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The 3-star Apel Villa Sanur provides guests with a business accommodation in Sanur.
This hotel is about 2.6 km away from Sanur Beach. The property is located within a 20-minute walk to the center of Sanur.
The hotel is easy access to the sandy beach in Sanur.
Apel Villa Sanur lies within 15 minutes’ drive to Ngurah Rai International airport.
Room amenities at Apel Villa Sanur include individual climate control, a private terrace, a patio, a dining area and a writing table. Guests can make use of en suite bathrooms with a bathtub, a hairdryer and a bidet.
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A complimentary breakfast is served every morning. Refreshing drinks are offered in the poolside bar. The grill bar Natrabu Minang is around 5 minutes’ walk away.
Guests can rent bicycles and cars to discover the area.
A sun deck and an outdoor swimming pool are offered for guests' comfort. A gym and a fitness center are among the on-site facilities.
Wireless internet is available in the entire hotel for free.
Private parking is possible on site for free.

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The beginning of fall is a charming time. Slowly, the sun leaves space to gray skies and rainy days, and Halloween is upon us. How are you celebrating this year? We took inspiration from the pagan tradition and mixed it with some classics to create a delicious menu. You will love our healthy Halloween treats for 2018!
Did you know that Halloween owes its traditions to the Celtic New Year’s Eve? In the Celtic culture, Samhain, the Celtic New Year’s Eve, happens at the end of the harvest. Celts believed that the year was divided into two distinct parts: the light and the dark. Samhain marks the beginning of darkness when the door between the living and the dead becomes weaker.
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In Medieval Ireland, Celts celebrated the season of darkness with bonfires, which were also a way to welcome the deceased. During this time of the year, good spirits came to look for food and comfort, while evil spirits came to play tricks. Celts disguised themselves as spirits to deceive real ones; they used treats as bribes and carried jack-o-lantern-hollowed vegetables to scare away evil spirits. Sound familiar?
Immigrants brought these traditions to the United States and mixed them with Catholic Church holidays and the Mexican Day of the Dead. That’s how modern Halloween was born. You can honor the ancient Celtic traditions by incorporating some of them in a memorable menu. Colcannon is a traditional dish that is served to celebrate Samhain; it is made with potatoes, kale, and onions. Celts also left a loaf of bread on the table to welcome back dead loved ones.
Are you ready to add a bit of Samhain spirit to your Halloween this year? Try these delicious Halloween recipes!
Ready In: 45 minutes
2 large eggs
1 tablespoon sun-dried tomatoes
1 tablespoon organic mayonnaise
1 teaspoon paprika
Salt and pepper
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
- Gently place eggs in the water, return to a boil, and reduce heat to a simmer.
- Cook eggs for 10 minutes, drain and let cool.
- Peel eggs and slice them in half lengthwise.
- Scoop out yolks and place them in a food processor with the sun-dried tomatoes, mayonnaise, and paprika.
- Blend all the ingredients and season with salt and pepper.
- Cover and keep whites refrigerated.
- Transfer the mixture to a pastry bag.
- Pipe about 1 tablespoon and fill the center of each egg white.
- Sprinkle yolks with paprika.
Ready In: 5 minutes
2 blood oranges
4 cups organic cranberry juice
1/4 raspberry juice
2 cups sparkling water
3 tablespoons lemon juice
- Cut the blood oranges into 1/2-inch wedges and place them in the fridge.
- In a large pitcher, mix 4 cups of cranberry juice, 1/4 of raspberry juice, 2 cups of sparkling water and 3 tablespoons of lemon juice.
- Place the wedges of blood oranges on top.
Ready In: 40 minutes
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 box vegetable stock
2 garlic cloves
1/2 canned pumpkin
1/2 cup vegan cream cheese
1 teaspoon of curry powder
Salt and pepper
- Cut the onion in small pieces and mince the garlic.
- Place onion in a pot with olive oil and cook until soft.
- Add pumpkin and garlic, and cook for about 5 minutes.
- Add curry powder and vegetable stock.
- Cook for 30 minutes, then bring to a simmer.
- Remove the mixture from the heat and transfer it to a blender.
- Blend until smooth.
- To add the spider-web design, spoon the vegan cream cheese into a pastry bag. Pipe a spiral and pull the tip of a knife from the center to create a web.
This is inspired by a pumpkin bread recipe that you can find in the book Celebrate The Earth: A Year In The Pagan Tradition by Laurie Cabot, where she also talks about rituals and spells to perform during different celebrations, including Halloween.
Ready In: 1 hour
2 cups canned pumpkin
1 cup melted vegan butter
3/4 cup water
3-2/3 cups flour
2-1/4 cups sugar
1-1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon nutmeg
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 candy corn
- Blend pumpkin, butter, water, and eggs.
- Add flour, sugar, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, and baking soda.
- Add walnuts to the mix.
- Form loaf in greased and floured loaf pan.
- Place 1 candy corn in the mix.
- Bake at 350°F for around 1 hour (until top is golden brown).
The candy corn represents the surprise element, in line with the Celtic tradition. People used to put a ring, thimble or button, inside the food served during the celebrations. Every object had a specific meaning. In this case, we chose a candy corn to make this dish safe for kids. The person who gets the candy corn will receive happy news. If you want to follow the tradition of honoring dead loved ones, you can leave a slice of pumpkin bread on the table for them.
What would Halloween be without Halloween sweets? Here are a couple of Halloween snack ideas.
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Ready In: 45 minutes
3 cups rolled oats
1 cup almond milk
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup maple syrup
1/4 melted coconut oil
1-1/2 teaspoons pumpkin spice
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Grease an 8-inch square baking pan.
