Saturday 30th @ La Rumba
I will be playing some Latin Classics
As the weather starts to get a little colder we at Bordello only get hotter…
Ladies & Gentlemen this is Bordello, Sydney’s house of debauchery, Saturday, May 23rd we have one heck of a party for you, featuring another lineup of DJ talent that along with our dancers will make the coldest nights hot and the weather so steamy your glasses wont be the only thing fogging up…
Soundtrack on the night will be provided by our special guest Mr Wilson, who is laying down all things Deep & tech, with multiple releases under his belt and tracks in the Aria chart along with an impressive touring schedule we are proud to have him bring his special brand of brilliance to the Bordello dancefloor.
Along side Mr Wilson we also add Dante Rivera to the fraternity with residents Frankie Romano & Ramon Lopez!
Click attending for free entry before Midnight..
We also have great birthday and party packages available including designated areas and complimentary champagne for you and your guests.
NUYORICA is back with it’s second instalment at 505. Featuring Salsa Orchestra “Malo Malo” and esoteric percussion group “Roots”. Joined by Dj Dante Rivera from Tribalismo Radio, the night will showcase outstanding Sydney musicianship and feel-good Latin dance music. Bound to get your weekend off on the good foot!. Expect to hear some classic Latin roots music along with some new and innovative original material. Not to be missed!.
Ticket link: http://www.trybooking.com/
‘Roots’ is a percussion group performing original compositions based upon the traditions of Latin American folkloric drumming. The show will traverse the many differing colors of Latin American rhythm, presenting them in an original and explosive manner with the use of modern electronics . Raw, energetic, and intricate. Featuring percussionists Giorgio Rojas, Ahyko Akriff, Vincent Sebastian, Luis Robalino, and Dave Rodriguez on guitar.
Sydney-based pianist and producer Danny G Felix formed the eight-piece salsa band Malo Malo in 2013. He wanted to bring to Australia the classic live New York (nuyorican) sound—musically complex but with raw energy and great for dancing. Inspiration for the band came from Danny’s visits to Colombia, USA and Cuba, including playing in New York with greats such as Jimmy Bosch, Ray de la Paz and Pete Nater. Danny had already attracted attention on the world salsa scene based on tracks from his Danny G Felix Project album (Elegwa 2011). In Sydney, he recruited lead percussionist Dominic Kirk, recently returned from a year in Cuba where he placed second in the prestigious Fiesta del Tambor. Dominic brings to Malo Malo his prodigious talent, fire and a deep understanding of the music. Haling from Peru, vocalist Richard Valdez is also essential to Malo Malo. Richie is known for his engaging and energetic stage presence as well as an authentic salsa singing style reminiscent of the great Fania singers. Bassist Sal “Salsatore” Santoro and percussionist Luis Robalino are two of the most experienced and respected latin musicians in Sydney. The two trombones are also an irreplaceable feature of this music, and Mike Raper and Benn Chapman play brilliantly as a section—complimenting and bouncing off each other. Danny, Dom and Mike had played together previously in Son Veneno. All members of Malo Malo are professionals of many years experience, with great energy, musicality and a real love for salsa.
In the brief time since it started, Malo Malo has become a favourite among dancers with an irresistible repertoire which includes a growing number of originals as well as classics, all based on the 1970’s and 80’s nuyorican sound.
DJ DANTE RIVERA
Dante Rivera has been one of Sydney’s most long standing Djs. Currently working with The House of Sol Project , La Fiesta Sound System and Tribalismo as the main man on the mix. His sound is a fusion of live Sexy-Deep-Funky-Latin- music. Dante has consistently been a versatile, passionate and energetic Dj, touring around Australia, New Zealand and South America. People ask him, why dj? He simply replies,”The energy and the vibe that the crowd produces right at the peak of the night”.2015 will bring Dante(The Latin Godfather) back to his roots with the Latin Mafia Ent , Latin House Mafia also producing local artists, events, and hosting Tribalismo Radio
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Come along and enjoy more than four and a half hours of music and dance at our great LATINO CRUISE PARTY on the beautiful Sydney Harbour.
✦ Five hours cruise along the beautiful Sydney Harbour.
✦ COMPLIMENTARY Salsa class (half hour).
✦ FIVE of the best Latino Djs.
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✦ TWO amazing latino dance floorshows
✦ ONE complimentary drink (beer, wine, spirit or soft drink)
✦ Complimentary finger food
✦ FREE entry to the after party in the “Salsa Room” at Mojitos in the Shelbourne Hotel.
BOARDING: 6.45pm to DEPART 7pm (SHARP)
PICK UP: Aquarium Wharf in Darling Harbour (in front of Wildlife World)
DROP OFF: 11.45pm at Aquarium Wharf in Darling Harbour.
AFTER PARTY: 12am to 3am, Salsa Room at Mojitos
First release, Mon 9th February: $30
Second Release Mon16th March: $35
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We’re doing it again. Line – up includes Dante Rivera Tribalismo coming up from Sydney supported by Gus Chukale on percussion, the ever solidCosmo Cater and Subzilla boys Ryan Allen and Liam Butterz and of course the lovely DjChantal & super smooth Benn Hopkins. More to do, eat and drink which we will talk about soon. Love to see you there
||Come along to the beautiful Sydney Harbour to celebrate Australia Day Latino Style on board of the magnificent “Lady Rose”
The sleek white, three levels Lady Rose feature air conditioning, great sound system and spacious wraparound decks that ensures uninterrupted views of our beautiful Sydney Harbour and the spectacular Australia Day’s Fireworks.
Three levels of the best Latino entertainment with the best Latin music and dance you ever dream. Six of the best Latino DJs in town.
LEVEL ONE – Salsa Bachata & Merengue, with three of the hottest Latino DJs in town. DJ AV el Cubano / DJ Coco / DJ Ronnie.
LEVEL TWO – Latin House, 80 & 90’s Funk and much more. Latin Mafia DJs – Dante Rivera / Nov-C Andee / Carlos Trujillo
LEVEL THREE – Chill out and enjoy the beautiful harbour views.
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Qiagen has launched QIAcube Connect to enable research laboratories to automate the first steps of molecular research workflows using Qiagen’s spin column technologies for DNA, RNA, and protein sample processing.
HDPCR Tick-Borne Pathogen (TBP) Panel is a multiplexPCR test that detects nine of the most common tick-borne pathogens in a single test.
A pan-cancer assay designed to measure TMB and MSI
Initial applications include proteogenomics, immune monitoring as an alternative to flow cytometry, and sequencing library preparation
An RNA-based immune profiling kit developed for laboratories wishing to discover the immune composition of tumor samples
The online portal allows researchers to build customized next-generation sequencing (NGS) assays for their specific needs.
Cyto-Mine is an automated platform which integrates single-cell screening, sorting, isolation and clone verification.
This large cell-line derived myeloid cancer reference standard enables faster, more reliable, and more cost-effective assay validation.
The assay now has comprehensive sample type coverage for HSV
The new Precision Oncology Insights platform provides a personalized oncology roadmap for oncologists and their patients.

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Electronics City, known as the Information Technology Hub of Bangalore, is strategically located between Koramangala and Whitefield. Home to over 200 IT/ITES companies, the locale is well-connected to the rest of Bangalore. Known for its reputed schools like DPS, VIBGYOR and Ebenezer International and renowned hospitals like Sparsh, Narayana, and Fortis, Electronics City has the best of everything. When it comes to shopping centers, restaurants and malls, some of the city’s best are located in and near Electronics City. The presence of automobile showrooms of Audi, BMW and Porsche add to the glamour of the area.
