Since their inception in 2012, the Seven Stars Luxury Hospitality and Lifestyle Awards (SSLHLA) have enjoyed meteoric success via their commitment to nominees and winners, a unique system and opulent annual Gala Ceremonies around the world.
SSLHLA, an organization whose focus is strictly on luxury hospitality and lifestyle has brought the spotlight back on this amazing industry and has provided a world stage for numerous brands to showcase their exceptionality, their quality, and their achievements.
Seven Stars Media Corporation, owners of the Seven Stars Luxury Hospitality and Lifestyle Awards, is delighted to announce the location and venue of their 7th Anniversary.
Having partnered, once again, with The Ecali Club, the most exclusive private members club in the country and a true pioneer and institution in the realm of lifestyle and hospitality, Seven Stars Media corporation is proud to name Lake Vouliagmeni as the venue for the 7th Anniversary of the SSLHLA.
The event will take place on October 5 2019 and no efforts will be spared in order to ensure that this event will mark the standards upon which other events in the industry are judged by.
John Georgakakis, CEO The Ecali Club commented: "It has been such a great honor for us to be selected as the first venue in Greece to host the most prestigious hospitality and lifestyle awards worldwide. I would deeply like to thank Mr. Khalil El-Mouelhy-Chairman, President/Founder of SSLHLA and Ms. Nicola, CEO/Co-Founder of the SSLHLA for the trust and support they have been showing. The immense success of our cooperation is fully in line with one of our strategic goals, namely the high-profile events, demonstrating our leading position in the market.
We have managed for decades to offer our audience the best possible results in entertainment, with high profile guests, good environment and quality gastronomy. The combination of the Ecali Club's myth and the glamor of SSLHLA, create the most appealing of concepts. I am also very glad for the continuation of our partnership and for the fact that Lake Vouliagmeni will be the venue for 2019".
Seven Stars Media Corporation, in order to commemorate this special event and occasion, is also proud to unveil their new Logo, designed to facilitate recognition and use by all nominees, partners, and winners around the world.
The Self Nomination process for the 2019 SSLHLA will open on Thursday the 6th of December 2018 and can be accessed from the SSLHLA Website.


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Coeliac Disease News and Research
Depressed children, teenagers have higher risk of premature death and wide range of diseases
Depressed children and teenagers have an increased risk of suffering from premature death and a wide range of illnesses later in life.
Coeliac UK and Innovate UK announce winner of £180K from their 2019 research call
Coeliac UK, the UK charity for people who need to live gluten free, along with Innovate UK, the UK's innovation agency, announces joint funding of £180K from their 2019 research call, has been awarded to Lyzeum Ltd.
Early introduction of gluten may be an effective celiac disease prevention strategy
Introducing high doses of gluten from four months of age into infants' diets could prevent them from developing celiac disease, a study has found.
Supplements of Human Milk Oligosaccharides may help improve gut health in adults
Supplements of Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMOs), the sugars found in breast milk, may help improve the gut health of adults, according to new research carried out at the Quadram Institute.
Human genome may explain the neonatal origins of chronic immune and inflammatory diseases
A study published in the journal Nature Communications has pinpointed a number of areas of the human genome that may help explain the neonatal origins of chronic immune and inflammatory diseases of later life, including type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and coeliac disease.
No-biopsy diagnosis for adults with suspected celiac disease could cut long NHS waiting lists
The British Society of Gastroenterology has issued interim guidance, pending the publication of its new Coeliac Guidelines in 2021, so that some adults with suspected coeliac disease can now be diagnosed based on blood test results alone, cutting out the long wait for an endoscopy with biopsy.
UChicago researchers develop first accurate mouse model of celiac disease
Researchers at the University of Chicago have developed the first truly accurate mouse model of celiac disease. The animals have the same genetic and immune system characteristics as humans who develop celiac after eating gluten. This provides a vital research tool for developing and testing new treatments for the disease.
New guidelines recommend no-biopsy approach for childhood celiac disease diagnosis
The European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition has today issued new guidance to physicians on the diagnosis of celiac disease in children recommending the no-biopsy approach at diagnosis for the majority of children suspected of having the disease.
Bacterial exposure is a potential environmental risk factor in developing coeliac disease
Bacterial exposure has been identified as a potential environmental risk factor in developing coeliac disease, a hereditary autoimmune-like condition that affects about one in 70 Australians.
Raising Awareness of Coeliac Disease with Coeliac UK
An interview with Norma McGough from Coeliac UK, debunking some of the common myths surrounding celiac disease and helping to raise awareness of the condition
High gluten intake during childhood increases risk of celiac disease
Children are more likely to develop celiac disease if they consume higher-than-average amounts of gluten during the first five years of life.
Study confirms association between celiac disease risk and gluten intake
An extensive study has confirmed that the risk of developing coeliac disease is connected to the amount of gluten children consume.
World's first vaccine against coeliac disease to be tested in Australia
US-based pharmaceutical company ImmusanT, after worldwide trials, is all set to start clinical trials of a new vaccine against coeliac disease at the Royal Melbourne Hospital Clinical Trials Centre in Melbourne. This will be followed by trials to be held at Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Mackay and Sunshine Coast say the sources.
High blood pressure drug may also help prevent onset of type 1 diabetes
A drug commonly used to control high blood pressure may also help prevent the onset of type 1 diabetes in up to 60 percent of those at risk for the disease, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Phase 1 clinical studies reveal safety, tolerability of therapeutic vaccine in celiac disease patients
ImmusanT, Inc., a clinical-stage company developing Nexvax2, a therapeutic vaccine intended to protect against the effects of gluten exposure while maintaining a gluten-free diet in HLA-DQ2.5+ patients with celiac disease, today announced the publication of positive data from two Phase 1 clinical trials of Nexvax2 in celiac disease.
Are your bowel symptoms serious?
Very common – most of us will experience bowel symptoms from time to time, but usually the symptoms last only a few days. You should see your GP if they persist for more than three weeks (sooner if they are severe) or if your symptoms keep coming back.
Scientists reveal how gluten plays role in development of rare form of cancer for coeliac patients
Scientists in The Netherlands have revealed how gluten plays a role in the development of a rare form of cancer, for some people with coeliac disease.
Study finds new links between human genome and inflammation tracers
Researchers from the Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Turku, Finland, have studied over ten million DNA variations and found new links between the human genome and inflammation tracers.
Amount of gluten triggers genetic risk of celiac disease, research shows
The amount of gluten could be a more important clue than breast-feeding or the timing of the introduction of gluten for continued research into the causes of celiac disease (gluten intolerance).
Introducing egg and peanut at early age may prevent development of childhood allergy
Feeding babies egg and peanut may reduce their risk of developing an allergy to the foods, finds a new study.

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Punjab Stadium é um estádio de futebol localizado em Lahore, Paquistão. Foi inaugurado em 3 de janeiro de 2003 e tem capacidade para 64.000 pessoas. Recebe jogos da Seleção Paquistanesa de Futebol e é utilizado em outros eventos desportivos.

