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Knowlton Festival 2009: "Bel Canto Greatest Hits" with Young Singers from the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome
The concert was a sort of “Bel Canto Greatest Hits”, similar to the one presented last year by June Anderson and some ANSC students. Without a star of Anderson’s stature on the bill, however, it lost some of its audience appeal. With this in mind, the festival organizers might have considered reduced ticket prices. After all, an average price of $100 a seat is a lot to pay for a concert by students - however promising – whether they are from Rome or Montréal.
Maestro Rizzari also has a connection with the ANSC. He is the assistant conductor of its orchestra. One might assume that the ANSC orchestra is a ‘student orchestra’ but one would be wrong. The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Symphony Orchestra is one of the best orchestras in Italy. Its current music director is Antonio Pappano and conductors of the stature of Masur, Eschenbach, Temirkanov, Tilson Thomas and Nagano appear with it regularly. Bernstein was a frequent guest conductor and made several recordings with the orchestra.
Festival Orchestra, Rizzari & Sparkling Rossini Overtures
On this night, Rizzari was in charge of the Festival Orchestra, which had already distinguished itself in the previous night’s performance of La Sonnambula. Most of the musicians are Québec players, but the concertmaster is Riccardo Minasi, a well-known Italian soloist and early music specialist. Minasi teaches at the Conservatorio Bellini in Palermo and, earlier this year, took up a position as associate director of the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra. Presumably, the idea of engaging Minasi was to provide expertise in the area of bel canto style within the orchestra. So far the results have been impressive. Last night, the orchestra again gave us long singing lines and excellent precision, accompanied the singers with exceptional sensitivity and, on its own, contributed sparkling performances of two Rossini overtures.
Singers Delight Audience with Bel Canto “Hits”With respect to the singers, I would say that they all displayed admirable training, but not much individuality – with one notable exception. And while this programme concentrated on bel canto repertoire, not one of the six seemed, in my opinion, outstandingly gifted in this idiom.
The notable exception was tenor Antonio Poli (photo: right). This young man has a voice of extraordinary natural beauty and he uses it with remarkable elegance and maturity. Poli and baritone Pedro Josè Quiralte Gómez sang beautifully in the famous duet from Bizet’s The Pearlfishers, and in the quartet from Verdi’s Rigoletto, Poli really came into his element. His breath control and phrasing were outstanding and even in the loudest passages, there was never any sense of strain. I suspect that Poli will go on to a major career singing lyric roles in Mozart and early Verdi.
For the record, the other singers taking part were soprano Paola Leggeri, mezzo-soprano Anna Goryacheva and baritone Sergio Vitale. Their performances were certainly competent, but generally too studied to really come alive; for example, soprano Rosa Feola’s traversal of an aria from Rossini’s La Donna del Lago. Other interpretations were so restrained that I began to suspect the teachers at the ANSC of having actively discouraged any expression of passion or personality. It’s all very well to insist on the purity of bel canto style but in the final analysis, what makes music come alive is the combination of discipline and individuality. There was not much of the latter on display last night.
That said, it’s always a pleasure to hear young singers. This extraordinary collaboration between Knowlton and Rome is at the heart of the Knowlton Festival, and gives audiences an opportunity to hear voices trained at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, arguably the ultimate authority in bel canto style. Therein lies the excitement and the appeal of last night’s concert. What will we hear? Tomorrow’s stars? Possibly! The joy of discovery!
The audience that turned up last night numbered about 300 in a tent which has been filled to a capacity of 850 at previous events. If applause and standing ovations are a gauge of the success of a concert, the evening was definitely a success.
Getting to the Festival SiteIf you’re planning to join the music-lovers who have already discovered the Knowlton Festival, be forewarned; you’ll have a bit of a challenge getting to the festival site. You’ll be parking your cars in a central location in Knowlton – a big field next to the Brome Lake Duck Farm – then walking across the field to the school busses lined up to transport you (5-7 minute ride) along narrow winding gravel roads to the Chapiteau (tent) a couple of miles away. There is no parking at the site itself. For the most part, the system works well, and the Knowlton volunteers greeting and directing traffic on site are cheerful and engaging. The weather thus far has not been too problematic.
This odyssey becomes more challenging, however, if the busses are not running smoothly and if the weather is not cooperative. Last night, it poured rain and I suspect that the prospect of getting soaked on the way to the concert deterred many people from attending.
Coming Next: Tuesday night the period music specialists ensemble, Les Violons du Roy, plays Handel, and Wednesday night pianist Stephen Kovacevich gives a recital of works by Bach, Schumann and Beethoven. For more information check the festival website.
Paul E. Robinson is the author of Herbert von Karajan: the Maestro as Superstar, and Sir Georg Solti: His Life and Music, both available at Amazon.com.
Labels: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Poli, Brome Lake Duck Farm, Bruno Cagli, Carlo Rizzari, Concert_Review, Festival de Knowlton, Knowlton Festival, Knowlton Festival Orchestra, Riccardi Minasi


Infamous rapper Kanye West has found himself in legal trouble (again). As of this week, Yeezy was named in a class action suit over up to $1 million USD in unpaid wages for his 2019 Nebuchadnezzar opera performance.
Legal documents acquired Live Nation in addition to West, are being sued by workers who assisted West in his 2019 Hollywood bowl live-performance. Yeezy neglected to pay a multitude of people who worked on the performance “including the background actors, performing as audience members,” Additionally: “defendants oversaw, controlled and ran the production, and the aggrieved employees worked many hours on the production and were not timely paid for their work, or paid at all.”
Nebuchadnezzar, Yeezy’s biblical opera first premiered at this time last year and was directed by frequent collaborator Vanessa Beecroft showcasing original music. The performance received an outstandingly positive response. Kanye’s legal team, nor West himself have responded to the lawsuit.
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Visitors to the Western Isles of Scotland (also known as the Outer Hebrides) will now be able to drive between the islands of Eriskay and South Uist on a milelong causeway that opened last month. The causeway is the final road link in the Western Isles Spinal route, a 15-year transportation improvement program that has involved upgrading and building roads and bridges.
Five islands are now linked by causeways and bridges. The islands are known for their bird life, beaches, archaeological sites and ruined castles. The Outer Hebrides can be reached by air from Glasgow and Inverness or by ferry from mainland ports.
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WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island ACLU says it’s concerned about actions Warwick school officials took against students who went on Twitter and disparaged state Education Commissioner Deborah Gist over a new graduation testing requirement.
The ACLU says Warwick officials deemed the Twitter comments posted during non-school hours as inappropriate and called the students’ parents.
The civil liberties group called the comments tasteless, but says they’re protected free speech and it’s not school officials’ business what students tweet away from school.
A few other Warwick students who posted comments about Gist during the school day were suspended. Warwick officials say profanity is against the student code of ethics.
Starting next year, students will have to score at least partially proficient in reading and math on a standardized test in order to graduate.
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NEW YORK STATE (WSYR-TV) — A group of 20 firefighters from the state DEC are heading west to fight raging wildfires in California.
The largest fire burning right now is the Walker Fire, and that has scorched 47,000 acres.
The group is deploying for two weeks, with all expenses paid by the U.S. Forest Service.
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo says New York usually sends crews to help with wildfires. It is a tradition that dates back to 1979.


Bill Belichick and Tim Wakefield are not Hingham’s only world champions.
The Hingham High School crew team joined the four-time Super Bowl champion head coach and two-time World Series winning knuckleballer as world champions last Saturday. But in the Harbormen’s case, they are now world record holders. They hold the record for the longest time any eight-man rowboat has ever towed a water skier: 4:08.22.
Guinness World Records adjudicator Hannah Ortman traveled from Manhattan, New York to attend the event and officially recognized the achievement.
“This one is a really exciting one because it takes a lot of hard work with the preparation that goes into it,” Ortman said. “There’s a lot of practice. I know the Hingham crew team has been practicing for months to build up to this point. It’s exciting to see the work and perseverance that goes into it.”
Stanford held the previous record (54 seconds), a mark they set when they appeared on the Jan. 25, 2004 episode of Mythbusters. But the Harbormen more than quadrupled that mark.
“I’m just really proud of them,” Harbormen head coach Evans Liolin said. “They work really hard everyday. It’s different than what we normally do, but it’s fun to showcase the fun side of our sport.”
“It feels awesome,” Jack Metzger, a captain for the Harbormen crew team, added. “I had some doubts today before we went out there. But we pulled through. It worked out great. Feels awesome.”
Headed in, the team expected to break the record and Liolin set their goal on gameday for about 3 minutes and 30 seconds. They exceeded their own expectations.
“I think it was just that all the guys were hyped up, I was hyped up,” waterskier Cotter McCarthy, who is also a coxswain on the team, said. “We had such a great support with a lot of the town here, a lot of crew parents. That was awesome. I think we had a lot of adrenaline. The support really gave us motivation.”
McCarthy, who has skied for the past decade, said his experience rowing also proved beneficial.
“It really helped to know what was going on inside the boat and what the guys were experiencing,” he said. “I know it’s hard for them to be pulling someone behind the boat and it’s hard for them to keep up that stroke rate, but they did a really good job.”
The Harbormen practiced earlier in the day, but their practice was unrelated to Saturday’s event.
By the end of it all, the team was tired.
“We were just trying to keep the rate as high as we could and press as hard as we could,” Metzger said. “The issue wasn’t so much control as much as it was controlling yourself to not stop.”
In addition to Metzger, Jonas Fryer (coxswain), Wil Mullin (stroke), Jared Freeman, Ethan Quinn, Geoff Hewett, Brendan Chase, Andrew Sandberg and Tyler O’Connell (bow) rowed McCarthy to the record.
Liolin said his team is satisfied with the record they set -- for now. But would happen if someone else tops it in the future?
“Maybe we can get an alum boat together or we’ll have the younger guys step it up and keep the Hingham legacy going,” Metzger said. “This is an awesome accomplishment for Hingham and I hope we keep it for a long time.”


