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What I Learned From Crawling On My Hands and Knees Through Rosslyn For Eight Hours
by Jeffry Cudlin June 17th, 2013 October 5th, 2020
On Friday, June 7, after two hours of slogging through the rain on my belly and shivering from high winds, I figured that my performance art project was doomed. Our team of three performers—Caitlin Tucker, Maggie Schneider, and myself—had only made it halfway across the Francis Scott Key Bridge, heading toward Rosslyn. By this point we'd originally planned to be done with the bridge, past the George Washington Parkway exit ramp, and mounting the skywalk over Lee Highway. Instead, we were still fumbling over the Potomac and soaked to the bone—and all of our simulated climbing effort and bravado was quickly turning into real misery and panic.
Months earlier, I had proposed this surreal, slightly joke-y endurance challenge: For the SuperNOVA performance art festival, I would lead a team of urban rock climbers with ropes, helmets, and other protective gear on an expedition through Rosslyn. We would move horizontally, not vertically, getting up close and personal with Rosslyn's quirky, inadequate pedestrian amenities—narrow sidewalks, obsolescent skywalks, and gross stairwells. And although it would definitely require stamina to crawl for eight hours, there would be no danger of falling, and nothing like the strain and physical demand of actual rock climbing.
Or so we thought.
It was all tougher than we'd imagined. We had trouble finding our rhythm and adapting our motions to real conditions, and it was seriously slowing us down. Days earlier we'd bought a bag full of sunscreen and icepacks—but the sky was a wall of dark storm clouds and we were all freezing our asses off. And it wasn't clear if we'd ever reach a bathroom. "Any astronaut will tell you: Urine is sterile," I joked, as we all discussed the possibility of pissing ourselves.
The Key Bridge was beating us—yet we had only ever envisioned it as a warm-up for the main event. In the weeks prior to the festival, we had walked our entire route several times, stopping here and there to try crawling up a staircase, down a parking garage ramp, or through a crosswalk with a brief signal. But we had never calculated how long the bridge would take. It was relatively flat, and had a big barrier separating car traffic from the pedestrians. Easy-peasy, right? Somehow the fact that it was more than 1,700 feet long didn't register.
Multiple photographers had met us at the bridge a little after 9 a.m. that day despite the tropical storm-related downpour, along with a film crew that was speaking in a foreign language. Cars stopped in the middle of traffic to take pictures of us. Someone called NPR about rappellers on the bridge, and we'd been mentioned in their traffic reports. At first we were chatty with all of the people who had braved the rain to see us. But as the crawl bogged down, and as we became increasingly wet and filthy, we turned inward, focusing on our breathing and yelling our tongue-in-cheek climbing commands—"On belay—belay on! Climbing—climb on!"
We picked our way through a ruined breakfast—muffins, wrappers, and other rain-soaked sludge—tossed into our path from a passing car. We picked pine needles and bits of broken glass out of our spandex. And we confronted unexpected gear problems: Fingerless gloves had seemed like a great idea initially, but our fingertips, pruned up and softened from all of that water, were bleeding on the concrete. Buckles and loops on our climbing belts were digging into our hips as we flopped on the pavement, eventually leaving grapefruit-sized purple welts.
It was nearly 1 p.m. when we finally finished that goddamn bridge.
The George Washington Parkway ramp was our next obstacle, and it scared us a little. Sure, there's a traffic light and a pedestrian signal, but in the days prior I'd watched a constant stream of cars zipping through the intersection without stopping, despite the red light. On our first trek on foot through Rosslyn to map our route, I'd almost gotten hit, and the driver gave me the horn—-despite the fact that I had the right of way.
So when it came time to clamber across, we were taking no chances. Yes, we would crawl, but we'd do it three abreast, instead of in the relay formation we'd been doing all morning.
I can pinpoint the exact moment when Maggie Schneider—-a dancer, a fearless Baltimore performance artist, and our only honest-to-goodness rock climber—-was finished. Allison Gulick, a former grad student of mine, took about 100 pictures of that crossing, and she captured Maggie getting hurt. We were scrambling, breathing hard, bumping into one another, and when we reached the curb, Maggie made a terrible face, clutched her shoulder, and toppled over, collapsing headfirst into the grass. There was serious talk of a torn rotator cuff, and that was that.
We paused for 15 minutes in the lobby of the Key Bridge Marriott. We used the much-dreamed-about bathroom. Artist Rachel Schmidt fed us Lara bars and plopped weird Alka-Seltzer-like fitness tablets in our water bottles. Catherine Akins, another former student and the leader of our support crew, couldn't get towels for us from the Marriott, so she ran down the street to the Holiday Inn, walked up to the second floor, and blithely asked the first person she saw for "extra towels for her room." Soon we were all drying off.
There was no talk of quitting. Caitlin and I would keep climbling; Maggie, though injured, would belay us on foot. We looked at our map and began revising our route. We would still climb all day; we just couldn't climb as far.
Once we were back on our bellies, in the rain, climbing the steps to our first skywalk, I began to lose track of everything but the stretch of concrete directly in front of me. New photographers arrived to document this second leg of the journey, including Steve Strawn, who kept telling Caitlin to show him her "pain face." I began making preposterous childbirth noises without really meaning to as I threw first one hip, then the other to the pavement, pushing myself along with my toes the entire time, like a good fake rock climber.
On the skywalk, we encountered a three-inch deep puddle that appeared to be about 50 feet long—-from my viewpoint, anyway. As I floundered and sputtered my way through it, and as the rain became more intense, Kim Ward, former Washington Project for the Arts director and current public art coordinator for the Rosslyn BID, followed alongside me, telling me a strange story about how she and her sister once swam across the Chesapeake Bay. I didn't know whether to thank her for distracting me or to beg her to drown me.
At one point, I lamented to her that we didn't have much of an audience, aside from photographers and people connected to the festival. "Are you kidding?" Kim said. "You should look up." I swiveled my head to the glass tower to my right and saw about a half dozen faces peering through windows, gawking, snapping pictures.
We crossed over the six or so lanes of Lee Highway. We descended a slippery and truly disgusting stairwell to North Moore Street. We passed a queue of people boarding some buses. It was nearing 4 p.m., and we only had an hour more of climbing ahead of us. Suddenly Philippa Hughes, Pink Line Project founder and festival director, was standing over me, asking where and when we were going to finish.
"Whatever route we take," I spluttered, "we need to get to Freedom Park."
"Why?" she asked.
I blinked. "Because that's where the Festival HQ is."
"Not anymore," she replied. "It's been moved indoors. In fact… it's just a few blocks away, right around the corner."
Caitlin, Maggie, and I looked at each other and laughed. About 45 minutes later, we were crossing an impromptu finish line, greeted by a crowd of people cheering and clapping. Two guys tried to hand me water bottles. I stared at them blankly. All day long in the rain, people had been offering to stand over me with their umbrellas—-as I was lying face down in filthy puddles. Now, incredibly, someone was offering me even more water.
"Obviously this is what I need more of," I said as I grabbed one, uncapped it, and dumped it over my own head. To hell with being dry.
Photos by Steve Strawn


