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- March 12, 2017 at 9:49 pm #677527
Maybe you should see a therapist. It seems you have a habit of burdening yourself with other people’s problems and choices as if you have control over them.
Like the Rex issue in the other thread. You have a tough time letting go.March 12, 2017 at 10:20 pm #677529
I think that it probably seems that way more because I have put the two areas that I do have trouble with on display because to ask for advice.
Otherwise I don’t really. And the hoarding issue isn’t really taking on responsibility for someone else’s issues because one day sooner or later it is going to be legally 100% my responsibility along with caring for whatever parent I have left and organising their continuing care etc. it’s not something that if I talk to a therapist I can remove myself from because it is my responsibility.
Other than that I have autism, I am vision impaired and I have a muscular disorder so things and stuff are a little harder for me at times, especially organising things and planning things waaaaay out of my field of expertise. And therapy isnt ever going to fix those things – autism is a processing disorder, not a lack of intelligence or personality disorder or mental illness.March 12, 2017 at 10:34 pm #677532
Anne, I’m new to this site, but I think you’re doing fine. It makes all the difference in the world to be truly understood. Don’t we all just want a little understanding? 🙂March 12, 2017 at 10:52 pm #677536
So true Leslie Joan, and that’s what is good about Internet forums like this and what Wendy does.
I’m only new here too – I came her by googling my questions basically.
In real life, where we have to act a bit stronger and tougher than we really are, you don’t always find someone to understand because people come at you with their own pre conceived notions and motivations.
I live in a different state from my parents, I live near my work. And have to travel in my state a bit. So I in effect avoid my responsibility of them – they aren’t interested in my help so it’s easier to avoid rather than push and push and get screamed at. Also I avoid all the home town people who think I am shirking my responsibilities and letting my parents live in an unhealthy environment in the worst house in town.
It’s like grey gardens without the kittens, lol. It’s soul destroying.March 12, 2017 at 10:53 pm #677537
The fact that they are so resistant to any outside help will probably mean that at such time as you do need to step in, you won’t have the time to prepare and scope out service providers in advance the way you might prefer. The distance makes it harder to do. But remember, there are agencies to help you, and you will find the right help when the time comes. Until then, it’s okay to feel a little wistful that you don’t have normal parents who can plan ahead for their old age and let things go. As long as you don’t let it consume you, it’s normal to think about it from time to time, and seeing that retirement community makes it hard to escape. You are human, for heaven sakes, and you are already dealing with a lot of daily challenges with your health. Those are the breaks and you have to deal with the parents you have, not the ones you wish you had, but as long as you don’t dwell on it, you’re fine.March 12, 2017 at 11:01 pm #677541
Yeah in a lot of ways I have already mourned and lost the parents I wanted to the ones I had – I mean for starters being diagnosed with autism in my 30’s was a bit of a shock and made me really revisit my childhood in different lights – and helped my relationship with my parents because they realised that I wasn’t deliberately being difficult and literal, I was genuinely functioning on a different level. So they forgave me for being the child i was and congratulated each other on being such great parents ‘considering’ and I shook my head and carried on with being the mother of an autistic child of my own. And also a non autistic child!
And no hoarding is done in my house!March 13, 2017 at 8:26 am #677635
Aiyee. Well, and you can internally roll your eyes and forgive them for being the parents they’ve been, “considering”, and recognize that they have their own condition that they’re living with. All the more reason to accept that there’s nothing you can do at this time, and when the time comes, you’ll be needing to hire professionals, will probably be having a lot of visits with the local building and fire code enforcement officer, and may be looking at having a lot of demolition with asbestos abatement taking place. But whatever it is, you will deal with it just fine with the help of your husband. Just eliminate all other expectations of them and for them, and learn to block out people who start sentences with “you should just….”. Lol. Those who haven’t walked in your path can’t know what you’re feeling, and the truth is that most people don’t understand and don’t want to. It’s a mental illness.
Al-Anon groups can actually be very helpful at learning to let go of things you can’t control. Addiction and mental illness are similar in their effects on family members.March 13, 2017 at 8:59 am #677645
I was replying to your comments about things like lead paint which apparently doesn’t exist in the house in question. You are imaging the situation and not getting it exactly right.
Repairs do need to be made but probably won’t get done. The house will continue to deteriorate and at some point she will probably end up with a house that needs to be demolished. I get that. There is absolutely nothing she can do about any of it. It is their house and they get to decide how and if they maintain it and what they keep in it. If they live in an area that requires a certain level of maintenance in the zoning the town/township might condemn it.
My parents filled two rooms in our upstairs with stuff. Not hoarding but my mom learned to save everything during the Great Depression because it might one day be needed and it wouldn’t be available. I say not hoarding because when they needed the rooms for other things they got rid of the saved stuff with no emotional problem. They cleaned them out in a few days time. I grew up in a house with two rooms filled with stuff. The stuff was there for over 30 years before they got rid of it and it wasn’t covered with inches of dust and it didn’t have dead insects all over it and we lived in a dusty area. I have a very good idea of what a room looks like that has been filled with boxes for decades.
My parents did always maintain the house. They repaired the roof when hail damaged it and fixed windows as needed so it didn’t have water damage.March 13, 2017 at 10:56 am #677661
Anne, there are websites that might be helpful to you, such as childrenofhoarders.com. Also, I don’t know if you’ve ever seen A&E network’s show on Hoarders, but there is information available about it on their website, as well as links to some of the specialists they used. Hopefully following up with some of these will make you feel, if not exactly better, but better adjusted to accepting the situation in its reality. The children of hoarders website mentions the business about perfectionism that I’d figured out on my own, plus the similarities to being an adult child of an alcoholic. Since there are plenty of hoarders, you certainly aren’t alone. Good wishes to you.March 13, 2017 at 12:45 pm #677676
My mom is a hoarder too and I feel you. I’m lucky in that she’s a “clean” hoarder. Things are sorted and categorized and put into plastic bins and stacked neatly. Anything out in the open (not in a bin) is cleaned regularly enough that it’s not dusty. Bugs aren’t an issue any more than they normally are in an old house.
But. We’re still going to have a hell of a job clearing the place out. There’s just SO MUCH of it. The entire attic and basement, both of which are the full footprint of the house and have normal head-height ceilings. These are not crawl spaces. Plus three bedrooms worth, plus everything else just crammed around in the corners and closets of all the other rooms. There is so much stuff that they aren’t maintaining the house properly. I think it’ll just be a teardown by the time they either move out or are gone. My bigger concern is that they want to downsize, but my mom keeps making excuses why they can’t. When really the reason is obviously that she can’t get rid of all her stuff. Her sister’s a hoarder too, same kind (clean and organized). Their mom caused it, I’m pretty sure.
