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A Fair Approach
Chart: Seattle
Title: A FAIR APPROACH
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Time: Dusk (19:01)
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The Seattle area is easily the most beautiful of the four original simulator areas. I suspect it was the last to be digitized, because its areas of light and dark landscape and the extraordinary detailing of Puget Sound and Lake Washington are without rival until we get to the San Francisco Bay area and the scenery disks. Out your left windows you'll see some of the Cascade Range. It's those mountains that confine the mostly-winter rains to the Puget Sound area, making it so green and so island-laced. It's easy to understand why one in every four families in Seattle owns a boat.
Ice-capped Mount Rainier is on the horizon. A sleeping volcano, it rises 14,410 feet into--and is often shrouded in the clouds. The nation's first Mt. Everest team trained on its glacial heights. Campers and backpackers are seen on the 90-mile Wonderland Trail that encircles Mount Rainier National Park, at the foot of the mountain. (Were you to fly to the other side of the simulated mountain, you'd discover a curious fact or two. Try it sometime.)
Now unpause and watch that vertical something on the shore of Puget Sound. For about ten seconds, nothing will happen. But when you've about decided it's simply a vertical line, it will blossom into three dimensions, and you'll be viewing the Space Needle at Seattle Center. Symbol of the 1962 World's Fair here, it's an observation tower crowned with a revolving restaurant--an idea that has spawned many imitations ever since. Watch it pass by out the left side.
After you've passed the Space Needle, continue toward what looks like an airport shaping up on this side of Interstate 5. It's Boeing Field, also known as King County International, and you're on a long final to its Runway 13. Actually the field has parallel strips, but you're interested in 13 Left, the one that will eventually turn out to have a centerline (neither one, in the simulation, is paved; both are simply outlines on the grass). This is one of the most confusing airports to approach in the simulator world (and that's saying something). You'll see what I mean when you're closer in. The whole area suddenly opens up like a late-blooming flower, giving no clue as to where the runways are. But persevere in your heading until you see a real centerline. That's your runway.
Airport elevation is 437 feet.
A word about simulated airports that are, like this one in Seattle, just outlines on the grass . . . and also about some other problems in Flight Simulator.
It's no wonder simulator pilots complain about the difficulties of making decent landings. If all airports were like this one in Seattle, we could chalk it up to some difficulty or problem in digitizing solid runways. But for some strange reason, while many of the largest airports are, incomprehensibly, fields of grass, most little airports (and some big ones), are beautifully paved and marked off, and thus readily discernible from the air. In New York, big La Guardia is paved, and its runways are visible from miles out, while big JFK is just a confusing scrawl of lines at any and all distances. In the Amiga version, at least, the whole Boston area, including Logan International, is a pale blue monstrosity (not paved, not grass, but a sickly blue for miles) as if someone spilled a pail of paint over it--an impossible place to think of flying to or from once you've seen it. In Chicago, the big airports--Midway and O'Hare--are like JFK. Why isn't it possible to pave the runways, and let the taxiways and other area out-lines simply be outlines? It's the runways we need to see from the air, and yet there are some airports (we'll visit some in this book) that are models of definition, where both runways and taxiways--and ramps too--are paved. They're easy to taxi around on, realistic, and readily picked out from the air. It can be done, so why not do it?
I admire the amazing achievements of Flight Simulator more than anything else in the microcomputer world. But that doesn't keep me from wondering about some of the notorious lapses of judgment and irritating bugs that beset it, and us who love to fly it. Here's just a cursory sampling, Amiga version, and in parentheses some possible though perhaps too pat suggestions for correcting them:
Mountains are the same color as the surrounding landscape, so you can't really sense them as mountains. (Make mountains a different color than that of the surrounding landscape. It's been done in some places. Why not every place?)
Mountains are totally invisible at night. (Make mountains at night a dark gray or something so they can be distinguished.)
Mountains of other-worldly colors, even in computers that support thousands of colors, are destroying all illusion of reality. (Color the mountains in earthtones, or at least in shades of green distinguishable from the landscape greens.)
Oceans, lakes and reservoirs are totally inseparable from land masses at dawn, dusk or night. (Make bodies of water a shade of dark blue or gray, so they can be distinguished from land masses in dawn/dusk/night flights.)
Highways are almost always a glaring, brittle white--night and day. (Make highways a less intense color; gray them down.)
The aircraft's wings are the same glaring white as high-ways, night or day. It seems unrealistic to look out at blackness past that hospital-white wing. (Gray the wing down for dawn, dusk, and night.)
The instrument panel is too bright at night, unrealistic by contrast with the world outside. (Gray the instruments down at night, and make the panel background dark blue or black--darken the whole thing to give a feeling of night. Or leave the instruments as they are, so they'll look lighted, but make the panel background dark blue or black.)
The night skies are too intensely black. No sky, moon or not, was ever so black as the simulator sky at night. Night feels better as a deep, rich, dark blue. (Make night a deep, rich, dark blue. Make it more like dawn or dusk, or let dawn/dusk be the night simulation and lighten up dawn and dusk, which are too dark anyway. As a bare minimum, make the dawn/dusk sky a shade of gray rather than blue.)
The cityscape buildings are too intensely white (or some times black). (Gray the white ones down; lighten the in-tensely black ones.)
There is water/land confusion at numerous waterside air-port locations. The sky flashes with the color of nearby water, or a water diagonal superimposes itself on the sky. This problem is rife in the Amiga version. (Unconfused the water/land programming near large bodies of water.) There is also land/land confusion. Right here, stopped and with my engine at idle on Boeing Field, my sky is split by a right triangle of dark green, the color of Mount Rainier. I turn the aircraft left a few degrees and the phenomenon disappears.
DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) reading is some-times nautical miles, sometimes statute miles; there is no way for the pilot to discern the two. (Program the DME reading with one or the other, advise which, and be consistent.)
There are abrupt altitude changes of hundreds of feet en route, frequently after disk accesses. (Let the programmers all work with the same altitude references?)
Hidden surface removals (68000 series) hide or remove the wrong surfaces--a bug that results (for instance) in mountains being superimposed on foregrounds instead of the other way around. (Lay down the landscape first, in order of farthest to nearest; then lay down the features man puts on the landscape.
I'll stop (for now) at the magic number of 13. But I must add that, despite all these complaints, if I were somehow deprived of Flight Simulator I really don't know how I'd face the world.

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Robyn Grey-Gardner (ur. 6 września 1964) –  australijska wioślarka. Brązowa medalistka olimpijska z Los Angeles.

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We returned to the Winchester Festival under the baton of our new musical director, Katherine Dienes-Williams. Rachmaninov's All-Night Vigil is an a capella composition viewed by many as the composer's finest achievement. The settings of texts from the Russian Orthodox evening service are profoundly evocative and deeply moving, revered for their rich textures and sumptuous scoring.
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Arvo Pärt - Seven Magnificat Antiphons
Sir John Tavener - Funeral Ikos
Rachmaninov - All Night Vigil
Janet Shell (contralto) - Andrew Phillips (tenor)
conductor - Katherine Dienes-Williams
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The Festival concert came after Southern Voices' first visit to Guildford, where we performed the Vespers alongside unaccompanied works by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and by Sir John Tavener. Although these were written many decades later, they are rooted in the same Orthodox Church tradition and provide an interesting contrast.
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Looking Back at the Carnival Fantasy Cruise Ship
We look back at the Carnival Fantasy cruise ship, an iconic vessel for Carnival Cruise Line, and the first in her class delivered in 1990.
By Holly Riddle
Carnival Cruise Line recently retired one of the most iconic ships in its fleet, Carnival Fantasy. On July 13, 2020, the cruise ship was sold and then, not a month later, on July 29, it was beached in Aliaga, Turkey, where now the ship awaits its fate as scrap, alongside its sister ship, Carnival Inspiration, as well as two former Royal Caribbean cruise ships also at the Aliaga ship breaking facility, Monarch of the Seas and Sovereign of the Seas.
Some speculate that the sale came about due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, in which Carnival was forced to suspend its service on all ships starting March 14. The cruise line had every intention of resuming service by April 10, but of course the suspension was then extended into the fall. However, it's not fair to blame the sale of the Carnival Fantasy cruise ship entirely on the coronavirus pandemic.
By 2020, Carnival Fantasy had become the oldest cruise ship across Carnival's entire fleet, at 30 years old, and as any seasoned cruiser knows, when a ship reaches that age, it's difficult to continue dry docking and updating it in a way that will be profitable.