Estádios de futebol do Paquistão
Estádios de futebol inaugurados em 2003

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Dr. Gloria Swindler Boutte is a Carolina Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina. For more than three decades, Dr. Boutte's scholarship, teaching, and service have focused on equity pedagogies. She is the author/editor of four books: African Diaspora Literacy: The Heart of Transformation in K-12 Schools and Teacher Education (2019 AESA Critics Choice Award); Educating African American Students: And how are the children; Resounding Voices: School Experiences of People From Diverse Ethnic Backgrounds; and Multicultural Education: Raising Consciousness. She has received millions of dollars in grants and has more than 90 publications. Dr. Boutte has presented nationally and internationally on equity issues and has received prestigious Fulbright Scholar and Fulbright Specialist awards. Dr. Boutte is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for the Education and Equity of African American Students (CEEAAS). She has presented and/or served as a visiting scholar internationally in every continent except Antarctica. Dr. Boutte and Dr. George Lee Johnson, Jr. are the authors of the Drs. Diaspora curriculum.
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Human Sustainability Challenges: Deep Roots of the "Anthropocene" Can Be Found in Tropical Forests
TOPICS:AnthropologyArchaeologyClimate ChangeForestsMax Planck Institute
By Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History October 7, 2021
Tropical forests regularly appear in the news as the front line of climate change and human sustainability challenges. They are some of the most threatened land-based habitats on the planet and are therefore key to discussions of the Anthropocene – the period in which human activities became major impactors of Earth systems.
In a new set of high-impact articles edited by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Smithsonian Research Institute, researchers from different fields and backgrounds show that if we are to better plan for the future, we must look deep into the past for the roots of the Anthropocene in the tropics.
Tropical forests and the Anthropocene – present and past
When considering the Anthropocene, we often think of the human activities with obvious ecosystem impacts: fossil fuel burning, nuclear fallout, or increasing plastic manufacture and pollution from the 20th century onwards.
However, we also now know that because tropical forests host over half of the planet's biodiversity, generate large amounts of rainfall, anchor soils in place, and store massive amounts of carbon, human alteration of these environments can actually kick off a whole series of feedbacks – processes that reverberate across regions, continents, and even the Earth.
Tropical forests represent some of the most threatened land-based habitats on the planet. Credit: R. Hamilton
One of the editors of the new volume, Patrick Roberts, points out that human alteration of tropical forests "probably isn't only a recent phenomenon."
"Although tropical forests are often seen as pristine 'wildernesses' prior to industrial activities, we now know that hunter-gatherers, food producers, and even city-dwellers have inhabited – and modified – these environments for a long, long time," continues Roberts. "Given that these habitats are embedded in a variety of earth systems, this opens up the potential to find very early roots for the Anthropocene."
A variety of managed tropical landscapes
The new PNAS special feature, titled 'Tropical Forests as Key Sites of the Anthropocene,' shows the vast array of methods researchers are now using, from high power microscopes to sediment cores, from archaeological excavation to airborne laser scanning, to explore the different ways people have interacted with tropical ecosystems, climates and soils across space and time.
As Rebecca Hamilton, another of the feature editors, puts it, "the papers in this volume investigate a variety of human-forest interactions, including the exploitation of giant bird eggs in New Guinea, the impacts of paddy rice agriculture on ancient, threatened conifers in southeastern China, and a comparison of tropical urban life in the Classic Maya world and Greater Angkor."
People have long shaped tropical landscape through hunting, land cultivation, and the establishment of complex urban developments including Angkor, the capital city of the Khmer Empire (Cambodia) between the 9th and 15th centuries. Credit: R. Hamilton
Dolores Piperno, the third editor of the volume, highlights how detailed reconstructions of human-environment interactions such as these are essential for modern conservation approaches.
"Human engagement with tropical forests took many forms, with local populations adapting to local scenarios. In the Medio Putumayo-Algodón reserve in Peru, for example, we highlight how Indigenous societies managed forest cover and biodiversity over 5,000 years, conserving it through periods of major political, economic, and social change."
From a global 'Anthropocene' to more just practices in tropical conservation
Understanding the origins of the Anthropocene in the tropics is not only important for modern biodiversity and ecosystem protection, however. It also reveals the imbalanced historical processes that laid the groundwork for how people interact with the tropics, and earth systems more widely, today.
Articles focusing on the Canary Islands, Cabo Verde, and tropical New Guinea, for example, highlight the ways in which the arrival of European colonialism, followed by industrialization, disrupted the socio-ecologies of tropical systems through the conversion of land (e.g. to plantations) and marginalization of Indigenous activities.
"The term the 'Anthropocene' can suggest that our current sustainability plight was caused equally by all human societies and, in turn, impacts them all equally. However, contributors to this volume show that, particularly over the last 500 years, it has been an unequal and often-imbalanced process," says Roberts.
"Indigenous populations of tropical regions have often been the most marginalized in recent human history," Hamilton continues. "This collection shows that it is high time to recognize the long-term significance of traditional Indigenous land management in the tropics."
Overall, the researchers hope that the papers of this special feature will encourage further engagement of policy makers and ecologists with Indigenous groups and scholars from the palaeo- and social sciences.
"In this way, we have the best chance of developing more fair, sustainable, and resilient futures for human-environment interactions in these critical, often misunderstood, environments," concludes Roberts.
Reference: "Tropical forests as key sites of the "Anthropocene": Past and present perspectives" by Patrick Roberts, Rebecca Hamilton and Dolores R. Piperno, 27 September 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Preserving Outstanding Ecological Value: Assessment of the Protection State of Mostly "Untouched" Forests in Europe
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2 Comments on "Human Sustainability Challenges: Deep Roots of the "Anthropocene" Can Be Found in Tropical Forests"
Clyde Spencer | October 7, 2021 at 6:10 pm | Reply
Anthropology has a long history of assigning names to technologies characteristic of cultures, such as paleolithic, neolithic, bronze age, iron age, and industrial era. These are reasonable, descriptive terms. However, trying to force-fit an inherently geological term — Anthropocene — into the above list serves little purpose. The oversight groups responsible for approving geologic time intervals have NOT approved the term even for geologic time scales. It is not unlike insisting on adding the name of a fruit to a list of vegetables. Geologic time intervals are defined by changes in the lithology or rock sequences. At the moment it is almost impossible to find differences in rocks being laid down as sediments. If the day comes that a radioactive, beer can conglomerate is exposed over large areas, then it might be appropriate to advocate for it to be a marker for the end of the Anthropocene.
Bob | October 8, 2021 at 6:22 pm | Reply
The beginning of the Anthropocene will be mapped readily in several million years time by the onset of plastic pellets in assorted sedimentary rocks, and can be dated readily within 30 years by slightly stratigraphically deeper layer of radioactive debris from the first A-bomb tests. What will be puzzling to future palaeontologists, in whatever shape or form such scientists may occur, will be the remnants of human fossils found in all possible sedimentary environments, from those signifying oceanic trenches to remnant glacial deposits laid down in Alpine mountains. Human teeth will make a superb zone fossil wide, able to be dated according to assorted isotopic methods, and in certain areas the future plaeontologists will encounter the massive fluorosis event engendered by the addition of sodium fluoride to drinking water and toothpaste. Would this fluorosis event be seen as triggering our first escapades towards landing on the Moon? Or did we indeed come from that dried out husk of a planet, Mars, Venus being uninhabitable even in the far foreseeable future? Or did we indeed come from Venus, from which we we were compelled to flee because it was becoming contaminated by volcanoes producing atmospheric fluorine?


The fight to stay alive for airberlin took on another twist this week as the company announced additional funding from Etihad. This is the fourth major investment Etihad has made in the airberlin operation since the beginning of the decade, a partnership that has proven to be a money pit since inception. And there are all sorts of questions about how the deal will work while not violating various foreign ownership rules that the Abu Dhabi-based carrier must adhere to with its German partner.
Bloomberg is reporting that Etihad will buy airberlin's stake in the Niki subsidiary for 300mm euro as it is being spun off to join forces with TUIfly in an effort to separate the business and leisure arms of airberlin's operation. By realizing the funding as part of the move it is believed by some that part of the investment could help shore up airberlin's books without triggering ownership changes. Any increase in ownership share by Etihad of airberlin would trigger other changes that would not be in the group's favor. But getting more cash into the company's coffers is an important need right now. Airberlin's balance sheet shows only 260mm euro in cash and cash-equivalents on hand, a 20% drop from a year ago. And even with the dramatic structural changes for the company it is unclear that the numbers will turn around any time soon.
The 2011 Etihad investment in airberlin was followed a year later with a similar deal to take over the Top Bonus loyalty program. In that transaction Etihad pumped $150mm into the company for 70% of Top Bonus, a valuation that many in the industry questioned. But buying the program allowed for a cash infusion without breaking the ownership rules. In 2014 another cash infusion was made, this time through a bond issue. The 300mm euro worth of bonds convert to shares of common stock and carry no maturity date. Moreover, Etihad cannot convert all the shares without violating the foreign-ownership rules in place.
Ultimately the survival of airberlin comes down to whether the company can shrink to survive. In 2014 the company was insistent that it would not cut back capacity as it worked to compete with short-haul LCCs like Ryanair and easyJet while also trying to build out a long-haul route network as the number two carrier in Germany, behind Lufthansa. Despite relatively high load factors the revenue was simply not there for airberlin and the company racked up more than a billion euros in losses this decade instead. The new plan of splitting into smaller parts and operating separately could work but there is no real reason to believe that it will dramatically shift the company's market share nor its ability to drive higher yields for its product. Yes, airberlin was already planning to roll out a mediocre short-haul business class product and that will work well enough towards the goal of feeding the long-haul routes. Presumably that upgrade will continue to be rolled out based on the now smaller fleet though the company has not reiterated that plan.
And the company still faces all the same long-haul competition it had before the spin-off, plus ever increasing transatlantic route networks from Norwegian Air, Icelandair, WOW, Aer Lingus and more. Moreover, a decent portion of the airberlin long-haul route network covers seasonal leisure destinations, not business markets. Significant exposure to the Dominican Republic, Cuba and other Caribbean markets is unlikely to help airberlin build strong business traffic flows via its hub airports. And the unending delays in opening the new Berlin airport are certainly not helping the carrier, either.
@RunwayGirl It's like writing home to Dad from college.
The investments were supposed to be strategic. Etihad had plenty of cash and could put some of it in to airlines that needed it to make it through lean times. Those airlines gave Etihad a great valuation on the investment but it was dependent on actually making the "turn" to success. It worked pretty well at Aer LIngus. Less so at AirBerlin or Alitalia.
Lufthansa's investment in JetBlue proved profitable. Maybe Qatar's investment in LATAM will do the same, though that's a another risky move in a very uncertain economy.


