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ALHA is the umbrella group for local history and archaeology societies in Bristol, Bath, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.
We help member societies by compiling an annual list of recommended speakers, and by publicising societies’ activities through our newsletter and website. We organise a local history study day each year, and our AGM is accompanied by a lecture with a distinguished speaker.
Each year we publish 3-
We have strong links with the Regional History Centre at the University of the West of England, and with the libraries, archives, museums and other organisations in our area.
We offer both Society and individual membership, and further details can be found here..
Click on About Us for how to contact ALHA
Click on Publications for information about our publishing programme, and how you can contribute to the written history of our area.
Click on Events for details of the meetings, walks and other activities organised by our member societies.
Click on Groups for links to our member societies, and details of what they do and how you can contact them.
Click on Archive for back copies of ALHA publications “Quest” and “Avon Past”.
The latest ALHA publication was launched on Saturday 22 April at our Local History Day at UWE. Written by Professor Richard Coates, it is a study of Rev. Henry John Wilkins who was a progressive force in local politics before entering the great tradition of English parsons who have been active local historians.
Full details of all ALHA books and an order form are on our Publications page.
You can also now buy ALHA publications online, and pay by card, through GENfair.
The first of our programme of summer walks will be on Monday 8 May. Jonathan Rowe will lead a walk around Brislington, described as “once one of Somerset’s prettiest villages”.
The second walk will be on Monday 12 June, when Peter Malpass will help us explore some of Clifton’s fine Victorian places.
The third walk is on Sunday 9 July at Olveston. Local resident and keen amateur historian Eric Garrett will tell us about this small Gloucestershire village.
The final walk is at Clevedon on Sunday 13 August, when local resident and historian Jane Lilly will be our guide.
For full details, click for a copy of the programme.
Subscriptions for 2017/8 are due on 1 April each year. Rates remain unchanged, and to renew your membership please download the separate forms for either group or individual membership. For further details, or if you are not already a member, please go to About Us.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Skeletons: our buried bones, this one-
M Shed on 27 April. There are 7 guest speakers, and the day lasts from 10.30 to 4. Tickets are £15 (£12 concessions) Click for details.
This tour is for four nights from 14 to 18 August. Cost in the region of £500. Further details are available here.
A three day archaeological event will be held from 11 to 13 August.
On Friday 11 August, Vince Russet will talk on public involvement in the heritage of our countryside. On Saturday 12 August, there will be finds identification, village walks, old photos, displays and other activities. On Sunday 13 August, there will be visits to the Banwell Bone Caves (pre-
Seminars are free and take place at M Shed on Thursdays at 6 p.m. The programme for 2017 is available here.
The next phase of the expansion of Know Your Place has now been completed and coverage has been extended to the County of Somerset. Bristol, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Bath & North-
This is the new name for Bristol Record Office, and it now has a new logo. Click the logo for the Bristol Archives website.
City Hall: home of democracy in Bristol is the current exhibition, which will be on display until 26 May.
Full details of the varied programme of events at Winterbourne Medieval Barn during 2017 can be found at www.winterbournebarn.org.uk. Events include apple-
The 2017 Family History Fair will be held at BAWA, 589 Southmead Road, Filton, Bristol, BS34 7RG on Saturday 9 September from 10 to 4. Further details are available here.
Click for details of the exhibitions, tours, walks and other activities taking place in Bristol in future weeks and months.
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Crossing the river at Pensford. The ALHA Summer Walk, July 4 2016
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Houston suburban strip retail center sells to private investor
JLL Capital Markets arranged the sale and financing of the fully leased retail property in Pasadena
HOUSTON, Sept. 23, 2021 – JLL Capital Markets announced today that it has closed the sale of and arranged acquisition financing for Fairway Retail Center, a 49,600-square-foot, fully leased strip retail center in the Houston-area community of Pasadena, Texas.
JLL marketed the property on behalf of the seller, an affiliate of Camden Securities Company. A private investor group managed by Concierge Management and led by Akbarali Momin acquired the asset. Additionally, working on behalf of the new owner, JLL placed the 10-year, fixed-rate acquisition loan with Starwood Mortgage Capital.
Fairway Retail Center was completed in 2002 and is home to a diverse mix of national and local tenants that includes Mattress Firm, Chipotle, Pearle Vision, GameStop, Ramen Sun, Lovett Dental, Vitamin Shoppe, Massage Heights, AMC Nails, Wingstop and Jersey Mike’s. The fully occupied retail property is shadow anchored by Target, Kohl’s and Hobby Lobby.
Situated on 4.63 acres at 5575-5769 Fairmont Pkwy., the center has frontage along the primary east-west thoroughfare in Pasadena, a highly desirable suburb approximately 10 miles southeast of downtown Houston, and near Beltway 8, one of Houston’s primary outer loops. Fairway Retail Center serves a growing trade area housing 87,714 residents earning an average annual household income of $76,860 within a three-mile radius.
The JLL Retail Capital Markets team representing the seller was led by Senior Managing Directors Rusty Tamlyn and Ryan West and Analyst Bryan Strode. George Tesfa with Commercial Partners represented the buyer in the sale.
“Fairway Retail Center has been a consistently well-occupied strip retail center even through the pandemic due to its small space configuration and location in front of top-performing Target and Kohl’s locations,” Tamlyn said. “It also enjoys a strategic location at the intersection of the Sam Houston Tollway at Fairmont Parkway in Pasadena with great access and visibility.”
The JLL Capital Markets Debt Advisory team representing the new owner included Senior Director Michael Johnson and Analysts Jack Britton and Stuart Hepler.
JLL Capital Markets is a full-service global provider of capital solutions for real estate investors and occupiers. The firm's in-depth local market and global investor knowledge delivers the best-in-class solutions for clients — whether investment sales and advisory, debt advisory, equity advisory or a recapitalization. The firm has more than 3,000 Capital Markets specialists worldwide with offices in nearly 50 countries.
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Days of yore; or, Shadows of the past. By the Ancient lady, author of "Our forefathers, their homes and their churches". &c., &c.
|Main Author:||Poyas, Elizabeth Anne|
Charleston, W.G. Mazyck, 1870.
Pt. 2 has imprint : Charleston, E. Perry, printer, 1870.
Copyright by Mrs. E.A. Poyas.
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The idea of the sculpture derivew from the role of salt in the preservation of life. In the case of the ruined salt pan, the sculpture takew the form of the basic salt crystal and hovers above the ruins , preserving it through time and frameing it inside the salina landscape. Eacch surface of the salt crystal is formed from the pattern of the salt crystal structure, which then explodes trhough space and time.
In distance , the sculpture participates in the delicate skyline of the salina landscape, emerging as a volume of the history of the salt pans, which allows visibility towards both the ruin and the sculpture. The visibility is increased during the approach when the visitor , the worker, the flaneur or even the creatures of the salina habitat can interact with the sculpture, bringing life inside the space of the salt pan. It now becomes an essantial part of the salina route. The construction indruduces a memory path through the thresholds of the ruined salt pan preserving the movement used to define its own space.

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The good news for residents of the Longfellow neighborhood is award-winning chef Erick Harcey is moving in.
Harcey plans to open a spacious restaurant in a proposed mixed-use development at 46th St. and Hiawatha Ave. The only bad news? They’ll have to wait until 2018 to enjoy it.
