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Педагогічний музей України
Заснований 1983 в підпорядкуванні республіканського Педагогічного товариства, з 1991 — Міністерства освіти УРСР, з 1992 — Академії педагогічних наук України. До складу його фондів увійшли вцілілі пам'ятки Педагогічного музею ім. цесаревича Олексія (див. Педагогічний музей при Київському навчальному окрузі), що діяв при Київському навчальному окрузі 1902–19, а також матеріали музею при НДІ педагогіки УРСР, заснованого 1977 на базі діючої з 1948 Республіканської педагогічної виставки. Займає частину приміщень Будинку вчителя — пам'ятки архітектури, спорудженої 1910–12 в стилі неокласицизму за проектом архітектора П.Альошина спеціально для першого київського педагогічного музею, що розміщувався тут до 1917.

Нині у фондах закладу зберігається бл. 45 тис. пам'яток (документи, фотознімки, підручники, періодичні видання й посібники, меморіальні речі видатних діячів, зразки навчального обладнання тощо), які відображають основні етапи історії освіти і педагогічної думки в Україні від найдавніших часів і першої в Київській Русі школи при Софійському соборі до сучасності. В їх числі — унікальні стародруки 15–17 ст., рукописи, підручники — «Граматика еліно-слов'янської мови» (1591), «Фразеологічний словник» (1598), граматика М.Смотрицького, посібник Л.Магницького та ін., що у свій час використовувалися під час навчання у братських школах, колегіумах, Києво-Могилянській академії та ін. навчальних закладах України; власноручні записи Г.Сковороди та сторінки з його «Букваря» (1775), прижиттєві видання «Граматики» М.Ломоносова, «Букваря южнорусского» для недільних шкіл Т.Шевченка (1861), «Новой азбуки» Л.Толстого та ін.; матеріали про найзначніші навчальні заклади України, видатних представників національної і світової освіти (Я.-А.Коменського, К.Ушинського, М.Корфа, Т.Лубенця, А. С. Макаренка, І.Огієнка, В.Сухомлинського й ін.), про українських педагогів — жертв політичних репресій.

Джерела та література
 Піскова Е.М. Педагогічний музей України //

Література
Тригубенко В.В. Педагогічний музей України вчора і сьогодні. "Початкова школа", 1995, № 2
Його ж. Педагогічний музей України – осередок національних реліквій освіти і виховання. "Учитель", 1998, № 6
Педагогічний музей України: Сто років. "Освіта", 2003, № 32 (спецвипуск).
Музеї України


INDIANIZER join Tide Selekta with their mix of tribal and psychedelic sounds! Check out the artist page and listen to their compelling and addictive music. The video "Mazel Tov II" anticipates the release of the new record "Zenith", out the 27th of March via Musica Altra, Edison Box and Bordello A Parigi.


