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Monday, July 12, 2010
Sprint Triathlon Challenge - Part 4
But with over a kilometre left to go, I was overcome with inexplicable lethargy. Even the sight of the finish line in the distance did nothing to spur me on. I will finish in my own time, my mind seemed convinced. And I went back to a slow jog. Until I heard someone gaining ground on me. Funny that I could isolate a particular footfall among several hundreds. It grew louder as she drew closer. Soon, she was running alongside me and it was only when she was a few paces in front that I saw what was on her vest - 500-something! She was in my group and she had clocked me. She didn't want to end up last and was racing ahead of me. But I couldn't continue plodding and let her overtake.
The next few minutes saw me digging deep into the last reserves of energy as I willed myself to surge ahead. I ran in a blinding roar. I didn't care anymore. This was all there was to it and nothing more. I called out to the husband to join me in a last dash. And he sprinted along. Finally, there it was, the finish line. I crossed it and that was when I realised - I had been smiling all along.
9 comments:
- InWantOfBeingMe said...
Way to go ! Good Job !
- July 13, 2010 9:48 am
very inspiring !! congrats !!
- July 13, 2010 11:29 pm
- Sunitha said...
So proud of you, way to go :) Congratulations and thank you for all the inspiring four posts on this Triathlon.
- July 14, 2010 6:38 am
- Banno said...
Wow, Ammani! Congratulations.
- July 17, 2010 3:48 am
- FONTY said...
your blog looks nice!
warm greeting from Font Lover
- July 19, 2010 4:23 am
oh man, what a treat of a blog after months ...
beautiful, honest and inspiring!
- July 19, 2010 8:56 am
- shoba said...
Its not just about the destination, but the path too.Looks like you enjoyed yours. Congrats.
- July 21, 2010 11:52 pm
- Kevin Wood said...
Sounds like it was an amazing event and also very inspiring.
- September 04, 2010 5:20 am
- joven said...
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- September 06, 2010 11:00 pm
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Wrestling loses second league match
January 17, 2018
Varsity Wrestling lost 54-6 against Alemany on Jan. 17, marking their second loss of the season.
Riley Ruiz '20 said that despite the loss, he was proud of the team's effort.
"Every wrestled hard and well in their matches. Three of our freshmen Lucas Li ['21], Viswa Douglas ['21] and Kanoa Young ['21] all pulled out big wins," Ruiz said.
Calvin Kaleel '18 said that he intends to continue working hard after the loss.
"Though Alemany is a tough opponent, our team came out and fought," Kaleel said. "I think we just need to keep working hard and keep looking forward to the next few matches and Mission League Finals."
The team currently holds an overall league record of 0-2. Their next match will be against Bishop Amat on Jan. 22.

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I scream, you scream, we all scream for Banana "Ice Cream!" Except it's not ice cream. It's blended frozen fruit and milk that turns into this amazing, fluffy goodness. You honestly *think* your eating something fattening and delicious. This is my FAVORITE go-to healthy dessert. What's not to like? Bananas, peanut butter…nom nom! I don't know about you, but once a banana starts to get remotely brown..I cannot eat it! I used to toss em' in the trash.
Then, a couple years I was watching an episode of Daniel Tiger with Carter. Daniel's Mama made "Banana Swirl" from frozen bananas and cultured cream. Carter really wanted to try it! To my surprise, it was AMAZING!!! He loved it. Which was great because he's always given me a hard time with bananas. This is so versatile. I used milk, not cream. You could use any fruit, mix in's and toppings you want! (I want to try strawberries and Nutella next!)
Anyways, we made this today and I forgot how incredible it is. My boys seriously think they are eating ice cream. Doesn't get any better than that!
Once the bananas are nice and frozen…here is what you need :
Peanut Butter Banana Swirl
- 3-4 Ripe Bananas, frozen
- 1/2 cup-3/4 Milk
- 2 TBS Peanut Butter
- Toppings!
Blend frozen bananas until it resembles course crumbles. Add milk a little at a time until it's all blended, soft and fluffy. You may need more milk or less, eyeball it! You want it like soft serve ice cream, not runny or watery. Add peanut butter and blend for another 30 seconds. Pour into bowl and enjoy 🙂


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dnj Gallery is pleased to announce two upcoming exhibitions on display June 9 through July 21, 2012.
"By the Sea" by Dale Johnson will be exhibited in the main gallery space. Gallery II will feature "Blinded by Science" by Dan Shepherd.
Dreamy views of the shore capture the imagination in Johnson's "By the Sea" series. Johnson is an accomplished artist who worked with charcoal, gouache, watercolor, and pastel for several decades but eventually turned to photography to satisfy her desire for a sense of spontaneity. Inspired by both Pictorialism in photography and Pointillism in painting, Johnson seeks to create with the quick click of the shutter the soft, hazy effects she cherished in her work in other mediums. Johnson states, "[m]y art education led me to appreciate the quality of light, form and texture and how they set the tone or mood for my photographs in composition, palette and texture."
Dale Johnson earned her B.F.A. from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. She has exhibited across the country, and as a winner in the Emerging Focus Photography Competition, her work was exhibited at Photo L.A. 2012. In 2010, Johnson's photographs were published in "Color Magazine," Special Issue #10, and "Urban Country Landscape," The Worldwide Gala Awards. Johnson lives and works in Carmel, California and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The trees of Manhattan's Central Park arrive in Santa Monica in Shepherd's "Blinded by Science" series. With these works, Shepherd seeks the antidote to his view of the world as an environmental scientist and student of botany–someone so "blinded by science" that trees are more subjects of study than objects of beauty. By treating the leaves and branches of trees as parts of an abstraction, Shepherd rediscovers the aesthetic wonders of nature. He states, "I am using the artistic power of abstraction to create images of some of my favorite plants and trees, which helps me filter out the science details and lets me focus on the pure beauty of nature."
Dan Shepherd has a master's degree in environmental science from Columbia University and an International Diploma in Plant Conservation from the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, England. He holds a B.A. in Japanese from the University of Oregon. His work has been shown in various locations throughout the country, and has been featured in several recent publications, including: "The Orion Magazine," "The F-Stop Magazine – Abstraction" and "Lenscratch." This is his first show at dnj Gallery.
SHOW DATES: June 9 – July 21, 2012
ARTIST RECEPTION: Saturday, June 9, 6 – 8 pm
GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 am – 6 pm
For more information or images, please contact Cambra Sklarz at (310) 315-3551 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
dnj Gallery 2525 Michigan Avenue, Suite J1, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Phone: (310) 315-3551
email: http://www.dnjgallery.net
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PHOTOS: "Dumbo" Merchandise Available at World of Disney
From Disney and visionary director Tim Burton, the all-new grand live-action adventure Dumbo"expands on the beloved classic story where differences are celebrated, family is cherished and dreams take flight. Guests looking for Dumbo merchandise can visit World of Disney at Disney Springs to find adorable pillow pets, stylish socks, and more.
Are you excited to see the new Dumbo movie when it comes out March 29? Be sure to let us know in the comments section!
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Although many newspaper ads offer much younger kittens for sale, most veterinarians and reputable breeders say that kittens should never leave their mothers before 8 weeks of age, and should preferably stay with their mothers for at least 12 weeks. When kittens are separated from their mothers and siblings too early, they can suffer extreme anxiety, and in some cases medical problems so severe that they actually die from them. The following problems commonly afflict kittens that are adopted before 12 weeks of age.
Poor Immunity
A kitten's immune system develops between 8 and 12 weeks of age, and a mother cat's milk provides antibodies that protect the health of her kittens. If they are prevented from nursing before their own immune systems have become strong, kittens are more likely to suffer a wide variety of illnesses, particularly respiratory and gastrointestinal conditions.
Rushed Weaning
Kittens shouldn't be weaned suddenly. Rather, weaning should be a gradual process in which they alternate between nursing and eating cat food, slowly increasing the amount of cat food consumed and decreasing nursing time until nursing ceases altogether. At 6-8 weeks of age, kittens are not ready to stop nursing. A mother cat will usually begin denying opportunities to nurse between 8 and 12 weeks of age, so the kittens learn to deal with frustration in a natural way. Kittens that are taken from their mothers too soon miss out on this natural process, and are more inclined to develop behavioural problems due to low frustration tolerance later on.
Kittens taken before 8 weeks of age may suffer from diarrhea as a result of sudden weaning and a too-rapid shift to solid food. This condition can be life threatening, as kittens will quickly become dehydrated and lose weight rapidly. Even if they don't develop severe diarrhea, kittens taken from their mothers too early often become malnourished and fail to put on weight.
Litter Box Problems
Litter box training usually occurs between 6 and 12 weeks, and this is also a gradual process. A kitten taken too early will not be fully litter trained. This, combined with the stress of losing its family too early, can cause a kitten to develop bad habits, such as avoiding the litter box completely or using it inconsistently.
Neurotic Behaviour
While many people seek younger kittens because they mistakenly believe that an older kitten won't bond with them properly, the reality is that older kittens have no problems bonding with new humans. A very young kitten can bond with a person as well, but it is often a neurotic relationship. Kittens adopted too young are more likely to suck on fabric, people's earlobes, or their own fur.
Poor Socialization
Kittens are socialized between 4 and 14 weeks of age, and it is during this critical period that they learn which behaviours are appropriate. Kittens taken too early are more likely to be hostile and aggressive toward people or other pets. They often get along poorly with other cats because they have never learned to interpret feline body language, having missed out on the longer socialization process that they should have had with their families.
Adopting at 12 Weeks Is Ideal
While the ideal adoption age may vary somewhat from breed to breed (and even among individual kittens within a breed or a litter), most kittens do best if allowed to remain with their mothers for 12 weeks, and a kitten should never be separated from its family before it is 8 weeks old. Waiting three months to adopt is worthwhile because it will increase the likelihood of having a happier and healthier cat in the long run.
For more cat articles, see the main Cats page.
- French, B.C. (2000). "How Young is Too Young? How Old Should a Kitten Be When It Goes to a New Home?"
- Nash, H., DVM, MS., Veterinary Services Department, Drs. Foster & Smith, Inc. (2008). "Choosing Your Kitten: Personality and Health." PetEducation.com.
- Neville, P., & Bessant, C. (1997). The Perfect Kitten: How to Raise a Problem-Free Cat. Octopus Publishing Group, Ltd.