The restaurant will be part of a new five-story building just a few blocks from Minnehaha Park, near the Blue Line light rail’s 46th St. station.
The development is also slated to include 150 apartments and a grocery store yet to be named. The developer, Oppidan, will start construction in 2018 pending approval from the city.
Many details on the restaurant are still undetermined, but plans call for a 4,000-square-foot venue with a patio. In a press release, Harcey said, “My team and I are looking forward to bringing an approachable space to the area and a destination for all.”
Harcey, City Pages' choice for best chef in the Twin Cities in this year's Best of issue, is the chef-owner behind Victory 44, a neighborhood fixture in North Minneapolis since 2009, known for its Perfect Burger.
At the critically acclaimed Upton 43 in Linden Hills, Harcey serves his take on Minnesota-meets-Sweden dishes. In a quirky twist, there’s a chicken takeout shop called The Dirty Bird out back in the alley.
The new restaurant will be in good company. Other neighborhood eateries include Town Talk Diner & Gastropub, The Original, and Hi-Lo Diner.

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The country’s booming real estate market may have further exacerbated the gender wealth gap.
According to CoreLogic 2022 Women & Property report for Australia and New ZealandSoaring house prices have widened the wealth inequality gap between men and women as men own more homes than women.
Data shows that of all residential properties in Australia, men make up 29.9% of owners, while women own only 26.6%, a disparity of 3.3%.
READ MORE: St Vincent Place mansion goes for $9.5million
And as CoreLogic estimates, from January 2021 to January 2022, residential property values rose an unprecedented 22.4%, from $7 trillion to $9.7 trillion, inflating that inequality. in a spectacular way.
“Because there is a high level of equity held in real estate, if you don’t own property, it’s a great source of household wealth and security that you don’t have access to. “, Milena Malev, CoreLogic International Financial Services and Insurance Solutions at GM. , noted.
The report also found that, statistically, men are more likely to own homes than women (28.5% vs. 24%).
Comparatively, women dominate the purchase of units in Australia, with data showing that 35.2% of units are owned by women, while men own 34.7%.
According to Eliza Owen, head of research at CoreLogic Australia and creator of the report, this imbalance in ownership of housing type also contributed to the wealth gap.
“Detached homes generally accumulate more value over time than units, with CoreLogic’s Hedonic Home Value Index in January 2022 showing that the 10-year annualized growth rates of Australian home values were 6.2 % per annum, compared to 4.1% per annum for the units”, Ms. Owen mentioned.
“This means that home owners gain much more value over time than unit owners. $ for median unit gain.”
It is investment properties, however, where we see the greatest delta in the wealth gap.
CoreLogic reports that men own 36.4% of all investment property, compared to women, who own only 29.1%, which equates to a difference of 7.3%.
Female ownership was highest in Australia’s most expensive areas, however, with women owning 31.9% of residences in Greater Sydney.
This includes Sydney City and South Central (36.2%), North Sydney and Hornsby (37.0%) and Eastern Suburbs (37.1%).
“There are higher rates of female ownership in what can be considered ‘blue chip’ markets, while low rates of female ownership tend to be concentrated in low-value, commodity-based markets. resources,” Ms Owen said.

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In recent years, the startup ecosystem in France has experienced a significant shift in dynamics, with angel investors exercising caution and carefully considering their investment decisions. This change in sentiment can be attributed to various factors, including the evolving landscape of startups, the impact of the global pandemic, and the emergence of new investment trends. In this article, we will delve into the reasons behind the cautious approach of angel investors and the implications it has on the French startup ecosystem.
Angel investors play a crucial role in the early-stage funding of startups, providing capital, mentorship, and networking opportunities to budding entrepreneurs. Historically, angel investors have been known for their risk-taking appetite, willingness to back innovative ideas, and ability to identify promising ventures. However, the recent shift in sentiment among angel investors in France suggests a more cautious and discerning approach to investments.
One of the primary reasons for the change in sentiment among angel investors is the evolving landscape of startups. Over the years, the startup ecosystem in France has witnessed rapid growth, leading to an influx of new ventures across various industries. This proliferation of startups has created a more competitive market, making it challenging for investors to identify high-potential opportunities amidst the sea of emerging companies. As a result, angel investors have become more selective in their investment choices, focusing on startups that demonstrate strong value propositions, scalable business models, and clear paths to profitability.
Furthermore, the impact of the global pandemic has had a significant bearing on the investment decisions of angel investors. The pandemic has disrupted industries, altered consumer behavior, and created uncertainties in the market, leading to heightened risk perceptions among investors. As a result, angel investors in France have become more cautious in their approach, seeking startups that are resilient to market disruptions, adaptable to changing dynamics, and capable of navigating through uncertain times.
In addition to the changing startup dynamics and the pandemic’s impact, there has been a notable shift in the investment trends and preferences of angel investors. With the rise of impact investing, sustainability, and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) considerations, angel investors in France are increasingly looking for startups that align with their values and address pressing societal and environmental challenges. This shift towards impact-focused investments has led angel investors to prioritize startups that demonstrate a commitment to sustainability, social responsibility, and positive societal impact.
The cautious approach of angel investors has significant implications for the French startup ecosystem. On one hand, it underscores the need for startups to differentiate themselves, articulate compelling value propositions, and demonstrate viable growth trajectories to attract investor interest. Startups that can showcase strong market traction, a clear competitive advantage, and a robust go-to-market strategy are more likely to secure investments in this selective environment.
On the other hand, the cautious stance of angel investors presents a challenge for early-stage startups, particularly those in need of seed funding to kickstart their growth journey. As angel investors exercise greater scrutiny and prudence in their investment decisions, early-stage startups may face heightened competition for capital, leading to longer fundraising cycles and a more challenging funding environment.
In response to the changing dynamics of angel investments, startups and entrepreneurs need to adapt and refine their fundraising strategies. Building a compelling and evidence-based investment case, demonstrating market validation, showcasing a strong team, and having a clear roadmap for growth and expansion are essential for gaining the confidence of angel investors. Additionally, startups may need to consider alternative funding sources, such as venture capital, corporate partnerships, or government grants, to supplement their funding needs.
Despite the cautious sentiment among angel investors, there are still opportunities for promising startups to attract investment. Angel investors continue to seek out disruptive innovations, breakthrough technologies, and high-growth potential ventures that have the ability to make a significant impact in their respective industries. Startups that can showcase innovation, scalability, and a compelling vision for the future are well-positioned to capture the attention of angel investors in this evolving landscape.
In conclusion, the shift in sentiment among angel investors in France reflects the evolving dynamics of the startup ecosystem, the impact of the global pandemic, and the emergence of new investment trends. While the cautious approach of angel investors presents challenges for early-stage startups, it also underscores the need for startups to differentiate themselves, demonstrate strong market traction, and align with the values and preferences of investors. By understanding and adapting to the changing investment landscape, startups can navigate the challenges and capitalize on the opportunities presented by angel investors in France.


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Christine Brallier - CB Mosaics
Christine Brallier has been creating art since childhood and hasn’t stopped!
She grew up in Los Angeles studying art and music through high school.
Then, after years as a preschool teacher, she received her M.A. in psychology, focusing on children and art therapy. In 2005, she discovered and fell in love with the art of mosaics. Working primarily with stained glass, she creates mosaics that are joyful and playful in spirit. The millefiori (tiny glass flowers) is incorporated into every design, a fun and whimsical detail which characterizes her mosaic style.
