Garlic is known for is anti-bacterial qualities and adds a delicious kick to pasta, but did you know that in Australia approximately 95% of garlic sold in shops is imported? That’s an awful lot of food miles tied to one little bulb.
Most garlic comes from China where chemicals that have been banned in Australia are still being used.
Imported garlic is also sprayed with a chemical called methyl bromide which plays an important role in preventing pests and diseases from entering Australia. However, this chemical is also a controlled substance under the Montreal Protocol because it depletes the ozone layer, and as a result Australia has been phasing it out since 2005.
It’s great to buy Australian garlic when you can but it’s not always available, so why not grow your own? It takes up little space, tastes better than shop bought garlic and is easy to care for.
Here are some tips to get you started:
Choose cultivars suited to your climate
To find garlic bulbs try your local nursery, look online or buy garlic from an organic farmer’s market or shop. Experiment with a few different varieties and see which grows best. This year I’m growing Australian Purple.
Sow at the optimum time
Garlic is happiest if you plant it in autumn. If you live in a subtropical zone, delay your planting until the weather begins to cool.
Find a sunny position
To plant your garlic find an area where it is sunny and open.
Prepare your soil
Provide a well-drained soil with a pH of around 5.5 to 7 (acidic to neutral). Add some well-rotted organic matter such as green manure, compost and animal manures and ideally dig this in several weeks before planting.
Separate bulbs into individual cloves and plant with the pointy end up around 2-5 centimetres deep, and about 15 centimetres apart. They should sprout in about a week.
Mulch with a light, open mulch to a depth of up to 10-20 cm. Keep weed-free and well watered.
Garlic requires a cool period (0-10°Celcius) for around 1-2 months to grow well. Very little attention is required over this time. Keep the soil-bed weeded, and water if extremely dry. As the weather warms up some watering may be required if it’s hot and dry.
If you would like to harvest your garlic as green garlic you can plant your bulbs about 10cm apart and harvest them early (in the Spring) before the bulbs have divided. At this time they will look more like leeks. You can eat both the bulb and the green leaves.
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You can harvest your garlic in the summer 7 to 8 months after planting when the tips start to brown. Don’t wait until the leaves completely whither back as the bulbs will start to split. Wait for a hot dry day and use a garden fork to lift the bulbs. Avoid pulling them out by their stems as this will damage them.
Shake off the soil, clip the roots and hang them in bunches from the stems in a dry well-ventilated area. Stems can be plaited together and bulbs can be cut off as needed. They will last for up to 10 months. Remember to set some aside for replanting your next crop.


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On this date in 1974, Tex Ritter died in Nashville, Tennessee. The native of Murval, Texas, attended the University of Texas, where he was influenced by Frank Lomax and J. Frank Dobie. Some of his greatest hits were "Rye Whiskey," "Wayward Wind," and "You Are My Sunshine." His performance of "High Noon," from the movie of the same name, won an Oscar in 1952. Ritter appeared in eighty-five movies and starred in the television series "Ranch Party" (1959-1962). In 1964 he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. John Ritter, his youngest son, starred in the popular series "Three's Company."

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Finding the Best Engagement and Wedding Ring Manufacturer in Your Local Area
A jewelry, which can also be spelled as jewellery, and it is described as a valuable and small decorative or embellished object or item that is worn by the people for personal adornment. A jewelry can be attached to the clothes or garments of the wearer, or can be worn by the wearer, and the most common kinds of jewelries are necklaces for the neck, bracelets for the wrist, earrings for the ears, brooches for garments, watches for the wrist, anklets for the ankles, and rings for the fingers. A jewelry can be made in various materials, such as gold, white gold, palladium, silver, titanium, platinum, stainless steel, gemstones, beads, diamond, coral, and shells. The ones who are skilled and knowledgeable in the production of jewelries can be called as goldsmiths and silversmiths, and this individuals are using the lapidaries method, and that include soldering or welding, carving, cutting, cold-joining, forging, and casting. There are a lot of different reasons as to why the people are using or wearing jewelries, and that include for functional purposes, such as to tell time or to fix the hair or clothing; as a marker of their personal status or social status, as a protection, as a symbol or carrier of personal meaning, as a signifier of any form of affiliation, and as an artistic or decorative display.
A wedding ring or an engagement ring are the type of jewelries that does not only represent the status of the social or personal life of an individual, but it can also signify or symbolize the loyalty, love, and affection of two individuals. Engagement rings are typically given during engagement parties, and such jewelry indicates that the wearer is already engaged to be married and represents as a formal agreement of two individuals for their future marriage.
A wedding band is another term used by the people that refers to wedding rings, and such type of jewelry that basically indicates that the wearer is already done getting married with their loved one. Engagement rings and wedding rings are similarly worn by the people in their left hand ring finger, and commonly the females or the bride-to-be are the ones who wore both of these rings. The diamond is definitely the most popular adornment used by the manufacturers for their jewelry products, for most of the women are fond of diamonds, which is why it has been recognized as woman’s bestfriend. There are basically a lot of manufacturers of jewelries in every parts of the globe, and the couples who wants to find the best ring for their own wedding or engagement party can locate them through the recommendations of colleagues and families, through the use of the internet, or by visiting the mall or jewelry stores in their local area.

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5.5 grains is not particularly high for that powder with that bullet weight. The Alliant site has a Speer Gold Dot HP 185 grain bullet seated to 1.2" COL loaded with 8.2 grains of Unique.
Masaad Ayoob describes a case he testified in for which he suggests the light load is what contributed to a murder conviction. It was failure of adequate powder stippling to appear that contributed to the prosecutor and later the jury deciding that what the defense says was a suicide with a very light target load was actually a shot fired from a greater distance, and therefore was a homicide rather than a suicide. That's oversimplifying, but that was the gist of it. On the other side of the argument is that the only way the situation could have been prevented was for the home to have no light target loads in it anywhere, an unlikely situation for a target shooter. All you can advise in that situation is that if you have someone suicidal in your home, lock all the guns up and don't give them the combination to the safe.
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People are drawn to ponds for multiple reasons. Many love the aesthetically pleasing view that natural ponds provide a home. Others particularly enjoy the added benefits that natural ponds provide their animals. Regardless of why someone might have a pond by their home, it is important for everyone to learn and understand why they should keep their pond water as clean as possible.
Given our experience in the pond industry, we at Nashville Pond have come across many instances when a pond could have been maintained if the owners had been equipped with the right tools and properly informed. In this article, we will provide information you need to maintain your pond.
The Basics, Or Pond Science 101
While there’s a lot of science and chemistry that we could get into with regards to pond water, we’ll keep it simple! To ensure that your pond is properly maintained, make sure that there is enough dissolved oxygen going into the water. If your pond water is not properly aerated, your pond may experience sudden pH changes and an increase in algae. For reference, the pH in your pond could range from 1 all the way up to 14. Think of it this way, if the pH in your pond is 1, then it’s as if your fish are swimming in lemon juice; if the pH in your pond is 14, then it’s as if they were swimming in ammonia! So, like with most things, you want your pond water to be right in the middle at a pH of 7, nice pure water. One thing you need to keep in mind is that your pond is an ever-changing ecosystem. This means that there is a variety of factors, such as fish waste, fertilizer and debris that could threaten the health of your pond.
Keeping your Pond Water Clean
The good news is that there are plenty of options out there to help keep your pond water clean. The best way, however, to tackle both algae and any changes in pH, is by introducing dissolved oxygen into your pond. In doing so, you are helping aerate your pond and thus reducing the chances of getting algae and ending up with stagnated water. To do this, you can invest in either a fountain or in an aeration unit. Both are great options whose main function is to provide dissolved oxygen to your pond, thus helping you maintain the pH level balanced and reducing algae, while providing you with an aesthetically pleasing focal point that enhances the beauty of your home.
