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Our series of Walking Tall workshops has now concluded, and we are delighted to report that it has been an absolutely informative, invaluable, and fun experience.
'Thank you sooo much for what you did with the children, they all had an absolute blast and loved the things they made. They were totally exhausted tonight. You guys are all amazing and as a foster family we truly appreciate you!!'
Those were some encouraging words from a foster carer, for The Fostering Network staff who were involved in the Walking Tall workshops.
Walking Tall is an opportunity for us to come together and share, so we can all learn from each other and pave the way for a better tomorrow. John F. Kennedy once said that 'Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future' and we couldn't agree more. The children (our Walking Tall heroes) provided us with a wealth of wisdom in terms of what would enhance their fostering experience. We had all kinds of feedback, ranging from the conventional, as in:
'I like sharing a room because you have someone to talk to.'
'It's important that I have a quiet place because my house can get noisy.'
All the way up to the remarkable, for example:
'All foster carers should have mansions.'
'I like Zombie carers.'
'You need a superhero in every family.'
Following the completion of the Walking Tall workshops, all participants and their families were invited along to a celebration event at Dynamic Earth, in Edinburgh.
70 foster carers with 71 children from their fostering families as well as two members of the Care Review and our Children and Young People's Commissioner for Scotland, Bruce Adamson with his adorable young daughter joined us for a day of face painting, lunch, some Walking Tall activities and a tour around their fantastic 4D planetary experience of the lifetime.
So far, the Walking Tall project has gained some exceptionally positive feedback and investment from key stakeholders. We very much look forward to the next phase of the project, which involves designing, producing and distributing resources that will help enhance the fostering experience for our members.
Once again, thank you to all of our Walking Tall heroes for being part of this exciting and innovative project. We could not have done it without you.
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Why Talent Development?
During the last twenty years AGRANA has transformed itself from a purely Austrian Sugar and Starch producer to a diversified, globally operating group. Well-trained and motivated employees are a decisive factor for our company's success. Therefore, Talent Development has always been an important strategic issue and priority for AGRANA. Many of AGRANA's top and middle managers began their careers in one of the Group's companies or its predecessor companies.
AGRANA aims to ensure its global future growth. Internationally experienced, flexible employees with excellent language skills, who are interested in management and expert careers, are increasingly important for AGRANA's further development. Talent Development is about identifying, attracting, hiring, developing and retaining talented people at all levels. It is one of the core responsibilities for every manager, encourages creativity and innovation, and champions diversity.
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In the context of the annual Appraisal Interviews, every AGRANA employee discusses her/his individual development plan with her/his superior. Employees are encouraged to attend professional and soft skills trainings based on training needs defined in these interviews. We want every employee to have the chance to grow to her/his maximum potential in line with the business needs.


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Brenden loves spicy food – even the kids don't mind it too much. On our last trip out to Stanthorpe we decided we would have a go at making Camp Oven Chilli Con Carne – and it worked so well. Here's my recipe – as with most things I cook, I just chuck in whatever I have to hand at the time.
- 750 grams to 1 kg mince beef
- 1 brown onion, diced
- half red capsicum, diced
- 1 carrot, grated
- 440 gram can diced tomatoes
- 1 sachet taco seasoning mix or chill con carne mix (I use Old El Paso brand)
- 1 tin Tex Mex beans
- 1/2 to 1 cup beef stock
- pepper to taste
Throw the whole lot in together ( I didn't brown the mince first) give it a good stir and sit camp oven into hot coals. This one took about an hour and a half to cook.
Stir frequently and don't forget to rotate the oven every now and again to keep the heat even. I decided to turn mine into nachos and Brenden made jaffles out of his in his new jaffle irons. Either way it was yummy! There was also plenty left over for more jaffles the next day. If you wanted to, you could also add pasta towards the end and this would cook in the juices.


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Fairfield Police Department offers disaster training for students
FAIRFIELD — When it comes to emergency preparedness, it's never too early to learn the basics.
For the second year in a row, the Fairfield Police Department is teaming up with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to teach local fourth and fifth graders about disaster planning. The STEP program (Students' Tools for Emergency Planning) is a free, two-hour session that provides students with an interactive workshop, a tour of the police and fire stations and chance to make their own emergency supply kits.
Officers Jon Chlebowski and Lance Newkirchen and Lt. Edward Weihe held their second of five workshops Tuesday, delivering the STEP program to an energetic group of 10 fourth and fifth graders. After learning about different kinds of disasters, such as fire and weather emergencies, students played interactive games to reinforce these lessons in a fun context.
Officer Chlebowski discussed the importance of having a family communication plan and a disaster supply kit ready with all the essentials in case of an emergency.
"Essentials means only the stuff you need," Chlebowski explained to the attentive group of students.
The children then got the chance to make their own supply kits, packing water, first aid kits, blankets, flashlights and whistles into bright yellow bags that can be easily spotted in the dark. The officers encouraged the students to add their own additions to the bags at home, such as non-perishable food and backup batteries.
FEMA designs and disseminates these STEP workshops throughout the country, and it's up to local police departments to tailor them to fit their communities. Lt. Weihe had the original idea to bring STEP to Fairfield last year.
"When I first heard about the STEP program, I thought that'd be great for our department," Weihe said.
Officer Newkirchen explained that they adapted FEMA's program to meet their needs, changing it from a one-hour to a two-hour session and putting all of the material together into a Powerpoint presentation. It's been so successful, Newkirchen said, that FEMA has asked them to share their materials.
Officers also tailored the program to include local and universal examples so that students could be prepared for both at-home emergencies and those that might occur during travel. For example, they showed photos from Hurricane Sandy damage in Connecticut, but also talked about how earthquakes can occur in other parts of the country.
Students left the workshop equipped with new skills and emergency materials, as well as certificates acknowledging their training. Three more STEP sessions are scheduled this summer on July 30, Aug. 6 and Aug. 13 at 10 a.m. at the Fairfield Police Department.


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Some of you might be relatively surprised to read that but thisyear will see the big revival of the classic check shirt and we are here to give you all the trends and tips you need to know about. We cannot lie - we love a good check shirt, whether it's a dress one, casual or short-sleeved. It's a fashion classic and it's definitely not going to go away any time soon. Having a few well-fitted check shirts in different colours is simply a must.
There really is no need to promote the check shirt - you only have to walk up your High Street for that confirmation. It's literally everywhere. Un-tucked, under blazers, paired with cardigans and jumpers - the check shirt is a fashion basic.
One of the ways the check shirt will see a big revival this year is through smart layering, namely wearing two shirts one over the other. Try a basic black t-shirt underneath an unbuttoned navy or red checked shirt. Or pair a bright-coloured shirt with an off-white t-shirt underneath.
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MARQUETTE– If you know of someone facing a layoff after the closing of the Empire Mine, there are some local organizations that can help.
Michigan Works! can help if you're currently unemployed. The association has been preparing a rapid response for the close of the Empire Mine. This response includes meetings aimed to help you revamp your resume, improving your interviewing skills and showing you what benefits and resources are available.
Lewis Strom, a Talent Team Member with Michigan Works! says the best way to handle a layoff is to stay optimistic. He said "It opens up a lot of doors and that's the thing that I try to encourage people when they come into Michigan Works! on a layoff is to use it as a positive thing and maybe it's going to open new doors that before were available to you, get you into a career that you didn't think something that you would be doing, but you end up loving it."
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Introducing "Funky" and "President Whitey", two of the new additions in the stable. The kids were very eager playing with them the whole day today, up to the point that I really hope these puppies won't have heart attack :-).
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Two of Ed Sheeran's Most Popular Songs Get Very Different Reactions
We all have our favorite Ed Sheeran songs (ours is actually "Tenerife Sea"), but two of his most popular ones — "Thinking Out Loud" and "Galway Girl" — get the most reactions out of fans.