- In a medium bowl, whisk almond milk, maple syrup, melted coconut oil, egg, and sugar.
- Add oats, pumpkin spice, baking powder, and stir until incorporated.
- Pour the mixture into the baking pan.
- Bake until edges are golden brown, about 40 minutes.
Ready In: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Ingredients for crust:
1 cup vegan butter cut into cubes
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon brown sugar
4 tablespoons ice water
Ingredients for filling and topping:
3/4 cup apple pie filling
2 oz vegan cream cheese
6 tablespoons brown sugar
3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon pumpkin spice
1 egg yolk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg white lightly beaten
1/2 tablespoon water
- Place flour, salt, sugar, and butter in a blender.
- Mix until butter is broken into small pieces.
- Add water (1 tablespoon at the time), and blend all the ingredients.
- Divide dough into two portions, and shape each into a 5-inch disk.
- Cover with plastic wrap and chill for 1 hour.
- In a bowl, mix vegan cheese and brown sugar.
- Add applesauce, spices, egg yolk, and vanilla extract to the mixture.
- Cover bowl and refrigerate.
- Preheat oven to 375°F and place parchment paper on a large baking sheet.
- Roll out first disk of dough and cut it into rectangles (you can choose size).
- Roll out second dough disk and cut into 1/2-inch strips.
- Arrange rectangles on the baking sheet and spread 2 tablespoons of apple sauce on each rectangle (leave edges uncoated).
- Brush edges with the mixture of lightly beaten egg white and 1 tablespoon of water.
- Top with strips to create a mummy look and seal edges.
- Brush strips with egg whites and sprinkle with mixture of 2 tablespoons of brown sugar and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon.
- Bake until golden brown, about 20 minutes.
- Stick candy eyes on cooled mummies.


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Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem cries "foul" in the attack directed at Kofi Anan:
The mild-mannered, soft -spoken UN General Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, has been receiving the unwholesome attention of the triumphalist neo-con fundamentalists and also that of sections of what passes for 'liberal' opinion in the USA, a country that is in the grip of right wing extremism. The ostensible reason for shooting pointed arrows at Mr Annan are the salacious but very selective revelations emanating from US investigations into the Iraqi Oil for Food programme. The allegations include corruption, diversion of food money into private
coffers, fraudulent contracts and all manners of under hand activities by individuals and companies (mostly Western), and others. These allegations are not earth shattering given what is going on with US mishandling of Iraqi economy, society and its vital oil resources
since they occupied the country. US companies and principally the notorious Halliburton of the US Vice President Dick Cheney are accused of similar practices. So why is the US so much interested in investigating the UN in Iraq without allowing any censure of its own illegal activities in that country? Even big Western humanitarian agencies that often keep their mouth shut in relation to powerful Western Governments (who were often their biggest Donors or protectors) were sufficiently outraged to break with their unwritten convention (of looking the other side when their governments are misbehaving) and demanded accountability from the US proconsul for Iraq, Paul Bremmer, before he handed over to their crony, Iyad Allawi and other US puppets in the Interim Government of Iraq now. Both Bremmer and the Bush administration
treated the request with contempt because they believe they are above the standards of public probity they demand of everybody else especially those governments or individuals they may not like. Since the US demands accountability from everybody else who dares demand
accountability from the US and its chosen agents? This is why the US has given itself the power to act as global law enforcer but exempts itself from the international criminal court. The Americans can fight wars on behalf of the UN but are not bound by UN procedures or resolutions.
The double standard stinks. The attack on the UN has taken an ironical personal turn for Mr Kofi Annan. His son is alleged to have worked for and received payments from one of the companies accused of being involved in the Iraqi gravy train. And because of this Anan's persecutors are demanding that Uncle Kofi should resign. They want him punished for a yet to be proven criminal act by his son. The logic is that because Anan Sr was inn charge of the UN and these things happened under his watch he should carry the can. Yet nobody demanded the resignation of Bush for allowing the US to be attacked by not concentrating on his watch! Not even the chiefs or operatives of the various security and intelligence services that failed the country on that fateful day were compelled to resign! The fact that Bush's family has a long history of juicy business relationship with the Bin Laden family and the obvious conflicts of interest in that was never an issue for US voters who returned Bush to power. The Enron and Halliburton scandals and the personal involvement of senior administration officials, Republican financiers and other supporters have not led to any resignations in the US government. So why are they calling for Kofi Annan's head?
The reason is not difficult to see. Kofi Anan, like Boutros Boutros- Ghali before him, both of them pro American gentlemen, when they started out, later than sooner, discover that the credibility of the UN and their own personal credibility demand being able to stand up to the bullies in the US who see the UN as an after-sales service complex for American
misadventures. They hounded Boutros-Ghali out of office when he began to resist US more brazen abuse of the UN system and contempt for multilateral solutions. When they were sending attack Dogs at Boutrous-Ghali Mr Annan was the master's poodle presented to the
world as 'safe pair of hands', 'moderate', 'sensible' and all the other superlatives used to dress up being 'a house Nigger'. And he seemed to play ball for many years but over Iraq he began to grumble which became much open during and after the last UN General Assembly when he declared the war against Iraq and the Anglo-American occupation of that country as illegal. Consequently the Bush administration and their screaming loony sects decree an end to his term. Some of the criticisms they are making of Annan today were the same ones many who had opposed his candidacy in 1997 put forward which did not matter to the US then.
