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Museum Montanelli
Professor Beneš' Cabinet of Mysteries
NOTICE: Museum temporalily closed during the pandemic
This upcoming exhibition is more than a celebration and the expression of our admiration for the extraordinary person of the Czech neurosurgeon, Professor Vladimír Beneš. We aim to reveal this remarkable man's passion for entomology and collecting.
We look forward to seeing you again in 2021 at "Professor Beneš' Cabinet of Mysteries" exhibition
Dear friends of Museum Montanelli,
as you might know, our current exhibition " Professor Beneš' Cabinet of Mysteries" has already been installed in September 2020 and is awaiting its visitors. In this exhibition the lifelong entomological collection of the world-renowned neurosurgeon, Professor Vladimír Beneš, awaits you in a dialogue with works of art from the Museum Montanelli collection.
Introducing our new TV MuMo channel
We will take you through several years of important projects and exhibitions which we have presented in the Czech Republic. In due course you can look forward to more videos of our activities abroad and especially to the currently installed exhibition "The Professor Beneš' Cabinet of Mysteries" which, for the time being, remains a great secret.
https://montanelli.tv/
We keep going!
The Museum's rooms will remain temporarily closed until September, but we are using our outdoor areas to present works from our collection.
We are currently working on organizing our depository, putting together the Museum Montanelli collection catalogue, and most importantly, preparing our next exhibition, one we have already announced.
Dear visitors, only the outdoor area of the museum is currently open to the public. Thank you for your understanding.
Catalogue Legenda in MeMoriam
The catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition in Museum Montanelli.
Interview: Cornelia Renz & Belle Shafir (Legenda in MeMoriam)
Video from the current exhibition – interviews with artists and curators.
Legenda in MeMoriam
Cornelia Renz & Belle Shafir
MuMo Praha
24/10/2019 – 25/3/2020
One of the main themes of the Legenda in MeMoriam project is a study of the processing of collective as well as individual traumas through art.
10 years MuMo
120 artists / 26 exhibitions
30 international collaborations
65 000 visitors
Interview: Dadja Altenburg-Kohl
"I don't want to just store art in a depositary where nobody will see it. Personal relationships with artists mean more to me – talking about art and sharing and creating thematic projects."
The Book National Theatre Foyer
The book presents the works of art that are to be found in the historical building of the National Theatre in Prague. In it you will find chapters dedicated to the history and restoration of the pictures hanging on the walls of the foyer of the theatre. The book contains a rich array of photographs and comes complete with a DVD containing conversations with the personalities involved in the restoration of the foyer.
Anatomia Metamorphosis
Anna Zemánková
Art amidst the Catastrophe
František Dymáček
Ivana Brádková
I was born in your bed
Kunst in der Katastrophe
Luboš Plný
Maja Bajević
Pavel Roučka
Terezie Zemánková
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The Supreme Court said that it will consider tomorrow as to when to hear the review petitions filed against the Sabarimala verdict.
The bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice S K Kaul and Justice K M Joseph was considering on an oral plea made by Advocate Mathews Nedumpara, the counsel for Nataional Ayyappa Devotee(Women) Association, for urgent listing of the matter.
"We know there are 19 review petitions pending. By tomorrow we will decide when to list the matters", the CJI said.


Namaste from Ama Dablam Base Camp. Today is November 7th.
We have spent another 48 hours hanging around Base Camp playing games and training for our ascent in the upper mountain. Today, Lakpa Gelu and I met with another groups of Shepras and teams. The consensus is that at this time, with the deep snow and avalanche danger, the upper part of Ama Dablam is unsafe to climb.
With only a couple more days on our permit and in our trip, we have decided to make the decision that a safe ascent will not happen during the time we have this year. 26 of the 28 international teams at Base Camp have suspended or cancelled their expedition.
Base Camp, which used to have hundreds of tents and the feel of a small city, has now dwindled to only a few teams. Camp 1 which had over 20 tents and rescue gear, including oxygen, has been taken down and has few remaining tents.
Tomorrow we will begin our trek out from Ama Dablam Base Camp. We expect to arrive in Lukla in 5-6 days then a fly back to Kathmandu.
So many times we (Westerners) measure success in reaching the summit. This expedition has taught us that success is reached when looking back at yourself for reflection. David and Paige have shared with me that this expedition has been incredibly successful as they both have learned a lot and grown as individuals. We hope to return to this mountain or other mountains in the Khumbu region in the future.
We have to thank our friends and family members for all of their support during this expedition. Thank you for helping us support our dreams!
Joe reporting for Team "Jose and the Ecuadorks". Team practices cramponing skills and self arrest on the glacier of Antisana.


