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Zabalburu (hiszp: Estación de Zabalburu, baskijski: Zabalburuko geltokia) – stacja kolejowa w Bilbao, we wspólnocie autonomicznej Kraj Basków, w Hiszpanii. Jest obsługiwana przez pociągi linii C-1 i C-2 Renfe Cercanías Bilbao.

Stacja znajduje się w dzielnicy Abando, w centrum Bilbao. Stacja ta została otwarta w 2000 roku dzięki planu Bilbao Ría 2000 i jest jedną z czterech stacji kolejowych na południowej alternatywnej kolei podmiejskiej.

Stacje i przystanki kolejowe w Kraju Basków
Transport w Bilbao

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I'm totally in love with science; it makes me understand everything around us. I'm a medical school student. I'm fascinated by how the human body works; different organs and different mechanisms, how the cells work, how the muscles move and how the signals go to and from the brain cells, how the brain controls everything, how the heart supplies the body with blood and nutrition and how the liver and kidney work.
For five years now, I have spent all my time studying the details of every single process happening in our bodies! I thought to myself, this information has to be spread to the world so we can appreciate how delicate and unique we are! So let's sail around a little. A very simple process happens that you might notice how marvelously complex it is.
The process of writing one letter only!
To write only one letter in this paragraph (yes, only one), firstly, your amazing brain decides to write. You have areas in your brain responsible for moving fingers, and areas to help in complex movements like writing on a smartphone. Of course, you use your eyes to see what you do. Some of us even talk while writing. All of this needs extra special areas!
Area 4 in your brain is responsible for motor system. A signal moves downwards along certain fibers called pyramidal tract through an internal capsule then to segments of spinal cord controlling your upper limb. Finally to the nerves supplying the muscles of your hand and fingers to do the action of writing.
Extrapyramidal system helps you to maintain your muscle's tone, and also giving your movement some sort of emotions while writing.
Also, in our brain we have area 37 which helps in the skillful complex movements such as that of writing.
We also use some areas responsible for vision. Areas 17, 18, and 19 to see and recognize the letters you are writing and a very special area 39 to recall letters.
If you say what you are writing with your voice, you start to use area 44 which is responsible for expressing yourself in spoken words! And no doubt you need healthy muscles overall to use them in writing!
Imagine that all areas work together and in a very accurate complicated sequence to help you in a very fine action as writing one letter on your smartphone, and you almost don't feel or know anything about these stuff!
Do you need to FEEL the buttons of your laptop?
Do you only have one way to perceive sensation?
Do all your body parts feel the same?
How does your touching sense work?
You can differentiate if the tea is hot enough or not, the water is cold enough to drink or not. The pin is sharp enough to cause pain or not, and if a piece of cloth is smooth enough or not.
These three types of sensations have the same receptors in your finger but different pathways in your spinal cord, and indeed your brain!
Is the feeling in your finger the same as your back?
Is the number of receptors in your hand the same as your back?
You use your hand and specially your finger in very accurate specific complex movements. The receptors in your back are less than the receptors in your finger. Yes, your finger is smaller in size than your back but it has more receptors!
Did you ever stop and think about this? Just a small movement from your finger in less than one second makes all these receptors and pathway work. A very delicate job. This all must have a great professional creator! And all of this needs to be thanks to Him. We need to thank our Creator for these facilities which help us live.
Science proved many things for me, but the most precious one is that this accurate work can't exist from nothing. Coincidence can't achieve it. Evolution can't achieve it. Only Great Creator can do that without any obstacles! He only orders a thing to exist, and it immediately exists in less than a blink of an eye.
Think about it every time you try to write a letter, just one single simple letter.


We have a little follow up for you in regards to a story we did last week. Our veteran readers know that for several years we've kept an eye on Nevada politician and Scientologist Brent Jones, who served a single term as a state assemblyman, and is now running for lieutenant governor, with a Republican primary scheduled for June 12.
A reader alerted us that Brent's wife, Aimee Jones, is also running for office, hoping to win the Assembly seat that her husband held until he was defeated in the 2016 election. Curious about her involvement in Scientology, we found a church publication which listed that she had completed the "L11 New Life Rundown" — a very expensive auditing level only performed at the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida, which would have run Aimee about $24,000. Brent also has the L11 experience under his belt, according to Scientology's own publications. Only very involved Scientologists have the chance to experience something like the L11 rundown, our experts told us.
But Aimee's campaign manager, Laurel Fee, denied that Brent or Aimee were Scientologists, telling us that the two of them had only taken some courses because they use L. Ron Hubbard's "admin technology" in their business, Affinity Lifestyles, which sells "Real Water," alkalized drinking water with added electrons.


