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Yiannis Kotsiras, Giorgos Andreou and Korina Legaki will hold a concert at 21:00 on August 26 at the ancient and panoramic site of the temple of Poseidon in Sounio.
The concert is part of several events throughout Greece on the August full moon night.
The long-distance bus company KTEL will schedule additional buses to convey people to the venue from Athens, and the municipality of Lavreotiki will provide buses running between the central square in Lavrio and Sounio.
KTEL said buses supplement the regular schedule from Pedion tou Areos, near the corner of Alexandras and Patission, to Sounio. The last buses will wait for the concert's end before returning to Athens.
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We took in the musical '1776, A Musical Revolution' at the Alhambra theater in Jacksonville, FL last week, and if you didn't, you missed a great show.
It was no small feat for the creators, Sherman Edwards (music and lyrics) and Peter Stone (the book), to come up with a presentation that made history funny, witty, and informative. There were some amazing actors on board too. Throughout the night, the audience laughed and applauded, with many recognizing not much has changed in terms of partisan rancor.
Principal performers Kevin Anderson (John Adams), Jake Delaney (Thomas Jefferson), and Mark Poppleton (Benjamin Franklin), resembled images of the founders so accurately it was at times as though you were watching the real founders. The back and forth between these and other characters gave a glimpse into a divided, fractious, and rowdy Continental Congress dealing with the challenge of colonies torn between allegiance to England and allegiance to freedom. The musical depicts events and politics ahead of the colonies' secession from England, and the rhetoric was definitely heated in that era.
It's hard to make history entertaining, but the producers, cast, and others involved in this show accomplished that.
The musical numbers were entertaining—a standout in that respect was Nicole Coffaro who played Martha Jefferson. Listening to all the cast who did musical numbers, you realize the people on the stage aren't just entertainers—they're artists who can do more than memorize lines.
I'd never been to the Alhambra, and this trip was a gift to us from our newly married couple. I plan to go again, and I am glad to have finally made it out to a place I'd long intended to visit. The meal was good, and the staff was to a person gracious.
The show ran for a month and a day, so there was obviously interest in the topic.
I really enjoyed Jake Delaney as Thomas Jefferson. He seemed so like the way I imagine Jefferson, and he didn't just play the role, he became the character. There wasn't a bad actor in the entire production, in my opinion. Kevin Anderson made for an exceptional John Adams, and Mark Poppleton as Benjamin Franklin made us laugh as Franklin's penchant for having a good time manifested.
It helped a little to know history so you could appreciate the snark, but even if you don't know history, you'll get the ideas put forth in the narrative.
The Alhambra's Christmas show Elf, the Musical, is already sold out. As of last week, tickets were still available for the short run show Dec. 28-29, and December 31, a tribute to The Barry White and Donna Summer Experience. The New Year's Eve show includes dancing.
The first show of 2019 will be Godspell.
It's fun to get dressed up and have a good meal and enjoy live musical theater. The Alhambra is a great place to enjoy yourself whether you're a local or someone passing through our fair city.
Featured Photo: Artist's rendering of the leaders of the Continental Congress: John Adams, Gouverneur Morris, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson. Augustus Tholey, artist, 1894. US Library of Congress.
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Journalism graduate student Amanda Ocasio'16 was selected to present a talk this week at an international academic conference held at Harvard University.
Her paper, "Unveiling the Women of ISIS: Correcting Popular Understandings of Female Militancy," was accepted at the International Journal of Arts and Sciences conference series, which is being held this year in cities across North America and Europe including Boston, Toronto, Barcelona, Prague and London.
"ISIS has been in the news a lot, and I thought it would be a topic worthy of further exploration especially since I felt that women in the group were being misunderstood by media," said Ocasio, who is also an editor at the Queens Free Press, a community journalism paper in New York City.
Ocasio, of Buffalo, NY, notes that her graduate classes at the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication influenced her approach to the research. "I took my first two degrees in history and found that you really can't capture a subject's agency in a historiographical framework," she said. "In contrast, my coursework in journalism has really taught me how to see the many layers and color of every story."
The International Journal of Arts and Sciences conference accepts academic research presentations in the areas of social sciences and humanities, business and economics, teaching and education, and technology and science. Held on Harvard's campus in Boston, the five-day conference ends tomorrow, May 30.


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Saint Celestine, Pope of Rome
Saint Celestine, Pope of Rome (422-432), a zealous champion of Orthodoxy, lived during the reign of the holy Emperor Theodosius the Younger (408-450). He received an excellent education, and he knew philosophy well, but most of all he studied the Holy Scripture and pondered over theological questions.
The virtuous life of the saint and his authority as a theologian won him the general esteem and love of the clergy and people. After the death of Saint Boniface (418-422), Saint Celestine was chosen to be the Bishop of Rome.
During this time, the heresy of Nestorius emerged. At a local Council in Rome in 430, Saint Celestine denounced this heresy and condemned Nestorius as a heretic. After the Council, Saint Celestine wrote a letter to Saint Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria (January 18), stating that if Nestorius did not renounce his false teachings after ten days, then he should be deposed and excommunicated.
Saint Celestine also sent a series of letters to the churches in Constantinople and Antioch, in which he unmasked and denounced the Nestorian heresy.
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OHOB is proud to be working alongside and supporting various refugee aid groups and organisations across the South West
Partner Projects and Charities:
We are a grassroots charity who has been working with other groups, projects and charities across Europe and the South West of England to get aid to across to the refugee camps in Europe. As well as linking up with groups locally we also stay in close touch with what is happening in Greece, and France to make sure we get the aid to where it is needed the most. In Europe our main partners are Attika Human Support – Lesvos Greece and in France Mobile Refugee Support.
In the UK we work closely alongside Wadebridge Cornish Refugee Aid Project, Bude Refugee Support Group, One And All Aid Launceston Refugee Support, Exeter City of Sanctuary Refugee Aid From Taunton (RAFT) and Beyond Borders Totnes.
