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Posted in Architecture, Family, Gratitude, Life, Love, Music, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Practice, Relationships, Skies, Travel, tagged architecture and light, bookstores, cities with big hearts, fathers and daughters, honoring death, independent bookstores, making time, Nashville, rest in peace, road trips, the gift of time, traveling across Tennessee, visiting family on August 12, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Nashville, Tennessee, iPhone Shots, June 27th, 2016, photo © 2019 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
View of downtown Nashville on a road trip with Liz. We stopped in Nashville to tour Jack White's Third Man Records on the way to visit my dad and his wife. I lived in Tennessee for a few years as a child, but had never been to Music City. We also visited Ann Patchett's bookstore Parnassus Books; we try to visit independent bookstores wherever we travel. We were lucky to have made the trip from Minnesota that June because my dad passed away unexpectedly eight months later. I am thinking of him because his birthday is August 15th. We are grateful for the time and cherish the memories. His ashes are scattered near Morristown, Tennessee, the place he was born.
Posted in Architecture, Culture, Haiku, Holidays, On the Road, Poetry, Practice, Things That Fly, tagged A Place To Stand, American flag, American history, architecture and light, Emma Lazarus, flags, freedom, freedom for all, Independence Day, July 4th, liberty, senryu, sonnets, Statue of Liberty, The New Colossus on July 4, 2014| 3 Comments »
DAR Flag, Grand Hyatt, Droid Shots, Washington, D.C., June 2014, photos © 2014 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
a place to stand
for all who have fallen
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
This tablet with her sonnet to the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty engraved upon it, is placed upon these walls
in loving memory of Emma Lazarus
Born in New York City, July 22nd, 1849
Died November 19th, 1887
-Quote on the bronze plaque from the Liberty exhibit in the base of the Statue of Liberty, originally posted on red Ravine in the piece Going To New York. It was presented by philanthropist Georgiana Schuyler in 1903, twenty years after Emma Lazarus wrote her sonnet. Originally displayed on the interior wall of the Statue of Liberty's pedestal, it was placed in the Liberty exhibit in the base of the monument in July, 1886.
Good Reads:
Throwback Thursday: When John Adams Thought Independence Day Was July 2
Exercising the freedom to NOT celebrate Independence Day
What the Declaration of Independence Means to Americans Today
-posted on red Ravine, Friday, July 4th, 2014.
Top Of The Foshay Tower
Posted in Architecture, Art, Holding My Breath, Home, Photography, Place, Structure, Vision, tagged Foshay Facts, Foshay Tower, Minneapolis at night, Minneapolis landmarks, Minnesota history, Minnesota icons, Northern Spark, nuit blanche, remembering Spring, the value of the Arts, Twin Cities, W Minneapolis on September 4, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Top Of The Foshay Tower, Droid Shots, Northern Spark, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June, 2012, photo © 2012 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
It was 4:45am when we walked into the Foshay Tower lobby, hoping to catch the sunrise from the 30th floor observation deck. We had stayed up the entire night of June 9th for the second Northern Spark; it was now June 10th. After a random tweet from the Northern Spark app, I won a Jump The Line At The Foshay prize, a gift that proved fruitful. We walked straight to the front of the line and flashed my Droid screen toward the guard. "Wow, that's cool. Off you go," he said, shooing us in the direction of the packed elevator.
My stomach dropped on the ride up; the tower view to the east took my breath away. The light was just beginning to change. The deck was crammed with Northern Sparkers, waiting for the sun. It was the perfect ending to the Nuit Blanche, a community shared art event for the soul. Sunrise on top of the sky; a tour of the Foshay museum. Details. Details. Details. Not just tree, what kind of tree. Not just building, what kind of building. A Minnesota icon, built to last, still inspiring sunrises after all these years.
FOSHAY FACTS
Named for Wilbur Foshay, the original owner & builder
Modeled after the Washington Monument as a tribute to George Washington
32 stories high, tallest building in the Twin Cities for 4 decades
Construction began in 1927 & ended August 1929. Built completely by all-union labor.
Wilbur Foshay & Gottlieb Magney patented the shape and method of construction
Faced with Indiana Bedford limestone, 750 window bays, able to stand up to winds of 400 mph
Numbers: 447 feet, 3 inches high, mast on the top 160 feet; 81 by 87 feet at the base; 59 by 65 feet at the top; contains 2,599,666 cubic feet
60 feet below ground with four basement levels
John Philip Sousa wrote the Foshay Tower-Washington Memorial March for the Foshay Dedication Ceremonies
Tower Observation Deck is located on the 30th floor where you can see 30 miles on a clear day
Foshay lights are 10 feet tall, 44 feet across, lit by 900 60-watt bulbs
Placed on National Register of Historic Places in 1977
In 1987 the Tower was adorned with a 50-foot by 50-foot banner (the largest ever installed on a highrise office building) congratulating the Minnesota Twins for their championship year
In 2008, the renovated Foshay opened as the Foshay Museum & Observation Deck, part of W Minneapolis — The Foshay
Foshay Moon, Droid Shots, Northern Spark, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June, 2012, photo © 2012 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
-related to posts: Northern Spark — Twin Cities Nuit Blanche, Northern Spark 2012 – Night Owl Paradise, Northern Spark — Sunrise To Sunset
-posted on red Ravine, Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
Northern Spark: Sunset To Sunrise
Posted in Architecture, Art, Gratitude, Holding My Breath, Photography, Place, Skies, Vision, Wake Up, tagged building community through the Arts, celebrating the Arts, cities with big hearts, downtown Minneapolis, downtown St. Paul, Minnesota Arts, night owls, night photography, Northern Spark, Northern Spark slideshow, nuit blanche, shadows & light, sundown to sunrise, support of the arts, the art of photography, The Nuit Blanche Movement, the value of the Arts, Twin Cities on June 7, 2013| 2 Comments »
Northern Spark kicks off on Saturday, June 8th, at 8:58pm in Lowertown St. Paul, Minnesota. This will be our third year attending Northern Spark (a little history of the Nuit Blanche movement in this piece). Last year we stayed awake from dusk to dawn, and ended our night viewing the sunrise from the top of the Foshay Tower. It's more difficult than you think to stay awake all night, an insomniac's dream!
Here's a link to Northern's Spark's full schedule and two more to their Facebook and Twitter pages. Last year we downloaded the Northern Spark app on our Droids and highly recommend it. The slideshow is a glimpse into our night walk around Minneapolis at last year's Northern Spark, and at a pre-Spark gathering the week before. We are looking forward to Lowertown, St. Paul. It's a gift to share the night, the light, and the Arts in community.
-posted on red Ravine, Friday, June 7th, 2013
Shuttlecocks, 1994 – 34/365
Posted in Architecture, Art, Great Places To Write, On the Road, Photography, Place, Practice, Structure, Things That Fly, Travel, Vision, Writers, tagged 1994, birdies, Claes Oldenburg, collaborative art, Coosje Van Bruggen, Kansas City, Missouri, museums, museums as inspiration, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, places I find inspiration, sculptors, sculpture, self-propelled writing retreats, Shuttlecocks, slow walking, Spoonbridge and Cherry, stepping out of silence, symbols, the practice of photography, the practice of writing, the value of slowing down, the value of the Arts, Wight & Wight on January 13, 2013| 2 Comments »
Shuttlecocks, 1994 – 34/365, Archive 365, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, April 2009, photo © 2009-2013 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
At a writing retreat in 2009, our host took us to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Like we had done at museums in New Mexico with Natalie Goldberg (see Diebenkorn Leaves Taos – Museum Walking Lives On), we walked around in silence, then gathered in front of the museum to do Writing Practice. I like the practice of taking photographs in the silence; this photo of the sculpture Shuttlecocks was snapped on a slow walk around the museum grounds. Museums are energizing places to find inspiration for writing and art.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is a neoclassic structure designed by Kansas City architects Wight and Wight. Groundbreaking took place on July 16, 1930. The sculpture Shuttlecocks was created by husband and wife team Claes Oldenburg (American, born Sweden 1929) and Coosje van Bruggen (American, born The Netherlands, 1942), the same pair that created the Minneapolis sculpture, Spoonbridge & Cherry at the Walker (see my foggy winter photograph of Spoonbridge & Cherry in the piece White Elephants On Art). It is the scale of these sculptures that draws me in.
According to Nelson-Atkins, when Oldenburg and van Bruggen were commissioned in 1994 to design a sculpture for the space, they responded to the formality of the original neoclassical building and the green expanse of its lawn by imagining the museum as a badminton net and the lawn as a playing field. The pair designed four birdies or shuttlecocks (made out of aluminum, paint, and fiberglass-reinforced plastic) that were placed as though they had just landed on opposite sides of the net. Each shuttlecock weighs 5,500 pounds, stands nearly 18 feet tall, and has a diameter of 16 feet.
ARCHIVE 365: Archive 365 is a photo collaboration between skywire7 and QuoinMonkey featuring images from our archives. We will alternate posting once a day in our Flickr sets from July 1st 2012 through June 30th 2013. You can view our photographs at skywire7 Archive 365 set on Flickr and QuoinMonkey Archive 365 set on Flickr.
-posted on red Ravine, Sunday, January 13th, 2013
Tyrone Guthrie Outside The Guthrie — 64/365
Posted in Architecture, Art, Art of Rebellion, Culture, Death, Dreams, Obituaries & Epitaphs, Photography, Place, Relationships, Structure, Vision, tagged Archive 365, building community through the Arts, Guthrie Theater, history of the Guthrie Theater, legacies, Minnesota history, modern architecture, new Guthrie, opening of the Guthrie, original Guthrie, Ralph Rapson, signs, tearing down the old Guthrie Theater, the value of the Arts, Tyrone Guthrie, vintage signs, visionaries on September 3, 2012| 2 Comments »
Tyrone Guthrie Outside The Guthrie – 64/365, Archive 365, BlackBerry Shots, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2010-2012 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
The Archive 365 practice and collaboration continues with a photograph taken outside the Guthrie Theater in August 2010. With each new image, I feel compelled to look into tidbits about the subject's history. It's no secret that Sir Tyrone Guthrie and Midwest architect Ralph Rapson did not see eye-to-eye on the design of the original Guthrie Theater (the play Tyrone & Ralph was written highlighting this piece of history). The two fought over the thrust stage which Guthrie wanted and the asymmetrical design Rapson desired. They also disagreed over the color of the seats. Guthrie ordered Rapson to make sure the seats were all the same bland color; Rapson wanted brightness and vivacity and decidedly disobeyed. By the time the hundreds of multicolored seats arrived, it was too late for Guthrie to do anything about it.
In spite of their disagreements, Rapson's modern design prevailed and the Guthrie opened on May 7, 1963 with a production of Hamlet directed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie; it became one of the most respected theaters in the country. An idea that began in 1959 during a series of conversations among Guthrie and two colleagues—Oliver Rea and Peter Zeisler—who were disenchanted with Broadway, sprang to life. They realized their dream to create a theater with a resident acting company that would perform the classics in rotating repertory with the highest professional standards.
Sir Tyrone Guthrie was the Artistic Director from 1963 through 1966 and returned to direct each year until 1969. He passed away in 1971. Architect Ralph Rapson died of heart failure in 2008 at the age of 93. The original Guthrie was torn down in 2006; the theater dimmed its lights 43 years to the day that it opened — also with a production of Hamlet. It reopened across town by the Mississippi River in a new, $125 million three-stage complex with the faces of Tyrone Guthrie, August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Anton Chekhov, Eugene O'Neill and George Bernard Shaw etched into its walls.
Guthrie Theater History – The Guthrie
Ralph Rapson, architect of the original Guthrie, has died – MPR News
The Old Guthrie Goes Down – photos at The Masticator
Guthrie Theater brings curtain down on original home – MPR News
Guthrie & Rapson battle again – MPR news
-posted on red Ravine, Monday, September 3rd, 2012
bar talk – 11/365
Posted in Architecture, Culture, Everyday Art, Life, Music, Photography, Place, Practice, Relationships, Secrets, tagged 89.3 The Current, bar, body language, building community through the Arts, community, inspiration, live music, Minneapolis, Minnesota, silhouette, The Fine Line Music Cafe, The Gaslight Anthem, the practice of photography, The Warehouse District on July 11, 2012| Leave a Comment »
bar talk -11/365, Archive 365, Fine Line Music Cafe, Warehouse District, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2009, photo © 2009-2012 by skywire7. All rights reserved.
The Fine Line Music Cafe combines the essentials to a fun night out = music, food & friends. Both local acts and national headline bands play here in an intimate setting. Searching through the archives and stumbling on this capture makes me want to get back there soon. Plus today I caught the end of a radio interview with The Gaslight Anthem on MPR's 89.3 The Current. Guess where they are playing tonight? Yup, the Fine Line. But Mary Lucia said it was sold out so I am just writing about it. Like wiser folks have told me, you can't do everything!
ARCHIVE 365 is a photo collaboration between skywire7 and QuoinMonkey featuring images from our archives. We will alternate posting once a day in our Flickr sets from July 1st 2012 through June 30th 2013. You can view our photographs at skywire7 Archive 365 set on Flickr and QuoinMonkey Archive 365 set on Flickr.
Elnora's Cafe – 8/365
Posted in Architecture, Culture, Dreams, Food, Music, On the Road, Photography, Place, Practice, Structure, Travel, tagged 18th & Vine, American history, cafes, Elnora's Cafe, Jazz District, Kansas City, Kansas City history, Missouri on July 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Elnora's Cafe – 8/365, Archive 365, 18th & Vine, Kansas City, Missouri, April 2009, photo © 2009-2012 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
When one of my writing groups met in Kansas City, Missouri in April 2009, Bob took us on a tour. This photograph of Elnora's Cafe was taken from the car when we were moving through the area of 18th & Vine, the place where Kansas City's jazz legacy was nurtured and sparked. In its heyday, 30 nightclubs filled the district. Celebrities like Duke Ellington and Joe Louis stayed at Street's Hotel. Everyone ate at Elnora's Cafe, a popular gathering place with a national reputation for good food and service. Elnora's, located next to the Subway Club, stayed open into the wee hours of the morning to accommodate the many late night revelers in the district.
-posted on red Ravine, Sunday, July 8, 2012
Soo Line – 5/365
Posted in Architecture, Bones, Culture, Everyday Art, Photography, Place, Practice, tagged cell phone photography, clocks, collaboration, community, downtown Minneapolis, excavating memories, Minnesota, rain, Soo Line Building, summer in Minnesota, the practice of photography, Wheel of Life on July 5, 2012| 2 Comments »
Soo Line -5/365, Archive 365, Downtown, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 2007, photo © 2007-2012 by skywire7. All rights reserved.
Minneapolis has history hidden in the details. Many of the historical buildings are gone but small pieces remain. The camera lens lets you see into a world that might go otherwise unnoticed. This clock caught my eye as we were driving around in the rain taking photos. What a neat find. Plus digging through the old photos makes me want to go exploring for more unique pieces of our past.
MN State Fair On-A-Stick (Smartphone History On-The-Go)
Posted in 25 Things, Architecture, Art, Culture, Family, Food, Fotoblog, Laughing, Life, Maps, Photography, Place, Seasons, tagged 75 foods on-a-stick at the MN State Fair, butter sculptures, Debra Frasier, end of summer rituals, F. Scott Fitzgerald & the MN State Fair, food on-a-stick, food on-a-stick list, Minnesota State Fair, Minnesota State Fair butter sculptures, Minnesota State Fair Food Finder, Minnesota State Fair history, MN State Fair Cell Phone Tour, MN State Fair food on-a-stick list, MN State Fair History Walk, MN State Fair Mobile Web Site, MN State Fair Smartphone App, new restroom at the MN State Fair, Original Minneapple Pie, Smartphones, summer in Minnesota, sweet corn ice cream, technology, teriyaki chicken on-a-stick, writing about the MN State Fair on August 30, 2011| 15 Comments »
MN State Fair Button, MN State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota, August 2011, all photos © 2009-2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
The Minnesota State Fair kicked off last week and for the first time since 2007, I am writing my annual State Fair piece after attending the Fair. That means I can speak from the voice of experience (that, and the fact that I spent 11 solid hours tootling around the fairgrounds last Saturday). This year there are over 80 foods on-a-stick; I recommend the Teriyaki Chicken on-a-stick from Chan's, a new vendor for 2011. Liz and I shared the combo and topped it off with The Original Minneapple Pie smothered in cinnamon ice cream.
Of course, the Minnesota State Fair is about more than food, or the debut of Peach Glazed Pig Cheeks On-A-Stick, so our State Fair posts are always chock-full of history. Last year we covered F. Scott Fitzgerald's A Night At The Fair, Ye Old Mill, and artist Debra Frasier's debut of the Alphabet Forest at Baldwin Park. Debra is back again this year and you can read more about her work at her official website. Or check out red Ravine dressed in her State Fair alphabet (yes, that's me standing a letter behind).
In 2011, the Minnesota State Fair celebrates its 100th Fine Arts Exhibition (over 2300 pieces were submitted in 2010). In the past, I've written about the history of Princess Kay of the Milky Way and the Butter Queens (2011 marks the 40th year sculptor Linda Christensen has carved their likenesses out of butter); Minnesota State Fair poster artists; mascots Fairborne and Fairchild; and the tradition of Tom Thumb Donuts. To change it up this year, I'm going to focus on the integration of the Smartphone and digital technology into the State Fair's 150-year-old traditions. When the past meets the present, you get a gleaming new Minnesota State Fair Smartphone App and the Minnesota State Fair History Tour on your mobile!
Minnesota State Fair Smartphone App & Mobile Web Site