Her award-winning art has been published in several mosaic technique books and her mosaics have been installed in public spaces in California, Texas, Kentucky, Michigan, and the Australia Zoo.
Her first children’s book, The Night Before Christmas, illustrated with her stained glass mosaics, was published in 2013.
Christine Brallier has created fifteen stained glass mosaic illustrations in her unique rendition of the classic, The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore.
'Twas the night before Christmas and Santa's late night visit has a man and his curious kitty investigating.
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Photographers searching for a compact camera equipped with a large 24 to 200 mm zoom lens may be interested in the new Sony RX100 VI compact camera which has this week been unveiled. For a comparison the previous version of the Sony RX100 was equipped with a smaller 24-70mm lens. Due to the extra zoom on the lens Sony has replaced the f/1.8-2.8 with a slightly slower f/1.8-2.8 but has also improved the lens’s optical image stabilisation.
The new camera will be available next month during July 2018 and is expected to be priced at around $1,200. Other features of the compact camera include 315 phase detection points and the ability to shoot at 24 fps with autofocus. The new Sony RX100 VI camera is also the first in the Cyber-shot RX100-series1st to be equipped with a touchscreen interface, providing the ability to control both chatter and focus using touch controls. The touchscreen can also tilt 180 degree upwards and 90 degree downwards to provide further creativity for your photography angles and positioning.
The DP Review website explains a little more about what you can expect from the technology incorporated into the new Sony RX100 VI camera. “The RX100 VI’s 24-200mm lens comprises 15 elements in 12 groups, featuring two ED (extra-low dispersion) aspherical glass elements and eight aspherical lens elements including four AA (advanced aspherical) lenses. Sony describes the pocketable camera as having “two lenses worth of interchangeable lens”, incorporating the range of a 24-70mm lens and a 70-200mm in one “do anything” camera. Meanwhile, it offers a claimed 4EV of image stabilisation. Unlike its predecessor, there is no ND filter for video shooters.”
For full specifications and purchasing options jump over to the official Sony website.
– Maintains compact body size of acclaimed RX100 series while adding a ZEISS® Vario-Sonnar T 24-200mm F2.8 – F4.5 Large Aperture High Magnification Zoom Lens
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Back in November we revealed two new trademarks from SEGA, one of which was “Soukuu no Liberation” (Liberation of the Blue Sky). While it was most likely a new game, some fans were hoping it was another Skies of Arcadia (though as I pointed out, the series is Eternal Arcadia in Japan and “sky”/”skies” aren’t unique enough to make such a connection). In any case, the cat is out of the bag and Liberation of the Blue Sky has been revealed to be a mobile RPG from SEGA heading to iOS and Android in Japan.
Based on the official game site, the game is a 2D free to play RPG and tasks the players with recapturing an Imperial City that has been invaded by an Empire. The protagonist is a guy named Roland who leads a Revolutionary Army. Gameplay features the usual RPG elements such as forming parties and a variety of character types. The game will feature both single player and four player modes and is due out this winter. After the break, check out some art from the game as well as a screenshot.

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My parents have the usual Shepards Hook with the common black square feeder for the birds year after year. My dad has a great sense of humor, so this is going to be his birthday present in December! He will absolutely love it and enjoy watching the birds even more with a smile on his face and a chuckle! It will definitely be one of his more uncommon presents he has ever received through the years! Great price so totally worth it!
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For me it was a historic day. Seeing people day after day here who are in pain, who have severe deformities, who are disabled, motivates me to work hard and continually try to improve. Malades (malade = patient in French) come to HAH with all types of orthopedic problems. Some of the most difficult to treat are hip problems. In 2010, it was 2 months after the earthquake that we received a beautiful C-arm, complements of our orthopedic colleagues back home. This enabled us to take care of many patients who had hip fractures that were nearly impossible to operate without x-ray guidance.
Soon after, we were able perform hemiarthroplasties (partial hip replacements usually used for femoral neck fractures in the elderly). But the option of doing total hip replacements had continued to be an elusive dream, until today. We had to renovate our operating room, we had to get air handlers and filtration system working properly, we had to find implants which tend to be way out of the budget for our patient population, and we had to find a committed surgeon. Starting a joint replacement program was one of my major goals during this 6-month period of time that Marni and I are living in Haiti. That finally materialized due to the generosity of Renovis (total hip implant company) and Dr. Mark Mildren.
Over the past few weeks we called some of the patients on our total hip waiting list that was started in 2011. The list is huge. There are people that are in their 30’s and 40’s some younger some older that have been suffering from hip problems for years. One patient had an acetabular fracture several days before the 2010 earthquake but was unable to get treatment because of the thousands of victims crowding the hospitals. Beyond that he did not even go to the hospital because he was afraid they would just amputate his leg. He has been walking with a crutch for more than 8 years. Finally, we can take care of him. Another man had a femoral neck fracture in the earthquake and told me about how he looked for treatment all over the city, but no one could take care of it. He got the idea to come to “Diquini” (address of our hospital) and we did a hemiarthroplasty. I looked at his record and amazingly my operative note was there. Several years later he started having pain and needs to have a conversion to a total hip arthroplasty as expected. Many of our patients with hip problems are quite young, mostly due to accidents causing femoral head or acetabular fractures. Some others have untreated childhood hip disorders or avascular necrosis.
Due to the young age of our patients it is particularly important to use the highest quality implants since a failed hip replacement down the road would be quite a disaster. We have spoken to several companies about donating implants but nothing worked out until recently when I spoke to Renovis a company based in Redlands. They have top quality implants and were willing to donate them for the cause. I would like to give a big shout out to this company not only because of their high-quality product, but for their can-do attitude, customer service, and the relative simplicity of the process for donating the implants.
Mark Mildren (seen in action in cover photo) is a total joint specialist from Eugene, Oregon. He finished his residency at Loma Linda University in 2016 and subsequently did a fellowship. He came to Haiti with me as a resident in 2015. Those years that many of us spent training Mark to become an orthopaedic surgeon are now paying off! It is exciting to see him supersede me, operate as an attending and take the lead on cases. It was important to find someone committed to more than just a one-time visit. Ideally, we would like to perform total joint replacement surgery here every 3 months and have a couple of surgeons that each come twice a year. Mark is building his practice, paying off loans, and has 3 kids and a wife. But since he still drives the beat-up Hyundai that was given to him by a fellow resident who was buying a new car, he has the freedom to do this sort of stuff. Even though he is an attending now, he had an overnight layover at LAX on his way down here and sat in the terminal all night to save money.
Special thanks to Dr Scott Epperly, orthopedic surgery resident from Loma Linda University and Dr Paul Kim, anesthesiologist from Redlands, CA for their assistance facilitating this program. Stay tuned for total knee replacement! Hopefully coming later this year…
Scott Nelson, MD

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Interview of Georgi Grozdev, writer and publisher, with Fiona Sampson -"The Distance Between Us" from the "Words and People" series, translated by Tsvetanka Elenkova
1. What is the most interesting thing you know about Bulgaria and the Balkans that you have learned so far from personal experience?
