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Nottinghamshire brewery to take over pub 'with a lovely feel to it'
Craft and cask ales will be on sale along with gins and whiskies and food from 'possibly the world's smallest kitchen'
Lynette PinchessLife writer
Anthony Hughes, founder of Lincoln Green Brewing Company
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An award-winning brewery behind Notts pubs including Sir John Borlase Warren, in Canning Circus, and the Robin Hood & Little John, in Arnold, is about to take on its sixth venture. Hucknall-based Lincoln Green Brewing Company will be putting its stamp on the Mill & Brook, just over the Derbyshire border in Long Eaton.
The pub, previously called the Harrington Arms, was given a new name and a £270,000 makeover in 2017. When the tenant pulled out two years later it was temporarily managed by Amanda Jones, the licensee at two other Long Eaton pubs, the Sportsman and the Wilsthorpe Tavern.
The Mill & Brook, in Derby Road, will close on Monday January 16 for one week for new handpumps to be reinstated at the bar while draught pumps will be moved to be back bar. There will be a refresh inside and "the signature pieces people have come to know and love from a Lincoln Green pub" will be added. The pub, which is owned by Star Pubs & Bars, will reopen on Monday January 23.
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Anthony Hughes, founder of Lincoln Green, said "We have five pubs, of which two are with Star Pubs & Bars - the Station Hotel in Hucknall and the Railway in Belper - so we already had that that relationship. They made us aware of the Mill & Brook. We went probably almost a year ago and for one reason and another it took an awfully long time for us to get our ducks in a row and finally get to a point where we could negotiate a deal with Star, which we managed to conclude at the back end of last year.
"We can't quite put our finger on it but it's got a lovely feel to it. We make sure cask ale is front and centre as the hero product on the bar and we will have some craft beers in as well that are brewed by ourselves and after that we major on a wide range of gins and whiskies so it's a classic format for us that works particularly well.
"We think its going to work especially well within Long Eaton because there are so few pubs serving cask ales so it really does feel to me like there's a pretty good opportunity and it's got such a lot of housing around in the local area we're pretty confident there's quite a lot of customers we hope will come and support us."
Bar staff will be serving the brewery's core range: Marion, a 3.8% gluten-free pale ale, Hood best bitter 4.2%, flagship Archer, a 4% American pale ale and Tuck, a 4.7% porter that has twice been a finalist in the Champion Beer of Britain Awards. A rotating range of specials and occasional beers will also be on sale."
Around 30 gins and 25 whiskies will be on sale but Fosters and John Smith's will be off. "We're about making sure prices are competitive," said Mr Hughes, adding that Lincoln Brewery's loyalty scheme - which already boasts 25,000 members - will be running, so customers can accumulated points and get money off drinks.
Food will be in the offing - despite the pub having "possibly the world's smallest kitchen." Mr Hughes said: "That's not a problem for us. At the Brickyard we have been developing a hot food menu that launched just before Christmas and has been hugely successful. Basically we're doing all of that hot food from behind the bar so we can do a very similar offer at the Mill & Brook, like chicken wings, pizzas and mozzarella sticks, hot beer snacks.
"We have learnt over the years you really do have to persevere. Food just doesn't take off in an instant, you have to work hard at it. You have to listen to what your customers are asking for and making sure you're meeting customers' needs. What we've done at the Brickyard seems to have hit the ground running surprisingly quickly. A lot of what we've learnt at the Brickyard we'll be applying to the Mill & Brook."
One of the Mill & Brook regulars, who didn't want to be named, said: "I've been coming in here for 21 years. There's not a lot of places that do good cask ales so you will get the customers coming in but also you've got to accommodate the customers that don't want cask ales. You've got to put your premium lagers on too.
"They've got a good formula because they've done this before. Is it going to work in this area? You don't know until it happens. I hope they do well, I really do."
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Posts Tagged 'Word & Image: Works on Paper from the 15th through 20 Centuries'
Six Centuries Unabridged
Published May 23, 2018	Collections , European Art Closed
Tags: Dallas Museum of Art, DMA, Word & Image: Works on Paper from the 15th through 20 Centuries, Works on Paper
Word & Image: Works on Paper from the 15th through 20 Centuries, on view in the DMA's level 2 European Galleries, focuses on artists who blurred the boundaries between art and text, and uniquely explores this dynamic progression as it developed across Europe for over six centuries. Each of these works, selected from the DMA's permanent collection, have a rich and diverse history. While many were originally intended as personal objects for private use, others were made for mass production on the open market or for a select group of art connoisseurs. Several of these pieces have not been on view for several years, if ever.
Here's a close look at a few of the objects on display:
15th-Century German Artist, David and the Ark of the Covenant, page from the Cologne Bible, late 15th century, published in Cologne, Germany, printed by Heinrich Quentell and Bartholomäus von Unckel, hand-colored woodcut on paper, Gift of the Dallas Print Society. 1937.18
What is this page from?
This page was removed from a copy of the Cologne Bible, printed in Germany. The Cologne Bible was one of the most ground-breaking evolutions in book design. We take for granted today that a book may be produced with as many pictures as a writer or publisher desires, scattered however and wherever across the page. In this period, only the upper-class could afford elaborately designed manuscripts. Even these opulent books followed a traditional standard of production with images set either above or below the text, or separated completely on another page. The Cologne Bible shocked viewers with over 100 images that break directly through the text.
How was it made?
Johannes Gutenberg's printing press lead book production out of the Middle Ages and into the Early Modern era. This page was assembled using individually cast letters and symbols covered with an oil based ink. Its woodcut illustration was created using a relief printing technique, in which a woodblock is carved with a chisel or gouge and inked with a roller. The sunken, cut-away areas received no ink and appeared white in the print. Color was added after the page dried. This addition of pigment also signals the wealth of the patron.
William Hogarth, The Five Orders of the Periwigs, 1761, etching on paper, Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, gift of Mrs. Alfred L. Bromberg, 1984.194.FA
What inspired this work?
In 1748, the antiquarians James Stuart and Nicholas Revett announced that their important work The Antiquities of Athen Measured and Delineated was soon to be published. However, the first volume only made it to press in 1762, with the second appearing around 1789 or 1790. Nearly 40 years after their announcement! Here, Hogarth plays on the annticipation of the long wait for their work, with the opening line "In about Seventeen Years, will be completed" at the bottom. This may have been more lighthearted than really biting, as James Stuart was claimed to keep a copy of the print on a fire screen in his parlor to show visitors.
Who are we looking at?
This complex etching is organized by row based on the five classical orders: Doric, Tuscan, Iconic, Composite, and Corinthian. He arranges the wigs like a display in a shop window with each line corresponding to the five social classes who wore them. Notice at the bottom, there is a sixth additionial order for aristocratic women. The characters wearing the wigs were recognizable individuals, including William Warburton at the very top left turned in profile, Bubb Doginton below him, and the Queen Charlotte and Countess of Northumberland on the bottom line.
Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova, Authors: Alexei Kruchenykh, Velimir Khlebnikov, text and Illustration from A Game in Hell, 1914, Second Edition, published in St. Petersburg, Printed by Svet, Nevski Prospect, 136, lithograph on paper, Dallas Museum of Art, The Art Museum League Fund in honor of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Clark. 1978.75.4
This second edition of the Futurist book A Game in Hell is quite different from the first in binding technique, lettering type, illustration, and its further additional 292 verses. A Game in Hell is an extended poem about a card game going on between devils and sinners in hell. Artists Olga Rozanova and Kazmir Malevich collaborated with writers Alexei Kruchenykh and Velimir Khlebnikov to create a completely new work filled with more lively devils and sinister characters. While Malevich did three drawings and the cover, Rozanova dominates the character of the book with over twenty compositions and marginal figures.
What influenced this piece?
During the early 20th century, there was a dominant Russian peasant population, influencing Futurist interests in handmade books and folk-like imagery. The poetics of play and chance manifested in the aesthetics of early Russian avant-garde as a rebellious method of making art without rules. Futurist books were the perfect marriage of physical object and literary expression, which created a true merging of art and word.
Beth CreMeens is the Dedo and Barron Kidd McDermott Graduate Intern for European Art at the DMA


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Bloomberg Gun Ads Put Pressure on Pro-Gun Democrats
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is getting in on local politics with two multimillion dollar commercials in 13 states including Arkansas. It's targe...
Author: Jocelyne Pruna
Published: 10:06 PM CDT March 25, 2013
Updated: 10:34 PM CDT March 25, 2013
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is getting in on local politics with two multimillion dollar commercials in 13 states including Arkansas. It's targeting Democrat senators in red states on gun control issues.
It shows a bearded hunter sitting in the back of his truck talking about gun rights and gun owner responsibility.
The two 30 second ads cost Bloomberg $12 million. It's a softer message encouraging background checks while also acknowledging gun rights.
Asa Hutchinson, who heads the NRA's National School Shield Program, said the ads attack the NRA.
"It's a very appeal-able message that he has and he has an agenda there," Hutchinson said. "It's just that he is not laying out that entire agenda when he presents the ad."
Hutchinson said the ad wants to influence voters and legislators. Hutchison said what Bloomberg isn't saying is what he really wants to see in gun control expansion.
"They are going to say, let's have more comprehensive background checks, then let's restrict the kinds of firearms that are owned, and then let's restrict the type of ammunition that is owned," Hutchinson said.
Brandon Maxey, Washington County Democrats secretary, said the ad is directed at Democrat Senator Mark Pryor.
"Any time you have a hot button issue like guns you're going to have folks from out of state come in and try to influence things here in Arkansas," Maxey said.
Senator Mark Pryor released a statement regarding the ads, "I don't take gun advice from the mayor of New York City. I listen to Arkansans."
Maxey said he believes it's a conversation both sides should engage in.
"That's fine, it's freedom of speech but I have full faith that Senator Pryor is going to consider Arkansas above everybody else," Maxey said.
The new ads will air in Arkansas, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio and Pennsylvania.


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This class is creates new instances of HestonModel and communicates with the optimization algorithm. This class provides clones of herself: in such a way the information concerning constraints is not lost. The method getCharacteristicFunction is then passed to the FFT pricing routine.
Basic constructor where all parameters are to be calibrated.
This constructor allows for the specification of constraints.
Basic constructor where all parameters are to be calibrated. All parameters are unconstrained.
descriptor - The model descriptor for the Heston model.
This constructor allows for the specification of constraints. This is very liberal since we can impose different types of constraints. The choice on the parameters to be applied is left to the user. This implies that he user could create Heston models which are not admissible in the sense of Duffie Filipovic and Schachermayer (2003). For example, it is up to the user to impose constraints such that the product of kappa and theta is positive.
volatilityConstraint - The volatility constraint.
thetaConstraint - The constraint for the theta parameter.
kappaConstraint - The constraint for the kappa parameter.
xiConstraint - The constraint for the xi parameter.
rhoConstraint - The constraint for the rho parameter.
applyFellerConstraint - If true, the Feller constraint is applied.


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CD REVIEW: Menimals Self-Titled
RJ Frometa April 5, 2016	CD Reviews Leave a comment 163 Views
Ambient music has too many clichés associated with it. More often than not, novices are likely inclined to hear the term and envision toothless, new age-y soundscapes. The Menimals, however, are practitioners of genre hybridization and have married dense ambient swirls with hard-edged instrumental textures and often foreboding, highly theatrical vocals rarely rising far above a whisper. The band's presentation is intended as a direct invocation of classical ideals, namely Platonic and alchemical concepts. The release has five tracks and, more often than not, favor lengthy pieces over condensed running times. The approach risks self-indulgence and at least a couple of tracks run a little long, but it's still a substantial achievement and reeks of ambition.
The dissonant, snaking bass line opening "In This Unforgiving Heat" sets a memorable stage for the slow exotic march that follows. It's a cinematic beginning to the album and, in some ways, its most conventional moment insofar as there is a much more discernible melodic shape working for this track than later efforts. The vocals are equally atmospheric and quake with emotion. The second track, "Dodecahedron", is the album's shortest track and shares some similarities with the opener. Of these, the most pronounced are its downbeat melodic movement and its vivid dramatic qualities rank highest. The vocals have the same hushed quality that defines Doctor Forge's approach on later tracks. It's quite interesting how the band, without ever aligning themselves outright with that style, share many similarities with ambient doom bands. There is a distinct European sensibility pervading these tracks embodied in their utter fearlessness. The Menimals aren't a band with any illusions about achieving widespread appeal.
"Tetrahedron" sparkles with acoustic guitar passages and towering vocal moments. The most successful tracks on this album strike a good balance between ambient and instrumental elements while the vocals achieve an ethereal quality here that's absent from earlier and later tracks. A previously unheralded element in the band's arsenal, assertive rock drumming, makes its presence felt here and gives the song surprising urgency. Even one listen to the improbably titled "Transition from a Cube to the Octahedron" clearly illustrates that this is the album's most ambitious moment. It's also a descent into some kind of sonic hell. The swooping ambient soundscape, unearthly vocal lines, and overall resolutely bleak environment leave an icy chill on a listener that's hard to shake. The debut's final song, "Bird on the Wing as a Hinge" is nearly as long as its predecessor and only slightly lighter. The biggest distinctions are its clearer use of guitar and exotic percussion touches that allow slivers of light to slip into an otherwise black landscape.
by Lance Wright
In Short Words
When you strip away the high concept baggage attached to this project, you are still left with an impressive achievement. Menimals have written and recorded an independent, fully realized ambient work that incorporates elements from a wide variety of musical veins. They certainly won't be dropping onto late night American television anytime soon and I've no doubt they aren't doing it for those reasons anyway. Their self-titled debut is idiosyncratic and determined to follow its own creative ends. Joining these musicians for the journey is a worthwhile experience.