For me the biggest stain in his dull bureaucratic career at the UN will remain inaction over genocide in Rwanda which he has been doing everything to atone for in the past few years. However his Rwanda record did not matter then so why now? The answer is simple: Mr
Anan is now tired of being a House Nigger. For talking back to his masters they want to banish him from the palace. It is yet another abject lesson for those Africans or other developing world peoples who always want to play it safe and be on the right side of the big powers. You are nothing but a disposable towel to them. You are not any 'special friend' or 'great
leader' but a convenient tool for sometime and they will get rid of you when you are no longer of service. A defence of Kofi and the UN is a correct thing to do today because those calling for his head and bashing the UN are more dangerous to our world. It is not an endorsement of all Annan /UN did or did not do but an expression of hope that together the whole world can
make the UN to be of better service to humanity. It is a proclamation of a fact that is definitely lost on Bush and his gangsters that The US does not own this world. It is a shared universe in which all of us, big and small countries, rich and poor, super power and powerless, are legitimate stake holders whose interests are better served by genuine cooperation, multilateralism and respectful interdependence, than by bullying by one super power. It is a shared world in which none of us is a tenant to the Americans.

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Being an optimistic leader is usually an asset.
Those individuals tend to see the good in situations, reframe challenges as opportunities, remain calm in high-pressure situations and aren’t easily derailed by setbacks. And on the heels of a years-long pandemic and growing economic uncertainty, one would think a positive outlook would be welcomed. But a new study from Notion Consulting, a leadership and transformation consultancy, found overly optimistic leadership during times of change unintentionally drives an organizational divide between staff…read more
If you’re open to having your blind spots revealed and your assumptions challenged, we’re here to guide you on your journey. Let’s get courageous together.

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Last week we finally learned that Anna Nicole Smith died of an overdose, and nobody said the Kennedys had anything to do with it. Closer to home, it appeared that our local media were reluctantly forced to conclude that they were not likely to find more rotting fragments of the chopped-up Macomb County mom.
And with the disappearance of their favorite stories, our newspapers suddenly discovered that our state government was about to crash and burn in a major way. Our leaders are failing us, and the result threatens to ruin our universities and our schools, and cripple care for the aged and sick, among other things.
The list of casualties includes, by the way, any hope of a better future for Michigan.
What also is painfully apparent is that just when the state needs leadership most, it doesn't have any. We have indeed no, repeat no, leadership, in any real sense of the word.
The Republicans who control the state Senate have been no more than a bunch of hack politicians and ideological zombies.
Some seem to care only about making the Democrats, especially Gov. Jennifer Granholm, look bad. A few really do seem to think that making sure the rich pay as little in taxes as possible is the best way to a brighter future. And some don't give a damn about any future, except their own.
For her part, the governor does understand what's at stake. And she does want to do the right thing. But she seems terminally unwilling or unable or both to fight hard enough or smart enough for any kind of difficult decision.
Leaders rally support to themselves. Nobody is rallying to Granholm. That's in large part because she doesn't even seem to have a clue how to get it done. Because of that, the Democrats are flying off in a hundred directions. You can scarcely blame them. Two months ago, their governor didn't even have the courage to propose her "two-penny tax" herself, in the state of the state speech.
Nor did she even line up the troops to fight for it. Instead, she had her budget director propose it after her mostly happy-talk speech. They dropped it on the legislators, and it was a simple matter for her enemies to kill it.
The governor needed to lead. To tell her people, on television, why this was necessary and what it would do and what would happen to them otherwise.
She did not. The tragedy is that she is perhaps the best speaker of any governor we have ever had. But she doesn't seem to have enough guts to ask people to do anything unpopular, even though she is term-limited and cannot run for governor again. There is nothing else she can run for either.
Why in the world not give this your best shot?
If anybody could sell Michigan on the need for moderate short-term pain for long-term gain, it is she. Yet she didn't even try, and now everyone is off spinning in a dozen directions. New House Speaker Andy Dillon, a Democrat, has some bizarre plan to squeeze $500 million out of the utilities in return for letting them be monopolies again. (Sounds like some version of Mussolini-style "corporate state" fascism.) State Rep. George Cushingberry, who usually has the Legislature's worst attendance, is trying to increase the income tax. Someone else is probably proposing checking sofa cushions for change. With the leadership vacuum showing and Democrats disunited, jubilant Republicans are in full "We need to destroy the state in order to save it" riot gear.
Granholm's blunders have allowed state Sen. Majority Leader Mike Bishop, who represents only a small chunk of Oakland County, to successfully portray himself as her power-sharing equal. And as a result, we are facing disaster. To quote Leonard Cohen, "I have seen the future, brother, and it's murder." We are about to pay for the stupidity of years of small-minded partisanship and weak leaders produced by term limits.
Here's what's going to happen if nothing changes fast:
Sometime in May, the state is projected to run out of cash on hand. That could mean massive layoffs of state employees and the possibility of payless paydays for those left. From there on, it gets worse.
The state has to balance its budget by Sept. 30. When last week started, the deficit was officially $940 million and growing, though the experts thought that the real figure was $1.1 billion or worse.
The gov did manage to shave $344 million off that by delaying payments to colleges and universities and badly hurting already underfunded foster care and welfare programs. Hey, who gives a damn about the neediest?
Nobody much in Michigan, that's who. Yet even those cuts don't get it done. What could happen next is that the state will lack the cash to make the promised payments to schools and universities. That could happen as early as May 20, though they may be able to delay that for a few weeks.
Michigan can't borrow any more to help itself through this crisis. State Treasurer Robert Kleine says Michigan is maxed out on its short-term loans.
The state needs to come up with $1.3 billion just to pay those back by Sept. 30 as well. Without more revenue, more massive, devastating infrastructure cuts are going to have to be made by fall.