I do wish she could let go of it. She’s so unhappy in that house, she says she’d love to be in a little condo or something, and she could come live closer to me. Or she could even come live WITH me, we’ve offered. But she’s tied to that stupid house with her hoard of crap. It’s frustrating. But there’s nothing I or anyone else can do about it, unless she decides on her own that she wants to make a change. You just have to let it go for now, and worry about it later when you’re forced to.March 13, 2017 at 2:08 pm #677699
You sound like you really do have a good handle on what is going on with your parents. That in itself is so awesome. Leslie gets it too and that is the important thing as to why her advice is so good. If you need someone to second her advice, I do!!! Take it! I’m glad you were able to have a good time when they came and visited you. Keep it up!! You realize their house isn’t healthy, can you meet them for lunches/suppers at restaurants in cities/towns half-way between the two of you? Keep a good relationship going with your parents, enjoy them for who they are, and, hey, you never know, maybe you will be able to convince them to move into the retirement housing going up next to where you live, IF that is something you would like. Just do your best to make sure their problems, that you CAN’T do anything about stay with them and you make a conscious effort to not let them be a burden. Translation: If you get to a point where you realize they have started to weigh you down, take a deep breath and remind yourself you can’t be responsible for them, but you do love your parents!!
You are human and allowed to be!! Also remember to enjoy your little family! Also, have you talked with your husband about all this? He might be a good source for a sanity check every now and then.March 13, 2017 at 2:51 pm #677708
You can live with lead paint. If it’s not flaking, you aren’t trying to sand it, and you aren’t a small kid it’s not much of a problem. It most likely would be on window sash and wood trim.

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is a success because it isn’t funny. The film contains funny moments: Batman intoning a robotic “shit” before scrambling around like the biggest possible goof definitely caused a roar of laughter in the theatre when I watched the film. However, it’s not a movie that depends on being funny, and that’s the strength of Zack Snyder’s interpretation of the iconic DC Comics characters.
The contemporary superhero film is most closely associated with what we could call, with appropriate reference, “the Marvel Method.” This method was developed in the prehistory of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and to understand it we should look to the wildly successful Spider-Man films that appeared in the earliest part of this cinematic century.
Spider-Man and The X-Men, along with some other Marvel characters like Blade, were licensed to different companies in the 1990s. The logic was very much the business model of that decade: license out the content, rake in the cash from the license, and sit back and make more content that can then be licensed. In the age before the massive vertical integrations of multimedia conglomerate companies (with the acquisitions of Marvel and Lucasfilm by Disney reigning as the pinnacle of this model), letting Sony handle a wise-cracking webhead while floating the mothership some cash seemed like a good idea.
Sam Raimi is an excellent, wonderful filmmaker, but he might have ruined the superhero film. 2002’s Spider-Man is the perfect balance of comedy beats and action setpieces with just the right amount of emotional sadittude to really make you buy that Toby McGuire could stand up to Willem Dafoe for more than ten seconds. It’s clear why Raimi was tapped for the film. Spider-Man is, in the comics canon, a really funny character. It is apparent from the start that any film that stars him would require stepping across genre lines into an action-comedy hybrid, and Raimi’s masterful synthesis of comedy and horror in the Evil Dead franchise of films made him seem like an obvious choice.
He also comes in a package deal with Bruce Campbell. Who can turn that down?
The tragic turn here comes from the success of Spider-Man and its sequel Spider-Man 2 (appropriately, society has agreed that Spider-Man 3: Toby’s Dance Time never occurred). We’re all victims of Raimi’s success. When Marvel decided that they wanted to get into the filmmaking game, they looked to Raimi’s Spider-Man films in order to create the template for their first wave of films.
It’s important to take a moment to gesture toward the wide range of superhero movies that have existed over the past twenty years. Blade gave us self-serious action with Wesley Snipes’ badass gun and swordplay. Ghost Rider showed us a weird supernatural world of fire and violence that contained one of the most constrained Nic Cage performances in years. Ang Lee’s Hulk, a forgotten classic, was an attempt to meld psychological drama with the bombastic violence that superheroes are known for. Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan’s first foray into the genre, was a reserved, serious take on what one man might do to become a hero in the face of infinite responsibility. Additionally, there are the films based on the independents: Mystery Men, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Ghost World, and many others.
I’m not suggesting that all of these are shining examples that will stand the test of time, but as an aggregate they demonstrate the wide swath that comics cut through film culture at the tail end of the 20th century. With the release of 2008’s Iron Man, though, that width became much more narrow.
The first phase of Marvel films all follow the exact same format. Each are replications of the plot points of Spider-Man with the same hybrid of action and comedy. The entire draw of Iron Man was in the comical line delivery of Robert Downey Jr. The Incredible Hulk repeatedly goes to the well of The Hulk’s goofiness, wasting no opportunity to talk about purple pants and the embarrassment of Hulk’s size. The entire first half of Captain America is a comedy about a guy who is too weak for Tommy Lee Jones that gets supplanted by a comedy about a guy who has to punch Hitler every night. Thor is maybe the most egregious of that first wave. It is scene after scene of fish-out-of-water comedy whose sole action conflict is a giant robot that blurps a laser out of its face.
This all culminates in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers. In that film we are introduced to a cast of dramatic actors who are placed into multiple scenes where they are meant to deliver comedy lines. Captain America is old, but he’s not! Tony Stark catches a lackey playing Galaga. It’s all a great, wonderful world, and everyone is driven toward the same kinds of lines, all written in the same pop culture comedy voice.
It’s strange that the memes and memories that are culturally associated with these films are all the comedy lines. The well-directed action sequences and storylines and narratives of the characters aren’t talked about. What I see, release after release, is people only talking about the things that are funny in contemporary Marvel superhero films. The pieces ignore the character interactions or the interesting and strange plot conceits in order to focus on how those interactions generate chortles and guffaws. The breadth of the film is reduced to a razor-thin wire of tracking comedy beats.
Batman v Superman (or BvS for short) is a beautiful antidote for our addiction to the comical superhero film. It is a bleak, confident take on DC’s roster of superheroes that doesn’t fit them into a comfortable framework. Instead, it is a film that gives us characters with motivations and feelings and expects us to come along for a discomforting ride.
BvS, much like Snyder’s Man of Steel, takes itself very seriously. It attempts to balance a wide cast of characters with an engaging spring blockbuster story, and there have been many gleeful attacks that assert that Snyder just wasn’t able to hit the mark when it comes to constructing a story that people might actually enjoy. I believe that a lot of those bad feelings are coming from a mismeasure of fans expectations of superhero films versus the kind of story that Zack Snyder is interested in telling.
Snyder has never quite recovered from his work on Watchmen (some might claim that Watchmen has never recovered from Snyder). Much like that film, Batman v Superman rests on a basic critique of superheroes: they are people who are obsessed with molding the world into the shape of their egos. Alan Moore’s work in the Watchmen series is a straightforward argument that the very idea of being a superhero requires a person to exist beyond the pale of what a “normal” person would want from their life. In that light, I don’t think it’s a stretch to understand BvS as a mainline superhero film that fully embodies that point of view.
There’s a scene somewhere past the midpoint of the film where Batman states something to the effect that you need to beat the world into making sense. He’s a street-level hero, and this kind of aggressive materialism makes sense for him. Our introduction to him in the film literally has him scrambling along ceilings like a rat, and the longest scene of Batman in combat features him beating criminals with packing boxes, stabbing them with knives, and literally kicking the bones out of their arms. In contrast to Christopher Nolan’s Batman, a character who constantly wrestled with how far a hero could or should go to accomplish their mission (by never killing and destroying the surveillance technology that solves the plot in The Dark Knight), Snyder’s Batman has stepped beyond any line in his pursuit of the world making sense. So we have to take this “beating=sense” equation literally, and so when we see Batman mowing down enemies with a machine gun multiple times in the film, we’re supposed to assume that a lot of sense is being made.