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Creating a garden that comes to a colourful climax in April takes some skill; continuing that colour scheme using a succession of plants right through until the first frosts takes the challenge to another level. That was the task Alison Green set herself when she moved into Theobald’s Farm near Enfield, north London, 18 years ago. The two-acre garden’s layout and design is all her work, barring the path trampled through a border by her English setter.
Green’s background as a garden designer is apparent in her clever arrangement of the plot. Her challenge was how to create a garden from a large plot with a house sitting in one corner. So she has divided the sloping, south-facing garden into different levels using yew hedging to create distinct garden rooms, each with its own dominant colour and style.
A self-confessed plant addict, she aims to have the longest possible season of colour in every setting. Green’s tour of the garden takes in the Monty Don-inspired jewel garden, a spiral earthwork called the golden garden, a woodland walk, a wildflower lawn, a natural swimming pool, and pebble mosaic, courtyard, knot and vegetable gardens. But at this time of year it is the spring walk that provides the biggest thrill.
This runs the width of the garden, a central feature – but it is hidden from view by tall two-tier hedges. “The whole purpose of the spring walk is that it’s a hidden garden,” Green says. “We come down the long exotic border, which is all oranges, purples, strong reds and bright yellows, then turn the corner into the spring walk, where I have taken all those colours down a few hues – orange becomes apricot, purple becomes lilac, mauve and lavender, the yellows become soft lemon.” The wide herbaceous borders on both sides of the central grass path are dominated by a mass of the pastel pink tall Darwin hybrid tulip ‘Salmon Impression’ and the scented jonquil Narcissus ‘Pueblo’ with creamy petals and a lemon trumpet, along with the hyacinth ‘Apricot Passion’. Pink and white blossom from two parallel lines of fruit trees – plums, greengages, apples and pears – will burst forth shortly after.
The roses that run alongside the hedge are just showing their foliage, but later in the summer they will continue the pastel theme – the Harkness rose ‘Alissar, Princess Of Phoenicia’ has single peach flowers with a darker centre, while ‘Abraham Darby’ is a peach double David Austin rose. They will be joined by the spires of peachy foxtail lilies (eremurus) and the foxglove ‘Suttons Apricot’ poking up, along with lilac and pale blue nepetas and salvias.
Green’s masterful grasp of colour continues throughout the garden. Rather than planting blocks of tulips in clashing colours, she weaves an array of varieties through each border, blending them perfectly so that they coordinate with the rest of the planting. The jewel garden lives up to its name with lily-flowered tulip varieties ‘Red Shine’ and orange ‘Ballerina’, ruffled darkest maroon ‘Black Parrot’ and single purple-black ‘Queen of Night’ set against the acid green of euphorbias, purple-leaved heucheras and a stately chusan palm (Trachycarpus fortunei). Closer to the house, magenta and purple dominate, with Triumph tulips ‘Havran’ and ‘Negrita’ in dark purple and ‘Blueberry Ripple’ in purple and white; single late dark purple ‘Greuze’ mingles with a thread of the wallflower Erysimum ‘Bowles’s Mauve’. Green loves this plant, but advises taking cuttings in spring or summer because this variety tends to be a short-lived perennial that grows huge, puts on a wonderful display of flowers, then promptly dies over winter.
Tulips, too, can be tricky to hang on to year after year. “We are on heavy north London clay, so we have some tulips that come back, but also we like to ring the changes,” Green says. Her tip when trying to grow tulips that come back reliably is to increase levels of organic matter in the soil by improving it with lashings of spent mushroom compost. Indeed, this approach is probably key to the whole transformation of the garden. Surveying Theobald’s Farm in all its spring verdancy, it’s hard to imagine that 18 years ago it was a scrappy field, with an impenetrable thicket of dead and dying elm trees at one side. Green gardens with wildlife in mind; she grows organically, sows according to the phases of the moon and uses a borehole for irrigation.
Perhaps the most striking design is the golden garden, a spiral, turf-covered earthwork based on the mathematical ratio of harmony and balance much used by artists, designers and architects through history, and also found in nature. This Green achieved by drawing out the curving line of the spiral on to the ground, then moving soil left over from other work to form the spiral into a low bank. “It took us a whole day; we had to get it completely accurate,” she says. A series of silver birches (Betula utilis var. jacquemontii ‘Grayswood Ghost’) planted around the outer curve of the spiral create what Green calls “pillars and picture windows” across the space, giving it the feel of a room you can walk into and out of. In spring, there are creamy daffodils Narcissus ‘Thalia’ and N. ‘Jenny’ around the bases of the trees.
At the front of the house is a knot garden of box inside a low hedge of yew, with a wedding cake tree (Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’) on either side, and pots of pink ‘Saint Petersburg’ tulips by the door. In early summer, the delectable pink and cream peony ‘Bowl of Beauty’ enters the scene. “The farmhouse was built in 1650 so we’ve tried to do something in keeping with the period,” Green says. The box has to be carefully managed, after the Buxus ‘Faulkner’ in the parterre garden around the side of the house succumbed to box blight.
Unlike the parterre, the knot garden is planted with B. sempervirens, and so far seems to have escaped infection. “The real trick with box is that it thrives in conditions where it’s getting good air flow. The parterre was very heavily overplanted and the plants were flopping over on to the box,” Green explains. “So in the knot garden there are bulbs in the spring, and the rest of the year nothing is grown between the box at all. We work very hard to keep plants off it because we would be heartbroken if we lost it.”
Meanwhile the whole parterre had to be ripped out in the wake of the box blight, but Green is philosophical, seeing the loss as a chance to try something new in that area. She hopes to replant the area with grasses instead, restoring the harmony and balance she has achieved in the rest of the garden.
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Nonetheless one more rumour verified on the motorsport grid. British racing workforce McLaren has officially introduced its involvement in Components E in 2023, including to the racing division which already has Method 1, IndyCar and Extreme E, three of which use electric powered energy. Most effective identified as a System 1 constructor and the next most successful crew immediately after Ferrari in F1, McLaren is on the rapid keep track of to an electrified foreseeable future.
McLaren Racing will contend in the groundbreaking all-electrical race collection @FIAFormulaE from the 22/23 time. ⚡🤩⁰
The McLaren System E Workforce will be fashioned via the acquisition of @MercedesEQFE, which will see the reigning champions become portion of the McLaren spouse and children. 🤝
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Components E, an all-electric sequence, is the first to use the new Gen3 motor vehicle and will be in its ninth period future calendar year. McLaren will reportedly be racing with Nissan presented powertrains for the initially two seasons of its existence. Replacing the Mercedes EQ group, ‘Team Papaya’ — named so because of its iconic orange hue — will use the reigning championship-profitable Mercedes crew along with some of McLaren’s technical resources.
The deal has been in the performs because February 2021. McLaren CEO Zak Brown was in discussions with Mercedes EQ ahead of news of Mercedes’ exit was produced. Ian James, Workforce Principal of Mercedes EQ will continue being at the helm to lead the new McLaren group.
Mercedes EQ’s existing driver Stoffel Vandoorne has agreed to be a part of the new DS Penske alliance for the Gen3 era. Indicating to say, in using over the reins, McLaren will be obtaining at minimum one particular new driver. In accordance to McLaren, information of the driver line-up, powertrain supplier and industrial associates will be unveiled afterwards in the year.
James expressed that remaining a aspect of the McLaren Racing loved ones is a privilege. “McLaren has generally been synonymous with results and significant-efficiency. This is a good moment for all functions concerned but, over all, for the people today that make up this team.”
‘I’m extremely substantially on the lookout ahead for this following chapter for the staff and will be a happy member of it in Period 9. Until then, we will be concentrated on offering the very best results possible as the Mercedes-EQ Components E Workforce, for the remainder of the recent time,’ James added.
Speaking on Method E, Brown stated it will be “strategically, commercially and technically addictive to McLaren Racing overall”. Recognized to usually contend versus the extremely very best and to be on the top edge of know-how, McLaren’s transfer into Formulation E serves as a new way to excite, entertain and encourage its supporters.
“I firmly feel that Formulation E will give McLaren Racing a aggressive edge via increased being familiar with of EV racing, although providing a point of variation to our lovers, companions and individuals, and continuing to drive us along our sustainability pathway,” shared Brown.
All guarantees and affirmations aside, will McLaren be ready to execute effectively in Formula E and match up to its other standings in the racing division? And will the Mercedes EQ crew verify that transforming names will not impact its path to the Formulation E Globe Championship?
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MOBILE, Ala (WALA) – Just days after Mobile County Public Schools announced that students will not be returning to class on August 10th, the president of the school board said they had no other choice.
The school system had all intentions to reopen in August, but school board President Don Stringfellow said the data was clear, if they reopened they would be putting the community at risk.
“This was not our first choice,” he said. “We had a really good plan and so forth, but it really came down to the safety of our children and our teachers.”
Before last week’s announcement, Alabama’s largest school system with some 53,000 students was watching the data and talking with local health experts.
Stringfellow said the best option is always in person learning, but the five-member school board and superintendent believe remote classes are the best option for the first 9 weeks.
“I just hope parents understand that this was just not arbitrarily done, we put a lot of thought into it,” he said.
Some of that thought included the social impacts on children not going to school.
Stringfellow said the dangers of COVID-19 and the unknown outweighed everything else.
“Having kids in school is a big deal for socialization and interaction,” he said. “We as human beings like to be with other human beings.”
The Mobile County School System has a plan ready to go once they feel it is safe, they are hoping to get kids back to school after the first 9 weeks.
“This is a big problem and school boards and superintendents are having to make tough decisions all across the country and we had to make one here,” Stringfellow said.
The school board president is making no guarantees about reopening schools, but he hopes it is only a temporary solution.