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RCA/Inspiration recording artist Travis Greene reached #1 this week, marking his third consecutive #1 single, on the Billboard Gospel Airplay Chart for his song, "You Waited." The chart-topping song is from Greene's current album, CROSSOVER: LIVE FROM MUSIC CITY, which also recently debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Gospel Albums chart.
Greene has been nominated for two career Grammy Awards, two Billboard Music Awards, 13 Stellar Awards, three Dove Awards and one Soul Train Award. This year at the 2017 Stellar Gospel Music Awards, he won in seven key categories, including "Song of the Year" (for "Made A Way," which also hit #1 on the Hot Gospel Songs chart), "Male Vocalist of the Year," "CD of the Year (The Hill, which also reached #1 on the Top Gospel Albums chart)," "Contemporary Male Vocalist of the Year," "Contemporary CD of the Year," "Recorded Music Packaging of the Year" and "Praise and Worship CD of the Year." In 2016, Billboard named him "Gospel Airplay Artist of the Year."
With 13 of its tracks recorded in 2017 at Skyville Live in Nashville, Tennessee, CROSSOVER: LIVE FROM MUSIC CITY features all original material, including two studio tracks, "Love Will Always Win" (co-written and produced by Travis with Jason Ingram and Paul Mayberry) and "Finally Found" (co-produced with Bernie Herms).
Greene, who launched his recording career with THE MORE in 2007 – shares fresh material with eager audiences in CROSSOVER: LIVE FROM MUSIC CITY, for longtime and new fans alike to partake in an experience that captures the artist's passion, excitement and charisma onstage — and his ability to reach hearts with the gospel through music.
In 2016, the singer and his wife, Dr. Jackie Greene, launched Forward City Church in Columbia, South Carolina, which he describes as "a church for the unchurched and over-churched." While pastoring the quickly growing congregation at home and extending scholarships and mission work to thousands of people in Africa, Greene also embarked on a world tour. He brought his cultural boundary crossing music to many African countries, including Nigeria and Ghana; the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica; Dubai; and to London, Montreal and Toronto. "I've been called to minister in many different ways," Greene says, "but I see my gospel-centered activities not as finding a balance but as more of a rhythm, fully aware of what God has called me to do."
For more information (and to hear the full album) please visit: http://www.travisgreene.net/
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"Holy Yogi" Merges Movement Along With Scripture & Meditation to Create a New Experience in Worship.
Christal Luster
2020 has been a challenging year for all of us. Dealing with a pandemic, the unrest of racial injustice and hardships of every kind, this year has caused trauma and stress that many of us have struggled to manage. All too often as Christians we think self care is limited to prayer and devotional, maybe fasting if your problems are "extra big." But what if there's more that can be done to help us unwind and de-stress? Is God in favor of us incorporating meditation and other holistic methods? Is there a way to incorporate scripture and a true focus on God along with meditation in a manner that doesn't go against our faith?
We caught up with Certified Spiritual Lifestyle Coach Devin Joyner to discuss the new services she's offering clients at Journey to Peace. She explains to us how she is making this work.
ARTSOUL: Devin, you are doing some ground breaking work bringing faith and meditation together. How did you first get introduced to meditation?
DEVIN: Meditation was introduced to me by my Pastors. It was a great revelation that when we meditate on the word of God, we are drawing close to Him the author and finisher of our faith. The very thing that we battle with and grow in daily. To meditate on the word is to gain new life in the giver of life.
ARTSOUL: You've been quoted saying, "I admit I put God in a box by believing that I couldn't encounter Him through a modality like Yoga." What changed your mind? Was it difficult to break through the traditional mindset?
DEVIN: I felt peace about trying it after all the chaos and stresses of the pandemic. I was so moved by the worship experience, I continued to take the class my job was offering for free. I believe it took something like Covid to hit for me to break the traditional mindset because I was so stuck on what I had heard about Yoga. But after actually stepping into it, I was now open to receive the truth about it and how it is simply an avenue like prayer or dance to enter into worship and communion with Jesus. If it wasn't for something to bring me to my knees I wouldn't have humbled my myself to set aside my preconceived perception of it. I'm glad I let go and let God enter in this way because now I can advocate for others to do the same.
ARTSOUL: Yoga and meditation have been considered taboo in the church at large. How have people responded to your pursuit of bringing your faith and meditation together?
DEVIN: Mostly people had been silent when I first began to advertise it. I think they are just watching to see how it evolves. I think people want to see consistency if they are going to go on a journey with you no matter what it is in life. I just recently made a post on Facebook announcing my certification date and there was a great response of congratulations, I've only had 3 people outright challenge the idea with questions or their opinions which I welcome because I love pointing people to the real truth about how it has been around longer then even the Hindu religion which is what most people connect it to as a reason not to partake.
ARTSOUL: It's typical for Christians to struggle with stress and anxiety although our mantra is "too blessed to be stressed." How can mediation and Holy Yoga help?
DEVIN: Meditation and Holy Yoga is drawing the promises of God of peace, joy and everlasting love to you as a child of God. Most Christians forget to continuously renew their minds and begin to focus on the issues and world around them instead of clinging to Gods word and promises of peace and joy unspeakable. Meditation and Holy Yoga are to strengthen mind, body and spirit. What better way to weave the word of God into everything area of your life! That is what Jesus desires from us, to walk with us in everyday life. This is what worship is to Him. When we meet with Him in this way we can't help but experience the manifestation of His word tangibly.
Meditation and Holy Yoga is drawing the promises of God of peace, joy and everlasting love to you as a child of God.
Devin Joyner
ARTSOUL: What was the moment in 2020 that led you to finally take the step and pursue your passion and gift to help people discover the peace of God through Yoga and meditation?
DEVIN: My job offered free Holy Yoga sessions to help relieve stress and I just thought well it has to be good if God is in it. My last job was a Christian organization and I trusted the resources they offered us. I think it helped me put my guard down and I was won over by it!
ARTSOUL: Many Christians hear Yoga and think tight pants, stretching and chakras. How is Holy Yoga different?
DEVIN: Holy Yoga is simply put the weaving of the word of God! You come as you are just as God wants us to come to Him, we move our bodies into different stretches, poses and positions that connect to the word and what our bodies need. It's just like life. We go through seasons of ups and downs. Our positions even in moments at the alter could go from a prostrate position with our face on the floor or our hands extended up in praise. These are Godly movements mentioned throughout the word that we bring to life on our mats. Now chakras are something that we learn about in Holy Yoga to know how to relate to clients or people who know the usual practice of Yoga and be able to speak to them and explain which areas of the anatomy that we may be focusing on in our session or practice. This is also biblical to become all things to all people. Just being able to connect and understand their world view, we are allowing them to encounter God. If explained properly, you can relate their past experiences with yoga to Holy Yoga.
ARTSOUL: What type of classes/sessions do you offer? What can participants expect to gain?
DEVIN: I offer group guided meditation sessions as well as private sessions. This is joining together the word and movement to meet God on our mats. Participants can expect to be led into God's presence and to experience the peace much needed in this time of despair and grief. My goal is to remind participants that there is purpose even in hard times. In His presence, we are strengthened and restored to go back out into the world and lead them to the only One who can get us through these trying times. Private sessions are catered to the individual needs but group sessions are more of a virtual group /corporate experience. I'm excited to be leading sessions for a Teen Creatives Conference December 30-31 teaching the youth how to direct their emotions through dance /movement and meditation.
ARTSOUL: What's next for Journey To Peace? What can we expect to see in 2021?
DEVIN: Next Year is when I begin to officially offer Holy Yoga on my site. I hope to continue to be invited to platforms like this so I can begin to change the perspectives of people especially in the Christian community but also allow non-believers to experience Christ in this way.
Find out more about Devin and Journey to Peace by visiting https://www.journeytopeace.co. All who use code ArtSoul in notes after booking a Saturday Morning Meditation Session will get a private one on one session virtual session catered specifically to their needs for free.
Devin Joyner, Owner of Journey to Peace
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2020 put a spotlight on racism in America as the world came to a stop due to the Covid19 pandemic. The silence that the pandemic brought made it impossible to ignore that racism is the age old pandemic that America has been living with for generations.
Video after video has flooded social media this year of Black men and women dying at the hands of police officers and/or being effected by race related incidents in other various ways. It's easy for everyone to wonder… "How are we really doing in America?". It's easy to wonder "Are we growing", or "Do our Black friends and family members feel safe"?
On November 21st, Spoken word poet Taijun Waters put a voice to the Black Man's Experience with the release of his recent poem "I Wonder"; and the world has been listening.
When speaking about the inspiration behind writing this poem, Taijun's "why" is clear. He wanted to express his feelings and offer clarity to those who don't know what it's like to live the Black Experience everyday.
"I penned this spoken word from deep curiosity about the world around me. This poem shares the fragility, confidence, and the wonders of having black skin. I hope it inclines a listening ear from anyone looking to understand, and reminds any black sister/brother in this time to feel loved & unafraid."
SELF LOVE IS HEALING
As Taijun comes to a close of his poem, he says "…and I still rather be Black". This is a mantra of resilience and self love that he wants everyone living in the Black experience to take away from his poem.
He recently released new hoodies to promote this movement of Black Self Love. Check out his full poem released on November 21st and get a hoodie to remind others that despite the challenges and hardships that Black communities have had to endure, "Black is and will always be Beautiful".
MORE ABOUT THIS ARTIST:
Born and raised on the southside of Chicago, Taijun Waters is an artist who has many ways of sharing his thoughts and ideas.
Growing up listening to hip-hop and exploring literature, Taijun began to write poetry at a young age. By the time Taijun entered college, film was also a major area of focus.Thus, now, he chooses poetry + film as an avenue to share his thoughts and observations on life.
Taijun often infuses wisdom and truth into overlooked gray-areas of societal dilemmas and self-image.
His hope is to invoke emotionally healthy conversations on real life topics.
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Dee Wilson Releases "Stay With Me" ft. Fatai and Gifts Listeners with a Reassuring Reminder
Brecan Bland
On November 13th, Dee Wilson released "Stay With Me" featuring Australian Singer/Songwriter Fatai on all platforms. This song provides a reassuring reminder to listeners that whatever you are going through, God hears you, He understands and He cares. It also gives artists a reminder that they can find creative ways to collaborate in the midst of a pandemic. Check it out below!
Stream "Stay With Me"
Follow them on Instagram: @deewilsonlive | @fatai
Click here to watch "Stay With Me"!