I was thrilled to download the new Minnesota State Fair Smartphone app on my Droid this year (also available for iPhone) a week before I attended the Fair . All the information I needed was right at my fingertips. The Food Finder is organized alphabetically (or you can search by food item). When you click on a vendor, all details of that vendor are listed, including a Show Map feature that pins their exact location on the fairgrounds. Other tabs include Merch Search, Fun Finder, and a colorful digital map. We used the app constantly during our 11 hour visit. Oh, and if you don't want to download the app, you can visit the Minnesota State Fair Mobile Website with Google Maps integration. I'm grateful to Liz for pointing me to the new app. If you have a Smartphone, I encourage you to go paperless!
Minnesota State Fair History Walk & Cell Phone Tour
Liz and I had a blast listening to sounds of the Minnesota State Fair's past on the new 13-stop cell phone tour. By calling (877) 411-4123, you can hear recorded history narratives from your cell phone (or any land line), or use your Smartphone to locate QR codes, and brush up on State Fair trivia while you shuttle to the Fair's gate. We downloaded a bar code scanner app on our Droids, scanned the QR code (Quick Response code for Smartphones) at each information board, and Whoosh!, we were jetted right to the history page for that stop. (If you press the Like button at the bottom, a link is also added to your Facebook page so family and friends can follow your tour!).
The Minnesota State Fair History Walk & Cell Phone Tour offers a fun and engaging way to learn about State Fair history and explore all corners of the grounds. When you complete the self-guided tour, you receive a prize (I won't say what it is!) at the J.V. Bailey House or (before 8pm) at the Minnesota Historical Society's booth on the first floor of the Grandstand. Tour brochures are available at information booths and the 13 tour stops. The tour is presented by the Minnesota State Fair Foundation and the Minnesota Historical Society.
Spaghetti & Meatball Dinner On-A-Stick, Fried Fruit On-A-Stick, Macaroni & Cheese On-A-Stick, Bull Bites, Deep Fried Tater Tots On-A-Stick, Grilled Shrimp On-A-Stick, Vintage Kids & Fair Food!, Leprechaun Legs, MN State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota, August 2008, all photos © 2008-2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
MN State Fair – Foods On-A-Stick
Our Minnesota State Fair post wouldn't be complete without the annual foods on-a-stick list. Here's the lineup for 2011 (the Sweet Corn Ice Cream really hits the spot). If you are looking for the location of specific foods at the Fair, here's a link to their FoodFinder with a map of the Fair (0r use the Smartphone app I wrote about above!). The Minnesota State Fair runs through Monday, September 5th. And if you happen to eat just a little too much, feel free to visit the brand new 5,500 square foot restroom with 51 sinks and 75 shiny white toilets where many of the 22,000 rolls of toilet paper are used up at the Minnesota State Fair. Above all else, ENJOY!
Alligator Sausage on-a-stick
Baby Potatoes on-a-stick
Bacon (Fried) on-a-stick
Bananas (chocolate covered) on-a-stick
Beef Kabobs on-a-stick
Bologna (deep-fried) on-a-stick
Bomb Pops on-a-stick
Breakfast Lollipop
Butterscotch Cake on-a-stick
Candy Apples on-a-stick
Candy Bars (deep fried) on-a-stick
Caramel Apples on-a-stick
Caramel Apple Puppies on-a-stick
Catfish on-a-stick
Cheese on-a-stick
Cheesecake (chocolate covered) on-a-stick
Chicken on-a-stick
Chicken Teriyaki on-a-stick
Chicken Bites on-a-stick
Coffee (frozen) on-a-stick
Corndogs on-a-stick
Cotton Candy on-a-stick
Custard on-a-stick
Espresso (frozen) on-a-stick
Fruit (fresh) on-a-stick
Fruit (fried) on-a-stick
Fry Dog on-a-stick
Fudge Puppies on-a-stick
Gyro on-a-stick
Hot Dago on-a-stick
Hot Dish on-a-stick
Hot Dogs (wrap) on-a-stick
Jerk Chicken on-a-stick
Key Lime Pie Dipped in Chocolate (frozen) on-a-stick
Kufta Kabob on-a-stick
Lamb (leg of) on-a-stick
Macaroni & Cheese on-a-stick
Marshmallows (Chocolate-dipped) on-a-stick
Mashed Potatoes (deep-fried) on-a-stick
Meatballs (porcupine wild rice & ground pork) on-a-stick
Meatballs (Greek) on-a-stick
Meatballs (Scotch) on-a-stick
Meat Kabobs on-a-stick
Northwoods Salad on-a-stick
Nut Roll (chocolate-dipped) on-a-stick
Pickles on-a-stick
Pizza on-a-stick
Pizza Kabob on-a-stick
Poncho Dogs on-a-stick
Pork Chops on-a-stick
Pretzel Dog on-a-stick
Pronto Pups on-a-stick
Sausage on-a-stick
Sausage and Cheese Stuffed Jalapeno Poppers on-a-stick
Scotch Eggs on-a-stick
Shrimp on-a-stick
Shrimp (grilled) on-a-stick
S'mores on-a-stick
S'mores (deep-fried) on-a-stick
Spaghetti & Meatballs on-a-stick
Spudsters on-a-stick
Steak on-a-stick
Taffy Pops on-a-stick
Tater Tots (deep-fried) on-a-stick
Texas Steak Dinner on-a-stick
Texas Tater Dog on-a-stick
Tornado Potato on-a-stick
Turkey Tenderloin (bacon-wrapped) on-a-stick
Turtle Puppies on-a-stick
Vegie Fries on-a-stick
Vegetable Kabobs on-a-stick
Waffle (Belgian) on-a-stick
Walleye on-a-stick
Wild Rice Corndog on-a-stick
Wonder Bar (chocolate-dipped ice cream) on-a-stick
Total Number of Foods-On-A-Stick: 75*
New Minnesota State Fair Foods In 2011
(including *6 new foods on-a-stick not on list above)
• Breakfast Lollipop (sausage patty dipped in corn muffin batter, deep fried and served on-a-stick with a side of maple syrup)
@Axel's, located on the southeast outside corner of the Food Building
• Carnitas Asian Fusion Taco (pork carnitas served on a flour or spinach pepper, and topped with Asian sauces)
@San Felipe Tacos, located in the Food Building
• Chocolate Covered Jalapeno Peppers on-a-stick (a hot and spicy confection)
@Andre's Watermelon, located on Underwood Street next to Ye Old Mill
• Coushari Rice with Lentils (rice and lentils with Holy Land sauce, served with a side of pasta or fried onions)
@Holy Land Deli, located inside the International Bazaar, southeast corner
• Crab Fritters (crab meat, Caribbean herbs and spices with veggies all rolled and deep-fried into a fritter, served with a side of southwest dripping sauce)
@Ollie's Crab Fritters, located on the corner of Underwood Street and Murphy Avenue
• Deep-Fried Cookie Dough (fresh cookie dough coated with a sweet batter, deep-fried and sprinkled with powdered sugar)
@Sonny's Spiral Spuds, located in the Food Building
• Dirt Dessert (Oreo cookies, vanilla pudding, whipped cream, cream cheese and gummy worms)
@Spaghetti Eddie's, located on Cooper Street and Dan Patch Avenue
• Fresh Fruit Wrap (sliced fresh fruit wrapped in a soft tortilla shell with a sweet and creamy cheese spread)
@Fried Fruit, located in Carousel Park east of Grandstand Ramp
• Grilled Yankee Apple Pie & Chocolate Sandwich (Minnesota grown apples sauteed with spices and topped with chocolate, grilled in Brioche bread)
@Moe & Joe's, located on Judson Ave. by the CHS Miracle of Birth Center
• Jamaican Jerk Fries (french fries dusted with Harry's own Jamaican Jerk seasoning)
@Harry Singh's Caribbean Restaurant, located in the Food Building
• Mexican Horchata Beverage (cold drink made of rice, almonds, cinnamon, vanilla and sugar)
@El Sol Mexican Food, located on the southwest outside corner of the Food Building
• Minneapple Pie (homemade deep-fried apple pie served hot with vanilla or cinnamon ice cream)
@The Original Minneapple Pie, at the corner of Judson Avenue & Underwood Street, north of the Dairy Building
• Northwoods Salad on-a-stick (a caprese salad-mozzarella cheese and grape tomatoes on-a-stick with dressing and served over a bed of Minnesota wild rice)
@Giggle's Campfire Grill, located on Cooper Street and Lee Avenue in The North Woods
• Pizza Kabob on-a-stick (three individually flavored Green Mill Pizza rolls served on-a-stick)
@Green Mill, located near the Baldwin Park Stage
• Pretzel Dog on-a-stick (a hot dog baked in pretzel dough, served on-a-stick)
@Der Pretzel Haus, located on Liggett Street, in front of the Horse Barn
• Sweet Corn Ice Cream (cream-based ice cream with blended sweet corn kernels, served in a waffle cone with a choice of wild blueberries or caramel bacon topping)
@Blue Moon Dine In Theater, located at the corner of Chambers Street and Carnes Avenue
• Teriyaki Chicken on-a-stick (served with fried rice, egg rolls, and spring rolls)
@Chan's Concessions, located on Judson Avenue near the Dairy Building
• White Razzie Puppies on-a-stick (Belgian waffle with white chocolate baked inside, then dipped in dark chocolate and drizzled with raspberry sauce)
@Granny's Kitchen Fudge Puppies, located on the outside west wall of the Food Building
State Fair photos on Flickr.
-posted on red Ravine, Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
-related to posts: double Ferris wheel haiku, MN State Fair On-A-Stick (Happy B'Day MN!), On-The-Go List Of Must-Haves (MN State Fair), Nightshot – Carousel, MN State Fair On-A-Stick II – Video & Stats, food on-a-stick haiku
Under The Rainbow — Twin Cities Pride
Posted in Architecture, Art, Art of Rebellion, Bodies Of Water, Culture, Dreams, Family, Gratitude, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Life, Photography, Place, Poetry, Politics, Practice, Relationships, Vision, Wake Up, tagged acceptance, BlackBerry 52, BlackBerry 52 Collaboration, bridges, building community through the Arts, cities with big hearts, collaboration, compassion, Equal Rights for All, Gay Pride, gogyohka, I-35 Bridge, I-35 Bridge in Rainbow Colors, Minneapolis, Minneapolis at night, Minneapolis landmarks, night owls, night photography, Nightshots, Pride Festival, the value of the Arts, Twin Cities, Twin Cities Pride, Twin Hearts on June 26, 2011| 10 Comments »
Under The Rainbow – 24/52, BlackBerry 52 — Week 24, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, June 24th 2011, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights
reserved. Medium: Droid snapshot of the new I-35 Bridge on Pride
weekend, June 2011 in response to Lotus Jump-Off – The Biggest Heart.
Compassion —
learning to accept
what we don't understand;
a city with a big heart
knows how to hold its differences.
-posted on red Ravine, Sunday, June 26th, 2011
Lotus and I will continue to respond to each other's BlackBerry Jump-Off photos with text, photography, poetry (however we are inspired) for the 52 weeks of 2011. You can read more at BlackBerry 52 Collaboration. If you are inspired to join us, send us a link to your images, poetry, or prose and we'll add them to our posts.
-related to posts: haiku 4 (one-a-day) Meets renga 52, Berth Of The Night Owl haiku, Marriage Equality In Maine & The Catholic Church
-related links: I-35W Bridge To Glow In Rainbow Colors For Pride Festival, NY Becomes 6th State to Legalize Gay Marriage, NY Birthplace of Gay Rights Movement Fetes New Law, Pride Parade Celebrates Passage Of Gay Marriage
Photos: Bridge Light, I-35 Bridge In Rainbow Colors For Pride – 24/52, BlackBerry 52 — Week 24, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 24th 2011, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Medium: Droid snapshots of the new I-35 Bridge on Pride weekend, June 2011 in response to Lotus Jump-Off – The Biggest Heart.
Northern Spark — Twin Cities Nuit Blanche
Posted in Architecture, Art, Culture, Dreams, Holding My Breath, Home, Maps, Photography, Place, Poetry, Relationships, Skies, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, tagged all night art festivals, building community through the Arts, community as witness, Deborah Miller, environmental art, global community, gratitude for community, Jim Campbell, Marcus Young, MCAD, Mill City Silos, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minnesota Arts, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, night owls, night photography, nightowls, Northern Lights.mn, Northern Spark, Northern Spark Guide, nuit blanche, public art, Roman Verostko, Scattered Light, sleepless night, sleeplessness, summer in Minnesota, sundown to sunrise, The Nuit Blanche Movement, Three-Story Drawing Machine, white night, Wing Young Huie on June 4, 2011| 22 Comments »
Northern Spark Installation by Roman Verostko, Three-Story Drawing Machine, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2011, photo © Creative Commons by Northern Spark. Some rights reserved.
I walk in the tradition of the Night Owl, and revel in the sleepless rituals of nuit blanche. Tonight from 9pm to 6am, Liz and I will be traversing the Mississippi River (from Minneapolis to St. Paul and back!) to visit the art installations of Northern Spark. Various corners of the Twins Cities will be lit up from dusk until dawn with venues that include: the Mill City Silos, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, poetry at All My Relations Arts, the GLOW-a-BOUT at Loring Park near the Walker Art Center (open all night and featuring the Lullaby Experiment by Marcus Young, creator of Everyday Poems For City Sidewalk), and four site specific installations (see Three-Story Drawing Machine by Roman Verostko above) at my alma mater, the Minneapolis College of Art & Design.
The information below is from the Northern Spark Media Kit. The Northern Spark website includes a complete list of events that you can add to your own interactive map that charts your night's events. You can also download and print this PDF of the Northern Spark Guide listing the details of each installation across the Twin Cities. Hope to see you at this community event for the Arts, public art at its best!
The Nuit Blanche Movement
The idea of a nuit blanche (translated as "white night" or "sleepless night") is an art event/tradition first seen in St. Petersburg, Russia and Berlin, Germany in the mid 1990s and first named "nuit blanche" in Paris in 2002. Since that time, the idea of the nuit blanche has expanded dramatically becoming a popular art event in cities throughout the world.
Today, a Nuit Blanche event consists of art installations and events in public spaces and museums, art galleries, and other cultural institutions opening their doors free of charge to the public from dusk till dawn. In effect, the host city itself is turned into a de facto art gallery, providing space for art installations, performances (music, film, dance, performance art), social gatherings, and other activities.
Besides St. Petersburg, Berlin, and Paris, nuit blanche events have taken place in Toronto, New York City, Tel Aviv, Santa Monica, and Montreal.
Northern Spark 2011
Spearheaded by Northern Lights.mn, Northern Spark is the first ever nuit blanche event in the Midwest. Northern Lights.mn is a roving, collaborative, interactive media-oriented, arts agency from the Twin Cities but for the world. It presents innovative art in the public sphere, both physical and virtual, focusing on artists creatively using technology, both old and new, to engender new relations between audiences and artwork and more broadly between people and their built environments.
Northern Spark will take place from June 4 (sundown ~8:55 p.m.) to June 5, 2011 (sunrise ~5:28 a.m.) at various locations along the Mississippi River and surrounding areas in Minneapolis and St. Paul. More than 60 artists from Minnesota, the surrounding area, and select locations across the country will be represented at the event.
Northern Spark Installation by Deborah Miller, Mill City Silos, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2011, photo © Creative Commons by Northern Spark. Some rights reserved.
Northern Spark:
First All Night Take Over Of The Twin Cities
MINNEAPOLIS, May 3, 2011 – It's no secret Minneapolis St Paul is one of the leading centers of art in the United States. But on June 4 this year, the Twin Cities will join for the first time, the worldwide Nuit Blanche arts movement by hosting "Northern Spark," the area's first ever, all-night long arts festival.
For one night only, more than 60 regional and national artists together with the Twin Cities' arts community will display new art installations at public places and unexpected locations throughout the city. Directed and produced by Northern Lights.mn and funded by the MN State Arts Board, Northern Spark takes place this summer from sunset on June 4 (8:55 p.m.) until the morning of June 5, 2011 (sunrise 5:28 a.m.).
"The Twin Cities has an amazing art culture and reputation," says Northern Lights director, Steve Dietz. "Our aim is to really showcase that artistic excellence in a way never quite seen before by transforming the cities' urban landscapes into a Twin Cites-wide art gallery for one special night." The Northern Spark event will include a wide diversity of art forms and projects including multi-story projections, audio environments with vistas, installations traveling down the Mississippi on barges, houseboats and paddleboats, headphone concerts, and the use of everything from bioluminescent algae and sewer pipes for organs to more traditional media such as banjos and puppets.
One of the most highly anticipated installations is Jim Campbell's "Scattered Light" from New York's Madison Square Park, in which LED light bulbs suspended in a cube-shape on high tensile wire blink on and off to recreate the forms of pedestrians' movements in three dimensions. Other artists involved in the nuit blanche include Christopher Baker, Phillip Blackburn, Body Cartography, Bart Buch, Barbara Claussen, Wing Young Huie, Debora Miller, Minneapolis Art on Wheels, Ali Momeni, Janaki Ranpura, Red76, Rigo 23, Jenny Schmid, Andréa Stanislav, Piotr Szyhalski, Diane Willow, Roman Verostko, Liu Xuguang, Marcus Young, and others.
The event is a collaboration — rarely seen on this kind of scale — of more than 40 partners each of which will sponsor one or more projects for the duration of the night. The goal is to showcase the urban splendor of the Twin Cities in a unique way, introducing a broad and diverse audience to innovative local and national talent in an inspiring journey through the night.
Northern Spark Installations: Wing Young Huie (TOP) by Nomad World Pub, St. Paul, Minnesota, Deborah Miller (BOTTOM) at Mill City Silos, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2011, © Creative Commons by Northern Spark. Some rights reserved.
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, June 4th, 2011
World's Largest Ceramic Mosaic – Hanoi's Ceramic Mosaic Mural Project
Posted in Architecture, Art, Culture, Everyday Art, Fotoblog, On the Road, Photography, Place, Travel, Vision, tagged ceramic mosaic, Ceramic Road, Hanoi, Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mural Project, Hanoi's 1000 Year Celebration, making art accessible, mosaic tile, Nguyen Thu Thuy, public art, the value of public art, Vietnam, Vietnamese art, world's largest ceramic mosaic, ybonesy in Vietnam on October 25, 2010| 15 Comments »
In a flash, HaNoi's Ceramic Mosaic Mural as seen from the taxi, October 2010, iPhone photos © 2010 by ybonesy, all rights reserved.
Entering the city of Hanoi last week, I immediately notice that the ceramic wall is done. This four-kilometer-long work of art, which has been in progress for the three years since I started visiting here, runs along the city's Red River dyke system. Earlier this month, just in time for last week's celebration of Hanoi's 1000th birthday, the completed wall officially became the world's largest ceramic mosaic, as recognized by Guinness World Records.
The idea for a ceramic wall along Hanoi's Red River came from young journalist and painter Nguyen Thu Thuy. About the world record, she said:
We are very proud to have successfully gained a Guinness World Record achievement. This project reflects the vibrancy and complexity of Vietnam's capital city, and is the ideal way to commemorate Hanoi's 1,000 year anniversary. The integration of international artists and children's art depict many different moods, cultures, eras of history and styles, and they have all been created with the greatest craftsmanship. We hope that this achievement brings pride to Hanoi and that the people of the city enjoy the mural's beauty for many years to come.
The collective public work of art—Vietnam's first—began in 2007. The mural is organized in 21 sections and was designed by 35 professional artists from ten countries and supported by hundreds of artisans from traditional ceramic villages in Vietnam, Vietnamese and other children, and students from fine arts colleges throughout the country. The murals depicts Vietnam's landscape and peoples, and is said to be a visual narration of the country's history.
