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Japanese art and NYC's parks
BBG, Branch Brook State Park, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Central Park, cherry tree blossom, cherry tree blossom peak bloom, NY Botanical Garden, NYBG, NYC Central Park, Washington DC cherry trees
Today (Sat April 21st 2018) was the Cherry Blossom Festival on Roosevelt Island. Though there are few trees, they're located right opposite the Renwick Hospital Ruins, on the way to the Island's famous FDR Park – designed by Louis Kahn. The program ran from 12:30 – 5pm, and included dance, Shamisen, a Japanese String Ensemble, and the Japanese Taiko Drummers. The island's Wikipedia entry is replete with history.
Rahim Chagani fitting right in
Brooklyn's Botanical Garden's Japanese Garden's cherry trees are all in full bloom now. All is conveniently coded and mapped out: https://www.bbg.org/collections/cherries. The rest of the Garden's trees will be in bloom during the weeks ahead. Instead of a program, the Garden has instead to have Family Discovery Weekends through June 3rd (but not Memorial Day).
NYBG has over 200 cherry trees and an online Cherry Blossom Tracker – which as of this posting is 50% of the way to Peak Bloom.
Central Park's cherry blossoms have resulted in a special $1145 package at the Ritz-Carlton hotel. Otherwise googling those key words brings up Macon GA's central park and its cherry blossom festival – featuring a human cannonball.
Branch Brook Park's bloomfest is in early April (1-15th) – though this weekend, the 21st, it's at its best. It features cell phone touring of 72 key spots in the park by dialing, 973-433-9047 + 45-minute guided tours can be arranged. And it's all near Newark or but a few miles from Lincoln Tunnel. It is The Star of not just the NYC area for its 360 acre park, designed by Olmsted as was Central Park. But Branch Brook Park has 4000 cherry trees – greater than Washington DC's 3750 trees. So why go to Washington DC? Especially since DC's peak bloom date, established by the national park service, was April 4 this year.
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Hi Per, I would like to invite you to a special Art Talk on April 28 4-6pm. Attached is the information. There is an opening reception April 25 Wednesday 7-9pm but it would be best to attend the Art Talk. We are having Robert C. Morgan give a talk on Chinese Ink and Barnaby Webb will also talk about Chinese Art History. Yves Seban will sing and recite a poem written in the Song Dynasty "Lament of Departure" and a live Guqin performance by Dr. Mingmei Yip. Seating is limited to 25 guests only so please RSVP if you are coming . The Talk will be at 56 Leonard St. LOUNGE Its the Jenga Building. (please take note its not 83 Leonard St.) Looking forward to seeing you again. Best regards, Gigi
INVITATION SALOMON ARTS GALLERY
ART TALK: THE WAY OF INK Lecturers: Robert C. Morgan and Barnaby Webb https://nyss.org/lecture/robert-morgan-rethinking-contemporary-ink-art-china/ MUSIC: Guqin instrumental played by Ms. Peiyou Chang (music transcribed for guqin by Master Yuan Jung Ping) VOCALS: Yves Seban will sing: "Lament of Departure", by poet Jiang Kui, (Song Dynasty – 12th century) SOLO PERFORMANCE: Dr. Mingmei Yip, Guqin Master Saturday, April 28, 4-6 pm 56 Leonard Street LOUNGE RSVP required: gallery@salomonarts.com 212 966 1997 THE WAY OF INK
CURATED BY LYDIA DUANMU
"The Way of Ink", a selection of work by six Chinese artists from Beijing. The exhibition highlights ink-wash painting as the essence of Chinese painting, but reveals something much deeper about the spirit of Chinese art: truthfulness and freedom. OPENING: Wednesday, April 25, 7-9 pm RSVP required: gallery@salomonarts.com 212 966 1997 83 Leonard St. 4th Fl. New York NY 10013 http://www.salomonarts.com
OPENING HOURS: APRIL 25 – MAY 16, 2018 HOURS: Wednesday – Saturday 2-6 pm or by appointment PRESS RELEASE
TriBeCa, New York: SALOMON ARTS GALLERY is honored to present "The Way of Ink," a selection of work by six Chinese artists from Beijing. The exhibition highlights ink-wash painting as the essence of Chinese painting, but reveals something much deeper about the spirit of Chinese art: truthfulness and freedom.
For these artists, governing the mind is as important a skill as manipulating the brush. Explains Weiwei Qu, "Only when you are able to control your mind can you control the way things turn out on paper." In seeking truth and freedom, the artists achieve the mental state necessary to create. Doing so is a balancing act; one must strive to be expressive and imaginative while maintaining a level of self-restraint.
These artists have achieved this feat. Their work is exuberant and fanciful, but never explosive. Somber hues and soft, creamy brushstrokes ground the paintings in melancholia. Subtle framing choices have monumental emotional effects—a flower typically depicted from above, here viewed from the side, feels almost invasive. A house perched atop a hill, alone on a stretch of grey paper, is chillingly isolating. The artists are masters of subtle manipulation—a product of their authority over their own minds.
"The Way of Ink" is a cultural exchange between East and West. In New York alone there are hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Fuzhou. "The Way of Ink" presents this exchange from a non-western perspective, respecting the diversity of Chinese art. While several of the featured artists explore the human form, Yanling Yang focuses on the structure of various flowers. Among the painters of the human body there are those who delight in whimsy, such as Weiwei Qu, and those who revel in the ghastly, such as DaXi Yuan. In some of the works, the influence of traditional Chinese painting is imminently clear. In others, this influence is felt rather than seen.
"The Way of Ink" is sponsored by the Fuzhou Art Gallery, founded in 2017. Housed within a series of Qing Dynasty buildings and former celebrity residences, the gallery is a physical manifestation of old and new. It boasts wings dedicated to both ancient and contemporary art, as well a section for public art services. Visitors can have their artwork appraised at the Fuzhou Art Gallery. CURATOR Lydia Duanmu is an artist, curator, editor and writer. She graduated from China Central Academy of Fine Arts with a major in mural painting. Her column "Lydia Asian art talk" is featured in Hysteriart Magazine. She is the art director for "DoKoBeijing" a health food life style restaurant in Beijing. A bicontinental citizen, she lives in New York City and Beijing.
SALOMON ARTS GALLERY cordially invites you to engage in a cultural exchange right in the heart of the TriBeCa art scene. Visit Salomon Arts Gallery: http://salomonarts.com Contact Rodrigo Salomon 212-966-1997 / gallery@salomonarts.com


