
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kaizuka City Hospital, Osaka, Japan
Dr. Nao Wakui
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kaizuka City Hospital, 3-10-20 Hori Kaizuka-Shi, Osaka
DOI: 10.4103/GMIT.GMIT_4_17
It is known that a large ovarian cyst will likely cause torsion. However, normal adnexal torsion is rare and occurs in premenarchal girls in most cases. This is a case of a reproductive woman. A 31-year-old woman suffering from acute abdominal pain in the lower and right side consulted her gynecologist. The next day she had a computed tomography performed and was suspected of ovarian torsion. She did not have fever, nausea, or leukocytosis, but her abdominal pain persisted. Diagnostic laparoscopy was performed and showed torsion of the right fallopian tube, which was swollen and looked like a hydrosalpinx with a normal ovary. We did detorsion and excision of the right tube. However, pathological findings showed that the right tube was not a hydrosalpinx but was swollen due to blood stasis. We determined that this case was torsion of normal adnexa. In such cases, diagnostic laparoscopy is very effective.
Keywords: Diagnostic laparoscopy, reproductive woman, normal adnexal torsion
Wakui N, Miyoshi A, Kamei Y, Hara T, Fujishiro A, Kanao S, Naoi H, Otsuka H, Nagamatsu M, Yokoi T. Torsion of normal adnexa in a 31-year-old woman: A case report and literature review. Gynecol Minim Invasive Ther 2018;7:33-5
Wakui N, Miyoshi A, Kamei Y, Hara T, Fujishiro A, Kanao S, Naoi H, Otsuka H, Nagamatsu M, Yokoi T. Torsion of normal adnexa in a 31-year-old woman: A case report and literature review. Gynecol Minim Invasive Ther [serial online] 2018 [cited 2021 Jan 17];7:33-5. Available from: https://www.e-gmit.com/text.asp?2018/7/1/33/225718
Adnexal torsion is a relatively frequent cause of a woman's acute abdominal pain and can occur in individuals of any age, but most commonly during a woman's reproductive age. Most of the cases have some swelling of the adnexa, for example, paraovarian cysts, simple cysts, or dermoid cysts. In normal adnexal torsion, the twisted adnexa do not have any visible morphologic pathology and is very rare, occurring in about 8%–18% of all cases of torsions.[1] Most adnexal torsion swelling occurs in postmenarchal women, but the most normal adnexal torsion occurs in premenarchal girls.[2] To the best of our knowledge, a few cases have ever been reported in patients with the torsion of normal adnexa in a postmenarchal woman. We now report a rare case of normal adnexal torsion in a postmenarchal reproductive woman.
The case was 0 gravida, 31-year-old woman. She had never suffered from intrapelvic infectious diseases such as pelvic inflammatory disease or appendicitis. One day she felt a dull pain in her right side from the lower back to the abdomen. She consulted her gynecologist, but there was no abnormality in her uterus and bilateral adnexa. Next day, she consulted her urologist as her pain continued. She had a computed tomography scan of the abdomen carried out. It showed that her right ovary and salpinx had swollen to 5 cm. Hence, she came to our hospital for treatment about 60 h after the onset of abdominal pain.
When she came to our hospital, she did not have a fever (her temperature was 36.8°C) or nausea. Her white blood cell (WBC) was 4890/ml, and C-reactive protein was within the normal range, but her abdominal pain continued. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed massive ovarian edema and a twisted salpinx [Figure 1]. We undertook a diagnostic laparoscopy about 68 h after the onset of abdominal pain. There was no ascites or adhesion. Her left adnexa and uterus looked normal, and her right adnexa were rotated 360° clockwise. The right ovary was a little swollen but not ischemic. There was no ovarian tumor [Figure 2]. As the right tube resembled hydrosalpinx, we thought that a hydrosalpinx was the cause of the right adnexa torsion. We performed detorsion of her adnexa and right salpingectomy to prevent recurrences. After the operation, her pain disappeared and she did not have any postoperative complications. We confirmed that her right ovary returned to a normal size of 31.5 mm. Her cervical mucus test was negative for Neisseria More Details gonorrheae and Chlamydia trachomatis. She was discharged 7 days after the operation.
Figure 1: Magnetic resonance imaging image before operation; T2-weighted, coronal section image. Right ovarian edema was massive
Figure 2: Findings of the laparotomy. Right adnexa was swollen and twisted
Pathological findings showed that the right tube was not a hydrosalpinx. Although the serous membrane side of the right tube looked very swollen, the edema of the interstitial tissue was conspicuous and the extension of the internal duct was poor. There was no thinning of and/or unclear mucosal lamella which is typical sings of a hydrosalpinx. It suggests that the right adnexa were swollen simply due to blood stasis. We determined that this was a case of "the torsion of normal adnexa."
Torsion of adnexa may occur in any woman, from in utero to postmenopausal, but it is most common in women of reproductive age. Smorgick et al. in their study reported that the most frequent cause is ovarian cysts (including simple cysts, dermoid cysts, corpus luteum cysts, and benign epithelial tumor) which account for 45.8%, followed by paraovarian cysts (33.3%) in postmenarchal women. Torsion of normal adnexa accounts for only 16.7% of cases in postmenachal women. In contrast in premenarchal girls, the most frequent diagnosis of the cause of adnexal torsion is "torsion of normal adnexa"(35%), followed by simple cysts (30%), dermoid cysts (25%), and paraovarian cysts/malignant ovarian tumors.[2]
Melcer et al. in their study reported that the presence of a multicystic ovary caused by ovulation induction treatment was found in women of reproductive age (20 years to menopause, in 5.5%) and in pregnancy (in 35.5%).[3] Spitzer et al. also reported that assisted reproductive technology (ART) and ovarian stimulation with ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) increases ovarian torsion in pregnant women.[4]
Tanaka et al. reported a case of torsion of the normal ovary in the postpartum period. They proposed that a possible reason for the postpartum normal adnexal torsion is the rapid anatomical changes in the pelvis, accompanied by the involution of the uterus while the utero-ovarian ligament remains disproportionately stretched. This allows the normal ovary increased room to move and twist.[5]
We encountered a very rare case of torsion of normal adnexa in a 31-year-old woman, who was of reproductive age. To the best of our knowledge, the torsion of normal adnexa in a postmenarchal woman, one who is not postpartum, who has not received ART nor OHSS, has not been previously reported. The etiology of torsion of the normal adnexa is also not well defined. In the pediatric population, several authors proposed reasons such as the uterus is relatively small and the utero-ovarian ligaments are disproportionately long, or abrupt changes in intra-abdominal pressure with vomiting and coughing, adnexal venous congestion due to perimenarchal hormone activity, and sudden movement.[6],[7] We propose a new hypothesis: her torsion episode occurred in the proliferative phase 2 weeks after the last menstruation, and hence, a large follicle may have made her ovary temporarily enlarged and therefore easily twisted. Sexual intercourse could have also promoted the possibility of torsion, but this could not be confirmed.
The symptoms of normal adnexal torsion are almost identical to that of torsion with the adnexal tumor. Pansky et al. reported a study that compared normal adnexa to pathologic adnexa in postmenarchal women. In that study, abdominal pain was the most prevalent symptom, followed by nausea and vomiting, and by subfebrile range fever in both groups. The prevalence of an elevated WBC count was also common. There was no significant difference in previous surgery between the two groups.[1] Melcer et al. reported that the torsion occurred slightly more frequently on the right side (53%–70%), and this tendency is similar to torsion of normal adnexa.[3]
On the other hand, the torsion recurrence rate of normal adnexa is much higher than that of pathologic adnexa within 2 or 3 years after the operations. In some literature, the torsion recurrence of normal adnexa happens slightly more frequently on the ipsilateral side.[1],[2] There does not appear to be a significant difference in recurrent rates among the patients of different age groups.[2],[3]