The mural embodies the country's rich tradition in ceramics, of which I barely scratched the surface during a day of sightseeing to the town of Bat Trang. The entire village, it seemed, was dedicated to the making and selling of gorgeous plates, cups, vases, sculptures—you name it, they made it.
More than anything, Hanoi's Ceramic Mosaic wall reminded me of the color and buzz and energy of Hanoi and all of Vietnam.
You can read and see more about the wall, including video clips showing artists working on the mural, in the official Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mural website. The Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mural blog includes many interesting photos, such as the original Photoshop artist renderings of the mural back when it was only a concept. That site also talks about the artist and staff of the project. Finally, this Travel Blog entry includes close-up photos of the wall in progress.
FridgeFotos: Hot Meets Cold
Posted in 25 Things, Architecture, Everyday Art, Food, Fotoblog, Home, Photography, Practice, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged 1950s appliances, appliances, Big Chill refrigerator, Chambers stove, FridgeFotos, images of appliances, Mid-Century Modern, old ovens, old stoves, outside refrigerators, ovens, refrigerator shots, refrigerators, retro refrigerators, stoves, Thermador oven, What's outside your fridge? on October 6, 2010| Leave a Comment »
My appliances: Chambers stove, Thermador oven, Big Chill fridge
(front and side), photos © 2010 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
Chambers, Thermador, Big Chill
hot, hot, cold
duck, duck, goose
-Related to posts PRACTICE: My Refrigerator and FridgeFotos – Assateague Island To Frozen Trolls
MN State Fair On-A-Stick (F. Scott Fitzgerald — A Night At The Fair)
Posted in Architecture, Art, Authors, Books, Culture, Family, Food, Growing Older, Life, Photography, Place, Practice, Seasons, Short Story, Writers, tagged 71 foods on-a-stick at the MN State Fair, A Fabulous Fair Alphabet, A Night at the Fair, alphabets, children's books, Debra Frasier, end of summer, end of summer rituals, F Scott Fitzgerald, F Scott Fitzgerald Walking Tour, F. Scott Fitzgerald & the MN State Fair, Fairborne, Fairchild, Fitzgerald Theater, food and culture, food on-a-stick, Great Minnesota Get-Together, illustration, memories, Minnesota State Fair, Minnesota State Fair Food Finder, Minnesota State Fair history, MN State Fair Alphabet Project, preserving memories, St Paul, stories about the Fair, Who are Fairchild & Fairborne?, writing about the MN State Fair on August 29, 2010| 39 Comments »
MN State Fair — Fairborne & Fairchild, MN State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota, August 2010, all photos © 2009-2010 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
The Minnesota State Fair kicked off this week and it's time for our annual State Fair post on red Ravine. We've covered a lot of history over the years, including the debut of Peach Glazed Pig Cheeks On-A-Stick, the fine art of Princess Kay of the Milky Way (and the Butter Queens), Minnesota State Fair poster artists, the history of Fairborne and Fairchild, and the tradition of Tom Thumb Donuts.
This year we honor the work of two writers who have written about the Minnesota State Fair. In 1928, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his classic short story "A Night at the Fair." And this year, Debra Frasier, author of On the Day You Were Born and the Minnesota State Fair Foundation's current Author-in-Residence, has written and illustrated A Fabulous Fair Alphabet.
Debra Frasier — A Fabulous Fair Alphabet
What started as a collection of photographs taken by Minneapolis author Debra Frasier on daily visits to the Minnesota State Fair, has turned into a work of book art. A Fabulous Fair Alphabet is Frasier's tribute to the "Great Minnesota Get-Together" and the impetus for the State Fair Alphabet Project, a labor of love for hundreds of Minnesotans who are passionate about early learning. The book has also gained national acclaim, with the New York Times noting, "Frasier brings to life a jaunty Ferris wheel, a sunburst-yellow pitcher of lemonade and a swirling roller coaster."
The book is interactive and there is a wonderful article about Frasier's process in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. She intentionally left the front-piece page blank in hopes that families will use the page to personalize their copies of the book as a keepsake, a place to store their own Fair memories, images, and words:
Going to the State Fair together is a ritual for many families. Grandparents have passed along their favorite Fair traditions to their grandchildren. The book is a place for all generations to record their experiences together. Imagine if we had a list of favorite words from our relatives' 1901 trip to the Fair, or 1945, or 2010 for fairgoers of 2060!
-Debra Frasier
Debra Frasier will be giving book signings from Noon to 2 p.m. daily at the J.V. Bailey House (across from the Space Needle) and I plan to visit her there. You can also visit the Alphabet Forest at Baldwin Park, across from the 4-H building. There are teaching materials based on the book, coloring sheets, instructions on making animals-on-a-stick or a cereal box stage, a bibliography of fair-themed books, display letters, a script that deepens the story and a look at how Frasier created the book at her official website.
F. Scott Fitzgerald — A Night at the Fair
F. Scott Fitzgerald is a Twin Cities icon who continues to live on through art and author happenings at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. Most Minnesotans know that he penned the short story, "A Night at the Fair," but after a comment from one of our readers, I started to wonder how many had actually read the story (myself included).
It begins like this:
The two cities were separated only by a thin well-bridged river; their tails curling over the banks met and mingled, and at the juncture, under the jealous eye of each, lay, every fall, the State Fair. Because of this advantageous position, and because of the agricultural eminence of the state, the fair was one of the most magnificent in America. There were immense exhibits of grain, livestock and farming machinery; there were horse races and automobile races and, lately, aeroplanes that really left the ground; there was a tumultuous Midway with Coney Island thrillers to whirl you through space, and a whining, tinkling hoochie-coochie show. As a compromise between the serious and the trivial, a grand exhibition of fireworks, culminating in a representation of the Battle of Gettysburg, took place in the Grand Concourse every night.
–F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Night at the Fair
If your imagination is captured, you can read all 15 pages at Project Gutenberg. One of my favorite parts is when Scott writes about Ye Old Mill. The same Ye Old Mill at the Fair today. Located at the southwest corner of Carnes Avenue and Underwood Street, and touted as the "original tunnel of love," Ye Old Mill is the oldest ride on the fairgrounds and is owned by the same family who first operated it in 1913.
The ride runs on a 40-horse power engine that turns the mill wheel and keeps water running through the 1300-foot channel. When you read Fitzgerald's descriptions, you can imagine Basil and Riply chugging along on the Fair rides and Midway of the 1920's. Memories preserved through story.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Walking Tour — St. Paul, Minnesota
I'm a writer who has lived in the Twin Cities for over 20 years. Until this summer, I had never seen the place where F. Scott Fitzgerald was born, walked on the steps of St. Paul Academy where he went to school (with a Fitzgerald statue created by Aaron Dysart), or taken a photograph of the sign at the Commodore Hotel where Scott and Zelda lived when their baby girl, Scottie, was born. Those old hotel walls have breathed in tales we can only imagine, real life stories of their drinking and partying at the Commodore bar.
For my birthday this year, our Poetry & Meditation Group walked the 13 stops of a self-guided Fitzgerald tour, from 481 Laurel, where Scott was born, to Mrs. Backus' Boarding School at 586 Holly, the building where Scott enrolled in dance class. However, the heart of the tour is a four-block radius surrounding the intersection of Kent Street and Summit Avenue, "one of the grandest rows of Victorian Boulevard architecture anywhere in America." From there, Summit stretches nearly five miles to the Mississippi River in the country's longest span of residential, Victorian architecture.
Slip on a comfortable pair of shoes, and walk in the footsteps of the writers who came before us. Francis Scott Fitzgerald (named after Francis Scott Key) has a birthday coming up on September 24th; take the tour to celebrate his birth, brushing oaks along streets his parents walked in 1896. At the time he lived in St. Paul, F. Scott visited with writers like Sinclair Lewis and Donald Ogden Stewart. Here's a link to every stop on the F. Scott Fitzgerald Walking Tour.
Our Minnesota State Fair post wouldn't be complete without the annual foods on-a-stick list. Here's the lineup for 2010. If you are looking for the location of specific foods at the Fair, here's a link to their FoodFinder with a map of the Fair. The Minnesota State Fair runs through Monday, September 6th. From the 20,000 gallons of milk served by the the American Dairy Association, to the 338,000 dozen mini-donuts consumed, and the 22,000 rolls of toilet paper used at the Minnesota State Fair, there is nothing else to do but ENJOY!
Camel on-a-stick
Chocolate Tornado on-a-stick
Dessert Pizza on-a-stick
Dixie Wings on-a-stick
• Caramel Apple Puppies (a Fudge Puppy with baked apple and covered with caramel)
@Fudge Puppies, located on the outside west wall of the Food Building
• Cheese Pizza Served With Corn Dogs (a cheese pizza topped with corn dogs sliced the long way)
@Pizza Shoppe, located inside the Food Building
• Chicken Fried Bacon (thick cut bacon, battered, breaded and fried, and served in a boat covered with gravy)
@Giggles' Campfire Grill, located on Cooper Street and Lee Avenue
• Chocolate Tornado (spiral-cut Tornado Potato dipped in chocolate)
@Sonny's Spiral Spud, located inside the Food Building
• Cincinnati Chili (spaghetti noodles smothered with chili and topped with shredded cheddar, beans, and diced onions)
@Sabino's, located inside the Warner Coliseum
• Danny Boy Burger (burger made with corned beef and covered with kraut, Swiss cheese, and Thousand Island dressing)
@O'Gara's, located on the corner of Dan Patch Avenue and Cosgrove Street
• Deep-Fried Avocado (avocado pieces batter-dipped, deep-fried, and served with Ranch dressing)
@Tejas, located in The Garden
• Deep-Fried Bacon Cheddar Mashed Potatoes On-A-Stick
@Potato Man and Sweetie, located on Liggett Street, south of Carnes Avenue
• Deep-Fried Bologna On-A-Stick
@Netterfield's Food Court, located on Cooper Street, north of Dan Patch Avenue
• Deep-Fried Breakfast Wrap (scrambled eggs and bacon in a soft shell wrap, deep-fried and smothered in cheese)
@Axel's, located outside on the southeast corner of the Food Building
•Deep-Fried Shortcake (shortcake batter deep-fried and covered with strawberries and ice cream)
@Granny's Cheesecake and More, located on Dan Patch Avenue at Underwood Street
• Fresh Fruit Salsa and Chips (salsa made on-site with fresh fruit and covered with tortilla chips)
@Fried Fruit, located in Carousel Park on the east side of the Grandstand Ramp
• Fried Pig Ears (thinly sliced pigs ears dusted in seasoned flour, fried until crispy, and served with lime chipotle glaze)
@Famous Dave's, located on the corner of Dan Patch Avenue and Liggett Street
• Ghost Wings (chicken wings covered in a habanero pepper sauce)
@Wings and Things, located inside the Warner Coliseum
• Grilled Marshmallow Chocolate and Banana Sandwich
@Moe and Joe's, located on Judson Avenue by the CHS Miracle of Birth Center
• Korean Moon BBQ (Korean "street vendor" style tacos with beef short ribs, spicy/sweet pork or chicken)
@Blue Moon Dine-In Theater, located on the corner of Carnes Avenue and Chambers Street
• Sausage and cheese-stuffed jalapeno poppers
@Sausage Sister & Me, located inside the Food Building
• Sloppy Joe served over spiral-cut potato chips
@Sunny's Spiral Spuds, located inside the Food Building
• Turtle Puppies (Fudge Puppy covered in caramel and nuts)
@Fudge Puppies, located against the outside west wall of the Food Building
-posted on red Ravine, Sunday, August 29th, 2010
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Back-To-School, Back-To-Routines
Posted in Architecture, Art, Everyday Art, Family, Fotoblog, Growing Older, Home, Life, Personal, Photography, Relationships, Seasons, Structure, Vision, tagged back-to-school, dog days of summer, end of summer, endings, hanging a collection of photos, motherhood, mothering, mothers and daughters, new beginnings, redecorating rooms, routines, teenage girl bedrooms, teenage girls, transitions, working mothers on August 14, 2010| 14 Comments »
Flowers Closeup, images of flowers grouped together,
photo © 2010 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
The girls were at camp for a week, which is the first time since this time last year that we had the house to ourselves. It's late August, almost September, and this particular camp — which is always held the week before school starts — is the last hurrah of summer.
My oldest starts high school next week. During a few days off recently I began a room redecoration project with her. We had intended to go to the cabin for two days with Jim and Em, but I forgot about an orthodontist appointment for Dee that couldn't be changed. So off they went while Dee and I set about redoing her bedroom.
She decided on a black-and-white color scheme with lavender, light blue, light pink, and other accent colors. We bought a new bedding set, plus two white shag rugs (I know!), a white desk chair, and a zebra print lamp. But the best part was when she got to select artwork for the walls. She found seven photo prints of different flowers, black-and-white with hints of color, in double-white mats.
I then purchased ready-made frames from Michael's (my boycott there didn't last long) and did something I rarely do. Instead of procrastinating and letting the new prints and frames sit untouched for weeks, I actually put them all together and hung them in a group on Dee's wall.
Wall of Flowers, to hang multiple pictures together on the wall, I used this excellent "how to," photo © 2010 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
The end of summer and beginning of school is a welcome time for me. Much as I enjoy the excitement of vacations and a general lazy feeling that lasts for two-and-a-half months starting in May, summer reminds me how much I cherish the routines that back-to-school brings in our household.
One such routine is quiet time for my artwork. With the girls back in school, that means they're not staying up late on weeknights. Weeknights, often after 9p, are when I can pull out my jewelry and lose myself in the tactical work of designing bracelets, gluing on designs, sanding edges, and mixing resin.
Just last night, I worked on several new bracelets. I am always amazed at the vibrancy of the work and delighted any time a new color scheme or design emerges. I turn my music on loud — usually k.d. lang belting out hymns of the 49th parallel, James Taylor, or Collective Soul — and don't look up again for hours.
Bracelets in Process, pieces coming together, (calendar
stuck on June), photo © 2010 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
But summer ain't over 'til it's over. Besides a couple of New Student orientations, the first day of school isn't until Thursday. There is much yet to fit in over this last weekend.
Em is starting a new transition, too, from elementary to middle school. She also got new accouterments for her bedroom, such as bedding in bright oranges, magentas, lime greens, and turquoise. Jim has to fix the cool and colorful lamp inherited from Dee's room, plus we have a few items yet to purchase. And there is still more to do to finish up Dee's redecoration — the full length mirror, more wall hangings, and putting up the curtains that are being hemmed by a local seamstress.
It's only now that summer is almost over that I can see how important these particular new beginnings are for my daughters. I like to mark beginnings — transformation in one's life, new seasons, milestone dates, new roles.
And as I celebrate, it's with a bittersweet heart because as the saying goes, "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
Mother and Child, antique framed Catholic print, hung to look over my art-making space, photo © 2010 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
Homing Instinct
Posted in Animals & Critters, Architecture, Culture, Family, Home, Love, Personal, Photography, Place, Taos, Things That Fly, Travel, Writers, Writing, tagged Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Mabel's pigeons, northern New Mexico, pigeon coops, places called home, sense of place on July 16, 2010| 24 Comments »
Homing In, Pigeon Coops at Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, NM, June 28, 2008, photo © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
When Jim and I started dating he wanted to take me to two places. One was the cabin his grandparents built in the 1940s, in the Pecos Mountains. The other place was the Rio Grande Pyramid in Southwestern Colorado — at 13,821 feet above sea level, source waters of the Rio Grande.
Within our first two months together, we went to both. They gave me a sense of who Jim is in his core — wilderness, mountains and valleys, creeks and rivers, building things by hand.
This past weekend in Taos, then, it is no surprise that I find myself walking with my daughters one morning up the long lane to the Mabel Dodge Luhan House.
"Where are we going, Mom?" they ask.
"You'll see."
We reach the uneven flagstone patio in front of the house. Dee says she loves the roughness of the stones. She spies a big rock wheel laid on its side into the walkway and stands in its center, surveying all around her.
"Papa Leo helped lay these stones," I tell her.
"He did?!" Her eyes are wide.
My father worked one summer at this place. Mabel herself was gone, but an English author hired Dad to help put in the flagstone. Dad was 16 or 17 years old, scrawny and not a good laborer. He's told me the author, whose name he thought to be Henry James or James Henry, was not pleased with his work. (I need to do more research on who this writer might have been. Author Henry James died just about the time Mabel Dodge arrived in Taos, so it couldn't have been him.)
The next morning I return to Mabel Dodge Luhan House with the girls and Jim in tow. I lead them into the front door, show them the living room and dining room, point out the magical door leading to the library. It's shaped liked a canoe that's been sawed in half, the tip at the top. Jim and I each stoop to go through the doorway. Dee and Em stand beneath it, looking up at the strange arch. The door is made just for them.
Jumping Jack Wagon, Jumping Jack pansies at Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, NM, June 28, 2008, photo © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
Homing in. We hold our homes in our hearts. I live in the Rio Grande Valley, next to the cottonwoods and the muddy river. This will always be more than just a place to live.
Parts of Northern New Mexico — Taos, Morada Lane and Mabel's house, Costilla, Cimarron, maybe even the dying and not very attractive town of Raton — these are homes I will always hold inside me.
What places do you call home?
-related to posts Sitting In Solidarity, Mabel's Dining Room, and WRITING TOPIC – A PLACE TO STAND.