If I could pick one word to describe Vienna, it would be opulent. I can see why Paris and Vienna are often compared. Both very elegant, and of course, romantic, but at the same time very different. And it's for this reason I wish I could have stayed in Vienna a little longer to make a more in-depth comparison, but at least I got a good taste so I feel compelled to go back and visit again someday.
Thanks to Jessica's recommendation, we checked out the Naschmarkt, which was right up B's and my collective alleys – we love exploring outdoor markets in new countries! It's such a great way to learn about a new culture, so I highly encourage you to try it whenever you're traveling. For example, we kept seeing pigs everywhere (in breads, pastries, candies, etc.) and we learned that pigs are an Austrian sign of good luck in the new year. We also sampled mohnzelten, a delicious pastry with a poppy seed filling – something I never would have thought to try if they weren't so beautifully displayed in the market!
After the market, we stopped in a nearby wine bar, Wein & Co., to warm up with some Austrian wine, which I'm more and more becoming a huge fan of. We ended our evening with a performance by the fabulous Lipizzaner stallions at the Spanish Riding School (kind of a bucket list item for me) in probably the most stunning riding arena I've ever seen. What an utterly dreamy city!
Amazing photos! All that food looks delicious too!
And I love that Zara sweater.
As always E, you have gorgeous photos that truly share a story. Thank you so much for sharing!
The sceneries are breath taking. Love those cute cupcakes. 🙂 Great outfit for a stroll around the city.
Sounds like an amazing city. Love the lighted streets – how magical!
Loving your furry pom pom beanie, of course.
Amazing pics, darling! This city is on my list of places I must visit, now more than ever!
Love that you went to the Naschmarkt! Glad that you enjoyed it. Love the photos! Just love that city!
Looks like you had an incredible time!! I've always dreamed of going to Vienna – perhaps I've heard the Billy Joel song too many times. PS, your hat is to DIE for!!
gorgeous photos – never been to Vienna and have been dying to go!
the architecture is stunning there!
I may have missed it, but did you do any shopping in Austria? My husband and I travel to Germany/Austria a lot and I've always wondered what the best stores and boutiques in the area are.
I actually didn't (aside from checking out the Naschmarkt and a few antique stores). Unfortunately we were only there for a day so we only had time to see the sights. I bet there are some great things to be found there, though! Sorry I'm not more helpful!


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Charlotte Ross has been acting steadily for over 15 years, but if you weren't a fan of Days of Our Lives or more recently, the late Showtime series Beggars and Choosers, you may just be discovering her. This past March she joined the cast of the hit ABC series NYPD Blue, as Detective Connie McDowell, her sixth primetime series role in nine years.
"I am actually proud of my career," Charlotte said recently. "I've worked a long time to prove myself other than what people perceived me as- a long blonde-haired former soap actress. I've played a lot of down and outs, and I've done a lot of comedy. I've really bounced around and I'm thankful for the fact that I've been a continual working actor for a long time."
Raised in Winnetka, Illinois, Charlotte had an agent when she was 15 and her first movie role a year later. "I knew what I wanted to do since I was 5, which was a weird thing, because where I'm from there are not a lot of people that make their living as an actor."
She studied with Chicago's major theater groups and two weeks after high school landed the role of mean teen hooker, Eve Donovan, on Days of Our Lives. "It amazes me when I look back now, what blind ambition I had, because it's a hard business, and it can be a hard town." A town she moved to all by herself, directly after her graduation.
"If I wasn't an actress I would definitely be a full time activist in some way," Charlotte admits. "I've always had this affinity towards animals, many different types of animals. and I've always wondered where it comes from."
Charlotte did grow up with dogs and thinks children should always grow up with a pet.
"It had a profound affect on me. My dogs were always my best friends." First she had Penny, a beagle mix, and then Mugsy, a mixed springer spaniel. "The range of feelings that my dog had still sticks in my mind today. Growing up with that I couldn't imagine not treating animals either with respect or with a certain amount of rights. It got hard for me as I learned more about how many animals are put to sleep… and about overbreeding… and as I got more into it, I learned about all these different types of animal organizations."
Busy with her career and establishing herself as an actress, it wasn't until Charlotte left her soap opera that she finally got a dog in LA. That was Katy, her one-eyed pekinese who is now about 11 ½ years old. "To be honest, this was before I knew as much as I do now and was as active as I am now with animal rights. I'm embarrassed to say, but I got her from a pet shop in The Beverly Center. 2 years later I found out more about these kinds of shops and the kind of breeders that bring in dogs like Katy. Since then I've learned, and I joke to this day that Katy is very snooty and thinks she's above it all because of where she came from. I've learned a lot since."
When she finally got a house in the canyon, Charlotte decided she wanted a dog she could go hiking with. "By this time I was volunteering with spcaLA and doing things like brushing and feeding the dogs… things that might not have seemed like much but made such a big difference. Everybody should do a little something if they can. I ended up being part of their foster program, which I had never heard about before. They had found a dog that had just had 8 puppies in East LA. So I took in the mom and her 7 pups. I loved it. I'd rotate holding them, and I was determined to get these cute little dogs good homes. As time went on they were all adopted, but I was worried because I had gotten so attached to 'Ma.' She was the sweetest dog. Then Bob Barker took her on The Price Is Right and she was adopted. I was so happy, and of course, now I'm just the biggest fan of Bob Barker."
"During that time a neighbor had 2 dogs that ended up pregnant. Then one day I looked up at this woman's house and saw 16 puppies jammed on the balcony. I had just committed to a series in LA so I took one of the dogs, a lab-german shepherd mix, Alex, who is now 5 ½. I ended up taking the other puppies to shelters where they were adopted. But that's just another thing that made me even more outspoken about why dogs should always be neutered and spayed. All the dogs that are being killed daily, it just maddens me that it's not a standard thing."
Her third dog, Taco, was a stray she rescued while doing a movie in Puerto Rico a few years ago. "He looks very much like a jack russell, but it's a guessing game. What's funny is that I thought he was very old because his head hung low and he didn't have a lot of energy. Later I found out that he was less than a year old. He's the most cuddly, thankful dog you've ever seen in your life. I can't imagine ever not getting a shelter dog."
"I will say it was interesting to bring in a dog from the street." she continues. "I had some random bones laying on the ground for example, and he almost killed my pekinese. I remember thinking, you don't need to fight anymore. Then one day I had Taco on one shoulder cuddling and Alex, the big lab on the other, both vying for my attention. All of a sudden I hear this growling and they totally went at it. I thought that perhaps I'd gone too far- taking in a street dog. So I held him and told him, one more time, this is the last straw. From then on it never happened again. He was the best thing I've ever done. I look at Taco and I think about how many Tacos are put to sleep on a daily basis. I have to say that Puerto Rico and Taco were a real turning point for me in terms of what shelter dogs have to offer."
Because of her work schedule, Charlotte doesn't get to do her volunteer work like she used to for spcaLA. But to feel like she isn't out of it completely, she writes letters for organizations like the Doris Day Animal League or even the Anti-Vivesection Society. "On a day off I would pick and choose letters that sometimes seemed frivolous, but made me feel a lot better. Even if you can't go to the shelters and offer more hands-on help, there are things you could do. I'm very, very passionate about things. I feel like I can never do enough. I wish I could have enough land so I could have a no-kill sanctuary. That's our biggest problem. There simply isn't enough room for all the animals that need homes."
Charlotte's compassion for animals was put to good use when she was tapped to co-host the 15th Annual Genesis Awards, airing on Animal Planet May 12th at 6 and 9pm and May 13th at 10am.
Although she had never heard of the Genesis Awards before she was asked to host it, she says, "I was very proud and really touched to be a part of the show. Throughout my career, whatever awards shows I've done or will do, I can honestly say that this is the most important show to me. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. I was on the edge of my seat watching tapes they had sent me of the previous shows. And during this year's program there were a lot of amazing stories. One was about an area in Korea where they eat dogs, but they think the dogs taste better if they're scared before being killed. I had to plug my ears backstage because of the cries of the dogs. It was tough. I had to go out there and continue talking with tears coming down my face. It's beyond me to think about people killing those dogs-- I always personalize it by looking at my dogs."
"I think it's really great that there is a show like the Genesis Awards that pat these people on the back. For example, there was a station in Seattle that went against every other station in the US and had the nerve to show how people were killing these fully alive cows in such an inhumane way. To have a show that awards these people is amazing, and I plan to be a part of it or at least watch it every year. I have to say it's the only awards show I've ever been to where there's kleenex at each table."
It's easy to understand how Charlotte could be so moved by the people who dedicate their lives to exposing animal injustices. She admits "if I hadn't gotten into show biz, I would seek out Jane Goodall and go to Tanzania to study the chimpanzees. I think chimps are the most amazing animals on the planet. The fact that they have less than 2% brain capacity difference from humans is something. Jane Goodall discovered that they make tools and go through puberty. They're so human-like. And then to think that they have no rights at all, like most animals on this earth, it's beyond maddening."
"I have enormous respect for people who dedicate their lives to animals," Charlotte continues. "I'm in a business where a lot of people love a lot of attention and glory. But these are people that do a lot of hard work which I find very fascinating… it's so NOT about them, which I just find so refreshing."
Refreshing is actually a great word to describe Charlotte Ross. This petite, beautiful blonde could be perceived as just another starlet in a city overrun with duplicates reaching for that "thing" called fame. But she's worked long and hard at her acting craft and says that "being famous is not something I strive to do. I hope that people see my work, but I'm sick of guessing if something's going to be a hit or not, that's for sure. The only way famous ever sounds good, and I'm being totally honest, would be to use it to promote something like the Genesis Awards."
As for the role animals play in our lives she says, "in my humble opinion, there is no end to the affect animals can have on humans. Whether it's with seniors, or prison inmates, or children or people of any age, animals have an amazing, enlightening ability to affect human nature that I think every human can benefit from. I feel really blessed to have my three dogs and can't imagine life without them. They give me so much endless happiness."
(In addition to hosting the 15th Annual Genesis Awards, airing on Animal Planet May 12th at 6 and 9pm and May 13that 10am, you can catch Charlotte Tuesdays at 10pm on ABC's NYPD Blue.)
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Symptoms:The disease appears on leaves, branches and fruits. The damage is particularly severe in young trees that may flush many angular shoots, resulting in significantly retarded growth or sometimes death of the affected plants.
On young leaves small yellowish water soaked spots develop first on the lower surface and then on the upper surface. In the beginning, these spots are small and scattered. These later turn brown, corky, hard and raised with a yellow halo around them. These spots increase in number and size. The diseased areas become dead and sometimes drop out leaving holes in the leaves. Similar diseased spots (without yellow halo) develop on twigs and fruits. Fruit fall is also common.
The disease enters a garden through diseased nursery plants or through small bits of diseased material, which is carried by wind from the neighbouring diseased gardens. The causal organism remains in the diseased material and becomes active under favourable conditions of temperature and moisture especially after rains. The dissemination takes place by splashing rain as well as by contact. Leaf miner and injury by thorns are also potent agents, aiding in the dissemination of the pathogen.
The disease is favoured by mild (20-30 °C) and wet weather. Presence of free moisture for at least 20 minutes is essential for successful infection.
Use of healthy nursery plants.
Removal and burning of diseased plant portions.
Windbreaks should be set around the citrus groves.
Periodic spraying of insecticide to control citrus leaf miner.
Spray of Bordeaux mixture or any other copper compound or streptomycin compounds during the active growth of new shoots (from January to May) and rosin Bordeaux mixture in July and September.


