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A Vet’s Advice on Keeping Our Pet’s Healthy and Happy this Easter
Flowers are blooming, birds are singing, and Easter is just around the corner!
And while the holidays are loaded with fun and goodies for us humans to enjoy, some of our four-legged counterparts may find themselves a bit more vulnerable during the festivities.
My Dog Spot sat down with our friend and veterinarian Dr. Evelyn of Petsadena Animal Hospital this week, and she gave us tons of great advice on how we can keep our fur babies happy and healthy this Easter.
So, what did we talk about first?
Well, the Easter Lily of course! But is the Easter Lily really toxic to our pets, and if so, what should we do if we think a pet of ours has consumed one?
Let’s find out!
Is the Easter Lily Toxic to Pets?
The Easter Lily is a popular flower that is often given as a gift or put out as decoration on Easter.
But as lovely as it is, it can be quite poisonous to our pets. For dogs, consuming bits of Easter Lily can leave him with stomach upset and digestive issues.
For cats, however, consuming parts of the Easter Lily can be deadly.
For this reason, Dr. Evelyn suggests that cat owners avoid purchasing an Easter Lily at all. But what do you do if you have pets and a well-meaning friend or relative brings an Easter Lily along as a gift?
Make sure you keep the plant in a safe location that is out of reach of your pets. If you have a particularly stealthy cat or dog who likes to get into things, Dr. Evelyn suggests maybe just tossing the Lily or giving it away.
But is the Easter Lily the only flower that pet owners should worry about when it comes to poisonous Easter plants?
Another popular Easter flower that can prove toxic to pets is the Tulip.
However, and as Dr. Evelyn points out, Tulips are mostly toxic to dogs and are primarily dangerous when dogs dig the flowers up from gardens and eat their bulbs.
Lilies, on the other hand, are toxic to both dogs and cats, especially the lilies that belong to the Lilium or Hemerocallis species.
Lilies of this species list include
- Easter Lilies
- Tiger Lilies
- Japanese Show Lilies
- Day Lilies
- Asiatic Hybrid Lilies
- Rubrum Lilies
- Red Lilies
- Rubrum Lilies
- Red Lilies
- Western Lilies
- And Wood Lilies
So, what do you do if you think your dog or cat may have consumed a toxic plant this Easter? Keep reading.
What Should I Do if I Think My Pet Ate an Easter Lily?
We can’t keep an eye on our pets all day every day, and unfortunately, dogs and cats can be innately curious little creatures.
As Dr. Evelyn notes, if you notice that part of your Easter Lily plant is missing, or the Tulip garden looks a bit “dug up”, then it may be time to consult your veterinarian.
If you are not sure whether or not your dog or cat has eaten something toxic but are seeing symptoms that make you wonder if something is off with them, Dr. Evelyn still recommends you follow up with your pet’s doctor immediately.
When it comes to pets consuming something poisonous, more often than not time plays a key factor in their recovery.
So, what symptoms should pet owners watch out for? Remember, lily poisoning symptoms in dogs and cats present themselves differently.
Let’s see what Dr. Evelyn says.
Lily Poisoning Symptoms for Cats
Consumption of all parts of an Easter Lily (or any of the lilies mentioned above) can lead to kidney failure in cats and can be deadly if not treated immediately.
Lily poisoning symptoms for cats include
- Loss of appetite
- Excessive thirst or decreased thirst
- Excessive urination or decreased urination
- Inability to walk
- Kidney Failure
If you think your cat has consumed any part of an Easter Lily, even if it is just a petal, Dr. Evelyn suggests bringing your cat into the veterinarian’s office straight away.
Lily Poisoning Symptoms for Dogs
Although lily poisoning is considered much more dangerous for cats, dogs can still suffer serious consequences from consuming the toxic plant as well.
Dr. Evelyn notes that symptoms to look out for in dogs include
- Reduced appetite
- Vomiting or Diarrhea
- Excessive thirst
- Frequent urination
For further assistance, Dr. Evelyn says that concerned pet owners can also call animal poison control at 1 (888) 426-4435.
What Other Easter Goodies Are Toxic to Pets?
Some Easter treats are obviously going to be bad for our pets. Still, there are also some Easter favorite foods that are bad for our pets that may surprise you.
Dr. Evelyn suggests keeping your pets away from Easter favorite foods like
- Artificial Sweeteners that contain Xylitol
- Rich, fatty, spicy or greasy foods
Of course, toxic plants and unhealthy human foods are not the only things we may need to protect our pets from this Easter.
Traditional Easter grass used to fill Easter baskets can pose quite a threat to curious pets, especially cats who like to dig and play in the soft, stringy paper.
If you are a pet owner, you can still have your traditional, colorful basket fun. Just substitute the Easter grass for tissue paper!
Dr. Evelyn warns that pet owners should also be aware of plastic eggs and children’s toys that may not be suitable for pets to play with or chew on.
And remember, the change of pace, scenery, and plethora of new faces can be stressful on our pets as well.
Read our article on reducing Halloween anxiety to learn how you can help your pet cope with the chaos of holidays.
How Can I Include My Pets in the Easter Fun While Keeping Them Safe and Healthy?
For most of us pet parents, our fur babies are like our children. We want to include them in all the holiday fun and festivities!
But as Dr. Evelyn points out, sharing full-blown Easter meals with our pets can cause serious digestive problems and allowing them to run rampant during the Easter Egg hunt could lead to intestinal blockages due to chewed plastic eggs and swallowed toys and treats.
Still, that doesn’t mean you and your furry friend can’t enjoy Easter together.
There are plenty of ways you can keep your pet happy and healthy while also helping them enjoy the Easter festivities alongside you.
Offer your fur-friend pet-safe treats or some tasty meal toppers to add some pizzazz to his or her routine dinner!
You can even fill Easter eggs with dog or cat treats and throw your pet their very own Easter egg hunt! Of course, remember to keep track of the plastic eggs so you can help your pet get into them safely.
For more on how you can keep your pet safe all year long, and to learn more about Dr. Evelyn and Petsadena Animal Hospital, visit www.Petsadena.com!

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This article revolves around the subject vertical gardening and how Columbia Asia Hospital in Sarjapur Road is using greenery and nature as an healing source
“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her!”
So said high priest of nature, William Wordsworth in his poem ‘Tintern Abbey’! Nature has since the beginning of time, not only created and sustained us, but also helped us recuperate and heal. And even till this date, when we live in the concrete jungles and are surrounded by state of art technology, we cannot help fall back to nature for healing us!
For most part of the twentieth century, the system and scheme of healthcare facilities were mostly concerned with the dominant curative medical model of treatment of maladies. The closing decades of the last century saw an increasing inclination towards a holistic approach to healthcare that recognises a deep but subtle relation between mind, body and life force which brought into the frame, the importance of healing gardens or restorative gardens in medical models. Experimental evidences suggest that patient rehabilitation necessitates the provision to include nature and open-air spaces in hospitals.
The endeavours by experts to incorporate nature into healthcare premises have been described multifariously as restorative gardens, healing gardens, contemplative gardens, enabling gardens and therapeutic gardens. Here, rather than emphasising on the atomistic notion of curing an individual of an ailment, the stress is upon a holistic curative methodology where the fringe benefits are associated with stress relief and the abilities of the nature to calm, to soothe and rejuvenate one’s mind and spirits as well. Restorative gardens or healing gardens first sprung up during the Middle Ages in Europe. Hospitals for the ailing and insane often included courtyards which served as places for cogitation and relaxation, growing flowers and fruits. A primary utility of the space is to provide a safe haven, to help in therapy and recuperation. According to healthcare architect Roger S. Ulrich, “a healing garden refers to a variety of garden features that have in common a consistent tendency to foster restoration from stress and have other positive influences on patients, visitors, and staff or caregivers.”
Columbia Asia Hospital, Sarjapur, Bengaluru has revolutionised this concept of healing gardens by introducing the idea of vertical gardening. Vertical gardening is a type of new age healing gardens that makes optimised use of spatially challenged urban landscape and architecture. Another advantage of the vertical gardens: they offer ease of accessibility, irrespective of whether one is walking, or on wheelchair or a stroller. Also, the plants are at reachable height where it is feasible for people touch and smell. Vertical gardens are not only splendid to look at, but also help one to feel relaxed and rejuvenated by striking the right chords to play the soothing tune nature.
Apart from the therapeutic benefits derived, the vertical gardens or green walls, as they are also known as, are found to be aiding in the reduction of the overall temperatures of the building in urban spaces. The flora, because of transpiration, keeps the buildings cooler. Vertical gardens are particularly suitable for urban spaces since they make great use of available wall areas. These could also serve as urban agriculture spaces while adding to the aesthetic and therapeutic values. Sometimes horizontal gardens are also built indoors to mitigate the ‘sick building syndrome’ since green walls are also recognised for improving the breathing atmosphere considerably even in closed spaces.