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As we take our stand down in Jungleland
Posted on October 26, 2018 by brucehhackett
This is the fourth in a series of posts that will feature detailed analysis and commentary of some of my all-time favorite albums.
One of life's true delights for rock music fans is to discover an up-and-coming artist before the rest of the world catches on. In the summer of 1975, it happened to me, and I still get chills more than 40 years later when I think about my earliest encounters with
The E Street Band, 1973: Clarence Clemons, Springsteen, David Sancious (piano), Vini Lopez (drums), Danny Federici, Garry Tallent
the music of Bruce Springsteen.
I was 20, just returned home to Cleveland after sophomore year of college. I invited several friends over and asked each one to bring an album they'd turned on to over the previous six months. Each took turns playing the best tracks from albums by a variety of great bands.
Then my friend Carp stepped up. "You've all had your turn," he said. "Now get a load of this." He lowered the needle on "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)," the second song on Side Two of "The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle." Seven minutes later, we all had to pick our jaws up off the floor, totally blown away by the sheer exuberance of what we'd just heard.
Finally, I managed to say, "Holy shit! Is the whole album that good?!" He flipped the LP over and cranked the volume on another epic piece entitled "Kitty's Back." I was completely won over. I ran to the store the next day and bought my own copy, and found another Springsteen LP there — the earlier debut, "Greetings From Asbury Park" — and bought that as well.
From that day forward, I was a disciple of Bruce.
Why had I never heard of him before this? I learned that he was a Jersey boy, a working-class rocker with a passion for meaty rock and sweaty soul, but curiously, neither of his records had sold well. He had, however, built a solid reputation in certain East Coast pockets and among critics, who uniformly maintained, "You gotta see him live!"
Maybe so, but I was totally taken with his records. The first LP had some stellar moments — the wise-beyond-its-years "Growin' Up," the scrappy "It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City," the sensual "Spirit in the Night" and the sax-driven "Blinded By the Light" — but "The Wild, the Innocent" was really special, full of poetic images of romance and longing, great melodies and nearly operatic arrangements.
As Springsteen would say in his 2016 autobiography, "In 1973, I had to have songs that could capture audiences who had no idea who I was. As an opening act then, I didn't have much time to make an impact. I wrote several long, wild pieces that were basically the soul children of the lengthy prog rock music I'd written with Steel Mill (an early band he led). They were arranged to leave the band and the audience exhausted and gasping for breath. Just when you thought the song was over, you'd be surprised by another section, taking the music higher. It was what I'd taken from the finales of the great soul revues. I tried to match their ferocious fervor."
He recalled some of the album tracks this way: "'Kitty's Back' was a remnant of some of the jazz-tinged rock I occasionally played with a few of my earlier bands. It was a twisted swing tune, a shuffle, a distorted piece of big band music… 'Rosalita' was my musical autobiography up to that point. I wrote it as a kiss-off to everyone who counted you out, put you down, or decided you weren't good enough… 'Sandy' was a composite of girls I'd known along the Jersey Shore, and I used the boardwalk and the closing down of the town as a metaphor for the end of a summer romance."
Two songs — the marvelous "Incident on 57th Street" and the 10-minute strings-and-piano opus "New York City Serenade" — were dynamic stories of young love in The Big Apple, "a place that had been my getaway from small-town New Jersey since I was 16." (Another lengthy piece in the "Rosalita" vein was the rollicking "Thundercrack," which didn't make the final cut from the album but was eventually released in 2000 on his "Tracks" box set, and is included in the Spotify playlist below.)
Meanwhile, in spring 1975, Springsteen and his group, The E Street Band, were hard at work on their make-or-break third album, and the title track, "Born to Run," a mini-symphony of rock perfection, had been advanced as an unauthorized single to sympathetic markets. In Cleveland, we were blessed with one of the nation's finest rock music radio stations, WMMS-FM, where savvy DJs treated us to fantastic new artists well before other cities played them. One was Springsteen, and the afternoon DJ Kid Leo made a habit of playing "Born to Run" every Friday at 5:55 pm to close out the work week.
It was an instant anthem, with a Phil Spector-like layered arrangement, a relentless full-band sound, and desperate lyrics about getting the hell out of town and "wanting to know if love is real": "Baby, this town rips the bones from your back, it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap, we gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run…"
As Springsteen put it, "I wanted to craft a record that sounded like the last record on Earth, the last one you'd ever need to hear. It used classic rock 'n' roll images — the road, the car, the girl — but to make them matter, I knew I had to shape them into something
The E Street Band, 1975: Garry Tallent, Danny Federici, Clarence Clemons, Springsteen, Max Weinberg, Steve Van Zandt, Roy Bittan
fresh. It took six months to write, slowly, searching for words I could stand to sing. Then we struggled for a while to make what worked so well on stage get properly recorded in the studio."
He was broke, he was on borrowed time, and he pushed his band to the limit. He severely tested his friendships with longtime friends Garry Tallent on bass, Danny Federici on organ, Steve Van Zandt on guitar and Clarence Clemons on sax. New members Roy Bittan on piano and Max Weinberg on drums must've wondered what the hell they'd signed up for.
The finished album, "Born to Run," is one of a handful of rock albums that can truly be called a masterpiece. To my ears, there's not a wrong note, not a weak lyric, not a single moment you wish was recorded differently. Indeed, it's difficult to pick the best tracks, because they comprise a song cycle that segues beautifully, "a series of vignettes taking place during one long summer day and night," as Springsteen put it.
Let's let the songwriter tell the story: "'Thunder Road' introduces the album's central characters and its main proposition: Do you want to take a chance? It lays out the stakes you're playing for and sets a high bar for the action to come. Then comes 'Tenth Avenue Freeze Out,' the story of a rock 'n' soul band and our full-on block party. Pedal to the metal, we steam into 'Night,' followed by the stately piano, organ and broken friendships of 'Backstreets.' Side two opens with the wide-screen rumble of 'Born to Run,' sequenced dead in the middle of the record, anchoring all that comes before and after. Then the Bo Diddley beat of 'She's the One' before we cut to the trumpet of Michael Brecker as dusk falls and we head through the tunnel for 'Meeting Across the River.' From there, it's the night, the city and the spiritual battleground of 'Jungleland' as the band works through musical movement after musical movement, culminating in Clarence Clemons's greatest recorded moment, that solo. The knife-in-the-back wail of my vocal outro, the last sound you hear, finishes it all in bloody operatic glory."
Wow. I've loved every second of this record from the day I bought it, but hearing Springsteen describe the songs like that helps me see the whole package with a new perspective. Just brilliant.
Let's not forget the inspired album cover, which, truth be told, is best viewed when you open it to reveal the front and back cover together in one iconic photograph. It established Clemons as "The Big Man," Springsteen's second in command, on record and in concert, and cemented the twosome's friendship and partnership in a very public way.
To top off my indoctrination into the World of Bruce, I was fortunate enough to see the band in concert in a 3,000-seat hall in Cleveland on August 10, 1975, just two weeks before the release of the "Born to Run" LP, and six weeks before he appeared simultaneously on the covers of Time and Newsweek magazines. I felt as if I'd been admitted to a special club, like I'd bought stock in Springsteen just before it went through the roof.
The critics were right. Springsteen in concert was exponentially more exciting than the tremendous albums.
A lengthy contractual dispute kept him out of the studio for more than two years after that, hurting his career momentum somewhat, but he came roaring back in 1978 with the powerful, hard-edged "Darkness on the Edge of Town." Some Bruce fans I know (including my wife) prefer "Darkness" over "E Street Shuffle," but she's five years younger and related more to the later album because it came out as she was graduating high school. I like the album fine, certainly better than the bloated double effort "The River" in 1980, or really, just about anything since then.
Springsteen, one of the most prolific songwriters rock has ever seen, has put together an extraordinary body of work, including many dozens of songs recorded throughout his career that didn't see release until decades after they were recorded. There are songs on every single album that are worthy of your attention. But for me, he was never better than when he was young and hungry, embracing a do-or-die attitude, trying to go "on a last chance power drive."
The Spotify playlist below, in addition to every track from "The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle" and "Born to Run," includes four bonus tracks. "Zero and Blind Terry," "Thundercrack" and "The Fever" were recorded in 1973 and slated for "E Street Shuffle" but didn't make the final cut. ("The Fever" was one of several songs Springsteen gave to his friend Johnny Lyon for use on the 1976 debut LP of his band Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, "I Don't Want to Go Home.") "So Young and in Love" from 1974 was originally supposed to follow "Tenth Avenue Freeze Out" on "Born to Run," but Springsteen ultimately nixed it. All these tracks can be found on either the "Tracks" box set or the abridged version of the same package.
Really don't mind if you sit this one out
This is the third in a series of posts that will feature detailed analyses of some of my all-time favorite albums.
My first encounter with the music of Jethro Tull was when I heard their debut LP, presciently titled "This Was," in a Cleveland record store in 1969. It offered a quirky mix of straight blues, rock, jazz, drum solos and, most of all, an ever-present flute played by a wild-looking dude named Ian Anderson. A more refined, melodic sound followed with their excellent second effort, "Stand Up," and then their hardest rocking LP yet, "Benefit." These three early Tull albums charted well in their native UK (indeed, "Stand Up" reached #1 there), but in the US, the band remained mostly a warm-up act for bigger bands.
That all changed dramatically in 1971 with the release of the superb "Aqualung," an eclectic collection of hard rock classics with intermittent acoustic folk numbers to keep everyone guessing. Anderson wrote all of it, music and lyrics, peppering nearly every track with amazing flute passages, and anchoring everything with an unusual, commanding vocal presence.
This album rarely left my turntable for the first six months I owned it. From the haunting "My God" to the gentle "Wond'ring Aloud," Tull's music thrilled and soothed me, and totally fascinated me.
Nearly 50 years later, the title track remains one of the linchpins of classic rock radio, carried by what rock writer Dave Weigel called "the greatest six-note opening riff in the pantheon of rock music." The song — which, like the album overall, alternates between aggressive rock and delicate folk parts — tells the tale of a homeless man trying to stay warm as another England winter approaches. The album cover art (front and back) emphatically drives home the compelling image of this street person, alternately threatening and pitiable.
Because three tracks — "My God," "Hymn 43" and "Wind Up" — feature lyrics that focus on Anderson's contempt for organized religion, the "Aqualung" LP has widely been regarded as a concept album, which Anderson has always denied. "A concept album, in my view, would have to be a complete song cycle in which all the songs relate to a central theme. More than half of these songs have nothing to do with religion or God." Nevertheless, critics regarded it as "one of the most cerebral albums ever to reach millions of rock music listeners."
While it's true that Anderson has always been the dominant center of Tull's music, the contributions from the other band members mustn't go unheralded. In particular, lead guitarist Martin Barre weighs in with one of rock's greatest solos in the middle break of "Aqualung," and keyboardist John Evan provides classical and jazz influences throughout, particularly on "Locomotive Breath" and "Wind Up."
As Tull fever finally caught on in America, the band became headliners, touring relentlessly in the US and elsewhere. FM stations regularly played "Aqualung" album tracks, and revisited the earlier LPs as well. (Top 40 stations all but ignored Tull, except for the few pop tracks in their catalog like 1972's "Living in the Past" and 1974's "Bungle in the Jungle").
It was at this point in the band's development that Anderson, both amused and annoyed about "Aqualung"'s concept-album tag, decided to undertake a massive project. "They want a concept album, do they? Well, let's give them the mother of all concept albums!"
That album would be "Thick as a Brick," a groundbreaking, 45-minute piece of music spread over both sides of the LP. The centerpiece of the new work was a lengthy poem Anderson wrote that explored all sorts of topics from father-son conflicts to ineffective government.
It's interesting to note that Anderson and his bandmates had been big fans of the bizarre humor of the influential British comedy troupe Monty Python, and that fondness for parody informed the album and its concert performances in a substantial way.
"Monty Python lampooned the British way of life," says Anderson. "Yet they did it in such a way that made us all laugh while celebrating it. To me, that's what we as a band did on 'Thick as a Brick.' We were spoofing the idea of the concept album, but in a fun way that didn't totally mock it."
The album cover unfolded to become a 12-page newspaper, full of strange articles and farcical features typical of local British papers of the day. On page one, there was mention of how an "epic poem," ostensibly written by a precocious 12-year-old boy named Gerald Bostock, had caused a stir in the community. Of course, this was merely a fictitious character created in fun by Anderson himself.
The real challenge of the project was for Anderson and the band — guitarist Barre, keyboardist Evan, bassist Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, drummer Barriemore Barlow and string/brass arranger David Palmer — to create this musical behemoth. "I suppose I have to admit that I really imposed the whole idea on the other guys," Anderson recalled. "But, for whatever reason, they went along with it, and actually warmed to the task once we got into it."
"It's only in recent times that I've appreciated how complex the music is," admits Anderson. "I was only 24 at the time we began to put this together. Yet there are so many weird time changes and musical innovations on the album. I would venture to say that what we were striving for was more sophisticated than the usual riff rockers you'd find on the scene, and certainly more involved than anything we'd done before."
Anderson's method of composing would be to write a three- or four-minute section, then bring it to the band to arrange and rehearse the next day. Then he'd write the next section, and the band would arrange and rehearse that, then play everything cumulatively. The piece went through more than a dozen passages, segueing one into the other, sometimes referring back to previous sections or lyrical phrasings. After about six weeks of intense work, the recording sessions for the opus were completed, and the album was unleashed on unsuspecting audiences on the radio and in concert.
In light of my infatuation with "Aqualung," I ran to the store and bought "Brick" on the day of release. My initial reaction? Puzzled. Overwhelmed. Intrigued, but disappointed. It simply seemed to be a bit too much to chew on.
But it's always been my experience that the best albums, the albums that last, the albums that continue to satisfy many years later, are the ones that take a little while to grow on you. "Thick as a Brick" is perhaps the best example of this.
The opening passage, which was sometimes played as a separate "song" on the radio, was immediately likable, and wouldn't have been out of place on "Aqualung." Subsequent sections took longer to assimilate, and maybe one or two seemed too jarring and out of place. But over the course of 1972 and into 1973, I became so obsessed with the album that it evolved into what I consider today as my very favorite of all.
If you listen to the Spotify playlist at the end of this essay, you'll find that "Thick as a Brick" is now available as eight separate tracks of five or six minutes each ("The Poet and the Painter," "Tales of Your Life," "See There a Son is Born," and so on), which might make it more easy to digest, especially upon first listening. Still, the tracks flow seamlessly from one to the next so it can be heard in the way it was originally intended.
Shockingly, this difficult-to-absorb LP reached #1 on Billboard's Top Albums chart. "I must admit to being a little surprised that we got to the top of the charts over there," says Anderson. "But everything had been building for us. 'Aqualung' sold steadily, so either 'Thick as a Brick' was going to take off, or we'd just sink. However, I'm not sure our American fans fully understood the humor behind our live performance on the subsequent tour."
Indeed, the band opened each show with "Brick," and the live version — complete with ringing telephone interruptions, a scuba diver traipsing across the stage, and other Python-esque touches — clocked in at over an hour. Upon completion of the lengthy piece, Anderson would say, "And now, for our second number…"
Some critics regard "Thick as a Brick" to be the ultimate progressive rock album, and Anderson replies, "Well, a job done, I'd say. We set out to make the mother of all concept records, and if that's the way people see the album after all these years, then we achieved the ambition."
I mustn't fail to mention that Tull followed up "Brick" with another daunting 45-minute piece of music, "A Passion Play," in 1973. Incredibly, it too reached #1 in the US, but critics turned on the group, finding the album pretentious and unpleasant. I strongly disagree; its subject matter — the afterlife — is darker than "Brick," and there are some glaringly abrupt transitions between sections. But like "Brick," "A Passion Play" is well worth your time if you give it a chance. The musicianship is phenomenal.
While I acknowledge that Jethro Tull's oeuvre is not everyone's cup of tea, I firmly stand in the band's camp. Anderson, of course, is best known as "the pied piper of rock" for his spectacular flute playing, but I would argue that Anderson's songwriting is even more impressive, and ranks among the very best in rock. Although Tull is considered to be in the "prog rock" genre that includes Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes and Emerson Lake & Palmer, I submit that Tull's music has always been much more than that. It includes Elizabethan madrigals, hard rock, Celtic ballads, basic blues, classical motifs and even psychedelic moments and straight pop. Two dozen studio LPs, several live albums and a few box sets over 40-plus years, and I find damn near all of it to be worthy of your attention.
But start with "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick."
Even children get older, now I'm getting older too
Streets of fire, highway to hell
It's driving me mad
You make me feel brand new
Great '70s albums you never heard of
What she did, what she did, and I thank you
I can't stand it no more
I want my, I want my, I want my MTV
I'm gonna tell you a story…
Waiting there for you like hidden treasure
By the time we got to Woodstock
I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are
Are you ready for the country?
The way you do the things you do
I just want a hit record, yeah
I've looked at life from both sides now
I like smoke and lightning, heavy metal thunder
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Questions of a thousand dreams
God only knows what I'd be without you
Oh, we won't give in, let's go living in the past
If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me?
Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name
A poet and a one-man band
I'll never leave your pizza burnin'
Play me my song, here it comes again…
I've seen that movie too
The pompatus of love
Never break the chain
I'm B-side myself
I love the nightlife, I got to boogie
Been dazed and confused for so long it's not true
All things must pass away
Woh-whoa, listen to the music
Make tonight a wonderful thing
But if I really say it, the radio won't play it
Separating the wheat from the chaff
I've got you covered
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
Jeremiah was a bullfrog
The critics falling over to tell themselves he's boring
It's the same old song
I've got the music in me

