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A flight attendant answers the 20 questions you've always wanted to ask
A flight attendant with 13 years of experience
As passengers, you blindly place a huge amount of trust in your airline crew to ensure that you're safely hurdled through the air about 35,000 feet up.
So it's a little surprising that there is still so much about the world of commercial aviation that's shrouded in mystery.
To answer all those burning questions we had about flying and the people who ensure we do it safely, we turned to Annette Long, a flight attendant with 13 years of experience.
Below she answers all the questions you've ever wanted to ask a flight attendant.
Do flight attendants eat the airplane food?
"Oh, yeah. All the time. You can just picture the vultures when there's a first-class meal available.
"We get what's left over of the fresh food after the passengers have been fed."
What's the most desirable flight for a flight attendant to work?
"We have a saying: 'One girl's trash is another girl's treasure.'
"When I posted on my Facebook page that I was flying to Beijing, one of my friends wrote, 'Better you than me.' She likes to fly domestic, and there are a lot of my friends who love to fly domestic. They want nothing to do with flying international. And then there are people who only want to fly international.
"Of the international trips, I would say that Beijing and Tokyo from Washington, where I'm based, are probably the primo trips. Because of the high flying time, you're working a lot of time in a short amount of days. In Beijing, you're laid over for 52 hours, so you can go shopping, you can go relax, and you can go get your hair and nails done and your back massaged — whatever you want to do there — and we stay in a really nice hotel. Tokyo is a shorter layover, something like 24 hours, so you fly there about 13 hours, you lay over for 24 hours, and then you fly back home. So it's a three-day trip versus Beijing, which is a four-day trip."
How do those long-haul trips affect you?
"You're pretty beat up by the time you get home. You really are so tired, you can't even type on Facebook, 'I'm home now.' On the day after your trip you close the blinds, you may or may not answer the phone. You definitely won't answer the door. You're definitely going to cancel any plans you have with your friends because you were dumb enough to make them in the first place thinking you would go. But you just kind of come back into yourself and stay home because that's where you need to be.
"When I get home I plan on sleeping in as late as I can. Your time clock gets crazy. But you do the best you can, you sleep when you can."
Can you sleep during long-haul flights?
"Yes. On the Beijing flight, which is 14 hours, we have four-hour breaks. We do the beverage service, the meal service, we pick up, do the dessert service, we pick up again, and then we start taking breaks.
"Half of the crew heads to the crew rest bunks for four hours while the other half stay up.
"The bunks, which are up a very small spiral staircase in the tail of the plane, are small. You can't sit up in them. They're like a coffin almost. The opening is on the side and there's a curtain. And they give you a chance to sleep or listen to music or just relax — whatever you want to do.
"There are some unspoken rules up there. Like you don't go down there and start chatting. We keep it quiet. If you're the first crew up there, the cleaning people have put on fresh linen, so when you get done, you take your dirty stuff off and put fresh stuff on. You're not making the bed, but you just put the sheets, the pillow, and the blanket right on top of the bed so I don't have to go looking for it when I get up there. You leave it the way you found it."
Is it difficult to sleep during that four-hour time span?
"One of our new hires recently slept through three wake-up calls so, apparently for her, no. For me, I only slept a couple of hours and then I got up and it got really bumpy."
What happens if you hit turbulence when you're up there?
"We have seat belts. They come across the width of the bed."
What happens when someone gets really sick or dies mid-flight?
"They will never 'die' on the flight — we don't pronounce them.
"If somebody gets really sick, we have a connection to a company called MedLink. We communicate what's going on with our pilot and we talk to a doctor on the ground with MedLink, who will advise us on what to do. They ask the questions, and we give the answers that we're able to give them with the equipment that we have. We have an automated external defibrillator, which would check the heart rate and things like that, and we're able to convey this information to a doctor on the ground, and the doctor makes the decision whether to divert the plane or to continue on.
"The most common medical situations involve diabetics who haven't had anything to eat or drink."
Do you keep the passenger in their seat if they die?
"Yes. Thankfully I've never been in that situation, and I don't know anyone who has been in that situation.
"I would probably put a blanket over the person so it would become less of something to look at. You want to maintain dignity and respect for someone who passed away. You don't want anyone staring at them. That would be really sad."
Are there any signals you use to communicate with crew members to be more subtle?
"There are couple of situations where we have not signals but words that we use to convey what we need to convey, and I can't share them with you.
"But it's really limited. Our main form of communication — and you hear it on a plane — is 'ding dong, ding dong' all night long. It's because we're calling each other going, 'What do we have on the buy cart today?' So we're just calling back and forth for things like that.
"As far as signals go, what limited things we do, they're security related and I can't talk about them."
What happens when a passenger refuses to fasten their seat belt after the 'fasten seat belt' light comes on?
"When a seat-belt sign is on but it's smooth, some people don't listen. They want to go to the bathroom — they don't want to be rude and ugly — but they want to go to the bathroom, so they get up to go to the bathroom.
"Well, I'm not going to physically force you to stop. I'm not going to tell you 'No, you can't go to the bathroom.' I'm just going to inform you, because I'm required to inform you, that the captain still has his seat-belt sign on, and I don't think it's safe for you to be up.
And then they usually say, 'Well, I just have to pee.'
"OK, well, I don't want to be involved in that decision — you're the adult, you make that decision.
"If the flight attendants are sitting down with their seat belts on, it's probably a good idea to have yours on too.
"Am I going to get crazy over seat belts? No. Am I going to be concerned about somebody that's not listening to any instructions and is not acting appropriately? Yes."
What are some things a passenger would have to do to get kicked off a plane, restrained, or to have the plane diverted?
"If you were to come on the plane drunk — if the agent missed it and we noticed it before we left — you'd be escorted off the plane. Because we don't need you to get up to 3,500 feet and get crazy on us. Most of the time people don't do that. But, as a flight attendant, you have to do things with an abundance of caution.
"If you got physical, depending on what the act was, how it happened, and who it happened to, that might divert the plane. But I don't make those decisions. I convey the information to the cockpit and the chief flight attendant, and they make the decision about whether or not we're going to land and get someone off the plane.
"If you try to open a door mid flight, which is impossible to do, but most people don't know that — that's happened a couple of times.
"If you were belligerent with us before we took off, you wouldn't go.
"Most of the pilots say to us, 'If you've got a problem with them, I've got a problem with them,' and they will back us up 100%.
"We all just want to get on the plane and get where we're going. We don't need to have any problems. It's the law that you comply with the crew members' instructions. My job isn't to enforce stuff — it's to let you know but there are certain things that you can't cross the line on — so don't make me pull this plane over.
"It's not our nature to want to fight with you. Our nature is to diffuse the situation, make everything better. Flight attendants should be able to insert a little sweetness, confidence, and sometimes be the cop a little bit. But I'm not going to get into a fight with you. I'm going to report it, and we're not going to make it worse than it is."
What is the strangest thing you've ever experienced on the job?