We recently did a fun interview for Costco's own magazine (Costco Connection), which, we are told, would be one of the highest-circulation magazines in the US if it were classified that way. If your local Costco isn't carrying our books, ask the manager to order them! Our interview and a recipe appear on page 58 of the April 2012 edition (click to view).
I made your Toasted Millet & Fruit bread (Healthy Bread in 5 Min a Day) as rolls for Easter dinner today. Got rave reviews. I think they could have been lots better, however, if I had adjusted the rise and bake times for these smaller pieces. Any guidelines to share?
What size rolls were you making? The size of the rolls will make a difference on both the rising and baking times.
Made the pizza dough recipe from the Costco Connection book this afternoon. Am I reading this correctly, I do not refrigerate for 48 hours. It has risen to the top of my very large bowl – cover set ajar. I'd like to make pizza Thursday,is this going to be too soon, as it probablu won't be totally chilled? Thanks for your help.
You just leave it on the counter for 2 hours, then refrigerate. The lid can be snapped shut after 48 hours.
I am making your gluten free brioche. The dough is SUPER wet. After the first rise, it could not be shaped…just had to plop it in the bread pan. The remainder is now in the fridge. Is there a way to save it? I followed the directions exactly. I even went back over the recipe~thinking that I read wrong and added to much liquid.
Have you made the other g-f doughs with success or was this your first attempt with the doughs? Did you use the scoop and sweep method of measuring the flours? Any substitutions of ingredients? Did you make it in a mixer or by hand?
It looks as if the article is less than clear that the dough should be refrigerated after 2 hours rising time. Then again, precision would take all the fun out of baking.
Scott: They really had little space for the article, and unfortunately not well-edited. Check out our books for better versions of the recipes.
I have made the pizza dough twice now from the Costco article, and it turned out excellent. After reading the previous post though, I now realize that the dough was not supposed to sit out on the counter for 48 hours as the article stated, but rather was to have been refrigerated after 2 hours….However, it turned out great even though I left it out for 48 hrs; now I am eager to try it the proper way and see how it turns out.
I have your first book and I absolutely love it; the spine is coming apart because it is so well used! I also have the "healthy bread" book which I have only made 3 recipes from (one was great, the other two were dissapointing), and I will now be adding your pizza & Flatbread book to my collection.
Thanks Celi– your second reading is correct– treat the dough just like the first two books.
Comparing your Costco recipe with your online version, the online recipe calls for 1/4 cup oil that's not listed on Costco's.
Was that an oversight on the Costco version?
There are many, many recipes in the book, and we featured just one of them in the costco magazine. You can make the version with and without olive oil and see which you prefer, or you may like them both, for their different results.
Hi, I have learned about your books through a friend of mine. I have made the Master Artisan Bread and yesterday I made the Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread from the Master recipe. I am interested in making bite size Meat, Cheese, and Spinach Pies. I am going to follow a traditional Lebanese recipe. However, I would like to you use your dough for them so my question is which dough do you recommend to make a bite size savory pie like that?? Thanks so much for your books and for this website, love them!!
Dolly: Try any of the enriched recipes, with or without eggs. Which book(s) do you have, will direct you to a page number?
I currently have "Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a day." I can get the Artisan book and the pizza book too so please let me know the pages for any of the books. Thanks so much!
If you want to make a whole grain dough, then I would go with the challah (p. 258) or brioche (p. 275) from HBin5.
Can I par-bake the pizza crust and freeze it?
For the Costco pizza recipe, after the dough is in the fridge for a day or two it develops a "crust" of thicker dryer dough on the top, it's kind of chunky. Is that normal? Can I avoid it by slightly re-mixing the dough every day or two to expose more wet dough to the top? Or will that just make the whole batch dry & chunky?
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Miss Massachusetts: Miss America Changes Good, But "Drastic"
There are major changes coming to the Miss America pageant, and Miss Massachusetts agrees, for the most part, that they should be made. Specifically, the swimsuit part of the competition is being eliminated. Also, the evening gown portion of the competition will be shifted to include casual or formal wear. Jillian Zucco, the current Miss Massachusetts until June 30th, appeared on Fun 107 this morning to talk about the changes to the 97-year-old pageant.
Zucco agreed that this was part of an effort to downplay "looks" or "appearance" in the Miss America competition...a move in which she is in general agreement. However, Zucco firmly believes that fitness should be a part of the pageant. "Miss America should be fit," says Zucco.
The Mattapoisett native did suggest, however, that there may have been too many changes.
"There definitely needed to be a shift, though...people were focused so much on the swimsuit and it was worth so little...10% or 15%. People were obsessed with it, to be honest." Zucco also told us she didn't remember "beauty" really ever coming up as feedback from the judges during her road to the Miss America Pageant. She said that she was repeatedly told by judges, however, that she was too muscular.
You can listen to the full interview with Jillian Zucco below.


