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737 Park Avenue is a prewar residential building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Built in 1940 by Sam Minskoff and Sons, the building was designed by art deco architect Sylvan Bien. The building is made of traditional red brick with a limestone base, featuring a marble lobby and 24-hour doorman. The building is within blocks of Central Park, The Frick Collection, and The Whitney Museum, as well as The Carlyle Hotel, also designed by Sylvan Bien. In 2011, 737 Park Avenue was sold to real estate developer Harry Macklowe, who is currently developing the building into condominiums.


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Laura and Lisa Cerati together with Gustavo’s blow-up in the presentation of the album “14 symphonic episodes”. Photo: IG
Yesterday, Tuesday, the presentation of the album that records Gustavo Cerati’s historic concert at the National Auditorium of Mexico, held in February 2002 as the kickoff of the tour of his album 11 symphonic episodesregistered in Buenos Aires a few months earlier.
Since it includes three other songs, the title is none other than 14 symphonic episodes.
The cover of the album “14 symphonic episodes”
Laura and Lisa, Gustavo’s sister and daughterwere present at the event where four songs were heard and the three videos made with virtual reality technology were shown, as there are no cinematic recordings of the show.
Before listening, director and arranger Alejandro Terán, sound engineer Eduardo Bergallo, graphic designer Roy García, manager Nando Travi, producer Diego Sáenz and video producers took to the stage. All told juicy details behind the scenes of the project.
In addition, Damián Amato, president of Sony Music Argentina, presented an award to Laura and Lisa, for reaching the millions of subscribers on YouTube.
Laura Cerati and Lisa Cerati with the YouTube award for reaching one million subscribers. Photo: IG
Bergallo: “A perfect performance”
The introduction was given by Eduardo Bergallo, who began by saying: “I speak because Diego Sáenz has a very low profile and was the creator of this idea. I remember that I had known him for a few years, but when they were mixing us Comfort and music to fly He told me he had this idea and wanted to show it to Gustavo. I told him to come to Chile, which was a good time to talk, he traveled and showed him the two demos he had done with an orchestra conductor. “
And he added: “Gustavo liked it, but for more reasons it was left as a pending project. Some time later, after doing it Blow, there we could specify it. He was born of it, but I had no idea how it would end, I think neither you nor Gustavo. It was a really great moment and this is how the possibility of doing shows abroad was born, which at the beginning were not foreseen, but Nando started receiving requests for shows “.
As for the material it has now become 14 symphonic episodesBergallo explained the following: “A couple of years ago, Diego found the digital tape on which this concert was recorded, which was not specific to making a record but simply a document of what we were doing.”
Eduardo Bergallo at the microphone, telling the behind the scenes of “14 symphonic episodes”, together with Diego Sáenz, Roy García and Alejandro Terán.
However the quality was amazing: “It was recorded in 16 channels and was good enough to work with, because in general when working with old digital tapes there are usually some problems, but when I did the transfer everything went perfectly, without any mistake or bite of duct tape, which was a good sign it needed to be done.
A big moment in the process, the sound engineer specified, was when he heard the level of Gustavo’s vocal performance in songs such as Blow: “It’s awful! It gives you goosebumps. I remember calling Diego and telling him the way he sings was amazing.”
Bergallo gave another very eloquent example: “Everyone has certainly heard of autotune, that instrument that today is almost an instrument. In a studio recording many use it and in a live recording you will almost certainly end up using it because it occurs. imperfections. and it is good to correct them. In these Gustavo songs I didn’t have to correct almost anything, maybe a syllable in a song, the execution is perfect and not correct “.
Sáenz: “We wouldn’t have gone on tour”
Diego Sáenz (center), Eduardo Bergallo (right) and Fernando Travi (left) at the presentation of the album “14 symphonic episodes”. Photo: IG
Diego Sáenz explained the context of the original project: “I wanted to say so 11 symphonic episodes it was originally a television project and the CD was released the day before De la Rúa left by helicopter. In other words, a very ominous moment, but right there Nando got a call from Mexico to do a show there, even though we weren’t supposed to go on tour.
“That’s why – he added – this concert in Mexico is two months after the release of the album, at a time when there was no Spotify, social network or anything else. That’s why we arrived in Mexico and people didn’t he knew a lot about the. The impressive thing is that people were buying tickets for the National Auditorium, with a capacity of 10,000 people, without having a clue what they were going to see. They were just going to see Cerati. “
As for the differences with 11 symphonic episodeshe detailed: “The most impressive thing about the original album is that the concert at the Avenida theater was a recording of an album, so before we started we asked everyone not to clap at the beginning or sing upstairs. They just applaud. in American shutters, because we added it later and it wasn’t in the poster, so it was a surprise because at the beginning there were 10 symphonic episodes. But that’s not what happened in Mexico, and while we were mixing we saw people singing above the orchestra. “
“Another difference compared to the original album – he remarked – is that some songs go much faster, because the musicians in the orchestra weren’t used to hearing people clapping their hands and singing, so they started to prepare and to accelerate It is particularly evident in Man to water“.
In closing he defined that “14 symphonic episodes It was made with a lot of love, for someone we love. “
Terán: “A very well designed project”
Arranger and conductor Alejandro Terán recalled and said that the first meeting with Gustavo was in a car at full speed on Libertador Avenue.
The famous dress by Gustavo Cerati, symbol of his symphonic records. Photo: IG
“I was stopped by a car near River, it was Gustavo and he asked me what I was doing. I told him I played a lot in the house imitating the music of the B-class horror movies of the 60s. He told me to do it. with his arguments and I left. The next meeting was the first test. There was no meeting other than the one in the car, which lasted four minutes! “
“As Diego said – he continued – the live in Buenos Aires was not live at all, because it was controlled and we could stop and repeat if necessary. On the other hand, this show in Mexico was a real live show, the first of all this strange work, which is not exactly a Cerati album or a greatest hits album. It is a bizarre object that I have a great affection for. Everything went very well and it was a very well looked after project. “
virtual reality video
“In the midst of all this audio discovery – Sáenz said – Nando commented that within the Sony company there was Fede Kalwill, who had a virtual reality project and this is how we met the young VR team. . All this in the middle of a pandemic, like this one! That we only met at Zoom! First we tried with the theme Lisa And the result was surprising “.
Sofía Pérez, creative and artistic director, explained: “It was a proposal that Fede presented to me and it was quite challenging because it was something that had never been done before. I started modeling it through images and I did a lot of research on Cerati. . Then I contacted these two incredible guys, Gastón Carballal and Gabriel Krauszt, who shaped it. We also received a lot of advice and it was a great help to have Diego, Nando and Laura, whose contributions gave him more and more shape and form. made it more complete, conceptual and creative “.
Gabriel: “What we wanted to do was get into the head in a way that wasn’t figurative but metaphorical. So we created these different worlds that were in each of the songs, Lisa, revealing heart Y Root. It has been a fundamental job for my career and for all of us, so we want to thank everyone. “

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Kangana Ranaut has her plates full. Basking in the success of her first directorial venture, Manikarnika: The queen of Jhansi, Kangan is in no mood of having a leisurely birthday.
The Queen actress will be celebrating her 31st birthday on March 23 at the sets of her upcoming film Mental hai Kya opposite Rajkummar Rao.
Initially, the actress had planned to celebrate the day with her family in Manali. She has recently come back from Coimbatore after spending 10-day in a wellness camp where she meditated and performed yoga in complete silence.
But since Mental Hai Kya releases in a couple of months, she wants to quickly wrap up its shoot and star promotions. She had also committed herself to two back-to-back schedules of Panga, a sports drama being helmed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, in Delhi and Kolkata from April onwards.
The Ekta Kapoor film is slated to release by the end of May and Kangana is leaving no stone unturned to fulfil her professional commitments. Mental Hai Kya, which also stars Amyra Dastur and Jimmy Shergill, among others, is being directed by Prakash Kovelamudi. Even Shah Rukh Khan has an extended cameo in the film.
On March 2018, Balaji Motion pictures released the first look of the lead pair that comprised of two posters. Kangana and Rajkummar were seen posing in "quirky" and dangerous positions- a knife-wielding Ranaut in a water-filled bathtub surrounded by electronic gadgets at its edge, and Rao holding a butcher knife and cutting an apple, with blood seeping from his hand.