"My flying has been so generic, if you will. I've had incidents. I've seen a guy fall — he passed out — and his face was what broke the fall against the wall of the airplane. He did not even put his arms out. But that's not even that strange.
"I haven't seen this, but I did have flight attendants tell me about blood dripping from the overhead because someone was bringing in a goat's head from a Caribbean island. That was before TSA and all their security procedures were put in place, of course.
"For me, the strangest stuff is just gross human behavior."
What would be some pet peeves you have of things passengers do?
"We've seen people clipping toe nails. It's very gross and you can't make them stop. And it's not an infrequent thing, believe it or not.
"And feet in general — we have feet everywhere. We have people take their shoes off and put their feet on the bulkhead, the wall between first class. Their feet are up there or their feet are on either armrest of the seat in front of them. Feet in general just aren't nice to have for other people's viewing pleasure.
"People come back in the very small galley area and they do what we call 'galley yoga.' They start doing their deep knee bends and stretches. And we get it. We get it! But it's just one of those things that bothers flight attendants, when you get into our little space.
"People sometimes come on plane and hint for a free drink: 'The plane was delayed ten minutes, is there a free drink for me for that?' 'Drinks are on the captain right?' I just grin and smile. 'Smile and wave boys,' that's what I say.
"I've seen people watching porn on the plane. One guy had the whole row to himself and you had to be standing up and walking behind him to see that he was watching porn. I was like, 'Really?' What do I say to that?" "There weren't any little children around, so there wasn't anything to say. But there was one guy I could see was watching porn on his phone, and because it was nighttime, you could see the reflection on the window. I did point that out to him because I didn't think everybody needed to see that.
"Some people will go to the local liquor store and bring their mini bottles of booze on the plane. We always know who you are; we always find it. You can't serve yourself. We need to know how much you've had to drink so we're not overserving you, because the higher you fly and the longer you go, the more the alcohol affects your brain.
"When I'm greeting people on the plane, sometimes they don't even look at me. Most people will smile and say good morning, but there's a large percentage that will ignore you and pretend they didn't hear you and just walk past you.
"And then there are people who put their oversized bags in the overhead compartment and, when it doesn't close, they just leave it for the flight attendant to take care of it. Now I've got to track you down and you've got to check your bag in, and you say, 'Oh no let me try this.' I don't have any magic here. I can't fix it. You have to check it.
"And just so you know, when you go to the bathroom and you're barefoot or you're in your socks, that's not water on the floor."
How thoroughly is the airplane getting cleaned? Is every tray table getting wiped down?
"No — first class and business class I think so, but not between every flight. I think the tray tables are wiped every night. But remember, they're using a rag to start row one, and when they end up in row 35, that rag has wiped a lot of tables.
"It's just not the cleanest environment."
Is it considered rude or helpful for a passenger to use the call light?
"Well, we don't like when you use it after we've just walked through the aisle. This happens all the time. We've just walked through three times picking up trash, and I'm barely back to the galley, and I hear 'ding dong.' And I go up there and you just want to hand me your trash.
"Absolutely use it when you need it. But if the seat-belt sign is off, you should get up and walk back to the galley anyway for circulation purposes.
"If you're diabetic and you have an emergency situation, you need to ring it — two or three times even. Let us know. We'll be right there. And sometimes when people are stuck in the window seat, and the two people next to them are sleeping, and all they want is a glass of water, it's not problem.
"But if I had just come through to pick up trash and you call me to pick up trash, you can call, but it doesn't make us happy."
Would it annoy you if a passenger tried to bribe you for an upgrade with a magazine or chocolates?
"It doesn't frustrate me because I can't upgrade you.
"I'm very grateful for a People magazine, and if you bring chocolates, individually wrapped ones are good because we have to share. It's nice that somebody recognizes us with that, but I can't upgrade you."
What if someone takes a seat that's better than the one they have that they see is empty?
"It happens a lot. We have the two classes in economy — there are the seats that have more legroom and the seats that have less legroom — and people a lot of times will try to move up forward of the exit row. And we have to charge for that. Otherwise I have to move you. It's what I'm required to do."
What's an obscure airplane rule that not many people know about?
"According to my training, the emergency exit shades have to be up because flight attendants are required to assess the conditions outside before they open the door. If there's fire, deep water, or rocks outside that exit, that would make it unsafe for us to go through there, and the flight attendant would have to make that determination fairly quickly."
How does the job affect your relationships?
"I think when you become a flight attendant you kind of have to give up big holidays with your family, and you find other ways to celebrate them. I haven't spent many Christmases at home with my family because that's the month I'm on reserve. I have to go wherever the company is going to send me.
"You miss a lot of holidays and you miss a lot of big things, like graduations. My family is kind of used to it. They don't even expect me.
"My kids are in Virginia Beach, which is 3.5 hours away from me. So for Thanksgiving this year I drove to Virginia Beach and I got there in time for dinner in the afternoon. A few hours later I was driving back to Washington, DC.
"You do what you have to do."
Is it hard to date when you're a flight attendant?
"If you start dating someone who doesn't' know what the business is like, I think there could be a lot of opportunities for jealousy.
"When you say, 'Oh yeah, I went out with the crew and the pilots picked up the check' — I'm just using this as an example because it usually doesn't happen that way — a guy could get jealous.
"In general we hang together, we do things together. But we're just a family for the three or four days we're working together and that's it. We're done.
"It could be difficult I think trying to explain your job, your schedule, and what going out means. It's really not going to the nightclub. It's going out to dinner, maybe getting a cocktail, and then to bed."


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Drive, he said
In Nicholas Winding Refn's rather good movie Drive, the unnamed driver wears a bomber jacket with a scorpion embroidered on the back. It obviously meant something as Refn provided several lingering shots of it throughout the film, but it wasn't at all clear what that meaning was.
At first I thought it might be some kind of Tarantino homage as it seemed quite Quint, but during the bloody final scenes, a character briefly mentions the parable of the turtle and the scorpion.
In it, the scorpion is on the bank of a river, and asks the turtle to take him across on his back. The turtle says to the scorpion, 'you must promise not to sting me, because then I will die and you will drown'. The scorpion agrees, but in the middle of the river, stings the turtle.
'Why did you do it?' the turtle asks.
'Because it's my nature,' the scorpion replies.
Admittedly it's a bit of a leap from Ryan Gosling to N Srinivasan, but the point's the same: a body will obey its nature most of the time. The leak of the ICC's position paper simply suggests the logical conclusion of a direction that has been apparent for a long while. That the wealthy and powerful will exert their wealth and power is not really news in the wider sense.
The story has barely made the mainstream media in England, which perhaps reflects that lack of surprise. Cricket is a parochial sport built on empire, and for all of its talk about creating a global game, the ICC is a cartel/oligopoly/closed shop of the classic kind.
As Hunter S Thompson once wrote about another industry: 'the music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There is also a negative side.'
Amen, bro, amen...
NB: Cricinfo has reported the story best. Read Jarrod Kimber, Russell Degnan and David Hopps for the skinny.
