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LONDON — March 23, 2020 — Today, Pearson, the world's learning company, announced it is continuing to make an array of digital learning tools, services and resources available to students, educators and parents affected by COVID-19 school, college and university closures.
The sudden upheaval of COVID-19 disruptions is pushing many into full time online teaching and learning for the first time. This urgent learning need is leading to increased usage of digital learning materials and online teacher training, with demand continuing to grow. To assist learners worldwide during this difficult time, Pearson is taking the following actions:
For US K-12 Parents, Teachers and Schools
- Providing free online courseware, teaching platform and training for 100,000 students, for state-level partners of Connections Academy
- Sharing online learning expertise from Connections Academy through live webinars and digital learning to help K-12 parents and teachers make the most of online learning at home. This includes an email "hotline" staffed by expert Connections educators who can offer fast advice for teachers in need of instructional support.
- Due to an increased enrollment demand, Connections Academy, the full time online schools supported by Pearson, has reopened enrollment in many schools for the '19-'20 academic year. All schools are accepting students for the '20-'21 school year.
For US, UK and Canada Higher Education Students and Educators
- Accelerating the launch of the new Pearson Advance program, which offers a catalog of short, online courses from leading experts and universities. Students needing to upskill and reskill quickly can earn credentials and "micro" Masters degrees, from many of the world's most renowned institutions in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost.
- Providing access to Pearson's e-book library for the rest of the term at no additional cost for higher ed students in the US, UK and Canada who are already using Pearson courseware.
- Providing free access to the Aida Calculus app until June.
- Providing free on-demand webinars, office hours with Pearson digital learning experts and tip sheets for higher education faculty who need help transitioning to online courses.
- Providing course discounts for Pearson's Unbound, which offers pathways to high quality degree programs at lower costs. Unbound offers advice and academic guidance to help students match their existing learning to credits that enable transfer to their target school and provides online courses with transfer credit at affordable prices.
For UK Schools and College Students
- For primary schools providing free subscriptions to ActiveLearn containing literacy and numeracy resources and also free access for parents, to Carol Vorderman's The Maths Factor which is proven to improve numeracy.
- For secondary schools, providing free subscriptions to ActiveLearn including ebooks and courseware supporting key stage three and GCSE, A level and BTEC qualifications
- For focused career education programs, access to the Learning Hub which contains a range of short online courses
Nearly 10,000 teachers have already expressed interest in these offers.
For UK GCSE, A level and BTEC Qualifications
- Following the UK Government's announcement that examinations will be cancelled, Pearson will be working with Ofqual and the Department for Education to ensure that teachers are supported in meeting any requirements for teacher assessment, and will supporting teaching with high quality resources so that students keep learning for the rest of this academic year.
For Adult Professionals:
- Even with the required closing of many Pearson VUE testing centers, we are evaluating local regulations around re-opening sites to address testing services for critical workers, such as health care personnel.
These steps are in addition to resources that Pearson has been offering in affected areas since January at no-cost, including:
- Online courses and learning resources across multiple platforms, including websites, apps and WeChat to support China's 'no suspension of study' policy. These include Longman English, Pearson English, K12 online blended learning from International Connections Academy, Pearson STEM, and Pearson Edexcel. Across all of these offerings, more 700,000 students have taken advantage of this help.
- Online English language and test preparation courses in Australia for those wanting to take the Pearson Test of English Academic as part of their student visa requirements.
- Training for more than 24,000 Italian teachers in distance teaching and learning, along with a repository of teacher training materials on distance learning and teaching. In addition, Italian teachers and students can access Pearson's online platforms containing thousands of videos and interactive lessons. More than 500,000 online users have accessed this material.
- Courseware and guidance to support online learning in Brazil and Latin America and South Africa.
- Courseware for primary, secondary and university students in key markets such as Turkey and the UAE, with plans to expand these offerings to Qatar. In addition, teachers have been taking advantage of training webinars and tools that offer best practices in digital learning.
- Digital version of some of Canada's most widely used primary and secondary textbooks for students and teachers in that country.
"Hundreds of millions of students around the world are facing the most significant disruption to education in modern history. It's more important than ever that learning continues, even if it can't happen in person," said John Fallon, CEO of Pearson. "Learners, teachers and families are at the heart of everything Pearson does. If we band together, we can all do our part to keep learning going and ease the burden of this unprecedented time."
Ensuring the world's education systems continue to operate online is an important step in helping learners cope with the toll of this pandemic. A recent Pearson poll conducted of adults in the US and UK shows that nearly 80% of learners and parents in the US and 74% in the UK support the closure of schools and universities to slow the virus. But 60% of people in both countries also say that having children learning at home is going to be a significant difficulty for their family and two-thirds are concerned about their children falling behind.
More information about these resources can be found at www.Pearson.com. Additional learning tools to support educators, students and parents are being added daily.
About Pearson
We are the world's learning company with more than 22,500 employees operating in 70 countries. We provide content, assessment and digital services to learners, educational institutions, employers, governments and other partners globally. We are committed to helping equip learners with the skills they need to enhance their employability prospects and to succeed in the changing world of work. We believe that wherever learning flourishes so do people. For more information, visit www.pearson.com.
Pearson's Connections Academy courseware and platform offer is made possible with the help of partners who have stepped up to help schools at a time of need.


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Use Siri's Voice Dictation Feature On A Mac [How To]
We recently published a post showing how you can send group messages and emails with Siri, the digital voice assistant. Today, we'll show you how you can use Siri's voice dictation feature to dictate text to your Mac (via TUAW). All you need is an app on your iPhone 4S that allows you to access your Mac's keyboard functions remotely such as Mobile Mouse.
Below are the steps:
Step 1:
Download Mobile Mouse from the App Store on your iPhone 4S.
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Download and install "Mobile Mouse Server" software on your Mac from here.
Step 3:
Make sure your iPhone 4S and your Mac are connected to the same WiFi network.
Step 4:
When you have your Mac's keyboard and mouse in control on your iPhone using Mobile Mouse, simply tap the "dictation button" on the keyboard. This will allow you to dictate text straight to your Mac.
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As long as you have a cursor inserted into a text field, you can use the dictation button on your iPhone's keyboard to use Siri to dictate texts directly to your Mac.
Thats it, Enjoy!

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This is a story as I recall (so may be some discrepancies) of the Emperor Akbar and his brilliant minister Birbal, who was not just a very wise advisor but was also a very sharp wit.
There were some people who were envious about Birbal's position. Once Emperor Akbar was strolling around, when a smart man approached him, and after initial courtesies, had a question for him. He asked "though I myself am as intelligent as Birbal why do you only favor him? Why can't I be made a minister – I'm even better than him!"
Akbar says nothing, but shows the man a passer-by in the distance leading some animals. He says – ask that passer-by where he is going.
The man is very confident about doing such a trivial task. He goes and asks the passer-by, and comes back with the name of the destination city where he is going.
Then Akbar asks – what does he do? Then the man goes again, this time the passer-by had gone further. Finding the answer, he returns to inform Akbar that he sells horses.
Then Akbar says again – at what price? Then the man runs off again – still further this time – and comes back – now breathless and exhausted – again with the answer. And so on… until the man finally reports that the passer-by has simply gone too far to be caught up with anymore!
Then Birbal happens to turn up. Akbar asks Birbal that a passer-by had passed by with some animals, and if he had any information about it. Birbal gives him a detailed report, saying the trader from (wherever, … dubai 😉 ) has real good Arabi horses, and he thought that those would be excellent for His Majesty's cavalry. He bargained and got a good price so he bought them for His Majesty.
Of course, its only a story 🙂 but if we give it a thought we will find it highly relevant in applying it to the corporate world. In India, we are still reeling from the slave mentality of the British Raj era. If someone tells us something to do, we do it. May even be very well (and then maybe we even expect to get rewarded for it). Just like the first guy who met Akbar. The first guy may have been smart and efficient, but he was only like a slave.
Birbal was so alert to opportunities that even before Akbar had asked, he had already observed, and proactively investigated, and even acted upon it! Birbal worked for Akbar, but he was not a slave to Akbar. He had independent intelligent thinking. He was a leader in his own right.
In the movie Life is Beautiful (Original Italian version Vita è bella, La (1997) directed by Roberto Benigni) a wise man explains the art of being a waiter to his enthusiastic nephew: "Think of a sunflower, they bow down to the sun. But if you see some that are too bowed down, it means they're dead! You're serving, you're not a servant." And then after a precious moment of silence, adds "Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men, but he's not a servant to men!"
We may be self-employed, or employed with an organization, working under a manager, or a housekeeper at home cooking and gardening and taking care of the kids. But in any case, we need not be like a slave, we can be like Birbal – contributing actively to our project, and perhaps unknowingly, ultimately even to our country and to humanity.
That is a crucial point that is going to make a key difference. Not just to our manager, to the organization or the country, but more importantly – even to oneself.
Not many of us are in the ideal job we would like to do. A lot of us compromise a significant fraction of our life in an office simply doing things we are obliged to do. We are like a bird in a golden cage. We do not fly out because we don't want to lose the security of our cage. We of course forgot that we have ended up in the cage due to our own countless choices in the past! So the easiest most convenient and temporarily-satisfying way to express our claustrophobia, is to crib and complain. Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran understandingly says "Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune." But then, he adds very encouragingly, "But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born."
Basavanna though known as a poet and a philosopher, was not merely into philosophizing but had actively applied his approach when he had served in various roles from Accountant to eventually a Prime Minister to King Bijjala for many years, and had been a family man as well. He put the idea succinctly in his maxim "Kayakave Kailasa".
Here are some ideas along these lines, surely readers you will be able to add many more based on your own experience.
Instead of being too obsessed with just our role, we need to also get in sync with the bigger picture of any project that we work on. We need to feel free to communicate if there's something more we need from our colleagues, in terms of maybe availability or interactivity. On the one hand, one has to try to be self-reliance trying to address any issues by oneself, and on the other hand one needs to not get stuck up but keep moving by taking other's help. So there's a fine line of balance between these two approaches that one needs to achieve! We tend to wait on things if someone or some resource is not available, but its important that we either get back with the urgency of the matter, or do something else about it in terms of a temporary workaround or so. We often have to work within certain externally set constraints. Playing the Chinese game of Tangrams helps us appreciate the countless possibilities we can create, just using a few limited pieces!
A magnificient waterfall in Shivanasamudra is admired by all its visitors. In 1902, there was one man who did not merely admire the falls, but installed a turbine, making it the first hydel project in Asia – which is still functional now a century later! We can learn from Sir M. Vishweshwariah to perceive such potential. And that waterfall – though powerful, is relatively very limited, compared to the infinite energy, within each of us. We need to learn to recognize and harness this, in order to achieve our true potential as human beings.
Our work, however modest, is one of the opportunities we get for this purpose!