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Q: "Хитрое" игнорирование файлов в git В одном довольно старом проекте, в директории /public встречаются файлы, которые генерируются самим проектом, но все другие файлы нужно взять под версионный контроль. Файлы, которые не нужно добавлять в Git можно записать таким шаблоном: ^[a-z0-9].php$ (регулярка на PHP, ^ - начало строки, $ - конец), но вместе с тем есть несколько файлов: index.php, main.php, etc, которые мониторить нужно, но они же попадают по шаблон ^[a-z0-9].php$. Просьба подсказать, как можно написать такой сценарий в .gitignore?

A: Для того, чтобы исключить какой-то файл из игнорируемых, достаточно добавить маску совпадения с префиксом !:
# игнорировать все файлы и поддиректории
*
# но сохранить сам .gitignore
!.gitignore

Единственная проблема, с которой вы можете столкнуться - это сохранение файлов внутри поддиректории игнорированной директории:
*
# не сработает, потому что потомки subdirectory не будут распознаны
!subdirectory/file

Тогда приходится прибегать к хакам
*
!subdirectory
subdirectory/*
!subdirectory/file

A: Пока ждал ответ - разобрался сам.
Сначала нужно вручную добавить все нужные файлы и директории в индекс:
$ git add public/dir1/
$ git add public/dir2/
$ git add public/index.php
$ git add public/main.php
$ git add public/etc.php

А потом в .gitignore добавить строку:
public/*.php

И все... все оказалось намного проще, чем представлялось на первый взгляд.

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Q: Hand Selected Points and Homography precision. I have two calibrated cameras, so I know the essential an intrinsic matrices and I have computed the homography between a set of hand selected points. They are hand selected because the selection of the points requires domain knowledge beyond which automatic point selection cannot be relied upon - that is, it is a expert selecting the points. That said, the expert will be off slightly by a few pixels and a least squares solution (SVD) is used of course. I'm thinking that I want to assist the surgeon in selecting the corresponding points by computing the epipolar line in the corresponding image as the user selects points. This means that I need the fundamental matrix from the two camera matrices. All the examples that I see say "Let's assume that camera 1 is at
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Two reasons for sharing this photograph with you. Firstly, I took an interesting photograph of the modern sculpture at the harbour. It was the most interesting thing I had taken a picture of that day but didn't really show you what the harbour looks like with all the boats. This is difficult to do as there are at least three different areas, above shows you just one but you do get a much better idea of the place in my opinion. Secondly, I am heading up to Teesdale in County Durham tomorrow for a weekend of photography and this picture was taken in the north of the country also. Yes, Whiteheaven is in Cumbria but Durham and Cumbria are similar to me all the way down here in Manchester. Anyway, the photograph isn't technically that wonderful (like always I blame that on the weather) but I liked the masts of the boats, as they appear to merge together.
Whilst browsing through my now extensive collection of photographs of Scotland. I found this interesting picture of a Seagull watching over the beautiful harbour at Dunbar (about 40 miles east of Edinburgh along the coast). The image above is definitely not as good photographically as the one I published on the same day I took this (Tuesday 18th July 2006). But I did want to show the boat on its side, which didn't feature in the previous photo. Taken into this sun the original file straight out of the camera looks very different, using Photoshop I was able to mask out the foreground rocks and colour correct the background separately to the foreground. This took maybe 15 minutes to do something that would have taken a good 3 – 5 hours in a traditional darkroom. It seems the more technology advances we can do more with our time but that only puts more demands on our time.
I spent the morning on a walk taking detailed photographs of water falls of various sizes. Afterward we decided to meet up with my cousin John in the sea-side town of Whiteheaven. The weather was not as good as yesterday but I found this interesting structure on the waterfront at Whiteheaven's massive harbour. From a distance it looked like an wave shaped shelter for the walkway but on closer inspection it appears to have lights on the opposite side to the view in the photograph. It must make a very eye-catching sculpture at night.
Travelling onwards to the East coast of Scotland we came across the historic picturesque town of Dunbar. It had a very interest harbour with hundreds of seagulls and dozens of boats of various types. I really enjoyed the interesting photographs from around the bay, climbing on rocks and sunbathing by the sea. The photograph below shows a couple of the fishing boats inside the harbour walls.


95% of the apartments for sale have pictures. On average an advert for Apartments Alma carries 9 pictures.
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Omote wrote: Skyrim is coming back to XB1, with all of the sanctioned mods built in and a graphical update. Plenty of bugs will be fixed, and some new stuff added, though no more "questing" content as it appears at this point. Comes out OCT2016. Looks like I'll need to buy back in. The visuals looks freaking outstanding!
Aergraith wrote: Pillars of Eternity 2 was just released, which is a lot like the old Infinity Engine games (Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment).