Pansky et al. also reported that torsion recurrence rates depend on initial surgical management in the cases of pathologic adnexal torsion. The recurrence rates were reported as 28.6% in cases with only detorsion, 12.5% in cases with cyst aspiration, and 5.3% in cases with pathology resection.[1] We can imagine easily that normal adnexal torsion recurs more frequently than pathologic adnexal torsion because we can only perform detorsion in the initial operation. However, it is difficult to foresee the recurrence so that there is no consensus about how long patients with normal adnexal torsion should be followed after operations. If the woman who experienced normal adnexal torsion visits the hospital with her abdominal pain, we should take a recurrence into consideration.
Adnexal torsion accounts for 3% of gynecologic surgical emergencies,[5] but this is sometimes underestimated. Excessive conservative management can cause ovarian necrosis. Kruger and Heller reported that only fever was significantly common in the patients with adnexal necrosis,[8] and Taskin et al. reported that ovarian function in rats with torsion for three cycles would be lost if the time of torsion lasted longer than 36 h.[9] However, in cases of normal adnexal torsions with hemorrhagic necrosis, Chen et al. reported that the ischemic duration lasted from 16 to 288 h.[10] Whether necrosis occurs may depend on not only on time after symptom onset but also how the extent the adnexa is twisted.
In this case, the time from the symptom onset to the operation was 68 h, but the torsion was only 360° hence that there was no finding of necrosis in her specimen. Her symptom was only abdominal pain, without fever or leukocytosis. The less severe symptoms may be associated with less ovarian damage, but it should be noted that the abdominal pain may sometimes become less severe when organ ischemia is established.
We experienced a very rare case of torsion of normal adnexa in a postmenarchal woman. We should recognize normal adnexal torsion as a cause of acute abdominal pain even if she is of reproductive age and treat it accordingly to avoid loss of ovarian functions.
In such case when the diagnosis is uncertain, an exploratory laparotomy is very effective. In particular, diagnostic laparoscopy is minimally invasive. We can see inside the abdomen at high magnification, stop any bleeding, untwist the twisted organ, or excise it as required. Gynecological patients are often young, and small scars are cosmetically more appealing.
Thank you very much to Masumi Takeda for giving me a chance to make a case report. Also thanks to Ai Miyoshi for editing and advices for this paper.
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RE-DRAW.02: Meet the Winner and the Honourable Mentions!
WINNER: Art Is a Blast
by Yi Zhou and Xueying Huang
"People make plans for a holiday, we, too, made stay-at-home to-do lists at the outburst of coronavirus in Germany. This competition is one item on our lists. I mean, who can say no to a quarantine-discount on registration? We're architecture students in our freshman year at Technical University Munich. This Re-Draw task turned out to be more demanding than what we expected and has pleasantly filled our semester break. We very much enjoyed doing it and have learned a ton through the process. Although looking at the drawing now again we see many aspects to be bettered, we have to admit it's unsatisfactory that drives us forward. Big thanks to Non Architecture Competition and the jurors for making this nice experience possible!"
HONOURABLE MENTION: VERTIGO
by Juliette Blatter
Young architect, both French and Swiss, I am working in Basel for 2 years after a diploma from the Accademia di Architettura of Mendrisio. Drawing architecture and Non Architecture has always been a passion in parallel of my profession. Another way of expression, to develop new ideas and also to escape from reality and its constraints. An activity that I will surely continue and improve in the future.
"Resilience has been for all the motto during these hard times of confinement and drawing has been my way of interpreting it. RE-DRAW 02 offered me a great occasion to escape through my pencils and to reflect on the inspiring and iconic Guggenheim!"
HONOURABLE MENTION: Divers Coil
by Elin Holm
"My name is Elin Holm and I have a bachelor's degree in architecture from Chalmers University in Gothenburg. A year back from now I´ve spent participating in architecture competitions and taking on smaller projects with two other architect friends, while working part-time in a shoe shop. I will start my master in architecture this autumn, and I am looking forward to spending one semester at an exchange in Norway in 2021.
This was a free and fun challenge to participate in. I thought it was interesting trying to read and "experience" a building completely from the internet, since I haven´t seen it in real life. Looking at plan drawings, sections, and pictures. As I imagine many would, the great spiralling atrium caught my attention. Through my illustration, I wanted to show the light and verticality of the space cutting through the entire building, by using an imagined scenario of a different use for the space. Diving: being in the space by falling through it!"
HONOURABLE MENTION: The Summer Dream
by Anna Kuchera
Anna is an architectural designer currently working in New York City at Robert A.M. Stern Architects. She was born and raised in Apalachin, New York and graduated from Cornell University with a B.Arch in 2018. Her interests lie in researching the constantly changing nature of today's cities, exploring design through the channels of craft and materiality, and pushing the limits of communication through visual representation.
"I was drawn to the RE-DRAW.02 competition because of the open-ended nature of the prompt and the opportunity to create an image with representation methods and elements less common to architectural practice. An ongoing personal project of mine is to create visuals that combine vastly different architectural programs in order to challenge traditional architectural values and ideals. By inserting the program of a public pool into the avant-garde and pure forms of the lauded Guggenheim Museum, a chaotic yet functional scene is created. The image is aspirational in the context of New York's current shuttered state; many museums here are not set to re-open until the end of summer, and when they do it will be with a certainly more sterile environment than pictured here."
HONOURABLE MENTION: The Playseum
by Ege Cakir
Ege Cakir is a young Turkish architect who received his bachelor's degree in architecture from METU as a valedictorian in 2016. His graduation project is awarded the second place in Archiprix Turkey. In 2019, he completed his master's studies in TU Delft with his graduation project about transgressive spaces and inclusion/exclusion in public space. He believes that the role of architect/ure goes beyond the position of a designer and brings responsibilities as a collaborative actor in social and spatial justice.
"Participating in Non-Architecture Competitions was an inspiring process for me since it allows artistic freedom and creativity. I decided to participate because it encouraged me to explore concepts that are beyond the field of built architecture, through re-illustrating one of the precedents of our built environment."
HONOURABLE MENTION: Not only villains go to hell
by Cecilia Bagnolatti
"I am an Italian architect, fresh out of my Masters at Politecnico di Torino.
I've always been interested in illustration and graphics, so in this Non Architecture competition, I tried to combine these two interests with my major.
Looking at different images of the building, the section immediately jumped out at me, reminding me of Hell in Dante Alighieri's epic poem Divine Comedy. I've always had a soft spot for that classic work of literature!
This year also marks the anniversary of its completion in 1320, a year before the author's death in 1321. As Dante did 700 years ago, I decided to include in my work prominent figures of today's world, placing each sinner inside the relevant section of Inferno (Dante's circles) where they are being punished for their crimes on Earth.
Among my sinners, there is probably a number of predictable choices, but others might surprise the viewers. In each circle of Hell depicted in my work, you can find one or two famous individuals, 12 in total.
Can you identify all of them and understand their sins?"
HONOURABLE MENTION: Guggenheim to go
by Fran Mikolić
"Enrolled in a graduate programme at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb (Croatia), I'm currently on a break, recharging before my last semester. Amid pandemic and post-earthquake, the RE-DRAW.02 competition was a mental reset for me. I was already obsessed with masterpieces other people created through competitions that signing up was the next clear step. Since I'm also a big fan of The New Yorker Cartoons, it was a blast to reimagine the FLW's iconic building in a new humorous way. This competition surely got me hooked and I can't wait to be back for more."