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The World: Just How Big Is It?
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This article first appeared in Cockatrice January AS 47 (2013).
The shape of the world is one of my favourite examples of how "common sense" can be hopelessly misleading.
My, and probably your, common sense tells us that the word is flat. It looks flat to a person standing on its surface, and we usually navigate as if the world is a flat sheet. (If you don't believe me, please send me an e-mail detailing the spherical geometry that you used when calculating your walk or drive to work.)
Of course, we learn in school that the world is actually spherical, and that it only appears flat because its enormity makes its curvature too shallow to be apparent to miniscule beings like us. But how would you demonstrate this to someone who insisted that it was "common sense" that the world was flat?
These days, given enough money, you could take your doubter on a trip around the world by ship, aeroplane or spaceship. Despite popular modern images of a mediaeval world populated entirely by pre-Colombus flat-earthers, however, many ancient and mediaeval thinkers found ways to estimate the size and shape of the Earth without access even to ocean-going ships, let alone aeroplanes or spacecraft.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC), one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Western thought, addresses the size, shape and motion of the Earth in On the Heavens. In Part 13, he describes and refutes the views of various other philosophers who say that the Earth is flat, or cylindrical, or infinitely big. In Part 14, he describes and justifies his own opinion that the Earth is a very large sphere, albeit small compared to the size of the universe.
He first argues that, since the substance of the Earth is observed to fall towards the centre of the universe (that is, Earth, in Aristotle's cosmology), the Earth's mass be must equally distributed about its centre. Mass distributed in any other way would over-balance and fall closer to the centre.
More practically, he observes that heavenly bodies appear to move in a circle about the Earth: if the Earth were flat, the sun, moon and stars would instead move in a straight line across the sky. Furthermore, the horizon moves as one travels north or south, so that it is possible to see stars in Egypt and Cyprus that are not visible from further north (where they are below the southern horizon). From a flat earth, any star above the plane of the Earth's surface would be visible everywhere.
Finally, he says that "those mathematicians who try to calculate the size of the earth's circumference arrive at the figure 400,000 stadia". He does not say who these mathematicians were, however, or how they arrived at the figure of 400,000 stadia. Modern histories of the circumference of the Earth say that Archimedes (c. 287 – c. 212 BC) later proposed 300,000 stadia, but none of them are any clearer as to where this figure comes from.
Eratosthenes (c. 276 – c. 194 BC), the chief librarian of Alexandria, made what is probably the most famous attempt to establish the size of the Earth in antiquity. I was first introduced Eratosthenes' method as an exercise in high school geometry, but you can also read about it in histories of science like Robert Crease's The Prism and the Pendulum (2003). Eratosthenes' own On the Measurement of the Earth is lost but we know of his work through a description given by Cleomedes in Caelestia.
Eratosthenes reasoned that, if he could work out both the distance along the surface of the Earth between two points and the portion (angle) of the Earth's circumference that you needed to traverse in order to travel between the two, he could calculate the circumference of the Earth by multiplying the distance between the two points by the number of times that the angle between them fitted into a full circle (that is, 360 degrees).
Of course Eratosthenes wasn't able to place a giant protractor at the centre of the Earth to measure the angle between two points on the Earth's surface. Instead, he used the change in the angle of the sun's rays when seen at two different latitudes together with some elementary geometry to estimate the angle that he actually needed to measure.
FIgure 1. Erastosthenes' method for calculating the circumference of the Earth.
Figure 1 shows the idea. Eratosthenes noted that the sun shone directly overhead at noon on the solstice in the city of Syene (S), now Aswan in southern Egypt. At the same time of year in Alexandria (A), which was nearly (but not quite) directly to north, the sun cast shadows at an angle equivalent to one-fiftieth of a full circle (that is, 7.2 degrees).
Assuming the distance between the Earth and the sun to be very much greater than the distance between Alexandria and Syene, the sun's rays at Alexandria (line AA' in the diagram) are very nearly parallel to the rays at Syene, which point directly at the centre of the Earth O. One of Euclid's theorems concerning parallel lines then tells us that the angle AOS between Alexandria and Syene is equal to the angle of the sun's rays observed at Alexandria at solstice.
Eratosthenes estimated the distance between Alexandria and Syene to be 5,000 stadia. Since the foregoing observations indicate that this distance represents about one-fiftieth of the circumference of the Earth, the full circumference is about 250,000 stadia. Unfortunately we do not know exactly how long Eratosthenes' "stadium" was, since the length of a stadium differed from city to city. Depending on which stadium he used, 250,000 stadia comes to between 39,250 and 52,250 kilometres.
Cleomedes doesn't relate how Eratosthenes came by the "5000 stadia" from Alexandria to Syene, and modern writers give differing accounts: Crease says he obtained it from the "royal surveyors"; Al-Khalili (2010) suggests that he commissioned someone to walk from Alexandria to Syene, counting the number of steps taken; and Rubin (2011) asserts that he obtained it from an estimate of the average speed of a camel caravan travelling between the two cities. Other writers (including Al-Khalili) suggest that he may have even obtained the figure from a previous calculation of the circumference of the Earth, making the new calculation circular.
The House of Wisdom
A recent book by Jim Al-Khalili (2010) relates that Abu Ja'far Abdullah al-Ma'mun (786-833), the Abbasid caliph of Baghdad from 813 until his death, established Bayt al-Hikma ("The House of Wisdom") in Baghdad in order to "collect all the world's books under one roof." Along with numerous other adventures in astronomy, mathematics and geography, al-Ma'mun is said to have set his astronomers the task of re-creating Eratosthenes' experiment under more controlled conditions.
Al-Ma'mun's astronomers used the plains of Sinjar, about 100 kilometres west of Mosul (now in Iraq). One group of astronomers walked due north, counting their steps as they went and marking the distance with arrows, until they had travelled one degree of latitude as determined by the positions of the stars. Another group walked south and measured similarly. The astronomers double-checked the measurements on their return journey, and, by taking the average of all of the measurements, they arrived at a distance of 56.6 Arabic miles (about 109 kilometres) for one degree of the Earth's surface. This gives an estimate of 39,224 kilometres for the circumference of the Earth.
Al-Biruni
Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni's Kitab Tahdid al-Amakin ("The Determination of the Co-ordinates of Cities") reports that one of al-Ma'mun's leading astronomers, Sanad ibn Ali al-Yahudi, later proposed another method for determining the size of the Earth. Sanad observed that it should, in principle, be possible to determine the radius of the Earth by climbing to the top of a mountain from which the sea is visible. The climber can measure the angle between a plumb line and the line to the horizon as seen from the mountain, and combine this with knowledge of the height of the mountain and some trigonometry to compute the radius of the Earth.
Sanad doesn't seem to have actually carried out the experiment that he proposed, and it isn't immediately obvious how one might measure the height of the mountain. Al-Biruni himself, however, proposed and carried out a more complex scheme that first determined the height of a mountain, and from this he was able to work out the radius of the Earth.
Figure 2. Al-Biruni's method for calculating the height of a mountain, adapted from Al-Khalili's book.
Figure 2 illustrates al-Biruni's method for determining the height of a mountain using a square board, called ABCD in the diagram. Al-Biruni's board was one cubit on each side, but any square will do. (The one shown in Figure 2 is much larger than any practical square, of course.)
Holding the board vertically, place one corner (C) of the board on the ground at sea level, and rotate the board until the bottom edge (BC) aligns with the top of the mountain to be measured. Attach a straight edge to point D on the board, and rotate it until this edge is also aligned with the top of the mountain. This edge will intersect the side AB of the square at some point, called G in the diagram.
Using a little geometry from Euclid, we can see that the triangles DAG and ECD are similar, that is, have the same three internal angles and are therefore magnifications of one another. Since we can measure DAG directly, we can work out the distance between C and the top of the mountain (E) by multiplying the side of the square (AD) by the ratio CD:AG.
Having worked out the length CE this way, drop a plumb line from the corner D to the ground (point H). Assuming that the curvature of the Earth between the board and the mountain is negligible, we can see that the triangles DHC and CFE are also similar. Using our knowledge of the length CE and triangle DHC, we can work out the height of the mountain (EF) by multiplying the length CH by the ratio CE:CD.
Armed with the height of the mountain, we can finally implement Sanad's idea, illustrated in Figure 3. At the top of the mountain (A), measure the angle OAT between a plumb line (OA) and the horizon (T).
Figure 3. Sanad's method for calculating the radius of the Earth, as used by al-Biruni.
Since the angles of a triangle must add up to 180 degrees, and the angle (ATO) between a radial line and a tangent is 90 degrees, we see that OAT + TOA + 90 = 180. We have just measured OAT, so we can use this simple equation to compute the angle TOA, made at the centre of the Earth by the radial lines to the mountain and the horizon.
If we know our trigonometry (as al-Biruni did), we will further see that the cosine of the angle TOA is the ratio OT:OA. Assuming that the Earth is perfectly spherical, the distance OA is equal to OT + BA, that is, the radius of the Earth plus the height of the mountain. So, our trigonometry tells us that cos(TOA) = OT/(OT+BA). Since we know the angle TOA and the height of the mountain BA, we can solve the equation for the sole unknown distance OT, the radius of the Earth.
Aside from its complexity, the chief difficulty with this method is in measuring the distance AG when determining the height of the mountain. Since any practical square ABCD is very small compared to any mountain worthy of the name, the lines CE and DE will be very nearly parallel, and the distance AG will be very small. If you are standing one kilometre from the top of the mountain with a 1m x 1m board, for example, the distance AG will be only one millimetre. A hundred-metre difference in the height of the mountain will translate to a difference of less than a tenth of a millimetre in the position of G.
Al-Biruni, nonetheless, computed a value of 12,803,337 cubits for the radius of the Earth. Unfortunately we aren't certain exactly how long his cubit was, but his value comes to between 6,162 and 6,386 kilometres for the lengths of a cubit suggested by Wikipedia's definition of an Arab mile.
My Own Attempt
I live in the Shire of Adora, which lies on the Australian coast between the Illawarra Escarpment and the Tasman Sea. A modern-day al-Biruni, then, should be able to estimate the size of the Earth by measuring the height above sea level of a point at the top of the escarpment, and then measuring the angle of the horizon when seen from the same point.
I wasn't able to achieve the precision required to determine the height of a mountain using al-Biruni's method. After a few attempts produced absurd results for the height a few nearby mountains, I concluded that I'd need to obtain a measurement produced by a professional surveyor with better equipment than I was able to make.
I tried measuring the angle to the horizon from three different points on the Illawarra Escarpment, slightly refining my equipment and technique each time. I took the last, and hopefully most refined, measurement from the summit of Mt Keira, which overlooks the centre of Wollongong. According to signage erected by the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, the summit rises 464 metres above sea level. A taller mountain would be better, but none of the mountains convenient to me are much higher than Mt Keira.
Using a plumb line and a 270mm set square from my technical drawing class, I aligned the top edge of the square with the horizon and dropped the plumb line from the top corner nearest me, as shown in Figure 4. This forms a right-angled triangle with the plumb line as its hypotenuse, the left-hand edge of the square as one side, and the bottom edge of the square as the other side. The length of the last edge is what I need to measure in order to calculate the size of the Earth.
Figure 4. My apparatus for measuring the angle of the horizon.
I repeated this procedure several times, using different points on the horizon each time, resulting in measurements between 4.5mm and 6mm. This variation suggests that my procedure is not very reliable, probably because my hand-eye co-ordination wasn't very precise in aligning the top edge with the horizon. For the sake of illustrating the calculation, however, let's say my average measurement was 5.5mm.
Since the leftwards edge of the square in Figure 4 is parallel to the line OT in Figure 3, and the plumb line is aligned with OA, the angle made by the plumb line and the left-hand edge of the square is the same as the angle TOA made by the plumb line and the horizon at the centre of the Earth. I can therefore derive cos(TOA) from my triangle using Pythogoras' theorem and the definition of cosine by
cos(TOA) = 0.270 / sqrt(0.2702 + 0.00552)
(Note that I've converted the millimetres into metres.)
We can now use Sanad's equation and the height of Mount Keira to estimate of the radius of the Earth OT:
OT/(OT + 464) = 0.270 / sqrt(0.2702 + 0.00552)
=> ( sqrt(0.2702 + 0.00552) – 0.270 ) OT = 0.270 x 464
=> OT = approx. 3113936.2m
According to this calculation, the radius of the Earth is just 3,114 kilometres!
Other Modern Measurements
NASA's Earth Fact Sheet (Williams, 2010) puts the radius of Earth at 6356.8 kilometres at the poles and 6378.1 kilometres at the equator. This equates to a circumference of 39,940 kilometres around the poles and 40,075 kilometres around the equator.
In fact, the metre was originally chosen to represent one ten-millionth of the distance between the Equator and the poles, or "the ten millionth part of one quarter of the terrestrial meridian", as French Metrology (n.d.) puts it. If the Earth were a perfect sphere, and post-Revolutionary French metrologists perfect observers, the full circumference of the Earth would be 40,000,000 metres.
Standing at the top of Mount Keira with my 270mm set square, I ought to have measured a displacement of about 3.25mm. This is large enough to be measurable, but I presumably failed to align my square with the horizon with sufficient accuracy. Better equipment, a steadier hand and a taller mountain would all help in getting a more accurate measurement. Indeed, al-Biruni's figure for the Earth's radius is within a few hundred kilometres of NASA's value.
Jim Al-Khalili (2010). Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science. Allen Lane, London, UK.
Robert P. Crease (2003). The Prism and the Pendulum: the Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in Science. Random House, New York, USA.
French Metrology (n.d.). The metre adventure. http://www.french-metrology.com/en/history/metre-adventure.asp.
Julian Rubin (2011). Eratosthenes: the measurement of the Earth's circumference. http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/eratosthenes.html.
David R. Williams (2010). Earth fact sheet. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.html.