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Tradition is an exhibition examining the local region's preserved fragments of the past; a topic the medium of photography (dealing with the here and now) seems much less familiar. By juxtaposing two nations, Slovenian and Czech, the exhibition seeks out possible intersections of (Slavic) folk traditions. Photography students from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, and the Faculty of Multimedia Communications, Tomas Bata University in Zlin explored the same topic, in two separate processes. The exhibition showcases a selection of the most varied readings.
Today, folk tradition can be found anywhere: in the slightest daily habits, in the cause for big or intimate celebrations, in manners of interpersonal communication, in moral values and personal principles, in food, in how we construct our worlds and in how we raise our children. Anybody who deals with folk tradition daily is aware of how invaluable it is–with its ability to shed light on precious sources of uniqueness–as a basis of cultural identity in the contemporary frenzy for global levelling.
Moreover, the unveiling of the past illuminates the creation of traditions as something that can carry traces of everything from prehistoric mythology to just yesterday's needs for new ways of verbalising phenomena. An awareness of the relativity and fragility of these processes is important also in the process of seeking adequate forms of translation of these phenomena into the present day, out of which new traditions can then emerge. As a composite of manifold traditions, each individual has the power to decide, at any given moment, how much of the consciously perceived past they wish to carry with them, in what form, and how much to leave behind. This project also explores ways of interpreting the chosen topic by means of photography, the medium that is, by its very nature, rooted in the 'factual', and in the Slovenian tradition also in the 'documentary'. The merger of these seemingly unrelated treatments–faint inklings of the past against the tangible present–could perhaps provide inspiration for new traditions still to come.
The exhibition is open until 19 June 2016.