I’ve been to Sofia once, one rainy Spring: I loved seeing the Vitosha at the end of every street. It reminded me of my small home town of Aberystwyth in Wales, where you see the Cambrian mountains at the end of every street. I have some literary friends, met at festivals in the Balkans: Alex Popov, whose Mission London I find hilarious and telling, and Georgi Gospodinov and Biliana Kourtasheva. I published some Bulgarian writers – as well as the above, some younger post-modern poets, and the late Nicolai Kantchev, as well as a beautiful memoir by Konstantin Iliev, in Orient Express, a magazine of contemporary writing from Central and S-Eastern Europe which I founded and edited for a while between 2002-5. I am writing this on the train home from a session of the European Academy of Poets in Luxembourg, where I’d the pleasure of meeting Lyubomir Levchev, whose work I had long admired. Also during the session, we awarded Toma Markov our first Pegasus Medal for a young poet. His work seems to me more and more serious in its playfulness – he has developed a great deal since I first published him.
2. Is your poetic book "The Distance Between Us" from the "Words and People" series, translated by Tsvetanka Elenkova, your first work translated into Bulgarian?
Yes. It’s not the only book of mine to be translated but it is the most-translated, with Romanian, Macedonian and Albanian editions already published – and Croatian and Serbian under discussion. It has also formed a “spine” for my Selected Poems published in Hebrew and German (Austrian). In previous editions, I have been lucky to be translated by fine poets: Ioana Ieronim in Romania, the fine young poet Magdalena Horvat in Macedonia, the poet-publisher Arjan Leka in Albania and Amir Or in Israel. It makes an enormous difference to the book that emerges. A poorly- or unsympathetically-translated book does so much harm to a writer’s reputation. I don’t understand why people undertake to translate books which, perhaps through laziness or arrogance, they then destroy. If it’s to earn the money, there are better ways than through spoiling a colleague’s work.
3. Do you feel a part of England's spiritual elite and literature and which people would you include in it?
I think that “elitism” is a very difficult term for the British. It has pejorative connotations of privilege: of the ivory tower. If you were to ask instead about the community of people working for literature, or hoping to keep something other than brute market forces alive in the country, then I would agree. There are writers and editors trying to keep a serious culture alive, and my current post as Editor-in-Chief of Poetry Review (see below) makes me part of this group.
Again, in Britain we tend to make a separation between cultural and spiritual life. But we do see it as a struggle over values. The market and also celebrity culture are infiltrating the arts and literary culture in the UK. Sometimes it feels as though we’re fighting the “enemy within”, with poetry lite and middle-brow fiction taking over the literary outlets – the lists, the prizes, the review pages.
4. Which is the most significant unfulfilled debt of the elite towards readers?
There are well-known writers in all genres who are simply churning out middle-brow work to their own unchanging formulae. Morally and intellectually, this is no different from the project of genre fiction.
5. How do enlightened spiritual minorities survive and are they easily surviving in your country?
Already an undervalued genre in our at worst philistine and at best narrative culture, poetry is under threat from all sides. There is “performance poetry”, largely comic cabaret and certainly work which doesn’t work as simple text, yet is often grant-subsidized because it increases “participation”. There is the shift of grant support from poets and their publishers to “participation” in the form of creative writing classes for amateur and emerging writers, producing a huge disproportion between those who write and those who read. For example, Poetry Review, the UK’s oldest and most widely-read magazine, which is a hundred years old this year, receives 60,000 poetry submissions a year; yet sells only 5,000 per quarterly issue (of course, these copies have multiple readers, but still). Festivals and events are not writer-centred, as they are in the Balkans and the rest of Europe. You do not meet other writers, but leave the morning after your solo reading. Increasingly, these are book festivals, with literary resources being directed towards the mass-market books – gardening and recipe books and footballers’ ghost-written memoirs- and away from literature. Publishers are under threat from the web. Broadsheet newspapers are sacking their literary editors and in any case facing extinction because bright young people now read their news on the web. Independent booksellers are being replaced by multinational chains like Borders, with centralized and mass-market buying practices – the mass-market fiction promotions table, the 3 for 2 offers – and poetry is barely represented. If it’s stocked at all, it’s probably an anthology of coffee-table poems; and maybe some Shakespeare or Wordsworth.
6. How does post-communist Bulgaria on Europe's periphery seem to you as seen from London? What is the most provincial thing about London that you have personally noticed?
The Distance Between Us is, of course, an attempt to explore precisely what is distant and what close between two small countries on “the periphery”: Bulgaria, and Wales where I grew up and where I lived for some years as an adult. European-ness may be modulated where it shades towards something else – the Atlantic and America, Russia, the Levant, the Caucuses. But I have a hard time thinking of these places as non-central. They seem to me to be at the centre of their own cultural perspective and experience. They can drive changes, for good and ill, which affect the whole of Europe.
London, for example, is on the way to America from the “centre” of Europe, whether that’s Nuremberg or the Austro-Hungarian heartland. But it is not provincial. It is probably the most cosmopolitan city in the world. In the streets, in any carriage in the Underground, on any bus, English (and especially English with one of the British accents) will probably be spoken by a minority. The city is full of Central Europeans, Russians, Turks, Kurds, Arabs from North Africa and the Middle East, Scandinavians, Chinese, Pakistanis and Indians, people from the Philippines and Thailand, the Pacific Rim, South America, US… I know I’ve left out lots of groups. One particularly significant fact, and something to be proud of, is that every war or disaster produces a refugee community in the UK. Those of us who care about these things bemoan the state’s treatment of refugees; but still, we act better than some parts of “fortress Europe”: and that, while not enough, is something to be proud of. Thus, we have had recent influxes of Somalis and Afghans and Iraqis. A few years ago London was chock-full of young Yugoslavs. Then there are our indigenous minorities, the Roma and Jewish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and of course the Caribbean British communities. London is a fabulous, and rapidly-changing melting pot, as scary and exciting by now as New York… Whenever I come back from the Balkans, I feel relieved when I get back to Vienna and see the first black faces. That a city should be cosmopolitan seems to me essential. Otherwise, it atrophies.
7. What gives you faith in yourself?
Not much! But just working with high goals and with integrity – wanting more for and from poetry in Britain, seems a start.
8. Why do you think so many English have come to live in Bulgaria?
It’s cheap. Temperamentally (a relatively phlegmatic style) and culturally (the way young people dress in typical American idiom for example) it’s probably the least removed of the cultures of S-East Europe. It also has a sea-coast, sun and great fresh food.
But primarily it’s the cheapness. Although the UK pays high wages and has a high standard of living in terms of consumer goods, it’s also a way of life with high costs of different kinds. We have the longest working hours in Western Europe – a sixty-hour week is average. A high proportion of the income most people spend that time earning is gobbled-up in the ridiculously high housing costs, because the rich long ago introduced the profit motive to “property” (housing) too, and the “market” means housing costs are kept at the very outer limit of what two people working full time can earn. We have high crime rates, high rates of mental illness, high rates of childhood depression, among the highest divorce and the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Europe. We have little culture of neighborliness or even of the extended family; and a creaking infrastructure (the “national wealth” in fact does not belong to the nation, but stays in a tiny number of private hands), which means that we simply expect our trains, drains and postal services to fail much of the time. Most of us feel we are on a treadmill. Even though, obviously, I realize that this is nothing compared to the recent experiences of people living in the Balkans, it is still a sorry state of affairs. It’s no surprise that so many of the young talented people from post-communist Europe who came to Britain in such numbers upon EU accession have returned home. The British society I remember from my childhood in the 70s was incomparably freer and happier. (It was also more cultured!)