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It's been one eventful summer! Glitzcraft had it's first major event: a 2,000+ person conference. That's our booth in the picture; isn't it pretty? In a sea of vendors distributing pamphlets and educational resources we definitely stood out And if being a vendor wasn't enough for one weekend, I got to decorate the stage for the actual conference:
I wish I had better pictures of the rest of the room, with the lights dimmed – there was a red&purple ambiance set on the walls with gel up-lighting (you can see it on the curtain backdrop, which was all black.) There was also a gift table with some pretty Chinese paper lanterns that I offset with red glowsticks to match the rest of the lighting & decor but I'm not sure I caught pictures of those either…it was a pretty hectic day. Oh well. Use your imagination.
I've done little art production outside of the conference prep – and updating the etsy shop with leftover goods – but one of the ArtHouse projects I signed up for a few months ago launched an online tumblr gallery for The Things Found Series – Vol. 1: The Fridge. You can see my entry here.
Oh, and I tweeted about my latest starry night spin off about a month ago:
Haven't decided what to do with this one yet…the rest of the paintings are going up for sale though. The rest of the summer was spent in between weddings (3 weekends in a row!) Saying goodbye to old friends, making new ones, working, not working, and basically trying to piece my life together in between. And as I write this I am getting behind on my editing work, so ciao for now! There's more to come


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Nepali actress Dipsikha Shahi had changed her name to Sikha Shahi last month. Sikha wasn't content with the name and changed one more time to Darshan. Friends at xnepali think that the latest name sounds masculine and she might change it again.
Dipsikha is free to change her name and she can do it again but, she should also be aware that changing names after the release of a few movies isn't same as changing names in the debut movie.
Viewers will surely get confused by the conflict of names of the same person. We have seen some people who still think Karishma Manandhar and Karishma KC are two different person although that was changed a long time back.
- Sikha Shahi – I am sexy and beautiful
- Dipsikha becomes Sikha and then Darshan
- Deepsikha Shahi renamed herself to Sikha Shahi
- Nepali Actresses Facebook profiles (real ones NOT fakes)


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The first chapter in this chart-topping series came out back in 2013 and grossed over 540 million dollars, which made it the most commercially successful zombie apocalypse movie in history. The official sequel was announced shortly, and it was supposed to come out this summer. However, the release date was moved to late 2018. Still, this is one of the most anticipated films of the next year, especially after the World War Z 2 movie trailer 2018.
It's confirmed that David Fincher will be directing the film, while Brad Pitt, the lead actor, will return to his respective role for chapter 2. No info about the rest of the cast, though. Back in 2012, before the first movie hit the theaters, Foster admitted that he had a vision for this franchise and that it was supposed to be an epic trilogy. Paramount said the same thing, practically giving it the green light.
Not Just Another Zombie Apocalypse Movie
The team behind the series had spent a lot of time and energy on trying to make it extremely realistic and without the cliché zombie twists and turns. The insanely popular The Walking Dead TV show was one of their biggest inspirations. The big-time budget, Foster's professionalism, and Pitt's charisma will, without a doubt, be enough to make us want to buy a ticket to the premiere without any further marketing.
That's because while the critics didn't really like it that much, the fans fell in love with the plot and the characters. Unfortunately, the World War Z 2 teaser trailer doesn't give us any insights as to where the franchise will go in terms of the story. On the bright side, the action scenes are, simply awesome.
Wild Guesses, Theories, And Hopes
Fact: the movie could have already been out if the initial director and screenwriter didn't leave the project in 2015 and 2016. Yes, that's why we had to wait for so long – it's not that easy to make a big-time blockbuster when people are coming in and out of the project on a regular basis. Thankfully, it's all behind us now, and WWZ 2 is right around the corner. As far as thrilling horror/sci-fi bangers go, this is the obvious leader of the 2018-2019 run. We usually don't get big-time pros and actors on a zombie apocalypse movie, and that's one of the reasons why WWZ is such a huge success.
Again, we know almost nothing about the story: has it been long after the virus broke through? Is it finally quarantined or is everything even worse now? The new World War Z 2 official trailer 2018 does reveal some details, but it's not even enough for making crazy theories. A quick fact: this franchise is based on a bestselling book series, and if you've got some interesting guesses and assumptions about the sequel, please, do share them in the comments!


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In the midst of the discussion about misogyny in the atheist/ skeptical movement, one comment thread has turned to the question of women who could be considered horsewomen of the feminist skeptical apocalypse… and which My Little Pony character they'd be riding into battle astride.
embertine decided to draw them.
And I'm one of them! Wielding a whip, and riding Rainbow Dash.
I love it. Have a few fashion issues with the harlequin tights — I doubt highly that I'd wear them, they're definitely not age-appropriate — but the whip more than makes up for it. And I love how fierce Rainbow Dash looks. Be sure to check out the rest.
Oh, and for the record: This is actually the second time I have been drawn with a My Little Pony theme.
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The animal kingdom is filled with almost an infinite variety of creatures.Each one is a wonder onto itself and all have something to teach us. It is a fact that the closest that most of us get to wildlife is through bars at the zoo.
After reading a story on animal love which was unbelievable, I was like agape. i have heard a lot of Laila- majnu , Romeo-Juliet but this is really awesome. And I think- If there is any chance that animals could speak, they would be a blundering outspoken fellows. Who says human is the only social animal? After reading this outstanding Japanese story I found that feelings have no boundaries.
Here it is-
In order to renovate the house, someone in Japan breaks open the wall. Japanese houses normally have a hollow space between the wooden walls.
When tearing down the walls, he found that there was a lizard stuck there because a nail from outside hammered into one of its feet. He sees this, feels pity, and at the same time curious, as when he checked the nail, it was nailed 5 years ago when the house was first built !!!
What happened?
The lizard has survived in such position for 5 years!!!!!!!!!! In a dark wall partition for 5 years without moving, it is impossible and mind-boggling.
Then he wondered how this lizard survived for 5 years! without moving a single step--since its foot was nailed! So he stopped his work and observed the lizard, what it has been doing, and what and how it has been eating.
Later, not knowing from where it came, appears another lizard, with food in its mouth.
Ah! He was stunned and touched deeply.
For the lizard that was stuck by nail, another lizard has been feeding it for the past 5 years.
Imagine? it has been doing that untiringly for 5 long years, without giving up hope on its partner. Imagine what a small creature can do that a creature blessed with a brilliant mind can't.
Please never abandon your loved ones never say u r busy when they really need you. you may have the entire world at your feet but you might be the only world to them.


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Albendazole is used for treating certain tapeworm infections. Albendazole is an anthelmintic. It works by killing sensitive parasites.
Use Albendazole as directed by your doctor.
Ask your health care provider any question you may have about how to use Albendazole.
Store Albendazole at room temperature, between 68 and 77 degrees F (20 and 25 degrees C), in a tightly closed container. Store away from heat, moisture, and light. Do not store in the bathroom. Keep Albendazole out of the reach of children and away from pets.
Do NOT use Albendazole if:
Some medical conditions may interact with Albendazole. Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you have any medical conditions, especially if any of the following apply to you:
Some medicines may interact with Albendazole. Tell your health care provider if you are taking any other medicines, especially any of the following:
This may not be a complete list of all interactions that may occur. Ask your health care provider if Albendazole may interact with other medicines that you take. Check with your health care provider before you start, stop, or change the dose of any medicine.
All medicines may cause side effects, but many people have no, or minor, side effects.
Check with your doctor if any of these most common side effects persist or become bothersome:
Headache; nausea; stomach pain; vomiting.
Seek medical attention right away if any of these severe side effects occur:
Severe allergic reactions (rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue); dark urine; decreased urination; fever, chills, or sore throat; red, swollen, peeling, or blistered skin; seizures; severe or persistent dizziness or headache; unusual bruising or bleeding; unusual tiredness or weakness; vision changes; yellowing of the eyes or skin.
This is not a complete list of all side effects that may occur. If you have questions about side effects, contact your health care provider.