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The UK-based human rights group Amnesty International has accused China of suppressing lawyers who become involved in politically sensitive cases.
It says many have been threatened with suspension or criminal charges.
If these measures fail, the lawyers can face detention - or even just disappear, it says.
Amnesty says the treatment of lawyers has worsened in recent months, after calls in China for Middle East-style protests.
The BBC's Martin Patience in Beijing says Chinese authorities have yet to respond to the allegations in the report, entitled "Against the Law - Crackdown on China's Human Rights Lawyers Deepens".
It highlights the case of one prominent human rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, who has been missing for more than a year.
"Human rights lawyers are subject to escalating silencing tactics - from suspension or revoking of licences to harassment, enforced disappearance or even torture," said Catherine Baber, Amnesty International's Asia Pacific Deputy Director.
She said the government's fears of a "Jasmine Revolution" inspired by the Arab Spring have led to the detention of scores of government critics and activists since February.
Amnesty alleges that the Chinese government is rounding up lawyers associated with issues such as freedom of religion, freedom of expression and land rights.
"The Chinese state is attempting to wield and manipulate the law to crush those it perceives as a threat," Ms Baber said.
"Human rights lawyers are being targeted as they try to use the law to protect citizens against the excesses of the state."
Amnesty has called for the release of all those detained for exercising or protecting fundamental rights.
China has said in the past that it is committed to the rule of law. In recent days it has released two high-profile figures from detention.
Hu Jia was freed from jail on Sunday but is being held under conditions akin to house arrest, his wife has reported.
Artist Ai Weiwei has been freed from detention but faces a gagging order and huge fines for tax evasion.


How to make shopping more immersive?
ChkOUT is a Virtual Reality Retail platform that enables Retailers to sell their products in Immersive environments & provides In-depth analytics for valuable insights into buyer retail behavior.
For Shoppers, ChkOUT provides the next generation of shopping experience that takes the benefits of Brick and Mortar stores and convenience of Online shopping using VR.
In the future, ChkOUT will further evolve into a Mixed Reality Experience.
How might we create the next generation of retail experince, using technology such as Mixed Reality, Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality?
To create the most immersive retail shopping experince.
Commercial real estate costs are increasing rapidly on an annual basis in major cities worldwide.
We kicked off the project with a 3-day design sprint and followed a rapid iteration process. Scrum roles were identified according to strengths and weaknesses of the team.
We followed a simple version of a design thinking approach to get more clarity on this project.
We use Air Table and Slack for project management.
To test the buying cycle and create a shopping user flow we interviewed a number of shoppers. Based on this we realised there are 2 main distinctive type of personalities of users. Strictly online shoppers & some who switch to a OmniChannel (combination of Online & Brick-N-Mortar shoppers). We decided to go with the latter audience as most users we interviewed identified closely with this user group.
The proto persona we created is: Jane, who is tasked with buying a Yoga mat from the both the Brick-and-Mortar and Online store.
To get a better understanding of Buyer's & Retailer's journey we mapped out both the Buyers's & the retailers journey in great detail.
We mapped out the same user journey of Jane buying a Yoga mat in both an online shopping along with Brick-and-mortar space for easy comparision. This gave us an insight into the Onmichannel world of retail our users shop in currently.
Mid-sized retailers are struggling to compete in the current retail landscape.
Showcasing inventory takes up a lot of space. Opening a new store to reach a larger audience is expensive.
Unable to tailor experiences, and offer personal touches for customers without having to hire more staff. This is easier to do online, but not as compelling.
Retail is transitioning into a wider community of commerce, one that combines entertainment with shopping. Retailers need to find ways to keep customers engaged, both in-store, and online.
No effective method to get deeper, personalized insights into real-world shopping behaviour, and act on them.
Customers demand consistent experiences. Most retailers either fail at it, or find it almost impossible to do due to the nature of their product offerings.
We started mapping out the user analysis for one type of a client we aere in contact with, famous A baby store in Richmond called "Baby on route". This would be a begining for us to understand the Online reail as a ctategory & give insights we could build on as we progrees to build out Mixed reality Shopping platform.
A lot of great work has been done in online retail space. To understand this we studied the competetion thoroughly.
Competetive landscape was thoroughly studied.
User flow from leading online retailers such as Amazon, Ikea, Asos & our client Baby En route store was analysed in detail.
Why VR as a platform ? We used a 5whys process to arrive at VR as a platform. We conducted an A/B test, where we built the same interaction for product views in Augumented Reality & Virtual Reality. VR tested as a preferred alternative, as it was seen as more immersive & user got a better sense of scale of the products tested.
Showcase your tents at a campsite. Display your leather couch in a nice cigar lounge. All of this without having to invest in more space. The environment plays a huge part in showcasing your product, so why compromise?
Use storytelling and narrative to build an emotional connection with your customers. Create compelling virtual experiences that showcase both the product and the experience behind it.
Access in-depth insights into consumer shopping behaviour. Tailor experiences to each type of customer and fine-tune your product offerings for maximum conversion.
A careful anaysis of user flow and behaviour was conducted to develop our own Information Architecture.
We have scheduled regular user tests every 2 weeks. This keeps us on track with a steady cycle of feedback loop. These tests are recorded in video and survey format.
In this project I worked on the UI directly in Unity3D as we did not have time or the resources to do this any other way. As a result I could further enhance my Unity skills builing on what I had learnt in my earlier AR game project. We considered a Constellation Type menu for easier navigation.
I conducted extensive research into navigation systems into the emerging VR space. Daydream Elements from Google and Exploration in VR by Leap Motion was particularly helpful.
We considered a 3D room for the main menu selection. It proved to be too cumbersome & expensive in terms of developent. It was interesting idea to explore nevertheless.
Lato an open source web font family by Google was chosen for its legiblity in VR.
As a team we take showing our work to a wider audience very seriosly. We demo our product regularly at local VRARA events to get feedback. We have made a lot of networking conncetion and gained some valuable feedback by doing this.
Few of our demo highlights were to be chosen to represent Vancouver at the Siggraph 2018 "Future of XR" event, a Vancouver VRARA event which took place at Microsoft Vancouver office among others.
Stay updated with our progress on our Development Blog, where we post regular updates.
1. This is project has been a great opportunity for me to learn and design the User eXperience in VR/MR space.
2. Learnt how to lead a team in a Co-Founder's role & find product market fit.
3. Rapid prototype and develop a tablet game VR & AR by continuous iteration.
4. Learning about fund raising in a Startup Culture.
1. I wish I had learned more about Business developent and strategy early on. I am continuously trying to develop in that area.
2. To get one more skilled developer and an inhouse 3D artist would have helped a lot in moving the project further.
3. As a team we did not go out and actively look for clients as we felt we were not ready. We learnt the hard way that, there is no such thing as market ready.