We are the first European company to certify the first link in the food chain: cattle farms.
We are in possession of the maximum international food safety certification, UNE-EN-ISO standard 22000:2005, which is currently implemented at FEIRACO LÁCTEOS's industrial facilities and on 9 farms. Please consult our Quality and Food Safety Policy.
The quality seals awarded guarantee the quality of our production method and our products.
Awarded by the Galician Interprofessional Laboratory of Milk Analysis Association (IGAL), guaranteeing that the raw material used to produce the milk and all its by-products comes exclusively from the farms included in the Register of Dairy Farms of Differentiated Quality.
Management of purchases and supply of raw and auxiliary materials for the manufacture of dairy products, an almond drink, jellies and feed.
Administrative tasks such as invoicing and accounting. Marketing of raw milk in cisterns.
The farms of our cooperative which produce Únicla milk are the first in Spain to have obtained this environmental protection certification and to manage to reduce its carbon footprint by 20%. The certification refers to the comprehensive analysis of the life cycle of Únicla's production process, and is one of the few examples of its kind.
distinguishes the highest-quality Galician products. For the consumer, the Galicia Calidade brand name not only guarantees the Galician origin of the product, but represents an endorsement of confidence, prestige and quality. Certified CLUN brands: Feiraco and Únicla.
Our cooperative's farms marked an unprecedented milestone in Europe, as it was one of the first to receive the certification as the first link of the food chain: production, guaranteeing food safety on farms and at the plant. This recognition guarantees consumers that our dairy products are of the highest quality.
Produto Lácteo Sostible (Sustainable Dairy Product) guarantees the traceability and Spanish origin of the milk and certifies that it was bought in conditions that ensure the economic sustainability of the dairy sector.
CLUN's Únicla farms are the first in Galicia to have been awarded the Animal Welfare Certificate of Compliance. This certification evaluates different animal parameters, as well as the facilities themselves, based on 4 principles: feeds, cattle housing, health status and cow behaviour.