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The Trump administration has proposed permits for dangerous large-scale seismic blasting off the Atlantic coast, from Delaware down to Florida. Seismic airguns are a dangerous and destructive method for oil companies to test for the presence of oil and gas under the ocean. But scientists have determined that using these deafening airguns can injure or even kill whales, dolphins and many other species of wildlife.
This is another boon to Big Oil that leaves marine wildlife and coastal communities to pay the price — and we must fight back. Tell Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to reject these permits and keep our Atlantic coast off-limits to Big Oil.
Tell Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to block dangerous oil and gas exploration off the East Coast.
Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce
Reject seismic blasting off the East Coast
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You're invited! Come to my local art show! The reception is on Saturday, April 7, 4:30-6:30 pm, at the Bruce S. Kershner Gallery in Fairfield Public Library (CT), 1080 Old Post Road, Fairfield, CT.
It's open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
I'm in great company along with seven fellow landscape artists, please see those included below. If you're in the area, stop by and say hello.
Painting is like taking a vacation. If I paint the ocean, I'm at the ocean. If I paint a mountain, I'm on the mountain. It takes me on worldly journeys. My husband Tom says he feels the same when he plays or watches sports. All of this to say, no matter what your hobby or vocation– love what you do.
For your perusal, here's a collage of my paintings (partials). Hope to see you there. Love, Gail
Gail Ingis Claus is an author, artist/painter and interior designer. Her upcoming romance The Unforgettable Miss Baldwin will be released in the spring 2018. Her current historical romance, Indigo Sky can be purchased on amazon.


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Subyard B custom lanyard
Subyard B is a polyester lanyard with metal clip and mobile string. Lanyard for holding a name badge, ID card or keys.
Subyard B is ready for screenprint. We can do it for you!
Widely used at conferences, festivals, events, exhibitions, clubs, colleges, sporting occasions, and for anywhere requiring marketing or identification of personnel or group members, the application is endless.
A lanyard is a cord or strap worn around the neck, shoulder, or wrist to carry such items as keys or identification cards. In the military, the thing were used to fire an artillery piece or arm the fuze mechanism on an air-dropped bomb by pulling out a cotter pin (thereby starting the arming delay) when it leaves the aircraft.


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Product Description
Save money and time by purchasing your bug spray by the gallon. This is the same formula as our individual 32 oz. spray bottles and save you 30% if purchased individually. A natural way to condition your horse's skin, coat and repel bugs! When you want to avoid harsh chemical pesticides, SIT STAY FOREVER is the "safety first" choice for ticks, midges, mites, black flies and some varieties of mosquitoes. The unique blend of oils includes NEEM, Coconut Oil, Citronella, Grapefruit, Eucalyptus and Ylang Ylang essential oils. This organic spray helps keep the bugs away while moisturizing and conditioning your horse's coat keeping it fresh and bright.
The Neem tree is an evergreen tree indigenous to India. Neem oil is pressed from the seeds of the tree Neem is most commonly used for insect control and minor wound care. Keep our bottle handy as a "first line" of defense in everyday wound care. APPLY LIBERALLY AND OFTEN; AT LEAST EVERY TIME YOUR HORSE GOES OUTSIDE. This product works great, if you maintain application regularity.
Neem oil contains vitamin E and many essential amino acids which help restore moisture and elasticity to the skin. It can therefore be used on all your horses different skin-types, even sensitive, and for minor wound care. On minor wounds its collagen properties promote healthy, new skin and reduce scar tissue. Neem also encourages healthy hair re-growth. Completely safe for you and your horse.. Neem has a unique earthy smell, our formulation of great smelling insect repelling essential oils helps to make a better smelling spray. The important thing to remember is that the amazing benefits of this incredible oil out weigh its funky aroma.


