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Spring Semester Dance Program
Each spring semester Accademia dell’Arte offers a unique dance program designed in partnership with Goucher College (Baltimore, Maryland) and Prof. Karen Dearborn at Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pennsylvania)
Spring Semester 2014
January 27 - May 2
Spring Semester Application Deadline:
for this program.
Please visit the Tuition & Fees
page for complete details on all program costs.
A note from the Dance Program Director:
Located on a hill within the magnificent landscape of Tuscany, overlooking the medieval town of Arezzo, we are offering a very special dance program. If you wish to refine your technical skills, and, at the same time, are eager to explore, research and develop your creative resources and artistic personality, then our program is the right place for you.
Finding its roots in the European tradition of modern dance, German Ausdruckstanz and German dance theatre, the program combines post-modern performance techniques as well as somatic approaches with specific cultural movement traditions such as Butoh or the traditional Italian Tarantismo. The faculty at the Accademia aim to create an atmosphere that encourages authentic and individual expression thereby preparing the way for artistic development and personal growth. We wish to make your stay interesting, informative, pleasant, exciting and purely unique.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the Accademia dell’Arte,
Director of the Dance Program
Contemporary in its aesthetic orientation, the Accademia curricula features intensive and in-depth study of several dance genres including ballet, modern, Butoh, somatic practices, choreography and popular Mediterranean dance forms linked to Tarantismo.
Working intimately with a variety of Italian and European artists, students will have the opportunity to expand their artistic range and experience new approaches to dance training, performance and choreography. Through the creation of solo and small group pieces, students will be encouraged to incorporate a range of disciplines including song and text into their work, and will be exposed to an array of musical and thematic material that will challenge and develop their choreographic skills.
Students will be guest artists-in-residence during a working excursion to Naples or Venice, where they will participate in a professional workshop with Accademia faculty. Students will have the opportunity to see professional performances, as well as present their own work generated during the semester both in-house and locally, as assessed by the faculty.
Throughout the semester students will reflect on the nature of their class work through a philosophical lens in the academic seminar the Philosophy of Art and Performance.
Students of the dance program will have the opportunity to cross-train with other tracks at the Accademia dell’Arte, in both the undergraduate theatre and the graduate physical theatre programs. Throughout the semester, dancers will be invited to join actors in a variety of movement and voice classes, and will study Italian together multiple times every week. A philosophy class will also provide both dancers and actors with readings and discussion topics, challenging the students to re-evaluate the relationship they have with their art, and opening conversations between artists from diverse backgrounds. The resources that these three tracks provide for each other in both studio and academic classes is what makes the Accademia dell’Arte truly nothing short of an artistic utopia.
Application procedure requires submission of supplemental materials by July 1. For further information on the spring dance program student application process, contact email@example.com.
Semester Courses (3 credits each)
Contemporary Technique & Ballet
Cultural Dance Studies: Butoh & Tarantismo and Popular Dance of the Mediterranean
Extended Performance Topics: Dance: Dance Performance & Laban-Bartenieff Studies
The Philosophy of Art and Performance
Italian Language I and II
DANC I25 Contemporary Technique & Ballet
INSTRUCTORS: RITA PETRONE & CAROLINA BASAGNI
Contact Hours: 80
Credit Hours: 3
This course is based primarily on the pedagogical technique of Alwin Nikolais and theories of Rudolf Laban. The long-term goal is to make students fully and constantly aware of their bodies and, through the study of dance, give them the ability to answer four questions:
• Where is the body and in what direction is it going? (Space)
• When did the movement begin and how long did it take place? (Time)
• In what position is the body? (Form)
• What type of energy is being used? (Motion)
These four elements (space, time, form and motion) are investigated separately during semester by developing each detail independently:
Space: Work on directions, levels, volumes, physical tracks and projections.
Time: Work on different levels of speed, from very fast to slow motion, and investigate the dancer’s perception of time.
Form: Work on the four basic postures (standing, kneeling, sitting, lying down), the architecture of the body (angular forms, curved forms, projections into space, intimate forms, interwoven forms).
Motion: Work on qualified movement and the quality of motion, dynamics, such as swinging, bouncing, exploring the dancer’s relationship with gravity, weight, suspension, and tension.
Twice a week students will also have technical Ballet classes in a local dance school with Carolina Basagni. Classes will address fundamental elements of dance training, such as endurance, flexibility and accuracy in execution of combinations.
see Rita's bio under core faculty
DANC I30 Cultural Dance Studies
Comprised of Tarantismo and Popular Dance of the Mediterranean & Butoh
Contact Hours: 80
Credit Hours: 3
TARANTISMO AND POPULAR DANCE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
The Tarantella, in the southern Italian tradition, can be subdivided into several dancing-musical forms: love dances, war dances, honour and expiation dances and ritual dances. Their very ancient origins date back to Dionysus’s cult; this tradition is an always-rising cultural heritage of great human and artistic value.
The assonances and the same expressive roots of the Mediterranean cultures, inspired the creation of a teaching method that, other than the development of specific techniques, will allow the participants to increase their physical, mental and emotional talent through body exercises, expressive movement, an intense dance training and the use of voice and theatre. Through improvisation, transposition and interpretation on proposed thematic contexts (Tarantismo, Dionysian mysteries, Myth, Greek Tragedy), the course is based on the study of expressive-technical practices common to the ritual dances and tribal culture, revised for the contemporary scene.
The course has three components:
THE SYMBOLISM IN TARANTELLA, EXPRESSIVE MOVEMENT AND VOICE
Instructor: Gianni Bruschi
This is an interdisciplinary course of the Italian traditions of dance, voice and theatre. The course seeks to offer an opportunity to discover an expressive form that comes from the Pizzica (the traditional Tarantella dance of Salento) and the Tarantismo in Italy in relation to the ancient mysteries of Dionysus in the Roman and Greek world. Through the understanding and use of different dance languages, over time the Tarantella adapted itself to the stage. The body is our musical instrument, the sounding board through which our voice manifests itself. Tuning it up in harmony with the internal imagination and emotions requires concentration, breathing and increased somatic awareness that will open the dancer body.
AFRO-CONTEMPORARY DANCE, TARANTA, TAMMURRIATA,
Instructor: Ashai Lombardo Arop
This course is based on the study of technical and expressive practices, common to the rituals of tribal dances from different Asian, African and Southern European cultures, revised for the contemporary scene. Using floor work and release techniques, the student dancer returns to the earth, primal instincts and the organic act of dancing; reconnecting in a natural way to the dances of origin. In the end, primitive and contemporary dance meet, in their best expressive qualities.
The didactic part of this course will aim to equip the student with a wide variety of technical and expressive tools, which will give the student the ability to self-manage their composed work. This training will use the key elements of dance that are both physical and expressive: power, dynamics, aerobics, rhythm, speed and intense muscular work, especially in the legs with African-derived dances; strength, sensuality, grace, ability to improvise and listen to others, responsiveness and coordination with the southern Italian dances, technique and strength within the Sama dance, hand gestures and facial expression through an approach to dance from the Eastern and Middle-Eastern traditions, muscular work for the arms and upper body, expressive intensity, rhythm and body percussion with the Andalusian dances.
THEATRE, ACTING THROUGH DANCE AND IMPROVISATION
Instructor: Francesco Botti
The course explores the difference between human relationships, as they exist on the stage, encouraging corporal and emotional awareness through both through individual and group expression. This aims to enable and enhance incentives, to make every lesson a representation in a research project that combines execution and interpretation. The course will include time dedicated to acting, understood as a rediscovery, reassessment and the deepening of social and expressive representation that revolves around the themes of the Mediterranean dances and the rituals associated with them.
see Gianni's bio under core faculty
see Ashai's bio under guest faculty
INSTRUCTORS: MITSURU SASAKI & MARK WILSON
Butoh was born in Japan in the sixties and derived from traditional Japanese dance and performance forms. Butoh encourages the occidental dancer to look beyond traditional assumptions about time and space in order to reach out to new ground in terms of performance.
Tanztheater is a form of dance that developed in Germany. Its foremost exponent is the choreographer Pina Bausch. Difficult issues, such as personal identity, narrative, character and authenticity, come under serious scrutiny in Tanztheater, which freely crosses the boundary between pure dance, theatre and mime.
This course is sectioned into the following parts:
Contemporary dance technique followed by butoh fundamentals 1st level initial voyage: dismantle the present
Contemporary dance technique followed by butoh fundamentals 2nd level second voyage: reconstruct the past
Contemporary dance technique followed by butoh fundamentals 3rd level third voyage: experience the future
Contemporary dance technique followed by review of butoh fundamentals
Remember, repeat, and re-experience: Juxtaposition of present, past and future composition. Creating a flow from the various experiences and giving them alternate meanings or effects by adding sound or music, or by deflecting their centre of focus.