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Congress Members Disappointed with Slow Pace of CTA Implementation
Congress Members are disappointed with the slow pace of implementing the Corporate Transparency Act according to reporting in the Financial Times.
The three Democratic committee chairs have written to Janet Yellen, expressing disappointment at the Treasury Department's slow pace. These committee chairs were instrumental in leading the adoption of the Corporate Transparency Act.
According to the report, Sherrod Brown, Senate banking committee chair, Maxine Waters, House of Representatives financial services committee chair, and Carolyn Maloney, House oversight committee chair, wrote to express their disappointment.
The three reportedly warn: "We are disappointed by delays on this important rule, but recognize that . . . a final rule is now not likely to be issued by the implementation deadline."
The three Congress members urged the Treasury Department to move faster. "We hope that as the department's leader, you will do everything that you can to ensure swift action on the rule, including urgently providing additional staff and resources as necessary to achieve the effective and timely issuance of a proposed and subsequent final rule," they said.
The Corporate Transparency Act requires the Treasury Department to implement the law restricting anonymous corporations by December 31, 2021. Without implementing regulations, however, the new law will effectively be delayed.
Earlier in 2021, spokespersons for the Treasury Department had expressed optimism that the Department would adopt regulations for the Corporate Transparency Act before the end of the summer.
In April, 2021, the Treasury Department published an advance notice of public rule-making. The action asked the public to offer suggestions on key questions involved in the implementation. Since then, however, the Department has not made any public statements about the impending regulations.
The Congress members have not made their letter public. The Treasury Department has also not responded publicly.
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Sundown cinema back in Little Italy
Three thousand outdoor cinema-goers showing up to watch Cher and Nicolas Cage under a full moon in Little Italy - now that's amore.
It's opening night on High, Stiles and Albemarle streets, where a free summer film festival has brought throngs to the neighborhood in beach chairs to watch Moonstruck. The weekly Friday night event, which got off the ground four years ago when the Little Italy Restaurant Association decided to give open-air cinema a try, has become a Baltimore spectacle attracting anyone who wants to watch movies and people.
The outdoor movies, shown in a small square in the heart of Little Italy, will be offered every Friday through Aug. 29, when the scheduled finale is Cinema Paradiso.
The heart of every show is not just the film, but the scene around it: a block converted to a theater, an organ grinder with a 1909 hurdy-gurdy and a 93-year-old man who lent the community his rowhouse window for the movie projector.
"It's definitely a city institution now, bigger than its elements," says Jed Dietz, director of the Maryland Film Festival. "Now it's one of the things people do in summer. And it is so Baltimore, so totally of this city, so welcoming. There's some incredible magic about the setting."
On opening night July 11, the block was so packed with people that moviegoers were spilling past the police barriers.
Michael Wilkes, the projectionist who watches the masses gather outside Vaccaro's Italian Pastry Shop from a window overhead, says, "It's the largest crowd I've ever seen for a movie. It's crazy, like four Senator [Theatre] audiences at one time. I've seen people hanging out, playing the guitar, dancing, playing cards, in pouring down rain or in sunshine."
The movies attract all kinds. Blind dates and middle-aged married couples come early to catch the romance of a picnic on a July night, and children and teen-agers stare at the makeshift screen as Cage begs Cher to go to the opera with him.
And the occasion provides a talkfest for Little Italy old-timers who have lived all their lives under the spire of St. Leo's Roman Catholic Church.
Ida Esposito, 85, sat on a bench to enjoy the spectacle of people arriving and setting up their lawn chairs on the first night of the festival. When she was a girl, she says, a synagogue was on that site, and she remembers lighting Sabbath candles there on Friday nights for 10 cents.
"Word has gotten out," she says. "I was born in this neighborhood, and I have yet to see anything like it. You know what it is - being amongst all the people gives you such a friendly feeling.
"That's what it's all about, bringing the city together."
People-watching
Engineers Summer Craze (yes, that is her name) and Katie Cantrell strolled over from their Federal Hill digs.
"I love the fact we can sit in the street," Craze, 26, says as she discreetly keeps an eye on a nearby couple in the crowd whom she fixed up on a blind date.
Cantrell, 23, says the residents of Little Italy remind her of her grandparents, who live in Wheeling, W.Va. "This reminds me of them - grumpy yet familiar," she says.
For many, the movies are a nostalgic summer treat.
"It's synonymous with summer," says Aldo Locco, who leads a band before the shows begin. "The concept is an old concept in Italy, to show movies in summertime in town squares."
Presiding as unofficial host is John Pente, a nonagenarian who lives in a Formstone rowhouse directly across from the wall that serves as the screen. Outside on his steps, he takes in the pre-show scene with a smile.
Inside his home and up the stairs is the spare bedroom from which the movies are projected. Everyone seems to know that without "Mr. John," there would be no party outside his door.
Pente's neat spare bedroom, decorated in yellow, is a throwback with a rotary phone, lace doilies, a crucifix on the wall and the Italian and the American flags.
A stroke of luck
When the Little Italy Restaurant Association put the festival together on a lark and a shoestring budget in 1999, it received advice from Tom Kiefaber, the Senator Theatre owner. To their amazement, they discovered that the distance between the blank building wall and Pente's bedroom window, or "throw," was a perfect 108 feet.
Wilkes, 31, the projectionist, says the small window met all other technical requirements for projecting 16-millimeter movies. "If this window wasn't here, you could not shoot from any other window," he says. "Shooting out of a rowhouse, you can't plan or duplicate that."
Mary Ann Cricchio, president of the restaurant association and proprietor of Da Mimmo, says Pente had only one question when she asked him whether he would allow the film festival to use his home. "The only question he asked me," says Cricchio, 41, "was, 'Will this be good for the community?' "
She said yes, and so did everybody else.
The church lent chairs, a bank paid for the popcorn, and a restaurant parking lot space was opened up for a makeshift plaza.
"We can't believe what it blossomed into," says Cricchio, who estimates the event costs between $3,000 and $4,000 a week. "If we had counted the cost, we wouldn't have done it."
Craig Ross, a 35-year-old public defender, sees the festival as a sign that Baltimore has changed for the better.
"The mix of people crosses every culture. It's not African-American or Italian, or German or Polish or Greek," says Ross. "In this very ethnic city, it crosses those boundaries. The demographics are inclusive, and nobody feels segregated."
So now Little Italy beckons to people such as Baltimore newcomers Kerry and Glenn Allison, a couple in their 30s who brought their 7-week-old baby, Reilly, to see Moonstruck under the stars. They recently moved from Boulder, Colo., to Hampden.
They hadn't come just for the movie. The street theater, the audience, the spectacle of a city block transformed into a cinema were all components that made for an even grander stage.
Frances Caliri, 82, a Little Italy resident, agrees that the movie is secondary. She was out to see people streaming into the streets where she had grown up. Describing her childhood, she says it was a world where "everybody sat on their steps, we didn't have no telephone, and everything tasted good."
As for last Friday night, her plan was simple.
"When they start the movie, I'll go home," Caliri says.
For a schedule of film festival movies, go to http://www.marylandnightlife.com/LittleItaly.htm and click on "Little Italy Open-Air Film Festival 2003." Music starts at 7 p.m. and the feature film starts at 9 p.m.


Broadbent Country Hams of Kuttawa, Kentucky took home the Grand Champion prize for best in show at the 2017 Kentucky State Fair. It was their 17th victory.
That 21 lb ham was put up for auction this morning.
Central Bank submitted the winning bid of $325,000 with the monies then being donated to the University of Kentucky.
We live in the most fertile food region of the US but we suffer greatly when it comes to country ham. In spite of New Orleans status as being the finest eating city in the US, a country store in rural Kentucky will afford you a better chance of scoring pluperfect cured country ham.
This was a down year for the big ham auction. Last year's winner brought in $600k.
Louis Muench of Louie's Finer Meats in Cumberland Wisconsin was elected president of the American Association of Meat Processors during the group's convention in Lexington, Kentucky recently. Mr Muench is a member of the National Cured Meats Hall of Fame. I will consider my life complete if I can somehow, someday become a member of that august Hall.
The American Association of Meat Processors Cured Meat Competition awarded its Grand Champion trophy to Hermann Wurst Haus for its German-style bologna last week. The shootout took place in central Kentucky where the appellation 'bologna' sure raised some eyebrows. Lexington is deep in boloney country.
Bootleg charcuterie has always been a thing in the US where the government regulates all forms of meat processing. The Cleveland Scene lays out what it takes to go completely legal. It's not cheap.
Last night we put 10lbs of pork shoulder in a salty, sodium nitrite brine. It only takes 48 hours of wet-curing to turn raw pork into Cajun tasso ham. We're penning a recipe later this week. The Tasso is our contribution to a wedding party. The couple are getting married on the 10th anniversary of their first date.
Don's Specialty Meats is one of the top charcuterie houses in all of Acadiana.
They produce 2000 pounds of boudin a day and that doesn't even take into account all the cracklins, andouille, and chaurice that patrons queue up for out on the western prairies of Louisiana.
But the long-running concern has not had an easy go of it lately: Don's Carencro outlet burned to the ground in October of 2016. That location had been running since 1993.
Then the feds came calling and walloped Don's with a fine of $480,313 .
Don's was a mite shaky when it came to properly compensating their workers and the feds had to have a come to Jesus meeting with them and their coffers.
Heart of Louisiana featured Don's in the video above and it's worth checking out if you're into our state's rural butchery scene.
We ran over to Shank Charcuterie last week to buy a few pounds of hog meat to convert into Tasso ham. Later this summer we're cooking for a wedding party of 95 hardworking Texans and we wanted to make sure our ham work was at its peak.