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Wadebridge Refugee Aid Project – Cornwall
OHOB works closely with the Wadebridge Cornish Refugee Aid Project. They supported our very first collection and shipment to Calais. They understand that if we work together we can at the very least provide some clothing, and shelter. They have a number of donation points across Cornwall and work tirelessly to collect, sort and send aid.
Launceston Refugee Support Group
LSRG is local people getting together to take action in support of refugees. They were inspired by the desperate situation of refugees but also by the success of Bude Refugee Support Group. They have come together to not only collect and send aid but to campaign to settle Syrian families in Launceston.
South Cornwall Helping Refugees
This group was originally set up for a group of volunteers from Fowey, Tywardreath and Par to communicate between each other (and then between similar small groups in Falmouth, Penzance and Saltash), to offer help and to spread donations – particularly to respond to shout outs for clothes or food or muscle power. They now fundraise to support Syrian aid relief charities and help wth collections and donations for container aid.
QStore (formerly Quickstore) kindly provide us with storage space and all our containers leave from the business centre. We have had the great pleasure of working alongside them for over a year now and their support and has been amazing. Everyone at OHOB is thankful for all the amazing directors and staff members at QStore. The ladies at QStore are so helpful and accommodating, it is a pleasure to be partnered with them.
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Armadillo Self Storage (Part of Big Yellow)
Armadillo storage in Plymouth, Torquay and Exeter (formerly Quickstore) have been providing donation points since February 2015. The guys at each storage unit are great, they have been so supportive and ensure that all items dropped off are on our list.
Organisations and refugee projects in Plymouth:
Student and Refugees Together – START
START recognises the skills and experiences that refugees bring to the city. As a learning organisation, START uniquely utilises the student placement as a resource which together with the strengths and skills of the community, we work out what support is needed and how to achieve it.
DCRS – Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support
Based in Plymouth city centre, DCRS provide advice, support, education, IT facilities and a friendly communal space for asylum seekers in the region.
Open Doors International Language School
Open Doors International Language School is a faith based charitable social enterprise that exists to serve and enable individuals and communities isolated by language and culture both in the UK and overseas.
Integr8 UK
Based in Totnes, Integr8 UK is a non-for-profit community development project that enables refugees and asylum seekers to integrate and lead a meaningful life and work experience in South Devon.
Beyond Borders Totnes & District
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NOUMÉA, New Caledonia (April 24, 2002 – Radio Australia)---A spokesman for New Caledonia's pro-independence coalition, the FLNKS, has expressed disappointment at the surprise defeat of socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in the first round of the French presidential election.
The FLNKS had urged its supporters to vote for Mr. Jospin in order to ensure continuity of the implementation of the Nouméa Accord.
The accord, which sets a timetable for the decolonization of New Caledonia, was brokered and signed under French socialist governments.
FLNKS spokesman Victor Tutugoro told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat program that the decolonization process was only meaningful if all the conditions of the Nouméa Accord were implemented.
With incumbent President Jacques Chirac expected to be returned, Mr. Tutugoro said the pro-independence coalition feared one crucial provision of the Accord might not go ahead.
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The SS19 advertising campaign of Versace
Starring Bella Hadid, Shalom Harlow and Irina Shayk
Bella Hadid, Shalom Harlow and Irina Shayk are the protagonists of the Versace SS19 advertising campaign.
Not a casual choice, but proof that every project of the brand, despite the recent acquisition byCapri Group, remains a family affair. So Donatella Versace chooses three of her most loved models of the last years and puts them in front of the camera of the longtime collaborator Steven Meisel wearing the most iconic items of a collection full of vibrant prints, which has its roots in the heritage of the company founded by Gianni Versace. Proposals ranging from single-shoulder bustier dresses to suits, from plaid jackets to petticoat dresses embellished with a soft drapery on the breast. The one for the next spring-summer is a line for proud, strong women, who are not afraid of being sexy, but who not only have a strong temperament, but also strong bonds, which are part of an extended family made up of friends, relatives , loves.
Like Versace. A brand that is EVERYWHERE, on the lips of everyone, which is fashion, art, music, ... but that remains always a family.
Captivating, hypnotic and super fashion, the protagonists of the campaign are shown in all their beauty and spontaneity in these shots, while a viral video on Instagram reveals the secret of their naturalness in front of the camera. Applause, laughter and a cheering squad for a super unleashed Shalom Harlow!


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By Kevin Coleman -- Defense Tech Cyberwarfare Correspondent
Perhaps the most frequent comment about "Cyber" is – why do we just sit here and take it! We should fire back! I am not saying that we do not or have not returned cyber fire, but the major stumbling block is attribution. This is a hot discussion now that some of the details about "Shady Rat" have become public. Some are pointing to China as being the culprit behind the attack. Some conversations are already calling for retaliatory strikes. Is there enough evidence to support these claims?
Attribution (link http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA468859 ) is typically described as "determining the identity or location of an attacker or an attacker's intermediary." The word is often used interchangeably with trace-back or "source tracking." While there are many techniques for investigating and determining attribution, there are as many if not more ways for attackers to hide their tracks. These concealment techniques and lack of international agreements supporting cyber attack investigation and many other legal and political issues combine to make attribution very difficult. This difficulty cast doubt over the statements that divulge who was behind the attack.
What is reasonable doubt in the context of a cyber attack? According to the Lectric Law Library's Lexicon, REASONABLE DOUBT is the level of certainty a juror must have to find a defendant guilty of a crime. A real doubt, based upon reason and common sense after careful and impartial consideration of all the evidence, or lack of evidence, in a case. Proof beyond a reasonable doubt, therefore, is proof of such a convincing character that you would be willing to rely and act upon it without hesitation in the most important of your own affairs. However, it does not mean an absolute certainty. If this is what we use in cyber attribution, we may never return fire.