Rehearsal and presentation of the composed work
Technique imparts precision and discipline, which are fundamental to any craft and plays a significant role in butoh performance. Therefore, each morning begins with a class in contemporary dance technique and is immediately followed by exercises in the physical and metaphysical concepts from which butoh was born. Sections 1,3,5,7
1. Butoh fundamentals 1 looks at the recent history of the art of butoh.
2. Butoh fundamentals 2 looks at the art forms and culture that preceded butoh and that gave rise to it.
3. Butoh fundamentals 3 looks at the present butoh and ideas of where I may go in the future.
Initial Voyage: By altering our relationship with the universe, and that of the universe with us; by emptying ourselves of matter; time becomes malleable and the present disintegrates. With simple, practical exercises (including walking, standing, rolling) the student is guided toward a practical awareness of themselves and their surroundings. Section 2
Second Voyage. Gravity is a principle force in our existence. Building upon the work done in the previous units, the student is encouraged to consider their centre of gravity as a freely movable point, which changes its position in their body. Section 4
Third Voyage: by combining the experiences of the first and second voyages, we can imagine what future experiences could befall us. Section 6
DANC I35 Extended Performance Topics: Dance
Comprised of Dance Performance & Laban-Bartenieff Studies
Contact Hours: 80
Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed to expand students’ boundaries, both in terms of dance performance and personal exploration of space and time. This is achieved through the two sections that compose the course: improvisation/composition and somatic practice.
INSTRUCTOR: GIORGIO ROSSI
Students’ have the opportunity to explore the two halves of the dancer: the rhythmic clockmaker and the imaginative gardener. The architectural design of the clockmaker is strict, virtuous and aims to achieve precise results. Another tendency, that of the gardener who creates the conditions, prepares the ground and plants seeds that often blossom in unpredictable directions. Giorgio Rossi teaches the art of poetic movement and believes in this relationship within the dancing body, drawing inspiration from the gardener, while at the same time not forgetting the clockmaker’s rationality and planning. Thus, infusing the dancer, as a musician, to combine the imaginative with the mathematical.
“Dance is all about the man, including the voice,” said the choreographer and theorist Rudolf von Laban. Giorgio Rossi starts from this idea. He seeks to encourage sensory memory from his students, including tactile, auditory, visual and scent. He makes them ask questions, rather than offer answers, and he invites them to listen. He believes that the most important thing to teach is the ability to improvise while listening deeply to what is inside and around you. Students will confront their sensory memories and reproduce the energy and rhythm they perceived.
Feeling and leading are the two fundamental principles of Rossi’s work:
Feeling: Feel the weight from which the energy flows in every moment and how it creates the suspensions, the falls, the ascents, and the glides, combined with the breath. Every movement or action begins with the rhythm of the heartbeat and listening to your inner self without thinking, which leads to an organic presence. From this point you can begin to play while respecting the rules, allowing the intuition and the unconscious to create.
Leading: Once you have acquired a score of movements inside a specific context (space, music, place, circumstance, relationship, etc.) we begin to deepen the work, going through different variations and possibilities. We surprise ourselves, we investigate, we distort and we allow the invisible to emerge.
The class will be divided into different parts:
• Learning movement sequences
• Work in couples or groups on various energies and quality of movements in the space
• Composing alone or in groups
The various sections will be accompanied by time for reflection and consideration of the work.
see Giorgio's bio under core faculty
INSTRUCTOR: SABINE FICHTER
The course has two components:
LABAN PRINCIPLES AS COMPOSITIONAL TOOLS
In this course students will be introduced to Rudolf Laban’s ideas, particularly his theories of Choreutics (use of space) and Eukinetics (use of dynamics). Within the framework of the Laban principles guided exploration and improvisation will deepen the understanding of movement concepts and will enable students to generate genuine movement material. Compositional exercises will enhance their ability to reflect on choreographic processes and they will investigate the use of compositional strategies. The course provides students with an opportunity to develop more refined insight into the relationship between choreographic form and theatrical content.
BARTENIEFF FUNDAMENTALS (BF)
The classes in this part of the course are somatic based movement classes. The Bartenieff work is a method that utilizes basic developmental movement patterns that reinforce the neuromuscular building blocks of movement. We will work on dynamic alignment, spatial intent, weight shifting, core support, rotary factor, breath support and initiation/sequencing of movements. The system enhances strength, function and mobility and thereby helping to improve overall coordination, efficiency and expression. Students will be guided in the use of anatomical information as well as imagery as a base for technical competence.
PHIL I20 Philosophy of Art and Performance
INSTRUCTOR: EMILIJA DIMITRIJEVIC
Contact Hours: 40
Credit Hours: 3
In this course, students will probe the nature of art and its relation to the human experience In particular, students will study writings by philosophers, artists and critics as a gateway to thinking critically about how art is defined, experienced, commodified and valued.
The class will address central questions such as the following: What is art? What is the nature of the aesthetic experience? What are the differences between art and entertainment? What does art do for us and why is it important?
To facilitate this study, the course brings together the writings of philosophers and the work of artists from a variety of domains. Students will consider famous writings on art by thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Schiller, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Breton, Artaud, Eisenstein, Debord, Baudrillard and Foucault, among others, in relation to important works of literature, theatre, painting, music, architecture and film.
Through close reading, deep thinking and extended class discussion, students will examine the meanings of art for modern life. The class will particularly investigate the extent to which contemporary capitalist culture has altered the relationship between the artist, the work of art, and its reception.
see Emilija's bio under core faculty
ITAL I10 or I11 Italian Language
INSTRUCTOR: ACCADEMIA BRITANNICA
Contact Hours: 50
Credit Hours: 3
In the first semester course introduce students to basic grammatical structures of the Italian language. Students acquire a basic vocabulary and speaking practice.
In the second semester course, students begin moving toward fluency in Italian by focusing on communication and the exposure to a not stereotypical, more complex and up-to-date picture of modern Italy and Italians.
The readings in the text will provide a point of departure for conversation, which will be an essential component of both classes. These courses will cover aspects of Italian culture and society, as well.


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“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” ~Kurt Vonnegut~
That’s a little dramatic but true. My only regrets are that I wish I had jumped off a few more cliffs….you know…taken more chances. However, moving forward, I can do that now. Getting to the top of the cliff is sometimes a challenge itself 🙂
Here are some more 4x4s. These number 25-28. Hubs asked me what I planned to do with all my 4x4s. I’m thinking that, eventually, I may mount some of them on 4×4 wooden artist boards. Jane Davies is doing that with some of her pieces.
These started with acrylic ink and paint background. I used some of my painted phone book pages as collage elements. I embellished with pen work on three pieces. I like doing that as it seems to give a piece a more finished look.
Here’s a page from my sketchbook. This one started with random ink marks on the page. Then, I embellished with colored pens.
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It’s a story straight out of a Dan Brown novel: Seven people from across the globe have been chosen to hold the keys to the Internet.
The key holders are from the U.S., U.K., Burkina Faso, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, China and the Czech Republic, ensuring that no one person — or nation — will hold all the power.
In the event of a terrorist or other attack on the Internet, the key holders will be flown to an undisclosed location in the U.S. Each key contains a fragment. If at least five are united, they will form a master key that can restore the Internet.
(That’s a smart move: If the law of inviting people to parties holds true, you never know when two of the seven will have prior commitments and can’t make it to save the Internet — and civilization as we know it.)
Of course, the geeks who created this Domain Name Security System tapped into all of their sci-fi skillz to make the announcement dramatic:
“More has happened here today than meets the eye,”said Vinton Cerf, a former program manager with the Department of Defense who’s now with Google and goes by the galactic street name of “Father of the Internet.” “An infrastructure has been created for a hierarchical security system which can be purposed and repurposed in a number of different ways,” he said, practically writing the Hollywood script.
But, like all good secret society plots, there are more questions than answers, such as:
- Why Burkina Faso?
- Trinidad & Tobago—really?
- Would you be able to get a direct flight from either of those countries to the undisclosed US location in the event of global emergency?
- Will these people have other jobs, or is their permanent job now Holder of the Key to the Internet?
- Where do you keep a key to the Internet—in the ice box? Digitally implanted in your neck?
- Do you have to stop skydiving, showering during thunderstorms and other risky behavior after you become a Holder of the Key to the Internet?
- What happens if you lose your key to the Internet? Can you give a backup to that nice old lady next door just in case?
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Comedian Harrison Greenbaumagrees: “I would hide my key in something a nerdy cyberterrorist would never be able to find—like a girlfriend!"
Someone get Megan Foxon the horn, we’ve got a movie to make!
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In a world … where seven people are handed the keys to the Internet … in a Ziploc baggie …
The nation’s very security hangs in the balance ...
It will be the challenge of their lives for they are ... THE CHOSEN SEVEN.
Google Predicts the Future. You knew that Google Earth in all of its invasive glory was only a peek through the portal of what was to come. And now, Google is teaming up with the CIA to predict the future.
