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The golden coins of Cretan State
By a 1900 Decree of the High Commissioner of Crete, the Cretan State had the right to issue coins.Unit of exchange was drachma with a 100 lepta subdivision. This decree was also referring the cutting of 10 and 20 drachmas gold coins to serve transactions, both public and private of any amount. Their features are shown in the adjacent table and are exactly the same as the mints of King George A.
The table belongs to S.Gardiakos:The coinage of modern Greece,Crete,Cyprus.
Silver Phoenix
In 1828, the silver Phoenix coin and its copper subdivisions were issued.The value of the silver however was worth more than the value of the coin, and so,some melted the coins and received their melt value.When this became known,there was already issued 13,612 silver coins and governor Kapodistrias stopped issuing them.
Coin Condition
There has been much confusion over coin grading. An understanding of grading is essential to anyone active in the hobby or who has old coins to sell. Correct grading is the basis for the proper evaluation of coins. How well a coin is preserved or how badly it is worn has a great deal to do with what it is worth. The asking price for a superior condition specimen can run ten or more times as much as for exactly the same coin in poor condition. For instance watch carefully the images to the left.
Murano's reputation as a glass work center has its origins in 1291 when the Venetian glassmakers were ordered to install their workshops there for safety reasons of fire.From next century until today Murano began exports and became famous for the production of glass and high quality crystal , enamel , glass with gold and colorful glass developing or improving many techniques such as millefiori,aventurine,lattimo etc.Thus the glassmakers of Murano quickly become the richest and most prominent residents . Since about 1400 they were allowed the honor to carry swords ,they enjoyed immunity from prosecution by the Venetian state and marry their daughters with members of the wealthiest families of Venice.
"This company was the pioneer of producing plastic toy soldiers in Greece. The earliest evidence of PAL existence that I have dates back at 1956. The company must have been founded a bit earlier. The founder of this company was Photis Papadimitriou, a young doctor, who suddenly and sadly passed away in 1958. PAL figures were plastic and they are identified by the nail that joins the movable arm to the body of the figure. PAL figures were aesthetically and technologically advanced given the time they were produced. Most of them are 54mm, in size. PAL figures depicted units of the Greek Army but surprisingly, PAL included in its range Scotch Guards, Royal Marines and Ludhiana Sikhs! These figures, although bigger, are much like Heralds. Founding a toy soldier company in Greece back in the 50s, was not the most obvious thing that a young doctor (and also son of a hospital-owner), would had done. So I strongly believe that the late Papadimitriou must have been a hobbyist and a collector of toy soldiers himself. Hence and the production of the three above mentioned figures. PAL lost its momentum as a result of the sad loss of its owner and eventually was absorbed by "Athena" sometime in the late 60s. Most of their figures were included in Athena's production."
Markos Plytas,Greek Plastic Toy Soldiers from the 50s and 60s
Drachma's recall
Otto besides the monetary system of Kapodistrias decided to change the name of the base currency with a decree in February 20 ,1833. So the " drachma " name was chosen because it was the basic monetary unit of most ancient Greek cities. The mint of Kapodistrias was abandoned completely and opened a new one in Athens , with machines that came from Bavaria , in Klafthmonos Square.
Phoenix was the first silver coin which was first released in 1828 in the state of modern Greece .It was divided into "lepta" (1 Phoenix=100lepta).It's name comes from the mythical bird Phoenix which is reborn from its ashes and so it symbolized the rebirth of the country.
Two watermarks of 1970's grand
From the printing of Greek banknotes of 1956 there was excess paper with watermark 'Aphrodite of Knidos'. Therefore it was decided to use it for the 1970's grand until depletion of stock, since it had the same dimensions. The rest of the banknotes were printed with new paper with watermark the head of 'Adolescent of Antikythera', which was already used at the time.
In the late 17th and early 18th century in Greece the silver craftsmen to manufacture 'inferior' jewelry they distorted silver with a metal alloy, the agiari. That was copper and brass. Therefore, in order to whiten the 'dirty' and non-shiny effect of this mixture they used arsenic. So the jewelry that was made in this way are called 'farmakera' which means poisonous.
Protopapadakis's Half Banknotes
The resources of Greece have been exhausted due to war in Minor Asia and the European forces were unwilling to provide a loan. Increasing the taxes was not a solution and also there was already a large quantity of unsecured paper money. Protopapadakis had a radical idea; he devided the banknotes in half. The left half was even with the half value of the initial banknote and the right half was a treasury bond even with the half value of the initial banknote. This was a very successful action because it brought a huge income in no time for funding war and avoided inflation.
Origin of the Greek word "Chrima"
The Greek word ΧΡΗΜΑ (CHRIMA) which means money comes from the ancient Greek verb ΧΡΗ (CHRI) which means "I Need".
Coin's various names
Many coins are named after units of weight measurement such us lira , marko , English pound and Greek ancient talando ( τάλαντο ).The franc was named after the medieval coins lettering REX FRANCORUM which means KING OF FRANCS. Finally the coin of Florence called florin was named after the engraved flower on it.
The Greek word drachma ( δραχμή ) comes from the ancient Greek verb seize (δράττω ). It actually means the quantity of something that you can keep in your palm.
Origin of TALER
The German word Tal means valley. Joachmistal is a valley of Bohemia which was rich in silver , from which silver coins were made. These coins were named Joachimstaler and in shortcut TALER. The Greek name taliro , the dollar and the taler were named after these coins.
- B. Petousis | S.Gardiakos | Hans Holzer | Wikipedia.gr | Eranistis.net | Coinsmania.gr | Aohna.gr

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December 4th, 2018 by WCBC Radio
Comptroller Franchot will spend Thursday afternoon in Western Maryland, beginning at Buttercup Boutique in Cumberland, where he will continue his annual Shop Maryland for the Holidays Tour and present owner Marcy Dearcangelis with a proclamation to recognize the store's success. The statewide tour is hosted by the Comptroller along with the Maryland Retailers Association to encourage Marylanders to shop locally instead of shopping online or at out-of-state businesses.
On his next stop, the Comptroller will visit Olympia Candy Kitchen in Hagerstown where he will present a proclamation to owner Tony Pananes in recognition of the shop's 115 years of business, including 30-plus at its Hagerstown location.
Mr. Franchot will then travel to Frederick where he will visit La Nice Boutique, which specializes in gifts, home decor and women's accessories. There, he will present a proclamation to owner Veronica Burnside in recognition of the business' success.
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The Murray County Public Schools system instills within our students the desire to learn, to graduate from high school, and to become productive citizens. The system's vision of "committed to student success, no exceptions, no excuses" echoes through the system. Murray County Public Schools consistently exceed the state average on the College and Career Readiness Index, indicating that our students are well prepared for college and the workforce when they graduate.
Murray County Public Schools, in partnership with Georgia Northwestern Technical College and Dalton State College, has one of the leading dual enrollment programs in the state. In addition to dual enrollment opportunities, where high school students can simultaneously earn high school and college credits, Murray County Public Schools has a strong, work-based learning component, connecting students' previous classroom learning and career goals with "real world" work environments.