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Planning your Walk
the most popular itineraries for the bondi to manly walk (b2mw)
As there are limited hotel-style accommodation options along sections of the B2MW, we’ve put together an itinerary that maximises the options on the route. As the Walk grows in popularity, we hope more options will become available so we can offer more options for your journey.
The following itineraries connect B2MW with Circular Quay, allowing you to start and finish each day with public transport from/to Circular Quay. So you can sleep in your own bed each night, stay in one hotel in Sydney CBD for your trip or use the itineraries and book Airbnb’s on route.

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Tuesday 1 June: The ride is all over, 2,100 km covered in 16 days of riding. I doubt I'll be riding bikes again for a a while. Back to writing political blogs next week.
You can still donate to the MS Society through my donation page at http://www.everydayhero.com.au/antony_green
Day 17: Ingham to Innisfail 148km average 29.1 kmh. Nice morning tea by the ocean at Cardwell and some excellent pies from the Tully Pie Shop. Only one day to go, which is good, as I am getting a bit sore and I'm rather looking forward to getting home on Wednesday.
Day 16: Rode from Townsville to Ingham 113km averaging 28.7 kmh. The early morning land breeze created a bad cross wind through first half of ride. I can report that Ingham is a very quiet town on a Sunday.
Day 15: Been hard to do updates. Have reached Townsville and only three days to go now. Still riding strong though I'll be glad when it is over. Though given the weather forecast for Sydney this weekend, maybe I should stay in North Queensland.
Day7: Hello from Banana Shire library in Biloela. Monto to Biloela today, 95km average 25.7 kmh. Day started with huge uphill, 350m rise in 5km, then lots of downhills and pack riding on the flat. On to Rockhampton tomorrow.
Day 6: Gayndah to Monto, 143km averaged 25.2kmh. Fewhills and rough local roads.
Day 5: Hervey Bay to Gaynday- 180km avg 26.3, lots of bad headwinds.
Day 4: Day off, went sailing in Hervey Bay
Day 3: Gympie to Hervey Bay: 136.7km avg 28.1. Tailwinds:-)
Day 2: Caloundra to Gympie - 141km avg 26.9. Great run but 10% hill out of Noosa and two 15% hills between Kin Kin and Gympie (that peaked at over 20%). Goodrideexcept for thehills.
Saturday 15 May: Did the 100km to Caloundra safely. Very slow start out of Brisbane, we had to stay bunched to the slowest rider while staying behind out van. Got going north of Caboolture which was great. Average 26.5 kmh by the end.
As soon as we crossed the border of Dickson we saw a hugh billboard of Peter Dutton
Off to Gympie tomorrow.
I'm now off on my great cycling adventure. I'll try and do the occassional post updating my trip, but I won't be writing on politics for the next three weeks. However, there will be a page on the Penrith By-election going up at www.abc.net.au/elections on Friday 14 May,
I head out from Brisbane with around 30 riders on Saturday, heading for Caloundra on the first day, with the plan to be in Cairns on 1 June. 2,000km in 16 days. That's twice as far as Tony Abbott's recent Pollie Pedal, but at least I won't have to take suits and front the media every day. I'm also not silly enough to try doing running and swimming legs on the same day either
You can visit my sponsorship page at http://www.everydayhero.com.au/antony_green. I list all the electorates I'm visiting inside this story.

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Last Friday, I found that I had no leftovers to warm-up for supper. I do my grocery shopping on Saturdays, so my fridge was pretty bare. Here's what I put together to keep from starving.
Sauteed Vegetables With Cheese
1 large red potato
2 T. olive oil
3/4 green bell pepper, chopped
3/4 sweet onion, diced
3 stalks celery
2 broccoli stalks, peeled and sliced
2 T. butter
3/4 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
salt and pepper to taste
Slice the potato into bite-size "chips" as if for scalloped potatoes. Parboil in water for 3-4 minutes. Drain well.
Heat oil in a large skillet. Add the green pepper, onion, celery, and broccoli to the skillet and add salt and pepper to taste. Saute the vegetables until lightly browned and remove to a heat-proof bowl. Add butter to the skillet and, after it has melted, saute the potatoes until evenly browned.
Turn off the heat and return vegetables to the skillet. Add the shredded cheese and cover the skillet with a lid. When the cheese has melted, turn the mixture out into a serving dish and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Serve immediately.