Vertical gardens, as healing gardens in hospitals provide a feeling of safety and peace, and thus help to soothe our spirits and relax. They infuse in people, a sense of tranquillity and hope, by communicating on various planes through sight, touch and smell. Today, vertical garden as therapeutic landscape design is intended by its architects to stimulate rhythms that vitalises the body, invigorates the mind and the spirit, and thus augment recuperation. The urban environment is overtly taxing, which gives rise to alleviated stress levels in the body. A touch of nature in these concrete jungles never fails to work wonders and invigorates humans with renewed life-force!

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Most of us associate Patagonia with the rugged, southernmost tip of America and/or with a brand of colorful, high-tech, high quality (and somewhat high priced) outdoor clothes one would wear to explore that place. And most of us have at least a feeling that there is some deeper, ‘ecological twist’ to how the two relate to each other, if not some knowledge of it. No wonder, Patagonia is a leading outdoor gear brand with over well over half a billion dollars in sales worldwide to its name.
But it all started very humbly with an 18-year old selling climbing spikes out of his parent’s backyard of who seemed to be on a mission.
Myth and Mission
Young Yvon Chouinard was an outdoorsman (others would call him a ‘bum’) hanging out with like-minded climbers and surfers in wilderness camps in the mountains and on the beaches of the Western US. They sometimes sifted through supermarket dumpsters and grilled poached squirrels to stretch the limited budget. It was to supplement that budget and because his fellow climbers asked for his superior, self-designed climbing equipment that Yvon started a business of hand-forging climbing pitons from old car axles in the early sixties. By 1970, the company* was the biggest specialty climbing gear maker in the US. As his pitons became more and more popular, he found more and more scarring signs of them being used along climbing routes, thus defacing the previously pristine landscape he admired so much. So in 1972, Yvon and his business partner took the dramatic (and for the business traumatic-) decision to discontinue their best-selling product (70% of sales) and replace it with aluminum chocks which required climbers to adopt a new technique of wedging the chocks into existing cracks in the rocks and retrieve them as they move on. Chouinard explained the decision and made a passionate appeal for “clean climbing” in a 14-page essay in the company’s printed catalogue, the early-days-equivalent of a popular ‘blog’ for outdoor enthusiasts like him.
The company’s creation myth is physically enshrined in a little corrugated tin shed that served as the first ‘forge’ and sits next to the company’s modern headquarter building in Ventura, California. But the sustained power of the myth stems from it being religiously re-told, re-enacted, relived. Whether it is by elder Chouinard himself still insisting he is a craftsman, not a businessman while fiddling around on an energy-efficient camping stove in that shed (Inc, 2013) or being interviewed while scaling Mount Arrowhead without cams (Outside, 2001). Or his friends, employees and disciples living the ‘Patagoniac life’ and reporting about (view more examples of ‘organic brand storytelling’ below).
The piton episode in the early history of the company also reveals key elements of what will shape up to become the uniquely defining mission of the brand: “Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, and use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.” (Patagonia.com)
Already in 1974 Chouinard reasoned in one of his catalogue essays that “No longer can we assume the Earth’s resources are limitless; … Mountains are finite, and despite their massive appearance, they are fragile.” And Patagonia has taken many – often drastic – steps to balance the desires to make the best designed outdoor gear possible and to protect that outdoor environment to be explored. For Patagonia believes that getting out there and exploring nature is the best way to appreciate and ultimately wanting to protect it. Thus the original and popular Patagonia clothes made of top quality, rugged cotton had to be laboriously and expensively ‘re-sourced’ when the companies found out through its own environmental audit in the early nineties that the industrial treatment of cotton had a very negative ecological footprint. As in the case of the pitons, Patagonia went about advocating the use of pesticide free cotton by the clothing industry and that consumers should insist on it. Creating moral and physical demand ahead of supply, Patagonia’s move triggered the birth of the California organic cotton industry and chaperoned it to world leadership. But Patagonia did not stop there. Its declared goal is to make all its clothing eternally re-usable or compostable.
Patagonia’s iconic, brightly colored fleece “Snap-T Pullovers” – which were launched, became extremely popular (and copied) in the eighties – and its leadership in the use of performance synthetic fiber use- since carry the same the same distinctive brand DNA. Fleece turned out to have the concurrent warming, wicking and water-repelling characteristics that outdoor sportspeople where yearning for. At the same time, it opened up the possibility to be made of recycled materials such as soda bottles, manufacturing waste … and worn-out Patagonia clothes. The signal-colors, when traditional outdoor gear sported ‘earth colors’, serve as a call to attention and action: ‘Use these technically and environmentally more superior and meaningful products (instead).’ The consumer followed the call enthusiastically – way beyond the early adopter mountaineers and surfers. And Patagonia was actually happy, indeed encouraged entire outdoor and fashion industry to follow its pioneering lead. Increasing demand made recycling processes scale-able, more affordable and thus more broadly used. Today, most Patagonia fleeze are made of recycled materials – Originally toilet covers and now from the equivalent of 25 empty 2-liter bottles of pop of which there is excess supply, as the website will educate you.
But don’t mistake these stories and statistics for the ever more common, symbolical but also superficial forms of ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’. Patagonia goes ever deeper in peeling the onion and following its ideology of doing what is right for the environment. In 1985 it was one of the first companies to introduce ‘tithing’, giving back 1% of sales/10% of profits to tackle what Chouinard calls today “the symptoms of man’s exploitation of the planet for growth” (Chouinard, Seventh Generation interview, 2011). Patagonia raised funds to protect clean water, wild trout, bird- and fish migration paths, for example by un-building dams. Now Patagonia is seeking to tackle what it calls the “white elephant in the room” – Growth Based Capitalism – which it sees as the driver for humans consuming more resources than they need and that the earth can provide in a sustainable way (Patagonia.com). To tie its fate inextricably to promoting the “Responsible Economy” and doing right by the environment and humanity, the company changed its own corporate classification to that of a “Benefit Corporation”. In this novel form of corporation, the company will be publicly accountable to “create a material positive impact on society and the environment; expand fiduciary duty to require consideration of non-financial interests when making decisions; and report on its overall social and environmental performance using recognized third party standards” – and that despite being a privately owned company. (benefitcorp.net)
Unsell and Behold!
What can be a gauge of the sincerely and dedication to embracing this holistic mission? Patagonia has concluded several times over the past two years that the “responsible” answer was not to buy its product: In 2011 Patagonia audited its supply chain to find out if some of its down feathers might be sources from farmers force feeding geese. Patagonia.com recommended that vegans or other people who oppose force feeding and foie-gras production might not want to buy other products or wait until a possible issue might be rectified. Later that year, Patagonia ran an ad in the New York times and on the web asking consumers to not buy their Jacket – if they don’t truly need it. The ad reads. “Don’t Buy This Jacket – […] one of our best sellers. To make it required 135 liters of water, enough to meet the daily needs of 45 people. Its journey from its origin as 60% recycled polyester to our Reno warehouse generated nearly 20 pounds of carbon dioxide, 24 times the weight of the finished product. […] knit and sewn to a high standard; it is exceptionally durable, so you won’t have to replace it as often. And when it comes to the end of its useful life we’ll take it back to recycle into a product of equal value. But, as is true of all the things we can make and you can buy, this jacket comes with an environmental cost higher than its price.” The ad concludes with a call to “think twice before you buy” and go to Patagonia.com to take the “Common Threads” Initiative pledge and join Patagonia in reimagining “a world where we take only what nature can replace.” This is what we call ‘unselling‘.
Of course Patagonia elevates its products in this process of ‘un-selling’ them. They gain respect for the way they are conceived and made. Not peddled to be consumed – but praised and priced to be carefully considered bought, taken back and – eventually be re-born. Consider the mythical story about Chouinard going berserk about a shirt having lost a button in use and instructing product design to find an unfailing solution – no matter the cost; Or quotes around simplicity and functionality having divine qualities, such as the humble knife … or the Patagonia short. Not a volleyball- or a summer-short, but a simple short that will serve all activities and won’t let you down for decades – or be happily exchanged. Strong sales – even through the recent economic recession – prove that people behold the holistic qualities of such a short and accept the multiples it costs versus fast fashion alternatives (see the story of the short be told in a Patagonia film below).
From discontinuing your mainstay product because it defaces the mountains to making people consider buying Patagonia used on e-bay rather than waste resources and money on having a new one made, Patagonia has held its mission to help you explore nature without unnecessary harm and its product high, very high. And consumers have loved the brand for it.
Longing and Belonging
This mission is lived and spread through a group of disciples who could be labeled missionaries, are officially presented as “Ambassadors” but prefer to call themselves “Dirt Bags”, like Chouinard likes to call himself (read Mark Jenkins’ article on the ‘King of the Dirtbags’ below). They are the kind of person one saw in the brand’s catalogue swimming in a mountain stream, playing hacky sack in the middle of an ascent or enjoying a beer while free climbing a sheer face – cloths on or not. Today, you can access over 80 detailed profiles and hundreds of videos that document the soloing-, snowboarding- or surfing adventures of these extreme ‘product testers’ in vivid visuals and words next to dozens of short- and longer films and essays about nature, its exploration and preservation.