Offers the advantage of the proximity to workplaces, Electronics City ideal for those who work in the IT hubs nearby. It promises the best of homes, both apartments, and villas, as it is a preferred locale for many real estate players. Among the top row villas in Electronics City is Chartered Grasshopper – a 3&4 BHK row villa project, consisting of just 56 units amidst 5-acres of serene surroundings.

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Iron Man Mark XLV Quarter Scale Figure
Quarter Scale Series - Avengers: Age of Ultron
Item code: SSHOT902496
Product weight: 5 kg
Packaging: Cardboard box
Our price: €549,00 Incl. BTW
ABOUT THIS QUARTER SCALE FIGURE
In Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, Tony Stark suits up in his brand new Mark XLV armor for the final battle in Sokovia against the artificial intelligence Ultron. This new suit has captured fans’ attention with its unique streamlined and sleek design! Sideshow Collectibles and Hot Toys are thrilled to officially present the Mark XLV Collectible Figure as the latest addition to the Quarter Scale series!
The movie-accurate Mark XLV Quarter Scale Figure is highly detailed and meticulously crafted based on the image of the armor in the film. It features a sophisticatedly sculpted armored body, specially applied metallic red, gold and silver colored paint with weathering effects, great articulation with armor parts, LED light-up functions on various parts of armor, and a specially designed diorama base with a Ultron Sentry (Prime) body!
A Special Edition includes a bonus additional 1/4th scale Ultron Sentry (Prime) head sculpt and a secret accessory.
This all-new sleek Iron Man design will be the perfect addition to your Avengers: Age of Ultron collection!
Quarter Scale Figure
20" H (508mm)*
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The Iron Man Mark XLV Quarter Scale Collectible Figure specially features:
Authentic and detailed likeness of Mark XLV in Avengers: Age of Ultron
Approximately 49cm / 20 inches tall
Over 40 points of articulation with armor part linkage designs
Metallic red, gold and silver colored painting on armor with weathering effects
LED light-up eyes and boosters at back of legs (white light, battery operated)
LED light-up areas on lower chest and main air flaps on the back (blue light, battery operated)
LED-light up circle-shaped Arc Reactor with hexagonal-shaped indent on chest (white light, battery operated)
One (1) interchangeable battle damaged chest armor
One (1) pair of hidden forearm laser weapons
Three (3) pairs of interchangeable palms including:
- One (1) pair of palms with articulated fingers and light-up repulsors (white light, battery operated)
- One (1) pair of fists
- One (1) pair of battle palms with light-up repulsor (white light, battery operated)
Fully deployed air flaps at back of the armor with mechanical details
Articulated flaps on legs
Articulations on waist armor which allow flexible movement
A specially designed diorama figure base featuring an Ultron Sentry (Prime) body, Mark XLV nameplate, and movie logo (extra head as shown in picture not included)
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Deputy Secretary of IADL, Fabio Marcelli, participated to the mobilization on demand of the promoting organizations in order to guarantee the respect by the Colombian government of the essential principles of freedom of speech and expression of thought. Speaking to thousands of indigenous and other Colombians manifesting on Friday the 21th of November in the Plaza Bolivar, Marcelli announced the commitment of democratic lawyers to monitor the repressive activities undertaken by the Colombian Government and stressed the great value of the struggles of indigenous peoples and other social sectors such as peasants, blacks and workers.
To warm applause from bystanders, the Minga of Social and Community Resistance arrived in central Bogotá on Thursday. That night some 14,000 marchers camped out in the grounds of the National University. Despite drenching rain the university authorities refused the marchers permission to use the buildings’ facilities, and they excluded the press. This demeaning treatment typifies state institutional exclusion of indigenous people, official Colombia’s disregard for the oppressed.
But the oppressed are on the move, and they carry themselves with dignity. As the marchers set off on the morning of Friday 21 November they were joined by women’s organisations, trade unionists, students, afro-colombians and the opposition political party Polo Democratico. Teachers union FECODE, the cane cutters and Bogotá’s mayor Samuel Moreno were amongst the platform speakers. By the time the Minga reached Plaza Bolivar it had swelled to over 40,000 people.
Despite this turn out, the event was barely mentioned in the mainstream media. There are excellent picture on websites http://colombia.indymedia.org/ ; http://www.nasaacin.org/fotos.htm ;www.onic.org.co
There were parallel Mingas in Arauca, Guajira and Nariño. In Arauca 70 indigenous people were detained by the police to stop them from joining a protest on the International Bridge with Venezuela. In Guajira hundreds of women from the Wayúu people, accompanied by Kankuamo, Nasas from Cauca, Wiwas and others started a caravan that will end on 25 November in a forum against the discrimination of women. The caravan is passing through communities to raise awareness of national and regional realities,
“such as the indiscriminate exploitation by turncoat unscrupulous corporations, the plunder and contamination of coal extraction, the systematic assassinations of our people, the sale of everything [even] our air”.
The Minga has had a real impact, as Feliciano Valencia, an indigenous leader from Cauca says, “We have come to wake up Colombia!” (Semana 22 November).
The Minga mobilization went international last Friday, breaking through the frontiers of indifference. Colombia’s national indigenous organisation ONIC reports solidarity pickets of embassies in Ecuador, Germany, Spain, Bolivia, UK, Belgium, France and, Ireland. This international dimension is vital. The Colombian government is nervous of more bad press at the time it is desperate to get incoming US president Barack Obama to confirm the Free Trade Agreement, blocked for two years by the Democrat majority in Congress.
The next day, Saturday 22 November, while Uribe was away at a meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru, nine of his ministers were involved in meetings with representatives of ONIC and the Cauca regional organisation CRIC. The ministers issued a statement saying it will take a month to enquire into the role of the ESMAD riot police in attacking the marchers; and giving excuses for not having signed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The fact that Uribe used his Lima trip to seal a Free Trade Agreement with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper just confirms the gulf that remains between his government and the vision of the popular movement.
The Minga has decided to keep on mobilising and, in recognition of the diversity of its support and the broad concern for the country’s future, has called for a Grand Popular Congress to be held on 12 October 2009.
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The Nevado del Huila volcano started erupting late on Thursday night. The volcano is in the Tierra Adentro region settled by indigenous peoples, campesinos and African descendants. So far 10 people have been killed.
The Minga’s five principal demands are
1. Rejection of the Free Trade Agreements that are being negotiated with Canada, the United Statea and European countries, because they threaten our territory and sovereignty, handing over the resources and natural wealth to corporate interests of tye multinationals and attack labour rights and the rights of peoples. We want treaties between the peoples and for life, not treaties against the peoples and Mother Earth.
2. We denounce, resist and demand the repeal of those constitutional reforms and laws of plunder that put at risk the survival of the peoples, such as the Rural Development Statute (Law 1152 of 2007) that directly violates ILO Convention 169, that ignores the fundamental rights of the indigenous and campesino communities and legalizes the robbery of land through violence. The laws of plunder should be replaced by laws that defend sovereignty and rights for the well being of the peoples. It is urgent that the Mining Code and the Water Plan be repealed.
3. No more terror and war, we reject the government’s policy of ‘Democratic Security’ and Plan Colombia, because it represents a strategy to invade our collective territories by repression, militarisation of social life and criminalisation of social protest. We demand truth, justice and integral reparations for the crimes committed against us.