BvS’ depiction of Superman works in a similar way. Man of Steel saw Superman lasering through buildings with his eye beams, slamming General Zod and a lot of space debris into Metropolis, and generally doing things with an immense number of casualties that weren’t typical of Superman’s previous incarnations. It’s hard to imagine Richard Donner’s time-traveling last son of Krypton breaking the neck of his most hated enemy, but that’s what Snyder gave us in Man of Steel, and this movie continues in that tradition. Superman moves further toward selfishness with his constant protection of Lois Lane, and he walks directly into a trap that ends in the bombing of the Unites States Capitol. This Superman is not a noble, selfless alien who cannot help but do good in the nick of time. He’s a selfish narcissist whose major failings are all caused by his inability to see himself in relation to the world (which, as the future-telling dream sequence shows, might come to a very destructive head).
These representations of these characters might not be the ones that fans want, but they are certainly ones that have been expressed in comics like The Dark Knight Returns, All-Star Batman and Robin, Superman: Peace on Earth, Red Son, and many other works like them. In the vast plurality of DC Comics there are many dimensions to these characters, and the interpretation put forward by Snyder in Batman v Superman is a heavy mix of these flavors with a cynical shot of Watchmen as a chaser. In Snyder’s version, negative interpretations of these heroes are not just possible worlds— they are likely ones.
What is important here is that Zack Snyder trusts the viewer to look at their favorite hero and be both in awe and critical of what those characters are doing. When Batman crashes a car full of people, drags it down the street for a mile on a rope tied to the Batmobile, and then slams it into another car full of people, we’re supposed to be excited and be cringing in the same moment. This is accompanied by the image of people screaming as the car crushes them— when Christopher Nolan’s Batman implicitly did these things, the impact of the violence was never shown. Snyder has Batman exploding trucks and immolating the people standing on them.
The opening of BvS painstakingly shows the impact of superhero violence with very particular 9/11-style image of Bruce Wayne running into the dust produced by a collapsed building, but the film also glorifies the same kinds of fights that it critiqued in its opening. The entire last twenty minutes of the film are the same kind of rampant, horrifying action that comprised the ending of Man of Steel, and a few scenes suggest a similar death toll the hands of the character Doomsday during its first energy-expending salvo. Many people have critiqued these final scenes for seemingly abandoning the opening lessons of the film, but I feel it is pretty clear that Snyder is pulling the old Watchmen critique here: if you want the spectacle, you have to deal with the consequences. You don’t get your superheroes without their bad sides.
Snyder’s vision of these heroes wouldn’t exist in the Marvel paradigm. Sure, it’s possible to tell difficult or tragic stories within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but to mold these fan favorite heroes into their most tragic versions requires draining all the fun out of the superhero world. It’s no mistake that portions of Batman v Superman appear to be right out of a Lars von Trier film. Drained of color and proceeding in slow motion, large chunks of BvS want to actively divest us from the aesthetic and comedic stylings of the contemporary superhero film that Marvel established so successfully over the past decade. It’s an inoculation process, and no one likes getting a shot.
Ultimately, I really enjoyed Dawn of Justice, but I don’t think that it is the payoff in itself. The film’s massive success, carried by marketing, character recognition, and fan curiosity, will hopefully cause a sea change in the way that we understand superhero films in the near future. In the same way that Deadpool recently signaled a desire for an R rated superhero film, I hope that BvS will signal to producers and executives that there’s a desire for a superhero film that isn’t about the fun and fancy of colorful characters quipping and dropping laugh lines every five minutes. Snyder’s take on these iconic characters has slowed and shifted what we might accept as a superhero production, opening interesting doors towards more complex superhero films in the future.


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About Artwork – What’s It?
This question pops up typically, and with several solutions. Many argue that artwork cannot be defined. We could go about this in numerous strategies. Artwork is frequently viewed as the procedure or merchandise of deliberately arranging factors in a means that appeals into the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse choice of human actions, creations and means of expression, which includes tunes, literature, movie, sculpture and paintings. The which means of art is explored in a department of philosophy referred to as aesthetics. At the least, that’s what Wikipedia claims.Art is usually comprehended as any exercise or merchandise done by individuals with a communicative or aesthetic reason—a thing that expresses an thought, an emotion or, extra usually, a earth view.It’s a ingredient of lifestyle, reflecting economic and social substrates in its design and style. It transmits Suggestions and values inherent in each individual lifestyle throughout Room and time. Its purpose modifications by means of time, acquiring additional of the aesthetic ingredient below and also a socio-instructional functionality there
Everything we’ve claimed thus far has factors of reality but is principally feeling. In line with Wikipedia, “Art historians and philosophers of artwork have extended had classificatory disputes about art with regards to whether or not a certain cultural variety or bit of do the job ought to be categorized as art.”The definition of art is open up, subjective, debatable. There is not any arrangement between historians and artists, And that’s why we’re still left with a lot of definitions of art. The notion itself has improved over centuries.The quite notion of art continues right now to stir controversy, staying so open to a number of interpretations. It could be taken merely to imply any human exercise, or any list of principles necessary to acquire an action. This would generalize the concept outside of what is Generally comprehended as being the fantastic arts, now broadened to encompass tutorial areas. The term has all kinds of other colloquial utilizes, as well.In the following paragraphs, we mean artwork to be a form of human expression of a Resourceful mother nature.
Even though the definition of artwork has changed over time, the sector of art history has produced to permit us to categorize changes in art over time and to higher understand how artwork designs and is particularly formed because of the Artistic impulses of artists.Using a solid grasp of art historical past, then, is very important. I spoke with Alexander Daniloff and Jonathan Ball in regards to the prosende strategy of art by historical past and about no matter if tracing a line as a result of traditional and modern artwork is possible.Alexander Daniloff is often a Russian artist who lives and operates in Italy. His concentrate is portray, Though he has labored in several media. Recently, he has labored on young children’s illustrations. He has participated in many functions and illustration competitions and it has illustrated three books. He has held a lot of unique and group exhibitions in Italy, Russia, Holland, Spain, Finland along with the US.Jonathan Ball could be the Innovative behind Poked Studio, an ground breaking enterprise devoted to establishing Resourceful Visible alternatives. That’s not all: among its expert services, Poked Studio gives illustration; Website, graphic and web site layout; 3-D rendering and visualization; motion graphics; children’s guide illustration; Flash Internet websites; and games.
Can we trace a line from traditional to contemporary artwork?
Alexander Daniloff: I don’t Consider we are able to say nearly anything with no slipping into controversy, even me. I have a standard perspective and want artwork that speaks with the artist or period of time. I can’t demonstrate what present-day art is, or no less than what it’s meant being. Sure, you may trace a line from regular to modern day art, although not a straight just one. Maybe It’s a parabola that goes up after which you can down, or a spiral. We don’t know. All we are able to say is that the artwork current market has created, which has an effect on the artwork by itself. With what we simply call present-day artwork, phrases and explanations are always value additional.Visual arts have already been remodeled by posts and significant essays; In the meantime, the performs them selves have grown to be mute. While in the theater, the curators and critics have taken up the entrance row. This really is my perspective around the difference between modern and common art.I Individually prefer artwork measured in human Proportions: art that whispers and doesn’t shout, artwork that covers me and would make me fly and won’t crush. But I need to confess, some of these modern day factors draw in me; for example, mural painting (graffiti) and summary points.