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The Sixth Annual OB Innings Of The Year
Can a year's worth of batting have a theme? Probably only one imposed in the individual mind. For me, 2013 was the year of the classical batsman, those with an echo of the past in their often futuristic scoring rates: the year of Michael Clarke, Che Pujara, AB de Villiers, Rohit Sharma, Ian Bell and the player I enjoyed watching the most, the stellar Virat Kohli.
It was also the year that an era of batting like no other at last slipped away. The 2013 IPL gave us Pondulkar. Both halves of that star-crossed partnership are now gone, Sachin amid scenes that will live long in the memory. The speech was a belter, too. Then Jacques Kallis did what neither could, and closed his Test career with a century that left him forever one run ahead of Rahul Dravid on the all-time list. The big four stand on their Olympus now.
If you're new to this significant bauble, the rules are simple: it's awarded to an innings played in the calendar year that I've seen either live or on TV. If you played a cracker and I didn't see it, like the tree that falls in the distant forest it hasn't left its mark - at least not around here. Don't worry, there's no prize to miss out on, and no recognition beyond the glory of the few people that read about it on this page.
The five previous winners, though, have been significant, sometimes even emblematic. The first was Brendan McCullum's 158 in the inaugural game of the IPL. Then came Thilan Samaraweera's 159, made a few months after his recovery from being shot in the legs in the Lahore attacks. Alastair Cook's 235 in Brisbane scooped the pot next (ah how long ago...). 2011's was Kevin Pietersen's double hundred at Lord's as England became the number one Test side, the one innings I feel I got wrong. It should have gone to MS Dhoni's World Cup winning knock in Mumbai. KP won last year, too, for his masterpiece to date - 186, also in Mumbai.
So without further ado... the envelope please. First a hat-tip to a couple of players I didn't see much of. Misbah ul-Haq scored more ODI runs than anyone else this year, and Mohammad Hafeez made the second most, and the second most T20I runs too. Also out of view were Darren Bravo's 218 against New Zealand, Ross Taylor's 217 the other way, Graeme Smith's 234 against Pakistan in the UAE, Corey Anderson's hair-raiser of the other day (save for a few news highlights, which in a strange way probably summed it up) and Jesse Ryder's heartening accompaniment.
By contrast, Ian Bell spent the English summer in almost permanent view, making persuasive hundreds at Trent Bridge, Lord's and Chester Le Street. But Ian old son, it's not you, it's me. There is something about his batting that, like happiness, writes white. His driving is a thing of beauty and those hundreds carried weight, but I find him a curiously affectless player, skimming impassively across the surface of things. Unfair, yes, but then so is cricket and by extension, life...
Sometimes an innings viewed in retrospect can accrue significance, and Brad Haddin's last-ditch 71 at Nottingham might have been the pivot point for his country, certainly more so than Watto's flat-tracking tons, although his Oval assault on Simon Kerrigan demonstrated the innate but essential cruelty of top-level sport. Steve Smith has cult-like qualities: most of the cricketing public will observe his limitations, but somewhere there are kids in the backyard pretending to be him. Any man who goes to a debut Test hundred with a six will inspire that.
Conventional wisdom has it that the Australian side has only one truly great player (I think Mitch may have a case by the time he's done). Michael Clarke is stymied by his back, and yet he continues to defy it. He may be a slightly weird metrosexual from a Bret Easton Ellis novel, but the boy can bat. He made more Test runs than anyone else, and of his four hundreds, the 130 in Chennai and his 187 in Manchester were when he truly stood above his team and the opposition.
Only AB de Villiers could argue that he had a better year. He made four Test hundreds too. I only saw the one against India in the company of Kallis, but there were three ODI tons and some sensational T20 hitting. He is an all-around master, another great.
Faf Du Plessis will never be one of those, but the man is a throwback, a player of freakish rearguards in an age when they are a forgotten art. He matched his 2012 defiance in Adelaide with a six and-a-half hour 134 against India at the Wanderers in a bizarre and compelling draw. His conservatism somehow remains at the heart of the South African psyche.
Hitting is now an art form of its own, and it is an under-rated skill, at least in terms of posterity. Chris Gayle will, I'm sure, come to be regarded as the Bradman of T20 cricket, and he pushed back the possible a little further in Bangalore in April, striking 13 fours and 17 sixes from the 66 balls it took for 175. His strike rate was just the 265.15.
One hundred and seventy five from 11 overs. Say what you like about the bowling, the pitch, any of it, something like that still needs to be done and it takes a rarified talent to do so. Aaron Finch, George Bailey, Jason Faulkner and Quentin De Kock played white ball innings that occupied the new universe that Gayle has mapped, but he remains the avatar.
Which leaves us (well me) with India, the country of the bat in the era of the batsman. Their recent series in South Africa, where it is statistically harder to score than anywhere else and where the world's finest attack resides, was the best Test cricket of the year (that I saw).
Dhoni's double hundred in Chennai against Australia was terrific, as was Che Pujara almost every time he went in. Rohit Sharma clocked up a double ton in an ODI. Rahane's 96 in the second Test against South Africa was a symbol of this new Indian line-up - they no longer fear the short ball.
Above them all was Kohli. Red ball, white ball, the guy is searing in attack, classical in defence and in love with batting. Twice 350 was chased down like it was nothing, and the ball burned from his blade. He is my batsman of 2013, and he will lay waste to England next summer.
But the innings of the year is necessarily a singular thing. One other giant of modern batting has slipped off the radar, and that is Virender Sehwag, a man who drove the role of the opener forwards conceptually. Shikhar Dhawan, a moustachioed roue, emerged from his wake in Mohali to rip apart the Australian attack with a joy so infectious it's making me smile to think of it now, nine months and two Ashes series later.
He and the estimable Murali Vijay put on 289 for the first wicket, of which Dhawan made 187. Pujara, who'd had his pads on all the while, then got out for one. Such is the mad and inevitable nature of the game. I sat in my living room that morning with the sun pouring in low and thin with its hints of the summer to come, and watched Shikhar hit the ball hard and often for the sheer pleasure it brings. Afterwards his took off his helmet and twirled his tache like Errol Flynn walking up to a girl in a bar.
Shikhar, the innings of the year is yours. Salut, my friend.

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Online drug trafficking has come a long way since the early days of the "Silk Road". If smuggling drugs online was totally off the map a few years ago, Internet has now become a strategic venue for criminal activities. On 29 May, the European Council and the Parliament agreed on a series of reforms to improve the legislation on New Psychotropic Substances (NPS), an 'unprecedented' and 'considerable' threat on public health and safety according to the European Drug Report 2017 with more than 650 new substances identified over the last six years. The new EU Action Plan on Drugs 2017-2020 likewise strives to address the impact of new ICTs on the drug market, following the findings of the mid-term evaluation of the EU Drugs Strategy 2013-2020 and the final evaluation of the EU Action Plan on Drugs 2013-2016. But criminalising NPS is substantially intricate; an intricacy which has allowed transnational organised crime to expand.