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This article covers a version of Ubuntu that is no longer supported. If you are currently operate a server running Ubuntu 12.04, we highly recommend upgrading or migrating to a supported version of Ubuntu:
Reason: Ubuntu 12.04 reached end of life (EOL) on April 28, 2017 and no longer receives security patches or updates. This guide is no longer maintained.
This guide might still be useful as a reference, but may not work on other Ubuntu releases. If available, we strongly recommend using a guide written for the version of Ubuntu you are using. You can use the search functionality at the top of the page to find a more recent version.
MySQL is a popular database management solution that uses the SQL querying language to access and manipulate data. It can easily be used to manage the data from websites or applications.
Backups are important with any kind of data, and this is especially relevant when talking about databases. MySQL can be backed up in a few different ways that we will discuss in this article.
For this tutorial, we will be using an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS with MySQL 5.5 installed. Most modern distributions and recent versions of MySQL should operate in a similar manner.
One of the most common ways of backing up with MySQL is to use a command called "mysqldump".
There is an article on how to export databases using mysqldump here. The basic syntax of the command is:
mysqldump -u username -p database_to_backup > backup_name.sql
To restore a database dump created with mysqldump, you simply have to redirect the file into MySQL again.
We need to create a blank database to house the imported data. First, log into MySQL by typing:
mysql -u username -p
Create a new database which will hold all of the data from the data dump and then exit out of the MySQL prompt:
CREATE DATABASE database_name;
Next, we can redirect the dump file into our newly created database by issuing the following command:
mysql -u username -p database_name < backup_name.sql
Your information should now be restored to the database you've created.
You can save the data from a table directly into a text file by using the select statement within MySQL.
The general syntax for this operation is:
SELECT * INTO OUTFILE 'table_backup_file' FROM name_of_table;
This operation will save the table data to a file on the MySQL server. It will fail if there is already a file with the name chosen.
Note: This option only saves table data. If your table structure is complex and must be preserved, it is best to use another method!
There is a utility program called "automysqlbackup" that is available in the Ubuntu repositories.
This utility can be scheduled to automatically perform backups at regular intervals.
To install this program, type the following into the terminal:
sudo apt-get install automysqlbackup
Run the command by typing:
The main configuration file for automysqlbackup is located at "/etc/default/automysqlbackup". Open it with administrative privileges:
sudo nano /etc/default/automysqlbackup
You can see that this file, by default, assigns many variables by the MySQL file located at "/etc/mysql/debian.cnf". This contains maintenance login information
From this file, it reads the user, password, and databases that must be backed up.
The default location for backups is "/var/lib/automysqlbackup". Search this directory to see the structure of the backups:
daily monthly weekly
If we look into the daily directory, we can see a subdirectory for each database, inside of which is a gzipped sql dump from when the command was run:
ls -R /var/lib/automysqlbackup/daily
.: database_name information_schema performance_schema ./database_name: database_name_2013-08-27_23h30m.Tuesday.sql.gz ./information_schema: information_schema_2013-08-27_23h30m.Tuesday.sql.gz ./performance_schema: performance_schema_2013-08-27_23h30m.Tuesday.sql.gz
Ubuntu installs a cron script with this program that will run it every day. It will organize the files to the appropriate directory.
It is possible to use MySQL replication to backup data with the above techniques.
While replication allows for data mirroring, it suffers when you are trying to save a specific point in time. This is because it is constantly replicating the changes of a dynamic system.
To avoid this problem, we can either:
You can disable replication for the slave temporarily by issuing:
mysqladmin -u user_name -p stop-slave
Another option, which doesn't completely stop replication, but puts it on pause, so to speak, can be accomplished by typing:
mysql -u user_name -p -e 'STOP SLAVE SQL_THREAD;'
After replication is halted, you can backup using one of the methods above. This allows you to keep the master MySQL database online while the slave is backed up.
When this is complete, restart replication by typing:
mysqladmin -u user_name -p start-slave
You can also ensure a consistent set of data within the server by making the data read-only temporarily.
You can perform these steps on either the master or the slave systems.
First, log into MySQL with enough privileges to manipulate the data:
mysql -u root -p
Next, we can write all of the cached changes to the disk and set the system read-only by typing:
FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK; SET GLOBAL read_only = ON;
Now, perform your backup using mysqldump.
Once the backup is complete, return the system to its original working order by typing:
SET GLOBAL read_only = OFF; UNLOCK TABLES;
MySQL includes a perl script for backing up databases quickly called "mysqlhotcopy". This tool can be used to quickly backup a database on a local machine, but it has limitations that make us avoid recommending it.
The most important reason we won't cover mysqlhotcopy's usage here is because it only works for data stored using the "MyISAM" and "Archive" storage engines.
Most users do not change the storage engine for their databases and, starting with MySQL 5.5, the default storage engine is "InnoDB". This type of database cannot be backed up using mysqlhotcopy.
Another limitation of this script is that it can only be run on the same machine that the database storage is kept. This prevents running backups from a remote machine, which can be a major limitation in some circumstances.
Another method sometimes suggested is simply copying the table files that MySQL stores its data in.
This approach suffers for one of the same reasons as "mysqlhotcopy".
While it is reasonable to use this technique with storage engines that store their data in files, InnoDB, the new default storage engine, cannot be backed up in this way.
There are many different methods of performing backups in MySQL. All have their benefits and weaknesses, but some are much easier to implement and more broadly useful than others.
The backup scheme you choose to deploy will depend heavily on your individual needs and resources, as well as your production environment. Whatever method you decide on, be sure to validate your backups and practice restoring the data, so that you can be sure that the process is functioning correctly.
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Many athletes have gone to medical school before or after the Olympic Games. Very few, however, try to pursue the two simultaneously.
The Class of 2017’s Mallory Abney, a 400-meter hurdler, has kept up world-class training during his time in VCU’s School of Medicine. He’ll begin his fourth year of study later this summer – right around the time he hopes to be competing at the Olympic Games in Brazil.
The Class of 17’s Mallory Abney has kept up world-class training during his three years in medical school. Now the 400-meter hurdler is aiming to turn in a qualifying time to make it to the Olympic Trials.
But first he’s got to get to the Olympic Trials. A few months ago, he would have automatically qualified as one of the top hurdlers in the country. But several athletes have since beat his qualifying time, pushing him down a notch and necessitating a faster finish before the end of June. He hopes to accomplish that this weekend in Maryland; otherwise, he’s got another chance later in the month.
While most of his competitors are training full time, Abney is tackling an acting internship in emergency medicine at VCU Health. “It’s been challenging,” he admits. “It’s hard to get the rest you need. But it’s helped keep me focused and organized.”
“Mallory is tough,” said his coach, Leslie Young. “As hard as he works towards his medical degree, that’s how hard he works at his hurdling.”
On a typical day, Abney gets up around 4:45 a.m. and is out the door for an endurance run by 5:15. He spends the day on VCU’s MCV Campus in school or the hospital, then heads to Virginia State University in Petersburg for a track workout followed by a weight-lifting session. He goes home to his (“very patient”) wife around 7 p.m., eats dinner, studies until almost midnight, and catches a few hours of sleep before starting it all over again.
It’s a grueling schedule, but Abney says he appreciates the support he’s gotten from medical faculty, staff and other students. Some classmates have gone to watch him run or accompanied him to training sessions. They’ll be rooting for him to qualify for the games, even though Abney admits he’s an underdog.
“People call 400-meter hurdles the toughest race in track,” he says. “It requires you to train in a few different disciplines. It’s a sprint race, so you need speed. But it’s the longest sprint race — a full lap around the track, so you need stamina. And then there are these 10 hurdles in the middle of it all, so you need flexibility.”
The Olympic Games weren’t part of his plans a decade ago.
After a solid – but not spectacular – track career at the College of William and Mary, Abney thought he’d just be a casual runner. He worked as a medical scribe at Memorial Regional Medical Center in Mechanicsville, Va., planning to take the MCATs and apply to medical schools.
But a chance encounter with a former rival reignited the desire to compete and he eventually re-entered serious training. After a coach told him his hurdling form was ineffective, Abney refined his technique and found his times dropping significantly, propelling him to national and international levels.
The MCATs were put aside, as he continued working as a scribe and competing. But in 2011 – just after he’d qualified for the 2012 Olympic Trials – he was sidelined by injury. Rather than sitting around during recuperation, he enrolled in the Premedical Graduate Certificate Program on the MCV Campus as a refresher and finally took the MCATs.
He was accepted to VCU’s School of Medicine and began in 2013.
Now 30, he realizes 2016 may be his last shot at the Olympics. If he makes the team, he plans to postpone applying for residencies for a year, since the September application deadline would be too tight. If he doesn’t make it – “the easiest road, but the saddest” – he’ll continue his medical training.
Both are really good options, he admits. “I’d be ecstatic to make the team. But whatever happens, I’m just happy I stuck with it.”
By Lisa Crutchfield


Cecelia Ahern has revealed that she is expecting her third child with her husband David Keoghan.
The bestselling author and her 9-year-old husband attended the first day of Royal Ascot in the UK on Tuesday, and Ahern shared a series of Instagram photos showing her baby.
In the photos, Keoghan packs and kisses his baby as they both smile broadly.
The couple are already the father of nine-year-old daughter Robin and six-year-old son Sonny.
O PS I Love You latest writer's book Roar is being adapted into a television series.
Ahern's titles have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide in nearly 50 countries.