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Q: Inductive filter vs capacitive filter: Which is better and gives less THD on the input side? I have a generalised statement that total harmonic distortion (THD) on input side for input supply current  is more for single phase diode rectifier with capacitive filter as compared to single phase rectifier with inductive filter. How is an inductive filter better than a capacitive filter in this context ?

A: You need to specify exactly what circuit you mean when you say inductive filter and capacitive filter.  Most likely your inductive filter has a capacitor in there too.  It's hard to imagine a single diode rectifier to make DC and not putting a cap across is somewhere.  If the inductor is therfore in addition to the cap, the additional filtering will additionally reduce high frequencies, which reduces the harmonics, and therfore the total distortion on the output.
Perhaps the statement is referring to THD of the current waveform on the input.  In that case a inductor in series will spread out the current over time instead of it being drawn in short spikes shortly around the input peaks.
Again, you need to specify more clearly what you are asking about to get a more accurate answer.

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Ста́тник — фамилия. Известные носители:
 Статник, Давид (род. 1983) — лужицкий общественный деятель; председатель лужицкого культурно-общественного общества «Домовина» (с 2011).
 Статник, Юрий Михайлович (род. 1947) — советский оперный певец (бас); Народный артист России.

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New Artists, Old Songs: from indiefolk to bluegrass
with Stampede Road, Mountain Man, AJ Lee, Brandi Ediss & more!
January 25th, 2014 — 2:36pm
I've been too deep in the songs up in my head these past weeks, trying to call up old fragments and refrains in memory while sitting in silence marred only by the whirring pellet stove and the faint and constant ring of tinnitus. But this is a practice that is wholly the wrong way 'round: music is meant to be heard and sung, not merely echoed in the brain; we are shamed at the realization, and determined to make amends.
And so we pursue a corrective action: a dig into the mailbag, the artist blogs and facebook pages, and the various components of the digital rumor mill to celebrate the emergent coverfolk of folk, roots, and Americana artists both known and new with a New Artists, Old Songs feature today, and the promise of news to come of recordings and releases from other, more familiar voices as winter marches ever onward.
Read on for covers of Dylan, the Dead, Low Anthem, John Denver, Blondie, Traffic, tradfolk and more from new artists Stampede Road, Mountain Man, The Tuttles with AJ Lee, Brandi Ediss, and Holy Moly and the Crackers. May your ears, too, take pleasure in the new sounds, even as we cherish those in our hearts and heads.
All I know about Edinburgh-based folk band Stampede Road is what they sent me, which wasn't much: a pair of streaming split singles on Bandcamp, and nary a website to be found. But the lo-fi session cover of The Low Anthem's OMGCD that accompanied the missive from this newly formed quartet led by singer songwriter Graeme Duncan is beautifully raw, intimate, timeless and weary. And following the threads to more produced tracks White Rooms, Night Terrors, and brand new 2014 single Old Town, recently featured on Largehearted Boy and Captains Dead, reveals a shimmery overlay of reverb and harmony that adds richness and flavor in the studio, making for a dreamy, delicate Appalachian-flavored folkpop with just enough originality and quirkiness to suit the indie ear.
Fans of First Aid Kit and labelmates Deer Tick and Dolorean will love this recent John Denver cover from all-girl indie group Mountain Man, with its layered voices and gentle, melodic acoustic guitar. All of us love that Mountain Man, a trio of young twenty-something singer-songwriters who met at Bennington College, and were essentially dormant in the last few years after touring around 2010 debut Made the Harbour, appear to be back on the radar for more precious, precocious quietfolk in the months and years to come, both as a band, and with solo and side projects from members Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, and Amelia Randall Meath, who continue to share news of recordings and shows with Hiss Golden Messenger, Megafaun, Feist, and other well known names from the indie community on the Mountain Man Facebook page. Here's hoping for more as the year goes on.
Around and Around (John Denver Cover) by Mountain Man
Skafolk isn't a thing, but if it were, first in line for kudos and Grammy nominations this season would surely be Newcastle based band Holy Moly and the Crackers, who add celtic fiddle flavor and a Jamaican beat for a brooding cover of tradtune Ain't No Grave to close out their upcoming three-track EP Lilly, a "re-imagining" of three traditional folk/blues songs that evokes eras of whiskey and guns on modern punk folk steroids. The band, who play "a lively, moonshine mix of Romani, Americana and contemporary British 'folk'n'roll'", claim broad influence from the likes of Woody Guthrie, Gogol Bordello, and Laura Marling; others hear The Pogues, Billy Bragg, and The Waterboys, too, and you can hear it all here, in some great live covers and originals on YouTube, and in full album First Avenue, which can be purchased directly from the band on their website.
Holy Moly and the Crackers: Ain't No Grave (trad.)
Holy Moly and the Crackers: Mississippi Moonlight (orig. Buffalo Skinners)
Holy Moly and the Crackers: Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie (orig. Bob Dylan/trad.)
Holy Moly and the Crackers: Cocaine (trad.)
This year's Joe Val Bluegrass Festival is just around the corner, putting us in mind of mandolins and stand up bass, and creating a context which leaves us especially happy to have found The Tuttles with AJ Lee; we've a long history of championing young tradfolk and bluegrass artists here at Cover Lay Down, and these kids have been wowing the bluegrass circuit and beyond, garnering ovations and awards since their formation in 2008. Both band and co-lead vocalist Lee are up for "Best of" awards at the Northern California Bluegrass Awards tonight, where bandfather Jack Tuttle, who teaches bluegrass and old-time instruments of all types, will be honored with a lifetime achievement award in recognition of his well-respected work, including his guidance and leadership of this current lineup. But the kids are the true driving force here: stunning singer-songwriter and picker Molly Tuttle, whose trio will appear on the Joe Val sidestage, is finishing up her last semester at Berklee this year; younger brothers Sullivan and Michael demonstrate chops and agility beyond their years; sweet yet hearty-voiced mandolin player AJ Lee, who is still finishing high school and trends towards Grateful Dead covers on tour, has been aptly compared to Alison Krauss or Sarah Jarosz, both of whom, we should remember, got their start as early. Listen, and we think you'll hear the magic, too.
The Tuttles with AJ Lee: Ripple (orig. Grateful Dead)
The Tuttles with AJ Lee: Sugar Moon (orig. Bob Willis)
AJ Lee: Tomorrow Is A Long Time (orig. Bob Dylan)
Finally, thanks to the ever-discerning Mary Lou Lord, who has a knack for finding and touting the best new voices, for passing along coverage from Brandi Ediss, an alto on the knife-edge of alternative pop and singer-songwriter folk who sweetly interprets beloved songs into a mellow-tinged wash of sound and riotous video effects on a weekly basis. The finished results, produced at home with digital tools or in collaboration with facebook friends from afar, sound like a band and a half, with a warm, decidedly retro california tone and luscious, sighing vocal layers sure to delight; download a bunch over at Bandcamp, and subscribe to her YouTube page for more originals and coverage in the same sweet vein.