Just how does one immigrate to Canada?
After visiting Kelowna, British Columbia, last month to taste wines from the Okanagan Valley, I thought about it a bit myself. The landscape is beautiful; the people are friendly, and the wine and food are both impressive and delicious.
It is difficult to capture the splendor of the Okanagan Valley in words or even pictures. It is breathtaking, as your commuter jet drops down from the clouds, through the mountains and lands in the largest community in British Columbia's interior. Less than 150 miles north of the US border state of Washington, Kelowna is located 240 miles from Vancouver and 360 miles from Calgary.
The climate is mild, with warm summers, cool nights and low humidity. Summer temperatures range from the mid 70s Fahrenheit to low 80s (20s Celsius) during the day to mid 40s to 50 F (8 to 10 C) at night. Typically there is little rainfall, but we had rain several times during our trip. But it was not the all day torrents we suffer in Houston, but more like the 30-minute shower every afternoon in Orlando.
Visitors can choose from a variety of accommodations in this charming waterfront community. As a guest of Mark Anthony Wine & Spirits to visit the von Mandl Family Estates, I stayed at the Delta Grand Okanagan Royal Private Residence Club. Privately owned luxury apartments, the Royal Private Residence Club suites sit adjacent to the main hotel. My nearly 1,200 square foot "Villa" featured three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a private balcony, living and dining area, laundry room and a fully equipped kitchen with subzero refrigerator, microwave, oven and stove, dishwasher and plenty of dishes, pots and pans to do your own cooking. Each bedroom includes an LCD television, and there is a 32″ model wall mounted in the living room. Each bathroom is luxurious, and the master features a whirlpool tub. My room had a lakeside view from the large balcony patio. The hotel, built-in 1992, is smoke free and has daily housekeeping services. There is complimentary WiFi and a Casino on-site.
Royal Private Residence amenities include a Fitness Center, rooftop Infinity Swimming Pool and full Spa at the nearby Delta Grand. If you visit in the summer, it will run you about $500 US a night, with the current exchange rate. But if you book in the off-season, it is less than $300 per night.
The property is located in the heart of the Arts and Culture District, which features a myriad of boutique shops, restaurants and pubs including Tree Brewing Beer Institute, open seven days a week beginning at 11:00 a.m. Nearby, the Cactus Club Cafe at the Kelowna Yacht Club advertises "$4 Happy Hour," Monday through Friday, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. That's $4 Canadian, which at the current exchange rate is just over $3.
Just a short walk away along the waterfront is a lovely park the City floods in the winter for free ice-skating. You can rent a Jet Ski if you fancy a skim on the lake.
Plenty of life vests are also available for use with boat and Watercraft rentals at the Downtown Kelowna Marina.
If you fancy a new tattoo, I'm told there are talented artists nearby.
Several good restaurants featuring organic and local ingredients are just a short walk away. For a casual Sunday Brunch, we headed just past the park to Salted Brick Charcuterie and Restaurant. In addition to a case full of local cheeses, we enjoyed coffee and the featured skillet scramble.
For dinner our first night we met at RauDZ Regional Table, an upscale bistro that sources 92% from local producers, and features most of their wines by both bottle and by the glass. For my entrée I chose crispy pork cheeks; an off-menu special. Instead of dessert, I opted for a seasonal cocktail dubbed Laudanum Dream: Dark Horse Rye Whiskey, peated poppy-seed Falernum, Arlo's Honey, Lemon and saved espresso bean – delicious! This is a walk-in only restaurant, but GM Wesley Hunter was nice enough to set a table aside for our group.
Head away from downtown on foot, and you will find Waterfront Wines and dinner with more fresh, local produce. For dinner here, I chose Spinach, Ricotta and Potato-filled pierogis with smoked lentil, salt-baked onion, almond and arugula pesto. For dessert I opted for the cheese plate and a cocktail. There was so much cheese and bread, I had enough to take back with me and have it for breakfast! My delectable cocktail was the "Backhand of Bourbon" a concoction of Bulleit Bourbon, Backhand of God Stout, Lemon, Maple Syrup, Egg white and Angostura Bitters.
But what about the wine? While there is plenty to keep you busy in town, there is more to see and do just a short drive away. Stay tuned for Part II – Escape to Kelowna and beyond!