4. We denounce the infiltration of paramilitarism in the Congress and in different [elements] of executive power.
5. We demand the fulfilment of the different accords and conventions that have been achieved through the peoples’ struggles over years, and which have been ignored and violated continuously and recurrently. We demand that the result of these struggles as represented in the accords and agreements be respected. In the case of the indigenous peoples the application of ILO Convention 169 and Law 21 of 1991, the full recognition o the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. We demand the full implementation of the agreement made after the Nilo massacre and Decree 982 of 1999.

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|Rough Ridge Dawn|
Months ago I decided that I wanted to go back to Rough Ridge along the Blue Ridge Parkway and try another sunrise session. Back then, sunrise was around 7-7:30 in the morning. That was no big deal considering the travel time was about 2 hours from home. As Spring sprung, I found myself staying home for the most part and not doing much with my photography. I started to get the itch to get my camera out of the bag toward the end of June, and with the weather for the July 4th weekend looking kind of rainy, I decided to give it a go. This morning was supposed to be rather wet around home, but only intermittently cloudy in the mountains. The weather patters appeared pretty good for a sunrise attempt, and I was still wanting to try Rough Ridge again. I started to do the math and realized that in order to get up there, and hike to the vantage point I had chosen, I was going to have to wake up at 2am. Wow! That's early. Sunrise was at 6:18, and I wanted to get there in time for the blue hour, around 5:30 or so.
It was hard, but I got woke up a few minutes after 2 and slowly got ready to roll out. Our dog, Mystic, looked at me like I was crazy for letting him out that early, but he went without a whimper. A little before 3, I was headed West in the rain. I wasn't quite sure what I was going to get, but this was going to be my best chance and I wanted to take advantage of it while I could. The trip went pretty uneventful, and I pulled into the parking area at Rough Ridge at 5am as planned. I gathered my equipment...and a flashlight for the hike through the woods. It didn't take me long to get to the rock outcropping that I wanted to set up on. It was still very dark and there were a lot of clouds overhead. I delayed getting the camera out because there was a little breeze, and this rock has already claimed one of my lenses years ago. As the blue hour approached, I could see some promise in the clouds, so I set the camera up.
For this shot, I wanted to include the boardwalk, the oddly shaped rock to the left, and the horizon in the distance. The only way to do that from this location was to affix my 16-35mm lens which included everything quite nicely. I also used a reverse, graduated neutral density filter to hold back the sky in the event that the color was brilliant. I grabbed a quick test shot and determined that a long exposure would work at this time of morning, so I set an exposure for three minutes and let it go. The result is what you see as the opening picture to the entry. The 5D MkIII does a great job at extracting all the available light from a scene. It was still rather dark when this shot was made, but there was plenty of detail in the foreground to compliment the sky above. An added benefit to the long exposure was that I was able to show motion in the clouds which is always a nice touch I think.
|Hole in the Sky|
It seemed that each of us were doing about the same thing. Sunrise had passed, and we were all just standing around hoping that the clouds would do something interesting to salvage the morning. The low fog was really nice, but the clouds and mist robbed the scenes of contrast, and color. I tried a few compositions but couldn't come up with anything that excited me. With the clouds starting to overtake the mountain, I decided to pack it up and head back to the truck.
|Beginning of a Journey|
|Beginning of a Journey in B&W|
After leaving Rough Ridge, I wanted to try some other locations, but honestly, I was too sleepy to do much more driving. I pulled off of the road and took a nap. When I woke up, the weather hadn't really improved much, and I was out of good ideas. It was time to get home so I could spend a little while with Toni before she went to work. I'm glad I chose that option because she had to go in early which would have meant I would have missed her completely if I had stuck with my original plan of getting home around 1 or so. While it wasn't a tremendously successful day, I did come back with some decent images, and one that I could add to the gallery. Not bad considering it has been a month since I last went out with the camera.

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The North American Pakistani
How different are a lemon and lime? Size-wise, pretty much the same. Category-wise, citrus? Even their texture is made up of the same composition. So if a lemon and lime share such similar characteristics then why are they still so different? It's the same question I ask myself when I drape my Pakistani shawl across my American Eagle t-shirt.
Chai or Coffee?
Bindhi's or Bikini's?
Rooh-Hafza or Rum?
Segregation or Assimilation?
Lemon or Lime?
There's this entire group of first generations that have this conflict. Perhaps more of a conflict for others than for some, but it's definitely prevalent.
Arguably, our parents had it rough coming to foreign land in hopes of a better tomorrow for their kids. But, it must not be overlooked that those "kids" are now caught between two cultures and lifestyles that are complete polar opposites.
On one end you've got these kids growing up to appreciate and enjoy the luxury of North American traditions and norms. But at another end you've got immigrant parents fearing the loss of their culture and tradition resulting in excess exposure of historic rituals.
There's no balance.
It's really up to us to attain the balance that we want. Some prefer their ethnic roots more than others while some prefer to identify as nothing but North American. And it's fine. To each their own. We must listen and respect one another's choices but never dictate their decisions.
So what are you?
Lemon, lime, or both?


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Tanzania is among the top three leading eco-tourism destinations in the world, local media quoted the Tanzania Tourist Board…
Tanzania is among the top three leading eco-tourism destinations in the world, local media quoted the Tanzania Tourist Board last week. The other two countries are Kenya and Egypt.
The three countries came on top of a poll conducted online and based on some 60,000 booking enquiries submitted by online booking agencies to travelers last year, according to the tourist board that is in charge of tourism in the east African country.
Tanzania and Kenya were both chosen for their understanding of the importance of tourism to wildlife conservation and poverty reduction strategies toward especially those communities neighboring wildlife parks and reserves.
Wildlife attracts over 75 percent of the tourists in both Tanzania and Kenya while Egypt has been polled in for its adventure holidays and for its rich history and ancient architecture.
Other countries that have improved their rankings on the poll conducted by responsibletravel.com are India, Peru, Morocco and Ecuador whereas South Africa, Nepal, Thailand, China and Vietnam dropped their placings down the polling table.
Tanzania offers a wide-ranging opportunity for fauna and flora lovers from around the world to witness animals and plants in the country`s 14 national parks and scores of nature reserves and conservation areas.
Serengeti, the biggest national park in Tanzania, has been named as one of the 50 must-go-to-in-lifetime places in the world by the National Geographic magazine.
Theodore is the Co-Founder and Managing Editor of TravelDailyNews Media Network; his responsibilities include business development and planning for TravelDailyNews long-term opportunities.

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The evolution of the sweater
|Coordinated sweater, scarf, and tam as winter fashion accessories in Fleisher Yarns' advertisement in The Ladies Home Companion, December 1920. (Courtesy Susan Strawn)|
A note from Kathleen: You know about my love for all things old-timey (three cheers for the Masterpiece Theater production "Downton Abbey"!).
The new issue of Knitting Traditions feeds my love for keeping the past alive. There are so many fascinating articles in this issue, but one of my favorites is all about how knitting for women evolved from utilitarian socks, gloves, and mittens to stylish sweaters, hats, and scarves.
I think you'll enjoy this piece as much as I did, so here's an excerpt.
Comfort and Good Looks: Sweaters and Scarves as Fashion Essentials
by Susan Strawn
Knitted sweaters and scarves are a mainstay of the modern American woman's wardrobe. Surprisingly, however, it was only a century ago that they began to claim their place in mainstream American fashion.
Knitting was long considered a utilitarian craft, best suited to making warm socks, gloves, and mittens. As early as 1846, Decorative Needlework by Miss Lambert provided patterns for such handknits but focused mainly on soft infant and toddler garments and bassinet covers.