This is not a criminal proceeding! While the degree of certainty must be factored in to whether or not to retaliate and determine what retaliatory measure will be taken (kinetic versus digital), the current legal definition is problematic. The level of confidence/reasonable doubt, as related to cyber warfare, has no case law to provide guidance. How will we determine that threshold?


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Apologies for the thoughtlessness of Thursday. I'll adopt the appropriate pose and get thinking for next week. In the mean time, please enjoy a guest post from my dear friend and beer mentor, Cornelius Frank.
The Danish are known for many things. Great pastries, Princess Mary…and I'm sure other things, but I'd never have picked them for a powerhouse in the beer world.
Smashing this misconception comes Mikkeller, the joint product of two homebrewers, Mikkel Borg Bjergsø and Kristian Klarup Keller. Although one of them has since left, the microbrewery has continued to pump out some crazy, out there and amazingly delicious beers. Taking conventional styles and putting a whacky bent on it (and then adding more hops), Mikkeller have created many memorable and distinctive brews.
While best known for using the civit faece filled coffee Kopi Luvak in their brew Beer Geek Brunch, they have made a mark with their distinctive commitment to setting new boundaries in brewing field, both in Denmark and the world.
Though hard to track down and costing a pretty penny, they really are worth it. Give the It's Alight a miss though. At 12 bucks a bottle its by far the cheapest of the bunch but doesn't do the brand justice. The Pale Ales and Indian Pale Ales are brilliant. All Others Pale is particularly excellent. A thirst quencher that hits hard and fast with the hops and mid priced at 20 bucks a bottle. Similarly priced is the Jackie Brown Ale (boom boom..many of their beers have juvenile titles but they're brewing for the nerds so they don't really care) although this has more chocolaty notes than you'd expect from a brown ale.
Mikkeller also heads into Belgium style territory with a few barley wines and a triple. All are surprisingly smooth for the ABV they pack and they pour well. They have developed a Wheat Barley wine (Hvedgoop..but I'm not sure what that means) that smells like Grand Ridge's Supershine but without the chunky taste. At 50 bucks a bottle this might be a bit steep but get a few mates together and share one.
If you are into stouts then you can't go past the Black Hole Imperial Stout or the Black Imperial Stout. They use champagne yeasts to build up the ABV to 17.5% though they don't have the overpowering smell of something like Three Monts or SuperTennents. Clever guys.
Overall, Mikkeller is a crazy brewery. They make "out there" beers that excite the tastebuds and challenge common thoughts about beer style. If you're only going to try one, I recommend the Single Hop Simcoe IPA. A classic IPA made using only one kind of hop (Simcoe..duh) that is amazingly balanced for so strong a beer.
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Your doctor will collect a sample from your thyroid in the traditional manner – with a fine needle aspiration (FNA). This typically involves inserting a short thin needle into the nodule to collect cells for review under the microscope. During the same procedure, your doctor will also collect cells for evaluation with Afirma Gene Expression Classifier (GEC). Afirma GEC will be conducted automatically if the initial results are "indeterminate" and genomic testing is needed to help obtain a definitive answer. By having all samples collected at the same time, you will not need to come back to the doctor for another FNA procedure if more testing is needed.
What does Afirma Gene Expression Classifier measure?
Afirma GEC measures the activity or "expression" levels of more than 100 genes in a thyroid nodule FNA sample. The test is performed when initial cytopathology results are "indeterminate" and thus cannot identify the nodule as benign or suspicious for cancer.
What do the Afirma Gene Expression Classifier results say?
These results are reported to your doctor as either "benign" or "suspicious for malignancy."
Does a "suspicious" Afirma Gene Expression Classifier result mean that I have cancer?
A "suspicious for cancer" result simply means Afirma Gene Expression Classifier (GEC) could not say with complete certainty that cancer is not present. It does not mean that the nodule is definitely cancerous, but rather that the risk of cancer has increased.
How reliable is Afirma Gene Expression Classifier?
Multiple clinical studies, including one published in the New England Journal of Medicine, have shown that when Afirma Gene Expression Classifier (GEC) identifies an "indeterminate" nodule as benign – which it does approximately half of the time – there is very little chance that cancer is present (about 5%)1. Given the low chance of cancer, which is similar to the chance if the cells look benign under the high-power microscope alone, many doctors recommend following most patients over time, often with ultrasound.
1 Alexander EK N Engl J Med. 2012; 367:705-715.
1 Alexander EK N Engl J Med. 2012; 367:705-715.
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A magical way to express feelings and emotions is by listening and enjoying quality music.
Have you ever wondered how your wedding will look like without quality music?
I don't think you will like to imagine that.
The mood you will want your guest and relatives to have on your wedding day will depend on how you plan it. A good wedding playlist gives a positive vibe and tells the personality of the couple.
To make your wedding day a special one, you should have a mixture of just the finest music collection. This will play an important role, so choose a collection that will keep everyone on their feet once the big party begins.
Music varies according to country and tradition. So, getting married in Spain will be characterized by the latest Spanish music.
Here comes the big question, how do I choose a quality playlist for my wedding?
Don't feel pressurized! The following steps will guide you through.
1. Start Early
Choosing a playlist is a can be daunting, but starting your selection early enough gives you time to come up with the genre of music you will enjoy.
Of course, it will be difficult to narrow down your choices and get them into an order that will make the flow of joy unique.
It is preferable to start your search at least four or five months before the wedding day, except otherwise.
2. Gather Inspiration
Begin your search by having some musical motivations.
Search for love playlists on Spotify or watch some wedding videos online. You might discover some concealed gems you never knew about.
3. Consider Your Wedding Style
Although your music must not match with your wedding style, it's a good way to keep the feeling interconnected.
Why not throw in some country songs if you are doing a bam soiree.
If you are hosting your after party in a historic home, why not go with a playlist that consists mostly of oldies?
Try to blend every part of your wedding with good songs.
4. Start with the Best Songs
When crafting your playlist, start by bringing out all the songs you'll definitely need.
There are many things to think about from walking up the aisle to the first and cutting of the cake.