If you’d like to learn more about how aeration helps your pond, check out our previous blog, or take a look at some of our tips on keeping your pond clean! If you have any questions or concerns about your pond, or how to keep your pond water clean, feel free to contact us, we’re happy to help!
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Creeking is a virtually free and easy social distancing outing for the kids! My kids and I have enjoyed exploring several creeks in the area.
Make sure to put on sunscreen and bring a change of clothes/shoes. I also found it helpful to bring buckets, scoops, nets, and other inexpensive tools that aid in exploring! We often bring our bikes as many parks have paved trails that allow for biking after we complete our adventure. Packing a snack or lunch is good, too, but don’t forget to clean those hands real well before eating!
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Pioneer Park has a mile long paved path that goes through the woods. There is also a gazebo, butterfly gardens and swings by the pond; my kids had fun biking and then playing in the creek that was right off the paved path! We parked our bikes and explored! You can stay in one spot or take a walk down the creek quite a ways. The park is well shaded and the creek is near restrooms and the parking lot.
This Hamilton County park has an almost 8-mile bike path and a shorter inner loop that is about 1 mile. You will need a park pass to enter, but they can be used at all Hamilton County parks for a year. We biked the inner loop to access the creeking area. The creek had shallow yet large pools to play in and explore creek life but not as easy to travel long distances. There was not as much space to park bikes and strollers but definitely doable. We enjoyed this area for creeking in combination with biking, but keep in mind that it is harder to go longer distances. The park also features frisbee golf and other great amenities, too!
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Keehner Park has a great creek loaded with lots of fossils and clay sediment! We parked by the old playground and walked down a path with wooden stairs to the creek. Note that the restrooms are still closed, but there were portalets available. Although are no paths for biking, there is plenty of hilly green space and picnic shelters. The creek is a great one for exploring and taking a longer walk, but once you’re down there you are away from the parking lot so make sure you have everything you need! Strollers will not make it down, so baby wearing would work well!
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I grew up going to Sharon Woods – another Hamilton County park – but never creeked there! This was probably my favorite place as it was easy to park and lots of different entry points to the creek. You can stay in one spot or follow the creek parallel to 42 or along the gorge trail. If your kids love searching for fossils, this is the spot plus the waterfalls make it beautiful. It was very shady and the proximity to the parking, bathrooms and paved trails make it easy to navigate!
Here are some more of my favorite places to check out:
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East Loveland Nature Preserve
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Caldwell Nature Center
430 W N Bend Road, Cincinnati, Oh
Summit Park Playscape
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Cincinnati Nature Center (Playscape – Opens July 1!)
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Long Branch Farm and Trails
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It can be difficult for clients to imagine how much they’ll spend in retirement. This short, insightful article is useful.
There’s an alarming difference between perception and reality for current and future retirees.
Asking the right questions about how you can save money for retirement without sacrificing your quality of life.

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Do Not Disturb is an essential features for iPhone user. It is one of those utilities which was a very long time coming for iOS. I think every iPhone user can not tell how many times they have been woken up by his iPhone ringing in the middle of the night while sleeping. While we’re sleeping late night, some of our friends may email us or call us who may forget that we get up early in the morning. With this Do Not Disturb mode, those boring days are over.
|Set Up Do Not Disturb Mode in your iPhone|
To turn on Do Not Disturb, necessary steps are discussed below:
- Go to Setting from your Home Screen and select Do Not Disturb option from the Menu.
- Now you can manually enable and configure your DND. To scheduled the range of desired time you would like to silence sound from notifications or incoming calls, click on Scheduled option
- You allow some specific calls from the option Allow Calls From. With this option, you can allow incoming messages and calls from contacts saved as favorites.
- Repeated calls is a function that allows repeated calls from the same caller within 3 minutes interval of time from not being silenced. You have to enable this features by clicking on Repeated Calls option
- You may chose to silence the calls and messages while your iPad is locked. To enable this simply click on this option.
In a word, this is a very simple but elegant setting that i like most and use every night.


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Oscar Pistorius buried his head in his hands on the second day of his murder trial while it was detailed how bullets hit girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Three witnesses of the Valentine’s Day 2013 killing from homes near Pistorius’ Pretoria house testified Tuesday as to what they saw and heard on that night. A third Afrikaans-English interpreter was brought in, and the judge warned media for showing a photograph of one of the witnesses on live TV.
Pistorius, the first double amputee to run at the Olympics in 2012, shot and killed Steenkamp on the early morning of Valentine’s Day 2013 in his Pretoria, South Africa home.
He has said he thought Steenkamp was an intruder in his bathroom when he shot four times through the door and killed her. The prosecution asserts Pistorius shot her after a fight. Pistorius could face life in prison if convicted of premeditated murder with a minimum of 25 years.
On Tuesday, the first witness, Dr. Michelle Burger, finished answering more than three hours of questions over two days in tears inside a Pretoria courtroom.
Burger said she heard a man and woman scream amid gunshots. Pistorius, in his statement last year, made no mention of hearing Steenkamp scream.
Burger’s husband also testified Tuesday to hearing a man and woman scream. Another witness who lived in the same community as Pistorius said she heard arguing that lasted about an hour.
The trial is scheduled to resume Wednesday at 2:30 a.m. ET.
Also Tuesday, “TODAY” aired an interview with Steenkamp’s mother, June, who did not attend court on the second day of the trial.
June Steenkamp was there Monday, and she explained why.
“I wanted to see Oscar face to face, and that he would know that I was there,” June Steenkamp said. “It doesn’t matter to me what happens to Oscar because my daughter is never coming back.”
Can she forgive Pistorius?
“It’s actually important to forgive him, for me, because I don’t want to live with bitterness in my life,” she said. “One has to forgive, even though if he made a mistake. It’s an enormous mistake.”
Here’s video of Pistorius putting his head in his hands as details are explained of how the bullets from his gun struck Steenkamp (click the lower left play button, pause a few seconds, and click it again to start from the beginning):
Here’s video of the first witness, Burger, crying on the stand (click the lower left play button, pause a few seconds, and click it again to start from the beginning):
Here’s some atmosphere from Pretoria via Twitter:
Here are photos from Pretoria via The Associated Press:
Here are South African Monday PM newspaper front pages:
Oct 21, 2014, 11:10 AM EDT
Eight members of 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team will conduct spring event.
Oct 21, 2014, 10:44 AM EDT
Red Bull video shows skiers in LED lights at night in Alaska.
Oct 21, 2014, 9:46 AM EDT
Vido Loncar banned for life by Croatian boxing federation.
Oct 21, 2014, 9:04 AM EDT
Borre Rognlien’s move unrelated to Oslo’s failed bid and threats, according to reports.
Oct 21, 2014, 5:37 AM EDT
Pistorius would not be allowed to run, even if he is out of jail and under correctional supervision.
Oct 21, 2014, 5:18 AM EDT
Pistorius could serve less than one year in prison.
Oct 20, 2014, 2:52 PM EDT
A look back at the greatest head-to-head duel in track and field history.
Oct 20, 2014, 1:18 PM EDT
Olympic champion hasn’t retired from Nordic combined, either.
Oct 20, 2014, 11:06 AM EDT
“Morning joggers helped us and also guided us to the nearest metro station.”
Oct 20, 2014, 10:54 AM EDT
How fast would they have to traverse the Bernabeu to have Olympic 100m final speed?
Oct 20, 2014, 9:45 AM EDT
Olympic downhill champion told German magazine she has good days and bad days.
Oct 20, 2014, 9:30 AM EDT
Ohno said he went into “full warrior mode” in Hawaii.