However, regardless of the reason for Carnival Fantasy's eventual retirement and sale, there's no denying that this cruise ship made an impact on the industry.
The Carnival Fantasy Cruise Ship: A Brief History
The Carnival Fantasy cruise ship was floated out on December 9, 1988, but was not completed until 1990, when it left its first home at the Helsinki New Shipyard in Finland.
Compared to much of the newer cruise ships out there today, Carnival Fantasy was on the smaller side, with a gross tonnage of 70,367 GT and a length of 855 feet, with capacity for 2,675 passengers and 920 crew members.
Related: The Former Carnival Cruise Ships, Where Are They Now?
Still, Carnival Fantasy was the very first and the namesake ship of the Fantasy class of cruise ships, which proved to be a very popular class for the line, made up of eight separate ships, with Carnival Fantasy setting the standard. Fantasy-class ships include Carnival Fantasy, Carnival Ecstasy, Carnival Sensation, Carnival Fascination, Carnival Imagination, Carnival Inspiration, Carnival Elation and Carnival Paradise.
The entire Carnival Fantasy class stood out as being the last cruise ships built with lifeboats on the upper deck only, and recent passengers could even still see some remnants of Carnival's pre-Fantasy class ship designs, as the Fantasy-class ships featured cabins mostly in the hull and very few balcony cabins and suites, a design choice more similar to what could be seen on the Holiday class of ships, which Carnival had launched in the 1980s.
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Primarily serving the Caribbean, Carnival Fantasy operated out of the Port of Miami for the first few years of its life, before relocating to Port Canaveral in 1993. In 2006, Carnival Fantasy was moved to Louisiana and New Orleans, making it the first Carnival cruise ship to return to the region following Hurricane Katrina. At that point, the cruise ship began serving itineraries to Mexico.
In 2008, Carnival Fantasy underwent a much needed dry docking period, before going on in 2009 to operate out of Mobile, Alabama, and then on to Charleston, South Carolina.
Another extensive refit occurred in 2016, at which point the ship returned to Mobile. Most recently, the ship was refitted in 2019 — which, honestly, does seem a bit of a waste, since the ship would be sold just a year later (which, though, does lend some credence to the theory that Carnival wasn't exactly expecting to retire the ship, but was forced into the decision due to the changing and tumultuous cruising industry influenced by 2020's coronavirus pandemic).
What's Next for Carnival Fantasy?
So what happens to a ship when it's sold and goes on to the ship breaking facility?
After the ship is beached, it's dismantled, beginning with the interior. All of the furnishings are removed for scrapping and items that can be sold, are. After anything with any monetary value is removed and sold, then the ship is disassembled, cut apart piece by piece. Steel can be sold to scrap metal dealers and then melted and reformed into other products.
Also Read: Which Cruise Ships are Being Scrapped or Sold Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic?
What Could Cruisers Expect from a Carnival Fantasy Cruise?
Even in most recent years, some cruisers still preferred Carnival Fantasy to some of the newer ships among Carnival's fleet, for the simple facts that the ship was on the smaller side, it gave new cruisers an easy and simple introduction to the Carnival brand and there was plenty of classic cruising fun and experiences to be had.
Sure, some of the decor was a little outdated, hearkening back to a 1980s era of cruising, but the experiences made up for that fact (if you even considered it a con in the first place). In fact, many of the cruisers you could see on a Carnival Fantasy cruise were senior citizens who probably were already pretty well familiarized with the world of cruising as it was several decades ago.
In terms of amenities at its sale, Carnival Fantasy offered complimentary dining in two main dining rooms, at a traditional cruise ship buffet and at several dining options that were added during the handful of the ship's dry-docking periods, including Pizza Pirate, Guy's Burger Joint and BlueIguana Cantina.
For-a-fee dining simply included a coffee bar and the Chef's Table experience that you can find on all the other Carnival ships. While this selection might seem extremely limited to cruisers accustomed to 20 or more dining options on a ship at one time, when Carnival Fantasy launched, this range of options was pretty standard.
Similarly, Carnival Fantasy's entertainment options were pretty par for the course as well, at least compared to other cruise ships from that era. There was a 1,400-person theater and lounge, where you could expect not only shows, but also family-friendly, interactive entertainment (including the HASBRO The Game Show experience, which Carnival added a few years ago, as well as the family-favorited Dr. Seuss experiences). Music-heavy, Vegas-style shows were popular.
Daily fun was, again, more of that classic cruising entertainment led by enthusiastic staff members who encouraged all cruisers to get involved and compete in fun little games around the pool and in the more populated common areas.
As for nighttime fun, the cruise ship didn't boast the bevy of bars and lounges you might see on some of Carnivals' newer ships, but there was something to be said for the casinos, karaoke parties and comedy shows. There were actually more bars on the ship than there were restaurants, however, including an Atrium Bar, piano bar, club-style bars and the newer RedFrog Rum Bar and BlueIguana Tequila Bar, among others.
Outdoor fun at the time of the ship's sale included a WaterWorks water park, one main pool and sun decks, as well as a mini-golf course. Other amenities included your standard spa, gym, shopping and children's programming.
In terms of cabins, you couldn't expect the ritziest, latest and best in terms of decor, but things were certainly a blast from the past, with that cheery cruise line combination of oranges, yellows and reds across the carpets, walls, drapes and more.
Carnival Fantasy Over the Years: Significant Dry Docks
Of course, as with every cruise ship, the features and amenities that Carnival Fantasy debuted with didn't hold cruisers' attention forever. Updates and dry docks were needed to maintain the ship's appeal, and changes were made until the ship evolved into what was seen right before it retired and made its way to the Aegean Sea.
Some of Carnival Fantasy's most notable dry docks took place during 2008 and 2015.
In 2008, Carnival Fantasy, as well as all Fantasy-class ships, received refurbishments under Carnival's Evolutions of Fun initiative. All refurbishments were completed in 2010, to the tune of $250 million.
For Carnival Fantasy, Evolutions of Fun changes included the addition of the new WaterWorks water park, some adults-only areas, a redesigned main pool and a new preteen childcare center for cruisers aged 12 to 14.
At the time, the Evolutions of Fun changes included the addition of the longest water slide at sea to the Fantasy-class ships; the 300-foot-long spiral water slide was part of the Carnival WaterWorks water park. The dry dock also added the Serenity adults-only deck. The ship's limited number of suites received new wall coverings, bathrooms, carpeting and more.
In 2015-2016, upgrades were made to restaurants and child care areas. This dry docking period was probably Carnival Fantasy's most significant dry dock in terms of bringing the ship up to modern standards, because it refitted the ship according to the Funship 2.0 standards that Carnival put in place slightly before.
The Funship 2.0 initiative brought in new restaurants and new entertainment across a good portion of Carnival's fleet, adding restaurants and bars that soon became cruiser favorites, such as Guy's Burger Joint, BlueIguana Tequila Bar and RedFrog Rum Bar, as well as new water park features.
In fact, the Funship 2.0 initiative improved Carnival Fantasy so much, according to cruisers, that the initiative won Carnival Fantasy the Most Improved Ship award from cruseilne.com in 2018.
Carnival Fantasy Over the Years: Significant News Events
Unlike some of Carnival's other cruise ships, Carnival Fantasy mostly avoided bad press throughout its long existence.
One of its more notable headlines was made just recently, in 2019, when Carnival sent the ship to the Gulf of Mexico to assist the U.S. Coast Guard in rescuing 23 Cubans traveling in a powerless wooden boat between Cuba and Mexico.
What's Next for Carnival?
Unfortunately (or maybe, not so unfortunately, depending on how you look at it), the selling of Carnival Fantasy and Carnival Inspiration are just one of many changes that Carnival Cruise Line has recently announced.
Carnival is overall reducing its capacity (possibly in response to reduced demands) and is focusing on its newer ships. This means that, in addition to selling the Carnival Fantasy and Carnival Inspiration cruise ships, other vessels Carnival Fascination and Carnival Imagination are going into a long-term, lay-up status. Other ships will be moving to new ports, and itineraries are being adjusted to meet cruiser demand.
On the positive side of things, though, we will get some new, updated ships as part of all these upcoming changes. A November 2022 delivery date has been set for the yet-to-be-named, second, Excel-class ship, which will join Mardi Gras and feature many of the same exciting amenities, such as the first roller coaster at sea. It's expected that itineraries for the unnamed ship will go on sale later in 2020.