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Building Worlds in a Tank
Kendra Farnsworth, left, Vincent Chevrier and Ellen Czaplinski work on the Keck Lab’s Titan chamber. Photos by Russell Cothren and Whit Pruitt.
In the basement of Ferritor Hall is a windowless, bunker-like lab where researchers are building worlds dramatically unlike our own. In these worlds, entirely contained in stainless steel tanks the size of a soda can to almost two-stories tall, lakes are filled with methane instead of water, snow is metallic, carbon monoxide freezes into ice and life struggles to survive in what we’d consider lethal conditions.
The researchers building these micro worlds are studying questions such as why one planet is uninhabitable while life thrives on its virtual twin, what Earth was like before the atmosphere contained oxygen, and whether liquid water could exist in a place where it rarely gets above freezing. They look at the intersection of atmosphere and land on Mars, Venus, Pluto and Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, for answers. We can’t go to these places and dig, yet, so scientists at the W.M. Keck Laboratory for Planetary Simulations in the basement of Ferritor Hall do the next best thing: create them in the lab and see what happens.
“The goal of the lab is to simulate the surface of planets, in particular how the surface of planets evolved over time, how they interacted with their atmosphere when the atmosphere was present, and study chemical and physical conditions at the surface of planets,” said Vincent Chevrier, a research assistant professor at the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences. “All we know of the formation and evolution of the planets is what we see on the surface.”
There’s a second goal as well, and it strays into the realm of science fiction: astrobiology. Could life exist beyond Earth, given what we know about the conditions found on other planets? And if so, what does that mean for how life began here? “We try to tie those conditions to the emergence, or lack thereof, of life on the surface of the planets,” said Chevrier. “We try to understand how that ties back to the emergence of life on Earth.”
The W.M. Keck Laboratory for Planetary Simulations is part of the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Science, a multidisciplinary research center created in 2000 with a two-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation. At the outset, it was a joint effort between the U of A and Oklahoma State University, designed to create a critical mass of researchers and facilities to contribute to NASA’s ongoing program of robotic space exploration. It has evolved into an interdisciplinary program among seven U of A departments, three colleges, and the Graduate School and International Education and it offers graduate degrees in space and planetary sciences, biology, geology and physics.
The Keck Lab, home to the five simulation tanks, got its start in 2004 with a $500,000 challenge grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles to then-Space Center director and chemistry professor Derek Sears to study water on Mars. Sears already had Keck’s centerpiece in his lab: the Andromeda chamber, a two-meter tall vessel acquired from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., when the Center for Space and Planetary Science opened. Back then, the Keck Lab and the Andromeda chamber were housed in the basement of the Field House, now known as the Faulkner Center for Performing Arts.
Five Chambers, Four Planets
At first the Andromeda chamber was dedicated to the study of water on Mars; how it evaporates, how it behaves as ice, how it forms brines. Chevrier has since repurposed it to study the cold, atmospherically dense surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.
Kendra Farnsworth works on the Titan Chamber, which is open for maintenance. Farnsworth is studying how hydrocarbons freeze at conditions similar to those on Titan.
Titan is the only planetary body in the solar system besides Earth known to have rain-fed rivers, lakes and seas. The liquid isn’t water, though; At minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit, it’s far too cold for that. Still, there are parallels between Earth and Titan that interest scientists. Titan’s atmosphere is primarily nitrogen, for example, which makes it similar to Earth’s atmosphere before photosynthesis added oxygen to the mix.
“There are hypotheses that before life emerged on Earth its atmosphere was relatively similar to Titan,” said Chevrier. “Therefore understanding the biochemistry and the chemistry happening in the atmosphere and at the surface of Titan could help us understand the prebiotic chemistry on Earth and how it could have then evolved to life on Earth because of the much higher temperature.”
The Keck Lab has two chambers devoted to the surface of Mars: one for studying the possibility that liquid water exists there, and one for determining if any organism is tough enough to survive there.
Mars’ atmosphere is thin and very cold, so if liquid water exists at the surface it would likely be in tiny amounts and suspended in a brine solution that acts like antifreeze, says Chevrier. Researchers focus on creating Mars-like conditions in one of the tanks, then determining if brines are stable, or if they evaporate or freeze. They’ve had some luck with brines containing ferric sulfate and perchlorates, but Chevrier is skeptical that there is liquid water in any significant quantity on Mars.
“Where should we look and what instrument should we use?” he said. “We are not talking about a pond of water. We are talking about minute droplets, sub-millimeter size, in an ocean of regolith (rocky material).”
The case for life on Mars is stronger. While researchers can’t say life exists there, findings based on Keck Lab research indicate that it could. Researchers subjected methanogens – methane-producing organisms that are common on Earth and able thrive in harsh environments such as geothermal sea floor vents and Arctic permafrost – to Mars-like temperatures and found that some species did survive.
The Pluto chamber is a bit larger than a beer keg, though you wouldn’t mistake it for one. Ports on the sides and top are sealed with sturdy bolts that hint at the pressure and temperature extremes the chamber is built to contain.
NASA’S New Horizons spacecraft, launched in January 2006, flew by Pluto in July 2015 and provided scientists with their first real glimpse of the dwarf planet. High-resolution photos and spectroscopy revealed a world of ices composed of methane, nitrogen and carbon monoxide. NASA measured the atmospheric pressure on Pluto by sending carefully timed radio waves from Earth, through Pluto’s atmosphere and to the New Horizons spacecraft, then calculating how much the waves refracted, or were bent. Pluto’s atmospheric pressure, they discovered, is 100,000 times lower than on Earth.
With those parameters in hand, Keck lab researchers recreated surface conditions on Pluto and are studying the chemical composition of its ices. “It’s astounding the ices we can observe on Pluto, and they’re actually very common,” said Caitlin Ahrens, a doctoral candidate and the Pluto lab manager. “It’s methane, nitrogen, carbon monoxide, water ice. But knowing how they mix together, how do they behave? Do they become completely solid together? Do they become chunky? Do they become glassy? That is still unknown to us, so we can simulate Pluto conditions in the lab and try to mix together these ices and see what happens.”
The Venus chamber is the Keck Lab’s smallest – about the size of a soda can – and most volatile. It’s housed in a different room away from the other tanks because of the pressure and temperatures involved.
“It is 100 times the pressure on earth and 500 degrees Celsius,” said Chevrier. “You have to be very careful with that one.” Venus is perpetually shrouded in clouds, but the surface has been extensively mapped by radar, and the results show something interesting. “The radar signal becomes anomalously bright at high altitude, Like a Christmas tree,” Chevrier said. “Nobody knows why.”
On Earth, high altitude correlates to the snow line. But it’s far too hot for snow on Venus; unless the snow isn’t water. “It needs to be something semi-conductive to explain the radar results,” said Chevrier.
To try to understand this, researchers study compounds of bismuth tellurium, sulfur, iron, lead and mercury, metals volatile enough to be ejected from a volcano and descend on the mountaintops as metallic deposits.
Though Venus and Earth are very different planets today, they were once similar, said Chevrier, and therein lies a cautionary tale. “The idea is to understand what went wrong on Venus,” he says. “What happened sometime in the past of Venus that made it like that today? Because a runaway greenhouse, when you pass a certain point in the climate evolution that you cannot reverse the effect, you are doomed. We look at Venus so we don’t do the same on Earth.”
Many students interested in planetary sciences find themselves working with mission data gathered by NASA, the European Space Agency and other sources. It’s a rich source of information easily accessible online, and it offers a way into important questions.
But mission data only takes researchers so far. It’s a snapshot. To explore deeper questions about processes and evolution requires experimentation. And that is why the Keck Lab is vital, Chevrier said. It not only allows researchers to use mission data as a starting point to answer questions about how the universe works, it offers them hands-on engineering challenges in designing and building the simulators. That focus on experimentation, Chevrier said, helps attract students who “want to get their hands dirty.”
“I am fairly capable of attracting top students who could easily be accepted in top institutions in planetary science. It is small, bit it is a very good program. From the experimental perspective, we are one of the best.”