Brandi Ediss: Love Is Making Its Way Back Home (orig. Josh Ritter)
Brandi Ediss: Dear Mr. Fantasy (orig. Traffic)
Brandi Ediss: Kodachrome (orig. Paul Simon)
Brandi Ediss: Call Me (orig. Blondie)
Brandi Ediss: I Wish I Was The Moon (orig. Neko Case)
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Single Song Sunday: Wayfaring Stranger
(white spirituals and the religious origins of modern folk music)
A morning retreat with the worship associate team at our UU church yesterday, a religious education teach-in on songs as tools of social justice, and a scheduled jaunt to check out a church for sale tomorrow to see if it can be transformed into a new home have cast a non-secular sentiment over my long weekend, putting me on the lookout for the spiritual in everything. In response, we've gone back five years to resurrect an early Single Song Sunday feature on oft-covered traditional "white spiritual" Wayfaring Stranger, and added a whole second set of versions found and recorded since then from Gregory Paul, Simone Dinnerstein and Tift Merritt, folk supergroups Red Horse and Red Molly, and more.
Enjoy all twenty tracks, and if you, too, need a little more spirituality in your life, check out related features on Songs From The Universalist Unitarian Hymnal and Songs of Social Justice for further musings and song.
Through much of recorded history, religion has served communities as both as a community locus and as a carrier of song; as such, it is perhaps unsurprising to find a relationship of sorts between folk music and the church itself. As with any folk form, of course, context matters; to note that several songs commonly associated with Cat Stevens can be found in the Universalist Unitarian hymnal says something very different about both artist and religious community than pointing out that a move to the heavily Jewish neighborhoods of New York's Coney Island in the 1940s led to the recent release of a wonderful album of Woody Guthrie-penned Klezmer music.
To note that the folk song Wayfaring Stranger (or sometimes Poor Wayfaring Stranger) was first published in 1816 in the shape note tunebook Kentucky Harmony, which in turn was primarily an expansion of the work of John Wyeth and his two Repositories of Sacred Music, then, is to locate that song in the white spiritual canon — which, in turn, calls us to the American white revivalist movements of the last few centuries, to consider the common threads of a form of folk product which includes The Sacred Shakers, the work of Doc Watson, and many other works and performers with roots in New England, Appalachia, and other American church-based communities.
Though it echoes similar terminology — bluegrass gospel, most obviously — the term "white spiritual" is striking and vivid; to be honest, I'm surprised to find that Google lists only a few uses of the term, most of which seem to be part of classical choral scholarship. The conceit that white audiences had their own spriritual song, which derived its rhythm and subject from their European ancestry, illuminates folk's origins in a way that is both new and suddenly fitting, creating a parallel path to modernity in stark contrast to the gospel folk which comes to us through african american blues music. Further, such a conceit says much about the context in which music evolved, and traveled, and spoke to and for the "folk"; exploring the term is a fine way to help reshuffle and rethink the origin of many songs which remain at the core of folk music today.
The semiotic implications of the term "white spiritual" do seem apt, when you think about it; so much of the folk which has its roots in the appalachian mountains and stark New England Shakers, after all, is about redemption, framing man's connection to man in the context of God. And Wayfaring Stranger is an especially interesting example of the white spiritual. Though other white spirituals may be more central to the form — for example, our first Single Song Sunday subject, Amazing Grace — Wayfaring Stranger is notable for being a song which does not as obviously call to its spiritual nature. Which is to say: though both songs ultimately play out the relationship between the internal sinner-self and the spiritual Father, the former is a hymn of the post-redemptive self, less about the more modern folk-as-call-to-complexity and more about morality-play.
But the humble determination of the pre-redemptive self which characterizes the narrative voice of Wayfaring Stranger is not uncommon to the narrative stance of many an old British folk ballad, from the pining lass of Fair William to the besworn folkmaiden and lusty, easily swayed folklad who so often stray, only to regret it, and come back to their God. Meanwhile, the plight of the poor wayfarer remains open and non-specific, an everyman's resolve pulling us in to folk communion. No wonder the song remains enticing; no wonder we find so many versions to pluck our fruit from.
In practice, whether or not you accept the label of "white spiritual" as applied to a song whose most famous version is in the voice of as haunted and searching a man as Johnny Cash, it is true that there is a certain emotional reverence common to all versions of the song. In fact, circularly, though there are as many ways to worship as there are men, and thus high diversity in the way different folk musicians choose to make Wayfaring Stranger their own, the question of what makes this particular song a white spiritual may be best answered by the consistent care with which all comers take on the song. To explore that commonality, and the variance in sound and tone and tempo that it nonetheless allows, here's some interesting takes on the song, a vast array of approaches to traditional material from the very big tent that is modern folk.
WAYFARING STRANGER: A COVER LAY DOWN MIX
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Simone Dinnerstein & Tift Merritt: Wayfaring Stranger
(classical piano meets singersongwriter folk from collaboration Night)
Red Molly: Wayfaring Stranger
(dark harmony-and-dobro-driven folk from Love And Other Tragedies)
Gregory Paul: Wayfaring Stranger
(raw, traditional banjofolk from Little Black Train)
Jones Street Station: Wayfaring Stranger
(urban neotrad folk from the Perennials project)
Lucius: Wayfaring Stranger
(haunting dreampop from Hurricane Sandy benefit The Storm Is Passing Over)
16 Horsepower: Wayfaring Stranger
(Appalachian altcountry from Secret South)
Redhorse: Wayfaring Stranger
(gentle, warm contemporary folk harmonies from Red Horse)
Sixpence None The Richer: Wayfaring Stranger
(atmospheric folk rock from scene tribute The Village)
Eliza Carthy and Norma Waterson: Wayfaring Stranger
(Mother and daughter traditionalists from Gift)
Wayfaring Strangers: Wayfaring Stranger
(swirling jazzgrass from Shifting Sands of Time)
Dan Murphy & Granite Glass: Wayfaring Stranger
(oldschool countrygrass from The Outpost and Other Odd Places)
Kristin Hersh: Poor Wayfaring Stranger
(torn altfolk from the In Shock EP)
Papa M: Over Jordan
(hushed indiefolk from Whatever, Mortal)
John Stirratt: Wayfaring Stranger
(cavernous tradfolk from Old Town School of Folk Music Songbook Vol. 1)
Estil C. Ball: The Poor Wayfaring Stranger
(old fieldfolk collected by Lomax circa 1960)
Jack White: Wayfaring Stranger
(appalachian fiddlefolk from the Cold Mountain soundtrack)
Blanche: Wayfaring Stranger
(slow-building psychfolk from If We Can't Trust The Doctors)
Natalie Merchant: Poor Wayfaring Stranger
(delicate neo-tradfolk from The House Carpenter's Daughter)
Neko Case: Poor Wayfaring Stranger
(pensive banjofolk from The Tigers Have Spoken)
Giant Sand: Wayfaring Stranger/ Fly Me To The Moon
(weary hush-folk from Cash Covered)