The Patagonia team knows about the strong appeal of feeling part of the bigger cause whether it is by emulating those ‘Dirt Bags’, by joining them in one of their activist causes or by making a pro-nature statement in wearing Patagonia. The brand offers them many forms and levels of engagement. ‘Fashion’ is the declared enemy, the ‘f-word’ in the language of the ‘Patagoniacs’ and there is a more or less open contempt for the companies who create fads or the consumers who fall for them mindlessly. Yet, the fact that more Patagonia products are worn by hipsters sitting outside a coffee shop on a chilly morning than by fly fishers in the wild has not escaped Chouinard who already commented back in 1992: “We outgrew our loyal customer base and increasingly were selling to yuppies, posers, and wanna-bes […] These people don’t need this shit to get in their Jeep Cherokees and drive to Connecticut for the weekend”. At Sundance, paparazzi shoot celebrities donning ‘Patagucci’ at the après-film and the crowds follow them – one can only hope for the right reasons. To which the brand publicly declares that it would be too late for mother earth if it were to wait for the average user to understand and ask for more responsibly made products. The Patagoniacs need to lead the way.
Living the Dream and Moving with Gravitas
Chouinard’s memoires entitled “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman” (2006) summarizes his approach to organization- and business building. Patagonia is a mostly self-selective organism where like-interested and –minded people join and thrive. Chouinard and other leaders are also known to hire people he meets while surfing or mountaineering together. In hindsight, Chouinard thinks that one of his biggest organizational mistakes was to bring in ‘professional managers’ in the 80ies, to manage explosive growth. Their profit-maximization and financial risk-avoidance culture clearly clashed with the Pargoniacs. – Apparently, the ‘suits and ties’ working in Finance were kept off-campus (Inc, 1992). The structure and people did not last.
Rose Marcario, always a passionate hiker and kayaker and since 2013 CEO of Patagonia joined after what she describes as a “midlife crisis” and refocus on her deep personal values (the Guardian, 2014). She is not shocked that some ‘board meetings’ are held in wetsuit. The entire organization lives what, what many think of as a dream. Former sales manager, now VP Vincent Stanley says he got the job because he was usually the only one around the office at noon – called surf-time (Yale conference, 2013). Everyone seems to agree that the sometime month-long excursions of the owner provides valuable feedback on products, ideas for new ones and new connections to the outside and outdoors. Patagonia was famous for being the place where employees play beach volleyball or BBQed in the backyard – decades before Google was born. It pioneered employee care innovations like on-premise child care (at the initiative of wife and co-owner Malinda) and pushed its customer care to extremes like a free hot line for fly-fishing tips (the order line was not toll-free). In the 70ies it invented the ‘corporate activist’, inviting a biological scientist who fought for conservation of the Ventura River to stay with them and teach the staff. In 1993 it instituted an ‘Environmental Internship Program’ providing two months paid leave of absence to join an NGO employees feel committed to and support if they want to join it. Hundreds of the most diverse causes have been initiated or supported by employees. They are always discussed, sometimes debated with friends and customers via the company’s blog “the cleanest line”. So, for example, the support for film and project ‘DamNation” (proceeds from limited edition T-shirts sales help with funding) which is a recent example of the long passion for helping to restore rivers to their natural condition.
These engagements are not the typical ‘work/life balance measures,’ ‘social media campaigns’ or random acts of ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’. There are born and sustained the deep, uniting believes of the organization and create a most passionate, knowledgeable, authentic and thus admired and trusted human backbone to the brand.
Such depth of dedication is not achieved overnight and requires a special type of ownership. Over the decades Yvon Chouinard has declined the advice to sell-out or offer to inject private equity money to accelerate growth many times. In fact, he tells of experiencing the consequences of ‘excessive growth’ as a watershed experience that taught him to ensure the brand grows at an organic, un-promoted pace: Patagonia rode a wave of immense popularity in the fad-thirsty and free-spending 80ies. Then, as the financial crisis hit, the fad disappeared and so did bank credits. Large inventories piled up in Ventura and at retailers. Patagonia had to sell down and let go of 20% of its employees to save itself. At that tragic juncture, ‘industry experts’ judged that the ideological approach to branding and business had brought about the demise of Patagonia.
Eddie Bauer President Wayne Badovinus commented in a 1992 interview with Inc. magazine: “A lot of people assume that these tribal rituals make a business better. But in the final analysis, clear measures of your progress — sales and profits — help guide you a lot more.” History proved him wrong. Eddie Bauer went bankrupt in 2009 and was picked up by a private equity firm. Patagonia recovered after renouncing to chase ‘the consumers’ and focus on those who recognize and are willing to pay for enduring quality and values. The business has a compound annual growth rate 16% annually over the past 35 years – despite trying to fight it….
‘* Back then the company was called Chouinard Equipment the Patagonia brand was created in 1976.)
Sources and Further Reading:
To read more about how brands like Patagonia become enduring businesses and legend read our other blog posts or – better still – our latest book “Rethinking Prestige Branding – Secrets of the Ueber-Brands“.
This feature on Patagonia by Complex News is just one of the many times and ways in which the Patagonia founding story is being re-told and the myth re-made. Paid advertorial or another free piece of awareness creation courtesy of a brand history and -life that the media feel is ‘authentic’ (vs ‘commercial’) and worth being told.
Patagonia tells the “Stories we Wear” in a series of films and on a dedicated blog called ‘Worn Wear’. It is these authentic stories, told by the wearer that elevate the brand and its products beyond the material good to be owned to stories to behold.
Mark Jenkins interviews and observes the “King Of The Dirtbags” in this great piece in Outside Magazine where he goes ‘core with Yvon Chouinard – leery capitalist, walking contradiction’. The story of the ‘reluctant activist’ and conflicted business man (‘l’activiste malgre lui’, if you like) is certainly a rich one to found a mythical brand on.
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Tonight was the first big movie premiere of the NY snowboard party season in NYC. Hundreds of people lined up in front of the Tribeca Cinemas on Varick Street downtown to see Burton's new 40 minute film. They showed the film in 2 theaters simultaneously, and then had a quickly scheduled second showing to accommodate the crowd. See the vid here. Seeing the film in a theater instead of at a party gives you the chance to look at the film a lot more closely, hear the soundtrack, and enjoy it all comfortably. Burton is taking a page from the Warren Miller juggernaut in this regard.
The NY Snowboarding Meetup kicks ASS by the way, with 1660 members as of today, and over 100 attending tonight. Thanks Keith and Agatha for arranging the movie meetup! And so did The B. This movie, unlike most snowboard films actually kind of has a plot. Well, a theme is more like it. The "B" has a role in the film, as a 100 foot long playground at Northstar, Tahoe, for the riders to do tricks over and off of. Fun idea and photogenic too! See what the B looks like and what this evening was like in our video here.
Standout parts in the film went to Shaun White with the leadoff, riding his private halfpipe and dressed in a black catsuit. We actually see Shaun fall, and as we well know about Shaun White, that just makes him try super harder to succeed. (More Shaun White here.)
Nicolas Mueller uses the Alps like his own giant natural terrain park and his riding reminds us why he was twice crowned snowboarder of the year. His buddy and business partner Fredi Kalbermatten has a part. Best part was Jeremy Jones (rail rider) from Salt Lake, looking lean and mean. He also astounds with his no hands motorcycle riding, and then, well, I won't tell you what else he does on the bike. You'll have to see it to believe it, but don't try it, please.
There's fun rail riding with great beats in the beginning. Snowboarding in an icy skate bowl was new to me, and then the little trick at the end where the 2 riders jump off their sleds and swap is cute, like something your parents might have seen on "The Monkees" tv show.
Shaun White himself made a quick late-night run through the premiere after-party (at Bar 169) where he appeard from midnight to 12:30, then took off in a cab, with cheers from his fans. This party actually had fancy hors d'ouevres served by wait staff on trays upstairs.
Here's a photo from last year's bowling party in Boston, with Nico Mueller lower right, Fredi Kalbermatten center, Liam Griffin upper left, and Yale Cousino upper right. Read our brand new interview with Yale Cousino here. And read about that Burton Boston party 2008 here.
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Story highlights: 'Tech-Expo' March 18-19 to feature demonstrations, Bennett; Hartenstein are Senate officers, Name changes for two academic units approved, Staff member to go to Bryn Mawr/HERS Institute this summer for three weeks, Israeli tank brigade officer speaks March 14, Ellinger and Iffland granted retirement as emeriti, Solomon Amendment 'unwise law:' Bernhard
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Lovely report I heard this morning on the local radio news station. It seems a "survey " was taken and in the ranks of slackerdom in the workplace, PA ranks #8 out of 51 (yes, 51 - least we forget Washington DC which should have lead the list IMHO). PA employees waste an average 2.3 hours a day in the workplace which purportedly costs companies billions in unproductive wages.