Of course, the great irony – or tragedy – is that British who “escape” to Bulgaria simply bring the problem with them. Like people trying to escape a plague by which they’re already infected. Once you’re inside globalization, you can’t escape, you take it with you wherever you go. Of course they make housing in Bulgaria into a “market”; of course they pay higher prices with their higher British income. This happened first within the UK, which is probably no consolation. Rich Londoners bought holiday cottages, or moved to the countryside. Whole regions within two hours of London are now ghost towns; and in most of England ordinary young people cannot afford to live in the communities where they grew up. So a society has disappeared. Then the British with money to spare – largely the “baby boomers’ who profited from the welfare state but dismantled it behind them – did the same in France, Italy, Spain, and now Bulgaria.
9. Isn't the global financial crisis a crisis of lost cultural insight especially in the richest countries?
Yes, see above. But you have to remember that there is a) no longer a social democratic alternative for voters to pick – it’s a choice between hard-right (globalisers) and centre-right (free marketeers) – and that b) our “first past the post” or winner-takes-all voting system means that government in the UK in particular may well not represent the actual distribution of votes. The West has had a privileged class – robber barons – for centuries. In the UK they haven’t been interrupted since 1066 (apart from a brief inter-regnum under Oliver Cromwell). So “financial interests” have had plenty of time to become established.
Also, remember our ruling classes invented exploitation when they created the Industrial Revolution. Whenever I travel abroad I’m lectured on the evils of the British Empire. Entirely true. But what seems to be taught less often is that they enslaved (literally, through the indenture system) their own working classes too. Conditions for ordinary people in C19th Britain were desperate. Only a tiny minority were sipping tea in drawing rooms with Jane Austen. Most of us were working naked and chained in mines, or starving in slums between 14-hour shifts in sweatshops. Read Charles Dickens if you want to know how far back the tyranny of free capital goes.
It’s true that the result of the last twenty years has been a loss of internationalism, and understanding of the Other: as well as of any kind of culture beyond lowest common denominator entertainment. But you have to understand that most Britons, of every educational background, are simply struggling to survive. It’s bread and circuses.
10. I've interviewed dozens of Balkan writers, and for the first time in our cultural history, our "Balkan Library" series consists of 50 works, despite prejudice and hatred. What do Balkan and Bulgarian writers lack to be accepted on the English book market?
They don’t lack anything other international writing has. All international writing simply costs more (buying rights and paying for a translation) and is seen as more serious than the home-grown product, and so is at a double disadvantage. It’s simply that this is, more and more, a “book market”, with nothing literary about it. I was one of the judges of this year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, which is our big national prize for literary fiction in translation. 126 books were submitted (roughly 50% more than the average in previous years, and including pretty much the whole of the fiction published in translation in the UK in 2008). A disappointingly high proportion of submissions were not literary but genre fiction. Purchases at the big Book Fairs are made on the grounds of perceived commercial success: which big German and French publishers have already risked the book, and how well it’s done for them. These are therefore the markets that Balkan literature, just like the wonderful writing coming out of Latin America or Scandanavia for example, needs to crack first.
11. Do you believe that creative work is the only means by which time and space can be outlived?
Well, it can if we’re lucky.
12. Why the one who loves always loses? (as we can read in one of your verses)…
Because to love is to have something the world can take away from you: through time and space or simply through illness, accident or war. It’s to give the world (or life, if you prefer) a hostage.
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Fiona Sampson has published fourteen books – including poetry, philosophy of language and books on writing process – of which the most recent are Writing Poetry (2009), Common Prayer (2007, shortlisted for the T.S.Eliot Prize) and On Listening (essays, 2007. and Writing: Self and Reflexivity (with Celia Hunt, Macmillan, 2005). Earlier books include Writing: Self and Reflexivity (2005) and The Self on the Page (1999), with Celia Hunt, and Creative Writing in Health and Social Care (2005); The Distance Between Us (2005), Folding the Real (2001) and The Healing Word (1999). Her awards include the Newdigate Prize and 2009 Cholmondely Award for poetry; ‘Trumpeldor Beach’ was short-listed for the 2006 Forward Prize; and she has been widely translated, with eight books in translation, including Patuvachki Dnevnik (Travel Diary), awarded the 2003 Zlaten Prsten (Macedonia) and, most recently, Zweimal Sieben Gedichte (Wieser Verlag, Austria, 2009). Other prizes include writers’ awards from the Arts Councils of England and Wales and the Society of Authors, and, in the US, the Literary Review’s Charles Angoff Award. After a first life as a violinist, she was educated at the Universities of Oxford and Nijmegen. She has a PhD in the philosophy of language and was AHRC Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University in 2002-5 and Fellow in Creativity at the University of Warwick 2007-8. She consults internationally on writing in health care, a field she pioneered in the UK, and contributes to The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Liberal and BBC Radio 3’s ‘The Verb’. Her many translations include volumes of Jaan Kaplinski and of Amir Or, an anthology of younger Central European poets, and the periodical Orient Express, of which she was the founding editor. She is a Member of the European Academy of Poets, and the Editor-in-Chief of Poetry Review, Britain’s poetry journal of record.


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Juventus will be able to call upon Cristiano Ronaldo once again on Sunday after he missed four games due to COVID-19.
Cristiano Ronaldo could feature for Juventus against Spezia on Sunday after he returned a negative COVID-19 test.
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Central Qld shires weigh up merger options
The Mayor of Mount Morgan Shire says he is not concerned about the Queensland Government's review of councils, in fact he is pushing for amalgamation.
Local Government Minister Andrew Fraser will discuss the review process with central Queensland Mayors in Rockhampton today.
Mount Morgan Mayor Gavin Finch says he wants to amalgamate with Fitzroy Shire, but the main town of Gracemere should go to Rockhampton.
Cr Finch says Fitzroy Shire is not cooperative, but believes rural and urban areas have different communities of interest.
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Rockhampton Mayor Margaret Strelow says the review will boost the chances of an amalgamation of all four councils in the region, but she says there is no going back on her decision to retire at the next election.
Livingstone Mayor Bill Ludwig has indicated he could run as Mayor of an amalgamated council, but Cr Strelow says it should go to a newcomer.
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'A foster mother has been found guilty of subjecting three children in her care to a "horrifying 19-year catalogue of cruel and sadistic treatment."
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The City of New Haven announced late Wednesday afternoon that the citywide parking ban will be lifted at 6 a.m. Thursday, but the overnight freeze isn’t making the cleanup any easier.
After this mid-March winter storm, New Haven’s Deputy Director of Emergency Operations Rick Fontana said the city has nearly used up its $750,000 snow removal budget.
“Our snow budget is basically pretty much depleted at this point and we’ve still got some winter weather left,” he said.
Fontana said that is the reality when you factor in overtime pay for public works personnel, plus the need to hire outside contracts to remove snow from 321 miles of roadway.
“There’s never a question of spending the money,” he said, “the Board of Alders would look at that and make some money transfers.”
On Wednesday morning, Yale graduate student Chris Lim needed to dig out his car on Humphrey Street to give his friend a ride.
“I knew that this was going be here,” Lim said, “this always happens when we get walled in like this and maybe there isn’t a better way.”