If the state doesn't get it together, fast, it will lose its credit rating, and have to pay even more to borrow money; money lenders will be more reluctant to loan. Standard & Poor's, the financial services company, says it plans to downgrade Michigan's credit rating by June 1 if the crisis isn't solved. (Maybe they know Jack Kevorkian appropriately gets out of jail that very day.)
That's more than bad enough but hanging over everything is the specter of the Single Business Tax black hole. The SBT was repealed by the Legislature last year, effective Dec. 31, 2007.
If it is not replaced, another $1.9 billion will be added to the deficit next year. But our dithering politicians still can't agree on a way to replace it.
The Detroit Free Press' still largely un-Gannettized editorial page gets it; they ran an admirable editorial on the front page Sunday, calling on both parties to behave like adults. Both sides, as the paper noted, are dragging their feet.
But what is most of all needed is for the woman we elected to be a leader to take charge. "We put out a plan. The Senate put out a plan. The House gets an opportunity to put out a plan," she languidly told the Gongwer news service last week. Aw, ain't that nice and democratic?
Trouble is, the forward compartments are filling with water now, Captain. You asked to be re-elected, and more than 2 million of us asked you to lead.
Correction: Last week's column on bullying in schools referred to state Rep. Marie Donigan's husband, Kevin McLogan, as the head of the Royal Oak School Board. He was, but the position rotates, and he is now the treasurer.
The anti-bullying bill, despite the best efforts of the homophobes, passed the House, with even some Republicans voting for it. But the haters, led by the twisted American Family Association, are fighting hard to let the bill which protects all kids die in the Senate. Let your state senator know you want this bill to come up for a vote, and that you want it passed.Jack Lessenberry opines weekly for Metro Times. Contact him at [email protected]


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by Neil Greenberg
Dance Theater Workshop
New York City
April 6, 2005
©2005 by Nancy Dalva
introverted. Hermetic, exuberant. Improvisational, prepared. Personal,
impersonal. All of these qualities are embodied in Neil Greenberg's current
choreographic practice, which seemed a bit distanced at Dance Theater
Workshop, where you can see his new pieces called "Partial View."
Greenberg's long been into body work, but it comes across here as head
work. Part of this may be effect rather than affect. That is to say, it
might be caused by the theater, which has a really unfortunate ratio of
width to depth, and an arena-style seating which eliminates the experience,
and even the notion, of foreground and background, instead providing downstage,
where the dancers tend to disappear behind the heads of the people in
the front rows, and less downstage. Or, the distancing, with the dancers
working very hard, but not projecting into the room , may be caused by
the limitations of using one body to establish a formal vocabulary. Or,
maybe Greenberg, having been anti-technique for years, is now against
projection, against theatricality.
The first part of the piece is a solo called "partial view solo,"
in which we find the choreographer in handsome form, and also handsome
spirit. For no matter what he is dancing, Greenberg is soulful—which
is not something he can do much about, nor is it something anyone can
copy. And he's loveable, another quality no one can assume, like a costume,
or learn, like a technique. Or copy, like a style, which is what he is
here setting forth, in a twenty minute movement primer in which he codifies
his own carefully acquired vocabulary, in a series of near repetitions,
torqued to different directions. Greenberg famously abandoned Cunningham
technique for bodywork some nineteen years ago, but where his own performance
used to have an aura of intentional reduction, it now has a feeling of
pressing to his limits. Same kind of thing, but played out on a different
instrument—let us say one more mellow.
And yet, what he is up to is quietly violent—he is exploding a phrase,
and somehow following up each of its fragments—at least that's what
it looked like to me, for it is clear there is a formal logic here. It
is also personal. It all looks, in a word, like Neil.
what comes next, the quartet called "Partial View"—moving
from lower case to upper case in the titles—also looks like Neil,
times four. Each of the dedicated individuals—Justine Lynch, Paige
Martin, Luke Miller, and Colin Stilwell, all in simple colorful tops and
plain trousers (provided by Liz Prince, a skillful editor of daily attire)—moves
like Greenberg, and does his moves. These four do not interact by touching
or partnering—there was one accidental touch in passing, and wow,
was it a shock!—but by subtle variations in synchronization. (Thus,
with all four on stage, if two people do the same thing
at the same time, that is a duet, played against two solos; if three do
it, it is a trio played against a solo; if all four do the same phrase
in slight dis-synchronization, each facing a different direction...Well,
you get the point.) Each is involved in an impersonation, a kind of mimicry
of Greenberg's style, from which there is deviation of two varieties:
either they embody him and get past it, or they don't quite get there,
just because of who they are. There is a curious gender neutrality that
isn't neutral at all, because although the moves are the same for everyone,
the girls are lovely, and dishy; and the guys hunky, and dishy. Luke Miller
has two solos that illustrate this paradigm to perfection: in the first,
he is spookily like the choreographer. In the second, he attacks the movement
with such ferocity that he is himself. Ah, transcendence!
The choreography is interworked with pristine and artful video and photography
by John Jesurun, whose sensitivity to the Greenberg method is echoes by
the images he projects behind the dancers: explosions, things flying apart.
Things run backwards and forward. Captured images—Baghdad at night
under fire, a house flying apart, a child swimming, etc., etc., transcend
what they are and achieve formalist heaven, but retain the emotional force
of their origins. And then there is the video, in real time, of the dancers
as they dance, projected behind them. Here, Jesurun is a brilliant practitioner
of what you might call "corrective architecture." He provides
what the theater cannot: long vistas, multiple directionality, interesting
perspective. He is also here a devotee of the double screen, as if in
response to the dancers' quadruple doubling of the choreographer.