Grasie Mercedes is a Latina actress, writer, director and content creator from NYC currently residing in Los Angeles, CA. She began her career at MTV Networks as a producer before moving to LA to further pursue her creative endeavors.
And now, on day 14, I can say I'm super happy with the results of my challenge.
While I love all the fashion that comes out of fashion week season, I'm also inspired by the beauty.


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Consumer inflation ended 2022 surging higher for an accelerated 19th consecutive month at 54.1 percent year-on-year (y/y) last December, data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has shown.
Headline inflation went up 50.3 percent in November 2022 on the back of food inflation, the pass-through effects of higher petroleum prices; and currently sits approximately 5.41 x over the Bank of Ghana's upper policy target of 10 percent.
This, coupled with the Yuletide-induced demand pressures, further contributed to the uptick in headline inflation.
Commenting on the share of inflation across the various divisions, the Government Statistician, Professor Kobina Annim, indicated that the top drivers of inflation during the period were food and non-alcoholic beverages, leading by 47.5 percent; followed by housing, water electricity, gas and other fuels at 15.7 percent; and transport, 14 percent.
Further to this, the GSS said it noted a wide disparity across the 13 divisions with housing, water electricity, gas and other fuels leading with 82.34 percent. This was followed by furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance by 71.52 percent; transport, 71.42 percent; while personal care, social protection and miscellaneous goods and services logged 60.94 percent; with food and non-alcoholic beverages registering 59.71 percent.
The transport sub-group drove the monthly inflation growth at 6.65 percent, followed by furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance at 5.04 percent. Personal care, social protection and miscellaneous goods and services logged 4.76 percent; food and non-alcoholic beverages as well as housing, water electricity, gas and other fuels recorded 4.09 percent and 2.9 percent respectively.
Irrespective of the cedi's considerable appreciation and the marked slowdown in ex-pump fuel prices, the market expects inflation to continue surging through January 2023 – albeit at a moderated pace.
Market watchers expect the inflation outlook to peak at the end of Q1 2023.
For instance, GCB Capital in forecasting what to expect said: "We anticipate a sharper cooling of inflation beyond 1Q 2023, as we believe we have seen the worst of cedi depreciation. With government committing to fiscal consolidation under an IMF programme from 2023, we expect the much-needed BoP support and policy credibility from the programme to anchor cedi stability through 2023.
"We believe cedi depreciation and rising petroleum prices are the primary triggers of inflation, and given this improved outlook for 2023 we expect a sharper cooling of inflation beyond 1Q 2023," it said.
Constant Capital also maintained its outlook of higher inflation in December 2022, with a potential peak deferred to Q1 of 2023.
"In the near-term, we expect to see the impact of pass-through effects from cedi depreciation, elevated petroleum prices, upward transport fare adjustment, lagged impact of utility tariff hikes, as well as the yuletide-induced price increase and consumer demand to continue lifting the CPI," it said.
BoG's Efforts
During 2022, the central bank cumulatively increased the benchmark policy rate by 1250 basis points to 27 percent – the highest rate in almost 2 decades. Inflation currently sits at 54.1 percent, thus 5.41 intervals outside the upper limit of the central bank's medium-term inflation target band – and continues to adversely impact economic activity and consumer behaviour.
The central bank has noted that it may remain hawkish at least through Q1-2023 until inflation shows signs of moderation, and the implementation of other available monetary tools to control money supply and rein-in inflation takes effect.
The tighter monetary policy stance of various central banks around the globe and global recession risks could potentially weigh on Ghana's economy. The central bank expects inflation to peak in Q1-2023, then decline to a 25 percent range by the end of 2023.
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Bells Bend Park was opened in 2007. The land was orginally purchased by the City to use as a fill site, but later was found to be inappropriate for the intended use. As bottom land along the Cumberland River, the soil was rich with archeological artifacts and teeming with bird life. The land needed to be protected as a park or natural area.
Mayor Purcell gave the land to the Metro Parks and Bells Bend Park was created. We had heard good reports of the Park from friends; but we had never visited Bells Bend. We were anxious to hike the Loop Trail.
Bells Bend Park is located in Davidson County (Nashville), but feels as if it is much further away. Isolated at the tip of Bells Bend, the park would be very close to West Nashville if the old ferry still crossed the river. As it is, it takes approximately thirty minutes from mid town Nashville to the park.
The basic instructions to find the Park are: leave Briley Pwky at exit 24, Ashland City Hwy. Go west 2.8 miles toward Ashland City. At Old Hickory Blvd, go south (left), there is a light at the intersection and a huge convenience market on the right. Follow the road 4.2 miles to the park, located on the right. The entrances are clearly marked with large signs. The Outdoor Center is the second entrance.
You may start the Loop Trail from either the Outdoor Center or from the Poplar Hollow Trailhead. The Outdoor Center has very limited hours, so if you want to visit the facility it must be during the prescribed times. There are restrooms and water available only if the facility is open.
From the first junction looking left at the Outdoor Center, we turned right and went toward the river first.
Basically, the Loop trail gives an overall tour of the park. From the Poplar Hollow Trailhead, cross the creek on a bridge and continue .10 miles to a trail junction. Turn right. The trail is a wide, mowed path through the fields of the old farm. There are no trail markers or directional signs. A few mower cuts of old farm roads cross the path, but the Loop Trail continues straight.
From the junction it is .10 mile to the group campground and .40 miles to a farm road crossing the path. Continue hiking straight, it is .10 miles to the Cumberland River.
Following the river, the path continues for more than half of a mile. There are paths of access as well as viewing points along the trail. Birds love the trees along the banks of the river.
Leaving the river, the trail goes slightly uphill to a junction in a little more than .10 miles. When first looking at the intersection it seems as if the trail goes right. On closer inspection it is the farm road that goes right, the trail continues up a gentle hill, past a shrub row, and then to the left.
The trail comes up the hill from the river and continues across the farm road located below the trees in the foreground.
After the odd intersection, the path continues up the small hill to a crest at about a hundred feet above the river banks. A farm road junction at .25 miles and a nice row of trees cross the path at the top of the hill in .10 miles further.
Looking uphill to the Outdoor Center.
From the tree row, continue straight along the mowed path as it follows the rolling contour of the land. At .10 miles a farm road goes left and curves over to the barn. Continue hiking .35 miles to another junction and the Outdoor Center can be seen uphill and off to the right; the old barn is downhill to the left. The Loop Trail continues straight.
From the same location as the one above, downhill toward the barn.
The trail then curves left and follows the Poplar Hollow Creek .20 miles until it reaches the junction with the trailhead access trail. Turn right and re-cross the bridge to access the trailhead in .10 miles. Continue straight if you just want to go for another loop!
The trail is rated easy. It is a very pleasant hike.