If you plan to get married in Spain, you can work with a Spanish wedding planner to figure out the important songs and later work on completing the rest of your playlist.
5. Make Sure It Is Interconnected
It is important to have an electric mix of songs, but also you should make sure it doesn't sound awkward or disjointed.
Once you've gotten the exactly needed songs, try to make it cohesive.
6. Get Ideas from Your Guests
You can also ask your guest to jot down their favorite music on their RSVP cards or even send to them you online before the wedding date.
When you receive the song, you can then use them to come up with a playlist and hand over to the DJ.
This way, all your guest will get the chance to listen to the favorite songs. This will go a long way to spice the ceremony in Spain.
In any case, choosing your wedding playlists can be an amazingly personal expression of oneself. In the end, the music will always remain in the background. Therefore, allow the wedding to influence the playlist.


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I've been dealing with self induced website problems. If you are seeing this it may mean all has recovered. It's sort of a test post.
This is another stir crazy project for Visions Art Museum member challenge.
I've been dealing with self induced website problems. If you are seeing this it may mean all has recovered. It's sort of a test post.
This is another stir crazy project for Visions Art Museum member challenge.
For a moment there my design work table was cleaned off, but no more.
Making cards and masks just seems to generate more scraps. I have been able to share small pieces of fabric with a few other people and that feels good – To move it out while giving to someone who may have no other way to get fabric right now.
Because I primarily work small I don't have many long yards of fabric but I have a lot in smaller pieces. In fact I didn't realize how much until I started picking pieces for friends.
Speaking of pieces here are my sample/suggestion pieces for the Visions Art Museum member challenge week three. My theme: Special Delivery, you are the chef, what would you plate up?
I made one piece in fabric and the other in paper. If I ever make paper collage again I'll be cutting the pieces with scissors. I did discover if I use a cotton swab to dampen the paper it tears much easier, but still I think cutting would be more fun and would for sure be easier on the fingers.
Using pieces from magazines was much more limiting (and challenging!) for me than fabric. That's one reason the plate in the paper collage is made from my – fabric painting mop-up paper towels; much easier to tear.
I had to let go of the shadows and light not being quite right… It's not a master piece, it's just for fun and I hope encouraging for the participants. I'm pretty happy with the results.
I hope you are staying safe and healthy. From a distance – thanks for stopping by.
As I mentioned in the previous post the Visions Art Museum member challenge for this week is special. Marty Ornish, a very talented garment (and more) artist, developed the challenge for this week. If you get a chance visit Marty's website and take a look at her incredible creations.
Members were challenged to make cards with what they have. There were some specific guidelines. The plan is that the cards will go to Care facilities, willing to accept the cards for their residents, who at this time, aren't able to have visitors.
This has been a fun challenge and diversion for me. Here are some of the cards I've made and a how-to video lesson for a mini fabric landscape card.
Thanks for stopping by and stay safe.
Continuing to shelter in place here, though we are able to walk in the neighborhood, keeping our distance, of course.
Visions Art Museum's first member challenge, I mentioned in my previous post, will be over soon though member may continue to make Five Fiber Tags and post them.
These are the sample tags I prompted the members with.
Here is the how-to demo for a fourth tag. I enjoyed making these tags but usually couldn't stop at five fibers!
I understand that many members may have been busy making masks and may not have had time to take on this challenge. The next VAM challenge will be developed by someone else and as I understand will be extra special, so I hope to participate and will share more about it when I can.
In developing these projects/challenges, we must remember that they are created with the understanding that the participants will be using what they have on hand, which I think, makes it even more fun seeing what they come up with.
I've finished the samples for the project that may be announced April. Here is a tease for that one…
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you stay healthy and safe.
We all are living in challenging times. I hope you are safe and healthy and following the recommendations of the smartest people in charge.
I've often heard or read that artists should not hold up in their studios but instead be out there sharing, showing, mingling. I have never been very good at the latter. I see now that we are under quarantine, this will be easier for me than many others because I have had the privilege of hiding out in my studio!
Some good news… My Reclinaconda piece that has been on exhibit at Visions Art Museum sold!
Also, because Visions Art Museum will be closed during the pandemic, they will be having online activities for their members. I'm happy to say I'll be apart of designing the online activities. Sunday the first activity will begin, here is a sneak peek of one of my challenge project samples.
It has been interesting thinking up challenges/activities because it's not like teaching; when you can just say "You will need these supplies and materials" and know participants can usually just run out to get them. These are short run activities and there wouldn't be time to order and wait for delivery (maybe if they can afford to pay for speedy delivery). I have to think what someone may have on hand and not all members are quilters or artists.
It does help me feel that, in a small way, I'm helping some people get through. The challenge runs for one week, I'll share more after this first one ends.
Thanks for stopping by and please take care.
Painting leaves on fabric using actual paint. I usually teach and paint my leaves using NeoColor two wax pastels but because these were going on an apron that will be washed I decided to use Jacquard Textile Color painted.
Please realize this is an abstract, simple, and I think fun painting project, no fine art here!
I stiffened the fabric with Terial Magic but ironing the fabric onto freezer paper could also work for stabilizing it.
The apron is black which made it difficult to see but I hope I added enough explanation and close-ups to make what I was demonstrated understandable. Needless to say my next project won't be on black fabric.
I finally have a camera set up at my Handi Quilter Sweet Sixteen quilting machine so hopefully more free motion videos will be coming to my YouTube channel.
Here are the two most recent. One quilting a simple carrot and another painting a border after free motion quilting it. Enjoy!
A while back Visions Art Museum had challenge call to their members with the theme being Wild Comfort. I immediately came up with an idea; feet in slippers up on an ottoman with curtain backdrop, all animal prints.
Then time passed, holidays, leaky roof, extending a fence, my sewing machine started *ghost sewing, and more, which all got in the way of me starting the quilt. It had to be just 14″ square and I'm sure many could finish it in a day but I often have this problem with over thinking and of having an idea but no plan as to how to execute it in fabric.