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Home #Gist# Police confirm two deaths in gunmen's invasion of Enugu community
Enugu State Police command has confirmed the killing of two persons by suspected invaders of Ogbete-Mgbuji village in Eha-Amufu community of Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of the state.
The incident occurred on Thursday January 6, when assailants suspected to be herdsmen attacked traders at Orie Market in Ogbete-Mgbuji village.
Previous day, Wednesday, January 5, the assailants also invaded and sacked five village farm settlements in the area, allegedly killing five persons including children and women.
The latest attack came just five days ago when three members of the state Neighbourhood Watch were allegedly killed while chasing herdsmen, to rescue wife and 11-year-old daughter of Dr. Eugene Edeoga, younger brother of the Enugu State Commissioner for Environment Chijioke Edeoga that were abducted on January 1, 2022.
Leading heads of other security agencies in the state to carry out on-the-spot assessment tour of Ogbete-Mgbuji village in Eha-Amufu community, the state Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Lawal, said the tour revealed the murder of two unidentified persons.
He stated that the attack was carried out by assailants, "who are alleged to have intruded and attacked traders at Orie Market in Ogbete-Mgbuji village on 6/1/2022, and also previously perpetrated acts of kidnapping and murder in other parts of Eha-Amufu community."
The CP added that the on-the-spot assessment of damage caused by the assailants, also revealed the setting ablaze of a mini bus, motorcycles, shops and the destruction of goods at the market.
While describing the casualties and damages caused by the assailants as callous and unwarranted, the police boss ordered the immediate deployment of Police Operatives to maintain the normalcy already restored in the area, launch a thorough investigation to ascertain the immediate and remote causes of the incidents, and manhunt of the assailants.
Lawal assured the use of both kinetic and non-kinetic approaches to contain the situation.
He urged members of the community to remain law-abiding and support the Police and other Security Operatives deployed to the area.
A statement issued on behalf of the CP, by the Public Relations Officer of the command, Daniel Ndukwe, the tour enabled the Commissioner and the security chiefs to jointly assess, strategize and put in place immediate measures to avert further occurrence of the incidence and other heinous criminal acts, allegedly perpetrated by miscreants suspected to have intruded the area from border communities in Benue State.
Other heads of security agencies in the assessment tour included Commander of 82 Division Garrison Command of the Nigerian Army Enugu, Brig. Gen. Chris Ataki and the State Director of Department of State Services (DSS), Enugu State, Mr. Habu Daluwa.
The CP and the team were joined in the tour by the Chairman of Isi-Uzo Local Government Area, Hon. Jacob Abonyi; and the President General of Mgbuji Community Development Union, Barr. Chukwuma Ede; as well as other leaders and local security personnel of the community.
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Is there bias toward women in your Florida workplace?
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Here in South Florida, and throughout the country, many people like to think that workplace inequality between men and women is a thing of the past. And while the more obvious and accepted forms of workplace discrimination and sexual harassment have gone by the wayside, more subtle forms of gender bias do still exist.
According to recent research, discussed on a Harvard Business Review blog last month, bias against women in the workplace is still very much alive, unfortunately. Specifically, the study found that working men whose wives did not work or worked only part time tended to hold more negative views of women in the workplace.
The researchers compiled data from national surveys, including the General Social Survey and the National Opinion Research Center before arriving at the conclusions. The study found that not only did these working men, with wives who stayed at home, consider the presence of women in the workplace to be unfavorable, but they also thought that the more women were in a workplace, the worse it functioned. Furthermore, they found organizations that had female leaders to be unattractive and finally, they frequently failed to offer promotions to female employees.
It is important to note that the study has been critiqued, as it reportedly did contain some data that was more than 10 years old.
Nonetheless, whether or not this subset of working men specifically discriminates against working women, we do know that unfortunately in some cases women are discriminated against at work. Of course, in some cases men are discriminated against as well. It is important that employers take steps to truly remove this element from the modern workplace.
A variety of federal and Florida state employment laws protect workers from discrimination in the workplace, and those who feel their rights have been violated are wise to seek legal recourse.
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Q: PHP: How to display 2 column values in dropdownlist I have this code:
echo "<select name='brand'"><option value=''>Select one</option>";
foreach ($dbo->query($quer3) as $noticia3)
{
    if($noticia3['id']==@$brand)
    {
        echo  "<option selected value='$noticia3[id]'>$noticia3[brand]</option>"."
";
    }
    else
    {
        echo "<option value='$noticia3[id]'>$noticia3[brand]</option>";
    }
}

I want is to add another column to be displayed into the drop down list.
For example:
echo  "<option selected value='$noticia3[id]'>$noticia3[brand]+$noticia3[site]</option>"."
";

As you can see, I want to add the "site" column.
What to do?

A: You could do the following:
echo "<select name='brand'"><option value=''>Select one</option>";
foreach ($dbo->query($quer3) as $noticia3)
{
    if($noticia3['id']==@$brand)
    {
        echo  "<option selected value='$noticia3[id]'>" . $noticia3[brand] . " " . $noticia3[site] . "</option>
";
    }
    else
    {
        echo "<option value='$noticia3[id]'>" . $noticia3[brand] . " " . $noticia3[site] . "</option>";
    }
}

This should work for the solution you want.

A: Try this,
Use dot(.) operator instead of (+)
echo  "<option selected value='$noticia3[id]'>".$noticia3[brand]."".$noticia3[site]."</option>"."
";


When you think you've reached the top and when you've worked hard to reach that goal, there's a sad and empty sensation. Something is missing. It's just this melancholic sensation that manifests in the genre, both in reality and fiction.


The 7,500-ton stealth guided missile destroyer is New Delhi's latest addition to its burgeoning naval arsenal.
On Wednesday, Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar commissioned the stealth guided missile destroyer INS Kochi at a ceremony held at the Mazagon naval dockyards in Mumbai, The Hindu reports.
The INS Kochi is the second in a series of three planned Kolkata-class (Project 15A) destroyers of the Indian Navy. The destroyers are designed to be multi-mission ships capable of engaging in anti-submarine/anti-ship warfare, land attacks, and air defense. Given their multi-purpose role, the destroyers are ideally suited for supporting expeditionary and surface strike groups.
The ship incorporates new design concepts for improved survivability, stealth, seakeeping and maneuverability. (…)Enhanced stealth features have been achieved through shaping of hull and use of radar-transparent deck fittings. A bow mounted sonar dome, the second of its kind in an indigenous naval platform, has been introduced to enhance sonar acoustic performance.
With a crew of 325 and powered by four gas turbines, the 7,500-ton vessel boasts a speed in excess of 30 knots and has a range of approximately 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 kilometers, 9,200 miles).
The ship's armament consists of a 76mm Super Rapid Gun Mount, a fully-automated Russian AK-630 close-in weapon system, and RBU-6000 rocket launchers, as well as indigenous twin-tube torpedo launchers. The vessel also can carry up to 32 Barak-8/NGs — an Indo-Israeli surface-to-air missile (SAM) jointly developed by Rafael-IAI and India's Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO).
The INS Kochi also boasts a large flight deck and can carry two multiple-role aircraft (e.g., Sea King or HAL Dhruv helicopters).
The lead ship of the Kolkata-class, the INS Kolkata, was commissioned back in August 2014 after a four-year delay caused by repeated design changes, supply chain interruptions, and technical problems during sea trials. The third and final vessel, the INS Chennai, is slated for induction at the end of 2016. The INS Kochi is the tenth destroyer commissioned into the Indian Navy.


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Q: Создание приложения-галереи Хочу создать приложение, в котором будет около 30-50 картинок (что-то типа портфолио), из требований.
Хочу что бы картинки подгружались из папки res, сама активити имела возможность скролинга изображений, изображения по тапу разворачивались на весь экран.
Много прочитал всего в интернете, кто-то советует ImageView, другие WebView...
Может кто подскажет или укажет на пример?


John K. Samson Goes Solo. But Didn't He Do This Before?
In the realms of "best songwriters" around today, I'd feel pretty comfortable saying John K. Samson of The Weakerthans is one of the top ten. He is sort of like John Darnielle's anarchist (opposed to Antichrist) cousin from Canada, and we love him almost as much as we heart Mr. Mountain Goat.
Today, via press release, we hear that Samson is going to begin delivering solo albums "exploring the atmospheric streets and highways surrounding the musician's home in Winnipeg Canada", on Anti- Records. The first album titled, "City Route 85" drops tomorrow via 7 inch, and digital download, and while we are excited to hear Mr. Samson will continue to write songs that we will inevitably love, we have to ask: wasn't The Weakerthans his "solo project" when he quit Propagandhi all those years back?