Two different reactions, that is.
"'Thinking Out Loud' is the song, worldwide, that if I didn't play, people would be like, 'That was weird!'," Ed shared in a recent interview with EW.
He adds, "But as long as people react well to a song, I don't care how many times I play it. I'm always going to be in love with it."
While people will never not be in love with "Thinking Out Loud", "Galway Girl" gets an opposite reaction.
"[It's] is a weird one; I've never put out a song before that's polarized people so much," Ed says. "People really, really hate it!"
"It, like, offends them that the song exists. But I do think, in five or 10 years, those same people will be dancing to it on St. Patrick's Day, drunk at the bar."
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Some of you may be familiar with the quota system here in Iceland – whereby fishing rights were allocated to a group of individuals [dubbed the "quota kings" or "quota barons"] who subsequently became extremely wealthy by exploiting a natural resource that should, by rights, belong to the Icelandic nation as a whole.
Initially the idea was that these barons would have the rights to the resource, and the profits they made would be pumped back into the traditional fishing communities, ultimately benefiting the nation as a whole. Alas, this did not come to pass, as the quotas were sold out of the communities and profits were funnelled into tax havens. [I discuss this, albeit somewhat peripherally, in my new book.]
The last government tried to reform the system by implementing a so-called "veiðigjald" or "fishing fee" on the quota barons. This was basically a tax levied in an effort to make the system more fair, by making the barons pay more into the common coffers. Naturally, when the law was passed, the barons wailed and lamented their lot to such a degree that you'd think they were teetering on the brink of financial ruin. They were absolutely livid, and pulled out all the stops to discredit the people who had injured them so atrociously. While, of course, still paying themselves billions of ISK in dividends.
Now, praise be, the newly elected government has decided to pull the fishing fee. This was not unexpected – after all, the quota barons have backed the current coalition parties handsomely throughout the years, especially the Independence Party, which is effectively the quota barons' string puppet.
This new move will mean a loss of revenues for the Icelandic treasury amounting to ISK 3.2 billion this year, and around ISK 6 billion next year.
Naturally, being the sensible sort, they have already begun looking for ways to make up these losses somewhere, and one of those ways is to cut back on subsidies for children's dental care. After all, according to the head of the IP Bjarni Benediktsson, it costs the treasury a whopping ISK 1 billion per year.
I don't know about you, but I always find it so inspiring to see people who know what is important in life and are able prioritize accordingly.
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They have 14 exhibits and about 140 species of Narragansett Bay creatures. The kids of course loved the touch tanks where they were able to handle crabs and sea stars.Though small, it is right on the beach. Pack your suits and beachwear, so that after you learn about the Bay's natural inhabitants you can go search for them on the beach and in the waves.
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ISO show exhibits Middlebury's global story
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November 21, 2019
The International Students' Organization show featured performances from student groups, showcasing talent from around the world.
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This Saturday, Dec. 2, the International Student Organization (ISO) will put on the 21st rendition of its annual show. The show is a yearly highlight for an organization that also organizes international trivia nights, food preparation workshops, and excursions into the wilds of Vermont. On a campu...
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For 19 years, the International Students' Organization (ISO) has organized their seminal yearly event, a wildly popular celebration of global cultures through music, dance and poetry. This year's Saturday, Nov. 21 show, "Spectrum: A Celebration of Diversity," features over 100 student performers...
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On Saturday, Nov. 15 in Wilson Hall, the Middlebury International Students' Organization (ISO) brought a splash of cultural celebration to campus with their annual cultural show, this year titled "Crossing Borders." Students often hear about Middlebury's "international focus," and the...
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On Saturday, Nov. 15, the International Student Organization (ISO) will host its annual Cultural Show in Wilson Hall. This year's show includes over 15 different acts from at least five different regions of the world. It will be a mix of dances, songs, poetry and the much-anticipated fashion show. The...


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Tall girls have it hard to finding an outfit that complements their height. The outfits are always too short or too heavy. We are always the odd ones out trying to pair that kurti with some heels. It can be stressing to go shopping and not find a single outfit that fits your height.
Basic rules and tips you should know when picking an outfit to dress a tall figure
Use a waist tie to create curves
Switch up your oversized dresses and shirts by adding a slim belt to your waist. A belt accentuates your curved and gives your body a nice definition. The curves also steal away some attention from your height. Be careful about which outfit you throw a belt on. Some clothes are designed to have a lose structure on the waist and may end up looking ridiculous.
Avoid clothes that are too large
Clothes which are too large for your body will make you appear heavy and unflattering. Oversize clothes also make you shapeless by hiding away your curves.
Don't fear wearing heels
People always think that if you are tall, you can't wear heels because it exaggerates your height. Do not listen to them. You are never too tall for a pair of heels. Instead of constantly wearing flats, change out your shoe type depending on the occasion. Even tall people need to look sophisticated in heels.
Oversized accessories are your friend
Open collars make you appear taller. You can't always wear one type of collar. V- Neck, round and deep collars increase the length of your torso. You can cover this by adding jewellery to you.
Show some legs and arms
Finding an outfit that fits your legs and arms can sometimes be a problem. Instead of dismissing beautiful and trendy outfits because of this, you can wear the mid length to create your own fashion statement. Choose to stick to a store that offers clothes that fit your size. This way you will save the time and effort needed to go through and try countless of outfits only to lack one.
Avoid wearing vertical stripes
Vertical stripes make you appear taller and thinner. If you are tall and thin, then you can imagine how these striped will make your exaggerated figure look. Don't try these stripes unless you want this illusion or perception. Horizontal stripes increase your width and reduce your height.
High neck blouses are perfect
Blouses with high closed necks are good for breaking the monotony between your torso and you neck. They take the attention away from the long neck. This does not mean you should avoid other neck designs. Tops are so versatile and if you find one whose design you like then you have to compromise and accessorize it for a perfect fit.
Avoid broad shoulders
Extra shoulders like super long sleeves, ruffles, flares and puffy sleeves will make your shoulders look broad and create a disproportion in your body. Heavy shoulders create an unflattering figure on tall women.
Here are some ethnic combinations that will make you look amazing without exaggerating or drawing attention to your height
Kurti palazzo
The tall slim figure goes well with most kurti ensemble. You can make a fashion statement by pairing a straight cut Kurta from Stylecaret with flared pants like the palazzo. This look is elegant, and is flattering to your long legs.
A high low Kurtis complements this body type well. You can wear it with leggings or bear, paired with traditional sandals or block heels. Other type of kurti that look good on tall women include front slit Kurtis, anarkali Kurtis, trail cut kurti and the pintuck kurti. The must have kurti foe tall petite women is the side lit kurti. A kurti with long slits on the sides can be paired with jeans or leggings for the ultimate street wear
What makes a kurti great for tall women?
Kurti drapes well on the body to define the shape of the torso and the waist. Almost all designs of the kurti look flattering on tall women.
Saree makes women of every shape and size elegant and stylish. The saree is famous for its universal wear. You can wear it to college, work, festivals and traditional weddings. A saree will fit into your tall frame depending on how you drape it
What makes a saree look good on tall women?
A nicely draped saree shows off your curves. A good fitting saree will show the definition of your waist and your tall legs. Your high waist and torso gives the saree a good shape. Pleats look good on tall legs because they have space to drape well.
Lehenga choli wear
The lehenga choli is a nice traditional outfit that fits both tall and short women. Create a break between your lehenga and choli to break the monotone and illusion of tallness. You can do this by wearing a low waist lehenga and a crop choli.
Lehenga choli with a thick hemline looks good on tall people. Choose a lehenga choli with a light neckline and a heavy hemline. A tall spaghetti strap lehenga with block heels will create the perfect fashion statement.
Why lehenga looks good on tall people
The pleats and flare of the lehenga are defined because of your long legs. A fitting choli top shows off your long torso and well defined waist.