Also Read: Will the Cruise Industry Be Back to Normal in 2021?
Additionally and similarly, Carnival Radiance will make its home in Long Beach in spring of 2021, following a $200 million refurbishment in Europe. Anyone who booked a Carnival Imagination or Carnival Inspiration cruise for sailing after 2021 will be re-booked on Carnival Radiance.
Carnival Fantasy FAQ:
What year was the Carnival Fantasy built?
When was the Carnival Fantasy refurbished?
Carnival Fantasy underwent dry docking and refurbishments in 2008, 2015 and 2019. The most notable of these refurbishments occurred in 2008 and 2015. In 2008, Carnival Fantasy, as well as all Fantasy-class ships, received refurbishments under the Evolutions of Fun initiative.
Evolutions of Fun changes included the addition of the new WaterWorks water park, some adults-only areas, a redesigned main pool and a new preteen childcare center for cruisers aged 12 to 14. In 2015, the Funship 2.0 initiative brought in new restaurants and new entertainment across a good portion of Carnival's fleet
What other cruise ships are the same class as Carnival Fantasy?
Carnival Fantasy was the very first and the namesake ship of the Fantasy class of cruise ships, which proved to be a very popular class for the line, made up of eight separate ships: Carnival Fantasy, Carnival Ecstasy, Carnival Sensation, Carnival Fascination, Carnival Imagination, Carnival Inspiration, Carnival Elation and Carnival Paradise.
When was Carnival Fantasy sold?
Carnival Cruise Line recently retired one of the most iconic ships in its fleet, Carnival Fantasy. On July 13, 2020, the cruise ship was sold and then, not a month later, on July 29, it was beached in Aliaga, Turkey, where now the ship awaits its fate as scrap, alongside its sister ship, Carnival Inspiration.
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Holly Riddle is a travel and food freelance writer whose work can be found in print and digital publications all around the world. She is additionally an entrepreneur specializing in content and marketing services. Beyond frequent travel, Riddle enjoys cooking, reading, camping and spending time with her husband and two dogs. Her favorite travel destinations include Chicago, Amsterdam, Edinburgh and just about anywhere in the Caribbean. Find out more about us here.
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Technology has had an unbelievable impact on our society. It has changed the way we as consumers interact with each other and businesses. In order to stay relevant in a fast-paced society inundated with new technology, credit unions must focus on developing and maintaining communication channels that enable our membership to become educated about their financial choices. Depending on the member, this could be a one-on-one conversation, an email, a text message, or through the latest social media platform. However, the communication does not stop at the end of this first conversation. Giving members the ability to continuously provide feedback, as well as ask further questions, increases the impact of your initial conversation. Satisfaction is increased when a member feels like they are heard. Creating this feedback loop is critical to the success of any messaging and creates the personalized touch in a increasingly technology-based society.


Regardless of whether you are aiming to shed a couple of pounds or are looking to complete a long race, you will only succeed if you follow a good fitness regime. However, many people are unsure of the best way to get started with fitness. The following advice will help anyone become more fit.
If you are new to working out, consider purchasing a session or two with a personal trainer. A professional trainer will help you set your workout goals and areas that need addressing; he or she will also make recommendations for a workout routine. Your first gym workout might be a bit harrowing, but you can make it less so by enlisting the assistance of a personal trainer. Hiring a professional will put you on a path you'll be motivated to continue on.
When most people think of fitness, they think of a gym packed with elaborate weight-lifting equipment. When it comes down to it, you only need to implement push-ups, leg raises, pull-ups, squats, handstand push-ups and bridges to maintain all of your muscles.
The basic strategy of increasing muscle mass is to lift heavier weights for fewer repetitions. Start by choosing a particular focus, like the chest area. Start with weights that are lighter than usual to warmup your muscles. You can do upwards of 15-20 reps with these weights, then increase the intensity. When you move to your next set, choose a weight level at which you are able to do no more than 6-8 repetitions. The weight should be elevated five lbs and repeated for the final set.
Try and keep your pace around 100 revelations per minute when bicycling. This helps put less strain on your knees and it helps you ride quicker and longer without getting tired. RPM can be determined by keeping track of how many times one knee comes to the top for 10 seconds, and then multiplying that number by 6. Once you have found out your rpm, adjust your pace according so that your rpm falls within the recommended bracket mentioned previously.
m. session. Get started by getting up just 15 minutes before you normally would, and get some light exercise like a light aerobic workout or walking around the house. This will help you to start your day off right and build healthy habits that can be intensified over time.
The benefits of fitness are not only physical. Regular exercise aslo has the added benefit of an increase in your sense of well-being and it promotes good emotional health. Exercising releases opoids in your brain called endorphins, which give you a temporary high. You can also better your self-esteem and confidence by getting in shape. You are technically a few workouts shy of happiness.
Armed with the previously mentioned pointers, you are now prepared to get moving! If you keep yourself motivated and begin your efforts, then you should be able to reach your fitness goals. You will enjoy the benefits for the rest of your life.


PowerTap Power Meter Type: Strain gauge units with pedal, chainring and hub mounted meters.
Years in Business: PowerTap was founded in 1998.
U.S. Service Center: Yes. Wisconsin.
Overview/History: Founded in 1998, PowerTap was one of the very first power meter companies. PowerTap became one of the largest players in the power meter market by creating a wide range of hub based power meters at prices below what competitors like SRM offered.
A little mor e history – the PowerTap hub design was invented in the 1990's in Cambridge, MA by a company called Tune (not related to the other "Tune" in the bike industry). Tune figured out how to place strain gauges into a hub shell to measure power at a price that was lower than the only other option available at the time – the crank mounted SRM developed in Germany. Tune had issues with water penetration in their design and the issues created everything from faulty readings to failure. Tune never fully solved the issue and was on the brink of totally going under when Saris purchased them in 2001.
As Saris did with CycleOps trainers, they took a company who had a really good idea, but who was having trouble executing the details, and breathed new life into them after acquisition. While the changes did not occur overnight, Saris infused much needed money into developing out the PowerTap line and reliability started improving. They also made the expensive, but smart, move to continue to support and service original Tune PowerTap units and this built real credibility in Saris as a company and showed their dedication to optimizing the design. Today, we are happy to report that current PowerTap product is one of the most relia ble in the power meter business and their service and two year warranty on many products remains at the top as well.
Strain gauge technology in a proven design based upon compatibility with Look Keo cleats.
Easy to switch between multiple bikes and requires no special tools or a torque wrench.
U.S. Service Center supported by a strong, diverse and experienced power meter company.
ANT+ compatibility means you can use any ANT+ head from Garmin, PowerTap, SRM or others and Bluetooth Smart means compatibility with units from Polar and Suunto.
User replaceable standard AAA batteries – 60 hour estimated battery life – are readily available and provide a very weather tight battery seal.
Works with virtually any frameset and crank.
Available in lower priced single sided option that can be upgraded to dual sided in the future.
"Keo Style" cleat system only. While the PowerTap Pedal uses its own cleat, it interfaces with a Look Keo cleat well (albeit not perfect) too.
Does not currently offer "Pedaling Dynamics" functions like the Garmin Vector.
Reliability/Maintenance: While the PowerTap Pedal is a new product in 2015, PowerTap is a very experienced power meter company. We would be surprised if long-term issues of significance show up.
The PowerTap Pedal is powered by a well protected and well sealed AAA battery with an expected life of around 60 hours. The batteries need periodic replacement, which is easy to do by just removing a threaded cap with an Allen wrench.
Compatibility/Limitations: Will work with most any bike or crankset that will accept a standard set of pedals. Turn clearance is reduced ~2 degrees compared to a Look Keo, but still provides ample clearance for lean above 30 degrees.
Display Quality/Features: Most ANT+ cycling computer head (Garmin, PowerTap Joule…) or Bluetooth Smart head (Polar, Suunto) may be used with the PowerTap Pedal.
Weight: PowerTap Pedals are a little over 400 grams, making them 125-175 grams heavier than many of the most common pedals on the market that lack a power meter.
L/R Power Balance: Yes. The pricier P1 pedals included left/right power while the lower priced P1 option is just a single sided unit that may be upgraded to dual in the future.