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Callan, the classic spy TV series originally starring Edward Woodward, returns as a full-cast audio drama in four brilliant brand-new hour-long episodes from Big Finish Productions...
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Let's start with a simple process to understand the area of concentration and the measurements used to collect data and what that might mean for our upcoming season.
First, we are focused on the Yellowstone River Basin. This area is clearly defined using the map below.
Next we will look at the year-to-date precipitation for the given area of study. Look at the bottom row and you can see the red arrow pointing to our area of study.
You can see that we are at 88% of our average. We can start to make some assumptions from this data that river runoffs will be more than adequate to sustain the river ecosystem.
It is here that we introduce an important distinction between snowpack measured in inches and snowpack as a percent of water content. For instance, you might have more moisture packed into your snowfall and not know it and without understanding moisture content you might be mislead to think that runoff will be directly realated to a depth measurement when in fact it is due more to the amount of snowpack moisture content.
Now that we understand what type of data will help us understand runoff amounts, have a look at the Snow Water Content chart below. Here we see the areas that we cover in our Montana fly fishing guided trips. Last year, 2014, this area clearly benefited by a productive snowfall and snowpack. Percentages on average were all greater than 100% of normal. For 2015 we are seeing totals lower than average and in conclusion, using the latest data we can assume that the upcoming season will be fine for a productive fishing season however we'll monitor and adjust our fishing schedules accordingly.
For those of you looking for more advanced data, have a look at this information. Here you'll find the snow-water equivalent as referred to as a percent of normal for a given time of year.