Cover Lay Down shares coverfolk celebrations and ethnographic musings throughout the year thanks to the support of donors like you. Coming soon: a mailbag dip for the first covers of 2014. Plus: The Grammys!
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The Working Life: Employment songs, covered in folk
by Slaid Cleaves, Joshua James, Gillian Welch, Todd Snider & 16 more!
Re-entry into the working life is always tough after the holiday break, but this year has been a bit harder than most. The school where I work is struggling more than ever, trying to implement new methods and structures on the fly after being labeled failing by the state. The trickle-down effects of stress and sheer substance can make teaching less the usual tightrope, and more of a juggling act with too many balls in the air, where each choice made to serve one mandate means taking time and energy away from another, until terror becomes normative. And the turn-around time is incredible, with strategies taught to teachers in a professional development session this past Wednesday being observed in classes on Monday, even as we prepare students for district-written midterm exams received only Tuesday, and due midweek, that contain concepts and vocabulary no one knew to teach until we saw the tests themselves.
As I have said here before, I love my chosen career; love the students, and the noble struggle of reaching them; love the satisfaction of a curriculum well constructed, and those moments where teacher and students are in the zone, and epiphanies are made. But I love my family, too. And the drag that this year is putting on my best self outside the classroom is all the more apparent after two weeks on and off the road with them, with its constant reminder of how much love there is when we have each other to cherish.
Some songs about work, then, to mourn and maintain the necessity, and acknowledge the way it tears at the spirit to leave home in the darkness every day, and come home in another darkness, too late and too tired to give our best to ourselves and our families. Many are scavenged from a similar set originally posted in August of 2008, designed as a soundtrack for the job search that led me to this inner city school in the first place, but it seems fitting to uncover them, and share them anew, even as we add to their grace and gravity. For no matter how lucky we are to do what we love, there are always times when the weariness gets to us, and all we can do is sing.
The Working Life: A Coverfolk Mix
Jones Street Station: Tall Buildings (orig. John Hartford) [2007]
Slaid Cleaves: Working Stiff (orig. Melvyrn Taylor) [2009]
Richie Havens: Working Class Hero (orig. John Lennon) [1987]
Lavinia Ross: Millworker (orig. James Taylor) [2003]
Melissa McClelland: Factory (orig. Bruce Springsteen) [2004]
PoZitive Orchestra: Money For Nothing (orig. Dire Straits) [2007]
Ephemera: Manic Monday (orig. Prince/The Bangles) [2008]
The Notting Hillbillies: Railroad Worksong (trad.) [1990]
Joshua James: Custom Concern (orig. Modest Mouse) [2008]
Alison Krauss: 9 to 5 (orig. Dolly Parton) [2003]
Leslie King: Money (orig. Pink Floyd) [1998]
Tim O'Brien: Maggie's Farm (orig. Bob Dylan) [1996]
Pamela Means: Maggie's Farm (orig. Bob Dylan) [2000]
Gillian Welch: In Tall Buildings (orig. John Hartford) [2001]
Jeb Loy Nichols: Worried Man (orig. Johnny Cash) [2004]
Brett Ratliff: Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow (trad.) [2008]
Bruce Springsteen: Pay Me My Money Down (trad.) [2006]
David Lindley & Wally Ingram: Do You Want My Job? (orig. John Hiatt) [2000]
Peter Case: A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today (orig. Merle Haggard) [1994]
Todd Snider: I Makes Money (Money Don't Make Me) (orig. Jerry Jeff Walker) [2006]
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Covered In Folk: Nanci Griffith
(with Red Molly, Stray Birds, Sarah Harmer, Chris Smither & more!)
January 5th, 2014 — 5:02pm
There's a special place in my heart for Nanci Griffith's 1993 covers album Other Voices, Other Rooms, a Grammy winner for Best Contemporary Folk Album which came out just as I was rediscovering my own love of folk music and coverage. Indeed, the album has long been a staple of my collection, well-worn for its tender, sweet song treatments of a veritable who's who of folk artist who influenced a generation, from Gordon Lightfoot to Kate Wolf to Ralph McTell, and with bonus points for including some of the original songwriters, including Frank Christian, John Prine, and Bob Dylan, on session instruments and harmonies. And although Other Voices, Too, released five years later, wanders wider in its search for other influence, and perhaps shows some of the strain of Griffith's intervening years as a cancer patient, it, too, contains gems worth repeating, including a gorgeous take on Sandy Denny's Who Knows Where The Time Goes.
A number of Nanci Griffith's hits have been covers: for example, although many know it as a Bette Midler song, her performance of Julie Gold's From A Distance was decidedly definitive. But although she is well known for her interpretations of other people's songs, Griffith is a potent singer-songwriter in her own right, too, with 35 years on the circuit and a pedigree that includes an affiliation with the 80s Fast Folk movement and a lifetime achievement award from the Americana Music Association. Beloved on both sides of the country and folk line for her poignant portrayals of universal longing, loss, isolation, and small-town life in a big-city world, her albums were staples of my father's collection, as well. And although some of her work swings a bit country for my taste, Griffith's bright, little-girl voice brings a tenderness to her own compositions that makes it easy to hear why she is so revered by her peers.
Unsurprisingly, Griffith's songbook is relatively well covered by those who, like her, have played the country and folk sides of a perforated line. Her songs have been hits for Kathy Mattea and Suzy Bogguss; last year saw the emergence of Trouble In The Fields, a long-overdue tribute album released with little fanfare featuring the likes of Amy Rigby, John Stewart, Red Molly, Stacy Earle, long-time backing band The Kennedys, and more from a broad swath of the contemporary folk circuit; the album has several gems, and is solid throughout, though many interpretations hew close to the originals.
A deeper dig into the album cuts of a very big archive uncovers more coverage to love as well. And so, today, we present a mix of our own favorite Nanci Griffith covers, including a distinctively differentiated pair of early takes on Once In A Very Blue Moon, amazing recent interpretations from The Stray Birds and Red Molly, a Sarah Harmer rarity, a cut from Jonathan Edwards' country album, a lullaby from Eliza Gilkyson, and more. Enjoy the set, plus a few favorite covers by Griffith herself, and then – if you haven't heard them – pick up Griffith's classic albums Once In A Very Blue Moon and The Last Of The True Believers, a pair considered by most critics to be the best introduction to her early work before she turned completely to "folkabilly" and Country music.
Red Molly: Gulf Coast Highway [2010]
Stray Birds: I Wish It Would Rain [2013]
Chris Smither: Once In A Very Blue Moon [1984]
Sarah Harmer & Jason Euringer: Trouble In The Fields [1999]
Eliza Gilkyson: Midnight In Missoula [2007]
The Kennedys: Late Night Grand Hotel [2006]
Amy Rigby: The Flyer [2012]
Kathy Mattea: Love At The Five & Dime [1986]
Jonathan Edwards: Listen to the Radio [1989]
Mary Black: Once In A Very Blue Moon[1987]
Kate Rusby: Gulf Coast Highway [1996]
Nanci Griffith: Comin' Down In The Rain (orig. Buddy Mondlock)
Nanci Griffith: From Clare To Here (orig. Ralph McTell) [1993]
Nanci Griffith: Friend Of Mine (orig. Kate Wolf) [1998]
Nanci Griffith: Fare Thee Well (orig. Jack Hardy) [2011]