Dalton State College, only minutes from Murray County, is an institution of the University System of Georgia that offers targeted bachelor's degrees, a full range of associate's degrees and career certificate programs, and a wide variety of public service activities, thereby enhancing the region's economic vitality and quality of life. DSC has an enrollment of more than 5,000 students, including nearly 400 high school students who are dual enrolled.
Murray County is also served by Georgia Northwestern Technical College. With programs of study in business, health, industrial, and public service available, students have the opportunity to earn an associate's degree, diploma, or a career certificate. GNTC is the largest college in Northwest Georgia and fifth largest technical college in the state with an annual credit enrollment of 7,750 students at six convenient campus locations in the region. GNTC gives Murray County's qualified employers access to Georgia's highly acclaimed Quick Start program that provides workforce-training services free of charge. From pre-employment assessment to customized, job-specific training that delivers exactly the skills your business needs, Quick Start is an invaluable resource for employers, trainees, and communities.


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How do you make your Call Centre GDPR Ready?
The GDPR is fast approaching and promises to have a significant impact on the future of the contact center, with new regulations around the handling of the personal data of E.U. individuals.
As a result, contact centre leaders will need to make significant changes to their operations to improve standards around privacy and data protection – focusing on everything from skills upgrades to new policies, workflows and roles.
But what does that actually mean in practice? Martin Hill-Wilson, an expert on GDPR and customer service, explores the key points in the GDPR and what organisations should be concentrating on between now and 25th May 2018.
This whitepaper, "GDRP: How it Changes your Contact Centre", covers:
- The difference between data controllers and processors, and their obligations.
- The responsibilities on call centres when it comes to an individual's right to transparency and to change inaccurate data.
- The steps necessary to demonstrate accountability and governance.
- How organisations must guarantee visibility of data flows across the entire value chain, call centres included.
- The role that technology can play in helping business be GDPR compliant.


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How are appointments scheduled?
Do I stay with my child during the visit?
What about finances?
Our Office Policy Regarding Dental Insurance
How are appointments scheduled?
Our office attempts to schedule appointments at your convenience and when time is available. Children tend to do better in the dental office when they are not tired. Therefore, we encourage morning appointments, especially for preschool or nervous children. One of our goals is providing dentistry that is as pleasant as possible for your child, and appropriate scheduling may help us achieve this goal. Also keep in mind that a dental appointment is an excused absence from school.
We make every effort to see your child on time. For this reason, we ask that you arrive a few minutes before your scheduled time. We also require a 24 hour notice for cancellations. We need this amount of time so that we may contact a child from our waiting list to offer the appointment. If we do not receive 24 hour notice, we reserve the right to charge your account a broken appointment fee. We realize that unexpected things can happen, but we ask for your assistance in this regard.
Do I stay with my child during the visit?
We invite you to stay with your child during the initial examination. During future appointments, we suggest you allow your child to accompany our staff through the dental experience. We can usually establish a closer rapport with your child when you are not present. Our purpose is to gain your child's confidence and overcome apprehension. However, if you choose, you are more than welcome to accompany your child to the treatment room. For the safety and privacy of all patients, other children who are not being treated should remain in the reception room with a supervising adult.
What about finances?
DELTA DENTAL and CIGNA DENTAL PPO participating office for children and adults
Delaware Medicaid for children only up to age 16.
Our office accepts most other insurances such as Met life, and Aetna but are not contracted participating insurance providers.
Payment for professional services is due at the time dental treatment is provided. Every effort will be made to provide a treatment plan which fits your timetable and budget, and gives your child the best possible care. We accept cash, personal checks, debit cards and most major credit cards. Third Party financing is available through Care Credit,an outside dental financing company.
Our Office Policy Regarding Dental Insurance
If we have received all of your insurance information on the day of the appointment, we will be happy to file your claim for you. You must be familiar with your insurance benefits, as we will collect from you the estimated amount insurance is not expected to pay.
By law your insurance company is required to pay each claim within 30 days of receipt. We file all insurance electronically so your insurance company will receive each claim within days of the treatment. You are responsible for any balance on your account after 30 days, whether insurance has paid or not. If you have not paid your balance within 60 days a finance charge of 1.5% will be added to your account each month until paid. We will be glad to send a refund to you once insurance has paid us.
PLEASE UNDERSTAND that we file dental insurance as a courtesy to our patients. We do not have a contract with your insurance company, only your employer does. We are not responsible for how your insurance company handles its claims or for what benefits they pay on a claim. We can only assist you in estimating your portion of the cost of treatment. We do not guarantee what your insurance will or will not do with each claim.
Our office will be happy to send in a pretreatment estimate to the insurance company. This means our office will send a copy of what dental work needs to be done to your dental insurance company. Your dental insurance company will process the pretreatment estimate and mail you a copy of your benefits. It will tell you more precisely what the insurance will pay and what your co pay is.
Fact 1 - NO INSURANCE PAYS 100% OF ALL PROCEDURES
Many patients think that their insurance pays 90%-100% of all dental fees. This is not true! Most plans only pay between 50%-80% of the average total fee. Some pay more, some pay less. The percentage paid is usually determined by how much you or your employer has paid for coverage or the type of contract your employer has set up with the insurance company.
Fact 2 - BENEFITS ARE NOT DETERMINED BY OUR OFFICE
You may have noticed that sometimes your dental insurer reimburses you or the dentist at a lower rate than the dentist's actual fee. Frequently, insurance companies state that the reimbursement was reduced because your dentist's fee has exceeded the usual, customary, or reasonable fee ("UCR") used by the company.
A statement such as this gives the impression that any fee greater than the amount paid by the insurance company is unreasonable or well above what most dentists in the area charge for a certain service. This can be very misleading and simply is not accurate.
Insurance companies set their own schedules and each company uses a different set of fees they consider allowable. These allowable fees may vary widely because each company collects fee information from claims it processes. The insurance company then takes this data and arbitrarily chooses a level they call the "allowable" UCR Fee. Frequently this data can be three to five years old and these "allowable" fees are set by the insurance company so they can make a net 20%-30% profit.
Unfortunately, insurance companies imply that your dentist is "overcharging" rather than say that they are "underpaying" or that their benefits are low. In general, the less expensive insurance policy will use a lower usual, customary, or reasonable (UCR) figure.
Fact 3 - DEDUCTIBLES & CO-PAYMENTS MUST BE CONSIDERED
Dental Insurance benefits have changed in the last 20 years and it's not for the better! Many insurances are now collecting deductibles for preventive care( xrays, cleanings and fluoride treatments).
When estimating dental benefits, deductibles and percentages must be considered. To illustrate, assume the fee for service is $150.00. Assuming that the insurance company allows $150.00 as its usual and customary (UCR) fee, we can figure out what benefits will be paid. First a deductible (paid by you), on average $50, is subtracted, leaving $100.00. The plan then pays 80% for this particular procedure. The insurance company will then pay 80% of $100.00, or $80.00. Out of a $150.00 fee they will pay an estimated $80.00 leaving a remaining portion of $70.00 (to be paid by the patient). Of course, if the UCR is less than $150.00 or your plan pays only at 50% then the insurance benefits will also be significantly less.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, please keep us informed of any insurance changes such as policy name, insurance company address, or a change of employment.