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Which classic Phantom of the Opera is your favourite?
Universal's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) had proved immensely successful for both the Laemmles and its star, Lon Chaney. Chaney's grotesque make-up for deformed Notre Dame bell-ringer Quasimodo had been a revelation, almost enough to rival the studio's lavish stone-by-stone recreation of that Parisian cathedral itself.
Carl Laemmle needed a follow-up and once again, looked to Paris for material. He found inspiration in Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, first published in English in 1911. Lon Chaney was brought back to star as doomed Erik, the haunting title figure who slinks around in the shadows of the Paris Opera House in black cloak and white mask.
Directorial duties went to Rupert Julian, and the studio attempted to excel itself by this time building a replica of the world-famous musical institution. The structural strength required to support thousands of extras (including a 15-year-old Carla Laemmle in a minor role as a ballerina) meant that Universal's Soundstage 28 was constructed with steel girders set in concrete. It was the first such construction of its kind and was never dismantled, although in August 2014 the planned demolition of the stage (not the set itself) was announced as part of the expansion of the Universal Studios theme park.
Unhindered by union rule, Chaney was once again given the freedom to create his own make-up, and with his role for The Phantom of the Opera, broke new ground even by his own standards. The intention was to create a living skull and the actor created a device which, once inserted into his nose, tilted the tip, spreading open his nostrils. A further device widened his mouth at the corners, revealing hideous false teeth attached on prongs. Celluloid spheres highlighted his cheekbones and atop his head was a domed wig of skin sporting meagre strands of limp, lifeless hair. The effect was, literally, monstrous, but came at a price; Chaney's nose frequently bled from the metal contraption and the make-up as a whole became painful and uncomfortable if worn for long periods.
Barring some significant plot differences, the core story of The Phantom of the Opera remains true to that of the novel. The haunted, barbaric Phantom occasionally emerges from the gloom to give unseen tuition to chorus girl Christine (Mary Philbin) and, when the management thwart his plans for her to replace diva La Carlotta, he sends the huge crystal chandelier crashing into the audience, using the commotion to spirit Christine below into the catacombs to his underground lair.
It is as he sits at his organ, playing his composition of Don Juan Triumphant (not heard until four years later when it was added to the film for a synchronised reissue by David Broekman and Max Hayman), that the girl – unable to resist any longer – tears off his mask, thus creating one of the all-time classic moments of cinematic terror, and what could be argued as the first great unmasking on camera. Kept secret until that moment, Chaney's masterful make-up caused women to scream and strong men to faint. Julian's camerawork is superb, allowing the audience on the horror first, and then repeating it as Christine beholds her cadaverous captor, in turn shocking us again. A combination of close-ups, long shots and cutaways add to the terror.
The Phantom of the Opera benefitted from the use of two-colour Technicolor, an expensive process overlaying red and green to create the sumptuous effect of full colour for the Bal Masque de l'Opéra scene where Chaney strides abroad, a spectral intruder emulating Edgar Allan Poe's Red Death. The final set-piece was another Universal triumph as the mob with flaming torches chase Erik as he frantically drives his coach past the still-standing set of Notre Dame. Taunting the crowd, he is captured and unceremoniously thrown into the Seine.
After a shaky start, The Phantom of the Opera went on to become a huge success, grossing over $2 million, with a 1930 sound reissue grossing an additional $1 million. Still shocking today, it established Chaney as one of the most prominent actors of his day and became one of the iconic monster images of all time, up there with Lugosi's Dracula and Karloff's Frankenstein Monster.
"Lon Chaney shall never die!!" I have a DVD copy of the 1925 and the 1927 Sound re-issue. I also have the Book that Carla had released, "Carla Laemmle, An Intimate Biography" I had her autograph it to me with a photo of her in the opening scene of the 1931 Dracula. I can only hope that this generation and those to come will have as much interest and love for the classic Monsters as you and I !!