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Isabella’s Two Chairs, Havana
Signed, titled, dated and numbered from edition of 3 on artist’s label on verso.
In “Isabella’s Two Chairs with Laundry, 2000,” Michael Eastman engages in a visual relationship with private space. Here, the photographer creates a portrait of a home, revisiting the same residence years later. The title reveals the importance Isabella, the owner of the property, has as the main protagonist; the picture is profiling her inner world, recording and dissecting the physical extensions of her life. The photograph presents a private space with a perplexing dichotomy.
In Eastman’s image, there is a multi-dimensional understanding of what you are viewing; a luxurious home although with significant signs of deterioration, in which the architectural style, furniture, and chandelier show a regal but aging place in disrepair. The photograph captures a vitality within this dilapidation that relays an enigmatic presence; perhaps someone had just exited the room, and someone was about to enter. The longer the viewer focuses on the image, the more mysterious and compelling the narrative becomes.
“Isabella’s Two Chairs, 1999, was one of the first interiors I made in Cuba of this woman named Isabella, very strong photograph…When I went back, I went right back to the same place to look at and to see Isabella’s. Isabella had died a month after I was there, she was not well, and her niece took over the house and there was an energy in there, there hadn’t been before. I noticed that the chandelier even, there were more crystals on it than before and when you look really close at the chandelier you’ll see that those additional crystals were put on by Isabella’s niece using the ties from grocery bags and stuff… Then, I went back in 2010, and it had been renovated. It was owned by the state of Cuba. All the charm and warmth, patina was gone.” – Michael Eastman
Art Inquiry: Isabella's Two Chairs, Havana, Michael Eastman
2000, Printed Later
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Aug 22, 2014 - By Randy Tucker, Staff WriterTV personality and coyote caller Les Johnson will speak Saturday.
The Wyoming State Trapper's Association's convention is in Riverton this weekend, and convention chairman Alan Sinner said this year's show features 19 vendors from Wyoming and neighboring states.
Sinner is in his second term as convention chairman and brought the show last year to the Fremont County Fairgrounds in Riverton. The 2013 convention attracted roughly 300 visitors.
Typical of many vendors this year is Eric Kregal of Newcastle. Kregal's fur business concentrates on coyotes, and in an average year, he takes in 150 to 175 of the predators. Kregal works in Weston and northern Niobrara County in Wyoming as well as the Black Hills in South Dakota.
In his business, he calls and traps coyotes and often is requested by ranchers to reduce the number of coyotes on their properties.
A feature vendor last year and again at this year's convention is Gary Macke, of Royal, Neb. Macke operates Macke's Hide and Fur and began his trapping operation in 1973.
"I bought fur from 1973 to 1998," Macke said. "In 2005 I became a receiving agent for North American Fur Auctions."
Macke's four decades in the fur business have allowed him to see major changes in the industry.
"In the 1970s we saw the industry come from low prices to record highs by the middle 1980s," Macke said. "But it crashed again by 1989."
For instance, a raccoon pelt in 1984 or 1985 brought $50, but the price plummeted to only $5 by the end of the decade.
Most people assume that fur trapping is a localized industry, but the market has grown into a global business with China and Russia the leading importers of North American furs.
"If you see people in Russia in winter, someone is wearing fur," Macke said.
Weather is a key factor for determining price in the fur industry. In the spring of 2013, raccoons brought $78 but dropped to only $28 in early 2014 as a result of a warm winter in Russia and Northern China.
"They have a supply of furs on hand, and if the weather is warm, they don't buy as much and the price drops," Macke said. "The fur industry is like anything else. It's a commodity, and it's tied to weather."
As in other industries, the Chinese take things to an industrial scale. China imports raw pelts and processes them into consumer grade products. It costs an average of $26 in the United States to process a beaver pelt while the Chinese do it for $12.
The convention goes into high gear Saturday with speakers and demonstrations starting at 9 a.m. and continuing throughout the day. Other events include participation in trapping, fur handling and calling, with raffles and activities for children also on the schedule. Admission is free.
World-renowned coyote caller Les Johnson speaks at 4 p.m. Saturday. Johnson is host of the television show "Predator Quest" on the Sportsman Channel. Admission to Johnson's presentation is $10 per family.
For more information, call Sinner at 850-6034 or visit www.wyotrap.com.
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Coming off a victory in the May 24 Sheepshead Bay Stakes (gr. IIT) at Belmont Park, Juddmonte Farms' homebred Riposte continued her winning ways with a quick turn of foot June 28 in the $200,000 New York Stakes (gr. IIT).
|Horse||Trainer||Breeder / Owner|
|Better Lucky||Thomas Albertrani||
|Centre Court||George R. Arnold, II||
|Dayatthespa||Chad C. Brown||
|Samitar (GB)||Chad C. Brown||
|Somali Lemonade||Michael R. Matz||
|Stephanie's Kitten||Chad C. Brown||
|Tannery (IRE)||Alan E. Goldberg||
|Treasured Up||Albert M. Stall, Jr.||
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Although the $200,000 New York Stakes (gr. IIT) at Belmont Park drew a field of only six, it appears as if the race will come down to the three fillies and mares in the first three post positions.
Coffee Clique and jockey Javier Castellano won a nose bob over longshot Strathnaver for an upset victory in the Longines Just a Game Stakes (gr. IT) on the June 7 Belmont Stakes (gr. I) undercard at Belmont Park.
Patricia Generazio's homebred Discreet Marq is the 5-2 morning line favorite in a contentious running of the Longines Just a Game Stakes (gr. IT) June 7 at Belmont Park.
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Somali Lemonade had never been to Pimlico Race Course before, but on the track's biggest day in front of a Preakness Day throng, the 5-year-old mare galloped to victory in the $150,000 Gallorette Handicap (gr. IIIT).
Caroline Forgason's Somali Lemonade has spent her fair share of time on a horse van, and will add Pimlico Race Course to her resume when she faces nine others in the $150,000 Gallorette Handicap (gr. IIIT).
Effie Trinket, stablemate of Derby runner Samraat, will be tough to beat in the May 3 Churchill Downs Distaff Turf Mile (gr. IIT). Nine older fillies and mares will battle for $300,000.
William S. Farish's Lane's End Farm has entered into a multi-year agreement with Keeneland to become the signature sponsor of the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (gr. IT).
Judy the Beauty, the 3-5 favorite, wins the $300,000 Madison Stakes (gr. I) at Keeneland. The 5-year-old Ghostzapper mare is owned and trained by Wesley Ward.
Already 3-for-3 at Keeneland, Judy the Beauty will try to nail down the first grade I victory of her career April 12 in the $300,000 Madison Stakes (gr. I) at the Lexington track.
G. Watts Humphrey's 5-year-old mare Centre Court will attempt become only the second repeat winner of the Jenny Wiley Stakes (gr. IT) at Keeneland when she takes on nine rivals in the 1 1/16-mile turf race April 12.
On a chilly morning at Keeneland, trainer Chad Brown sent Ken and Sarah Ramsey's Toyota Blue Grass (gr. I) contender Bobby's Kitten through his final pre-race drill.
Centre Court, seizing the lead in deep stretch, held off a streaking Kitten's Point by a nose to make it consecutive wins in the $200,000 Honey Fox Stakes (gr. IIT) on the Gulfstream Park turf March 15.
Parranda, coming off back-to-back stakes victories at Gulfstream Park, will attempt to add to her impressive record n the $200,000 Honey Fox Stakes (gr. IIT) at one mile March 15.
Showing her affinity for the Gulfstream Park turf, Naples Bay boldly charged between horses in the stretch and pulled clear to win Marshua's River Stakes (gr. IIIT) Jan. 4 in her career finale.
Viva Rafaela, a group I winner in her native Brazil, will try stakes company for the first time on United States soil while facing a full field in the Jan. 4 Marshua's River Stakes (gr. IIIT).
Kitten's Joy, the Ken and Sarah Ramsey-raced stallion who stands at their Ramsey Farm in Nicholasville, Ky., overcame the odds to emerge on top as North America's leading sire for 2013.
Angelica Zapata will try to register fourth straight stakes victory and first career graded stakes win when she faces a full field of fillies and mares in the $100,000 My Charmer Handicap Dec. 7 at Calder Casino & Race Course
Pacesetting Egg Drop battled back after giving away the lead in the stretch to score a nose victory over Discreet Marq in the final Matriarch Stakes (gr. IT) at Betfair Hollywood Park Dec. 1.
Better Lucky, who paid a record $72.20 when capturing the $250,000 Matriarch (gr. IT) a year ago, will try to become only the second repeat winner in race history Dec. 1 at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Imagining became a graded stakes winner for the first time when he used a clean stalking trip to capture the $250,000 Red Smith Handicap (gr. IIIT) on the grass by half a length at Aqueduct Racecourse Nov. 16.