NPS are very difficult to monitor for various reasons (lack of a generic legal definition, lack of scientific evidence, a vicious action-reaction dynamic between criminal groups and legislative bodies). Perhaps the most challenging aspect of NPS is their capability to cross physical barriers and feed transnational organised crime. According to the 2016 Global Drug Survey, 58% of people reporting buying NPS did so online. No matter how prohibitive a policy on NPS is, it will not hamper NPS abuse if drug dealers get their supply from countries where NPS are not banned. NPS appear very attractive for their competitive prices in countries where pharmaceutical prices are low and law enforcement not effectively responsive, like in China and India. The (relative) anonymity that Internet offers also significantly reduces the risk of being caught via the use of encrypted browsers on the deep web that are hard to track down by law enforcement agencies and via the use of bitcoin, a digital currency which acts as an intermediary between the retailer and the user and which can be traded for any other currency.
The emergence of new criminal actors?
One particular aspect of NPS which should not be neglected is their social capital. The Internet-NPS marriage has attracted a new generation of users and vendors: young, computer-literate, educated, and who consume NPS for cultural appropriation, sometimes as part of sub-cultural genres, a greater danger for young users. The relationship between vendors and users has besides become more horizontal and decentralised, closer to production, with the emergence of single-vendor markets. The success of cryptomarkets (the number of transactions of illicit drugs on the cryptomarkets has tripled since the darknet market "Silk Road" was shut down in 2013) is also due to the fact that online drug trafficking appears less dreadful than street drug markets: transactions take place remotely, have feedback options, are easy to carry out for a computer-literate generation with minimum risk of being scammed. The nature of the drug trade has evolved, anonymity being a priority over the price or the quality of the substances. Yet, it would be erroneous to think that the virtual NPS market has superseded 'traditional drug trafficking': Internet acts more as a complement and as a reinforcing tool, which makes it harder for law enforcement agencies to determine the exact links between the surface and dark webs and the actual reach of highly volatile organised criminal networks.
NPS have put into light the limitations of current drug control procedures. The challenge is then to put greater emphasis on the technology-drug trafficking nexus, intensifying the efforts which have been undertook after the June 2016 Expert Meeting organised by the EU Commission. Several challenges have been identified in order to curb drug supply and demand online: the problem of secure encryption and web hosting, the move from surface to deep website and/or the darknet, the emergence of new forms of payment, and the growth in drug advertising and exchanges on social media. The new EU Action Plan has therefore called for greater cooperation in information sharing between customs and forensic laboratories as well as with law enforcement, customs and border officials, internet companies and health experts. Finally, the need to improve mutual legal assistance, in line with the 9 June 2016 Council Conclusions on improving criminal justice in cyberspace, appears as crucial regarding the problem of legal responsibility with the existence of 'unwilling dealers' – individuals or groups who participate in the NPS trade without being aware of their role.


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Report: Kohl's Interested In Acquiring At Home
By Greg Sleter on	 May 17, 2019 Retail, Web Briefs
A month after reports surfaced that At Home was exploring options that included a possible sale, the home specialty retailer now appears to have a suitor.
Kohl's.
Reuters reported that Kohl's has approached At Home expressing interest in a possible acquisition. The report indicated that At Home is in "advanced deal negotiations" with private equity firms.
When reached about initial reports in April that the retailer was for sale by HomeWorld Business, At Home officials declined to comment.
Recently, At Home, which operates 188 stores in 38 states and has been steadily expanding its store footprint, reported that its fiscal year sales were more than $1 billion.
Kohl's reported interest in At Home follows a year in which the department store retailer has tested several unique concepts in store. Among them is a program that allows consumers to drop off returns to Amazon at select stores and an initiative with WW (formerly Weight Watchers) that includes an in-store WW Studio and the launch of the WW line of housewares products.
Also, Kohl's has teamed with discount grocer Aldi to develop a store concept that includes having both retailers under one roof.
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Happy New Year everyone! It's been a few weeks since I've visited this space. I have been fully enjoying my children's time off from school and the holiday season. Yesterday we settled back into our routine, and I finished up the Sugarplum Medallion block trimming from last month.
I'm finding it a bit tricky to sit down at the machine due to a new addition in our home - meet our new yorkie, Benzie.
I never mentioned it here on the blog, but our 12 year old yorkie Delux died last September of kidney failure. It was terrible to watch and just very, very hard on the whole family. The thought of another dog was sort of unimaginable...but a few months later I so missed having a little friend around and the joy that a pet brings.
So we have a puppy. I forgot about all that goes with a puppy - watching them constantly, the potty training...he is my little buddy and I've been doing some hand sewing with him nearby.
I'm sure he will be popping up here and there - if not on the blog, on Instagram. I hope all of you had a great December and are as ready as I am to welcome in a new year and fresh beginning.


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AVMSD: how to liberate children and young people from unhealthy marketing
by Nikolai Pushkarev | Jul 4, 2016 | Children and Youth, Food, Drink and Agriculture | Analysis & Opinion, Unhealthy Marketing
The revision of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) is a milestone opportunity to free minors from the marketing of health-harmful products. The Commission's proposal makes notable steps forward in this direction, but still falls far short of putting health first. Alcohol and unhealthy food, given their attractiveness (or should we say addictiveness), should in principle not require any advertising whatsoever. But that is probably only possible in a society where considerations of long-term prosperity and sustainability trump short-term commercial gain. At present, maintaining the food and drink industry's freedom of commercial expression and providing financing for television programmes occurs at the expense of subjecting youth to deceitful messaging and undermining health systems, while taxpayers foot the rising costs of diet- and alcohol-induced diseases.
With regard to advertising, the Commission's proposal is marked by a tension between instruments and aims. The new stated aim of the proposed Directive is to "effectively limit the exposure of children and minors" to the advertisement of alcoholic beverages and foods high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS). Reference to exposure is a major breakthrough compared to the current text and is aligned with the evidence that what counts is exposure to messaging – a quantitative indicator – and not just whether advertising is "targeted at" minors – as used in today's Directive.
The instrument by which the Commission proposes to tackle exposure is through self- and co-regulation (SCR). This immediately sets off the alarm bells, as voluntary, industry-led codes of conduct fail to deliver verifiable gains for public health. A study on the effectiveness of SCR commissioned for the revision points this out, namely that most of the national schemes reviewed lack SMART, verifiable objectives, proper monitoring and evaluation systems and no sanctions – the 'stick behind the door'. With a set-up like that, and lacking clear objectives, no wonder studies find that voluntary approaches routinely fail across all sectors.
The Commission tried to counter this by requiring codes of conduct to set clear and unambiguous objectives, have regular and independent monitoring and evaluation and if needed to apply sanctions. This move away from pure self-regulation is long overdue. At the latest meeting of the 'Community of Practice for better self- and co-regulation,' it was recognised that self-regulation does not actually exist: once a certain sector faces societal expectations, the conversation naturally moves beyond pure self-organisation. In this light it would be better to remove self-regulation from the policy vocabulary as a whole: it does not work in areas where public interest is at stake.