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The Pursuit!
Our day started quite slow as we only had fleeting glimpses of the orca around the hotspot. Two or three pods spread out over the white capped sea made for some close passes but the orca seemed distracted spending 2-3 minutes on the surface and then another 5 minutes under the water.
By 11:30am the excitement increased as surging orca were ahead pulling us southwest away from the hotspot and along the 900m deep contour line. 15 minutes had passed and the now 3 pods began diving again on one particular spot. We patiently waited to witness a hunt but the orca seemed to keep coming up short. The orca would have spent a lot of energy surging forward and diving and since there was no evidence of a feed they must have been hungry!
After lunch two bulls and a group of sub-adults ventured close to the boat, one bull even testing his courage by approaching and diving right under the bow of the boat resulting in squeals and cheers from passengers on the front observation deck.
A pleasant visit from a sunfish was quickly overlooked as the call came down from the crow's nest that orca were surging again.
This time heading back towards the hotspot and with a bit more pace! What felt like only seconds had passed and more and more orca joined coming in from all directions, when suddenly a beaked whale appeared within the masses of orca! Everyone on board was holding their breath as we hoped this wasn't going to be another missed opportunity for the orca!!
Almost forty minutes passed as the orca seemed very casual as up to 16 at a time mobbed the beaked whale waiting for the right moment to strike the fatal blow! It seemed all ages of orca were involved in this hunt from large bulls trailing 100m behind to small calves closely following their mum right up in the heat of it! This seemed to be a training exercise as the calves and sub-adults were given passage to approach the prey and attempt some manoeuvres!
The eyes in the sky, albatross and shearwaters, quickly clouded the area as Orca were rushing from the stern of the boat acting as backup to the main pod hunting the whale. A large swirl of bird indicates that there may be scraps appearing at anytime!
The beaked whale wasn't giving up and made a break for it by putting 50m between it and the orca! However the orca were quick to respond by catching back up when a bite from one of the larger orcas on the beaked whales back started the blood trail but it didn't end there! The whale continued swimming along the surface while the relentless orca kept pushing it down. The beaked whale's blow became smaller and it was evident he was running out of puff. The trailing orca must have sensed this as they were breaching, porpoising, spy hopping, rolling and playfully interacting with each other!
By now it had been over an hour since the start of the hunt and the beaked whale was showing obvious bite marks and exhaustion. The orca's spared us from the graphic scenes as the final damage was done below the surface, a large oil slick soon rose up from the depths indicating the kill had been made. The beaked whale never surfaced again and the satisfied orca began turning up with lumps of meat in their mouths. The energy in the air was rife as birds squabbled for leftovers and our passengers pinched themselves trying to comprehend what they had just witnessed!
True, raw, and wild nature at its finest, and we had a front row seat!
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Critical drugs could be rationed following EpiPen shortage
By Aisha Dow
April 13, 2018 — 5.13pm
Critical medicines could be rationed in Australia in the wake of an EpiPen shortage that left some allergy sufferers without emergency treatment.
The EpiPen crisis, which saw pharmacies around the country drained of stock, is just one of a growing number of shortages of essential medicines, often sprung on patients with no notice.
New laws being considered by the federal government could force drug companies to report all shortages to Australia's drug regulator as soon as they are anticipated, triggering rationing in serious cases.
Carer Ali Hogg had to spend almost two months without an EpiPen earlier this year. Credit:Paul Jeffers
Pharmaceutical companies that do not comply could be named and shamed, or face significant fines, under the potential legislation to be introduced next year.
More than 200 drug shortages were being reported this week by the Therapeutic Goods Administration, but the real figure is likely to be more than 1500. It includes antibiotics, chemotherapy drugs, diabetes medication and painkillers used in surgery.
Dr Bastian Seidel, president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, said doctors received no advance warning of the EpiPen shortage, and the same thing often happened with other crucial medicine supply issues.
President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Dr Bastian Seidel.
"We just find out on the hop when the pharmacist or local chemist calls and says 'I can't get it'," Dr Seidel said.
The EpiPen shortage dragged on for months, exposing some adults and children at risk of anaphylaxis, a life-threatening allergic reaction.
Although the problem was first reported in November, Australia's only supplier of adrenaline auto-injectors, Mylan, did not officially notify the Therapeutic Goods Administration until January.
Disability carer Ali Hogg said she didn't know about the issue until she went to the pharmacy to buy an EpiPen in February.
They were all out, with a massive waiting list.
Having already thrown out her expired EpiPen, Ms Hogg, who is allergic to garlic, was forced to go almost two months without the lifesaving device.
When she eats garlic, "my throat swells up and it restricts my breathing", Ms Hogg said. "I could definitely die."
She was eventually able to order an EpiPen through a hospital pharmacy.
The EpiPen shortage in Australia was first reported around November last year. Credit:AP
Mylan are now shipping thousands of EpiPens into the country every week, however some pharmacies were still reporting this week that they were yet to be restocked.
A Mylan Australia spokeswoman said the shortage was the result of manufacturing delays involving manufacturer Meridian Medical Technologies, a company of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
It is not always clear what prompts medicine shortages. The Therapeutic Goods Administration said that due to the increasing global nature of supply chains, drugs were sometimes made by the same manufacturer. So when that manufacturer encountered problems, it affected multiple drug suppliers.
Last year it was a manufacturing problem that saw hospitals forced to ration a powerful painkiller used in millions of operations, while an oestrogen patch shortage hit women with menopausal symptoms.
Earlier this year, there was a shortage of the antidepressant medication duloxetine after some generic manufacturers suddenly discontinued the product.
Anthony Tassone, from the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, said customers were forced to visit multiple pharmacies or go back to their doctor to be prescribed a different drug.
"When you have a medication that is used to treat a mental health condition become in short supply, some patients become anxious, which is the last thing they need," he said.
When you have a medication that is used to treat a mental health condition become in short supply, some patients become anxious, which is the last thing they need.
Anthony Tassone, Pharmacy Guild of Australia
In Australia, pharmaceutical companies have been given the opportunity to report their shortages through a voluntary system, but a number have failed to do so, despite the impact on patients being considered extreme.
Mandatory reporting would not prevent the shortages occurring, but experts say it could help doctors and the government prepare advice on alternatives and, in the most serious cases, to ration essential drugs.
It would also give competing suppliers advance warning so they could prepare for flow-on demand.
The TGA is seeking views on how a new mandatory medicine shortage alert system should work, which drugs and devices should be included, and possible penalties, ahead of the proposed new laws to be introduced next year.
Aisha Dow is health editor with The Age and a former city reporter.Connect via Twitter or email.