A few adult sweater patterns appear, tucked among the counterpanes and domestic whimsies, in late-nineteenth-century knitting books. The Butterick Publishing Company's Art of Knitting (1892) includes a pattern for a man's "foot-ball sweater" (a turtleneck pullover), but patterns for women comprise only accessories, capes, and shawls.
|An advertisement in the July 1922 issue of The Delineator for the summer issue of Needle-Art. The copy states, "Scarfs that match will be worn with slip-on sweaters this Summer, making them 100 per cent more attractive. How shall you make the scarf? The Summer Needle-Art will give you full instructions…" (Courtesey Susan Strawn)|
At the close of the century, women were becoming more active outside the home, some entering careers, and these women wanted simpler styles suited to their new roles. For some time, people had been agitating for dress reform, maintaining that the tight-fitting fashions of the time were not only uncomfortable but unhealthy as well. Sweaters, it could be argued, played a role in dress reform and gave women greater comfort and freedom to pursue an active life, including sports.
Women's sweaters and scarves attained fashion status during the 1910s, and in 1917, The Ladies' Home Journal declared sweaters a wardrobe essential.
Sweaters of the early 1900s were long, typically worn with a wide matching scarf or "girdle" (belt). Department stores and mail-order catalogs sold millions of commercially manufactured sweaters, and abundant patterns were available in books, needlework magazines, and in booklets published by yarn manufacturers.
After World War I, American fashions became increasingly youthful and more casual, reflecting the greater freedom and equality that women had earned. Nonetheless, Paris still was a dominant arbiter of taste. Elsa Schiaparelli and Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel in particular popularized knitwear. "Paris now knits her blouse," proclaims the magazine The Delineator.
In barely two decades, knitted garments for women had transformed from utilitarian to fashion essential. We can thank an unlikely combination of influences—the turn-of-the century craze for sports, dress reform that suited changing roles for women, a multitude of new knitters during World War I, and the brilliant Parisian designers who popularized knitwear—for making knitted sweaters and scarves a wardrobe mainstay.
This is just one of the educational and entertaining articles in Knitting Traditions. You'll also get 45 projects inspired by knitting's rich history. You can get Susan's entire article in Knitting Traditions, so order yours now!

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Ghanaian songstress Wendy Shay had thrilled has during her performance at musical festival held in Nungua named the “Kpookeke July in Nungua Concert”.
The festival had the likes of some top performing artists including Stonebwoy, Shasta Wale and Wendy Shay as well.
Wendy Shay thrilled fans during her performance with a w!lid tw3rk which came along with her br3ak your [email protected] song.
Wendy Shay’s has been one of the coolest songs making waves in the country with a lot people especially females jamming to it.
In the video the songstress was seen doing her normal duties when performing on stage. She tw3rked her heart out with her song.
Fan were seen happily jamming to the song with a lot of vibes along.
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Domiciliary Care Service in Bromsgrove
Throughout Bromsgrove, we offer a private mobile dental service to individuals in their own homes, residents of care homes or retirement villages and patients in hospital or in a hospice. Our equipment is portable and our experienced staff will try their very best to provide on site care for you.
How to book an Appointment
You can book an appointment with us by calling 01527 874537 or by emailing us on email@example.com
New Patient Consultations
All new patients are offered a full oral health consultation. We assess risks and the presence of many oral health conditions and offer oral cancer screening, periodontal health assessment, preventive advice, hygiene advice, topical fluoride application if required and emergency pain relief if required.
The new patient consultation costs £129, payable at the time of booking the appointment.
Planning for Residential Care
It is always worth looking at the arrangements a care home has in place for dental care. Some care homes provide transport and staff but may charge for this. Some rely on family to accompany the residents to an appointment.
I am booking on behalf of a relative - do I need to be present at the appointment?
Patients find it very reassuring when a familiar face is with them. Some family members prefer to be present, others are unable to be. In a care home setting we will liase with the care staff and always ensure that the patient is comfortable.
The importance of a Medical History Form
We ask for a signed Medical History form before we see our elderly patient because they may be in poor health or suffering from a degree of dementia and they may be unable to give information about their Medical History/Medications. In order to treat patients safely in a home setting it is extremely important that we have all the relevant medical information to hand.
What happens if further treatment is needed?
After the consultation/checkup, the dentist will prepare a treatment plan setting out recommendations and cost for further treatment. Sometimes it is possible to carry out further treatment at the initial appointment, provided that appropriate consent is given and sufficient medical history available. Alternatively, patients will be offered a follow-up appointment.
There is no obligation to proceed with further treatment, it is entirely the patient's choice.
The Cost of On-site Care
We believe that we offer excellent value for money by bringing the dentist and nurse to you and eliminating the costs of travel, extra staffing and disruption for the patient. However we appreciate that private dental care is not cheap and will always inform you of charges and ways in which we can spread the cost of your treatment.
- New Patent Consultation £129
- On going Checkups £75
- Scale and Polish £45
- Dentures from £649 each
- Simple fillings from £75 each
- Simple extractions £125 each
- Fluoride Application £10
Advice for Care Homes
Oral health matters, especially for the elderly. There is strong medical evidence between poor oral health and poor medical health, from diabetes, to alzheimers to heart disease.
Denture wearers are also as much if not more at risk of oral cancer than those with their own teeth. Oral cancer can kill if left undiagnosed.
The elderly can find it difficult to clean their teeth properly and may lack the physical and mental ability to do so and thus their teeth and really suffer. Many elderly have worn the same set of dentures for years and they may not be fitting properly. Badly fitting or lost dentures, can lead to weight loss and a diet of pureed food.
Many carers have not had proper training in how to assist with toothbrushing; for example they may clean the patients dentures but forget to clean the patients teeth & gums.
It's Important to have provisions in place for residents who need access to dental care:
Staff and transport to take residents to the dentist
Costings in place to cover this
Relatives escorting patients
On-Site Dental Clinics for You
We can help residents - even those with dementia and mobility problems - to receive regular check-ups and a range of dental treatments to look after their oral health.
We take the stress of transport, staffing and administrative worries away. We offer a caring and stress-free experience for residents and will always attend with a dentist and a dental nurse.
The Benefits for Residential Homes
- Confidence that you are enabling residents to access dental care
- Opportunity to promote and offer on-site private dental care as part of you care plan
- Peace of mind that your residents enjoy a caring & stress-free experience
- Evidence that you value and safeguard residents’ privacy, dignity & quality of life
- Eliminate the transport and staffing costs of taking residents out to dental appointments
- Free advice on prevention and diet
- Free oral healthcare training for all staff
The Benefits for Relatives and Patients
- Access to regular dental care helping to maintain general well-being
- Screening for Oral Cancer and other diseases
- Dental treatments offered on site, no need to arrange transport
- Experienced gentle dental staff; with a courteous and caring approach
- Making beautiful dentures, adjustment & repairs
- Peace of mind for family and friends
Contact us for more information:
You can book an appointment or speak to us about any of the above by calling 01527 874537 or by emailing us on firstname.lastname@example.org
Bromsgrove Dental Clinic is supported by a warm, friendly reception team and top notch dentists.
We offer a wealth of excellent dental treatments along with our reassurance & peace of mind.
Address: 1A Highfield Rd, Bromsgrove, Worcester, B61 7BD
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Reverb is an effect that brings a sense of spatial depth and width to sound, by adding reverberation or reflections to the sound signal. For instance, even when playing in a small hall, using reverb makes it possible to mimic the sound of a large performance hall.