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Vieux Farka Touré Looks Toward his Malian Roots and—with Khruangbin—a Dreamy Future
On a transcendent pair of albums, the preeminent Malian guitarist takes on his country’s musical tradition and teams up with the bewigged psychedelic Texans to pay tribute to his father, Ali Farka Touré.
“You know what’s happening in Mali, right?” Vieux Farka Touré casually asked a sweaty crowd at Philadelphia’s World Café Live this spring. It was a brief aside in a propulsive set that had little downtime. Rather than elaborate, he quickly led his trio into the next pulsating song. It was a short interruption tossed out in the same low-key style as his other more routine between-song banter, but an indicator that Touré wasn’t there just to entertain. He was on a mission.
About a month later, the guitarist is sitting on the veranda of his Bamako, Mali, home, and talking via Zoom. “If you’re a musician, you’re an ambassador,” he says, explaining his philosophy. “You’re working for your country. People have to know exactly what’s happened here.”
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In that last remark, he could be talking generally, outlining a career-long ambition. He has continued to build awareness of Malian culture worldwide in the years since his father—the legendary Ali Farka Touré, who helped bridge traditional Malian music and American blues, and won two Grammys for his collaborations with Ry Cooder and Toumani Diabate—died and Vieux’s musical career began.
But in this case, he’s specifically referring to the turmoil Mali has faced in recent years. “Everything is very, very bad. Two days ago, they killed 132 civilians,” he explains, citing a recent attack by jihadist rebels. Since a 2012 coup, the country has fought to stem an Islamist insurgency and has been host to the UN’s deadliest peacekeeping mission.
Touré sings about Malian affairs throughout this year’s Les Racines. “Real musicians want to do something,” he says. “Like in the World Café. It’s good to tell the people; they have to see what’s going on.” Across the album, he sings over beds of warm, crystalline fingerpicked guitar figures, mesmeric bass lines, and the percussion patterns that are the major contributor to its traditional sound. In the liner notes, Touré explains the meanings behind his lyrics, writing that the incendiary mid-tempo “Tinnondirene” “is a call for community dialogue, that is to say to set up a formal framework of consultation in order to play a role in the process of national reconciliation in Mali.” On the upbeat album closer, “Ndjehene Direne,” he sings that “insecurity reigns” and pleads, “If we love our country, let us be the force to overcome the misfortune that divides us, because there is strength in unity.”
“If you have a father like Ali Farka.… He’s the biggest traditional musician in Mali, so no way you’re gonna be on the same level as him.” —Vieux Farka Touré
“My politics—it’s to use my music, to use my name, to use my picture to make it better,” Touré says. “I love kids, so to make it better for kids, it’s very important. This is why I tell you the lyrics.”
The guitarist is passionate about his musical heritage—he’s also just released a tribute album to his father, called Ali—and the impact it has on Malian culture. Les Racines translates from French as “the roots,” and Touré writes that the slow instrumental title track represents his “full circle return, after years of personal exploration and work in all types of music, to the importance of traditional music and the realization that all music and modernity has its origins in its roots.”
“In Mali, every day the music is getting bad,” he asserts, and adds that the sound of traditional Malian instrumentation is being lost in contemporary music. To that end, he’s set up Studio Ali Farka Touré. “My father always would like to build a studio to help the people,” he explains, “so, I tried to do what my father would like to do. I built the studio.” Touré now uses the studio as a home base for his own projects—including Les Racines—and to produce records for other artists, and it’s also available for rent as a commercial studio. The only rule? They must use traditional instruments. “You wanna use the traditional instruments? The studio’s for you, man. Even the rappers who are coming, they have to use the traditional stuff.”
Touré’s guitar playing draws obvious comparisons to his father’s iconic desert-blues sound, in which it’s deeply rooted, but he plays with his own style. Starting in 2001, the young guitarist studied with his late father until his passing in 2006, and he learned to use the traditional right-hand technique in which he plays bass accompaniment with his thumb and uses his fingers for melody and lead. On his 2007 self-titled debut, Touré emerged seemingly fully formed with a musical voice of his own. “I don’t know how I got there. I can’t explain,” he says. In the intervening 15 years, Touré’s playing has only gotten more detailed and personal. “My father told me this all the time, ‘Don’t follow me, don’t follow anyone, you have to be you. The music is coming from here [gestures to heart], so you play just what you feel.’”
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Vieux Farka Touré leads his trio with bassist Marshall Henry and percussionist Adama Kone in Bratislava earlier this year.
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- Godin LGXSA
- Godin A6 Ultra
- D’Addario .010-.046 XL Nickel Wound
- Roland JC-120
- Boss ME-80 Guitar Multiple Effects
At the World Café, as his band—which included bassist and manager Marshall Henry and percussionist Adama Kone—wrapped up the first leg of their U.S. tour, they delivered a raucous, jubilant set that bridged his traditional roots and electric wizardry. They opened with a pair of ballads featuring the acoustic sound of Touré’s Godin LGXSA and Kone playing calabash. By the third song, Kone moved to the drum kit, and Touré queued up a bright electric tone on his Boss ME-80.
Touré knows that his father’s formidable reputation casts a large shadow, and its driven him to make his music stand apart. “All the people I see following what their father was doing,” he explains, “they didn’t do anything, they didn’t go anywhere, they stayed there. I have to do my own stuff.”
But the guitarist is ready to take on his father’s music along with his roots. On Les Racines, he recorded some parts with Ali Farka’s solidbody Seiwa Powersonic, and he’s dedicated “L’Âme” to his memory. But while Les Racines is a vehicle for Touré to use his creative voice as a songwriter and guitarist to work within traditional music, he also wants to modernize his father’s work.
Les Racines, which translates to “the roots,” was recorded in Touré’s newly built Studio Ali Farka Touré in Mali, where he promotes the use of traditional instrumentation in all genres.
“If you have a father like Ali Farka.… He’s the biggest traditional musician in Mali, so no way you’re gonna be on the same level as him,” he explains. “So, I say, ‘Make your own music, make your own place, make your own type, and, after, you come back.’” To do so, he’s tapped the bewigged psychedelic Texas-based trio Khruangbin to collaborate on the transcendent, reverb-soaked Ali.
The guitarist first approached Khruangbin about working together in 2017. They hit it off after an initial meeting the next year, and the quartet headed to Houston’s Terminal C studio in 2019 for five days of jams. Armed with selections from Ali’s catalog, Touré took his regular approach to arrangements, creating the grooves in his head and teaching the band.
“Vieux knew what he wanted to do when we went in,” explains Khruangbin’s guitarist, Mark Speer. “No one told us what we were going to be playing. We just showed up and sat down. He basically was like, ‘This is how the song goes.’It was very organic. It was very loose and free.”
Fierce foursome: On Ali, Touré teamed up with Khruangbin to interpret a set of music by his father, the legendary Ali Farka Touré.
The quartet kept a leisurely schedule, working from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, followed by family-style traditional Malian dinners of fish and rice. While the initial sessions proceeded in more of a traditional jam style, as Speer and bassist Laura Lee detail, the recordings were left to Khruangbin to shape and bring into their own sound world.
Because the sessions took place during the same period as the band’s Mordechai and Texas Moon albums—the latter a collaboration with singer/songwriter Leon Bridges—it wasn’t until 2021 that they revisited the recordings. This worked in Khruangbin’s favor. “I like parts and I like to sit and craft parts, and I typically like to do that alone,” Lee points out. “Rarely do things get to marinate for two years, so there was a real freshness when we came back to it.”
Working with Touré forced Speer to consider his own instrumental role. “Straight up, I was like, ‘I’m not really sure what I should be doing.’ The dude can play the accompaniment and the melody and he’s singing at the same time, and it sounds great. So, I was like, ‘Do I even need to play guitar? And if I’m going to play guitar, what am I going to play?‘” Speer's resultant guitar parts are a testament to his role as an effective big-picture creative thinker, and his stark accompaniments to Touré’s sinewy lines float over Lee and drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson, Jr.’s deep-groove rhythms, giving the record a widescreen-sunset feel—an ideal framework for the elder guitarist’s tunes.
When Touré approached Khruangbin about working on a collaborative project back in 2017, Laura Lee, the band’s bassist, says the guitarist received “an instant yes from our camp.” The result is the just-released Ali..
Throughout Ali, Touré sounds at home with Khruangbin. Whether on the desert-blues rager “Mahine Me,” the ethereal “Savanne,” or the funky and propulsive “Tongo Barra,” he boldly takes his father’s music to fresh sonic spaces, putting the mark of his singular creative vision on the material.
The Khruangbin-Touré team-up is no doubt a mutually beneficial one. The trio have carefully sculpted a musical persona steeped in global flavors, and Touré’s firm roots and deep authenticity certainly lends credence to their approach. So on Ali, Khruangbin are no longer particularly adept re-interpreters of international sounds, they are originators.
“The dude can play the accompaniment and the melody and he’s singing at the same time, and it sounds great.” —Mark Speers
If the music world is a fair place—though it’s famously not—Ali and Touré’s association with Khruangbin will raise the guitarist’s profile among Western audiences who might not know about Les Racines and his earlier work, and will hopefully take him to a place beyond nicknames like “Hendrix of the Sahara”—which gets lazily thrown at African guitarists from Mdou Moctar to Farees to Touré, who may have been the first to earn the moniker.In the big picture, it’s probably more important that both Ali and Les Racines allow Touré to further his musical mission. Each record marks a conversation between this master player, his rich musical tradition and heritage, and the modern world. They explore different moods, with distinct parameters. While Les Racines tells people “how they have to be,” Ali is a celebration, and both are necessary parts of Touré’s music. Taken together, they make a major statement and mark a decisive step in Touré’s work as one of Mali’s musical ambassadors.