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Алексей Авенирович Яковлев (род. 28 марта 1956, Ленинград) — доктор медицинских наук, профессор, Заслуженный Врач РФ, главный врач СПб ГБУЗ «Клиническая инфекционная больница имени С. П. Боткина» 1994—2020 г.г, основатель и заведующий кафедрой инфекционных болезней, эпидемиологии и дерматовенерологии Медицинского факультета Санкт-Петербургского Государственного Университета с 1997 года.

Советский и российский врач-инфекционист, ведущий специалист в области ВИЧ-инфекции, вирусных гепатитов. Член Европейской Ассоциации специалистов по заболеваниям печени (EASL), Член общества иммунологии и иммунореабилитации.

Биография
Родился 28 марта 1956 года в семье ленинградских врачей. Глава семьи — профессор Авенир Михайлович Яковлев, полковник в отставке, многие годы заведовал кафедрой микробиологии в Ленинградском педиатрическом медицинском институте. Мать, Светлана Дмитриевна Яковлева — микробиолог, работала в Военно-медицинской академии им. С. М. Кирова.

Образование и работа
Окончил Первый Ленинградский Медицинский институт им. акад. И. П. Павлова в 1978 году. Проходил обучение в клинической ординатуре и аспирантуре на базе больницы Боткина, в дальнейшем осуществлял педагогическую работу на кафедре инфекционных болезней института. В течение 13 лет работал врачом-дежурантом в приёмном покое больницы Боткина. В 1983 году защитил кандидатскую диссертацию, в 1992 году — докторскую диссертацию.

Первым применил метод лазерной корреляционной спектроскопии для диагностики вирусного гепатита и совместно с сотрудниками Петербургского института ядерной физики создал программу для прогнозирования его течения.

В 1987 году на Всемирном конкурсе молодых учёных в Лондоне получил первое место в мире и был представлен к премии фармацевтической компании «Аbbott» за лучшую научную работу по созданию новых принципов диагностики и исследования патогенеза вирусных гепатитов.

В 1993 году возглавил специализированную клинику НИИ Гриппа по испытанию новых лекарственных препаратов Министерства Здравоохранения РФ, в 1993 году основал специализированную клинику по лечению вирусных гепатитов (ныне существующая Клиника хронических вирусных инфекций имени профессора Е. Н. Виноградовой).

В 1994 году был назначен главным врачом инфекционной больницы № 30 им. С. П. Боткина. Принимал активное участие в создании городского Центра по борьбе и профилактике ВИЧ инфекции вместе с профессором А. Г. Рахмановой.

Проработав в должности Главного Врача более 25 лет, А. А. Яковлев приложил огромные усилия для сохранения статуса больницы, как крупнейшего и современного учреждения здравоохранения на Северо-Западе. В ответ на изменяющиеся социально-экономические условия и эпидемиологическую ситуацию в больнице были открыты новые отделения и подразделения: отделения для лечения ВИЧ-инфицированных пациентов, врачебный здравпункт для бездомных в рамках сотрудничества с организацией «Врачи без границ», три специализированные лаборатории, отделение гемодиализа, отделение экстракорпоральной дезинтоксикации, первое в РФ отделение для Особо Опасных Инфекций, кабинет баротерапии, создана первая среди ЛПУ РФ медико-социальная служба. Алексей Авенирович добился бюджетного финансирования пункта профилактики ВИЧ инфекции и организовал передвижные пункты, работающие в нескольких районах города.

Являясь не только руководителем, но и крупным учёным, впервые в России Яковлев А. А. внедрил в работу больницы этиотропную терапию вирусных гепатитов. В 1996 году перевёл больницу на одноразовые системы забора крови и системы для в/в введения. Внедрил в практику работы десятки современных методов обследования, включая ПЦР диагностику ОРВИ и кишечных инфекций, гистоиммунохимию и ПЦР in situ, ЯМР томографию, компьютерную томографию, экстрокарпоральную мембранную оксигенацию, а также метод «Кратковременная эластография» с применением «Фиброскана» и биохимический метод оценки фиброза (Фибромакс).

После ухода с должности руководителя самого большого инфекционного стационара России весь 2020 год в период пандемии работал врачом-клиницистом и заместителем главного врача клиники «Медси» в Отрадном.

Яковлев А. А. вошёл в историю города Петербурга тем, что именно ему принадлежала идея реформирования старейшей и уникальной инфекционной больницы путём создания 2 площадок, расположенных на севере и юге города.

Являлся организатором и координатором строительства и запуска новой инфекционной больницы «Больница Боткина Север», которая в период пандемии Covid-19 стала инфекционным щитом города.