Cold shoulders, off shoulders and one shoulder designs
These western inspired designs make your outfit stylish, bold and street ready. You can wear these sleeves on your lehenga tops. The cold shoulders and off shoulders make your torso appear shorter and shifts the attention away from your height. One shoulder tops are sophisticated and can be dressed for casual events, dinners and nights out.
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Tall women are not limited to certain types and designs of clothing. With this information you can add more traditional and indo-western styles to your closet. I mentioned some of the outfits that will look good on your body; it is up to you to create more style to add to your closet. Play around with different designs to come up with your own fashion statements.


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How does your body respond to feelings of moral outrage? It depends on your politics
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1/2 c. sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt, if desired
2/3 c. skim milk
2 teaspoons canola margarine, melted
2 c. blueberries, cleaned and washed
Preheat oven to 350 F.
In a medium bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Stir in the milk and mix the batter until it is smooth.
Using the melted margarine, grease the inside of a 1-quart casserole dish. Pour in the batter and sprinkle with blueberries over the top.
Bake the cobbler for 40-45 minutes, or until lightly browned.
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13 comments:
- Empress Bee (of the high sea) said...
i had fresh blueberry cobbler yesterday!!! yummy.
smiles, auntie bee
- September 1, 2008 at 12:51 PM
- Cats~Goats~Quotes said...
Looks so good!!
Happy Monday and happy eating Blueberry Cobbler!
~ KittyBoy
- September 1, 2008 at 12:53 PM
- Memories of Eric and Flynn said...
Mmmm yummy that sounds delicious.
- September 1, 2008 at 1:09 PM
- Sunny's Mommy said...
That sounds very yummy!
- September 1, 2008 at 4:35 PM
- Spike William and Angels China Cat and Willow said...
Oh, my mom wants to make that Blueberry Cobbler! Reno and Sally looked so cute sleeping together! Thanks for the nice birthday wishes yesterday!
Purrrrrrrrrss, China Cat
- September 1, 2008 at 6:31 PM
- michico*Adan*Lego-小芥*阿丹*樂高 said...
I think I will ask Michico make this sometime, sounds very good!
- September 1, 2008 at 11:29 PM
- pissed off patricia said...
Would making this require the use of those things in the room called "the kitchen"?
If you make it, I will sure as hell eat it. I promise.
- September 2, 2008 at 7:54 AM
- Lux said...
Mom says she wants the sinfully rich version! ;-)
- September 2, 2008 at 5:26 PM
- Rosemary B❤ said...
Oh, mom is going to make that... yummeroonie
Yes, our mom has the atrociously unhealthy recipe too :-P
purrrs for a happy day!
- September 2, 2008 at 10:23 PM
- Lux said...
No, no, surely you don't recognize that photo. It was taken by some anonymous hikers! ;-)
- September 2, 2008 at 10:39 PM
- Dragonheart, Merlin, Devi, and Chloe said...
Our mom says that sounds yummy!
Thank you so much for celebrating my first birthday with me yesterday! I really appreciate it! - Merlin
- September 3, 2008 at 4:26 AM
- Motor Home Cats said...
Mom is going to copy down that recipe. Papa loves all things blueberry.
Tiki, Tavi, Cody, Camie and Miss Jade
- September 3, 2008 at 4:27 AM
oooh, thank you! the Lady can't eat sinfully rich deep fat things, so she thinks this is purrrrfect!
- September 3, 2008 at 11:35 PM


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The shuttles are held on the track by magnetic force. To ensure that they do not lose their adhesion even at high speeds, mapp Trak offers a mechanical design tool for calculating the maximum shuttle speed. The software shows how fast the shuttle can accelerate and at what speed it can enter a curve. With the integrated simulation options in mapp Trak, the developer can also run tests to identify the optimum number and speed of shuttles to maximize productivity. Costly and time-consuming hardware tests are no longer necessary.
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Ettore Sottsass: Remembering a design rebel
With two new exhibitions celebrating the work of Ettore Sottsass this summer, we look at the legacy of this design revolutionary
"It didn't look serious. It looked like a prank."
Those were the late David Bowie's first impressions of Memphis, a collective of young Milanese architects and designers that revolutionised the industry in the 1980s. "It mixed Formica attitude with marble diffidence. Bright yellows against turquoise. Virus patterns on ceramics. It couldn't care less about function… Each piece of furniture offered a plethora of possibilities, options and inconclusive open ends," Bowie wrote of Memphis in a 2002 article in V magazine.
Founded in 1981 by Ettore Sottsass and named after a lyric in a Bob Dylan song, Memphis showed complete disregard for existing definitions of what design should be, casually experimenting with new shapes, materials and patterns.
In Memphis creations, angles appear to defy the laws of physics; stripes, polka dots and animal prints are used with carefree abundance; and contradictory colour combinations reign supreme. More famous incarnations of the Memphis aesthetic include Sottsass's Carlton room divider, a concoction of protruding wood and plastic laminate elements in a palette of yellows, reds, oranges, blues and blacks. The D'Antibes cabinet by George Sowden, meanwhile, is a crazy combination of red doors, patterned yellow sides and slim, elongated legs; and the Brazil table by Peter Shire is essentially a shark in multicoloured table form.
The extent to which Memphis's creative anarchy struck a chord with Bowie became evident after his untimely death last year, when it emerged that he had quietly amassed a collection of more than 100 objects by the design group. His collection, which was put up for sale in a Sotheby's auction in November, showed a particular predilection for works by Memphis's unconventional founder.
In the outlandish, unexpected, unashamedly bold designs of Sottsass, Bowie must have seen an unfettered creativity that he recognised from his own output. "The works produced by the historical avant-garde design collaborative Memphis Milano, led by Ettore Sottsass, could not have found a more receptive and tuned-in audience than David Bowie," said Cécile Verdier, co-head of 20th-century design at Sotheby's, in the run-up to the auction.
"This is design with no limits and no boundaries," she added. "When you look at a piece of Memphis design, you see their unconventionality, the kaleidoscope of forms and patterns, the vibrant contrasting colours that really shouldn't work, but really do."
Bowie's extensive Memphis collection started with a lipstick-red typewriter.
Dubbed the Valentine, this is one of Sottsass's best-known creations, emblematic of the era, and now featured in the collections of London's Victoria & Albert Museum and Design Museum, as well as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. By offering an unexpectedly playful reinterpretation of an otherwise mundane object, it is a fitting symbol of Sottsass's aesthetic. Bowie's own Valentine was predicted to sell for between £300 to £500(up to Dh2,385), but ended up fetching a whopping £47,500 at the Sotheby's auction. "The pure gorgeousness of it made me type as much as my need to get the songs down on paper," Bowie wrote of the machine. "I couldn't not look at it." The typewriter led Bowie to Sottsass, who in turn led Bowie to the Memphis Group.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Sottsass' birth, and 10 years since his death. To mark the occasion, there are two exhibitions currently celebrating his creative prowess. Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical is on at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Met Breuer in New York, and aims to re-evaluate Sottsass' career by presenting key works across a range of media, including architectural drawings, interiors, furniture, machines, ceramics, glass, jewellery, textiles and pattern, painting and photography.
A second exhibition, Ettore Sottsass. Rebel and Poet, is on at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Running until September 24, this celebration of "one of the most influential and unconventional figures in twentieth-century design" presents an overview of approximately 30 of Sottsass's products, photographs and writings.
Both exhibits act as a reminder of how prolific and versatile Sottsass was. He may be most commonly associated with Memphis, but he was already in his 60s by the time he founded the collective. It was a late move in an already long and illustrious career.
Born in 1917 in Innsbruck, Austria, to Italian-Austrian parents, Sottsass earned a degree in architecture in 1939 from the Politecnico di Torino. He was an unwilling soldier during the Second World War, and spent most of it in a Yugoslavian concentration camp. "There was nothing courageous or enjoyable about the ridiculous war I fought in," he wrote of the experience. "I learned nothing from it."