Oct 20, 2014, 9:06 AM EDT
Two-time Olympian held U.S. mile record until 2007.
Oct 20, 2014, 8:54 AM EDT
U.S. Embassy scale had air pollution level at “hazardous.”
Oct 20, 2014, 8:37 AM EDT
Shamil Tarpischev, Russian tennis president, is also a longtime IOC member.
Oct 19, 2014, 10:30 AM EDT
How top Americans, Austrian going for history will be affected this World Cup season.
Oct 17, 2014, 2:50 PM EDT
Two-time Olympic halfpipe champion won’t be competing, though.
Oct 17, 2014, 10:54 AM EDT
Top U.S. skaters are incorporating new rule into their programs this season.
Oct 17, 2014, 9:41 AM EDT
Runner faces up to 15 years in prison.
Oct 17, 2014, 6:48 AM EDT
Gatlin’s inclusion on previous 10-man nomination list drew criticism.
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- Beijing Marathon run through smog (video, photos) 0
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- Justin Gatlin not among IAAF Athlete of the Year award finalists 0
- Noelle Pikus-Pace: I already miss skeleton, but happily retired 0
- Emotional Bode Miller medals in race that mattered most (61)
- Russian women kissing after relay victory at World Championships causes stir (60)
- IOC drops wrestling from 2020 Olympics (47)
- South Korea filing official complaint over Yuna Kim’s Olympic silver (39)
- Zola Budd, 47, dominates college runners in 5K (33)


text: News & stories Haven House praised by CQC Haven House Children’s Hospice has been praised in a recent inspection for delivering care with “compassion and warmth” and for responding to the needs of families. The hospice in Woodford Green, which supports families in North and North East London, West Essex and East Hertfordshire, was visited by inspectors from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) at the end of summer. In a report published last week, inspectors praised Haven House’s senior management team for providing a safe, responsive, caring, effective and well-led environment for children and young people. Haven House received an overall rating of “Good” by the CQC with staff said to be committed to delivering high quality care. The report said: “Staff were knowledgeable about the children they were caring for and ensured the care maintained the child's privacy and dignity. “Haven House were mindful of the different spiritual and cultural needs of people, and these could be accommodated during the provision of care and after a child's death”. The CQC said the senior management team at Haven House provided “strong leadership” and that “staff and parents were positive about the role of senior managers and how they were open and approachable”. Parents had high praise for Haven House with the report including positive feedback from families. One parent said, "When I leave my daughter here, I feel she is in safe hands", and another added, "I feel he's really well looked after." Staff were described as “lovely and understanding” by one parent who said their daughter “loves this place and doesn't want to come with us when it's time to go." Parents were also positive about the steps taken by staff to actively listen to families, one said, "They listen to what you say, and they really do listen." The CQC said Haven House was constantly looking at ways to improve its services and had introduced new parent forums and feedback surveys involving iPads. Eileen White, Director of Care at Haven House, said: “We are really encouraged to see such a positive report from the CQC demonstrating that, at every level, we are a safe, responsive, caring, effective and well-led organisation. “The report is a testament to the commitment and compassion of our care staff and we are delighted to see extensive praise from parents. “By constantly listening to families and tailoring our services to match their needs we can continue to improve our delivery of care.” Find out more about our services.

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US musician Chris Brown has replied Soulja Boy who earlier today went on twitter to taunt the former.
In response, Brown posted a video where he called Soulja Boy “broke” and a “snitch”.
Soulja Boy posted a series of offensive tweets claiming Brown called him angrily for liking one of his ex girlfriend‘s photos on Instagram.
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Dalat offers a caring learning environment and an American, college-preparatory, biblical worldview education with over 80 years of experience. Dalat’s excellent academic and boarding programs are well-known around the world and fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) and the Association of Christian Schools
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It’s no secret that Finland is a pretty magical winter destination. Husky rides, snow, Santa’s village and, hello, the Northern Lights. It’s a veritable winter wonderland. What our recent trip to Finland showed us, however, was just how attractive Finland is in the summertime and why you need to come more than once to experience the complete contrast in seasons.
Here’s why you should add Finland to your list of best summer vacation spots!
1. It’s a reasonable temperature
Whether you’re evading the winter in the Southern Hemisphere or just want to avoid intense summer temperatures elsewhere, Finland provides the perfect temperate escape. Expect the mercury to hover in the low to mid 20s with 25 degrees Celsius officially considered the marker of “hot” weather. Sounds pretty divine right now, doesn’t it?
2. People are happier
Not that the Finns aren’t friendly all year round, but after such a long and dark winter, who wouldn’t have more of a pep in their step come summer? Locals actively anticipate the warmer days and when the first ones arrive, they are quick to dust off their summer threads and soak up those precious rays. Helsinki in particular exudes a distinct cosmopolitan summer vibe with almost everyone in town basking in the sun at the city’s many parks and outdoor cafes. It’s lingering and moment savouring at its best.
3. Get more out of your vacation time
How many times have you said, “If only there were more hours in the day?” Well, here’s your wish come true. Not literally, but practically. Just as Finland experiences virtually 24 hours of sundown during the darkest winter months, the opposite happens in the summer. Yep, we’re talking 24 hours of high-noon daylight in the north and only a couple of hours of what I would call “twilight” in the south. What does it mean for your holiday? Doing more, seeing more and generally getting back to the good ol’ feeling of endless childhood summers. Not gonna lie, the fact that it never gets dark is kind of disorientating, but it’s also one of the coolest things we have experienced too. Along with the Northern Lights in the winter, be sure to add ‘Experiencing the Midnight Sun’ to your list of must-see travel experiences.
4. Experience Midsummer festivities
Midsummer traditionally corresponds with the summer solstice on June 21st. Celebrations usually begin on Midsummer’s Eve and essentially kick off the summer holiday season! This is when Finns start heading out to their summer cottages – to either party around a bonfire or simply relax. Enjoying the sauna, going for walks, reading books, swimming in the lake and cooking over the grill are typical cottage pastimes. It’s like the whole country is taking a break to recharge its batteries. You can experience Midsummer festivities by renting your own cottage by a lake or joining the revival of Midsummer dance traditions in the city.
5. Really “see” nature
Despite the ample snow that makes Finland fantastic for winter activities, the summer allows you to see what’s there when it’s all melted away. The forest floor is rejuvenated, wildlife is more active and frozen lakes become navigable by boat again. And the pretty wildflowers are a glorious sight in and of themselves.
6. Nature becomes more accessible
What’s more, nature becomes all the more accessible for the less avid adventurer. Perhaps you’d like to enjoy some hiking trails but aren’t keen on attempting them in the snow. Or just don’t deal well with extreme cold. Whatever it is, clear paths in moderate temperatures open up the opportunity for the less serious hikers and outdoorsy travellers among us to really get into nature as well.
7. It’s easy to drive
The best way to experience Finland’s natural beauty is to rent a car and have the freedom to get around on your own. If you’re like us and are not used to driving in snowy conditions, the warmer months take away any need to think about snow chains. This was especially convenient for us as we were also driving on the right-hand side of the road for the first time. Overall, renting a car in Finland in the summertime was a fantastic way to familiarise ourselves with driving on the “wrong” side of the road as – on top of the snowless terrain – they were not busy, it didn’t get dark and most of the time we were on sealed roads.
Come watch our experience of getting behind the wheel in Finland for the first time in the vlog below.
8. Escape the crowds
As most people think about Finland as a winter destination, summer is the low season for tourism. You can therefore experience a lot of what the country has to offer without the crowds. Note that some facilities may be closed in the summer, but as for summer activities, you’re likely to be able to enjoy them more or less on your own. If your idea of the perfect holiday is to get away from it all, then Finland in the summer checks all the boxes.