Ease of Installation & Transfer Between Bikes: Excellent. PowerTap Pedals are very simple to install and transfer between bikes. Basically, just install them firmly as you would with any other pedal system, set up your computer head and you are ready to calibrate and ride.
Software/Hardware: Updating firmware on the PowerTap C1 is done through a wireless Bluetooth app, which has become almost standard fare for power meters now and a great way to do it. The training software package from PowerTap is not the strongest. It works though and provides basic data, but most people prefer aftermarket software like TrainingPeaks. Hardware durability on the current generation product is vastly improved, but be careful with old stock or used product as a finicky older PowerTap can require trips to the factory for repair.
Conclusions: The PowerTap P1 is priced around $1200 for the dual sided version and $700 for the single sided version for 2017, PowerTap's Pedal mounted power meter offers a ton of performance, versatility and simplicity for the money from a company with a long track record with strong and proven support. If you are good with the Keo style cleat design the PowerTap P1 Pedal uses, it should likely be on your short list.
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Priced around $700 at release (fall 2015), the PowerTap Chainring offers a low price from a proven power meter brand.
Reliability of PowerTap product has been strong since 2009.
Relatively easy installation – much like installing regular chainrings.
One of, if not the, lowest priced dual sided power meter available from an established power meter company.
Exceptional battery life (200 hour claimed) with user replaceable batteries.
You must use a crankset that works with standard 5 bolt/110mm spacing.
Not available in all gearing options and not compatible with current Shimano or Campagnolo cranks.
Bye-Bye 34 tooth inner ring.
Reliability/Maintenance: While the PowerTap Chainring is a new product in 2015, PowerTap is a very experienced power meter company. We would be surprised if long-term issues of significance show up.
The PowerTap Chainring is powered by a common CR2032 battery. PowerTap claims 200 hours of use per battery and the battery is easily user serviceable.
Compatibility/Limitations: The PowerTap Chainring will work with most any crankset that uses a 5 bolt 110mm compact bolt pattern. This means it will not work with current generation Campagnolo or Shimano cranksets or any crank that uses 130 or 135mm BCD. Gearing will initially be available in 50/36, 52/36 and 53/39 combinations. There is not a 34 tooth inner option due to size restrictions.
Display Quality/Features: Most ANT+ cycling computer head (Garmin, PowerTap Joule…) or Bluetooth Smart head (Polar, Suunto) may be used with the PowerTap Chainring.
Weight: PowerTap Chainrings are about 150 grams heavier than standard chainrings from FSA.
Ease of Installation and Transfer Between Bikes: PowerTap Chainrings install much like any other chainring set. Basically, just install them firmly as you would with any other chainring, set up your computer head, and you are ready to calibrate and ride. Likewise, switching the PowerTap C1 chainrings between bikes is of the same complexity as any other crank or chainring change between bikes.
Conclusions: Crank compatibility will be an issue for a good number of riders. However, initially priced around $700 in 2015, PowerTap's Chainring mounted power meter should offer a valid power meter from a proven and respected company that has been making power meters since 1998.
Contact Us for more information or to order PowerTap Chainrings.
PowerTap G3 hubs offer a wide range of price points using PowerTap's proven strain gauge technology.
Easy to switch between multiple bikes (assuming they share the same axle).
Measures from the closest point of power application to the road of any power meter.
If the bike uses a standard wheel axle, a PowerTap hub will likely work.
While there is a wide range of options now, not all wheels are available with PowerTap as an option.
The more wheels you want to use, the more the price goes up as you have to keep adding PowerTap hubs to each pair.
Early generation models could be finicky. G3 units are well sorted.
Changing frame axle standards could complicate compatibility with some current and future frames. Your next bike may use a different axle than your current.
Reliability/Maintenance: The current generation of PowerTap hubs rivals SRM for reliability, which has had the best long-term reliability record in the business.
The PowerTap hub is powered by small calculator style 357 SR44 batteries. The batteries need periodic replacement, which is easy to do if you have the tool to remove the plastic cap. Otherwise, there really is no other specific maintenance outside of normal hub bearing service.
Compatibility/Limitations: Available in versions with Shimano/SRAM or Campagnolo hubs in road and mountain configurations, there are not any known limitations or compatibility issues with readily available frames/bikes. If you can install a standard wheel in the bike, you can likely install a PowerTap equipped wheel. PowerTap has factory built wheels with a number of different level rims as well as stand-alone hubs that we can build into the rim of your choice.
Display Quality/Features: Any ANT+ Sport cycling computer head (Garmin…) may be used with the current generation of wireless PowerTap and many of the older original wireless versions can usually be upgraded with a ANT+ conversion firmware update for about $100 (if you can track one down still). PowerTap also offers their own Joule series of ANT+ computer heads that are a nice upgrade from the standard yellow Electro head that had been in use since PowerTap's early days.
Weight: PowerTap hub/wheel systems can vary widely in weight. The first level of PowerTap wireless hub, the Pro hub on its own weighs 446 grams while the G3C with ceramic bearings and all the latest technology is substantially lighter at 315 grams for the hub. The increase in weight to add one to your bike will depend on your current hubs, but will normally be from a scant 70 up to a more notable 200 grams.
L/R Power Balance: No. The G3 is hub mounted and thus detects the power in as close a place to where it is applied to the road as possible (the wheel), which means it does not detect left/right leg balance.
Ease of Installation and Transfer Between Bikes: Wireless PowerTap hub/wheel installation is about as simple as it gets. All you really need to do to install a PowerTap G3 hub is install the wheel in your bike and mount the computer mount on the handlebar. As with all the power meters, you need to setup the data fields in the computer of your choice and enter your personal information and activate power meter functions – this will be the most time consuming part of the install in most cases. Of course, zeroing out most any power meter is a good idea for the most accurate data, although current firmware is making this less and less important. When it comes to transferring the PowerTap G3 power meter between bikes, it is quite easy (as easy as changing a wheel). However, it does require that your bikes share the same dropouts.
Conclusions: PowerTap's hub mounted power meter units have the consideration of limiting wheels options, but they are proven and one of the easiest to switch between bikes (assuming compatible dropouts/axles) and provide power measurement at the closest transfer point to the ground of any unit. PowerTap is also a very good company when it comes to supporting their product.


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MÚSICA CALLADA
Frederic Mompou
Lilit Grigoryan, piano
Catalogue Number: ORC100178
Release Date: October 15th
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'Music that is silent, sonorous solitude'
Lilit Grigoryan returns to Orchid with the hypnotically beautiful Música callada, a collection of exquisite miniatures of varied colours and mesmerising depths by Spanish composer Frederic Mompou.
Frederic Mompou (1893-1987)
Book 1 (1951)
1 I Angelico
2 II Lento
3 III Placide
4 IV Afflitto e penoso
6 VI Lento
7 VII Lento
8 VIII Semplice
9 IX Lento
10 X Lento – cantabile
11 XI Allegretto
12 XII Lento
13 XIII Tranquilo – très calme
14 XIV Severo – sérieux
15 XV Lento – plaintif
16 XVI Calme
17 XVII Lento
18 XVIII Luminoso
19 IXX Tranquilo
20 XX Calme
21 XXI Lento
22 XXII Molto lento e tranquilo
23 XXIII Calme, avec claret
24 XXIV Moderato
25 XXV
26 XXVI Lento
27 XXVII Lento molto
28 XXVIII Lento
Frederic Mompou (1893-1987) was a Catalan composer who divided his studies between Barcelona and Paris. A shy man, he nevertheless made friends with significant figures such as Francis Poulenc and the artist Joan Miró. Mompou specialised in writing piano miniatures that combined the music of his homeland – including Andalusian folk music – with a language influenced by Ravel, Manuel de Falla and Debussy. Indeed, in 1921 the critic Émile Vuillermoz declared that Mompou was "the only disciple and successor" to Debussy; that "without ever having known Debussy" he "has understood and absorbed the essence of his teaching." Even so, Mompou's path into a musical career was not smooth; the Spanish Civil War and family tragedy left him impecunious, and he tried his hand at various ways of earning a living, including running the family's bell foundry. He continued to compose, however, and enjoyed moments of success, notably when John Lanchbery's orchestrated versions of Mompou's piano works were used for Kenneth Macmillan's ballet La Casa de los Pájaros ('The House of Birds') staged at Sadler's Wells in 1955. In 1957 Mompou married for the first time, aged 64.