How reverb works
Reverb is the result of sound reflecting and echoing against the walls, floor, ceiling, or other parts of a building. For instance, when you sing inside a room, the first thing you hear is the direct sound itself. Afterwards, you hear the sound reflecting off nearby walls, and then echoing from all over the place. The initial reflection you hear from the walls and the echoes thereafter are collectively called "reverb".
Types of reverb
There are several types of reverb. This section lists some of the typical types.
As the name suggests, this type of reverb simulates a large room, with a longer reverb time. This is the most noticeable reverb effect.
This type of reverb simulates a room that is smaller than a hall. Room
This type of reverb simulates a smaller room, with a shorter reverb time.
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Southern actor Rana Daggubati, who made his Bollywood debut with "Dum Maro Dum" in 2011, has no personal style statement and says his personality is "bits and pieces of the films" that he has done.Monday, April 08, 2013 3:45:18 PM
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Vidya Balan, who has played intense roles in films like "No One Killed Jessica" and "Kahaani," will now be seen in a very loud and colourful avatar in "Ghanchakkar". She says she enjoyed the experience.Monday, April 08, 2013 12:53:19 PM
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Data published in its latest market report by the main regional cocoa associations for the third quarter of 2021 indicated that grindings substantially increased in Europe, South-East Asia and North America. The European Cocoa Association (ECA) published data indicating a year-on-year expansion of 8.7% from 345,730 tonnes to 375,811 tonnes in grindings.
Similarly, the Cocoa Association of Asia (CAA) posted a year-on-year increase of 4.1% from 202,665 tonnes to 210,970 tonnes. Furthermore, processing activities improved in North America during the third quarter of 2021 with the National Confectioners’ Association (NCA) reporting a 4.3% increase from 118,264 tonnes to 123,399 tonnes of cocoa beans grinded.
The ICCO said at the end of the 2020-21 cocoa season, the cumulative grindings of ECA members totalled 1,434,631 tonnes, up by 50,658 tonnes from the level reached at the end of the previous season.
In South-East Asia, cumulative grindings soared by 3% year-on-year to 863,239 tonnes in 2020-21. Over the same period, grindings in North America rose by 6% from 455,002 tonnes to 483,117 tonnes.
The ICCO said that even though grindings increased year-on-year in Europe, North America and Southeast Asia for the third quarter of 2021, this was not sufficient to absorb excess production.
Prices of the nearby contract, or settlement price tumbled by 9% and 6% in London and New York respectively in October – and origin differentials generally remained low year-on-year.
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Ghana recently reported that it has been producing below 800,000 tonnes of cocoa because of the cocoa swollen shoot virus that has gradually spread to cover every region in the country.
According to the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana, 12 strains of the cocoa swollen shoot virus disease have been identified, with the strains in the Western Region and adjoining areas of the Bono and Ahafo Regions more virulent than the other strains in the country.
Joseph Boahen Aidoo, CEO of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), told local media: “Close to 20% of the productive cocoa area in the country has been affected by this disease. This has led to low productivity and low incomes for cocoa farmers.”
He has urged cocoa farmers and service providers to be ready for the increase in production base and that COCOBOD is working to rehabilitate the devastated areas including overaged cocoa farms.
In neighbouring Cote d’Ivoire, the world’s top cocoa producer, recent heavy rains could give an early boost to the main October-March crop just as the harvesting begins, local farmers reported.
Farmers reported to local media that they welcomed the uncharacteristically abundant rainfall, which they expect will help trees heavy with cocoa pods survive the upcoming dry season.
“We are happy because those rains were very helpful. They will help cocoa trees become strong and cross well into the dry season,” Herve Dalli, a farmer from Soubre, told Reuters.

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Fujianese immigrants rescued from
the grounded freighter Golden Venture.
AP Photo: used by permission
In the 21st century, however, a new wave of immigrants to the Lower East Side has been coming by ship again, from the Chinese province of Fujian. The human smuggling ship the Golden Venture, which ran aground in Queens in 1993 carrying 286 Fujianese after 120 days at sea, is in the news again because of The Snakehead, Patrick Radden Keefe's new book on Fujianese human smuggling. Jennifer 8 Lee's The Fortune Cookie Chronicles documents how Fujianese immigrants have opened Fujianese restaurants in the Lower East Side and Chinatown, and how they spread out by Greyhound to work Chinese restaurants in small towns throughout the United States. The story of Fujianese immigrant Ming Kuang Chen, trapped for three days in a Bronx high-rise elevator while delivering Chinese food, is being workshopped this month in New York as an opera called Stuck Elevator.
But I want to talk about another immigrant from Fujian that has received a lot less attention from the press: ketchup.
I know what you're thinking; ketchup is a sauce made from tomatoes, so how can it come from China, whose cuisine makes pretty sparse use of tomatoes?
A clue to the answer comes from a question from a precocious 7-year-old named Katie. Take a look at the following ketchup pictures:
Here's Katie's question: why is ketchup called "tomato ketchup" (or "tomato catsup"; I'll deal with the spelling issue later). Doesn't the mention of "tomatoes" seem redundant? After all, if I walk down the hill to El Amigo, my local corner bar, and order a margarita, I don't order a "tequila margarita". A margarita is made of tequila. Otherwise it would be a daiquiri. Or a gimlet, or, God forbid, a mojito.
The answer is, of course, that the name "tomato ketchup" didn't used to be redundant. Ketchup used to be made with something other than tomatoes. The recipe for ketchup has changed quite dramatically over time; tomatoes were only added to the recipe around 1800, and sugar even later, well after the Civil War.
Where modern ketchup is a very thick sweet and sour chutney of tomatoes, ketchup from about 1750-1850 mainly meant a thin dark sauce made of fermented walnuts or sometimes fermented mushrooms. Mushroom ketchup is still produced by old-fashioned grocers; here's a bottle:
In the 18th century, of course, ketchup was made at home, and we still have many of the home recipes, such as a walnut ketchup recipe used by Jane Austen's family. Here's the recipe, from the household book kept by Jane's best friend Martha Lloyd while she lived with Jane and Cassandra and their mother in the brick cottage in Chawton:
Take green walnuts and pound them to a paste. Then put to every hundred two quarts of vinegar with a handful of salt. Put it altogether in an earthen pan keeping it stirring for eight days. Then squeeze through a coarse cloth and put it into a well lined saucepan, when it begins to boil skim it as long as any scum, rinse, and add to it some cloves, mace, sliced ginger, sliced nutmeg, Jamaica peppercorns, little horse radish with a few shallots. Let this have one boil up, then pour it into an earthen pan, and after it is cold bottle it up dividing the ingredients equal into each bottle.
But walnut or mushroom aren't the original ingredients of ketchup either. As Samuel Johnson tells us in his great Dictionary in 1755, English mushroom ketchups were just an attempt to imitate the taste of an earlier original sauce that came from Asia.
What was this Asian sauce? It's clear from the earliest English recipes that the original ketchup was fish sauce, the stinky cooking sauce called nuoc mam in Vietnam, nam pla in Thailand, patis in the Philippines, and made from salting and fermenting anchovies. An English recipe in 1736 calls for boiling down "2 quarts of strong stale beer and half a pound of anchovies", and then letting it ferment. And here's a full early recipe for ketchup from Eliza Smith's cookbook, the book mentioned in my essay on 'entrée'. Smith's cookbook, The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion, was a very popular English cookbook, first published in 1727, and in the 1742 edition the first cookbook to be published in the American colonies.