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Friday, 29 September 2017
UNIVERSAL EARLog III: Day 38
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Labels: bandits-mages, EARLog III, Stewart Lockwood, The Chapel
Thursday, 28 September 2017
UNIVERSAL EARLog III: Day 37
Bourges is known for its tendency to erupt into flames: today we replicate one of the many times the cathedral has blazed, as hero Harley Byrne is tempted into a cross-element empathy experience by the mysterious Mrs Jacques Coeur. The sequence requires no small amount of desk fan breeze, tin foil flames and slinky dancing, except for the poor old character of Saint Ursinus, a statue, who has been played with uncomplaining stoicism all week by local performer Felipe, forbidden to speak or move any part of his body except his eyes. The good humour and friendliness Felipe has shown on set is the absolute inverse of the look in his eyes when the camera rolls. The power of constraints!
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Wednesday, 27 September 2017
UNIVERSAL EARLog III: Day 36
We spend the day in the house that Jacques built - the Palais Jacques Coeur, which France's richest man commissioned and had erected just in time for a brief tour before he was trialled and exiled. Well, the real thing doesn't have much colour these days, but Niemczyk and team's replica is bright and warm - it's only a shame it too will be drained by the black and white film stock.
Still, it's a pleasure to shoot shot after shot against more or less the same background, with just small re-arrangements to place us further along a corridor, or more intensely menaced by quite-possibly-sentient statues (and stained glass window). By the end of the day, my brain is spinning and I struggle to string a sentence together - perhaps the underlying structure of the building, or the pattern of the wallpaper, is indeed cursed, with the curse to be replicated wherever those structures are re-composed.
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Labels: Aleksandra Niemczyk, colour, Palais Jacques Coeur, set
Tuesday, 26 September 2017
UNIVERSAL EARLog III: Day 35
This morning: trying to film an intrigue and adventure sequence in a featureless white room, the inverse space of the cursed tympanum. It proves a mindboggler to orient the characters from shot to shot as the camera angle changes. Where the heck did the 180-degree line just go?
In the spirit of the creators of the Bourges Cathedral, we decide to add 'just a little bit more' and recall our One-horned-gazelle and Monkey cherubs to perch in the studio's ready-made tympanums. They wind up playing a key role in the resolution of the confrontation scenario, if the performers - art department interns Decerle and Delevacq - are at first a little disappointed to neutralize the scene's villain with a hug rather than karate chops. Anyway, they help the rest of us find our way around the scene.
The afternoon is mostly pick-ups with the two Ursinai, shots that we missed on our madcap Saturday opener. Things run relatively smoothly. As we point out more than once today, another six months of this and the team'll be functioning like clockwork.
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Monday, 25 September 2017
UNIVERSAL EARLog III: Day 34
Worship the sun, and invoke the wrath of the rain. Well, that might be utter rubbish, but the project is certainly suffering from a severe case of hubris after yesterday's glowing successes, as today the crew arrives drenched by an 8.57am downpour. More seriously, this morning's guest actor slips on the way to the studio and, after a cup of sweet tea and the reassuring gazes of half-a-dozen medically incompetent filmmakers, returns home to rest it off: she will return tomorrow only if she's feeling much better.
But after that, the rain seems to have quenched its thirst for misery and misfortune, and instead becomes a pleasant background to our day's work, cocooning us in the studio and make the team feel a bit better about a day with the shutters mostly down.
Lockwood even begins to hibernate, after our first shot of the day - in which Harley Byrne is trapped in a tomb in the foetal position and believes himself on the brink of death - runs without a hitch. He's in a difficult place at the moment (emotionally rather than geographically - he's quite charmed by Bourges) and this moment seems important to him; we leave it as long as we can before removing him from his tomb so we can strike the set and set up the 'Bourges streets' scene. A respectful nod, for that first shot, should also be directed at intern Arthur Leray: on every shoot, there seems to be one person who gets roped into playing 'unidentifiable body parts' - yesterday he was a shoulder in a Manchester postal workers social club, and for today's opening shot a holographic saint's hand.
The 'Bourges street' shot takes up a serious wedge of the day which, as we reflect, could be considered somewhat daft, seeing as how the street itself is just around the corner but instead we've flown two artists and two actors across Europe to shoot it in shoddy cardboard replica in a studio five minute's walk away. But that's sort of the point, somehow. And Niemczyk's art and draughtspersonship, and ex-intern Yuan's legacy Palais Jacques Coeur replica, conjure a certain kind of magic in the studio when the whole wonky perspective shot is put into place.
Leray and soundie Queissner (who is stranded on set amidst mainly silent scenes today) team up to set-wrangle a simple close-up that just begged for a little complication. We add a row of houses, a moon, a reflector and some authentic Berry fog to the scene, and I only regret we didn't add any foliage.
|The city that Niemczyk built.
After that, it's back to trying to create a floor made of liquid hologram - or quicklight. It's an athletic feat, since working with a projector, a Super 8 camera with no monitor, and a hand-held vase-as-wonky-lens actually involves building up a sweat on this chilly Bourges afternoon. Lockwood, too, is pushed to his limits as he must replicate fighting for his life while sinking through a cross between quicksand, liquid light, and malevolent, dissolving floor tiles, no doubt dreaming of a warm, comfortable tomb in which to sleep once this trial is over.
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Labels: Aleksandra Niemczyk, bourges, EARLog III, hologram, Palais Jacques Coeur, Shengwen Yuan, weather
Sunday, 24 September 2017
UNIVERSAL EARLog III: Day 33
After yesterday's catastrophe of light, today a gift. For the only day of the shoot, today we are away from our regular studio - The Chapel - and working in the café space of the Nadir arts venue instead; one of the downsides of this Sabbath-honouring shift is that today's space has high up windows that are pretty difficult to cover, leaving our lighting options (supposedly) limited. But as we recreate the Manchester working person's club from where hero Harley Byrne introduces each episode of UNIVERSAL EAR, we discover that the morning light flooding through the window is perfect for the scene, and the finite splendour of its glow causes us to work with such pace and attentiveness that we manage to complete three charming shots in the time it took us to go home and get the costumes we forgot yesterday.
A special nod goes to visiting German guest Valerie, friend of our soundist Nina Queissner, who - aside from her general assistance - stepped up to play a blinder as the waitress serving Byrne his tea. ('Should I have any expression on my face?' 'Sort of... Mancunian.' 'Ah, I think I know what you mean'.)
It all means we have time to bask in the surprise late September warmth as we prepare for an afternoon shooting something altogether less kitchen-sink: the cursed tympanum itself. Tuesday Betts will utter her first lines as the enchanted Mrs Coeur, poly-authentic incarnation of the wife of famous Jacques, who offers Byrne a helping hand (OR IS IT?) in our hero's quest. Betts has previously pointed out how big the real Mrs Coeur's hat was (in the same email that she asked whether she should prepare a French accent; I forgot to reply) so when Decerle wheels in her absurd millinery monstrosity it should be no surprise that it is impossible to keep balanced on Betts' talented head.
|Costumier Gallane Decerle with her ridiculous hat.
We have the brainwave of strapping the thing to the background of the set and letting Betts kind of stand underneath it instead, offering her the reassurance that in Hollywood, no leading lady is expected to support the weight of her own hat. It proves to be the random factor we require for the sequence in which Mrs Coeur, transformed into a statue alongside Harley Byrne and Saint Ursinus, is the only one left with any mobility whatsoever: indeed, even when she turns her head, her hat remains fixed.
The static nature of the scene makes it reasonably straightforward, if it is the most complex costume set-up so far. Costumes are a lot easier than holograms, though - not least because they're not my responsibility. Still, I hope on a future project we can cross the costume/tech department divide by lowering in one of Betts' hats on a drone and having the thing carry it around over her head for the duration of the episode.
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Saturday, 23 September 2017
UNIVERSAL EARLog III: Day 32
Shoot day 01. It starts promisingly as we are warmly welcomed to the Chapel by the building's guardian, forced out of bed on a Sunday - it makes a big difference to get a smile and some kind shrugs about my French language skills rather than the tuts and sighs I probably deserved. Next, an upbeat meeting between our assembled crew, all together in one place at one time, and augmented by Lockwood, our leading man. I establish some rules: clean up after yourself; one take for each shot; never forget where you last saw me put my folder (because I will).
As regular readers will know, the UNIVERSAL EAR set opens each day with a performance of the L'Institute Zoom company anthem, Fat Larry's Band's 'Zoom'. The French contingent take to this ritual with admirable enthusiasm, although it is a crime of culture that none of them have heard this classic before (leading lady Tuesday Betts, who arrives in the evening, puts the British familiarity with this song purely down to the ubiquity of Smooth FM in our cafes, streets, schools and prisons).
Only once the song is finished do things start going downhill. It turns out I have forgotten to bring not only the clippers to do Harley Byrne's 'do', but his entire uniform; Leray and I are dispatched in different directions across Bourges to rectify this. The guest cast begins to arrive in my absence, little suspecting the wait they will have ahead of them, since on my return our efforts to perfect the hologram effects that we require for all of today's shots prove unsatisfactory. Over the past few test weeks, we managed to get the fx to what we considered to be something like 70% perfection; today, it proved a gross overestimation.
The complexity of the script was another mis-judgement; naturally, it's pretty hard for the French cast, with mostly a limited grip on the English language (though far better than my French, as the common and disingenuous disclaimer goes), to understand the esoteric and pretentious dialogue, let alone memorize it and perform it with the required (albeit limited) level of nuance.
While the togetherness and doing-ness of the day was still very valuable (we're not here to make a movie, after all, but to make a movie), it was a huge blow to lose the time that could've been spent with these wonderful performers figuring out how to best create their characters - instead we just wound up trying to get the shots. We'll try to use these shots as a skeleton and add some flesh together in the week, where schedules allow. After months of script work worrying about words, it turned out to be light itself that we had neglected.
One nice touch: Robin-Tyrek steps up to be our smoketographer; she buys a vape machine and fluid from a local tobacconist, and it is magical to discover the smoke in our movie will be of the 'Berry' variety. It turns out that this refers to the flavour of berries rather than a specific vaping blend local to the the Berry region in which we are stationed, but sometimes authenticity is in the eye of the beholder.
In the evening, Tuesday Betts arrives via both Liverpool and Manchester airport, having turned up wrongly to the former and caused a security alert at the latter, and having eaten nary a Wagon Wheel since 11am. Believe it or not, more mischief and chaos may be just what the production needs. Niemczyk, whose lunches and dinners have fair sustained our bellies and souls since long before the Canon 814 rolled today, does not disappoint with her baked roots.
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Labels: EARLog III, hologram, Stewart Lockwood, The Curse Of The Phantom Tympanum, Tuesday Betts, Zoom
Friday, 22 September 2017
UNIVERSAL EARLog III: Day 31
A day off for the interns, since tomorrow we shoot - and we don't stop again for the next six days. So mostly Niemczyk and I in the studio, with the freedom for the occasional selfie inbetween ritual clearing-up and preliminary set assembly. Queissner and Robin-Tyrek also appear for constructive meetings. In the evening, Lockwood arrives - if not raring to go, at least pleased to get off the bus.
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Labels: EARLog III, set, Stewart Lockwood
Thursday, 21 September 2017
UNIVERSAL EARLog III: Day 30
Sometimes you just need to get stuck in. In the A.M., Leray and I finally build the nerve to experiment with the effects for our 'holographic floor' scene - a routine in which heroic Harley Byrne becomes trapped in a form of 'liquid hologram' known as quicklight. With a bit of lens trickey, an old net curtain, and plenty of goopy light, the effect is far simpler to achieve than we had feared.
The afternoon is mostly costume fittings and video tests with the actors, who have a similarly 'getting stuck in' sort of attitude, with one after another of them seeing the studio for the first time before sighing and saying something along the lines of, "I did say I'm doing it for a new experience...". Anyway, every one of them is amazing as I force them to perform isolated emotions from the toes up. Niemczyk and Decerle are fast becoming toga virtuosos in the costumes department. And either the hats are getting bigger or everything else is getting smaller.
Queissner, our soundist, is similarly game; she has already begun foley for the film not yet shot, mostly with an analogue modular synthesizer, which is admirably panelled in cardboard. Now, if only we can find her some microphones to record Saturday's opening scenes...
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Wednesday, 20 September 2017
UNIVERSAL EARLog III: Day 29
Another day of heavy scheduling (thankfully Robin-Tyrek - who, along with Niemczyk, is keeping this daft boat afloat with her/their renaissance-girl adaptability - has taken over this task, it being her 'specialism'), video tests with actors, and trying to rebuild the city in miniature ahead of Saturday's tournage.
Four more actors on set for costume-fittings and video tests finally convince me that we may have something here, if only we can catch their wondrousness on film (it seems to work on video). The progressive nature of the shoot, we learn, will also be augmented by the use of a live vaper on set to behave as a human smoke machine, where Panic & Disgust's cigarette-smoking (Bosnian) smoke machine now seems passé and somehow politically incorrect.
|Robin-Tyrek: a lawyer disguised as a painter.
|Leray: an intern disguised as a prisoner.
|Niemczyk: a unicorn disguised as a horse.
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Tuesday, 19 September 2017
UNIVERSAL EARLog III: Day 28
The day begins with a confusion of keys which results in me walking to the studio by myself in the rain, a delay that I try to exploit as thinking time in which to resolve both the problems at the studio and a broader existential malaise; it is my birthday, after all. Well, I only have thirty minutes to walk, so I don't get very far with either pursuit. Mostly I wonder whether it might be good human management to make fun mandatory in the studio on my birthday.
Yesterday, however, Leray and I managed to hurtle our way through creating an entire shot list and storyboard, meaning today we each face the challenge of tedium: it's time for me to attempt to start scheduling, leaving Leray in the hands of the Tangibles - and our art team unfortunately have to delegate the less inventive jobs to their temporary ensigns (in this case, stencilling wallpaper).
The shot list seems to be quite completable in the eight days we have assigned to shoot it. Unfortunately, the matter is complicated by the varying availability of our enormous cast and our studio space - questions that I hope will be resolved over the next 24 hours, since the illusion of feasibility that comes with a draft schedule is like a warm hug in these nervous pre-tournage days.
Preliminary sub-hugs come in the form of our first actors-on-set: Felipe, who will play a security guard (and quite possibly the only biologically authentic human in 2187 Bourges) and Josephine, who will play the late Brieanne Morelle - the disgraced former heritage minister responsible for the state in which hero Harley Byrne finds the city. With their presence comes, if not the illusion of feasibility, at least the reassurance of some sort of inevitability.
They are both game, and we drape them in some preliminary costumes before attempting the canning of emotions - the back-up technique used by all major contemporary serials to ensure they can always complete the show if one of their actors should wander off or become otherwise unpresentable. It is a technique we first tried with enormous success with Stewart Lockwood/Harley Byrne himself.
This is actually a very challenging way to act, starting from a discrete emotion (hungry; outraged; numb) with no dramatic context or scenery. But it's a splendid way to get to know each other and to start figuring out the talent's metaphysical topography.
It's also a great way to ensure the actors don't get too carried away with the ol' "method", and engage instead with preconceptions and stock characters. This tends to make Lockwood/Byrne look rather absurd as the only person who's trying to really get inside his character and create a nuanced, sensitive and sympathetic portrayal. He would never 'play' a villain, for example, because nobody believes they are a villain - just a person with certain wants, needs, and insecurities. Josephine, on the other hand, jumps right into being an awful Tory teen, and I find myself measuring her attempts at her given emotions against those of Theresa May (who is actually a great study figure for the 'I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way' type).
Midway through the day, before Felipe's arrival, our daily screening of Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers is interrupted as the Bandits-Mages team invade the studio with cake, sparklers, pink booze and other surely contraband materials. Somebody clicks play on iTunes and by coincidence, Lockwood's singing voice rings out as the track happens to be cued up to his guest vocal on Duett's Running Scared. Niemczyk is noted to have made herself quite at home in the studio, since she is wandering about in her socks (in fact a result of the rain/wet shoes). She hunts out the giant pink monster-feet slippers that Chaillou has found for her, and wears them around the impromptu party, apparently being all about the mandatory fun. Getting nervous, I draw the fun to a stop before Felipe walks in on us: there is already too much to explain.
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Labels: bourges, EARLog III, Flash Gordon, Stewart Lockwood, video
Saturday, 16 September 2017
UNIVERSAL EARLog III: Day 25
Today Niemczyk and I made a pilgrimage to the Rue Patrick Dewaere, named for my (obsessively) favourite actor, although he seems to have no actual connection with the area. Indeed, the nomenclature around the peculiar puzzle-shaped new build community to which the street belongs is all cinema-based. The eerie quietness and absurd, almost autoparodic architecture stirs the need to come back and make a new film in Bourges, outside of the studio; likewise the Lego buildings and artificial lake ('Bourges beach') that we ride around in its entirety as part of the route to Patrick Dewaere. Sorry for the awful photos - click'em for more details. And oh, those clouds!
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Retrieved from Wikimedia Commons, "Princeton Battlefield State Park, Princeton, New Jersey, USA"
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Have you ever wondered about Princeton's storied history with American's wars? The battlefield that was a turning point in the revolution, and the elaborate Beaux-Arts monument constructed in the 20th century to memorialize it? The portico that recalls the classical ruins of ancient Greece? Look no further than my latest article in the "Brick by Brick" series, regarding the Princeton Battlefield and its Monument.