9. Get your berry on!
Wild berries are free for the taking in Finland. Imagine forest floors covered in sumptuous sweet berries! Blueberries, bilberries, cranberries, buckthorn berries, lingonberries… It’s no wonder that when Finns find an awesome berry-picking spot, particularly for the prized orange-hued cloudberry, they try to keep it on the DL. That said, there’s more than enough to go round, with only about 5-10% of the berry yield in Finland actually being picked each year. So grab a bucket and your appetite, and go enjoy nature’s smorgasbord! And if you happen not to go berry picking yourself, go grab some from one of the markets and gorge in the park!
10. You can pack light
If I haven’t convinced you already that you have to get to Finland in the summertime, then how about this very practical reason? With the moderate temperatures, you don’t need to pack huge coats and millions of layers. We brought just two day packs and a small carry-on sized suitcase as our check-in for our two and a half weeks. After taking a number of luggage intense trips recently, travelling light again was really convenient. Not only did we not have to lug a heavy bag around, we also didn’t have to worry about going over any baggage limits if we wanted to pick up some souvenirs.
So there you have it, nomads. Why you have to get to Finland in the summer, stat.
Have you been to Finland or would you like to? Tell us about your experiences/plans/desires in the comments section below!
Thank you to Visit Finland, who hosted us on this trip. As always, we keep it real and tell it like it is.


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EFCC Recover N65.5 million during raid on INEC office In Zamfara
EFCC Operatives have recovered N65.5 million during a raid on the Zamfara office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The money comprises of 81 bundle of N1,000 notes, 97 bundle of N500 notes and 96 pieces of N500 notes.
The recovered funds were kept in two fire proof safes, were recovered by the EFCC officials of Sokoto zonal office during a raid conducted in offices of the HOD Accounts and Cashier of the INEC, Zamfara State.
The staff alleged that the Adhoc INEC officials were denied payment of their N6,000 movement allowances each for the two elections.
It added that the suspects would be arraigned to court as soon as investigation is completed.


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European Shares Mostly Higher In Cautious Trade
European stocks were mostly higher on Tuesday, though financials dragged London’s FTSE 100 to a near one-month low.
Investors were reacting to a slew of economic data from China and the Eurozone.
The pan European Stoxx 600 rose 0.3 percent to 367.45 after declining 0.6 percent in the previous session.
The German DAX climbed 0.8 percent and France’s CAC 40 index edged up 0.2 percent, while the U.K.’s FTSE 100 was down 1.2 percent as traders returned to their desks after a holiday weekend.
Apple suppliers were moving up after reports that Apple is aiming to launch four new iPhone models next month with 5G wireless speeds.
Dialog Semiconductor rallied 3.2 percent, Infineon Technologies gained 1.8 percent and ASML Holding advanced 2.4 percent.
Freenet AG gained nearly 2 percent. The telecommunications and web content provider said that it has planned to buy back up to 5 million shares of the company.
Telecom Italia shed 0.8 percent after its board approved the sale of a minority stake in its secondary network to U.S. investment firm KKR.
Asia-focused lender HSBC Holdings and Barclays both fell over 3 percent in London.
Oxford Biomedica, a gene and cell therapy group, rose over 1 percent. The company has signed a supply agreement with AstraZeneca to expand manufacturing support of Covid-19 vaccine candidate, AZD1222. AstraZeneca shares were little changed.
Miner Anglo American advanced 1.6 percent, Antofagasta gained 1.4 percent and Glencore added 2.6 percent, thanks to strong readings on China’s manufacturing sector.
Dunelm Group jumped 2.7 percent. The home furnishings retailer said sales have been strong in the last two months.
FirstGroup slumped 5.6 percent. The transport service provider said that the U.K.’s Department for Transport has exercised its option to extend the Emergency Measures Agreement for Great Western Railway until at least 26 June 2021.
In economic releases, a private survey showed China’s factory activity expanded at the fastest clip in nearly a decade in August.
Closer home, the euro area manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ index fell slightly to 51.7 in August from 51.8 in July. The reading matched the flash estimate.
Manufacturing output growth reached its highest level for over two years while new orders increased for the second month but eased slightly on July’s near two-and-a-half-year peak.
Survey data showed that British factory output rose in August at its fastest pace in more than six years, albeit from a low level.
Eurozone consumer prices fell 0.2 percent year-on-year in August, reversing a 0.4 percent rise in July, preliminary data from Eurostat revealed. Prices were expected to climb 0.2 percent.
The euro area jobless rate rose to 7.9 percent in July from 7.7 percent in June. The rate was marginally below the expected level of 8 percent. The number of people out of work increased by 344,000 from June to 12.793 million in July.
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A small but dedicated bike ride...You missed it! Plan now for next year...August 27 2022. See a few photos on the Bike Ride Page
Great bike ride with tasty fellowship afterwards. Grateful for help from grill master Mark Sovyrda, general laborers for the bbq- Jerry Terri's and Larissa Sovyrda and baker Eva Weiser with Jack and Elvis..
!!! Groundbreaking for new Dining Hall and Kitchen !!!
Read the announcement. See the photos.
View Camp Week Photos at the Media page!
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Please read Archbishop Michael's building fund appeal - with exciting donation match!
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The Ghost House Trail offers some of the best wilderness walking in Yanchep National Park. It takes us on a natural and cultural journey around the park's most pristine wetlands, namely Loch McNess and North Lake. The trail starts on the western side of Loch McNess on the Yanjidi Trail and finishes at the North Oval Car Park near Cabaret Cave. As we walk, we pass through grand examples of Tuart forest, banksia woodlands and coastal heath. The rocky limestone outcrops are a special feature along the trail and provide scenic vistas of the North Lake and it's surrounds.
After the walk, you may choose to stay on and eat your lunch in the National Park, have a cuppa at the Tea Rooms or enjoy a beverage by the fire at the Yanchep Inn, or perhaps explore the National Park some more, .... it's beautiful and has so much to offer the visitor, including the Koala Boardwalk.
Distance: Approx 12.4km in total (estimated 4 hours including rest breaks & morning tea)
Terrain: Fairly flat bush track, sandy and rocky in some places however easy to navigate - moderate level of fitness required.
Meeting Point: Out the front of McNess House Visitor's Centre, inside the Yanchep National Park.
Duration: 4- 4.5hrs approximately including breaks, interpretation and morning tea
● Pristine Wetlands
● Coastal Heath, Tuart forest and banksia woodlands
● Limestone Outcrops affording beautiful views
● Abundant Wildlife
Experienced Bush Walking Guide
Comprehensive First Aid Kit
Insurances & PLB
Yummy Home-Made Morning Tea
Photo's of your day on the trail
Transport to/from Yanchep National Park
Entry into Yanchep National Park - $15 per vehicle unless you have (or purchase) a Parks Pass. If you are an RAC member you can save you 50% off the Pass. Alternatively carpool (contact us if you would like to explore this option).
Lunch for afterwards
Items of a personal nature
- Minimum 2 litres of water
- Sturdy shoes/boots with good grip
- Sun Hat, Sunglasses, sunscreen (30+) and insect repellant
- Binoculars and camera (optional)
- Clothes to suit the activity and potential weather conditions including a water/windproof jacket
- Personal Medication/First Aid kit
- Walking Poles (optional)
- Tissues / Wet Ones (for toilet breaks in the bush)
- Something to carry your rubbish out (nothing gets left behind Leave No Trace)
Notice of cancellation must be in writing, with an email as an acceptable form of communication, directly to Adventurous Women with the following conditions:
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A strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea has killed at least two people on the Greek island of Kos, officials say.
The 6.7-magnitude quake hit 12km (seven miles) north-east of Kos, near the Turkish coast, with a depth of 10km, the US Geological Survey said.