Kick off with bespoke in-store experiences to gauge customer interest and maximize product penetration.
Enable development teams to rapidly add new virtual stores, build and integrate modular components, develop a robust 3D scanning pipeline.
Continuous testing with retailers and customers to design a great virtual shopping experience.
Develop framework to allow retailers to independently set up and manage their virtual stores with ease, and deliver valuable insights via customer analytics.


Urban areas of Himachal Pradesh are set to witness improved city transport system with ministry of urban development sanctioning 800 integrated traffic system (ITS)-enabled buses under JNNURM. These state-of-the-art buses carry GPS, LED displays and CCTVs which would be connected to a central control centre for systematic monitoring.
The new vehicles would be operated in towns like Una, Chamba, Mandi, Solan, Shimla and Kullu-Manali, besides other areas. Out of these 800 buses, 540 buses have been sanctioned in mid-category and first installment of the Union government share will be released to the state after submission of information, documents within three months according to conditions given in the bus-funding guidelines, sources said.
The Centre will provide financial assistance up to 90% of the total cost of the buses.


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McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture > Visit > Exhibitions > 2,000 Years of Chinese Art: Han Dynasty to the Present
2,000 Years of Chinese Art: Han Dynasty to the Present
China is viewed by most in the Western world as a homogeneous country with a single culture. Its land mass is similar to that of the United States, but it is inhabited by 1.3 billion people, making it the most populous country in the world. This population is composed of more than fifty-six official ethnic groups, each with its own customs, traditions, language, foods, and in some cases, religious beliefs.
In the many centuries of China's history, numerous ethnic groups have ruled, and each has made contributions to the art and culture of what we have come to view today as "Chinese." In this exhibition, the museum presents a brief glimpse into China's history, with eighty examples of art from the Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD) to the Qing dynasty (1644–1911 AD) and several contemporary works. Panels introducing each of the dynasties provide historical, geographical, and economic background.
The Han Dynasty
(206 BC–AD 220)
The Han dynasty, the second Imperial dynasty of China, was established in 206 BC after the fall of the Qin dynasty (221–206 BC), and spanned more than four centuries, ending in AD 220. The Han dynasty is considered one of the golden ages in China's history.
During this era military excursions increased the size of the country, and trade along the overland Silk Road greatly enhanced economic prosperity. Trade was not just conducted through intermediaries, but for the first time caravans left China and journeyed all the way to the Parthian Empire, now in the Middle East. Trade with the Middle East and India brought to China material goods, such as metalwork, and cultural influences—most importantly another religion, Buddhism.
The State guided production of iron tools, thereby enhancing productivity in farming and establishing standards for weights and measures. It also guided census taking in an effort to control households and taxation. Significant advances in science and technology included increased crop production through crop rotation and water conservation, papermaking, the nautical steering rudder, the seismograph, and a hydraulic-powered armillary sphere for astronomy. The components of gunpowder were identified, although it was not fully developed until later.
Archaeological excavations show that artisans of the Han dynasty made sophisticated contributions to material culture, including metal objects such as mirrors, lamps and containers, lacquerware (both decorative and functional objects made from wood and with many coats of resin), and earthenwares—all of which were placed about the bodies of well-to-do deceased persons in their tombs. A unique feature of some Han dynasty wealthy burials were the jade plaque suits which enveloped the bodies of the deceased. Their status was not shown in the jade plaques but rather in the gold wires and silk threads that held the jades together.
Period of Disunion: Three Kingdoms Period
(220–280), Jin Dynasty (265–420), Northern Kingdoms & Dynasties and Southern Dynasties (304–589)
The Han dynasty ended in 220 when its last emperor abdicated. More than three and a half centuries of warfare, economic instability, and political fragmentation followed, known as the "Period of Disunion." It began with the breakup of China into three rival kingdoms, each with its own emperor claiming legitimate succession from the Han dynasty and warring with the others. Between 263 and 280, each kingdom suffered defeats, and a new dynasty was established, the Jin. But famine and invaders from the steppes to the northwest displaced millions of Chinese to the south and southeast, including the Jin emperors. In the north, sixteen unstable kingdoms ruled for approximately a century, followed by the Northern Wei dynasty formed by tribal horsemen from the northeast. Through wars, famine, and emigration, the population declined by an astounding thirty percent.
In the south, the Jin dynasty was followed by Six dynasties. The difficult times ended as China was reunified once more by the two emperors of the Sui dynasty (581–618). The Period of Disunion, while reflecting tremendous political and social upheaval, was not without positive accomplishments. There were great literary achievements (a number of emperors were themselves poets). Daoist scholars produced the first comprehensive canon of Daoist texts. Buddhism expanded and thousands of monasteries were established, along with the production of great statuary works. The Indian stupa, originally a reliquary, became the recognizable pagoda. Overland trade via the Silk Road continued to play a major economic role.
In the early seventh century by uniting the aristocratic clans of all its regions the Tang Empire was established with a strong centralized state system. The empire ended nearly four centuries of division between northern and southern China and revolutionized the social and imperial structure of China.
The Tang dynasty was a period of expansion, during which much of the territory lost since the Han was regained. The Tang capital at Chang'an (Xi'an) became one of the richest and largest cities in the world, home to a cosmopolitan population of two million that included numerous foreigners. At its height, the Tang Empire stretched from what is now Manchuria in the northeast to what is now Vietnam in the south. It was a time of great prosperity enhanced by travel along both the Silk Road and sea routes. Chinese ceramics, tea, silk, lacquerware, peaches, and pears were exchanged for imported horses, spices, perfumes, glassware, and jewelry. Within China, trade between the north and the south was enhanced by the Grand Canal, constructed just before in the Sui dynasty.
Literature, scholarship, and the arts flourished. The Tang dynasty was a time of great inventions, great poets, and technologies, which influenced not only China, but also Asia as a whole. Figure painting and landscape painting took a leap forward, and woodblock printing made its appearance.
Much of what we know about Tang life has been learned from tombs where figures of people and animals, as well as implements of all sorts, were constructed of pottery to accompany the deceased into the nether world.
Liao Dynasty
The Khitan people were a group of semi-nomadic tribes who lived in the valley of the Hsi Liao River east of Mongolia (modern day Manchuria). When the Tang dynasty fell in 907 and the empire was divided once more, the Khitan took control of northeastern China. Eventually the Khitan army faced that of the Song dynasty, which had taken over southern China. A treaty in 1005 between the two rulers effectively partitioned China. The Song ruler agreed to pay tribute to the Liao dynasty in order to avert war. The tribute served to urbanize the empire, expand the borders, and support a luxurious lifestyle to which the Khitan rapidly became accustomed.
The level of influence of the Khitan people on Chinese culture has been debated. They had their own script, coins, and laws. However, artifacts of the Liao period reflect similarity to artifacts of the Tang dynasty. Repoussé items of gold and silver as well as sancai (three color) glazed pottery utensils have been recovered from Liao gravesites. All religions were accepted, and Buddhism continued to flourish. Culturally, women played a more important role in Liao life than women in Chinese culture: they were seen as co-rulers with their husbands and were included in religious and other cultural ceremonies.