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On Monday, the Serial ATA Standards Organization (SATA-IO) said it was working on a plan to deliver power over the external SATA (eSATA) bus during the second half of 2008.
Really, there's not any more to it than that. The key, however, is the possibility of eliminating another annoying power brick, and letting eSATA carry the load, as it were.
What wasn't said was what that maximum power load will be, which would go a long way toward determining what products will be bus powered (an individual drive, say) and what won't (a multi-drive NAS in a RAID configuration).
"Enhancing eSATA with power delivery will provide a new level of convenience to the designer and the end user," said Knut Grimsrud, SATA-IO president and Intel Fellow, whose apparent goal in life is to particpate in the development of every PC I/O standard that has, is, or will ever exist. "By eliminating the need for a separate power connection, customers can more easily expand their storage, making Serial ATA an even more attractive solution for mainstream storage applications."


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Jamie Walker: 5 Things to Look For In The NFC Championship Game
ATLANTA -- The city is absolutely on fire. We ALL are anticipating this matchup of the Green Bay Packers versus our hometown Atlanta Falcons to represent the NFC in Super Bowl LI. For fans it is a true nail-biting and gut-wrenching experience, but for pundits and ultra-critical viewers of the Falcons, being in this game represents just another opportunity to say 'I told you so.'
Although I analyze the Falcons for Sports Radio 92.9 The Game, I am also a huge fan of the team. While I am truly excited about this golden opportunity, at the beginning of the season we could not have possibly envisioned this team going this far, considering the youth of the defense, its collapse at the back half of the year, and what was considered the toughest schedule in the league. In addition, and I will be the first to admit, I did not think that offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan and quarterback Matt Ryan could get on the same page... Boy was I wrong.
The last time the Falcons were in the playoffs was 2012, where the painful loss to the San Francisco 49ers took place and still stings. There have been so many things that have changed about this organization since then, including a new head coach in Dan Quinn and other personnel and front-office changes.
In the second year of this regime' you are seeing what his process is all about. They are going up against an opponent in Green Bay that is playing at a high level. Their quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, may be playing the best of his career despite injuries and a young receiving corp. This matchup will be the toughest for the Birds because of what is at stake, despite beating the Packers already. Here are five things to look for in the chess match regarding both these teams:
1. FALCONS DBs vs. PACKERS WRs: While the receivers for Green Bay have been injured and are young, they have performed beautifully for Rodgers. The experienced, Jordy Nelson, due to broken ribs, may not play in this game but Randall Cobb, Davonta Adams, and rookie Geronimo Allison have carried the load, along with TE Jared Cook. In contrast, the Falcons' secondary has played well and is continually getting better despite not have Desmond Trufant. Jalen Collins, Robert Alford, Keanu Neal, and Ricardo Allen have done a solid job, but will be tested on Sunday.
2. FALCONS OL vs. PACKERS DL: I cannot tell you just how much the addition of center Alex Mack has improved the offensive line for the Falcons. This unit was much maligned last season, but getting Ryan the snap in place vastly improves your chances for success. The defensive line for the Packers is solid and experienced. It is also very formidable against the run, being ranked eighth in the league. The Falcons must absolutely run the football for success to set up everything else they plan on doing on offense.
3. GRADY JARRETT/JONATHAN BABINEAUX vs. T.J. LANG/LANE TAYLOR/COREY LINSLEY: Rodgers may be playing the best of his career in terms of pinpoint accuracy and leadership, but no QB is immune to pressure directly in his face. We have sung the praises of Grady Jarrett this year. He needs to have a monster game along with the old veteran Jonathan Babineaux, who may not get another chance to make it to the big game.
4. KEANU NEAL/DE'VONDRE CAMPBELL/DEION JONES vs. PACKERS TEs: Richard Rodgers and Jared Cook have played excellent for Green Bay, being at the right place at the right time. In the last few years, it is well documented just how troublesome it has been to cover tight ends for a Falcons' defense. It will be important for the linebacker corps and Keanu Neal to both run and hit and cover the TEs.
5. MATT RYAN vs. "THE HATERS": Yeah, the haters. Anywhere else in the world, Ryan would be the king of the city. But for whatever reason he has been relegated to continuing to have to prove his worth to the franchise. He has absolutely handled it better than I would have, but I am pretty sure he would like nothing more than to shut up the naysayers. I know his preparation is second to none and that if anyone in this world wants this win, it is definitely "Matty Ice."
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Actress Tisca Chopra says television helps in getting an additional audience other than the target audience.
Tisca, whose film "Ghayal Once Again" will be airing on Zee Cinema on June 26, says there is a fixed audience for every film, and premiering a movie on TV helps in garnering more audiences.
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Talking about her co-star Sunny Deol from the film "Ghayal Once Again", Tisca said: "Sunny Deol is a pleasant person unlike his screen image, he is not aggressive and is shy. He took very good care of us. He has a very quiet sense of humour. I had a lovely time working with him."
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This documentary on the life of Whitney Houston, directed by Nick Broomfield (Kurt & Courtney) and Rudi Dolezal, centers on Houston's 1999 world tour. In extended clips from her concerts, Houston sounds spectacular as she sings — though one backing musician tells us that she lost her voice later on in the tour. In between the shows, and even during breaks in songs, Houston clearly appears intoxicated, but we can see, as she dances and sweats her way through her repertoire, that she was still a great performer.
Interspersed with backstage action and vintage clips of Houston on television are interviews with people who knew her: musicians from her touring band, people who worked for her label, hair and makeup artists, and even a drug and alcohol counselor. But those who were closest to Houston did not take part in the film. Each person interviewed offers a version of the Houston they knew, and their accounts don't always match: The audience has to decide who's full of shit and who's not. When a subtitle tells us that Houston spent an estimated $250 million (a quarter billion!) subsidizing family and hangers-on, we realize some of them (who were also complicit in not intervening in Houston's drug and alcohol problems) are the same ones telling us her story here. And just one person is unequivocal about Whitney's twenty-year relationship with assistant Robyn Crawford (whom everyone agrees was one of the few in Houston's inner circle concerned about her well-being, not just her fame and wealth): Allison Samuels, a journalist who never published that information.
Although it offers an astute analysis of how Clive Davis tailored Houston's sound and image to appeal to a white audience — and how she went against record executives' wishes to adopt a more r&b sound later in her career — the film doesn't use enough of Houston's music. Nor does it acknowledge that Houston released one of her best songs in 1999, the year of the tour. The dance remix of "It's Not Right But It's Okay" is an irresistible, blistering rebuke to a cheating husband — who bears more than a passing resemblance to Houston's husband at the time, Bobby Brown.
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G'day folks,
Welcome to Austria. One of my favourite places. Nestled in the European Alps, lies the Republic of Austria, birthplace of famous artists like Mozart, Strauss and Haydn, great thinkers like Sigmund Freud, actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger, and many, many more. Austria is landlocked between Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy and Hungary. It's a very mountainous country, with only 32% of it lying below 500m (1640ft) above sea-level. This leads to the country enjoying a mostly cool climate most of the year. If you have been there, these pictures will stir up memories. If you haven't been there, check out these photographs and drool.
GeographySlightly smaller than Maine, Austria includes much of the mountainous territory of the eastern Alps (about 75% of the area). The country contains many snowfields, glaciers, and snowcapped peaks, the highest being the Grossglockner (12,530 ft; 3,819 m). The Danube is the principal river. Forests and woodlands cover about 40% of the land.
GovernmentFederal republic.
HistorySettled in prehistoric times, the central European land that is now Austria was overrun in pre-Roman times by various tribes, including the Celts. After the fall of the Roman Empire, of which Austria was part, the area was invaded by Bavarians and Slavic Avars. Charlemagne conquered the area in 788 and encouraged colonization and Christianity. In 1252, Ottokar, king of Bohemia, gained possession, only to lose the territories to Rudolf of Hapsburg in 1278.
Thereafter, until World War I, Austria's history was largely that of its ruling house, the Hapsburgs. Austria emerged from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 as the continent's dominant power. The Ausgleich of 1867 provided for a dual sovereignty, the empire of Austria and the kingdom of Hungary, under Franz Joseph I, who ruled until his death on Nov. 21, 1916. The Austrian-Hungarian minority rule of this immensely diverse empire, which included German, Czech, Romanian, Serbian, and many other lands, became increasingly difficult in an age of emerging nationalist movements. When Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo in 1914, World War I, as well as the destruction of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, began.
During World War I, Austria-Hungary was one of the Central powers with Germany, Bulgaria, and Turkey, and the conflict left the country in political chaos and economic ruin. Austria, shorn of Hungary, was proclaimed a republic in 1918, and the monarchy was dissolved in 1919. A parliamentary democracy was set up by the constitution of Nov. 10, 1920. To check the power of Nazis advocating union with Germany, Chancellor Engelbert Dolfuss in 1933 established a dictatorship, but he was assassinated by the Nazis on July 25, 1934. Kurt von Schuschnigg, his successor, struggled to keep Austria independent, but on March 12, 1938, German troops occupied the country, and Hitler proclaimed its Anschluss (union) with Germany, annexing it to the Third Reich.
Austria Establishes NeutralityAfter World War II, the United States and Britain declared the Austrians a "liberated" people, but the Russians prolonged the occupation. Finally Austria concluded a state treaty with the USSR and the other occupying powers and regained its independence on May 15, 1955. The second Austrian republic, established Dec. 19, 1945, on the basis of the 1920 constitution (amended in 1929), was declared by the federal parliament to be permanently neutral.
On June 8, 1986, former UN secretary-general Kurt Waldheim was elected to the ceremonial office of president in a campaign marked by controversy over his alleged links to Nazi war crimes in Yugoslavia. Austria became a member of the European Union in 1995, but it retained its strict constitutional neutrality and forbade the stationing of foreign troops on its soil.