In 1956, he and his wife, Fernanda Pivano, visited New York and, after a month spent working in the studio of American designer George Nelson, Sottsass was inspired to refocus his efforts on to product design, rather than architecture. He returned to Italy and became a creative consultant for Poltronova, a furniture factory near Florence. By 1958, he had joined the newly created electronics arm of Olivetti, an Italian industrial group, where his award-winning creations included the first Italian electronic calculator and a series of typewriters, including, in 1969, the now famed Valentine. In the late 1970s, Sottsass was part of Studio Alchymia, a group of avant-garde furniture designers including Alessandro Mendini and Andrea Branzi. And in 1981, he formed Memphis, along with Branzi and others such as Michele De Lucchi, George Sowden, Matteo Thun and Nathalie du Pasquier.
"[Functionalism] is not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting," Sottsass famously said. He carried a camera with him wherever he went, to capture the tiniest of details (reportedly taking 1,780 photographs during one 12-day trip to South America), and recognised that the things he created were not separate to the people who used them, and the context in which they existed. He drew constantly from pop art and beat culture. His work contains no obvious references, but is defined by the broadness of his own experiences – from encounters with the likes of Jack Kerouac, Helmut Newton, Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso, to travels in India, the United States and North Africa.
There is an energy, flamboyance and vitality to his pieces, a sense of freedom, but not frivolity. He was, as the exhibitions maintain, a radical, a poet and a rebel. But most importantly of all, he made it okay for design to be fun.
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Total remittances drop to $8.2bn in Q2, with the average remittances per worker declining for second consecutive quarter
Remittances sent home by foreign workers in Saudi Arabia fell to their lowest level in four years during the second quarter of this year, according to new research.
Analysis by Jadwa Investment revealed that total remittances dropped to $8.2 billion in Q2, with the average remittances per worker declining for the second consecutive quarter.
The research note added that going forward, the introduction of expat dependency fees, which came into force in July, could lead to a rise in the number of expat dependents being repatriated and, concurrently, a rise in remittances.
About 12 million foreigners work in Saudi Arabia, doing many of the lower-paid jobs shunned by Saudi citizens. About two-thirds of Saudi workers are employed by the public sector.
The dependents' fee is expected to raise $260 million annually and is part of Saudi Arabia's plan to fill a budget deficit due to sustained lower oil prices.
Critics have suggested the additional financial burden on expat families will make the kingdom less attractive for professionals. Authorities are also attempting to reduce the number of expats working in the kingdom by encouraging more locals to join the private sector.
Research by Jadwa also showed that the Q2 balance of payments data showed the Saudi current account surplus narrowing quarter-on-quarter, but still remaining positive at $1.1 billion.
Cash withdrawals from ATMs and point of sale transactions showed a downward trend. Growth in the non-oil sector also edged downwards, albeit marginally, but remained in expansionary mode.
Central bank reserves fell to $485 billion in September. Looking ahead, the $12.5 billion international sovereign bond, issued at the end of September, should help alleviate the pressure on foreign exchange reserve withdrawals in the next few months.
Jadwa added that prices in September were down by 0.1 percent year on year, continuing the deflationary trend since the beginning of 2017.
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The ever exciting world of the NPFL enters match day 17 this weekend with the oriental battle between Enugu rangers and Heartland topping the bill. Rangers who just went past CS Sfaxien of Tunisia in the CAF Confederations cup will hope to continue their good form against 3rd place Heartland.
15th place Lobi stars are at home for the second straight week this time hosting El-kanemi warriors in Katsina-Ala. Lobi are unbeaten at their new home.
After the abandonment of their midweek action, Warri wolves welcome the darling team of Ibadan Shooting stars. Coach Solomon Ogbeide's wards will surely provide another entertaining match. Akwa united will be in kaduna to play 17th placed Kaduna united who fell 2nil to Bayelsa united on wednesday.
Newly appointed Fatai Amoo who saw his boys spank Nasarawa united 3nil on Thursday will take his wards to face former African champions Enyimba who are 8th on the log and have an excellent home record in Aba.
Other fixtures will see Nasarawa united entertain Sharks in Lafia, Nembe city hosts ABS, Kwara United hosts Bayelsa United and finally Gombe United will host Wikki Tourits in a North-East derby.
League leaders Kano pillars are in the Garden city as guests of former champions Dolphins. Dolphins who lost midweek to Lobi Stars will aim for all 3 points that can leapfrog them to 3rd place on the table if results go their way.
NPFL Week17 Fixtures:
Rangers v Heartland
Enyimba v Sunshine
Warri Wolves v Shooting Stars
Dolphins v Kano Pillars
Kwara Utd vs Bayelsa
Gombe v Wikki
Lobi v EL kanemi
Nembe v ABS
Kaduna v Akwa
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In the City of Love and Art
Princess Aisha Fahmy Palace
After 15 years of restoration, Princess Aisha Fahmy Palace opens its doors to the public. Boasting an extensive collection of art pieces, furniture, wall motifs, silk portraits and bright colors dating back to King Farouk's era, the palace is a true art-lover haven, overlooking the Nile from the lush neighborhood of Zamalek.
Um Kulthum Museum
Previously a building of the Manesterly Palace at Al Rawda area, the Ministry of Culture commemorated the singing sensation Um Kulthum, also known as "Kawkab Al Sharq," to make sure her unparalleled voice echoed for generations to come. Her voice can still be heard in Egypt on everyday basis, but the Museum brings back a piece of her life through real images, documents and private possessions that have been collected over the years and preserved with great effort from the Egyptian Culture Ministry. Make sure you visit the panorama hall for a full recap of Um Kulthum's life and musical concerts.
Museum of Islamic Arts
One must-see museum when visiting Cairo is the Museum of Islamic Arts. Relocated from its original home at the Fatimid Mosque of al-Hakim, the museum owns an impressive collection of artwork and artefacts, including the largest collection in the world of Mamluk dynasty gilded lamps, which illustrate Egyptian culture from the 7th century up until the 19th. The Museum of Islamic Arts has been an inspiration for many artists' work and continues to be a sensational attraction for anyone with an interest in arts and culture. English and French brochures are available upon request.
Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Palace
Built in 1915, the Palace is the lesser-known counterpart to the Museum of Islamic arts. Nonetheless, it is just as fascinating. Boasting 208 works from the impressionist school, the school that laid the ground for the fine arts movement in the 20th century, represented by artists like Paul Gauguin, Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, John Jongkind and Charles Francois Daubigny. The museum's assets also include masterpieces of artists like Eugene Fromentin. Take a few minutes to admire the building itself too – the entrance of the palace features several 19th century styles like Arnoveau and neo-classic.
The Gayer-Anderson Museum
One of Cairo's well hidden gems, and a place with a rather rich history, the Gayer Anderson Museum was actually the home at which English Major Gayer Anderson resided. After vacating the premises due to his ill health, he donated the house and its contents, which he collected from all over Egypt, to the Egyptian government and was granted the title of Pasha in return by King Farouk himself. The house is a haven for art and architecture lovers, with the plus side of its contents dating back to the 18th century and before. The location has been very well preserved. Make sure to visit the ceremonial reception hall and the roof-top terrace where the James Bond movie, The Spy Who Loved Me, was shot.
Mahmoud Mokhtar Museum
Created in commemoration of the father of modern Egyptian sculpture, Mahmoud Mokhtar, the museum beautifully displays some of the late sculptor's most prominent pieces. The brilliant sculptor's pieces have been proudly displayed, and still are, all over Egypt – most famous of which are the "Egypt's Renaissance" sculpture located in front of Cairo University. There are no guides available, so reading up on Mahmoud Mokhtar before going will make the trip more significant.