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Being captured by aliens is better than being sent home…
Fighter pilot Randy Rivers always has had a sassy mouth. This time though, it's not her mouth but her temper that lands her in trouble and given her marching orders home. That and apparently slamming a superior officer's face into a table is a no no. Even if the guy is a misogynistic a*****e. And groped her. Faced with the prospect of going back back to over-crowded earth with it's slum-cities, she takes a high-stakes, off the book mission into the heart of enemy territory.
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Northern Cyprus to reopen beach in abandoned area since 1974 conflict with Turkey
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan holds a news conference with Ersin Tatar, prime minister of the breakaway state of Northern Cyprus, in Ankara, Turkey.
Northern Cyprus said on Tuesday it will reopen the beach area of an abandoned resort in no-man's land, a move condemned by Greek Cypriots and likely to conjure up memories of the 1974 Turkish invasion that partitioned the island.
Ersin Tatar, premier of the breakaway state of Northern Cyprus, made the announcement in Ankara alongside Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who said he backed the decision on Varosha, sealed off within barbed wire for decades.
The move could weigh on Turkey's dispute with European Union members Cyprus and Greece over territorial rights in the Eastern Mediterranean. Tensions had eased after Ankara and Athens agreed to resume talks, but Cyprus, a close ally of the Greece, promptly condemned the move to partially reopen the abandoned resort and said it would file a recourse to the United Nations Security Council.
Greece also criticised the move, and said it would support Cyprus.
"God willing, we will start to use the Maras beach on Thursday morning together with our people," Tatar said, using Varosha's Turkish name. Northern Cyprus is only recognised as a state by Turkey.
Sources in Cyprus said the plan was to open up about 1.5 km (1 mile) of beachfront to the public and not the approximately 6 square km (2.3 sq miles) inland that includes abandoned hotels and residences which its population of 39,000 people fled in 1974 during a Turkish invasion following a Greek inspired coup.
"We hope that the whole of Maras is opened to use after ongoing work is completed by respecting property rights," Erdogan said, pledging support for Turkish Cypriot officials.
Nicos Anastasiades, president of Cyprus's internationally-recognised government – and who as recently as last week was involved in a tense stand-off with his EU peers for his push for sanctions on Turkey, said: "this is an exceptionally unacceptable situation."
Varosha is a suburb of the larger city of Famagusta, which, in Greek – Ammochostos – means "buried in sand". It has a pristine coastline of thick golden sand, most of it in the now out-of-bounds Varosha quarter.
Presently, about 200 metres (660 ft) of it is accessible to the public under the towering shadow of a hotel and a three-storey resort bombed during the war and left rotting since then. The rest of it is fenced off by rusting barbed wire which extends into the sea, guarded by Turkish soldiers.
Nicosia had already been in touch with the governments of the five permanent members of the Security Council in the hours leading up to the announcement, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Tatar had signalled steps to reopen Varosha in August, saying a revival of the area, which contains derelict hotels, churches and residences, would bring trade and tourism benefits.
Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Northern Cyprus on Sunday, with Tatar a candidate.
Varosha has been off limits along ceasefire lines to all but the Turkish military since 1974 and has stood as a bargaining chip in the decades-long dispute between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
Several peacemaking efforts have made no significant progress and the discovery of offshore energy resources has complicated efforts to resolve the island's partition.
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Academic journal article Australian Aboriginal Studies
Western Australia's Aboriginal Heritage Regime: Critiques of Culture, Ethnography, Procedure and Political Economy
By Herriman, Nicholas
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Abstract: Western Australia's Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA) and the de facto arrangements that have arisen from it constitute a large part of the Aboriginal "heritage regime' in that state. Although designed ostensibly to protect Aboriginal heritage, the heritage regime has been subjected to various scholarly critiques. Indeed, there is a widespread perception of a need to reform the Act. But on what basis could this proceed? Here I offer an analysis of these critiques, grouped according to their focus on political economy, procedure, ethnography and culture. I outline problems surrounding the first three criticisms and then discuss two versions of the cultural critique, I argue that an extreme version of this criticism is weak and inconsistent with the other three critiques. I conclude that there is room for optimism by pointing to ways in which the heritage regime could provide more beneficial outcomes for Aboriginal people.
The main objects and purposes of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA) (the AHA) make it unlawful to disturb Aboriginal heritage sites and objects in Western Australia. The AHA and the de facto arrangements that have arisen from it constitute a large part of the Aboriginal 'heritage protection regime'. The legislation was ostensibly to protect Aboriginal heritage but has come under scholarly criticism and public protest as having negative and destructive effects on the sites and objects the AHA was meant to protect. Thus, many people interested or involved in Aboriginal affairs perceive that the AHA requires reform. In this paper I outline the basis on which reform might proceed by analysing four critiques of the AHA. Although separating out and considering the different critiques can be analytically useful, no author, to my knowledge, has attempted this. Also, while most studies have considered only the negative aspects of the arrangements, I argue that the Aboriginal heritage regime in Western Australia can also offer benefits to Aboriginal people.
I begin by describing Western Australia's Aboriginal heritage regime. Then the four critiques are outlined. I subsequently argue that the 'cultural critique', in its two versions, is inconsistent with the others, and, in its extreme form, is the weakest. By contrast, the critiques of political economy, procedure and ethnography provide a clearer insight for reform of the overall heritage regime. Finally, I consider possible benefits of the heritage regime in terms of what they do offer Aboriginal peoples. By considering both the benefits and the weaknesses of the criticisms, this analysis is intended to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the benefits and shortcomings of the heritage regime in Western Australia and to point to ways in which reform might develop in that state and elsewhere.
Context of the Aboriginal Heritage Act
Western Australia has attempted to protect the heritage of Indigenous people through the AHA, which makes it unlawful to disturb Aboriginal heritage sites and objects without ministerial approval. The AHA created three new offices: a Minister responsible for the administration of the Act, including deciding on developers' applications to disturb Aboriginal heritage; the Aboriginal Cultural Materials Committee (ACMC), advising the minister on such applications; and the Registrar, who records Aboriginal heritage sites and objects. The law and its offices have given rise to a number of formal and informal institutions and practices in Western Australia amounting to what could be referred to as the 'Aboriginal heritage regime'.
All laws operate in a social context, and the social conditions of Western Australia's Aboriginal population provide part of the AHA's contemporary context. Since the 1829 founding of the English colony in Western Australia, Aboriginal people have fought, been massacred, dispossessed and displaced, have assimilated and struggled against colonisation, and have resisted the state's separation of children of mixed descent from their Aboriginal mothers (HREOC 1997). …
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Home / Bone health / Top 5 myths about bone health
Top 5 myths about bone health
By Dr. Susan E. Brown, PhD
We've heard a lot from the media lately about the rise in osteoporosis. There are ads on TV and in magazines, warning us that we might be losing bone and recommending that we ask our doctors about bone drugs to stop the process. If you're like many of the women we talk with, you're probably wondering, Are my bones really breaking down? And is medication the only way to stop it from happening?
The "answers" floating around out there are confusing and sometimes untrue, making an already overwhelming situation seem that much worse. Osteoporosis is often portrayed as a problem that simply "arrives" in your body without clear causes, and this is not the case. There are many known factors that can lead to osteoporosis, but the great news is that osteoporosis can be treated, and even significantly reversed, with a natural approach.
Let's take the first step in preventing, halting, and reversing osteoporosis by clearing up the facts.
Myth 1: Osteoporosis is a normal part of aging.
Fact: We know that almost all women lose bone mineral density as they age, but simply losing bone density does not equal osteoporosis.
While almost all of us will lose bone density as we get older — which is completely normal — most will not experience osteoporosis or a fracture. But simply losing bone does not equal osteoporosis. The remaining bone of a healthy aging woman is strong and capable of constant self-repair. This bone, though lower in mass, should be able to withstand the stresses and strains of daily activity for a lifetime.
Myth 2: Osteopenia leads to osteoporosis.
Fact: Reduced bone density is only one factor in fragile bones.
In osteoporosis, the bone becomes excessively fragile due to a loss of both mineral and protein matrix.
If we look at the research, it becomes clear that osteoporosis happens when the body attempts to compensate for factors interfering with its normal biochemical balance.
Some of these factors include poor nutrition, lack of sunlight exposure and low vitamin D levels, high caffeine intake, lack of exercise, inflammation, an acid-forming diet, the use of various prescription medications, and chronic stress. Removing even one of the above factors can make a difference. If cared for, the body is perfectly capable of building and maintaining lifelong healthy bones.
Myth 3: Calcium and vitamin D are all you need.
Fact: You need a total of at least 20 bone-building nutrients.
Even with the clear benefits for bone offered by calcium and vitamin D, they are not enough! Other nutrients critical to bone health include vitamin K, magnesium, strontium, copper and manganese. What's more, many of these vitamins and minerals work together for optimal bone health. For example, vitamin K allows calcium to bind the bone matrix while the body is building new bone.
But don't forget about calcium and vitamin D either! A full 50-60% of all osteoporotic fractures are due to insufficient vitamin D, according to estimates from recognized vitamin D researchers. Many women are deficient in this critical vitamin, so we encourage you to have your level tested. Adequate vitamin D levels are also necessary to help calcium play its vital role of providing bone structure.
Myth 4: DEXA tests measure bone health.
Fact: DEXA measures bone density, and osteoporosis is about more than thin bone.
Bone does not fracture due to thinness alone; that is, low bone mineral density by itself does not cause bone fractures. We know this by these two simple documented facts: many people with thin, osteoporotic bones never fracture; while at the same time, more than half of all fractures occur in people who do not have an "osteoporotic" bone density.
While a DEXA (duel-energy x-ray absorptiometry) scan gives you information about bone density, it does not measure bone's ability to repair itself, a key measurement of bone strength. Without self-repair capability, bones cannot withstand the stresses and strains of our daily lives without sustaining a debilitating fracture.
Myth 5: Bisphosphonates are safe & effective.
Fact: FDA warns about bisphosphonate safety.