The red caboose, permanently stationed in the Historic Church Street Corridor, is decked out in festive greens crafted by the Ayr Hill Garden Club. The Optimist Club of Greater Vienna maintains the caboose.
Not much in the way of earth-shattering events happens in Vienna and not much changes there every year … and that’s the way most residents like it. The top news story of 2015 is the closure of the Vienna Community Center during its 1 1/2-year renovation and expansion, Phase 1.
A close second is construction of a mixed-use building – retail and condos – on Church Street …. Don’t forget the new artificial turf at Waters Field …
- Groundbreaking for the Vienna Community Center renovation and expansion in September 2015, signaled the beginning of headaches for many Parks and Recreation programs, as well as for community groups who have traditionally used the community center for special events and functions.
Re-opening of the community center, phase 1, is scheduled for January, 2017.
Phase 1 plans call for expansion of the center by 15,000 square feet and for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification.
The enhanced facility will have a bright new lobby and a high school regulation-sized gym.
The renovated community center will have a new lobby and entrance as well as a new 9,000-square foot high school regulation-sized gym/court at the back of the building.
The Town of Vienna budgeted more than $10 million for the project.
Asbestos removal began in the renovation’s earliest stage.
During the closure, community center offices are at the Cedar Lane Shopping Center, 262M Cedar Lane SE, 2nd floor, units 4 and 7.
- Construction of retail space and residential units at 120 Church Street, N.W. began in fall 2015.
The vacant lot owned by Arrington Properties LLC will house a two-story, 9,000-square-foot mixed use building on the property fronting Church Street.
The ground floor will feature retails and businesses while the second floor will have condominiums.
The private/public parking garage originally proposed three years ago did not proceed.
- The artificial turf at Waters Field was replaced in late fall 2015.
Work to replace the turf at Waters Field was expected to be completed by Dec. 11.
Community athletic teams, from baseball to lacrosse and football, use the field throughout most of the year.
Fairfax County, the Town of Vienna, Vienna Youth Inc. and Greater Vienna Babe Ruth partnered to fund the new installation.
- To the disappointment of Vienna-area families – and to the Vienna Business Association [VBA] – the third annual First Night Vienna celebration was canceled for 2015. VBA, who funds the family-friendly new year’s eve party on Church Street, uses revenue it raises from Oktoberfest to host First Night Vienna. Rain during the Oktoberfest festival dampened revenue, as well as the party.


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With over 05 years of combined experience in the Whole-House Water Purification industry, Mum Pure Water is the fastest growing water solutions company in the Pakistan.
The company in-house a fully automatic system from Waterworks TM , USA which will prewash, wash, sanitize, rinse, fill, and cap 5 gallon bottles at speeds up to 600 bottles per hour and it does without the need for any hand-sorting or equipment adjustments. Bottles stop at each station to ensure the highest quality, cleanest bottles possible. Our commitment to providing the finest product and service can be seen throughout the system.
The company applies state-of-the-art technology to produce highly purified water that is safe, clean and delicious. The company has adopted some of the most stringent regulations in the country in order to protect our customers and the bottled water industry from unethical bottlers. By law, we test our water daily, weekly and annually. Purified water processes are regularly monitored for compliance with stringent chemical and microbiological standards.
Mum Pure Drinking Water was established in 2015 with a vision of providing pure drinking water all over the Pakistan. Today we are one of the largest drinking water supplier in different cities with sales of 120 Million gallon water per annum We have a large sales and distribution network with a fleet of 34 delivery pickups all over Pakistan.
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MALIBU, Calif. - The NCAA Tennis Singles and Doubles Championship fields were announced today and three student-athletes from the Pepperdine women's tennis team were chosen to compete against the best in the country.
In singles, #11-ranked Lorraine Guillermo (Walnut, Calif./Rowland HS) earned the West Coast Conference's automatic bid into the 64-player field. Christine Maddox (Santa Monica, Calif./Santa Monica HS) and Matea Cutura (Zagreb, Croatia/Gimnazija Birotehnika/DePaul) received the West Coast Conference's automatic bid into the doubles draw as the highest ranked active pair in the league.
This is Guillermo's third trip to the NCAA Singles Championship, which will run May 20-25 at the Hurd Tennis Center in Waco, Texas, following the conclusion of the team championship, which runs from May 15-19. Baylor University will serve as host.
The Waves' senior star boasts a 30-6 overall record this season and was named WCC Player of the Year. Guillermo went 10-4 vs. ranked opponents this year. She earned the automatic bid as the WCC's highest ranked player, outranking all other conference contenders by 79 spots. She earned a 9-16 seed in the singles bracket, which guarantees the senior ITA All-American status.
Maddox and Cutura come into the tournament ranked #23 and climbed as high as #21 in the rankings this season. They were both named All-WCC first team in singles.
As a pair, the duo went 14-1 overall this season, winning 12 in a row at one point. Maddox and Cutura were 4-1 vs. ranked opponents, including a 6-3 win over #11- ranked Zsofi Susanyi / Klara Fabikova of Cal. This is the first appearance for Maddox and Cutura in the doubles championship. Their selection also marks the fourth-straight year a Pepperdine pair has been picked to go to the doubles championship.
The doubles tournament will run in conjunction with the singles championship, May 20-25 in Waco, Texas.


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meeting room :Verrastro, Seat of Basilicata Region Authority
It will be held the press conference to present the project
LAP Laboratorio permanente di Arte Pubblica | Public Art Award
LAP | Public Art Award Artistic Director
President of Art Factory Basilicata Association
President of the Jury of Public Art Award Competition [video contribution]
Vito De Filippo
President of the Regional Council of Basilicata
Mayor of Potenza
President of ANCI Basilicata
Councillor for Culture of the City of Matera
Matera 2019 Organizing Committee
Mayor of Corleto Perticara
Communication Manager Total E & P Italy Spa
CRESCO Foundation Organizing Committee in Basilicata
The LAP Laboratorio permanente di Arte Pubblica, a project by Art Factory Basilicata has the objective of creating the first project of Public Art at regional scale in Italy, throughout the territory of the Basilicata Region, involving national and international artists in the design of ad hoc works in video and photography, that should be inspired by the history, by the people, by the urban landscape, by the entire territory of Basilicata
The LAP Permanent Laboratory of Public Art is supported by the Ministerial Funds for Youth in the Basilicata region, is sponsored by the Municipalities of Potenza, Corleto Perticara, Calvello, Forenza, by ANCI, by Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Comitato Matera 2019, Lucana Film Commission, Comitato Promotore Fondazione CRESCO in Basilicata, in partnership with Total E & P Italy Spa.
The LAP, born in 2009, has transformed the city of Potenza in an unusual exhibition space, with its 7 permanent stations in the city (large panels measuring 5m x 2,5 m) distributed in the city according to a process of urban use, designed on the pattern of the most busy roads From
The year 2013 is characterized by two important developments of the project LAP. The first step is the decision to involve not only the urban space of the city of Potenza, but to extend to the whole landscape of Basilicata, using urban screens, video projections on buildings of the region with 4 events from August to October in Potenza, Matera, Corleto Perticara and Calvello, Forenza and the gradual opening of the new permanent exhibition centers starting from the municipalities of Corleto Perticara and Calvello.
The second piece is the launch of the Public Art Award, the first international competition and social network dedicated to public art, aims to explore the Basilicata region. The highly qualified jury, composed by the President Spencer Tunick, internationally renowned artist, by Bruno Di Marino, a media critic, and Basak Malone, New York gallerist, will reward 2 artists, one in the video section and one in the photography section, with a money prize and the exhibition within the spaces of the LAP in Potenza and on historical monuments in the Municipalities of the Basilicata Region with the technique of urban screen.
The Public Art Award, also give the opportunity to 20 young people under 35 to participate in the Advanced Course in Visual Arts, (Sept. 16 to 22) with the professors Bruno Di Marino, Bianco and Valente, Emilio Fantin, Anna Detheridge and Mariadelaide Cuozzo. The Advanced Course in Visual Arts relies on the partnership of DiCEM Department of European Cultures and the Mediterranean: Architecture, Environment, Cultural Heritage, which guarantees certificates of participation to all the participants and credits to all the enrolled at the University of Basilicata.
The partnership with Total E & P Italy S.p.a. in 2013 allows the opening of the second exhibition space of the LAP, with permanent installations in Corleto Perticara,and the objective achievment of expanding the project on the territory of Basilicata.