The downfall of the Liao dynasty resulted from the resurgence of another Manchurian group whom the Khitan had suppressed, the Jurchen. The aggressive Jurchen slowly increased in strength, and their rebellion eventually led to the Liao downfall.
The Song Dynasty
(960–1126 Northern; 1126–1279 Southern)
The Tang dynasty ended with fragmentation into Five dynasties of consecutive ruling families in central China, and Ten Kingdoms, geographic subdivisions, in southern China. The two were unified by the Song dynasty, beginning in 960. The Song dynasty was divided into two distinct periods, the Northern Song period, 960–1126, and the Southern Song period, 1127–1279. While the northern portion of the empire was lost to the Jurchen (Jin dynasty) in 1126, the southern portion of the dynasty remained strong, as it held more of the agricultural land and the majority of the population.
The Song dynasty, often termed the most brilliant period in later Dynastic China, was a time of social and economic change that led to cultural, political, and intellectual influences extending well into the twentieth century. Politically, a shift took place from the hereditary aristocratic ruling class to a central bureaucracy of scholar-officials chosen through a civil service examination process. In contrast to the cultural and philosophical influences of the Tang dynasty, the Song period was marked by a return to Confucian traditions and thought.
Earlier innovations that became widespread in Song times include printed books, paper money, the magnetic compass, and gunpowder. Coal began to replace charcoal and steel to replace iron in weapons, tools, and construction. Southern farmers grew high-yield rice varieties from central Vietnam that matured quickly, allowing two crops per year. Maritime trade expanded in both luxury and commonplace products.
The arts flourished and collecting gained in importance. Paintings and calligraphy of the Song period captured a new spirituality and richness. One of the greatest expressions in Chinese art—landscape painting—blossomed during the Northern Song period. The simplicity and elegant forms of the earliest periods were highly sought-after and were captured in paintings, porcelains, and pottery. The pure white porcelains produced from the brilliant pure white clays of the northern mountains replaced the heavy green wares and were highly desired at court. Ding and xing white porcelains and blue-green ru wares were the prized items of the day.
Unifying the Mongolian tribes to form a powerful army, Temuchin was elected by the council of Mongol chiefs and given the title of Genghis Khan, "Universal Ruler." Striking out to the east, south, and west, Mongol armies conquered Central Asia, Persia, and lands as far west as Russia, Hungary, and Poland. Kublai, a grandson of Genghis, completed the conquest of China, and although named the Great Khan, actually ruled the eastern khanate, named Yuan ("original") dynasty.
During the Yuan dynasty, Dadu (as the Forbidden City was then known) and present-day Beijing were built. Trade between the East and the West continued to expand, fostering understanding of one another's cultures and various religious practices. This was the dynasty during which Marco Polo visited China. While the ethnic Chinese were ostracized in many ways, they wholly embraced the arts that flourished.
The Mongols divided the population into four classes, with those of Mongol birth at the top. They were followed by the "colored eye people," which included Uyghurs, Central Asians, and Europeans. Next came the Manchus, Jurchen, and NorthernHan. At the bottom of the list were the Southern Song Han and other southern groups. The Mongols and other non-Chinese enjoyed offices and privileges. Many Muslims from Central Asia became established as merchants and financial administrators, and Christians also enjoyed Mongol rule. The Mongols did not assimilate into the Chinese culture or learn their language. Such policies caused discontent among the Chinese and led to the ultimate downfall of the dynasty in 1368.
Long years of ethnic discrimination and over taxation of the Han Chinese by the ruling Mongols, massive flooding of the Yellow River, and ultimately a rebellion of Chinese from the south, brought the Yuan dynasty to an end. The new ruler, known as the Hongwu Emperor, named his dynasty Ming, meaning "brilliant." Geographically, China under the Ming dynasty was smaller than the eastern khanate; it included part of Manchuria but not Tibet or the western area along the Silk Road.
In everyday government, Chinese scholar-bureaucrats were commonly chosen on the basis of merit and civil service examinations, without regard to family connections. Europeans appeared in ever-growing numbers in China, as ships brought new crops—maize, tobacco, and sweet potatoes—from the Americas. Ever mindful of the incursion of tribes from the north, the emperor ordered the Great Wall structurally fortified into its present form.
Not surprisingly, a major change of the Ming dynasty was a focus on Chinese culture. Ming emperors returned their attention to distinctively Chinese traditions, reinstating Confucianism, the philosophy of the ancient Chinese. The emphasis on Chinese culture produced a flowering in the arts. Ming architects produced the splendor of the Forbidden City, the emperor's residence in Beijing. Ming porcelain, bronze, and lacquerware were coveted collectors' items then and now. In literature, the novel appeared.
The Qing Dynasty
The Jurchen, a large group of farmers, herders, hunters, and foragers who lived in eastern Manchuria, began to expand their territory to the north and west, incorporating Mongols, immigrant Koreans, and even northern Han into their society. Calling themselves the Manchu, they conquered Mongolia and Ming China, establishing the Qing ("pure") dynasty. The use of firearms and artillery in battle was widespread during this period. The empire was further extended when the Qing conquered the steppe region west of Mongolia.
The Qing favoring of an isolationist policy proved fatal in dealing with western foreign powers.
While Great Britain wanted Chinese silks and tea, the Qing desired nothing from them in return, causing a great trade imbalance. As a result and against Qing regulations, the British began importing opium into China from their Indian territories. This led to the Opium Wars and British success, as the Chinese greatly underestimated the strength of the British army. Waning military strength, internal rebellions, forced concessions to European countries and the United States, and usurpations of power by provincial leaders and advisors, led to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1911. On January 1, 1912, the new Republic of China was declared.
Great contributions were made in literature and the arts during the Qing dynasty, particularly during the reigns of the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong Emperors— the period known as "The Three Great Emperors" (1662–1795). The Kangxi Emperor, a poet and excellent calligrapher, commissioned a dictionary that is still in use today. He and the Qianlong Emperor were avid collectors, commissioning works of art in many different media—painting, calligraphy, sculpture, and porcelain—unequaled throughout the world. During the Yongzheng and Qianlong Emperors' reigns (1723–1795), the imperial kilns produced fine porcelains, unsurpassed anywhere. European techniques in enamels and metal, previously unknown in China, were learned and perfected. The sumptuous imperial summer palace, the Yuan Ming Yuan, or Gardens of Perfect Brightness, was constructed and designed in Western taste with the aide of Jesuit priests whom the Qianlong Emperor befriended. Its destruction and burning by British and French troops during the Second Opium War in 1860 was an indelible symbol of foreign aggression. With the end of the Qing dynasty came the end of perhaps the greatest period in Chinese culture and arts.