The station was doing live man-on-the-street interviews in Center City (at 6 AM?) asking people whether they waste time at work. Eeee-yah! Like anyone will owe up to it! The first two I heard vehemently denied such wasteful habits. Another stated he was 64 (or something in the 60's) and he never wasted company time. But, he was quick to talk about other people who do so (i.e., long coffee breaks, extended lunches, etc). Tattle-tale!
Sheesh ... not like I do it (she says to herself while blogging at work).

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This week the Baltimore Sun reported that first lady Michelle Obama was at Camden Yards, home of the Baltimore Orioles, to announce that Major League Baseball was joining her campaign to get kids to eat healthier and to exercise at least an hour a day.
“The truth is that lots of kids just are not getting healthy foods and they’re not getting enough exercise,” she told a group of about 40 children brought to the park Tuesday morning to listen to her pitch and participate in a baseball clinic led by major leaguers.
The newpaper also reporter that Obama returned that evening to participate in the first-pitch ceremony with two of the kids, “…then watched the game against the Tampa Bay Rays from one of the private suites — far, presumably, from the Left Field Club Picnic Perch, home of the all-you-can-eat-for-one-price section of the park.”
The next day, Dr. Lizbeth Binks, a clinical psychologist in Baltimire who specializes in PTSD, disaster, trauma and abuse, sent this letter to the editor of the Baltimore Sun (reprinted with Dr. Bink’s permission).
Ballpark wrong place to fight obesity
By Lizbeth T. Binks, Ph.D.
So the First Lady was at Camden Yards, in partnership with Major League Baseball, to fight childhood obesity. Who thought that one up?
There are controversies: about whether obesity per se should be the focus, or health and healthy living; about how much the war on obesity is really a war on the obese, reflecting all kinds of cultural bias, prejudice, and oppressions; about how – once there is consensus on what the problems and solutions actually are – to help children, in particular, without destroying their joy in their own bodies, stigmatizing them, or promoting eating disorders.
I can’t think of a worse place than the ballpark to act this out.
We go to baseball games to relax, to feel camaraderie and national pride and a sense of belonging, to forget our cares and channel them into root root rooting. We are all the same tribe – or at most, two tribes – and it’s all usually fun and friendly and spirit building.
If you are a fat kid, you can no longer count on that.
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Many young adults will have diabetes type-1 or type-2 by 2050, says a new study.
Researchers estimate that if the incidence rates of diabetes remain same, then we could see a 49 percent increase in the number of young people diagnosed with diabetes type-2 and 23 percent hike in the number of diabetes type-1 cases in the next 40 years.
"These numbers are very important. As a society, we will need to plan and prepare for the high-quality care of these children," Dr. Giuseppina Imperatore, of the CDC's division of diabetes translation and lead author of the study, told HealthDay.
"With type 1 diabetes, we still don't know how to prevent it," said Dr. Imperatore. "But for type 2 diabetes, there is a great deal of research in adults that shows increasing activity and losing weight can help prevent [it]. Now we need more research to see if this is also the case for children at risk of type 2 diabetes."
Although most diabetes cases, about 80 percent, are expected to be in the developing nations, countries like the U.S. will also have to deal with a growing number of people who are diagnosed with this condition. Healthcare systems in the future will have to deal with the excess cost of providing care to these people.
"If we are to avoid the catastrophic impact on our citizenry, our health care system and our economy, we must aggressively address the issue of early detection and treatment, and prevention. With diabetes already responsible for over 25% of the Medicare budget, the increase in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes in youth... sends an alarm that the future of the U.S. health delivery system will be overwhelmed unless prevention of diabetes becomes our next major health care goal," wrote Robert E. Ratner, the American Diabetes Association's Chief Scientific and Medical Officer, in a commentary accompanying the study.
The study is published in the journal Diabetes Care.

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Papi Chulo, Timaya, and The Bahd Guy Falz collaborate on a feel-good track titled “Win.”
Timaya and Falz collaborate on the masterpiece that unites the future kings of their genre.
Timaya and Falz do their usual on the new record ‘Win,’ which has a trap fusion.
The video for “Win” has been shot and will be available on YouTube in the coming hours.
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NEW DELHI: Taiwanese handset giant HTC
has reiterated that it is working on a new tablet and wearable products.
In an interview with The China Post on the sidelines of the company’s flagship smartphone, HTC One (M8), HTC CEO Peter Chou
confirmed that the company will launch the tablet and wearable computing products “at an appropriate time.” He did not share any specific details related to these devices.
It is worth pointing out that HTC Chairwoman Cher Wang, had reportedly confirmed that the company’s smartwatch will be ready for the holiday season. Speaking at a session during the Mobile World Congress 2014, she had said that HTC will focus on battery efficiency and that the watch will likely tether to a smartphone via Bluetooth. She had also hinted at a new tablet offering from the company which could hit the markets, later in the year.
There were also reports that Google had tapped HTC to manufacture the Nexus 8.9 tablet. The tablet is expected to go into mass production in July or August this year and may be launched in the fourth quarter of 2014.
Initial reactions to HTC’s new flagship smartphone have been good and the company hopes that it will revive its fortunes. It is also banking on its Desire range of low-end smartphones to gain marketshare. He added that the company is changing its product strategy that and is outsourcing the production of some of its low-end phones to contract. Ailing device and services company BlackBerry followed a similar strategy for its BlackBerry 10 phones, outsourcing production to Foxconn or Hon Hai.
Chou said he hopes the company will gain 8 to 10% of the smartphone market ‘in the long run.’ Presently, HTC’s share of the global smartphone market is less than 5%. According to smartphone shipments data offered by Gartner, Samsung leads the smartphones segment with a market share of 31%, followed by Apple which has a 15.6% share and Huawei and LG registering a market share of 4.8% each.
It will be a tough task for HTC to more than double its share as it faces tough competition from the likes of Samsung and Apple in the high-end segment, and Huawei and Lenovo in the economy-segment. HTC’s last flagship smartphone, HTC One, received critical acclaim but did not achieve the level of success the company expected. Analysts blame an underwhelming marketing push for the company’s woes.


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Consider “Crassus,” the story of how a sordid real-estate speculator made a vast fortune as a Roman slumlord, rode both slave labor and the fear of slave rebellions to political influence, and leveraged his wealth to a share of power alongside his more dashing frenemies, Pompey and Caesar.I agree about how Trump will be remembered. As for the more dangerous figures yet to come, I have my doubts. Trump has certainly shown that there is a path to power for a nationalist demagogue, and some of my friends worry that a smarter, more ruthless and (let's face it) less ridiculous man might try to follow it. But I wonder if the unrolling disaster of the Trump administration may provide a sort of inoculation against future endeavors in that direction, at least for a few decades.
Look long at the heavy face of Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you not see a certain resemblance to our president? Ponder his record, from the wall (!) that he attempted to build across an Italian peninsula to seal in Spartacus’s slave revolt, to the creepy and illicit pursuit of a Vestal Virgin relative (though he probably just wanted her property). Is it not, by Roman standards, rather Trumpian?
Sadly I fear that Shakespeare’s “Crassus,” now showing in the theater of my imagination, might be just as controversial as the new “Julius Caesar” were it staged as an evocation of the Trump era, since it would end with its slain-by-Parthians Crassus having molten gold, a symbol of his avarice, poured into his open mouth.
Happily our political world is somewhat more humane than Rome’s, and no fate so vile and vivid awaits any of our sagging republic’s leaders.
But when the full story of our era is written, I would bet on Trump being remembered more like a Crassus than like a Caesar — as an important but not decisive player in our march toward an ever-more-imperial executive, notable for his greed and pride and folly, but eclipsed by even more dangerous figures yet to come.
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Classical Analogies for our Times
Ross Douthat says that the problem with the new production of Julius Caesar featuring a Caesar who looks like Donald Trump is not that it encourages assassination, it's that Caesar is the wrong analog for Trump. I agree completely; Caesar was a man of astonishing ability and energy, successful as a general, diplomat, politician, writer, and reformer of the calendar, and one of the greatest orators oratory-obsessed Rome had ever seen. No, for a proper Trump figure in the ancient world, we're going to have to look elsewhere:


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Writers Gayle Romasanta and Dawn Mabalon are on a mission to write the first Filipino American history book for children.
They might spend most of their days in the sky, / but every evening they remember / to come back to earth.
Li-Young Lee grapples with God, Kim Fu goes to summer camp, Krystal A. Sital uncovers family secrets, and more.
The making of a Muslim intellectual, remembering Asma Jahangir, and the urbanization of Chinese fiction.

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Tinga tinga tales is a 52 episodes childrens series based on african folk tales and aimed at 4 to 6 year olds.