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You can do anything as long as you put your mind to it. – Ann Quattrocchi*
When working for his first Silicon Valley start-up in the late '80's he was described by a C-level Cisco executive as a "barbarian" who quickly added, "I mean that in a good way".…
Rich thrives on variety, building new things and risk taking. Tell him it is impossible, and he will prove you wrong. If there is a barrier to success, he will go over it, around or through it.
Rich loves a challenge and thrives on start-up. As the Vice President of Digital Transformation at Mutare, he has found his dream job. Rich and his cadre of technology professionals have taken on the task to digitally transform voice messaging for a new generation of technology savvy workers.
Mutare has digitally transformed voice messaging workflow, with a novel technology designed to help businesses increase sales, decrease costs and meet regulatory compliance.
Rich is a graduate of the University of Illinois with degrees in Liberal Arts and Science and Flight Degree in Aviation. He holds six patents and is going for number 7 for the underlying technology for Mutare Voice™.
* Rich only wishes his Mom was still with us because she would believe all the things you just read.


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On-seam side pockets add convenience to this women's stripe tunic with subtle multi-color flecks within the white stripes. Cut with a flattering hi-lo hem, it falls just right as you tuck your hands in for a stroll.
Content & Care
- 100% cotton
- Machine wash cold with like colors
- Do not bleach
- Line dry
- Cool iron as needed
Fit & Detail
- Tunic
- Point collar
- Applied placket
- Forward angle seams with pockets
- 3/4 sleeve with turn-back cuff
- Slight hi-lo shaped hem
- 30" center back length on a size 8


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The region has its beginning in the Vedic times and was known as Vanga. The Aryans settled here after the Vedic period and many principalities and kingdoms were formed. The dynasties of Palas, the Pundras, Guptas, Mauryas and the Sens ruled over the region before the Mughals took control. The strategic location led to trade with the South East Asian countries especially Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar. Muslim influence was responsible for a rich culture and art. The ease of access brought the Portuguese, Dutch and French influence to its art and culture. The British successfully brought the modern education to Bengal and to this date, Calcutta has been considered the land of intelligentsia. No wonder that most of the Nobel Prizes for India have come from this State; Tagore, Bhabha, Mother Teresa and Amartya Sen.
The State has the alluvial plains known as the "dooars" in the South & the mountainous Himalaya in the North. The diversed geography of Bengal is always fascinating. The Darjeeling district is known as her scenic beauty & the tea. The dence forest region of Dooars is renowned by its collection of rich flora & fauna. The alluvial plains in the South are the basin of river Damodar, also known as the "Sorrow Of Bengal". Other main rivers are Ganga & Hoogly. The coastal fringes of Midnapore have a curios mix of large shifting sand dunes & marshes. The district 24 pargana (South) has Sundarbans, the largest delta consists of swamps, quick sand & thick, impenetrable mangrove forest belt.
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My wife requested I make dressing vanity/make-up tables for our sons' girlfriends. She gave me the rough dimensions and design ideas and I took it from there.
Same dimensions and materials as one I posted here, Dressing/Make-Up Vanity #1. Main carcass dimensions are 18" deep x 48" wide x 13 1/2" tall. The two lift top boxes are 12" x 12" x 3 3/4" tall. Mirror came from local big 'blue' store and I simply traced a backer board.
Surprisingly, the gray paint was simply some spray primer she pulled off my shelf and said, "Try this." I top coated it with satin lacquer. Like the other vanity, I was very skeptical of the color, but the white hardware really finished it off nicely.
-- Rick - I know I am not perfect, but I will keep pressing on toward the goal of becoming all I am called to be.
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#1 posted 11-05-2018 04:48 AM
Very Nice & Well Done Rick!
Now I get it! I thought someone by the Name of "Rick" had Criticized You and you were explaining things to Him,
Rick S.
-- Richard (Ontario, CANADA)
#2 posted 11-05-2018 05:23 AM
Wow, very nice.
-- I've quickly learned that being a woodworker isn't about making flawless work, rather it's fixing all the mistakes you made so that it appears flawless to others! Jay - FL
#3 posted 11-05-2018 11:47 AM
No doubt the paint came from a naval surplus store !! (another funny!)
I think I will nick name it the Missouri Vanity #2
Nice handles.!
-- Regards Rob
#4 posted 11-06-2018 12:14 AM
Thanks for your kind comments.
LOL Rick S… I can see how one could think that. That statement is from my 'life verse', Philippians 3:13-14
That's funny Rob, this old body does 'crack and pop' alot when training for a marathon or Ironman. But that's not where it came from. My father-in-law has called me 'Chief Crack N Pop' for over 25 years… I'm a chiropractor. :^)
-- Rick - I know I am not perfect, but I will keep pressing on toward the goal of becoming all I am called to be.
#5 posted 11-06-2018 07:11 AM
Oh yes a bit obvious once explained !
-- Regards Rob
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06 Oct Removing Lice And Nits From Fine Hair
Removing lice and nits from children who have fine hair is very hard even for professionals. Once an egg or nit hatches the shell remains attached to the hair strand and continues to grow out with the hair it will never just fall off and needs to be manually removed. When these nits are empty and there is nothing for the comb to grab onto they will stay stuck in the hair as the comb will not be able to grab them and pull them out. You may have heard stories of people who tried every single product on their kids and they just never worked. This scenario is probably the main reason why those over the counter lice remedies did not work. Simple Head Lice Solutions has a variety of specified products that can help combat this fine hair battle.
What Special Products Can We Use?
Our Shell Out Softening Serum is our number one product for eliminating these empty nit shells or casings. The process of applying the serum and using heat literally melts the shells or casings off the hair strand making the removal with a comb more effective even fine and thin hair! The longer you keep the serum in your hair the more effective it will be in helping to dissolve those stubborn nits or casings. Make sure the product is applied all the way from the root of the hair to the tips. Apply a shower cap to help retain the heat from the hair as heat helps to melt them off. Once you have sat with the product on covering all the hair you can start your combing process! You purchase our serum here.
It's All About Your Lice Removal Comb!
Simple Head Lice Solutions sells Nit Free Terminator Combs and we also use them when we provide our professional lice removal services. This comb is the number one comb used by professional nit pickers.
We use this comb specifically because the teeth are very very tight. The teeth are also spiral and micro grooved helping you to remove even the tiniest nits. You can purchase our comb online here.
With fine hair it is so important to get a good amount of friction between the teeth of your comb to make sure your ensuring removal of those shells or casings. If your not pulling enough hair through the comb the eggs, shells, or nits are going to just slide right through the teeth.
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Strengthen Your Home
Some of the easier things you can do around your home before a storm hits land is to;
Cover windows with either shutters that fit the entirety of the windows or attach the proper size plywood. If you don't want to or are unable to tackle the project yourself, ask for referrals from friends or shutter companies in your area.
Trim trees so that the old and dead limbs don't break off and become projectiles, however, you may want to leave it to the professionals that are certified arborists in your area.