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2 trials in growing-fattening pigs were performed
1. A first trial was performed in Lima (Peru) in collaboration with a local university. Results showed an increased performance when supplying the nutritional emulsifier in an energy reduced (-50 kcal/kg) diet (corn-soy, soybean oil). The body weight (BW) in the treatment group significantly surpassed (+1.52%) the BW of the control and the FCR was
numerically improved. Although a rather conservative energy reduction was applied, the economical evaluation showed a 4.53% increase in profit per animal.
2. A second trial was performed under practical conditions in The Philippines. Here, results showed the benefit of putting the nutritional emulsifier on top. The final weight (at day 140) was significantly (p<0.01) increased by 6.65 kg and the FCR was reduced to 2.22 compared to the control (2.44), resulting in a big benefit for the farm owner.
Aquatic species, focus on tilapia
Focusing on improvement of the fat and nutrient digestibility of fish species a trial was executed at the Mahasarakham University (Thailand) on Nile tilapia. Results showed that the supplementation of the nutritional emulsifier improved body weight gain (p < 0.05) and feed conversion ratio (p < 0.05).
The liver malondialdehyde (MDA) content, a measure of oxidative stress, was significantly decreased (P < 0.05) in the treatment group. The tested nutritional emulsifier improved metabolisable energy (AMEn) and fat digestibility in fish diets. There was a correlation with the oil level in the diet. These results suggest that dietary nutritional emulsifier supplementation can improve the digestion and absorption capacity of lipids, which might be the reason for the observed improvement in growth performance.
Positive effects of nutritional emulsifiers
The positive effect of nutritional emulsifiers has been well established in broilers, both in practice and in scientific literature. The extensive research project set up by Orffa shows also the positive effects of the nutritional emulsifier, Excential Energy Plus, in other animal species. Looking at the economical side of things, the following return-on- nvestment (ROI) can be seen for laying hens (3:1), turkeys (3:1) and growing-fattening pigs (7:1). Orffa is committed to further increase the knowledge on their nutritional emulsifier, Excential Energy Plus, in different diets and different animal species.

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It is designed for use in any processes where cyclone or filter type arrestment plant are used, eg bag, ceramic and cartridge filters. The system comprises up to 16 networked sensors, a central control unit, user interface with data acquisition and optional PC software.
The DA660 uses Electrodynamic technology, an advanced rod electrification method. The DC signal created by particles colliding with a probe inserted in a stack duct is electronically filtered out, leaving a conditioned AC signal resulting from charged particles passing and interacting with the rod.
Since the signal includes no DC component, the instrument has minimal cross sensitivity to changing velocity* and has increased stability even with dust build-up on the sensor rod.
The dust signal is amplified, digitised and processed at the sensor, consistent with good signal to noise design techniques. The processed signal is proportional to dust concentration although the exact correlation is application dependent.
A patented Electrodynamic insulated probe option is also available to minimise false signals resulting from dust build-up at the base of the sensor which can occur in humid drying processes and conductive dust applications.
Unlike other insulated sensors, this sensor operates with unique AC signal analysis which provides measurement stability, velocity insensitivity and tolerance to dust coating on the sensing part of the rod. (patent protected)
Why use the DA660
The DA660 sensor has sufficient resolution and signal to noise characteristics to provide a good indication of dust emissions in mg/m3 and to reliably monitor the performance of fabric filter dust collection equipment for applications requiring high accuracy.
The DA660 can be configured to display either:
1) Indication of dust level in mg/m3 using the results from an Isokinetic sample or
2) Emissions relative to a 'normal' level (for applications only needing to monitor changes in emissions)
3) Bagfilter leakage and broken bags as well as suspect bag location in bag row/chamber
For installations with multiple bagfilters on similar processes it is useful to use a uniform scaling factor on all sensors so that dust levels can be compared between emission points.
The DA660 uses a 12 bit microprocessor which has sufficient processing power to provide resolution of 0.1mg/m3 and dynamic ranging (important when tracking dust pulses in bagcleaning systems) of 5,000:1


556 Arnold Mill Road
Commute to Downtown Woodstock
Almost all errands require a car.
556 Arnold Mill Road has a Walk Score of 7 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so almost all errands require a car.
This location is in Woodstock.
Nearby schools include Arnold Mill Elementary School, River Ridge High School and Mill Creek Middle School.
The closest grocery stores are CouponsAreSmart.com and Genes Herbal Hub.
Nearby restaurants include China One and Mustard's Last Stand.
Explore how far you can travel by car, bus, bike and foot from 556 Arnold Mill Road.
This location is in the city of Woodstock, GA. Woodstock has an average Walk Score of 21 and has 23,896 residents.


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Ait Benhaddou Daytrip
Drive along the winding route of Tizi n Test- is an awe-inspiring pass and one of the most phenomenal drives in Morocco as the road weaves its way up the High Atlas Mountains where you can be amazed at the unbelievable panoramic view.
You will then travel down the southern slopes of High Atlas to argricultural saffron fields and carry onto Ouarzazate- the city inhabited by Berbers, who constructed many of the kasbahs and building which put the town on the map. The Ouarzarate area is a well-known location for film-making, with Morocco's biggest filming studio's which welcome many international companies to work here.
You will have the chance to see the Kasbah of Ait Benhaddou- one of the most astounding manmade sites along the valley of the Kasbahs in the rocky desert. Built approximately in the 17th Century from local clay brick, the fortification compliments the landscape, and rises from the desert plains. You can seek the lower levels of the building as well as ascend to the top of the hill for a remarkable view. There are several lovely restaurants which serve traditional cuisine and exceptional hotels nearby.


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|Intercommunality||Communauté d'agglomération Loire Forez|
|• Mayor (2008–2014)||Patrice Couchaud|
|• Land1||18.2 km2 (7.0 sq mi)|
|• Population2 density||91/km2 (230/sq mi)|
|INSEE/Postal code||42046 / 42600|
|Elevation||363–727 m (1,191–2,385 ft)
(avg. 398 m or 1,306 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.
The town and name of Champdieu evolved in the course of ages. First of all CANDICUS (Roman leader), then in 11th century the village is called CANDIACO. It becomes in 13th century CHANDIACO then CHANDIEU and becoming in the 16th century into "FIELD-GOD" expression in French to finally in 1801 to be registered CHAMPDIEU.
"Sunt autem ipsæ res site in pago Lugdunense, in agro Candiacense, in villa et Castrum Candiaco dei Baronum Candiæ" Latin inscription in the land registry of the Castle and baronny of Candia.
The origin of the village parried be previous to Carolingian times. The current village of Champdieu was formed in 10th century (980) around the rich bénédictain establishment created on the fief of the old Castle of Candiae (Castrum Candiacus). The first Lords of Candiae or Chandieu were the barons of Candia descendents of Robert Guiscard d'Hauteville founders of the dynastic House of Candia vassals of the counts of Forez.
- History Archives of the Loire, France
- Historical Records of the Counts of Forez
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This picture doesn't really do it justice, but this turned out to be a terrific - not to mention fast and easy - card! The background is that silver fray vellum I want to get rid of (and I seldom throw anything away!) I used a brushmark background stamp - embossed with Piccolo Temple Stone. I embossed the butterfly with Piccolo Gilded Rose Gold. See in this next picture how the gold butterfly picks up gold specks in the Temple Stone background.
And it took all of two minutes! Need to be making a few of these...and I'm sure I can get it down to one minute! Quick, easy, gorgeous card!
You can order these great enamel powders from Globecraft Memories - Use Discount Code TS25 to get 25% off your entire order!

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Performing at the crazy Rumpus Masquarade Motley.
Arron Sparks and I devising for The Show Must Go On, an R&D project produced by The Production Shed and performer at The Roundhouse.
Tweleve Feet Tall
An all female, multidisciplinary contemporary British circus collective. We had a residency at The Point.
A Strange Kind of Sadness - research.
Click here to read all about my process.
Anna Bones and I 'animating' her sculpture at Fleet Ilya's pop-up exhibition.