Mompou's Música callada (meaning 'Quiet' or 'Silent Music') was published in four volumes between 1959 and 1967; his final burst of solo piano music and one of the greatest achievements in the Spanish piano repertoire. The apparently oxymoronic concept of 'silent music' comes from the Spanish mystic, Saint John of the Cross (San Juan de la Cruz, 1542-1591), whose writings inspired Mompou as he composed these pieces:
La noche sosegada
en par de los levantes de la aurora,
la música callada
la soledad sonora
la cena que recrea y enamora
The tranquil night
At the approaches of the dawn,
The silent music,
The murmuring solitude,
The supper which revives and enkindles love.
These lines are printed at the end of the first volume of Mompou's Música callada and come from the saint's Spiritual Canticle or Cántico Espiritual – a poetic reimagining of the Biblical Song of Songs – in which the soul (symbolically represented by the wife) seeks unification with Christ (represented by the husband). As Saint John of the Cross explained in his commentary on the Spiritual Canticle: "This is the silent music, because it is knowledge tranquil and calm, without audible voice; and thus the sweetness of music and the repose of silence are enjoyed in it. The soul says that the Beloved is silent music".
Mompou was not conspicuously religious, but both his parents were involved in bell-making and the hypnotic, spiritual quality of bells infuses his style. Mompou regarded Música callada as the culmination of his career; an encapsulation of his aesthetic principles. There are no movement titles, but Mompou uses expressive markings to suggest the character and broad tempo of each piece, sometimes with an apparently whimsical inconsistency between languages (both 'Lent' and 'Lento' are used, for example, alongside more precise metronome markings).
Book 1 (1959) opens with a particularly evocative marking, 'Angelico', and immediately establishes the cycle's sense of metaphysical searching with a piece of profound contemplation, painted in muted hues. The angels of Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fins du temps (1941), with their long-breathed meditations, seem to hover close by. The enigmatic second piece is prefaced by lines from Les Pas, a poem by Paul Valéry (1871-1945):
Car j'ai de vous attendre,
Et mon coeur n'étail que vos pas.
For I have lived for waiting for you,
And my heart was only your footsteps.
'Placido' has a childlike quality (as does 'Semplice', later in the same volume), contrasted with 'Afflito e penoso' – 'afflicted and painful'; but these shifts in tone are subtle. In Book 1, four out of nine pieces are marked 'Lent' or 'Lento' or similar, creating a mesmerising sense of stillness and thoughtfulness as though, in keeping with the cycle's Carmelite roots, we are moving slowly through a church gazing at the stations of the cross; each has its own character, but the cumulative effect is what matters. Mompou's use of delicate colour washes and fragile piano textures are reminiscent of Satie, but with more spontaneous pacing and mysterious tone.
The second volume (1962) charts a similar course, its opening 'Lento cantabile' echoed in two further 'Lento' movements – the second of which ('plaintif') is darkly chromatic – and contrasted with a more animated 'Allegretto', austere 'Severo', and the serenity of the 'Tranquilo' and final 'Calme'. This last marking almost feels like a misnomer, however; its swirling textures create a febrile atmosphere that only becomes becalmed in the middle of the piece, and at the end. Throughout the set, Mompou's use of tonality is nebulous, accentuating the volume's dream-like quality.
Book III (1965) is unique among the four volumes for Mompou's inclusion of both expressive titles and metronome markings for each of the five pieces. The set begins with tolling chimes ('Lento') that punctuate an Expressionistic, harmonically rich dreamscape, answered by the flickering flames of 'Luminoso'. The central movement, 'Tranquilo', exudes a smoky atmosphere more languid than tranquil. 'Calme' is relaxed in pace but with limping rhythms that recur like an insistent thought caught in a ruminative loop before, at last, dissipating. The dissonant gestures of the haunting final 'Lento' are again redolent of Messiaen or Scriabin, demonstrating that Mompou had by this late stage in his career moved well beyond the Impressionistic influences of his early output. Mompou's relationship with the music of the Second Viennese School is not well documented, but the nocturnal, verging-on-atonal terrain explored by many of these pieces seems to inhabit the same world as the pre-serial experiments of Schoenberg and Berg, or the fleeting miniatures of Webern.
The fourth volume of Música callada (1967) was dedicated to Mompou's friend, the Spanish pianist and composer Alicia de Larrocha (1923-2009). The markings are subtly different again: some are more detailed, such as the opening 'Molto lento e tranquilo' and 'Calme, avec clarté', both of which are richly radiant and with tonal conclusions – more centred than much of the music in the preceding volumes. But after the 'Moderato', which is also essentially tonal, Mompou includes a piece with no title at all and, in keeping with this anonymity, creates a stunning modernist miniature of sparse, ambiguous gestures. This enigmatic quality spills over into the remaining three 'Lento' pieces, the second of which is marked 'Lento molto'. The final piece ultimately returns to the warmth of the earlier pieces in this volume, re-establishing a tonal centre that allows the cycle to conclude with a sense of resolution – a gentle, bell-like tolling, freed of foreboding; at peace.
Mompou said of his Música callada: "This music has neither air nor light. It is a weak heartbeat. It's not meant to reach any further than a few millimetres in space, but it is meant to penetrate the greatest depths of our soul and the most secret regions of our spirit".
© Joanna Wyld, 2021
Following the success of her Orchid Classics debut, Variations sérieuses, Lilit Grigoryan returns with an album devoted to the hypnotically beautiful Música callada by Spanish composer Frederic Mompou, hailed during his lifetime as the successor to Debussy.
Mompou's Música callada (meaning 'Quiet' or 'Silent Music') was published in four volumes between 1959 and 1967; his final burst of solo piano music and one of the greatest achievements in the Spanish piano repertoire. The concept of 'silent music' comes from the Spanish mystic, St John of the Cross, whose writings inspired Mompou as he composed these pieces. The result is a collection of exquisite miniatures of varied colours and mesmerising depths, performed with nuance and sensitivity by Lilit Grigoryan.
"An assertive and beyond-her-years performance from the Armenian pianist."
BBC Music Magazine on Variations sérieuses on Orchid Classics.
Lilit Grigoryan
The pianist Lilit Grigoryan, who is distinguished by her abundant strength and a clear, assertive musical language, is one of the outstanding artists of her generation. She is highly praised by the press for her "beyond-her-years performance" (BBC Music Magazine) and is referred to as a "bright spot in the field of interchangeable pianism" (MDR Kultur).
Lilit has toured across the globe and performs in venues including the Konzerthaus Berlin, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie Essen, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, BOZAR in Brussels, Palau de la Música Catalana and Steinway Halls in New York, London, and Hamburg.
As a soloist, Lilit performs with numerous orchestras and makes appearances at various prestigious festivals including Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Verbier, Gezeitenkonzerte, Kultursommer Nordhessen, Colmar and Krzyzowa – Music.
Lilit is also a devoted chamber musician and collaborates with artists including Maria João Pires, Viviane Hagner, Sarah Christian, Hiyoli Togawa and Andrei Ioniţă.
Lilit's debut CD was released in 2012 and featured works by Scarlatti, Schumann, Bartók and Khachaturian (DiscAuverS). In 2017 and 2018, a further two chamber music recordings were released to critical acclaim. In November 2018, Lilit released "Variations sérieuses" (Orchid Classics) including works of Bach-Busoni, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bizet and Szymanowski. The recording has been received very enthusiastically by international reviewers.
Lilit considers her most important teachers to have been Arkuhi Harutyunyan, Sergei Sarajyan, later Matthias Kirschnereit at the Rostock University of Music and Drama and Maria João Pires. There is still an intense and inspiring collaboration with Pires.
In 2008, Lilit received the prestigious Culture Prize of President of Armenia; she was also awarded honours by the State Duma of the Russian Federation and the Mayor of the City of Yerevan.
Lilit Grigoryan is teaching at the Rostock University of Music and Drama.


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I'm sitting here by the computer singing Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis. It's about 2:11pm. DH is out with the kids taking them to the lake to fish. I wish I could be there, but my back is still very sore, and right now I have a heat pad on.
Truthfully, I've had two handfuls of chocolate chips. I know it's not exactly brain food. But enough of that, I am going to stir-fry some zucchini and onions for a snack. Dinner tonight is shepherd's pie and I am going to aim for a small portion and focus on not eating after dinner and drinking tea if necessary. I have to keep reminding myself that I have to take baby-steps and move slowly. I need this back to heal so that I can moving. I can't wait to be more mobile so that I can put this obesity behind me.