The modern story of how tomatoes became popular in the 19th century, how they were added to ketchup, how even later the recipe changed to replace fermentation by lots of vinegar and sugar to result in a kind of sweet and sour chutney has been nicely told in Andrew Smith's Pure Ketchup. Jeffery Steingarten's Vogue essay Playing Ketchup, collected in The Man Who Ate Everything, describes how he discovered and cooked some of the earliest recipes for tomato ketchup and showed in a careful scientific test that they were quite delicious.
But we'll leave Smith and Steingarten to tell the modern part of the story. We were talking about Fujian. How did fish sauce get a Fujianese name and how did it get to England so as to make its way here to acquire tomatoes and turn into the American national condiment?
Fermented food products have a long tradition in Asia. The first fermented condiments were thick pastes made of fermented meat or fish used as a flavoring for dishes like roast suckling pig. We know this because the Chinese have a longstanding habit of celebrating their food products in their poetry, and fermented sauces appear in the Elegies of the Chu State (楚辞), dating from before 300 BC. The following legend about the origins of fish paste come from the "Important Arts for the People's Welfare" (齐民要术 Qimin Yaoshu), written 544 CE.
When the Han emperor Wu-ti (-140 to -88) chased the I barbarians to the sea shore, he smelled a potent, delicious aroma, but could not see where it came from. He sent an emissary to investigate. A fisherman revealed that the source was a ditch in which was piled layer upon layer of fish entrails. The covering of earth could not prevent the aroma from escaping. The emperor tasted a sample of the product and was pleased with the flavour. This sauce then became known as Chu I to commemorate the fact that it was obtained while chasing the I barbarian. It is simply a fermented paste made from fish entrails. To make chu i: take the intestine, stomach, and bladder of the yellow fish, shark and mullet, and wash them well. Mix them with a moderate amount of salt and place them in a jar. Seal tightly and incubate in the sun. It will be ready in twenty days in summer, fifty days in spring or fall and a hundred days in winter.The methods used to ferment fish pastes were soon applied to ferment vegetable products like beans, and indeed fermented soy beans and soy bean pastes (from which soy sauce developed) were a major trade commodity throughout the Chinese empire by the late Han Dynasty (i.e. by 50 BCE or 100 BCE). As Chinese culinary historians Naomichi Ishige and H. T. Huang show, over the next millenium the popularity of fermented fish and meat products drastically declined in China while fermented soy bean products became more and more popular, presumably because soy products were cheaper to make, easier to transport, and allowed for a wider variety of possible tastes. Certainly by the Qing Dynasty (the 17th century) soy sauce and bean pastes were the standard seasonings in China, leaving fish pastes as a marginal product only used in some regions.
from H. T. Huang. Fermentations and Food Science, the superb Volume 5 of Needham's Science and Civilization in China, page 382-3.
from H. T. Huang. Fermentations and Food Science, the superb Volume 5 of Needham's Science and Civilization in China, page 382-3.
In southeast Asia, on the other hand, especially along the Mekong river, the development of fermented fish products was much more central to the cuisine and fermented bean products never took off. Fish sauces like nuoc mam were probably developed indigenously here and remain today the most popular condiments. Food scholar Naomichi Ishige shows that east Asia is roughly divided into two large condiment regions, separated by a bean/fish isogloss, with southeast Asia mainly using fermented fish and northeast Asia mainly using fermented beans:
Thus in general, fish sauce either never really developed in China, or more likely died out, and is no longer mentioned in food histories and dictionaries by the Ming dynasty. Nonetheless, in modern times fish sauce is manufactured and eaten in China. The regions where it is eaten can be seen in the next figure from Naomichi Ishige, showing regions of east Asia where fish sauce is endemic:
As Ishige's figure shows, fish sauce is eaten inside China along the southeast coast, in Guangdong (Canton) and Fujian provinces, and seems to have been there for hundreds of years. Indeed, anthropologist E. N. Anderson notes that in Fuzhou, fish sauce is more common than soy sauce. On the right is a bottle of modern Chinese fish sauce from Chaozhou, the Southern Min speaking region in Guangdong (Canton) province:
Since indigenous Chinese use of fish sauce had died out by this time, Huang and Ishige argue that during the 17th and 18th centuries fish sauce entered China by migration, carried by Chinese sea traders from Vietnam or Cambodia up the southeastern coast of China, into Canton and Fujian provinces and the cities of Guanggong (Canton), Chaozhou (Teochew), Xiamen (Amoy) and Fuzhou.
What was this fish sauce called? In modern Chinese, in Mandarin, it's often called yu lu 鱼露 ('fish dew'), as in the bottle of Chaozhou fishsauce above. But yu lu is a modern name, and these Chinese sailors, traders, and settlers weren't speaking modern Mandarin. Many of them were speakers of Southern Min, a Chinese language (or dialect, depending on your definition) of 46 million speakers, spoken in both Fujian and Guangdong provinces as well as in Taiwan and throughout Southeast Asia (and whose variants and subdialects are called Hokkien, Taiwanese, Teochiu, and Amoy dialect, among other names).
So what was this fish sauce called in the Southern Min dialect in the 18th century? It turns out it was called something like "ke-tchup", "ge-tchup", or "kue-chiap", depending on the dialect. Here's the entry for kôe-chiap 鲑汁 from a Southern Min to English dictionary compiled by missionaries in 1873, that gives pronunciations in various Southern Min subdialects.
A modern (1982) dictionary, Mandarin to Southern-Min, confirms our evidence from the missionary dictionary, telling us that the first syllable 鲑 is an archaic word, pronounced "gué" in spoken Southern Min, and meaning a preserved fish. Over the years this character has changed its meaning and in modern times often means 'salmon' .
So ketchup, written 鲑汁, is an archaic word for "fish sauce" in the Zhangzhou region of the Hokkien dialect of Southern Min Chinese.
It was James Murray, the famous editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, who first figured out this etymology when he wrote the OED entry for this word in the Scriptorium in his back garden in 1889 (thanks to OED editor Penny Silva for this fact!). Some dictionaries, alas, give an obviously incorrect etymology, claiming that ketchup derives from a hypothetical Cantonese word ke jiap, 'eggplant sauce'. Since tomatoes in Cantonese are called "foreign eggplants", the intuition is that ke jiap was somehow short for "faan ke jiap" tomato sauce. I used to hear this folk etymology from friends all the time in Hong Kong but it can't be correct since, as we've seen, the original condiment was borrowed, together with its name, hundreds of years before the tomatoes were added.
Anita van Velzen's ethnographic research shows that until the 1950's, all these kinds of kecap were made only by ethnic Chinese families. So kecap in Indonesian presumably started out meaning "fish sauce" and slowly generalized its meaning to "sauce in general".
How did the British acquire the word and the sauce? One possibility is that the British acquired kecap from the Indonesians or from the Chinese in Indonesia. Evidence for this Indonesian origin possibility is that the British had a trading post in Sumatra in the 1690s, and that there exists an early English recipe (from 1732), for "Ketchup, in Paste. From Bencoulin in the East Indies" i.e. from Bengkulu, on Sumatra in Indonesia.
Another possibility is that they acquired the word from the Hokkien Chinese traders and settlers that they encountered throughout southeast Asia, since in the earliest discussion of ketchup being acquired in Asia, (British merchant Charles Lockyer's 1711 An account of the trade in India), Lockyer tells us that the best ketchup can be gotten from Tonkin (northern Vietnam) or China:
the great treasure fleet of Chinese Admiral Zheng He in the 15th century, which is thought to be depicted in the early 17th century Chinese woodblock print shown above. It was from the Hokkien-speaking city of Quanzhou in southern Fujian that Marco Polo traveled from China to Persia. Since the Chinese communities throughout southeast Asia are descended from settlers that arrived from these seafaring regions, and hence speak either Southern Min or Cantonese, the British may have acquired the word and a taste for fish sauce from them.