Gezira Center for Modern Art
A must-have experience for art lovers, Gezira Center for Modern Arts exhibits the evolution and art movements that Egypt has gone through, by displaying over 10,000 pieces by world renown Egyptian Artists. The evolution of calligraphy and works by several major international impressionist artists including Monet and Van Gogh are included. Visitors can also visit the adjacent National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.
Across Civilizations in Cairo
The Egyptian Museum
Established in the late 19th century under Auguste Mariette and previously housed in Boulaq, the Egyptian Museum, now located in Tahrir Square, is an adventure on its own. With over a 100 halls boasting artefacts from the prehistoric through the Roman periods, with the majority of the collection focused on the Pharaonic era, the museum will fly you back over 5,000 years of Egypt's past. Both Arabic and English labels make it easy for observers to understand the stories, and promise to leave you in awe after an exhilarating day with legendary kings and queens and their incredible lives. Wear comfortable shoes and be prepared for a lot of walking.
Imhotep Museum
Located right at the heart of where Pharaonic history was written, the Imhotep Museum displays a vast collection of mummies, causeway findings and depictions from the 19th Dynasty families. Composed of six large halls, each containing different collections; this museum will have you hooked from the minute you enter, across the archaeological findings from various excavations and all the way until the burial items from the New Kingdom. Look on-site for the gallery dedicated to Jean-Philippe Lauer, the French Egyptologist who spent 75 years working at the Djoser Complex.
The Coptic Museum
Inaugurated in 1910, The Coptic Museum hosts all findings discovered in Christian sites all over Egypt. Among the collection are royal funerary stelae, religious Pharaonic art and Coptic art symbolizing the abundant rituals and legends that were tradition-of-the-time, and ending with resurrection necessities. Along the way, untold stories and unturned stones will enlighten and astonish you at the same time. Visit Coptic Cairo all at once for the ultimate intriguing educational experience.
Egyptian Geological Museum
Established in 1896 under the Egyptian Geological Survey initiative led by Khedive Ismail, the Egyptian Geological Museum now sits in Maadi, and houses a significant collection of reconstructed fossil skeletons, Fayoum vertebrates, the story of Egypt's evolution told through examples of its national history, and the crown-jewel of the collection is the Martian meteorite that had landed in one of Egypt's villages. Since the museum holds a lot of educational information, a guide service is offered for a small fee.
Children's Civilization and Creativity Center (Child's Museum)
This museum exhibits several aspects of Egyptian history in both video and audio, making it interesting for all ages. The Museum also holds occasional activities for kids, parent-child activities and even summer camps. Located in Heliopolis, the museums artefacts are contributions from museums and institutes all over the world to aid in child education. In May 2012 it won the UK's Museum and Heritage International Award. Many of the facilities are prepared for kids and adults, so dress the role and be prepared to become a kid again along with your child.
Agricultural Museum
Located in Dokki, Giza, this treasure trove takes you back on a journey through the Pharaonic era and all the way to modern Egypt. From how cotton was first brought to Egypt and the ancient machinery and equipment used to harvest it, to different types of rare birds and extinct animals that many did not eve know exist; this is a mind-boggling museum for science and culture fans alike. The museum complex is composed of five buildings, each discussing different aspects of agriculture, make sure you do not linger too long so you do not miss seeing the rest.
An Eye For Architecture
Manial Palace Museum
Manial Palace tells the story of botanical eloquence and architectural grandeur of a time when Egypt had it all. Persian gardens, Islamic décor and calligraphic designs enclosed in lavish mix of architecture inspired by several movement including Art Nouveau, Ottoman, Rococo, and Moorish. The estate is composed of five separate buildings, each with a different style combination. Make sure to ask about King Farouk's hunting lodge Museum while you are there.
Abdeen Palace Museum
This is one for the war buffs. The building that houses the Museum is located within the palace estate, but isolated from the palace itself. The palace has been closed off as a residence for the president of Egypt, and hence no visitors are allowed. However, gardens leading into the beautifully designed estate give a lovely introduction to the museum that has a vast collection of very well-displayed arms, weaponry, and gifts from different kings around the world and from different eras. This is a museum that is not very popular, but very much worth a visit. Cameras are allowed in for a small admission fee, and books describing each section of the museum in different languages are available for purchasing.
Bayt Al Suahymi
Previously belonging to one of medieval Cairo's richest residents, Sheikh El Suhaymi, the house is built around a central area that contains a fountain and garden. This little haven in the middle of El Gamaelya area will take you back in time to when even homes in Egypt incorporated fine details and beautifully intricate Islamic architecture. Visit during the fall or winter seasons to avoid over-heating since a lot of walking and no air conditioning are entailed.


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...a companion blog to "Math-Frolic," specifically for interviews, book reviews, weekly-linkfests, and longer posts or commentary than usually found at the Math-Frolic site.
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show." ---Bertrand Russell (1907) Rob Gluck
"I have come to believe, though very reluctantly, that it [mathematics] consists of tautologies. I fear that, to a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-legged animal is an animal." ---Bertrand Russell (1957)
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"I have come to believe, though very reluctantly, that it [mathematics] consists of tautologies. I fear that, to a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-legged animal is an animal." ---Bertrand Russell (1957)
Sunday, August 30, 2015
Oliver Sacks... Story-teller
My inclination, upon hearing of Oliver Sacks' death, was to note it, but not attempt any further tribute, since so many will be penning better pieces than I can (plus, he doesn't fit that easily into a mathematics blog). But on reflection, as a small memorial, I've decided to re-run here at MathTango, the below entry that was originally posted at Math-Frolic over two years ago [...I've also now added G. Johnson's 2nd followup post-link to it].
[a couple of addendum links now added at bottom, as well]
(from February, 2013):
If you are an Oliver Sacks fan you may well be familiar with the story of twin male autistic savants from his best-selling "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" volume. Anyone captivated by prime numbers and savantism can't help but love the account, and George Johnson explores it in this blog post for Discover Magazine:
[...and then a week later Johnson did a follow-up post on the same subject:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/fire-in-the-mind/2013/03/04/idiot-savants-and-prime-numbers/#.VeNnys4sdo4 ]
Fascinating reads. There are further excerpts from the Sacks' chapter here:
The story tells of twin males who demonstrate great pleasure and joy in recognizing prime numbers… LARGE prime numbers, of the sort that normally only a computer might verify as prime in a short order of time, but that the twins appeared able to discern upon brief reflection. It is as if they had personal access to the so-called "Platonic" realm of numbers… the same might be said for other savant-like math knowledge or computational skills that are well-documented, but this is an even rarer facility.
There are dissenters who question Sacks' credibility or interpretation of this particular story which he only related about 20 years after its actual occurrence:
The above rebuttal also includes a YouTube video of the actual twins demonstrating their calendar-calculation skills (not their prime number skills).
Sacks' account is anecdotal and so the skepticism is understandable (by the time Sacks drew attention to the twins they had been separated and lost their special numerical skills)… but still... I admit… I want to believe it true ;-)
Here's a further followup to Sacks' story by another researcher:
And this research abstract indicates that the prime number recognition skill has indeed been reported for other savants:
Mind-blowing stuff!
....It was a little over a year ago that Robin Williams tragically took his own life... perhaps this is not a bad time to remember both he and Dr. Sacks (who were friends) with this revised trailer to the movie "Awakenings":
...and more:
ADDENDUM: A reader sends me this interesting link from just a few days ago, coincidentally covering the same Sacks/savant story:
...and also this older blog post I didn't recall:
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a Companion to the Article GODLY ASTROLOGY
Aside from guilds, societies or loose info exchange groups that try to keep each other in check there is also a natural morality that accompanies our prediction makers. If a fortune-teller speaks to you directly about your death, by the method or timing of it, then they are bogus in the sense that such a disclosure is considered immoral by true professionals. And even the MSM's astrologers try to avoid predicting publicly about any matter in which they have a strong partisan viewpoint or a vested interest.