On Kos, around 115 people were injured, including tourists - 12 of them seriously. Some buildings were damaged.
Turkey's health minister said 358 were hurt in the Turkish city of Bodrum, but none seriously.
The earthquake struck at 01:31 on Friday (22:31 GMT Thursday).
The two deceased have not been named but police said that both victims were tourists - a 22-year-old from Sweden and a 39-year-old from Turkey.
They died when the roof of a popular bar collapsed, police said.
Dozens were wounded when buildings collapsed, some of them suffering broken bones, Kos regional government official Giorgos Halkidios said.
The army is supporting the emergency services with the rescue operation, he added.
Greek authorities said the 12 people seriously injured included tourists from Turkey, Sweden and Norway. Four were taken to Crete for treatment, and three to Athens.
The director of the hospital in Crete told Greek Skai TV that one person was in a critical condition, while a Swedish tourist had lost a leg.
The Turkish foreign ministry said a ferry had been sent to evacuate 200 Turkish nationals from Kos back to Bodrum.
Data from Turkey's disaster and emergency management authority, AFAD, showed that more than 40 aftershocks were felt in Turkey and Greece in the aftermath of the quake, some up to magnitude 4.6.
'Everything was shaking'
British student Naomi Ruddock felt the earthquake in Kos, where she is on holiday with her mother.
"We were asleep and we just felt the room shaking. The room moved. Literally everything was moving. And it kind of felt like you were on a boat and it was swaying really fast from side to side, you felt seasick."
Ms Ruddock said that a staff member told her it was the worst earthquake the area had seen.
"All of a sudden it felt like a train was going right through the room," German tourist Vernon Hausman told Reuters.
"I told my son: 'Looks like an earthquake, so let's get the hell out of here.'"
Kos was nearest to the epicentre of the quake and appeared to be the worst hit, with damage caused to a number of older buildings, including cracked walls and smashed windows.
The mayor said the buildings that suffered the most damage were built before "earthquake building codes" were introduced.
"The rest of the island has no problem. It's only the main town that has a problem," Mayor Giorgos Kyritsis said.
Kos's port was put out of action, and a ferry was unable to dock due to damage at the harbour, Greek police said.
Tourists later gathered outside terminal buildings at Kos airport having left their hotels and apartments.
In Turkey, some witnesses described waking in the night after being violently shaken in their beds.
Kristian Stevens, a British tourist in Didim, 90km (60 miles) from Bodrum, said the building he was in began to "shake like a jelly".
Residents fled their homes and tourists ran from holiday apartments with pillows and blankets. Some sustained injuries after jumping from windows in panic, Turkish broadcaster NTV said.
Sophie Wild, another British tourist in Turkey, said she fled her third-floor accommodation in the coastal town of Altinkum, about 40km from Bodrum (as the crow flies), when she woke to a loud banging noise.
"People were running out of rooms, banging on people's doors to make sure they were out," Ms Wild told the Press Association, adding: "Everyone just ran outside."
"It was a lucky escape and it could have been much worse," said Issa Kamara, 38, a personal trainer at the city's Maca Kizi hotel.
At a hospital in Bodrum, the wounded were being treated in the garden as a precaution after the quake caused slight damage to parts of the hospital ceiling, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
The earthquake also triggered high waves off Gumbet, a resort town near Bodrum, which flooded roads and left parked cars stranded, Turkish media report. There were no reports of casualties there.
Turkey and Greece sit on significant fault lines and are regularly hit by earthquakes.
One of the deadliest in recent years hit the heavily populated northwest of Turkey, in 1999, killing some 17,000 people.


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Mr Paul R.
- stay on 14/02/2015
Value for money
Friendly staff, close to ski shuttle stop, warm and clean. Resort and apartment very easy to get to from the motorway.
On floor two no balcony and no mountain views from apartment windows. Very small apartment for 8 adults and unable to move us to a larger one. Bedroom configuration not ideal for a party of 8 adults. Very little English spoken by reception staff or in the resort (advantage and disadvantage).


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Emergent Worlds: Alternative States in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (America and the Long 19th Century #4)
Reimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and time
Emergent Worlds re-locates nineteenth-century America from the land to the oceans and seas that surrounded it. Edward Sugden argues that these ocean spaces existed in a unique historical fold between the transformations that inaugurated the modern era--colonialism to nationalism, mercantilism to capitalism, slavery to freedom, and deferent subject to free citizen. As travellers, workers, and writers journeyed across the Pacific, Atlantic, and Caribbean Sea, they had to adapt their political expectations to the interstitial social realities that they saw before them while also feeling their very consciousness, particularly their perception of time, mutate. These four domains--oceanic geography, historical folds, emergent politics, and dissonant times--in turn, provided the conditions for the development of three previously unnamed genres of the 1850s: the Pacific elegy, the black counterfactual, and the immigrant gothic.
In telling the history of these emergent worlds and their importance to the development of the literary cultures of the US Americas, Sugden proposes narratives that alter some of the most enduring myths of the field, including the westward spread of US imperialism, the redemptionist trajectory of black historiography, and the notion that the US Americas constituted a new world. Introducing a new generic vocabulary for describing the literature of the 1850s and crossing over oceans and languages, Emergent Worlds invokes an alternative nineteenth-century America that provides nothing less than a new way to read the era.


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Allegro, con molto [11'35]
Adagio molto, sostenuto [8'29]
Scherzo: Vivace [4'16]
Allegro molto [12'50]
Comedy: Allegretto [10'52]
Central Park in the Dark [9'46]
Together with its companion CDA67525, this pair of exciting discs from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Litton offers thrilling new recordings of all four of Charles Ives’s extraordinary symphonies.
The idiosyncratic nature of Ives’s early musical training (simultaneous but competing marching bands, etc) is well known, but before we can delight in its fruits, we find Ives-the-student writing a (relatively) conventional Symphony No 1 under the watchful, if not always approving, stare of his tutor. The result is almost a pastiche of all that we know and love from the late-nineteenth century symphonic tradition: Brahms, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky.
Released from college in 1898, Ives rapidly shook off such influences, entered a new century and set about expanding his extraordinary vision through three further symphonies, culminating in the spiritual marathon of the fourth, which—Ives tells us—poses (and answers, threefold) the cosmic questions ‘what?’ and ‘why?’.
Alongside the four symphonies we have Central Park in the Dark, and an Ives-sanctioned orchestral arrangement of his most popular (and outrageous) solo song, General William Booth Enters into Heaven.
Captured live during concerts in Dallas, the recorded sound is every bit worthy of these epic works.
Other recommended albums
Elgar: String Quartet; Bridge: Idylls; Walton: String Quartet
CDH55218 Helios (Hyperion's budget label) Composers of World War I
Lambert: Horoscope; Bliss: Checkmate; Walton: Façade
CDH55099 Helios (Hyperion's budget label) Composers of World War I
The symphonies of Charles Ives trace an immense creative journey, from the brilliant apprentice work the First Symphony, through the quietly revolutionary Americana voice of the Second and Third Symphonies, to the spiritual epic of the Fourth Symphony. Together, these works belong to the first blooming of American symphonic music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In many ways, however, by the time of the Fourth Symphony Ives was writing a visionary music whose innovations and implications prophesy the twenty-first century and beyond. That kind of prophecy, in any case, is what he had in mind.
The story of Ives’s singular musical education remains essential to understanding him. His last mentor in composition, Professor Horatio Parker at Yale, had studied in Germany and there imbibed a relentlessly conservative view of music. When the young Ives arrived at his first lesson and showed Parker a ‘Fugue in Four Keys’, the keys being simultaneous, Ives was curtly directed not to bring in anything else like that again. Dutifully if resentfully, Ives settled into four years of Germanic musical discipline, writing fugues in the style of Bach and his First String Quartet and First Symphony, both of them vital and precocious works in a safely late-Romantic style.