On Oct. 23, 2010, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a public safety notice to both patients and healthcare providers warning "there is a possible risk of a rare type of thigh bone (femoral) fracture in people who take drugs known as bisphosphonates to treat osteoporosis." The FDA also required a labeling change noting the risk.
While this type of fracture is one of the most serious risks of taking bisphosphonates, they are many more to consider including:
Ulcers of the esophagus
Upper GI irritation
Fractures of the femur
Low calcium in the blood
Joint, bone and muscle pain
Your body already knows how to build strong bone
Bone loss is not a "mistake" made by your body. It happens as a natural protective measure when your body is out of balance over several years. There are many ways to bring your body back into balance so that your bones don't have to be called on so relentlessly.
The bottom line is that our bodies require micronutrients and minerals to carry out their daily functions. If you stop listening to the myths and instead focus on the wisdom of your body, you'll see that many of the factors that promote strong bones come instinctually.
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40 children trapped in quake rubble rescued
Pakistani troops aided by French experts on Monday rescued 40 children and retrieved 60 bodies from the rubble of a school that collapsed in the massive earthquake, a Pakistani television station and a military official said.
Army's chief spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan said he could not immediately confirm the report. The French Defense Ministry spokesman's office in Paris said it had no information on any rescue at the school in Balakot, pointing out that it was very difficult to get information from Pakistan.
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The children were among an estimated 370 students who were trapped in the rubble of Shaheen Foundation School in Balakot, a scenic town in northwestern Pakistan that was badly hit by the 7.6 quake.
Pakistan's private Geo television said 40 children were rescued. It cited a reporter who was at the scene.
"According to our information, French experts and our soldiers have saved 40 students, and pulled out 60 bodies,'' a military official said by telephone from Balakot.
The official, who didn't want to be named because he is not authorised to speak to media, said he received the information from an army major involved in the rescue.
A villager, Sajid Awan, said by telephone that he had seen six children who were rescued at the site. He said the rescue operation was continuing when he left the area.
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2 Huge NBA Underdog Betting Trends You Should Pounce On
By Mark Strotman | Feb 17th, 2020 3:45 AM EST | 5 mins
This NBA season has been all about parity. It has been touted as such since the preseason, when the title odds for the top six contenders were the lowest they had been since 2012. We're about 65% of the way through the regular season, and that parity has remained.
Contenders like the Bucks (+275), Lakers (+300), and Clippers (+320) have certainly distanced themselves, but just six games separate second and fifth in the East, and just five games separate second and seventh place in the West. Seven teams have title odds between +1400 and +2000 after the three leaders.
But there are two other trends forming, one that proves the league's parity and doesn't involve contenders: Bad teams are covering double-digit spreads at an incredible rate. The second trend: Games involving big home underdogs are going over.
Savvy NBA betting fans can capitalize on this and boost their profits the rest of the way.
Through the All-Star break, there have been 791 NBA games. Of those, 132 — about one in every six games — have closed with a double-digit point spread. Those spreads have ranged from 10 points to 18, when the 45-8 Bucks played the 16-36 Karl Towns-less Timberwolves at home.
The Bucks won that game, but just barely. And the Wolves' 106-104 loss was a part of a larger trend: Double-digit underdogs are 76-54-2 ATS this season, a 58.4% success rate.
ATS Record As Double-Digit Favorite
Raptors 4-0
Kings 1-0
Clippers 7-5-1
Mavericks 3-2
Celtics 4-4
Lakers 8-10-1
Bucks 11-15
Rockets 5-7
Jazz 3-5
Nuggets 3-6
Sixers 2-5
Pacers 1-2
Blazers 0-1
Magic 0-1
Nets 0-1
T-Wolves 0-2
RELATED: Every NBA Team's Record Against The Spread This Season.
Big Underdog Covers Picking Up Steam
Let's break it down. In those 132 games, the average spread has been 12.1 points. The average final score is Favorite 119.4, Underdog 107.3, a winning margin of … 12.1 points. So why the poor cover rate? Blowouts have skewed some of the numbers. In the 132-game sample, the favorites' 54 covers have included wins of 29, 29, 30, 35, 41, 42, 44, 47, 47 and 48 points, an average winning margin of 39.2 points.
More common are games we've seen the last few weeks that prompted this analysis. Cavaliers cover 13.5-point spread in six-point loss to Thunder. Blazers cover 10.5-point spread in three-point loss to Jazz. Bulls cover 11-point spread in seven-point loss to Sixers. In fact, double-digit underdogs are 7-0 ATS since Feb. 5.
Another trend — albeit with a small sample size — is double-digit home underdogs. There have been just 17 instances of it this season, but those teams have covered in 13 of 17 games. When double-digit underdogs hit the road, they're still covering at a solid rate of 54.8%, or 63-50-2.
ATS Record As Double Digit Underdog
Raptors 1-0-1
Hawks 8-3
Warriors 11-6
Bulls 3-1
Knicks 7-5
Suns 4-3
Grizzlies 3-3
Pistons 2-2
Cavaliers 7-8
Wizards 4-6
Hornets 5-8
Pelicans 1-2-1
RELATED: Free Expert NBA Picks Every Day Of The NBA Season
Big NBA Underdogs Going Over — In a Big Way
There's another layer to all of this. Double-digit underdogs and their favorite counterparts are putting up serious point totals. Remember that average final score of 119.4 to 107.3, a total of 226.7 points? The average over-under point total set by oddsmakers in those games is 222.2 points.
It shouldn't be surprising, then, that the over is hitting 60.7% of the time (79-51-2). Perhaps oddsmakers are expecting blowouts with these higher point totals, meaning small point totals from the underdogs. Double-digit spreads include dominant teams, and dominant teams have excellent defenses. But that hasn't meant unders. These games are flying by the over.
Are Bookies Tightening Up Lines?
Perhaps top sportsbooks are sensing that there simply aren't as many blowouts. Remember that 1 in every 6 games has a double-digit spread this season?
That 16.68% mark is the second lowest percentage in the NBA since 2013, when 14.1% of games had double-digit spreads. The average mark between 2014 and 2019? It's 17.9%, or 221 games per year. The pace for 2020 is just 205 games.
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This entry was posted in ARTES Event, Exhibition, Uncategorized and tagged art, art history, booking required, curator's tour, drawing, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Edward Payne, Exhibition, golden age, Museums, Naples, Painting, Printmaking, private tour, Private view, Ribera: Art of Violence, tour, violence, Xavier Bray on September 12, 2018 by costanzabeltrami.
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country, he has long been considered the second most important painter of his day after Goya.
However, these considerations are a direct consequence of a historiographical discourse more concerned with contrasting the two artists than with attributing Paret's heterodoxy (he was a pupil of La Traverse and court painter to the Infante Don Luis) to his eventful life, his artistic interests and his background.
The above factors provide a backdrop to Dibujos de Luis Paret (1746-1799). Open until 16 September, the exhibition is curated by Alejandro Martínez Pérez, a historian well versed in the Paret's life and career who sets out to clarify the historiographical lacunae by examining the artist's main instrument – his drawings – reconstructing his personal library and analysing his relationships with his patrons.
de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, the Rijksmuseum, the Real Academia Española, the Fundación Lázaro Galdiano and the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas.
Organised by the BNE and the CEEH, the exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue raisonné of Luis Paret's drawings, which is set to become a reference work for studies on the artist. Published by CEEH, the catalogue can be purchased here. Until 15 June, our readers can benefit from a 10% discount.
This entry was posted in Exhibition, New publication, Uncategorized and tagged 18th century, Biblioteca Nacional de España, BNE, catalogue raisonné, CEEH, drawing, Drawings, Goya, luis paret, Madrid, Painting on May 25, 2018 by costanzabeltrami.
This exhibition features more than a hundred drawings by Rosario Weiss (Madrid, 1814‒1843) as well as a few prints and paintings. It sets out to show the work of an outstanding draughtswoman who is better known for her relationship with Francisco de Goya (1746‒1828) than for her artistic career.
Weiss was one of the few women to join the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts—as an academician of merit for History Painting—and she achieved her highest distinction in 1842 when she was appointed as drawing instructor to Isabella II and her sister, the Infanta Luisa Fernanda. She held this post for a very short time, as she died of cholera the following year.
Curated by Carlos Sánchez Díez, the display brings together works from the Biblioteca Nacional, the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, the Bibliothèque municipale de Bordeaux, the Museo del Prado, the Museo del Romanticismo and private collections, as well as pieces from other museums and Spanish public institutions.
This exhibition has been organised by the Biblioteca Nacional de España, Museo Lázaro Galdiano and Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica.
The exhibition catalogue, About the exhibition catalogue, authored by Carlos Sánchez Díez, can be purchased on the CEEH's website with 10% discount on online orders until 15 February.
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The concert will be a one-hour illustrated performance titled 'Sacred and Secular in Spanish Art and Song.' Curated by Ricardo Gosalbo and Professor Barry Ife, it will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of Murillo. The programme features a rich and varied programme of songs and images celebrating four hundred years of the birth of the Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo in 1617. Guildhall postgraduate singers perform settings of Spanish Golden-Age lyrics by Joaquín Turina, Eduard Toldrá, Joaquín Rodrigo, Joaquín Nin, Amadeo Vives, Fernando Obradors and Frederic Mompou against a vibrant backdrop of some of Murillo's finest drawings and paintings.
Following the stunning performance, guests will have the opportunity to have a small wine reception with the performers.
Tickets: BSS members £15, non members: £25.
55 tickets available. Book early to avoid disappointment.
Any benefits from ticket sales will go towards the BSS Grants which some of the Guildhall School of Music artists have won. This event is supported by the Guild Hall School of Music and the Embassy of Spain.
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Ca. 1826. Black chalk, Lithographic crayon on grey laid paper, 192 x 145 mm.
Ligereza y atrevimiento. Dibujos de Goya, Centro Botín, Santander. Closes 24 September 2017.
One of the first exhibition's in the recently opened Renzo Piano designed Centro Botín, this show is curated by the Prado's Head of Drawings and Prints, José Manuel Matilla, and the Chief Curator of the Goya and 18th-century Art Department, Manuela Mena. The exhibition includes 80 drawings, from the Prado's holdings of some 520, selected as representative of the different periods of Goya's artistic activity from 1796 to his death in 1828. Also shown are preparatory drawings for a selection of prints from his series, Sueños, Caprichos, Desastres de la guerra, Tauromaquia and Disparates. This exhibition is the result of an ambitious research and cataloguing project based on the drawings of Francisco de Goya, thanks to the collaboration agreement entered into by the Fundación Botín and Prado Museum in 2014. The first volume of the catalogue raisonné is due to appear later in 2017 and a larger exhibition is provisionally scheduled at the Prado in 2019.
This entry was posted in Exhibition, Uncategorized and tagged 18th century, 19th century, Centro Botín, drawing, Goya, José Manuel Matilla, Madrid, Manuela Mena, Prado, prints, Santander, Spain, Uncategorized on September 17, 2017 by costanzabeltrami.