Secure loose outdoor furniture by either taking them inside or tying down the heavier items. If you don't need it, move it to an inside location. If it's too heavy, you could hire someone.
Secure all doors as you would with the windows. Weather.gov advises to remember, the garage door is the most vulnerable part of the home, so it must be able to withstand the winds.
Move your cars to a safe location. Inside your garage would be the best place, however, not all garages have room for all the vehicles. You could ask a friend who may have an empty stall to share.
Weather.gov advises, if you plan to ride out the storm in your home, make sure it is in good repair and up to local hurricane building code specifications. Many of these retrofits do not cost much or take as long to do as you may think.
According to FloridaDisaster.org, there are 5 critical areas that should be inspected and reinforced on your home to possibly reduce the amount of wind damage. Roofs, Straps, Windows, Doors, and Garage doors. Please refer to their website for more information.
Have you ever given thought to preparing a safe room should you are unable to leave and have to seek shelter within your home?
Fema is a resource that has some great information about preparing a safe room in your home. They go on to explain that extreme windstorms in many parts of the country pose a serious threat to buildings and their occupants. Your residence may be built "to code," but that does not mean it can withstand winds from extreme events such as tornadoes and major hurricanes. The purpose of a safe room or a wind shelter is to provide a space where you and your family can seek refuge that provides a high level of protection.
You can build a safe room in one of several places in your home: Atop a concrete slab-on-grade foundation or garage floor or an interior room on the first floor. To protect its occupants, a safe room must be built to withstand high winds and flying debris, even if the rest of the residence is severely damaged or destroyed.
Consider the following when building a safe room:
• The safe room must be adequately anchored to resist overturning and uplift.
• The walls, ceiling, and door of the shelter must withstand wind pressure and resist penetration by windborne objects and falling debris.
• The connections between all parts of the safe room must be strong enough to resist the wind.
• Sections of either interior or exterior residence walls that are used as walls of the safe room, must be separated from the structure of the residence so that damage to the residence will not cause damage to the safe room.
If you are unable to evacuate, go to your wind-safe room.
If you do not have one, follow these guidelines:
• Stay indoors during the hurricane and away from windows and glass doors.
• Close all interior doors—secure and brace external doors.
• Keep curtains and blinds closed. Do not be fooled if there is a lull; it could be the eye of the storm—winds will pick up again.
• Take refuge in a small interior room, closet, or hallway on the lowest level.
• Lie on the floor under a table or another sturdy object.
Be sure to check with your local authorities, each have pages of information you can refer to particular to the city where you live. The building department is a great resource to use as well.


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With our 4 Nights and 5 Days 'Journey to the Land of Peaceful Dragon' tour, come to visit this beautiful Himalayan country which has successfully maintained its authentic nature amidst the daunting reality of climate change. It will be a meaningful journey for those who wish to find something relatable in this world.
The country has long maintained its rich Buddhist culture impressively and there are yet many mysteries which needs to be explored once. Through this tour, we will let you walk through those mysteries and give you a chance to admire this country's eye-catching beauty. The places that you will cover during this tour are Thimphu, Punakha, Paro, etc.
So, book yourself for this blissful journey and spend five days in this beautiful country. Leave your mundane life behind and work your way with a journey of a lifetime with this package.
Thimphu Punakha Wangdue Phodrang Paro Tour Itinerary
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|Thimphu – Punakha – Wangdue Phodrang – Paro
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Day 01: Arrival at Paro Airport – Transfer to Thimphu
Upon arrival at the Paro Airport, please look for Atlas Travel's tour manager who will then assist you in your transfer to Thimphu. The tour manager will escort you to your hotel room and with that, the rest of the day is at your disposal to spend it the way you like.
Meals Included- Breakfast
Day 02: Thimphu City Tour – Transfer to Punakha
After having a delicious breakfast, begin your second day of the trip with the Thimphu city tour. The famous attraction which you will be visiting in this city is the National library, Handicraft Centre, Folk Heritage Museum, Motithang Takin Preserve, Buddha Dordenma Statue, and National Memorial Chorten.
At National Library, you will get to see some ancient Buddhist manuscripts which are held as a treasure at this place. And at the Handicraft centre, your wish to purchase the hand-woven textiles and other craft product will be fulfilled.
In the evening, you will check-out of your hotel room and carry on the expedition towards your next destination, Punakha. While going to Punakha, you will enjoy a short break at DO Chula Pass which is a very mesmerizing place to see.
And finally, enjoy your overnight stay at Punakha and mark it as the end of day 2 out of your package.
Meals Included- Breakfast
Day 03: Punakha City Tour – Wangdue Phodrang – Transfer to Paro
After having breakfast, get ready for a full-day tour to the city of Punakha but before that the representative will direct you towards checking-out of your hotel room. Because you will be staying in Paro at night.
The famous attraction that you will visit in Punakha will be Punakha Dzong, Khamsum Yu Namgyal Chorten, and a shopping ride to its local market. Later, you will leave for Wangdue Phodrang which is famous for its bamboo products. And after that, you will leave for you next destination-Paro.
Finally, enjoy your overnight stay at Paro and mark it as the end of day 3 out of your package.
Meals Included- Breakfast
Day 04: A Sightseeing Tour to Paro
After having a breakfast, get ready to step towards an exciting sightseeing tour to Paro. During this tour, you will pay a brief visit to the ruins of Drukgyal Dzong, National Museum, and Paro Dzong. There are some famous eateries places where you can have a taste of true Bhutanese delicacies at this place.
In the afternoon, the tour manager will assist toward the next tourist spot in Paro, Base of Tiger's Nest. There are many activities celebrated here at this place like horse ride so unleash your inner child and enjoy a fun-filled day.
Finally, in the evening return to your hotel room for an overnight stay and mark it as the end of day 4 out of your package.
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Daily Thoughts 7/23/2009
I finished reading Sarah Micklem's book Wildfire. The book is full of surprises and did not turn out how I expected at all. I am thinking about how I am going to review it. It is quite good, but it is also very visceral with lots of sex and violence. Surprisingly, this is not described in an inappropriate manner. The writing still maintains a strong sense of style and voice. I am going to review it in the next couple of days.
I spent some more time reading review material this morning. Later in the afternoon I took a few minutes to look at the Romantic Times Website and the Black Expressions site. I am looking for a good general place which lists recent novels translated into english.
We received two end slat wall panels for the "New Arrivals" area. This finishes the furnishings. It is looking excellent. We checked the bestseller lists to see if there were any to display in a bestsellers area. It turned out that all of our bestsellers are being checked out which is a very good sign for circulation.
I did a small amount of weeding in the large print also today. We are also shifting books in the 700s. Today has been a productive day.


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This week we are challenged to feature an image or images that say "achievement" to us. From the challenge post, "This week, show us a photo that says "achievement" to you: people meeting a long-worked-for goal. Something tangible you've created. A view from a journey you've completed, or the starting point of a journey not yet made or a project you hope to finish." Though the creator of the challenge mostly emphasizes individual achievement, as usual, I am taking a slightly different direction, collective achievement, specifically in creating large water management projects. You can read the original challenge post here.