Richard Santulli's Tannery, winner of the Oct. 27 E.P. Taylor Stakes (Can-IT), will aim for consecutive black-type scores while facing the boys in the Nov. 16 Red Smith Handicap (gr. IIIT).
Early Times Mint Julep Handicap (gr. IIIT) winner Miz Ida returns to the site of her latest victory in the $100,000 Cardinal Handicap (gr. IIIT) Nov. 9 at Churchill Downs.
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I have two new London gigs this month, including a weekend one for those of you who cannot make it during the week. First up, next Tuesday (10th May) I’ll be appearing as part of Hot Vox’s Thank Folk It’s Tuesday at The Bedford Tavern, in the company of Bobby Treacle and Nadia Marisa. Entry is free and I’ll be playing at 8pm.
My Sunday gig is on 29th May, as part of Hot Vox’s Sunday Social at The Old Queen’s Head. The lineup includes Croft and Cotes, V Love, Janos, INKA, Amy Gillespie, Elisa P, Tess Callaghan, Andrew Souter and Guise. Entry is free from 2pm, and I’ll be on stage at 4;45pm.
I hope that you’ll be able to attend at least one of my new gigs this month and I look forward to seeing you there!


How do i quote some one?!
Should it? Always? In every case? Why?
I have little knowledge about developing dw's, but the little thing that i know for example in a star scheme i have a table facts in the middle, and then the related info in the other tables (dates, clients, suppliers, whatever), and i know there are some approaches that use normalized tables...
But i'm just a noob/beginner in the dw area...
@Eric Russell 13013
Like i wrote in the beginning this was a small application, i didn't know how the application will grow, plus i didn't know any requirement, so the tables were designed to handle the requirements in the beginning... The tables that i put in the example have much more columns,
So you say to put some extra tables to handle this kind of situations?
I have a similar problem with a module of loading notes (items to pick to a truck, doesn't know the correct name).
In the start of this process the users tell that need to load 3 units of the Item A to delivery day A, 4 units Item B to delivery day B, and so on. The next step, one user will create the loading document to send it to the warehouse, this process it's done by selecting the predefined items and submitting the document to the warehouse. When the document arrives at the warehouse the user responsible for the loading can remove some of the items, and loading the rest.
So i need to maintain the original document intact, but the predefined items will be available to add to another loading document. In this case what should i do? Insert the ID from the predefined item and add another table (don't know how to manage this) to control when was dispatched? Insert the info directly (denormalized) because it's to generate reports?
And sorry if i can't express myself correctly English it's not my mother language


Which Hot Mom Showed Off Her Post-Baby Body in a Bikini? (PHOTO)
This new mom has a hot bod, and she knows it. The former teen TV star was seen showing off her post-baby figure while vacationing in Hawaii with friends. No longer the awkward teenage girl with a cartoon conscience, this beauty is living the sweet life with her hunky hockey hubby.
While the singer/songwriter sipped on iced coffee to cool down, her baby boy sat in his stroller covered with a giant silk scarf from the warm son. It may seem weird, but when you’re TV royalty, why not?


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I’ve recently become a patient at Dental Beauty Forest Hill and they have been incredible. I had a very short period of time before I was going away for work and they were so accommodating, making sure all the treatment was done in time. They were extremely clear and offered all of the different options to choose from. The reception team are also incredibly lovely and accommodating.5* service!
16:21 30 Jun 22
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09:11 29 Jun 22
Very friendly and helpful receptionist. Dentist was very knowledgeable and reassuring. Will definitely come back here.
09:21 25 Jun 22
Great dentist- really accomodating and flexible to fit around your schedule. Had both NHS and private treatment and always a pleasant experience
20:16 24 Jun 22
I saw Alijica for my second treatment. She was very kind and made me feel at ease as I explained I was nervous.
08:42 23 Jun 22
Thank you so much!I’ve had a few different treatments here and always happy when I leave.Amazing receptionist team and of course my dentist.Highly recommend this practise ! :D
14:56 20 Jun 22
Very friendly and very thorough staff. Thank you!
The koolie B.
12:31 17 Jun 22
10:35 17 Jun 22
I switched to the Forest Hill branch after some disappointing experiences at Dulwich. The staff at Forest Hill are lovely, especially Dr. Whelan who has taken care of most of my work and always does his best to accommodate me and make my appointments as comfortable as possible
Yandira F J.
12:25 06 Jun 22
Excellent service, the best receptionist ever.
12:06 31 May 22
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13:49 24 May 22
A very friendly practice with amazing customer service! The reception is very helpful and notifies in advance if there would be delays. I’ve already had an appointment with a hygienist and the results were breathtaking. The orthodontist is very friendly as well and explains in detail everything in a very personalized way. Definitely would recommend to everyone!
09:53 24 May 22
Great team of dentists, as a very nervous patient they always take this into account each time I visit and assure me and keep me calm. The receptionist is always very accommodating and friendly also!
11:11 20 May 22
Wonderful! I cannot recommend Dr. Whelan and his team highly enough. I am completely petrified of all things medical but have managed to have 4 fillings with zero pain or trauma. Dr. Whelan suggested a type of sedation for my procedure which worked perfectly. The seditionist who he contracted was also incredibly kind and thoughtful. I arrived knowing I was in the best of hands and I felt cared for throughout the process. My teeth look amazing and are most importantly much healthier. The team have been so patient with me throughout - they have a holistic approach to both my teeth health and general wellbeing (as someone who's scared of the dentist!). Many thanks to the whole team at Dental Beauty. Absolutely fantastic!
12:55 18 May 22
I've had a very good experience here. It's fair to say I'm anxious about visiting dentists but the experience here was very reassuring, comfortable and friendly from all staff. I would highly recommended them if your looking for a new dentist.
09:43 18 May 22
09:02 18 May 22
Amazing experience!! Everyone is very professional and friendly especially the receptionist Laura and Dr. Joshua..The doctor is also very professional and goes through all the options with patients. 😊
15:38 16 May 22
Great experience at Dental Beauty here in Forest Hill. The receptionist is very kind and professional and so are the dentist and assistants. I have been treated by Joshua, he is amazing and goes through all the steps and options with patients.
08:40 16 May 22
11:23 14 May 22
Really nice and friendly dentist. NHS and private. Plenty of advice re options and no pressure.
12:02 13 May 22
Very impressed with the professional service I received. Friendly and thorough dentist
12:30 10 May 22
22:46 28 Apr 22
Really amazing dentist! I am super nervous about having dental work done however the Dentist Joshua was so good and very patient. He explained everything really well and the dental nurse was so lovely as well. Really great team and lovely receptionist also.
13:00 28 Apr 22
Very happy with my experience. Lovely staff and excellent care.
19:51 27 Apr 22
Was my first visit for a check up. Was absolutely flawless. The receptionist was very friendly yet professional, greeted me. The doctor was very knowledgeable and professional. I was very happy with the treatment plan. The receptionist helped me book all the follow up appointments there and then with ease, explained all the options with regards to payment. I will definitely be coming back again and going ahead with my treatment
16:32 27 Apr 22
Really happy with the treatment I received today.Everyone from the Receptionist, Hygienist and Dentist provided a great service, creating a wonderful experience that gave me the confidence to move forward with their recommendations.A truly remarkable team of professionals.
15:27 27 Apr 22
Very attentive and thorough hygienist. Great experience with Dental Beauty so far.
17:56 26 Apr 22
Fantastic experience at Dental Beauty Forest Hill! The staff are great - very polite and welcoming. Dr. Kunal Patel is extremely efficient, delivers high quality work with a warm smile and reassuring manner. What more could you ask for!
10:41 21 Apr 22
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21:03 20 Apr 22
friendly staff and professional!
Jasmin Kent R.
10:06 19 Apr 22
Friendly, relaxing and super professional dentists. Felt totally at ease and comfortable during my treatment.
11:00 14 Apr 22
Excellent service! My dentist saw me straight away and advised me on how best to care for my impacted wisdom teeth. Highly recommend!
08:42 13 Apr 22
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16:00 06 Apr 22
Excellent service. Been afraid of going to the dentist for a while but they put you well at ease and handle everything quickly and professionally
14:44 06 Apr 22
Easy to get an appointment, friendly & helpful dentists, nice and thorough, would recommend.
10:41 06 Apr 22
Excellent dentist. Great service, easy to book an appointment and friendly people. Would definitely come again.
15:06 05 Apr 22
Very good practice, amazing service and affordable prices! Highly recommend
21:53 04 Apr 22
Very pleased and happy with my treatment. Dr. Joshua Whelan was very thorough and responsive with my inquiries. A true professional who cares about his clients. Not forgetting Laura who was always very helpful and friendly.