Anyway, about a week before the deadline I decide to just move forward and if it didn't turn out or it ended badly, I just wouldn't submit it. I ended up finishing before the deadline and I liked my little art quilt.
I painted zebra stripes for the curtain and added yarn trim to the lower edge. I painted the wooden floor and quilted grain lines.
I was using actual black socks but in the end decided they were too heavy in appearance. The lounge pants are made from a pair of pajama bottoms.
Because I'm still very comfortable with handwork and knew I wouldn't be able to get the best results using the machine I decided to do a hand blanket stitch (on two layers of felt), and while I was at it I hand appliqued the slipper on the right before I machine quilted it. That was so I could stuff it with wool batting, something I hadn't planned to do… cuz, you know, no plan.
Instead of the black socks I used some sweet flannel with soft pink poke-a-dots that was leftover from the last baby quilt I made butI painted over the dots using bright pink and made paw prints.
The piping on the ottoman was just black fabric covered cord and adding it to the fleece was not fun. It caused me to think the title should have been – What was I thinking, that fleece will never block! But for this little art quilt and the theme, my daughter came up with the perfect title: Reclinaconda
*Ghost sewing (according to me) is when the sewing machine just goes, on it's own, and fast! It may just be a sensor thing. After cleaning the foot pedal and the bobbin, thankfully I was able to get rid of the ghost and finish this quilt!
… for leaky roofs! We don't get a lot of rain here but when we do there are always surprises, but that's another story, I'll spare you.
Last post I mentioned Susan Lenz because we each had pieces in the Visions Art Museum Day of the Dead exhibit. Not too long ago I sent Susan some vintage pieces that came to me via VAM. She has already used them in one of her art quilt pieces. Not only a talented artist, Susan is a wonderful writer and story telling. If you haven't visited her blog, I would highly recommend it.
It's always the season for creating art whether there's rain, shine or snow! Yesterday I had the pleasure of teaching my Fabric and Fiber Collage class at VAM. The participants were a fun group and their collage pieces were inspiring to me! I seem to always learn something from the students. Here is a bit from the class…
Teaching, the prep, and all, can be exhausting, but seeing results like these makes it worth it! Thank you to each of the participants.
The Day of the Dead exhibit is over but I did get there to see it and the other four fantastic exhibit on display at Visions Art Museum (in partnership with New Americans Museum).
When I walked in the first thing I noticed was actually the piece next to mine, it was so unique, the look of texture was striking …
I was surprised to discover that it was by artist Susan Lenz, whose work I admire. Even though we've never met, we chatted a bit (via blog comments and PM) about entering, and she has given me permission to share it here. I'm sorry none of my pictures do it justice.
It is always exciting to have work exhibited and Visions Art Museum is a beautiful museum. It is feels intimate and inviting, and there are amazing and beautiful artist made one-of-a-kind gifts in their gift shop.
Next up – I'm teaching a fabric and fiber collage class at VAM in December!
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Dorothy Cross builds new old art from our national treasure trove
The artist juxtaposes works and objects from seven national institutions to uncover some small truths
Fossil shark tooth Carcharodon megalodon, USA Natural History Collection/National Museum of Ireland and John Comerford Robert Emmet (1778-1803), c.1803. Watercolour on ivory in a silver-gilt pendant. National Gallery of Ireland Collection
A detail from Patrick Scott's Meditation Painting 28 (2007). Collection Imma and courtesy the artist and the artist estate
Trove – Dorothy Cross selects work from national collections
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
There's a quote, attributed to Manfred Eicher of ECM Records, that goes like this: "There's no such thing as new music, there's only new old music."
In a similar spirit, you could say that in Trove, her selection of works and objects from seven national galleries and museums (Imma, Crawford Art Gallery, National Gallery of Ireland and sections of the National Museum of Ireland), Dorothy Cross sets out to make some new old art.
She is entirely personal in her curatorial approach, calling up the instincts she uses in creating her own work and letting them roam freely through the nation's galleries and storage rooms.
The resulting exhibition is a cabinet of curiosities, with groups of pieces carefully sited in the many rooms of Imma's Garden Galleries. It is a collection of pre-existing pieces but, in the way it's put together as a series of quirky juxtapositions, it's also close to being a work by Dorothy Cross, a sort of museum remix. Very close, in fact, because in her habitual way of working she is drawn to found objects, acquires them, lives with them, teases out what it is about them that fascinates her and then uses them sculpturally, generally without altering them materially, but in altered contexts (indeed, one of her own finds may have found its way into the show).
Because her work is steeped in the use of found materials and in natural history, she's the ideal artist to take on the challenge of looking outside the conventional parameters of fine art. It's refreshing to see three stunning fossilised ammonites from England's Jurassic coast in an art museum. Equally the báinin jacket, drár bán, pampooties and Halloween masks. There's animal architecture in the form of birds' nests.
Her attention to detail is impressive. Each room is conceived as a self-contained unit of connections and relationships. Often the links are primarily visual or literal, but then open up other layers of meaning. The bald pate of Jan Lievensz's Head of an Old Man is juxtaposed with a disconcertingly large elephant bird egg from Madagascar and a penguin egg picked up on an island near Antarctica in 1950.
A ring of late Bronze Age globular gold beads, pure abstract forms, from Tumna in Co Roscommon, are displayed next to one of Patrick Scott's gold leaf Meditation Paintings and an intricate model of the solar system with a golden sun at its centre. In the basement, a number of portrait miniatures are displayed in a case. On the opposite wall, Thomas Ruff's Portrait 2001 (A Rooters) is a larger-than-life, frighteningly sharp head-and-shoulders photograph of a young woman. Miniature and enlargement depart from our normal mode of vision in opposite directions.
There's a recurrent sense of work in progress, with sketchbooks and fragments recovered from the storerooms, packing crates used as plinths and wooden braces left in place. That's appropriate for a show that invites us to do our own detective work, to figure things out for ourselves.