The lead photo in my challenge entry features the magnificent, yet controversial, Glen Canyon Dam in Northern Arizona. The dam is a concrete arch, a seven year accomplishment that was completed in 1964.
The photo above features a hydraulic earthfill dam. Fort Peck Dam and Reservoir was a project of the Public Works Administration. Construction took seven years as well, and was completed in 1940. The dam is the largest hydraulically filled dam in the United States.
The greatest achievement featured in this challenge is the Panama Canal. The canal project started in 1880 and completed in 1914, with a gap of 11 years between 1893 and 1904 when the project transitioned from French administration to the United States. The image above features a freighter awaiting for the ship in the step-up lock to exit so that the water level in the lock can be lowered to the level of the freighter.
I submit for your consideration, a small gallery of images featuring these three major achievements in water management. Click on one of the images to enlarge it and to scroll through the gallery.
Oh, by the way, on the topic of personal achievement, my wife Lynn and I are most proud of our hiking achievements. Since retiring, our goal has been to hike 100 miles in Arizona, first in a year's time, and most recently in 100 days. You can read about the goal and see some great photos taken along the journey here.
To see more images of these watershed accomplishments, the links below will take you to my original blog posts on two of these major construction projects. In the near future, I will create a post focusing on a larger gallery of images taken at Glen Canyon Dam. In the meantime, I featured some images from the area around Page, Arizona in a previous photo challenge here.
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'Jetson' mobile app project iterations
Branding, Graphic Design, UI/UX
The Challenge: To create an identity for a Nestlé quick recipe website. The Idea: To create a swiping experience in order to quickly pick easy-to-make recipes with a modest price tag. The Result: A set of iterations that launched the initial design of the site.


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Apparently http://www.hockeyleaks.com is suggesting that there's a rumor for a deal to land Bouwmeester in Vancouver for the price of Grabner, Ohlund and a 1st.
I'd just like to say that this deal doesn't make a whole lot of sense, at least not for Vancouver. Some argue that Florida won't like this deal because they are giving away their star UFA for another UFA defenseman. But the thing is, it acutally make sense for the Panthers because they need a good D-man for their fight to get into the playoffs, and Ohlund can provide part of what they miss in J.Bo. Even if Ohlund doesn't sign with them next season, they'd still have Grabner – a great prospect, and a 1st rounder. No bad for an impending UFA, even if he is one of the best young D-man out there. At least I haven't heard rumors from other teams resembling anything close to this.
But it doesn't make any sense for the Canucks at all, simply because there's no way of knowing if J.Bo will sign back. If Gillis wanted assurance for heading into the playoffs, J.Bo instead of Ohlund isn't that big of an improvement, as Ohlund gives an extra element of leadership and confidence within the Canucks locker room. And to give up Grabner and another 1st for this is ridiculous. Gillis will be hanged for doing this trade. If the 1st-rounder is conditional, depending on whether J.Bo signs back, then at least it makes some sense.


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Morning walk, 30th May 2012
Sorry for the radio silence - camera batteries died half way through Wednesday's walk, which is somewhere DIFFERENT, but remains undocumented. This is what we call the Three Fields, or Pig, walk. Pigs were still in bed though. They don't believe in a world before 7.00 am.


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High temperature caution! but the heat sink is cold.
TELVM replied to Cixert's topic in Hardware HangoutThe "metallic sticker" is a soft metal thermal interface. Some Intel CPU heatsinks from around the turn of the century were "blessed" with this extremely inefficient "thermal solution": Itanium disassembly That crap needs to be completely removed and replaced with decent thermal paste, specially so when dealing with P4 Burnwood/Preshott furnaces.
High temperature caution! but the heat sink is cold.
TELVM replied to Cixert's topic in Hardware Hangout^ From the pic I assume you're talking about a side panel duct to feed cold air to CPU fan. A side panel duct is a cool (pun intended) idea for a P4, but unless it is well aligned with the CPU fan it might be doing more harm than good. If it is way misaligned I'd remove the duct and just leave the hole in the side panel. ^ I'd remove that crap from the bottom of the CPU heatsink and replace it with just any decent thermal paste. Buena suerte.
Allow me to resurrect this thread with proof of concept: I followed the Gigabyte Tool method and installed the OS swiftly and smoothly from a USB 3.0 flash drive. Windows 7 goes like a charm on this CPU and ASUS Prime X470-Pro mobo. Running Windows 7 on the recently launched Ryzen 3000 CPUs / X570 mobos requires more tinkering but is still doable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6_MdxMUpRE https://www.overclock.net/forum/13-amd-general/1731246-guide-fixing-windows-7-usb-support-matisse-ryzen-3000-zen-2-x370-x470.html
What is best Firefox version for Win-7?I switched from Firefox to Pale Moon many moons ago and never looked back.
.net 4.8 and vc++ redist telemetryI can tell you that the ".NET Runtime Optimization Service" (mscorsvw.exe) will connect outbund if you don't whack the mole.
Windows 7: Possible, Advisable, to Disable the Page File?Now we're talking: Intel Optane SSD 900P Review: 3D XPoint Unleashed
Microsoft fixes 'crazy bad' Windows vulnerability in Malware Protection EngineIt's Windows Defender (MsMpEng.exe). Ars - Massive vulnerability in Windows Defender leaves most Windows PCs vulnerable
KB40914 - Fix for Microsoft Pop up - Unsupported hardware message Also of interest: https://github.com/zeffy/kb4012218-19
Not really sure if this will help but worth a look: How to add a driver to the DriverStore folder
Heh heh, guess that whenever I run Windows 7 on Ryzen that will make me a blockade runner ... ... I like how that sounds.
Side to side comparison of Windows 7 vs The Abomination: Ryzen 7 1800X: Windows 7 vs. Windows 10 Gaming Performance No kidding.
Ex-microsoftie explains the reason: Microsoft Drops Windows 7/8.1 Support for AMD Ryzen & Intel Kaby Lake CPU & Lies About It - BUSTED! *Language warning for those sensitive to it*
Sorry, I forgot that they had ruined Magician, I'm on 4.95. Wouldn't touch 5.x (useless spyware, the sign of the times ). Even 4.x needs some kicking in the rear to behave: it loves phoning home, setting itself to autostart with Windows, and you can only truly close the bugger from the notification area. If it helps for peace of mind, I still keep some ~2010 vintage SSDs and they still run like champs (one of them in a retrocomp with 98/XP, so no TRIM). I would only worry about data retention if SSD was to remain unpowered for several months in a row (voltage drift and bit rot, specially if planar TLC NAND).
Quick & easy way to check partition alignment at a glance: http://www.techspot.com/downloads/6014-as-ssd-benchmark.html ^ It also benchmarks your SSDs. Whenever the internal SSD controller decides that the drive is being taxed lightly or not at all, it will do garbage collection. Modern SSDs are good at it, I would't lose sleep on that. But if we wish on the 850 EVO we can force TRIM commands at will with Magician > Perf Optimization.
I went a step beyond and have been installing the whole browser (Pale Moon portable) on ramdisk for years. Lightning quick browser experience. If it isn't already, don't forget to enable AHCI before installing or cloning system to SSD.