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animal characters-panel sketches
this guy...is made out of a few different stuffed animals (purchased at goodwills) and i made it into a new creature...
playing with some custom brushes...and made a set of graphics
horse anatomy studys.
elephant anatomy studys.
simplified lion anatomy.
Lemur study cont...
more random sketches/figure movement.
oil on canvas.
master study (last one)
imagined creature/anatomy/movement gesture study/and paper puppet.
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ladybug-design for a tattoo.
some sketches from my entry into the steampunk challenge. enjoy.
steampunk challenge. Character WIP. Enjoy!


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I love to create stuff. Sometimes I create to solve a problem or fill a need. Sometimes I just create. Today…. I let my creativity lead me.
My daughter found me these great jars with colorful metal lids. The glass is thick and has an old look to it. As soon as I saw them, I knew I could make something fun out of them with a little vinyl. Here is one I completed today to add to my Esty store. The bike is my design which… of course …I created in Inkscape.
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text: Princess Nokia fans seemed to soon move past their disappointment when the prominent rapper cancelled her visit to Kenyon College on Friday, April 7th due to travel complications. Her time on campus included participation in a panel with femme-centric skate group Brujas and a show at the Horn Gallery. The discussion went on as planned despite Princess Nokia’s absence. The concert was cancelled and met with some disappointment by students. However, backlash was more evident at Oberlin College, where the artist was scheduled to perform the following night.

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Design Days Dubai: an international platform focusing on contemporary creations
The Middle East and South Asia’s only annual fair dedicated to collectible modern and contemporary design works
Returning for its sixth edition in a new location at Dubai Design District (d3) with the largest number of exhibitors to date, Design Days Dubai is the Middle East and South Asia’s only annual fair dedicated to collectible modern and contemporary design works.
Positioned as a fair of discovery and with a primary focus on contemporary creations, the fair’s unique format provides an international platform for the region’s emerging design studios and solo designers to debut their furniture, lightings and design objects, featuring them alongside a diverse mix of the world’s design galleries.
Known for its eclectic global selection of design and range of price points (from below US $500 through to upwards of $75,000), Design Days Dubai appeals to the aspiring and seasoned collectors alike and is proud to retain a loyal following amongst visitors, exhibitors and the international design community.
“Reflecting Dubai’s unique position as a global meeting point, Design Days Dubai showcases design from around the world and we keep design diversity as one of our main features this year. There is exciting, and often experimental, work being produced by designers who aren’t necessarily represented by galleries and the fair offers an opportunity for solo designers and independent studios to exhibit at an international level.
For design enthusiasts, Design Days Dubai is an annual fixture to meet designers from all over the world and acquire collectible design not seen anywhere else,” said Rawan Kashkoush, Head of Programming.
Design Days Dubai will host a record number of design galleries and studios based in the Emirates
This year’s first-time regional exhibitors are: Ayah Al Bitar, AYKA Design, CarpetsCC by Cecilia Setterdahl, Jafar Dajani, Michael Rice and Nader Gammas (all from UAE), Apical Reform (India), Aperçu Designs (Jordan), Marie Munier (Lebanon), and Dahr (Saudi Arabia).
As a notable symbol of the growth and maturity of the design landscape in the UAE and beyond, additional strong regional representation can be seen through the high number of returning exhibitors, including:
Aljoud Lootah, Cities, Fatima Bint Mohamed Initiative, MB&F M.A.D. Gallery and Nakkash Gallery (all from UAE); Nisreen and Nermaan Abu Dail of Naqsh Collective (Jordan). Iwan Maktabi and Vick Vanlian (both Lebanon), Coalesce (Pakistan); and Aisha Al-Sowaidi (Qatar).
And, for the first time since Design Days Dubai’s launch edition, vintage design will be presented, by specialists in mid-century modern, MCML Studio (UAE):
“Our objective is to become a must in the GCC region for any 1950s to 1970s design amateurs and collectors. All our pieces have been carefully selected, are unique or exceptional and represent great names of this creative post-war period. Design Days Dubai, as the focal point for international design in the region, is definitely the right event to showcase these antique pieces,” said its founder, Patrick Rochette.
The sense of increasing design appreciation is felt amongst returning international exhibitors too
“Over the last 5 years we have introduced more than 40 British designers to the Middle East, and the results have been very encouraging. Many British designers continue to work with clients in the region, and others have received new commissions of work.
The Crafts Council has worked hard to show how bespoke, hand made contemporary craft has a valid place within the interior design and architecture sector. We are seeing a developing appreciation for the value of the hand made object,” said Barbara Gunter-Jones, Exhibition Manager of The Craft Council.
Design Days Dubai 2017 sees the return of:
- Coletivo Amor de Madre (Brazil) with award-winning multidisciplinary Atelier Marko Brajovic
- The Crafts Council (UK), bringing eleven UK-based contemporary makers
- Dutch Creative Industry, the benchmark for design from the Netherlands
Whilst welcoming newcomers:
- Todd Merrill Studio (USA), a leading voice in contemporary collectible design
- Paris- and Los Angeles-based concept store|gallery Leclaireur
- Territoire(s) (France) at the cross section of art and design
The fair remains a catalyst to the development of the design community in the UAE and the wider region and is a well-known launch pad for nascent designers
In previous years, UAE-based designers have been spotted at Design Days Dubai by international museums. In 2015, exhibitor Aljoud Lootah had two items from her debut collection acquired for the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne). In 2016, two of Ammar Kalo’s pieces were acquired by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.
Other designers that achieved international press and industry acclaim through Design Days Dubai include david/nicholas from Lebanon, and Art Factum (now Joy Mardini Gallery) from Lebanon, which after launching at the fair has gone on to exhibit worldwide.
Design Days Dubai manages and supports initiatives that focus on a brand new generation of UAE-based designers.
These include partnerships with Van Cleef & Arpels (the fifth edition of Van Cleef & Arpel’s Middle East Emergent Designer Prize), Audi (Audi Innovation Award), art and design organisaton Tashkeel (the fourth season of Tashkeel’s successful design programme, Tanween), and Dubai Culture and d3 (the third Urban Commissions competition).
Design Days Dubai is owned and managed by Art Dubai Group and is held under Art Week, an umbrella initiative bringing together the UAE’s arts and culture-centred happenings in the month of March with the aim of promoting the cultural activities of the region to both residents and visitors.
The fair is presented under the Patronage of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and is held in partnership with the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority, the Emirate’s dedicate Authority for culture, arts and heritage.
[update 2021: Dubai Design Days is now part of the Dubai Design Week ]

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ISKCON unit threatens defamation case against BJP MP Maneka Gandhi for her remarks against temple body
Ensure time bound and effective implementation of budget announcements, says CM Ashok Gehlot
Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said on Wednesday that timely and effective implementation of budget announcements should be done. He said that out of 2722 announcements made in the last four budgets, approval for more than 95 percent announcements has been issued and the implementation of 87 percent announcements is complete and in progress. The state government is committed to take its public welfare schemes to the last person, he said.
Gehlot addressed the review meeting of budget announcements at the Government Secretariat on Wednesday and said, “In order to convert the existing enthusiasm among the common people regarding the budget into satisfaction, all the departments should work with mutual coordination and ensure successful implementation of the announcements. All sections including youth, farmers, animal herders, laborers, students, elderly, women have been taken care of in the budget.”