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Wine, Food+Drink July 7, 2017 July 31, 2017
Four Winemakers and Their Terroir
Washington's winemakers are breaking new ground in viticulture.
Washington vintners talk soil and sense of place
written by Naomi Tomky
From a Trinidadian dentist to an Irish philosopher, the Washington wine world brings together all types in pursuit of producing a better vintage. Walla Walla grows grapes in the shadows of the rolling Palouse hills, and Yakima Valley sprouts vines from its rocky soil. Each part of the state defines its wine with its landscape and climate, contributing its distinct terroir to Washington's wine industry. But with fourteen regions defined as their own AVA (American Viticulture Area) producing 222,000 tons of different grapes, little unifies the wines of Washington other than the enthusiasm and commitment of those who make it.
Below, four winemakers share the qualities of region and how their passion for Washington wine shaped their careers.
Kit Singh
It sounds like the beginning of a joke: What do dentistry and winemaking have in common? But according to Kit Singh, more than you might imagine. The impressive, accessible wine that the Trinidadian immigrant makes at Lauren Ashton Cellars proves remarkable on its own. That the ambitious winemaker does it in his spare time is simply jaw-dropping. Singh moved to Washington to go to college and discovered his love for wine—a passion that he sidelined as he completed dental school. Through starting his practice and paying school loans, his interest in the industry never waned. Finally he reached the point where he could follow his heart, through educational programs at the University of California-Davis and South Seattle College, and by volunteering locally at DeLille.
Named for Singh's children, Lauren Ashton in Woodinville draws on some of Singh's unique attributes as a winemaker to produce better wine. "I'm very detail-oriented," he said, comparing the minutia of winemaking to working on the tiniest of teeth. But he also knows the best wine comes out of the greater community, which is why he had no complaints that his dental practice kept him from starting his winery closer to where his grapes grow. "It's a competitive industry," he said, "but there's a lot of usefulness in being nearby. Logistically, Woodinville made a lot of sense." He found the community of winemakers to be a great resource, for advice or for borrowing equipment. The concentration of wine cellars in Woodinville provides a well-established route for Singh to source fruit from Yakima Valley, Columbia Valley and Red Mountain. For the general wine enthusiast, Woodinville is a mecca of easily access great local wines a short hop from Seattle.
The Commons: Comfort food goes creative here, where fried chicken sandwiches come with house-made kimchi while the wine stays close to home, featuring Woodinville's best and Washington classics.
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Barking Frog: Forget what you know about hotel restaurants—expert sommeliers here will pair a local bottle from the extensive list with produce from the garden and dishes inspired by the great nearby.
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Village Wines: A cozy bar and wine shop that offers a casual place to grab a snack and taste wines from around the state—including some of Woodinville's best—before you buy.
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Chris Upchurch
Chris Upchurch is widely considered one of Washington's best and most creative winemakers for his work at DeLille Cellars, as well as his own personal project, Red Mountain's Upchurch Vineyard. Upchurch learned his craft from one of Washington wine's founding fathers, David Lake, at Columbia Winery before starting DeLille in 1992. "I wanted to make Bordeaux blends—nobody was making them here, and just a few were in California," he recalled. With classical training and lessons gleaned from his travels, he hoped to blend varietals and to develop a new style in the region.
At Red Mountain, he found a place where big cabernet grapes weren't just powerful and rich, but had structure he could build on, that he could layer with the rest of the blend's grapes. "The Old World is famous for structure and acidity. New World grapes always achieve ripeness, but it often means more alcohol and less acidity." When he and his partners in DeLille bought Red Mountain Vineyards, he recognized the area's combination of both features. Upchurch credits the instant success of DeLille's blends to Red Mountain's signature mix of structure and ripeness, and is now bringing that to his latest project, Upchurch.
On Red Mountain, Upchurch finds a vineyard and a laboratory. "I'm basically taking what Mother Nature gave us a long time ago, and seeing where it can go," he said. "The future is the same—discover what this small appellation can give us."
DeLille: Upchurch's original foray into Red Mountain Bordeaux blends still produces some of the region's best after a quarter century.
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Col Solare: A collaboration between a Tuscan winemaker and a Northwest winemaker turns out Cabernet-based, globally-inspired wines that remain firmly rooted in the Red Mountain soil.
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Fidelitas: As the name implies, this winery from a long-time veteran of Chateau Ste. Michelle stays faithful to the tradition of Bordeaux varietals to elevate the Red Mountain grapes.
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David O'Reilly
The agrarian lifestyle appealed to David O'Reilly. After growing up in Belfast during the Troubles, "you were always looking over your shoulder. … The danger was palpable." Long before he started making wines at Owen Roe, his Yakima Valley winery, he first tasted rural life at his family's farm. "It was such an oasis to go to the Republic [of Ireland], to live on the farm. That was heaven."
At 17, he left Northern Ireland for rural British Columbia, where his large family (twelve siblings) subsistence-farmed while their father, a professor, passed on his love of debate. Moving to Santa Barbara for college, O'Reilly threw himself into the study of philosophy, but the nearby wine country captured his heart. "I knew it's what I wanted to do," he said. As he graduated from scrubbing floors at a winery to more advanced jobs, his industry knowledge and stature grew.
After helping a friend scout Columbia Valley grapes in the early '90s, O'Reilly kept the Yakima area on his radar, even as he made wines in Oregon. With its long, sunny days and unmistakable New World ripeness, Yakima Valley, O'Reilly knew, would be the plot for a world-class cabernet. Soon, he got wind of a winery that couldn't get the yield it wanted out of the land because of the stony soil. He visited and walked the steep hillside that winter.. It was then that O'Reilly knew that Yakima Valley's higher elevations were worthy of a Grande Cru. "You couldn't dial in better conditions for wines that taste good today and stand the test of time."
Owen Roe: O'Reilly still makes the big wines that drew him to the region, keeping them consistently impressive throughout the years and adorning them with gorgeous, artistic labels.
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JB Neufeld: A personal project from the head winemaker of the acclaimed Gilbert Cellars, it focuses on the specifics of what the same wine made from different vineyards tastes like.
jbneufeld.com
Syncline Winery: Though the winery is located just south of Yakima in the Columbia Gorge area, many of its wines come from its Boushey Vineyard collection, including an intriguing and complex Syrah.
synclinewine.com
àMaurice Cellars is a family operation. Winemaker Anna Schafer inherited her love for and knowledge of wine from her father, and now she works alongside her parents and siblings at one of Washington's finest boutique wineries. At the Schafer family dinner table, everyone came together over mom's incredible cooking and hashed out big ideas—like starting a winery. They ended up planting 11 acres on a south-facing slope in Walla Walla, next to Leonetti's Cab reserve program.