Looking for more coverfolk in your daily life? Check out the Cover Lay Down Facebook page for more streaming goodies throughout the week – including a brand new batch of coverfolk from Hurray For The Riff Raff, Juliana Hatfield, Teddy Thompson, Frontier Ruckus, The Chapin Sisters, Matt Nathanson and more in tribute to high harmonizer Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers.
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New Artists, Old Songs:
new and emerging folks to watch in 2014
January 2nd, 2014 — 2:12pm
The disorganized life leaves us still discovering bookmarks left behind in the detritus and lost drafts of 2013. But outside there is snow, and inside, fire; the tree still twinkles, and the holiday continues. The family is on vacation, leaving us solo and pensive And there is peace, for a few more days yet, until the worldspring is wound, and we set out into the wind and weather to once again take on the mantle of right action among the stress and chaos.
And there is music here, too, for how can we be silent when our hearts are singing? Being snowed in for the next day or two offers a great opportunity to celebrate and clean house with another edition in our ongoing New Artists, Old Songs feature series. Read on for covers of The Cure, Rickie Lee Jones, Jason Isbell, Gram Parsons, Big Star, Springsteen, Townes Van Zandt, Noah Gundersen, and more from Emma Swift, Ian Johnson, Liz Frencham, Chris Ross, and The Ephemeral String Band – a quintet of recent discoveries worth a closer look-and-listen.
As noted earlier today on our Facebook page, we seem to have misplaced Emma Swift's delightfully sweet Gram Parsons cover when compiling our Best Coverfolk Singles of 2013 mixtape. Mea culpa: Swift, an Aussie radio broadcaster and music journalist turned Americana and altcountry songwriter, relocated to Nashville recently after deciding to pursue songcraft and writing more thoroughly, and she's already captured our heart several times over through her loving coverage. Her take on Waylon Jenning heartbreaker Dreaming My Dreams With You is slow, syrupy altcountry, dripping with pedal steel and twang, but she's equally adept at transforming Big Star's Thirteen as she is taking on others from the country side of the world, including Parsons (A Song For You), Townes (Tower Song), 70′s altcountry group Cowboy (Please Be With Me), and downunder countryman Paul Kelly (Little Decisions). Follow her thoughts on her blog, and track her Facebook page, for more as her career on the road continues to blossom.
Emma Swift: A Song For You (orig. Gram Parsons)
A Song For You by Emma Swift
This one probably should have made our favorites, too, if it hadn't gotten lost. But oh, what a discovery: a gorgeous living room cover of Noah Gundersen's Dying Now from North Country singer-songwriter Ian Johnson that belies the casual, beer-fueled session which brings it to life; utterly stunning, haunting indiefolk, with soft layers of harmonies and a brand new resonator guitar ringing in Gundersen's hymn, making for a cover ripe for the likes of I Am Fuel, You Are Friends. I probably should have heard of Johnson before, though perhaps his penchant for harder-edged, anthemic, rocking Americana on his 2011 album When I Go kept him from our sights. But this bonus Tom Petty cover wouldn't be out of place on Grey's Anatomy, either, proving his mettle as soft indiefolk interpreter, and making for a delightful find, indeed.
Ian Johnson: Dying Now (orig. Noah Gundersen)
Ian Johnson: I Won't Back Down (orig. Tom Petty)
As a stand-up-double-bass and voice solo artist, Liz Frencham is a bit bare-bones for easy genre categorization. But the Jazz-trained singer-songwriter's pedigree is impeccable: a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium, she's been at the heart of several internationally-known bluegrass-infused and folkfusion bands and collaborations; her 2005 solo debut Jericho, with its haunting fiddle-and-guitar ballad title track, was a finalist for the 'Presenter's Choice' award at the 2007 Australian Folk Alliance Convention. More significantly, she's caught our ear on Soundcloud, where she hosts numerous beautiful originals and a set of covers, each equally sparse and joyous, from One – The Living Room Sessions (Vol 1), her mid-2013 Digi-EP of solo double bass/voice covers, with jazzfolk takes on songs by KT Tunstall, Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, Sia, and the Cure's Lovecats as a prowling scat solo piece. As a bonus for coverhounds looking to dig a bit deeper, we've also provided a teaser from her equally strong, equally hard-to-categorize live duets album You & Me Vol. 1.
You & Me Vol.1 by Liz Frencham and Martin Pearson
I've been meaning to write about the "oldtime fiddle tunes and sister harmony singing" of The Ephemeral Stringband since I was stopped short by their busk session on the streets of Northampton, MA early last year. And now's the time: even when they kick into high gear, as in the middle track below, the old shape note hymns and simple tradtunes Maggie Merrett, Maggie Shar, and friends interpret on their interchangeable banjos and fiddles are loving and gentle, like the sun-warmed sidewalks where I found them, or like Sam Amidon for the lullaby set, perfect for a snowy day in New England by the fireside. A recent gig opening for Dom Flemons of The Carolina Chocolate Drops in October raises hope of more to come, and simultaneously confirms their credibility and prowess in treating dearly the old songs with equal parts fragility and strength.
The Ephemeral Stringband: Mutual Love (trad.)
Mutual Love by The Ephemeral Stringband – Molly, Maggie, Tim, Sasha
The Ephemeral Stringband: Sugar Babe (trad.)
The Ephemeral Stringband: I'll Not Be A Stranger (trad.)
White Freight Liner (orig. Townes Van Zandt)
Converting Grace by Molly & Maggie and The Ephemeral Stringband
Finally, I've had my eye out for Jason Isbell covers these last few months, with the intent of fronting a coverset sometime this year once we hit critical mass; if you know a great cover of/from the alt-country singer-songwriter, we'd love to hear it. In the meantime, I can't help but share this quartet of Isbell covers from Maine-based singer-songwriter Chris Ross, including a broken-down Alabama Pines, a dark, tense Live Oak, and a quite solid take on Drive By Truckers song God Damn Lonely Love, penned by Isbell during his time with the band in the mid-naughts. Ross may be new at the game – he's released but two albums, in 2011 and 2012 – but he knows how to ply his strengths to great effect: his weary voice and intensity match pitch-perfect with Isbell's songbook, and in his YouTube covers of fellow rasp-voiced celebrants Bon Iver, Springsteen, and Ray LaMontagne; his original compositions are equally raw and timeless, speaking of and to a dusty wisdom of years belied by his under-30 exterior, and he's just been nominated for Songwriter of the Year at The New England Music Awards, where he's in some pretty solid company.
Chris Ross: Alabama Pines (orig. Jason Isbell)
Chris Ross: Live Oak (orig. Jason Isbell)
Chris Ross: Elephant (orig. Jason Isbell)
Chris Ross: God Damn Lonely Love (orig. Drive By Truckers)
Cover Lay Down thrives throughout the year thanks to the support of artists, labels, promoters, and YOU. So do your part: listen, love, spread the word, and above all, purchase the music, the better to keep it alive and kicking.
And if, in the end, you've got goodwill to spare, and want to help keep the music flowing? Please, consider a year's end contribution to Cover Lay Down. All gifts will go directly to bandwidth and server costs; all giftees will receive undying praise, and an exclusive download code for a special 26-track gift set of alternate favorites and rare 2013 covers otherwise unblogged. Click here to give.
2 comments » | Emma Swift, Jason Isbell, New Artists Old Songs