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Identification of scour critical bridges using geophysical techniques
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Singing timeless and heart-warming love songs, Asia’s Romantic Balladeer Christian Bautista made the Cebuano audience wander in sweet memories and romantic moments during a mini Post-Valentine concert held on February 21 at The Northwing of SM City Cebu.
Mounted by GMA Network, in coordination with its Central and Eastern Visayas station, the event showcased the Kapuso star’s singing prowess—particularly his lovely ballads—that surely made the hearts of his supporters flutter.
Christian performed beautiful renditions of the songs "Can We Just Stop And Talk A While," "Just The Way You Are," "Ngiti," and "The Way You Look At Me." Accompanying him were Cebuana front act Nashrene Ericka Casas and event host Vanessa Amann.
Regularly seen on GMA-7’s variety show Sunday All Stars, Christian will be playing Sam in Atlantis’s highly anticipated production Ghost the Musical, which will run from April 25 to May 11.
Apart from these projects, Christian will also be coming out with an album to be released within the year.
Christian Bautista serenades Cebuanos during his post-Valentine concert
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Best Feature Film: Mythopathy – by Tassos Boulmetis
MYTHOPATHY is a bitter sweet comedy, about the coming of age of a young man who encounters his first emotional and sexual experiences with women, during the seventies in Greece. Changing the myths and creating his own version of the stories to serve his wants is what makes him special among his classmates, family and girls.
Best Documentary: The longest run – by Marianna Economou
Jasim and Alsaleh are underage refugees in a Greek prison. Coming from Syria and Iraq, they were arrested and accused of smuggling illegal immigrants. With unique access in the juvenile prison and court room, the film follows the two friends closely while in custody, during the trial and after the verdict, through a narrative of suspense which reveals how youngsters are forced to transport migrants across the border to Greece while the smugglers stay behind and continue their job uninterrupted. If Jasim and Alsaleh are found guilty, they will face extremely long prison sentences. Phone conversations between the imprisoned young boys and their mothers at their war-stricken countries accentuate the double enclosure that these families experience. No one knows how and when their long run will end.
Best New Vision Film: Interruption – by Yorgos Zois
A post modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in black and carrying guns, come up on stage. They apologize for the interruption and invite people from the audience to participate on stage. The audience is captivated by the ambivalence, still not realizing if this is part of the play or not. The play resumes with a main difference; life imitates art and not vice versa.


Google has rolled out a couple rather neat updates to Google Maps this week.
The Android app picked up a couple minor features. The gMaps developers have decided to graduate the scale bar and zoom buttons from Labs into the settings menu in the app. They also added a new elevation data point to the Labs, but I’m wondering how accurate that is going to be.
Google also expanded the number of cities with 45 degree angle map views. Twenty more cities are now supported, including Avignon, France, and Miami.
If you haven’t seen the angled map view before, it’s worth a look. I’m sure you’ve used the map and street view in order to navigate, and the angled view is a useful compromise between the two. It give you enough of an overhead view to see the street patterns while also showing some details from the front of buildings. Of course, the 45 degree view doesn’t get down inside the streets, and you cannot rotate it, but the extra angle will still reveal useful info.


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Written By: Sarah Brandt, Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging Intern
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series of Helping Hands stories authored by School of Pharmacy faculty, staff, students, trainees, and alumni who stepped up to assist their family and friends, colleagues, and communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the School of Pharmacy’s Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging has continued to support its neighbors in West Baltimore. Unfortunately, during this unprecedented time, instructors and students in the School’s Aging in Place interprofessional course cannot physically visit the housing sites that participate in the course. Prior to COVID-19 and the resulting self-distancing, quarantine, and stay at home orders, students in the course were able to go out into the community to work one-on-one with older residents in West Baltimore. They would complete screenings, such as blood pressure, high risk medications, and falls, as well as provide education on ways to stay healthy and active. Throughout this course, the students would give community residents small prizes, including sanitary items, snacks, and pamphlets.
As a result of its recent inability to be physically present in the community, the Lamy Center had many extra supplies and wanted to find new ways to support its older adult neighbors. The Lamy Center stuffed individualized bags with personal hygiene items such as soap, deodorant, toothpaste, hand sanitizer, paper towels, and toilet paper; snacks like granola bars and crackers; and educational pamphlets on exercise and medication safety. We reached out to the UMB Community Engagement Center (CEC), under the leadership of Tyrone Roper, MSW, to deliver the items.
The bags were distributed to 50 older adults in the West Baltimore community to let them know we are here for them during these difficult times. This effort was in addition to ongoing one-on-one outreach for some of our neighbors in Mount Clare, made possible through student support and the leadership of Nicole Brandt, PharmD, MBA, BCPP, BCGP, FASCP, professor of pharmacy practice and science and executive director of the Lamy Center; Daniel Mansour, PharmD, BCGP, FASCP, interprofessional clinical coordinator for the Lamy Center; and Barbara Resnick, PhD, RN, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, professor of organizational systems and adult health and co-director of the Biology and Behavior Across the Lifespan Organized Research Center at the School of Nursing.
“What an amazing gesture of kindness from the School of Pharmacy’s Lamy Center to donate care packages for the elderly living in southwest Baltimore,” says Roper. “Their contribution helped UMB’s Community Engagement Center reach more people in need of support during this difficult time.”
He adds, “In addition to delivering care packages, we were able to share with more people the importance of social distancing and wearing a mask when out in public. I am very appreciative for the partnership with the School of Pharmacy and the Lamy Center. Collectively we will make it through this.”


HOUSTON -- This is the season Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow envisioned almost from the moment he was hired six offseasons ago. Perfect team? Don't be silly. Very, very good? There's a chance."What has this offseason gotten us?" Astros manager A.J. Hinch said Tuesday. "It's gotten us an opportunity."The Astros
HOUSTON -- This is the season Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow envisioned almost from the moment he was hired six offseasons ago. Perfect team? Don't be silly. Very, very good? There's a chance.
"What has this offseason gotten us?" Astros manager A.J. Hinch said Tuesday. "It's gotten us an opportunity."
The Astros this week announced their team slogan for 2017: Earn it.
However, Hinch had another one: "Bring it."
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Translation: It's OK to embrace expectations. Baseball Prospectus pegs the Astros at 92 victories, most in the American League and seven more than any other AL West club. The last time Houston won that many games was 2004, when it went 92-70 and won a postseason series for the first time in franchise history.
Fangraphs is also bullish: a 90-72 projection, which is six games better than the next-best AL West team (Angels).
Remember these are projections, not predictions. Too much can happen between now and October. And that's especially true for the Astros.
"We're healthy," Luhnow said, "but we know there's a long way to go."
"Knock on wood when you say that," Hinch added.
The Astros enter Spring Training cautiously optimistic that two of their top three starters -- Dallas Keuchel and Lance McCullers -- are healthy. Both finished last season on the disabled list with shoulder and arm issues. Had they been healthy, Houston probably would have gone to the playoffs.
That's probably also true of 2017, even though the remainder of the roster has been significantly reshaped. That's why Luhnow has attempted to add another veteran starting pitcher, with White Sox lefty Jose Quintana and Rays right-hander Jake Odorizzi high on his list.
To get one of those guys would mean giving up one or both of the Astros' top two prospects -- right-hander Francis Martes and outfielder Kyle Tucker -- and Luhnow has been unwilling to do that.
Regardless, no general manager had a better offseason than Luhnow, who added catcher Brian McCann, starting pitcher Charlie Morton and outfielders Carlos Beltran, Josh Reddick and Norichika Aoki in a flurry of moves.
Combine those with the additions of third baseman Alex Bregman and first baseman Yulieski Gurriel last year after the All-Star break, and Houston barely resemble the 2016 team that started 7-17 and needed 73 games to get above .500 for good.
MLB.com columnist Mike Petriello's recent analysis concluded the Astros have the deepest lineup in the Majors, which is a far cry from last season, when there were stretches in which they got offense from just three spots: second base (Jose Altuve), right field (George Springer) and shortstop (Carlos Correa).
"If we can avoid getting off to a bad start like we did last year, I think chances are good that we're going to be seeing baseball in October here," Luhnow said.
He offered a hat tip of Astros owner Jim Crane, who has approved the highest payroll in team history -- around $120 million.
"I gotta give our ownership group a round of applause for allowing us the resources to go after that many players," Luhnow said. "We feel like this sets us up very well for the next four to five years. Not only that, we maintain the medium- and long-term health of this organization."
When Crane hired Luhnow in December 2011, the owner promised to give his GM the resources and freedom to do a dramatic teardown and rebuild. Houston averaged 103 losses in the three seasons before a surprise playoff appearance -- the franchise's first in a decade -- in '15.
"If we think about it as an organization, how fortunate are we to have three years in a row [with] rookies coming up like George Springer, Carlos Correa and Alex Bregman," Luhnow said. "Those are three elite-level players that are going to be here for awhile."
Looking back on it, the Astros surprised even themselves by making the playoffs in 2015. Despite everything, they were in contention until the final week last season. One problem: Houston was 4-15 against the Texas Rangers, 37-20 against the rest of the AL West.
"We understand that the AL West goes through the Rangers," Luhnow said. "We haven't been good enough against them."
All of which seems to set the stage for 2017.
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. You can follow him on Twitter @richardjustice.