В 2017 г. первый этап был успешно завершён открытием северной площадки, отвечающей самым современным требованиям, предъявляемым к медицинским учреждениям такого профиля и не имеющей аналогов в РФ. Открытие новой больницы было оценено общественностью города как событие Века, а Яковлев А. А. был признан «Мужчиной года −2018» в номинации «Медицина»".

В период руководства больницей А. А. Яковлев вернул ей название «Клиническая инфекционная больница им. С. П. Боткина». Впервые в России на базе «Больница Боткина Север» создал учебный кластер для ведущих медицинских университетов города СПб.

А. А. Яковлев автор более 300 публикаций в отечественных и зарубежных изданиях . Автор и соавтор книг и учебников . А. А. Яковлев неоднократно представлял здравоохранение Санкт-Петербурга на парламентских слушаниях в Государственной думе, Межпарламентской ассамблее участников СНГ. Награждён медалью «В память 300-летия Санкт-Петербурга», юбилейной медалью — «100 лет профсоюзам России», отраслевым знаком «Отличнику здравоохранения».

Под его руководством больница осуществляла широкое международное сотрудничество. Больница под руководством А. А. Яковлева неоднократно получала грамоты и благодарности от Президента РФ, руководства Санкт-Петербурга, а также от медицинской службы Белого Дома США.

Примечания

Инфекционисты России
Заслуженные врачи России
Преподаватели Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета
Доктора медицинских наук

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The Open Definition operation in a default installation of Go and GoClipse does not work. This functionality of being able to jump to the definition of a type or function is provided by a tool named godef.
This installs a godef binary in the $GOPATH/bin directory.
Open Window -> Preferences -> Go -> Tools and set the path to the godef binary here.
Restart Eclipse. Right-click on any member or function and choose Open Definition, it should work now!
Note that GoClipse still does not provide the useful feature of showing details of a type or function in tooltip when you hover over something in the source file.
GoClipse cannot show the Outline of a Go source file with just a default installation of Go. You will find that the Outline view is empty and pressing Ctrl + O to get an Outline throws up an error. For Go, the Outline is generated using a tool called Oracle.
Open Windows -> Preferences -> Go -> Tools and set the path of Oracle.
Restart GoClipse. Outline view should show the details for your currently open source file now.
The Indexer in Eclipse CDT runs in the background indexing the source files of your project. Indexer is one of the main reasons Eclipse can be slow. You can see it churning away in the background most of the time.
Go to project Properties -> C/C++ General -> Paths and Symbols.
Go to Source Location tab, click on your project name and choose Edit Filter.
In the Edit Filter dialog, add the files you want to be excluded from indexing.
In Eclipse, I am able to build and run C++ code that calls OpenGL functions. However, most of the OpenGL calls are marked as could not be resolved by the Indexer in Eclipse.
Almost all of the modern OpenGL functions are defined behind the GL_GLEXT_PROTOTYPES symbol in header files such as gl.h and glext.h. We need to define this symbol for the Indexer.
Go to project Properties -> C/C++ General -> Paths and Symbols. Under the Symbols tab, add a new symbol with the Name as GL_GLEXT_PROTOTYPES. No value needs to be provided. Rebuild the index for the project and the unresolved indications for OpenGL functions should be gone!
Eclipse CDT understands the C++ code in a window by running it through an indexer. This indexer is nothing but an invocation of the GCC C++ compiler with certain compilation options. Sometimes, you might want to change the compiler options used by this indexer.
For example, I recently found that C++11 containers and classes (like future) were not resolved by the indexer and were underlined with red squiggles. This is because the compiler options used by the indexer does not have -std=c++11.
Open Preferences and go to C/C++ -> Build -> Settings.
Click the Discovery tab and choose CDT GCC Built-in Compiler Settings.
Modify the command string shown below it as you wish. For example, here I added -std=c++11.
Eclipse CDT will automatically re-index your C++ files after this is saved. However, I found that this did not remove the unresolved items.
I manually re-indexed by right-clicking the project and choosing Index -> Rebuild. This worked!
When working with C++ code in Eclipse, you might see a Unresolved inclusion warning for some include header lines. This is indicated with a question-mark and an underline squiggle. On hovering the mouse over it, a tooltip is shown with the Unresolved inclusion message.
This is caused when the Eclipse indexer cannot find the header file you have included. This commonly happens when you have installed the library of that header file in a non-standard location.
Open the project Properties and go to C/C++ General -> Paths and Symbols.
In the Includes tab, go to the GNU C++, choose Add and add the path to the directory that contains the above header file.
After re-indexing the code of your project, this warning should be gone.


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Yu-Gi-Oh: Complete First Season
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Yu-Gi-Oh: Complete First Season available in DVD
This explosive release from the fantastical anime series Yu-Gi-Oh! includes all 27 episodes from the series' first season, following the story of Yugi, a timid boy whose life is forever changed when he's granted the power of his own powerful, dark self, who comes out whenever Yugi or his friends are threatened.
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Containing 15 episodes, the second volume of 1980s mega-hit Dynasty's sixth season continues to follow ...
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Containing 15 episodes, the first volume of 1980s mega-hit Dynasty's sixth season continues to follow the passionate ups and downs of the Carrington family as they seek further wealth and power.
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Антуан де Жюссьє (, 6 липня 1686, Ліон, Франція – 22 квітня 1758, Париж, Франція) – французький ботанік.

Брат Крістофа, Бернара та Жозефа.

Був учнем Турнефора в Університеті Монпельє.

З братом Бернаром провів наукові експедиції по Іспанії, Португалії та Південній Франції.

Повернувся у Париж у 1708 році та очолив після смерті Турнефора кафедру ботаніки при Королівському ботанічному саду.

Опублікував розширене видання праці Турнефора «Institutiones rei herbrariae» (1719, 3 т., ) та працю Жака Баррельє «Plantae per Galliam, Hispaniam, et Italiam observatae, etc.» (1714, ).

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Home Horror News & Alerts Read, Watch, Listen: An SML Monster News Roundup
Read, Watch, Listen: An SML Monster News Roundup
MonsterStuff August 10, 2017 August 8, 2017 Horror News & Alerts
Either it's been a busy summer for horror films, or Spooky has been doing a terrible job marking things in our email inbox. Or both. In any case, here's a rundown of some terrifyingly interesting horror news.
Misc Monster News
Bloody Disgusting Launches Podcast Network – Bloody Disgusting, the world's premier website for horror film news and reviews, recently launched the Bloody Disgusting Podcast Network, the foremost horror-centric podcast network featuring a wide variety of new shows. The Bloody Disgusting Podcast Network's initial five programs include:
The Horror Show, a comedy podcast that dissects all the movies horror fans love and love to hate.
Women in Caskets, a podcast for the feminist in everyone hosted by horror fans who really know what it means to bleed.
Forever Midnight, a joyful discussion of horror in cinema for all horror fans, not just know-it-all nerds, but also for know-it-all nerds.
Test Pattern, made in the spirit of old hosted monster movie shows, is a little bit spooky and a little bit silly, but always informative.
Virtual Pros, featuring brash humor, lifestyle tidbits, and a general sense of level headedness rarely heard from a wrestling podcast.
Check them out at bloody-disgusting.com/podcastnetwork.
Gruesome Magazine Debut Issue Available Now – Available now in digital format and coming soon via print on demand, the Grue-Crew presents the very first edition of Gruesome Magazine. The quarterly magazine will focus on independent horror films, horror film festivals, and the future of horror. The digital magazine is available for $3.99 and the print edition is available for $9.99 (8.5×11", full color, 48 pages).
Monster Movie News
New Trailer for Horror Comedy Vidar the Vampire – Vidar the Vampire is a Norwegian ultra-low-budget horror comedy produced by UFOh! The film is set to premiere at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund on August 23 and will screen at both Fantasy Filmfest, Germany and FilmQuest, USA in September. In a desperate attempt to break free from routine, frustrated bachelor Vidar prays to a higher power to grant him a life without boundaries. Unfortunately, his prayers are heard and Vidar wakes up one evening as the Prince of Darkness in sin city, Stavanger. Watch the trailer:
First Trailer Released for Downrange – This terrifying new thriller from acclaimed director Ryuhei Kitamura (The Midnight Meat Train, Versus, Godzilla: Final Wars) will celebrate its world premiere at TIFF's Midnight Madness this September. Six college students are carpooling cross-country when one of their tires blows out on a desolate stretch of country road. Getting out to fix the flat, they quickly discover that this was no accident. Watch the trailer:
Trailer Released for Escaping the Dead Ahead of Festival Run – Something is rotten in the state of Denmark! Escaping the Dead has been a 5-year-long endeavour, inspired by a series of articles about the death drug krokodil. The official trailer is here, and the film is headed out to festivals, like the late August Action on Film International Film Festival in Las Vegas. Watch the trailer:
The Transfiguration Now Available on VOD – An official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Michael O'Shea's debut feature The Transfiguration follows troubled teen Milo, who hides behind his fascination with vampire lore. When he meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to challenge Milo's dark obsession, blurring his fantasy into reality. A chilling portrait of violence, this is a stunning atmospheric thriller set against the grit of New York City. Find it now, on demand.
Cut Shoot Kill Now Available on VOD – Serena Brooks, an ambitious young actress, signs on as the star of a horror film with a crew of backwoods filmmakers that have worked together for years. When the cast starts disappearing, Serena has to become her character if she wants to survive! Written and directed by Michael Walker (Chasing Sleep), Cut Shoot Kill is available now, on demand.
Terror Films Releases Controversial Indie Thriller Del Playa – The film has been surrounded by controversy from the beginning. Viewers of the YouTube trailer mistakenly believed the movie was based on college student Elliot Rodger, perpetrator of the 2014 Isla Vista massacre. While director Shaun Hart maintains that the similarities are coincidental, a portion of the film's profits will go to Arts for Humanity!, a nonprofit based in Santa Barbara, California. The film is now available through a number of video on demand channels. Watch the trailer:
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