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Mood board is the summary of your design collections. Put everything together like fabric, trims and also express emotions and mood on your mood board in a way that’s not just beautiful but fascinating. Remember that, your mood board is a selling tool for your ideas, so make it exciting! Mainly it’s a design tool that will help you to stay focused and consistent as your line develops. Generally it is prepare for the communication purposes and explaining your vision to others like retailers, media etc.. It is also use for creating a range or a collection.
Donna Karan came from a background that was related to fashion in certain ways. This fashion designer worked as a head of a design team for a few number of years and launched some designs that included the very well-known ‘Seven Easy Pieces’. She is the sole creator of the DKNY label (Donna Karen New York). Since then, this label has seen many new additions in the fashion segment.
Klein received his education at the renowned Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. His Calvin Klein underwear line, as well as his array of successful perfumes, helped him to build his empire. His ability to choose the sexiest, hippest stars for his ad campaigns also revealed his tremendous savvy and perceptiveness: celebs such as musician/actor Mark Wahlberg and supermodel Kate Moss also benefited from his uncanny ability to read the zeitgeist.
When all of the designs are completed and set out the financial parameters then range planning is required. A range plan is an overview of your total design collection like from how many styles you will have, to what fabrics and colour ways will be used. It is used before you start into large scale production. It is extremely useful for you to follow as a designer. But most importantly it gives buyers a clear conception of your vision.
Range planning includes the creation of the ratio of garments to be selected in any given collection. For example, a basic range plan may be formed of four skirts, three trousers, six tops, two jackets and two dresses in three colour ways. Every collection needs a breakdown of units (garments) to enable the looks to be worn with enough combinations. If more volume sales come from tops it makes knowledge to supply more of these when editing the collection.
Gianni Versace launched his first clothing line in Milan, Italy, in 1978. In 1989, Versace debuted his first couture collection. He became known for his glamorous styles, producing a range of siren dresses that became his trademark. Gianni Versace was also known for his marketing genius, turning nameless models into international superstars and regularly recruiting celebrities for his campaigns. Gianni Versace was murdered in 1997. Nevertheless, the house Versace is one of the most know and admired luxury fashion trends until our days.
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"Between tonal dressing and statement knitwear, head-to-toe knits have been brought to the forefront. I appreciate the cosy yet chic approach to cold-weather dressing," says Aiken, who happens to the one of the first industry figures spotted in this trend all those months ago. "Gabriela Hearst’s knit poncho paired over a matching skirt and sweater best exemplifies this look."
Ralph joined the fashion industry as a tie seller. He tried to introduce his own tie designs for the company, but his enthusiasm wasn’t perceived well. So, he left the company and launched his own mini-business: he sewed his first ties out of rags and distributed them to small shops. The most defining order of 100 dozens of ties by Neiman Marcus has radically changed Ralph’s life. He expanded his business by introducing menswear and womenswear lines. Currently his brand is worth $7.5 billion. Ralph Lauren’s success story inspires many novice designers. The first Polo logo was introduced in 1970.
Experiment with elements of design like shape, form, silhouette, proportion, texture, pattern and colour. In fashion design process the term silhouette refers to express the overall shape and volume of the design. Silhouette is one of the most important design considerations and it is easy to overlook when working on paper in a two-dimensional context. Designer gives the perfect silhouette from the front side and from the back side or side view. It is the meaningful relationship between garment and body like A-line, I-line, V-line, two tiered silhouette etc.
It’s not hard to point out a gal that wears the cowgirl fashion style! In this particular style, there’s a few staples that are an absolute must for the wardrobe: undoubtedly an adorable cowgirl hat, typically in either some shade of brown or pink, a pair of flared blue jeans with western themed leather belt, denim jacket to match, a pair of cowgirl boots, and a few white t-shirt and plaid button-ups.

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Motherhood, my favorite 'hood
Updated: May 19, 2020
The more I talk with moms all around me – the more I get a full understanding that being a mom the most fulfilling, thankless, tiring, rewarding, amazing thing you could ever experience. What’s funny is that it’s different to every woman – it’s different for every relationship with every kiddo you have…. And it’s even different from day to day or even hour to hour with each of those relationships sometimes.
Yes, Motherhood is fragile.
I think back on the times when my kids were young and wonder how I survived without being reported to someone, somewhere. There were times when I felt like

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Texas singer-songwriter Joe Ely performed at the Manship Theatre in Baton Rouge on Jan. 10 to open the Red Dragon Listening Room's series. The smaller venue is set to take advantage of the theater's 300-plus seats with a monthly performance throughout the year.
Were you there tonight? What did you think? Tell us in the comments below.


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I’ve been sitting here, munching on grapes, for about thirty minutes, trying come up with some sort of excuse for my absence on this blog I once visited several times a week. Unfortunately, I don’t have much to show for the past half an hour, except a black tongue and a bit of a belly bubble (grapes get me every time). It appears I just needed a break, a little time away from the potentially addictive social instrument that the internet has become...sometimes its just too much for me. I needed mornings without typing, meals without cameras and a little extra time to explore other, non-culinary, areas of my life. I needed balance and perspective.
So now here I am, months later, grateful for those of you who have stuck around and even grateful for those who didn’t. There is something so satisfying about capturing inspiration; to share it with others is just pure joy, and I miss it. I want to post again, to have fun, feed others and be fed.
Tonight’s dinner was a simple one, but simple is still worth sharing.
HERB SALAD WITH POTATOES, RADISH & CRISPY PANCETTA
approximately 4 servings (as a light lunch or first course)
2 pounds baby potatoes, scrubbed clean
6 ounces pancetta, sliced ~1/4” thick
2 bunches baby radishes (or about 12), scrubbed and quartered
6 cups hand-torn or roughly snipped herbs (I used purslane, chives, thyme and flat-leaf parsley)
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
sea salt to taste
Preheat the oven to 375 F. Place baby new potatoes in a large pot; cover with cold water (you start the whole potatoes in cold water so that they cook evenly – from the center out); bring to boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to a simmer and allow potatoes to cook for approximately 20 minutes, or until a paring knife inserted meets no resistance. Drain potatoes and allow them to cool to room temperature. Halve or quarter potatoes, depending on their size.
Meanwhile, place pancetta slices on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper. Roast in the oven approximately 15 minutes, or until the pancetta is brown and crispy; drain on paper towels.
In a large bowl, whisk together lemon juice, a pinch of salt and olive oil. Add potatoes, radishes and herbs. Break apart pancetta into large pices and add to the bowl. Gently toss the salad, plate and serve at once (really, at once; herbs wilt very quickly).

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- Former AC Milan and Italy star Gennaro Gattuso investigated in match fixing probe
- Four individuals arrested in same investigation by Italian prosecutors
- Gattuso won two Serie A titles and two Champions League crowns at AC Milan
- The 35-year-old was also part of Italy's 2006 World Cup winning squad
He won the World Cup with Italy in 2006 -- now Gennaro Gattuso is being investigated on match fixing charges.
The 35-year-old was an integral part of Marcelo Lippi's squad, playing all 180 minutes of the final against France, which Italy eventually won on penalties.
But on Tuesday he was named in a statement on the official website of the Italian Football Federation that provided an update into an ongoing match fixing investigation by prosecutors in Cremona.
It said that four men had been arrested over matches that were allegedly fixed in Italy's top tier three seasons ago.
Gattuso, as well as another former AC Milan star, Cristian Brocchi, who also played for Inter and Lazio, were not detained but had their homes raided as part of the probe which is focused on games in the 2010-11 season.
The combative midfielder spent 13 years at Milan, winning two European Champions League titles, two Serie A crowns and the FIFA Club World Cup in 2007.
He was also part of the victorious Italy squad that won the 2006 World Cup in Germany, defeating France on penalties in the final.
Gattuso turned to management after his playing career ended, taking charge at Swiss club Sion before he was relieved of his duties.
His next appointment saw him take the reins at Palermo prior to the start of the current league season in Italy but he was sacked after winning just two games and replaced by Giuseppe Iachini.
These allegations are the latest in a long line of stories that have plagued Italian football over recent years as prosecutors continue their probe into illegal betting and match fixing.
Juventus manager Antonio Conte was handed with a 10-month suspension, later reduced to four, for failing to report match fixing while in charge of Siena, who then played in the Italian second tier.
Former Lazio and Italy striker Giuseppe Signori was banned for five years while Stefano Mauri, and ex-Atalanta captain Cristiano Doni have also served suspensions.
Back in 2005 the Calciopoli scandal resulted in Juventus being stripped of their 2005 and 2006 Serie A titles as well as being demoted to Serie B, Italy's second league.
Elsewhere, earlier this month 11 men in Estonia were charged with fixing 17 matches, including three in the Europa League -- Europe's second-tier competition -- to the tune of 108,000 euros ($146,730).
In November, seven arrests were made in the United Kingdom as part of an ongoing investigation into match fixing in English professional football's lower levels.