In Feb. 2000, the conservative People's Party formed a coalition with the far-right Freedom Party, headed by Jörg Haider. A nationalist against immigration, Haider had made several controversial remarks praising some Nazi policies, which he has since recanted. His gradual rise to power was credited to voters weary of decades of stasis under the rule of the Social Democrats. The European Union condemned Austria's new coalition, froze diplomatic contacts, and imposed sanctions, accusing Haider of being a racist, xenophobe, and Nazi sympathizer. Given the controversy, Haider chose not to join the government, but he continued to wield influence from the sidelines.
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"We plan to play a friendly against England in June, before the World Cup," he said, adding that the venue and other details of the match are still to be worked out.
Both England and Nigeria will feature at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
The Nigeria side are in Group D along side Argentina, Croatia and Iceland, while England are in Group C with Belgium , Panama and Tunisia.
We could re-call that both teams have clashed once in the World Cup in 1995, England won the game by a goal to nil at Wembley courtesy of a David Platt headed goal.
Sanusi also said the Eagles would play at least one friendly before Russia 2018 in the country's capital ABuja to show the teams's appreciation for the support of both the Nigerian government and People.
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Major Project Grant
Application Form, 2009
Deadline: February 8, 2008, 5 p.m.
Projects must take place between September 2007 and August 2008
Applicant: Elizabeth Stephens
Department: Art Rank: Professor
Descriptive title of project: The Hills are Alive!
StudioWork/Photography and Drawing
Category: (X) Individual ($2000-$10,000) or( ) Collaborative ($2000-$20,000)
Amount requested from ARI: $9568.88
Amount received: $2,900
Project description: Maximum of 350 words – use12-point type.
Proposals whose descriptions exceed 350 words will not be sent to the committee.
Individualprojects will be evaluated on potential national/international impact,originality, contribution to the field, feasibility, and likelihood ofcompletion (which includes evidence of the applicant's record of productivity).
This past year I exhibited drawings,photographs, sculpture and video installations in two very successful artexhibits in France and San Francisco in addition to performing in theaters inthe US and Europe. In the processof developing and focusing on performance these past few years I have not hadthe time to produce as much visual art as I would like. Now I'd like to returnto making more solo visual art works.
I propose to make a series oflarge-scale digital photographs that will incorporate drawing, text andcollage. The content of this work will explore eco feminism, class andmemory. I intend to focus onimages of mountain top removal in Appalachia, where I grew up. This project is inspired by acombination of events from this past year that influenced me deeply. The first event was a lecture that thepublic intellectual Bell Hooks gave at UCSC. In this lecture she clearly articulated the connection offeminism, race, the environment and spirituality in a way that I had neverheard woven quite so eloquently together before. I was moved by the way that she talked about the horriblepractice of mountain top removal and its devastating effects, not only on thelandscape but upon the people who live in and are cradled by thatlandscape. The second thing thathappened was that I began working with Newton Harrison on a graduate schoolproposal that will utilize whole system methods of studying and approachingglobal problems. He and his partner Helen were early pioneers of environmental art and their work isextremely relevant to this era. Finally, the last time that I flew over West Virginia, I noticed thatthe wreckage of the landscape was much more severe than it had been just a fewyears before. It made regular strip mining look environmentally conscious andit was heart breaking. The need tobring attention to this situation is urgent. Creating powerful images that critique mountain top removalwould provide me with a point of entry to begin engaging in conversations aboutthis issue through art.
Budget and Justification
Apply onlyfor funds needed; awards will normally be less than the allowable maximum. Inthe space beneath each category, provide details for each expense.
Expense Category DollarAmount
Salariesand wages (honoraria, researchassistance, etc.) $1,200
(Listpersonnel and pay rates as applicable.)
Photography assistant to aid in preparing thephotographs for printing, and archiving.
8 hours per week for 10 weeks @$15 dollars per hour
Equipment (specify equipment type with prices) quotes fromB&H Photo
Nikon D300 with18-135mm Lens +memory card $2179.95
Nikon MB-D10multi power battery grip $ 259.95
Nikon EN-EL4aRechargeable Lithium Battery $ 109.95
1 Sandisk 16Gig Extreme CompactFlash Card $ 199.95
Lowepro LensCase $ 34.95
Nikon semi softcamera case $ 79.95
$2864.70 +35 shipping
$2899.70 total
Domestictravel (specify destinations andmeans of travel)
(2)Round trips San Francisco to Charleston, West Virginia
DeltaAirlines (21 advance day purchase) $671 per ticket $1342
CarRental for 2 weeks, 179 per week $358
Fuel $200
$1900 + 8% tax
Other(provide details for each expense)
Meal andincidental expenses, two weeks @ $64 per day $896
Lodging 8nights Comfort Inn, Beckley, WV @ $65 per night $520
Digital Printing at Rayko Photo in San Francisco
(6) 50″x60″ color print on Hahnemuhle Photo RagPaper@$290 ea. $ 1740+8.5%
$1887.90 total
Income anticipated from other sources $2000 COR to be submitted in March for additional photographic anddrawing supplies
(Specify any anticipated income, whether secure or pending;include COR funds, external funding applications, etc.
Requested from ARI $9568.88
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|Wallenberg, Raoul - The mysterious disappearance of a Swedish diplomat who was responsible for saving the lives of at least 20,000 Hungarian Jews who disappeared in 1945.
|Warehouse On The Canal - This seemingly quaint building on Canal Street in Canal Fulton is a one-stop shop for practically all of your needs: antiques, collectibles, artwork, hair salon, restaurant and....ghosts.
|Watertown - In December of 1924, an oil tanker named the S.S. Watertown sailed from California toward the Panama Canal in route to New Orleans. While they were sailing, James Courtney and Michael Meehan, crew members of the vessel, were cleaning a cargo tank in the ship's hold. In a freak accident, the two men were overcome by gas and oil fumes and died. On December 4, as was the custom of the time, the sailors were buried at sea off the Mexican coast.
|Waverly Hills Sanatorium - Waverly Hills Sanatorium sits on land that was originally purchased by Major Thomas H. Hays in 1883.
|Weird Travels - An American documentary paranormal television serious that originally aired form 2001 to 2006 on the Travel Channel.
|werewolf - A werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope (from the Greek λυκάνθρωπος: λύκος, lykos, "wolf", and ἄνθρωπος, anthrōpos, "man"), is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an therianthropic hybrid wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (e.g. via a bite or scratch from another werewolf). Early sources for belief in lycanthropy are Petronius and Gervase of Tilbury.
|West Virginia Penitentiary - Moundsville - The prison at Joliet provided the prototype for the West Virginia Penitentiary. It was an imposing stone structure fashioned in the castellated Gothic architectural style (adorned with turrets and battlements, like a castle).
|Westminster Abbey Haunting - Westminster Abbey is Britain's most famous church and a venue for ghost hauntings as well. The following is information about the paranormal activity which occurred at this landmark.
|WGH - Ghost of British Officer - The ghost of a British soldier who carries a torch has been seen around the grounds of the White House late at night.
|When Cameras Took Pictures of Ghosts - Megan Garber - The Atlantic - When photography was new, people used it to suggest the endurance of the departed.Ā
|When Ghosts Attack - Destination America's series to expose what happens when an unseen, evil entity not only reveals itself to the living but strikes with terrifying force.
|WHG - Deaths at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave - A listing of those who have died at the White House.
|WHG - Ronald Reagan Ghost Story - The following is a true ghost story told by Ronald Reagan at a State Dinner.
|WHG - Rose Garden - Ghosts in the White House
|WHG - The Attic - Ghosts in the White House
|WHG - The Basement - Ghosts in the White House
|WHG - The East Room - Ghosts in the White House
|WHG - The Lincoln Bedroom - Ghosts in the White House
|WHG - The North Portico - Ghosts in the White House
|WHG - The Rose Room - Ghosts in the White House
|WHG - The Second Floor Bedrooms - Ghosts in the White House
|WHG - The Second Floor Halls - Ghosts in the White House
|WHG - The Yellow Oval Room - Ghosts in the White House
|White House Reconstruction - This webpage outlines the reconstruction and renovation of the White House during the Truman years. You can find pictures and detailed information on this page.
|Why Headstones Face East - Do you know why most headstones face east?
|Wicca - A religion or system of principles, based upon interaction with nature and the performing of rites rooted in ancient pagan practices.
|Wick House at Youngstown State University - The Wick Mansion was built in 1906 by Col. George Dennick Wick, president of Youngstown Steel, and his wife, Mollie. It sits at the intersection of Wick Avenue and Route 422.
|William H. Mumler and Spirit Photography - Pinterest Board - 1 : William H. Mumler was the photographer that started the sprit photography craze. This board shows examples of some of Mumler's Spirit Photography.
|William H. Mumler and Spirit Photography - 2 - Pinterest Board - 2: Examples of Spirit Photography, a trend that was invited by William H. Mumler where spirits would magically appear in photographs.
|William H. Mumler, Spirit Photographs, Amazed Audiences With Ghostly Images - If you look closely at these photos -- and even if you don't -- there's more than a ghost of a chance that you might see what looks like spirits or apparitions. The paranormal pics are the work of William H. Mumler, a mid-1800s engraver in Boston who rose to fame as a "spirit photographer."
|Winchester Cathedral Monks - Noted ghost researcher Hans Holzer took this picture in Winchester Cathedral, which might show the ghosts of monks in procession.
|Witch cake - Cakes made during the time of the Salem witch trails to help detect witches. These were made of rye meal and the victim's urine. They were then fed to a dog and it was believed that the witch would scream with pain while the dog was eating it.
|witchcraft - A term used in so many varied ways that a common definition is not possible. In medieval times it was said to be an art involving Satan worship and evil deeds, although this description comes from unsympathetic sources. Modern descriptions include following the Wiccan Religion, mystical ritual activities, earth-worship, good or evil sorcery.
|witchfinder - During the witchhunts of the 16th and 17th centuries, a person hired to locate and identify witches. Since a fee was usually paid for finding a witch, impartiality was far from guaranteed.
|woo-woo - People or ideas promoting unproven or pseudoscientific phenomena.
|woodwose - AKA wuduwasa, a mythical creature similar to Bigfoot said to have lived in the forests of medieval Europe.
|World Mysteries and True Ghost Tales - Very spooky articles and stories from people worldwide. Not for the faint-hearted
|Wreaths - Origin - Where did wreaths at Christmas time originate?
|Wreck of the Titan - A book written several years before the sinking of the Titanic that has several similarities to the sinking of the mighty ship.
|Wyecollar Hall - Christmas Haunting - A haunting at Christmas time.