A few days ago, we were sitting outside having dinner. It was a perfect, quickly cooling late summer evening but I was a little scrambled.
Our outside table sits just under a tree I hardly ever notice, actually.
It has been a ridiculously busy few weeks with guests and festivals and harvesting and work. All while trying to maintain a semi-regular home existence for us and the bean.
During dinner Willa was distracted, looking up and squealing, instead of eating.
"Focus Willa," I said, a little flustered. "Here, have some more rice."
A gust of wind kicked up and her attention turned skyward again.
Then, I looked up. The silver leaves quaking in the wind framed by a blue, blue sky. Another gust blew through, ruffling Willa's hair and replacing the hot summer air around us with an almost-fall coolness.
Willa and I met gazes, chins still pointed to the tree and she looked at me as if to say, "See Mama!? That's what I was trying to show you."
Oh, how beautiful the world can be if you let yourself see it through younger eyes.
Like the wonder you can find in a cold mountain stream. Or heck, how just a rock from that stream can be the most fun thing you've ever held in your hand.
Or, the simple pleasure of a discovering a sprinkler on a hot summer day.
And then hanging out in the spray for a few minutes to cool off.


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Archive for the 'Poems of Places' Category
Poems of Places 14
From Poems of Places, vol. 21, Asia: Syria (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1878), edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
[Palmyra (Tadmor)]
"© UNESCO, Syria: Destruction of Palmyra's historical monuments (March 2014)" (link)
A chain of associations led me from Longfellow to Longinus, by way of Nicholas Michell and Charles Morris. It began with the news from Syria. Or rather, it began with a drive past Palmyra, Maine, which brought the news from Syria back into mind. Getting home, I turned to Longfellow's anthology, wondering if there were any poems for the fallen city. In fact, there were three: a prize-winning undergraduate poem from the 1820s by John Henry Bright; "Tadmor of the Wilderness" by Connecticut poet Jesse Erskine Dow; and a section from Ruins of Many Lands by Nicholas Michell. All three were written in Longfellow's own lifetime, two by Brits, one by an American, and all are forgotten today. I dare say they were already forgotten in Longfellow's day. Finding poems for all the cities of Syria was no easy task— and Arabic poems are notably absent. Obscurities were necessary to fill out the pages.
The extracts from Michell take more space than the other two choices combined, but they caught my eye for the phrase "Murdered Longinus," which occurs in this passage:
The street of graves! where kings laid down their pride,
And many a restless phantom yet may glide:
Murdered Longinus here may wander still,
And she whose dust was laid by Tibur's hill,
Far-famed Zenobia, for her kingdom wail,
Sweeping with viewless form the desert gale.
I'll admit, I did not know the story of Longinus, but a little Googling brought me to Charles Morris's telling of it in Historical Tales: The Romance of Reality (1896), a book that enjoyed wide circulation and so may have appeared in many a house alongside Longfellow's anthology. The gist of the story is this: born, apparently, in Syria, Longinus was secretary and counselor to Queen Zenobia, whose realm, encompassing Egypt, "extended from the Euphrates over much of Asia Minor and to the borders of Arabia." Her seat of power was Palmyra. A decisive victory over Rome maintained her independence, at least while Claudius was emperor. With Aurelian's succession, hostilities were renewed. Rome advanced on Palmyra, subjugating the city after several hard-fought battles. Zenobia, for her part, misjudged the chances of victory, which led her to reject Rome's first terms of surrender. This in turn unleashed Rome's fury, and the city succumbed:
The soldiers, with angry clamor, demanded [Zenobia's] immediate execution, and the unhappy queen, losing for the first time the courage which had so long sustained her, gave way to terror, and declared that her resistance was not due to herself, but had arisen from the counsels of Longinus and her other advisers. It was the one base act in the woman's life. She had purchased a brief period of existence at the expense of honor and fame. Aurelian, a fierce soldier, to whom the learning of Longinus made no appeal, at once ordered his execution. The scholar died like a philosopher. He uttered no complaint. He pitied, but did not blame, his mistress. He comforted his afflicted friends. With the calm fortitude of Socrates he followed the executioner, and died like one for whom death had no terrors. The ignorant emperor, in seizing the treasures of Palmyra, did not know that he had lost its choicest treasure in setting free the soul of Longinus the scholar.
But this was not the end.
What followed may be more briefly told. Marching back with his spoils from Palmyra, Aurelian had already reached Europe when word came to him that the Palmyrians whom he had spared had risen in revolt and massacred his garrison. Instantly turning, he marched back, his soul filled with thirst for revenge. Reaching Palmyra with great celerity, his wrath fell with murderous fury on that devoted city. Not only armed rebels, but women and children, were massacred, and the city was almost levelled with the earth. The greatness of Palmyra was at an end. It never recovered from this dreadful blow.
I put the above together over a week ago and neglected to post it. In the meantime, the flow of news from Palmyra has slowed considerably. A few days ago the Independent (UK) published survivor stories. The occupation has been bloody but so far the city's archeological remains are more or less intact.
A few more lines of Longfellow's excerpt from Ruins of Many Lands:
Deserted Tadmor! queen of Syria's wild!
Well may'st thou fill with rapture Fancy's child;
Yet not by day — too garish, harsh, and rude —
The eye should scan thy fairy solitude;
But when the still moon pours her hallowing beam,
And crumbling shrine and palace whitely gleam,
Then pause beneath the lofty arch, and there
Survey the mouldings rich and sculptures fair;
See how like spectral giants columns stand,
And cast long shadows o'er the yellow sand;
How the soft light on marble tracery plays,
And busts look life-like through that silvery haze!
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Tagged with Charles Morris, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jesse Erskine Dow, John Henry Bright, Longfellow, Longinus, Nicholas Michell, Palmyra, Syria
From Poems of Places, vol. 4, England and Wales (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876), edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
[Plynlimmon, Wales]
Though not Welsh himself, Michael Drayton (1563–1631) has eleven poems out of the 74 that Longfellow chose for the Wales portion of his anthology, more than any other poet, all of these extracted from Poly-Olbion, a poetic geography of England and Wales. Written in Alexandrian couplets, Poly-Olbion is divided into thirty "Songs," each "illustrated," as the work puts it, by copious notes from John Selden (Pope preferred these notes to the poetry). It takes up three volumes in Drayton's collected works (full text here: vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3).
Longfellow does not identify these selections as extracts, but it speaks well to his editorial abilities that the fact is not immediately obvious. The fragments work as poems in their own right, at least in the context of Longfellow's anthology. For those who are curious, the eleven are listed below, with links — for comparison's sake — to anthology and original source:
Anglesea (Mona) (Poly-Olbion, The Ninth Song)
Caerleon-upon-Usk (Poly-Olbion, The Fourth Song)
The River Clwyd (Poly-Olbion, The Tenth Song)
The River Conway (Poly-Olbion, The Tenth Song)
Ewias (Poly-Olbion, The Fourth Song)
Milford Haven (Poly-Olbion, The Fifth Song)
Plynlimmon (Poly-Olbion, The Sixth Song)
Rivers of Wales (Poly-Olbion, The Ninth Song)
St. David's (Poly-Olbion, The Fifth Song)
Teg-Engle (Poly-Olbion, The Tenth Song)
The River Tivy (Poly-Olbion, The Sixth Song)
In choosing one for presentation, I was drawn to the verses for Plynlimon (spelled "Plynillimon" by Drayton), for the recollection it yields of Melville's Pierre. One of that novel's more celebrated portions is a lecture delivered by "Plotinus Plinlimmon." Melville's allusion to the mountain in Wales is hard to ignore given the overall significance of stone in his novel (most obviously in the title and dedication, but not there alone). I have a faint suspicion that he in fact had Drayton's Plynlimon in mind: the title of the lecture is "Chronometricals and Horologicals"; Poly-Olbion is subtitled "A Chorographicall Description."
Longfellow's extract runs to seventeen lines. It begins with the second half of a couplet, but the lack of rhyme for that line is not so noticeable given the off-rhymes that follow. The full rhyme at the end is more important, since it gives a satisfying sense of closure. The fifth line is the subject of one of Selden's illustrations.
PLYNILLIMON'S high praise no longer, Muse, defer.
What once the Druids told, how great those floods should be
That here (most mighty hill) derive themselves from thee.
The bards with fury rapt, the British youth among,
Unto the charming harp thy future honor song
In brave and lofty strains; that in excess of joy,
The beldam and the girl, the grandsire and the boy,
With shouts and yearning cries, the troubled air did load
(As when with crowned cups unto the Elian god
Those priests his orgies held; or when the old world saw
Full Phoebe's face eclipsed, and thinking her to daw.
Whom they supposed fallen in some inchanted swound,
Of beaten tinkling brass still plied her with the sound),
That all the Cambrian hills, which high'st their heads do bear
With most obsequious shows of low subjected fear,
Should to thy greatness stoop: and all the brooks that be
Do homage to those floods that issued out of thee.
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From Poems of Places, vol. 27, America: Middle States (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879), edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
[Fire Island, N.Y.]
Alfred Leslie, The Telephone Call, 1970-71,
part of a cycle originally called The Killing
of Frank O'Hara (image via Isola di Rifiuti;
see also Leslie's website)
I am tempted to call Fire Island the most haunted spot in American literature: two notable writers met their end there, one at sea, the other on land — and these were gruesome deaths as well. In 1850, Margaret Fuller drowned just offshore. Her body was never recovered, but others from the same ship — including that of her son, Nino — washed onto the beach where Frank O'Hara would be struck by a jeep in 1966.
O'Hara died young — he was 40 years old — and before the great majority of his writing had seen print. This surely added to the sense of emergency that attended his loss. According to O'Hara's biographer, Brad Gooch, three of the poet's friends — Kenneth Koch, Frank Lima, Larry Rivers — took possession of the manuscripts in fear that they would be destroyed or disappear.
Fuller, also 40, had published more extensively than O'Hara (three books and a great many uncollected essays), but in her case an important manuscript did disappear: her history of the Italian revolution, in which she participated as a director of one of Rome's hospitals during the street fighting. The copy of her book that Fuller carried across the ocean sank, and no other copy ever came to light, despite the assiduous searching of her friends. From letters, and from Fuller's dispatches for the New-York Tribune (the same newspaper for which Marx would later write), we have a good sense of what she witnessed. But what she learned after, and what she withheld, and what she made of it all in hindsight, these are gone for good.
The gruesome facts of O'Hara's death were not set aside or forgotten in the grief over his loss. His death came in a hospital after 40 hours of intense pain, and O'Hara's friends were witness to that suffering. Larry Rivers was especially graphic in his eulogy, evoking O'Hara's mangled body for the assembled mourners: Read the rest of this entry »
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Tagged with Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Larry Rivers, Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert J. Scholnick, Thoreau, Walter Savage Landor