What is an astrologer?
An astrologer is someone who plots lots of straight lines then bends their mind to get behind the curve ball and configure the curlicues of fate. The Positive and Negative powers (the equal Male and Female energies, sometimes confounded by androgynous Mercury) are the fundamental indicators of compatibility or disaffinity in Astrology. Everything else is an extension of them. Next come Astrology's elements, modes and polarities then the individual Zodiac Signs and the planets themselves.
What is a planet?
Repeatedly viewing the night sky reveals 'movers', the planets, and 'statics', the fixed stars. (It's just that they are so far away that they seem not to be moving). The planets are not necessarily as bright as stars ("To the southeast of Orion, on the line of the Three Kings, shines the most magnificent of all stars, Sirius", Camille Flammarion) and although nearby Venus can shine even by day, distant big blue Neptune is virtually invisible to the naked eye.
Astronomy claims all stellar discoveries and names them and defines the newly-found heavenly bodies. (Planet, mini-planet, brown dwarf, asteroid etc.) Astrologers work with their given name to start their investigation of the properties of influence especial to the new find (which they commonly presume to have had no astrological influence before being astronomically identified).
Since the beginning of the Seventeenth Century – thanks to the D.I.Y. capability of the telescope and Johannes Kepler – we have had a very clear distinction between astronomers (who do a lot of observing the sky and calculating) and astrologers (who do a lot of calculating and observing the sky).
Are we in relationship with the Cosmos?
Any Theory of Integrated Cosmos must insist that not only are all parts of the Universe interrelated but all sciences must be as well. However, the science of Physics is still struggling to win at their own Overarching Theory of Everything (an absence of success at which threatens to stomp all over their admittedly compelling sub-theories like the proverbial 'elephant in the room').
PART 1 Most things are the product of their history
There is no doubt that 'intuitive science' was the very first kind of science-art, probably to do with the stars. I would think that Astrology and Religion arrived close together back then, just before or just after Kingship and Military Command, and that A & R were the professions of the higher servants or lower royals, i.e. the priestly caste.
Earlier even than the Masters of Ceremony would be the society's evolving rituals and its customs, material and spiritual. What the sometimes deliriously spinning soothsayers and seers had cognized in their heightened states may have invested Zoroastrianism and the Vedas, noble forerunners to our modern religions, but meditation to zero can do this silently, inactively, mysteriously, although without the jolly mythologizing of more public revelations. Baron Bacon of Verulamium, the inventor of the scientific method, clarified in his "De Sapientia Vaterum" that mythology had contained occulted scientific truths.
Seeking guidance from the sky immediately threw ancient religious organizations of godlike capabilities into a shared-space sort of conflict with the less godly-endowed stargazers after Astrology entered the public arena, obliging the clerics to stress their channeled super-capabilities and not just rely on warnings to us to change our ways so as to avoid the inevitable. Dedicated priests so claimed to influence their powerful god to action and openly taunted those interpreters of the skies who never did claim any such channeling for themselves:
"Dost thou bind sweet influences of Kimah? (The Pleiades) Or the attractions of Kesil (Orion) dost thou open? Dost thou bring out Mazzaroth (the Zodiac) in its season? And Aysh (the Bear) for her sons dost thou comfort? Hast thou known the statutes of heaven? Or dost thou appoint Its dominion in the earth? Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee? Dost thou send out lightnings, and they go And say unto thee, Behold us?" Job 38, 31-37 (Youngs Literal Translation Bible)
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De la sixiesme claire splendeur celeste,
Viendra tonner si fort en la Bourgoigne:
Puis n'aistra monstre de tres hideuse beste.
Mars, auril, May, Iuing, grand charpin & rogne.
Translation 1:
Sixth of the clear celestial splendor,
OR From the sixth bright celestial light
OR From the sixth/fixed lightning celestial splendour
It comes to thunder very strongly in Bourgoigne/Burgundy:
Then one very hideous beast monster born.
March, April, May, June a 'grand charpin & rongne'.
Line 1, 'sixiesme' means sixth but some editions have 'fixieme' instead. In Astrology 'Étoile fixe' is a fixed Star. OF 'claire' meant either 'clear' or 'lightning'. I have seen clear daylight repeatedly occur during a deep blue tropical night. It was from a broad flash of lightning over or beyond the distant ocean horizon that was so strong it turned night into day for the whole panoramic view and seemed to hold that view much longer than just a moment.
Line 2, Bourgogne is the English placename Burgundy.
Line 3, OF 'n'aistra/n'aystra' should be written OF 'naistra/naystra' meaning it will be born.
Line 4, OF 'chierpain' is a large wicker basket. 'Carpi' was a Villanova Iron Age culture, one branch of the crematory Urn cultures. The name is taken from the hornbeam tree, carpinus betulus, which grew everywhere in the Po valley in Medieval times. OF 'rogne' is perjorative, a griping word or, by a metonym of antiquity, a scabby fleece possibly rendering Line 4's 'grand charpin & rongne' as 'a superior basket and an inferior fleece'.
Regarding this 'superior basket and an inferior fleece', the image for the Sign of Capricorn, for example, is superior to most fish (it would need a goodly basket indeed for a fisherman to carry it in) but inferior to many beasts (it has a lower torso covered with fishscales and neither fair fleece nor fine fur).
OF 'grand charpin & rongne' also looks for all the world like what now would be an obscure medical evaluation, such as large bandages (one meaning of OF 'charpin') and scabs, mange or scabies (OF 'rogne'). In OF Welche – a Gallo-Romance dialect of Lorrain – 'charpin' is a large osier basket but in modern Fr. 'charpente' is a wooden framework and is close to the English 'carpenter' rooted in cart (OF 'char' or chariot). And OF 'rongne' might have sounded rather like 'grogne' – the money of the Dukes of Bourgogne. (The 'g' in 'gr' is often slightly swallowed before the dominant 'r' in modern Fr. pronunciation.) The Sixteenth Century print method was likely to be hot typesetting under verbal dictation in a noisy room. Heat, speed and mispronunciation or mishearing of words must be held responsible for some printer errors, making the translator's job more difficult.
Should the clear celestial splendor in Line 1 be a starry complex this could be the sixth or pointer star of Septentrionalis. Should it be the planets, this could be Jupiter the sixth planet in the Earth-centric cosmology of Ptolemy (as Earth was not considered a planet back then) though starting from the Sun the sixth planet is Saturn. (The sixth astrological house is Virgo and its planetary ruler is Mercury.)
How about a sixth heavenly pass of the Earth? Mother Shipton, if she ever existed, was a Northern English contemporary of Nostradamus. It is possible that she was the stuff of legend and that her discovered manuscripts are fake. They look faked and people have admitted to tampering with them (as with Nostradamus, although he was widely published and had numbered the Centuries so it is easier to separate out any forgery). Mother S was reputedly born monstrously in a cavern and looked frightful – witchy in fact. She mentions a dragon in the sky that passes around the Earth six times, the sixth pass signalling cataclysm and End Time circumstances that are entirely of our own making. She then describes horrific acts of self-survival that leave only a few alive. These few grow smug with the passage of time which irritates 'the gods' into an even worse attack that leaves a small number of shocked and humbled survivors who are then instructed by alien hominids as to how to get it right in the next Age.
Whichever the compass point and whatever era the 'prophets' and 'seers' come from they all tell surprisingly similar stories. (Whatever the compass point and era that 'prophets' and 'seers' come from they often tell similar stories/predictions, even or especially the repeats of faked ones!)
Finally, Michel Nostredame often wrote of the seven cycles of time, the first six under separate planetary rulers, the last cycle being a repeat run for the antecedent ruler.
Dans deux logis de nuict la feu prendra,
Plusieurs dedans estoffez & rostis.
Pres de deux fleuues pour seul il aduiendra:
Sol, l'Arq, & Caper tous seront amortis.