The composer Zeena Parkins is the third participant in the composition,
and what she explodes is the harp, an instrument she rescues from the
heavenly baroque. For the solo, she plays solo on an acoustic instrument,
but electonically tracked on top of herself. She wrenches the strings,
she rakes them in harsh glissandi, she pounds the sounding board in a
ferocious extension of Castilian style, incorporating the very sounds
harpists are taught not to make: buzzes, twangs, and such. She adjusts
the pedals to take advantage of the instrument's innate capacity to double
notes, so that adjacent strings sound the same tone. She revels in half
steps, double flats, and clamor—none of this is played live, which
would be interesting, but surely steal the show, a real risk here anyway.
For the quartet, Parkins plays an electric harp of her own invention,
augmented by marimba, vibraphone, framedrums, wooden flutes, and voice.
It's a real conflama she has going, and if her approach were symphonic,
she would overwhelm the choreography. But because the music transpires
as a sound track—that is, episodically—it supports the dancing.
Still, maybe the music keeps you from thinking too much. Maybe it doesn't.
Maybe the videography makes you think too much. Maybe it doesn't. Michael
Stiller lights the whole thing without too much manipulation, but some.
You looks where he wants you to. He's an auteur. In fact, what we have
at DTW is a pack of auteurs, with Neil Greenberg the subject. They're
all scripting from their own points of view, but it's his story they're
telling, if partially.
First: Paige Martin, Luke Miller in "Partial View". Photo
by Jason Akira Somma
Second: Justine Lynch, Colin Stilwell in "Partial View".
Photo by Jason Akira Somma
April 11, 2005
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The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
The forming of dies in steel to strike medals or money, is generally with the intention of making a great number of the same form.
The engraving those dies in steel is, from the hardness of the substance, very difficult and expensive, but, once engraved, the great number to be easily produced afterward by stamping justifies the expense, it being but small when divided among a number.
Where only one medal of a kind is wanted, it seems an unthrifty way to form dies for it in steel to strike the two sides of it, the whole expense of the dies resting on that medal.
It was by this means that the medal voted by Congress for M. de Fleury cost one hundred guineas, when an engraving of the same figures and inscriptions might have been beautifully done on a plate of silver of the same size for two guineas.
The ancients, when they ordained a medal to record the memory of any laudable action, and do honour to the performer of that action, s


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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico this week quietly signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, a controversial multinational treaty that sponsors say protects intellectual property but opponents call an assault on privacy and freedom of expression.
Ambassador Claude Heller of Mexico signed the agreement Wednesday on behalf of the Mexican government in Japan. The signing immediately set off condemnation among Internet activists in Mexico, who called the government’s move a strategic ruse in an election year.
Mexico’s Senate must ratify the treaty, but the chamber rejected ACTA in 2010 (link in Spanish).
By signing it while Congress is not in session -- and just days after the presidential election -- the administration of President Felipe Calderon is in effect forcing the issue to the front of the agenda once the new Congress convenes in September and before Calderon’s term expires. The president-elect, Enrique Peña Nieto, assumes office for a six-year term in December. Peña Nieto has so far not indicated a position on the treaty.
ACTA has been negotiated and debated by world governments since it first emerged in 2008. The agreement would help improve international efforts to prosecute content and intellectual-property piracy, including digital and Internet platforms, but also covering trademarks, brands and pirated pharmaceuticals.
Opponents say governments could abuse ACTA and target private users with criminal charges for downloading copyrighted material, for example, or force Internet service providers to monitor the online activity of users and turn data over to authorities (link in Spanish).
The United States is a key signatory as of October 2011 with Australia, Canada, Korea, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and Japan. Last week, the European Parliament rejected ACTA in a crucial vote, a setback for the treaty. ACTA is ‘too vague, open to misinterpretation, and could therefore jeopardize citizens’ liberties,’ the parliament said in a statement.
Mexico’s signing, although contingent on ratification by the new Senate, revives momentum for ACTA supporters.
Rodrigo Roque Diaz, director of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property, or IMPI, said in an interview that the government would ask Congress to develop legislation in the fall that would ‘jointly’ protect Internet users concerned about privacy.
‘The idea is not to criminalize the independent, private user of the Internet; the idea is to sanction those who are violating author rights on a commercial scale,’ Roque Diaz told The Times.
Piracy in Mexico, which is commonly associated with outdoor markets where illegally produced DVDs and CDs are sold, ‘generates great economic and tax losses’ estimated at 2.7 million pesos (about $200,000) an hour, he said.
Activists in Mexico promised this week to vigorously oppose ratification of ACTA once the Senate convenes. They’ve started a Twitter campaign to request that each senator-elect stake out a position now (link in Spanish).
So far, leftist legislators are assumed to oppose ACTA, while the ruling conservative party members are assumed to support it. Peña Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party will hold the most seats in the new Senate, but the party’s position on ACTA is yet unclear.
Antonio Martinez, a free-speech advocate and one of the forefront voices against the treaty during the Senate’s working-group debates on the issue in 2009 and 2010, said the government’s signing of ACTA is ‘trickery.’
‘It’s a very bad signal from the government to the outgoing Senate and to civil society; it’s disdainful of all the work done in the legislature,’ Martinez said Friday. ACTA ‘is dangerous for what it doesn’t say. The IMPI is wrong, and it’s almost as though they haven’t even read the treaty,’ he said.
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La Carte D'Apres Nature curated by Thomas Demand. First edition (2010). First impression. Large format hardback in fine condition. There is also a booklet tipped in to rear of book. No markings. Please see pictures. Any questions please get in touch.