Rather than implying that there's one big truth governing her selection, Cross gives us lots of little truths, and that works really well. Her one misstep is a procession that alternates whale skulls with marble busts, making a kind of spine. A nice idea, but perhaps a bit cumbersome in its execution. Until Mar 8, imma.ie
Studies on Shivering – Damir Ocko
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In outline, Damir Ocko's Studies on Shivering might sound a little pretentious. It is part of a larger project that proposes "the shivering body as a metaphor for resistance and unrest". The title of the 20-minute film at the centre of the show, TK, derives from the phonetic sound of chattering teeth or stones clattering on to the ground. In the film, Ocko situates a performer, then performers, in a bleakly beautiful frosty, freezing, misty landscape. They wear only underpants. Sequences of the sturdily built young men standing shivering in the palpable cold (there's a certain erotic frisson) are intercut with close-ups of a trembling hand trying to write words on paper. The hand is that of an older man, named as Giuseppe Ianuzzi, who, Ocko intimates, has Parkinson's.
That simple alternation, between shivering, semi-naked standing figures and the effortful writing, form the film's structure, but its audio elements, poetry and music for strings, are integral. The eight-part poem is evocative and free-ranging in its imagery. It's hard to get an handle on it at first, but the artist helpfully notes that the essential progression is from "a morning song" suggestive of routine, order, stability and familiarity to increasing loss of control and unrest.
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Pope Francis and Protecting People from "Unjust Aggression"
(Part two)
Toward the end of the process that resulted in the US Catholic Bishops publishing their 1983 Pastoral, The Challenge of Peace, a Bishop requested to the conference of Bishops that an alteration to particular paragraph be undertaken in order to make more palpable the non-violence of Jesus and of the original Christian community. Cardinal Joseph Bernadine, the chair of the committee chosen to compose the pastoral on which the Bishops' Conference would vote, responded by asking the gathering of Bishops to reject the requested change because "it would undermine the planned ambiguity of the document."
One of the practical difficulties of the Petrine ministry as it presently is structured and administered is that it is very often impossible to determine if the Successor to Peter is speaking to Catholics or to Christians in general or to humanity as a whole. It is very often equally difficult to determine if he is speaking as the Pope, as a Catholic or Christian or as a human being with a point of view. I am not referring here to an infallible proclamation, which must always be unequivocally and explicitly declared by the Pope to be such. There can be no ambiguity about a statement or writing being an ex cathedra infallible dogma in the area of faith or morals, e.g., the Dogmas of the Immaculate Conception (Pope Pius IX, 1854) and Assumption (Pope Pius XII, 1950). An ambiguity about whether a declaration by a Pope is infallible means it is not infallible. So infallible Papal statements are not the concern here.
The concern here is the thousand upon thousands of other ideas a Pope expresses publicly. From what principles is he speaking? To what audience is he speaking? What degree of spiritual, theological or moral authority, short of infallibility, do his utterances carry beyond that of any reasonable person—and for whom?
If the Pope is saying something simply as a reasonable person to other people, that carries no more authority than the self-evident truth-quality of his premises, the accuracy of his logic and the consistency of his conclusions with his premises and logic will permit. This is precisely the situation that exists for every human being who honestly communicates with another human being about some matter. The problem enters in when it cannot be ascertained whether the Pope is speaking from self-evident premises that can be known and validated or invalidated by any human being as self-evidently true. Or, whether he is speaking from premises that are derived from the authority of His faith in Jesus Christ as Lord, God and Saviour, which he is logically applying to some aspect or another of the human condition. If the latter is the case, the self-evident truth of these faith-based premises is not self-evident to someone outside the Pope's faith consciousness, and therefore norms of behaviour that can be logically derived from them are not universally true for all people, and hence no person or group outside of the Pope's faith is or can be expected to follow them—let alone be coerced into following them.
With the above in mind, examine Pope Francis' statement to reporters on his flight back to Rome from Korea. "In these cases, where there is an unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor. I underscore the verb'stop.' I'm not saying 'bomb' or 'make war,' just 'stop.' And the means that can be used to stop them must be evaluated." Is Francis speaking here as just one human being communicating his reasonable understanding of what should be done to other human beings? Or, is he speaking here out of his faith in Jesus Christ as his Lord, God and Saviour, and as the definitive revealer of God and God's will to humanity?
If it is the former I would suggest there would be no shortage of human beings who would have one or more bones to pick with him over the reasonableness of his statement in its premises and application. Depending on whose ox is being gored and what information people are allowed to know, they may see ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Israel, Hamas, the US, Britain or France as an unjust aggressor. However, within these groups they and their supporters see themselves as justified employers of violence. So by what reasonable standard is "unjust aggression" determine? If a group is firing a guns at people today, who have been firing guns at them for decades, does that mean that a violent response to such a history is unjust aggression? If a group is fighting to get back land it had lived on for the thousands of years and that was stolen by murderous violence from them, is that unjust aggression? If a group is trying to protect by violence its people from those who hate them and have killed them in the past, or if a religious faith is trying to preserve itself from having the perversities of those who don't belong to it imposed upon them, is that unjust aggression? If massive financial investments that a group has made in a geographical area are on the verge of being taken or destroyed, is that groups violence unjust aggression? If a religious group is being decimated by another religious group who is sending hundreds of thousands of adherents thousands of miles to cross borders and kill and maim millions of the first groups people, is the first religious group's violence unjust aggression? As a reasonable man making a reasonable proposal on stopping unjust aggression Francis cannot leave the term 'unjust aggressor' hanging out there without telling people what this term reasonably means to him. Without a definition of "unjust aggression," how does one reasonably know whom to stop? Ambiguity here reduces such a statement to a banal platitude. Is voicing banal, reasonable platitudes what the Petrine Ministry was instituted by Jesus for?