I looked up my BMI - it's 43.4 which according to the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation is considered Obese Class III - which is the highest class and basically indicates that I am at the highest risk of developing health problems. Which is scary. Wow.
So what's a girl to do...post on 3fc and keep track of what she is eating and get some exercise.
Today I am going to focus again on my abs, drinking water, trying not to overeat and nothing past dinner.
I love Leona Lewis. Hubby got me her CD back in May and I started doing morning walks listening to it on my discman :) I had to give up the early walks because now he's working nights. I do the walk away the pounds workouts before he goes to sleep. Once the weather cools off, I will start getting out to walk more during the day with the twins. Try working out to Leona.......it's a great beat to move too!


Frequent bear attacks have been raising concern as they are happening more steadily this year.
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Another situation involves a 12-year-old named Abby Wetherell from Cadillac, Mich. Wetherell was attacked by a black bear while jogging on her neighborhood trail. At first she ran, however after the bear caught up with her, she played dead and eventually began screaming for help. Wetherell's father heard her cry and came to help her, witnessing large gashes on her legs. Wetherell was treated at Munson Medical Center, confirms ABCNews.com.
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Philip Rhodes was appointed Senior Pastor of First United Methodist Church of Hurst in February 2013. Philip has served UMC Hurst since April 1999, most recently as Senior Associate Minister. He is a 2003 graduate of Perkins School of Theology at SMU.
Philip was born in England and moved to the United States with his family when he was 10 years old. He's been married to Lynne since 1990.
Philip and Lynne share a love for ministry – Lynne is the Manager of Volunteers and Church Engagement for Project Transformation Dallas. Their children are Nic (senior at Oklahoma City University) and Brenna (Freshman at Midwestern State University). Philip loves to play golf when he can and considers working in the community, and specifically volunteering with teens at LD Bell High School, an awesome privilege.
"I am passionate about people and preaching. I feel called to preach and love to craft messages that speak to our own growing edges, our struggles, and our successes. I am honored to teach, preach, and care for the members of FUMC Hurst. I consider this work to be a privilege and thank God every day for the opportunity," Philip says.


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Cyclochlamys australensis is een tweekleppigensoort uit de familie van de Cyclochlamydidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 2010 door Dijkstra & Maestrati.

Cyclochlamydidae


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no allergies. i've used some brow mascaras before and it did give me some itching on my brows.
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would u mind sharing what shade u are using on the pic? i think that's the shade i want..
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A new residential project by a leading Melbourne property developer takes apartment design to a whole new level of personalisation.
To be launched in the city's prestigious suburb of Armadale next month, Couture Armadale by Melbournia Developments is a low-rise apartment project featuring an Art Deco style and offering 19 units.
The design approach adopted by the developers steps away from the mainstream cookie-cutter strategy to elevate each apartment's design to its own unique experience. This is achieved by rightfully placing buyers at the forefront of the experience and building quality, value and individuality directly into each apartment.
No two apartments are the same at Couture Armadale. The development targets a specific audience group instead of being a commercially driven project where the audience is an afterthought.
"We were drawn to the Deco theme for its sumptuousness and character and you really see this in the detail we've applied. Each apartment is a real celebration of individual style, right down to garden beds. No one apartment is the same," Zhu says.
The project is the brainchild of Melbournia Group director Kevin Phuong, who developed the concept and theme even before the site was acquired.
"I had a very clear vision for a specific demographic. There was an underlying gut feel and desire to create a residential experience that would engage this market emotionally," Phuong says.
Armadale is home to a multicultural, educated and high-earning community that appreciates the high-end shopping, restaurants and boutiques of its neighbouring suburbs.
"People are clear about why they want to live in the area and expect that the advantages and prestige the area affords them will be directly experienced in their own living environments," added Zhu.
Melbournia Developments collaborated with multi-disciplinary architecture and interior design company Peddle Thorpe to design Couture Armadale. The development comprises of single, two and three bedroom as well as penthouse apartments.


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Archival documents trace the life and survival of one Salonican Jew through the twentieth century
Documents from the Pepo Allalouf archive, digitized by the Sephardic Studies Program. All documents courtesy Benita Allalouf Brokaw.
By Dimitris Mitsopolous
Six years ago, after graduating from high school, I was admitted to the Department of History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. My childhood dream to become a historian had been fulfilled. I had planned to study the history of Greece's European integration and the historical origins of the Greek economic crisis. But two events led to a major shift in my focus.
For my birthday, during the first year of my studies, I received an important work of history as a gift: Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews written by Columbia University professor Mark Mazower, which enabled me to delve into the history of my hometown, Thessaloniki — or Salonica, as it was often known by the city's Jewish community. The book opened me to the city's multicultural past, and Salonica's complex relationship with the past and present. I discovered for the first time the city's colorful past, and the fact that its very makeup was totally different a century ago.
During my studies, I also met several professors who sparked my interest in Salonica's Sephardic past. Most of them were specialists in Jewish history or the history of the Ottoman Balkan region, and they showed me how interconnected these two histories are.
Most people in Greece are surprised when they hear that I am interested in the Jewish history of Salonica. Many have asked me if I myself am Jewish. For some people, it's difficult to understand how a non-Jew could be interested in Jewish history; but the way I see it, Thessaloniki's Sephardic past is not an exclusively Jewish matter, but rather one of the most — if not the most important — aspect of the city's history.
My interest in better understanding the history and culture of my city led me to Professor David Bunis' Ladino Language and Culture course this summer at the University of Washington (UW), in which I was able to participate thanks to the generous support from Sephardic Studies Program at the UW. In summer Ladino I benefited greatly from Professor Bunis, who is an excellent instructor, but also from the vivid discussions amongst the students that enabled me to gain new insight into the historic language and culture of Salonica's Jews.
Moreover, I had the chance to "meet" and explore the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection (SSDC), the University of Washington's digitized collection of Sephardic texts and archival materials, which is a real treasure for the field of Sephardic studies. Within the SSDC I encountered the story of Salonican-born Pepo Allalouf, whose life and journey follows the major historic developments impacting the city's Jews and intersects with contemporary Greek and American histories, too.
Undated photo of a young Pepo Allalouf (ST02027-285, courtesy Benita Allalouf Brokaw).
The Allalouf archive contains 250 documents and photos spanning from 1945 through the mid 1980s. It consists of letters between family members in the United States or Israel, correspondence with legal services in Greece, documents about the liberation of the concentration camps, and Pepo's situation and claims for reparations for his sufferings during the Holocaust.
Pepo Allalouf's life includes some of the most characteristic elements of the life of a Salonican Jew born in the early 1910s: In Pepo's letters and documents, now digitized by the Sephardic Studies Program, we can trace major historical events as they were lived by one individual. These milestones in the city's history include Salonica's passage from the Ottoman Empire to the Greek nation-state; the infamous fire that ravaged the city in 1917; interwar immigration; military service during the Greek-Italian War in 1940-41; the Holocaust; survival; and immigration.
A fire forces a Jewish Salonica to rebuild
Born in 1910 in Ottoman Salonica, Pepo belonged to a generation of Salonican Jews born in a city which, only a couple of years later, in 1912, would become part of the Greek nation-state. In 1917 the city was partly destroyed by a fire, which significantly impacted the Jewish neighborhoods in Salonica, while a dramatic downward social mobility followed for most of the Jews: the vast majority — especially poor Jews — lived in the city center, which was squarely within the area destroyed by the fire.
Postcard showing the aftermath of the 1917 fire in Salonica. (Source: Beth Hatefutsoth Photo Archive, Salonika Collection, photo unit number: 1489.)
The destruction left 70,000 people homeless, and of them, 52,000 were Jews. Pepo was one of the displaced, so he and his family moved in with one of his uncles. Pepo then enrolled in a Greek school like many of his peers who did not come from the upper social class. Beginning in the late 1910s, some of his family members started leaving Greece for the United States.
Military service: Greek pride, as a Jew
Biographical note accompanying the Allalouf papers describing Pepo's movements during the 1930s. (ST02027-052, courtesy Benita Allalouf Brokaw.)
Pepo and his father also left Salonica, but instead of going to the United States like most of their family, they left for Mandatory Palestine, which, at the time, was controlled by the British. Nevertheless, a few years later, Pepo returned to Salonica, where he opened a baby carriage shop (unfortunately, none of Pepo's preserved documents explicitly state the shop's address).