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Ask for a convertible: stories
Ask for a Convertible is a wonderfully assured debut that ponders what it means to be Israeli, to be American, or to be a little bit of both. In there connected stories, Danit Brown introduces Osnat Greenberg: a slightly fatalistic, darkly funny, and utterly winning heroine who is struggling to find her place in the world.In the 1980s, Osnat moves with her American father and Israeli mother from Tel Aviv to Michigan. She's leaving behind security threats and a crazy grandmother, but entering a world where she seems doomed never to fit in. Her father hated absolutely everything about life in Israel; her mother hates absolutely everything about life in America.Osnat's best friend and sort-of-boyfriend, Sanjay, Indian by birth, instructs her on the "arts" of assimilation; later, as Osnat moves into her twenties, a series of boyfriends all named Chris misguidedly attempt to instill her with holiday cheer. An Israeli soldier visiting the United States makes Osnat realize that it's time to face what she believes is her cowardly past. But it's her friend Harriet, an American who as a child practiced holding her breath just in case Nazis took over the Midwest, who somehow manages to show Osnat the meaning of home.As the perspective shifts among the characters--spanning fifteen years, returning to Tel Aviv and then going back again to Michigan--Osnat tries (and often fails) to belong. Danit Brown gives is an irreverent portrait of a young woman for whom finding a foothold in the world is an obsession, a challenge, and a great adventure.
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A reflective and sensual gay romance spanning time and memory
The film follows a single family's struggle to survive in a cut-throat business
Lucio Castro's acclaimed gay love story arrives in the UK mid-February
Terry Gilliam finally puts his La Mancha demons to rest
Breaking Bad's final season certainly ends the series on a high, as Daniel Davies discusses...
An evil mother, dopplegangers and the entire premise of the show turned upside down - we look back at season two of JJ Abram's superb spy drama
Mari Jones continues her exploration of the fascinating cinematic language of Quentin Tarantino.
Mari Jones delves into the wonderful cinematic worlds of Quentin Tarantino.
The Tony award-winning musical adaptation arrives in cinemas next year
Almost two years after debuting at Cannes, Gilliam's film finally hits UK cinemas next month
A gang whistle while they work as they prepare for a high-stakes heist
Victor Kossakovsky’s documentary is a visceral ode to mother nature


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New addition to our collection of mother of pearls coin disc necklaces in stunning hues of luxurious colors.
- This shimmering beauty dyed in an orange and chocolate of pastel and brilliant color rounds are iridescent with opalescent shine. Each coin is polished and glossy to bring out its lustrous sheen. A stunning necklace to collect and to wear from work to play.
- Hand-knotted for quality and strength
- Necklace is 6-strands with silver tone clasp
- 18"(L), coin size range from 6/16” to 9/16”
- Each necklace will have its own handcrafted unique colors
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Has anybody tried to sync using Bluetooth with the Nokia 6620?
I tried to follow the steps mentioned on the AT&T website but could establish a Bluetooth connection. At first, I thought that it may have been a problem with the phone but I tried it with another 6620 but no luck.
I have an IBM laptop (running XP) with built-in bluetooth. I can see the device in the 'Bluetooth places' but unable to connect using 'Dial up networking'. I suppose thats the way to do it..
Any ideas or suggestions ?
Is there an auto keyguard function on the 6620?
But I figured out the keyguard lock/unlock function, but is there an automatic keyguard function? One that locks the keys after a set period of time?
My old 6200 has this feature.
6620 Mobile Internet
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Screen Protectors ??
Cingular getting it next week!
I am so excited... he said that I should reserve one now, because they are going fast. 🙂
Decent Well Thought Out Case?
FYI 6620 NO KEYTONE/RING/ALARM after using voice command
My 3650 died from no memory and i didnt want to reset anything on it. so i waited till att had the 6620.
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text: The mechanism(s) of glucose sensing for inducing the autophagic peroxisome degradation (pexophagy) is not known. Recently, we have found that defects in the S. cerevisiae PKA-cAMP signaling pathway due to knockouts of GPR1 and/or GPA2 suppressed glucose-induced degradation of peroxisomal thiolase. Here we report that single defects of high (SNF3) and low (RGT2) affinity glucose sensors involved in glucose-dependent induction of hexose transporters have only a slight effect on glucose-induced degradation of peroxisomal thiolase, although simultaneous defects of both sensors, SNF3 and RGT2 (which are known to strongly affect glucose transport) strongly inhibit this process in S. cerevisiae. Most likely, glucose is sensed for pexophagy using the Gpr1 sensor involved in the PKA-cAMP signaling pathway. In the methylotrophic yeast P. pastoris, however, knock out of S. cerevisiae orthologs of GPR1 and GPA2 did not affect glucose-induced degradation of oleate-induced thiolase or the methanolinduced key peroxisomal protein, alcohol oxidase. This implies that glucose sensing for pexophagy is different in baker's and methylotrophic yeasts.

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Metro in talks over a better West Yorkshire bus network
11:00am Saturday 27th October 2012 in News
Bus operators and Metro are back in talks over the public transport network.
The number of bus journeys taken in West Yorkshire has fallen from 235 million in 1995-96 to 180m in 2011-12.
The West Yorkshire Integrated Transport Authority, which is responsible for running the county’s public transport through Metro, wants to create a more joined-up bus network with cheaper tickets.
It has been considering two options and has now pledged to make a decision by the end of the year. The first option is a partnership with local operators who would agree to work closer together to make public transport easier and cheaper to use.
The second option is to create a London-style Quality Bus Contracts scheme, in which the transport authority would control all bus routes and set all fares from 2015, with the operators running them under contract.
The Association of Bus Operators in West Yorkshire has been vocal in its opposition to the Quality Bus Contracts idea but its first partnership proposal was rejected in June because it did not include plans for a single ticket which people could use with any bus or train company.
Now the authority has said it will consider a revised partnership agreement.
Bus operators’ spokesman Keith McNally said: “We’ve long argued that a QBC scheme is bad news for passengers in the region.
“Nobody is keener on increasing bus passenger usage in the region than the operators, so we hope that these current talks will not only see a withdrawal from the proposed QBC but also involve serious discussions on alleviating road congestion.”
But authority chairman, Councillor James Lewis, said it was not dropping the Quality Bus Contracts option. He said: “The Quality Bus Contract gives us a clear authority to direct and manage bus services in West Yorkshire, to have a properly integrated network.
“I think they [the bus companies], at the moment, have tremendous freedom to increase their revenues by decreasing services or increasing fares without reference to anybody else.”


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Santa Arrives Early to Sun Valley Elementary School
Many children in our community don't have very many presents to open for Christmas, but Wednesday, the Chamber of Commerce pitched in to help those in need by delivering a huge donation to the Boys and Girls Club of Truckee Meadows.
The Chamber of Commerce donated $15,000 worth of gifts to the Boys and Girls Club. Thanks to them, students at Sun Valley Elementary had an early Christmas.
"They're so excited in line over there. They're jumping up and down as they stand and wait for Santa Claus. When they finally get to sit axon Santa's lap and see the gifts that have been donated by the community, it's just awesome. The smiles on their faces and eyes lit up is just amazing," said Rick Stevens of Boys and Girls Club.
The Chamber adopts a children's charity every year to help raise awareness.
This year it was the Boys and Girls Club of Truckee Meadows.
The children at Sun Valley Elementary made wish lists and had a chance to sit on Santa's lap. After telling Santa what they wanted, they were given the presents they asked for right then and there.

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A employee at Medline Industries gathers examination gloves to incorporate into Private Safety Tools (PPE) kits to be shipped out to numerous well being services at their warehouse in Mundelein, Illinois, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 20, 2014. Photographer: Tim Boyle/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs
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A gaggle of personal fairness companies, together with Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group and Hellman & Friedman, is nearing a deal to buy medical provide producer and distributor Medline Industries, The Wall Avenue Journal stories.
The sale might worth Medline at greater than $30 billion, individuals aware of the matter advised the paper.
Medline Industries, of Northfield, Illinois, makes 550,000 varieties of medical provides for specialty medical services resembling surgical procedure facilities, acute care services, nursing services, hospice care facilities and hospital laundries, in keeping with the firm’s web site. The family-owned firm, which was based in 1910 by A.L. Mills, now distributes to greater than 125 international locations.
WSJ initially reported on Medline’s curiosity in a sale in April.
When reached by CNBC, spokespeople from Blackstone and Hellman declined to remark. Representatives from Carlyle and Medline weren’t instantly out there.
Learn the complete report in The Wall Avenue Journal right here.