While planting vines adjacent to a Leonetti vineyard was an asset to the family, the Shafers were ultimately attracted by the Walla Walla community. "It was a big, huge hug when we showed up," Schafer said. Norm McKibben of Pepper Bridge (a founding father of the industry) sent over a bottle of wine when they first arrived, along with a note that high tide floats all boats. "They wanted to make sure we made a wine worthy of the valley."
Praise and awards soon found Schafer's wines. Anna Shafer lauds the rich land, quoting Jeb Dunnuck of Wine Advocate, who noted that the valley has "the most specific terroir in the world, the most pungent example of terroir." Aside from the land, weather in the valley provides another compelling feature. àMaurice practices dryland farming—it hasn't irrigated its vines in years. The vineyard uses very little water to make very good wines. In an age of global warming, Schafer feels that this style of farming that uses minimal water will sustain Walla Walla's vaunted position in the industry.
Brasserie Four: A cozy and casual French restaurant with a wine shop attached, from which diners can select local (as well as imported) bottles to go with their escargots, oysters, or croque monsieur.
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The Ox & Cart: Local wines match up to the regional ingredients on a menu that would be as at home in San Francisco or Seattle as it is here in the rural corner of the state: lamb tartare, slow-smoked Kurobota pork, and fried chicken and waffles.
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Whitehouse-Crawford: It's the place to dig into everything from classic steak to Vietnamese fried calamari, but it's the wine list—including an extensive Walla Walla section—that sets it apart.
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Uwajimaya: A Window to Asian Culinary Culture
Spot prawns are the short-lived surprises that truly hit the spot
Farm to Table: Walla Walla Onion
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This week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) met to discuss allowing the creation of human beings with three genetic parents to proceed to clinical trials. That is, whether to allow human "three-parent embryos" to be implanted and possibly grow to term.
There are currently two different techniques for manufacturing three-parent embryos, the purpose of which is to combat mitochondrial disease. The first, being developed at Britain's Newcastle University, is known as pronuclear transfer (PNT) and swaps DNA between two fertilized human eggs, intentionally destroying multiple embryos in the process.
The second, which has been done by scientists in Oregon and New York and is likely what the FDA is looking at, is called maternal spindle transfer. This technique swaps material between the mother's egg and a donor egg before fertilization.
This is not just another reproductive technology. This kind of gene therapy is genetic modification that will be inherited. So, what the FDA is really considering is whether or not to proceed with genetically engineering future generations without their consent.
On top of the fact that, like traditional IVF, the creation of new human life in this way (out of the marital embrace and in the science lab) is immoral in and of itself, there is also no telling what kind of effect this will have on the children it produces.
The science is still very new. Three parent fertility as a concept was only thought of about 14 years ago. And both of the techniques described above were only first successfully used to create human embryos less than five years ago.
Animals created through these methods have had significant health issues, and in Oregon, genetic abnormalities were detected in half of the human embryos created with manipulated eggs. So, there is a good possibility that we may simply be trading mitochondrial disease for other abnormalities, if babies are ever born using either of these techniques.
In Newcastle's initial report, most of the embryos were so mangled in the reprogramming process itself that they couldn't even start dividing. In order to get better results with this technology in humans, more research must be done, which means more and more tiny human lives lost and destroyed.
The concerns don't end there. The massive amounts of "donated" human eggs that will be needed to manufacture children in this way is worth considering. As are legal issues such as: who would be the legal parents of a child generated from genetic material obtained from multiple donors and would such a child have the right to know the identity of all his gene donors?
The FDA's chief concern, of course, is safety and some members of their advisory committee seemed to agree that there was not sufficient evidence in animal models to suggest that it was safe to proceed in humans.
We are on a threshold. Will we move forward in genetically-engineering our children? This move, it is fair to say, will forever change the course of humanity.
More than 40 other countries have passed laws or signed treaties banning human genetic modifications that can be inherited. Let's hope, in this case, at least, that the United States will not live up to her reputation of being the "Wild West" of reproductive medicine.
This radical experimentation on children must be stopped before it gets any worse.
And soon we will see the medical profession around the world operating in the mode of Dr. Frankenstein.
Given the widespread adoption of abortion as a "medical procedure," they already have been. This is just another "logical" step.
Human GMO. All Hell will be breaking loose. What ARE these people thinking? These scientists don't have any clue what the possible ramifications will be 30 years after creating "successful" results. And then what will we do? This is horrific.
Pray, whitecrane. Pray and keep our kids close.
Lord have mercy on your people, for they know not what they do.
GMO foods: EVIL!!! GMO babies: OUR RIGHT!!! This is what the world is coming to, and it makes me sad.
It is generally supposed that by the time a layperson is reading about some research or application for any new genetic experiments-or any innovative technology- its actual development is further along than what is being described. Secondly, many (inc. scientists themselves) have decried the lack of information made available -in language that can be understood by the layperson- so that we can act or make informed decisions about what could happen. The one solution which might slow things down, would be to constantly write to senators and congressmen as well as letters to editors, demanding a fuller accounting. If nothing else it would show that we are concerned; that we do hold values which might make some of these unacceptable and more importantly, send the message that we are not a bunch of uneducated, uncaring 'nobodies' who should financially support university research and government involvement but accept whatever is coming down the road because the scientists/government/private sector businesses do know what is good for us. Sadly we are in great measure responsible for this 'injustice', in part due to apathy and/or being too trusting of the bodies mentioned. Learning more about genetics too-there are many excellent sites- so that when you write you can say something effective, relevant to the subject and not just the predictable hand-wringing so often found in comments such as found here. I know that many good people want to show their concern, but believe me, when you simply condemn them, it has no impact on the very groups you direct your comment towards. They operate in a totally different sphere and the best your comments will do is to confirm what they already suspect, namely that we are a bunch of 'nobodies'! Please excuse my harshness ( its not personal) but you would be better off not commenting because you are doing more harm than good. Prayers are truly helpful, but we do not have to publicize it, just do it! Ps. When you capitalize your words, your comments are skipped over too.