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An Update From Mayor Walsh On Where We Stand
Posted: Jul 20, 2020 / 11:25 AM EDT / Updated: Jul 20, 2020 / 11:25 AM EDT
Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh has had a lot to manage over the last few months. COVID-19 and the 'Black Lives Matter Movement,' both took center stage along with other pressing issues from lead paint problems to enforcing social distancing guidelines and even summer fun.
Mayor Walsh says he's on a mission to continue his work to help the Syracuse community on all fronts and reinvigorate Central New York even in the midst of a global pandemic.
More skaters to be allowed on Clinton Square Ice Rink starting Friday
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) -- If you haven't been able to score a time slot at the Clinton Square Ice Rink - not to worry!
The city has gotten permission from New York State to allow more people on the rink.
What you need to know about running for office or joining a campaign
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) -- With local elections this November for county, town, and village positions this may be the year you run for office or help on a campaign.
The Central New York Political Leadership Institute is here to help give you all the information needed to be up to speed about getting involved in politics.
New York seeing federal COVID-19 vaccine supply shortfall
by Sarah Darmanjian / Jan 21, 2021
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Shipments of COVID-19 vaccine to New York from the federal government are falling short of what was promised. The average amount of vaccines received is nearly 100,000 below what the state was supposed to receive, the Governor's Office confirmed Thursday.
New York is receiving on average 210,730 doses, according to the states' COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker. It's why Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked Pfizer to sell the COVID-19 vaccine directly to the state, according to a spokesperson from the Governor's Office.
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The Native Story
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Season 2, Episode10 - Thomas Manuel
ABOUT THIS PODCAST: In this episode of the Native Hope Podcast, we continue the "Rez Metal" discussion, with our guest host, Vikki Eagle and indigenous musician, Thomas Manuel. Thomas is from the Jicarilla Apache Nation and is the founder of the metal festival Alien Fest and band member of "Obsolete." In alignment with Vikki's long-term project, "Ancestors Rez Metal," she leads the discussion on "deconstructing the image of Native Americans beyond buckskin, headdresses, and mascots." As the founder of Alien Fest, Manuel takes a trip down memory lane in this podcast, discussing what it took to create the first show and the inspiration behind it. He wanted to create a space to expose his home community of Dulce, New Mexico, to the genre of heavy metal music. He describes Dulce as a rural environment tailored to country and reggae music,—musical diversity was needed. The first festival had a humble beginning but has expanded every year since. It has been Thomas' long-term goal to encourage unity among heavy metal enthusiasts, as "metal brings a lot of people together."
Thomas' family played a big part in developing his initial interest in metal music; his sister exposed him to a few notable bands and his uncle was a guitar player whom admired. As Thomas grew into the musician he has become, he was "wowed" by the level and amount of talent across the Four Corners (New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado) area. The purpose of Alien Fest was to bring the surrounding talent to his people, as well as to provide an inclusive platform for fellow musicians and metal bands. Aside from this, it brings him much fulfillment to see other bands expressing their "emotions" and internal identity. Nowadays, Alien Fest includes other genres and will continue to be open to showcasing other forms of music from all over the country within a drug and alcohol-free environment. In addition to shedding light on the origins of Alien Fest, he talks about the unique qualities of "rez metal," in particular. He says that what separates rez metal from mainstream metal is the voice, lens, "feelings and outlooks," indigenous people have, coming from situations of poverty and addiction. The goal of Native metal is not fame or money but celebrating togetherness and "having fun."
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I'm excited to get messages that you're busy reading one or both of the August books by author Nthikeng Mohlele. Rusty Bell is his newest release, while Small Things is still receiving acclaim since its release in 2013. Please finish reading one or both of these by next Wednesday. They are not long reads, so you could probably knock out both over the weekend if you're free.
Update: I believe Rusty Bell has sold out of its new stock on Amazon now (thanks, readers!!!) and it looks like some naughty used-book sellers have jacked up their prices on the second-hand copies. But I have heard from at least one reader that it is available in their library.
Small Things is still showing up at reasonable prices, and does have a Kindle edition. Please do try to get your hands on one or both of these books.
While I'm living here, in South Africa, and traveling to various countries on this continent, I'm reading African literature voraciously. I've been asked to recommend books that would be new and different to American readers, books unlike much of what we're reading these days in American and European literature. In response, I selected a book per month for twelve months, to introduce you to some fresh voices, with stories that will leave you talking, and maybe some questions that you can have answered!
What makes this book club unique is that each author has agreed to answer questions from you. Just send me an email, with your questions or comments by the deadline, and I will compile them into one document from which the author can take time to read and reply. I'll then post the questions and answers together for everyone to read, and announce the winner of a signed book by that author!
For an example, please see July's Q&A with our first author, Futhi Ntshingila, by clicking here. And remember, you're welcome to become a featured reader, either as yourself or as your book club. Featured Readers for information on becoming a featured reader.
Read full details on the Book Club here!
Michael is a respected and haunted South African corporate lawyer – the narrator of this sweeping, intimate and intricate exploration of the plurality and mystery of things: love, grief, fate, lust – but most of all life.
This is the story of a dreamer, an average man, singled out by fate for an uncertain life. Jailed for 18 years under apartheid for unspecified sins, he emerges into a world that has no place for him. His fluctuating fortunes land him on the unpredictable, bitter-winter streets of Johannesburg, where 'harmlessness' is an 'unfortunate trait' but tempestuous skylines offer space to breathe.
A trumpet and an indigent dog are his accomplices in survival. But it is his obsessive love for the erratic, hardhearted Desiree that remains the one constant in his life and impels his search for the elusive meaning of existence.
Through his protagonist, the trumpet-playing philosopher poet, Mohlele weaves his unique magic with words, posing powerful questions in his inimitably individualistic and evocative style.
As a reminder to those already reading along, and those who are new, please submit your questions for the author, and/or photos of the book in interesting places, by email to marla@marlasinkdruzgal no later than next Wednesday, 12 August.
Nthikeng Mohlele was born in 1977 and grew up in Limpopo and Tembisa township, South Africa. He attended the University of the Witwatersrand, where he studied BA Dramatic Art and African Literature. Small Things (2013) has been translated into Swedish as Joburg Blues (Weyler förlag, 2014). He was listed by Bloomsbury Publishing, Hay Festival and Rainbow Book Club among the 39 most promising authors under the age of 40 from sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora. His latest novel, Rusty Bell, came out in 2014.
If you haven't yet gotten the book and you're in the states, you should be able to find them in your local library. Otherwise, please see the link to purchase either Rusty Bell or Small Things. You can easily read one or both in a weekend.
Remember to snap pics of the book somewhere interesting, or with you reading it! Everyone who submits a question and/or photo will be entered to win a signed book from Nthikeng Mohlele. Submit all questions and/or photos to marla@marlasinkdruzgal.com no later than next Wednesday, 12 August.


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Sock Inc.
Steve Heinecke
When Steve got ahold of my daughter, Cailey, she was about to give up on riding. He really turned it all around. Cailey has moved up two divisions in six months and is not just pinning but winning championships in very competitive divisions, which is extraordinary. Steve is a fantastic teacher. If Cailey can't understand something one way, he goes above and beyond to find a way she will understand — whether he draws it out in the sand or he gets on and shows her instead of just explaining it.
We're so proud of her and their relationship and bond. He's a good friend to her and they have a great deal of mutual respect for one another. There are a lot of wonderful instructors who can ride and take your horse and win first place but they can't teach you how to do that and Steve does that. He can go out there and place first but he also knows how to set the horse up and get everything ready so Cailey's confident, comfortable and knows what she's doing. He's a great horseman and really loves the horses, which I like as a mom. He's good with my daughter but I know he's going to take good care of the horses too.
Amy Duguid
I've been boarding and training with Steve Heinecke for five years and it has been a wonderful experience on all levels. In nearly 50 years of horse ownership, I've never seen care of this caliber. Steve is a true horseman who puts the best interest of the horse and safety of the rider first. His experience as a top equitation, hunter/jumper rider and a big R judge is well documented over several decades and states. He has trained some of the top horses in the country and has a gift with young ones. But where Steve truly stands out above his peers is teaching. Steve is the most talented teacher I've ever seen in any topic. I sit on the sidelines now and have watched him work with riders of all ages and levels of talent. I'm always impressed with how he never gives up until he finds the precise way to communicate to the individual; until they completely understand and feel the concept he's trying to convey. He brings the best out of every rider and takes them to the highest level their talent allows. And it's far from all work. We have a lot of fun. I've never laughed so hard. We celebrate our victories and we laugh at and learn from our mistakes. He has taken my little girl from an awkward novice in the junior ring to winning at top shows as a junior. Now she is a successful amateur with several tricolors on a variety of horses at top shows. Most recently, he helped her achieve her long-time dream of competing in the jumper ring. He is doing a remarkable job training Paige's young, green hunter, Dicaprio. Paige and I look forward to much more success and fun with Sock Inc.
Elizabeth Fry Wilson
Steve brought me up from doing the juniors to the amateurs and I had great success with him in the hunters, especially with Take Away. He did an amazing job helping me achieve success in that area. His attention to detail for each horse is great and he really caters to each client. He tailors his teaching style to each rider, their abilities and what level they're at.
Steve is organized and neat. His attention to detail is really spot-on. He's a really great guy in general and a really great trainer. He's been an enormous help to me throughout my career.
Alise Oken
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My experience working with Steve has been great. He trained both of my daughters for 10 years. He's a solid professional who has given both of our girls a solid foundation and has allowed them to be very successful in the jumpers, equitation and hunters. They've benefited incredibly from his teaching; he's a wonderful teacher. Anybody who connects with him will benefit from a relationship with him.
Marc Oken
Steve has a rare combination of attributes: talented rider, patient and thoughtful trainer. He's a brilliant teacher — a consummate horseman. Bryan and I are so grateful for the horses and experiences Steve has brought to our family for two decades: Figaro, PlayStation, Goliath, So True, So Lucky, Stoli and Swag. If you get the chance to train with Steve or have him train your horse, take it!
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Consortium News on Thursday unveils a new logo, the first redesign of the publication's nameplate in seven years.
The new design changes the name of the publication in the logo from Consortiumnews.com to its more commonly used name, Consortium News. The site's url is moved to the bottom left in white against black, joining the tribute to Consortium's founder Robert Parry on the right.
The updated design retains the essential aspects that harken back to an earlier age in American journalism, namely the 1970s, when reporters still banged away on typewriters and when Bob Parry began his career. Hence the font is still American Typewriter and the red and black typewriter ribbon remains, though in a sleeker form.
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Let us bring some history to this question of America as spoiler. What is the origin of this undignified and isolating approach to global affairs?
There is a longstanding explanation for this paralysis. Seven decades of global hegemony, the Cold War notwithstanding, left the State Department with little to think about other than the simplicities of East-West tension. Those planning and executing American diplomacy lost all facility for imaginative thinking because there was no need of it. This holds true, in my view, but there is more to our specific moment than mere sclerosis within the policy cliques.
As I have argued numerous times elsewhere, parity between East and West is a 21st century imperative. From Woodrow Wilson to the post-World War II settlement, an equality among all nations was in theory what the U.S. considered essential to global order.