The turbulence of WWII brought Pepo to the Greek army where he was drafted to fight against the Italian invasion. Although I was not able to locate a direct testimony from Pepo about his experience in the Greek army, the narrations of other Salonican Jews during the Greek-Italian war express a shared experience of pride for their service without any barriers or cleavages of religion, for the majority of them (the so-called Koen Brigade, for example, was comprised only of Jews because of the Greek military administrative practice of establishing units based on place of residence; the participants in this brigade all came from the same neighborhood in Salonica). As another Salonican Jew, Sam Askanazi, put it, "We, the Greeks, we were fighting very hard", while Samuel Castro characterized the war in an oral history as "a very nice experience."
Nazi occupation: A community destroyed
According to a biographical note prepared by Pepo's descendants, a few months after the Nazis invaded Salonica, Pepo tried to escape and flee Greece through the Aegean Sea, but his attempt was unsuccessful. The conditions of Nazi occupation were becoming harder and harder: Beginning in July 1942, the anti-Jewish measures in Salonica began to escalate as the Nazi occupation forces conscripted Jewish men for forced labor, while in December of that year the Jewish cemetery was destroyed and vandalized by local collaborationist authorities.
As Devin Naar describes in his book, Jewish Salonica (2016), the request by local Greek Christian authorities for the removal of the Jewish cemetery from the city center had been a controversial issue during the interwar period and a main obstacle in the relations between the Jewish community and the Greek state and local authorities. Although Pepo does not mention this major historical event in his letters, it is important to mention in order to understand the tenor of Greek-Jewish relationships in Salonica at the time.
Postcard overlooking the Jewish cemetery in Salonica (1910s). Source: WikiCommons.
After the Nazis invaded Greece and started implementing anti-Jewish measures, the local collaborationist authorities pressed the German authorities to enable them to "remove" the cemetery. Finally, in December 1942, the local cemetery, one of the largest and most important Jewish burial sites in Europe, was totally destroyed and desecrated, while the stones were used as a building material. Some of them remain visible today.
Restitution documentation for Pepo Allalouf recording his ailments upon liberation by the Red Army (ST02027-014, courtesy Benita Allalouf Brokaw).
In February of 1943, ghettoization forced Salonica's Jews from their homes and into a designated neighborhood, while a month later the first train to Auschwitz departed from Salonica.
Pepo's family was deported in early April, and he was the only one to survive from his family. In one of his later letters, attempting to claim his family inheritance, Pepo readily identifies himself as a survivor: "My name is Pepo Allalouf," he writes, "and I lived in Thessaloniki until March 1943. Then the Germans transported me to the concentration camp, along with my brother and my family. With difficulty, I have remained alive."
Pepo's skills and working experience were crucial for his survival, although the conditions had been extremely harsh. When Nazis started to evacuate the camps as the Soviet Army approached, Pepo took part in the Death Marches from one camp to another. As the document at right shows, the liberation by the Red Army found Pepo sick, with multiple diseases.
Survival, immigration, and memories of Salonica
One of many letters addressed to Pepo from Israel to his New Jersey address. From the early twentieth century through today, Highland Park is home to a Sephardic synagogue founded by Jews from Salonica. (ST027-028, courtesy Benita Allalouf Brokaw.)
Pepo, like many other survivors, wanted to move to the United States after the liberation. Besides his personal sufferings, the Jewish community of Salonica was totally destroyed; most of its survivors would either leave for Palestine or the United States.
1984 correspondence between Pepo and an Athens attorney documenting Pepo's application for pension from the Greek state (ST02027-271, courtesy Benita Allalouf Brokaw).
In one of Pepo's Greek letters from 1966, narrating his family's history and his struggle to regain the family's property, we read not only of the tragic fate of his family (including his sister and mother), but also of the diseases Pepo suffered after the liberation. In his own words, Pepo expresses that his lungs were "destroyed" and he was unable to do many things as a consequence.
Finally, there is the matter of his family business: In a letter (likely to a director of a Greek public service), Pepo makes the painful claim as the sole survivor in his family: "My sister was assassinated in the concentration camps by Germans," he writes. Now Pepo aims to reclaim the site of his family business (a different store than his aforementioned baby carriage shop), "a shop at Tsimiski 10" — a store location that would have been in the center of downtown Salonica.
Although Pepo declared his interest to move to the United States, he was unable to do so. His first post-war home was in Toronto, where he worked for a couple of years. Finally Pepo was able to move to New Jersey, where he lived for the rest of his life with his wife, Dora.
Despite the long distance, Pepo kept in touch with family members and some other Salonican Jews, some of whom had also left Salonica but had settled in other places, like Los Angeles. The letters show not only their willingness to stay connected, but also the close bonds between members of the once thriving Salonican Jewish community, even if these bonds stretched in two or three continents. They were discussing their personal lives, their past and providing assistance one to another, when someone was in need.
Pepo and his wife, Dora (née Mair) traveling in Israel (ST02027-153, courtesy Benita Allalouf Brokaw).
Another dimension to the correspondence, which should not be omitted, is of these survivor's attempts to find justice for what they suffered during the Holocaust. Pepo applied for reparations (Wiedergutmachung), as a victim of the Nazi persecution because he suffered from multiple diseases. In the mid-1980s he was able to apply for an honorary pension from the Greek state. (I was not able to trace the fate of his application, but it was likely accepted.)
Pepo Allalouf's life was usual and unusual at the same time. His life often parallels the experiences of his peers from Salonica born in the early twentieth century. On the other hand, how many people have lived through so many dramatic changes, like the passage of their city from an empire to a nation state, the destruction of their home from a fire, immigration, war and, most of all, the ineffable tragedy of the Holocaust? In the broader context of history, these details of Pepo's life certainly render his experiences unique, and his survival a triumph.
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Dimitris Mitsopoulos is an MA student in Global History at the Free University and Humboldt University of Berlin. He majored in history during his undergraduate studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Dimitris is mainly interested in Sephardic history and Greece's passage from the Ottoman Empire to a nation-state. He was a student in the UW's summer 2020 Ladino Language and Culture with Professor David Bunis.
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Preserve White Pond Initiative
History and background
White Pond is a valuable natural resource for the Town of Concord. Thoreau called it Walden's "twin" and celebrated its crystal clear waters. One of Concord's six town wells (source of Town drinking water) is located just 1000 feet from the Pond; two other wells are located not far away. The Town is the biggest landowner on White Pond and is responsible for about one fourth of its shoreline.
This is a crucial time in the life of White Pond, its natural environment and the surrounding neighborhoods. The Town acquired the land in 1992 with private help with the primary purpose of conservation. "No Swimming" signs were posted by the director of the DNR but never enforced. The Pond quickly became a free, unregulated "swimming hole," publicized on the Internet, visible on Google maps, and drawing people from all over the greater Boston area. The Town's fragile cove became a litter-strewn destination spot and an alternative to nearby (and often full) Walden Pond.
Since 1992 the White Pond Advisory Committee (WPAC) has submitted comprehensive management plans to the Town Manager and Select Board for the Town to implement via the Division of Natural Resources (DNR). Today there is still no management program in effect. Over two decades of neglect, overuse and abuse has resulted in the erosion of the shoreline and the pollution of the Pond.
This summer the Pond reached a tipping point. For the first time in its history, White Pond was closed to swimming due to an outbreak of toxic algae (cyanobacteria). Toxic algae is dangerous to people and pets. It is a warning symptom of premature, human-caused eutrophication ("pond death").
In his eye-opening 2014 book Walden Warming, Boston University biologist Richard Primack concludes, "The effects of climate change are already here in Concord, right now."
How will our generation respond?
At the heart of this problem is the fact that the Town land is split into Conservation Land and Reservation Land. Conservation Land is managed by Concord's Division of Natural Resources. The Reservation Land has been held by the Select Board for 23 years with no clear vision, no effective management and no whole pond solutions.
The construction of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail will bring thousands of additional people to White Pond in the next few years. This makes the rapid and effective implementation of a comprehensive Pond Management Plan even more necessary.
This year in response to resident and WPAC requests and the White Pond Forum, the Select Board has taken some important remedial steps and committed to "Review and implement recommendations for the recreational use and long-term protection of White Pond and its ecosystem" as a core goal for 2015-2016.