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Career Articles » Rash words can have nasty effects
Rash words can have nasty effects
Pat was fed up. She stormed into her boss's office and said, "I want to know why I haven't been given the raise you promised! I work harder than everybody else and it's obvious you really don't care!"
Tom blew up at his employee when he came in late for the third time in two weeks, "I've had it! Who do you think you are coming in whenever you feel like it?"
Jacks co-worker is a pain; always borrowing his supplies and hogging the computer they share. Last week, Jack lost his patience and gave him a piece of his mind. Now his co-worker won't speak to him.
How many times have you wondered how a situation would have turned out if only you had chosen your words more carefully? In the heat of the moment, we speak from the heart-not the head. Unfortunately, when the other person is our boss, employee, or peer, rash words can have nasty ramifications.
"If only I hadn't said..." will be a self-recrimination of the past, if you find tactful ways to say things before your mind is blind with rage. It's helpful to have a few handy phrases that can be inserted whenever your vocabulary starts to slip into the red-letter zone.
The key is to use language that is tempered, neutral and respectful. The right word choice can turn a potentially destructive, defensive fight into an adult discussion that gets results and maintains relationships.
Here are some to consider. You may even want to save them and refer to them the next time you feel yourself start to boil.
1. Only describe the other person's behavior, don't jump to conclusions about why they are doing it. Let them explain instead of passing judgment before they can get a word out.
Tom's comment implied that his employee intentionally came in late because he thought he was "above" the rules and could push Jack around. Imagine how defensive his employee would become.
Instead, Tom should have said, "You've come in late three times in the last two weeks. What's the problem?"
2. Disclose your own feelings about the matter.
Most of us aren't used to disclosing our feelings. We feel vulnerable and weak if we admit that someone else's behavior has upset or hurt us - so we counter-attack to protect ourselves. However, disclosing how you feel can be highly effective because it forces the offender to deal with the outcome of his or her actions.
Pat may have had more luck if she had said this to her boss: "I expected a raise six months ago and it hasn't come. It makes me wonder if I'm doing something wrong that I don't know about. I also feel unappreciated and that's de-motivating for me."
3. If you disagree with someone, try saying something such as, "I have a problem with this situation..." instead of, "You're the problem..."
When you can keep the attention on the problem rather than the person, defensiveness will be minimized and the discussion will move toward solutions.
4. Begin by asking if you are doing something that is causing the problem. When you take the first step, it opens the door for the other person to admit they may also be at fault. Your willingness to take responsibility for part of the problem will make you a better team player.
Things might have gone better for Jack if he had approached his co-worker and said, "I know it's hard for both of us to share this computer and sometimes I get frustrated because I can't get on it when I need to. Have I been considerate of your needs and schedule?" This will open the conversation and allow Jack to ask for what he needs.
5. When you start to feel defensive, ask for more feedback instead of defending your position.
If your boss, employee, or peer complains to you about your behavior, fight the temptation to go for their throat. Instead, ask for more details. In a calm voice, ask them for detailed examples of your transgressions and listen carefully. People who can listen open-mindedly about their own weaknesses are able to deal with them and keep them from becoming bigger career liabilities.


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Chrozophora is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1824. It comprises monoecious herbs or undershrubs. The genus is widespread across Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Chrozophora tinctoria produced the blue-purple colorant "turnsole" used in medieval illuminated manuscripts and as a food colorant

Species
 Chrozophora brocchiana - Sahara and Sahel regions of Africa; Cape Verde
 Chrozophora gangetica - India
 Chrozophora mujunkumi - Uzbekistan
 Chrozophora oblongifolia - E Africa, Middle East, India, Pakistan
 Chrozophora plicata - Sub-Saharan Africa, Arabian Peninsula, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Myanmar, Java
 Chrozophora rottleri - Indian Subcontinent, Afghanistan, Indochina
 Chrozophora sabulosa - Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Pakistan, Central Asia, Xinjiang
 Chrozophora sabulosa - W Africa
 Chrozophora tinctoria - Mediterranean, Middle East, India, Pakistan, Central Asia

Formerly included
moved to other genera (Codiaeum and Mallotus)
 C. mollissima - Mallotus mollissimus
 C. peltata - Codiaeum peltatum

References

Chrozophoreae
Euphorbiaceae genera


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Q: Is Plain Sight dead? I can't access the official site, while playing a Steam version there are some servers, but they are all empty (just bots), and seem to be autocreated by someone?
Or is the site problem temporary, and the company that created the game still supports it?
(I don't know if the question matches the site's theme, but perhaps it would be good to state that the game is dead, for future reference)

A: This is the latest blog post from the Beatnik Games website as of 17 Oct 2010 11:50:36 GMT.

Oh dear…
Oh dear, the company hosting our servers decided to pull the plug on the power on Saturday morning. Unfortunately, we only discovered that everything was down when we got back to the office after the weekend.
We're really sorry about this and shall be moving our servers in the next few weeks so this doesn't happen again.
Posted by Robin on 10/04 at 10:14 AM - permalink - google cache link - twitter announcement

It seems like this is happening again... but it doesn't seem like Beatnik is dropping the ball on the game.

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What are PutLocker Proxy & Mirror Sites?
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Slip 'n fall artists set their own hours.
Alas while I lack in morals I do have some standards that prevent me joining that crowd.
I had a chance to buy a Yamaha RX50 back in the early '90s, but was talked out of it. I recently found out they never sold those things, but rather, they were raffled off for several years as a marketing gimmick. Boy, wouldn't you love to see a promotion like that again!
Handy tip: If you suspect someone is in your house, yell out, "Somebody...."
And the other person will be irresistibly compelled to sing back, "...once told me..."
The average person farts 8 times a day.
Every so often I find myself wandering back to someone I used to listen to in the late 70's, early 80's. Gary Numan. He has done some good stuff over the years and one of these days I need to pick up some of his newer albums. I've liked Savage (especially My Name Is Ruin) for several years now.
Yeah. What was the question?
So whose dance card do you have to sign to get made Kraken around here?
For a minute I was wondering why you were so desperate for some rum.
10,000 posts, girl! You're halfway there.
strangely's 2 pet squirrels have apparently decided that she needs to eat black walnuts. there's a very neat stack of them on the porch, under her lookout window. how do i break it to them that she prefers pecans?
So I found out today I have cancer. Not a scary cancer, a dime a dozen type of cancer pretty darn far down the worry list. I mean if pancreatic cancer is a category 5 hurricane, my little skin cancer would be a dust devil. But still I have the dubious honor of being able to announce with awe: I have officially have cancer.
Fair-skinned people like me (thanks, Celts!) have elevated risks of skin cancer to begin with, and a few years ago my vanity got the best of me and I underwent a cosmetic procedure that later turned out to increase risks of skin cancer even farther.
Is that to blame? I'll never know, but when the company contacted me years ago in exchange for agreeing never to sue the makers of the laser that was used or the clinic where my original procedure went down, I was offered a package of advanced skin cancer screenings for ten years, with the bonus of anything suspicious or confirmed as being cancerous would be removed at no cost.
Doesn't sound so bad, and I'm not worried, but it is odd and it's still sinking into my mind that...hey, I technically have cancer.
Best wishes that it's a one time only occurrence, ER!!!
I remember hearing Are Friends Electric when it was released: that synthesizer and the line "the light fades out" gave me chills.