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5 biggest concerns I have about Georgia in 2019
Tom Brew | 5 months ago
Georgia has contended for national titles the past 2 seasons, and there's a good chance the Bulldogs will do so again in 2019. They're that good, that deep and that talented.
Their schedule is conducive to impressing the College Football Playoff selection committee, with the usual slate of tough SEC games plus the first visit by Notre Dame — which also should be a top 10 team in the preseason rankings — in primetime on Sept. 21 in Athens.
This could be the year. Or maybe it won't. The Bulldogs are a legitimate contender for conference and national titles, but there are absolutely some things to worry about as we head into the season.
1. The wide receivers
There is only one position group where a bunch of red flags are flying, and that's in the wide receivers room. This group was decimated by offseason departures — Riley Ridley, Mecole Hardman and Terry Godwin are all in NFL camps — which already created a concern.
But then last month, top returning receiver Jeremiah Holloman was kicked off the team, leaving a huge hole. There is legitimate and painful concern at the position now, with no one having any idea who might start and who might be able to have a huge impact in the passing game.
Tyler Simmons is a senior, but he only had 9 catches for 138 yards last year, and he's only had 14 in 3 years. That doesn't scream breakout star by any means. Demetris Robertson could be that guy. The Savannah, Ga., native didn't have any catches last year — just 4 rushes — but the former 5-star recruit did have 50 catches as a freshman at California before transferring back home. Aside from that, it's going to be freshmen like George Pickens and Dominick Blaylock who have to step up, and there are absolutely no guarantees about that. Be concerned? Darn right.
2. The new coordinators
There is new leadership on both sides of the ball, with James Coley replacing Jim Chaney on the offensive side, and Dan Lanning and Glenn Schumann taking over for Mel Tucker on defense. It's a big ask for new coordinators to make all the right calls in critical games, and that concerns us.
Kirby Smart, however, doesn't seem concerned at all. He's firmly convinced that Coley and Lanning are well prepared to take over. We'll have to see.
"James, our offensive coordinator, has been with us a long time. I've known James from his graduate assistant days back at LSU and I have tremendous respect for him," Smart said recently. "I know the offenses he's worked with in the past. And he's also been a part of ours. He has been a very integral part of that offense.
"From a defensive standpoint, Dan Lanning and Glenn Schumann are very bright, Mel was a really good teacher to them. He gave them opportunities to grow, to get in front of the defense so we can see them interact. I'm still going to be involved defensively."
3. Quarterback depth
There isn't a single thing to worry about with starting quarterback Jake Fromm, a 3-year starter who's one of the best passers in the country. But what if he gets hurt? Forget about all that title talk if it happens.
When Justin Fields transferred to Ohio State, it left a gaping hole in the quarterback room. Stetson Bennett, who's bounced around for a couple of years, is the likely backup, and that's a little scary considering his lack of big-time experience. It really hurts losing freshman D'Wan Mathis, who needed surgery recently to remove a cyst on his brain. Mathis is practicing but hasn't been fully cleared. Mathis flipped from Ohio State just before signing day, and he was supposed to be that "next guy." His status, at least for now, is unclear. And that's a problem.
4. The pass rush
Georgia finished last in the SEC in sacks per game a year ago, and sack leader D'Andre Walker went to the NFL. (Unfortunately, the Tennessee Titans' 5th-round pick will miss the season after being placed on IR.)
Finding a better way to get to the quarterback has to be a point of emphasis in fall camp.
There will be an enormous amount of competition for playing time from this front seven during camp, and will be interesting to see who emerges. There's a ton of talent there — the 2019 class included 2 5-stars up front — but it needs to be proven on the field, especially in the big games.
5. The elephant in the room
The elephant? Yeah, you know, the Alabama Crimson Tide. Georgia has frittered away big leads to the Tide 2 years in a row, costing them a national title in 2017 and an SEC title — at minimum — last year.
That trend, it has to stop. Alabama, of course, is loaded again and is the heavy favorite to win the SEC West and be the likely opponent for Georgia in the SEC Championship Game in Atlanta on Dec. 7.
That's a long way off, of course, but it's still the make-or-break line of demarcation on whether this will be a successful season or not. Is Georgia good enough to finally get past Alabama? It's too soon to tell, and injuries during the season probably will play a role in determining that, as well. Still, stinging losses in the past 2 years are hard to shake. It's hard to be confident that's going to change.
Tom Brew
Tom Brew is an award-winning journalist and author who is covering SEC football for Saturday Down South.
JTF 5 months ago
Biggest concern is UGA worrying about your 5th concern.
instead of the 1st four.
LSUSMC 5 months ago
Excellent point. Teams can't look past the entire regular season and expect to get their desired results. There is a reason coaches always say one game at a time, and that's because they all matter.
Tom Brew 5 months ago
Come on now, you know I never said to forget about the first 12 games. The way to past two seasons have ended, you've got to factor in Alabama if 2019 is going to be a successful season. What did you want, five things on the Vandy game??? Thanks for reading. I do appreciate it.
secer 5 months ago
C'mon people, UGA can't have a successful season unless they beat Bama. Even if they beat LSU/A&M/Auburn in the SECGC and Clemson in the NCG, it would still be a failure. And losing the SECCG to Bama or going to the playoff without playing in it but winning the NCG would be a failure. Obviously.
secer, I assume that is sarcasm, but what purpose?
I'm as serious as the author is sensible. He's saying the success of their season depends on a hypothetical matchup with a team that isn't on their schedule and one they might not even play at all this year. Seems far-fetched to me.
So yeah, it was sarcasm.
GatorFan9696 5 months ago
Very fair article from an outsider's perspective.
junkyardDawg65 5 months ago
I waited very patiently while sds went through the west, while barely reporting anything but that days team articles, then when it's my Dawgs' turn the stream is filled with trash about Tate martell and coach O….and the layout still sucks
Hey, there's a TON of great Georgia content on the page today. You don't have to read the LSU stuff if you don't want to.
What about the layout, though lol
TFK_Fanboy 5 months ago
the 4th is a bigger concern to me than the 1st. I think will be ok on the 2nd. the 3rd, well I don't want to think about it. let's just keep Fromm's jersey clean
psyopdawg 5 months ago
The biggest concern is its players reading, seeing, listening and considering any hype or limits perpetrated by social media and news feeds. I admit I like to read what is being said but much of it is suggested commentary that is yet to be determined. I suppose that sells news and entertainment. As long as the team believes it can overcome any challenge, it has much more and equal talent than all but two other teams, and has more talent depth. As long as they stay engaged on each week's opponent and not look past that week, the Dawgs can win the Natty.
Corch Irvin Meyers, New USC Trojans Corch (2020) 5 months ago
Number 2 is only a concern re: Mel Tucker. Jim Chaney leaving is the dictionary definition of addition by subtraction.
Number 1 is less of a concern the longer Fall Practice goes-on. The wideouts on the roster are fantastic, and again, there are plenty of catches on the roster if you count Cager and D-Rob.
Number 3 is a true concern, but less so given how good the offensive line happens to be.
Number 4 isn't a concern because the lack of pass rush the last couple of years had more to do with scheme than talent. Tucker was overly cautious and rarely blitzed to create pressure. Lanning will do more to scheme to create more pressure.
Number 5 is the real, true concern and it'll be an amazing SEC Championship Game this December.
UGARMYRet 5 months ago
Georgia has been very fortunate to avoid the serious injury problem the last few years. My concern is that we continue that streak. If we do, we will be fine.
KirbySmart 5 months ago
1. Wide receiver corps
2. First time coordinators
3. Lack of a consistent game-changing havoc-wreaker on the D-line
4. Development of the ILBs
6. Looking too far ahead at Bama instead of focusing on the tough schedule
7. Keeping Fromm and Swift healthy
8. Developing a pass rush
9. More turnovers needed
10. Stay aggressive in close games while avoiding dumb calls (i.e., run-run-pass vs Bama in the 4th quarter)
TheDawgsofWar 5 months ago
Losing Swift or Woerner or Reed would be huge blow.
Obviously losing Fromm would be the biggest blow but losing any of those 3 really hurts UGA.
Thanks for the GREAT feedback. I will agree with you on the receivers. I said that someone will need to step up — and that's exactly what is happening. Might even be a strength by the midpoint of the season. Thanks for reading!
Mountain Dog 5 months ago
Staying solid 1-4 should help overcome 5. The first huge test will Notre Dame in game four, so the initial three games should provide an opportunity for Fromm and the receivers to establish some timing, the coordinators to get comfortable in their game-day roles, and the D-line/LBs to turn it up against someone other that UGA's O-line. When the schedule finalized for this year I was a bit disappointed to have to wait a third of the way into the season for a marquee game, but as things have worked out this could be ideal.
agdawg 5 months ago
Here are my five:
1) Will UGA embarrass the Vols on their home turf again? I certainly hope so.
2) Can UGA make it three straight over Auburn and continue their dominance over their little brother from another mother (state) therefore showing them why they'd be better off to stay in the West?
3) Will UGA put at least 40+ again on the defensive mastermind that is Will Muschamp?
4) Can UGA crush Kentucky once again and remind them why they'll never win the East?
5) and finally, will UGA beat Florida by 2+ TDS again? I'll be disappointed with a measly 7-10 point win.
doubledeuce33 5 months ago
3. QB depth. That's it. That's the only concern.
Stetson at least has experience and can run to get out of a jam or extend plays, if need be.
D'Wan just needs more time to recover and get used to the system.
There are no other concerns.
gary420 5 months ago