Actually wikipedia has a fairly decent entry on write amplification:
Windows 7 automatically aligns SSD correctly, no worries there. I'd go for the 850 EVO 250GB, works like a charm and its 3D TLC is more reliable than the usual planar TLC crap. You can partition the SSD as you like, no worries. All SSDs come with built-in OP (Over Provisioning) space to ease wear levelling, in the case of the 250GB 850 EVO OP is 9.1% of the 256GB raw NAND capacity (i.e. ~23GB, that's why formatted capacity is only 233GB). If you're paranoid about longevity, for peace of mind you can leave some space unpartitioned, and it will be automatically used as extra OP space by the SSD internal controller. Not really needed nowadays, unless you task the SSD extremely heavily writing dozens of GBs every day. You'll love how fast the system runs from an SSD and will never look back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5mFI9spp10 (Sorry can't post the video decently, this interface is ridiculous)
One would think that they can't to go any lower than this, but I'm sure they'll manage. EDIT - LOL just for the pleasure I wonder if a simple trick like this registry tweak could be enough to give them the finger.
Anandtech - How To Get Ryzen Working on Windows 7 x64 http://www.overclock.net/t/1624699/windows-7-and-ryzen-questions/30#post_25910913
AMD will provide Win 7 Drivers for Ryzenhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5rgmzg/amd_will_provide_win_7_drivers_for_ryzen/
Microsoft made 'em do it: The latest Kaby Lake, Zen chips will support only Windows 10 I HAD been following Zen's development with some interest. Not anymore.


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On Saturday (July 15th) you can see a free jazz concert at Casa da Música, the coolest and most importante music hall in Portugal. EMPATHIA Jazz Duo will be presenting their 3rd álbum, Cool Romantics, at the Super Bock stage (in the outside area). And it's free entrance!
Also on Sunday (July 16th), there's more jazz concerts for the music lovers out there! Serralves Museum will host the last performance of the 26th Jazz in the Park program. At 6pm, Joelle Léandre X 5 will be playing her double bass together with a group of portuguese female musicians. Not to mention Joelle Léandre is an icon of women's lib in music, so don't miss it!
And if you're heading to Serralves Museum, why not check some art exhibitions? The museum is hosting many diferente shows. At the Villa, you can see Nick Mauss' first solo show in Portugal, Intricate Others. In the museum, three diferente shows are happening: Julie Mehrethu is showing her paints and drawings in the exhibition A Universal History of Anything and Nothing; selected works of the museum's collection are displayed at the group show Serralves Collection: 1960-1980; and Splitting, Cutting, Writing, Drawing, Eating… presents the work of one of the most important artists from the 1970's, Gordon Matta-Clark. On the park, you can check the pavilions of Live Uncertainty: An Exhibition after the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo. Tons of art for you to discover!
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In 1985, archaeologists in downtown Toronto made a remarkable find. Beneath the old Sackville Street School playground were traces of a house, a shed, and a mysterious cellar. Municipal records revealed that the original landowner had been "Thornton Blackburn, cabman, colored." He and his wife were fugitive slaves from Kentucky who had settled in Toronto in 1834 and had gone on to become wealthy and successful businesspeople. The Thornton and Lucie Blackburn Site became the first archaeological dig on an Underground Railroad site in Canada.
The discovery of the Blackburns' legacy captured the popular imagination in ways no one could have foreseen. Between June and October 1985, the site received more publicity than any dig in Canadian history. Journalists from all over the world interviewed staff, produced television and radio programs, and published articles that appeared in newspapers from Kuwait to Japan. Respected scholars traveled to Toronto to discuss the findings. More than three thousand schoolchildren and members of the public participated in the summerlong dig. Thousands of fascinated visitors came to watch, intrigued by the painstakingly slow process of piecing together the story of two human lives, written there in the soil in fragments of pottery and bits of broken glass.
As the excavations progressed, historical research revealed tantalizing clues about the Blackburns' past. The trail led to a late-nineteenth-century newspaper article entitled "The First Cab in the City," written by John Ross Robertson, editor of the Toronto Telegram. It credited this pair of runaway American slaves with initiating Toronto's first taxi business. An abolitionist newspaper dating to 1851 showed Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn as leaders in the campaign to end slavery in the United States and to help its refugees make new homes once they reached freedom. Thornton's tall granite tombstone in the Toronto Necropolis revealed that he was born in Maysville, Kentucky, in about 1812. But the most intriguing information came from Michigan. The "Blackburn Riots of 1831" had erupted when slave catchers tried to return a man named Thornton Blackburn and his wife to their Kentucky masters. These were the first racial riots in the city of Detroit. When the couple sought refuge in Upper Canada, a sharp diplomatic altercation between Michigan's Territorial Governor and the British colonial government of Upper Canada over their extradition had a very significant result: the formulation of British North America's first, articulated legal rationale for harboring fugitive slaves. In fact, it was the Blackburn case that formally established Canada as the main terminus of the Underground Railroad.
Yet until archaeologists discovered the site of their Toronto home, the Blackburns had been forgotten. They had no children. They never learned to read or write, and to this day not a single photo of the couple has come to light. Thornton and Lucie Blackburn were all but lost to history.
I was the director of that long-ago archaeological project. Intrigued by what our diggings had uncovered, I set about to learn all I could about Thornton and his wife. I've Got a Home in Glory Land is the result of almost twenty years of historical detective work. Government records in Canada and Michigan provided an all-important key to researching their lives in slavery-the names of Lucie and Thornton Blackburns' owners. All trails led back to Kentucky. As their story took shape, the Blackburn family's experiences in slavery and freedom opened a door into the world they knew and in which they played so vital a part. Set against the backdrop of antebellum America's struggle with race and slavery, the Blackburns' biography illuminates the historical trends that shaped the tangled histories of people black and white, on this continent. Thornton's mother, Sibby, was born in Virginia in about 1776. His wife, Lucie, died in Canada in 1895. The collective experience of the Blackburns therefore encompassed some 120 years of history, and on both sides of the long border the United States shares with Canada. From the impassioned liberation rhetoric inspired by the American Revolution through the catastrophe of Jim Crow-era segregation, the events and the shifting meanings of the words "race" and "freedom" over these twelve decades shaped modern North American society.
Not knowing how to begin my quest, I fell back on my early training. Archaeology is unique in that it gives voice to the inarticulate and the illiterate of any age, including, in this case, the relatively modern. Each archaeological site is a window to the past; it exposes information about people who lived and worked and died in a specific place, at a fixed time. They left behind, in the very earth, a kind of picture puzzle of their lives. There are always many pieces missing. People's emotions, hopes, fears, the dreams they dreamed, and the high-held ideals that guided their actions are not to be found in layers of dirt, however carefully sifted. But by placing the material culture of their everyday lives in historical context, one can discover an enormous amount about how the key events and larger social, economic, political, and cultural trends acted upon the people who lived through them. And sometimes, as was the case with the Blackburns, one can discover what role they took for themselves as actors in that great play.