Beyond this, why isn't bombing and making war on unjust aggressors the right way of reasonably stopping them? And by what reasonable moral standard does one evaluate what are the moral means to stop an unjust aggression. Assuming Francis is speaking here as one reasonable person to another, if he were asked the question in a college class that the reporters on the plane asked him regarding cross border intervention, and he answered it the way he responded to reporters, I think he might be given an 'F,' because his reasonable answer is so full of reasonable loopholes that it amounts to a non-answer. It is a highly ambiguous Rorschach answer into which each person or group can project anything it wants to see into it or put anything it wants to do under its moral canopy. It functions in the human condition exactly as the perfidious Christian Just War Theory does. Its ambiguity serves as a moral carte blanche for doing what Jesus taught must not be done.
Therein lies the difficulty with the planned ambiguity that results in not knowing whether the Vicar of Christ and Vicar of St. Peter is only speaking as an intelligent, well meaning, reasonable human being, or is speaking as the Rock of faith, the Rock of the Church, adhering to the commission he and the other Apostles were explicitly given by Jesus, after His resurrection:"Teach them to obey all that I have commanded you" (Mt 28:19).


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I mean, if you've missed the other tutorials on the chicken stock and cornbread, I don't know what to tell you.
Here's the video for the chicken stock:
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About 4-5 cups of chicken stock
2 cups of cream of chicken soup
1/2 cup of diced onion
1/2 cup of diced bell pepper
12 cup of diced celery
2 cups of chopped chicken
1 tablespoon of poultry seasoning
1 tablespoon of dried Italian herbs
1/2 tablespoon of black pepper
1/2 stick of butter
1/2 cup of vegetable oil
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large skillet, sauté the onion, bell pepper, and celery in butter until they're soft.
3. Add the cooked vegetable to a large bowl. Add the crumbled cornbread along with chicken, cream of chicken soup, seasonings, and oil.
4. Add in the chicken stock a few cups at a time. You want the mixture to moist. Then, add to a casserole dish and bake in the oven for about 35 minutes or until the dressing is golden brown.
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I came across this simple expression while doing some maths.
Is this correct? How do we prove it?
I came across this simple expression while doing some maths.
Is this correct? How do we prove it?
Seems to be correct.
by definition.
We start with
The chain rule says that for any two functions and ...
Applying the chain rule:Originally Posted by Chain Rule
By our definition, this is equivalent to .
So . Done.
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Wow, I realized that I had indeed overcomplicated it. Going back to edit again...
p.s. All in all, just know that the same basic rules of differentiation apply to unspecified functions. You'll just be left with more unspecified functions in your answer.
Since we're dealing with functions of , you'll be using the chain rule a lot.
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So the basic rules of differentiation (product rule, constant multiple, chain, etc.) are general formulae derived via the difference quotient. Doesn't that mean that any function that can be differentiated with them can also be done directly by the difference quotient? (though certainly not as easily in general)
In fact all of mathematics is derivable from the Zermelo Fraenkel axioms, plus the Axiom of Choice and the various definitions. That is what mathematics is all about.
I was asking if a function that can be differentiated by basic plug-and-chug rules (product, constant multiple, chain, etc.) can also be derived directly from a difference quotient, since the difference quotient is what gives rise to those rules. However it was a rather odd question, since the particular difference quotient makes for the definition of the derivative. So it's obviously true, as you pointed out.
Another question to continue... Can we go even further in saying that one can pretty much derive all elementary calculus simply from the limit? It seems one need only to apply the concept of the limit in a geometric sense to define the derivative of a curve, and likewise for the definite integral via Riemann sums.
There are very few actual assumptions in mathematics. In a formal sense those assumptions are the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms of set theory plus the Axiom of Choice.
On a slightly less formal basis one can use the Peano axioms in place of the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms. Both are in essence nothing more than the assumption of the natural numbers (0,1,2,3,4,...) . From that small set of assumptions, with some definitions one can construct the integers, the rational numbers, the real numbers and the complex numbers. From there you can get a great deal of mathematics. Add in the axiom of choice (given a collection of non-empty sets there is a function from that collection to their union that assigns to each set a member of the set) and all of the rest of mathematics (with the exception of elements of logic that study this process in an abstract fashion) follows.
If you want to see the various number systems developed from the Peano axioms, Landau's little book Foundations of Analysis is the place to look (there are other sources as well but this one is very direct and a very thin book). But bewarned, it is telegraphic and dry, something to be read once. You can read it over a short weekend. Also note that there are other ways to do the same thing that Landau does in his book -- he shows the development of the real number systems using Dedekind cuts, but it can also be done using equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences, the point being that in mathematics it is common for there to be different ways to approach something that result in the same end product even though the paths taken to reach that end can appear to be quite different.
You do not really derive mathematics, but rather construct it. The difference is that in constructing a mathematical theory one uses insight and imagination to make definitions that turn out to be useful. From those definitions, the basic axioms, and the consequences of those axioms and definitions made previously, one then applies logic to find the consequences.
Bottom line: You can do almost all of modern mathematics in many different ways, but ultimately it all boils down to a very few rather simple assumptions and the application of logic to some useful definitions.
You have seen only the tip of the iceberg. Elementary calculus is only a beginning and really it serves to give you an intuitive feel for the branch of mathematics called "analysis". More advanced analysis uses an extension of the Riemann integral, called the Legesgue-Steltjes integral that is able to handle more fuctions and to handle limiting operations that the Riemann iintegral cannot. Even the notion of the derivative can be generalized, to functions of several variables by using linear algebra and to functions that are not even continuous using the theory of Laurent distributions. You are several years of hard study away from these subjects.
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I got out, exhausted and disillusioned, of politics and community activity about eight years ago (although I still teach and write about it), but now something has happened to drag me back in.
The night before last I went to an inaugural meeting for a local group of NO2ID, the non-partisan campaign against the government's plan to introduce identity cards and, far more sinister, a national identity database that will hold at least fifty different pieces of information about each and every one of us, accessible by all government departments, much of the rest of the public sector and probably, ultimately, private businesses too. (And that's just those with legitimate access. It is inevitable that the register will be misused and the information held get into unauthorised hands.) It will be the responsibility of each of us as individuals to ensure that the information held on us is correct - with a £1,000 fine if it isn't - but we won't have the ability to amend it.