950 Platinum case on brown alligator strap. 40.5 mm case.
Grey dial. Discontinued model. Functions: Hours, minutes, seconds, date, day of the week, month, chronograph, power reserve indication.
Last known retail price at PP boutiques for this watch, before it was gone, was over $80K.


Nourish your body, mind & soul. Welcome to our community.
YogAntigua is hosting their 9th annual 108 Sun Salutation fundraiser to support our friends of Mindful Guatemala.
Any sorts of SunSalutations are allowed, so it can be addapted to any body. We also invite anyone who wants to cheer everyone on as well.
Join us for the fun of Karma Yoga and GIVE BACK TO COMMUNITY.
All benefits go directly to the NGO; www.mindfulguatemala.org who are dedicated creating emotionally and mentally successful youth, through mindfulness into NGO schools.
WHERE: Tree top Yoga studio Earth Lodge.
10:30 – 11:00am: Arriving, welcome and a brief talk about Mindful Guatemala.
11:00 – 12:30pm: Doing 108 sun salutations, each person on their own level and time, we cath up together ever 10 Sunsalutations.
12:30 – 13:30pm: Raffle for great prizes at the restaurant area. Feel free to enjoy food or a drink while we announce all the winners.
Pick up your fundraising form at Panza Verde/Earth Lodge or ask one with yoga@yogantigua.com.
The person with the highest donations will receive a free 5 class pass with YogAntigua.
In case you can not make it to the event, another way to contribute is buying raffle tickets Q10 each and make chance to win one of the great prizes.
*If you have a yoga mat please bring it, mats are also available for Q10 rental fee.
Your contrubution will be AN INVESTMENT FOR GUATEMALAN SUCCESS.
Mindful Guatemala social programs empowers 'at risk' Guatemalan youth to combat their daily challenges like: stress, poverty, alcoholism, physical and sexual abuse by sharing mindfulness through educational programs. We are dedicated t to help them by offering Mindfulness, in order to promote success, to help pursue their dreams, all by bringing mindfulness into their school curriculum.
The practice is an oasis of relaxation and a challenging physical and spiritual discipline.
Classes are held at The art gallery of Hotel Meson Panza Verde (PV), 5a Avenida Sur #19.
From Central Park, walk south (toward Agua Volcano) on 5a Avenida for 4 blocks.
All our teachers have the passion to share yoga with you. They are all yoga alliance certified teachers and have many years of teaching experience.