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Consumers Energy has started operations at its second solar power plant, transforming 8.5 acres at Western Michigan University into a new source of renewable energy for Michigan.
"We are pleased to work with Western Michigan University and the public to provide energy from new, renewable sources right here in our state," said Dan Malone, Consumers Energy's senior vice president of energy resources. "This solar power plant represents our commitment to powering our state reliably and sustainably, using our state's own natural resources."
Consumers Energy has made significant changes to how it generates energy, closing seven coal-fired power plants this year and developing renewable energy sources in Michigan. The 1-MW solar power plant on Western Michigan University property is the energy provider's second large-scale solar project in Michigan, joining a 3-MW solar power plant that opened at Grand Valley State University in April.
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"Western Michigan University has a longtime commitment to sustainability and helping our state use its resources wisely," said WMU President John M. Dunn. "This new facility will allow us to contribute immediately to the production of sustainable energy for Michigan and serve in the long term as an example for how partnership and innovation can be used to meet the important interests of our community."
The two solar power plants are part of Consumers Energy's Solar Gardens program, in which customers support the development of new renewable energy in Michigan and reduce their carbon footprint.
Participants who subscribe to Solar Gardens will receive a credit on monthly bills based on electricity that's generated at Solar Gardens locations.
Consumers Energy, Michigan's largest utility, is the principal subsidiary of CMS Energy (NYSE: CMS), providing natural gas and electricity to 6.7 million of the state's 10 million residents in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties.
— Solar Builder magazine
[source: http://solarbuildermag.com/news/consumers-energy-finishes-second-solar-power-plant-at-a-michigan-university/]


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Hot Hippie Dark Denim Patchy Cut Off: Size 27
One of the hottest trends this year that you can wear all summer long! Patch denim with a boho vibe with frayed edges that have that worn in cool look but are barely worn.
*These shorts have tons of stretch so there is a lot of forgiveness in the measurements
Inseam 2"
Waist 26"
- Size 27
- Indigo
- Washed
- Condition : Very Good
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I made a passing reference a couple of posts back to a costume photoshoot I was going to be helping out with. In case you were curious, I was refering to one for this upcoming exhibition at Bath Fashion Museum. It'll be running from 17th July to 2nd September, and from the sneak peek I've gotten so far, there are going to be quite a few rather delectable costumes on display, so it'll be well worth checking out! My job, alongside the curator, Yvonne, and a few other volunteers, was to dress the mannequins for the shoot, padding them out where necessary, and trying to make them look as historically accurate as possible. This was a slight challenge for some of them, including a gown from The Tudors tv series, where we hadn't been provided with the correct underpinnings, and so had to mimic the shape of a farthingale as best we could with bubble wrap and pins! It was a fun couple of days, and such a privilege to get to handle some really fabulous costumes. Hopefully I'll also be involved in the actual set up of the exhibition itself in July. I've yet to see all the gorgeous costumes they're getting on loan from the RSC so I can't wait!
And now for some photos :-)
Anyhoo, that's all for now folks. Work on the maquette version of my puppet costume is going painfully slowly, since the glue I'm using takes forever to dry, and the pieces of foam that make up the skull need to be held in place while it's drying. Blahhh. One must persevere though!
And now for some photos :-)
|Elizabeth I - worn by Helen Mirren. This was so sparkly, I just wanted to pet it. I'm not sure rhinestones are particularly historically accurate, but I'm sure we can forgive a littel artistic license for the shiny!
|Full length shot
|Henry's spiffy boots! I wish I'd gotten a good photo of his breeches too, they were lovely.
|The aforementioned bubble wrap gown from The Tudors. I can't remember who wears it, but apparently it's in the opening credits.
|Another Henry VIII, from a different production, unfortunately I can't remember which one! Side note: Trying to put in the cod piece so that it doesn't look completely ridiculous was somewhat tricky. Hopefully it only looks slightly ridiculous.
|I can't remember where this one was from either, not even the king it was meant to be worn by. Terrible! Still, looks good, doesn't it.
|This is a replica of the Queen Mother's wedding dress, but I'm not sure who wore it and in which film. It looks stunning but was a bugger to steam.
|And finally, a Wallis Simpson dress from W.E, worn by Andrea Riseborough. Probably made by Jane Law's team, as I saw a couple of other dresses from that film in her slideshow when she gave her lecture at my uni recently. I (probably unfairly) wrote off that film as being unwatchable when I heard that Madonna had directed it, but the costumes I've seen so far look so delicious, I might just have to see it anyway!)
|And a final photo of the inside of the bodice of that dress. You can see they've used a weight to give the neckline it's lovely drape.