At Yale, in other words, Ives had to keep largely under wraps an experimental streak that in his teens already extended to sounds never heard in music before: technical experiments to which a later time would attach terms like polytonality, polyrhythm, and spatial music. These revolutionary concepts had come not from abstract speculation but from his father, a town bandmaster given to imaginative tinkering with the elements of music.
Charles Ives’s father George Ives started his musical career in the Civil War, as the youngest bandmaster in the Union Army. After the war he returned to his hometown of Danbury, Connecticut, founded a band, and took up music-teaching. When he discovered in his young son Charles a tremendous talent, George began teaching him the rudiments and found him the best keyboard teachers available. By the age of fourteen Charlie was a professional church organist.
Besides gaining a rigorous traditional training in music, the boy with the open ears and steel-trap mind absorbed his father’s ideas. George Ives would march two contingents of his band around the town green in opposite directions playing different tunes, to see what happened as they passed. He invented gadgets to play quarter-tone scales, taught Charlie to sing a song in one key while being accompanied in another. He played his trumpet for his son from varying distances and over a pond, so Charlie could gauge the effect of space on the timbre. To these inspirations George Ives added something which was at that time unique in history: absolutely any combination of notes is acceptable, he told Charlie, if you make sense out of them. No composer had ever been given such licence.
Along with that extraordinary gift of freedom, George Ives also bequeathed his son a love for the musical life of small towns and everyday citizens, amateurs playing in bands and singing in camp meetings and fiddling at dances. To George and Charlie it was all just humanity, people worshipping and rejoicing, praying and holidaying from their hearts and souls, with music woven into and expressing it all. For Ives, physical, tangible music came to seem an exterior symbol of a deeper human reality, and that unseen spirit was itself the real music. ‘Music’, Ives would write, ‘is life.’
So in his work Ives would recall and recast the hymns and marches and popular songs of his youth, because for him these simple melodies expressed eternal human verities. Any music was holy to him if it was honest and authentic—from a glorious fugue or symphony to a ragtime tune, a sentimental or funny parlour song, a hymn bellowed out by the local stonemason.
As usual with Ives, there is a paradoxical counterpoint to this intense idealism. In his way he was a skilful and thoroughgoing craftsman, though never a slick one. He had been a near-prodigy as an organist and had been trained as both organist and composer by the best teachers in the country. He had a rare understanding of shaping large-scale forms, and thought always of the technical aspects of what he was doing—here a study in polyrhythm, there a way of systematically organizing dissonant harmony. A late-Romantic at heart, based on his father’s ideas Ives meticulously explored most of the ‘modernist’ musical vocabulary—polyrhythm, polytonality, polychords, atonality, spatial music, collage, statistical effects—years before musical ‘modernism’ itself was born.
For another paradox, despite his all-embracing philosophy Ives was one of the most critical composers who ever lived. On some days, at least, no music was good enough for him, least of all his own. He suspected music may not even have been born yet. ‘Music is life’, he declared, but he dreamed of a transcendent someday when life would become a kind of music, every man and woman a composer. ‘In the history of this youthful world’, he wrote, ‘the best product that human beings can boast of is probably Beethoven; but, maybe, even his art is as nothing in comparison with the future product of some coal-miner’s soul in the forty-first century.’
To do what he came to see as his bit in the evolution of humanity toward that distant, transcendent glory, Ives started with a high-Romantic symphony quite up to date for the 1890s, and went on to three symphonies that in highly individual ways set out to create the ultimate democratic music, to join the voice of the American people with the great European musical tradition.
The two symphonies on this disc are as good a representation as one could find of the absolute poles of Charles Ives’s music, from the most conventional to the most visionary. The First Symphony in D minor was begun around 1898, when Ives was a student at Yale, and finished perhaps as late as 1901. The composition of the monumental Fourth Symphony stretched from around 1910 into the 1920s, but it integrates a fugal movement written at Yale.
Ives always presented the First Symphony as a glorified homework assignment, done under duress as a senior thesis, of necessity written in late-Romantic style with heavy contributions of Brahms, Dvorák, and Tchaikovsky, its composition involving a steady struggle with Professor Horatio Parker, who was scandalized by the profuse modulations. Once in a while, though, Ives admitted a grudging affection for the piece.
It is true that few people who don’t know it would ever guess that this symphony is by Charles Ives. It seems a product of some 1890s European, or an American imitator. In fact, Ives was enormously gifted at imitating a range of styles, whether a Victorian parlour song or a German lied or a take-off of Debussy. Games with styles would be an important feature of his music. Here, he hits late Romanticism spot-on. And in the end, as usual, Ives imbues this work with a powerful personality. The First Symphony is tuneful, rousing, funny, sometimes spine-chilling. For all its rampant (and rambling) eclecticism it is one of the most entertaining and individual symphonies in the American repertoire.
It begins with a pulsing string figure over which a clarinet sings a wistful theme that Dvorák might have admired. In the background lurks a certain Romantic fatalism that will come and go in the movement until it boils over in the coda. The development section begins with a remarkable stroke: a quiet, haunting, endlessly rising chord sequence decorated with wisps of melody. Ives would not forget those chords; they turn up again in his valedictory Psalm 90.
After a second movement based on a Dvorákian quasi-spiritual for cor anglais comes a nimble and delightful canonic scherzo, which in scoring and execution can only be called masterful. The finale is entirely of the ‘banish care’ variety, filled with romping themes and vigorous march rhythms until it ends brassily with one of Ives’s grand parades of themes from the whole symphony.
The Fourth Symphony began to take shape only about a decade after the First, in the white heat of Ives’s full maturity. That maturity began around 1908 with his marriage to Harmony Twichell, who encouraged and inspired him as no one had since his father. At first the Fourth Symphony seems to have been part of a collection of ideas that finally separated out between this work, which we might call an epic ‘earthly’ journey, and the never-finished Universe Symphony, which was to be a ‘cosmic’ journey. Ives said relatively little about the Fourth, but what he did say (through an intermediary) conveys much: ‘The aesthetic program of the work is … the searching questions of What? and Why? which the spirit of man asks of life. This is particularly the sense of the prelude. The three succeeding movements are the diverse answers in which existence replies.’ This is a work about ultimate questions, then, and the most far-reaching of quests.
The first movement is short and introductory, but it sets up all the essential elements: first a heroic, surging, questing bass proclamation answered by searing strings, then in the distance a group of harp and strings (offstage or in a balcony) answers with a gentle, lyrical gesture based on Nearer, My God, to Thee. This opening foreshadows the battle between march and hymn in the second movement, and meanwhile echoes the traditional ‘heroic’ and ‘lyrical’ themes of symphonic first movements. A chorus enters singing a hymn:
Watchman, tell us of the night,
Here the music introduces the protagonist of the symphony—the Traveller, the Pilgrim—and points to his destination, the glory-beaming star of the spirit.
The first answer that existence provides is what Ives calls the ‘Comedy’, standing in for the traditional symphonic scherzo. A kind of pandemonic battle in the form of contending hymns and marches, the Comedy is at once an evocation of the roiling modern cityscape Ives knew in Manhattan (which he called ‘Hell Hole’ and ‘Babylon’, not without affection), and a retelling of Hawthorne’s cosmi-comic Bunyanesque story The Celestial Railroad, in which an impressively modern if clearly demonic railroad company is selling trips to the Celestial City in outstanding comfort, the passengers invited to laugh at the pilgrims struggling through the swamps along the route. After a charming stopover in Vanity Fair, the passengers catastrophically miss their connection. Ives’s realization of the story is breathtaking and sui generis, a rip-roaring ride through masses of sound tumbling and crashing in air. At the end comes a gigantic eruption in six or seven keys of Yankee Doodle. On first acquaintance the Comedy is apt to leave you unsure whether to clutch your sides laughing or run for your life, or some combination of the two.