Can Kirby win the biggest games on the biggest stages. His talent is fine. He has to be able to make really good in-game decisions at several key points this season.
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Water charges will not be reintroduced, Taoiseach says
Decision to scrap charges will not be reversed despite OECD advice – Ryan
Dublin, August 29th, 2015: The introduction of water charges was met with massive public protests and a large-scale campaign of refusal to pay bills issued by Irish Water. File photograph: Eric Luke
Jack Power
Tue May 11 2021 - 11:39
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has ruled out any revisiting of the issue of water charges, despite a call for their reintroduction in a review of Ireland's environmental record, saying: "We won't be going back to that, we won't be introducing water charges."
It echoes comments from Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan who told RTÉ the Government would stick to the decision to scrap the charges despite the report.
The attempted introduction of domestic water charges was one of the most contentious issues of the Fine Gael-Labour coalition government during the austerity years, prompting massive public backlash.
In a major report published on Monday, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) called for the reintroduction of water charges in Ireland, alongside increased carbon taxes and higher waste charges.
Commenting on the report, the Green Party leader ruled out any reintroduction of water charges. "It's a very good OECD report, it backs up a lot of what we're doing, what we plan to do in Government, but we will not be going back to the water charges issue," Mr Ryan said.
"The OECD, that is their position, but the political system in Ireland spent a lot of time on this. We came to a, what I think is, an appropriate conclusion so we will stick to that," he said.
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The introduction of water charges was met with massive public protests in 2014 and a large-scale campaign of refusal to pay bills issued by Irish Water.
Following sustained opposition, the charges were suspended by the Fine Gael minority government in 2016, as part of a confidence and supply agreement with Fianna Fáil.
A subsequent all-party Oireachtas committee agreed that the charges be scrapped, but that households using excess water above a certain level would face some charges. Speaking on Tuesday, Mr Ryan told RTÉ the Government would stick to the plan agreed by the committee.
In the 10-yearly review of Ireland's environmental record, the OECD called for bolder climate action from the State to tackle rising emissions.
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Besides higher carbon taxes, home water charges and waste levies, motoring taxes should shift away from charges on fuel to road charges to cut down on travel and encourage use of public transport, the report also said.
Jack Power is a reporter with The Irish Times
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Overlooked – Box. Wrestle. Fence.
Despite the lack of time, I've really been missing my blog posts here. I'm going to find a way to carve out a little bit of time so I can post more. To get myself warmed up, I started to re-read old entries. I checked in on my site stats as well. The blog has been wildly popular, but checking out the overall top posts inspired me. Lots of posts have been read over a thousand times, which is great…but I felt like some of the bottom posts were more interesting than there numbers indicated.
For some reason some posts just faded away and were never really seen. Most of them were just filler, but some of them where ones I feel are very good. I think you'll enjoy seeing them as much as I enjoyed re-reading them again. Hopefully they will add some value to your practice.
I've always had an odd envy of the dedicated…the "real"…historical fencers. The people that spend so much time not just parsing a system down to it's atomic elements, but reconstructing those bits into solid decision trees. They build an impeccable logic for each choice, and can back it up with chapter and verse quotes. The result is recognizable. A clean, methodical approach to training and fighting that seems to branch across multiple systems. In the world of Western Martial Arts, it's most apparent in the influence of Classical fencing, which has placed it's pedagogical stamp on everything from Italian Rapier Longsword work to German Dussack. It's a beautiful model, dominant in it's presentation, clearly claiming it's rightful place as the one true way. It's not the only successful way, though.
There is no excuse for not having a deep, even atomic, knowledge of your art. You must be able to understand the most finite elements of your play. Everyone should understand the consequences of any action, and be able to extrapolate results from a single action to a phrase or beyond. These things are universal. Every good fencer can do this, even if they can't explain it in words. It's what happens next that makes the difference.
Facing an opponent, you observe their position. You can get a sense of what gambit they have in mind, and you decide on your best course of action. If we follow the admired Academic model of fencing, we establish a line on our opponent that they must react to, and then we close measure in anticipation of their reaction. If they do A, we will do Y. If they do B, we will do Z. We will use measure and tempo to restrict their options, until our line becomes the singular response and we strike home in safety. That's the Academic model. It's what most of us aspire to.
Some of us struggle to apply it. It doesn't come naturally to some people, who follow the Reactive model of fencing…shutting the brain off and just doing what "feels" right. It's also difficult for people who over-think, or who tend to blank out a little under stress. It's also just plain hard to learn. It takes years of hard work to internalize compound rules and build the reflexes necessary to execute them with ease. It can be a self-defeating method of learning, too. Humans naturally desire a feeling of accomplishment while learning, so we want to test ourselves.
Early sparring in the Academic model can lead to frustration. The model is presented as perfect, so any failure to win must be the fault of the fencer. Ideally the fencer will realize that they simply need to stick to the method and success will eventually come. More commonly though, they feel that they have failed. They think they are not smart enough, fast enough, gifted enough or dedicated enough. If they don't lose interest and drop out, they develop an urgent need to learn more. They want more knowledge, more complexity, more rules. The mind can only handle so much, though…and plateaus in understanding loom large in the students future. Stagnation can become a standard far too easily.
The Entropic model starts with a only a tiny difference, an alternate goal. With this model, the fencer looks to keep her options open as much as possible, at all times. Facing an opponent, you don't look to constrain their actions, you look instead to maximize your own freedom of action. Seeing an opening, the Academic fencer might chose to seize the moment, if all the conditions are right, and strike…leading to the all too common double-kill. The Entropic fencer will see the same opening, but will also see the trap of restricting themselves to only a single avenue of approach…a restriction of potential that is to be avoided at all costs.
Within the bounds of the arena and the outcome, the Entropic fencer prizes movement above all. Actions on the opponent are performed to enable more potential. I might chose to lunge deeply against an opening, or I might chose to cut against my opponents blade. Which gives me more potential? It's still required that I know my atomic skills very well. Can I lunge in such a way that my opponents' reaction will gain me more freedom of movement? It certainly will if I kill him…or if he is prone to flinching backwards…or if his blade is positioned in such a way that I will occupy all the remaining potential area, and deny it completely to my opponent. If I chose to cut, will my momentum constrain me to only a limited follow-up, to a small piece of space and time? Or will it gain me a larger available potential?
The Academic fencer might speak of the importance of defense as a solution to the problem of double-kills, but their approach itself has a tendency to promote them. As one follows a decision tree down to a result, it becomes physically and mentally akin to a maze. The way back becomes unclear. Focus narrows and the fighter can only see the light at the end of the tunnel. There is no way for the mind to be able to see other possibilities…only the result matters, the goal that must be obtained. Urgency becomes common sense, as it is easier to go forward than it is to abandon the work that made the fleeting opening.
The Entropic fencer will tend to avoid the double-kill because they will avoid constraining their potential. Taking a chance to win is counter to the method. Over-commitment is an anathema. Defense is not necessarily supreme, but will tend to be a consequence of seeking freedom of action. Engagement after engagement will teach them not to try harder at actions that result in a double kill, but instead to look for new approaches in movement and knowledge that will expand overall potential.
It might be easier to explain the two models by looking to the UFC. George St-Pierre, in his fights againt Josh Koscheck, and recently against Nick Diaz, epitomized the Entropic vs Academic model. GSP maintains mobility and potential at all times, while his opponents only work to try and make their strengths work. Koscheck and Diaz are both known for their striking games, and both sought the chance to go for the double-kill, gambling that their superior skills would let them come out ahead. GSP's Entropic approach stymied and shut down their linear, Academic mindset, leaving them confused and frustrated. Two fighters with arguably superior skills, made to look like amateurs.
It's worth taking a moment in your fencing, especially in your slow work practice, to think about your next action. When you see an opening for a strike, take the opportunity to think about whether you are constraining yourself or not. Your correct training and practice might be leading you into being the buffalo, the bestial man you complain about others being. If you have the right skill, you don't need to seize the fleeting opening. Patience and the constant striving for more potential will eventually offer up your point on the opponents chest.
A little science behind this reasoning can be found here, and the layman's read, for the businessman, can be found here. And in a lovely bit of timing, after I wrote this post on the weekend, Slashdot covered the same thing.
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Anthony Brabazon,  comte de Meath (vers 1721 - ), nommé Lord Brabazon de 1763 à 1772, est un pair anglo-irlandais.