From Poems of Places, vol. 1, England 1 (London: Macmillan and Co., 1877), edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
[Laken]
To A Bird That Haunted the Waters of Laken in the Winter
O melancholy bird, a winter's day,
Thou standest by the margin of the pool;
And, taught by God, dost thy whole being school
To patience, which all evil can allay:
God has appointed thee the fish thy prey;
And given thyself a lesson to the fool
Unthrifty, to submit to moral rule,
And his unthinking course by thee to weigh.
There need not schools nor the professor's chair,
Though these be good, true wisdom to impart:
He who has not enough for these to spare
Of time or gold may yet amend his heart,
And teach his soul by brooks and rivers fair:
Nature is always wise in every part.
— Lord Thurlow
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Tagged with England, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Laken, Longfellow, Lord Thurlow
From Poems of Places, vol. 14, Spain 1 (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1877), edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
[Italica]
Fabius, if tears prevent thee not, survey
The long dismantled streets, so thronged of old,
The broken marbles, arches in decay,
Proud statues, toppled from their place and rolled
In dust, when Nemesis, the avenger, came,
And buried, in forgetfulness profound,
The owners and their fame.
Thus Troy, I deem, must be,
With many a mouldering mound;
And thou, whose name alone remains to thee,
Rome, of old gods and kings the native ground;
And thou, sage Athens, built by Pallas, whom
Just laws redeemed not from the appointed doom.
The envy of earth's cities once wert thou, —
A weary solitude and ashes now.
For fate and death respect ye not: they strike
The mighty city and the wise alike. Read the rest of this entry »
Tagged with Bryant, Francisco de Rioja, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Italica, Longfellow, Poems of Places, Rioja, Rodrigo Caro, Spain, William Cullen Bryant
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From Poems of Places, vol. 22, Asia 2 (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878), edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
[Afghanistan: Cabul (Cabool)]
Excerpted from Ruins of Many Lands: A Descriptive Poem (1850), by the Cornish poet Nicholas Michell. Longfellow cuts the awkward opening of the Cabul section, which reads like this:
A moment yet we linger 'mid the bowers
Of Northern Ind — a land of fruits and flowers,
Where the proud Affghan treads a blessed soil,
That yields all Nature asks with little toil,
A land where God his heavenliest smile hath thrown
On all beneath — man, man the blot alone.
That last line casts an ominous shadow on the poem — a shadow of original sin, I thought, reading the description of earthly paradise that followed. Alas, no; it's a thicker, uglier shadow. But here's the Longfellow excerpt: Read the rest of this entry »
Tagged with Afghanistan, fruit, Fruitility, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kabul, Longfellow, Nicholas Michell, Poems of Places, Ruins of Many Lands, Tony Harrison
From Poems of Places, vol. 9, France 1 (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1880), edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
[Brienne]
In honor of the new school year, "The School-Boy King" by Walter Thornbury, a poem that also appears in A Metrical History of the Life and Times of Napoleon Bonaparte, edited by William J. Hillis (1896). There the poem is given the following introduction:
Of Napoleon's early childhood little is positively known. Accepting the corroborated record, as it stands, it would appear that he was a child with a disposition and a manner peculiarly his own. Not a loving or a companionable boy, but rather of a sullen, retiring nature; melancholy and irritable in his temperament and impatient of restraint. While his companions were enjoying themselves at play, natural to their age, he would wander off by himself and spend hours, with no other company than his own thoughts. There is still to be seen in Corsica the isolated rock, known as "Napoleon's Grotto." Tradition tells us that this was the favourite resort of the child, destined to become the conqueror of the world. He, himself, has said: "In my infancy I was extremely headstrong; nothing ever awed me; nothing disconcerted me. I was quarrelsome, mischievous; I was afraid of nobody; I beat one; I scratched another; I made myself formidable to the whole family."
At the age of ten Napoleon entered the Military School at Brienne, near Paris, where he remained upwards of five years. His career while at that school is very aptly and concisely told in the following verses.
Thornbury's poem is written from the teacher's point of view, which folds in a very stupid prejudice against Corsica. A more hagiographic assessment of the brilliant, raging boy opens Abel Gance's Napoléon (1927), viewable at Dailymotion (here). A beautiful stretch of film, with music by Arthur Honegger. In the film, the teacher's anti-Corsican prejudice makes us sympathize with Napoleon. Here are some screen captures of the classroom sequence: Read the rest of this entry »
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Tagged with Brienne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Longfellow, Napoleon, Poems of Places, Thornbury, Walter Thornbury
From Poems of Places, vol. 17, Germany 1 (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877), edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
[Berlin]
I've spent the past month packing up my father's library, in preparation for his move to Maine. He and his late wife were historians, both doing their principal work on the holocaust, and the vast majority of the books are on that and related topics. Going through them, I've paid particular attention to items that touch on family history: my father is a survivor, born in Berlin, then deported to Łódź with his family, and after that to Auschwitz and other camps. There are a great many books that touch on those places, and I find them evocative even when they don't pertain precisely to my father's experience — as in the book shown below, which does not appear to include the Jewish school my father attended in the 1930s.
In the midst of all this packing and browsing, it occurred to me to look up the family sites in Poems of Places, just to see if anything interesting was there. I'm a big believer in the value of bibliomancy: ever since learning about the medieval practice of using Virgil's Aeneid as an oracle, I've paid attention to randomly chosen text; fortuitous juxtapositions are even better. It's not that I believe in such oracles, only in the value of exploring their hermeneutic possibilities. I have greater respect for chance than divination; I trust in fortune, not fortunetelling.
All that said, very few of the places I looked up were represented. There are some evocative poems about Poland in the Russia volume, but none about Łódź or Oświęcim. Nor are there poems in the Germany volumes about the cities of Braunschweig, where my father was briefly a prisoner near the end of the war, or Brandenburg, where the family went to stay in the days after Kristallnacht. I did find a few interesting resonances with other cities, most notably the text below, Longfellow's sole entry for Berlin.
I have to wonder what other choices Longfellow had, since the poem has almost nothing to do with Berlin, or even with Germany. It concerns a Greek statue from 300 BC commonly known as "The Praying Boy." Of course, since the Nazis considered Jews a foreign element, I find it fitting that Longfellow's choice for Berlin should concern an outsider, indeed a refugee, if only a refugee from antiquity. And if this interpretation seems forced, note that the poem itself presents the boy in just this way: as a survivor miraculously pulled from the mass grave of history.
A few minutes with Google unearths the poem's prior publication in The Monthly Religious Magazine (1862), as well as a later publication in Every Other Sunday (1900), the latter as part of an article on the statue that inspired the poem. Given these pious contexts, it is not surprising that the author, Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, was a minister. A Unitarian minister, part of the broader circle of New England intellectuals that included the Transcendentalists, with whom Frothingham was on friendly terms.
According to Frothingham's headnote, "The Praying Boy" was dredged from the Tiber at the end of the seventeenth century, an origin central to the poem's story, though it doesn't seem to agree with what the curators in Berlin currently say about the statue. Indeed, according to some commentators, the statue is not even a depiction of prayer. They say the boy's arms are raised because he is carrying a lost object. But whatever the statue's original meaning, its altered meaning — the very fact that its meaning has altered — only adds to the sense that the bronze is alive, that it's subject like any actual person to the vicissitudes of time. For this reason, the story of the boy's recovery from the Tiber is as meaningful as his pose, whether that story is true or merely a myth.
If you look closely at the cover of Jüdische Schulen in Berlin, you'll see that there's a tall boy in the center of the crowd with his arms raised in a manner that rhymes with that of the statue. The meaning of the poses is of course different, but the natural gesture of upraised arms makes an evocative parallel, suggesting welcome and fellowship in one case, solitary thanks in the other:
Posted in Everything Else, forgotten poems, forgotten poets, Longfellow, Poems of Places
Tagged with Berlin, Frothingham, Greek sculpture, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Longfellow, Lysipp, Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, Poems of Places, statue, The Praying Boy
From Poems of Places, vol. 31, Oceanica: Australasia, Polynesia, and Miscellaneous Seas and Islands (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879), edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
[Hawaii]
Under the heading "Sandwich Islands," Longfellow includes two poems in translation. Googling the authors' names for some biographical information, I jumped to the conclusion that Longfellow had made a simple error of transposition, giving the title "Hawaiian National Anthem" to a lyric by Lilia K. Dominis instead of the actual anthem, by King Kalakaua, which is also included in the volume, under the title "Kamehameha Hymn" (both are translated by H. L. Sheldon).
Wikipedia told me that King Kalakaua "wrote Hawaii Pono'i, which is the state song of Hawaii today," and further Googling brought me to recordings of "Hawaii Pono'i" identified as Hawaii's national anthem. A quick comparison of translations showed that "Hawaii Pono'i" was indeed the same poem as "Kamehameha Hymn."
Rereading the two poems with this information in mind, it seemed silly that I had not noticed earlier how martial Longfellow's "Hymn" sounds (it begins, "Hawaii! sea-girt land! / Strong for thy monarch stand"), or the hymn-like quality of his "Anthem" ("Eternal Father! mighty God! / Behold us, from thy blest abode"). A howler, right? Read the rest of this entry »
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Tagged with anthem, Google, H. L. Sheldon, Hawaii, Hawaii Pono'i, He Mele Lahui Hawaii, hymn, Kamehameha Hymn, King Kalakaua, Lilia K. Dominis, Longfellow, National Anthem, Poems of Places, Queen Lili'uokalani, Sandwich Islands
From Poems of Places, vol. 8, Scotland 3: Scotland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1880), edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
[Sweden]
In this instance I am going to give the entire poem (anyway, the entire poem as presented by Longfellow), as the full text is not available online; also because the poem is pretty delightful. A trek through the southern provinces of Sweden, with special attention paid to the wildness of the people and their way of life. Terrifyingly rich mutton-steaks, biscuits only a hammer could break; men with frost-bit faces, dressed in "beast-skins"; houses made from upright trees, with rooms where fifty people all sleep together on beds of straw. Who needs Winnetou when there are Gothlanders around? Read the rest of this entry »
Tagged with Bishop Huet, Gothland, John Duncombe, Longfellow, Pierre Daniel Huet, Poems of Places, Sweden