Overall however, the proposed measures do not live up to the aim of limiting exposure of children and young people to marketing of health-harmful products. What is needed is the right 'policy mix', covering both national and EU regulatory measures and codes of conduct which are really enforceable. A level playing field should be set up across Europe with a watershed from 7am to 11pm for both alcohol and HFSS food advertising. National governments should furthermore be encouraged to apply additional measures, including by regulatory means, as the potential effectiveness of co-regulation significantly depends on the national policy culture. The objectives of codes of conduct must in any case be public health-relevant, ensure rigorous compliance, and be independently monitored to ensure that encouraging such codes is not another grave mistake.
Furthermore, what this revision reveals is that we are shockingly late in addressing the booming internet and social media marketing arena. While children and young people are increasingly tuned into smart phones and tablets, and less so to television, the AVMSD is only now entering the space of video-sharing platforms, but without extending its provisions to marketing. Examples of regulatory good practices are urgently needed at national level so they can be applied at the European scale in the near future as well.
EPHA's summary position on the AVMSD proposal is available here.
By Nikolai Pushkarev, Policy Coordinator Food, Drink & Agriculture, EPHA


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2014 World Cup Match Day 13: Preview
Match day 13 will see the final games from Group C and Group D, let's preview all the action.
Costa Rica vs. England
The Group D matches will start at 1pm local time in Brazil. Costa Rica vs. England will be one of the matches of Group A on this day. Costa Rica has already advanced to the round of 16 with 6 points and England has already been eliminated after two losses.
The match will be played at Estadio Mineirao in Belo Horizonte, which has a capacity of 58,170 people.
These two nations have never played each other before.
England wants to leave the World Cup with at least one win and Costa Rica doesn't want to go into the round of 16 with a loss, so while there is nothing to fight for in the standings, there is always pride. Both teams will have to look at that as the main motivation going into this game.
Bryan Ruiz will be a key player for Costa Rica, but with the qualification already assured, he may be rested so this is a chance for less used players to get some minutes during this World Cup. Sterling should be the player for England with most to prove in this game. He has had a very good first game and a not so strong second game. This should be his game to finally put his name on the national team main roster for years to come.
Italy vs. Uruguay
The Group D marquee matchup will start at 1pm local time in Brazil. Italy vs. Uruguay will determine which country will join Costa Rica in the round of 16. Uruguay needs a win, but Italy may be able to advance with a tie.
The match will be played at Estadio das Dunas in Natal, which has a capacity of 39,971 people.
These two nations have faced each other nine times, with Italy winning twice, Uruguay won three times and they have tied four times. Uruguay has scored 10 goals in those nine games while Italy has scored 9 goals.
Italy is coming from a disappointing loss to Costa Rica, while Uruguay is riding a high from their 2-1 win over England. This game has all of the makings of an incredible game. Two world class squads, both needing a good result, we should be in for a treat.
All eyes will be on both teams' forwards, Balotelli and Luis Suarez. Both players will need to be in their best form if their teams are to advance to the round of 16. I will give the edge to Luis Suarez, he has shown more often than not that when it counts and he is needed the most, he will put into 5th gear and take it up a level. He has an incredible game against England and there is no reason why he can't do it again against Italy.
Japan vs. Colombia
One of two matches going at 4pm local time in Brazil, Japan vs. Colombia is crucial to the hopes of the Japanese for survival in the tournament.
The match will be played at the Arena Pantanal, which has a capacity of 41,112 people. This will be the last match of the tournament in this arena.
These two nations have faced each other twice before. Colombia won one of the meetings by a score of 1-0, while the other was a scoreless draw.
Colombia is so far the only team guaranteed an appearance in the round of 16, picking up 6 of 6 points in their first two matches. Japan could only muster a single point, drawing their match against Greece and losing to the Ivory Coast. While Colombia will likely be relaxed for this fixture and will look to play some of their bench players, for Japan this is a must win. Even if Japan manages to pick up the full points however, it may not be enough as Ivory coast will still go through if they win their affair against the Greeks. Anything less than 3 points will see Japan crash out of the tournament.
There is no confirmation at the moment, but there is a slight chance that Colombian coach Jose Pekerman will start third choice goalkeeper Faryd Mondragón who has just turned 43 on June 21st. If this in fact takes place, Mondragon will become the oldest player to ever play in a World Cup match, and this is a good reason to watch how the 43 year old can handle the pressure of a big tournament at his age. For the Japanese it has to be Keisuke Honda yet again, who seems to be the only man who can turn the Japanese fortunes around.
Greece vs. Ivory Coast
The other of two matches going at 4pm local time in Brazil, is between the Greeks and Ivory Coast. Another crucial match to see which squad will make it out of this group.
The match will be played at the Estadio Castelao in Fortaleza, with a capacity of 60,342 people.
Greece and Ivory Coast have never played against one another prior to today's match.
The scenario for Ivory Coast is as simple as it comes, win and go through. For the Greeks the story is much more complicated than that, as even a win does not guarantee them a place in the next round. Although if the Greeks do come out victorious, only a Japanese victory over Colombia would still eliminate them from the tournament. A draw in this one will likely put the Ivorians through and will definitely take the Greeks out of contention.
Greece will be missing star-man Konstantinos Katsouranis as he is suspended due to two yellow cards in Greece's scoreless draw against Japan. With that in mind we will be keeping an eye out on 37 year old captain Giorgos Karagounis who has proven before that he is able to change a match around for the Greeks. For Ivory Coast we will follow striker Gervinho who had scored a goal in both of Ivory Coast's matches.
Match-day 13 - Staff Picks
Pedro: Costa Rica 1-1 England, Italy 0-1 Uruguay, Greece 0-0 Ivory Coast & Japan 0-2 Colombia
Kon: Costa Rica 0-2 England, Italy 1-1 Uruguay, Greece 1-2 Ivory Coast & Japan 1-1 Colombia
Iain: Costa Rica 1-3 England, Italy 0-1 Uruguay, Greece 0-1 Ivory Coast & Japan 1-3 Colombia
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Sing Sing Yacht Club 1888 - 1902
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The Sing Sing Boat Club was organized in 1887 and grew rapidly under the leadership of Ralph Brandreth, their Commodore. Brandreth was a leading citizen of the village, and was instrumental in the club's growth. He nurtured club racing by offering valuable prizes for winners. In 1888 the members incorporated themselves as the Sing Sing Yacht Club (SSYC) and leased the new boathouse Brandreth had just constructed for the club on his waterfront property. Ralph Brandreth remained their Commodore for 16 years until 1902.
After about the first six years, a division of interests occurred within the membership causing many to leave the SSYC and form the Ossining Yacht Club, who purchased and raced all of the fast sailboats of the SSYC fleet. Those who remained in SSYC expanded their social activities and gravitated toward motorboats, which were new at that time.