10:05 31 Mar 22
Great service, helpful and friendly
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12:25 24 Mar 22
Great dentist! Dr Whelan has always been so friendly and put me at ease when I was very nervous. I needed lots of fillings, 2 referrals for root canal and wisdom tooth extraction and then I whitened my teeth and I couldn’t be happier with the results. My oral hygiene is the best it’s ever been and I now love how my teeth look in photos. Thank you so so much. Also a very organised receptionist, appointment reminders by email and phone and able to fit you in for emergencies when necessary.
10:26 24 Mar 22
I visited the dentist a few days ago and I was impressed with the visit due to the fact that I wanted teeth whitening, and after a thorough explanation I was recommended to go for something different due to the issues that I have had with my teeth. I felt very comfortable with the explanation, pictures were shared with me and I was very pleased with the outcome. I have visited several practices in the past and this is the best by far. Thank you Dr. Davies
14:59 22 Mar 22
I have had an amazing first experience with the dentists here. 100% recommend
14:55 22 Mar 22
14:10 21 Mar 22
Best dental practice I have visited in 12 years of living in London.I had a dental emergency and by lucky circumstances I was offered a same day slot.All the staff (the lady receptionist, doctors and nurses) are exceptional - customer care, kindness, professionalism, experience, communication is on a higher standard than one could ever expect.I had a full checkup, was very clearly explained the situation and all the possible options for treatment. I originally went as a NHS patient and was treated with respect and care and wasn’t upsold any services (like many other dental practices do). In the end we agreed to proceed with a mix of both NHS and private treatments for the best result and outcome.Thank you for your service and I am looking forward to starting the treatment plan! For once in my life my dental situation doesn’t feel like a hopeless case anymore lolKind wishesJolanta
11:06 19 Mar 22
A great team and clinic!As soon as you step in you get welcomed by the sweet Laura at the reception, she helped me understand details about my treatments and she is definitely super supportive.Dr. Josh saw me and he explained to me in details my teeth situation in a very professional way.The hygienist Alicija been amazing with cleaning up my teeth very professional and gentle.
15:18 16 Mar 22
Amazing! The dentist is really lovely and professional as is the rest of the practice
12:45 16 Mar 22
Lovely service! They saw me the same day and treated me hearing my situation.The treatment I received was composite bonding and i’m so happy with my new smile.Highly recommend:)
11:59 16 Mar 22
Fantastic treatment. Dr Josh was so friendly and helpful and really put me at ease through my treatment. Thank you!
09:34 16 Mar 22
The best dentist I have been to by far, dr sean was very comforting and I definitely trust that I am in good hands.
10:59 08 Mar 22
Amazing service. Dr Sean is absolutely lovely and high professional. He fully explained all the processes and gave advices. His assistant Clair is so helpful and friendly person. I left very happy.Thanks to beautiful Laura at the reception, she gave me a lovely smile and engaged with me in a friendly manner. Amazing people amazing service❤
21:51 07 Mar 22
Excellent services provide by the practice. Josh (NHS) dentist, explained every part of my treatment as to what he was doing, what my options were as well as after care. He went above and beyond to provide a very personal experience making sure I was comfortable and happy with everything. The reception staff are great in following up to ensure as early as possible for an appointment could be booked in to accommodate my needs. The dental nurses, are very skilled and supportive too.I've only recently joined this dentist but it is by far the best dental practice I have experience.
07:16 27 Feb 22
Great experience super friendly staff
20:34 23 Feb 22
Brilliant practice quick NHS wait times clear advice and effective treatment. Best dentist that I've had for years
15:55 22 Feb 22
The whole team were fantastic and made me feel very comfortable.
15:03 18 Feb 22
I had a very positive experience, Sean was thorough, made me feel comfortable to ask lots of questions and did an excellent job. I would definitely recommend!
10:13 16 Feb 22
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16:47 09 Feb 22
The team here are extremely friendly, and professional. I registered my toddler first and was so amazed at the care they provided to her as not many establishments are baby friendly, since that visit I decided to register as a paitent. I have had two trips here, one for a filling which was a pain free and pleasant experience. I would recommend this dentist for all ages! I cannot fault them. A big thank you to Joshua and team.
16:19 09 Feb 22
Alycia was great! Really knowledgeable as a Hygienist and she really did a good job of cleaning and polishing my teeth. She gave me some good tips to prevent future visits to the dentist. Receptionist is wonderful and easy to talk to. Would definitely recommend to anyone in the area
13:39 09 Feb 22
16:27 08 Feb 22
Loved my hygenist appointment here. Efficient and friendly service.
12:33 08 Feb 22
Excellent and attentive service, the dentists make you feel very comfortable and like you are in good hands
21:04 07 Feb 22
This is by far the best dental practice I ever been in the UK. I really thank God that I have chosen this practice because the dentist here are all very skillful and friendly. Dr Joshua had helped me to save a tooth with couple of root canal treatments and detailed consultations and it was eventually done with a beautiful crown! Moreover, He really spent his time to attend to all my problems and his level best to conduct every treatment. I couldn't thank him enough for his help and guidance along the whole process from beginning till the end of the process.Thank you for saving my tooth! The customer service lady Laura is also very kind and helpful!
11:59 05 Feb 22
Since moving to London I struggled to find a dentist I could trust and feel confident with, I’m so glad I found dental beauty in Forest Hill. I have been treated by Dr Sean and received really great service!
13:34 04 Feb 22
Very good dentist ,staff are very friendly and explain procedures properly especially doctor Joshua, he made me feel really comfortable.
10:44 04 Feb 22
Great service, very friendly and polite receptionist and dentists. Made my baby feel very comfortable.
10:22 03 Feb 22
Very professional yet very lovely and welcoming. I never like the dentist but these guys made my experience as good as it could have been. Highly recommended.
09:26 03 Feb 22
Very happy with the service from the whole team - easy going, friendly staff and clear advice on any work or further care needed. Would recommend.
16:47 02 Feb 22
Great friendly service with Josh. He gave me all the options for my treatment and made sure I was happy with everything before proceeding. All the staff are lovely. Highly recommend.
15:19 02 Feb 22
Everyone is super attentive and Alycia is fantastic! Highly recommend this practice
15:24 01 Feb 22
Excellent and professional experience.By far the best dentist I’ve found.Highly recommend
14:58 01 Feb 22
Great visit, lovely team, very informative
11:23 28 Jan 22
Professional staff, from the reception to the dentists themselves.They are a bit eager to book you in for follow-up hygienist and other treatment but completely understand if you push back.Would recommend.
10:06 28 Jan 22
Great service, always feel welcomed and at ease!
21:12 27 Jan 22
20:11 27 Jan 22
Excellent service from admin to dentist! I would highly recommend Dental Beauty Forest Hill!
carissa hope L.
16:42 27 Jan 22
Fantastic service, supportive kind and attentive. Exceptionally clean and very easy to communicate with. Dental Beauty goes above and beyond to make you feel valued and healthy. Visit them!
13:16 27 Jan 22
Great communication and thoroughness during both check up and hygiene appointments
11:54 27 Jan 22
Great service. Staff are friendly and helpful. No problem with getting an appointment
10:47 27 Jan 22
Lovely staff. Great treatment
09:30 27 Jan 22
Best service in London!
09:28 27 Jan 22
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09:05 27 Jan 22
I’ve had a good experience with this practice.
21:38 26 Jan 22
This is a great place to go take care of your teeth. Nice and very professional people. 100% recommended
21:04 26 Jan 22
Great service. I Spoke to a lady called Aisha over the phone who was extremely helpful and understanding! Thank you for being so lovely!
19:45 26 Jan 22
13:15 26 Jan 22
Highly recommend this dental surgery - very friendly reception, good adherence to COVID safety protocols, and the dentists are extremely good at explaining what is going on and actually allowing you to have a say in your treatment. This is probably the first time I’ve felt really in control of my dental health, and respected as a patient.
15:02 24 Jan 22
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13:08 20 Jan 22
A really good service with clear advice on NHS and private options
11:12 20 Jan 22
Josh the dentist & Clair the dental nurse were excellent, both explaining everything clearly & concisely about all the treatment that was to take place,would highly recommend Dental Beauty to everyone.
10:36 20 Jan 22
The team here at dental beauty have been so welcoming and supportive. Joshua is an amazing dentist!! 10/10
16:03 19 Jan 22
A good local dentist. Friendly staff- both receptionist and hygienist made me feel welcomed and walked through the necessary steps.
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15:52 19 Jan 22
15:03 19 Jan 22
Fantastic experience, great staff and incredibly professional. Highly recommend
14:13 19 Jan 22
Today was the first time that I have used this practice and I had booked to see the hygienist. I was made to feel very welcome by the receptionist who was very friendly and also helpful. I was also made to feel welcome by Alicija, the hygienist and also her dental assistant. Alicija was very thorough and did an excellent job cleaning my teeth. She was also very informative. I will definitely be using this practice going forward. Thank you.