The most enticing food and drinks you can find in Wisconsin this fall
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Aston Villa v WIGAN: Di Santo may come in to stop rot of one point from six games
Wigan manager Roberto Martinez is considering making changes for tomorrow's trip to Aston Villa.
Apparent Liverpool target Franco di Santo is amongst those who will come into contention.
Is Franco the answer? Di Santo may return to the Wigan starting line-up
The game might come too soon for defender Ivan Ramis though, who is still to make an appearance after suffering a hamstring injury at the end of last month, and is likely to be on the bench at best.
Provisional squad: Al Habsi, Pollitt, Boyce, Caldwell, Ramis, Figueroa, Beausejour, Jones, Maloney, McCarthy, McCarthur, Stam, McManaman, Di Santo, Boselli, Kone, Fyvie, Redmond, Mustoe, Orsula, Morris.


text: The very fabric that holds our society together is wearing thin. People are toiling day and night in unimaginable circumstances while they still watch their children waste away. We are stealing from them. This is a theft like none we have ever seen before. While these people starve we grow fat on the product of their hard work. We are consuming them. While they wither away we have a mighty feast, and their flesh is the main course. Who would have though that Jonathan Swift’s modest proposal would become a prediction. The fabric that holds our society together is our interdependence. But we are stretching it thin. How long can we go on like this?

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Prototypying Manufacuring Process Methods
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Design is a matter of balance: weight vs. strength, cost vs. quality, speed vs. accuracy. As development progresses, prototyping is an essential part of the balancing process, and prototyping itself presents the designer with choices, all of which should be part of a designer’s “toolkit.”
In plastic part design, advancements in manufacturing technologies have created numerous quick-turn, 3D CAD-based prototyping tools from which to choose including 3D printing, CNC machining, and injection molding.
Industrial-grade 3D printing (3DP), or additive manufacturing, continues to stretch its utility as a complementary product development component to traditional options like machining and molding. Commonly used processes are stereolithography (SLA), selective laser sintering (SLS), Multi Jet Fusion, PolyJet, fused deposition modeling (FDM), and more. Each of these builds parts by joining—fusing, curing, extruding—layers of material to create durable prototypes.
CNC machining is also regularly used in the prototyping realm for form, fit, and functional testing of plastic parts. Many aerospace and medical industries leverage the production-grade material selection that machining brings to the table to accelerate to, and through, gate approvals and development phases.
Another prototyping option is rapid injection molding, which uses CNC machining to mill aluminum molds, rather than steel mold, to gain efficiencies in production time and cost, without sacrificing much in part quality.
Finally, there is traditional injection molding, which is used primarily for production, but could conceivably be used to create prototypes, granted at a significant upfront, and potentially risky, tooling investment.
Each method has strengths and weaknesses:
- 3D printing is fast and can reproduce complex and organic shapes impossible via traditional means. With no upfront tooling costs, it can be inexpensive as long as only a few parts are needed. However, there are limited economies of scale as costs can rise with quantity. Also, a limited (but growing) range of materials are available.
- Rapid injection molding uses metal molds to produce truly functional parts. It has a wide material selection of resins and color options and multiple surface finishes, from textured to high gloss, are attainable. It is similar to traditional injection molding, though far faster and brings with it a much more affordable point of entry—think $10,000 (aluminum) vs. $100,000 (steel) for tooling, for example.
- Traditional injection molding wins in part complexity and finish, but is generally considered too slow and expensive for prototyping, though it may be used when there is a high likelihood that the molds will go directly into large-scale production.
Considerations during prototyping include quality, cost, and speed. The required “quality” of a prototype can vary greatly. In early design stages, the resemblance to production parts can be approximate, but as development moves closer to launch, prototypes must more closely match finished parts.
There are a few areas from which prototypes can be evaluated. The first is form and fit—resemblance in shape, size, finish, and possibly even color to production parts. The other is function—resemblance in strength, durability, chemical resistance, heat tolerance, and other required material properties. Generally stated, the characteristics of the various prototyping methods are as follows:
Injection Molding (Rapid)
Injection Molding (Traditional)
Form and fit
Good to excellent
$0.10s to $1s
$0.01 to $10s
Weeks to months
Good for complex shapes; limited but growing material choice
Commercial-grade material selection
Can be used for bridge tooling or low-volume production
Most cost effective in long production runs
A designer’s tools
As mentioned, many designers develop a “toolkit” of prototyping methods, choosing a specific technology to fit the needs of a project or a particular project phase. This lets them allocate resources, using money saved in one phase to potentially speed up operations in another. For example, members of a design team may produce one, several, or even dozens of iterations of a part on paper or in their CAD program before creating a prototype. They may then create a series of physical prototypes using 3D printing or machining. These quick and relatively inexpensive prototypes can be used to adjust the look and feel of the piece.
Once that has been determined, the designers can move to functional testing, using rapid injection molding to produce a few hundred molded pieces. Because these parts can be produced quickly and from more than a hundred different thermoplastic resins, they are ideal for testing the strength, durability, chemical resistance, or heat tolerance of a part in real or simulated use. If a similar resin is required, the same rapid injection molds can be reused to produce the parts in a different material. Or, if flaws are discovered in the design itself, new molds can be quickly and inexpensively produced, or the same mold can often be altered if the change is minor and metal-safe. In some cases, rapid injection molds can even be used to produce longer runs for market testing.
A production option for a prototype mold?
If parts are ready to move into production, steel molds are considered the traditional route. However, in some cases, the original aluminum molds created for injection molding may serve as a production option—aluminum molds become production molds. This is especially the case if:
- The final production run ranges between 10,000 and 100,000 parts
- Bridge tooling is needed for preliminary production while steel molds are being produced
- Time to market is critical
This low-volume, on-demand production option can help companies manage demand volatility, reduce overall cost of ownership, and ultimately optimize their supply chain.
Strategic integration of different prototyping tools
As the aforementioned table illustrates, when choosing prototyping methods, you’ll need to consider a number of elements: form and fit, function, costs, volume, and more. Having a range of prototyping options in your toolkit can help streamline the design process. The right method at the right phase of development saves time and money, allowing for a more effective and cost-efficient iterative development process. Dollars saved can be reallocated, time saved brings products to market faster, and better prototypes mean a better end product. In today’s competitive markets, speed, quality, and affordability are a hard combination of benefits to ignore.
About the author:
Tony Holtz is an applications engineer at Protolabs. Holtz has been with Protolabs for more than 15 years with roles ranging from CNC mill operator to mold designer to customer service engineer. While his formal education is in industrial machinery operations, he has extensive knowledge and experience in both traditional and advanced manufacturing processes and materials. Throughout his tenure at Protolabs, Holtz has worked with countless designers, engineers, and product developers to improve the manufacturability of their parts.
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Madison crowd taking advantage of Morgan
To the Editor:
Yes, my gripe is with the Madison Group, City Hall that is. I'm sure you've heard of the tax abatement to preserve forest land for the next 15 years. Here at Riverwalk, there are 75 five-plus acre forest parcels where owners are only using approximately two acres of each parcel. We as owners collectively have over 200 acres to offer in forest preservation. Mr. Anglin, the Tax Assessor, won't consider Riverwalk. Yet the bill clearly establishes allowing neighbors to join their properties collectively for forest preservation and tax abatement.