Ives was at heart a religious composer, no less in his uproarious moments than in his gentle ones. The third movement, based on a fugal movement for string quartet written at Yale, is set in the quiet of a New England church. He described its part in the symphony’s programme as ‘an expression of the reaction of life into formalism and ritualism’—that applying both to the music and to organized religion. Based on the hymn From Greenland’s icy mountains, it is a beautiful and finally soaring movement with an eloquent C major simplicity, as far from the Comedy as one could imagine. But like Vanity Fair, the church is not the destination this Pilgrim seeks.
The finale begins with a quiet patter of percussion that will continue throughout behind the music, perhaps suggesting the pulse of the universe. Then comes a distant recall of the symphony’s opening bass line, now not heroic but hushed and searching. From there one of the most mystical movements in any work gathers in a growing stream of murmuring and singing voices, near and far away. The colours and textures are diaphanous, the gestures elusive. Yet one realizes that this teeming host is somehow moving in the same direction, on myriad paths. Over and over, woven into the texture, is the opening phrase of the hymn Bethany: ‘Nearer, my God, to Thee’. In those words we find the meaning of the symphony, intimated from its first moments.
A downstriding bass line begins and the music mounts in a slow wave to an ecstatic climax that subsides until it coalesces, as if out of mist, onto an old harmonic figure of the kind that introduces a hymn. Then the coda and arrival: a chorus wordlessly singing the whole of ‘Nearer, my God, to Thee’, which has been the secret theme and destination of the Fourth Symphony from the beginning. The hymn emerges like a revelation, like an innate spirit that has been with us all along, making itself manifest after a long journey. At the end the music seems to evanesce out of hearing, into the stars, still searching. The journey is not over, but we are Nearer.
There are far-reaching philosophies in this music. Ives intended the Fourth Symphony as a work of universal religion, rising out of his own Protestantism but reaching far beyond it. In impassioned lines he once imagined music becoming ‘a late revelation of all gospels in one … A conception unlimited by the narrow names of Christian, Pagan, Jew or Angel! A vision higher and deeper than art itself!’ Ives never expected to reach that revelation, or humanity to reach it for aeons, but he believed with all his heart that we would get there someday, and that music—his music, all true music—would be a fundamental part of that great journey. Like few other works, the Fourth Symphony speaks to our highest selves, and leaves us looking upward and beyond.
In 1902 Charles Ives resigned from his last organist–choirmaster job and thereby, as he put it, ‘quit music’. After that divorce from an audience, his experimental side burgeoned. Two small but important companion works from 1906 show his gathering focus and direction: The Unanswered Question and Central Park in the Dark. For the first time in history, these works create an aural collage by superimposing different kinds of music.
Ives wrote that Central Park in the Dark is ‘a picture-in-sound of the sounds of nature and the happenings that man would hear some thirty or so years ago (before the combustion engine and radio monopolized the earth and air) when sitting on a bench in Central Park on a hot summer night’. The ambience of the trees in New York’s Central Park is evoked in a mysterious, unchanging wash of strings, playing a series of atonal chords built on a pattern of expanding intervals. Bit by bit we begin to hear events around the park, conveyed by solo violin, two pianos, and a small group of winds and brass: vague rustlings, ragtime from a bar across the way (featuring a hit tune from the 1890s, Hello, Ma Baby). While the background remains unchanged and unperturbed, the external sounds swell in volume and activity to an Ivesian poly-everything climax conveying a runaway horse and carriage crashing into a fence.
After these human and animal interruptions the music fades back to the eternal hum of nature. Central Park is a prime example of Ivesian impressionism: not the external wind-and-sea Impressionism of Debussy, rather the impression of a moment or an event on the heart and soul of a listener.
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Evergrande missed a key payment to overseas bondholders. The deadline was yesterday, and the Chinese company hasn’t said anything about why it failed—as widely expected—to pay more than $80 million, as its crisis continues.
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The US Centers for Disease Control approved Covid vaccine boosters. The agency joins the Food and Drug Administration in endorsing the additional shots for vulnerable people, but warns the bigger problem is still the deliberately unvaccinated.
Narendra Modi meets Joe Biden. The Indian prime minister and US president are discussing bilateral issues in Washington today, in person for the first time.
The UK faces energy and transportation chaos. Some gas stations are closed, there’s a truck driver shortage, and climate protesters have blocked a major port. All this while energy companies collapse over high natural gas prices.
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Germans head to the polls on Sunday to vote for a new chancellor. Angela Merkel, their first female leader, has in the past 16 years seen Germany through numerous financial crises, including the 2008 economic collapse and the 2015 Greek bailout.
One of the most memorable moments in Merkel’s tenure was when she committed to taking in 1 million refugees fleeing war and conflict in 2015, insisting, “We can do it.” While the decision was applauded by many on the international stage, it caused political backlash back home. In 2017, German voters put a far-right party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), in parliament for the first time since World War II.
Whoever takes over from Merkel (it’s likely to be her deputy, Olaf Scholz) will have big shoes to fill when it comes to maintaining Germany’s positive image abroad. According to a Sept. 22 Pew Research poll, a majority of people have confidence in the chancellor to do the right thing in world affairs.
Will cloth masks adequately protect us from the delta variant?
At the start of the pandemic, people were urged to save surgical-style masks for those on the healthcare front lines, and instructed instead to purchase or make cloth masks. It’s now the era of the much more contagious delta variant. Supply seems to have caught up to demand, and surgical masks as well as the higher protection N95 masks are now readily available. But perhaps you don’t want to give up your Chanel-branded face covering for a less sexy, single-use, surgical mask.
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The notion that abdominal obesity is the most dangerous kind isn't new. Back in the 1940s, the French physician Jean Vague observed that some obese patients had normal blood chemistry, while some moderately overweight patients showed serious abnormalities that predisposed them to heart disease or diabetes. Almost always, the latter patients carried their fat around their middles. And, almost always, they were men.
No, we’re not telling you that you need a tummy tuck (although that would flatten your belly, we suppose). Rather, there are several common health conditions that can make your belly bulge and until you fix the anatomical issues underneath, nothing else can flatten it out. For instance, many women have a diastisis recti, or separation of the abdominal muscles, after pregnancy. In about 25 percent of these women, the muscles never quite come back together, leading to a permanent protrusion. Similarly, a hernia (congenital or from an injury) can also cause your belly to stick out. Both conditions can be resolved surgically.
Spanx are maybe no one’s idea of a good time, but sometimes you just need a little extra (firm) help to flatten your tummy to wear your favorite dress or for a special evening out. And there’s nothing wrong with turning to technology to help you get there. Body shaping undergarments have come a long way in the past few years with more breathable fabrics and styles for both men and women.
Protein drinks are great ways to get a monster dose of belly-busting nutrition into a delicious, simple snack. But most commercial drinks are filled with unpronounceable chemicals that can upset our gut health and cause inflammation and bloat. And the high doses of whey used to boost protein levels can amplify the belly-bloating effect. The Zero Belly solution: Try vegan protein, which will give you the same fat-burning, hunger-squelching, muscle-building benefits, without the bloat. (Here's a complete guide to easy-to-digest plant proteins.)
A study from Spain's Autonomous University of Barcelona suggests that mild physical activity clears gas and alleviates bloating. That's because increasing your heart rate and breathing stimulates the natural contractions of the intestinal muscles, helping to prevent constipation and gas buildup by expediting digestion. Take a short walk after meals or pedal lightly on a bike at the gym to help relieve bloat. Need more inspiration to work out? Check out these 17 ways exercise does your body good.