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Ioan Moța () a fost un preot ortodox și publicist român. Este tatăl legionarului Ion I. Moța, unul dintre fondatorii Mișcării Legionare din România interbelică. Este ctitorul Bisericii "Sfinții Arhangheli Mihail și Gavril" din Orăștie.

Biografie
Părintele Ioan Moța s-a născut în data de 15 decembrie 1868 în satul Certeju de Sus, comitatul Huneodara, Austro-Ungaria (astăzi în județul Hunedoara, România), în familia preotului Ioan Moța, care timp de 47 de ani și-a păstorit consătenii la credința ortodoxă.
După absolvirea gimnaziului la Deva și Beiuș, a urmat studii teologice la Sibiu (1887-1888 și 1892-1894). În primii doi ani îl are coleg pe Ilie Miron Cristea, viitor Patriarh al României Mari.

A fost numit preot-paroh în Orăștie, unde a funcționat în perioada 1899-1940, și protopop la Orăștie (1932-1940).

A decedat în data de 20 noiembrie 1940, la București, și este înmormântat la Orăștie.

Activitatea de jurnalist
 "Foaia Poporului", Sibiu (1893-1895);
 "Revista Orăștiei" (1895-1898);
 "Telegraful Român" (1898-1899);
 "Bunul Econom", Orăștie (1899-1901);
 "Libertatea", Orăștie (1902-1915, 1919-1933);
 "Libertatea", Cleveland, Ohio (1917);
 "Foaia Interesantă", Cleveland, Ohio (1917).

Broșuri
Baba iadului. Poveste în versuri, Sibiu, 1887, 22 pag.
Croitorul și cei trei feciori. Poveste (în versuri) după Ferdinand Schmidt, Sibiu, 1887, 46 pag.
Zâna mărgărelelor. Poveste în versuri, după Ferdinand Schmidt, Sibiu, 1887, 35 pag.
Doi copii. Poveste, Sibiu, 1887, 46 p. (toate în "Biblioteca poporală" a "Tribunei").