Riverwalk is highly overrated in property and home values stemming from the "bubble" where banks, real estate concerns, appraisers and the like all overvalued these homes for whatever reasons. Today Mr. Anglin wants to maintain these overrated values and exploit Riverwalk owners with the same property tax that was assessed during the "bubble." I'm sure you're aware of Mr. Anglin's statement several weeks ago where he claims values haven't changed in Morgan County.
Seems to me the Madison Group wants to maintain the status quo in order to continue with the expansion and beautification of Madison, by exploiting Morgan taxpayers to foot the bill. Madison needs to tighten its belt instead of overcharging Morgan residents with improper tax assessments and evaluations.
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Wilmington, DE is a city that offers tourists a variety of activities and attractions to enjoy. From its history and culture to its natural beauty, Wilmington has something for every tourist. Here are just some of the things you can experience when you visit Wilmington.
Locations to Visit to Enjoy Wilmington’s History and Culture
Wilmington’s rich history and culture can best be explored from a hotel that will provide you with a relaxing and comfortable place to return to. If you head to 519 N Market St, Wilmington, DE 19801, preferably having booked it online first, then you will have that sorted out. Now let us think about the key places that will provide you with the true Wilmington experience.
We have found three places that you should find most interesting:
- The Delaware Art Museum is where you can view American art from the 19th and 20th centuries. If you are into the art scene, then do not miss out on this part of it.
- The Wilmington History Museum is an option that provides insight into the city’s past through exhibits and interactive displays. We can be at one with history either inside a museum or outside when exploring the clues historic architecture provides.
- For something truly unique, the Delaware Museum of Natural History is definitely worth a visit, as it houses one of the largest collections of natural history in the country. Lovers of nature will particularly enjoy this museum.
Outdoor Attractions in Wilmington
Those who enjoy being outdoors will find plenty to do in Wilmington. The city’s parks are perfect for a stroll or picnic, and if you’re looking for something more active, the Wilmington Riverfront offers a variety of activities such as fishing, kayaking, and biking. Nature lovers will also appreciate the many hiking and birdwatching opportunities in Wilmington.
There is nothing more relaxing than finding our interests outdoors. Fresh air is good for the lungs and looking at outdoor scenery is great for the mind. We can also experience escapism inside a hotel or hotel bedroom when that takes us to a different place with its unique décor. Themed boutique hotels and luxury venues are likely to provide these kinds of pleasing aesthetics.
A Wilmington Vacation for Every Tourist
Whether you’re interested in history and culture or outdoor activities, Wilmington has something to offer every tourist. It is good to have the choice and to mix it up sometimes.
Hotels encourage us to stay indoors with live entertainment and gourmet food. It is then the historical sights to see that take us from the hotel by way of an adventure. We can enjoy both.
When it comes to the nightlife, this can be experienced inside or outside of the hotel. You can, however, find some great company inside the hotel, among the guests you are already staying with.
Everybody will want a good time while on vacation and it is the people that can make a place. This is, of course, helped by the place being something special to start with. Which Delaware’s Wilmington is. Previous visitors and residents can tell you that.
In summing up we can confirm that Wilmington, DE is a city that offers tourists an appealing variety of activities and attractions to enjoy. From its history and culture to its natural beauty, Wilmington has something to occupy and delight every tourist. It offers things to do for the whole family to be kept entertained, educated, and feel relaxed. This means that everyone will take something good away from the vacation experience. Trips away are all about enjoying ourselves at the time and gathering memories to treasure. We can have all of this when we choose the right location. Good hotels enhance the experience further by adding luxuries and opportunities to truly relax.

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As the coronavirus pandemic continues, many are wondering what they will do to protect themselves when out of the house. The Centers for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) proceed to emphasize the importance of staying dwelling, social distancing, wearing material face coverings, continuously washing your arms and avoiding touching your face.
But some are wondering if folks ought to take precautions a step further: Should we all be wearing face shields? Plastic face shields are most regularly worn by nurses or docs who are very close to sufferers who could also be uncovered to droplets that contain the coronavirus. But, not too long ago individuals have been experimenting with creating their own face shields for everyday use. We asked the experts: Is this really essential?
Should individuals be wearing plastic face masks?
Two infectious disease consultants have been divided on the efficacy of wearing plastic face shields in public.
In keeping with Shan Soe-Lin, a lecturer in world affairs at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut and trained immunologist who spoke to TODAY earlier in April in regards to the efficacy of face coverings, the plastic face shields usually are not mandatory outside of a scientific setting, and don’t have to be worn by the general public.
“The common person such as you or me, social distancing and wearing a material masks appropriately, is doing more than enough,” Soe-Lin said, adding that a plastic shield would not filter air and would just block droplets from hitting your face, particularly if not worn together with a material face covering.
However, Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Safety in Baltimore, Maryland who focuses on rising infectious ailments and pandemic preparedness, said that the plastic masks will be helpful while specialists work to find out the efficacy of material face coverings.
“A face shield can serve as a physical barrier to the particles you emanate while you breathe, and as a physical barrier to particles hitting you when somebody coughs or sneezes,” said Adalja. “This is something people have been trying to think about as an improvement to the material masks recommendation.”
Since there are nonetheless shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) around the country, Soe-Lin warned in opposition to buying face shields that might in any other case go to health care professionals and different entrance-line employees.
Each Adalja and Soe-Lin said that plastic face shields could be made at home, however did not have suggestions on easy methods to complete the process or what supplies needs to be used.
A video showing the way to make plastic face shields out of Polar Seltzer’s two-liter bottles has been viewed almost 30,000 times on YouTube.
Adalja said that shields is also cleaned at home, although individuals must be careful to not transmit the virus from the shield to their hands. He advised using a disinfecting cleaning agent, washing and drying the mask, after which washing one’s palms to ensure the virus is not further spread


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My Dying Bride are a British doom/death metal band formed in 1990.
In 1989, they were known as "Abiosis", then in 1990 they changed thair name and became known as My Dying Bride, following the release of one demo tape "Noxious Emanation".
During the early 1990s My Dying Bride were part of what was known as the death/doom Great Three with Paradise Lost and Anathema - all three bands hailing from England.
Their music is characterised by romantic, sensual lyrics and an obsessive attention to atmospheric detail. Early demos were death metal in a traditional sense, though much slower than most. However, their debut album As The Flower Withers saw the addition of violins and keyboards. Turn Loose the Swans built on that foundation, utilising clean as well as death grunts and, unusually, lead violin on several tracks. Trinity is a compilation of the three early EPs and a 7". The Angel and the Dark River saw the abandonment of death grunts altogether and added a more gothic feel to the songs. Like Gods of the Sun continiued in that direction.
The highly experimental 34.788%... C...
years active 1990—present
origin Halifax, West Yorkshire
country United Kingdom
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Discover the scenic Gantrisch region on an excursion. The hike leads up to the Guggershörnli with its spectacular views and allows you to enjoy unspoilt nature between Guggisberg and Rüschegg.
At Guggisberg, the hike begins in spectacular fashion as you climb up to the Guggershörnli via a steep wooden staircase that seems to lead straight to the sky. The scenery already inspired the popular Swiss folk song “Vreneli ab em Guggisberg”. The Guggershörnli offers sweeping views over a large part of Gantrisch Nature Park and the Fribourg Alps all the way to Lake Biel/Bienne.