The Blackburn saga is framed within the history of Africans in America and their ongoing resistance to the inferior and exploited status colonialism thrust upon them. This rejection of their enslavement by the turn of the nineteenth century had culminated in the establishment of well-worn paths leading out of the slave states. These clandestine routes and the courageous individuals who assisted those who traveled came to be known as the Underground Railroad.
The Underground Railroad occupies a very special place in the North American saga. Tales of hidden tunnels and false-bottomed wagons, perilous escapes by night and brazen daylight rescues all paint an enthralling picture. Yet the stories we learn are filtered through much embroidered late-nineteenth-century accounts by white authors. In the place of the daring freedom-seekers who made the perilous journey north, the heroes have become whites who helped them on their way. Yet surviving slave narratives show that most people escaped alone and unaided. Years after Kentucky-born author, poet, and playwright William Wells Brown fled slavery in 1834, he wrote, "When I escaped there was no Underground Railroad. The North Star was, in many instances, the only friend that the weary and footsore fugitive found on his pilgrimage to his new home among strangers." Mattie J. Jackson told the same story: "My parents had never learned the rescuing scheme of the underground railroad which had borne so many thousands to the standard of freedom and victories. They knew no other resource than to depend upon their own chance in running away and secreting themselves." Lost in the mythology, too, are the free blacks of the Northern states who risked far more than their white counterparts when they hid a desperate fugitive in a barn, or passed a meal over the fence to a starving family. This book is, in part, an attempt to set the Underground Railroad's record straight. The Blackburns traveled the routes of the Underground Railroad as it was, rather than as myth and legend would have it be.
No one will ever know how many African Americans fled slavery in the tumultuous years before the Civil War. Black people in the United States had been escaping those who claimed their service almost since the first Dutch slave ship landed her human cargo at Jamestown in 1619. Some runaways formed maroon communities beyond the outposts of white settlement. Others went to Spanish Florida, Mexico, and the Caribbean, and a tiny proportion reached Britain, Europe, and Africa. Estimates of those who came to Canada range between 20,000 and 100,000. Reliable contemporary observers place the number at somewhere between 30,000 and 35,000 over the entire antebellum period.
African Americans waged a daily, unrelenting battle against their enslaved condition. Well aware that their value to their owners lay in their unpaid labor, they engaged in acts of resistance calculated to undermine the slaveholder's profit margin: breaking tools, injuring livestock, or "malingering," simply pretending to be ill. Charismatic leaders arose to foment revolts always limited in scale and quickly contained, but these struck terror into the hearts of whites across the South. Such collective resistance was relatively rare, for the entire system of the slaveocracy militated against bondspeople being able to organize or arm themselves. Instead, when the beatings, hunger, and the destruction of family occasioned by sale and sexual interference became too much to bear, African Americans made the single most overtly antislavery statement possible, short of suicide or murder: they ran away. In so doing, they deprived their owners not only of their productivity and of their own market value but also that of their children and all ensuing generations. Even more potently, the thousands of slaves who "stole themselves" exploded the comforting racist myth that buttressed American slavery: that blacks were unfit for freedom, too lazy and unintelligent to care for themselves without white supervision, and that they preferred the kindly oversight of benevolent masters-that they were, indeed, "happy in their chains."
In a Christian nation founded upon republican principles, the commodification of black labor required moral justification. White America found ways of separating itself from blacks as fellow human beings. No lesser an authority than Thomas Jefferson wrote, "I advance it therefore, as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race or made distinct by time and circumstance, are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind." A beneficiary himself of the plantation system, he deemed slavery a "necessary evil." In the years immediately following the American Revolution, biblical and scientific justifications were sought to "prove" blacks irredeemably less capable than whites, uneducable, inherently indolent, and immoral, the eternal "other." Even in Northern states where slavery gave way to wage labor soon after the Revolution, black skin came to be considered emblematic of bondage. People of color were required to carry with them papers attesting to their free status, lest they be taken up as fugitive slaves under harsh federal laws that enabled slaveholders to seek out their absconding property anywhere in the United States. Slavery in America was inextricably intertwined with the concept of race.
By the time a young enslaved Kentuckian named Thornton Blackburn came of age in 1830, self-serving pro-slavery ideology had transformed Jefferson's "necessary evil" into a system slaveholders professedly believed to be a "positive good." Apologists maintained that white "wage slaves" in Britain and the northern United States were worse off than blacks living in Southern slavery. John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, who with New England's Daniel Webster and Kentucky's own Henry Clay formed the "Great Triumvirate" of antebellum American politics, summed this up in a speech he made before the U.S. Senate on February 6, 1837: "Never before has the black race of Central Africa, from the dawn of history to the present day, attained a condition so civilized and so improved, not only physically, but morally and intellectually." Yet nowhere was such nonsense better contradicted than in the lengths enslaved African Americans were willing to go to free themselves. The exodus of black men, women, and children from the slave states was a vast, collective rejection of their circumstances and of the racially biased rationalizations that supported slavery.
Whippings, mutilation, rape, and varied forms of physical and mental torture were ways in which the slaveholding class maintained its hegemony over its unwilling workers. But slave narratives show that a majority of runaways fled for a more specific reason: they were about to be parted from those they loved. Colonial-era planters had maintained the fiction that they cared for their "black families" as they did their white. When selling off slaves, they paid lip service to keeping couples or at least mothers and children together. The death knell to such paternalism sounded when the invention of Eli Whitney's cotton gin in 1793 gave birth to the cotton-growing boom of the early nineteenth century. As cotton-growing expanded in the Deep South, the older farming districts of the more northerly slave states found it very profitable to ship their "surplus" slaves south for sale. These so-called Border States became a slave-producing resource for the larger, more prosperous plantation economy of the Lower South. Wives and mothers, fathers, and even tiny babies were taken from their loved ones and sold far away.
At the same time, the rift between North and South was widening into an irreparable chasm. Increasing Northern and foreign criticism of the American slave system and resistance to the expansion of slavery into the newly added frontier districts resulted in a hardening of pro-slavery positions. A series of slave revolts terrified slaveholding whites and intensified efforts to control supposedly contented local black populations. In addition to the escalating threat of being sold away from their families, enslaved African Americans in the first decades of the nineteenth century suffered from enhanced surveillance, ever more limited mobility, and a host of other indignities and restrictions. Slave flight to the Northern states and to destinations outside the borders of the United States turned from a trickle to a flood as conditions deteriorated in the South. Proslavery advocates blamed the progressively more vocal abolitionist movement for slave discontent and minimized the numbers of runaways officially reported, but the fact that mounting numbers of black Americans were taking terrible personal risks to flee bondage was difficult to counter.
It was to preserve their own marriage that Thornton Blackburn and his bride would make their own break for freedom in the summer of 1831; the year was significant, for 1831 was the watershed for abolitionism in the northern United States. Originally, the antislavery movement, a factor in both the South and the North in the Revolutionary era, had proposed that slaveholders support the gradual emancipation of African American slaves. Some hoped slavery as an institution would die a natural death. Those who believed black people should "return" to the African continent, incidentally ridding the United States of quantities of free blacks, sponsored an ambitious and ultimately ruinously expensive colonization scheme that resulted in the founding of Liberia. But by the 1830s, with increasing pressure to extend cotton-growing and the slavery that made it so profitable into the American West, it had become evident to antislavery advocates, both black and white, that the practice was not going to end anytime soon. More radical elements began to campaign for the immediate liberation of the nation's more than two million enslaved African Americans.