"I like to explore the difference of mark making, one made by the brush and the other with the use of screen-printing. Some of the painted marks have the intention of resembling a print aspect."
Could you tell us a bit about yourself? How long have you been a practicing artist and where did you study?
I grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; a city that is surrounded by nature. The waterfalls, the sea and street carnivals were a great part of my years living there. Initially, I trained and worked as a graphic designer, although painting was always present. I would often take evening art classes, which led me to move to London and study my BA at the Slade School of Fine Art, which brought more of a critical and theoretical discourse to my work.
By moving to London, I experienced a diverse and exciting culture that felt solitary at the same time. The difference of light in the city affected the way in which I chose colours and how I approached my process of making. My practice became more immersive and this was when I truly began to accept myself as an artist. Upon finishing my BA I went to undertake my masters at the Royal College of Art, which I have just finished.
You recently had your Graduation show, how do you feel it went?
I felt very positive about the Graduation show, as both painting and screen-printing were finally combined on the surface of the canvas. It was interesting to see how I could bring together works that would summarise the experiments I made during the course of two years. Previously, screen-printing and textiles had only been explored separately from paintings.
The exhibition was a chance to show an experience of an investigation of the materiality of paint, and this show was only the beginning of something that I will explore for many years. What made it really important for me during the process was the exploration of layering and the tension by the difference of mark making on the surface. The paintings became more complex and layered, which was always something I wanted to achieve. With the use of screen-printing I could create images with a high amount of details and textures that with a brush I cannot achieve.
There is a lot of movement in your work, using water, acrylic and screen-printing. Could you tell us about these works and the meaning behind them?
Having been brought up by the sea, I have always had an interest in water. Water has no identity, it is everywhere and anyone can have it. We are made of 70% water. Water unites all continents. Water has no colour. Half of its colour is a reflection of the sky, the other half a reflection of what is below the surface. Water is in constant change and flow. It relates to movement. I realised that acrylic was the best medium to capture this movement as I am able to dilute the paint with a lot of water.
There is an interest in additive and subtractive actions. Through exploring texture, and the use of layering I open up ambiguous spaces. The repetition of continuous rhythmic motifs creates an essence of a pre-existing thing, which makes the paintings partially representational. This repetition comes from music, especially songs by the Brazilian musician called Baden Powell who has always been an influence to my work.
I like to explore the difference of mark making, one made by the brush and the other with the use of screen-printing. Some of the painted marks have the intention of resembling a print aspect. There is a tension between the erased marks and screen-printed images, as some of these marks have traces of a previous action and others are present on the surface. The screen-printed image used for the painting called Meteorite, are photographs that were digitally obliterated to the point where it reached a low quality and became pixelated. The process of printing allows me to create digital images and brings to the work a sharp and detailed quality. I find it important to have these two different methods of working, as one requires planning that involves a machine and the other a less calculated process.
Some early mornings I go for a walk or a run before arriving in the studio. Being in movement helps me think about current and new ideas in my paintings. When arriving at the studio it takes me at least an hour or two to understand what has been done on the previous day and how to respond to what is on the surface. I prepare large buckets of water and start mixing colours. Normally I work on many canvases simultaneously, using large pieces of canvas on the floor that absorbs the water and paint removed from the paintings. Some works like Water and Meteorite were done on the floor; I find that working this way offers me the possibility of capturing the idea of moving water.
Usually the floor is covered with these loose pieces of canvas with coloured stains and the walls are covered with coloured drips. The studio can get really messy, pots of colours and buckets of water spread across the floor, together with some paintings that are drying and others that are on the walls. The atmosphere of the studio is very active as I am currently moving across the space a lot, jumping from one work to the next. The floor being busy is part of the making of these paintings and I manage to find all the materials needed during the process. I have just moved into a new studio in Stockwell, which looks very clean. I am really looking forward to start making new works.
I was stunned by Helen Johnson's paintings at the ICA this year. The amount of layering, labour and the narrative in those paintings really inspired me. I very much enjoyed the way they were hung in the space with metal stands showing both sides of the surface.
Roni Horn's piece called Saying Water was important for my research on water together with her images of the river Thames. Her glass sculptures show how water can be represented by a different material, other than water itself and these sculptures, for me, represents a static version of water, as if they were a pool of water. I first saw one of those sculptures last year in a group show at the Hauser & Wirth. They are beautiful.
Naming the work can come during the process of making them or at the end when the process of painting is finished. In order to conclude things about the work and decide on a name, conversations are the best way to go. I usually discover things about the work that I wouldn't if it was only my mind thinking alone. I prefer to not show works that don't have a name yet as for me; they have not yet been resolved. My paintings are abstract and ambiguous, so naming them becomes important as it gives direction to the viewer. Usually, it has a name of an existing object, a situation or a state.
After spending six years away from my country, I am now curious to see what the response will be towards my work there. I am currently organising a residency that will be happening in Rio in the next couple of years. Five artists will be invited to spend six weeks in Rio making work in a shared studio, leading to a group show at the end. I will also be having a solo show later in October this year in a gallery in the south of Brazil. For this I will be creating new works and I am really looking forward to that.


Reading books gives some of us great pleasure. All readers have their favourites and all of us take away something different from each book we read. Here, this young reader shares his views on the most recent book he has read – new author Ketaki Karnik's The Case of The Chinese Mastermind.
School is out and Kavya, Raima, and Anna are making their way to Raima's cousin, Varun's farmhouse where they will spend their vacation. At the same time and venue, Varun's mother (Pinky Aunty) is hosting the annual Oxford Alumni group. When the girls reach the farmhouse, Pinky Aunty, wearing her purple flip flops, jumps like a feral beast into the car and commands the driver to accelerate all the way to Phulgaon. The girls are confused and they wonder – why Phulgaon? Then Pinky Aunty delivers the shocking information that her husband, Ravi's design blueprints for his company have been stolen from the farmhouse and guests in the house had heard the robbers saying they had to reach Phulgaon as fast as possible.
Cracking this mystery is a very daunting task for such young children to take on and they find most characters to be secretive in their own ways. Some characters show themselves to be recalcitrant which creates further suspicion. The author regularly uses red herrings to throw the reader off scent.
After a snail pace build up in the first half of the book, a bullet train plot shoots into action and the best part of the story is definitely when all the action starts! The children find the thief with the help of Anand Uncle, but then question themselves whether they have actually caught the right person. It comes as a big revelation to everyone when they discover the culprit – especially since Pinky Aunty unwittingly becomes part of the culprit's strategy.
'One look at Pinky Aunty and you'd think Varun had won an Olympic gold! With two displays of 'responsible, adult behaviour', Varun could do no wrong as far as Pinky Aunty was concerned.
In spite of clues inserted a little too conveniently (eavesdropping on crucial conversations, and a sharp edged can when it is most needed), the book held my attention because of the descriptions, and secretive characters with their independent deceptions. Some parts were engrossing while others were unclear – like the lock and the duffle bag.
But writing this review a month after reading the book, I can still see words coming together as pictures in my mind. Although there were words I didn't know the dictionary meanings of, I thank 'the mystery fiction junkie' Ketaki Karnik' for writing this thriller.
The author is a grade 7 student in Mumbai. He can be reached at kavish1@gmail.com.


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Only a few thousand Italians remain in Istria and Dalmatia as a consequence of the Italian defeat in WWII and of the slaughter of approximately 2, Italians mostly soldiers and the subsequent choice of Italian citizenship by an additional-people in what became known as the Istrian exodus.
The governor asked for federal troops, and Hayes responded. The Carbonari condemned Napoleon III to death for failing to unite Italy, and the group almost succeeded in assassinating him in He was released the next day when "someone interfered, and paid that tax". There were parades of the unemployed, demanding bread and work, 1849 essay civil disobedience shops.
Moreover, Darwin 's theory of natural selection offered an alternative, non-teleological account of biological adaptations. Harris refused to go out on a "double- header," a train with two locomotives carrying a double length of cars, to which railroaders had objected because it required fewer workers and made the brakemen's work more dangerous: Six thousand people came and demanded nationalization of the railroads.
He was bailed out, perhaps by his aunt, the following day. Because Napoleon had not fulfilled the terms of his agreement with Piedmont, he would not gain Savoy and Nice. Living under the shade of Bunker Hill monument, demanding in the name of humanity, our right, and withholding those rights from others because their skin is black!
I Cairoli, Bologna, IT: The war itself was quite short. At 22, he moved to New Salem, Illinois. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Louis-Philippe had promised revolutionaries such as Ciro Menotti that he would intervene if Austria tried to interfere in Italy with troops.
Then when asked why This bloody engagement, at which the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph had also taken personal command of his troops, saw little skill demonstrated by the leaders on either side, but the French were again victorious. I cannot help that. This war was a war of epic proportion.
In the Great Chicago Fire inthe tenements fell so fast, one after another, that people said it sounded like an earthquake.
A three-month strike ofworkers in New York won the eight-hour day, and at a victory celebration in June, workers paraded through the city. Below are a number of online resources for those interested in exploring the ideas of Market Anarchism.
Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience? Robson and John M. I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for the Presidency, made up chiefly of editors, and men who are politicians by profession; but I think, what is it to any independent, intelligent, and respectable man what decision they may come to?
Officially, the capital was not moved from Florence to Rome until July Meanwhile, the Austrians besieged Venice, which was forced to surrender on August The Pennsylvania legislature in passed a mine safety act providing for the "regulation and ventilation of mines, and for the protection of the lives of the miners.
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We believe that each person has a purpose and calling on their life from God, and He has given each of us our bodies to use to carry out that purpose. Foundations 6:19 is designed to provide opportunities, resources and support for individuals to learn how to care for their bodies in such a way that is practical, economical and enjoyable.
Foundations 6:19 is for the weary dieter who has tried everything to be healthier without results, and it is for the fitness enthusiast who has already learned how to incorporate exercise into their daily lifestyle. It is here that men and women of all fitness levels can find and maintain their "want to" mindset that is crucial to making lasting lifestyle changes. Through accountability and authentic relationships, our desire is to create an atmosphere where individuals can unite to help one another succeed in reaching their health & fitness goals, while developing a healthy lifestyle that honors God.
Foundations 6:19 provides local group fitness sessions that incorporate elements of cardio, strength, flexibility and core training for a total body workout. Sessions include a variety of circuit training, bootcamps and HIIT workouts to motivate and challenge members of all fitness levels. All equipment is provided on-site and is available on a first-come basis.
You are now part of our virtual on-line community, designed to encourage and equip those who cannot attend locally. Through social media (check out our Facebook page & Newsletter), Foundations 6:19 provides fitness challenges, nutritional tips, before & after stories and words of encouragement to come alongside you to help you succeed in reaching your health & fitness goals.
We believe that this journey to health & fitness is a balancing act that begins with our mindset and is manifested in our physical bodies. By connecting these two aspects through spiritual edification and authentic relationships, members of Foundations 6:19 will learn how to improve their quality of life and be able to enjoy the benefits of their healthy lifestyle abundantly and in a God-honoring fashion.
FOUNDATIONS 6:19 exists to encourage and equip others to honor God with their bodies through proper nutrition, strategic exercise, accountability and spiritual edification in order to improve their quality of life.
It is our belief (1 Corinthians 6:19, 20) that our bodies are in essence the foundation for the calling & purpose God has placed on each of our lives for His honor and glory.
Our vision is to see the lives of our families, friends and community transformed as we unite to build each other up and share in the fullness and abundance of God's blessings as we become healthier individuals.
Our purpose is to provide health & fitness opportunities for people to build up their foundation (body) to honor God with their whole lives physically, mentally and spiritually.
Our mission is to help others experience God's power in their lives through the building up of their foundation (body) through strategic exercise, healthy eating, and surrendered spirits while fostering unity in the community.
This is me after having my daughter in 2007.
It's been almost six years since I started my journey to health and fitness. I gained 60 pounds when I was pregnant with my oldest daughter, weighing in at 198 just before I gave birth. I was not at all happy with myself.
So, I started on a mission soon after to lose the weight and just "feel" comfortable in my own skin. I tried a variety of programs from Turbo Jam to ChaLean Extreme, and finally Insanity. And I did lose weight successfully. Exercising was definitely a major part of my journey, but changing how I ate played an even bigger role in my life. As I continued to exercise and eat healthy, I found it harder and harder to lose weight and keep it off. What's more, I was finding it hard to motivate myself to keep on.
Then I started a Bible Study by Lysa TerKeurst titled Made to Crave…and it changed my life. Through this study, God showed me that without Him, no exercise or diet would ever bring me the satisfaction my soul longed for…only He could bring true meaning to my life. And it brought new meaning to the truth that my body is His temple and I am to honor Him in everything I do.
During this time, I attended a couple's Bible Study where two wives, who were also teachers, approached me about working out. They wanted to walk...I told them I didn't walk, but if they wanted to exercise, I'd love to work something out. They agreed. After getting permission from the Superintendent, we set up some days and times and started exercising together at our local high school! We started with 5 ladies, including myself. The group has grown steadily, with an average of 10 attending each week. Men are also welcome, and when possible, we have a few join us for a challenging workout session.
God revealed to me as I was working out one day that my purpose was to equip and encourage others to honor Him with their bodies. He impressed upon my heart that my body was the foundation upon which His purpose for my life would be fulfilled. He led me to 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, "For do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. You were bought with a price; you are not your own. Therefore, honor God with your body." He gave me the name Foundations 6:19 for our fitness group and He's been adding to our group ever since.
I have learned that my journey to whole health and fitness is a spiritual one that brings about great physical results (Lysa TerKeurst). I am always learning different ways to honor God with my body and my life. And I am so grateful for the opportunity God has given me to share in your journey to honor Him with your life as well!
Me & my hubby after running our first 5k in July 2013.