We're excited to announce that Stauffer & Sons Construction is officially moving office locations! After spending five years in the former "Chrissey Fowler Lumber" building on W. Vermijo Ave, we're now moving two blocks north. Our new location is in the south end of "Giuseppe's Old Depot" across from Antler's Park.
Check back for progress photos as we finish construction!
Great location, please post pictures when all is finished!


From a practical perspective playing may seem like a colorless event.But from a child's perspective a good game have colors like blood red, sunshine yellow, sky blue, ocean turquoise and the greatest color of them all: Gold.
Of course a true castle (like the one MONSTRUM made in Liseberg) is only complete when golden. With canaries on top.
We strike for realism in shapes.
But to underline the play, fantastic colors create magic.Butterflies. Butterflies go fluttering by.
On colored wings that catch the eye.
The fisherwoman: Her nose and cheeks are red from cold. Her hands are pale as the fish, she sells. Her dress is time typical azurite.
The surroundings: The playground is kept in Medieval mineral shades like umber, red ochre, yellow ochre, green earth and chalk.
The humpback whale received its name from the hump on its back. It is recognized for its many warts, gray patches and white mottling on its dark skin.
Allover the whale is covered with white barnacles. Some whales are mostly black and some are more white, but most humpback whales are something in between.
When you change the color of the view, the world takes on a different hue.
With different shades of blue, even wood seem genuine glasslike.
You can update your preferences on this list.


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An Affair of Honour
U 16.491-4: Though not an implicit believer in the lurid story narrated (or the eggsniping transaction for that matter despite William Tell and the Lazarillo-Don Cesar de Bazan incident depicted in Maritana on which occasion the former's ball passed through the latter's hat)
The allusion to Wallace's popular opera of 1845 refers to the scene in which Don Cesar reports how he was shot at by Lazarillo:1
Refused admittance at the door, the window was the only way. Egad! A man needs a stout courage to storm a fortress under such a brisk cannonade! (Shaking a bullet from his hat.) It is but to shew the tip of one's feather above yon corridor, and whizz comes a bullet at your head. Spirit of Hospitality, how are thy rights abused!
Far more intriguing is the fact that the phrase "the former's ball passed through the latter's hat" - slightly reminiscent of an Irish bull - is taken verbatim from a newspaper report published in the Freeman's Journal of 26 September 1821 under the heading "Affair of Honour":
Early on Saturday morning a meeting took place in a field beyond Portobello, Dublin, between J. M-n and J. H-t, Esqrs., both students of College; after an exchange of shots, in which the former's ball passed through the latter's hat, the seconds interfered, and the business was amicably terminated.
The answer to the question how this ephemeral news item survived 100 years before it found its way into a late Paris note sheet for Eumaeus and Penelope2 and into the proofs of Eumaeus in December 1921 lies in the issue of the Freeman's Journal of 1 October 1921. Here it can be found under the heading "100 years ago in the Freeman's Journal". Aunt Josephine, whom Joyce thanks on 14 October 1921 for her prompt reply to a letter asking for information, seems to be the most likely source for a newspaper that would hardly have been available in Paris.
1 Edward Fitzball, Maritana (1845), act. 3, scene 1, p. 29. Music by W. V. Wallace.
2 Phillip Herring, Joyce's Notes and Drafts for Ulysses. Selections from the Buffalo Collection, Charlottesville 1977, p. 77.
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Otter nurseries was established in 1964. From beginning as a wholesale nursery producing trees, bedding plants and shrubs, it has grown into a thriving garden centre. Otter nurseries is now unusual in that they produce 70% of all the hardy outdoor plants they sell on site.
The nurseries command over 100 acres of production, where open ground and container plants are grown. With one of the largest stocks of plants in the country, today Otter nurseries is one of the largest garden centres in the south west of England, retailing virtually all their own plants. With over an acre under cover, the superb, new, extensive greenhouse is brimming with houseplants, bedding plants, old favourites and more unusual plants for the beginner and experienced gardener alike.
Nursery fresh shrubs, trees, roses, heathers and many other hardy garden plants are sold here, all guaranteed to grow in your garden. The trained staff will be delighted to answer your questions and offer advice. The centre also boasts a large selection of garden accessories and machinery, and is famous throughout the south wet for its huge display and range of garden furniture, especially wooden furniture and three piece cane suites, for outdoor use and the conservatory, most of which are in stock for immediate collection or delivery.
There is a large fencing and paving section, an attractive Koi carp pool, and a vast range of stoneware, giftware, clothing, conservatories, greenhouses and sheds. The information desk is the source for all questions and the centre's superb restaurant, which seat over 240 people, serves a selection of delicious home-cooked food, morning coffee, lunches, afternoon teas and all day snacks, much of it homemade on the premises.
Other features of this distinguished centre include its excellent facilities for people with disabilities and car parking for over 400 cars.


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Le Tour de France 2017 - PS4
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