Note

Bibliografie
 Vasile Stoica, "În America pentru cauza românească", Tip. Universul, București, 1926.
 Florin Mirgheșiu - "Iași - Washington via Siberia, Coreea, Japonia și Hawaii", in Magazin Istoric, no. 12, December 2004.
 Lucian Boia, On the history of rumanian immigration to America, in Romanian Studies, 1973-1975.

Vezi și
 Voluntarii Români din America (Primul Război Mondial)

Nașteri în 1868
Nașteri pe 15 decembrie
Decese în 1940
Decese pe 20 noiembrie
Ortodocși români
Preoți români
Preoți ortodocși români
Protopopi români
Publiciști români
Naționaliști români
Ctitori de biserici români
Ctitori de biserici
Transilvăneni
Români din Transilvania
Români din Austro-Ungaria
Români din secolul al XIX-lea
Români din secolul al XX-lea
Membri ai Marelui Sfat Național Român
Oameni din Orăștie
Oameni din județul Hunedoara

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Ravishankar Raval (1892–1977) was a painter, art teacher, art critic, journalist and essayist from Gujarat, India. He worked for the magazine Vismi Sadi until it closed in 1921, and then founded the cultural magazine Kumar.

Life
Ravishankar Raval was born in a brahmin family on 1 August 1892 in Bhavnagar (now in Gujarat, India). His father Mahashanakar Raval was an officer in the British Communication Service. He spent his childhood in several towns as his father was transferred from one place to another. He wrote that he inherited his artistic instincts from his mother. He graduated from high school in 1909. During his first university year, at the local Arts College, his principal asked him to paint the stage sets for the college drama festival. He advised him to join arts by his Parsi professor Sanjana who was pleased with his artistic skills. Against his fathers non-approval, he joined Sir J. J. School of Art, Bombay. He was trained under Cecil Burns, the principal of J. J. School.

Though a promising student of the academic naturalism taught at the J. J. School and a budding portrait painter, Raval gave up these influences to embrace the revival of Indian art that was then gaining ground. In the spirit of cultural nationalism, he held on to these ideas, despite harsh criticism, such as when the Rajput-art-style painting 'Bilwamangal' for which he won the Bombay Art Society gold medal was dismissed by a Parsi artist as 'a printed label on mill cloth' He received Mayo Gold Medal at Sir J. J. School of Art in 1916.

Career

In 1915, Raval met a prominent journalist Hajji Mohammad Alarakhiya, who was looking for a young artist-illustrator for his new cultural magazine Visami Sadi (The Twentieth Century), and joined him. He moved to Ahmedabad and started an art school in 1919. He worked for Visami Sadi until its closing with the accidental death of Haji Mohammad in 1921. From Visami Sadi, he was inspired to start new cultural magazine Kumar at Ahmedabad in 1924, which is still published. The magazine is said to have made a great impact on Gujarati arts, and was known for its illustrations and experiments in typography. He had drawn the famous painting of the trial of Mahatma Gandhi's trial on charge of sedition on 18 March 1922 in the Circuit House of Ahmedabad where no cameras were allowed. In 1927, he conducted a month-long art study of the 1st century frescos of the Ajanta Caves. In 1936, he went on three months art tour to Japan. He had participated in annual conference of Indian National Congress in Haripura in 1938 where he painted paintings. He visited Rabindranath Tagore's university, Santiniketan in 1941. He was appointed as the President of Art Society of India and the President of Bombay Art Society in 1941. In 1948, he joined Russian artist Nicholas Roerich at his Kulu art center as the house guest. He participated in All India Art Conference at Calcutta in 1951. He went on art tour to Soviet Russia in 1952.

Other noteworthy work includes the remarkable artwork in Chandapoli, a Gujarati children's magazine and Kailash ma Ratri (A night at Mt.Kailash). Raval illustrated Bawlana Parakramo (1939), a Gujarati adaptation of the Pinocchio story by Hansa Mehta. He also drew many paintings of historical figures such as Narsinh Mehta, Mirabai, Hemchandracharya, Chandra Kaumudi, Akho which became cultural image of the characters. He is also well known for painting the characters of Kanaiyalal Munshi's novels.

He had designed quasi-realistic sets of Narsinh Mehta, the first Gujarati talkie film.

His autobiography Gujarat Ma Kala Na Pagran which was reissued in 2010 with some of his works in it.

He died on 9 December 1977 at his home "Chitrakoot" in Ahmedabad after brief illness.

Style
He evolved his own rich style, inspired by the Indian classical painting traditions. He was influenced by Raja Ravi Verma's religious oleographs. He was influenced by Tagore's informal open studios which influenced his Gujarat Chitra Kala Sangh.