(1912–present)
Although Sun Yat-sen, the first provisional president of the Republic of China, is considered one of the greatest leaders of modern China, his political life was one of constant struggle. After the success of the revolution, he quickly fell out of power and led numerous revolutionary governments as a challenge to the warlords who controlled much of the country. Increasing resentment of foreign companies, the hostilities of competing warlords, and strikes in various localities contributed to the enormous political unrest of the early twentieth century. Sun did not live to consolidate his power over the country. His Chinese Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang, formed a fragile alliance with the Communist Party that split into two factions after his death in 1925. Struggles between the two groups led to civil war and the eventual founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 by the victorious Communists.
The New Culture Movement, "xin wen hua yun dong," which began in the 1920s, arose from the failure of the Republic of China to address China's problems and called for a new Chinese culture based on global and western standards. This movement went into a period of quiescence when Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution alleging that the "liberal bourgeois" were permeating society. It was not until after the death of Mao in 1976—well after the end of the Cultural Revolution—that a new movement once again came to life. Contemporary Chinese art began to bloom.
Today's contemporary Chinese art is broad in scope, some artists borrowing upon traditional methods while still others drawing upon a new explosive contemporary style, totally departing from China's past.
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After our South American adventure, I snuck in a trip to Berryessa on Christmas Eve and the fishing was very very good. We caught a mess of rainbows in the 2-3 pound range then spooned for bass and crappie as well. Nice mixed bag.


Families from all religious and spiritual traditions are attracted to Friends schools; more than 90% of the students who attend Wilmington Friends are non-Quakers.
What brings families to Quaker education is often the appeal of an academic program with depth--one that truly asks students to think, to collaborate, to be creative, to take risks--within a caring community that balances focus on the individual with responsibility to the common good.
Two principles of Quakerism have a defining influence on the educational philosophy at Friends schools.
The first is that "there is that of God in everyone." In the educational setting, that translates as a belief in the unique dignity of each person, which schools have an obligation to recognize and to nurture. And every member of the community shares in that obligation to answer what is best in themselves and in others--developing talents to the fullest, and respecting the strengths, efforts, and perspectives of all.
The second principle is "continuing revelation," the idea that truth is continually revealed through seeking, experience, and reflection. Students at Quaker schools are encouraged to ask questions, to think both independently and cooperatively, to test ideas against experience and new information, to engage in education as a process of exploration and discovery.
The Quaker testimonies, known by the acronym SPICES, are also evident in Friends schools. The testimonies include stewardship, peace, integrity, community, equality, and simplicity. Again, those guiding values attract families from many faith and spiritual traditions, seeking a school where intellectual endeavor and ethical commitment are mutually reinforcing.


58 Soviet era cigarette boxes, mostly from the 1920s and 1930s from Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Rostov-On-Don, Odessa, Kerch, Tbilisi, Kharkov and Sukhumi.
Brands include those for Moscow Metro, Mosselprom, May Day, Epokha, Stakhonovite, Herzegovina Flor, the 1923 All-Union Agricultural Exhibition, Burlak, Northern Palmyra, Revolutionary Youth, etc.
The boxes were produced at state-owned tobacco factories (for example, "Glavtabac" or the State Tobacco Trust). Two of the boxes were produced by the "Trotsky" factory (1920s).


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Contemporary ms. inscription of rear fly-leaf.
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Kozol on America's Segregated Schools
From Inside Ed at the Baltimore Sun:
I had a great conversation with Jonathan Kozol before his talk last night at the University of Baltimore law school's Urban Child Symposium on the dropout crisis. He says the heart of the problem is segregation. Of Baltimore, he told me, "this is one of the most segregated school systems in America... this must be one of the closest to absolute apartheid." (I told him there are some schools in the city that are an exception to that. Folks at City Neighbors Charter had wanted to give him a tour of their well-integrated school, but it didn't fit into his schedule.)
Kozol quoted a recent speech by President Obama who said high school dropout rates have tripled since the early 1980s -- when, Kozol says, the schools began to "massively resegregate" and Brown vs. Board of Ed was effectively dismantled. He says black and Latino children are more segregated now than they have been since 1968, the year of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
"I'm utterly out of fashion these days in that I actually believe Dr. King was right," said Kozol, 72, who doesn't use a computer and had hand-written notes for the address he was about to deliver to more than 100 people in a university auditorium. He says segregated schools convey the message to the children there that "you have been sequestered in this institution so you will not contaminate the education of white people." Children get this message from the condition of the buildings (often "squalid surroundings") and from dispirited teachers who have to "give up joy and creativity to become drill sergeants for the state." (Kozol went on a hunger strike in 2007 to protest No Child Left Behind.) He says the most successful African-Americans he's seen -- including Obama and Kurt Schmoke (a student of Kozol's once upon a time at Yale) -- did not have to attend segregated inner-city schools.
So what's the solution? Kozol likes what Dr. Alonso often says in jest about closing down all the private schools of the city. And he supports cross-city busing to integrate schools. But clearly, those things aren't going to happen anytime soon. Kozol says that when he began his work in education decades ago, he thought he could effect change. Now, he says, he's just a witness.
On another note: Kozol is also on the same page as Alonso in saying that good schools don't resort to suspension or expulsion as punishment for truancy and other non-violent offenses. "Nothing could be more Orwellian in its absurdity," he told the crowd at UB. He also says that full-day pre-kindergarten (preferably for multiple years before kindergarten) is essential, and holding children back for failure increases their chances of dropping out of high school exponentially. We're willing to hold an 8-year-old accountable for her performance, he said, yet we don't hold government leaders accountable for their failure to give inner-city children the same resources as they insist on for their own children.
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I am a veteran teacher in Houston seeking a dialogue with Teach for America teachers nationally regarding policy positions taken by former Teach for American staffers who have become leaders in school district administrations and on school boards. I first became aware of a pattern when an ex-TFA staffer, now a school board member for Houston ISD, recommended improving student performance by firing teachers whose students did poorly on standardized tests. Then the same board member led opposition to allowing us to select, by majority vote, a single union to represent us.
Having won school board elections in several cities, and securing the Washington D.C Superintendent's job for Michelle Rhee, Wendy Kopp's friends are pursuing an approach to school reform based on a false premise: that teachers, not student habits, nor lack of parent commitment or social inequality, is the main cause of sub-par academic performance. The TFA reform agenda appeals to big corporations who see our public institutions as inefficient leeches. This keeps big money flowing into TFA coffers.
The corporate-TFA nexus began when Union Carbide initially sponsored Wendy Kopp's efforts to create Teach for America. A few years before, Union Carbide's negligence had caused the worst industrial accident in history, in Bhopal, India. The number of casualties was as large as 100,000, and Union Carbide did everything possible to minimize its responsibility at the time it embraced Ms. Kopp. TFA recently started Teach for India. Are Teach for India enrollees aware of the TFA/Union Carbide connection?