The fire by night will take hold in two lodgings,
Several within suffocated and roasted.
It will happen near two rivers as one:
Sun, Sagittarius and Capricorn all put to death.
Line 1 is clearly astrological but somewhat obscure to me. I guess Michel was obscure to non-astrologers and astrologers alike as some have said that he never constructed any horoscope perfectly correctly but then perhaps it is not a perfect art and I wouldn't be surprised if he had his own version and unique methods or else his confusing Astrology references are themselves a part of the greater puzzle. Some enthusiasts have seized on the piecemeal issuance of the Centuries as a signal that these are not individual quatrains but sections of something enciphered into a periodical account of who knows what. The most distinguished is probably Michal Deschausses Ph.D. a female minister who appeared on History Channel's The Third Antichrist, a part of their catch-all series called The Nostradamus Effect. She has extracted four volumes of enciphered text manuscripts from the 'Opera Nostradamus' which she considers to be journals set in the future and seems to have recognized herself in one of them. This reaction is a surprisingly common one among Nostradamus researchers; maybe the rabbit hole goes very deep. Very deep indeed.
Two rivers as one – could this be the merging effect of Nostredame's Deluge? Otherwise, this is similar to other commentaries upon two rivers and two influences.Rome? Romanized Christianity? A zodiacal two rivers as one? The Sun was Emperor Constantine's idea of God the Father. Christian accoutrements and attire introduced by him were those of the Pontiff of Dagon, the water god, as acquired by Mithra the Sun god and the Catholic Pope bears them to this day. Capricorn is the mer-goat, the horned creature with a fishtail caught in mid-evolutionary leap. Sagittarius is the Archer: a fortunate follower and adventurer, a target-achiever.
Many Astrology-based prophecies are scattered all over the pages of this website yet there are probably fewer than thirty Nostradamus Quatrains of astrological import that still beg their fulfillment.
PART 3 Cyclical Returns and Astro Accounting Practice
In my Article 'STORED UP IN THE NORTH WIND' I kicked-off with Nostradamus Quatrain IV 67 subtitling it as 'When Saturn and Mars Are Equally Combust'. On reseaching this line I found good astronomical information on the closest cyclical conjunctions of Mars, Saturn and Jupiter. The following rounded-off cycle-years that were the closest to a whole figure are the ingenuity of Nostradamus Researcher Allan Webber. See his intriguing webpage,
on which he relies to some extent on the Nostradamus word 'paracheve' having the literal meaning 'perfect'. It's true that OF 'paracheve' is all about completion but it is perhaps more like 'to lead to an end' suggesting 'to finish completely', and so it is actually easier than he thought to apply this OF verb to approximately repetitive cycles which would otherwise require a rather theoretical cycle of perfections.
By finding completed cycles of planets in relation to the Sun's motion he has removed some of the backslide of regression. The completed Sun cycle of 854 years is the nominal rotation he found that fits best to the other cycles that he found nearest to whole numbers:
Sun objectively 854.000 subjectively 854
Mars 399.960 400
Jupiter 71.996 72
Saturn 28.992 29
Sun and Moon Metonic (19 years) Cycle 44.947 45
Completed cycles in total: = 1,399.895 = 1,400
Celestial Science involves subjectively looking up at the stars and objectively representing these onto paper. In practice the cycles recorded never bring a planet back to the exact same sky setting twice, objectively, but might be 'as near as dammit', subjectively.
Some Simple Ideas In Astrology
Air is complementary to Fire but is superior to Earth and inferior to Water. Earth and Water are complementary to each other but not to Fire or Air.
In astrology there are 12 planets placing through the 12 Signs of the Zodiac plus eleven other placements that are important.
Polaris or Cynosura is now the Pole Star, as its Latin name suggests, but was previously the Dog's Tail as the constellation of Ursa Minor was called the Dog before it became the Bear.
The Planets in Their Home Sign ("dignity")
The Sun in Leo
The Moon in Cancer
Mercury in Gemini
Venus in Taurus
Mars in Aries
Jupiter in Sagittarius
Saturn in Capricorn
Uranus in Aquarius
Neptune in Pisces
Pluto in Scorpio
plus the Ascendant in Libra
Dispositing Planets
These are completed or fulfilled by another planet on the same or a separate chart. Dispositing planets reflect all the usual needs and dependencies. Disposition works through Sign rulership, sometimes in a chain of ruling planets, but a planet in it's own Sign or House is a masterful planet and needs accord with no one or no thing except another master planet. Two planets are in mutual reception when they disposit each other (example: Moon in Leo and Sun in Cancer).
Planets in their Opposite, Trine, Square, Sextile, Semi-Sextile or Inconjunct Signs are at a lower level and will, so to speak, seek out their own. Opposition is when two Planets are equally distant at 180 degrees. It represents a perfect variance. Square Aspect represents a less than perfect variance.
The Sextile Aspect is two planets at 60 degrees. The Trine Aspect is two planets at 120 degrees (one 'trine' or third of 360 degrees). It figures that two may be in one hemisphere while one is in the other hemisphere. Otherwise three Signs make one Trygon, a Triplicity.
A Brief Catalogue
Application is when two Planets are drawing together either by Conjunction or by Aspect – a Trine, Square or Opposition – whereby the inner planet shall be applied to the outer planet (except if they are moving Retrograde).
Besieging is when a planet is placed between the mal-planets Saturn and Mars. This is overlooked these days.
Conjunction, in any Angle, of two swift or slow significator planets will bring a matter under judgement to a successful conclusion sooner or later, especially if they are 'essentially' or 'accidentally' strong (save for a Prohibition or Refrenation intervening).
Direct is when a planet moves forward in a Zodiac Sign from one degree to the next.
Ecliptic is the imaginary line described by the direct path of the Sun.
Frustration is when a light Planet should join with a heavy planet but before they can come to Conjunction the weightier planet becomes joined to some other.
Geocentric means 'Earth-o-centric'. A common denominator convention that Astronomy and Astrology share. Despite what we learn and deduce about the Universe the observations are made and measured from the observer's position on the planet Earth. Where else?
Helios is the youthful personification of the Sun in ancient Greek mythology. Later he became the reliable charioteer who skilfully drove the fiery Sun Chariot, keeping its sentient horses at a steady distance from the Earth, and whose unpractised son imperils the fundament by driving too close and too often so causing a conflagration.
In The Heart of the Sun (or Cazimi) is when a planet is not removed from the Sun by more than 17 minutes distant. Lilley writes "and all Authors doe hold a planet in Cazimi to be fortified thereby" and "observe all Planets may be in Combustion of the Sun, but he with none" and "Combustion can onely be by personall conjunction in one Sign, not by Aspect".
Jove is Jupiter, the most affable, encouragingly positive and human-friendly of all the planet gods in Astrology.
Kuiper Belt Objects are also called Trans-Neptunian Objects. This flat belt of frosty remnants of the Solar System remains hypothetical and although Pluto and Charon are suspected to be KBO/TNO this does not at all diminish their astrological influence. Mighty Neptune and little Charon should have been unknown as 'orbes' to Michel Nostredame.
Lunar Return occurs first at around age 27 and marks the progressed Moon reaching conjunction with the natal Moon so marking the move into maturity. It returns every 27 years. (There is a similarly sobering Saturn Return around age 29 and every 29 years after that.)
Mansions of the Moon/Lunar Mansions are a tradition (now fading in the West only) whereby the Zodiac is divided into 27 equal sectors that represent the days of the Moon.
Nodes are points in the Zodiac where the Moon or a planet (but not the Sun or the Earth) passes over to Latitudes North is called the ascending North Node and the direct opposite way round is the descending South Node. The Nodes merely mark-out an axis yet carried great weight in antique Astrology, as much the planets. The Moon wobbles in reaction to the Earth and so the Mean Node of the Moon is employed to average out this wobble.The Moon's Nodes are the Head and Tail of Draco and not orbs but a pair of points on the ecliptic, rendering the dragon's body as an invisible envelope described by the path of the Moon.