A new study has found no link between regular, long-term marijuana use and physical health issues, with the exception of a higher incidence of gum disease.
The new research, conducted by a team led by Arizona State University's Madeline Meier, studied 1,037 people in New Zealand to see what effect their marijuana usage had on their health, from the time of birth until middle age, according to the Independent. The study, which was published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, tracked the subjects' lung function, cholesterol, weight, blood pressure, and blood sugar.
The study, which was controlled for factors such as tobacco use, showed that those who used marijuana regularly had a higher rate of gum disease, but aside from dental health, their health was unaffected by the pot itself.
"In general, our findings showed that cannabis use over 20 years was unrelated to health problems in early midlife," reads the study.
"Across several domains of health (periodontal health, lung function, systemic inflammation, and metabolic health), clear evidence of an adverse association with cannabis use was apparent for only one domain, namely, periodontal health," the researchers found.
While the study did find that those who smoked pot more regularly were less likely to brush and floss daily than those who did not smoke at all, the link between pot and gum disease continued even after the researchers adjusted to control for dental hygiene habits.
Notably, the study only looked at the relationship between long-term pot smoking and physical health, and not on mental health. While this study found no link between marijuana use and physical health problems outside of gum disease, Meier has used the same data set to investigate pot's effect on mental health, and found evidence of a decline in IQ for those who used the drug long-term.
Other follow-up studies investigating the same effects, however, didn't find evidence of IQ decline connected to smoking marijuana. A study released in January tracked teenage twins who either used or abstained from pot for 10 years, finding no link between smoking marijuana and a loss of IQ.
"This does not mean that heavy use in adolescence is problem-free," statistician Nicholas Jackson, from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, told Science magazine. He added that other aspects of a teen's daily functioning could be negatively affected by regular pot use.


Welcome to our game room where you can waste as much time as you like with these classic video game favorites! Here you can test your mind, play some golf, or just blow stuff up. All you need to get started is the Macromedia Shockwave Plug-In, and Sun Microsystems Java. Don't worry though, these are already common components of most web browsers. We've got some new game additions coming soon so check back often, and enjoy your stay in our arcade!


Like so many people, Bert dreamed for years of running his own bed & breakfast. On 25 June 2016, he made his dream come true: Befour opened its doors to the general public. Heren Loebas pulled a subtle house style out of its hat, to put the new place to be on the map right away.
The look and feel of the site needed to match the interior, but if possible the website should also have a subtle retro touch. Apart from that, we had carte blanche for the entire house style. The logo, website, flyers and invitations would give the brand a clear image and create considerable brand awareness.
Befour or B4 is pronounced as it would be in English. Four Bs, in other words, three of which can be found in Bert's B&B. We find the fourth one everywhere, even between the sheets. Each of the guest rooms proudly bears the name of a mayor of Aalst, or a 'burgemeester' in Dutch: B4, bingo! The font and colour palette emphasise the B&B's contemporary feel, with the monocle glancing back at the past. A perfect match.
The people invited to the opening received a high-quality invitation including a cut-out monocle. This little quirk found its way into the rest of the house style as well. It playfully encouraged people to post a funny photo. That was a real eye-opener on social media! The evening's seven lucky winners had the chance to spend the very first night in the bed & breakfast.


Wrist pain can be a frustrating and debilitating problem for both sufferer and therapist. Repetitive jobs, computer-based work postures, and poor workplace ergonomics are leading to an ever-increasing incidence of RSI and occupational overuse syndrome (see Chapter 2 for the proper work set-up). Symptoms may include recurring pain (myalgia) or soreness in the neck, shoulders, upper back, wrists, or hands; tingling, numbness, coldness, or loss of sensation; loss of grip strength; lack of endurance; and weakness. It is important to view the hand and wrist in context. Chronic poor posture and problems in the head, neck, and shoulder should all be taken into account. There are often many trigger points to be found in the wrist flexors and extensors, all of which will need to be documented and addressed.
STEP 1 Study the anatomy and direction of the muscle fibers.
Slow sliding massage downward onto rhomboids, pausing on trigger points.
STEP 3 Massage area generously.
STEP 4 Infraspinatus, wrist flexors, wrist flexor common origin (sustained), wrist extensors, common wrist extensor origin (sustained), palmaris longus (may be absent), interosseous membrane of radius and ulna, and small muscles of hand.
STEP 5 Apply gentle and thorough massage from elbows to hands.