Biographie
Fils d'Edward Brabazon,  comte de Meath et de Martha Collins, il siège pour le comté de Wicklow de 1745 à 1760. Il siège ensuite pour le comté de Dublin de 1761 jusqu'à ce qu'il succède à son père dans la pairie en 1772.

Le 20 mai 1758, il épouse Grace Leigh (décédée le 28 octobre 1812). Leurs enfants sont :

 Chaworth Brabazon, Lord Brabazon (18 août 1760 - décembre 1779)
 William Brabazon,  comte de Meath (1769–1797)
 Lady Catherine Brabazon (vers 1770 - 24 décembre 1847), épouse le Rév. Francis Brownlow (1779-1847)
 John Brabazon (10e comte de Meath) (1772–1851)

Il meurt le 4 janvier 1790 et est remplacé par son fils aîné survivant, William.

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Décès en janvier 1790
Naissance en 1721
Comte de la pairie d'Irlande au XVIIIe siècle
Comte de Meath
Député du Parlement d'Irlande (avant 1801)

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The Fundamentals of Skating July 16-20 & July 23-27, 2018 Week 1 & Week 2 Skaters already know how to skate. But, what is "skating quality"? What is a good edge and how is it performed? Learn how skaters have improved in the past and what skaters can do now to improve their skating future! Skaters will participate in activities both on and off the ice to develop their expertise. Specialties with World-Class Coaches July 23-27, 2018 Week 2 In addition to the quality on-ice instruction, guest coaches from The Skating Club of Boston will join skaters and focus on their specialties in figure skating! These national and world class coaches will help guide skaters with jumps, spins, artistry, pairs, ice dance, Theatre On Ice, and synchronized skating.


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The PBS Blog thanks all of the wonderful Bloggers who have gifted us with the following Blog Awards. Though we are now Blog Free, we still accept the awards and allow them a place on our virtual shelf. Each is a personal milestone that keeps this website going, one step at a time.
Recognition -the action or process of recognizing or being recognized, in particular; acknowledgment of something's existence, validity, or legality.
Liebster is a German word meaning kindest, nicest, beloved, kind, pleasant, valued, endearing, and welcome.
I do not believe in the beliefs surrounding The Spirit Animal. However, I have posted it here to show the blogger who nominated me for it that I do appreciate her support! I understand what she's trying to say. It is an award where she is acknowledging recognition of my spiritual consciousness in her own way…. yaass.
I am so honored to receive this Award. I love music and believe it is such an important part of life. I won't define this one, its self-explanatory. The award is in recognition of my blogs appreciation of music. I have Thursday Throwback Jams to thank for that ; ).
It's always feels good to know that your time is not in vain and that you are reaching people in some way.
Recognition – the action or process of recognizing or being recognized, in particular; acknowledgment of something's existence, validity, or legality.
Some great achievements. Love the blog, I will return.


Isaac, Welcome to Homeschooled Authors. Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I'm a 16-year-old, born and raised in the suburbs of Indianapolis, who now lives and writes in the Ozark Mountains. I've been homeschooled my entire life and am now a sophomore. When not reading, writing, doing school work or homestead chores, you'll find me researching railroad history, model railroading and target shooting. I also love spending time with my family and animals.
My experience is unique because I'm an only child. This allowed my chief instructor (mom) to devote her full time and attention to me, and I got the full benefit of it. My dad taught me how to be a man, and many other practical life skills as well.
That is a rather interesting story, because up until recently, I didn't enjoy writing. My desire to begin to write was a good example of the power of having a story that I really wanted to tell, and wanting to tell it until I finally sat down, wrote it for a little while, and then discovered that I enjoyed writing.
What inspired Our First Locomotive?
There were several factors that influenced the decision to put pen to paper and write. The way things truly began was wanting to write a book series about a railroad through the Ozarks. What really started the ball moving was finding a photograph, and drawings, in an old book from 1950 of Cotton Belt #412. In reading that section of the book I found that the locomotive had formerly operated in Arkansas, and probably was retired in the era I wanted the book to be in. So, it was a perfect fit. Worked in an area reasonably close. Likely retired in about the right time. In addition, I just flat out liked the engine.
The book is 5 short stories about the retirement and sale of Cotton Belt #412 followed by his use in the construction of the Ozark Mountain Railroad. The book ends shortly before the line opens, just after the engine is named after one of the line's initial investors. (Coincidentally, my great-great-grandfather Andrew).
Who will enjoy Our First Locomotive?
Parents and children who desire wholesome entertainment as well as train lovers of all ages. Being a train fan myself, I've tried to, with the exception of the trains talking, make the stories as realistic as possible to the way a real American railroad operated.
Most certainly. I am working on book 2 in the series as I write this, which should be out soon. I hope to venture into non-train subjects sometime in the future (fiction and non-fiction both).
GreatRailroadSeries.com is where you'll find my blog and information about upcoming books.
Great Railroad Series: Our First Locomotive – Kindle edition by Isaac ben Levi.
With only one book published, I have much to learn and am grateful when others are willing to share.
In all things, I seek the Lord's will.
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Nothing says summer like getting a group of your closest friends together for some fun in the sun…and there's no better time than the 4th of July. This year, mix it up, throw in some unexpected twists and give your friends and family a party to remember!
Make an unexpected summery drink like a White Mojito for guests to enjoy poolside.