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namespace MilesAsylum\Schnoop\Tests\Schnoop\SchemaFactory\MySQL\Routine;

use MilesAsylum\Schnoop\SchemaFactory\MySQL\DataType\DataTypeFactoryInterface;
use MilesAsylum\Schnoop\SchemaFactory\MySQL\Routine\ParametersFactory;
use MilesAsylum\Schnoop\SchemaFactory\MySQL\Routine\ParametersParser;
use MilesAsylum\SchnoopSchema\MySQL\DataType\DataTypeInterface;
use MilesAsylum\SchnoopSchema\MySQL\Routine\FunctionParameter;
use MilesAsylum\SchnoopSchema\MySQL\Routine\FunctionParameterInterface;
use MilesAsylum\SchnoopSchema\MySQL\Routine\ProcedureParameter;
use MilesAsylum\SchnoopSchema\MySQL\Routine\ProcedureParameterInterface;
use PHPUnit\Framework\MockObject\MockObject;
use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;

class ParametersFactoryTest extends TestCase
{
    /**
     * @var ParametersFactory
     */
    protected $parametersFactory;

    /**
     * @var ParametersParser|MockObject
     */
    protected $mockParser;

    /**
     * @var DataTypeFactoryInterface|MockObject
     */
    protected $mockDataTypeFactory;

    public function setUp(): void
    {
        parent::setUp();

        $this->mockParser = $this->createMock(ParametersParser::class);
        $this->mockDataTypeFactory = $this->createMock(DataTypeFactoryInterface::class);

        $this->parametersFactory = new ParametersFactory($this->mockParser, $this->mockDataTypeFactory);
    }

    public function testNewFunctionParameter()
    {
        $name = 'foo';
        $mockDataType = $this->createMock(DataTypeInterface::class);

        $functionParam = $this->parametersFactory->newFunctionParameter($name, $mockDataType);

        $this->assertInstanceOf(FunctionParameter::class, $functionParam);
        $this->assertSame($name, $functionParam->getName());
        $this->assertSame($mockDataType, $functionParam->getDataType());
    }

    public function testNewProcedureParameter()
    {
        $name = 'foo';
        $mockDataType = $this->createMock(DataTypeInterface::class);
        $direction = 'INOUT';

        $procedureParameter = $this->parametersFactory->newProcedureParameter($name, $mockDataType, $direction);

        $this->assertInstanceOf(ProcedureParameter::class, $procedureParameter);
        $this->assertSame($name, $procedureParameter->getName());
        $this->assertSame($mockDataType, $procedureParameter->getDataType());
        $this->assertSame($direction, $procedureParameter->getDirection());
    }

    public function testCreateParameters()
    {
        $parametersStr = '__param_str__';
        $parsedParams = [
            [
                'direction' => null,
                'name' => 'schnoop_func_param',
                'dataType' => 'VARCHAR(20)',
            ],
            [
                'direction' => 'INOUT',
                'name' => 'schnoop_proc_param',
                'dataType' => 'INT(10)',
            ],
        ];
        $mockDataTypes = [
            $this->createMock(DataTypeInterface::class),
            $this->createMock(DataTypeInterface::class),
        ];

        /** @var ParametersFactory|MockObject $parametersFactory */
        $parametersFactory = $this->getMockBuilder(ParametersFactory::class)
            ->setConstructorArgs([$this->mockParser, $this->mockDataTypeFactory])
            ->setMethods(['newFunctionParameter', 'newProcedureParameter'])
            ->getMock();

        $this->mockParser->expects($this->once())
            ->method('parse')
            ->with($parametersStr)
            ->willReturn($parsedParams);

        $this->mockDataTypeFactory->expects($this->exactly(2))
            ->method('createType')
            ->withConsecutive(
                [$parsedParams[0]['dataType'], null],
                [$parsedParams[1]['dataType'], null]
            )->willReturnOnConsecutiveCalls(
                $mockDataTypes[0],
                $mockDataTypes[1]
            );

        $mockFunctionParam = $this->createMock(FunctionParameterInterface::class);
        $parametersFactory->expects($this->once())
            ->method('newFunctionParameter')
            ->with($parsedParams[0]['name'], $mockDataTypes[0])
            ->willReturn($mockFunctionParam);

        $mockProcedureParam = $this->createMock(ProcedureParameterInterface::class);
        $parametersFactory->expects($this->once())
            ->method('newProcedureParameter')
            ->with($parsedParams[1]['name'], $mockDataTypes[1])
            ->willReturn($mockProcedureParam);

        $parametersFactory->createParameters($parametersStr);
    }
}

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Home naval-today Australian Museum Ship Undergoes Maintenance
Australian Museum Ship Undergoes Maintenance
Having a bottom scrape might not be for everyone, but it's bought another 10 years for the museum ship, and stalwart of Melbourne's Williamstown waterfront, HMAS Castlemaine.
The Bathurst class corvette, built and commissioned at Williamstown between 1941-1942, was one of 60 built in Australia during the Second World War. After commissioning, Castlemaine sailed to Sydney for completion and work-up exercises.
Her primary role was minesweeping, but she was also used as a convoy escort and, in late 1942, in support tasks for Australian and allied troops engaged in guerrilla operations in Timor.
Castlemaine and HMAS Armidale (I), while engaged in a mission to evacuate Australian and Dutch soldiers and deliver a relief contingent at Betano Bay East Timor on 30 November, were subjected to three air attacks.
The next day, Castlemaine completed her part of the mission and returned to Darwin.
While Armidale was returning from Betano Bay, she was attacked by Japanese aircraft and sunk. One hundred soldiers and sailors perished as a result.
On 15 December 1942, while escorting the merchant ships Period and James Cook from Thursday Island to Darwin, a Japanese aircraft scored a direct hit on Period, resulting in four fatalities.
Over two days the ships came under air attack on three occasions, but Castlemaine's anti-aircraft fire repelled the attacks and the convoy reached Darwin without further incident.
These days, HMAS Castlemaine is open to the public on weekends, public holidays and by arrangement. Visitors can see how crews lived and worked during the war years, witness the original main engines turning over, and view a wide range of artefacts documenting Australian maritime history.
Petty Officer Andrew Campbell, a modern-day volunteer in the ship, said Castlemaine was cold-moved from its usual berth at Gem Pier to the BAE graving dock for her 10-yearly below-water maintenance.
Campbell said Castlemaine had been maintained as a museum ship by a team of volunteers since 1978. The ship is completely restored to its wartime condition and all original mechanical machinery is functional and can be run.
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Daytona Lagoon is the area's Premier Family Entertainment Center. The park features a full day of fun for the entire family and is open year-round. The Lagoon Waterpark is open seasonally and features two brand new waterslides for the 2019 season!