RESCUED GREY SEAL STEVIE AFFECTED BY THE UNCERTAINTY AROUND BREXIT IN RACE AGAINST TIME TO GET HIS POOL FINISHED IN BELGIUM!
Brexit is not only causing stress for UK citizens, blind Belgian resident seal Stevie could struggle to return to his home at Blankenberge SEA LIFE centre due to the difficulties surrounding animal transportation and uncertainty of Brexit.
The Cornish Seal Sanctuary would like to invite you to join them for their first public seal pup release of the year. After another busy rescue season, the Sanctuary are happy to be releasing their rescued casualties of the sea back into the wild.
Charity´s first official ambassador, Jena Goldsack will lend her voice and support to the charity´s important worldwide marine conservation work.
The Cornish Seal Sanctuary officially launched their brand new play area on 18th February 2019. The new "Discovery Cove Playground" mixes education with fun, allowing children to learn whilst playing.
A new sign packed with information about what to do if you come across wildlife in need has been erected at its first coastal location in Cornwall.
The Pup, named after Queen legend Brian May, was rescued at 5 weeks old by British Divers Marine Life Rescue due to severe malnourishment and superficial wounds.
During this half-term, thousands of people will be exploring the beautiful British coastline. The sanctuary is asking people to be aware that thought to be harmless activities can be life threatening to wildlife.
After successfully hand-rearing "Squidge" the miracle penguin chick has started swimming lessons.
Penguin chick now nicknamed "Squidge" was hatched on 27th May 2018 to parents Lola and Gilbert, Humboldt Penguin pair at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary.
SANCTUARY TEAM ATTEMPT A WORLD RECORD WITH THE "LACCY BAND CHALLENGE"
The Cornish Seal Sanctuary team are inviting the public to join them to attempt a world record for the most people doing the "Laccy Band Challenge" at Gyllyngvase Beach on Saturday 21st July 2018 at 9am.
An 18-month-old grey seal pup who had to have half a flipper surgically removed has become the newest resident at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary.
The Cornish Seal Sanctuary will be welcoming their newest resident grey seal.
Fans of the royals can relax, however, for the Megan in this case is junior animal care worker Megan Gunnell from the Cornish Seal Sanctuary, and Harry is the seal pup rescued on the day of the Royal Wedding.
MEGAN TO LET HARRY GO!
They have only been together since May 19th..but it is already time for Megan to let Harry go!
Two year old juvenile seal, Jinx, had her first ever training session with animal care assistant.
The Cornish Seal Sanctuary had their first official release of the season with 6 pups being released back into the wild.
The Cornish Seal Sanctuary has announced it is under new ownership. It now belongs to a charity.
The Cornish Seal Sanctuary are delighted to announce that they will be doing a beach clean on 31st January 2018 at Kennack Sands and will be joined by the incredible Wayne and Koda!
Around 70 people joined the Cornish Seal Sanctuary team as they helped to clear up the beaches following Storm Eleanor on 14th January 2018.
For all Media queries, please contact Georgina Shannon on 01326 221361 or by email.


This has been deemed by a friend as my pirate's outfit which is entirely fine by me since probably 20% of my clothing references the high seas in some way, shape, or form. Apparently, I just can't stay away from stripes and of course, I unintentionally don a skull and crossbones necklace removing any chance of not being part of Jack Sparrow's merry crew.
Moving onto another blockbuster hit, I found this oh-so-perfect khaki trench by Hyden Yoo. After being inspired by Sherlock Holmes, I found the design of this coat rather appealing. Look at that generous back flap! I've been looking for a trench coat, but wanted one that wasn't especially long and had some features that could stand out from the pack. Unfortunately, Burberry is out of the question at the moment, so I was lucky to come across this gem from up-and-coming Mr. Yoo (who moved to New York and started a line after winning $50,000 from Fear Factor). He just also happens to be from Houston. Ok, so I didn't really take a great pic of the front details and no, I didn't wear khaki-on-khaki. I just put the coat on for the photo. Yeah, I couldn't wait to show it. Anywho, better pic of it later.
BTW, Almost-Crazy Anita Slasher is my new pirate name given to me by the Pirate Name Generator. What's yours??
Very cute look indeed, love it!
Love the crossbones necklace, so cool. And I loved the pictures from SXSW! I soooo wanted to go this year but couldn't. I am determined to get there next year!
That's such a cute outfit. I love the shoes and the top.
the trench is a really trendy piece!
Pirate name generator sounds awesome will have to go check it out now.
Cropped chinos are a great spring/summer item!
Nookie: I think that's the best pirate name yet!
The Fancier: Yes, you must go next year! It's always such a great time!


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Kids scrubs are a great way for children to learn and have fun at the same time! Research has found that imaginative play influences a child's developing creativity, social skills, and ability to understand others. When children are encouraged to role play, they are able to explore new horizons and ideas beyond what is already familiar to them. Teachers and parents can stimulate this beneficial play by providing children with a variety of props and costumes. Adding kids scrubs or a pretend doctor kit to a play area may introduce new and exciting possibilities for learning and growth. Pretend doctor play might alleviate fears that children have about visiting the doctor. This can be helpful for healthy children who see their doctor infrequently or only for well-visits, but even more valuable for children with serious health conditions. Giving children the means to work through their fears or past difficult experiences can be emotionally empowering and increase their sense of independence. Pretending to be a doctor or nurse may even interest a child in the field of medicine as a future career. Taking a stuffed animal's temperature may seem trivial to an adult, but it can be a powerful expression of a child's hopes or dreams! When children have tools and props like a stethoscope, and clothes, like kids scrubs, that look authentic, they feel encouraged and supported in their interests. Whether they pursue the study of medicine or not, pretend doctor play will help children develop empathy as they care for their patients and work to heal them. It will give them opportunities for language development as they describe the action and setting of their play. Today, they may be setting a broken bone, but tomorrow, extensive surgery may be needed! Adults are often surprised at how well children collect vocabulary and knowledge in an area of interest. Though pretend play is enriching even when a child plays alone, when a child engages in pretend play with peers, they get the chance to practice social skills such as turn taking, listening, sharing, and cooperation. A child's very own set of scrubs will not only bring a smile to their face, but can provide an incredibly rich opportunity for social, emotional and intellectual development through pretend play.


While we'd like to think everything going into our Geodatabase was done correctly – I mean no one purposely enters invalid data, right? In practice we need to perform QA on a regular basis. It's really just a given.
As we know in our ArcGIS/ArcFM solution stack there are two ways to perform QA, ArcFM "Run QA/QC" and ArcMap "Validate Features." Both operate on a selected set of features. The ArcFM QA gives us a progress dialog, a list of errors we can inspect or write to a file, and most importantly, returns *all* errors found for a feature and any related records. The ArcMap "Validate Features" runs silently and removes valid features from the selection set leaving only invalid features selected.
In this case our strategy saved us about 10 minutes for a QA run. If this is a task you run repeatedly, it might represent an opportunity.
Of course, if all or a large majority of your feature have QA errors this strategy won't save but cost you time. Nonetheless, in our experience cases where *all* features in a class have QA errors is relatively rare.
In the end, we hope this strategy might be able to save you some time in your QA processing going forward.


The raspberries are frozen in the process of extracting moisture from them, they are then brought back to room temperature.
Freeze dried raspberries are available all year round and have an extensive shelf life at room temperature. Air dried fruits will not maintain flavour to the same degree as freeze dried.
We love them on our cereals, in our yogurt in energy bars and other on the go snacks. In fact they're great for snacking anytime and we've discovered that kids especially, find them not only delicious but fascinating.
You can eat as crunchy snack straight from the bag, or rehydrate them.
include within all aspects of baking such as cookies, bread and cakes.
just add water or milk and in minutes the fruits will re-hydrate to their original form.