When TFA encountered a financial crisis, Ms. Kopp nearly went to work for the Edison Project, and was all but saved by their managerial assistance. The Edison Project sought to replace public schools with for-profit corporate schools funded by our tax money. Ms. Kopp's husband, Richard Barth, was an Edison executive before taking over as CEO of KIPP's national foundation, where he has sought to decertify its New York City unions.
In 2000, two brilliant TFA alumni, the founders of KIPP Academy, joined the Bush's at the Republican National Convention in 2000. This was pivotal cover for Bush, since as Governor he had no genuine educational achievements, and he needed the education issue to campaign as a moderate and reach out to the female vote. KIPP charter schools provide a quality education, but they start with families committed to education. They claim to be improving public schools by offering competition in the education market-place, but they take the best and leave the rest.
D.C. Superintendent Michelle Rhee's school reform recipe includes three ingredients: close schools rather than improve them; fire teachers rather than inspire them; and sprinkle on a lot of hype. On the cover of Time, she sternly gripped a broom, which she presumably was using to sweep away the trash, which presumably represented my urban teacher colleagues. The image insulted people who take the toughest jobs in education.
TFA teachers do great work, but when TFA's leadership argue that schools, and not inequality and bad habits, are the cause of the achievement gap, they are not only wrong, they feed the forces that prevent the social change we need to grow and sustain our middle class.. Our society has failed schools by permitting the middle class to shrink. It's not the other way around. Economic inequality and insecurity produces ineffective public schools. It's not the other way around.
Ms. Kopp claims TFA carries the civil rights torch for today, but Martin Luther King was the voice of unions on strike, not the other way around. His last book, Where do we go from here?, argued for some measure of wealth distribution, because opportunity would never be enough in a survival of the fittest society to allow most of the under-privileged to enter the middle class.
Your hard work as a TFA teacher gives TFA executives credibility. It's not the other way around. Your hard work every day in the classrooms gives them the platform to espouse their peculiar one-sided prescriptions for school improvement. I would like a dialogue about what I have written here with TFA teachers. My e-mail is JesseAlred@yahoo.com.
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About Andres Alonso: It's never what he says but what he does. As a Joel Klein acolyte who was in charge of curriculum in NYC before he went to Baltimore, he was an apologist for all of Klein's policies which have so undermined public education in NYC.
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I discovered this SUPER CUTE blog this morning – Soto Softies.
Maritza is an illustrator who fell in love with fabric and decided to turn her doodles and cartoons into 3D softies and I ADORE them! So cute, fun and well…each one strikes me as being full of personality and character.
She has a shop and an etsy shop. Sadly due to the recent passing of the consumer safety law that demands lead testing on all toys made in the US, she tells me she can no longer make and sell these adorable softies, BUT the good news is that she is going to make patterns available for sale of all her existing designs as well as new designs. That's what I call making lemonade from lemons!
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Yes this are very cute little animals!I love the little penguin!So sweet!Have a nice day,Wendren.
Just discovered your shop and blog this morning via the front page of Etsy. Your work is beautiful! I also love the artist featured today, her creations are magical.


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Plaza Academy is a place students can go when they've run out of options. It's a school that helps struggling teenagers get back on track.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Plaza Academy is a place students can go when they've run out of options. It's a school that helps struggling teenagers get back on track.
"I was the weird one in the weird group, and I just didn't belong at all," said Sade Hare, a student at Plaza Academy in Kansas City, Missouri.
Hare, 15, was attending St. Teresa's Academy when she realized it wasn't the right fit for her. After doing a simple Google search, she found Plaza Academy, a nonprofit, therapeutic, alternative school that helps students who have been unsuccessful in traditional schools.
"Plaza Academy oftentimes is a last stop for students," said Alexis Worley Lebowitz, a Plaza Academy teacher and director of communications.
Worley Lebowitz has been a teacher at Plaza Academy for three years. Many of her students have behavioral and mental health issues. The school has two therapists on-site, and students have access to them at all times. The school also has a non-traditional style of teaching.
"We have no more than 10 kids per classroom and we group classrooms by ability, not by grade level," Worley Lebowitz said.
Currently, 50 students attend the school. Plaza Academy is choice-based, which means if students don't want to be there, the school won't force them to stay.
About 85 percent of students graduate and move on to higher education. This year, two students who would have been close to graduating didn't re-enroll and were later killed as a result of gun violence.
Worley Lebowitz said the school did what they could to keep the boys in school.
Plaza Academy even partners with local school districts to provide tuition and transportation, but it still needs help, she said.
A fundraiser will be held Saturday at Kanza Hall in Overland Park. Proceeds will help offset costs and pay for students who can't afford tuition but still want the opportunity to graduate.
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Research for this report revealed that organisations are lacking in preparing effectively their specialists for leadership roles – and, indeed, in continuing to broaden and challenge them if they do not want such positions. The report describes successful approaches for specialists, and their employers, to manage transitions to leadership and the skills that new leaders need.
Here, you can download and view the report's executive summary. The full report is accessible for CRF members only. If you are not a member and are interested in discussing membership please contact Richard Hargreaves on richard@crforum.co.uk.
Dr Wanda Wallace, co-author of the Developing & Broadening Specialists research report produced by Corporate Research Forum and leader of the accompanying workshop for CRF members, provides some further insight into the topic.
Explore a professional services perspective from Ernst & Young on developing specialist through this presentation.
Science and leadership are not mutually exclusive - find out how GlaxoSmithKline develops their scientifically trained talent.
This meeting built on the CRF report and featured four organisation experiences – Ernst & Young, GlaxoSmithKline, Rolls-Royce and Thomson Reuters. Practical guidelines are provided.
Why should businesses focus on specialist and how would specialists make a transition into leadership? Find out from this presentation by Wanda Wallace.
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This year I have a good reason to venture outside in the freezing cold. I am going to see how my snowdrop collection is coming on.
I inherited a couple of unusual varieties from my mother a while ago, and decided last year that I could add to these a few favourites to start my own treasury, as she had always planned to do.
First to be ordered was Galanthus plicatus 'Wendy's Gold' from Broadleigh Gardens, a startling variety with neat yellow marked flowers and folded leaves. There followed an order for Galanthus nivalis 'Blewberry Tart', a rather odd-looking but adorable snowdrop, this time from Avon Bulbs. In February I had a wonderful, if slightly extravagant day out at the RHS Early Spring Plant Fair at Westminster, where Avon Bulbs and other excellent nurseries had impressive stands… more purchases were made.
Much cheaper were some misnamed stray snowdrops found in remaindered pots in a nearby garden centre – exciting!
I also received two new-to-me snowdrops from Clive Lane, our Administrator at The Cottage Garden Society, and a dear friend. As a knowledgeable plantsman and fellow snowdrop enthusiast, I am thrilled to have a little part of his wonderful garden now growing in my own.
Clive reminded me that The CGS has a Snowdrop Group with its own annual newsletter and snowdrop day for our members, so I have joined them and now receive details of other places to visit to see and buy snowdrops, as well as reading interesting and knowledgeable articles from fellow members.