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Significance Of Mehndi Application:
Eid is a special religious festival for all Muslims celebrated every year after the sacred month of Ramadan. Eid ul Fitr is near and the preparations for this Eid are in full swing. People celebrate this holy event with great zeal and zest.
Women and girls are busy in buying fashionable clothes, foot wear and other fashionable accessories for this Eid. Similarly Mehndi is also an essential part of Eid. It has been very popular especially in South Asian countries. Also the application of mehndi has become very popular and fashionable form of art in other foreign countries too. Mehndi is loved by majority girls and women all over the world. Moreover mehndi is a significant ingredient on all special events like Eid and marriage ceremonies. Women and young girls apply mehndi on their hands, arms and feet to let themselves look attractive and elegant. Mehndi gives you a traditional yet beautiful look.
Categories and Patterns:
Nowadays, The Mehndi designs have been categorized into sub categories like Pakistani Mehndi, Indian Mehndi, Arabian Mehndi and many more. These designs contain beautiful patterns and styles like peacock pattern, floral patterns, silhouettes with dots, checkers, lines or swirl patterns, etc.
Moreover you can beautify your mehndi design by using some kind of creativity like addition of glitters for shiny appearance. In addition to this, you can also add other embellishments to your mehndi.
Latest Mehndi Designs 2013:
I have gathered some unique and eye catching mehndi designs for you. The Mehndi designs in this tremendous collection are best for the upcoming Eid. These designs have been taken from the top sources. All these designs are trendy, elegant and intricate. These designs are too easy and you can apply them without any kind of professional help.
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Understanding the architecture, content, internal linking and other onpage factors of your website becomes more and more important. As such, the reliance on spider tools to crawl and optimize websites is rather unsurprising. The largest problem here is the crawl depth, quality of findings, display of results Here are 7 of the best on-page crawlers (in no particular order) currently available to webmasters looking for an edge:
Screaming Frog The Screaming Frog SEO Spider Tool is a comprehensive crawler available for Windows, Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux. First things first, it'll give you a complete rundown of all the pertinent information pertaining to a domain such as outgoing links, incoming links, meta tags and keywords, titles, images and response codes. Furthermore, it allows users to export their data to CSV files for further dissemination. The free version will only index 500 links per domain, so you'll need the paid version for big projects.
Xenu A longstanding favorite of SEOs around the world, Xenu's Link Sleuth is the go-to spider tool for many. Though a bit long in the tooth at this point, it's still a robust program with a lot to offer. It provides basic link intelligence for any domain and doesn't cost a penny. Originally designed to check domains for broken links, it's a spartan yet effective link crawler. It works on SSL domains, can scan Java applets and will spit out reports on redirects of all kinds quickly.
OnPage Currently only available in German, OnPage is nevertheless a powerful on-page crawler regardless of your native tongue. So much more than a mere link spider, it'll give you loads of information on any domain including ranking keywords, ranking pages, click-through rates, meta tags and links from the "bad neighborhoods" of the web. Of course, it also gives you alerts on broken links and re-directs. Available online, OnPage can also export your raw data to either the CSV or Excel file formats. Overall...extremely powerful tool, that saves you tons of time!
DeepCrawl The self-proclaimed "ultimate site auditor" known as DeepCrawl is a combination link inspector and analytics powerhouse that covers most if not all of the SEO bases. It goes beyond simple link indexing and digs deeply into the internal structure of a domain to give the user a thorough dossier on a site's SEO health. In particular, DeepCrawl places an emphasis on rooting out potential pitfalls like duplicate content that factor heavily into Google's current ranking algorithms. If you need serious SEO intelligence, DeepCrawl's a safe bet.
80legs Already known by many search experts, 80legs is a page crawler built for today's highly social web. The primary selling points of 80legs are its detailed, pre-compiled "crawl packages" for popular social networking sites, real estate directories, consumer review portals and more. Basically, 80legs is all about providing link reports on sites with a lot of data that changes frequently. They offer serious, enterprise-grade web analytics services to SEOs who work with major corporate clients. Though 80legs is by no means cheap, it's one of the best crawlers around.
Searchmetrics One of the most versatile SEO tool kits you can get your hands on nowadays, the Searchmetrics Suite will tell you everything you need to know about a domain's link structure and then some. Searchmetric's highly customizable dashboard puts you in the driver's seat when you're analyzing pages for areas that could use improvement. In addition to serving up detailed synopses of inbound and outbound links, it allows you to filter out irrelevant data as you see fit and even compare your pages to benchmark domains to see how you're doing. Their new SEO Optimizer was a valuable addition to anyone doing onpage audits.
SISTRIX Smart Like OnPage, SISTRIX Smart is a German crawler program that delivers extremely accurate and timely reports on any domain. Absolutely free to use, it allows SEOs to quickly visualize traffic, link structures and negative aspects of a site at a glance. If you're performing basic link cleanup on a site, it will give you pointers on the most effective ways to optimize pages for the best SERPs results possible. Though not the most full-featured crawler found online, it's one of the best free tools on the market.
Use What Works, Lose the Rest Just as it's important to stay current on the latest trends in search, it's also vital that you stay up-to-date on the best crawlers to use in pursuit of your goals. While some programs are renowned for their longevity, many quickly fade away due to lack of interest or innovation. As such, it's important to regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the tools you rely on for SEO work to ensure that you're getting the most from your efforts.
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The Red Vein Sumatra Kratom is one of the most relaxing red-veined strains of all. Kratom is an herbal medicina l that comes from the Southeast Asian trees, and is popular for its ability to produce restful and elevating ambiences. People who want to feel relieved of stress and be relaxed. The leaves can produce a strong sedative effect that can calm the mind. It's been regarded that the Red-Vein Sumatra Kratom is in a class all its own.
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Review | Where to Buy | Powder Doses | Tea Recipes | Is Legal? | Top Strains | Maeng Da | Bali | Sumatran | Malay | Thai | Liquid Extracts | Capsules
Sumatra Red Vein Kratom Review
The Sumatra island is one the biggest occupied islands of the world. It's a part of the Indonesia nation with more than 50 million residents and home to the Mitragyna Speciosa tree – or Kratom.
For centuries, the natives have included the Red Sumatra Kratom as one part of their everyday lives. When the leaves are chewed, it causes the body and mind to feel relaxed and at ease along with the other healthful benefits. The Kratom may be the reason generations on the island feel relaxed, calm and at peace. Today, people from all walks of life can feel what the island people feel – just by using the life-boosting benefits the herb provides.
Effects of Red Sumatran Kratom Powder
The majority of the red vein kratom leaves have effects that fall toward the relaxing side of the scale – Sumatra Kratom falls under this realm. What are some of the benefits you see with this type of strain?
• Calm nerves
• Pain relief
• Help to fall asleep, sleep patterns re regulated
• Reduction of blood pressure levels
• Relief in both stress and worry
• Dreamy feelings
• Even temperature sensitivity
How Long Do The Effects Last?
Once the Kratom has been consumed, its effects can last up to three hours. More powerful strains and high doses can produce even longer lasting effects. However, the higher the dose, the chances of being overly sleepy is high.
Sumatra Red Vein Kratom is famous for its ability to produce powerful, pleasurable feelings for 10 hours. One doesn't become overly tired, feeling energetic and roaring to go. This type of red-vein Sumatra Kratom can naturally ease anxiety and stress, helping people to wind their day down.
Dosages for Red Vein Sumatra Leaves
This herbal medicine can produce a powerful- relaxing effect, and because of that, it's important you reduce the amount you are used with other less powerful strains. Should you take more than the recommended dosage, you're not liable to suffer any real health problems. In fact, the majority of users enjoy this kratom version far better at the lower doses.
Begin conservatively and add more over time, as you may build a tolerance up to it.
• 1 to 2 grams – threshold dose
• 2 to 3 grams – moderate dose for majority of people
• 3 to 4 grams – strong dose for majority of people
• 4 to 5 grams – extremely powerful dose that lasts a long time
• 6+ grams – the recommended dosage is six grams or less. Anything more than six grams is not necessary with the Red Sumatran Kratom
Like all herbal supplements on the market, you must proceed and use with caution, especially if trying a new dose. Be sure you listen to what your body is telling you. If you notice any problems or feel unusual, reduce the dosage level the next time you take it.
Best Red Vein Kratom Strains
Since the Red Vein Sumatran Kratom has some unusual qualities, it can be hard to locate it. Many krataom users have located some strains to have similar properties to the Red Vein Sumatra Kratom. For example:
• Red Thai Kratom – quick onset, generally lasts for up to four hours
• Red Bali Kratom – similar Sumatra strain effects, generally lasts up to seven hours
Everybody has their own original dynamic kratom strain. People who want to be active during the day need to understand that Sumatra Red Vein Kratom can last too long to give them this energy. However, with time, you can get the right dosage amount to provide you with the desire effect and period.