About La Carte D'Apres NatureLa Carte d'apres Nature was published to accompany an exhibition curated by Thomas Demand at Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. Firstly, it takes its title from a short-lived art magazine created by René Magritte between. So, Magritte's publication ran for just fourteen issues and each consisted of a postcard and illustrations and short stories. Therefore, in a similar fashion, Thomas Demand has selected artworks by eighteen artists. They are related to each other in an associative manner. Moreover, the selected work is connected by two ideas: tamed nature and Surrealism as an artistic form fashioned by Magritte. Just as Magritte himself related ideas from different eras, Demand chose works by different generations of artists. Such as: Saâdane Afif, Kudjo Affutu and Becky Beasley. Next, the book, designed by Thomas Demand and Naomi Misuzaki, takes Margritte's notion of free association further. It combines the wide range of works into an elaborate exploration of the disjuncture between the representation of art and the representation itself. Christy Lange's engaging essay traces this idea that a representation of nature is always a simulacrum through the work of the different artists. So, for example, relating the surrealist resonance of Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri's 'impossible landscapes' to Margritte's playful canvases and Demand's photographs of his paper sculptures.
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Wageningen University and Research centre has been using an infrared camera to take an inside look into the inner structure of plants. In the past year, they’ve photographically dissected roses buds, Anthurium leaves, lilacs and Viburnum giving them a look into the inner structures and health of the plants without penetrating the surface. The infrared cameras were also used in greenhouse settings to facilitate maintenance in detecting leaks and temperature fluctuations and disparities in the greenhouse.
The process is relatively simple as the technology already exists. The camera is pointed at the plant and picks up infrared radiation. The amount of radiation depends on the emissivity and temperature coming from inside and around the specific organism. Radiation is measured by detected how much radiation is reflected (like sunlight) and how much is transmitted by the leaf by the plant; transmission is usually low as leaves absorb only absorb a few wavelengths. Abilities such as delivering or absorbing heat are caused by the emissivity of the organism where each individual organism has a emissivity range from no emissivity, 0, to complete emissivity, 1. For example, Asphalt, the material that roads are made out of has a very high emissivity and emanates high levels of infrared radiation as it absorbs a lot of infrared radiation.
When orienting this concept around a greenhouse, as we know, there are many factors that can effect plant health and growth, the same goes for infrared measurement. Sunlight and water droplets on leaves can reflect a lot of infrared radiation. Even rubber pipes, potting soil, aluminium benches and black plastic emit high levels of infrared radiation with the aluminium benching emitting lower levels of radiation. This makes it harder to gauge the exact levels of infrared radiation and must be taken into account when using this tech when viewing the plants.
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The image above illustrates young chrysanthemums in a greenhouse environment. This means they’re surrounded by plastic pipes, soil and water droplets to show you the variability of radiation. According to WUR, “The cameras must be well oriented and free from disturbing sources to properly measure the temperature of a plant”
According to science direct, over time these cameras can be used to monitor plant health in real time and help further our development into plant maintenance and real time situation analysis and action.
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Nimbus is a new client for Ethereum's next stage of development. It's a new node, if you will. If you're an Ethereum protocol layperson and are trying to understand what Nimbus actually is right now, you've come to the right place.
We'll discuss sharding, scaling, and everything the announcement post mentions in another post (or several) - the intention here is to get you familiar with Nimbus in a way that teaches you what Nimbus is today.
We want you to understand what this tool is, why it's here, how to use it and how to contribute to it so you, too, can help us build the new Ethereum.
What is Nimbus right now?
For a broad overview of what it wants to be, see the announcement.
As of October 2018 - it's a set of tools which executes and passes a set of unit tests. In layman's terms, a unit test is computer code which needs to run without errors when executed. When executed through Nimbus, the results of this code's execution should not produce any errors. If all these tests pass, Nimbus can be considered an Ethereum client.
This is what a beautiful screen of passing tests looks like.
As of March 2019, Nimbus will sync the proof of work Ethereum blockchain up to block 1.1 million and then crash. We're slowly but surely ironing out our implementation of the EVM and working towards a stable full chain sync. Help us debug it!
At the same time, the Ethereum 2.0 side of Nimbus is being developed in the nim-beacon-chain repository, and this implementation is currently able to simulate a beacon chain and spawn simulated beacon nodes that talk to each other and build this new blockchain. For status updates about that, please follow our blog.
So What's The Point?
Right now, the team is developing a set of tools and libraries to satisfy the requirements of Ethereum 2.0: sharding support, scaling methods, fork choice, network simulation, testnet, etc. Despite this focus, Nimbus will eventually be an alternative to Geth and Parity as a full Ethereum node, but will also include features that can make it run as a light node - a node that doesn't need to download the full blockchain - or even a stateless node - a node that doesn't need to download state at all to be able to verify it.
Given that the tests we mentioned earlier are easier to pass with a client in full node mode, Nimbus will first be developed as a full node and then be upgraded with features required to make it run as a light node.
The ultimate point, however, is to have the Ethereum 2.0 version out in test form in Q1 of 2019, and able to talk to other beacon node proof of concept implementations in Spring of 2019.
In order to fulfil its goal of running on low end and embedded devices, Nimbus will have to be extremely customizable. The ultimate goal is to have it support a plug and play module system in the form of APIs interacting with the Nimbus core.