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Spent the last hour drawing concentric circles on a pair of $8 shoes from target. I documented the project on Instagram, and a lot of my followers seemed to like it, so I thought I would share it here on Unknown Pleasures!
It's a pretty simple process..
You will need:
White sand shoes/sneakers
A pattern you wish to use or you can recreate my concentric circles
The How To:
1. Begin with drawing a few concentric circles on the outer edges. Make sure they're medium size. If you do them too small then you will find it too tedious and too hard to leave a gap between lines...But if you do them too big the effect you are going for just won't be right
2.Once you've done a few on the outer edges you can begin to fill in the spaces with concentric circles. There is no "right way", but I would suggest you alternate the direction of each concentric circle each time you draw. I also think a mixture between 3 to 4 lines looks best (any more takes up too much room).
3.Continue the pattern until all canvas is covered. It will take sometime, but the pattern doesn't need to be "perfect". Be patient, you actually find that the end product no matter if you manage to screw it up will look rad, as there isn't any real focal point!
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An Important Preface
The release of Kim Khapwan and a King of Fighters XIII port for the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch had me "dig through the crates" for content that was lost in time. In late 2020, as one of the first projects I've ever done for 1 UP Infinite before we even had a website to publish anything on, I was eager for some King of Fighters 15 news. At the time it was a few years since 14 and fans had a hunger that wasn't sated. Little did anyone know, SNK was already cooking a reveal trailer that followed up with several character trailers throughout the years.
Because this was written in November 2020, a lot of my words and information will be archaic. Especially when I muse about how "there needs to be another King of Fighters!" or "WHERE'S 15." 15 is here to stay, with over two seasons of DLC, but it was a fun period to revisit and introduce myself to every mainline game in the series. I've decided to use the "chapter" approach as it'll be easier to organize everything, but also they will be released in chronological order based on the "Saga" that is introduced in King of Fighters. Ending this preamble, let's now go into the massive King of Fighters timeline and see what I found, two and a half years ago.
That said, to preserve the original message at the time of the writing, these texts will be untouched if not outdated although I will add minor quips here and there in the form of image captions. An example would be this sketch of Isla below, who was announced when KOF 15 was. Please bear this in mind. This will also be a multi-part retrospection separated between each of the sagas within The King of Fighters, starting with the Orochi saga. Without further delay, let's begin.
With the lack of The King of Fighters 15 news and the birth of a new console generation comes a time of reflection. The King of Fighters is more than just a household name. For many who grew up in the arcades, In recent years, you’d be hard-pressed to enter a laundromat or, in some instances, a game store and not see the iconic red Neo Geo cabinet in the corner. Chances are, it’ll have one of those multi-boot boards that bundle many SNK games, including the entire King of Fighters library. There would also be a high chance to see enthusiasts crowded around the machine in attempts to settle decades-old grudge matches long established past the end of the arcade era. The King of Fighters is one of the rare series of games that stand the test of time to this day, both offline and online.
In total, there are fourteen games in the main series. Compared to Street Fighter, its direct competition, the number of games are equivalent if not more than King of Fighters, believe it or not. This is attributed mainly to the number of updated releases for each Street Fighter game. This is especially the case for Street Fighter 2, which had over seven different iterations of the game, four of which were released consecutively before Street Fighter Alpha in 1995. While KOF is no stranger to different iterations of each title, the series was released consistently up until 2003. Each set of games in King of Fighters is referred to as “Sagas,” as each game in that specific set is related to each saga.
Aside from ‘98 and ‘02 for reasons stated later, the exception to this rule is ‘94. The very first game in the series. I will cover every single main game and give my thoughts on them and provide some history to note. There are games in the series I’ve not played at all while there are some that I’ve had a history with, so my opinions will differ significantly from seasoned vets of the series. Unlike the Samurai Shodown retrospect, I won’t put a date for the games when they came out for the sake of redundancy until we get past ‘03.

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So for some reason, I remember part one of this two parter, but I’ve never remembered the second part. I only just know that Emma got a disease from Jay because he’s a dirty motherfucker. This is really the first time I’m watching it, so I’m looking forward to it. I’m so disappointed in myself for saying that.
Pre Credit Opener: Emma walks into the school and you can tell that she still thinks that she’s the shit because she has her bracelets on that she “earned” from Jay for sucking on his toot. She looks at Jay and Alex playing around and actually she’s just standing there gawking at them like a maniac. Jay see’s this and kisses Alex and stares back at her like he’s saying, “Yeah, you ain’t shit!” Her co star from the play who seems pretty gay to me asks her if she knows where the costumes are and to make Jay jealous she also kisses him. The guy just says that he’s known her for only ten minutes. Snake in the background is shocked at this behavior. But it worked and Jay actually got jealous. It’s hilarious seeing Manny all happy for her because she’s now a skank like she is.
As Emma is passing by in the hallway Jay grabs her into the library and he asks her if she’s hot for the guy who’s playing Dracula. Emma no longer beating around the bush makes it clear that she wants some more of Jay’s protein and wants to meet at the van down by the river again. Jay tells her that he doesn’t like to be fucked with but they’re then interrupted by Snake who tells Jay that he wants to talk to his daughter. Jay beats it and Snake tells her that he pretty much knows that she’s full of shit from what she said in the previous episode, but clearly something is wrong with her. Emma just acts like a shithead and says she’ll be late for class.
Oh wow, look who’s in the next scene, it’s Jimmy! I forgot all about him. I thought he was dead at this point, but here he is. Marco and Craig are keeping him company and apparently he’s finally going home. I wonder if he could have gone months ago because don’t they have nurses that can come to your home for therapy now a days? Or maybe his rich dad didn’t want him there. And speak of the devil it’s his dad. He’s come to give him some bad news and his crippled ass isn’t going anywhere because they haven’t finished putting all sorts of rails and ramps at the condo where they live. So once again Jimmy is fucked here.
Lord, we next come upon another boring play rehearsal scene. Manny wants to know all the horny details like if she used tongue or got a good finger bang. JT tells them to shut up because Danny is going over his monologue. All Emma says is that she’s supposed to go to the ravine that night to meet some people. JT is just annoyed with everyone on this play, Amy and some other girl come out on their cue, but not Alex. Amy says that she’s at the Dr and that’s when Alex comes storming in, pissed off while Jay is telling her that it was nothing. Alex walks up to Amy and punches her right in the fucking face. She goes on to say that she knows that she was sucking Jay’s dick and that’s how she got the bracelets she had on. As Emma hears this, she quickly hides them because she doesn’t want her ass kicked too. Meanwhile Manny has noticed that Emma hid her cheap ass bracelets, putting two and two together.
Back at the hospital some chick is trying to motivate Jimmy and pretty much his dad is the reason why he’s still there. See, I told you he doesn’t want him around. But it’s only because he’s being way too over protective.
After school Manny decides to confront Emma and asks her why she would get with a piece of shit like Jay for, let alone go down on him. Manny then has the nerve to give Emma crap for being used by some guy so he can cheat on his girlfriend. Emma points out that Manny shouldn’t be saying a thing after she aborted Craig’s probably was going to be crazy child. Manny close to tears tell her that she’s better than that and Emma responds with the old, you don’t know me at all bit. So yeah, she’s rebelling, typical annoying teenage thing to do.
We go back to the hospital and Jimmy has a stupid plan where he wants Craig and Marco to take him out of the hospital. Marco of course is a big puss and doesn’t want to. But Jimmy tells them that he’s going stir crazy and he wants to go see Kid Elrick live at Joe’s Joke Emporium. Marco then tells him that they’ll help bust him out. It’s clear that Marco only wants to go see the Kid.
Emma returns back to the ravine and she’s looking for Jay and his penis. She finds him in his car and holy moley, it looks like she’s already stroking his bulge. She wants to suck on his salami, but that’s when he tells her that Alex is sick with something and she thinks that he gave it to her. She doesn’t seem to hear what he just said, or she doesn’t care, but she still wants that cock. Jay surprisingly isn’t in the mood. Emma sounding like a stuck up bitch tells him that there are plenty of guys that would love to be with her. At that Jay tells her that he’s not one of them and kicks her out of his Fast and the Furious car.
We return to Jimmy’s subplot and I gotta say, I’m already bored with it. Probably doesn’t help that Craig and Marco are all up to hijinx to get him out of there. Craig at one point even dons a hat that he probably borrowed from Joey and a trench coat. It doesn’t make him look like an adult, just a flasher. Anyways, after all this bullshit that isn’t remotely funny, they manage to sneak Jimmy out.
Back at Degrassi Emma talks to Jay and he asks her if she’s alright. Emma tells him that she just has a sore throat. But as she said that I’m all, uh oh. She got more than jizz as her reward. Yikes! Anyways, she tells him that she doesn’t care about Alex, but she can’t finish the sentence because JT comes and gives her some orange juice. Which actually is the worst thing you can drink with a sore throat because it’ll irritate the hell out of it. Anyways, Emma tells him that her voice is just tired. JT tells her to drink it because he wants her to be ready for the stupid show.
What’s this, the Degrassi kids are actually in class? It’s a miracle and there’s a nurse there to talk to them all about sexually transmitted diseases. She wants to know who thinks that oral sex is safer than actual intercourse. A few raise their hands and she tells them that they’re wrong. She goes on to say that they think that there’s an outbreak of gonorrhea at Degrassi. As she’s listing the symptoms, you can tell that Emma is about two seconds away from having a meltdown because she has them all. Plus she mentions that you’re at risk if you have oral sex or if your partner has had multiple partners. Like Jay!
Jimmy and the guys finally get to the show and Jimmy can’t enjoy shit because he feels self conscious about everything.
Thankfully it seems like it’s the night of the play and Liberty is nervous because she has to play Alex’s part. Manny decides that this is a perfect time to ask Emma if Jay has gonorrhea because both Alex and Amy happen to be sick. Manny tells her what the fuck she’s going to do that night. Emma simply says that she’s there to play Mina. Manny tells her that if she has any empathy she won’t kiss the guy who’s playing Dracula with her nasty ass diseased lips. Of course she has the nerve to get pissed and just leaves in a huff.
Back at the lame concert Jimmy is pissed and disappointed because he can’t see the damn stage due to everyone standing in his way. Both Marco and Craig leave him for a bit to see what they can do about it. Jimmy tells this guy who looks like he’s a reject from the band The Prodigy that he can’t see a goddamn thing. The guy tells him no problem and moves out of his way. Jimmy see’s that this is the key to getting up front so he just moves his machine up forward and can finally enjoy the show.
We cut back to the stupid play and it’s time for Emma to kiss Dracula. I wanna throw up just thinking about it. Anyways, Emma is about to lean in for a kiss and that’s where Dracula pulls her next to him and he tells her to follow his lead. I guess some how he knows that Emma is diseased. I don’t know, but he changes the scene around where it’s completely avoided. Backstage Emma is all pissed off at him for changing the scene around. The guy tells her that he’d rather ruin everything than getting what she has. Jay hear’s all this and tells her, “Screw em.” Emma then has the audacity to blame Jay for all her troubles, even though she’s the one who sought the whole thing out. Jay tells her that he never told Alex about her and he likes that she’s different than the type of hood rat he’s used to getting with.
Back at the hospital, the guys are talking about how great the concert was, but it’s short lived because Jimmy’s dad is actually there again and he’s pissed that he ran off. So here we go with the heart to heart moment of this episode. Jimmy tells him what can he do, ground him? Jimmy tells him that he actually went out and had a great time and everything was alright. He goes on to say that he’s ready to go home, but it’s his dad that has to be ready for it. I’m thinking that he just doesn’t want to wipe Jimmy’s ass. But he agrees to the next best thing, he’s hiring a home care person to take care of his son. So he’s still going to be an absentee father.
We’ve finally reached the end of the episode and Spike and Snake are telling Emma how great she was and Emma now getting tears in her eyes tells them that she just wanted them to be proud of her. Spike tells her that she doesn’t have to be perfect and she should just be her. Emma says what if she doesn’t like the person she is at the moment. Spike makes a confused face and Emma continues with asking them to take her to the clinic. Spike thinking that she’s sick feels her head and Emma tells her she has to go. Snake tries to calm Spike down by saying that there is something going on at school (The Clap), but Emma most likely won’t even be close to having it. That’s when Emma tells him that she just might have whatever it is and can they please just take her to the fucking clinic the next day. The episode ends with Snake grabbing Spike’s hand and boiling it in hot water so she won’t catch it either.
So this was a slightly better episode. Thank God that it didn’t involve anymore Craig and his mental illness and the fact that the dumb Dracula play is finally over with. Obviously the best thing about it was Emma and her quest to be a hoe. Too bad that it seems like Jay and Alex are finished as a couple, but that’s Degrassi for you.