What's this got to do with boats? Well, it has already been noted (I think by the Residential Boat Owners' Association) that the requirement to register a permanent address at which you live (i.e. not just for mail) is going to present problems for continuous cruisers. But it goes beyond that - you will be required to inform the government if you are going to be away from your registered address for any period of more than three months, and tell them where they can find you. So there goes that long cruise.
If you care about your privacy; if you believe that your rights aren't just given to you as a favour by the government but are something bigger than that that should protect you from the state; if you don't want to live in a country where you daren't leave home without your pass card, then please go to NO2ID and support the campaign in whatever way you can.
And if you think that ID cards might be a good idea, that they could help fight crime and terrorism, and that 'if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear', then please go to NO2ID and find out the real facts.
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Another admirable politician – Tony Benn
Some thoughts from Tony Benn's Salter Lecture in Canterbury, organised by the Quaker Socialist Society – August 2011
Tony Benn opened by remarking on the size of the huge crowd gathered to listen to him. He thought that this reflected the fact that there are a lot of people in Britain who are beginning to question the society in which we live and worry about the future and how it's going to be tackled.
Enclosed land was the source of political and economic power which became absolutely dominant
"It's a fact today that the richest man in Britain is, I think, from the Grosvenor family which own most of London, so if you live in London, and you buy a house, you probably buy it from the Grosvenors, or if you rent a house, you rent it from the Grosvenors, and that has brought them a great deal of money.
Power became more and more concentrated in fewer and fewer hands
"And of course land carries with it the ownership of what is under the land, which is coal, copper, oil – so those who owned the land became enormously powerful, and that was the position until we came to the Industrial Revolution, when those who had the money acquired the companies which we had in modern capitalist society – the first capitalist empire in the world I suppose is Britain – and in those circumstances power became more and more concentrated in fewer and fewer hands . . . "
After reflecting on the extension of democracy in this country and campaigns culminating about a hundred years ago, when every man and woman had the vote, he added: "and what's happening in the Arab world now is an example of what happened in Britain many many years ago".
Out of the campaigns for the vote and for trade unions came the Labour Party and the socialist clause in its constitution, Clause 4, which said the object of the Labour Party was to secure for the workers by hand and by brain the full fruits of their industry and the best possible administration of each industry and service on a popular basis, i.e. democratic control of industry:
"Keir Hardie said at the beginning of the 20th century, we've got political democracy, now we want economic democracy."
Noting that the public now perceives the growth of international capital, enormously powerful multi-national organisations, he continued: "I remember when I was energy minister dealing with the oil companies, and they all had a navy far bigger than the British fleet, and they had enormous power, and they came here and wanted just to get control of the oil, and my job was to see that we got a better deal out of it."
Democracy was being over-topped by capitalist institutions which had their own criteria
The multi-national corporations were responsible for setting up institutions which are undemocratic, including the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations and the European Union and European Central Bank which are not elected but appointed by the national governments. As Mr Benn said:
"[A]t the moment when democracy was, on the one hand, beginning to spread its wings and have an impact on the way we were governed, on the other hand, democracy was being over-topped by capitalist institutions which had their own criteria. What we can see now are the problems we face as we go ahead . . .
"I think democracy at every level is the way that we are going to make progress. My mind goes back to 1944 when I was on a troop ship going to South Africa to train as an RAF pilot. In war-time, people were always discussing what would happen after the war – what are our war aims, what do we want? We had a meeting on war aims on this troop ship. One lad got up, and I've never forgotten what he said – "In the 1930s we had mass unemployment. We don't have mass unemployment in war-time. And if you can have full employment killing Germans, why can't you have full employment building hospitals, building schools, building homes, recruiting nurses, recruiting doctors" – and it was that that really explained the vote in 1945, for what we now call the Welfare State. It was a conscious decision to use the vote to change the political policy of the country in which you live – and very significant it was.
The development of the cooperative movement which has great potential
"Then you had of course the development of the cooperative movement which, as an alternative to capitalist ownership has great potential, because it does mean that the people who work in it do control it. They share the profits and share the objectives, and are an alternative to competitive capitalism. I think the cooperative movement has an enormous part to play, and I would like to see it able to do so. . . out of this type of cooperation you get better equality of income, and when you look at the enormous billions paid out in the profits to the banks, compared to what the banks pay their own employees, you realise that equality is a fundamental requirement of a fair society.
"So, there we are – those are the thoughts that I have as I look at these things, and certainly all this links very closely to the question of peace. Because you cannot have peace without justice. If people feel they have been badly treated, someone will take to the sword. And with nuclear weapons at the disposal of governments, the possibility that this might end in a catastrophe for the human race cannot be ruled out . . . The danger that this poses to our survival is so great that we have got to look again at the way in which we organise our world and particularly our international organisations, to see that they serve our need and are not there just in the pursuit of profit."
Get to the root of what causes inequality and deal with it
After pointing out that justice requires more than palliative measures, "going along and helping people who have a rough deal": you have to get to the root of what causes inequality and deal with it, he ended:
"I think this is where our democracy failed in a way because, without being too critical, when I look back at my period as a minister, I think that what the Labour Party was at the time was a team of people with a plan for making capitalism work slightly better; and the Conservative Party similarly was a party with a plan of people who thought that they could make capitalism a little bit better; but nobody in the public arena was really discussing the fundamentals which I have tried to touch on now, about why it is that there should be such enormous amount of power – unaccountable – and how it clashes with those who want to control their own lives."
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Surfaces and Strategies Week 4: Stratergies of Freedom – No Camera's allowed.
Week 4 on my MA is about strategies of freedom, moreover about creating an image without using a camera. As a starter, we were asked to find a photograph that had not been taken by a human. This picture was taken by a monkey using a photographers camera. The