The mix of snow, sleet and ice is adding to the challenge of clearing the roads in the Elm City.
“We would love 12 inches of powdered snow,” Fontana said. “Now we have crusted mashed potatoes and the trucks are having a hard time moving it and it wreaks havoc on trucks, and breaks trucks,” Fontana said.
Fontana added some budgetary relief could come because both the Governor Dannel Malloy and New Haven Mayor Toni Harp made emergency declarations for this storm.
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West Haven Mayor Ed O’Brien told NBC Connecticut his city is also hoping to get some money reimbursed because of the emergency declaration. He said West Haven is slightly over budget after this week’s storm, but the city would really feel the pinch if the shoreline gets slammed again.
On Orange Street, the tow trucks lined up for another day of parking ban enforcement around noon.
“We’re getting ready to go back out,” said Robert Holton from Tony’s Long Wharf Tow company, “we’re just waiting for the city to come out.”
Their assignment from the Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking was to remove the cars parked in the Lincoln-Bassett school parking lot.
New Haven allowed residents to move their cars into public school lots because of the citywide parking ban that started midnight Monday. A message went out at 7 p.m. Tuesday through the city’s alert system saying those cars needed to be moved by noon Wednesday.
Lilac Street resident Mary Griffin stopped them from taking her car away, but her daughter Tai wasn’t so lucky.
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A message went out at 7 p.m. Tuesday through the city’s alert system saying those cars needed to be moved by noon Wednesday.
“After the street is cleaned, then let the people come back,” said New Haven Alder Delphine Clyburn. “Where can they put the vehicles? Look at Lilac, look at Butler St., where are they gonna put them?”
Clyburn rushed to the neighborhood after being notified about the tow operation.
“Their finances is not that much that they can just be paying for a tow,” she said.
“This is ridiculous,” Tai Griffin said. “We have nowhere to park, like look at this and we own property, we pay taxes. This is ridiculous.”
Four cars were towed from the Lincoln-Bassett school parking lot, Fontana said.
For anyone who had a car towed in the Elm City, it will cost about $200 to retrieve the car and pay the city’s fine.
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Steve Davislim’s career knows no boundaries. He sings in all the great venues of the world, and in all genres, equally celebrated in opera, oratorio and lieder. He began his vocal journey with the great Dame Joan Hammond, darling of Covent Garden and the Vienna State Opera, whose recording of O mio babbino caro sold over a million copies. We recently chatted to Steve to ask him about his early teacher and the repertoire he will be performing with ANAM during his visit.
Can you share some of your recollections of Dame Joan with us, and what you still retain from her in your own work?
Dame Joan helped me enormously at the beginning of my career and in a way still helps me today, as do all of my teachers in one way or another. For me she had a fortitude in her dealings with every day issues that is very necessary to survive the travel and stresses of performing. She would always sprinkle her lessons with personal anecdotes, especially the ones during the war years where times in London were tough. She often related stories about performers having their own costumes, singing in cold auditoriums with the constant fear of bombs falling, doing their own make-up and making do with whatever was available. This flexible attitude is one that has helped me greatly, as one is always confronted again and again with difficult circumstances. She always made the best of a trying situation. I believe this pragmatic attitude was always heard in her singing too. Her fabulous voice was also an inspiration. She would often sing along and you could always see in her eyes that she longed to stand on the stage again. This love for the music and performance was, and still is, highly inspiring for all of her former students I am sure, as it certainly is for me.
Your performing schedule covers opera, concert work and lieder – no one could pin you down to any one of these. What do you get from singing lieder that you don’t get from your other areas of work?
Lieder is the most intimate magnifying glass to the soul that any singer can aspire to. It is just you, the pianist, the poet and the composer, in an intimate setting that allows for infinite nuances to unfold at your whim, nuances that are often brushed over with other larger performance mediums. When everything is right, the results are unique and immensely satisfying. This of-course takes nothing away from opera and oratorio. Each medium is glorious in its own right and has, when performed with sufficient humility, the ability to access the divine in us all. How blessed I am to be able to enjoy all this wonderful music! As the long gone Russian conductor, Juri Aronovic once said to me backstage before a performance in Italy: “You know Steve, we have the best job in the world. Every day we get to speak to God and get paid for it too!” How right he is.
Hear Steve Davislim perform with Tim Young and ANAM’s pianists in the last morning concert in ANAM’s Season.
Excerpt from “It’s a hat-trick! ANAM’s vocal trifecta” (Music Makers vol 19, ANAM)
SCHUMANN Dichterliebe, op. 48
R STRAUSS Selected songs
BOWMAN Selected songs
Steve Davislim tenor
Timothy Young piano
Venue ANAM, South Melbourne Town Hall
Tickets All $35 (includes complimentary morning tea following the performance)
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Led by a new advertising campaign, BEPA will be targeting food manufacturers and catering companies with the ‘Buy British’ message after research showed that imports have grown by 40% since 2001. And more than half of food manufacturers were currently sourcing imported egg products.
The research also showed that more than 80% of consumers felt that using British eggs within manufactured products was important, but were unaware that almost a third of these products contain imported eggs.
Clive Frampton, chairman of BEPA, said: “There appears to be a lot of confusion surrounding egg products and it is this that producers of Lion Quality egg products wish to address. Once manufacturers, retailers and consumers have the clear facts then the importance of sourcing Lion Quality egg products will become obvious.”


text: In the past, gravimetric corrosion data for fasteners exposed to treated wood has been reported as a percent weight loss. Although percent weight loss is a valid measure of corrosion for comparing identical fasteners, it can distort the corrosion performance of fasteners with different geometries and densities. This report reevaluates a key report on the corrosiveness of wood treated with chromated copper arsenate (CCA) and ammoniacal copper arsenate (ACA) and converts the previous data into corrosion rates. In addition, similar experiments were run in wood treated with alkaline copper quaternary (ACQ). Comparison of the corrosion rates reveals ACQ treated wood is more corrosive than CCA treated wood for every metal. The corrosion rate of aluminum was found to be lower than both hot-dip galvanized steel and electroplated galvanized steel in ACQ, ACA, and CCA treated wood. In ACA and ACQ treated wood, the electroplated galvanized fastener had a lower corrosion rate than the hot-dip galvanized fastener.

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Evaluations conducted at Play Streets in New York City* reveal encouraging findings:
- 84 percent of survey respondents reported that they felt the neighborhood was safer with a Play Street. “The more children come out, the more people feel secure in a safe environment,” one participant wrote.
- 64 percent of Play Street attendees reported that if not at the Play Street, they would have been engaged in a sedentary activity.
- 71 percent of individuals surveyed walked to the Play Street, an added health benefit
Foot traffic to businesses in and around a Play Street is increased greatly over foot traffic when the street is open to vehicular traffic. The beauty of the Play Streets connect is that it is general and flexible, allowing each locality to mold it to its own needs and resources. While some cities close off just a block or two at a time, others are closing many miles of city streets. Some partner with ongoing farmer’s markets to maximize space, others find new areas convert into play spaces.
Want to know how you can create a play street in your city or town?