Via Schwendelberg, the trail descends to Neumatt and Bühl. Continue downhill through Bühlholz to Nöthenhaus and Kräjeren. From there, a detour to the Gambach Falls is rewarding. This gem of a waterfall is characterized by typical undercuttings and large, broken-off boulders.
After ascending over Alpine pastures and past small farmhouses, you reach Rüschegg. Rüschegg Church can be seen from afar, and taking a look inside is also well worth it. Here, you can admire a painting by world-renowned Rüeschegg artist Franz Gertsch. The descent to Rüschegg Heubach passes the artist’s studio at Hüslistett.
Along the way, you can find many rest areas, such as the one at Schwendelberg (including fire pit).
Buy your ticket from the SBB Shop or SBB Mobile app. You can also buy a ticket from the driver, at all ticket terminals, PostBus sales offices and at the counter of your nearest railway station.
Additional ticketing apps and online shops can be found in our overview.
You will find the entire Swiss public transport timetable online here.
Timetable 30.612 Schwarzenburg–Guggisberg–Milken–SchwarzenburgTimetable 30.611 Schwarzenburg–Riggisberg
Route open all year
No bicycle transport fixtures available in/on the vehicle
Bicycle transport available for certain services on route 612. Reservation required.
For bicycle reservations, please call +41 31 808 15 15 (8 a.m.-5 p.m.)
Wheelchair access to the postbus guaranteed
All services wheelchair accessible. For more information, please call 0848 100 222
Explore the Gantrisch region on a well-marked network of trails.
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Civil War Confederate Brigadier General, Louisiana Governor. In 1855, he graduated from West Point, was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant, served in the Louisiana Seminole War and resigned his commission in 1857. He then attended the University of Louisiana, receiving a law degree and opened a practice in Napoleonville, Louisiana. With the advent of the Civil War, he joined the Confederate Army as a Lieutenant Colonel, fought at the First Battle of Bull Run and at Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, where he lost his left arm. In October 1862, he was promoted Brigadier General and placed in command of a Brigade of the Louisiana Infantry. During the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, in May 1863, he lost his left foot. Disabled form further field command, he directed the Volunteer and Conscript Bureau until the end of the war. After the war he returned to his law practice in Napoleonville, Louisiana and was elected the 28th Louisiana Governor in 1876. As Governor, he served two terms first (1876-80) and then (1888-92). After he left office, he served as Chief Justice of the Louisiana State Supreme Court 1892 to 1911.
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CARLSBAD —— Owners of the San Diego International Floral Trade Center said they would appeal to the City Council after an evenly divided Planning Commission on Wednesday failed to approve plans for a huge office project that would eventually replace the center.
The 3-3 vote, with Commissioner Michael Cardosa abstaining because of a possible conflict of interest, effectively denied the request by Carltas Co. for permits needed to build a 276,900-square-foot office complex and a parking building on the 13-acre Avenida Encinas site now occupied by the wholesale flower center.
Carltas has 10 days to file an appeal to the council, and company President John White said he will do so.
"It's an inappropriate decision (for government) … to mandate any type of business operation," White said. "We're a private industry and we need to be able to make the appropriate business decisions."
About 50 wholesale businesses lease space and operate from the 154,000-square-foot building housing the trade center, serving retail florists and other businesses from throughout much of Southern California.
White said he did not know if the office project would begin development in six months or six years once approved, but said his company has offered to help the wholesalers form an association and search for a new site.
But Commissioners Frank Whitton, Bill Dominguez, and Marty Montgomery said they could not support the Carltas plan unless there was more preparation and planning to assist the flower sellers.
"The livelihood of these unique small businesses, and others throughout the county, are going to be placed in jeopardy," Whitton said.
Disagreeing and voting for the project were commissioners Courtney Heineman, Julie Baker and Jeff Segall, although they also said they would hate to see the floral center closed or leave the city.
"I would love the opportunity to turn this project down," Baker said, but added she did not believe it is the commission's business what an owner does with his building.
The vote drew applause from the audience.
But several wholesalers said the Carltas plan may offer the best chance for them to continue operating for as long as possible and make an orderly transition to a new site.
Others also pleaded that a new site be found, saying not having a trade center in the area would hurt many small businesses as well as flower growers.
Moe Nezami said he is a Fallbrook grower and that without a trade center to market their products, many small growers as well as retail businesses will be hurt.
San Diego florist Peter Curry, an Encinitas resident, said the trade center is vital to his business and hundreds of others.
"It's vital that we keep the trade center," he said. "If it does have to move, I would love it to stay in Carlsbad."
Wholesaler Arturo Aysa said he supported the office project, but was concerned about how much notice growers would receive and how much time they would be given to find a new location and move.
The Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce as well as several local business people spoke up in favor of the Carltas project.
Local businessman Mark Doyle said what Carltas is proposing would be the first Class A project on a major transportation corridor in the city.
"More importantly is the job creation," he said. "This facility will accommodate over 1,000 employees."
And Katherine Miller, president of the homeowners association of the nearby Terramar subdivision said while she and other residents would love to see the flower center stay forever, "this is the next best alternative."
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The most popular actor in the world is a hard question to answer, but if you were to ask the average population, you may find a different answer. The answer to this question is definitely subjective. However, we can gauge this by the number of people that attend their movies, the revenue of their movies and their ability to market their movies. Clint Eastwood is an actor that has appeared in more than movies and has able to maintain his status in the movie industry for more than four decades.
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#1. Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Johnson or The Rock as he is popularly known is one of the most popular actors in the world, but here is something you may not have known about him. In addition to being a successful actor, Dwayne Johnson is also a successful producer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. Here’s a look at some great life lessons and inspiration lessons we can learn from his life Most popular Actors.
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Johnny Depp is an all-time favorite actor of mine, I love him in the Pirates of the Caribbean, of course, but I also like him in Edward Scissorhands and Blow. I’m sure you’ve heard his name before, so I won’t be wasting any more of your time. Here’s a quick rundown on him.
People who are celebrities are often times the most popular persons in the world. One of the most popular actors in the world, who is known for his many roles in Hollywood movies and popular TV shows is Johnny Depp, who has a net worth of $400 million.
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Packaging & deploying
Packaging and deploying Polylith projects is done by using the Poetry Multiproject plugin command (see installation).
poetry build-project command will make it possible to use relative package includes as how components and bases are added to Python Polylith projects.
Relative includes are currently not possible by default in Poetry, that is where the Multiproject plugin comes in.
To collect the components and bases that are needed for a specific project, the tool introduces a build step. The tool will build a wheel and an sdist from the source code of a project.
This is the preferred way for Polylith projects.
Packaging a service or app
This command will create a project specific dist folder containing a wheel and an sdist. You can use the default poetry build options with this command too.
You can use the built artifacts to install your service in your preffered way, just by running
Packaging a Library
The plugin has support for building libraries to be published at PyPI, even if it isn't the main use case. But why? By default, the code in one library will share the same top namespace with other libraries that are built from the same Polylith Monorepo.
To solve this, there's a feature available that will organize code according to a custom top namespace and re-write the imports.
You can choose a custom namespace to be used in the build process, by using the
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build-project command, with a custom top namespace:
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Boris Johnson has a new landlord, after the Kuwaitis snapped up the site of the Mayor's offices for around £1.7 billion, one of the largest commercial property deals ever.