Oriental and Occidental. Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are Oriental to the Sun (above the horizon or setting after the Sun) from the time of their conjunction with it. When they come into Opposition to the Sun and until coming back into conjunction they are called Occidental. The faster-moving Moon is Oriental to the conjunct Sun viz her Opposition and Occidental from the time of her Conjunction viz its Opposition. (Mercury and Venus can make no Sextile, Square,Trine or Opposition to the Sun.)
Prohibition is when a planet interposes between two significator planets retarding them from bringing the matter under enquiry to a conclusion.
Quincunx is an assumed Aspect at 150 degrees where everything becomes stressful, sorrowful and ill-aspected.
Refrenation is when the conclusion encounters Prohibition by one of the significators going retrograde.
Separation is a matter of degree as two planets are parting. Half their own and half the other planets spheres may be applied, according to William Lilley.
Translation is when an inner or light or swift or inferior planet separates from an outer or heavy or slow or superior planet. It confers on the light planet a greater weight to achieve its end.
Umbra is the shadow of an eclipse.
Vernal Point is marked upon the circle of the ecliptic as 0°Aries and represents the position of the Sun at the Spring Equinox,. Early astrologers did not value the equinoxes as such because their Signs simply took on the characters and energies of the Seasons. The first day of the year back then was the first day of Spring. That's why it was a convenient point to splice the circle. As day and night are always of equal length at this vernal moment it is called the Tropical Zodiac.India has its Sidereal Zodiac which has greater integrity, in a sense, as the 12 Constellations drift in relation to the 12 Signs in the Tropical version, but that hardly matters to our astrologers it seems.
Waxing or Waning is normal speech for a crescive or decreasing Moon. Here's an example on the day of my writing this page, 31st May 2012: the last New Moon was on 2nd May at 23:48 GMT (and first Quarter was 28th May) so it is 10 days and 12 minutes old (as each new Moon is spoken of as a separate entity, by ancient tradition) and Waxing Gibbous with 74% illumined so far.
Yod is both a rare, powerful Aspect in Astrology (each point of the yod traced on a chart appears shaped as a 'Y' on every axis) and a classical Hebrew pictograph with the number 10 that looks like a human hand, OF 'main'.
Zodiac means that belt of 12/365 skies in which all the planets of the Solar System are to be found in all their positions over a year, developed inBabylon. It is defined by the rotation of the Earth allowing our terrestrial viewing of 12 out of the 27 traditional constellations, all with characterization, as the Sun passes through each Sign. In effect it is twelve viewing screens like gigantic monitors which can be viewed in real-time or else constructed and reflected upon. Projecting these forward in time enables astrological predictions to be made that are heavily based on the influences or 'silent prayers' of the planets regularly beaming upon us and their interrelationships as we plot them.
Other astro-items like 'Combust", 'Celestial Sphere', 'Exalted', 'Elongation' and 'Inclination' may be found examined strictly in the context of quatrain translations-interpretations-commentaries on other pages of this website. 'Triplicity' or 'trigon' deserves its own sub-section:
In astrology it is one of the four long-used harmonious energetic blendings of the twelve signs of the zodiac. N.B. 'triplicity' and 'trine' are distinct:
Fire (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius)
Earth (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn)
Air (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) and
Water (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces)
Its planetary rulers by day/by night are:
Fire (Sun/Jupiter)
Earth (Venus/Moon)
Air (Saturn/Mercury)
Water (Venus/Mars)
Traditional astrology organized its triplicities according to the four seasons at the time that the zodiac applied and from Ancient times these were:
Aries Taurus Gemini (Mar 21 thru' Jun 20)
Cancer Leo Virgo (Jun 21 thru' Sep 21)
Libra Scorpio Sagittarius (Sep 22 thru' Dec 20)
Capricorn Aquarius Pisces (Dec 21 thru' Mar 19)
Medieval astrologers affirmed 'essential dignity' as increasing the strength and effectiveness of a particular planet on the chart. The Triplicity rulers lent this weight by 3 points exceeded by the Exaltation rulers dignifying at 4 points.
There have been variations. Both Ptolemy and Lilly modified rulerships of the
Water triplicity by making Mars – the planetary symbol most disliked by Michel deNostredame – their ruler by day and by night.
The Southern Hemisphere is different, of course, and nearer the Equator the seasons appear as two a year only. Sixteenth Century Europe inherited more information about the heavens than about their own planet. (See the Article Nostradamus Geography)
Once upon a time there were dark ages and golden ones that cycled with each other (not in tandem) and Plato named completion of one of these as the Great Year. Now we call it the Precession, as discovered by Hipparchos c.130 BC. This is also the technical expression for a wobbly spinning top. In effect, the axis of rotation describes a cone. In turn that describes the Earth's slightly imperfect motion which means that we have an eccentric view of the changing heavens from our worldly window, making the study of matters more interesting and more mathematically productive, hence the Zodiac. The word 'precession' came in during the late Sixteenth Century from the Latin 'praecission-' or the going in advance of some other. A study of the precession of Mercury was one of Albert Einsteins early achievements. But the 'precession of the equinoxes' under some title or other has long been calculated: Heraclitus of Ephesus reckoned its greater cycle to be 21,600 Zodiac years whereas the old Indian astrologers set this magnitude at 24,000 years. The length has increased over centuries to nearly 26,000 years (a matter of belief rather than recalculation as some of the figurework supporting this idea is itself very ancient). Johannes Kepler was the first to explain the precession of the equinoxes in terms of the Earth's elliptical orbit. It so reflects changes in the Earth's perihelion, a time of closer approach to the Sun or in other words the orbit of climate change.
21st December 2012 is reckoned by some to be a pivotal moment for the precession of our planet, but maybe not. Certainly there are pointers to this date being the fabled Galactic Alignment, not the least of which is the Mayan long calendar. (See the introductory paragraphs to the Article '2012 NOSTRADAMUS')
(Also see the Astrology part of the section SECT in the Article UNDERSTANDING NOSTRADAMUS: EXPLORING SOME SUBJECTS RECURRENT IN THE CENTURIES)
Nigel Raymond Offord © 2012


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Elder of the two Duras sisters. Plotted with Romulan Sela to start the Klingon Civil War of 2367-68.
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Integrity: 2 Cunning: 8 Strength: 8
Rarity: R (Premiere)
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Hey all...Heres where I'm at with the color of This Robot drawing...I am Wanting to make the sky a bit more "vaporous" ...I was thinking dark ,rolling clouds with green edges or something..
any comments helpful..Mike
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weirdpuckett wrote:thanks for the honest critiques..I feel kinda like I blew it when I added color to this....My wife talked me outta having a "burn the painting " ceremony .....I have thrown away alot of paintings in my time and I now feel that burning them gives me a more satisfactory..I wont burn this one though....
Your wife is right to talk you out of it. The painting is good, keep working on it. I like the reds and oranges, they give a hellish feel, make the robot dangerous. The problem to me seems to be the purple landscape, a different colour might work better.
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You will be surprised to witness the art by Sakir Gökcebag who has used his creativity to turn the toilet paper rolls into surprisingly beautiful forms and patterns, creating an urban and minimalistic installation.
With household objects working as his unusual medium, Gökcebag's pieces often result from a close observation of their form and function. He then arranges multiples of the object, playing with their intrinsic qualities to create repetitive geometric patterns which are truly captivating. The normality of the object is quickly overcome by the creative and often beautiful ways in which we see them arranged.
This is not the first time Sakir discovers a way to reveal the artistic potential of the ordinary every-day objects laying around us. Previously, he has also used brooms, umbrellas, clothes hangers, clocks and such.
Source: http://www.sakirgokcebag.com
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