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*”Play Streets-A Case Study: Harvest Home Play Streets in East Harlem and the South Bronx,”
— Transportation Alternatives (2011): Play Streets Case Study


BIOS 3456 is an old BIOS........almost a year old, dated 08-21-2009, not May 21st, 2010. Since then, BIOS 3712, 4905 and 5531 have been released. FYI, I am also experiencing Post 21 errors as well, but in my case they are intermittent. It started a couple of months ago, and is still occurring with BIOS (4905), although I do not know if it is BIOS related or defective hardware at this point. The IDCC stopped working as well and my keboard has failed occasionally on boot. This is the most unreliable Motherboard have ever purchased, and I do not even overclock.


Compatible with all Kielder TYPE18 batteries.
The LED indicator shows when battery is charging and fully charged. Features screw mounts allowing charger to be fixed to a wall or flat surface.
Compatible voltage: 18v Kielder TYPE18
Current: 3 amps
Charge time: 2.0Ah / 40mins
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We realize that there are many different interpretations of the standard grades used
for pre-owned vinyl record albums & CD, so we thought we'd offer you the ones that we are working with,
so you have an idea what we mean when we give the grade for a non-new item on our pages.
Used Vinyl Grades
Below are stated conditions for a used vinyl records at Dusty Groove. Grading for
the cover should be assumed to be near (within a "+" or "-")
the grading for the vinyl.
If there is significant divergence from the condition of the vinyl, or specific flaws,
these will be noted in the comments section of the item. However, please be aware that
since the emphasis of this site is towards the music listener, our main concern is with
the vinyl of any used item we sell. Additionally, please note that all of our records
are graded visually; considering the volume of used vinyl we handle, it is impossible
for us to listen to each record. If we spot any significant flaws, we make every attempt
to listen through them and note how they play.
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A strange lost one from Johnny – recorded for the Big Town label, a company that was working with older LA R&B acts from the 50s, and recording them in a style that sort of "updated" their older work. That approach worked fine with some of the other talents on the label, but ... LP, Vinyl record album
A great return to the spacey soul that made Johnny Watson so great in the 70s – a set that turns down the bass and brings up Johnny's voice – letting his wonderful persona drift and flow amidst a range of mellow-grooving tracks! The album's got some great echoes of territory that ... LP, Vinyl record album
Johnny Guitar Watson at the top of his game – working here in a sublime mix of funk, blues, and soul – all crafted into a groove that was uniquely Watson's own! Johnny may have started the 70s in relative obscurity – down from some hit work in the 50s and 60s – but by the ... LP, Vinyl record album
Sylvester's first album for Fantasy – a reworking of his older groove into one that we love more than any other that he ever used – a smooth modern soul style, not really disco, but with a driving approach that would certainly have worked well in the clubs! You gotta give Syl credit ... LP, Vinyl record album
Classic cuts on Salsoul are remixed by the legendary Larry Levan – guru of the Paradise Garage scene, and a mixer who always knew how to make the floor move! Tracks include "I Got My Mind Made Up" by Instant Funk, "Double Cross" by First Choice, "First Time ... LP, Vinyl record album
Very obscure LP by what seems to be a lost Chicano funk group from Chicago. Released by the small Pipas label on the south side, the LP includes a nice cover of "Funky Nassau", plus covers of "Do Me Right", "Simple Song", and "Them Changes". The LP also ... LP, Vinyl record album
Martha's lost the Vandellas by the time of this late 70s set – making a strong move here as a solo act, and really going for a different sound. The format is quite clubby – arrangements by Dale Warren and Robert Manchurian that have a full and soulful feel, very much like the later ... LP, Vinyl record album
One of the funkiest Isaac Hayes albums for Stax – thanks mostly to the extended title cut! The tune "Joy" is a monster – running for nearly 16 minutes long, and starting with a killer drum break on the intro – then full, proud, bad-stepping Isaac Hayes grooves ... LP, Vinyl record album
Quite possibly the greatest album ever from Side Effect – a wonderful set that mixes their soulful harmonies with some killer jazz funk from Wayne Henderson! The album may be the most perfect realization of the groove that Henderson was going for during his At Home Productions years – ... LP, Vinyl record album
Jeffrey Osborne's really emerging strongly here in the mellow soul mode – especially on the album's two great ballad cuts, "Concentrate On You" and "We Both Deserve Each Other", both of which are smooth mellow steppers with a modern soul approach that's slightly less ... LP, Vinyl record album
What can we say? Bootsy's on top of the world here – not only The Player Of The Year, but also the most soulful artist in the P-Funk stable, and a master of the smooth, sly, slinky groove that would forever be taken up by bands from LA – both in the immediate soul years and in later ... LP, Vinyl record album


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Learn About Automatic Iron Belt Cracking Machines
When it comes to machines serving the construction industry, it is certainly indispensable for the automatic belt cracking machine. Because this is a powerful support device to serve the process of completing jobs such as bending, bending, cutting iron accurately and effectively according to the requirements of both the engineering and the form of the engineer. The difficulty of the construction is getting higher and higher, it also requires that the improvement of this construction machine must be met. Therefore, at present, the market has many different types of machines, information about the machine, utility ... is also a problem that many people are interested in.
Automatic iron belt cracking machine in the construction industry
What is the automatic iron belt breaker?
If we do not understand clearly what the belt cracking machine does, how can we be assured to invest and exploit effectively the features of the device?
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Belt cracking machine as its name is right is a leading use in cutting - breaking ...
... - bending steel steel belts for construction according to the requirements of the project. We can create many different types of belts such as triangles, square, round to U, V, L ... to facilitate piling, concrete pouring ...
Efficient belt cracking machine in construction
From the fact that the effectiveness of a belt crimping machine can be compared with 5-6 or even dozens of workers in breaking the belt. Up to 10-14 belts can be bent per minute (depending on machine capacity).
The efficiency of the belt crusher was completely conquered by investors, helping to shorten the working time for the work related to belt cracking, contributing to speeding up all construction progress quickly - accurately. than.
Compare automatic belt breakers and conventional machines
Comparing belt cracking machine, the more it is upgraded, the more outstanding advantages there will be. This can be clearly demonstrated through two lines of automatic and conventional machines.
Similarity: both have the function of cutting, bending, and bending steel iron belts.
Automatic machines always have a modern operating mechanism, with higher precision thanks to intelligent settings through modern and high-grade PLC control.
Not to mention the quality of the iron belts created by automatic machines are always more diverse and uniform than conventional machines. Just 1-2 workers simply stand on the machine, do not lose effort when controlling the machine through the touch screen.
On the contrary, the machines are usually quite manual and make us tired and take more time.
How to choose the automatic iron belt cracking machine
Material construction iron belt cracking machine
Using the best construction iron belt cracking machine materials, with constant bearing strength, high anti-wear and oxidation resistance. Because we understand that the machine must often operate in many harsh construction environments and move a lot, it is necessary to have the best, solid material.
Materials used are imported iron and steel together with high-grade metals to create a complete machine for a beautiful construction both in appearance and in quality to conquer customers.
Construction of iron belt cracking machine
Like the outside material, the structure of the details and the structure of the iron belt breaker are made very carefully, precisely with every detail of the size.
Just wrong with a small detail, the parts will not be engaged. Therefore, technicians are people with high professional qualifications and technical knowledge to be able to assemble and create the most complete machine equipment.
The structural components of the control system are imported from leading Japanese manufacturers to ensure the accuracy and efficiency of the steel breaker when working.