He was given the title of Kalaguru, the master of art, by Gujarati author Kakasaheb Kalelkar for his contribution in art in Gujarat. His art school produced several notable artists of India such as Kanu Desai.

Recognition

During his career, Raval received several awards and medals. He received Mayo Gold Medal at Sir J. J. School of Art in 1916. He was awarded Gold medal from the Bombay Art Society in 1917. He won second prize in art-in-industry Expo at Calcutta in 1923. He received Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak (1930), the highest literary award in Gujarati literature for his art essays. He received Kalidas Prize in 1925. He received Nehru Award for his book on Russia in 1965. Later he was awarded Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India, in 1965.
He was accepted as the Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1970.

Personal life
He married Ramaben in 1909. They had three sons; Narendra, Gajendra and Kanak.

Bibliography

References

External links

 Art World of Ravishankar Raval

 Bibliography at WorldCat

Indian male painters
Indian illustrators
Indian children's book illustrators
1892 births
1977 deaths
Fellows of the Lalit Kala Akademi
20th-century Indian painters
People from Bhavnagar
Indian male essayists
Indian male journalists
20th-century Indian essayists
Recipients of the Padma Shri in arts
Writers from Ahmedabad
Gujarati-language writers
Recipients of the Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak
Painters from Gujarat
20th-century Indian male artists


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Rent includes: unlimited Wifi on NBN and cable, water, and cleaning of common areas. All you need to do is move on in. Everything is already set up and connected for you.
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Is the consumer tech show keeping up with emerging tech or does the annual event seem one step behind?
CES 2013 saw true disruptive tech with VR, wearable and smart homes gaining some traction in the tech industry.
But as CES 2018 closes, is the tech industry any further forward with these technologies, 5 years on, and has anything new been introduced? The answer feels like not really.
The focus of the show seemed to be dominated by an abundance of connected tech including, toilets, showers, toothbrushes, suitcases and underwear. Does Google assist (or equivalent) need to present on every item we own? Just because something can be connected and monitored, does it need to be? This felt like the industry concentrated on showing gizmos and gadgets, rather than on sustainable future proof tech which could be making people's lives easier and more efficient.
Add on tech is becoming more and more prevalent with actual technology breakthroughs are being forgotten. At the show, LG announced it would be adding AI to all its existing products this year. No new innovations just adding a feature to their fridge or TV. What advancements was this going to bring about by just adding existing technology to an existing device?
Wearables is certainly in danger of becoming a saturated market with consumers often having to wade through endless versions of the same thing, where is the new innovation?
Aside from the consumer lack of innovation there was however a beacon of light. Whilst many tech sectors felt stagnated, Digital Health seemed to take centre stage this year.
Healthcare is ripe for growth as healthcare costs rise and people are being given more autonomy over their own care.
Many big tech companies have entered this market bringing forward their own health gadgets and products. Health gadgets, sensors and trackers for homes and cars far outnumbered any other market at CES 2018.
Omron's blood pressure smart watch is undergoing clinical tests but it can be programmed to take night readings, testing for hypertension and risk of stroke while sleeping. This is amazing innovative tech.
Sleep trackers are big business but Nokia Sleep goes beyond the norm by also addressing the room you sleep in, lowering lights and temperature for example.
Medical training in VR. Immersive VR simulation allowing collaboration of at least 2 people, student and teacher demonstrating from anaesthesia to operation.
We would like to see more disruptive consumer tech across all the sectors at CES 2019, rather than the add on technology demonstrated this year, let's take some risks, and see where it takes the tech world!


The second biggest elephant that the National Government continues to feed is superannuation, at 4% of GDP it costs around $8 billion to fund annually and has been projected to double by 2050, therefore costing hundreds of millions extra every year. The government has ignored calls for a raising of the retirement age by the Retirement Commissioner, Diana Crossan.
The third elephant is the tax cuts to the wealthy and the government refuses to back away from them despite costing the country around $2 billion in lost revenue so far. The cuts were never fiscally neutral as the predicted returns from the raised GST never eventuated. The National Government continues with the cuts despite the fact that our upper income earners are taxed at a much lower rate than in Australia. They won't even consider a capital gains tax when around 40% of incomes in the top bracket come from largely untaxed capital gains.
The fourth elephant is the subsidizing of greenhouse gases that costs the government around half a billion dollars a year because they continue to weaken the Emissions Trading Scheme and refuse to include some of our largest emitters.
To offset the huge leakage of government funds to these fiscal elephants and, in an attempt to offset increased borrowing and "balance the books", millions are being cut from essential government services. In his latest budget Bill English tries to make the untenable appear responsible by increasing class sizes, raising "user pays"charges for basic services, cutting student allowances, raising costs for accessing early childhood education and even taxing children who have after school jobs.
This is a miserly, mean little budget that continues to reward the rich and supports their growing affluence by sucking what little is left out of the poor and vulnerable.