12:15 19 Jan 22
My experience has been brilliant, the staff have very supportive and understanding. Each procedure I've received with them has been thoroughly explained and carried out with the utmost professionalism. My sincerest thanks to Josh, Alycia and Claire for all their help. I would highly recommend this practice and their staff.
11:49 19 Jan 22
Great service! Highly recommended!
10:54 19 Jan 22
Excellent professional service from staff.As a patient, I feel involved in my plan of care.Appointment booking is tailored to your needs and availability and they do the best they can to accommodate regarding availability of specialists. Even if I move further up London, I will still continue seeing this Dental Practice. I’m gonna be in this for the long run.
10:37 19 Jan 22
Friendly practice and teeth feel well looked after.
16:27 18 Jan 22
16:25 18 Jan 22
To whom it may concern:The Dental surgery' have done a wonderful job giving a lovely smile by straightening, whitening and bonding my teeth . They used Invisalign . I love the whole team , so kind and caring and professional!!!!!!!!There is Laura at reception .Carolina the Invisalign expertKunal Patel the hansome friendly best dentist in the world and his assistent Janet .I am so pleased !!!Thank you everyone !Mieke Earl
10:51 18 Jan 22
Very kind,very gentle highly recommend
09:57 18 Jan 22
Dr Joshua has been great, I came in for an emergency appointment as I had an accident with my front tooth. He was super efficient and patient with me and since then, I have moved to this practice for all my dental work.
11:13 17 Jan 22
Very helpful staff and thorough explanation and check up, easy to book - would highly recommend
10:46 17 Jan 22
Professional and friendly
10:41 17 Jan 22
Really great dentist. The receptionist Laura was so kind and welcoming my daughter didn’t want to leave! Thank you.
16:33 14 Jan 22
I had my first checkup at this dentist practice with Kunal Patel. I am left deeply impressed with the detailed consultation he gave on the state of my teeth, with plenty of illustrations and a discussion of a plan of work with options. This is by far the most friendly and accessible way in which I have ever consulted a dentist. I cannot recommend him high enough and for once look forward to the treatment.
15:44 13 Jan 22
Fabulous treatment - very efficient and well looked after. Would highly recommend.
10:34 13 Jan 22
A very good dentist’s office!
09:52 13 Jan 22
The dentist and staff are very lovely people and are very helpful with any queries I have to give. I would highly recommend going to this dentist!
16:27 12 Jan 22
Lovely staff, very easy to register and they explained all the treatments that were needed clearly. Would highly recommend
16:03 12 Jan 22
15:21 12 Jan 22
Always very helpful, friendly, professional and attentive. 5 star service.
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14:56 11 Jan 22
Always supper helpful, friendly and a great service! Highly recommend.
14:39 06 Jan 22
Really great dentist - great service with really informative staff. 👍
14:02 06 Jan 22
Very happy with the dental care our family receives at Dental Care Forest Hill. Everyone is professional and helpful.
16:10 05 Jan 22
Great experience here! Very kind and friendly staff, and would recommend to anyone looking for a new dentist :)
15:05 05 Jan 22
Lovely staff and environment. The receptionist Laura is very attentive and prompt with appointments, would recommend!
11:58 05 Jan 22
I have been a patient here for many years.The dentists here are very nice, friendly an explain everything in detail. I have been seen by Joshua an the lovely hygienist whom both were very gentle on my gums. I mean literally no pain for me.Receptionist always smiling an making you feel welcome.All the staff are amazing.Thank you Dental Beauty for looking after my teeth an gums.
12:54 31 Dec 21
I had an amazing experience at Dental Beauty, from the receptionist Laura, nurse Claire and dentist Neda. I had an emergency appointment due to extreme pain I had been experiencing and although I am a new patient they looked into my situation, gave me all the assessments and treatment needed, all within a day! I couldn’t recommend them enough and I’ll definitely be coming back.Thank you all, you’re amazing! and have an amazing New Years! :)
12:11 24 Dec 21
Great dentist, always there when I’ve got a query. Great atmosphere and very friendly staff.
12:09 24 Dec 21
Always a professional experience with Dental Beauty. Kunal ensures that you’re well informed of what they are doing and constantly checks customer satisfaction during and after appointments! Great service and friendly staff throughout!
11:50 24 Dec 21
Great service, really friendly
11:27 22 Dec 21
Really friendly staff, really good explanations and great when handling work. No pain whatsoever!! Such a great team!!
15:33 20 Dec 21
First time coming to Dental Beauty Forest Hill. Everyone from reception to the dentist and hygienist - all so friendly and professional. The lady at reception is so lovely and warm! So pleased to have found a new dentist. One that I’m happy with!
15:10 20 Dec 21
13:36 20 Dec 21
Friendly and informative staff - felt taken care of!
16:19 16 Dec 21
Great Dentists! Really friendly and diligent. Come out of every appointment really happy, couldn’t recommend enough.
16:04 16 Dec 21
Great dentist, and the reception team are really helpful too. 5 star service :)
15:22 16 Dec 21
Nice people, seem to do good work.
11:20 16 Dec 21
Very pleased with their all services (hygienist/general dentistry/cosmetic) for me and family.
I used to come to this surgery, but I thought I would give it a go when it became Dental Beauty, and I'm very pleased with the services I've had so far. I would definitely recommend. I've recommended my son, and I would definitely recommend to family and friends as well to come. I'm very pleased with Naz and what she's done for me.

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Date: February 20, 2020
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Virginia Baptist Resource Center
2828 Emerywood Parkway
Henrico, VA 23294
To help church staff and church lay leaders understand and comply with the tax laws, a series of FREE seminars sponsored by the Compensation Planning Ministry of the Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV) will be held in February 2020. The seminar will begin at 9:30 a.m. and end at 12:00 p.m. with refreshments provided.
The seminar is designed for church staff and lay leaders who handle taxes and compensation. Attendees will get help with compensation planning for church staff (including retirement and insurance), handling minister’s taxes, and federal reporting requirements for churches. Jeff Cranford, Compensation Planning Specialist, Congregational Field Staff, BGAV, will lead.

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almond joy brownies
- Heather Krupa
I had some brownies a few years ago from a bakery in Abbeville, Louisiana that I can't get off of my mind. They were your basic good fudgy brownie topped with what looked like the inside of an Almond Joy bar. Then they were frosted with chocolate ganache. Any recipes out there for these luscious little treats?

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What could be so threatening about two people who run an organization for children with war trauma? Apparently something because Zarema Sadulaeva and Alik Dzhabrailov, who were kidnapped in Grozny yesterday, were found dead outside the city. Their bodies were stuffed in their car trunk with gunshots to the head and chest.
The murders could be related to their human rights work, or somehow linked to Dzhabrailov’s past as a Chechen separatist. Either way both are targets in chaos that is Chechnya.
It looks like Dmitry Medvedev is going to get a lot of practice denouncing the murder of human rights workers and journalists. This is his third time this year. Unlike his predecessor, the Medvedev wasted no time speaking out about Sadulaeva and Dzhabrailov. He swiftly called out an APB, mobilizing the state Prosecutor, MVD, and FSB to investigate kidnappings in Chechnya. Now State Prosecutor Yuri Chaika is saying that he will take the case under his “personal control” and even meet with rights groups to “discuss the situation in Chechnya.” Dima can yell “calling all cars” all he wants. Chaika can step up to the plate and drink tea and chat about Chechnya with all the human rights workers all he wants. All of these are good, positive gestures. It would be worse if they ignored all this. But such acts are PR damage control. Plain and simple.
“This doesn’t look like the recent murder of Natalia Estemirova,” Vadim Rechalov writes in Moskovskii komsomolets. The Estemirova kidnapping occurred in the morning, on her way to work. Her body was dumped outside Chechnya. Sadulaeva’s and Dzhabrilov’s kidnappers were open and bold. Rechkalov continues:
Sadulaeva and Dzhabrilov’s five killers entered their office in broad daylight. They apparently talked with their victims. According to eyewitnesses, both human rights workers got into their gray Zhiguli voluntarily. After this, the kidnappers returned to the organization’s office to take Dzhabrailov’s mobile phone and car.
What is the reason for such details like the mobile phone? And if witnesses remember a grey colored car and the regional number 95, then why don’t they remember the rest of the numbers and the model of the automobile? If they saw the dress of the kidnappers, then why didn’t they make out their ethnicity? I know [Zhiguli models] six or seven come in grey. Probably it was make “nine.” Eyewitnesses say that the kidnappers were armed. Five armed people, two in plain clothes, three in camouflage without masks, in a grey #9 from region 95 arrived at the organization’s office and put a man and a woman in a car. Moreover, two of them remained because seven can’t fit in a Zhiguli. Those who stayed behind took Dzhabrailov’s phone and his car. All of this looks like the actions of Chechen security organs. Actions of the so-called Kadyrovtsy. There is no doubt that eyewitnesses saw and remember the license plate, but its unlikely that they will name anyone. Because [if they did] such witnesses would be dealt with the next day. In Moscow, its easy to guess who committed the murder–Kadyrov or Berezovsky. But in Chechnya everyone saw and knows who kidnapped and killed who. And choose to keep quiet.