Solutions requested
We welcome this pledge and ask the Select Board and Town Manager to:
• Approve the White Pond Advisory Committee's A Shared Future: A Comprehensive Vision For White Pond (2015) as the Town's vision for the Pond, including the conversion of Reservation Land to Conservation Land (also recommended in Concord's Open Space Plan).
• Place White Pond under the management of Concord's Division of Natural Resources (DNR) with a mandate to implement the Vision and preserve White Pond as a healthy, swimmable pond. The DNR develops and implements an ongoing state-of-the-art pond management program in collaboration with Massachusetts State agencies ("great ponds" like White and Walden are owned by the Commonwealth), residents, associations, and other stakeholders. Cyanobacteria outbreaks are a state-wide problems and information, expertise and resources are readily available. The pond management program brings all stakeholders to the table and treats the pond as an integrated ecosystem. The DNR promotes responsible use of the new well-managed White Pond Conservation Land and the enjoyment of its natural beauty.
• Expand opportunities for safe, well-regulated outdoor swimming at White Pond to all Concord residents. The existing White Pond Associates (WPA) Beach maintains an excellent swimming facility (large parking lot, lifeguards, swimming lessons, sanitary facilities and trash cans). The Select Board can develop a suitable arrangement with WPA to make affordable day passes available to Concord residents.
• Use the Pond's current health crisis as an ecological teachable moment for all of Concord. Climate change has come to Concord. Toxic algae outbreaks in New England's lakes and ponds are increasing dramatically due to global warming. The DNR can conduct workshops for volunteers who want to contribute with water quality testing and monitoring, wildlife and plant habitat assessment. Concord schools can provide opportunities for students to learn about pond ecology, conduct projects and help preserve the pond.
Please help protect the Pond. Read our descriptive Vision for White Pond. and join the Preserve White Pond Coalition. If you have questions or comments, please contact us. Thank you for your support.
PreserveWhitePond.org
Christine Gerzon, Robert Gerzon, Joyce Ricker, Jim Ricker


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Richard works tirelessly to set up collaborative research groups across the region and has been a key driver in setting up CIEREI (Collaborative Institute for Education Research, Evidence and Impact). Since 2014, over 250 schools have taken part in collaborative research projects set up by Richard through his work as a Supporting Improvement Advisor and with CIEREI. Richard is inspirational and engages with all stakeholders to improve learning outcomes for pupils.
Headteachers speak of Richard as being unassumingly brilliant, unique and different. He is thought provoking in a positive way and genuinely cares for colleagues, parents and pupils.
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Thanksgiving and Autumn Pic Spam!
I'm in the middle of work, but I feel like if I don't sit down and write this entry I'll never get around to it.
I got everything I wanted out of Black Friday! I slept in, went to Target around 10 with Autumn on my way to my parents and got everything I'd wanted. Really nice down alternative pillows for our bed, 700-thread count sheets for $30, a gift for Adam for Christmas (I can't remember how often he reads the blog, if at all, so the gift will remain a mystery) and a few other things I'd seen in the ad. Everything was waiting for me (well, almost, thanks to Karen my sheets arrived the next day when more were stocked for King).
Christmas is in full swing here. I used to feel that my house was jam packed with Christmas decorations but going from an apartment to a townhouse makes quite a difference. Can I also exclaim my huge dismay that the day after Christmas falls on a Sunday?! It's ONLY my favorite shopping day of the year and I can't go! =( In the LDS faith we don't believe in shopping or spending money on the sabbath. It's usually reserved for time with family, church services, etc. I don't go shopping, don't eat out, don't go to the store... It's pretty much church and then a great excuse to be incredibly lazy. I don't believe in very many exceptions and shopping the after Christmas sales certainly isn't one of them. Oh well - maybe they'll still have some things I'd like on Monday as a blessing for observing the Sabbath despite my love for the sales. =) A girl can hope!
Autumn had an ear infection the entire Thanksgiving break, but honestly most people would never know it. Her "fussy" is better than most kids good days. I stayed home from church Sunday to take her to urgent care where she did in fact have one and we went to Target to fill her prescription. It was so WEIRD being out on a Sunday given the LDS faith I just mentioned above. I felt very awkward as I shopped to kill the 25 minutes it took to get her prescription filled. And then I was crazy annoyed because I could have SWORN I bought cookies, went to the bag to get them out and NO cookies. It wasn't on my receipt but I could have sworn I bought them... Maybe I was a good girl and put them back, but it was major disappointment on my end. I've stewed about it for days.
Anywho, I hope everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving and an even better Holiday Season!
So cute, as usual. Those pics turned out great!
Christmas is on Saturday... so enjoy your shopping!


The $149 MSRP BeagleBoard-xM delivers with the help of its AM37x 1GHz ARM processor, enabling hobbyists, students and innovators to bring a project to development fast. Designed with community inputs in mind, this open hardware design brings the previous generations' laptop-like performance and expandability to the next level, while adhering to hand-held power levels. Direct connectivity is supported by the on-board four-port hub with 10/100 Ethernet, while maintaining a tiny credit-card-sized footprint.
Additional PCB to connect LVDS LCD panel to BeagleBoard and BeagleBoard-xM. Provides simple interface to LVDS LCD panels like those in notebooks.
Getting started with Beagleboard-xM: Angstrom Linux on Beagleboard-xM, required peripherals, how to interface to external peripherals and their cost.
Create a mega display wall, combining several displays. The mouse is synchronized accross 6 ARM-powered Ubuntu desktops through synergy, and an ffmpeg synchronization app makes it possible to combine them into a video wall.
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Welcome to Old and New in Shona Religion. This multimedia website showcases the photography and work of Dr. M.L. Daneel. His research among the Shona people of Southern Africa in the 1960s through the 1990s has yielded a wealth of photographs and publications documenting African initiated churches and traditional religions. This website makes those photographs and publications available online.
Dr. Daneel interviewing a shrine priestess
The co-founder of the Center for Global Christianity & Mission and Professor Emeritus Marthinus Daneel spent decades in southern Africa researching African Initiated Churches. His work spanned across religious boundaries into African traditional religions, as new Christian movements became rooted in African soil by selectively embracing and transforming indigenous culture, language, music, art forms, rituals, and religious notions. Living among the people during the treacherous decade and a half struggle for Zimbabwe's liberation that started in 1964, Dr. Daneel was one of the only westerners trusted to work with both African traditionalists and Christian communities. During upheavals and the aftermath of war, Dr. Daneel documented emerging churches and their pioneer leaders who forged their own Christian paths and carved out new adaptations of traditional religion. Among the traditionalists, Dr. Daneel's friendship with local spirit mediums allowed him to be the first westerner to visit and document sacred shrines in Zimbabwe. Not content to be a silent observer, Dr. Daneel helped to build and maintain a massive ecumenical and inter-religious treeplanting movement, a cause for renewed solidarity among communities previously united in the struggle for liberation, a struggle that could now be directed to protecting the earth. His work and research has yielded a wealth of photographs documenting African Initiated Churches, traditional religion, and the treeplanting movement. The Center for Global Christianity & Mission has digitized and annotated over a thousand of these images and made them available online. Among some of the features of the digital project, photo stories are organized and browsable by album, and also searchable by subject.
We encourage you to watch the introductory video.


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Redfish started off as a software company with special focus on building CMS and e-commerce platforms. Even as early as 2000 when the e-commerce was unheard of Redfish built the e-commerce platform. Even today Redfish has technology as its DNA while it has diversified into all aspects of digital marketing. Redfish today is a 360 degree integrated digital marketing company providing every service that is needed by clients to succeed.
Our most successful engagements have been where we have worked for extended periods of time across multiple touchpoints. For example, for AYK Group we handled all digital duties for the brand till before launch for over five years. This included Social, Digital marketing, Media, SEO, Technology, Websites, Applications and integrations with legacy systems. It has experience in enterprise grade solutions including integrating with SAP and Oracle EBS. We work on Adobe Experience Manager as well as on industry leading open source platforms like Umbraco and Magento. We are also a Microsoft Gold Certified ISV partner for the last seven years.
Our most successful engagements have been where we have worked for extended periods of time across multiple touchpoints. For example, for AYK Group we handled all digital duties for the brand till before launch for over five years. This included Social, Digital marketing, Media, SEO, Technology, Websites, Applications and integrations with legacy systems.
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