The Bumi saga took another twist today as the coal miner set up by financier Nat Rothschild broadened an internal review into its key Berau subsidiary – forcing the suspension of its shares.
22 April 2013
Four-and-a-half years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers, creditors of the European arm of the bank are due some good news.
15 April 2013
Ian Brindle is retiring as chairman of activist shareholder Sherborne Investors.
10 April 2013
Dozens of top companies that attended the “call to action” by Ladder for London patron Prince Andrew at Buckingham Palace last week have got in touch about taking on apprentices.
28 March 2013
Dragons' Den star Peter Jones has relaunched camera chain Jessops - two months after it was forced from the high street.
28 March 2013
Congratulations to three of London’s top Mad Women: Cilla Snowball, group boss of ad agency Abbott Mead Vickers/BBDO, Claudine Collins, managing director of media agency Mediacom, and Roisin Donnelly, marketing boss of consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble.
21 March 2013
Fears are growing in the Square Mile that the cap on bankers’ bonuses will be spread across the entire financial-services sector.
18 March 2013
US regulators have accused PricewaterhouseCoopers of not doing enough to ensure audits are carried out properly.
08 March 2013
Retailers shutting 20 stores a day as pound shops and payday lenders replace banks and clothes shops on the High Street
Major retailers in Britain closed an average of 20 stores a day over the past 12 months, 10 times the number closed the year before, new research reveals.
28 February 2013
Production around the world of oil sourced through controversial "fracking" could drive down global oil prices and boost the UK economy, a report suggested today.
14 February 2013
- Juan Mata hopes his ‘amazing’ Chelsea dream does not turn into a nightmare
- Tom Daley spotted house-hunting in Stratford with new partner Dustin Lance Black
- UK weather: Thousands flee homes as tidal surge hits coast - and warning of more floods to come
- In pictures: When cats take over your life
- I'm A Celebrity... Amy Willerton makes her bid for best bikini moment - in pictures
- Nelson Mandela: The world mourns giant who showed path to peace
- Islington council tells HGV drivers to get on their bikes
- Two more cyclists injured in separate road collisions
- Vision of a new London borough on site of abandoned Heathrow is revealed
- MPs hit out at watchdog's 'preposterous' plan for an 11 per cent pay rise for them
- Man, 26, arrested after woman knocked unconscious on London night bus
- A Celebration of Bert Jansch, Royal Festival Hall - music review
- Rocker Ian Dury's parody of the Lord's Prayer appears on London tube notice board
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As Tom Croley drove slowly through the parking lot at Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center, he and his partner trained their eyes on the dashboards of cars parked in spots marked for disabled visitors.Croley and Gary Anderson are among 10 volunteers who receive a limited commission from the Clark County Sheriff’s Office to write tickets for cars parked illegally in disabled spots.“People who are truly disabled should have those spots available to them,” said Anderson, whose wife is disabled and has a parking placard.Although Vancouver’s 2010 budget cuts eliminated the city’s volunteer enforcement program, the sheriff’s office program is going strong. Last year, volunteers put in 185.5 hours, issued 441 warnings and 99 citations, said Sgt. Shane Gardner, who oversees community programs for the sheriff’s office. Volunteers concentrate their efforts in Hazel Dell, Salmon Creek and other urban areas of unincorporated Clark County.Croley and Anderson can write tickets only outside city limits and only when they go on patrol, which they do a couple of mornings a month. They begin their shift by stopping at the west precinct office to pick up a ticket book and a white car they mark with magnetic signs.Croley, 65, who retired after 30 years of running a glass shop, wanted to volunteer as a sheriff’s reserve officer. Hearing loss prevented him from qualifying, so he signed up for the parking patrol.


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Piazza del Popolo – photo by Jesse Andrews
There is no doubt that Rome is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The cradle of western civilization and remarkable it seems at almost every corner, the city is known as the Eternal City for good reason. It is constantly revealing itself to you.
However, Rome can seem very overwhelming for first time visitors and even to those who have been here before because it seems so huge and like there are so very many things to see. In a way it is true that there are so many things to see in Rome, and we know that you don’t have a life time to spend here., however we do hope that you take a few suggestions for how to get the most out of your time in Rome. We recommend at least 3 nights/4 days in Rome and to consider the following tips:
OUR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR TIME IN ROME.
1) Divide your time accordingly between Ancient Rome – Vatican City – and the monuments of Rome and if possible, dedicate a day to enjoying the beautiful parks that far to few people visiting Rome ever get a chance to see.
At least 1/2 a day should be devoted to Vatican city.
If you have less than 4 people in your party, we do not recommend doing a private tour of Vatican City, however if you have more than 4 in your party – doing a private tour would be in your interest. You can have a look at the Private Tour of Vatican City we offer here:
Private Vatican: http://www.italyvacationspecialists.com/tours/private-vatican-tour.htm
Or our Elite, small group walking tour, where we can include pick up at your hotel, here:
Vatican Elite Small Group: http://www.italyvacationspecialists.com/tours/vatican-walking-small-group.htm
A full day should be devoted to enjoying the Colosseum and Ancient Rome, including the Roman Forum which is enormous.
It’s a great idea to do a tour of Ancient Rome, whether small group or private. The reason is because a lot of the time there are enormous lines to get into these areas and with our tours you get the VIP tickets to get into these sites without having to wait in line.
You can see our small group tour of Ancient Rome here:
Or, you can see our Private Tour of Ancient Rome , here:
Monumental Rome: Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, Piazza Del Popolo, Pantheon, Trinita Del Monti, Piazza Barberini, Piazza Repubblica
The city of Rome is filled with beautiful squares and neighborhoods all over the city and while you may not have time to cover all of these places, there are some monuments here in Rome which you really shouldn’t miss.
A great way to discover these sites is on foot… since a lot of the buses – like the Open Tour of Rome, can never access these places.
On your first day in Rome, a great tour to consider would be our Discovering Rome walking tour, which does bring you to many of some of the city’s greatest monuments and gives you a little bit of information about the history of the sites.
You can consider our Discovering Rome walking tour, as seen here:
Or you can do a private tour of Rome – half day or full day, such as the 2 examples as seen below:
Private Half Day Tour of Rome:
Full Day Tour of Historic Rome:
Finally – after all these historic and beautiful squares, get into the Green in Rome! Experience the beautiful parks and rivers within the incredible city of Rome!
Rome has some of the most beautiful parks in Europe including the Villa Pamphilli and Villa Borghese. “Villa” in Italian literally means “the land” or “estate” with a manor house and each of these parks have homes that use to belong to wealthy families. In each park you can experience the park-land, the mansions themselves and some fantastic Italian gardens.
These parks are massive and beautiful, however most visiting Rome don’t get a chance to visit them or experience how beautiful and green the city of Rome is.
These are but of a few of our suggestions for Rome! We also have many restaurant recommendations, hotel recommendations in the best neighborhoods here in Rome.
When I first moved to Rome, I was scared! I was intimidated by how very large it was and found it chaotic, but now that I live here and have experienced so very much of the city, the true beauty of it, I absolutely LOVE Rome and I hope that we can share our knowledge of this place with you!
Wishing you a great trip in Rome – me and the entire team wish you a great time here in this great city!
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