Neither [Alexandr] Bastrykin, who has taken direct regular control over the investigation of this crime, cannot uncover anything, even if he interrogates the witnesses himself. They will say nothing to him because as Bastrykin arrived today, he will leave tomorrow. And the people still have to live here.
And this is exactly why Celestine Bohlen’s editorial in the NY Times has it so, so wrong. She writes, “The Mafia in Sicily thrives on omertà; Russia, on a state level, is tolerating something similar in Chechnya. There is no reason Western leaders should stay quiet about the reign of terror gripping the region, with the Kremlin’s implicit blessing.” But omertà is being practiced among ordinary Chechens too. Rechkalov continues: “The citizens of Chechnya, as before, are caught between two fires. On one side, there is the brutal authoritarian power of Ramzan Kadyrov, and on the other banditry, and its unimportant whether its political or criminal, because as it seems, not even a strong government can do anything about it.”
Namely, if Kadyrov doesn’t get them for speaking out, then someone else surely will. I seriously doubt ordinary citizens are going to risk themselves and their families for human rights workers. We should remember, those people have to live there. Bohlen, and myself for that matter, do not.
True, one can and should point the finger at the Kremlin, and at Putin in particular. Kadyrov is his boy. But at the same time bashing the Kremlin becomes counter productive at some point. After all, Moscow is knee deep in this mess too. Every wiggle to the right or left sucks it deeper into the Chechen nightmare. Be sure, the last thing Medvedev and Co. want are more killings that bring more international attention to a situation that is increasingly deteriorating. And sure Medvedev could and probably should remove Kadyrov. I’m sure Putin would somehow find a way to save face if his progeny did. But doing that would pose the very real and difficult question: who would replace Kadyrov? Would it be worth risking a possible civil war between competing clans? Sending in Russian troops? None of these sound appealing. In fact, they sound disastrous.
The way things appear, Kadyrov doesn’t even have control. Perhaps this is why he’s been making a concerted effort to convince Akhmed Zakaev to come back to Chechnya. I’m not one for conspiracy mongering, but there might be something to these killings being an attempt to undermine Kadyrov (and by extension Moscow). Granted, Kadyrov is no saint and he’s responsible for a lot of blood. But what does he seriously have to gain from having two people who work with disabled children murdered? Very little. As for someone else? Potentially a lot.
If Kadyrov didn’t order these murders, then someone else did. Most important, the audacity in which they were executed shows that the killers don’t give to shits about what Kadyrov (or the Kremlin) thinks about them. And that makes for a real explosive situation.


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With dismal events dominating since election day, there’s finally some good news to report for a change. Governer Andrew Cuomo and the New York State legislature just made a historic decision to offer free tuition to any state resident whose family makes less than $125,000 per year at both the prestigious New York State University and New York City University systems.
Free public college education has been a key platform demand from the progressive wing of the Democratic party, with both Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren being forceful proponents for the change.
With student debt ballooning beyond all previously known levels and endangering the financial futures of an entire generation, perhaps no issue resonates more strongly with millennials and their cash-strapped families than the exhorbitant cost of a higher education that may not result in job prospects that will allow the resulting debt to be paid off anytime soon.
At least in New York, the issue is finally being addressed. According to the website Inside Higher Ed:
“The governor’s office estimates that nearly 940,000 families in New York State will be eligible for free public college tuition when the plan is fully phased in.”
The new program, dubbed the “Excelsior Scholarship” after the New York state motto, will be phased in over three years, beginning this fall semester with new enrollees from families making less than $100,000 per year. The only catch for the recipients will be a requirement that they continue in most instances to live and work in New York state for the same number of years that they receive the tuition grants. If they do not, then then the scholarships will convert to student loans.
It’s not just students at public universities that will benefit from the new legislation, the state will also provide $3,000 matching grants for tuition at private universities who guarantee to match the grants and freeze tuition for the duration of the students’ enrollment.
Governor Cuomo was ebulliant over the passage of the tuition measure:
“You want to talk about a difference government can make? This is the difference that government can make,” Cuomo said at a budget briefing Friday. “There is no child who will go to sleep tonight and say ‘I have great dreams, but I don’t believe I’ll be able to get a college education because mommy and daddy can’t afford it.’ Every child will have the opportunity that education provides.”
Marc Cohen, the president of the SUNY Student Assembly, praised the legislation, saying:
“An affordable and accessible higher education will now be available to many more people…propelling New York State to being the leader in public higher education.”
Bravo, New York! Now it’s up to the rest of the states to follow New York’s brave leadership in making a college education affordable to anyone who wants one.
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To support his war on Tigray, Abiy Ahmed called on Ethiopians to applaud for the military aggression on Tigray. The Ethiopian Reconciliation Commission, tasked with bringing reconciliation among Ethiopians, came out and expressed its support for the war on Tigray. This is happening when Ethiopian military together with Eritrean forces and Amhara forces are indiscriminately killing Tigrayans, destroying properties and displacing thousands. so far 30,000 Tigrayans have fled to Sudan.
The commission wrote in its facebook page “ለመከላከያ ሠራዊት ክብር እቆማለሁ” በሚል መሪ ቃል የዕርቀሰላም ኮሚሽን አባላት ለሠራዊቱ ያላቸውን ድጋፍ አሳይተዋል። #ለመከላከያክብርእቆማለሁ” https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=208266714154540&id=107812994199913
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On 26 March, PRI will address the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with an oral statement, and provided a submission, “Falling through the Cracks: Guidance on Implementation of Article 30” during its forthcoming 19th session.
In the context of children of incarcerated parents, PRI’s delegates will raise provisions enshrined in the Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC), but also in the Bangkok Rules, which provide guidance on the rights of children of incarcerated parents.
The invisibility of children in Africa whose parents are detained and whose rights are thereby gravely affected is the starting point of PRI’s submission. While reliable data is lacking, it is estimated that millions of children worldwide are affected: tens of thousands living with imprisoned parents and many times more that number separated from their caretaker due to incarceration.
It is significant that the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child has many provisions of direct relevance to these children, but also a number of provisions ensuring ‘special treatment’ for pregnant women and mothers who are accused or convicted of criminal offences, mirroring to a certain extent the standards later laid out in more detail in the Bangkok Rules at an international level.
While the Bangkok Rules are drafted from the point of view of mothers in prison, and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child from the position of the child, interestingly – yet not that surprisingly – they come to very similar conclusions.
For example, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child – like the Bangkok Rules – requires that non-custodial sentences always be considered first and that alternatives to detention be established and promoted. In particular, Article 30(1)(f) of the ACRWC states: “the essential aim of the penitentiary system will be the reformation, the integration of the mother to the family and social rehabilitation.” As for the Bangkok Rules, the category of ‘mother’ could be inferred to include the role of sole or primary caregiver, even more so given that large numbers of children in Africa are orphaned or living separated from their parents but may still require the protections guaranteed in Article 30 ACRWC when their primary caregiver is deprived of their liberty. The Bangkok Rules, for example, in Rule 49 talk about non-custodial measures being preferred for “a pregnant woman or a child’s sole or primary caretaker.”
Click here to read a report of the meeting
Read PRI’s submission to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, which refers to standards derived from the African Committee as well as from the Bangkok Rules.


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By ELIDA BYARD
Special to the Eagle
Audrey Beard never really fit the traditional stereotypes, for a student, employee, soldier, wife, mother, grandmother, as a senior citizen, or even as a handicapped person. She always did it her way, and will be lovingly remembered for her strength, bravery, love, wonderful giving heart and her eccentricities.
Long-time islander Audrey Beard
She started life, Nov. 25, 1923, as Audrey Elaine Campbell, daughter of Elida Flyberg and Ronald F Campbell, in Milwaukee, Wis. Most of her fondest memories were of being a "tomboy," running wild, hunting, fishing and exploring with her brother Donald and her cousins, on her grandmother's farm in Minnesota. She carried her love of animals back to Milwaukee with her and raised white rats at home. Being Audrey, she felt it only right to share the rats with her fellow high school students, so she released nine of them in the balcony of the auditorium during a school program.
With the men joining the military for World War II and the need for women to take over many hard labor jobs, Audrey "the Riveter" appeared. But, of course, she got in trouble with the other workers, working too hard and over-producing so that she interfered in the standard quota system.
On Nov. 27, 1943 (age 20), she enlisted in the Army of the United States, Women's Army Corp, USAFFE (United States Army Forces - Far East). As one of the first women to receive firearm training, she was featured on a recruitment poster. She served 15 months in the Astatic-Pacific Theater, assisting in the Philippine Liberation in the Allied Powers' Translation and Interpretation Section. Along with normal captured documents, the Japanese soldiers frequently kept diaries of all their actions. Audrey was one of a group of women in the Philippines who worked to restore these documents seized from Japanese soldiers captured or killed during the war. These documents could then be translated for the intelligence information they contained.