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Defending Against the "Compromised Insider"
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Today's utilities face a growing litany of digital threats, from SCADA targeting malware to air-gap jumping techniques, anti-forensics tools and more. But for the average utility today, one of the biggest risks they face is a basic one — the "compromised insider."
A constant refrain in the security world is that people are the weakest link in any security framework. This remains true today and it will become even more important years from now, as security technologies advance, continually raising the costs and difficulty level for attackers. Surveys consistently show that attackers prefer human targeting in order to bypass technical security controls.
The easiest way to compromise a network or physical facility is to bypass the security perimeter altogether and simply hijack the access of a trusted employee. This can be accomplished by stealing the employee's password or network credentials through social engineering and other tricks (examples include phishing emails, "vishing," fake websites, fileless malware, web-based attacks like XSS and reusing stolen passwords from other breaches).
Once the attacker has this access, he or she can login to the system as the trusted user, access everything that person can access and perform whatever functions that person is allowed to perform.
The best way to defend against compromised insider attacks is to have a strong privileged account management (PAM) program in place.
Here is a brief overview:
The challenge for utilities:
The control and monitoring systems used in industrial controls – including the utility industry – were developed in a far different threat environment than what we now face:
— Isolated dedicated networks were used
— The system implementation depended far more upon numerous trained individuals rather than centralized automation
— Sophisticated state-level attack frameworks and associated toolsets were not widely available
Now systems are heavily automated, dedicated networks have been abandoned for the ubiquitous and inexpensive internet, sophisticated state level attack toolkits are widely available, and state level attacks on utility networks have already occurred in Ukraine and Estonia, in addition to many malware infections across the world, including the US.
A major risk — shared management:
Traditionally, enterprises — and utilities — have deployed servers using shared management/root/administrative keys. These could be the server root keys for a cluster/workgroup of *nix servers, or a domain administrator key for a group of Windows servers.
These shared keys made management simpler, allowing for easy management, process control and scripting by multiple administrators with access to the appropriate keys. However, this setup also means that a compromise of any one machine connected to that workgroup enables the attacker to compromise all systems with which it shares a key. That is a major vulnerability, particularly for a critical environment like a utility. Essentially what it means is that if a single user or user device is compromised, the attacker can spread laterally throughout the network, wreaking untold damage on the utility's network, data and (ultimately) services.
As we look for ways to mitigate this risk, we inevitably come to cryptography - specifically, Public Key Cryptography (PKC). PKC will lock privileged control channels – but it also introduces a complex and expensive Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) overhead – and the imminent possibility of creating a self-inflicted denial-of-service due to the PKI setup, letting certificates expire or management oversight of the PKI. This risk is unacceptable in the utility environment. And experience has shown us that letting certificates expire is all too common an occurrence, even when attackers are not trying to help compromise or shut down the systems.
Privileged Account Management:
Experience from both the governmental and commercial sectors teaches us that organizations need to assume that all but the most strongly managed corporate accounts are likely to be compromised.
Thus organizations need to architect their systems to maintain reasonable security in the face of compromised corporate accounts and desktops. While it is possible to architect and implement secure management systems with isolated management networks, dedicated terminals, jump servers, and the like, the necessary expertise to craft and maintain such environments is in short supply.
Privileged Account Management (PAM) software has been developed by vendors to offer much of the security and capabilities of security-focused management networks, without requiring the security expertise that would otherwise be necessitated.
Privileged account systems typically do not follow the complex PKI model. Rather, they allow each managed system to have unique passwords while also providing a management and scripting interface that hides this complexity from the administrator. Typically, they will allow these passwords to be changed either on a time or usage basis – such as every day, or after each use. Such rapid changes greatly reduce the value of compromised system credentials – in the case of unique credentials that are changed after each session, capture of a credential provides no value as the attacker had to have administrative access to perform the capture and gains neither the ability to access the system in the future, nor the ability to access other systems.
Commercial PAM functionality is often highly configurable. It is possible to configure PAM software securely and follow usage patterns that minimize security risks. It is also possible to configure PAM software insecurely, so that many of the security advantages offered by the PAM software are lost. The makers of PAM software will provide guidance as to how to configure their software securely, but many organizations configure their PAM software to a level that the users hope is secure enough, but is far more convenient to operate. For organizations that are potentially facing dedicated persistent attack, such tradeoffs must be considered very cautiously.
Configuring PAM systems to maximize security protections:
PAM implementations can greatly harden the organization that deploys them. But in the process, they create a particularly valuable and inviting target – the PAM system itself. If an attacker can compromise the enterprise PAM system, the attacker will have virtually free reign within the enterprise's systems. Thus, even if an organization chooses for its implementation to fall more on the feature/convenience side of the security/convenience balance, it should still focus upon security in its implementation of PAM and the supporting PAM environment.
It is important in the implementation choices to consider the threats. As a starting point, assume that the normal corporate account of the user is compromised (phishing, carefully targeted e-mail, browser compromise, etc.). Unless the organization has taken extensive steps (dedicated locked down thin client, dedicated Secure Administrative Workstation / Privileged Account Workstation with locked down hardware and trusted boot), we should assume that the user's client system is also compromised. In such situations we must assume that the organization needs to enable its staff to perform security critical operations from compromised systems. This is not something we want to do for the management of the PAM system itself, but the PAM system can be used to provide a security buffer for privileged operations elsewhere in the organization.
The PAM system itself should be isolated and be managed from hardened isolated clients with administrators using second factor authentication tokens such as smart cards, U2F tokens, or the like. If possible, it is best if PAM administration is done from known and preconfigured locations, adding a networking defensive layer to the defensive array. The maker of the PAM software will provide guidance for configuring and managing the PAM system for maximum security.
The PAM system must be configured to provide tool systems / working environments for users who are using the PAM software for their work. These tool systems / working environments should be function specific and provide the tools needed to perform the work for the design functionality – and no more. The requirements for a database administrator are much different than an Apache web server administrator, which are much different than a *nix system administrator, which are much different than a Windows Enterprise or Domain administrator. Users must log into tool systems / working environments that are configured appropriately for the expected functionality.
PAM users must login using second factor tokens – smart cards, U2F tokens, or equivalent over encrypted communications channels from their clients. They log into the PAM system using accounts that are separate and distinct from their normal user accounts, which maps them to tool systems / working environments – where the user does all their work. The user clients provide a screen and keyboard, and hence a compromised client can monitor what the user sees and types, and potentially can inject keyboard strokes and mouse movements. If the user is alert and sees such unexpected behavior, they must shut down their client immediately and alert system management of a compromise. But aside from this, malware on the client can not drive the functionality that the user is exercising, as that functionality is being driven from the tools system / working environment, which is locked down and does not allow user modifications.
The tools systems / working environments hosted by or accessed by the PAM system must be strongly locked down and carefully monitored for unauthorized changes. It is important to try and prevent code / thread injection by attackers in the tools systems / working environments. Thus, if at all possible, scripting in these environments should be either blocked or restricted to known and approved scripts. This is typically accomplished by restricting scripts to pre-established scripts loaded into a scripting directory, or more strongly by script code signing.
Since individual defensive measures may be actively or inadvertently compromised at times, we construct secure operations by layering multiple independent security layers. Thus, implementing network level access control over administrators and sensitive user access to and through PAM adds barriers to an external attacker who is unlikely to have physical access to a control room / control office that has restricted network access to the PAM system.
We have not mentioned the Microsoft Active Directory Enhanced Security Environment (Red Forest) architecture, even though it exhibits all the characteristics of PAM architectures, including the use of SAW's and PAW's, because this environment is specific to Microsoft environments; and utility environments are not pure Microsoft environments.
The compromised insider poses a grave threat to utilities, given the sensitive nature of these operations. For this reason, it is critical that operators prioritize this risk. PAM is one of the best methods for doing so, but it is important to avoid key pitfalls when implementing PAM or this security management tool could create its own vulnerabilities. By implementing PAM properly, utilities can be assured of a robust protection for its trusted users.
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Although many critics regard Harrison Birtwistle as the foremost British composer of his generation, his works remain underrepresented in the analytic literature. His music notoriously resists conventional analysis, and when interviewed the composer hasn\'t expounded at length on his methods. Commentators on his music have thus lacked specific technical means to substantiate their interpretative claims.
The present study explores in detail some of the internal logic of Birtwistle\'s 1977 composition Carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum (hereafter simply Carmen). Birtwistle\'s highly idiosyncratic musical style calls for an eclectic mix of analytic techniques, drawn from music theory, mathematics, and ideas conveyed in the composer\'s scores and published remarks. In Chapter 1, I define central concepts and the analytic means by which I describe them in Birtwistle\'s music. Chapter 2 introduces carmen in particular, acquainting the reader with the music\'s general characteristics and sketching some of the analytic issues specific to the piece.
The next four chapters form the core of the present study; each draws on the ideas introduced in Chapter 1 to investigate one of the musical aspects of Carmen mentioned in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 examines Birtwistle\'s distinctively indistinct melodies. Chapter 4 shows how he generates harmonic variety that produces approximately parallel voice-leading. Chapter 5 shows how he generates motivic variety through approximate repetitions of an ostinato. Chapter 6 analyzes Birtwistle\'s treatment of musical sequences that repeat along one or more parameters.
The last two chapters place the preceding four in perspective. Chapter 7 summarizes my analytic findings from Chapters 3 through 6, and synthesizes them to clarify their implications for further analysis. Chapter 8 furnishes some cursory analysis of Birtwistle\'s subsequent music. These later examples demonstrate that many of the techniques I describe are by no means peculiar to Carmen, but persist as prominent aspects of Birtwistle\'s style.


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Magners bolsters portfolio with Pear Cider
By Marketing Week	 9 Feb 2009 4:14 pm
Magners is launching Magners Pear in the UK to broaden its product portfolio in the increasingly competitive cider sector.
The launch will be backed with a multimillion pound advertising campaign taking in TV, outdoor, radio and press activity.
Magners, owned by C&C Group, has seen sales of its cider drop since it first reinvigorated the moribund sector in 2006 with the "over ice" proposition. Sales for Magners fell last year. In the six months to the end of August, the
company says revenues dropped 13% and it has warned it expects operating profits to fall in the second half of the year.
Magners Pear will be available from next month in a pint bottle and a 330 ml long neck bottle and also cans. It will be distributed through the licensed and grocery trade.
Managing director of the brewer John Holberry says: "We know lifestyle and tastes continue to change and out competitors have responded more quickly than we have, but our customers are ready for a new fruit-based drinks alternative from a credible quality brand and Magners Pear will match that need perfectly."
The company's advertising agency of record is Young Euro RSCG. C&C Group's portfolio includes Magners, Bulmers, Tullamore Dew and Frangelico.