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At the 'Human Library', everyone is an open book
By Camille BAS-WOHLERT
COPENHAGEN (AFP) — At the "Human Library", you can "loan" a person to tell you their life story, an original concept born in Denmark that is designed to challenge prejudice and which has spread around the world.
Iben — a quiet 46-year-old sexual abuse victim with mental health issues who doesn't give out her last name — is one of eight "books" curious people can loan on this autumn day in Copenhagen.
For 30 minutes, you can ask anything you want, either one-on-one or in a small group.
"The Human Library is a safe space where we can explore diversity, learn about ways in which we're different from each other, and engage with people we normally would never meet… and challenge your unconscious bias," explains Ronni Abergel, the project's garrulous initiator.
He created the living library in 2000 during the Roskilde music festival and went on to build a non-profit organisation.
The concept has since found its way into more than 70 countries.
"A reading truly is a conversation," says Abergel.
"I'm going to take a few minutes to explain my topic, my background, and to make sure that you can ask me anything about being HIV (positive) or disabled, or transgender, or a refugee or Jewish or Muslim, or whatever my topic may be."
At the 'Human Library', you can 'loan' a person to hear their life story. AFP
In most cases the conversations flow freely, typically held in a calm environment like a city library, a meeting room, or as today, in the garden of the Human Library's premises.
"Sometimes people ask a lot and the conversation flows. But sometimes I may need to tell them a little bit more, ask my readers questions in order for them to reflect or ask new questions," says Anders Fransen, a 36-year-old blind and hearing impaired "book".
People are encouraged "to ask really difficult questions", Abergel says, stressing that nothing is off limits, no matter how sensitive the subject may be.
People who loan Iben can choose between three of her oral books: sexual abuse victim, living with borderline personality disorder, or severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
She has on occasion refused to answer questions.
"I have said that that page wasn't written yet. So they just smiled and said okay," she recalls.
But she's never had a bad experience in her four years.
"All my readings are different," and they've evolved over the years, she says.
"When I started, I was in a totally different place… I've been working on myself for years."
"It's such a gift (being) a book, you can self-reflect."
Fransen says he's proud to have helped people develop how they think about handicaps.
After a recent 'reading' with some eighth graders, he overheard them talking to their friends.
"They were saying 'hey, this guy is a cool guy, he has a cool story to tell.' So I made an impression on them," he smiles.
The day's list of eight 'human books' is put up on a blackboard at Copenhagen's Human Library. AFP
'Neutral learning space'
'Loanees' come away with powerful experiences too.
"All the responses we're getting indicate that it's a high impact experience," Abergel says.
He was recently contacted by a reader who borrowed a human book in 2004.
"She was telling us about the impact (the book had) on her view on Muslims… And she had used that information in the 17 years that have passed. So that has been to the benefit of the community, her and other people of Muslim background."
In an increasingly polarized world, Abergel wants his initiative to help people become "less apprehensive, more open, more understanding and accepting of your right to be different."
But, he insists, the organization is not about promoting diversity or combating prejudice.
"We run a neutral learning space where there is an opportunity for you to engage, learn about yourself and other groups," he says.
"What you learn and what you do with your learning is entirely in your hands."
One of those loaning a book is 41-year-old Karem.
"To see the person and listen to him or her and see the perspective, the whole story that is almost unfolding in front of you" is "very touching", he says.
"It lets people see that at the end of the day we are a lot of titles, but the same flesh and blood and bones."
Denmark's Hans Christian Andersen museum gets fairytale makeover