The first black antislavery convention had been held in Philadelphia in September 1830, as African Americans of the urban North worked to create mechanisms to both combat Southern slavery and ameliorate the conditions of their own lives, for even as free people they were subjected to unrelenting racial discrimination. Then, in concert with black abolitionist leaders, a white printer from Newburyport, Massachusetts, named William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of the antislavery paper The Liberator on January 1, 1831. A year later Garrison helped to found the New England Anti-Slavery Society, a precursor to the American Anti-Slavery Society, formed in 1833. As the antebellum years progressed, there was a measurable increase in both popular and political opposition to maintaining a system of human bondage in a nation founded on ideals of democracy and freedom. Nearly three decades later this elemental conflict would culminate in the bloody Civil War. But before that time, a great many brave individuals, out of conviction or simple humanity, laid their livelihoods and even their lives on the line to succor black refugees who chose to take the freedom road.
For fugitives like Lucie Blackburn and her husband, the odds against making a successful escape were staggering. Federal law facilitated the efforts of owners and the brutal slave catchers they employed to retrieve runaways throughout the United States and its territories. Local and state ordinances nearly everywhere prohibited black people from defending themselves against their white captors in courts of law. That so many of the enslaved were able to liberate themselves is astonishing. That uncounted numbers were captured and carried back to places where white men ruled with the lash is unutterably tragic. . . .
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Something painting has taught me is to turn off my inner critic when I'm painting. Let go of the need to judge what I'm doing. Is it good? Am I good? Should I give it up?
I didn't know how to get in that frame of mind before. But I had to or I would never have continued. I never would have learned how awesome it is to just quit JUDGING! First with painting, and then in all areas of my life. Judging just gets in the way of living joyfully.
Judging is a survival technique. We have to decide right away if we are in danger or safe. It's an instinct that has kept our species alive. So far!
But art is something else. It's going beyond instinct. Being in a creative mode is in itself the reward and the joy. What we produce, well it is what it is! The key is to focus on the joy.
I'm not saying don't practice your skills. All that time at the easel needs to be done without judgement, you don't have to get somewhere. You are there! Every time you pick up the brush! And the more you do it, the more your skills will grow. It's inevitable!
If you are in a state of worry, judgement, criticism, self consciousness, embarrassment - you will never learn the amazing joy of painting!
This lesson has filtered into every part of my life. It has taught me to throw myself whole heartedly into everything I do and turn off the judgement. It's so much more fun to live this way! Thank you painting!
Do I look sillier to others now? Probably. Do I care? NOPE! :)
Whenever I feel that creative urge to do something different, out of the ordinary, whenever that familiar excitement starts to rise, I don't judge it anymore, I just do it! And never let the words "what will people think" or "I'm too old" or "I don't have any talent" into your mind! Pshaw! You have no power here!!
Haha. So. One of the things that I'm doing now because of what I learned painting - I'm playing the drums! :D
I always had an image in my head of getting together with family and friends to make music together. And I've always loved drums. My husband plays the bass, my daughter sings, and our friend Dan plays a mean lead guitar. And they are letting me bang along with them!
I'm having so much fun. And I'm leaving the critic out in the cold. He doesn't want us to enjoy living. I guess he is miserable so he wants everyone else to be!
So I'm sharing this little video of our little band hoping to inspire you to try something without judging yourself. When you paint - leave the critic out in the cold. Feel the amazing feeling of spreading paint on a canvas. Really feel it. Feel the movement of your hands, jump right into what you are painting and notice every part of it. Breath deep, relax, move, enjoy. :)
And let me know! What are you able to do now that you've left the Critic out in the cold?


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The album opens with "Provisions," which I would describe as leaning more towards classic August Burns Red. The band decided to play it a little safe with the first track, but still showed off some off their handiwork very well with brutal vocals and intense breakdowns. The longest song on the record, "Treatment," follows in what may be the heaviest songs on the record. Every time Luhrs screams "Open the gates!" on the song I get shivers down my spine. The first two minutes of the song are gut-wrenching metal, but then the band pulled some creativity out of their hat and brought in an acoustic guitar and violin for the next minute. This contrast in the heaviness of the song with the melodic one-minute guitar/violin interlude was genius and adds another dimension to the song which would not have been attainable with the old August Burns Red.
Track three, "Spirit Breaker," is definitely one of the more melodic tracks on the record, making it a great follow-up to the very heavy "Treatment." The openness and vulnerability of the track was what first hit me when I listened to the song. One of my favorite lines on the song is when Luhrs says, "I hope to open my eyes to see this picture. I'm throwing it all away. I hope to open my eyes to see this moment that I should treasure forever." Then about three-quarters of the way through the song Luhrs speaks to his "dearest love," in a little spoken word piece. "Count It All As Lost" is another track which I would describe as being a little more classic ABR. Some of the guitar work reminds me of a few of their previous songs, but the vocals definitely feel a bit more intense - Luhrs seems much more urgent and passionate on this record.
"Sincerity," the shortest song on the record - clocking in at 3:18 - has some of the best gang vocals I have heard on a metal song in a long time, which paired with very intense breakdowns makes for a very strong track. "Creative Captivity" is another one of the more melodic tracks with the widest assortment of instruments I have ever heard on a metal song yet. The track also features one of my favorite lines from the album, which also happens to be where the album title comes from, "This is a cause worth fighting for. We will rescue and restore!" And the trumpet at the end of the song is well worth the price of the album alone. "Fault Line," the band's first single from Rescue & Restore, features some of the best guitar and drum work on the whole album. I love it when Luhrs screams, "Whisper your grief, scream your sorrow, proclaim your love. Just don't call me your hero!"
"Beauty in Tragedy" has quickly become my favorite track on the record. From the brutal breakdowns and instrumentals to the spoken word piece in the middle of the song to the incredibly honest lyrics, this song is the best piece of art on the album. The last lines of the song may be some of my favorite lyrics ever penned by the band. "Never surrender the dream you had for this world. To love. To forgive. To make something out of nothing!" The next track, "Animals," is easily highlighted by the drum work of Matthew Greiner. I have long said that Greiner is the best drummer today, and I believe this track easily confirms that. "Echoes" again shows the urgency of Luhrs lyrics and vocals. He screams, "I can't take much more of this! Where is my way out?" The final track, "The First Step," has easily the most brutal vocals from Luhrs on the whole album. His screams will send chills through your whole body.
August Burns Red is clearly a veteran band, but fortunately for us they decided not to dwell on their past successes and instead created something completely different from the rest of their catalogue. Rescue & Restore is unlike any hardcore album I have ever listened to, and I cannot stop listening to it. The passion in Luhrs lyrics and vocals, the brutal breakdowns, and the wide array of instruments all combine to form one of the most complete works of art released so far this year.
Favorite Song: Beauty in Tragedy
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