This separation of clubs continued until about 1901-2, when the membership of the Ossining Yacht Club rejoined the SSYC. About this same time, Ralph Brandreth stepped down from his leadership role. The Village of Sing Sing changed its name to Ossining, and the name of the SSYC was changed to the Shattemuc Yacht and Canoe Club. These changes marked the end of one era for the Club and the beginning of another.
The Sing Sing Yacht Club. The Sing Sing Boat Club formally disbanded last Monday evening, and the newly incorporated Yacht Club was permanently organized. The membership list is that of the old Boat Club, and the new organization will no doubt take rank with the first clubs in the country.
A pleasant feature of Monday evening's business was the financial report of the committee, which managed the recent Minstrel Entertainment. The net earnings were $200, an announcement which was received with applause.
The annual election of officers of the Yacht Club resulted as follows:
Ralph Brandreth
Vice Commodore
W W Washburne
Rear Commodore
Benj. R Smith
W L Onyans
Joseph Thompson
Measurer
Philip Samstag
--The Republican 3.07.1889
The Yacht Club Minstrels. Seven hundred people held down the settees in Olive Opera house on the evening of Washington's Birthday. They bore the affliction in order to witness the performance of the Sing Sing Yacht Club Minstrels, and although the ordeal was quite equal to any of the tortures of the inquisition, no one seemed to regret the deed. It was, indeed, the largest audience that has assembled in that edifice for many a long day. Gathered in the number were many from out of town, the neighboring villages contributing to the number of the audience, many being present from Yonkers, Irvington, Tarrytown and Peekskill, while the back country also furnished many to join in the laughter created by the amateurs in the burnt cork.
It was about a quarter past the first bell in the starboard watch when the curtain rolled up, and after it had accomplished getting there with the usual accompaniment of noise the house greeted the following artists in cork and full dress suits with applause.
Olive Opera House
Interlocutor Wm. Henry Rowe introduced the end men, Stuart Baker, bones, and William E Barlow, tambourine, and the evening's entertainment was opened by a musical medley by Professor Henry J Rall, who arranged the musical parts and led the celebrated orchestra of Professor Louis J Cornu, of New York City, with their Teutonic faces covered with burnt cork, in doing up the instrumental part of the programme.
Then after the audience finished applauding that, they laughed and giggled at the jokes of the end men, until George Hyatt sung "Good-Night, but not Good Bye". After the singer had responded to an encore, which, by the way, followed every thing, David H Benedict sang "The Old Street Lamp," after responding to what was now the inevitable, Stuart Baker sang "Many a Time", an effusion which reflected slightly on his friend Benedict. "With all Her Faults" was the burden of a song by John F Jenkins and it transpired that he loved her still.
professional standard of minstrelsy. Fresh and vivacious fun was being uncorked on both ends, and the singers were dissecting their numbers in excellent style. Surely these could not be our young men about the village giving vent to mirth and merriment with their songs and jokes, but they were, and the audience kept on growing interested. -- Rebublican 2.28.1889
Yacht Club Notice. The plans and specifications for the erection of the quarters for the Sing Sing Yacht Club have been placed in the hands of the builders, and as soon as the award is made work will be commenced. Rear Commodore Benjamin R Smith, who profitably spends his time as builder when he is not sailing the staunch Cora, has about completed building the dock required for the erection of the edifice. --Republican 04.18.1889
River Ripples. --Peter Clausen, a South Brooklyn blonde, who has heretofore sailed the seas, has been appointed Boat keeper by the Sing Sing Yacht Club. During his short term of duty Peter has won favor among the members by his practical and obliging ways and bids fair to fill the bill to perfection, thus showing that his election is commendable.
---Contractor Smith is raising the Sing Sing Yacht Club quarters with a speed of the wind, only that element will find hard work to shake it. So rapid has been the progress the question of a grand opening on Decoration Day is already a surety. There will be music, fireworks and refreshments in the evening to top off the sports of the day, which, by the way, will be devoted to a race for the club pennant
--Republican 05.16.1889
The Sing Sing Yacht Club. On last Decoration Day the organization celebrated one era in its existence. That was the opening of the new club house, which is situated on the river front just above the Upper Dock, opposite Major Symonds' School.
A large number of guests were present at the formal opening of the club house in the evening. The house was gaily decorated with a large number of Japanese lanterns and the brilliant illumination of the electric lights with which the house is furnished shown through the windows to bid welcome to the coming guests. Rall's orchestra was there to please the ears and make every body's feet fretful until the floor was waxed and Caterer Sanford with his attendants were making active preparations for serving the refreshments, which were a bountiful supply of ice cream, cake and strawberries.
In the meanwhile, the guests were occupying camp chairs in front of the house witnessing a pyrotechnic display by Messrs Onyans & Kamp, who fired the "Ah!" producing pieces from the float in front of the house. After the glare of the red fire, the noise of the bomb and the last rocket stick had came down from up near the clouds, dancing commenced. The Corinthians told the ladies that this part of the programme was only a test of the strength of the building, and as the fair ones were anxious on this score the edifice was thoroughly tested and pronounced perfectly safe and a capital place to waltz or polka. It was well towards the witching hour when the big door of the boat house closed and the last of the happy participants in the opening of the Sing Sing Yacht Club started homeward.
The new club house is a plain but commodious building, which has been substantially constructed by Contractor John Smith. It is seventy-five feet long by twenty-five in width, being two stories in height. The lowerfloor is devoted to locker room, and a general storage. On the upper floor is a large meeting room, boat-keeper's quarters and lady's toilet room. In front is a large piazza from which a splendid view of Tappan Zee may be obtained. The building is lighted by electricity, and will be fitted up neatly ere it is finished, the builders not having completed it as yet.--The Republican 06.06.1889
Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes. Col. Franklin Brandreth's steam launch Buttercup has come off of Smith's ways at Nyack, thoroughly overhauled and painted.
--The fall regatta of the Columbia Yacht Club will be held on Thursday, September 18th, and will be open to the yachts of the clubs constituting the New York Yacht Racing Association.
--There was quite a large bevy of ladies at the club house on Wednesday, which is set aside as Ladies' Day. There was one disappointment to the fair visitors and that was because the piazza is shut off from use, as a new coat of paint has not thoroughly set as yet. This disappointment was quite allayed by inspecting the cosy quarters and taken in the grand views to be seen from the observation windows.
--The storm of Tuesday night nearly swamped the boats of the fleet, the rain filling the standing room in most of the yachts moored at the anchorage. Boatkeeper Peter Clausen had a long spell of pumping them out and airing sails on Wednesday morning, but fortunately all the boats were safe and sound to need such attention.
--Treasurer Thompson, Secretary Dennis, William and John Haff and Fred S Jenks had a wild sail on Friday night. They went to Peekskill in the latter's yacht Oneita in the afternoon and got becalmed on the voyage home. The boat was drifting through Haverstraw Bay when the thunderous squall of that night started out on business, and struck the boat with all its fury. Between the wind and rain, and the blackness of the night they had a pretty adventurous time ere they reached the anchorage. The sail in from the Point was made under bare poles. --Republican 08.28.1890
Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes.