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Fast-Growing Wind BreakIf you need a quick privacy hedge or windbreak, or need to screen out an unwanted view – sooner rather than later – then you want the Lombardy Poplar (Populus nigra ‘Italica’). This tree shoots skyward to 40 feet, 50 feet or more. And by shooting skyward, we mean that it rockets at a pace of 1 to 6 feet per year! Very few other screening trees will grow this fast.These stately trees have been used in public and private landscapes in Europe since the 1700’s. Andrew Jackson helped popularize them in America in the 1800’s. They were used then to dramatically line roadways or highlight garden edges. Can’t you imagine how they would add height and drama to your yard?In summer, the heart shaped leaves are green on one side and silver on the other, which makes for a shimmering effect in the slightest breeze. In fall the leaves turn a classic shade of autumn yellow.Tall and columnar, they create a memorable impact wherever they are planted, but especially if planted in a row. Planted at 5’ to 8’ apart, they will make a formidable windbreak in no time.Birds love the shelter and high protection the branches of the Lombardy offer, so you will have plenty of songbirds coming to visit.Go for high impact and don’t buy just one. These trees have got you – or at least that ugly view – covered! * Fast-Growing* Great Living Screen* Hardy.
Fast-growing shade tree with a true “WOW” factor“WOW!” People will pull up to your yard and gawk. This beautiful shade tree is covered in spring with flowers that look for all the world like large tulips growing from the branches. The ‘tulips’ – in shades of yellow, green and orange – are so beautiful that museums and botanical gardens around the country have Tulip Tree walks, where paths are lines with these remarkable bloomers.The Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), also called the Tulip Tree or Yellow Poplar, is actually a member of the Magnolia family. You can tell the family resemblance when you smell the air around a blooming Tulip tree. The fresh, light magnolia-like perfume will stop you in your tracks. Throughout the summer the 5 inch leaves blanket your Poplar in a vibrant green. Its natural conical canopy will shade your family and provide relief from the summer heat. Then, in autumn, your Tulip Poplar puts on a spectacular display again when its leaves turn a brilliant lemon yellow. Talk about a “WOW” factor… The Tulip Poplar is also valued for the large quantities of nectar it produces each year and is a veritable magnet for wildlife. Planting this Poplar in your yard will attract cardinals, hummingbirds, and butterflies. The Tulip Poplar is so beautiful that it’s the state tree for three different states, so doesn’t your yard deserve one too? Don’t wait until they’re all gone. Order yours from Nature Hills today.* Unique spring flowers * Yellow fall color .
Fast-Growing Seedless CottonwoodThe Siouxland Cottonwood is a fast growing tree that would look great in a stand along a driveway or border, or as an accent tree. If you don’t like the fluffy fall seeds of poplars, then the Siouxland Cottonwood may be for you. The Siouxland is a male cultivar of the Cottonwood, so doesn’t produce seed. It still has all the endearing features of the Cottonwood, but without the mess. Extremely fast growing, hardy and easy to care for, the Siouxland will provide you with years of carefree beauty. The Siouxland can grow to a majestic 70 feet tall with a spread of 40 feet. Its grey/whitish bark gives a distinctive flair, and the heart-shaped leaves rustle on the slightest of breeze. The foliage is a light green with a lighter green or even silvery shade on the underside. This aids it in catching the sun’s rays and drawing the eye as it dances on the wind. In the fall that dancing foliage turns to a delightful yellow shade before winter enforces its time of rest. The Siouxland is a Cottonwood sure to please. It’s a no-mess, no-fuss tree that will provide you years of beauty and enjoyment. * Fast-Growing * Seedless * Hardy * Brilliant Fall color The Cottonless Cottonwood.
Fast Growing Privacy & Windbreak TreeThe Theves Poplar is a fast growing deciduous tree. Plant a few to accent the entrance of your home or perhaps post some as sentries along your driveway.They also make a wonderful privacy hedge.Your Theves Poplar can grow more than six feet in the first year! It can reach 75 feet at maturity with a 10 foot spread. It grows in a dramatic manner, with a narrow upright thrust like a spire reaching into the sky.A charming feature of your Theves Poplar is that the oval dark green leaves have a silvery underside. This creates a flashing effect in the breeze that will draw your eye from wherever you’re standing in your yard.The bark of your Theves Poplar also has an ornamental quality with its whitish hue that is especially attractive in the winter when the leaves have gone. The autumn color of your Poplar is a muted yellow that although not as spectacular as other fall colors, tends to stand out because of the tall columnar effect of the tree.Your Theves Poplar is a hybrid of the Lombardy Poplar. It’s hardier and has superior longevity to the Lombardy, living up to 80 years in some instances. It resists many more diseases and insects too, and is tolerant of many conditions.If you have allergy sufferers in your home, they’ll especially appreciate its pollen-free nature.For a Poplar with a variety of unique features above and beyond the usual Poplar trees, the Theves is an outstanding choice.* Fast-Growing * Long-lived * Ornamental features * Hardy.
This Best Seller Grows an Amazing 8 Feet a Year! The Hybrid Poplar is a fast growing shade tree that is also called a Seedless Cottonwod.Some fast growing trees are short lived, but not the Hybrid Poplar. It will grow 6-8 feet a year and live to be 40-50 years old.A favorite of home owners and builders the Hybrid Poplar is a great looking, hardy tree. It can grow in almost any climate and will thrive even in poor soil.The Hybrid Poplar is a wonderful choice for a windbreak or privacy screen. It is also perfect to line a driveway or as a fast growing shade tree for your yard.From spring through summer your Hybrid Poplar will be beautiful cloaked in unique, shiny, dark green almost triangular leaves. If you don’t have a green thumb or time to fuss, the Poplar is for you. Its natural pyramidal shape ensures that your tree will have a lovely shape without wasting your time pruning. In the fall you will be captivated by the stunning yellow leaves waving in the breeze. The sound of the leaves in a gentle wind is an often overlooked attribute of the Poplar. When friends and neighbors ask what that lovely rustling sound is, you’ll know it’s your Poplar.If you’re looking for an attractive, fast-growing, care free and large shade tree you can’t go wrong with the Hybrid Poplar. It’s perfect choice anywhere you’d like to have a tree quickly.* Fast Growing* Tolerates poor soil and cold* Disease and pest resistantThe Cottonless Cottonwood.