In summary, between about 1300 and 1800 vast numbers of Southern Min speakers (Hokkien and Teochiu) sailed between China and Southeast Asia, trading and settling in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, and the Philippines, exactly the regions that today use fish sauce. The Chinese traders presumably picked up fish sauce from mainland south-east Asia along the Mekong river where it was developed by the Vietnamese and Khmer, and spread it to China, the Philippines, and Indonesia. The British encountered these Chinese in Indonesia or elsewhere in Southeast Asia, borrowed the word ketchup, brought it home, and started right in on messing with the recipe.
But the history of ketchup has some deeper implications. Much popular history (especially in the west) talks about China turning inward in 1450 during the Ming dynasty and stopping sailing. A standard economic argument is that this ban on shipping and this inward-turning of Chinese culture led to the stagnation of China and the economic rise of the West, and only pressure from the West finally dragged Asia into the world economy in the 19th century.
Some parts of this story are true: China's inward turn did reflect repeated government bans on shipping in the Ming dynasty. But the vast amount of Chinese trade around Southeast Asia as late as the 18th century suggests that this account may be simplified.
This thesis was taken up by the late economist and sociologist Andre Gunder Frank in his book ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Frank shows that although the Chinese government banned sea trade in the 16th and 17th centuries, Hokkien and Cantonese traders continued to sail and trade illegally with Asia on a massive scale. In 1700 alone, 20,000 tons of goods were carried to South China by Chinese ships, while only 500 tons of goods were carried away by European ships.
Frank shows that in 1750, Asians, while less than 66% of the world population, produced 80% of the world GNP, and that as late as 1800 the per capita GNP was higher in China than in Europe. In other words, the Chinese dominated the entire intra-Asia trade, in spices, raw materials, and manufactured goods, and because of this trade and Asia's superior manufacturing technology (manufacturing til the 19th century basically meant textiles and ceramics, both of which were dominated by China and India), China dominated the world economy.
Frank's facts explain why the British, Portuguese and Dutch were so eager to get to Asia: most of the world's trade took place only here. But Europe had no manufacturing base that was comparable to Asia's until 1800, and so had nothing to trade except money. What Europe did have is colonies in America that were producing gold and silver from mines, usually run by slaves. So Europe used the gold and silver from these American colonial mines to buy into the Asian economy for industrial goods like textiles and housewares, and food items like spices, tea, rice, soy, and, yes, ketchup.
In other words, if Frank is right, the story of ketchup is a story of globalization and centuries of economic domination by a world superpower. But the superpower isn't America, and the century isn't ours. Ketchup's origins in the fermented sauces of China and Southeast Asia mean that those little plastic packets under the seat of your car are a direct result of Chinese and Asian domination of a single global world economy for most of the last millenium.
Of course the modern global economy isn't your grandmother's or even your mother's global economy. But it's nice to know ketchup still plays a role. Right next to all those new Fujianese restaurants in the Lower East Side, and just beneath the tenement apartment where my mother was born, there's now a McDonalds. French fry, anyone?

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Visitors will never look at the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s headquarters in the same way again.
The foyer and atrium of the church’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, have been transformed into an art gallery that takes viewers on a journey from Adam and Eve’s garden home some 6,000 years ago to the Earth made new after Jesus’ return.
The 78 paintings of the “Eden to Eden” collection portray God’s guiding hand in the activities of His people down through the ages and now in the Adventist Church ahead of His soon return, said Ted N.C. Wilson, president of the Adventist world church.
“It pulls you in,” Wilson told top church leaders at a dedication of the permanent exhibition this week.
“When you visit ‘Eden to Eden,’ you will see how God has led His people every step of the way,” said Wilson, who began work on the exhibit shortly after being elected president in 2010.
The paintings — selected by Adventist artist Lars Justinen and Tanya Holland, design manager at the Adventist world church’s communication department — bring together beloved classics by artists such as Harry Anderson and contemporary works by Nathan Greene, Steve Creitz, and Justinen himself.
The paintings in the exhibit are handsome replicas, printed on canvas and hung in frames. The exhibit was conceived, constructed, and implemented by FlipTV, an Adventist-operated production company in Laurel, Maryland.
“Eden to Eden” aims to help visitors, church members, and church employees immediately understand as they enter the building that the Adventist Church’s headquarters is a highly spiritual and religious center, Wilson said in an interview.
“Visitors need to fully appreciate the great controversy theme that is being played out before the universe and that soon Jesus will come as the Victor,” he said.
A downloaded MP3 tour in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French is in the works. Visitors will be able to download the tour on their cell phones or other portable electronic devices and listen to it through their own ear buds or earphones. The English-language tour will be narrated by evangelist Mark Finley.
“I want you to know that after ‘Eden to Eden,’ the General Conference will never be the same again,” exhibit coordinator Williams S. Costa Jr., communication director of the Adventist world church, said at the dedication ceremony.
Here are 20 paintings that Justinen, creative director of the “Eden to Eden” collection, chose to showcase for Adventist Review readers:
Justinen explained why he chose these 20 paintings:
“In choosing these 20, I have focused on paintings that have a lucid and dramatic visual appeal, images that communicate clearly a Scriptural event and stimulate our imaginations,” he said. “I included paintings that are new to most people, some having been painted just within the past year. Some are classics that never get old, such as the great works of Harry Anderson. Some are familiar to many of us, such as the beautiful works of Nathan Greene. And some represent the new art of rising Adventist artists like Steve Creitz.
“All these images should remind the viewer of various parts of the great mosaic arch of mankind’s spiritual journey, the story of how things came to be the way they are, and what God wants us to understand about who He is and what He has planned for us. I hope you find a painting or two that resonates personally with your spiritual journey — art that speaks the unspoken words of the Spirit. Words of hope and faith.”
Ted N.C. Wilson, president of the Adventist world church, prays at the opening of the "Eden to Eden" permanent exhibition at the General Conference headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, on April 12, 2015. Courtesy of Mylon Medley / ANN


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Tochukwu Michael is on the verge of completing a move to Nigeria Premier Football League side, Sporting Lagos, according to reports.
Sporting Lagos are understood to be finalising a move for the midfielder.
Paul Offor’s side have been hit with injuries, which have affected the club’s performance in the NPFL.
Michael’s experience in the NPFL will help in the club’s fight against relegation.
The 23-year-old is currently on the books of Remo Stars.
Michael has also played for Nasarawa United and Plateau United in the past.


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A great dinner party dish of pan-fried red mullet with cous cous and deep fried red pepper strips.
First remove the pin bones from the fish with tweezers (this is worth the trouble). To marinade the fish, mix the dark soy, stem ginger syrup and sherry together and steep the red mullet in it for at least an hour.
Meanwhile, make the vinaigrette, combine all the ingredients in a small pan and bring to the boil. Then turn down and simmer until the vinaigrette starts to thicken – this could take about 15 minutes. Then leave to cool and put through a fine sieve.
For the chilli jam, Put all the ingredients into a food processor and blend until well puréed, then put into a large saucepan and cook slowly for about 15 minutes until all the liquid has evaporated and the texture becomes thick and chutney like. Keep in the fridge until required.
Pour the couscous into a large bowl and add the olive oil, grated ginger, red pepper, chives , coriander and seasoning and mix together well. Pour the boiling fish stock over and leave until ready to use.
Cut the red pepper into fine julienne strips dust with flour and then deep-fry until crispy. Drain well on kitchen paper.