An investigation by British newspaper The Daily Telegraph said one of the arrested individuals claimed that matches could be fixed for £50,000 ($81,500) and correctly forecast the outcome of three games played by the same team.


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It has been FOREVER since I last blogged (June, to be exact)! My life has been insanely busy the last few months between work, church, craft fairs with the Ladies, concerts, road trips, etc. So here in a nutshell of mostly pictures, are the last few months:
GIRLS NIGHT OUT 2010
This is the tent that Mandy, my Mommasita, and I put together. We wanted a more "intimate" feeling this year, so we all sat in the tent for the message! GNO was August 27th and it was my first time to speak at it. The girls were all very receptive and we had a blast! Can't wait til next year!
It was one of my goals this summer to learn how to knit, and I did! It took me a couple of hours to get going, but now I can knit, purl, and even stockinette! So far, I've made a Sherpa hat, and I'm working on another!
Kev liked my hat so much, he wanted to model it! (Check out his B.A. Baracus face! haha)
CONWAY CAMPUS - CRAFT NIGHTS
CPC is opening a new campus...in Conway! Since Krystle is so dang crafty, she volunteered to start a small group at her house in Conway that is centered around the Bible and crafting!! So far there have been two meetings and it has grown already!
Krystle made a cutesie baby hat with teddy bear ears on it, and her roommate's dog, Ms. Dinkus was the PERFECT model for it!
CPC CRAFT FAIR
Our church did it's first Craft Fair and even though it was small, it was a great success!
Mandy and I crafted it up in true craft fair style!
Krystle's second mom, and cake teacher, Carla came and displayed some of her A-mazing cakes:
This one was my favorite. If you look closely, you can see the little yellow flowers have baby's feet for leaves! I love silly little details like that!
I consider this one the perfect Sweet 16 cake!
In September, my Sweet hubby and I celebrated 9 amazing years together! He truly is my best friend, and I love him SO MUCH! As part of my gifts he got me these lovely roses!
He knows I like unusual colored roses, that's why he got these!
HILLCREST HARVEST FEST
I don't know how we had never heard of this event before. One of our crafty friends, Tara told us about this, and we happened to get our foot in the door and do a booth. It was the best event we have done so far! Here are a few pics from the day:
Yep. That's a man. Wearing a kilt. Nope. We aren't in Scotland. Central Arkansas, people. I have to admit tho, he rocked it out.
It got a little chilly towards the evening time, so Mandy and I broke out our Sherpa hats and held down the fort from the wind!
We also found out that the Hillcrest/Kavanaugh/Heights area is a little more "Bohemian" than we expected. Haha. There was a LOT of interesting people. These two guys were interesting to say the least.
And finally, October 8th, Jordan (of HL) and our friend Jessica went to see one of my favorite bands in the whole world, MUSE in Oklahoma City at the Ford Center!!
Our tickets right after I bought them. We thought they were gonna be funky seats, but they ended up being really good!
Waiting in line outside the Ford Center...the anticipation was almost too much!!
We got our seats!!
And Muse was SO AMAZING!! I have better pics on my camera, but this is all I had on my phone. It doesn't do it justice, but take my word for it, they were awesome!!
And, we stayed with some of Jessica's friends after the concert. I took a pic of it right before we drove away, I didn't want to be a creeper and walk around taking pics of people's house that I just met, but their house was SO CUTE, even Elsie would be jealous of it!!
Well, that's pretty much the major events of my life for the past few months. It's been busy, but it's been fun too!

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Staunton Vindicator: 11 08, 1867Go To Page : 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
"My Land and Mule"
(Column 5)Summary: The article relates the story of an elderly black man in Amherst County, who, after voting in the late election, asked the officer in charge for his "'forty acres of land and his mule.'" Apparently the man had been told that he would receive those items once he cast his ballot. When informed that no such policy existed, the man expressed his "disappointment" and explained to the officer that many blacks in the area had been promised as much.
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We have the statement from an unquestionable source, that at one of the precincts in Amherst county, on election day, a negro after voting, said to the officer in charge that he wanted his "forty acres of land and his mule." An explanation being asked for, he stated that he had been told that every negro who voted was to have forty acres of land and a mule given him, immediately after voting, and he wanted his then and there. The disappointment, disgust and indignation of the deluded darkey were intense, when told that he had been fooled, and that neither land nor mule were there for him. The old negro further said that numbers of others on the ground had also been told the same that he was, and had come to the election with the same bright anticipation of the riches that were to be their.
The Elections. Glorious News! Great Democratic Victories
(Column 1)Summary: In New York, New Jersey, and Maryland, the article reports, Democrats have won startling victories; in addition, the party has secured impressive results in Kansas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.[No Title]
(Column 1)Summary: In the wake of the result in favor of holding a convention, conservatives are divided over the best approach to take in the matter. The editors advocate a grass roots campaign to organize conservatives in the state against the ratification of a new constitution.
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The question as to how the people of Virginia shall treat the Constitution, to be framed by the Radical Convention, seems to be a bond of contention among the press of the State at present. Some argue that the apathy exhibited at the late election should be utilized and that all conservatives should remain away from the polls and thus defeat the constitution, by the failure of a majority of registered votes to be cast on the question of its ratification. One objection to this is that it is not likely to work. Some of the 18,500 white majority will vote for the ratification of any constitution framed. That is certain. There are also some conservatives, who, without perfect concert of action, will cast their votes against it, and thereby swell the vote on the question to more than a majority of the registered voters in the State and the result will be its ratification by a majority of the votes cast.
The true policy, we think, to pursue is to organize in every City, Town, Precinct and Neighborhood. Let there be thorough organization of the conservatives of Virginia, as was the custom in days gone by, and there will be no laggards at the polls.--Virginia will then place her protest of an emphatic majority against any iniquity attempted to be thrust upon her. This would be far preferable to Virginians to lying dormant while dearest rights are dallied with.
It may be objected that the places of voting are so few and distant and the apathy of the people so great, as just exhibited, that the full vote can not be polled. We know a number who failed to vote on the convention question, being undecided on account of the multiplicity and variety of advice given, who have since expressed, in measured terms, their regret and who will never again fail to cast their suffrage.--This, we take it, is the feeeling of all those conservatives who failed to vote at the late election and who will need but little incentive to be present at the next election.--However, to trust the defeat of an objectionable constitution to "remaining away from the polls" or to "voting it down," without organization to that effect, would be the height of folly.
There must be organization -- thorough organization in either instance to ensure success.
We are decidedly in favor of voting it down as the more feasible plan and far more to be desired by Virginians, but we are willing to act in concert with any plan to defeat the attempted radical sway in Virginia.
We urge, under any circumstances, the necessity of a one-ness of purpose on the part of the conservative press and people on the part of the conservative press and people of Virginia, and thorough and complete conservative organization throughout the State. We therefore suggest to our City cotemporaries to take the initiative and call a meeting of the Conservative Press of the State at the most accessible point, to unite all in one well devised and predetermined course, and to perfect a plan for thorough conservative organization, without which it were worse than folly to go into the next election.
(Column 2)Summary: In light of the changes in labor relations since the end of the war, the article advocates luring white immigrants to the state by offering uncultivated lands for sale at reasonable prices. The article includes a letter from the Commissioner of the Board of Immigration recommending that communities raise funds to assist the immigration schemes.
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The question of immigration is being more casually considered by the people of Virginia [unclear] at any former period. All [unclear] necessity of introducing white immigration into this State speedily in order to restore the State to the hight degree of material and political prosperity, which it enjoyed anterior to the extinguishment of her former reliable system of labor. The demoralization of her former laborers, by incompatible conditions thrust upon then, renders it absolutely necessary that white labor should be brought and retained within her border to develop her resources, cultivate her waste places and aid in controling the destiny of our beloved "Old Dominion." Whether from the densely populated neighborhoods of Europe or the farms and manufactories of the Northern States, white labor can find employment here and will be heartily welcomed.
We publish below the resolutions of the State Board of Immigration, ans ask for them the careful consideration and hearty co-operation of our readers. let us prepare to sell as at reasonable prices, whatever lands we can not use profitably, to those desiring to settle among us, and let us one and all aid the Board of Immigration by what pecuniary assistance we can afford and thus assist in bringing about speedily that influx of white labor, acknowledged by all to be so essential to the interest and prosperity of Virginia and Virginians. Read and consider the resolutions appended and let us give that impetus to immigration, which the times, circumstances and our necessities imperatively demand.
At the meeting of the State Board of Immigration, held on the 2d day of November, 1867, at the capitol of the city of Richmond, the following resolutions were adopted:
"Resolved, That an earnest appeal be and is her[unclear] to the public and railroad and manufacturing companies to subscribe $10,000 for the purpose of developing the operations of the European and Domestic Agency of Immigration created by this Board on the 9th of August last, under the authority of the act of General Assembly passed March 3, 1866.