Col. Franklin Brandreth has become infatuated with the electric light fishing scheme. He has perfected it and got it down to scientific principles. A thirty-two candle power light is now submerged off the club house float of a night and the sport goes on with a zest born of the novelty of the idea. The bulb in which the light burns is protected by a heavy glass globe and the current is conveyed underneath the water by the regulation wire covered with a heavy rubber insulator. The fish flock around the light in all their inquisitiveness, and are lured out of the water in surprising numbers. Col. Brandreth captured forty five, big perch on Monday evening in a little less than an hour's angling, beside a lot of small fry that were returned to the waters again to be caught some more, if they were not satisfied with their investigation.--Repbulcian 09.18.1890
Original Sing Sing Club House
Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes
--Water is to be introduced into the clubhouse from the mains of the Sing Sing Water Works.
--The members of the Sing Sing Yacht Club have been invited to attend the annual "planked shad celebration of the Jersey City Yacht Club, on Saturday next.
--The club regatta for the champion pennant will be held on Decoration Day and the fleet will probably rendezvous at Nyack in the afternoon and join the amateur tars of the Columbia and Yonkers Corinthian Yacht Clubs in a social time, and fresco the handsome village under the Hook Mountain a lurid red.
--The Uniform Committee – Vice-commodore W W Washburne, Col. B Stuyvesant Gibson and J Herbert Carpenter reported in favor of adopting a blue flannel suit, with a double breasted coat and appropriate buttons, and a yachting cap after the style of the New York Yacht Club, with the Sewanhaka Yacht Club trimmings, as a club uniform with the usual devices as designations of rank, and such will hereafter be the prescribed dress toggery, their recommendations having been adopted. --Republican 05.08.1890
Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes. --Col. Franklin Brandreth has presented four colored lithographs to the club. They are handsomely framed in oak, and are hung in the panels over the windows. They are entitled, "Sunset at Robbins Reef," "The Early Racers," "Ice Boating on the Hudson," and a plate of the American Steam Yacht Club colors. --The Republican 09.25.1890
The Yacht Club Shooting Gallery. The members of the Sing Sing Yacht Club managed to make things lively in the spar room of the club house of an evening lately through the aid of a shooting gallery they have established to break up the monotony of time
between seasons. A pool target, counting thirteen for a center is shot at over a range of fifty feet. At this distance most of the marksmen can make a very creditable score, when it is taken into consideration that the center is hardly as large as a half a dollar. --The Republican 12.25.1890
Pauline B Again a Winner. Our famous little catboat, Pauline B, belonging to the fleet of the Sing Sing Yacht Club, was one of the participants in the regatta of the Yonkers Corinthian Yacht Club, last Saturday afternoon. There were also representatives from the Columbia and Hudson River Yacht Clubs. The fastest yachts in all the clubs were there, but notwithstanding that, the little Pauline B cut out the course for them all and led the fleet of seventeen over the same, including the sloops. She was in Class G, the only other member of which class was not with her once. --Democratic Register 09.19.1891
Yachting Notes. --There is every indication that the "Rough and Ready Races" will revive quite an interest among the boat owners while the non-boat owners are doing a good deal of talking in regard to the prowess of their favorite crafts. The first race will take place on Saturday, the start being called for two o'clock in the afternoon. The course will be to and around the Tarrytown buoy and return, without
restriction as to time limit. Each boat must be sailed by a member of the organization, and any non-professional can be one of the crew. The prize will be a pennant in each class. This must be worn three times to become the property of the successful boat. --The Democratic Register 09.19.1891
Sing Sing Yacht Club. This club has grown so proficient upon the old billiard table they have at their clubhouse that they have decided to dispense with it and have purchased two new tables from the Brunswick and Balke Company, one for billiards, and the other for the game of pool. This club is not asleep or dormant this winter, but is having a good social time.--The Democratic Republican 02.03.1894
Desire for Club Life. The desire for club life is growing hereabouts, and we hear of one or two projects on foot to from a men's club, such as is in operation in Yonkers, Peekskill, and other progressive places.
The Sing Sing Yacht Club, since it has become a social club in winter, has increased so in popularity that it has doubled its initiation fee of ten dollars, and now it costs twenty dollars to enter its membership. --The Democratic Republican 3.03.1894
--The Sing Sing Yacht Club has leased the second floor of the Foshay block, entrance on Spring street, for a club room, to which they will remove their billiard and pool tables. This will be much more convenient for the members when they wish to manipulate the spheres. It is said the club will have a naphtha yacht race on Labor Day --.8.06.1898--The Sing Sing Yacht Club has leased the second floor of the Foshay block, entrance on Spring street, for a club room, to which they will remove their billiard and pool tables. This will be much more convenient for the members when they wish to manipulate the spheres. It is said the club will have a naphtha yacht race on Labor Day --.8.06.1898


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Mesohippus (грец. μεσο/meso, що означає «середній» і ιππος/hippos, що означає «кінь») — вимерлий рід ранніх коней. Він жив приблизно 40–30 мільйонів років тому від середнього еоцену до раннього олігоцену. Як і багато інших викопних коней, мезогіпп був поширений у Північній Америці. Його висота в плечах оцінюється приблизно в 60 см.

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Mesohippus мав довші ноги, ніж його попередник Eohippus, і мав зріст близько 60 см. Цей коневий є першим повністю тридактильним конем в еволюційних літописах, де третій палець був довшим і більшим за другий і четвертий. Mesohippus на той момент не розвинув копита, скоріше у нього все ще були подушечки, як це видно у Hyracotherium та Orohippus. Обличчя Mesohippus було довшим і більшим, ніж у ранніх коней. У нього була невелика лицьова ямка, або западина, в черепі. Очі були кругліші, розставлені ширше і далі назад, ніж у Hyracotherium.

На відміну від попередніх коней, його зуби були низькими і містили єдину щілину позаду передніх зубів, де зараз лежить удило у сучасного коня. Mesohippus був броузером, який харчувався ніжними гілочками та плодами. Півкуля головного мозку, або порожнина черепа, була значно більшою, ніж у своїх попередників; його мозок був схожий на мозок сучасних коней.

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Apple now creating music videos and other original content in-house for Apple Music and iTunes
Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated September 6, 2017
An Apple job listing seeking a seasoned Los Angeles, California-based Original Content Video Producer was discovered Monday, our best indication yet that the company is now creating original video content for both Apple Music and iTunes.
A proven track record in producing branded video content and content series for social platforms is required and the ideal candidate will work from Apple-owned Culver City campus, which belonged to Beats before the company was acquired last year by Apple for $3 billion.
Pitchfork recently said that Apple has actually been making music videos for select artists in-house.
Apple notes this role poses a "fantastic and challenging opportunity" for an executive producer of original content with a "strong production network and history of working within the artist, media and entertainment communities."
Previous experience in a strategic entertainment media agency, management company, production/touring company, record label or talent agency would be preferred.