When ready to serve, dry the fish well. Heat the oil in a frying pan and quickly fry the red mullet skin-side down first for 2-3 minutes. Then carefully turn over and fry for a further 2-3 minutes until just cooked through.
Take a 5cm mousse ring and put some couscous in the middle of the plate then top with the fish then a small pile of tomato and chilli jam surrounded by vinaigrette. Garnish with the deep fried pepper strips and microherbs and serve.
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A New Multi-Adjustable Experimental Seat for Investigating Biomechanical Factors of Sitting Discomfort
A new experimental seat was designed to investigate sitting biomechanics. Previous literature suggested links between sitting discomfort and shear force, however, research on this topic is limited. The evaluation of sitting discomfort derived from past research has been primarily associated with seat pressure distribution. The key innovative feature of the experimental seat is not only pressure distribution evaluation but shear forces as well. The seat pan of the experimental seat compromises of a matrix of 52 cylinders, each equipped with a tri-axial force sensor, enabling us to measure both normal and tangential forces. The position of each cylinder is also adjustable permitting a uniform pressure distribution underneath the soft tissue of the buttocks and thighs. Backrest, armrests, seat pan and flooring are highly adjustable and equipped with forces sensors to measure contact forces.


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Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson and the city’s religious leaders wrapped up a three-day fast and prayer campaign today to help “fix” Harrisburg’s daunting fiscal woes.
Amid the fast, the Harrisburg City Council passed a resolution asking the mayor to prepare documents to file for Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy protection.
Thompson said she hoped the fast would help the city and its officials find common ground to revive Harrisburg’s fiscal health. She has often been at odds with City Council, and has resisted several calls for her resignation.
“Things that are above and beyond my control, I need God,” Thompson told WHTM, the local ABC affiliate. “I depend on Him for guidance. Spiritual guidance. That’s why it’s really no struggle for me to join this fast and prayer.”
Thompson told Reuters that she opposes the bankruptcy option approved by the Council. She added that the state “has to respect the publicly elected officials in this city.
Pennsylvania officials are hoping to avoid the bankruptcy option. A team of state-appointed advisors has called for a rescue plan to address the city’s $3.5 million budget deficit – expected to grow to $10.4 million by 2015 — and a $300 million debt from a doomed 2002 retrofit of the city’s trash incinerator.
City council members have until July 23 to approve the plan, which would sell the incinerator, renegotiate labour deals and cut jobs.
The Pennsylvania state Legislature is now considering a bill that would allow a state-appointed board to takeover city finances if the city fails to approve the financial rescue plan. Republican Gov. Tom Corbett said Thursday he would sign the bill.
“Virtually every municipal official elected in the City of Harrisburg has taken an irresponsible position concerning the city’s fiscal mess,” State Senator Jeffrey Piccola, the bill’s sponsor, said in a statement.
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With Ben Bishop nearly getting traded to the Flames last summer, you’d think there might be some reflection by the Lightning goaltender heading into tonight’s game at the Saddledome.
You’d also be wrong.
“Zero thoughts,” Bishop said. “It’s over and done with.”
But Bishop, 30, felt it was close to a done deal June 24 at the NHL draft. Trade talks between Tampa Bay and Calgary got advanced enough to where Bishop was working out a contract extension with the Flames. That was important as Calgary was on the list of teams that needed Bishop’s approval for a deal.
This in, Oilers announcer and insider Bob Stauffer speculating as he does on the radio about who the Oilers might trade and who they might acquire, with Stauffer’s speculative interest today focused on Jarome Iginla of the Colorado Avalanche.
Said Stauffer: “In spite of the loss of Darnell Nurse the perception that Edmonton needs a right shot (d-man) I would argue that, yeah, they need a right shot, but the more pressing need is upfront and not on defence.
“He has said in an interview with Adrian Dater, who’s a local reporter down there in Denver, that last year he wouldn’t waive his no-trade clause to move, but this year, the final year of his contract and possibly his career, he will consider doing it,” Elliotte Friedman said on Hockey Night in Canada’s Headlines segment. “And the word is if he does want to go the Colorado Avalanche will search the market and see what the options are for Iginla to go chase the Cup one more time.
The list of players who might be available is short, but would be longer if the Canadiens’ injury situation isn’t resolved by February. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins keeps surfacing in rumours, but his potential has to be weighed against a $6-million cap hit and the price the Canadiens would have to pay for him.
There are also fans who believe Arizona’s Martin Hanzal, 29, is the answer. Really? The 6-foot-6, 230-pound Czech has a reasonable cap hit ($3.5 million) but he hasn’t scored more than 16 goals in a season and has reached 4o points only twice.
With the December NHL schedule kicking into high gear most of the NHL teams are beginning to find out where they fit in terms of the overall standings and the playoff pictures. Furthermore, some teams such as the Tampa Bay Lightning have many decisions to make as the season progresses and may look to move some big name players such as Ben Bishop to help them to fill voids left behind as a result of the Steven Stamkos injury. There will be many decisions to make for those who like to bet on sports online as to where the teams will end up at the end of the season.
Judging by the mutual-admiration dialogue between Miller and management, it’s plausible that the 36-year-old veteran won’t hit the open market. He’s not going to be dealt or moved at the trade deadline, even if the team tanks. An assessment of who will work best with Markstrom next season will be made before July 1.
Kuzma: Canucks could consider extending contract of UFA Miller
They’re looking for a big name,” the source said. “They’ve talked to a lot of people already.”
Two of the bigger names that the owners have sat down with in the past few months are well known to Islanders and Rangers fans: Pat LaFontaine and Brad Richards.


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Allstarsignings have an exclusive autograph agreement with Thierry Henry and all items will include in the certificate of authenticity, photo proof of Thierry at the signing.
Here is a VERY RARE opportunity to own a hand signed Thierry Henry shirt. His autograph is one of the hardest to obtain.
In July 2010, Henry signed a multi-year contract with New York Bulls for the 2010 season on 31st Match 2012. On 27th October 2013, Henry scored once and provided two assists in the last game of the season against the Chicago Fire at Red Bull Arena to help his team win 5-2 and become champions of the regular season. It was the club’s first major trophy in their 17 year history. On 12th July 2014, Henry provided a goal and three assists in a 4-1 Red Bulls win over the Columbus Crew. With that effort he became the all-time assist leader for the New York Red Bulls after four and a half years at the club.
This is a 2013 New York Red Bulls shirt, signed by legend Thierry Henry. The item was personally signed by Thierry in London, 18th November 2016 at our private signing session.
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The mother of a British Muslim who died in Kenya fighting for terror group Al Shabaab has said his body will not be repatriated because he "never wanted to come back".
Thomas Evans, 25, is believed to be among suspected extremists killed in an attack on an army camp in Lamu County, Kenya military officials said. Mrs Evans, 57, said she went "numb" when she saw a picture of his body on Twitter.
She told the Times (£): "Tom never wanted to come back to the UK again. So do I fulfil his wishes? As his mum, I guess that's the last thing I can do for him, because he didn't want to come back. I'd be bringing him back for my selfish purposes.
"I'm relieved that he is no longer in a position where he can hurt people. I thank God he wasn't a suicide bomber, he didn't take a lots of other people with him. I am thankful for that."
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The virtual version of the famous race will go ahead as planned this weekend on terrestrial television
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Cars, buses, trains, and planes, Oh My! Do you have a little one fascinated with all things with wheels? If so, then this is the print for you. Cars, buses, trains, planes and helicopters are all there in a variety of colors to make it easy for decorating coordination. So versatile when decorating.
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