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Fishermen who were fishing at Monwabisi beach had a shocking discovery after they saw a body of a dead man. They said the body was “raising” meaning it was already decomposing.
A fisherman went to relieve himself on the nearby bush and only to see a dead body.
“The body could have been dumped on Thursday or Wednesday because it was already decomposing,” said one fisherman. The body was naked at the top side but the person was wearing black trousers with grey shorts underneath and black takkies.
The unknown men’s body had marks that show that he could have been assaulted. The body also had a gun wound.
“It looks like this man was beaten up and shot then his body dumped at Monwabisi,” said another fisherman Frederick Bauer.
Khayelitsha resident Nomathemba Mbilimi said she was shocked that dead bodies are always dumped at the beach.
“This is not the first time, it has been going on several times. I have witnessed it and I don’t understand why killers chose this beach,” she said.
Police spokesman Sergeant Wesley Twigg confirmed that a body was found in Monwabisi beach area. He said the Macassar SAPS are investigating a case of murder.


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- baked or cooked in a tandoor: tandoori chicken.
- a plural of tandoor.
noun, plural tan·doors, tan·door·i [tahn-doo r-ee] /tɑnˈdʊər i/. Indian Cookery.
- a cylindrical clay oven, fired to a high heat by wood or charcoal, in which foods, especially meats, are cooked and bread is baked.
- an Indian method of cooking meat or vegetables on a spit in a clay oven
- (as modifier)tandoori chicken
n.type of Indian cooking, 1958, from adjectival form of Urdu or Punjabi tandur “cooking stove,” from Turkish tandur, from Turkish pronunciation of Arabic and Persian tannur “oven, portable furnace,” of Semitic origin. n.1660s, from Turkish pronunciation of Persian and Arabic tannur “oven, portable furnace” (see tandoori).

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Dec 27, 2013 at 7:00 pm #1311454
Just saw this on kickstarter. Obviously there are a lot of questions to ask involved in the weight, durability, and quality of something like this, but its pretty amazing.
Supposedly, it's breathable. I'm considering pledging the 48$ to test out the shirts. It'll be amazing to see how successful a fabric like this and any implications for backpacking gear.
Like I said- a lot of questions to be answered but cool nonetheless.
Thoughts?Dec 27, 2013 at 7:57 pm #2058085
Dan DurstonBPL Member
My main concern is durability of the coating. There are lots of DWR ("durable water repellant") coatings out there, any of which could be used to create similar spill resistant footage because it's easy to repel water in the short term. The challenge is always to create a coating that lasts through abrasion, repeated washings, contact with non-repellable liquids etc. This kickstarter project doesn't really address this issue. For example, are body oils repelled?
If a coating like this could be developed that is durable in the long term, then it would eliminate the need for a WP/B membrane and usher in a new era of waterproof fabrics with much higher breathability. One day it probably will be, but these guys don't appear to have actually put much R&D into their shirts so I doubt they stumbled across it.Dec 27, 2013 at 8:39 pm #2058104
Agreed. They did claim that the coating will last up to 80 washes. If that's true, that'll be very impressive. The other concerns you mentioned are certainly valid, but I'm interested to see what problems arise and what its successes are.
What makes this interesting compared to other waterproof products is that it isn't so much a coating, but rather the method the shirt/fabric is built. I've never heard of a shirt incorporating SiO2 into their fabric to make it hydrophobic.
Cool stuff!Dec 27, 2013 at 8:42 pm #2058110
@b-g-2-2Locale: Silicon Valley
"They did claim that the coating will last up to 80 washes."
In legalese, that simply means that the coating will not last more than 80 washes, so it will last for anything from zero to 79 washes.
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Community EventsA blessing for Macomb
Easter Egg Hunt
March 31, 2018 – 10am-Noon
Bring your family and friends for a fun Easter celebration including an egg hunt, crafts, cookies, and more!
Event supported by
Mom’s Night Out
May 12, 2018
Mom’s Night Out gives you a free night of babysitting, so you can relax.
Free Summer Outdoor Movie
June 8, 2018 is our next Summer Movie Night. Free Face Paint, Games, food and fun. We will be featuring the movie “Wonder”.
Run the Plank
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Jog, walk, or stroll and do it for a great cause!
Vacation Bible School
July 23-27, 2018 9:30am-Noon
Ages 4 year old preschool through 6th grade.
This free event is open to everyone!


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Not many people know that people can apparently experience the belly button bleeding. What they know is that their belly button might have a lot of dirt and that it should have been cleaned regularly.
In fact, when your belly button gets bleeding and you don’t know anything about it, well there are some different causes why it happens. You can’t guess where it comes from, how it happens, and also how to deal with it. Some studies show that the causes could be because of the infection, primary umbilical endometriosis, or maybe the complication from the portal hypertension.
The Causes of Belly Button Bleeding
When the main cause of your bleeding that happens in the belly button is because of the infection, then the symptoms, diagnosis, and the treatment would be different.
If you suffer from the bacterial infection, you would have different signs and symptoms from those who suffer from the fungal infection. Here are some general signs that you will face when you get the bleeding because of the infections. You will experience the changes of the skin coloration in the area of your navel. Sometimes the belly button can be swollen, itchy, painful, and also bleeding.
People would also experience nausea, vomiting, and also dizziness. However, it might only a few of them which happen to you when infection is the cause behind the bleeding in your belly button.
When you are diagnosed with an infection in your belly button, the doctor will start doing the whole physical exam. He will get a sample using a swab from your belly button to have a further test. Finally he will do the treatment which is mostly about the different lifestyle due to the medication. It could be by taking care of the infected area to be dry and ensuring the hygiene of the belly button such as removing the piercing and wearing loose T-shirt.
When the cause of the bleeding happened in belly button is because of the portal hypertension, there would be some signs that you need to recognize. There would be abdominal swelling, abdominal pain, tarry and black stool, and also confusion.
When you experience these signs, there are some diagnoses that you can do. They are MRI, CT scan, liver biopsy, and also ultrasound. In order to treat it, you can consume some medications in order to reduce the blood pressure. For the severe bleeding, the blood transfusion is needed.
Primary Umbilical Endometriosis
This primary umbilical endometriosis is mostly happened to women. There are signs which people can refer as the belly button bleeding. Sometimes people may experience the lump near the belly button or even swelling that is followed by the pain and also discoloration.
If these happen, you can have CT scan, MRI, or ultrasound to make sure. The treatments that you will undergo are surgery in order to get rid of the lump or nodule, hormone therapy for a long time, and also some medication to consume to prevent the belly button bleeding.

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Last night, the sultry moon came, dropping her
diaphanous gown like an over zealous Jezebel,
wanderlust, impatient to lie above and beneath me,
eavesdropping on the hum of my pulse.
With an earnest attempt at the prize,
her savvy fingers splayed the knot of my undress;
I met her with closed eyes as lust slow danced upon my skin.
She came spilling instigating verbs full of anticipation,
lighting fires within my verve… in candlelight’s swoon.
She was fluid in motion, robust as wine with hunger in her eyes
enslaving me within her sexual vigor.
Morning stole provocation from her embrace
when she rose as the sun flexed his arms
laying claim to her shine.
Still this ache is braced beneath the touch of my hand;
I‘m but a junkie in need of a fix.


Tour deFleece Finish Line ! ! !
I thought I had all the braid spun till yesterday. I found the last half and spun that yesterday and plied today.
I used the turkish spindle to wind the shorter parts that were left on my jumbo bobbins into cops then plied from them to use up the entire braid.
I’ve never done that before!
FINISHED !!! Yay!
Here's what I spun Saturday and posted for Tour deFleece. The bobbin and little bunch on the left is what I plied today.
The big skein in the middle is a bunch of purple singles spun and plied on Friday.