"Resolved, That the Commissioner of this Board and its European and Domestic Agents are requested and authorized to canvass, jointly of severally, the counties in which the immigrants from abroad are most needed, and to solicit and receive subscriptions to raise the above-named sum of money, either at the public meeting, should calling them be required , or from the individual citizens and corporations that are disposed to lend assistance to carry into effect the immigration scheme adopted by this Board, which is intended to redeem the Commonwealth from its prostrate condition, material and political: Provided that no authority is conferred on said Commissioner and Agents by which a pecuniary responsibility could be affixed upon the State or this Board.
Resolved, That the lists of the subscription be filed in the office of the Commissioner of Immigration, and that the subscriptions, when collected, be deposited in the bank of Lancaster &; Co. to the credit of the Commissioner, to be expended under the direction of this Board for the purposed stated in the first section.
R. B. Haxall,
William H. Macfarland.
"By the Board of Immigration,
William H. Richardson, Commissioner.
Trailer: R. B. Haxall; William H. Macfarland; William H. Richardson[No Title]
(Column 2)Summary: The convention will meet on December 3 in Richmond, by order of Gen. Scholfield.[No Title]
(Column 2)Summary: Contains a summary of the election results: total vote, 169,229; Whites, 76,084; Blacks, 93,145; total votes in favor of convention, 107,342 (Whites 14,835, Blacks 92,507);total votes opposed to convention, 61,8237 (Whites 61,240, Blacks 638).Hunnicutt's Insolence
(Column 2)Summary: The article complains that the "arch-devil" Hunicutt has kept an armed guard of blacks in front of his office for the past few days.Armed Negro Organization
(Column 3)Summary: According to the article, armed black men have formed organizations in various locales in the South and the District of Columbia with the intent of "preserving the peace." In several instances, it claims, these groups have threatened the lives of whites.
Origin of Article: Baltimore SunOur Laborers and Domestics
(Column 3)Summary: With blacks increasingly exhibiting their political independence, many whites in Lynchburg are mulling over their options. Some have suggested "cutting loose" their black employees outright. Others have offered black workers the option of retaining their positions, but only if they withdraw from the newly formed Union Leagues and "cease to array themselves in hostility against the Southern people."
Origin of Article: Lynchburg VirginianFull Text of Article:Negro Congressmen
The Lynchburg Virginian of last Friday says:
The propriety of holding a public meeting in regard to the subject of labor is discussed on the streets. Some persons are in favor of cutting loose at once and unconditionally from the negroes, since they have leagued themselves together against the whites: others [and these in our judgement hit on th right plan -- Whig] wish first to lay down the terms on which the whites will continue to give them employment, viz: That they withdraw themselves in hostility against the Southern people; and others are anxious to inaugurate prompt measures for the introduction of labor from Europe. These are the subjects which it is proposed to discuss and determine in a public meeting. They are important and deserve grave consideration.
(Column 3)Summary: The article contends the current political system guarantees that only blacks will be elected to Congress to represent the South. Although this may satisfy northerners initially, it predicts they will soon come to lament this development.
Origin of Article: Lynchburg VirginianGeneral Grant and Messrs. Lincoln and Johnson
(Column 4)Summary: The article asserts that the "evidence to be submitted by the Judiciary Committee upon the impeachment" indicates that, until the Spring of 1866, Gen. Grant was fully in support of President Johnson's policies. Moreover, it claims, Johnson's proclamation relative to Reconstruction was identical to the policy Lincoln intended to adopt.
Origin of Article: Lynchburg News
(Column 1)Summary: Notes that the snowfall on October 31 dumped up to 8 inches in some places.Local Items
(Column 1)Summary: Reports that Constable Samuel F. Abrams, of Buckingham, brought John Harris, of Orange, to Staunton and committed him to jail last Monday. Harris is charged with stealing Jacob Croft's horse; he was arrested at the Buckingham Court House in possession of the animal.Local Items
(Names in announcement: Jacob Croft)
(Column 1)Summary: The article provides the revised election results for the county: the total white vote was 1,887; the total black vote was 1,082; the number of registered whites who failed to vote was 1,879; and the total number of registered blacks who failed to vote was 192. Apparently, the results in the last issue were skewed because some individuals cast multiple ballots.Local Items--Proceedings of the County Court at October Term
(Column 1)Summary: "Twenty-four conveyances of real and personal property were admitted to record. William Bosserman, Albert G. Freed, John Dunslap, John Brownlee, Daniel O'Rorke, John Hawkins, A. M. Smiley, John Wampler, William P. Sheets, Fleming W. Quick, Johnathan A. Shuey, and Henry Palmer, were severally appointed surveyors of roads in their respective neighborhoods. Petition of J. Wayne Spitler to close public road referred to Commissioners. William Ward was tried and convicted for an attempt to commit rape and sentenced to one year's imprisonment in the penitentiary. Commonwealth vs. Martin Yount surveyor of Public roads, for failure to keep his precinct of public road in order. Fined one cent and costs. Commonwealth vs. Patrick McCarty--Assault and Battery. Fined $135 and costs. Col. Bolivar Christian, William Withrow, Jr., and William Burke were appointed proxies in behalf of the County of Augusta in the next annual meeting of the Stockholders of the Va. C. R. R. Company, and M. G. Harman, H. M. Bell and James M. Hanger, alternates. Change of road asked for by Silas Vance, on his precinct, No. 167, was established. Francis M. Woodard, of Albemarle, charged with horsestealing--trial postponed till next term of the County Court. On the application of persons representing the estate of J. K. Crobarger, an inmate of the Lunatic Asylum, it was ordered to be certified to the Board of Directors that his estate was insufficient to support his family and pay his expenses at the Asylum and that the latter be charged to the Commonwealth. By order of the Court the election on the question of a County subscription to the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad is postponed until the 3rd Thursday in December next."Local Items
(Names in announcement: William Bosserman, Albert G. Freed, John Dunslap, John Brownlee, Daniel O'Rorke, John Hawkins, A. M. Smiley, John Wampler, William P. Sheets, Fleming W. Quick, Johnathan A. Shuey, Henry Palmer, J. Wayne Spitler, William Ward, Martin Yount, Patrick McCarty, Bolivar Christian, William WithrowJr., William A. Burke, M. G. Harman, H. M. Bell, James H. Hanger, Silas Vance, J. K. Crobarger)
(Column 1)Summary: The article reports that C. L. Thompson, of Albemarle, and Major S. B. Seay, of Amelia, have announced their decision to vote with the Conservatives at the convention, despite the fact they were both elected on Radical tickets. A. W. Harris, of Nelson, having been elected under similar circumstances is expected to do the same.
Origin of Article: EnquirerMarried
(Column 2)Summary: On Nov. 6 M. H. McCarty, of Frederick City, Md., and Julia Leary were married by Rev. Bishop Magill.Married
(Names in announcement: M. H. McCarty, Julia Leary, Rev. Bishop)
(Column 2)Summary: On Oct. 31 Lewis Wiseman and Catherine M. Harruff were married by Rev. William E. Baker.Married
(Names in announcement: Lewis Wiseman, Catherine Harruff, Rev. William E. Baker)
(Column 2)Summary: On Oct. 24 George Funk, of Indiana, and Barbara Grove were married by Rev. W. R. Stringer.Married
(Names in announcement: George Funk, Barbara Grove, Rev. W. R. Stringer)
(Column 2)Summary: On Oct. 30 W. H. Furry and Sue F. Brown were married by Rev. W. R. Stringer.Married
(Names in announcement: W. H. Furry, Sue F. Brown, Rev. W. R. Stringer)
(Column 2)Summary: On Oct. 31 Cyrus F. Balsley and Carie N. Balsley were married by Rev. W. R. Stringer.Married
(Names in announcement: Cyrus F. Balsley, Carie N. Balsley, Rev. W. R. Stringer)
(Column 2)Summary: On Oct. 24 William M. Matheny and Cornelia Stanton were married by Rev. George B. Taylor.
(Names in announcement: William M. Matheny, Cornelia Stanton, Rev. George B. Taylor)
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I felt a bit sentimental walking by way of the Acropolis, as my dad had been there when he served in the US Navy some 30 years before I went. I looked through some of his old pictures and saw a single of him squatting in front of the Parthenon. I copied his pose and had a photo taken of me in front of the Parthenon. I was also enchanted by the caryatids , which I studied in my high school humanities class. Specifically, we wanted to go to Athens to see the Acropolis and the Parthenon.
It may well surprise you to know that several of these ‘rhetorical tricks’ are not new, but pretty old indeed! The ancient Greeks had been aware of lots of ways in which speakers could possibly try to persuade other folks to agree with them, not by using logic and facts, but by using tricks or even bullying techniques. They produced names for quite a few of the ways in which speakers attempt to fool others into agreeing with them with no really getting fair or possessing the right proof to help their opinions. To support you, we have produced some Statements about Athens and Sparta to feel about.