For me, snowdrop collecting gives me something to look forward to in winter, and may eventually reap its own rewards with some patience and good gardening.
Coincidentally, Landscape Magazine's February cover features a photograph that I took of Galanthus nivalis 'Flore Pleno' in my previous garden.
They are planted out somewhere here too – I must go out and have a look for them!
You would love the snowdrops at the Chelsea Physic garden, they even had a snowdrop theatre last year.
They have lots of rare varieties and some are for sale.
Lovely! One of my favourite flowers, so delicate and understated, yet they make such an impact. Just like me in fact!!! Seriously, lovely post. I haven't seen any in this neck of the woods yet. Though it's so blinking foggy I haven't seen much in the last week!
I love double snowdrops and the cover picture.
Thanks Susan! I often plant newly purchased snowdrops in little containers so i can see them at eye level, before planting out when they have finished flowering.


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Beginning Friday, April 5, Washington State Department of Transportation contractor crews will launch the next phase of work to "Revive I-5." Travelers who use southbound I-5 through downtown Seattle during the late night and early morning hours should plan to use alternate routes or expect additional delays.
Throughout the summer, contractor crews will rehabilitate approximately 4 miles of southbound I-5 between Spring Street in downtown Seattle and South Lucile Street near Boeing Field. Crews will repair and replace damaged concrete panels, grind the surface of the pavement in all lanes and repave several on- and off-ramps.
The majority of this weather-dependent work will occur during the overnight hours when traffic is lighter. Travelers should anticipate lane and ramp closures beginning as early as 8 p.m. on weeknights and 9 p.m. on weekends.
At times, crews will close all lanes of southbound I-5 at night and shift traffic into the collector-distributor that parallels the main roadway.
The south end of the collector-distributor, which is currently one lane near the Edgar Martinez Drive South/westbound I-90 on-ramp to southbound I-5, will be temporarily restriped to add a second lane for southbound traffic.
The temporary second lane will use a portion of the Edgar Martinez Drive South/westbound I-90 on-ramp merge lane; both on-ramps will be closed when the temporary lane is open.
The temporary second lane will be closed during non-working hours, while the ramps will be open.
This configuration will remain in place through the summer.
Get the most up-to-date closure information on our I-5 construction webpage.
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For the first time today we tried to access some eBooks on my LG Optimus S. I Shelled out 99 cents to purchase the Complete Works of Beatrix Potter via Google Books only to find that none of the illustrations were included. No good for 2 year olds who want to see some Tittlemouse.
I also purchased Curious George and the Hot Air Balloon because there were very few other children's books to choose from. I was reminded how much I dislike Curious George's preachiness and post-colonial ickyness. eBook or paper, some white dude is still "civilizing" a monkey. And since it was Google Books, it was a digitized copy of a print book, unzoomable, with the original text in place but unreadable on our small screen. Some pages had the text transcribed, but often the text included did not correspond to the pictures. Not the sophisticated experience we were hoping for.
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ebook FAIL! Hopefully it won't take long for kids books to catch up with the technology.
There are lots of other sources for kids eBooks out there- I'm on the hunt. We need some GOOD reviews on here!!


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Eric Wade and his son, Josh, 15, attended Gonzaga's game against South Dakota State on Thursday. Eric's son Jesse, who committed to GU in 2013, is nearly finished with his LDS Mission and will arrive at Gonzaga this summer. (Courtesy of Eric Wade)
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SALT LAKE CITY – The countdown is on for the Wade family and the Gonzaga Bulldogs.
Gonzaga recruit Jesse Wade has 24 days remaining in his two-year LDS mission in Lyon, France, his father Eric said. Wade's family can't wait to see him and the Zags probably feel the same way.
Jesse made his commitment in Oct., 2013, prior to his junior season at Davis High in Kaysville, 15 minutes from Salt Lake City.
"That's a long time to say goodbye to somebody you enjoy having around," Eric said.
So much so that Eric hasn't been able to watch the video he took when he dropped Jesse off at the missionary training center in Provo in April, 2015.
"But the other day I was able to look at it and know I'll be able to see him soon," Eric said.
Eric purchased NCAA tickets months ago and was thrilled when the Zags named popped up in Salt Lake City. Eric and 15-year-old son Josh watched Gonzaga's 66-46 win over South Dakota State on Thursday at Vivint Smart Home Arena. They'll be on hand for the Zags' game against Northwestern on Saturday.
Eric has watched Gonzaga's last five games in person. He uploads video clips to Jesse's iCloud account, including the final few minutes of Thursday's game.
"He made a comment, 'That was so awesome,' " Eric said. "The next clip, he wrote, 'I cannot wait to come back and become a Zag.' "
Sounds good to coach Mark Few.
"We could have used Jesse," said Few, following Gonzaga's perimeter shooting issues in Thursday's game. "He can bang in 3s from 30 feet and he's a confident kid. We think he's going to be a really, really good player for us."
The family and Jesse exchange e-mails once a week on Jesse's preparation day, when he also takes care of chores such as laundry and grocery shopping. Twice a year, on Mother's Day and Christmas Day, they visit via Skype.
"He's a very good e-mail writer, keeping us in touch as far as what he's doing and he sends a lot of pictures," Eric said. "We last saw him on Christmas. It isn't easy."
Wade, rated as a three-star recruit by ESPN.com after a decorated career at Davis High, plays in pick-up soccer or basketball games on Mondays. He also takes advantage of 45 minutes of exercise time daily and has added 8-9 pounds of muscle, Eric said.
Wade will ramp up his conditioning when he returns home. Eric said he'll probably take on-line courses before arriving at GU for summer school in July.
"Gonzaga fans have known about him for four years, but still haven't seen him," Eric said. "They're probably wondering if he's real, but he is."
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Die Hallenmasters 2011 war die sechste Austragung der Hallenmasters in Winterthur und zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits das letzte noch bestehende Hallenturnier der Schweiz. Gewonnen wurde das Turnier von den Grasshoppers, die im Finale den abermals im Final gekommenen Lokalmatador FC Winterthur mit 9:8 nach Penaltyschiessen bezwang. Mit rund 2'200 Zuschauern war es das bislang bestbesuchte Hallenmasters. Das Turnier wurde während zweier Stunden live vom Schweizer Sportfernsehen übertragen.

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Übrige Turniere
 Das Regionalmasters-Finale konnte der Grasshopper Club Zürich U21 den FC Töss mit 14:4 nach Penaltyschiessen schlagen.
 Das Seniormasters wurde zum wiederholten Mal vom Team Puls Sport gewonnen werden, die sich im Final gegen den FC Phönix Seen mit 3:2 durchsetzen konnten.
 Das erstmal ausgetragene Juniorenmasters wurde vom FC Neftenbach mit 5:2 gegen den SC Veltheim gewonnen.

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