The stylish looking Ford Figo Cross will hit the Indian market and shall be ready for a test drive by the latter half of this Year. Those who had owned Ford Figo or other vehicles from Ford shall know that the brand works tirelessly to bring in some positively appealing and necessary changes to the profile of the cars. This is what shall make the wait for the Ford Figo Cross also worth it.
Ford is doing the same thing that other brands have also done and that is of converting or giving their modest hatchbacks a crossover twist, for instance, the Toyota Etios Cross and others. This is something that has won plenty of fans since these crossovers offer great flexibility and strength without actually falling under a large vehicle category. This also means that the price shall remain well within the reach of the customers, However, it is vital that you get to know more about the Ford Figo Cross that shall enter the Indian market here.
The higher end models would be at a price of Rs. 8 lakhs tentatively and the lower end models shall be at a price of Rs. 5 lakhs only. This is fine considering it is right for the crossover brands that are available in the market now.
The interiors are a little different from what the Ford Figo model users might have got them. The dark leather or fabric upholstery on the seats shall be with contrast orange or green stitches to strike and welcome the passengers. There are six airbags, door sill plates and normal fittings and accessories of cup holders and pockets to help you keep your things everywhere. There is automatic air-conditioning systems, central locking, and power steering to give you a comfortable ride and help you experience the joys of driving the crossover. From Hill Assist to Parking sensors, to door locking and electrically adjustable seats and windows, the vehicle also has cruise control for a convenient drive.
The colours remain the same as Ford had in Figo range of cars. So, from Sparkling Gold to Smoke Grey, to Ruby Red, to Ingot Silver, to Deep Impact Blue, to Oxford White, and finally to Tuxedo Black – pick one for yourself. The colours are superbly in stark contrast to dark upholstery.
The Ford Figo Cross shall offer to seat for five people comfortably. The seats are not just going to accommodate, rather it shall give your back the much-needed rest and comfort.
The Ford Figo Cross shall be offering good mileage, which is one of the primary things that shall appeal to every Indian citizen. The 1.5-liter diesel engine shall give 25.83 kpl mileage, and the 1.5-liter petrol engine shall give a mileage of 17 kpl, which is pretty impressive for a crossover vehicle.
In a bid to give the Ford Figo Cross, the stylish crossover look, the brand has come up with various methods for designing the vehicle. The vehicle shall have bumpers and silver skid plates, and 15-inch alloy wheels are going to be here for the potential Figo Cross buyers. The vehicle shall offer fabric and leather upholstery seat covers. The 1.5-liter petrol sigma five-speed manual transmission in the engine shall make the vehicle something to look forward to in the market. The four-cylinder shall be suitable for most all the terrains. The 15-inch gunmetal alloy rims will have dual-purpose tires in the wheels, which is a speciality in the Figo Cross. Looks wise, the sporty interiors and fittings shall be something that many future drivers of Figo Cross shall like. Roof rails, OVRM Caps, and the rugged body shall give the drivers a feeling of being in a big vehicle.
The Ford automaker shall be bringing out Ford Figo Cross, which will come in 1.5-liter petrol and 1.5-liter diesel engine. Hence, it shall be working smoothly and in a fuel-efficient manner for those driving on Indian roads. The car comes in 5-speed manual and 6-speed automatic transmission variants for those who wish to try out both of these. The crossover gets a hatchback body and shall be able to give a splendid torque and power. The engine is the one that people who have used the Ford Figo shall have already used. There is not much difference except for these above-mentioned features that shall give the drivers and the passengers a lot of comforts while they go on rough or smooth drives.
The Ford Figo Cross shall come in two trims – Zetec and Style. There will be tentatively two variants or models – one that would run in petrol and one in diesel and with 1.5-liter engine to give you superb performance. Expect a standard 110bhp of power as you drive through the roads. However, there shall also be a base model with 1.2 liter petrol engine that shall serve the same purpose and very pocket-friendly too.
The steering wheel is one of a kind and the dials on the dashboard will feature the top class infotainment system that Ford specializes in now. The SYNC 3 infotainment system shall be compatible with both Android phones and Apple phones. The SmartDevice Link shall be able to guide the drivers easily on the road. The dashboard has the infotainment system and the touch screen display that shall show fuel consumption levels, and the parking sensors, and of course, the SAT NAV along with music and air conditioning controls. Parking sensors, door locking systems and Google Maps, and Wi-Fi connectivity shall help in listening to music through live streaming. In short, the driver and the passengers shall be able to entertain themselves as they drive through the roads.
Since the crossover vehicle has its origin from the Ford Figo Hatchback, it has rather spacious boot space for storing cargo. The capacity is around 257 liters in the boot area for storing luggage.
Those who have had their experience with Figo or Aspire of the Ford shall know that Ford shall offer higher top speed in its vehicles for those who love speed. This Figo Cross has an overall sporty look and this is why it shall be flaunting a top speed of 180 km/h with the 1.5-liter diesel engine. The 1.5-liter petrol engine shall offer around 185 km/h top speed.
Though there might be a little bit of similarity in the engine of the Ford Figo basically, there is a difference in the gearbox or transmission. The 1.5-litre petrol and diesel engines shall offer an amazing top speed of around 180 to 185km/h. The four-cylinder Sigma engine is shall run noiselessly and shall make the driver and passengers quite happy with its fuel efficiency and fuel emission too.
The Ford Figo Cross shall be able to offer amazing speed at a power of 110bhp. The torque shall be 146Nm, which is again quite reasonable for a crossover that is running on the roads now.
The Ford Figo Cross comes with all the most useful gears and features that shall aid in a smooth drive.
The length of this crossover Ford Figo Cross is around 3886mm, and width of 1695mm. This said the exteriors shall also give you the impression that it is quite a perfect sized vehicle for having your entire family in without really worrying about the space crunch. The height is impressive at 1525mm and this is good enough for the passengers who do not like the bumpy road drives.
The ground clearance is something that shall take you at the moment you spot it. Yes, it offers a reasonably good ground clearance that does not leave any room for any bumpy ride.
The front bumper has the stylish honeycomb mesh grille, the black plastic linings and trims around the wheels and the door handles in plastic goes well with the look that the vehicle promises. The silver and grey highlights, the side mirrors and fog lamps and headlights make the vehicle a superb buy.
By introducing Ka Trail or Ka+ car in India as the Ford Figo Cross with a few tweaks, to adapt to the country's roads, the customers shall surely expect a grand drive. The vehicle has already upped the expectations very high and hopefully live up to it in 2019.
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Tiberius, the reluctant emperor, who ruled the Roman Empire from 14 AD to 37 AD, made his summer residence in Sperlonga south of Rome. Archaeologists have found a series of sculptures in the villa's grotto that reveal a taste for Hellenic art and the adventures of Homeric hero Odysseus.
Sperlonga is just a few hundred kilometres south of Rome, between the towns of Gaeta and Terracina. The Emperor Tiberius chose this site for his summer residence: a beautiful natural setting right on the sea. Signs of human life have been found dating from the Upper Palaeolithic era and according to tradition, this is the site where Amyclae, the mythical city of the Spartans, was built. Today the only visible remains of the imperial villa are a few rooms surrounding a courtyard, a bread oven and a kiln. Tiberius began his reign as a rather unpopular and sour leader who was respected but generally disliked for his "arrogance and inscrutable looks" according to the Roman historian, Tacitus. He had a reputation for being a dark, reclusive, and sombre ruler who never had any desire to be emperor. Pliny the Elder called him tristissimus hominum, (the gloomiest of men). Adopted by the Emperor Augustus, it was uncharitably suggested at the time that Augustus' gesture served merely to give greater dignity and resonance to his own reign by following it with that of Tiberius – which was sure to be a disaster by comparison. Tiberius's early reign was characterised by a certain diffidence on his part, expecting the Senate to run the country without his having to interfere continually. He wanted to appear as a servant of the state and not as an emperor. His reluctance to participate merely led to confusion and mis-communication between him and the Senate.
A good way into his reign Tiberius abandoned Rome, (some say shirking his imperial responsibilities), soon after losing his two sons, Drusus and Germaniscus and he never returned, making his home in his now famous villa in Capri. Interestingly, as a young man he had also retired from life and went to Rhodes to live as a recluse – he was clearly not one for human company.
"But after being bereft of both his sons,— Germanicus had died in Syria and Drusus at Rome,— he retired to Campania, and almost everyone firmly believed and openly declared that he would never come back, but would soon die there. And both predictions were all but fulfilled; for he did not return again to Rome, and it chanced a few days later that as he was dining near Tarracina in a villa called the Grotto, many huge rocks fell from the ceiling and crushed a number of the guests and servants, while the emperor himself had a narrow escape".
There is an interesting story that when the rocks from the top of the grotto (not the ceiling as Seutonius suggests) fell on to the guests, Tiberius was saved by Sejanus who covered the Emperor's body with his own, while others merely ran for their lives. Sejanus was rewarded for his loyalty – he eventually became the head of the Praetorian Guard and was offered many honours and favours. He ended up even dreaming of succeeding the Emperor – who had him killed for his presumption.
He acquired a reputation for still grosser depravities that one can hardly bear to tell or be told, let alone believe. For example, he trained little boys (whom he termed tiddlers) to crawl between his thighs when he went swimming and tease him with their licks and nibbles….(and it gets worse). And if that were not enough: "Then in Capri's woods and groves he arranged a number of nooks of venery where boys and girls got up as Pans and nymphs solicited outside bowers and grottoes: people openly called this "the old goat's garden," punning on the island's name".
Suetonius was somewhat overly fixated with the sexual aspects of Tiberius' degeneracy in the same way that Tacitus' criticisms were specifically anti-imperial as he was still nostalgic for Republican Rome. Both historians need to be read with caution.
Tiberius also earned himself a reputation for being bloodthirsty, mean and subject to bouts of paranoia. So much so that upon his death there was general rejoicing – with crowds shouting "Tiberius to the Tiber!" (a fate normally reserved for criminals). In fact the story goes that he had appeared to die triggering general relief and rejoicing but then came back to life and asked for something to eat. The quick-witted head of the Praetorian guard, Macro, promptly took a blanket, or pillow, and suffocated the old Emperor to put an end to him.
So much for Tiberius' personal history. Let us now take a look at the summer residence itself and particularly the adjacent grotto. The actual name of Sperlonga, derives from the Latin Spelunca meaning cavern, and refers to the natural grotto set just a few metres from the sea. Left substantially unchanged by the Emperor, the structure of the grotto was only embellished by the addition of benches along the walls, and mascheroni (grotesque masks) which served as lamp holders for the cave's illumination. A circular pool (diameter 21.90m.) was dug out in the centre of the grotto and featured a Scylla sculpture mounted on a square base in the middle. This pool was then extended 30m towards the north-west (and the sea) in a rectangular shape.
These pools were divided by two platforms upon which stood two statues: the "Theft of the Palladium" and the Pasquino (so called as it is another copy of the original Greek statue which was the model for the famous Pasquino near Rome's Piazza Navona). The entire iconographic scheme of the villa, and particularly that of the grotto, is linked to the myth of Odysseus. Artefacts have been identified in the grotto that represent events from prior to the Trojan War up until the adventures of the νόστος (the return voyage from Troy) of Homer's hero Odysseus.
Inside the grotto stood the sculptural masterpiece of the age, the Polyphemus group, a work renowned both for its sophistication and its size. It is currently at the Museo archeologico di Sperlonga where it can be admired in all its glory, thanks to a full-size reconstruction in plaster and resin.
The scene is that of the famous blinding of Polyphemus by Odysseus. The cyclops is depicted reclining on a rock, dead drunk and completely at the mercy of his adversaries, who nonetheless move around him cautiously. Odysseus, identifiable by his characteristic pileus (pointed cap), guides the attack with fierce concentration. It is he who climbs towards the cyclops' massive head to make sure that the incandescent stake goes right into the monster's one and only eye. Two of his companions help support the weight of the long stake, while the third seems to retreat from the giant, holding a wineskin in one hand and raising his other arm as if to shield himself.
Plaster reconstruction of the Polyphemus statuary group, Museo Archeologico di Sperlonga.
This sculpture has been the subject of endless learned discussion, however the latest studies tend to identify it as a marble copy of a bronze statuary group from Tiberius' time. The sculptors apparently opted for a symbolic/condensed version of the tale, as Odysseus was accompanied by a much greater number of fellow adventurers according to the IX book of the Odyssey. The original position of the statuary group is still the subject of controversy: even highly qualified experts like Coarelli, Hampe and Andreae, just to cite the most well-known, have argued for and against a variety of possible collocations, changing their minds several times. I won't bore you with all the various debates on the subject, but personally I agree with Bernard Andreae's most recent thesis (based on indications from Italian archaeologist Salza Prina Ricotti) which locates the Polyphemus group at the entrance to the southern section of the grotto.
Recently, it has been ascertained that the Polyphemus on show in the museum is not a completely faithful reconstruction of the original : there are three missing details! The first concerns the position of the hand and arm lying across the cyclops' hips – the hand should instead be suspended in mid-air as though coming down to rest on the stomach. The head should be tilted further back and the left arm should hang closer to the body. In other words, the cyclops of the original was not already asleep, but was immortalized in the act of falling asleep.
The reconstruction of the Polyphemus statue currently on show at the Museo Archeologico di Sperlonga.
The blinding of Polyphemus was a recurrent theme used in the decoration of grottoes and nymphaeums – it became so popular that no aristocratic residence could be without one. Apart from the statue in the grotto at Sperlonga, other famous examples can be found in the sunken nymphaeum of Punta Epitaffio under the sea at Baia, near Naples, in the antrum cyclopis of the Domus Aurea in Rome and in Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. The great novelty of the Sperlonga grotto, which was then imitated in all subsequent Imperial villas, was the adoption of statuary groups copied from Hellenic originals. These Hellenic-inspired statues no longer simply represented just one precise event, but rather a temporal continuum where past, present and future were subtly linked. In the Sperlonga Polyphemus group, the atmosphere is laden with tension, expressed by the dynamic stance of the protagonists which in turn evokes their earlier Homeric adventures. At the same time, our attention is focused on the dramatic action they are about to undertake.
The anatomical and muscular details are finely and accurately drawn, and although the heads have been lost, thanks to comparisons made with the Polyphemus group at Hadrian's Villa, we know that the protagonists were mature men, their careworn faces framed by untidy locks and unkempt beards. With necks violently twisted, and eyes sunken in their skulls, the half-open mouths express all their suffering and terror.
The figure of Odysseus stands out from the rest of the group – the remarkable quality recalling that of the frieze on the Pergamon altar. With his brow creased in a frown, eyes sunken, and mouth half-open, his unruly locks and wild beard in perfect contrast with his smooth pileus, this statue is one of the highest expressions of Middle/Late Hellenic art and the quintessential statue of Odysseus.