MICHAEL SCHOFIELD has an MA in English and teaches writing courses online for California State University at Northridge. He and his wife, Susan, are co-founders of the Jani Foundation. Michael lives with his family in Valencia, California.


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With the holiday seasons arrival, it's important to get your space ready for comfort and complete and luxurious, relaxation. Here are three timeless tips to creating your own holiday comfort bed perfect for sweet dreams.
Vintage washed cotton is especially laundered to give an extra soft fabric that has a distinctive lived in look that never needs ironing perfect for a modern lifestyle.
Florals are still trending in a myriad of designs from traditional to more stylised and bolder prints.
Quilts are making a comeback. Gone are the days of them being old-fashioned, you can create that same classic sense of nostalgia and comfort with a modern quilt in stylish, updated designs.


These taste so great you would never realise they are insanely good for you!
Oat bran can help to lower cholesterol and coconut oil and cream are good for the heart. Plus, the frozen berries are full of nutrients such as vitamin C and antioxidants – essential for a healthy immune system.
I have used coconut milk instead of normal milk as it is a healthier form of saturated fat which is non-inflammatory as well as being rich in antibacterial capyrlic acid and immune boosting lauric acid.
These pancakes don't take long to make and can be enjoyed by all the family on a lazy Sunday morning. If you really want to cheat, you can make them in advance and freeze them – so you can have them any morning you like! Just defrost and either heat in a pan or give a microwave blast.
You could easily swap the frozen berries for fresh berries or slices of banana and a sprinkle of cinnamon or nutmeg. Cinnamon has a lovely sweet taste helping reduce the need for added sweetness, and can be helpful in balancing blood sugar levels.
Simply put the dry ingredients into a bowl and make a well in the centre. Then pop in your egg yolks and gently mix the yolks into the flour working from the centre of the well. It will be very thick at this stage with a lot of the flour still not mixed in. Then add in your coconut milk. You want the mix to be like Greek yoghurt in consistency.
Next, whisk up your egg whites until they form medium to stiff peaks. I do this with an electric whisk but you can also use a hand whisk. The egg whites are ready when the the peaks stay firm but still have a slight wobble.
Take one scoop of your whites and mix roughly through your batter - this will loosen your mix and make it easier to incorporate the rest - resulting in lots of lovely air in your pancakes. Fold the rest of your whites in quickly but gently. I use a large metal spoon so as to cut through the mix and not drag it (which would happen with a wooden spoon).
Once all your egg whites have been mixed in, and your batter is lovely and light with bubbles, you can add your berries (I often use frozen).
Heat about ½ a teaspoon of coconut oil in your non-stick frying pan and make little oval shaped pancakes. They should puff up a bit when cooking.
When bubbles start to appear around the edges of the pancakes (and a few in the centre) it's time to try flipping them gently over. (I use a palette knife or fish slice).
Enjoy with a healthy glug of honey or maple syrup.
These little pancakes are wonderful on their own too - just leave the berries out.
Fresh blueberries are packed full of vitamins and frozen are just as good too - wonderful for ice cold smoothies.
These freeze brilliantly and can be a lifesaver for breakfasts on the run.