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I don't know about you but I have clothes that I bought years ago that I am just now wearing.
You know how sometimes you buy something and then you just don't wear it because you're not feeling it at the moment? Yeah that is me all of the time.
This week I pulled out some oldies and some new goodies.
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Serge Charchoune
The achievement of Franco-Russian painter Serge Charchoune (1889–1975) is among the least widely known or understood in twentieth-century European art.
Sometimes seen as a minor practitioner of major modernist styles—Dada, Cubism, Purism, informal abstraction—Charchoune in fact operated quite independently within and beyond those tendencies. He was an unpredictable individualist, who in his resistance to stylistic conformity and his ambiguous relationship to taste presages a strain of post-conceptual painting only fully recognized toward the turn of the twenty-first century.
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Adapted from Phoenix New Times:
Bauhaus' Peter Murphy Fondly Remembers His First Time Seeing the Arizona Desert
Peter Murphy
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The year is 1983. Punk is dead, and the undead appears to be on the minds of many post-punk ingénues and avant-garde crowds alike.
Nowhere did the dark light shine more forebodingly than in Tony Scott's campy erotic horror cult film The Hunger, which starred David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve. The opening scene featured an enigmatic singer clutching the bars of a cage in a scene that is part music video and part bizarre montage.
His baritone voice seemed to beckon the late-night, hip audience of would-be vampire victims into a near-hypnotic state as he chanted "Bela Lugosi's dead." The scene debuted to the world the face of goth rock.
The singer was Peter Murphy.
These days, Murphy, one of the creative geniuses behind the English art-house cult band Bauhaus, is very much alive and thriving, minus the graveyard fog, bloodletting, and cheesy horror editing.
Murphy has been a solo artist for 30 years, a span that long ago eclipsed the meteoric rise and fall of the band he began with Daniel Ash, David J, and Kevin Haskins.
He has seen five of his 10 solo releases reach the album charts in either the United States or the United Kingdom.
Murphy is no stranger to Arizona, where he has more than enjoyed the open spaces.
"When my daughter was 2, and my wife came over and we played that outdoor shed [Mesa Amphitheatre in 1990], I loved the dry heat.
"We went to the desert, and it was really the first time I was able to get out and see something in America. That was very memorable — the silence that came over us in the car. There is something very peaceful there."
Murphy brings his "Stripped Tour" to Crescent Ballroom on May 3. The idea is that he brings minimal instrumentation and plays a smattering of songs from his solo career, with some Bauhaus thrown in.
And despite the breakup of Bauhaus in 1983, he still looks back on it with pride and satisfaction.
"It is what I did," says Murphy, now 58. "It's part of my collection. It was amazing," he confesses. "I took it for granted. The moment I walked out on stage after writing with Danny Ash the first time, everything was effortless."
And though the band's success might have felt easy for Murphy, after four albums (In the Flat Field, Mask, The Sky's Gone Out, and Burning From the Inside), the band broke up. Even two abbreviated reunions and a final album, Go Away White, in 2008, could not keep the personalities from clashing, nor sustain a long-term lineup.
"It's exhausted now," he says. "When I left the band, I had no egoistic aspirations of doing what I am doing. I discovered myself again, and in fact, what I discovered was in fact what Bauhaus could have done."
After a short alliance with former Japan bass player Mick Karn under the name Dalis Car, Murphy dove into the unknown world of solo artistry.
From his debut solo release, Should the World Fail to Fall Apart, in 1986, Murphy didn't just distance himself from the Bauhaus sound but also discovered his own.
It was with his third record, Deep, in 1989 that Murphy truly struck a chord with U.S. college-rock and alt-music audiences with three singles, the most popular being "Cuts You Up," which stayed atop the Billboard Modern Rock chart for seven consecutive weeks.
In his own post-Bauhaus songs, Murphy was spreading his musical wings, finding more joyful, yet dramatic overtones, packaged with richer sounds yet not falling into pop predictability.
By the early '90s, Murphy and his wife, Beyhan, moved to Turkey. Middle Eastern influences made their way onto his next album, Holy Smoke, in 1992.
With 1997's Dust, Murphy had immersed himself in full Turkish form, thanks in part to the influence of Turkish DJ and composer Mercan Dede, who fuses traditional Turkish music with acoustic and electronic sound and a touch of Sufism.
The quest for purification of self and following of the mystical tenets of Sufism resonated with Murphy. And a more trance-like effect took hold on this album, which rose to No. 38 on the U.S. Independent album chart.
Though Murphy never converted to Islam, he has espoused many of its beliefs. He has stood up for Islam, preaching that people must separate the religion itself from the hostility and violence evident in the religion's more fanatical sects.
"Take away the notion of another religion; take away the notion of the Middle East, of the exterior radicalization of young kids, now," he explains, expressing that Islam is a religion of peace. "There are essential sounds in Koranic Arabic. … The word 'Islam' [comes from the] word slm, and that basically means peace and it means surrender."
For Murphy, the desire to seek out life's meaning and find peace in one's identity has been there since day one.
"If you listen to the first song I ever wrote, 'In the Flat Field,' it's an esoteric journey of the self," he says. "I was always very spiritual. I do believe in God. How can I not?
"From my personal experience, I realized that [when] a lot of the dressing and symbolizing got taken away [from organized religion], what was left was very pure. So there's no change, really."
One spiritual presence that always has been with him throughout his artistic career has been the influence of David Bowie.
"It was transcendence from suburbia," he says of the Man who Sold the World. "It was very magnetic, and it was beauty in a sense. It wasn't good to know too much about him, though.
"But reading NME articles about him; they were just guessing. He wouldn't play into people's hands. You can't pin anybody down if they don't let you."
And, as for his desire to continue his touring without being predictable, Murphy remains with a dose of mysteriousness and does not share what to expect on his "Stripped" tour.
His latest tour is stripped down, and he's bringing just two other musicians with him — John Andrews and Emilio DiZefalo. The two played on Murphy's most recent two studio releases, Ninth (2011) and Lion (2014).
Murphy says he thinks the low-key approach to performance helps him connect with fans on a more intimate level.
"People don't read to each other nowadays. Remember when we used to read to each other? People don't really have conversations anymore. There isn't that intimate level of conversation anymore, or rarely."
As he continues down a more intimate path, Murphy finds comfort in self-exploration and musical experimentation.
"Knowing not how I do it is great, because if you try too much, it doesn't happen. You have to keep an open appraisal to it and not be too put off by history or people's perception."
Peter Murphy is scheduled to play Crescent Ballroom on Tuesday, May 3. Tickets are $35 and are sold out.


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First Look: Kate Moss' Final Top Shop Collection
Top Shop has long been a secret wardrobe weapon for fashionistas in London and New York. Now with the launch of their international e-commerce site, you can buy their fashion-forward pieces from anywhere in the country. Good news, because you'll want to snatch up this last collaboration between Kate Moss and Top Shop. From feminine leather jackets to long flowing dresses, to mini leather shorts, the British supermodel's final line has something for everyone.


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9:00-9:10 Opening remarks
9:10-9:50 Invited talk: Andrew Ng (Stanford University), Title: Deep Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning [slides]
9:50-10:30 Invited talk: Xuedong Huang (Microsoft Research), Title: Intent, Knowledge, and Multisensory via Machine Learning
10:30–11:00 coffee break
11:00-11:40 Invited talk: John Platt (Microsoft Research), Title: Hints and Allegations: Learning Hard Classification Problems through applying Invariances
11:40-12:10 Poster session
12:10-1:30 lunch break
1:30-2:10 Invited talk: Pedro Domingos (U. Washington), Title: Sum-Product Networks: A New Deep Architecture [slides]
2:10-2:50 Invited talk: Fei-Fei Li (Stanford University), Title: Object Bank: A high-level image representation for complex scene understanding
2:50-3:30 Invited talk: Steven Greenberg (Silicon Speech), Title: Biological Foundations of Speech and Visual Information Processing by Humans and Machines
3:30-4:00 coffee break (and poster session)
4:00-5:30 Panel discussion
- Deep Convex Networks for Image and Speech Classification, Li Deng and Dong Yu. [extended abstract]
- Discriminative Learning of Feature Functions of Generative Type in Speech Translation, Xiaodong He and Li Deng. [extended abstract]
- Large-Scale Online Incremental Feature Learning with Denoising Autoencoders, Guanyu Zhou and Honglak Lee.
- LASSO Model Adaptation for Automatic Speech Recognition, Jinyu Li, Ming Yuan, and Chin-Hui Lee. [extended abstract]
- Sparse, Distributed, and Convolutional Training of Image Features for Object Recognition, Kihyuk Sohn, Dae Yon Jung, Honglak Lee, and Alfred Hero III.
- Towards High-Accuracy Low-Cost Noisy Robust Speech Recognition Exploiting Structured Model, Jinyu Li, Li Deng, Dong Yu, and Yifan Gong. [extended abstract]
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Harry Brod is a professor of philosophy and humanities at the University of Northern Iowa and the author of "Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way." His blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning's Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit:
I always have a valid passport. I keep it within easy access and I know just where it is, and I've made sure my kids have one too. You never know. It's not that I'm paranoid — well, maybe it is, but that's not how I think of it — it's that I'm a child of Holocaust survivors. I used to think of my need to be exit ready as a fear of being trapped, but I've realized it's got very little to do with what I think about the present or future. It's about the past. It's a link to my parents, a way of keeping their worldview alive in me. As bizarre as it may sound – at least to those who aren't children of survivors, but I expect those who share my background will understand – not to have a valid passport feels to me like a betrayal of my parents, a failure to heed hard won lessons.
Actually, I should clarify that, when I speak of myself as a child of Holocaust survivors, the identity I really claim is that I'm a child of temporary Holocaust survivors. What I mean is that while my parents survived the war years, they both died younger than I think they would have had they not had to endure the hardships and traumas of those years. They survived, but only temporarily, my mother having died by age 49 and my father by 59.
My mother was German and my father was Polish, and I know that after the war they contemplated moving to Switzerland, but our citizenship status wouldn't have been as firmly secure as that of native-born Swiss, and they weren't about to accept any sort of second-class citizenship.
Here's a story my father told me about how he got his US citizenship:
The procedure was that he appeared before a magistrate or judge of some sort and was asked basic civics questions, presumably by an immigration official. (I've got only my father's version of this.) One question put to him was as follows: "You say you're going to be a law-abiding citizen in the US, but in Europe the law required Jews to turn themselves in. You didn't. So why should we believe you?"
You can imagine the time I've spent trying to puzzle out what could possibly bring someone to ask such a question. Perhaps my father's English wasn't good enough and he misheard the question. Maybe the interrogator thought he was lobbing my father an easy pitch, expecting some pat answer like "Oh, I know that would never happen here." Or maybe the guy really was that much of a fool.
In any case, whatever was actually said or meant, that's how my father heard the question. To his eternal credit, as I always say when I tell the story, my father turned to the judge and said: "Bring in someone else to ask me questions. I'm through talking to him."
The judge reassured my father not to worry, he would get his citizenship.
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MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BURGER KING® restaurants are turning a cult favorite into a cold favorite with the introduction of Frozen Frozen SURGE™, a citrus-flavored frozen beverage from The Coca-Cola Company.
BURGER KING® restaurants is the exclusive destination to sell Frozen SURGE™, which will be available nationwide at participating restaurants starting November 16. Frozen Frozen SURGE™ comes on the heels of the beloved beverage's return to store shelves after a 12-year hiatus, thanks in part to an enthusiastic and vocal fan base. In the years since it was discontinued in 2002, the beverage has been deemed sacred by die-hard fans and 90s aficionados.
"SURGE is a classic brand with a passionate, cult-like following so it's the perfect collaboration for us," said Eric Hirschhorn, chief marketing officer for the BURGER KING® brand in North America. "We are really excited to re-introduce SURGE to our guests and bring it to a new generation with a brain-freezing twist."
The launch of Frozen Frozen SURGE™ will be supported by a digital video and social media campaign starring 1990s icon Pauly Shore. In the video, the actor and comedian brings back his famous "Weasel" persona to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting crew members and guests of a BURGER KING® restaurant with Frozen Frozen SURGE™ in hand. The video is available on SURGE.com and YouTube and can be viewed here https://youtu.be/LYtrjNndLoI.
"The popularity of SURGE has stood the test of time, and the overwhelming demand from fans drove our decision to bring it back," said Bobby Oliver, director citrus brands, Coca-Cola North America. "We're expanding the signature taste and distinctive color of SURGE to frozen form and making it available to the masses."
Fans can follow the brand's comeback journey by following @SURGE and @BurgerKing on Twitter and join the conversation by using #SURGEcomeback.
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Retailers who do not have mobile websites are wasting tremendous sales opportunities
Miami, Florida (PRWEB) July 05, 2013
Although Americans are using their smartphones and tablets more and more to get information about products and services, they are still using laptop and desktop computers to make a slim majority of their online purchases. The percentage of Internet purchases as a dollar amount at online retailers via smartphone is growing rapidly, however. Miami Web Design company, Sales Secret, has increased it's investment in mobile focused design and strategies to help its customers access this growing market.
According to a study conducted by comScore, 48 percent of the visits to online retailers are made by smartphone and tablet users (34 percent smartphone, 14 percent tablet). Overall usage of the Internet in the U.S. by smartphone and tablet users also stands at 48 percent. Americans spent $6.4 billion on online purchases through mobile devices in the first quarter of 2013, which is a 59 percent increase from the first quarter of 2012. Americans made 11 percent of their online purchases via mobile devices during the first quarter of 2013, up from 8 percent during the first quarter of 2012. The reason for the large increase in the dollar amount for mobile purchases versus the small increase in the number of sales may be due to several factors.
"Many of those dollars are being captured by retailers who understand the importance of having a mobile website," said Robert Hadland of Sales Secret. "Retailers who do not have mobile websites are wasting tremendous sales opportunities. Customers want to be able to buy things through their phones or tablets. They may change their mind about a purchase if they have to wait until they get home to use a computer, or they will make their purchase from a competitor that does have a mobile website."
Sales Secret provides a range of solutions through its customized Magento mobile websites. Online purchasing can be integrated with inventory, logistics and reporting. The sites are easily customizable and can be configured for retailers who wish to market their products or services to customers who speak different languages.


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Posted by Declan McAteerPolice in Bessbrook are appealing for information following an incident in the Kingsmill Road area of Whitecross. Some time between Wednesday 11th January and Monday 16th January, a flatbed trailer was taken from a yard. A cctv camera in the yard was also damaged. The trailer was found abandoned close by on the Kingsmill Road. Police are appealing to anyone who witnessed any activity in this area during this time to contact them in Bessbrook. They would also appeal to anyone who notices anything untoward in their area to contact police immediately The number to phone is 0845 600 8000.
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AUSTIN, Texas.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–November 30, 2016–
Kony, Inc., a leading enterprise mobility company, today announced Kony Visualizer to further simplify building mobile apps on the AWS cloud by providing pre-integrated support for the AWS Mobile SDK, along with built-in support for mobile services like Amazon Cognito, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB. This new product, which is being launched during the Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2016 conference in Las Vegas, is immediately available for purchase on AWS Marketplace.
As part of a re:Invent 2016 session, Kony will highlight Box as one of their early customers of the new Kony Visualizer offering. By using Kony Visualizer, Box was able to extend the value of its Box Platform offering and provide visual tools for rapid, omni-channel development of enterprise-grade mobile and web apps on AWS, which highlights the use of Box's Platform APIs, secure content management, and rich content types, including 3D models and VR files.
"Customers today are demanding increasingly faster timeframes for developing new mobile solutions," said Jeetu Patel, chief strategy officer and senior vice president of Box Platform. "However, development skills are always in scarce supply relative to the demand. It's critical to have productive development tools like Kony Visualizer to bring these capabilities to mainstream IT. By leveraging the combination of Kony Visualizer along with AWS Mobile Services, we now have the leading cloud-based development environment for building mobile apps that can take advantage of the Box Platform. Box Platform makes it easy to build on Box's innovative security, content management, and collaboration and allows developers to extend the power of Box to transform and accelerate their business."
Kony Visualizer now includes new features specifically optimized for AWS customers, including the following:
- AWS Mobile SDK support: Kony Visualizer now offers the ability to download and register the latest version of the AWS Mobile SDK. This provides AWS developers immediate productivity in invoking AWS mobile services directly from within Kony Visualizer's omni-channel JavaScript development environment.
- Amazon Cognito support: Kony Visualizer now offers the ability to use AWS Cognito to deliver support for multifactor authentication to your mobile apps and authenticate users through social identity providers such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Kony Visualizer provides both visual pre-built component access as well as JavaScript level control of Amazon Cognito capabilities.
- Amazon DynamoDB support: Kony Visualizer now offers the ability to store and query mobile app data using a fully managed NoSQL cloud database that provides consistent and fast service at any scale. Kony Visualizer provides both visual pre-built component access as well as JavaScript level control of Amazon DynamoDB capabilities.
- AWS Marketplace purchase: Kony Visualizer is now immediately available for purchase through the AWS Marketplace and its SaaS Subscription feature, which provides an affordable user-based, frictionless way for developers to evaluate and use Kony Visualizer.
"With this new version of Kony Visualizer, Kony provides customers with a simpler and faster way to quickly access the scalable and secure environment of AWS, helping them reduce the complexity of mobile development," said Amit Patel, general manager, Mobile Services, Amazon Web Services, Inc. "By providing pre-integrated access to AWS mobile services APIs, Kony has extended its visual development environment with more benefits for AWS customers."
"Enterprises still struggle to realize the value of mobile due to the limitations of mobile app development inefficiencies and lack of scalability," said Dave Shirk, president of Products, Strategy and Marketing, Kony, Inc. "Kony Visualizer's enhanced support for AWS Mobile offerings help businesses address this challenge by combining the huge productivity advances of the newest version of Kony Visualizer, the patented omni-channel capabilities of Kony Nitro, with the broad reach and cost-effective scale of the AWS Cloud. It's an unbeatable combination and value we deliver to our customers. Enterprises can now design and develop faster and cheaper than what was available before."
Kony is a Technology Partner member of the AWS Partner Network (APN) and was one of the first to achieve the AWS Mobile Competency. The AWS Competency Program, which is designed to connect AWS customers with qualified APN Partners that have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven success in specialized solution and vertical areas, highlights the top APN Partners with deep experience working with developers and mobile-first businesses to help build, test, analyze and monitor their mobile apps. APN Partners that achieve AWS Competencies are objectively validated as capable of offering a wide variety of services, software and solutions that run on AWS.
For more information:
- Product Details: Kony Visualizer/AWS
- Data Sheet: Kony Visualizer for AWS – Data Sheet
- Video: Kony Visualizer for Amazon Web Services
Kony was recently named a Leader for the fourth consecutive year in the Gartner June 2016 Magic Quadrant for Mobile App Development Platforms (MADP) report. In addition, Kony was named a "Leader" and earned the highest score in the current offering category in Mobile Infrastructure Services by independent research firm Forrester Research, Inc., according to The Forrester Wave™: Mobile Infrastructure Services report. Forrester also named Kony a "Leader" in The Forrester Wave™: Mobile Development Platforms, Q4 2016 report.
About Kony Inc.
Kony is the fastest growing, cloud-based enterprise mobility solutions company and an industry leader among mobile application development platform (MADP) providers. Kony empowers organizations to compete in mobile time by rapidly delivering pre-built, omni-channel mobile apps across the broadest array of devices and systems, today and in the future, with a lower total cost of ownership. Kony's cross-platform solution helps organizations design, build, configure and manage mobile apps to empower and better engage with customers, partners and employees. Kony was named the first place winner in CTIA's MobITs Awards in the Mobile Applications, Development & Platforms category and included on the Inc. 500|5000 list of fastest growing private companies in America. Connect with Kony on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
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This ref needs a good penalty kick.
Koman Coulibaly, the rookie World Cup referee whose "phantom foul" cost the United States a victory over Slovenia yesterday, has a history of dubious calls.
Throughout his 10 years as a referee for the international soccer organization FIFA, Coulibaly — a 39-year-old Malian who was born on the Fourth of July — has been a divisive figure with his seemingly arbitrary blows of the whistle.
Before yesterday's debacle — his first and likely last appearance on a World Cup field — Coulibaly angered fans for ignoring blatant fouls in a January match between Egypt and Ghana.
Four years ago, in a World Cup qualifying match between Cameroon and Egypt, he left everyone scratching their heads when he allowed a penalty kick during the final minutes of added injury time — a controversial and rare call for a tied game.
Coulibaly, a financial auditor for the notoriously corrupt Malian government, was also subject to taunting on a Facebook page set up by Tunisian fans furious over his calls against their team.
A profile in promotional materials for the World Cup says the referee "believes that the greatest challenge facing referees today is always trying to minimize errors with the goal of reaching a zero error rate, something difficult given that the football is becoming increasingly faster as a result of scientific research and investment."
Coulibaly — who never made it beyond playing college soccer — has long been referred to as "Sleepy Eyes" for his heavy eyelids.
On his FIFA Web page, Coulibaly, who has refereed five Africa Cup events between 2002 and 2010, lists his hobby as volleyball — not soccer.
All day yesterday, angry fans defaced Coulibaly's Wikipedia page.
"Coulibaly is rumored to hate the United States of America with the burning passion of a white-hot sun," one poster wrote.
New Facebook pages sprouted up throughout the day with titles like "America hates Koman Coulibaly" and "You suck! Find another job!"
But fans can take solace in knowing that Coulibaly likely won't be back for another World Cup.
Given his horrendous call, officials probably won't use him again during this tournament, and FIFA caps its age for referees at 40.


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Chances are, you had more cash on hand than the government of Zimbabwe did last week. Zimbabwe's Finance Minister admitted that at one point last week the Zimbabwean government only had $217 dollars in its accounts. For a country of nearly 13 million people that amounts to only .001 of a penny per person.
Given the state of the world economy and the fact that Zimbabwe remains one of the poorest countries in Africa this paltry bank account should probably come as no surprise. Still, the thought of a government responsible for the fate and well-being of 13 million people having only 200 dollars in cash on hand is discerning, to say the least.
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While Zimbabwe is one of the poorer countries in Africa and has long been ruled by military strongman Robert Mugabe who has been accused of rigging elections and suppressing opposition leaders. After a controversial land reform initiative pushed by Mugabe in 2000, the United States and other nations have placed economic sanctions on Zimbabwe. The land reform saw large amounts of lands seized from private companies and the families of past White settlers given to poor Africans.
Mugabe has been challenged on numerous occasions but has so far maintained control. After accusations of fraud in the 2008 elections, Mugabe reached power sharing agreements with his rivals and has since maintained a tenuous grip on power. This agreement has so far held strong and has helped stabilize the nation though the economy remains stagnant and the unemployment rate is believed to be in access of 60 percent.
Zimbabwe has long suffered from hyper inflation; however, in 2008 the nation switched currencies and is now using the dollar for its currency. This helped curb inflation but the rest of the economy remains weak. An estimated 70 percent of the country now lives in poverty and the public debt already rests at over 200 percent of the GDP.
Now Zimbabwe is looking from some $200 million in donations to hold a referendum on a new Constitution. This new Constitution is the result of negotiations and guidance from the United Nations and supposedly will help foster an environment of peace.
Where will Zimbabwe come up with 200 million dollars? Given that the rest of the world is still recovering from a global economic slow down and that Zimbabwe has already alienated both the United States and the United Kingdom, two potential donors, it is unclear where the funds will come from. Potential donors from the rest of the Western world are struggling to pay down their own debts.
Zimbabwe asked South Africa for $100 million last year but so far has heard no reply. Given South Africa's own problems with poverty and crime such a large donation is unlikely. The Chinese on the other hand have shown a heavy preference for contributing to infrastructure projects, not supporting democracy. Meanwhile Japan is struggling to reduce its own debts and both the IMF and World Bank have been preoccupied trying to contain any potential financial crises.
On a positive note government accounts only rested at $200 for one day before $30 million in revenue came in. While $30 million is certainly a lot more than $200, for such a large nation this sum remains paltry and well below the funding levels needed to both fund the government and hold a referendum.
Whether or not these referendums are actually held remains to be seen. Many potential donors will likely see the referendum as pointless and unlikely to bring about any concrete change. While Zimbabwe may not quite yet be broke, the overall condition of the nation remains dire.


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Cover image: How to Fight Fake News at the 934 Conférence courtesy of the French Consulate
"You will be the heroes of this topic," Alexander Eisenchteter began. Little did we know in the audience that we would be the ones "debating" and "co-creating solutions" at the How to Fight Against Fake News 934 Conférence at the French Consulate.
I suddenly felt more relaxed, although up until that point, I had been in awe of the glamour and trappings of the French Consulate on Fifth Avenue. Looking at my attire, I wondered whether I'd fit in among the well dressed. Straightening my dress, taking a mental deep breath, I switched to "French mode."
Before me stood six large round tables, enough to seat six people each, complete with iPads. As a public school teacher who reads the "5 Things to Know for Your New Day" every morning on the CNN app on my daily commute (and not much more), I though I was out of my depth.
Mr. Eisenchteter, co-founder of Stormz, a friendly looking guy with red glasses, approached our table and introduced himself. His interactive presentation focused largely on the audience, as we discovered with the iPads on our table. For a teacher like myself, I know that student-centered lessons are always a plus.
After a brief introduction by Consule-Générale Anne-Claire Legendre, David Andelman, both former editor and publisher of World Policy Journal and journalist for the New York Times discussed the phenomena of "old news that's surviving today." Before 24-hours news stations existed, few considered news as 'fake,' whereas now, the majority of public have grown skeptical. With the many layers of readers and writers and the complexity of the Internet, for Mr. Andelman, "trust is the most important thing" in order to fight against fake news.
Mathieu Magnaudeix, U.S. correspondent for the French-based news agency Mediapart, defined fake news as "false information," often created by "ideological people." While President Donald Trump derides unfavorable coverage as "fake news to appear as a victim of the media," his constant presence in the news can inadvertently aid his popularity.
Mediapart calls itself an "ad-free, investigative news website," that depends on the support of its subscribers. When comparing news coverage in both America and across the pond, Mr. Magnaudeix states that the coverage in the U.S. tends to be more polemical and "talks too much of fights and not much about 'real' problems" — unlike its European counterparts. For Mr. Magnaudeix, the solution is to educate oneself rather than complain about fake news. But some in the audience believed that fake news like tabloids are popular due to the entertainment and "instant gratification over what reality is."
It was then our turn to be media sleuths as we worked on the following:
1) Challenge Storming (i.e. Come up with "How to" questions related to the topic)
2) Generate Seeds of Ideas (i.e. Come up with possible answers to the "How to" questions)
3) Select Most Appealing Seeds (i.e. Add points to appealing answers to the "How to" questions)
4) Present one "solution" as a group
Using the Stormz app on our iPads placed on the tables, each group collaboratively brainstormed questions and ideas. Mr. Eisenchteter, our animated facilitator, brought the whole audience together for a debrief after every 10-15 minutes.
Following the "Challenge Storming," we searched for common words used among our groups. For example, a commonly used word in our "How to" questions was "reliable," as in, "How to identify a reliable source?" Like Presi or NearPod, The Stormz app was very engaging and easy to use, allowing us to type our answers, or 'seeds' of ideas, while seeing the other groups' seeds, and then providing feedback. Mr. Eisenchteter then projected the most popular 'seeds' including: "Advertising transparency – who is paying for the news?" As an educator, I would definitely consider using Stormz in my classroom.
Our table group came up with the following solution: "We are all media. We are responsible. – Eliminate safe harbor from legal liability for online publishers of fake news," which received a round of applause. Some ideas that other groups came up with were "create media literacy classes in schools" and "emphasize critical thinking in the education system." Although perhaps I was the only teacher amongst the audience, it was refreshing to see how pedagogical activities like this can be used to discuss global affairs – and lead back to education.
Mr. Andelman concluded the event with "Don't sue [journalists]," and "I love the idea of democracy taking its course."
After the event, wine and orange juice were on offer in the reception across the hall. As I was on an empty stomach, I enjoyed a glass of orange juice, and left during the mingling portion of the evening.
It was a satisfying experience to attend, and any teacher would probably appreciate Mr. Eisenchteter's interactive approach to understanding current events.
Merci, French Consulate, for a very educational event. And yes, I take full responsibility for my words. This is not fake news.
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Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke KG (aft. 1538 – 19 January 1601) was a Welsh nobleman, peer and politician of the Elizabethan era.
Sir Henry Herbert
|2nd Earl of Pembroke
|c. 1538
|19 January 1601 (aged 62–63)
Wilton, England
|Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, England[1]
|Noble family
|Lady Katherine Grey
Lady Catherine Talbot
Mary Sidney
|William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
Lady Anne Herbert
Katherine Herbert
|William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke
|Anne Parr, Countess of Pembroke
He was the son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and Anne Parr. His aunt was queen consort Catherine Parr, last wife of King Henry VIII. His uncle was William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, who was an influential man during the reigns of Edward VI and Elizabeth I. Herbert was responsible for the costly restoration of Cardiff Castle. Pembroke, like other members of his family, was a man of culture. He was a special patron of antiquaries and heralds and collected heraldic manuscripts.[1]
Herbert was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, under Archbishop John Whitgift. He is also said to have studied at Douay.[1]
In 1554, while his father was entertaining the entourage of Philip II of Spain's men at Wilton House, Herbert's discreet manners caught the attention of the Marquis de las Navas and he was made a gentleman of the chamber to King Philip upon his arrival in England. In 1557, he took part in a tournament held before Queen Mary, and accompanied his father to the siege of St. Quentin.[1]
On his father's death in 1570, he succeeded to the Earldom of Pembroke and on 4 April 1570 was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire. In right of his mother, Anne Parr, he succeeded as Lord Parr and Ros of Kendal, Lord FitzHugh, Lord Marmion, and Lord Quentin on 1 August 1571.[1]
Court lifeEdit
In the court intrigues of Elizabeth's reign, Pembroke was regarded as a partisan of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, and was certainly in very intimate relations with him. He took a prominent part in the trials of the 4th Duke of Norfolk; Mary, Queen of Scots in October 1586; and Norfolk's son Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, in 1589.
In 1586, he succeeded his father-in-law, Sir Henry Sidney, as Lord President of Wales, a position he held until his death,[2] and became at about the same time Vice-Admiral of South Wales. From thenceforth, he spent much time at Ludlow Castle, the official residence of the president of Wales where he actively discharged the duties of his office.[1]
During the 1590s, Herbert was patron of Pembroke's Men, a theatre company who were the first group to perform a number of plays including The Isle of Dogs by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson.
In 1595, Pembroke was described as 'very pursife and maladise' and by September 1599, 'his life was despaired of'. Herbert died at Wilton House leaving his lady 'as bare as he could and bestowing all on the young lord even to her jewels'. He was buried in Salisbury Cathedral.[1]
Marriages and issueEdit
He was married to Lady Catherine Grey, sister of Lady Jane Grey, on 25 May 1553,[3] in a political match arranged by their parents in the hopes of assisting the Duke of Northumberland with his plan to secure the succession of Lady Jane who on the same day alongside her sister married the Duke's younger son, Lord Guildford Dudley. The union was never consummated, and in 1554, Queen Mary's influence led to the consent of Herbert's father's dissolution of the marriage.[1]
His second wife was Lady Catherine Talbot, daughter of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, and his wife Lady Gertrude Manners, daughter of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland. Queen Elizabeth was extremely fond of Lady Catherine and when Catherine developed a fatal illness she often visited her at Baynard's Castle.[1] She died in 1575 leaving no children by Herbert.[1]
By April 1577, Herbert married his third wife, the former Mary Sidney, daughter of Sir Henry Sidney and Lady Mary Dudley, daughter of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland. Their children included William and Philip, who both were Earl of Pembroke after their father, Katherine (who died as a small child), and Lady Anne Herbert, who died young.[1][4]
The armour of Henry Herbert is now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in the Arms and Armor galleries. It was made in 1580 at the Greenwich armoury, a royal workshop founded by Henry VIII to produce armour for the English nobility, chiefly Henry, without having to commission it from overseas. His portrait, and that of his father William, are on display at the National Museum Wales in Cardiff, adjacent to Cardiff Castle which the family owned and occupied for much of the 16th century.
- Haynes, Alan. Sex in Elizabethan England. Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing Limited, 1997. ISBN 0-905778-35-9
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 189–90.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 79. .
- ^ Eric Ives. Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery. John Wiley & Sons. 2009. p. 321
- ^ "The Sidney Homepage - Biography of the Countess of Pembroke".


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Best Western Classic Inn, Saint Joseph
Best Western Classic Inn4502 Se Us Highway 169
Visit this Saint Joseph hotel when traveling to Missouri, conveniently located near cultural and recreational attractions and only 30 miles from Kansas City. The Best Western Classic Inn offers easy access to all St. Joseph's cultural attractions, including the home of Jesse James, Pony Express Museum and Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art. Racing fans will be only 4 miles from Woodlands Racetrack. Outdoor enthusiasts can access miles of biking and walking trails at the nearby Krug Park. Hotel guests traveling on business will be only 30 minutes from Kansas City International Airport and enjoy the hotel's proximity to corporate locations for Purina Mills, Johnson Controls and Weyerhaeuser. This new St. Joseph hotel offers the traveler many amenities, including complimentary continental breakfast, high speed Internet access, fax and photocopy services, cribs and rollaway beds, outdoor pool, sauna and exercise room. Guest rooms were designed with the business and leisure traveler in mind. All rooms are spacious and equipped with ample work space, chair, cable television with HBO


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Spiritual and Inspirational poetry that touch the heart and soul, and provoke the mind.
(Based in a Sermon by Father James Butt)
This is the basic tenant for a multitude of major faiths.
It can bring light in our lives and make us feel very safe.
How many of us practice this requirement?
It requires steadfast prayer and discernment.
Unconditional love is what Christ demands of all of us.
We should give love without preconditions or fuss.
Stretch forth your hand to a stranger in need.
Give a hungry person his daily feed.
Forget our wants or temptations of greed.
Unconditional love for all should be our creed.
Christ said What you do to the least of my brethren,
You do for me.
It is when we embrace these words we can clearly see.
Unconditional love and compassion can set us free.
Imagine a world where daily we all showed love.
The sun would shine forever from God above.
© Andrew Pell 26/09/11
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The following links are for homepages of family researcher that include Mid Mon Valley ancestors. (Newest links listed first).
Descendents of Michael Bienemann
Betsy's family pageHome Page of Elizabeth Ann NORRIS Banzen.
Monongahela Valley Surnames include: BARNES, BROWN, JOHNSON, NORRIS, RHINE and many others.
Moses DAVISON Family Other Surnames: Davison, Moss, Sanders/Saunders, Terhune, Mckinsey, Newby, Wolff/Wolfe, Gibson, Double, Lepley, Julian and moreMy Donaldson family homepage.
Goslin and Basinger Families
Keeping up with the Jones Includes many Mon Valley surnames including among others, Jones,Crow, Furnier, Gregg, Frye, Duvall, Bedall, Chalfant, Beazell,
Patton and McIlvaine.
The Mighty Oak Home Page
by Carl, Ellen & Shannon Lambert. Our tree consists of over 102,000 names and growing. We are willing to share and trade info.
Pascute, Wilson family of Brownsvilleby Tammy M Ross.
My Family- includes SAHA family from Elizabeth, PA. by Angela Caperton Cornell.
Sisley - McDonough - Rigby - Wilcoxen families of Fayette Co. Other surnames: Jeffries, Rose, Lyons,
Lowstutter / Lostatter, Watkins
Descendants of Dennis SPRINGER and Ann PRICKETT.Wilkinson-Topley Family Surnames: WILKINSON, TOPLEY, NATCHER, MCDERMOTT, SICKMAN, CURRY, LINHART, BUTLER and other surnames in the MonVal area (Duquesne, Homestead, McKeesport, Coal Valley, Jefferson Twp., Mifflin Twp.) Also includes clippings from McKeesport Daily News and Duquesne Times/Observer.


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Without fail, anytime a juicy bit of latest technology hits the market, the exorbitant price ticket puts it out of attain for even the center class People. Nonetheless, the value of digitization that's captured is determined by how many individuals and companies have entry to it. Latest transcription software program and digital dictation as an example, help a number of corporations to get snap feedbacks from their clients around the globe.
Total, 84{5600d01bd7749f24836f4fcc9a5714d4c29f5f36817e8e6eb57c5c34ff14b2ca} of teens say they have or have entry to a recreation console at house, and 90{5600d01bd7749f24836f4fcc9a5714d4c29f5f36817e8e6eb57c5c34ff14b2ca} say they play video games of any kind (whether or not on a computer, recreation console or cellphone). The survey also finds there isn't a clear consensus among teenagers in regards to the impact that social media has on the lives of young individuals right this moment.
They use the most recent in know-how, whether cell phones, computer systems, PDAs, MP3 gamers, or digital cameras. A new simply accessible repository of datasets serving the growing data needs in both research and trade. Sidewalk Labs says it will open access to the software program and methods it is creating so other companies can construct providers on high of them, a lot as people construct apps for cell phones.
With the mud settled following Nokia's Annual Normal Assembly now's the time to look at whether or not any of the changes can have a significant impact on the business. Appropriate for most kinds of communication transmission, ISDN has turn into considerably of an trade commonplace for most telephone service for enterprise.
Scott gave an instance of USA Track & Subject working towards earlier than an enormous meet with with three totally different cameras rolling, an example of the proliferation of video know-how in track. This is for storing person's data, such like software, digital credentials.


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The Orange Bowl will induct Barry Alvarez, Jack Fernandez and Ray Perkins into the Orange Bowl Hall of Fame. The induction will take place at the AvMed Orange Bowl Coaches Luncheon at Jungle Island in Miami on December 29, 2016. Alvarez is one of the few Orange Bowl Hall of Fame inductees to have both played in and coached in an Orange Bowl game. Fernandez made his mark on Orange Bowl history in the 1984 Classic and National Championship game, where his performance earned him Orange Bowl Most Outstanding Player honors. Perkins played in back-to-back national championship games in the Orange Bowl and becomes the ninth inductee from the University of Alabama.
Barry Alvarez made appearances in the Orange Bowl as a player for Nebraska in 1966 and again in 1990 as the defensive coordinator for Notre Dame. Born and raised in Langeloth, Pa., Alvarez graduated from Burgettstown Union High School and went on to play linebacker at the University of Nebraska. In the 1966 Orange Bowl and National Championship, Alvarez played solid defense in the Huskers' 39-28 loss to Alabama. Alvarez returned to the Orange Bowl – this time as a coach – in 1990 as the defensive coordinator at Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish defeated Colorado, as Alvarez's defense limited the Buffaloes to 282 total yards and six points in a 21-6 victory. The very next season, he went on to serve as the head football coach for the University of Wisconsin, leading the Badgers from 1990-2005, compiling a 119-74-4 overall record. Alvarez retired at the conclusion of the 2005 season to become Athletic Director at Wisconsin, a position which he retains today.
Jack Fernandez had one of the all-time great performances in Orange Bowl history, a hometown kid who came off the bench to lead the Miami Hurricanes to its first national title in the 1984 Orange Bowl. After starting middle linebacker Ken Sisk was injured on the opening kickoff, Fernandez took over for the Canes with 15 tackles and an interception in the 31-30 Miami win over Nebraska. Fernandez's interception of Turner Gill's pass at the Miami 35-yard line resulted in a crucial Bernie Kosar to Glenn Dennison touchdown. For his performance, Fernandez was named the 1984 Orange Bowl defensive Most Outstanding Player (MOP). Out of Miami's nine appearances in the Orange Bowl, Fernandez is one of only two Hurricanes to be awarded with defensive MOP honors. He is the third member of the 1984 Miami Hurricanes national championship team to be inducted into the Orange Bowl Hall of Fame, joining legendary head coach Howard Schnellenberger (1993) and quarterback Kosar (1997).
Ray Perkins was a standout wide receiver at the University of Alabama, leading the Crimson Tide to back-to-back National Championship/Orange Bowl appearances in 1965 and 1966. The Petal, Miss., native played alongside two Orange Bowl Hall of Fame Inductees in quarterbacks Joe Namath and Steve Sloan. Alabama split the two games, losing 21-17 to Texas in 1965 and beating Nebraska (and Barry Alvarez) 39-28 in 1966. Perkins scored two touchdowns and a two-point conversion in his back-to-back appearances, and his combined 244 receiving yards stood as the most in Orange Bowl history for 48 years. Perkins was drafted by the Baltimore Colts, playing wide receiver from 1967-1971 under head coach and Orange Bowl Committee member Don Shula. Following his NFL career, Perkins coached in the collegiate and professional ranks for nearly four decades, holding four head coaching jobs (New York Giants, Alabama Crimson Tide, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Arkansas State Red Wolves).
In addition to the induction on Dec. 29, the new Hall of Fame members will be introduced to the crowd during pregame at the 2016 Capital One Orange Bowl. The game features a matchup between No. 6 Michigan and No. 11 Florida State, and will be played on December 30 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla.
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If you want to use one of the Denver weight loss programs to get you ready for that special day, find one that gets results. Of course, those results won't happen overnight, so if you have a substantial amount to lose or a long road ahead, give it enough time. Even though this may sound like it contradicts that, just because you don't have months, it doesn't mean you shouldn't try. That's right, some success is better than none, but don't expect to lose a massive amount of weight in that short of time. You will see a difference, no matter how much weight you have to lose.
Find a program that focuses on eating healthy.
You shouldn't have to learn the nutritional value of all the foods. That's what experts are for. Finding a program that's easy to follow is of ultimate importance. It should provide menus or menu ideas, guidance in the best food for specific nutrition and even provide recipes. If it's a great program, it will include a shopping list, so you don't have to do that. The easier it is, the more likely you'll be to follow it.
Eating right provides the fuel, but exercise helps ignite it.
While a healthy diet is the primary factor in weight loss, when you combine it with a program of exercise, it lights the fire that burns calories faster. Exercise helps build muscle tissue, toning your body and making you look even thinner than the scales indicate. That muscle tissue requires more calories to maintain than fat tissue does, so you'll be boosting your metabolism and burning more calories even when you're asleep.
Make sure both the dietary program and workout are specifically created for you.
No two people are alike. When it comes to food, some people can't eat certain types of food or cringe just thinking about it going in their mouth, no matter how healthy it is. Exercise is also quite personal, since no two bodies are exactly alike. Everyone has four types of fitness, strength, endurance, flexibility and balance. You need all four to be at peak performance to be your healthiest. For example, if your strength is good, but you fail when it comes to flexibility, you're facing a potential injury. That's why using a personal trainer for weight loss help can be important.
- A personal trainer gets fast results because he or she identifies your level of fitness for all types of fitness and creates a program that works toward your maximum potential.
- As the program gets easier, it means your level of fitness has improved. Personal trainers then make the workout harder to match the new fitness level.
- When you workout, you'll sleep sounder. That extra sleep is not only heart healthy, it also is beneficial for weight loss.
- Using a personal trainer can improve your potential for success. A trainer holds you accountable and tracks your success.
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Wheeler Family Auto Group is proud to support a special military discount that is available for all Veterans through November 30, 2020.
The GM Military Discount allows eligible members of the U.S. Military to purchase or lease eligible vehicles at a special discounted price that is below MSRP. Plus, they can combine the discount with most current offers to save even more.
"At Wheeler's, we are thankful for all who have and continue to serve," said Daniel Wheeler, owner. "We are proud to be able to offer this discount."
Eligible military personnel includes Active Duty members, Reservists, National Guard members, Veterans within three years of discharge date and Retirees of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Eligible military personnel are able to sponsor their spouse and household members. Not available with some other offers.
GM's relationship with the military stretches back over a century. Today, its commitment to the armed forces encompasses everything from a vehicle discount for current and retired service members to career training, job hiring programs and support for wounded veterans.
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A Cloud and a Prayer | Subtraction, Khoi Vinh's Web Site:. Seeing giant corporations dissolve into nothing has Khoi wondering what would happen to all that personal digital content we all trust Google (and much less established companies) to maintain.
The Economy Really Is Fundamentally Strong | Time.com: Quote – "Strong productivity growth makes inflation less of a threat, giving the Federal Reserve more leeway in battling recession. And because it enables more economic growth down the road, it could make it far easier to pay off the giant debts the Federal Government is incurring to save the banking system and the economy." My observation: Should Obama win — as the polls predict he will — those who support him should hope this is correct as it will help make his Presidency as successful as his candidacy.


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MacRetina simulates data from retinal ganglion cells in the eye to the brain.
By sampling neural activity while stimulating the retina with small spots of light, students can see the dynamic excitatory and
inhibitory responses of these neurons in the simulation, and map the organization of the retinal region that drives the cell's receptive field. MacRetina is modeled accurately on published data and is a realistic simulation of a lab experiment that would otherwise be beyond the reach of the typical undergraduate laboratory.
The program models 10 retinal ganglion cells with overlapping receptive fields. A cell may be an on-center type cell or an off-center type cell and may have either sustained or transient response dynamics. In the figure the gray region represents a tiny area of retina, 0.5 x 1.0 mm in
size. The user maps the excitatory region of the cell by sweeping the cursor, which represents
either a light or a dark stimulus projected onto the eye of a cat, across the retinal area.


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I had always admired Carharrt's toughness, durability and quality, but for me some of the stylings and stiffness of material were not great for all around use or light enough for a long day in my boat. But until recently had always passed on making an investment, until I found their new offerings from their Quick Duck line. Just buying picking this coat up off the rack you can instantly sense this is not your grandfather's Carhartt jacket.
I have now had my Black Woodward Traditional Quick Duck jacket for several weeks. I have done everything from play in the snow with my kids, sub zero shoveling, to winter fishing to wearing it out to dinner with my wife.
The first few times I wore it outside, I over dressed with my under layers and was too warm while shoveling, I have adjusted to this and now no matter how cold, usually just wear a lightweight long sleeve shirt under my coat. Even the coat is lighter and more pliable then some other Carhartts, it still kept 100% of the water and other elements on the outside, even rolling around in the snow and sledding for hours with my kids.
During fishing it was plenty flexible to impeded casting and general movements in the boat, no complaints there! And when wearing to work or out with the wife, I got compliments on the styling of my coat.
Not that I foresee wearing this thing out, but if I did or lost it, I'd be quick to replace it with another on the spot! You should be able to find this at your normal Carhartt dealers, I also noticed it on several websites:
Dick's Sporting Goods
Bass Pro
Gander Mountain and many more
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Iraq Is Not a Small Central American Country
At UCSC talk, Juan Cole will offer informed comment on our Middle Eastern adventures
By Sarah Phelan
He's a professor of Middle East history at the University of Michigan, but in the age of the Internet, Juan Cole is perhaps equally well-known as the moderator of Informed Comment, a blog where readers can find analyses of the Alito Supreme Court nomination as well as the rulings of Afghanistan's new chief justice, who reportedly favors amputating thieves' hands and stoning adulterers to death.
But on Jan. 19, Cole will emerge from cyberspace and materialize at UCSC to talk about the Iraqi elections and the future of America.
Reached by phone in Michigan, Cole--who is seen as a leading American expert on Iraq, the role of the United States and the Iraqi resistance--took a shot at answering the question that continues to baffle anyone who understands the first thing about the Middle East, namely, is it actually possible that the Bush administration ever believed it could win a war in Iraq?
"Most of them had experience of Central America," proffers Cole, who has authored numerous books and articles on Islam and the Middle East. "They thought Iraq would be like Nicaragua, where they got rid of Ortega and the Sandinistas. But Iraq is much bigger, with a population of 25 to 26 million, and geographically is much larger with a different political history."
Cole believes the recent elections in Iraq have confirmed that the Iraqi public has swung in the direction of ethnic and religious politics--a development that doesn't bode well for Iraqi women.
"After the Dec. 15 elections, an Iranian politician described the results as 'an echo of the victory of Khomeini,'" says Cole. "Already women are being harassed in places like Basra, and informal Shiite militias are on patrol, imposing dress codes on women. I think the Shiite and maybe the Sunni ruling parties, too, will move the country towards Islamic law."
Indeed, to Cole's mind, the U.S.-led invasion has strengthened the hand of the Shiite religious forces in the entire reach of the Middle East--a development he believes will place further constraints on the United States in the region--and create a further drag on our economy.
"The geopolitical power of the U.S. has been weakened. If a Shiite victory is unacceptable to Sunni Arabs, then we'll be there for another four years, at the least. And as the U.S. draws down its troops, there's danger of a civil war in Iraq, which would become a major source of instability for the petroleum market, which will lead to increases in gas prices."
Asked if he thought the United States would consider attacking Iran, now that it's broken the U.N. seals on its nuclear enrichment facility, Cole says, "I believe a U.S. military strike against Iran would risk throwing southern Shiite Iraq into instability and fighting. And I don't personally believe that Bush would risk that in an election year, so a lot of this is just saber rattling."
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Dean 441
Get close to the Dean 441 and open a bundle of surprises. From a distance, it could be just a typical mid-size catamaran with more mast rake than most, but once you're aboard you'll see a boat that's totally different in both design and execution.
The accommodations can be customized to suit the owner's needs, and the hull, rig, and systems are built to thrive at sea. Since every Dean-built boat makes a delivery trip from South Africa of at least 7,000 miles, all systems are thoroughly tested before the owner receives it.
Third-generation boatbuilder Peter Dean takes pride in his company's workmanship—and for good reason. The hull is solid quadraxial-stitched glass below the water-line, and the laminates above the waterline and in the deck have end-grain balsa coring to add stiffness and cut weight. Solid glass and stainless-steel backing plates reinforce all deck fittings.
The structural bulkheads and interior joinery are of vacuum-bagged NidaCore composite with wood veneer on the surfaces. This combination is exceptionally strong, stiff, and lightweight. The test boat had a gorgeous walnut interior, gleaming with
many coats of varnish.
The electrical system is downright elegant in design and execution. Busbars,
numbered circuits (even on the negative wires), and the open, untangled layout will make troubleshooting easy, and the wiring is tinned. The hull and deck are built and fully assembled first, then the drivetrains and systems go in. That means everything inside the boat, including engines and tanks, can come out for maintenance without fuss.
Deck and cockpit
The molded platform in the center of the cockpit is a handy place to stand when you want to see over the high cabintop. There are excellent sight lines from the helm seat. Lines lead conveniently to an electric winch, so singlehanding this boat is not difficult.
It's easy to move around the decks even though the edge of the bimini top is low, and both the forward arch and the cabin have excellent grabrails. Steps lead to the cabintop, where the centerline hardtop is flanked by fabric sections. Most of the foredeck is a solid platform, but small trampolines reduce weight. Big davits at the stern will handle a sizable tender.
When I told Peter Dean that the interior reminded me of a library, he replied, "Or an English cigar lounge." It's cozy but not dark, warm but not oppressive—a comfy place to be.
In the saloon, an efficient galley to starboard and nav station to port are out of the way of the main seating area, where eight people could easily share a meal. The required escape hatch is cleverly installed in the bridgedeck, where it doubles as an excellent ventilation source.
Each hull of the version I sailed had two separate cabins, and each had an ensuite head with separate shower. All berths are large, but the big ones in the forward cabins are raised to extend over the bridgedeck. The narrow hulls of any cat restrict the width of these spaces, but there's no claustrophobic feeling in the Dean 441.
If the layout shown isn't exactly what you want, the factory offers five others and will happily customize any of them in a wide variety of woods. Peter Dean says this flexibility is what appeals to many of his customers.
Under Sail
Our test boat's instruments recorded an average speed of
8 knots during its 7,500-mile delivery from South Africa. The Chesapeake was not in a mood to challenge that, offering only 4-to-7-knot zephyrs for our sail. I was surprised how easily the sturdy-feeling vessel moved out in those conditions; it ghosted along at 2 to 4 knots, and we tacked without backing the genoa.
Under Power
The twin Mitsubishi inboards had the deep, throaty rumble of
a motorboat instead of the sewing-machine whirr of saildrives. Normal motoring configuration is a single engine running at 2,800 RPM, which yields just over 7 knots. I measured a 70-dBA sound level (moderately low) in the saloon. The boat stopped, turned, and backed with precision.
Vital Statistics
Headroom: Main saloon 6'3", aft cabin, 6'6", forecabin 6'6" ›› Bunks: Aft 59"x79", forward 59"x83"
Price: $475,000 (subject to exchange rate, FOB South Africa) includes choice of cherry or maple interior, ST60 speed, wind, depth instruments, freezer, full-batten mainsail, roller-furling genoa.
Builder: Dean Catamarans, Cape Town, South Africa;
U.S. dealer: The Multihull Company, Philadelphia, PA; 215-508-2704; www.multihullcompany.com
Designer: P. J. Dean
LOA: 43'7" ›› LWL: 43' ›› Beam: 23'7" ›› Draft: 4'1"
Displacement: 24,250 lbs
Sail Area: 1,345 sq ft (actual)
Power: (2) 42-hp Mitsubishi diesels
Tankage: (fuel/water/waste) 290/177/40 gal
Electrical: 630-Ah (house) plus 105-Ah (engine)
Displacement-Length Ratio: 136
Sail Area-Displacement Ratio:
17.4 (100% foretriangle, moderate)
Certification: CE Category A
•Excellent line leads for easy
•Optimized and constructed for
voyaging conditions
•Good sailing performance in
a variety of wind conditions
•Slightly deeper draft than most keel-type cats this size
•High cabin restricts visibility
from cockpit
•Low-frequency vibration from
engines at some speeds
A Dean 441 is customizable, tested by an ocean voyage from the factory in South Africa, and supported by a builder who does not wave goodbye permanently after the boat goes over the horizon.