The most amusing part of the hotel is that its entrance resembles a mini-museum with exquisite sculptures. Acropolis Museum tickets have to have to be bought separately because they are not incorporated in your tickets for Acropolis. Even so, you can obtain look here combo tours of the museum and Acropolis hills to get the ideal of each worlds at the minimum value. If you want to see the most precious pieces of the Acropolis, you have to head to the Acropolis Museum. It is a state-of-art museum, amidst an ancient web site that houses the popular ruins.
For remedy of the city in its regional setting, see Greece historical and cultural elements are treated further in the report ancient Greek civilization. In the comedies of Aristophanes tavernas appear as an currently nicely-worn function of the urban atmosphere their employees in distinct are the frequent target of jokes. See also Plato , Hyperides , and Gager for evidence from curse tablets . Excavators will need to recognise that there is a further selection when faced with a huge and anomalous “drinking” assemblage. When I met with the directors of the Athenian Agora and Corinth excavations, my query with regards to attainable tavernas was met with a degree of wonderment, yet each of these excavations have turned up the most probably kapeleiasites.
He brings a wealth of clinical trial investigation experience to the Parthenon team through his 30 years in drug improvement, fulfilling leadership roles in project management, clinical operations, and line management. Throughout his profession, Jeff has overseen multiple essential CRO-Sponsor partnerships which incorporated full-service clinical trials for early drug improvement, registrational and observational studies. Most lately he served as Oncology Global Therapeutic Head at Pharm-Olam and Sr. He served for 24 years at ICON Clinical Analysis / PRA Health Sciences in several roles including Executive Director of Project Delivery and Small business Unit Leader of the Americas Clinical Group Management Group.
But this is the worst winter storm modern day-day Greeks have seen considering that 2008. Sitting high on a hill in Athens, Greece, is the Acropolis, which involves the Parthenon as properly as the Erechtheum and Temple of Athena Nike, all temples built to honor Athena. Also aspect of the Acropolis is a large creating at the entrance recognized as the Propylaea.
His is a cautious and at instances secure sort of experimentation that reconsiders the materiality, spatiality, and chromaticism of his selected medium by way of tasteful compositions. Hardly ever, however, has the artist’s aesthetic tinkering generated such refreshingly unexpected and delightfully odd images as those in “Iconographia,” Welling’s eleventh solo show with Regen Projects. The earliest of the bunch, Portrait of Kore 674, 2021, for instance, started as a scanned image of a marble maiden from the collection of the Acropolis Museum in Athens. In summary, it presents a very fascinating assemblage in the best way achievable. The official highlight is the breathtaking display of the architectural sculptures from the mid-5th century BC Classical Parthenon, mixing original material and copies, given that considerably of the frieze and pediments was taken to London a lengthy time ago. At this level you will mainly obtain fine, smiling statues such as the well-known and mysterious Sphinx.
Pericles was the major Athenian statesman at the time, Phidias and Kalamis had been in charge of the design and style of the sculptures and decorations, and Ictinus and Calibrates were the most important architects. The vast majority of the 469 silver talents spent on the Parthenon went on transporting the stone from Mount Pantelakos, which was about 16 kilometres from Athens, to the Acropolis. The Parthenon is a clear instance of Doric design and style with Ionic architectural capabilities. The architects utilized a clever visual effect in their design and style of the constructing. The curvature of the Stylobate, the taper of the Naos walls and the Entasis of the columns permit the visual effect to make the temple appear a lot more symmetrical than it really is. This style was so renowned it has been copied centuries later, even the Romans incorporated it into the design and style of their buildings, and a excellent instance of this can be seen at the Roman library at Ephesus.
Amongst its a lot of roles over the years, the Parthenon also served as the Acropolis’ munitions storage web-site in the course of the 17th-century Morean War. As a result, the bombing of the area triggered enormous damage to Parthenon, whose surviving sculptures can be identified in the contemporary Acropolis Museum and the British Museum. The ancient quarry of Mount Pentelicus is currently protected by law and made use of for the restoration function carried out to the Parthenon, along with other ancient structures on the Acropolis.
I’m awestruck by the sheer scale and beauty of these structures and the 360-degree views of Athens are not to be sneezed at either. Shop owners are opening the shutters and readying themselves for the day’s trade. But the several attractive cafes are open and busy serving locals and vacationers their very first caffeine fix of the day. The brief journey only serves to tends to make my choices even more difficult. As we near the centre of the sprawling metropolis, it just about casually reveals treasures like the Temple of Zeus, Hadrian’s Arch and the Panathenaic Stadium exactly where the first contemporary Olympics were held .
They produced the very first measured drawings of the Parthenon, published in 1787 in the second volume of Antiquities of Athens Measured and Delineated. The east pediment initially contained 10 to 12 sculptures depicting the Birth of Athena. Most of those pieces were removed and lost during renovations in either the eighth or the twelfth century. Only two corners remain right now with figures depicting the passage of time more than the course of a full day. Tethrippa of Helios is in the left corner and Selene is on the proper. The horses of Helios’s chariot are shown with livid expressions as they ascend into the sky at the commence of the day.
Quickly they have been prying pieces off the developing and, later, applying saws to remove the artwork in sizable chunks. In their defense, they would have been familiar with other destructive practices of the era. The Turks had made use of some of the Parthenon sculptures for target practice and had lopped the heads off a few figures inside attain .
This huge hill is visible from practically any narrow alleyway in the streets of Athens below. Minutes away, and mainly walking distance, from all main sightseeing points and museums this is the ideal base to get started exploring all that Athens has to offer you. The ancient city of Babylon was built on the banks of the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia.
And more than the last forty or so years an interdisciplinary group have been involved in the painstaking restoration of the numerous features of the Acropolis. In 2013 this team was recognised with an Europa Nostra Award in recognition of their dedication to heritage conservation. The western Entrance to the Parthenon – used to house the colossal statue of Athena, but probably not a temple. The Parthenon is extensively regarded as the finest instance of ancient Greek architecture. Factored into the various architectural options are ‘optical refinements’. For example, at the centre of the columns there is a really slight swelling.

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ROY AITKEN has told Scott Brown he still has more to achieve with Celtic before he even considers a life-changing move to Australia.
The highly-decorated Celtic captain, out of contract in the summer, has been linked with a move to A-League new boys Western Melbourne.
But former Hoops skipper Aitken — who was last night inducted into Scottish Football’s Hall of Fame — reckons the 33-year-old shouldn’t be in any rush to quit Parkhead.
Aitken said: “It will be Scott’s decision. I made the choice to leave Celtic for Newcastle after being at the club for 18 years.
“It was just before the Italy World Cup and it felt right for me to leave. I wanted to leave on a high.
“Things were changing at the club and it was time to take the family away from the goldfish bowl I’d been living in for all those years.
“There was negativity coming at me from different sections so it was time for me to leave.
“I can’t answer for Scott. All I can say is that he’s playing very well, he’s in a terrific team and is doing a great job as captain.
“He leads by example and has decided to step away from the Scotland set-up to give himself a little bit more of a chance with Celtic.
“That was a big step for him and he did it for the right reasons. Everyone agreed with it — now it’s up to him to decide what his next stage is.
“I would be surprised if Scott doesn’t continue playing for another few seasons. He has still got too much to offer on and off the field.”
Aitken — capped 57 times for Scotland — made 672 appearances for Celtic during his incredible career at Parkhead.
His achievements were recognised last night when he, along with Ian McMillan, Julie Fleeting and Archie Knox, were inducted into Hampden’s Hall of Fame.
Aitken beamed: “It’s a great honour for me, especially when you see the list of names already inducted.
“Representing Scotland meant everything. I played at every level from the youths right through.
“Jock Stein gave me my debut in 1979 and it culminated in me captaining my country at the 1990 World Cup. That’s your dream.
“You wanted to play for the team you supported and I signed for Celtic when I was 13.
“After that it was the national team and I was lucky to be involved at every level.
“I worked with some incredible coaches. Big Jock signed me when I was 16 and still at school.
“It was a surreal scenario, I was sitting my Highers and playing for the first team.
“At the end of that season Jock pulled me in and told me I had a decision to make.
“After that, Billy McNeill came in and he was the most successful manager I played under.”
Aitken won six league titles, five Scottish Cups and one League Cup.
He said: “There were many highlights in my Celtic career for sure.
“I think back to my first season, I was 17-18 and we won the double with players like Kenny Dalglish, Danny McGrain and Tommy Burns.
“The centenary season in 1987-88 was special because of what it meant to the fans and because of what Graeme Souness had brought across the city.
“The thing about playing for Rangers and Celtic is there are challenges every year.
“You win one trophy and you are immediately looking to the next.
“As years go by you can look back on these achievements, but at the time you don’t really take it in.
“At the time it’s your job and you probably don’t enjoy it as much.
“You get your summer, you enjoy that, but then it’s back to business.”