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Event: Shahid Kapoor with father Pankaj Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha with mother Poonam Sinha, Ayushmann Khurana, choreographer Ahmed Khan, Apoorva Lakhia, Parmeet Sethi, Ashutosh Gowariker, Maanyata Dutt, Krishika Lulla, Siddharth Roy Kapoor along with brother Kunal Roy Kapoor, Vikramaditya Motwane, Nikitan Dheer amongst others were present at the special screening of R…RAJKUMAR. The films releases today.
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Longtime Booth fave, Freestyle Series alum and "Tonight is the Night" author Outasight has released a new project, the Stay Gold EP.
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Mid Sussex District Council produces a Corporate Plan each year that shows how it will deliver its services. The Corporate Plan is developed in line with the key themes in the District's Sustainable Community Strategy and the Council's corporate priorities.
The Council has adopted a new statement of main purpose, which reads:
To be an effective council delivering value for money services and helping to create a strong economy, environment and community.
There are also 4 new Council priorities:
- Effective and responsive services
- Sustainable economic growth
- Strong and resilient communities
- Financial independence
Flagship Activities for 2017/18
Effective and responsive services
The Council wishes to build on the performance of all of its services with a particular focus on further improving customer experience. Flagship activities for 2017/18 are:
- Improving our customer service with more enquiries dealt with at the first point of contact.
- Increasingly digitising our services to make them more customer-friendly by improving efficiency.
Sustainable economic growth
The Council has an important role in supporting businesses, encouraging new ones and attracting inward investment. Flagship activities for 2017/18 are:
- Progressing the Town Centre redevelopment at Burgess Hill.
- Redevelopment of the station quarter at Haywards Heath including the opening of the new Waitrose store and also work on East Grinstead Town Centre.
- Working towards the provision of new business parks at Burgess Hill.
- Providing Economic Development grants to support business.
- Production of a new Economic Development Strategy
Strong and resilient communities
Continuing to work with partner organisations to build sustainable communities that will deliver a better quality of life for all. Flagship activities for 2017/18 are:
- Continue to support our community through grants to local organisations.
- Ensure that the “Think Family” community initiatives are delivered and supported.
- Providing an effective Wellbeing Service that helps residents to make healthy lifestyle choices.
- Enable the provision of 200 new affordable homes.
- Supporting communities with new facilities and playgrounds, such as at Ansty recreation ground, Hickmans Lane, Lindfield and Finches Field, Pease Pottage.
Reduced Government financial support brings the need for robust management of budgets and maximising of income to be as financially self– sufficient as possible. Flagship activities for 2017/18 relate to the development of services and assets that will generate revenue for the Council such as:
- the delivery of improvements to the leisure centres
- extension of the green waste service to a further 2,000 users
- making best use of our land and commercial property holdings.
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We all know that London is indeed a vibrant city to live in, and that no single neighbourhood has the same vibe.
After 10 years living in London, South-west London has been my home and I am happy to share the best parts of my favourite neighbourhood – Chelsea.
Living in Chelsea is a charm. You feel like part of a movie. The houses are perfectly decorated outside and inside (sometimes you can have a peak through a window!), the pubs are cute and welcoming, the shops are luxurious & tempting, the neighbours’ dogs are well groomed, and they even have top clothing!
Where Is Chelsea?
First things first, let's get our bearings. There are a lot of fantastic neighbourhoods in London but for me, living in Chelsea has been great. Chelsea is located in West London, right next to Central London, south from Hyde Park and on the northern banks of the River Thames.
In reality, the Chelsea neighbourhood goes far beyond the areas around Kings Road and Sloane Square. Chelsea extends to Brompton, touches the edges of Knightsbridge in the North East of the neighbourhood, Parsons Green on the west and Battersea south of the river.
I navigate through Chelsea in relation to Kings Rd. Kings Road crosses Chelsea for 1 mile and= connects Sloane Square Station (District line, zone 1) to Worlds End - on the edge with Parson Green.
This neighbourhood is full of charm and history. It is where the Royal Hospital is located with the Chelsea Pensioners (the famous retired Beefeaters).
Pros & Cons of Living in Chelsea
Chelsea is an amazing place to live and straight away I only thing of pros. You have the city’s best shops, best food hubs, and the cutest houses. The locals who live here are charming and very well educated. Stereotypically, this is a very high end, affluent area. The location itself is great as you'll be well-connected to other London areas, the architecture and small streets are beautiful, and you can enjoy some green spaces on the Chelsea Embankment and the other city parks.
Every place has cons, however, and for Chelsea there is only one con: the price. Living in this little paradise bubble comes with a high cost of living and it is a rather large price tag.
You can expect to pay a lot of a house. Renting starts at £2500 per month for a studio flat up £5000 for a one bedroom house. Not many people rent rooms in Chelsea. It happens a group of people/friend and relatives rending together one house.
This part of London is well connected, especially to West London. It has one underground stop in Sloane Square on the east of Kings Road in the District Line, and Knightsbridge’s Station (Picadilly Line) which is a 15 minute walk north from Chelsea main roads.
There are plenty of buses that can you to main areas of South London such as:
- 211 from Waterloo to Hammersmith
- 319 from Sloane Sq to Streatham via Clapham Junction
- 11 from Waterloo to Fulham from Road
- 22 from Green Park to Putney
Where Not to Live Within Chelsea
For some people, it is not immediately noticeable what is a bad area of a neighbourhood and a good one. Specially when the neighbourhood is urban chic Chelsea.
All of London’s neighbourhoods have less appealing areas. These can be consider less nice/safe/beautiful to live and it will depend very much on your parameters to evaluate the location.
For example, in Chelsea, the area “World Ends” is not a popular place to live and the houses are smaller, more in blocks - called council flats. You can have a feel of similar areas by how the streets are preserved, rubbish is collected, and the shapes of the buildings in general.
When walking through Chelsea on the north side of Kings Road (Ixworth Place, SW3), you can spot another small group of buildings that is not preferred to live in and definitely not the most well spoken about. This group of buildings aren’t associated to an area of Chelsea like “Worlds End” and it is rather surrounded by very high end penthouses.
Best Things to Do in Chelsea
My favourite things to do in Chelsea are definitely taking advantage of the great shopping and romanticising my life either by dreaming of owning a home in a mews or just grabbing my favourite hot chocolate on my way to work.
Chelsea is one of London's best neighbourhoods to shop. All high-end fashion retailers and designer boutiques are present in the infamous Kings Road and inside of Peter Jones department store. Although these places aren't secrets, there are still plenty of hidden gems to find as you wander.
Annual Events in Chelsea
Apart of this lifestyle moments, I become a fanatic of two big events in Chelsea every year:
Chelsea Flower Show
Every year Chelsea hosts the most beautiful event called: RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
It gathers gardeners, architects, garden decorators from all over the world, thousands of people come to this event to present their art around gardening and flowers. It was the favourite event of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
Although it is hard to get tickets and/or they are expensive, the Chelsea Flower Show attracts people from all over the world and tickets fly out in hours of release.
During the event week it is a must to visit this neighbourhood. All the shops show off their flower arrangements, and Chelsea blooms – it is incredible to see.
Chelsea during Christmas
During the Christmas period, Chelsea is a great place to go shopping. Not only that, but this part of London also offers a small market in York Square, and the best decoration spots.
Similarly, to the Chelsea Flower Show, during Christmas all shops, restaurants, and the majority of Chelsea’s townhouses become Christmas ready with the most stunning trees, ornaments, Nut Crackers in every corner. You can expect to see Christmas carols, mulled wine being sold in pubs and the incredible story telling shopping windows!
If you are looking for authentic English lifestyle, decor, and the best shopping without the queues during Christmas, Chelsea is the place to go.
Best Restaurants in Chelsea
Like majority of this cosmopolitan city, Chelsea has a lot of food and drinks options. Here are some of my must tries when in Chelsea:
La Mia Mama (Italian)
Traditional Italian restaurant in the heart of the neighbourhood, La Mia Mamma is run by actually ‘nonnas’ (grandmother in Italian), and every three months the restaurant brings these great grandmothers’ from Italy, so they cook their best recipes in this restaurant – How cool is this, trust me, it is even tastier!
Phoenix Pub in Chelsea (British Gastro Pub)
Just off the Kings Road, the Phoenix offers the best pub vibes. It is perfect if you want to experience a traditional pub with a twist on pub food. The dining area is makes you feel you are in an antique living room. They run a good pub quiz on Sundays!
Bluebird (Great Style & Steaks)
When in Chelsea you need to dine at Bluebird. It is one of the most trendy places in the Kings Road and offers a modern British menu. You can expect robust steaks and great wine list. The best part of this place is the decoration and the service!
OKA Chelsea (The Best of Asia)
Chelsea is a cosmopolitan neighbourhood; it attracts all nationalities and so all cuisines! You can expect the best prawn tempura and the tastiest dragon roll sushi at OKA. Make sure you book ahead especially on Fridays as the queues can take up to 2 hours.
Surrounded by the most glamorous boutique shops, the Comptoir offers a range of lunch and snacky solutions – My mum says that the best foods are colourful, if you agree, Comptoir is for you!
For brunch options, make sure you wander around Pavilion Rd. There are more than twenty options for brunch focused places, artisan cafeterias and natural juice shops. For Saturday and Sunday tables, book ahead!
Are You Moving to Chelsea, Too?
I have been very fortunate to call Chelsea my neighbourhood for almost two years, and although I recently moved to another neighbourhood in South-West London, Chelsea will forever have a special place in my heart!
I hope this post will inspire you to move to Chelsea or at the vert least visit this charming neighbourhood and experience all that the area has to offer.