Specifically, Nimbus will have different forms of builds. You'll be able to use its source code with certain flags (options) indicating what and how to build your copy of Nimbus - a copy you're putting onto a Nokia 3310 or into a smart oven won't be the same as a copy on a powerful desktop machine and that won't be the same as a copy you'll be installing into a microusb to plug into a hidden public USB outlet to covertly decentralize the network 🕵♂
And, yes, you'll be able to do all this.
Interfaces (like JSON-RPC, or one for embedded Java) will be developed for the different operating systems Nimbus is being installed on - we're focusing on open hardware, but we're not planning to leave any platform behind. Nimbus will provide an EVM-C interface, for example, so all clients that use it will be able to choose if they want to use Aleth, Geth or Nimbus.
Another modular part will be the back-end (SQLite or RocksDB), the logging (console, file, json, database) and the networking protocols i.e. being agnostic regarding specific Eth protocols and using plain http/s to bypass filtering (like public WiFi or censorship). This is being done with Libp2p as the base networking layer which supports multi-address so you can use a single address to connect to a node through a variety of protocols.
Are you competing with Geth?
Yes and no. It's been a mission of Ethereum from day 0 to have multiple client implementations available at all times for the sake of network health and stability in case of bugs in one version. As an example, a bug in Bitcoin Core will hurt the entire Bitcoin blockchain because Bitcoin Core is used in 95% of the cases.
This is unacceptable in Ethereum, so we strive to diversify client implementations as much and as evenly as possible. Right now, Ethereum has Parity vs. Geth distributed relatively evenly with dust of other implementations sprinkled in between. The goal is to have some form of Nimbus take up at least a quarter of that pie.
Note that we're not looking to undermine Geth's or Parity's prevalence. We're looking to add new devices into the ecosystem and expand Ethereum's reach rather than replace the current nodes. As an example, Status will be using Nimbus once it's ready.
Enough talk, let's build.
Before we begin, we'll assume that:
- you've read the introduction to Nim and thus have Nim available
- you're on a command-line friendly system like OS X or Linux. If you're on Windows, we highly recommend spinning up a preconfigured Nim-friendly virtual machine with Vagrant or installing Git Bash and tools.
Note: the Nimbus build system uses Makefiles to make the process identical, easy to update, and compatible with any OS. We don't use Nim's package manager Nimble because it's fundamentally broken.
git clone [email protected]:status-im/nimbus
To run Nimbus, we'll need the RocksDB database. On OS X, execute:
brew install rocksdb
On Linux, this should do it:
sudo apt-get install librocksdb-dev rocksdb # or your own Linux distribution's equivalent
On Windows, please first make sure you have
make installed - either in the form of
MinGW32make.exe via MinGW website or regular old make installed through Git Bash or a package manager like Chocolatey:
choco install make
Note - Windows requires you to add programs you want to be able to execute from anywhere on your machine to your PATH environment variable. This is done by simply opening the Start Menu, searching for "Env", selecting "Edit the system environment variables", clicking on Environment Variables in the popup, and then editing the PATH variable in the list by adding a new entry that corresponds to the folder into which you installed your version of
make (Choco takes care of this for you, only applies if you installed manually). This is what mine looks like.
This downloads the rocksdb and sqlitedb DLL files into
nimbus/build so that the built program can read them.
Building, Testing, Running
To build Nimbus:
On OS X / Linux:
The Nimbus client will now be in
build/nimbus on any OS and can be run with the same command:
It should synchronize up to block 1.1 million and then crash, as mentioned above. This will take a few hours and will probably need some few dozen GB of hard drive space!
To test, run:
make test # (or mingw32make.exe test on Win if you use mingw32)
This is what passing tests look like.
To update the source files for a rebuild:
To clean the slate and start with a fresh build:
To run and test the Ethereum 2.0 version of Nimbus (the network simulation):
You should now see attestations and blocks being produced and confirmed and a bunch of other details from the nodes as they do their thing. More information about this simulation can be found in this post.
If you're re-running the simulation and want to start from scratch, use the following command:
Congratulations - you're now running Nimbus, to an extent. In a future post we'll dissect some of the tests, look into contributing to Nimbus, dive into the Nim language and much more.


The recently opened Dubai Energy and Water Authority’s (DEWA) Sustainable Building in Dubai has been awarded LEED Platinum status, becoming the largest public sector building in the world to achieve that status and set a new standard in sustainable building construction. It is also the United Arab Emirates’ first public sector green building, was constructed with 36 percent recycled materials, features high-efficiency insulation, and has been designed to reduce water consumption by 48 percent and energy consumption by 66 percent.
Earlier this year, the World Record Academy awarded a home in Dillingham, Alaska with the record for the Tightest Residential Building.
In a video that documents the blower door test, the home’s owners and residents, Dr. Tom Marsik and Kristin Donalson, who designed and built the extremely insulated building, explain their motivation to push the limits of green building methods. The blower door test, which used a special attachment to get the most accurate reading, pressurized the building and then measured the flow that was needed to maintain the difference in pressure from the outside.
Designed by Charles Wright Architects to satisfy a desire for a carbon-neutral home, the Stamp House is located on the edge of the beachfront rainforest in Far North Queensland (FNQ), Australia, a region that includes over seventy national parks and contributes up to AU$700 million annually in agricultural products that include sugar cane, bananas, mangoes, and coffee.
A shortage of affordable housing in London has led to an increase in the number of homeless people on city streets, as young people who lose their supported accommodation benefits when securing full-time employment often can not afford deposits for affordable flat rentals.
The new NASA Sustainability Base was designed by William McDonough + Partners to embody the spirit of NASA while fostering collaboration, supporting health and well-being, and exceed the requirements of LEED® Platinum with systems that will eventually use only renewable energy and closed-loop water maintenance facilities.