Don’t let extra hours lounging in bed stand between you and a flatter belly. While getting enough sleep can help boost your metabolic rate, sleeping in may undo any benefit you’d enjoy from catching a few extra winks. One study reveals that late sleepers who snoozed past 10:45 in the morning ate nearly 250 more calories over the course of the day, despite eating half as many fruits and vegetables as their early bird counterparts. Even worse, they chowed down on more salty, sugary, and trans fat-laden fast food than those who woke up earlier. If you happen to head out of the house early, you’re in for an additional metabolic boost; researchers at Northwestern University have found that people exposed to just a short period of early morning sunlight had lower BMIs than their late-waking counterparts.

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The Ideal Muslim by Muhammad Ali Al-Hashimi
The Ideal Muslim is a man of the highest moral character. In his relationship with his Rabb, himself, family, parents, relatives, friends and the community at large, he has a most excellent example in the Prophet of Islam (pbuh). His idealism is further strengthened by the characters of the first generations of Muslims who excelled in all the various fields of human endeavor. He is reassured by the teachings of Islam that he also can reach these noble heights by working to improve his character daily.
This comprehensive work by Dr. AI-Hashimi is a valuable contribution to our English readers. He wrote another book on the Ideal Muslimah (female Muslim), and our readers are invited to read both books, because these two books complement each other. May Allah (swta) help us all in making these pure teachings a part of our life.
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|This is my first online review ever.. I was surprised that this book didn't have any reviews!.. And because I couldn't find any online reviews for this book, I had to write one; so that my fellow brothers and sisters can get a better idea of this book Insha'Allah.. This book is a must read for all; as it gives us an in-depth outline based on the Qur'aan & Hadith, about what the ideal muslim would be like.. The book goes in detail regarding all aspects of the Muslims life.. The commentary throughout is relevant, neutral and very informative.. All the points are backed up by references from the Qur'an & Hadith.. When this book was gifted to us initially, I couldn't put it down.. I liked it so much, that I've ordered some more today to gift them on!.. Have also ordered The Ideal Muslimah for some sisters as well.. I Found this book to be an exceptional guide and truly inspirational.. Also made me reflect on the things that I may have been doing wrong & what I need to improve on etc.. ..I Would highly recommend The Ideal Muslim to all: particularly to those who may have lost their way a little and want to sort themselves out,, As this book is just what you might need to re-introduce Islam, (the best way of life), back into your lives Insha'Allah.. May Allah help us all to seek knowledge and be The Ideal Muslim!. Ameen....


Senate Votes Against Three of Bush’s Pro-Life Judicial Nominees
by Steven Ertelt
November 14, 2003
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — After the end of a nearly 40-hour marathon debate, pro-abortion lawmakers did what they promised to do, voting against ending debate on three of President Bush’s pro-life appeals court nominees.
That boosted the list of pro-life nominees blocked by Democratic filibusters to six.
With 60 votes needed, Texas judge Priscilla Owen, nominated for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, fell short, 53-42. Two other nominees — California judges Carolyn B. Kuhl for the 9th Circuit and Janice Rogers Brown for the District of Columbia Circuit — lost by identical 53-43 votes.
Pro-life Democratic senators Zell Miller of Georgia and Ben Nelson of Nebraska joined all 51 Republicans in voting for cloture.
Sen. Rick Santorum, a pro-life Pennsylvania senator criticized the Democrats for placing a 60-vote barrier in the way of approving judges for the appeals court. He promised Republicans would remember the votes and Democrats would have a tough time approving judges should they win the presidency.
"Let me assure you, we are not just eliminating those on the right. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander," he said. "We’ll have our opportunity someday, and we’ll make sure there’s not another liberal judge. Ever!"
It was the first such vote for Kuhl and Brown. The other judicial candidates to lose filibuster votes include Mississippi judge Charles Pickering, Alabama Attorney General William Pryor and Hispanic lawyer Miguel Estrada.
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JUST ONE MONTH TO GO - INDUSTRY PLAYERS TO GEAR UP FOR A TRULY VIBRANT AND DIVERSE FHM 2023By PRNEWSWIRE
Published : Aug. 17, 2023 - 15:10
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The countdown is on for the 17th Edition of Food & Hotel Malaysia 2023 (FHM), the nation's premier biennial trade-only food and hospitality exhibition, scheduled to take place from 19 to 22 September 2023 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC).
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To date, FHM 2023 has received thousands of pre-registrations by trade visitors from over 40 countries and regions, including Australia, Canada, mainland China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, and more.
Robust global participation will be further underscored by the presence of 15 international pavilions unveiling the latest food and hospitality offerings from their respective countries and regions. This year's participation includes Australia, Belgium, mainland China, Greece, Hong Kong SAR, India, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan Region, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
"FHM stands firm as an influential force showcasing locally grown raw materials, end-to-end business solutions and high-end products of Malaysia. This exceptional exhibition is fortified by its' future-forward components such as the newly launched Future Hub, an area within the exhibition hall for technology, innovation, future trends and sustainability, creating a captivating realm that is dedicated to shaping the future of the culinary and hospitality landscapes. We're thrilled to share more on this initiative at our upcoming Press Conference very soon," said Gerard Leeuwenburgh, General Manager of Informa Markets Malaysia.
Attendees can look forward to a variety of new highlights at FHM 2023 as fresh collaborations and activities make their debut this year, including Housekeeping Malaysia 2023 by the Malaysian Association of Housekeepers (MAHIR), a special industry conference entitled Central Kitchens - The Future Is Now! by Foodservice Consultants Society International (FCSI), CRAFTED @ FHM 2023 by The Craftsmen Sdn Bhd, and HOTELEX Malaysia organised by Shanghai Sinoexpo Informa Markets, co-locating with FHM 2023.
"As a leading hospitality exhibition for the Chinese industry, we are honoured that our partnership with FHM enhances the exhibitor profile of the event, making it an exceptional and engaging networking and sourcing opportunity for regional and international buyers," said Helen Fan, Executive Deputy General Manager of HOTELEX.
FHM 2023 organisers have simultaneously retained crowd favourite activities and events such as the Pastry Innovation Lab organised by Professional Culinaire Association (Malaysia PCA), Wine Trend Talks conducted by CRAFTED & SOMLAY, Entwine Consultancy Sdn Bhd and other exhibitors, as well as one of the region's most prestigious culinary competitions, Culinaire Malaysia 2023, which is jointly organised by Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH), Professional Culinaire Association (PCA) and the Malaysian Food and Beverage Executives Association (MFBEA).
"Culinaire Malaysia 2023 is proud to return once again to celebrate culinary excellence, uniting gastronomic talents from across the region to showcase their skills and compete for prizes and glory in a variety of categories," said Ivan Teo, Organising Chairperson of Culinaire Malaysia 2023.
Bolstered by the robust local and international response to the event, exhibitors are keenly looking forward the diverse global opportunities set to emerge during FHM 2023.
"As the leading food exhibition in the country, FHM provides an invaluable platform for exhibitors to showcase their brands, launch innovative products and connect with a diverse audience of professionals and visitors. As part of FHM for many years, the exhibition consistently meets our expectations by providing great exposure to visitors and industry players. We're eagerly anticipating the opportunities it holds for all participants," said Stephanie Yeoh, General Manager of Bidfood Malaysia.
As the momentum intensifies, online pre-registration for FHM 2023 remains open until 18 September, underscoring the imperative for trade visitors to seize this exceptional opportunity. Reap the benefit of pre-registering at www.foodandhotel.com now to save on the RM50.00 admission fee that is applicable for walk-in registrations.
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