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On those difficult days, I'll admit that I've closed my office door after dismissal and cried. The build up of emotions, the pressure, the responsibility...it all boils over and once it does, it's hard to stop.
Well, this week was one of those weeks. I spent most of my days in a panic, racing to see all of the students on my list. I knew that it'd be impossible to fit everything in, but somehow, I thought I'd be awarded Hermione's time turner and magically I could do 10 things at once. Unfortunately, J. K. Rowling did not write my school day. Boo.
So, what makes me feel better? I, of course, vent to my husband (poor guy), but I find other outlets that allow me to take that built up energy and use it for something positive. Currently, I'm rehearsing my second play of the season, which has been a wonderful way to express myself. More on that later.
Also, I discovered something pretty amazing: Preschool Gems. As described on her website, "Preschool Gems is a Twitter feed run by Leslie McCollom, a writer and educator living in Portland, Oregon who posts wacky and brilliant quotes from her young students on the internet for your enjoyment."


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Luis Majano has announced that he has partnered with two other companies to offer ColdBox Platform Official Training Seminars – 16+ hours of intensive hands-on training.
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I'm a Coldbox fanatic and I'm always happy to see more news about Coldbox that promotes this awesome framework. Luckily I have had the time to dig into the details and learn it on my own but I'm sure the training is worth it for those crunched for time. I would be thrilled if they would do some learning videos for Lynda.com.


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December 14, 2016
(New York Times) – It's an idea that has long been used as an argument against abortion — that terminating a pregnancy causes women to experience emotional and psychological trauma. Some states require women seeking abortions to be counseled that they might develop mental health problems. Now a new study, considered to be the most rigorous to look at the question in the United States, undermines that claim. Researchers followed nearly 1,000 women who sought abortions nationwide for five years and found that those who had the procedure did not experience more depression, anxiety, low self-esteem or dissatisfaction with life than those who were denied it.
The views, opinions and positions expressed by these authors and blogs are theirs and do not necessarily represent that of the Bioethics Research Library and Kennedy Institute of Ethics or Georgetown University.


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Charles David stands for sexy and sophisticated footwear with a fashionable edge and has been an industry leader for 30 years. We're proud of their european heritage and continue to extend their italian and spanish product assortment with every collection. The brand was found in 1987 by charles malka and quickly developed as a family-owned business with retail locations all over the us. In 2013 William Tai acquired the brand with the aspiration of growing the brand's legacy.
They have a devoted following with the charles david and charles by charles david brand. Customers can consistently count on us to provide quality, fashion trend footwear season after season.
Our brands reach the hottest trends from the catwalks and continue to create imaginative, trend-on, must-have shoes. Our styles are seen everywhere from the hottest fashion magazines to the soles of celebrities.


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Ode to Chicken Girl
Hey, do you guys know Chicken Girl, aka Jannie Ho? She's a super duper illustrator of children's books & other fun things and I'm a huge fan (remember this post?). About a week ago I was checking out her blog and saw that she's got some new rubber stamps available from i {heart} papers. Hooray!
I whipped up a little tag to show you my sweet stamping skills.
If you want to know more about Chicken Girl, check out these fine sites:
If you want to know more about Chicken Girl, check out these fine sites:
- Jannie Ho Illustration & Design
- Chicken Girl's Blog
- Chicken Girl's Rubber Stamps
- Chicken Girl's Photos on Flickr
Oh yeah, and here's some really cute corduroy I picked up at JoAnn this morning. Fall is coming!


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How Does Epoxy Garage Floor Paint Add Value to Your Garage?
During home renovation or improvement projects, usually, the Epoxy Garage Floor Paint is the last thing that we take into consideration. Generally, most of you forget about the amazing benefits that it provides for keeping your lawnmowers, cars and other important tools. So, by applying the right floor paint you can improve the overall look of your entire garage. If you are making use of good floor paint then it will prevent your floor from getting damage from oil, grease and other liquids.
Nowadays most of the people are making use of Epoxy Garage Floor Paint as these paints are considered excellent for protecting your floor from all types of stain. Plus it provides a fresh look to your floor. This type of paint is not applied directly to the floor, this tough protective layer is applied first to the concrete floor. The best thing about these paints is, they are available in a wide range of designs and colours. So, you can very easily choose any design and colour according to your convenience.
Some people are certain misconceptions about these epoxy garage floor paints. This post will clarify all your misconceptions and myths. Ponder the following points to know:
Myth #1: Professional Guidance is not Require
Most of the people think that it is very easy to coat over a concrete floor. But they are not aware of the various factors that need to be checked before applying the floor paints. A professional will not only go through the durability of the floor but also check various problems present in your concrete. Plus these experts will ensure to follow all the steps that will provide you with zero maintenance cost in the coming years.
Myth #2: Epoxy Floor Paint is just like other Types of Paints
You might have heard this statement several times. Most of you may not be aware of the amazing benefits of this epoxy paints. A single layer of this paint can resist cracks, scrapes and dents. These paints provide a very elegant look to your garage due to their sophisticated look. Plus these floors are known for holding the concrete floors strongly, seamlessly and durably.
Myth #3: Epoxy Floor Paints are very Expensive
Epoxy floor paints are very economical as compared with other types of flooring solutions available in the market. The price of the epoxy floor coatings usually depends on the size of your space which needs to be painted. The best part of these paints are that they don't require regular maintenance and is considered as a wise investment for your garage.
Myth #4: Epoxy Floor Paints require Re-coating After Several Years
These types of paints are the most durable among all the other types of paint. Moreover, this paint has very good qualities for its durability, reliability and long life span. So, how can you expect such type of paint to be re-coated again after a certain interval of time? This paint lasts up to 15 years and sometimes even more than that. It's a type of product that hardens once applied.
Now let's discuss some properties of epoxy floor paints that will provide more value to your garages:
If you are thinking to sell your home we consider as a best option to apply epoxy garage floor. Because no one would like to own a house which has a dirty and dingy garage. On the other hand, if your garage is well-maintained with good flooring then no one would miss such a great opportunity of buying a good house.
Do you know with the help of these paints you can expect to have more light in your garage? And it is a well-known fact that if you choose a light colour then you can expect to receive more light in your garage.
You must always take great care when the epoxy floor paints are wet because at that time the floor can be slippery. If your garage is more prone to spills or water then it is better to add products in this paint to reduce the slippery surface. These types of coatings last longer than other types of coatings. Moreover, these can last for several decades without producing any crack or peel. Its long life span makes it popular for both commercial and residential use.
Garage Floor paints will increase the home value if properly installed. To get the best garage floor paints it's better to take help of professionals rather than experimenting yourself. So, what are you waiting for? Make use of Epoxy garage floor paint to enhance the overall look of your garage.


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Gold drilling campaign re-starts in Aberdeenshire
GreenOre Gold Plc is pleased to announce that a fresh drilling campaign is now underway targeting gold on its key Aberdeenshire project.
The drilling is designed to determine the presence of any gold bearing structures at moderate depths. Drilling will extend to a maximum depth of 200 metres with a total of 900 metres planned over 7 holes.
Managing Director Gavin Berkenheger commented: "If these first few drill holes are successful we hope to conduct further targeted drilling to establish whether gold is present on an economic scale in Aberdeenshire."


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Medal Win and Broken Scottish Records at the Neston Archers GNAS 2-way Clout
Brenda Williams won the silver medal for Ladies Barebow at the Neston Archers GNAS 2-way Clout on 27th August. She also broke the existing Scottish records for both the single 2-way GNAS Clout and the double 2-way GNAS Clout (140yrds).
The competition was part of the Cheshire Archery Association Tri-Clout event, held annually in the Wirral, Cheshire, hosted by Neston Company of Archers and organised by Peter Gregory of Stalybridge Archers.
Silver medal and a new Scottish Record claimed at the Cheshire Archery Association Clout Championships
In the Cheshire Archery Association Clout Championships on 28th August 2011, (the second day of the CAA Tri-Clout) ,Brenda Williams secured the silver medal for Ladies Barebow (visitors) for the GNAS 1-way clout, and at the same time broke the existing Scottish record for a single 1-way GNAS Clout (140yrds).
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Greyhound racing
Greyhound racing heat policy
Greyhound race meetings in the Northern Territory (NT) are cancelled in extreme weather conditions.
Licensing NT will announce any cancellation or reprogramming at scratching time. Radio TAB will also be advised of any alterations.
Maximum allowed temperatures
Day and twilight meetings will be cancelled if the estimated daily maximum is over:
- 35 degrees Celsius, unless a vet is in attendance
- 40 degrees Celsius.
Racing stewards and a vet can determine if a night meeting should be cancelled.
Protecting animals
All of the following measures must apply to meetings that proceed in extreme weather conditions:
- kennels to be opened later
- greyhounds to spend minimum time outside
- parade greyhounds directly to starting boxes
- greyhounds to remain in kennel house for at least 30 minutes after their event
- adequate drinking facilities, including ice water for greyhounds.
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