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Q: Can a SparkSession need a SparkContext to work? I built the jupyter/all-spark-notebook Docker image. I installed geomesa_pyspark and tried to run the following example commands from the official guide.
import geomesa_pyspark
import pyspark
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession

conf = geomesa_pyspark.configure(
        jars=['/usr/local/spark/jars/geomesa-accumulo-spark-runtime_2.11-2.0.0.jar'],
        packages=['geomesa_pyspark','pytz'],
        spark_home='/usr/local/spark/').\
        setAppName('MyTestApp')

#sc = pyspark.SparkContext()

spark = ( SparkSession
    .builder
    .config(conf=conf)
    .enableHiveSupport()
    .getOrCreate()
)

The code as is gives this error, while uncommenting the SparkContext creation statement executes correctly.
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Py4JJavaError                             Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-22f9613a0be5> in <module>
     31     .builder
     32     .master('spark://spark-master:7077')
---> 33     .config(conf=conf)
     34     .enableHiveSupport()
     35     .getOrCreate()

/usr/local/spark/python/pyspark/sql/session.py in getOrCreate(self)
    171                     for key, value in self._options.items():
    172                         sparkConf.set(key, value)
--> 173                     sc = SparkContext.getOrCreate(sparkConf)
    174                     # This SparkContext may be an existing one.
    175                     for key, value in self._options.items():

/usr/local/spark/python/pyspark/context.py in getOrCreate(cls, conf)
    365         with SparkContext._lock:
    366             if SparkContext._active_spark_context is None:
--> 367                 SparkContext(conf=conf or SparkConf())
    368             return SparkContext._active_spark_context
    369

/usr/local/spark/python/pyspark/context.py in __init__(self, master, appName, sparkHome, pyFiles, environment, batchSize, serializer, conf, gateway, jsc, profiler_cls)
    134         try:
    135             self._do_init(master, appName, sparkHome, pyFiles, environment, batchSize, serializer,
--> 136                           conf, jsc, profiler_cls)
    137         except:
    138             # If an error occurs, clean up in order to allow future SparkContext creation:

/usr/local/spark/python/pyspark/context.py in _do_init(self, master, appName, sparkHome, pyFiles, environment, batchSize, serializer, conf, jsc, profiler_cls)
    196
    197         # Create the Java SparkContext through Py4J
--> 198         self._jsc = jsc or self._initialize_context(self._conf._jconf)
    199         # Reset the SparkConf to the one actually used by the SparkContext in JVM.
    200         self._conf = SparkConf(_jconf=self._jsc.sc().conf())

/usr/local/spark/python/pyspark/context.py in _initialize_context(self, jconf)
    304         Initialize SparkContext in function to allow subclass specific initialization
    305         """
--> 306         return self._jvm.JavaSparkContext(jconf)
    307
    308     @classmethod

/usr/local/spark/python/lib/py4j-0.10.7-src.zip/py4j/java_gateway.py in __call__(self, *args)
   1523         answer = self._gateway_client.send_command(command)
   1524         return_value = get_return_value(
-> 1525             answer, self._gateway_client, None, self._fqn)
   1526
   1527         for temp_arg in temp_args:

/usr/local/spark/python/lib/py4j-0.10.7-src.zip/py4j/protocol.py in get_return_value(answer, gateway_client, target_id, name)
    326                 raise Py4JJavaError(
    327                     "An error occurred while calling {0}{1}{2}.\n".
--> 328                     format(target_id, ".", name), value)
    329             else:
    330                 raise Py4JError(

    Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling None.org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext.
    : java.lang.AbstractMethodError: io.netty.util.concurrent.MultithreadEventExecutorGroup.newChild(Ljava/util/concurrent/ThreadFactory;[Ljava/lang/Object;)Lio/netty/util/concurrent/EventExecutor;
        at io.netty.util.concurrent.MultithreadEventExecutorGroup.<init>(MultithreadEventExecutorGroup.java:64)
        at io.netty.channel.MultithreadEventLoopGroup.<init>(MultithreadEventLoopGroup.java:59)
        at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoopGroup.<init>(NioEventLoopGroup.java:78)
        at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoopGroup.<init>(NioEventLoopGroup.java:73)
        at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoopGroup.<init>(NioEventLoopGroup.java:60)
        at org.apache.spark.network.util.NettyUtils.createEventLoop(NettyUtils.java:50)
        at org.apache.spark.network.client.TransportClientFactory.<init>(TransportClientFactory.java:102)
        at org.apache.spark.network.TransportContext.createClientFactory(TransportContext.java:99)
        at org.apache.spark.rpc.netty.NettyRpcEnv.<init>(NettyRpcEnv.scala:71)
        at org.apache.spark.rpc.netty.NettyRpcEnvFactory.create(NettyRpcEnv.scala:461)
        at org.apache.spark.rpc.RpcEnv$.create(RpcEnv.scala:57)
        at org.apache.spark.SparkEnv$.create(SparkEnv.scala:249)
        at org.apache.spark.SparkEnv$.createDriverEnv(SparkEnv.scala:175)
        at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.createSparkEnv(SparkContext.scala:257)
        at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>(SparkContext.scala:424)
        at org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext.<init>(JavaSparkContext.scala:58)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
        at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:247)
        at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:357)
        at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:238)
        at py4j.commands.ConstructorCommand.invokeConstructor(ConstructorCommand.java:80)
        at py4j.commands.ConstructorCommand.execute(ConstructorCommand.java:69)
        at py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:238)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

I use the following versions:

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*Spark 2.4.5

*Hadoop 2.7

*java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64.

Why does it need a SparkContext? Shouldn't it be included in the SparkSession?

A: It may just be a classpath issue. AbstractMethodErrors indicate a classpath problem - see for example this post. Since the error is occurring in netty, you should check your classpath for different versions of netty jars.

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Fighting Clowns, Golden Age Of Radio and Rod Taylor
There's radio comedy and then there's The Firesign Theatre's radio comedy.
Most of us have heard about classic radio comics such as Jack Benny, Bob Hope and the like but nothing could prepare us for The Firesign Theatre!
Take four guys, wicked sensibilities and humor, a no-hold-barred, in-your-face sarcastic and poignant jabs at current trends, politics, societal norms and conventions and you get The Firesign Theatre.
In David Ossman's memoir: Fighting Clowns Of Hollywood he lets readers in on the latest and greatest comedy sketches and homage with such sketches as Owl & Octopus Show, Nick Danger and many more tongue-planted-firmly-in-their cheeks parodies and tributes in a hilarious romp sure to please The Firesign Theatre legion of fans.
Written by John Rayburn and published by BearManor Media, Thrilling Days Of Yesteryear: The Golden Age Of Radio takes readers back to the roots of early broadcast humor, intrigue, Westerns and other radio genre.
Comprised of personal recollections from both the author and old time radio personalitie,s the book brings the heyday of broadcast radio dramas, comedies and the like to life.
Long before TV and movies captivated audiences with their visual magic classic radio shows left it up to listeners to use their imaginations to fill in the gaps.
It is a delightful book that recaptures the long gone era of family entertainment that dominated living rooms for over a quarter of a century.
My all-time favorite, classic science fiction movie is George Pal's The Time Machine. Well over 50 years ago I remember sitting in a movie theater and being totally captivated by the film's premise. The film' star: Rod Taylor totally owned his role as the world-weary time traveler.
Rod Taylor An Aussie In Hollywood, by Stephen Vagg, delves into Taylor's illustrious acting career. Manyrefer to him as the premiere Australian actor in Hollywood.
For decades Taylor starred in an impressive line of movies such as The Birds, The VIPS and more. He was one of only a few actors who successfully starred in both movies and on TV.
His range as an actor ranged from action and adventure to love stories.
The book is an absorbing tale of a young Sydney boy who dared to take on Hollywood and beat it at its own game.
Considered one of the most professional and respected actors in Tinsel Town, Rod Taylor also had his own share of demons, alcohol and ego among them.
Yet through it all he managed to survive and consistently turn out outstanding performances in high profile films.
It is a wonderful look at the actor's life, complete with the blemishes, and what effect his career had on the newest string of Australian actors.
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One of the nation's largest yogurt manufacturers, Chobani, has announced the launch of a second food incubator class, following up on the success of its inaugural program last year. Applications will be accepted through June 4, 2017.
"People are rejecting the way Big Food is doing things," said Hamdi Ulukaya, Founder and CEO. "It's creating a special moment for food start-ups with big hearts and big ideas to challenge how things are done. We're searching for entrepreneurs who are passionate about getting more natural, more accessible, and more creative foods out there, and who are driven by a purpose and mission to make the world better."
Ulukaya launched the Chobani Food Incubator in 2016 to support food entrepreneurs that aimed to challenge the food industry, improve what he saw as a broken systems, and bring better food to more people—principles upon which Chobani was founded.
Applicants who are accepted into the program will also be given a $25,000 grant to help grow their business; they will have travel, hotel, and other expenses covered and have access to equity-free capital.
The inaugural edition of the Chobani Food Incubator concluded its sixt month program this March. Six startups graduated: Banza®, Chops Snacks, Cissé Cocoa Co, Jar Goods®, Kettle & Fire, and MISFIT Juicery. Over the course of that half-year, the group registered an increase of 60% in distribution, expanded their product portfolios, increased employee headcounts, established new relationships with national retailers, and earned a combined total revenue of $3 million in 2017 alone (YTD).
Applications and additional information is available at chobanifoodincubator.com. Applicants are asked to electronically submit information about their products along with a short video and biographical information by June 4, 2017. Accepted applicants will be notified in mid-July.
For more on product innovation in the dairy, deli, and bakery industries, check out Deli Market News.


Kim Haverstock, Inside Sales Manager, joined the HBA team during the summer of 2008 after spending two years as a project manager coordinating international functions for large corporations. Kim has account responsibility for Southern Indiana and Kentucky.
Kim has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from Indiana University and enjoys listening to music, spending time with her friends and watching IU athletics.
Keith Hannah, Inside Sales, began his career with HKA in 1996 as an Order Administrator and assumed the role of Inside Sales in 2006. Keith has account responsibility for Tennessee and Western Pennsylvania.
Keith enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, bicycling, caving (spelunking), backpacking and coordinating outdoor activities for the youth teams in his church.
Dan Tyte, inside sales, began his career with HKA in 1999. Dan brought 11 years of inside and outside sales experience with WESCO. Dan has account responsibility for Michigan and Northern Indiana.
Dan has an undergraduate degree from Indiana University and enjoys spending time with his wife, three kids, outdoor activities and IU basketball.
Linda Rose, Inside Sales, began her career with HKA in 2007 and is the newest addition to our customer service team. Linda has 10 years of Inside Sales experience in the coatings industry.
Linda enjoys spending time with her family, landscaping, reading and scrap booking.
Nick Traub, Inside Sales/Project Services, is a recent graduate of Ball State University with an undergraduate degree in Professional Selling and a Master's degree in Information and Communication Sciences. Nick is responsible for all project related business throughout the entire HKA territory.
Nick enjoys watching football, fishing and spending time with family.


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Q: I can run my script from idle but not from python.exe? When I run my script from Idle my program runs perfectly, but when I run the .py file and it spawns a shell @ C:\Python27\Python.exe my program fails with the following error:-
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'my new file.html'
And the bit of code is:-
f = open("my new file.html", "w")

I have searched for this IOError but the things people are saying don't appear to tie in with what I am doing, which is writing out a file?

A: If it says "permission denied", that's telling you that you don't have permission to create that file. It isn't lying to you. The first rule of debugging is to always assume the error is telling you the literal truth.
Since you didn't supply a folder in the filename, it's trying to create a file in the current directory. You are probably in a protected folder. If you cd to a folder where you have write permissions, the problem will likely go away.