Managing projects and building video projects for Apple Music and iTunes are among specific highlights of the job ad, with previous "talent booking experience and artist relations" being key for this role.
This role will report into the Senior Manager of Video Production.
Coincidentally or not, a recent report from Pitchfork said Apple is now creating original music videos in-house for select high-profile artists, with Pharrell William's "Freedom", Drake's "Energy" and Eminem's "Phenomenal" reportedly all having been made by Apple content studios.
Freedom. June 30th @AppleMusichttps://t.co/82MceAkbRe
— Pharrell Williams (@Pharrell) June 23, 2015
All three artists are featured prominently on Apple Music: Pharrell and Drake have their own mini-slots on Beats 1 radio as guest DJs while Eminem was the first guest to have been interviewed on Apple's 24/7 global Internet radio.
In fact, as Pharrell himself tweeted, his single "Freedom" launched as an Apple Music exclusive. The hip-hop artist also received an Apple Watch ahead of its April 24 launch and performed at Apple campus for 2015 Earth Day.
As for Eminem, his video for the "Phenomenal" single was notably fraught with product placement courtesy of his Space Black Apple Watch and iPhone. It's interesting that Eminem and Apple used to be at war after Em's company sued Apple back in 2004 over using his song "Lose Yourself" in an iPod commercial without permission.
The two parties eventually settled out of court.
Matahdatah Scroll 01 "Broader Than A Border"@MIAuniverse
The official video, now on #Connect.http://t.co/ZYGYCa6OzN pic.twitter.com/wSAwPFpeuM
— Apple Music (@AppleMusic) July 13, 2015
A video for M.I.A.'s latest single "Matahdatah Scroll 01 Broader Than a Border," which debuted on Apple Music today, was also created in-house at Apple, Pitchfork says.
The two-song release accompanies a short film featuring music from M.I.A.'s forthcoming album. Other original projects in the works from Apple's in-house creative team reportedly include music videos for Purity Ring, Diddy and James Bay.
Source: Apple Jobs, 9to5Mac, Pitchfork
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"ADVANCED STUDIES IN MUSIC AND DANCE EDUCATION – ORFF- SCHULWERK" 2022 – 2023
Due to the pandemic the Special Course "Advanced Studies in Music and Dance Education - Orff-Schulwerk" cannot be offered in 2021. It is planned to hold the next Special Course from October 2022 - June 2023.
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This university course addresses pedagogues at a post-graduate level from all over the world who have already had training or experience in music and dance education based on the pedagogical concepts of Orff-Schulwerk.
It offers experienced music and dance teachers an intensive and concentrated setting in one of the world's most well-known integrative methods in music and dance pedagogy based on Orff-Schulwerk that has been further developed according to contemporary aesthetic education. The participants, coming from different cultural backgrounds, will be encouraged to transfer and adapt this pedagogy to the specific needs of their own cultures.
Directors: Univ.Prof.Helge Musial, Andrea Ostertag, MA, Shirley Salmon,MPhil., Mag. Doris Valtiner
A completed course of study in music and/or dance pedagogy at an undergraduate level in a home or foreign institution with a diploma or degree. Proof of teaching experience in the area of music and dance pedagogy for a period of at least three years.
Proof of fluency in the English language, both written and spoken.
List of Teachers
Mirjam Bauer (Salzburg) Stefanie Blauensteiner (Rankweil) Ruth Burmann (Salzburg) Christa Coogan (Munich) Ari Glage (Salzburg) Moritz Guttmann (Salzburg) Berit Jentzsch (Berlin) Magdalena Kriss-Heinrich (München/Berlin) Maria Loos (Salzburg) Sofía Lopez-Ibor (Madrid/San Francisco), Florian Müller (Salzburg) Helge Musial (Salzburg) Andrea Ostertag (Salzburg) Irina Pauls (Salzburg) Soili Perkiö (Helsinki) Susanne Rebholz (Salzburg) Shirley Salmon (Salzburg/Graz) Andrea Sangiorgio (Rome/Munich) Polo Vallejo (Madrid) Doris Valtiner-Pühringer (Salzburg) Reinhold Wirsching (Salzburg/Linz) Michel Widmer (Salzburg) Emine Yaprak-Kotzian (Nürnberg) and others
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I have (actually – I had!) an obsession for keeping the house organized and clutter free. Nothing was to be left outside, everything was to be pushed inside the already bulging almarahs. Only the dining table and the sofa set is tolerated in the hall. That too because these cannot be shoved inside a wardrobe, else I might have tried!
The news paper left in the table for a moment, the car my son was playing with or the towel left in the chair for a second – everything goes inside the minute I see it.
But the wardrobes are messy. Really messy! I am fine as long as the mess is inside and cleaned periodically.
Like my messy wardrobe, my bookmarks folder too has grown really long and messy. I was cleaning up the list, when I came across this Paal Pidi recipe from Ramya's space. It fitted perfectly into the 'Something Sweet' theme for this week's Blogging Marathon and so here it is.
One link off the bookmark list and only a thousand more to go!
Boil water with a pinch of salt. Pour it into the rice flour little by little, mixing with a spoon as you go.
Once it all comes together, kneed for a minute to get a soft dough. Its the same as the one for Ela Ada.
Take a small pinch of this dough, no more big than the size of a cherry, and roll into a small ball. Repeat until the rice flour dough is used up.
Steam these pidi in an idli cooker for 10 – 15 minutes, till they are cooked through. If the balls are big, it may not cook in the middle, so keep the size of the pidi small.
In a wide thick bottomed pan, mix coconut milk, sugar and whole milk together and bring to a boil. Add the steamed pidi into it and and let it boil for 10-15 minutes till it thickens a bit. Taste in between and add more sugar if required.
Add half a tsp of cardamom powder, if desired and serve hot or cold, decorated with nuts.
You can make this with coconut milk or whole milk alone or use a combination of both.
LOL on cluster free..:)..paal pidi looks great..
i have sudden attacks for the 'cluster free' moments! :) the payasam looks delicious! and super presentation!
I like this recipe..have eaten it many times..never tried before. Time I make my own.
Paal pidi looks tempting and delicious,wonder presentation and clicks….
These look soo cute..like mini rasgullas…never tasted this before…seems I need to take a trip to South and eat some authentic south ka food.
Im glad you liked it…Your clicks are awesome..Its been a long time I made it…makes me crave now..
Beautiful picture and that bowl looks so inviting..
Just love this paal pidi,one of my fav anytime.
LoL. I hate cleaning up and here you are..an anti-thesis of me. We have something in common though..I have bookmarked plenty and like you I think I have 1001 more to go or something..
Anyways, great looking sweet dish. It sort of resembles the Paal Kozhukattai!
Lovely and tempting paal pidi.
Love it. We have something similar in Andhra, only difference being the rice flour is shaped in strings instead of tiny balls.
I have seen quite a few recipes of this dessert but am yet to taste it.
Wow..that's a awesome clicks..Loving it.