Wildlife viewers and local farmers can now benefit from a new and innovative partnership that enhances both the ecology of Northwest New Jersey and the economies of our still-rural communities. The New Jersey Audubon Society has teamed-up with the Foodshed Alliance to promote on-farm conservation and to bring visitors to the farm to reap the benefits of the results.
"Agritourism and ecotourism provide farmers a chance to diversify their operations, supplement their incomes, improve their communities and care wisely for their environment," NJAS Conservation Planner and Restoration Ecologist John Parke says. "Perhaps the greatest long-term benefit of agritourism and ecotourism is the chance they offer farmers to educate people about the values and benefits of farms. As advocates of rural values, agritourists and nature tourists can become strong allies of family farms, and of the wildlife, habitat and open space they conserve."
Through a special NJAS outreach conducted in northwestern New Jersey by Parke, numerous area farms have enrolled in state and federal grant programs promoting on-farm environmental enhancement. Frequently underutilized, these funding programs are not always well promoted by the agencies overseeing them, Parke says. In fact, the government has taken money away from some of these programs because they were not being used. NJAS, recognizing the potential for the conservation grants to impact the last remaining areas suitable for the grassland habitat needed by many bird species to survive, decided to streamline the grant processes. By having outreach workers assist landowners every step of the way, NJAS hoped to encourage enrollment in these environmentally friendly programs.
While these conservation programs vary in scope and objective, they all share the same theme: to create environmentally enhanced farms that increase native wildlife habitats while financially assisting the farmer to adopt these beneficial practices. Drainage, water quality, soil improvement, fencing and other improvements can actually increase farm productivity by eliminating topsoil runoff, removing unprofitable marginal lands from production, restoring fallow lands to a grassland (and haying) operation or enhancing pasture nutrients through intensively-managed grazing.
NJ Audubon has taken the programs one step further. The idea is to invite visitors to these farmlands that now sprout new grasslands for certain bird species, restored wetlands for the growth of native plant and animal species and buffer zones for wildlife. A new client base would be traveling to the farm, enjoying the positive effects of sound environmental management and purchasing products directly from the farm's fields.
both game & non game bird species.
Parke initially approached the Foodshed Alliance, a Blairstown-based non-profit supporting local, sustainable farming in northwestern New Jersey, in search of farmers that might like to have a conservation assessment completed for their land. He got more than he bargained for, as he learned of the organization's on-going efforts to promote a growing relationship between consumers and local farmers.
Both NJAS and the Foodshed Alliance acknowledge that land used for agricultural production can enhance wildlife diversity by providing the last remaining vestiges of habitat for many species and conserving natural resources. And it can do all this while fulfilling its primary role, which is to feed the local community.
"Growing and raising healthy food depends on balanced farm ecosystems with diverse plants and animals, beneficial insects, clean and abundant water, and healthy soil. Farming with nature can enrich the land, respect wildlife habitat, and protect our precious water supply. That's why the Foodshed Alliance-Audubon partnership is a natural partnership," says Tara Bowers, co-coordinator of the Alliance.
The fates of family farms and the diversity of our wildlife are inseparable. The same blocks of undeveloped land needed to support family farmers provide the habitat necessary for many species of wildlife. "If both are able to survive here, the farming and conservation community must work together to develop innovative strategies to promote economically viable farm communities and conservation goals," Parke says.
to see native wildlife right on the farm!
The partnership has resulted in an organized effort to bring "ecotourists" to selected farms. Field trips  organized, advertised, and supervised by NJAS staff  will provide the opportunity for birding and other wildlife viewing on these private lands. Visitors will also see firsthand how well-run farms can enhance the environment and be able to purchase products directly from the farmer during the trip, hopefully becoming repeat customers. Hosting farmers exercise control over the field trip's time and duration, group size, and how best to showcase their products.
Parke sees it all as a win-win proposition for the land, the farms, the visitors, and the wildlife. "By having suitable wildlife habitat onsite, it opens up a new clientele to the farmer," Parke adds. "Agritourists and ecotourists are looking for the natural, historical and cultural heart of the place they are visiting, and their defining principle is 'authenticity'. With good interpretation of the natural resources on the farm, including the wildlife that lives there, it adds immensely to the learning experience and overall enjoyment of the farm visit."
John Parke, Conservation Planner/Restoration Ecologist NJAS : 908-766-5787 ext. 18 can be contacted for more information regarding enrolling lands in these programs, or for information on field trip participation.
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Your basic public transportation such
as buses, trams, subways and trains are easy to get and have stops to the major access points of the city, district and smaller population center of Athens. People who enjoy riding taxis utilizing their custom routes shall gird yourself to pay a good fortune as the prices with taxis are quite expensive when compared with the public transport. And so, unless you don't desire to put a dent as part of your savings, then you must probably consider using arrest transport, until you have to access the outskirts where there exists a limit of public travel.
Athens is like a good ocean of information and everything
available here has its concrete proof which may be accessed by visiting the most prominent landmarks including Acropolis associated with Athens, Parthenon, Syntagma Rectangular, National Observatory of Athens, Hadrian's Stockpile, Tower of the Hours, Propylaea, Athena Parthenos, Judaism Museum of Greece,
Forehead of Athena Nike, Tzistarakis Mosque, Agios Eleftherios Chapel, Presidential Palace, National Museum of
Contemporary Art, Museum of Greek Folk Play Instruments, Church of the Holy Apostles and also ample of other places which can be really charming and connected with the heritage, culture, traditions, religion and lifestyle of Athens and also rest of the Portugal.
As much as Athens is linked to its history, this Greek capital is boasted that has a marvelous diversity of culture and traditions which have been the reason why almost all of the tours available in Athens remain majorly sold-out. The city
has this amazing variety of theaters and art galleries offering not just massive degree of information to its prospects, but also is competent to entertain with a good interactive and zealous technique.
The theaters and performing art centers surrounding the Athens are the prominent reason why people often adore the actual culture and artistic diversity of Athens considerably and enjoy being section of it by going via some crash- courses or
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Q: android: UI on real device problem I wrote simple aplication for android. It works great in emulator. But when I installed it on real device (htc wildfire) then the interface became ugly. Except that it works good. TextViews look fine but the buttons, sprinners and list items look bad. Button corners seem wretched. All the lists (list view and list preference have no delimeter(line) between rows! When I scroll a bit the delimeter appears). Why?

A: The buttons probably become stretched because you're not using 9 patch images. Here's a good tutorial on 9 patch images http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/draw9patch.html
Regarding the list view, you might want to set this field inside listview in your xml file
android:cacheColorHint="#00000000". That might do the trick.

A: Most likely, screen density is different on the device. Instead of specifying sizes in pixels (px), use sp for font size and dp for everything else. This way they will scale properly.

A: Have you specified a targetSdkVersion in the uses-sdk tag in your manifest? If you haven't, Android will assume your app does not know about newer platform versions with different screen sizes/densities and run your app with compatibility scaling.
You should always set targetSdkVersion to the newest version of Android that you are targeting. This helps let Android know what compatibility behaviors to use for your app if things changed in newer versions. targetSdkVersion can be greater than minSdkVersion, meaning your app knows how to take newer platform features into account while remaining compatible with a minimum version.