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The Castillian- Manchega location is situated in a spectacular environments, in the heart of the Serrania, over a pink platform formed by the mouths of the Júcar and Huécar rivers. An ancient place full of works of art and a very singular cathedral make up this travelguide of what to see in Cuenca. It also possesses an interesting offer of contemporary art. A provincial capital that is very attractive, is worth a visit.
To fully appreciate this travel guide to Cuenca, one must know its history. This one began during the arab times. The mohammedans took advantage of the strategic disposition between the mouths of the two bordering rivers. For that, they designed a castle named Conca, insie the core of Santaver. The plaza kept growing in importance and population, reaching to dispose of the alcázar, plaza mayor and the mosque.
The splendor of the Omeyas favored the city in a putant agriculture and textile productivity. However, the ups and downs of the reconquer and the dissapearance of the Caliphate of Cordoba in 1031, converted it into a frontier plaza. Later, after nine months of the occured, on September 21st 1177 Alfonso VII took possesion of it. Based on the tradition. the pastor Martin Alhaya convinced some Christian attackers to cross the gate of Aljaraz covered with sheep fur. They did it confused between the herd whic was filled with meat and the Muslim sides. Like this, they took the guards by surprise and opened the doors to the rest of the army.
Once the conquest was over, an episcopal headquarter was constituted along with a council. It was governed by the famous Cuenca Fuero. Retracted in 1190, its 950 laws gave it such a practical value that conduced for it to also be given to many other populations. The King resided in the city for ten years, promoting the works that transformed the Mosque into a Cathedral. These were held back until the beginning of the XIV century. One of the most notable promoters would be Bishop Julian, whose remains were deposited in an a chest of silver in a chapel dedicated to him. Posteriorly, he would be canonized contributing to the influence of pilgrims to the place. The temple would finish being denominated the Cathedral of Santa María and San Julián de Cuenca.
Like int he Muslim times, the production of textile and livestock brought the city a great economical splendor. Clear sign of it is the urban lattisse. This began to extend outside the walls, appearing in the neighborhoods of San Anton and the Tiradores. In the frame of the disputed between King Alfonso XI and his unclel Infante Don Juan Manuel. Cuenca began to form part during some years to the lordship of Villena. With everything, later it returned to be property of Corona.
During the XV and XVI centuries, nobels and Church would give the city a construction impulse without precedents. Palaces, monasteries, and Parishes augmented as a reflection of the political and economical relevance. This conduces the attraction of important artists like the polemic “Jamete”. The famous French sculptor built the monumental renaissance cover netween 1546 and 1550. The arch of Jamete is the most spectacular element in the cathedral and one of the prettiest to see in the capital of Cuenca.
As a disgrace, only one century later, the fall of the clothing industry would take Cuenca to an enormous economic and demographic decadance. The crisis lasted until the XX century. In July 15th 1874 it was produced as one of the most requested stories in history. Cuenca was raided by the Army of Carlista del Centro. It was commanded by Infante Alfonso de Borbón, accompanied by his wilfe María de las Nieves de Braganza. Their stay lasted a couple of days, but they stripped the town of such way that is was nicknamed the “Saco de Cuenca”.
Much more violent was the destruction and raid of the temples by part of the anarchy militians in July of 1936. Since there was no revolt or armed enemies to who beat, these procedeed to assessinate the rightists and loot the Cathedral. They also took out the remains of Saint Julian from the chest of silver that contained them. Next, they proceeded to burn them. After a very lenthy and expensive restauration, the city has recovered the impressive historic site. So effective was the restauration that is was declares a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Up next, do not miss the travel guide of what to see in Cuenca.
Cuenca is an important artistic and monumental city, and to visit and complete this trvel guide in this place requires at least two days. You can even spend three days so you can have time to visit the Serranía de Cuenca Natural Park , mainly its “Ciudad Encantada” (Enchanted City) and the “Callejones de las Majadas”. Finally in your way back, if you drive towards Madrid you should visit Uclés, or the Roman city of Segóbriga.
In the Plaza Mayor there is the Santa María and San Julián Cathedral, built from the 1182 above an old Muslim mosque; it was especially of Gothic-Norman style. This Cathedral is also very important due to its chapels and different rooms.
Next on this travel guide.
In the same square there is the city council, dating back to 1733 of baroque style; and the Petras Convent, building from the XVIII century. In the San Pedro street there are many of the main buildings of the city: the Casa del Canónigo, Angélicas convent – linked to the San Nicolás de Bari Church and the Carmelitas Descalzas Convent; there is also the Menéndez Pelayo International University and the Antonio Pérez Foundation.
In the Trabuco square on this travel guide you can find the San Pedro Church, of Romanic Origins. Close to the viewpoints of the Jucar you can see the San Miguel Church, building from the XII century sheltering today an auditorium; the de los Descalzos Convent; and the Nuestra Señora de las Angustias Sanctuary.
In the Alfonso VIII street you can find the Corregidor and the Arostegui big houses dating back to the XVII centuries.
In the city they are also important the San Jualián Conciliar Seminary and the Mangana Tower, which are important in this travel guide.
Going through the arch door we face the San Pablo Bridge, the most remarkable example of industrial architecture in Cuenca, from where we can see the impressive hanging houses, symbol of this city. A must see on this travel guide.
This aforementioned bridge ends in the San Pablo Convent, raised in 1523 and nowadays restored and National Inn.
There are also many museums in this city, but there is an important one in those hanging houses, the Spanish Abstract Art Museum of Cuenca, with a great collection of national paintings from the 50’s and 60’s.
In the Carmelitas Descalzas Convent there is the Antonio Pérez Foundation, sheltering many different artworks; in the Arzobispal Palace the Diocesan Museum, and right in front of it the Cuenca Museum. Finally, in the old town we find the Science Museum of Castilla-La Mancha.
With this, we conclude our travel guide to Cuenca.

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