Located in Venice, California and designed by Brooks + Scarpa, the Yin Yang home provides private living spaces for a family that includes several children along with commercial office space for its owners and recently made the top ten list of Green Projects as compiled by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE).


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Jason Eagle of Strategic Healing came to our little firm looking for web design. When we found our that he didn't have a logo we suggested starting there. You can follow the progress for the logo as we transition from a spectrum of designs. With each round of revisions Mr. Eagle kept us on our toes. We even explored a completely different concept #13, 14, and 15 before moving onto what would become the final logo after a few more rounds of revisions. Strategic Healing now has a stunning evergreen logo that plays off of Mr. Eagles name.
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And the no-hitters keep on coming. Matt Cain pitched a perfect game for the San Francisco Giants Wednesday night. It was the fifth no-hitter in Major League Baseball this season and it's only June. Audie Cornish talks to sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about where Cain's performance ranks in the record books and why no-hitters, which used to be rare, are now seemingly routine.
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Fornite "Infinity Blade" Backlash refers to the addition of an all-powerful weapon, the Infinity Blade, from the video game Infinity Blade to the video game Fortnite. Both games were produced by the developer Epic. Following the addition, fans of the game complained that the Infinity Blade was too powerful, so Epic removed the weapon.
On December 10th, 2018, the official Fortnite Twitter  account tweeted an advertisement for the weapon. The post received more than 14,000 retweets, 90,000 likes and 14 million views in one week.
Two days later on December 11th, Epic released Fortnite version 7.01, which included the Infinity Blade.
Coming soon… a weapon fit for a King 🗡👑 pic.twitter.com/n3kMDCS5IH— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) December 10, 2018
Over the next 24 hours, fans and players of the game complained about the sword on various websites. On Twitter, fans and players called the weapon "horrible" and said that they would be leaving the game until it was removed (shown below).
On December 12th, Redditor  WindAeris created a "mega thread," culling together all discussions about the blade. They wrote, "With the recent patch as you all know, the game's first new/additional melee weapon and the game's first Mythic weapon was introduced in the form of The Infinity Blade, a homage to the Infinity Blade series and a new addition that has to say in the last stirred up some discussion around the subreddit. We have noticed a huge influx of posts about it and for the health of discussion about it would like to offer this megathread as a redirect point for less in depth threads that way each individual point has more exposure." The post received more than 960 points (76% upvoted) and 2,700 comments.
Two days later, Redditor Fortnitenoob202 posted "Mythic items have no place in the game, and they will ruin it" in the /r/FortniteBR subreddit. In the thread, they criticized the weapon. They wrote:
"The Infinity Blade is insane. I know Epic's going to nerf it, taking out building while a player has it in 7.10, but it still doesn't fit in a game like Fortnite. For those that don't know the exact stats, the Infinity Blade allows 130% mobility, has 2 attacks, one that swings the blade in a circle, dealing 75 damage to anyone inside its range, and another attack that allows the player wielding the blade to jump extremely far, launching players within its range into the air, as well as dealing 25 damage. Both attacks can be done in rapid succession. The Blade also grants the player wielding it a maximum 200 health and 200 shield, both of which can be regenerated if damage is taken, at a rate of 1 health or shield per second (doesn't work for a few seconds after getting hit or taking damage in other ways) and killing another player grants 50 health or shield, unless both are full. The player wielding the Blade can also tear through structures instantly, and can build their own (as of writing this post, it will allegedly be removed in 7.10).
It's not a balanced weapon, to say the least. However, the removal of building will make mobility items and long range weapons it's weakness more than before, so at least there's that. But what's the point of carrying balloons just because I don't want to die to a single player in my lobby? Any and all items should be used to a player's discretion, not forced upon a player because of a single item. While some players want to play a legitimate game, most others (at least 30 per game, at least in the games I've played) would rather take a shot at getting the Blade early, and instantly killing anyone and everyone within their sight. This makes it impossible to play the game as I believe Epic intends it to be played. A battle royale. Not some ridiculous luck-based system where whoever wins over a single location has an extremely high chance of winning the whole game.
On December 13th, an Epic representative posted a thread about the Infinity Blade on the /r/FortniteBR subreddit. They wrote:
"The change we’re currently planning for the Infinity Blade in our v7.10 update is to remove the ability to build and harvest when wielding the Blade.
"When designing the Infinity Blade the goal was to provide a weapon with inherent risk to balance out the great capability it provides – the ability to harvest/build removes a great deal of that risk. By taking away the ability to harvest/build we hope to tune the Infinity Blade to where it feels risky to have, but still satisfying to wield."
On December 14th, @FortniteGame tweeted, "Heya folks, We messed up and rolled out the Infinity Blade overpowered / without good counters, especially in the end game. The Infinity Blade has been Vaulted and we are re-evaluating our approach to Mythic items. Thanks for calling us out on this!" The tweet received more than 26,000 retweets and 184,000 likes in three days (shown below).
Several media outlets covered the backlash, including Forbes, Variety, TechCrunch and more.
 Twitter – @FortniteGame's Post
 Epic Games – V7.01 Patch Notes
 Reddit – Infinity Blade – Megathread
 Reddit – Mythic items have no place in the game, and they will ruin it.
 Reddit – Let’s talk about the Infinity Blade!
 Twitter – @FortniteGame's Tweet
 Forbes – Epic's Fortnite Infinity Blade 'Fix' Feels Dangerously Close To Trolling
 Variety – ‘Fortnite’ Devs Remove Controversial Infinity Blade
 TechCrunch – Epic sheathes Infinity Blade after Fortnite fan backlash
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