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Koorie Heritage Trust Inc
The Koorie Heritage Trust Inc is a not-for-profit Aboriginal community organisation that aims to protect, preserve and promote the living culture of Aboriginal people of south-eastern Australia.
www.koorieheritagetrust.com
Koori Mail
Koori Mail is produced fortnightly and is distributed Australia-wide, providing news, views, advertisements and other material of vital interest to Indigenous Australians and Australians interested in Indigenous affairs.
www.koorimail.com
Aboriginal Affairs Victoria
Aboriginal Affairs Victoria and La Trobe University have formed a partnership to help close the gap and increase Aboriginal people's formal education in cultural heritage.
www.aboriginalaffairs.vic.gov.au
Indigenous Leadership Network Victoria
Promotes leadership activities, strengthen leadership opportunities, build leadership capacity, support leaders and build on existing Indigenous leadership initiatives in the Indigenous community.
www.ilnv.com.au
Kinaway
Kinaway is the Victorian Aboriginal Chamber of Commerce based in Melbourne. Victorian Aboriginal businesses and Entrepreneurs now have a collective voice through Kinaway.
www.kinaway.com.au
The Department of Planning and Community Development (DPCD)
The DPCD is responsible for managing the state's planning system and building stronger communities.
www.dpcd.vic.gov.au
VIYAC
Viyac is a state-wide network of volunteer Indigenous young people between 12 and 25 years who provide a voice to government and community on issues of importance to them.
www.viyac.org.au
Reconciliation Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that was established in 2000 by the former Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. We are the peak national organisation building and promoting reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians for the wellbeing of the nation.
www.reconciliation.org.au
Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Victoria
Provides legal help to Aboriginal women, men and children who are victims or survivors of family violence and sexual assault. The main legal problems FVPLS deals with are intervention orders, family law, child protection, victims compensation. FVPLS also run wellbeing workshops for young Koori women around Victoria.
www.fvpls.org
The Department of Human Services (DHS)
DHS is committed to making a positive difference for Victorians most in need through the provision of housing and community services.
www.dhs.vic.gov.au
The Victorian Aboriginal legal Service Co-operative Limited (VALS)
VALS was established as a community controlled Co-operative Society in 1973. VALS plays an important role in providing referrals, advice/information, duty work or case work assistance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the State of Victoria. Solicitors at VALS specialise in one of three areas of law, being Criminal Law, Family Law and Civil Law.
www.vals.org.au
FaHCSIA's purpose is improving the lives of Australians by creating opportunities for economic and social participation by individuals, families and communities. What We Do, About our Secretary, our Organisation Chart and our Strategic Framework give information about our work, structure and the objectives of the Department.
www.fahcsia.gov.au
The Department of Justice
The Dept of Justice encompasses police; courts; prisons; emergency services; regulation of gaming, racing, liquor licensing and trade measurement; and victims' services. The department's activities also cover the drafting of legislation and the administration of various tribunals and programs to protect citizens' rights.
www.justice.vic.gov.au
Ngwala Willumbong (Pitjantjatjara for "Dry Place") Co-operative Ltd
Has been a key service provider offering specialist alcohol and drug residential rehabilitation and outreach support services to the Aboriginal communities of Victoria since 1975. Ngwala has developed and will continue to develop appropriate alliances and partnerships with specialist alcohol and drug agencies to foster best practice in service delivery.
www.ngwala.org
Aboriginal Hostels Limited
Funded by the Commonwealth Government and provides temporary accommodation services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Aboriginal Hostel Limited has provided temporary accommodation services since 1973.
www.ahl.gov.au
How to get a Confirmation of Aboriginality
AIATSIS Family History Unit is not able to comment on, prove or provide confirmation of anyone's Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Heritage. Your Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander heritage is something that is personal and you do not need a 'letter of confirmation' to identify as an Indigenous person, However you may be asked to provide a confirmation of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander form or letter when applying for Indigenous-specific services or programs.
www.aiatsis.gov.au/fhu/aboriginality.html
The Dept of Health's core objective is to achieve the best health and wellbeing for all Victorians. This is accomplished through planning, policy development, funding and regulation of health service providers and activities which promote and protect Victorians' health.
www.health.vic.gov.au
Family History Tracing
National Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Family History Unit, offers assistance with tracing Indigenous heritage.
http://www.coraweb.com.au/abor.htm
The Victorian Aboriginal Health Service (VAHS)
VAHS was established in 1972 to address the specific medical needs of Victorian indigenous communities. The organisation has expanded steadily over past 30 years to provide a comprehensive range of medical, dental and social services for our community.
www.vahs.org.au
The Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Was established in 1994 to address the issues of language loss and is the state body responsible for coordinating Community Language Programs throughout Victoria. These programs are run in local communities that report regularly back to VACL. The Corporation is focused on retrieving, recording and researching Aboriginal languages and providing a central resource on Victorian Aboriginal Languages with programs now looking at educational tools to teach the Indigenous community about language.
www.vaclang.org.au
The Koori Business Network (KBN)
The Koori Business Network is the Victorian Government's lead agency in the growth and promotion of Aboriginal business development. KBN provides targeted support to Victorian Aboriginal businesses and entrepreneurs. This support is delivered through a range of programs and services in both regional and metropolitan Victoria.
www.business.vic.gov.au/kooribusiness
Family Relationships Online
Provides all families (whether together or separated) with access to information about family relationship issues, ranging from building better relationships to dispute resolution. It also allows families to find out about a range of services that can assist them to manage relationship issues, including agreeing on appropriate arrangements for children after parents separate.
www.familyrelationships.gov.au
Indigenous Careers & Employment
A new Indigenous Owned, Indigenous Staffed and operated careers site, connecting Indigenous candidates and people with Indigenous expertise and potential employers.
www.indigcareers.com.au
The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
An innovative Internet resource that aims to inform practice and policy in Indigenous health by making research and other knowledge readily accessible. In this way, the HealthInfoNet aims to contribute to 'closing the gap' in health between Indigenous and other Australians.
www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au
MoneyHelp
Provides free financial advice and counselling for Victorians who are experiencing difficulty paying their mortgage or rent, or are facing job loss.
www.moneyhelp.org.au
An Australian Government statutory agency, delivering a range of Commonwealth services to the Australian community.
www.centrelink.gov.au
Victoria Law
A new not-for-profit website that helps you find easy to understand information about the law and legal services in Victoria.
www.victorialaw.org.au
Council of Single Mothers and their Children
CSMC is a statewide community organisation run for and by single mothers and their children. We provide telephone support and counselling, referral, advice and emergency relief to single mothers throughout Victoria, and have over 2100 single mother members.
www.csmc.org.au
Quit Victoria
The Quit Victoria website with information on how to quit smoking.
www.quit.org.au
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Home » Personal Health » Ashley Graham Does Yoga While Pregnant With Twins—Here's Why an Ob-Gyn Calls It a 'Really Good Exercise'
Ashley Graham Does Yoga While Pregnant With Twins—Here's Why an Ob-Gyn Calls It a 'Really Good Exercise'
Model Ashley Graham has made it a point to stay active during her pregnancies. She regularly posted videos and photos on Instagram of herself working out while she was pregnant with her first son, Isaac. Now, she's giving a look into what she's been doing to stay active during her current pregnancy with twin boys.
Graham, 34, dropped a sped-up video on Instagram of herself working through various yoga poses—including cat pose, cow pose, and downward dog—under the guidance of yoga teacher Sophie Ella Green. "Preggo yoga sesh," Graham wrote in the caption of the November 30 video.
People cheered Graham on in the comments. "HOW are you managing this?! Superwoman. Hope it's making you feel amazing ❤," one person wrote. "👏👏 You're super woman 😍 I'm 32 weeks with twins and finding it hard to get out of bed some days," another said.
During her last pregnancy, Graham shared videos of herself lifting weights and going through HIIT workouts. She also did yoga during her first pregnancy, sharing a picture of one of her sessions back then. It seems like she's sticking with the gentler exercise this time around, and that's exactly what the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) advises when a person is expecting multiples.
"Staying active during multiple pregnancy is important for your health, but you may need to avoid strenuous exercise," ACOG says online. "Try low-impact exercise, such as swimming, prenatal yoga, and walking. You should aim for 30 minutes of exercise a day. If problems arise during your pregnancy, your ob-gyn may recommend that you avoid exercise."
Yoga in particular "reduces stress, improves flexibility, and encourages stretching and focused breathing," ACOG says, noting that prenatal yoga classes "often teach modified poses that accommodate a pregnant woman's shifting balance."
"As long as you avoid any poses that could be dangerous, there are many benefits to doing yoga during pregnancy," Christine Greves, MD, ob-gyn at the Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies in Orlando, Florida, tells Health. So that means avoiding poses that could put pressure on your abdomen, as well as ones that would have you lying on your back for longer periods of time, she says.
"Prental yoga can improve your mood, help you sleep better, reduce your stress levels, and increase muscle strength," Dr. Greves explains. "It's definitely a good thing." Muscles can also get tight during pregnancy, and the stretching you do during prenatal yoga can help loosen them, she says.
While it's unclear exactly how far along Graham is with her pregnancy, Dr. Greves says you can do prenatal yoga "throughout your pregnancy," including right up until you deliver. Overall, she says, "this is a really good exercise to do when you're expecting."
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