In addition, whether the quality of the belt crusher is good or not, you should go directly to the facility to experience and evaluate the product.
Hydraulic system iron belt cracking machine
The machine needs to have a modern hydraulic system, capable of running smoothly about 20 liters / min, creating a pressure of about 70 kh / cm2 combined with other parts to provide stable operation for the machine.
The hydraulic system of the belt breaker is an extremely important equipment, so we need to consider carefully in the investment process of buying the machine.
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After 'Pink', Taapsee Pannu is all geared up for her next. We heard that the pretty girl is learning the nuances of martial arts for filmmaker Neeraj Pandey's new production 'Naam Shabana'. She last worked with Pandey in the 2015 film 'Baby', which saw her doing some stunts. But with 'Naam Shabana', she will be taking her action scenes to a new level.Taapsee is learning mixed martial arts and a bit of Japanese martial art Aikido, apart from self-defence system Krav Maga for the movie. A fitness freak, she is loving every bit of being trained in these forms as she finds it thrilling."Continuing with Krav Maga, I have also started training in basics of Aikido and MMA. It's getting tougher and harder from what I did for 'Baby'. It has been a month of training and I train for one and a half to two hours every day, barring the days I am shooting for 12 hours," Taapsee said in a statement.She also said that "all these three forms have been chosen for a specific reason and when you will see the film, you will realise why."
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Anywhere from 25 to 45 million people in the U.S. suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
This common digestive disorder occurs when your brain and gut aren’t sending the right signals to each other.
Symptoms of IBS can include constipation or diarrhea, but to be diagnosed, you need to experience symptoms for several weeks.
Treatments range from medication to lifestyle modifications and can help you improve your symptoms.
We all experience tummy trouble from time to time. Maybe you overindulged at your favorite restaurant. Or perhaps you picked up a stomach bug circling your kid’s school. But, if you regularly experience constipation, bloating, or diarrhea, you might be dealing with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
And you’re not the only one.
If you’ve been struggling with stomach issues, take a minute to become more familiar with IBS. Then, talk with your doctor about your symptoms and treatment options.
What is IBS?
IBS is a digestive condition that causes a group of symptoms, including abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, or constipation. It’s a functional gastrointestinal disorder, which means your brain and gut aren’t working properly together. Simply put, it means that there are no tumors, blockages, infections, or abnormalities in the gut causing your symptoms.
This brain and gut (mis)connection can cause problems with how quickly (or slowly) food travels through your digestive tract or make a normal amount of gas feel painful and unbearable.
There are three types of IBS:
- IBS with constipation (IBS-C) – Your bowel movements are hard and lumpy
- IBS with diarrhea (IBS-D) – Your bowel movements are loose and watery
- IBS with mixed bowel habits (IBS-M) – You have hard and lumpy and loose and watery bowel movements on the same day
While anyone can develop IBS, it is more common in women. Younger people (under age 50) are also more likely to develop the condition.
The symptoms of IBS can be a little vague. Sometimes, it is tough to tell the difference between a meal not sitting right and what might signal a larger problem – like IBS. More than anything, the telltale sign of IBS is time. You might have IBS if you’ve had stomach pain or changes to your bowel habits (like how often you go and if you’re constipated or have diarrhea more than normal) for a few weeks instead of a few days.
Symptoms of IBS include:
- Abdominal pain
- Changes to frequency of bowel movements
- Feeling like you haven’t finished a bowel movement
- Whitish mucus in stool
These symptoms don’t cause damage to your digestive tract, but it’s important to get them checked out by a doctor. Once you know what’s causing your tummy trouble, you can start a plan to treat and manage your symptoms.
IBS used to be a catch-all for digestive trouble. That is, if a doctor couldn’t find something that was wrong, they would diagnose you with IBS. While blood and stool tests don’t indicate IBS, a clear set of standards must be met to diagnose a patent with the condition. Those are:
Abdominal pain that comes and goes (often with bowel movements) and irregular bathroom patterns – including urgent bowel movements with loose stool or incomplete/infrequent bowel movements with hard stool. Symptoms must occur at least once a week for three months.
Your gastroenterologist will conduct a complete physical exam. They will likely run other tests to ensure you don’t have other underlying conditions causing your symptoms. It is common for other digestive issues to trigger IBS or cause similar symptoms. Your gastroenterologist may also evaluate you for:
- Celiac disease
- GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease)
- Lactose intolerance
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
A quick note on IBD vs. IBS
IBS is not the same as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). IBD causes inflammation in the bowels, which can lead to serious damage to your intestines. Several types of IBD exist, but the two most common are Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
The most noticeable (and noteworthy) difference between IBS and IBD is that symptoms of IBD can get worse over time and include bloody or black stools, fever or weight loss.
Dealing with IBS can certainly be frustrating. After all, it does more than keep you from eating your favorite foods. It can make it stressful or downright impossible to go certain places – places that don’t always have a bathroom nearby.
Fortunately, many treatments and therapies treat IBS. Once your doctor has diagnosed your condition – including the type of IBS you have – together, you can create a plan to help manage your symptoms.
- Diet. You can work with your doctor to eliminate certain foods from your diet and then slowly reintroduce them. This process gives you a clear understanding of which foods may trigger your symptoms. For example, your doctor may suggest eliminating gluten or following a diet low in fermentable carbs (a low-FODMAP diet).
- Proper nutrition. While avoiding trigger foods is key to controlling your IBS symptoms, you also need to make sure you’re eating nutrient-rich foods high in fiber. Fresh fruits and veggies, complex carbohydrates, and whole foods (unprocessed) can help improve your gut health and eliminate IBS symptoms.
- Exercise. Yep, regular daily activity is good for your gut too. Exercise helps keep things moving in your body – so you can stay regular and reduce bloating in your belly.
- Get enough sleep. It’s true that sleep has restorative power. It’s the time your body needs to rest and recover from a hard day’s work – including the work of digesting your food. So set yourself up for a good night’s sleep, and you may find your symptoms start to ease.
- Manage stress and anxiety. Stress and anxiety release hormones and chemicals that can affect your gut – causing digestion to slow down or speed up. The result? Constipation or diarrhea. Your gastroenterologist may recommend working with a therapist to help you find the strategies to improve your mental wellness.
- Medications. Some over-the-counter medications can help relieve the unpleasant symptoms that come with IBS. However, you may also need prescription medicine to treat your condition. Your doctor can help you find the approach that’s right for you.
Find relief with the right treatments
The good news is you can take control of your IBS. And the first step is having an open and honest conversation with your doctor. Together, you can get to the bottom of what’s causing your symptoms and get you started on a plan that helps you feel your best.
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Sri Tejpal Bhardwaj
Swami Sri Tejpal Bhardwaj was born in 1953. Reputed as a skillful Manjira
player alongwith his dexterity at the Mridang, he learnt this art from his
guru Pandit Sh.Totaram Sharma and his grand master, the Late Sh.Muralidhar
Tejpal Bhardwaj is deeply involved in the traditional performing arts viz.
the Ramleela and Rasleela. He is widely acclaimed as an actor as well as a
He played Mridang during the Swami Shri Haridas Sangeet Sammelan. He was awarded
the best actor and director at the 'Rashtriya Ramleela Mela' organized by
the Madhya Pradesh Adivasi Lok Kala Parishad.
Tejpal Bhardwaj is currently staying a Vrindawan.