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New SQL Server 2014 certification update
When Microsoft launched SQL Server 2014, it was announced for the first time that there were no plans to update the MCSA SQL Server certification to align to the new technology. However, Microsoft did go on to include SQL Server 2014 content for the MCSE: Data Platform and MCSE Business Intelligence curriculum and exams.
MCSA: SQL Server update details
On February 17th 2016, the industry was surprised with changes to the MCSA: SQL Server exams announced via Larry Kaye on the Microsoft Born to Learn blog.
The MCSA: SQL Server exam will now include content and measure skills on SQL Server 2014 as well as 2012. This is to keep the certification relevant, proving database professionals skills on both versions of SQL Server.
The certification will now be re-branded to reflect the updates and will now be called MCSA: SQL Server 2012/2014. The following exams, aligned to the certification, will now include the SQL Server 2014 content:
70-461 : Querying Microsoft SQL Server
70-462 : Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases
70-463 : Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server
How does this affect current MCSA: SQL Server 2012 holders?
While current MCSA: SQL Server 2012 holders will obviously not have studied SQL Server 2014 skills or practices, this update doesn't require existing certification holders to take action. They will have their transcript updated to reflect the new name of the certification.
The future of SQL Server and the MCSA
Looking to the future, Microsoft SQL Server 2016 is on the horizon. Whilst Microsoft have not yet announced a planned release date, they have revealed some details and features SQL Server 2016 will likely bring, and you can check these out here. There is a completely new Microsoft MCSA: SQL Server 2016 certification to accompany the technology's release date. This is likely to be available soon after the release of SQL Server 2016 itself.
Sarah writes for Firebrand Training on a number of IT related topics. This includes exams, training, certification trends, project management, certification, careers advice and the industry itself. Sarah has 11 years of experience in the IT industry.


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George Soros is known as a man that invests quite a bit of money into a variety of things, as well as being a billionaire that has made a fortune off of his predictions and willingness to invest. He pulled the trigger on a deal that eventually led to him being called the man that made a billion dollars in a day, as he essentially bet against the UK and the state of their currency at the time. He was correct in his predictions, made about a billion dollars in the end off of that single move and secured his place as being one of the most looked to people, in terms of financial predictions.
Soros is heavily invested in US Politics and has invested quite a bit of money over the last several decades. He is a democrat that has not only put up a ton of money for the democratic parties of the past and current, but he has also donated a great deal of money to disrupt the Republican parties elections. This includes investing money to lead to lower votes for the Republican candidates, as well as putting money to invest in the democrat nominee. During this election cycle, George Soros is one hundred percent behind Hillary Clinton and has invested about twenty five million dollars to her campaign. Soros is one of the biggest donors to the Clinton campaign and there are quite a few ways that his money is being used. One of the most notable ways that his donations have been used is to increase the turnout for Hispanic voters. One of the biggest reasons why this has been a major focus of the Soros backed, Clinton campaign is the fact that there was a lot of controversy over Donald Trump and his statements about building a wall. This is something that the Clinton campaign on project-syndicate.org has focused on, as George Soros has been under the impression that this is a great place to pick up votes. Based on the fact that the majority of Hispanic voters would likely vote for Hillary Clinton, based on these statements made by the Republican nominee in the 2016 presidential election, voter turnout in the Hispanic community is huge.
At the same time, there has been quite a bit of talk about illegal immigrants and with the Republican nominee making statements about deporting illegals that have come into this country illegally, this is another place that Soros has decided to put his donations. Aiming these donations in a fight for affording illegal immigrants the right to vote is another huge aspect of where George Soros is heading with his campaign donations and investments. In a sense, Soros has been aiming at both the offensive and defensive side of the campaign and there is little question that it has been making some impact, but we will have to wait until the second week in November to see if the investments that he has made in the Clinton campaign will pay off.


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