Drawing on her own long-term research and extensive work experience, Janice Klein reveals how the power of people (insiders who are able to see problems from outsider's perspective), approach ("pulling change"), and system (support infrastructure) combine to turn new ideas and concepts into institutionalized practices. In particular, certain people inside organizations "outsiders on the inside" are key to driving innovation, adaptation, and real change. Using examples from leading companies in MIT's Leaders for Manufacturing (LFM) and System Design and Management (SDM) Partnership -- such as Boeing, Intel, Motorola, Alcoa, Ford, Kodak, and others -- she shows how employees at all levels can learn how to become "an outsider on the inside," and be in the right place at the right time to discover opportunities to "pull" into their organization. Throughout, we grow to understand the perspectives of numerous "outsiders on the inside," by hearing their voices and observing their actions. The strategy Klein provides is relevant for any company that hopes to build a change capability, rather than attempt only to manage change.
Janice Klein is a senior lecturer and researcher at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Author of a textbook, numerous book chapters, and academic journal articles, Klein has also written for Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review.
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AGAINST THE GRAIN: Provocative viewpoint based on hard solid research, turned into practical advice with well written, attention-grabbing prose.
RECOGNIZABLE COMPANIES: Features in depth stories from Boeing, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Alcoa, General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Polaroid, Kodak, Digital, and NASA, among others.


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Local roundup: Milford downs St. Georges in baseball
Apr 24th, 2019 · by Delaware State News · Comments:
Milford High used a three-run fourth inning to open up a four-run lead before downing St. Georges, 6-3, in non-conference baseball on Wednesday afternoon.
Winning pitcher Brock Hilligoss allowed only two hits and struck out six in five-plus innings as the Buccaneers (9-1) won their fourth game in a row.
Mitch Leighty hit a three-run triple in the fourth while Shawn Saxon had two of Milford's six hits. Reliever Alex Mergner recorded the final four outs.
Wilm. Charter 5, Caesar Rodney 4: The Force rallied for all five of its runs in the top of the seventh to pull out the win.
The Riders, who got doubles from Stacey Deputy and Jada Courtney, took their 4-0 lead with three run in the third. Both teams finished with 11 hits.
Sussex Central 11, Salisbury School, Md. 3: The Golden Knights notched their second straight win to improve to 3-7.
Delaware 8, UMES 2: The Blue Hens scored the game's first five runs and finished with 13 hits in the victory.
Five players had two hits apiece for Delaware, including Kevin Mohollen (3 RBI, 1 run), Erik Bowren (2 runs), Dover grad Jordan Hutchins (1 RBI), Joseph Carpenter (2 RBI) and Zack Miller (2 runs, 1 RBI). Tommy Pomatto (Caesar Rodney) was one of five pitchers the Hens used in the nine-inning contest.
College track & field
Wesley men ranked No. 9 nationally: For the first time this outdoor season, the Wesley College men's track & field team broke the Top 10 in the nation in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association NCAA Division III rankings.
Wesley is fourth in the Mideast Region in the regional rankings.
Kai Cole holds the top spot in Division III in the 100- and 200-meter dashes. Cole broke Anthony Simpson's school record in the 200-meter dash with a time of 21.05 seconds and finished the 100-meter dash in 10.46 seconds at the meet.
Thomas Kalieta Jr. is third in the country in the 400-meter dash (47.72).
Wolverines win 11 events at DSU: In the Hornet Invitational quad meet with Division I opponents Delaware State, Coppin State and Maryland-Eastern Shore, Wesley collected 11 first-place finishes on Tuesday.
Kai Cole collected three golds in the meet, turning in times of 10.51 seconds in the 100 and 21.53 seconds in the 200. Cole teamed with TySean Cousar, John Heriot and Isaiah Bodie to win the 400-meter relay (41.72).
Javonte Freeman won the 110-meter hurdles with a personal record of 14.80 seconds.
Harris-Winbush, Brandon Faulk and Justin Cowgill won the long jump, high jump and javelin throw respectively. Harris-Winbush won the long jump with a leap of 6.32 meters (20-9). For the third consecutive week, Faulk broke the school record in the high jump with a clearance of 2.03 meters (6-7.5).
Cowgill won the javelin with a throw of 49.85 meters (163-6).
On the women's side, Maysha Foster won the 100-meter dash with a season-best time of 12.46 seconds. Lekeshia Brown-Myrick earned gold in the 400-meter hurdles (1:07.81) while Jontae Hankins took first in the 3,000-meter run (12:34.60).
Teyri Reed won the triple jump with a mark of 10.36 meters (34-0).
Villanova 16, Delaware 9: The Blue Hens hit four homeruns — including three in the top of the first — but it wasn't enough after the Wildcats used a seven-run fourth to break a 9-9 tie.
Karolina Flores paced a 13-hit attack for Delaware (19-25) by finishing 3-for-4 with three RBI and two runs scored. Hanna Garber, Halle Kisamore and Brittney Medoza added two hits apiece.
WOMEN, Gwynedd-Mercy 25, Wesley 21: Paige Brehm netted six goals and an assist for the Wolverines in the high-scoring loss.
Kaila Hindt added five goals and four assists with Brianna Bacon adding three goals and three assists for Wesley (0-6 AEC, 5-9 overall).
MEN, Gwynedd-Mercy 17, Wesley 1: Kyle Mackall-Lloyd scored the only goal for the Wolverines (1-5 AEC, 3-11 overall) with Dylan Sicca making 13 saves.


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Secret to parrots' intelligence found
Who're you calling bird-brained?
By Jason Goodyer
15th August, 2018 at 10:22
Who's a pretty and clever boy, then? Neuroscientists at the University of Alberta have identified the neural circuit they believe is behind the unusual intelligence seen in some parrots. The discovery is an example of convergent evolution – where organisms not closely related evolve similar traits – between the brains of birds and primates, and could potentially provide insight into the neural basis of human intelligence, they say.
Using brain samples from 98 birds, including everything from chickens and waterfowl to parrots and owls, the scientists studied an area of the brain known as the medial spiriform nucleus (SpM). They found that parrots have an SpM that is much larger than that of other birds, possibly explaining their unusual levels of intelligence.
In birds, the SpM is responsible for transferring information between the two largest areas of the brain, the cortex and cerebellum, which allows for higher-order processing and more sophisticated behaviour. In humans and other primates, the pontine nuclei performs this same function.
"The SpM is very large in parrots. It's actually two to five times larger in parrots than in other birds, like chickens," said Dr Cristian Gutierrez-Ibanez, who co-authored the research. "Independently, parrots have evolved an enlarged area that connects the cortex and the cerebellum, similar to primates. This is another fascinating example of convergence between parrots and primates. It starts with sophisticated behaviours, like tool use and self-awareness, and can also be seen in the brain. The more we look at the brains, the more similarities we see."
Next, the research team hopes to study the SpM in parrots more closely, to understand what types of information go there and why.
"This could present an excellent way to study how the similar, pontine-based process occurs in humans," said Gutierrez-Ibanez. "It might give us a way to better understand how our human brains work."
Jason Goodyer
Commissioning editor, BBC Science Focus
Jason is the commissioning editor of BBC Science Focus magazine. He has a MSc in Physics.
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Teams out at Meadow Lane. Terrific atmosphere being generated by both sets of supporters. Coventry backed by 4,500 travelling fans.
1- Coventry have certainly come out firing! Lovely ball from McNulty finds Biamou but his first touch is poor and Jones is able to tackle.
4- Bayliss carries the ball forward for Coventry, possibly too far and he concedes a free kick.


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Q: Wicket - use map's entry values as objects in a model where I know the key for each component I have a Java Map where I store data that has to be shown in a row in a table in a web application. I am using Wicket 6.
Is there a way to link Wicket Labels (which will be cells in my table) to the String version of an object in a Map knowing the key for each Label.
Should I implement my own version of IModel or is there any convenience class in the Wicket 6 libraries? As far as I can see there is none, but I could be wrong...

A: You can implement IModel also you can implement IConverter<C>.
To use custom converter override Component#getConverter like so:
   Label lbl = new Label("lbl"){
        @Override
        public <C> IConverter<C> getConverter(Class<C> type) {
            //return converter here
        }
    };

For components like Label you can implement only convertToString method.

A: I think there is no such IModel implementation at the current moment. It is not too hard to write your own IModel<String> that takes your Map and a key in the constructor and return the String.valueOf(map.get(key)) ;)
Just make sure that either your Map is Serializable or otherwise, you should provide a LoadableDetachableModel for your map and use that.

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