Australian guitar virtuoso Plini played only his second overseas headline show to a sold out crowd in Manchester, which included the daunting, on looking presence of Satan himself. But as the lights around the hellishly decorated room reacted to the dazzling craftsmanship on display here tonight, there was a flicker in his eye.
"The tour is going great so far. Today I feel immeasurably better than yesterday after the flight," the guitarist had told us earlier that evening, in the air-conditioned confides of his tour bus. A low humming underpinned our conversation. "I genuinely didn't expect it to feel that good in terms of crowd energy. It blew my mind."
"I've been treated endlessly in terms of shows. Coming here as an opener with Animals As Leaders last year was pretty much the best way to come to Europe for the first time. It was the ideal crowd but with endlessly more people than I would have played to on my own."
As the band made their way from their backstage area, through pockets of the crowd and onto the stage that nestles slap bang in the centre of the venue, applause began to crackle. Soon, sweet and gracious melody lines breezed their way through the room. From the dislocated djent rhythms that sat atop the silky smooth chord progressions in Electric Sunshine, to the symphonic tinged crescendos of Cascade, a song dominated by fiery turns of pace, it was an immensely colourful set.
Out on the stage, his pure, unfiltered joy at simply being on the other side of the world, 17,000km from home and in front of a packed and receptive crowd is clear to see. He dedicates End of Everything to the giant Satan sculpture that looms over the sound desk, a song which entwines dark, impenetrable moments with ones of an airy, ethereal nature. Every eye in the room carefully watches his fingers dance across the fretboard.
It is that attention to detail – which includes the band bringing their own PA to the show – that makes their set sound so unbelievably pristine, even in one of Manchester's more unconventional venues. It's like listening to their studio work through expensive headphones, bolstered by the incomparable feel of a live band.
"We only have time for one more song," his softly spoken voice tells the room, "but as there is no way for us to escape for a cheesy encore, so we actually have two songs left." An hour of super talented but ultimately refreshing and relaxing music had flown by.
The two supporting guitarists, David Maxim Micic and Disperse's Jakub Żytecki then strolled onto the stage. With punters suddenly holding their phones aloft all around, little pockets of light now bursting into life and encircling the stage, they descended into a free-flowing jam. The chops on display, especially for a crowd predominantly populated by musicians, was beyond enviable. They reacted superbly to one another's playing, a friendly game of one-upmanship seeing the ante shift through the gears and with it, the broadening of every players smile.
At nearly nine minutes long the spiralling labyrinthine of Paper Moon made a fascinating and heart-warming final song. If you could bottle Plini's ear for supple and sumptuous melodies, you'd earn a fortune.


THIS is THE comic book that started it all for Marvel. It wasn't their first comic (that was actually 22 years before! – Marvel Comics #1), and they weren't even the first Marvel Superheroes (Captain America Comics #1 in 1941). This comic, however, brought realism into the fold of comics – and was one of the first that featured more true-to-life dynamics and storylines.
For example, most comics in those days featured archetypal cardboard cutout heroes. They would save the day and that was pretty much it. The Fantastic Four were a group of unlucky people who were transformed beyond their control. While three of them were happy to use their powers to help others, the fourth member (The Thing), saw his "blessing" as a curse. He was depressed, bitter, and unappreciative towards the other members of the group. This change made for a great and refreshing dynamic.
I grew up reading comics, so I've always known the basic synopsis for this first issue. I also remember the legendary cover quite fondly – though I had never gotten a chance to peek inside until the age of the Internet. I was surprised by the overall feel of the story. It definitely feels like another era – with callbacks to the Red Scare, the Arms Race, and the overall early Cold War era mindset.
One particularly interesting thing about this story is that it's set up to almost make the Fan-Four seem like villains at the beginning. Mr. Fantastic is a man holding a flare-gun in the shadows, while The Thing is running amok on the streets. Near the end of the first chapter we finally get to see a flashback that describes the events that led to their biological changes.
The main antagonist of this story is The Moleman, whom I've actually never found frightening (until now). He commands a horde of strange cave-dwelling monsters that live on a secluded island, which reminded me of something out of King Kong. I found his origin story to be sad and pathetic, akin to The Penguin's story from Batman Returns. He was too ugly for the world around him, and after being shunned by society, he ran away in order to find a new world in which he could be King (a legendary land in the center of the Earth). He eventually found the cave that led to the supposed center of the earth, and was so excited that he screamed for joy. The scream caused a cave-in, which physically left him permanently blinded.
At the end of the story we find out that The Moleman gets away (DAMN!). Overall, it was a great introduction into the world of Marvel, and it left me wanting more!


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Change. Constant as the tide.
If you followed your wishes, where would they take you?
I invite you on a whimsical journey via the seeds of your imagination. To a place where thoughts blossom into reality. Hold tight, the wind may carry you much further than expected!
carefree & unencumbered were our Sundays in the Park.
Why Can't I Fly Like the Other Birds Do?


Dr John Ayuk trained in the West Midlands, completing a Research Fellowship in Endocrinology and being awarded an MD at the University of Birmingham. His research interests include the pathogenesis, management and outcome of pituitary tumours. He is a member of the International Acromegaly Consensus Guideline Group and Chair of the UK Acromegaly Register Steering Committee. He also holds the post of Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham.