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74 Wednesday Motivational Quotes to Get You Through the Week
Some of us look forward to Wednesdays—considering they mark the halfway point through the typical work week—while others dread "Hump Days." Wednesdays are often busy and sometimes tiring, considering they're in the middle of the week. That being said, a Wednesday doesn't necessarily have to be a hectic, boring, or generally bad day.
If the week seems to be dragging and you need some encouragement to stay motivated, reading Wednesday motivational quotes can help put you in a better mindset. We're here to help you get over the weekday hump and have a happy Wednesday. After all, you don't have to wait for Monday to kick off an exciting new project, or Saturday and Sunday to have some fun. Wednesdays are full of possibilities—so here's to having a happy Hump Day.
To make the most of your Wednesdays:
Celebrate little victories by focusing on your progress and your accomplishments this week.
Stick to a self-care routine that keeps your energy up. Give yourself time to unwind, rest, play, and relax.
Work hard and play hard. Know when to shut down work once the day is over.
Build moments of joy and gratitude into your Hump Days. Coupled with a sense of accomplishment, this is the best way to have a happy Wednesday.
Read inspiring Wednesday motivational quotes related to your core values and purpose.
Keep the big picture in mind. Ask yourself how you can change the world for the better this week.
74 Wednesday Motivational Quotes
Inspirational Quotes for Wednesdays
"All progress takes place outside of your comfort zone." — Michael John Bobak
2. "Becoming isn't about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn't end." — Michelle Obama
3. "It always seems impossible until it's done." — Nelson Mandela
4. "Mostly, the world sees you the way you see yourself." — Lisa Nichols
5. "Life is about making an impact, changing things, and leaving things better than you found them." — Munmi Sarma
6. "Our humanity has the tendency to lead us in the wrong paths, but it is never too late to change direction." — Pierre Thompson
7. "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. If a man is working towards a predetermined goal and knows where he is going, that man is a success." — Earl Nightingale
8. "Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." — Maya Angelou
Wednesday Quotes for Productivity
9. "Wednesday will either make you or break you. You are either on the upward trend or the downward slide to the end of the work week. Give it all you got this Wednesday!" — Catherine Pulsifer
10. "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." — Sam Ewing
11. "We are not our best intentions. We are what we do." — Amy Dickinson
12. "The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. "You do not find the happy life. You make it." — Camilla Eyring Kimball
14. "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard." — Tim Notke
15. "If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time." — Steve Jobs
16. "Good things happen to those who hustle." — Anaïs Nin
17. "Wishes are for birthdays and shooting stars, but knowing without a doubt what you want and how you're going to get it is a concrete commitment." — Scott Allan
18. "Many men of great intellect insist that unless one has to pay or work hard for something, one never fully appreciates it." — Og Mandino
19. "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." ― Walt Disney
20. "I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." — Thomas Jefferson
21. "Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do." — Edson Arantes do Nascimento
22. "The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights." — Muhammad Ali
23. "Go the extra mile. It's never crowded there." —Dr. Wayne Dyer
24. "Don't be busy, be productive." — Anonymous
Hump Day Quotes for Strength and Overcoming Challenges
25. "We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action." — Dr. Henry Link
26. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." — Albert Einstein
27. "The difference between winners and ordinary people is winners follow through despite fear while others just dream and take no action." — Calvin K. Lee
28. "No matter the task, perseverance is the ability to keep going in spite of obstacles and challenges. Perseverance is the realization that challenges along the way are only minor detours on the march to success." — Byron Pulsifer
29. "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." — Henry Ford
30. "I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying." — Michael Jordan
31. "We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes— understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success." — Arianna Huffington
32. "Not all positive change feels positive in the beginning." — S. C. Lourie
33. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." — Winston Churchill
34. "Sometimes, you have to give up. Sometimes, knowing when to give up, when to try something else, is genius. Giving up doesn't mean stopping. Don't ever stop." — Phil Knight
35. "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." — David Brinkley
36. "The successful, motivated person realizes that obstacles, failures, roadblocks, and issues teach more about success than does achieving instant success." — Catherine Pulsifer
37. "If you're going through hell, keep going." — Winston Churchill
38. "Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." — Theodore N. Vail
39. "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." — John R. Wooden
Wednesday Motivation for a Great Morning Routine
40. "Every morning is a revolution against the darkness." ― Mehmet Murat Ildan
41. "I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over, so I refuse to have a bad day." — Paul Henderson
42. "I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning." — J. B. Priestley
43. "Wake up determined, go to bed satisfied." — Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
44. "No great thing is created suddenly." — Epictetus
45. "There is no substitute for hard work." — Thomas Edison
46. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." — Theodore Roosevelt
47. "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." — Robert Collier
48. "Remember that even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise, and, with it, a new day." — Victor Hugo
49. "The beginning is always today." — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
50. "Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games." — Babe Ruth
Wednesday Motivational Quotes for Practicing Gratitude
51. "Happiness is not by chance, but by choice." — Jim Rohn
52. "Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive." — Hafez
53. "Happy Wednesday! Happiness is found from within when you learn to appreciate your blessings, LIVE in the present and LOVE!" — Tracey Edmonds
54. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." — Henry Davis Thoreau
55. "Life is full of small treasures that we collect here and there, but every now and then we must say thanks." — Danielle Duckery
56. "When we train our minds to radiate positive viewpoints, we will see positive results in our lives." — John Vaulkner
57. "Wednesday is a day to help others celebrate life. You, and only you, are accountable for what you extend and give to others. One smile not only increases your value but it gives joy to each person you meet." — Byron Pulsifer
58. "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." — Henry Ward Beecher
59. "As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better." — Dr. Steve Maraboli
60. "Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other." — Brian Tracy
61. "The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one." — Oscar Wilde
62. "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." — Charles R. Swindoll
63. "The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything." — Andreas Tsatoumas
Humorous Motivational Wednesday Quotes
64. "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." — Chinese Proverb
65. "It's okay to look at the past and the future. Just don't stare." — Benjamin Dover
66. "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing; that's why we recommend it daily." — Zig Ziglar
67. "The road to success is always under construction." — Lily Tomlin
68. "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." — Albert Einstein
69. "Never miss a good chance to shut up." ― Will Rogers
70. "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." — Mark Twain
71. "To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone." — Reba McEntire
72. "When you do more than you're paid for, eventually you'll be paid for more than you do." — Zig Ziglar
73. "If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." — Tallulah Bankhead
74. "Your life is your story; you can write out any characters who aren't enhancing the plot." — Anonymous
Staying Motivated by Focusing on Your Purpose
When the work week leaves you feeling zapped of energy or burned out, bring your attention back to your core values and mission in life. Figure out what you're most passionate about, which natural strengths you have to share with the world, and what lights you up. Finding your calling—and pursuing it—is entirely possible with the right strategies and mindset.
Need help determining where to direct your energy? Check out this article: How to Find Your Passion and Live Abundantly.
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Q: (Action).Name does not return expected values I have the following method (used to generate friendly error messages in unit tests):
protected string MethodName<TTestedType>(Action<TTestedType> call)
{
    return string.Format("{0}.{1}", typeof(TTestedType).FullName, call.Method.Name);
}

But when I call it as follows, I don't get the expected results:
var nm = MethodName<MyController>(ctrl => ctrl.Create());

After running this code, nm contains "<Create_CreateShowsView>b__8", and not (as expected) "Create". How should I change the code to obtain the expected result?

A: You need to pass an Expression instead of an Action.  It's actually not that hard to use expression trees for this once you understand what the tree looks like.
The line of code:
(MyClass c) => c.TestMethod();

Can be broken down as as a lambda expression (the entire block), containing one parameter (c, on the left side), and a body (c.TestMethod(), on the right side).
Then the "body" is a method call on a specific object (which is the parameter, c), an actual method (TestMethod), and a set of arguments (in this case, there aren't any).
Visually:
            LambdaExpression   [ (MyClass c) => c.TestMethod() ]
             /           \
            /             \
           /               \
      Parameters          Body   [ MethodCallExpression: c.TestMethod() ]
          |              /    \
          |             /      \
    1: MyClass c    Object [c]  \
                                /\
                               /  \
                              /    \
             Method [TestMethod]  Arguments [Empty]

What you want is the method name, inside the method call expression, inside the body of the lambda expression.  So the code to get this is:
static string GetInnerMethodName<T>(Expression<Action<T>> expr)
{
    MethodCallExpression mce = expr.Body as MethodCallExpression;
    return (mce != null) ? mce.Method.Name : null;
}

Of course, this will only work if the Expression<Action<T>> passed in is a genuine method call expression; the consumer of this method could technically pass in any expression, in which case this will just return null.  You can adjust this to throw an exception instead, return a default value, or perform whatever other action you think is appropriate.
You don't need to do anything special to use this - it's the same usage as your original method:
string methodName = GetInnerMethodName<MyClass>(c => c.TestMethod());

A: That b__8 thing is the name of the method that is generated by the C# compiler for your lambda.  You can see this by using Reflector, for instance.
If you need it to say "Create", you'll have to actually make a method named Create.  And of course it needs to fit into an Action, so it will have to return void.

In simple cases, you could create a method that takes a string indicating a method to be called, and return an action that calls that method on an object of a specified type.  See for instance this tutorial.

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A Day Trip to Verona from Venice
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Just about an hour from Venice sits a beautiful Italian city along the Adige River. A decade ago when we first moved to Italy, Verona was hardly more than a setting in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and a city often overlooked on most traveler's Italy itinerary. Though there's actually little evidence that the star-crossed lovers ever existed, romantics now regularly make the pilgrimage to follow in the the footsteps of Romeo and Juliet. But there's a lot more to Verona beyond Juliet's now famous balcony. Though we've been to Verona countless times, Walks of Italy makes it incredibly easy to eat up the best the City of Love has to offer with a day trip to Verona from Venice perfect for your first visit.
Verona in a Day
A compact city, it's easy to cover all of the Verona attractions in a day trip from Venice. Walks of Italy, one of our favorite small group tour companies for their Italian expertise, makes a day trip from Venice to Verona easy. They whisk you off from Venice in a comfortable vehicle and you arrive at one the most stunning viewpoints over Verona, which is often missed by most tourists visiting on their own.
Panorama of Verona from Piazzale Castel San Pietro
In inhabited since Roman times, the Castel San Pietro sits high on a hill strategically overlooking Verona and offering the most magnificent view of the city. It's almost always crowd-free, with the exception of knowing Veronese that come to enjoy a drink away from the tourists.
The current Castel San Pietro was built by the Austrians in 1851 and affords a magnificent view over Verona
The original fortress, which now is nothing more than some ruins, was built by Berengar of Friuli during his reign as King of Italy sometime around 887. It was destroyed during barbarian invasions, and Castel San Pietro was built atop the ruins by Gian Galeazzo Visconti in 1398. That fortress dominated the hill over Verona for 400 years, until the French destroyed it in 1801. The castle we see still standing today, which isn't open to the public, was a much more recent addition when it was built by the Austrians in 1851.
Not only is Castel San Pietro the perfect starting point for a Verona tour because of the stunning view over the ancient stone bridge, the historic Verona city centre and the Adige River, but also because it's representative of Verona's fascinating history dating back to ancient times.
It's here that the Verona walking tour begins as you head down the hill toward the city walls that once completely surrounded the City of Love.
Verona Cathedral dates back to 380AD when the first cathedral stood on this site during Roman times
Once inside the historic centre, the first stop is one of the must-see Verona sights: the massive complex of the Verona Duomo. It dates back to 380AD, though that original cathedral quickly proved too small and was ultimately destroyed by an earthquake. A larger cathedral was built on the site from the 8th – 9th centuries, once again to be badly damaged by another earthquake in 1117. The current cathedral we see today was once again reconstructed on the same site between 1117 – 1138, and the Gothic style of the interior came later from a remodel in 16th century.
Piazza delle Erbe has served as Verona's marketplace for 2000 years
On to Piazza delle Erbe, it's a bustling scene with its market stalls selling everything from fresh produce to tourist trinkets, and simply must be included as one of the best things to do in Verona. Named for Verona's old herb market, this piazza has been used as a marketplace for 2000 years. The fountain in the middle of the piazza, which is often hard to see because of the market stalls surrounding it, was erected in the 14th century as a homage to Piazza delle Erbe's long history as a marketplace.
Palazzo Maffei with its ornate facade is easily the most striking building on Piazza delle Erbe
It's such a busy piazza, that it can be hard to absorb all the details. The Walks of Italy guide points out some details, like the Baroque Palazzo Maffei at the north-western end of the piazza. It's easily the most striking building on the piazza with its ornate facade and six statues of the Greek gods of Hercules, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, Apollo and Minerva looking down upon the Veronese. In triumphant column topped with the Venetian lion rises up just in front of the palazzo, signifying Verona was once part of the Venetian empire.
A whale bone with a tall legend curiously has dangled from the Arco della Costa since the 17th century
Before leaving Piazza delle Erbe, there's one last often overlooked detail the guide points out. Curiously, there's an ancient whale bone that dangles from an iron chain from the Arco della Costa…and it's been hanging there since the 17th century.
Of course, there's a legend associated with this whale bone. It's said that it will fall upon the first person to pass beneath who has never told a lie. And even though everyone including Popes have passed beneath that whale bone, it has remained hanging in place. I guess there's only one conclusion if the legend is indeed true: we're all liars.
Even how the whale bone came to hang from the arch has some tall tales. Some believe it's a fossil from the Lessini hills outside of Verona, others believe it to be a relic from the Holy Land brought back by Crusaders. One tale even says it was a slick marketing ploy by the pharmacist who opened up shop on the corner of the piazza. At that time, it was believed that there were medicinal properties in powder from ground up whale bones. How did it really get there? We'll probably never know for sure.
What we do know for sure is that the whale bone is suspended from the Arco della Costa, with its suspended bridge atop the arch. This bridge connected the former city hall with the magistrates' quarters, and was used by magistrates and judges to give them a passageway to avoid petitioners in the street below. That's likely where the legend and association of the whale bone with truth stemmed from.
Call out to your Romeo from Juliet's balcony in Verona
Of course, the highlight of a day in Verona for many is seeing Juliet's balcony. It's clearly among the top things to do in Verona as the excited chatter can be heard well before you even reach even reach the door of the supposed Capulet's house.
Better than love locks, visitors plaster love notes on the walls of the entry to Juliet's courtyard in Verona
The walls of the arched tunnel in to the Capulet's courtyard is wallpapered with the notes of lovers from around the world. If you want to stick your own up on the wall, come prepared with it. Even on a quiet day in Verona, Juliet's house can become a madhouse. Some bus tours make a quick stop to see Juliet's balcony alone.
In the courtyard there's a bronze statue of Juliet Capulet, and you'll see her right breast gleams a shiny gold. Much like visitors have rubbed the foot of the bronze statue of Saint Peter in Rome's Saint Peter's Basilica, visitors rub Juliet's right breast for a bit of luck with love. Ironic, since Juliet herself was anything but lucky in love.
To actually go out on Juliet's balcony, you have to enter the house. Juliet's house, which formerly belonged to the Capello family, was purchased by the city of Verona in 1905 and is a small museum that has just a few costumes from the time period of Romeo & Juliet. It costs just a few Euros to enter the house.
Romeo's house is simply marked by a sign and isn't open to the public
We also see Romeo's house, though there's far less fanfare that over at Juliet's. It's not open to the public, and nothing more than a sign marks the spot of the house.
Though the Capulets and the Montagues never actually existed, the Della Scala family was a very real and prominent family in Verona. In fact, the Scaligeri, as the family members were known, ruled Verona in the 13th and 14th centuries. It was also during the Scaligeri's reign that Romeo and Juliet supposedly lived, loved and died. And while you might now find much about the Della Scala family in museums, their legacy lives on through some of the beautiful castles erected under their rule throughout the Veneto, like Marostica and Soave.
The Della Scala family tombs are often overlooked when visiting Verona
The ornate tombs of the most important family members are right in the centre of Verona, located in the courtyard of the church Santa Maria Antica. And you don't even have to enter the church or courtyard to appreciate them. Often overlooked by tourists rushing to the attractions in Verona like Juliet's balcony or the Arena di Verona, it's worth stopping to admire the Scaligeri tombs.
Dante lived in a residence on the piazza with the Della Scala family for a time
The tombs are located close to Piazza dei Signori. It was once upon a time Verona's main piazza, and was surrounded by the Della Scala family palaces. A statue of Dante Aligheri looking rather pensive stands prominently in the center of the piazza, as a homage to the fact that Dante lived here in Cangrande's residence from 1312 to 1318.
Arena di Verona is actually older than Rome's Colosseum
And no Verona day trip would be complete without a visit to the Arena of Verona. The Walks of Italy Verona sightseeing tour includes entry in to the Arena, which is simply one of the things to see in Verona that cannot be left out.
With Walks, you skip-the-line and visit inside of Arena di Verona while learning all about the history and secrets of this monumental structure.
The Arena di Verona is actually older than the Colosseum in Rome. Built in 30 AD (the Colosseum would follow with construction between 70 AD – 80 AD), it held 30,000 spectators and is the third largest amphitheater in the world. It's actually still in use today, primarily for the summer long Verona Opera Festival every year.
Arena di Verona is still in use today, with a summer opera festival every year
Much like the facade of Rome's Colosseum, the Arena di Verona's facade also was once covered in marble. Pink and white marble from Valpolicella composed the outer ring, which was almost completely destroyed in the same earthquake of 1117 that nearly reduced the Verona Cathedral to rubble. It was quarried and reused to build other buildings. Though it suffered damage, it's best preserved ancient amphitheater left today. And far less crowded than the Colosseum in Rome.
Though this is a full day tour to Verona, lunch isn't included. And that's not a bad thing. There are many delicious places to discover in Verona, and we much prefer having a bit of time on our own to eat where we enjoy.
The other great thing about this Walks Verona day trip from Venice is that Walks provides you with a train ticket back to Venice. You can stay after the tour for as long as you like to explore some sights you might want a bit more time at, to do some shopping at some of Verona's many stores, or even stay to see an opera at the Arena di Verona if you're visiting from June through September.
You can leave letters in Juliet's mailbox, which are all answered by official volunteers at the Juliet Club
Romeo & Juliet in Verona
Once upon a time two teenagers fell hopelessly in love at a ball. Romeo famously professed that love to the girl he fell in love with at first sight one night as she appeared on the balcony of her family home.
It's a famous Shakespeare story, but much debated and unlikely that Romeo and Juliet actually ever existed. So how exactly did a small town in Italy's Veneto become the setting of one of the most tragic love stories of all time?
Verona was immortalized in Shakespeare's famous story featuring the lovers Romeo and Juliet. But as with many of this other works, he often drew inspiration from popular oral stories. He also seemed to have an affinity for Italy, setting a third of his plays in Italian cities like Rome, Verona, Venice and Padua. He even wrote another play set in Verona, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, before he wrote Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet was inspired by the poem, The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, written by Arthur Brooke in 1562. Brooke wasn't even the first to tell the tale, as his poem was inspired by even earlier Italian published works telling the story of Romeo and Giuletta and the feud between the Montecchi and Capelletti families. These very names were even mention by Dante in The Divine Comedy (Purgatorio, Canto VI, v. 106) published back as far as the 1300s when he lived in Verona, though Dante never mentioned anything about these two being lovers.
Juliet's house, located at 23 Via Cappello, was a real house inhabited by the Cappello family and does date back to the 13th century. Cappello is a sister name to the fictional Capelletti in Romeo and Juliet. You might be disappointed to learn that the famous balcony of Juliet's house wasn't added until the 20th century, though.
Even so, Verona has become the hometown of Romeo and Juliet. People have flocked from all over the world to the City of Love, making Verona the fourth most visited city in Italy, just to walk the streets where these medieval lovers supposedly lived and loved.
Juliet's house also became the subject of the movie Letters to Juliet, since it has received more than 5000 letters every year since 1930. Every single letter received is personally responded to by a group of volunteers known as the Juliet Club. You can even leave your letter in the special red mailbox in the courtyard of Juliet's house.
Taglioni with black truffle from Lessina
Where to Eat in Verona
Verona has no shortage of restaurants seeming spilling out of every side of every piazza. But just like in other popular Italian cities, you need to know what to watch out for in order to find a the best restaurants in Verona.
First, knowing what the regional cuisine is like helps you decipher a tourist menu from a good, traditional restaurant serving local and seasonal ingredients. When in Verona, some typical dishes that are excellent to try are:
risotto alla radicchio: rice is widely grown in the Veneto, and radicchio is a typical red cabbage grown in the Veneto
bigoli: every region of Italy has a type of pasta that they're known for, and bigoli (think a really thick spaghetti noodle) is typical in the Veneto
gnocchi: the potato dumplings are also traditional in the Veneto
pasta e fasoi: a traditional Veronese dish, this is not the pasta e fagioli a la Olive Garden – but it is delicious and particularly the thing to try if you're traveling to Verona in winter
taglioni black truffles from Lessina
wild boar ragu (cinghale): a typical ragu that is delicious and well worth trying
beef cheek braised in Amarone wine – a very typical main course braised in the famous wine of the Valpolicella
horse meat: if you're feeling a bit adventurous, horse meat is very typical on menus in Verona (Tim has had it, but I won't personally try it because I had horses while growing up)
cod or lake fish
polenta: a porridge of boiled cornmeal served various ways and practically with every main course
Now that you know what to eat, a few recommendations for restaurants in Verona:
Trattoria Dal Taio di Mazzi Davide, Via Fratelli Alessandri 11
Café Carducci, Via Giosuè Carducci 12
Ristorante Maffei, Piazza delle Erbe 38
Osteria Il Bertoldo, Vicolo Cadrega 2a
The Veronese dessert dedicated to the City of Love's most famous lovers
For dessert, especially if you are a Romeo and Juliet fan, try to the Baci di Giulietta e Romeo (Juliet's kiss and Romeo's kiss). While this isn't a traditional Veronese dessert and instead was born out of Verona's modern day dedication as the hometown of these lovers, these little hazelnut and almond cakes are a delicious addition to Veronese fare.
The essential ingredients are almonds and hazelnuts, then depending on whether it is the "kiss" of Romeo or Juliet, they are also flavored with either cocoa or coconut. A ganache filling of either chocolate or vanilla sticks to the two cakes together.
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If anyone is on the fence about whether or not to binge the entire Jim Varney collection of "Ernest goes somewhere or does something" movies while perusing the Netflix catalog, there's some bad news. Netflix has removed every user review that was ever posted to the site, according to Indiewire. That means if someone wants to see how a movie has been rated, why people did or didn't like something, or wants to leave a review, their only option is to go to Google to find some answers or a place to post.
Netflix hosted a wealth of reviews, some useful and some horrible, but for anyone that had interest, they were available. For many users, Netflix was the "go to" destination for reviews. Some reviewers were so good, that they built up followings who chose shows and movies for their queue list based on those recommendations. Many users cited that they really enjoyed being able to do everything related to their viewing on one site. Now, that's all over.
Netflix posted on their help page that use of the review section was declining. On their blog, they stated the same, saying it no longer made sense to allocate resources to hosting and maintaining it. Not everyone is buying that as the real reason, though.
Netflix began tinkering with the review system last year when the ability to rate programs on the 1-5 star scale was scrapped, and ratings solely became thumbs up or thumbs down. That was a fairly unpopular move that was heavily criticized, but it fits in with the theory that what is really behind all the changes to the rating system and scrapping reviews is about trying to eliminate as much negativity on the site as possible.
As Indiewire discussed, Netflix appears to have concerns that low star ratings or bad reviews would sway people to not watch something. The line of logic is that if something is good, people will watch it without the need to see ratings or reviews. If something is bad however, there is no need to emphasize that and people should watch and draw their own conclusions. It's all about keeping people on the site as long as possible. Not all fans are in agreement with this.


Having a dog with rabies is frightening, but what's more scary is not knowing the signs. Given the rapid onset of the disease, and how low the survival rate is once symptoms show, it pays to know what the virus looks like before it is too late. If you believe your dog might have contracted rabies, you should take them to the vet immediately.
Rabies is terrifying -- it sets in quickly and the rate of survival once symptoms are present is staggeringly low. While the likelihood of your dog actually contracting rabies is very low, especially since most states require your dog to be vaccinated, if you have any reason to believe that your dog has rabies, it helps to know what to keep an eye out for. Here are some of the most notable symptoms of a dog with rabies.
Often the first sign of rabies (as well as a lot of other diseases), if your dog is acting unusually tired or low-energy, it could be a symptom of the onset of rabies.
Yet another universal symptom that can be attributed to rabies, dogs suffering from the virus often run a fever, as a high temperature is one of the body's primary responses to a viral infection.
Also symptomatic of a plethora of conditions, vomiting is often a sign that your dog is fighting off something. While a vomiting dog is rarely cause to rush to the hospital for fear of rabies, if you have reason to suspect that your dog is infected, it's time to head to the vet.
The quintessential rabies trademark -- foaming at the mouth. A result of a paralysis of the jaw or throat, a dog with rabies often has problems swallowing, which can cause slight drooling (not to be mistaken with everyday drooling, if your dog is a slobberer), or all out frothing. Another result of jaw/throat paralysis is an inability to eat or drink, which should also be noted as a potential symptom of rabies.
Dogs suffering from rabies tend to experience a heightened sensitivity to a number of things, predominantly light, touch, and sound. Photophobia, or sensitivity to light, is the most notable sensitivity, resulting in dogs receding from brightly lit areas and squinting. Sensitivity to sound and touch can be harder to discern, considering your dog would most likely already be acting erratically, making it hard to differentiate between your dog overreacting to sound or touch stimuli, or just acting peculiar in general. These sensitivities can become so severe as to result in a seizure.
Known to make otherwise friendly dogs vicious, this virus can effect your dog in a couple of behavioral ways. There is the widely perceived "furious" type of rabies, in which a dog will exhibit aggressive behavior -- snapping, growling, and yelping at the drop of a hat -- and there is the more sedated "paralytic" type of rabies (aka dumb rabies) in which a dog appears weak and lacking in coordination, resulting in partial paralysis. Cases can vary, and in many instances, dogs will exhibit a mixture of both types of rabies behavior, often with rapid, unpredictable changes between the two.
Since the odds of surviving rabies are so low, if you have reason to believe that your dog might have come into contact with the virus from a wild animal or another dog who was acting strangely, it's best to take them to the vet regardless of any visible symptoms. Early treatment is the best chance for survival.


The K-Kids of Dillsburg Elementary School participated in the Relay for Life Chili Fest on Saturday, March 30, 2019. They had a great time scooping out chili to attendees and watching their faces to see if they enjoyed the chili and salsa. As it turns out, they did. Our chili and salsa received 2nd place!
Thank you Mrs. Liberatore, Kiwanis member and Dillsburg Elementary School parent, and Mrs. Lombardo, Kiwanis member and Dillsburg Elementary School cook, for making chili for the K-Kids to serve. It was nice to be a part of raising monies and awareness for the Relay for Life.
Pictured: Cooper Liberatore enjoying some winning chili.
Pictured above: Austin Elliott, Nicholas Liberatore, Connor Jones, Charlotte Pinamonti.


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Girl Dies in Apparent Accidental Drowning at Westmont Hotel Swimming Pool
Police said foul play was not suspected and that her death appeared to be "an unfortunate, tragic accident"
State child welfare authorities are investigating the death of an 11-year-old girl who apparently drowned at a hotel swimming pool Saturday night in west suburban Westmont.
Daniya Deloach was in a swimming pool with relatives at 9:56 p.m. at the Hilton Chicago/Oak Brook Hills Resort, 3500 Midwest Road in Westmont, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office and Westmont Police Sgt. Tim Radtke. At some point while she was in the pool, she apparently began to drown.
Westmont Fire Department paramedics took her to Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, and she was later transferred to Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Radtke said.
Daniya, who lived on Chicago's West Side, was pronounced dead at Lutheran General at 11:28 p.m., according to the medical examiner's office. An autopsy Wednesday did not rule on the cause and manner of her death pending further investigation.
Radtke said foul play was not suspected and that her death appeared to be "an unfortunate, tragic accident."
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is investigating Daniya's death, department spokeswoman Alissandra Calderon said. The investigation is pending.
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What both studies found was that the facts on the ground were at variance with popular Western perceptions. As the IDS study noted, "Those of us exposed regularly to the international, especially British, media found it hard to match what we heard on the TV and radio and read in the newspapers with what we were finding on the ground." There were a number of misperceptions, which in large part the team felt were due to "a simple lack of solid, field-level data." (3) Although it is true that there has been such a lack, this factor alone does not account for the inaccuracy of Western news reports. The ideological factor is paramount, as always. For that reason, even though concrete information is now available, the tone of Western reports is unlikely to change.
It can never be stressed enough that Zimbabwe inherited a highly unequal land ownership pattern from apartheid Rhodesia. By 2002, 70 percent of the richest farmland still remained in the hands of just 4,500 white commercial farmers, focused mainly on producing crops for export. Meanwhile, one million indigenous families eked out a bare existence, crowded into an arid region of limited suitability for agriculture, known as the 'communal' areas. Fast-track land reform redistributed much of the commercial farmland to some 170,000 families. Whatever its faults in execution, the process has undeniably created a significantly more equitable distribution of land than what prevailed before.
That is not the story the Western audience hears. Instead, we are told that fast track land reform was a "land grab" by "cronies," bringing about a more unequal distribution of land than what had preceded it. Yet the surveys conducted by the AIAS and the IDS found that most beneficiaries of land reform were ordinary people, whereas those who might be categorized as "elites" constituted a small minority. According to the IDS, this minority amounted to less than five percent.
But it does leave open the question of how one determines who an "elite" is and who is not. That one works for the government does not in itself mean that one is an "elite" or a "crony," nor that one has necessarily ignored the application process and simply bullied one's way into being granted land. Such cases did occur, but they hardly constitute the typical experience of resettled farmers. "That some of the beneficiaries are 'elites' is undisputed," notes the AIAS. "What is in dispute is their character and the extent of their benefit. The tendency to generalize the notion of an 'elite' leaves unexplained the social content of the concept, and assumes that it lacks differentiation in a dynamic process of class formation." Government job holders, war veterans and ZANU-PF members are lumped together with high ranking officials as "elites," or "cronies". It is assumed that all bypassed the land application process in order to seize land.
There has indeed been a decline in agricultural production in recent years, although for varied and complex reasons. Certainly one of the key factors responsible for the decline is that Zimbabwe's entire economy has shrunk by around 40 percent since the year 2000. By abandoning the destructive Western-initiated structural adjustment program, and then by accelerating land reform efforts in order to achieve a more equitable distribution of land, Zimbabwe triggered Western hostility. Neoliberal sensitivities were offended, and punishment was not long in coming. By late 2001, President George W. Bush signed into law the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act, which instructed U.S. officials in international financial institutions to "oppose and vote against any extension by the respective institution of any loan, credit, or guarantee to the government of Zimbabwe." The U.S. wields enormous influence in the decisions of the IMF, World Bank and other international financial institutions. Great Britain and other Western countries were of like mind, and Zimbabwe found itself shut out of the kind of normal credit operations that are essential for any modern economy to operate.
Western meddling did not stop there, and the net effect was to cause the Zimbabwean economy to take a nosedive, a trend which unavoidably had an adverse impact on agricultural operations. Agriculture does not exist in isolation. In myriad ways it is interrelated to the general economy, and it cannot remain unperturbed by a deep economic downturn. For all of their expressed concern for Zimbabwe's agricultural productivity, Western leaders must bear a major portion of the responsibility for its decline. But then, that is what sanctions are intended to do: sow economic ruin in the target nation.
Western media have distorted the pre-land reform picture as well. Contrary to the rosy picture painted of the apartheid-era inherited land ownership pattern, most commercial farms focused on export crops such as tobacco, while the bulk of food for domestic use was grown by communal farmers. In more than half of the years in the two decades preceding fast track land reform, Zimbabwe needed to import food. (9) It is simply untrue that the import of food is a new development in Zimbabwe's history.
International NGOs for the most part refused to provide any services to resettled farmers, and focused their efforts elsewhere. Relying for their funding on Western governments hostile to the land reform process, NGOs were loath to support the beneficiaries of a process they preferred to see fail. (16) Less than three percent of resettled farmers in the AIAS study sample received extension support from NGOs. "Input assistance from NGOs was even lower with 1.7 percent of the beneficiaries having received such support." (17) AIAS interviews with NGO officials revealed that the organizations were opposed to operating in resettled areas because they regarded land reform as illegitimate. (18) These humanitarian organizations, it seems, were much happier with the old system, in which the many suffered hunger and privation while the wealthy few thrived.
One of the primary goals of land reform in Zimbabwe was poverty alleviation, a deeply unpopular concept in the U.S. and Great Britain, but one that still means something in much of the rest of the world. While not every farmer is succeeding, the majority of resettled farmers have experienced real change in their lives. As one farmer explained, "We are happier here at the resettlement. There is more land, plots are larger and there is no overcrowding. Last season I got very good yields, and filled two granaries with sorghum. Following resettlement, there is now a future for my family, and my sons will have land." (22) Another man had "little land to farm" prior to resettlement, and relied for help from his relatives in order to survive. He and his wife have managed to clear four hectares on their new farm. "Before I had no cattle," he said, "but now I own five head, all purchased through farming. I have also managed to buy a plow." In a turnaround, no longer needing support from his family, it is he who helps family members back in the communal areas during periods of drought, and sends cash to pay for his young brothers' school fees. "The new land has transformed our lives," he remarks. (23) According to another farmer, "Life has changed remarkably for me because I have more land and can produce more than I used to." (24) These are typical comments from resettled farmers.
This is not to say that there are no problems. For example, as the IDS study points out, "The failure of input supply and delivery has seriously hampered production." (26) Indeed, improving the supply of inputs is perhaps the single most important task need.
Still, despite these problems, fast track land reform has created a vastly more equitable distribution of land compared to the previous lopsided ownership pattern. Poverty alleviation has been real, and many have for the first time in their lives been given hope. Resettled farmers are determined to succeed. As one put it, "Land is what we fought for. Our relatives died for this land… Now we must make use of it." (29) As a sovereign nation, Zimbabwe has the right to improve its citizens' lives, regardless of how offensive that ambition is to the imperialist nations. The land belongs to the people of Zimbabwe, and resettled farmers are succeeding in spite of the obstacles thrown in their way by Western sanctions and interference.
(1) "Fast Track Land Reform Baseline Study in Zimbabwe: Trends and Tendencies, 2005/06," African Institute for Agrarian Studies, December 2009.
(2) Ian Scoones, et al, "Zimbabwe's Land Reform: Myths and Realities," James Currey, 2010.


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Genes and Social Behavior
By Ryan Chen
Social behavior is exhibited by a wide range of organisms including social bacteria, slime moulds, social insects, social shrimp, naked mole-rats, and humans. It is behavior among two or more organisms, typically from the same species. Usually when people think of social behavior, they picture, communication, organization and dominance. In sociable organisms such as humans and honey bees, the group is centered around the society that they had built up, they count on each other and usually follow a mutualistic relationship. In humans, there are societal norms that everyone grew up with and fundamental, unspoken rules that everyone tries to follow, such as the Golden Rule, "Treat others as you would like them to treat you". But where do these rules come from? The majority would have been refined through trial and error, where humans evolved and adapted their communication and social behavior strategies to the particular situation, after thousands of years of honing, we now have many different types of government, one crucial aspect of our social behavior. Obviously, not every person is the same nor do they think the same, some of their social behaviors might have been developed through their upbringing, or their environment. But as we dig deeper, the signs all point to our DNA.
Eusociality, the highest level of organization of animal sociality, is defined by the following characteristics: cooperative brood care (including care of offspring from other individuals), overlapping generations within a colony of adults, and a division of labor into reproductive and non-reproductive groups. To examine higher insect social order, researchers looked into the potential evolutionary history of a "foraging gene" in honey bees (Apis mellifera) and in order to discover how foraging in bees is genetically encoded, the honey bee genome was searched for genes that may be shared by other species. A molecular basis for feeding behavior has been determined in Drosophila melanogaster, which shares a common insect ancestor with the honey bee. Genes do not specify behavior directly but rather encode molecular products that build and govern the functioning of the brain through which behavior is expressed. The "foraging gene" in D. melanogaster encodes a cGMP mediated protein kinase (PKG). Naturally occurring allelic variation produces behavioral syndromes in D. melanogaster, both "sitters" and "rovers". The needs of a honey bee colony are communicated between bees by pheromones, chemical signals which trigger behavioral responses. Honey bees have a variant of the same foraging gene that controls the onset of foraging behavior. Elevated expression of this gene correlates with increased foraging activity; precocious foraging was induced in young workers by experimentally introducing PKG.
Why You are the WayYou Are
Genotypic Jobs
Genetics and Language Development


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Posts Tagged 'Kenneth Brower'
How Color Came To Landscape Photography
Photography For Art's Sake, For Earth's Sake Or Both?
Drake's Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore, California, 1972 by Philip Hyde. This photograph was first published in the revised second edition of Island In Time, 1972.
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Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter and Philip Hyde were the three primary landscape photographers of the Sierra Club Exhibit Format Series. The Series influenced a generation of landscape photographers as it redefined the photography book and brought international attention to the protection of wild places through photographs. While Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter were both Sierra Club Board Members and committed conservationists, Philip Hyde dedicated his life to the portrayal and protection of wilderness chiefly through landscape photography.
Both Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter considered the art of photography their foremost reason for making landscape photographs. Ansel Adams went so far as to say that he did not want people to view his photographs as propaganda for any cause. If his images were used in environmental campaigns that was all for the good, but he did not want that to be thought of as the motive for their creation. In contrast, Philip Hyde expressly stated that his reason for being a landscape photographer was to "share the beauty of nature and encourage people to preserve wild places."
David Brower Sent Philip Hyde On The Projects That Made National Parks And Designated Wilderness
Though he had fine art training in Ansel Adam's photography department at the California School of Fine Arts, now the San Francisco Art institute, a fair portion of Philip Hyde's landscape photography was documentary. Dorothea Lange had a significant impact on Philip Hyde and his classmates. She spent significant time in classes at CSFA as a guest lecturer, assistant and advisor to Minor White and the students. Dorothea Lange showed the power of photography in affecting social awareness. Philip Hyde applied what he learned to conservation photography as it transformed into modern environmentalism in the 1950s and 1960s. He became the "go-to-guy" for Sierra Club Executive Director David Brower and at times for other leaders such as the Wilderness Society's Howard Zahniser, primary author of the Wilderness Act.
Eliot Porter was a doctor early in his photography career and later he came to the Sierra Club with his own completed ideas. Ansel Adams was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships to photograph the national parks. Meanwhile, Philip Hyde, young, motivated, talented, willing to work for little besides expenses, could take off on short notice wherever David Brower and other conservation leaders sent him to bring back images that would show them the beauty each place had to offer. Between the Exhibit Format Series and other photography books of the same era published by the Sierra Club, Philip Hyde had more photographs in more of the volumes than any other photographer.
This is the American Earth By Nancy Newhall and Ansel Adams Launched The Exhibit Format Series
The Exhibit Format Series was conceived in 1960 by Ansel Adams, Nancy Newhall and David Brower. The first book in the Series, This is the American Earth , mainly consisted of Ansel Adam's landscape photographs and Nancy Newhall's eloquent prose. The creators also invited a few other landscape photographers to participate such as Edward Weston, Minor White, Philip Hyde, Cedric Wright, William Garnett, Wynn Bullock, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eliot Porter, Pirkle Jones and others. An accompanying exhibition of the photographs toured nationally and internationally.
In Island In Time Is The Preservation of The First Master of Black and White, and Color Landscape Photography
In 1962, the Sierra Club published Eliot Porter's In Wildness is the Preservation of the World . It outsold all of the other books in the Exhibit Format Series including This is the American Earth . Eliot Porter became known as the photographer who introduced color to landscape photography. However, the same year the Sierra Club also published Island In Time: the Point Reyes Peninsula text by Harold Gilliam and landscape photographs by Philip Hyde. Island In Time was not a well-planned art project like In Wildness Is The Preservation Of The World. Island In Time was rushed through to have a book to show in fund raising efforts to buy the ranches of Point Reyes before developers bought the land and began to build homes. It had a more documentary look and purpose, but it also showed the world the impact of color and helped establish color photography as the new trend in publishing and printing. Island In Time: the Point Reyes Peninsula contained beautiful color landscape photographs as well as black and white images together for the first time. While Philip Hyde became the first landscape photographer to master both mediums, Island In Time helped establish Point Reyes National Seashore and color photography. For more on Philip Hyde's black and white printing and transition to color printing see the blog post, "Black And White Prints, Collectors And Philip Hyde." To read more about today's trends and concerns in color landscape photography see the blog post, "Is Landscape Photography Thriving Or Dying?" and "Did Velvia Film Change Landscape Photography?" To read about Color Magazine's feature article about Philip Hyde see the blog post, "Color Magazine Feature Out Now."
Sierra Club Records at Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley, California
Taped Interviews of Philip Hyde by David Leland Hyde
Taped Interviews of Martin Litton by David Leland Hyde
Notes from Conversations with Ken Brower
The History of the Sierra Club 1892-1970 by Michael P. Cohen
This is the American Earth by Nancy Newhall and Ansel Adams
In Wildness is the Preservation of the World photographs by Eliot Porter with quotes by Henry David Thoreau
Island In Time: The Point Reyes Peninsula text by Harold Gilliam, photographs by Philip Hyde
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
Ansel Adams: A Biography by Mary Street Alinder
For Earth's Sake: The Life and Times of David Brower by David Brower
Work In Progress by David Brower
Originally posted August 16, 2010
Posted in Photography History
Tags: Ansel Adams California California School of Fine Arts Cedric Wright David Brower Edward Weston Eliot Porter fine art photography Henri Cartier-Bresson Henry David Thoreau Island In Time Kenneth Brower landscape photography Martin Litton Minor White Nancy Newhall National Parks Philip Hyde Pirkle Jones Point Reyes Sierra Club Sierra Club Books Exhibit Format Series Sierra Nevada This Is The American Earth wilderness William Garnett Wynn Bullock
Toward a Sense of Place by Philip Hyde 1
Marble Gorge, Grand Canyon National Park, 1964, by Philip Hyde. From Navajo Wildlands, Sierra Club Books. Two miles from proposed Marble Canyon Dam site.
(See the photograph full screen: "Marble Gorge, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona." To view other photographs from the same Exhibit Format book see the photographs: "Stormlight, Canyon De Chelly National Monument, Arizona" and Navajo Wildlands Photographs In The Deserts Portfolio.)
From Navajo Wildlands: As Long As The Rivers Shall Run, Text by cultural geographer Stephen C. Jett, Photographs by Philip Hyde, with Selections from Philip Hyde, Willa Cather, Oliver La Farge and Navajo Myths and Chants, Edited by Kenneth Brower, Foreword by David Brower, Sierra Club—Ballantine Books 1967–Exhibit Format Series
*Landscape Photography Blogger Note: Clarence Dutton was like the 'John Muir' of the Grand Canyon and Colorado Plateau. As you look to explore the Colorado Plateau yourself, please be aware that the areas where people are allowed and the approaches to them have changed since 1965, especially in Canyon De Chelly National Monument. Also note that the politically correct term for the native people now is their own word, "Dineh," in its various spellings, rather than the Spanish word "Navajo," in common practice then.
Toward a Sense of Place By Philip Hyde
When Clarence Dutton explored the Plateau Province a hundred years ago, he saw that a visitor conditioned to the Alps, if he stayed long in this new country, would be shocked, oppressed, or horrified. While in Dutton's days emotion about scenery was still all right, today, indifference is popular, and we tend to take someone else's opinion about what is beautiful and flock to the recommended places. Noting this, Aldo Leopold, in A Sand County Almanac has identified the "trophy recreationist," and urges that recreational development is "not a job of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the…human mind." Indeed, a great increase in individual sensitivity might be achieved if park authorities spent as much effort on interpretation as on road building.
Dutton lead the way, and his insight about what would happen to a traveler in the Plateau Province certainly worked for me in the Navajo Country. The traveler needs time enough, he wrote, and: "Time would bring a gradual change. Someday he would become conscious that outlines which at first seem harsh and trivial have grace and meaning, that forms which seem grotesque are full of dignity, that magnitudes which have added enormity to coarseness have become replete with strength and even majesty. The colors which had been esteemed unrefined, immodest and glaring, are as expressive, tender, changeful and capacious of effects as any others. Great innovations, whether in art or literature, science, or in nature, seldom take the world by storm. They must be understood before they can be estimated. They must be cultivated before they can be understood."
A woman we met at the gas station in Newcomb volunteered that she and her husband had just driven through the Navajo Reservation and that, "there's nothing there but little round shacks. We're headed for Colorado!"
We had reached Newcomb, about halfway between Shiprock and Gallup, crossing the Chuska Mountains on a magnificent little dirt road. It wandered in the pine forest on top, discovered little aspen-ringed ponds, and found us a superb view of Shiprock, fifty miles to the northeast. It also climaxed our afternoon with an enormous thunderstorm we watched from an eminence above Two Gray Hills. I wanted to tell the couple something about what our old road had let us see, but they were off with their tank full of gas, to collect place names in Colorado like a good trophy recreationist should, ever hurrying over the ever-increasing highways that penetrate lovely country and either lacerate it or pass it by unseen.
John Ruskin said, with the invention of the steam engine: "There will always be more in the world than a man could see, walked he ever so slowly. He will see no more by going fast, for his glory is not in going but in being."
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Mitchell Butte from Mitchell Mesa, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Utah-Arizona, 1963, by Philip Hyde. From Navajo Wildlands, 1967.
Do you see Monument Valley now by whizzing past its monuments on a paved road, taking lunch in Tuba City or Kyenta, and spending the night in Moab? Or are its greatest rewards still reserved for those who take the dusty little dirt road that goes down among the great buttes and who feel the rocks and sand under their wheels and feet? I recommend especially the great reward of winter time, when there may be a light skiff of snow in the dune shadows. This reward is even greater if you have also experienced Monument Valley in the heat haze and dust of mid-summer. The crisp winter air is then a special elixir.
To me, Canyon de Chelly is another scenic climax of Navajo Country, and at its best in the fall. The cottonwoods lining the canyon's fields and sandbars glow with their own inner light, and the sun arrives with that low-angled brilliance that drives photographers into ecstasy and exhaustion. Canyon de Chelly is perhaps the most Navajo of all the park areas on the Reservation. It speaks eloquently, in the present tense, of the Navajo and Anasazi past. Here is probably the Reservation's most spectacularly beautiful combination of colorful rock, canyons, and ancient ruins. You can drive on pavement to its fringe and soon will be able to drive the rims on high-standard highways; but travel in the canyons, where the most exciting visual action is, is subject to nature's whims. High water, or sand quicker than usual, can stall the most ingenious mechanical substitute for feet.
There is still a lot of foot travel in the canyons. The White House Trail that drops over the rim from an overlook on the rim road crosses the wash and leads to the area's best known ruin, perched on a ledge above the canyon bottom, with a great wall sheer above it.
In the Spring of 1965, when heavy runoff in the canyons kept even the Park Service vehicles out…
(Originally posted January 17, 2010)
(CONTINUED IN THE BLOG POST, "Toward a Sense of Place 2")
RELATED POST: "A Sense of Place and A Changing World."
Many museum curators, gallery owners and photo buyers consider the image all important and often overlook the significance of place, even in landscape photography. Do you feel a sense of place is important in landscape photographs? If so, why?
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Tags: Aldo Leopold Canyon de Chelly Colorado Plateau David Brower Grand Canyon John Muir Kenneth Brower Monument Valley National Parks Philip Hyde Sand County Almanac Shiprock Sierra Club Sierra Club Books Exhibit Format Series
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Anasazi Big Horn Sheep Petroglyphs, Monument Valley, Utah-Arizona, 1963, by Philip Hyde. From Navajo Wildlands.
By Philip Hyde
From Navajo Wildlands: As Long As The Rivers Shall Run
Sierra Club—Ballantine Books 1967
*Note: Beware of using this as a travel guide. The areas where people are allowed and the approaches to them may have changed since 1965. Also, the politically correct term for the native people now is their own word, "Dineh," in its various spellings, rather than the Spanish word in common practice then, "Navajo."
Toward A Sense of Place (Continued)
In the Spring of 1965, when heavy runoff in the canyons kept even the Park Service vehicles out, many of the Navajo men walked into the canyons to start their spring plowing and planting. There are more horse-drawn wagons in the Canyon de Chelly region than almost anywhere else, with good reason—they still rely on dependable foot power in traveling the canyon bottoms.
The best way really to feel the country is to visit it in many seasons and to know something about it beforehand. In a region where so much geology is laid bare, a smattering of geology is illuminating, and of prehistory, for the evidences of ancient occupation a searching eye will discover. The petroglyphs and pictographs fascinate me. We were delighted by the humor in a petroglyph some eight centuries old—with its wonderful incised figures of Kokopeli, lying on his back with one knee up, playing the flute. Some of the pictographs in Canyon de Chelly are sheer drama. The Ute Fight Mural, a Navajo charcoal drawing of about a hundred years ago, portrays a battle between Navajos and Utes. A short distance farther up the same canyon is a drawing depicting the coming of Spaniards on horseback.
The pictographers knew with assurance what they wanted to record. My own processes in deciding what a photographer should report were less sure. I started out with several ideas, rejected them, and reluctantly concluded that I should emphasize the land, not the people. I had read more about the country, been exposed more to it. I found the Navajos fascinating and beautiful. They fit their land far better than whites fit theirs. Yet, I felt that emphasis on the people would preclude the sense of place, a sense that I think the Navajos themselves feel strongly.
They also value highly their personal privacy. One can try to make grab shots, which violate that sense of privacy, or spend enough years living and working with the people to know how not to violate. I would not do the former and couldn't do the latter. I hoped that the absence of a human figure would not suggest the absence of a human eye, and that mine would be sensitive enough to the Navajo's own sensitivity to his land. This hope was the basic challenge. There were other challenges.
Some Navajo areas are nationally known and celebrated; others are neither. I wanted both. Photographers must also fuss with logistics, and I would try to do my share. They also need intuition and luck. I rarely wait for something to happen. I haven't the patience, and besides, there are usually too many things around already happening. So I hoped to be in the right places when the light said now!
Stormlight, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, 1963, by Philip Hyde. From Navajo Wildlands.
I remember a storm-lit view of Canyon de Chelly. It had just stopped raining heavily when my wife came charging into the back office of the Visitor Center and said, "Come out and see what's happening over on the rim." Together we grabbed camera and gear and ran half a mile or more to the edge of the canyon. A shaft of sharp yellow light was burning its way through a rent in the clouds. Still breathing heard, I managed to set up the camera, calculate the exposure, and release the shutter. Thirty seconds later the clouds closed, and the light was gone.
I begin to see when I leave the car behind. The immensity of the Navajo country, however, made working with the car essential in many places. Nevertheless, the times I remember with most pleasure are those when we were walking around Navajo Mountain into the canyons of the Rainbow Plateau, or backpacking to Keet Seel. These were the wilderness experiences, and the others are pale. For more on wilderness see the blog post, "Wallace Stegner: The Wilderness Idea."
Navajo Mountain was another adventure, thanks again to the primitiveness of a road. There is something exciting about a rough dirt road into new country, particularly if its remoteness is famous. At Rainbow Lodge Trading Post, you are about as far from pavement as a Navajo can get. Kayenta once had such remoteness, as did Monument Valley. Remoteness vanished when the high-standard paved highway came.
We arrived at the Rainbow Post in late afternoon to find Myles Headrick, the trader, busy with several groups of customers. We sat on grain sacks piled against the wall and we watched the trading process. We couldn't understand the soft exchange of words in Navajo, but we could watch facial expressions and gestures, hear the modulations and occasional chuckles. We spent an hour or more cultivating what Sally Carrighar, in Moonlight at Midday, calls the Quiet Mind. She speaks of it as an Eskimo trait, but the Navajos share it. I think we could expect to find it in any individual or any people who have kept touch with what the land is saying and who lack the benefits of instant dissemination of the human troubles that make news.
Relaxed and willing, we waited out four days of rain before starting our descent into the canyons of the Rainbow Plateau. But first we had to go down about four miles to our Navajo packer's Hogan. We navigated more than drove, for the road was all too often a sea of mud. Somehow we made it down to the sandy flat below the Mountain's shoulder, and found our way among the maze of tracks to the Hogan. We were pleased to be asked in, but the darkness that had begun while we visited was not too reassuring when we left the hogan's snugness. How would you put on film our apprehension of that slippery slide to Rainbow Lodge? Or how we kept moving, foot by foot, grateful for the rocky places that had once worried our tires? Or how time was suspended in our concentration until, an infinity later, our headlights found the Trading Post? This is the kind of adventure that highway engineers seem determined to wipe out, and what diminishes this diminishes me. Whom does an overtamed world serve?
Our Navajo Mountain adventure took on a new aspect two mornings later when our packer brought up his retinue of three horses, four people, and two dogs….
(CONTINUED IN BLOG POST, "Toward a Sense of Place 3")
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Marlon Davidson's commitment gives Auburn nation's No. 1 DE recruit again
Auburn landed the top defensive end recruit in the country for the second straight year with Marlon Davidson's commitment Friday.
Seven months after landing the best defensive end in the recruiting class of 2015 (Byron Cowart), Auburn repeated the feat with the top end in the class of '16. Marlon Davidson announced his verbal commitment to the Tigers at a ceremony at his high school Friday.
Auburn had long been considered the favorite to land Davidson, who transferred back to Greenville (Ala.) High this year following the death of his mother after spending his junior season at G.W. Carver (Ala.) High. Davidson's brother, Kenneth Carter, played for the Tigers between 2010 and '13 and was hired to a support staff position under coach Gus Malzahn in March. Davidson also took several visits to Auburn.
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Still, a number of programs continued to pursue Davidson throughout the summer, and the five-star prospect released a list of seven earlier this week: Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Florida State, Georgia, LSU and Michigan. In the end, Davidson went with the program most observers expected he would choose. He plans to join Auburn in January as an early enrollee, which would allow him to partake in spring practice.
At 6'3", 280 pounds, Davidson projects as a strong-side defensive end in college. He's renowned for his ability to both play against the run and rush the passer. "Davidson is extremely athletic for a big man and has great balance and an array of moves," Rivals.com director of recruiting Mike Farrell wrote in January. "He works off contact as well as anyone and is extremely powerful and hard to move."
As a junior in 2014, Davidson recorded 69 tackles, including 16 for loss, and seven sacks.
Davidson, ranked No. 8 in the Rivals250, is the highest regarded player in the class of 2016 to pledge to the Tigers. (Their next-highest-ranked commit is wide receiver Elijah Stove, No. 52 overall in the class). Auburn previously secured commitments from two other defensive linemen, but neither of them—three-star prospect Daquan Newkirk and two-star Tashawn Manning—project to have as big an impact early in their college careers as Davidson.
The Tigers could lose redshirt sophomore defensive end Carl Lawson and junior tackle Montravius Adams to the NFL after this season. Davidson would have the opportunity to compete for playing time at end right away, and he and Cowart could eventually form one of the most imposing defensive line tandems in the SEC.
Davidson's decision is another big recruiting victory on the defensive side of the ball for a program that, under Malzahn, has been defined by its offensive prowess. New coordinator Will Muschamp has consistently coaxed strong play out of his defenses. With pieces like Cowart and Davidson at his disposal, expect that to continue during his stint at Auburn.
The Tigers also remain in the mix for the top uncommitted prospect in the class of 2016, defensive tackle Rashan Gary.
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Soar Athletics owner Denise Lloyd practices aerial silks skills in Eustis.
Soar Athletics helps students reach new heights
By Marisa Silvas Lake County
PUBLISHED 1:39 AM ET Apr. 01, 2022 PUBLISHED 1:39 AM EDT Apr. 01, 2022
EUSTIS, Fla. — Aerial skills are a common circus trick, but now, dance and acrobatics in the air are gaining more popularity across ages as a form of exercise and expression.
After 13 years as a dancer, Denise Lloyd spends her days spreading her passion for another performing art. And this one requires her to be up in the air.
After 13 years as a dancer, Denise Lloyd, owner of Soar Athletics, spends her days spreading her passion
Soar offers classes like aerial silks, Lyra and trapeze to students from four years old to adults
These aerial artists are passing along their skills to help others work on their own self expression and strength
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"I took a couple years off of dance and tried aerial, fell in love with it," said Lloyd, who owns Soar Athletics.
The aerial artist started teaching and then got into entertainment, performing at places like Universal, Disney and Sea World. But after having three children, Lloyd faced a common struggle among parents.
"Once I started having kids, I went more onto the coaching side of things and wanted to open the studio then," said Lloyd.
So, she took the opportunity to shift her career track and opened Soar Athletics in Eustis. But they had barely gotten off the ground when the pandemic hit.
"It was a little nerve-racking, but we did really well with it," said Lloyd. "We have really faithful students and great coaches that helped keep the opportunity open for people to come into."
Soar offers classes like aerial silks, Lyra and trapeze to students from four years old to adults. And Lloyd stresses that 'can't' isn't a word used in their studio.
"A lot of people feel like, 'Oh, there's no way I can do that.' But really, there's multiple skills where it's able to help anybody bring up their confidence," explained Lloyd.
She also surrounds herself with other athletes who are well trained in the sport, like circus artist McKenna Wilkins.
"Aerial arts has become really popular, very quickly. So it is very competitive," said Wilkins, who is a coach at Soar Athletics.
Wilkins says even though she's a seasoned performer, it took a bit to translate that into coaching. But now, she loves watching her students reach new heights.
"Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses and goals. So there's so many things, so many factors that are different with each person," said Wilkins. "So it's a really cool challenge to learn how to help everybody."
"The joy on their face when they're able to accomplish a skill that they haven't been able to do in a long time is probably the most rewarding thing that I get from being a coach," added Lloyd.
These aerial artists are making the industry approachable. They are passing along their skills to help others work on their own self expression and strength.
"It's like you're really learning to conquer your body, really making it your own and feeling comfortable in yourself and your abilities," said Wilkins. "Because you'll always be surprised at what you can do."
If you catch a performance from Soar Athletics, it's something you won't forget. And Lloyd can hardly believe where this new adventure has taken her, in her climb to the top.
"I thought it would just be a couple classes a week, and it's turned into an entire business where we have multiple coaches, and it's a huge blessing and I couldn't be more grateful for it," said Lloyd.


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We Are The Catalyst w/ Through The Cracks – Gothenburg, Sweden
We Are The Catalyst, Through The Cracks
Klubb Defused, Gothenburg
Promoted by Kriss Clark/Klubb Defused
After rating their debut EP, "Hateful Things", 5/5 (read here), I wanted to see if Through The Cracks could match it up live. They can.
In support of We Are The Catalyst, Through The Cracks took the stage for the first time last weekend, at Klubb Defused/Sticky Fingers, in Gothenburg. It was precisely the title-track of their EP that kicked off the show, the first notes extended and revamped to form an intro. The crowd didn't stand that close to the stage, which disappointed me a bit, but every time I glanced back, they were moving their bodies to the rhythm, and would cheer loudly at the end of every song – so the distance, in this case, wasn't a bad sign after all. All members of the band were quite restless themselves, Jimmy (guitar) and Niklas (bass) even synch-jumping at some point, and Sara headbanging that red hair of hers, as beautiful as her voice, never going out of tune once, not even at the highest notes. After the songs from the aforementioned EP, they closed the gig with a thrilling new song, "Soulless Man", that follows the heavier path Through The Cracks have announced wanting to ride on. "Soulless Man" should be released as a single this fall.
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We Are The Catalyst were more popular among the crowd, as they've been around for about three years now and have a longer discography – an EP from 2013, "Panem et Circenses", and a full-length from last year, "Monuments". There was even a group of what seemed to be die-hard fans (and probably friends) of bass player Joni, as they kept screaming his name. But friendships apart, the band's good, really good. They play alternative rock, just like their support act, and also have a girl – Cat – as lead singer; but guitarist Kenny take a big part in the singing, and the combination of both is quite powerful. Songs such as "Never Fall", "Not Alone", the catchy "Fight For Air" and the brilliant cover of Swedish House Mafia's "Don't You Worry Child" kept everybody in high spirits.
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In a nutshell, I had a blast: witnessed the live premiere of a promising act, and got to know another dynamic rock band. My trips to Sweden always pay off.
Text & photos: Renata "Pieni" Lino
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