She met Pfc. Calvin C. Beard when they were both on a brief military leave fishing off of Australia. They fell in love and were married Aug. 30, 1945, in Manila. The seamstress for future First Lady Mamie Eisenhower sewed Audrey's wedding gown out of parachute silk. The Eisenhowers were instrumental in providing a honeymoon cottage for them. They had to carry rifles and drive the Jeep through what was later found to be, mine field areas to get to the cottage.
After the war they made their home in the Highspire/Harrisburg area of Pennsylvania. However, by the time daughter Elida Beard (Byard) arrived, Audrey had talked Calvin into buying a farm in the Mt. Pleasant area. While Calvin worked at the Mechanicsburg Navy Depot, Audrey grew fruits and vegetables, which she drove to the city to sell. By 1958 when Peggy Lee Beard (McTeague) was born, Audrey had a regular route of customers, though she also worked at the Navy Depot.
Audrey passed her love of animals and the out of doors to both her daughters. Hand crafting a canvas canoe, she carried it on top of a VW bus she set up for camping. In 1961 she headed off to spend the summer exploring Canada. Traveling on the Trans-Canada Highway while it was still under construction, she would pull off to the side, unload the canoe and load up Elida (age 8) and Peggy (age 3) to go exploring, fishing and camping. Peggy learned to catch Northern Pike that were longer then she was and Elida learned to share the wine berry patches with the local bears.
The summer of 1969, she changed to a woodywagon pulling a camper to drive across the USA, visiting friends and relatives or just camping where convenient. Neil Armstrong's moon walk was watched on a gas station's TV. There was a donkey assisted camping trip into Yellowstone, panning for gold in California and scuba diving for abalone in Monterrey Bay. Elida was volunteering at a zoo by then, so by the end of the trip Audrey was happily driving a vehicle full of two badgers, a magpie, two tortoises and a monkey named "Calvin" that considered Peggy his mother. In 1989, Audrey's husband Calvin died and grandson George Anthony Byard was born. Audrey attended the birth, taking pictures of George's first moments of life.
Audrey always loved Florida so after selling her Pennsylvania house, she stayed part of the year in Pennsylvania with Elida and part of the Year in Florida with Peggy.
When Hurricane Andrew hit Florida in 1992, she wasted no time in volunteering to help. At age 69 she helped with the cleanup and rebuilding, including climbing up on the roofs to hammer on new shingles.
Soon the lure of fossiling, fishing and beach combing won out and Audrey made Florida her full-time home. She followed Peggy's footsteps and became a Matlacha Hooker, proudly serving in many of the Hooker's civic projects - especially the fishing tournament benefiting the Pine Island Schools, the activity, which is the origination of the "Hookers" name.
Even though she had serious rheumatoid and osteo arthritis, Audrey didn't slow down in her 70s. She would drive cross country on her own to Wisconsin to visit her brother and his family. She was very active in both the Lee County and the Southwest Florida Fossil Clubs, encouraging her family's interest in finding the historic treasures that abound in Florida. Of course, she had to add to her experiences, cruising, diving, swimming with sting rays, and parasailing.
In 1999, triple bypass heart surgery and several mini strokes slowed her down briefly. But it was a gall bladder infection that caused Audrey to lose her left leg in 2004. She successfully fought a staph infection in her left knee replacement, but when the pseudomonas infection migrated to the knee it was time to amputate. Of course, she did it her way, removing her teeth and making "Popeye" faces for the doctor, immediately before the surgery. She even tried to convince him to change her feet around while he was at it, because her left foot had less arthritis then the right.
So at 80, Audrey changed her main means of transportation to an electric wheel chair. This didn't slow her down either; she became a common sight to the residents, bikers and visitors of Matlacha as she zoomed around town, wearing a shark tooth covered hat and checking all the new land-fill piles for fossils. She loved attending events at Peggy's WildChild Art Gallery. For Halloween she covered her prosthesis and her leg stump with splatters of red paint and carried around her bloody "snack" while wearing a mask with blood dripping fangs. She attended Dragon-Con enjoying time with Elida and George along with Star-Trek Klingons and the other wild wonderful creatures that could be found there.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars gave Audrey lots of great buddies and the chance to share memories and experiences. Pine Island Community Church provided Audrey with the opportunity to share her love of God and fellowship with others. She had a real skill at making friends and adopting people into her "family." She had "family" all over the USA from Florida to Pennsylvania, Maine, Wisconsin, California and many points in between. Audrey loved to say that she would "remember you in my will. Of course, all I have is good will " Then she would smile.
Audrey Beard quietly left this life Aug. 26. 2012, and joined Jesus. There will be a celebration of her life on today, Sept. 5, at 6 p.m. at Pine Island Community Church, 5320 Doug Taylor Circle, in St. James City.
All are invited to share their memories, the VA memorial, Pastor Heidi's service, live music, love and laughter. You are encouraged to bring a dish to share and we will celebrate a dinner together.
Instead of flowers donations may be made to VFW Post #8463, phone 542-8463.


ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Darius Johnson had 16 points and five assists, Jaylin Sellers scored 15 points and UCF held No. 23 Texas Tech without a field goal for more than nine minutes in the second half en route to a 75-61 victory Saturday.
The win, keyed by a 20-3 second-half run, was the third by the Knights (14-12, 5-9 Big 12) over a ranked opponent at Addition Financial Arena in their first season in the Big 12. The program has eight total wins over ranked opponents in program history.
Johnson led the effort, hitting back-to-back 3-pointers to give the Knights some much-needed breathing room and their first double-digit lead with five minutes to play.
Texas Tech (19-8, 8-6) had cut the deficit to two at 53-51 with 9:42 to play after Kerwin Walton made a free throw following a layup a few seconds earlier to put pressure on UCF’s second-half lead.
But the Red Raiders found it difficult to score the rest of the way. The Knights took over from there.
UCF did not give up another field goal until there was just more than a minute to play. The Knights forced five turnovers in that span, capped off with Johnson stealing the ball and setting up Shemari Allen for a two-handed dunk to complete the decisive run.
For the Knights, the defensive pressure they deployed was the team returning to its identity and using that to feed the offense to snap a four-game losing streak.
“We became too much of a perimeter-oriented team and a jump-shooting team,” UCF coach Johnny Dawkins said. “That’s not who we are. We want to ground and pound. We want to touch the paint and play inside-out with our bigs. It took us some time to kind of find our way.”
The Knights shot 46.6% for the game and 6 of 12 on 3-pointers. UCF scored 32 points in the paint to Texas Tech’s 12, dominating the interior with its shot blockers inside and scoring from the post for much of the game.
UCF’s defense stifled Texas Tech’s leading scorers, Pop Isaacs and Joe Toussaint. The guard duo averages 28.8 points per game. But Isaacs had only 8 points on 3-for-12 shooting and Toussaint scored 3 points on 1-for-7 shooting.
Texas Tech finished shooting 37% percent from the floor and was only 8 for 28 from 3-point range (28.6%). The Knights blocked three shots and forced 14 turnovers.
“You got to still be aggressive and play through their chin and play toward the basket,” Texas Tech coach Grant McCasland said. “We had that stretch we probably settled for some 3s without getting paint. Their length makes you want to shy away from it and play away from the basket, but you have to do the opposite of that.”
Darrion Williams led the Red Raiders with 19 points and 11 rebounds, and Walton added 18 points.
The Red Raiders had answers early to all of the Knights’ first-half runs. But Texas Tech went cold from the field in the second half before Eemeli Yalaho hit a corner 3 with 1:02 to play and the game out of reach.
By then, UCF had expanded its lead out and put the game away.
“We’ve been preaching just getting stops and building stops,” Johnson said. “They sat on 51 points for a while. We built on that, getting easy transition buckets and getting fouls. We just built on it.”
Texas Tech: The Red Raiders’ NCAA Tournament hopes shouldn’t take much of a hit. But they have lost three straight on the road and four of their last five away from Lubbock, Texas.
UCF: The Knights continue to establish the ability to win in the Big 12 even if their NCAA Tournament dreams have long faded. The Knights snapped a four-game losing streak with the win.
Texas Tech: Returns home to face Texas on Tuesday night.
UCF: Hits the road to face Oklahoma State on Wednesday.
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Sony Pictures Animation’s Hotel Transylvania 3 follows our favorite monster family as they embark on a vacation on a luxury monster cruise ship so Drac can take a summer vacation from providing everyone else's vacation at the hotel. It’s smooth sailing for Drac’s Pack as the monsters indulge in all of the shipboard fun the cruise has to offer, from monster volleyball to exotic excursions, and catching up on their moon tans. But the dream vacation turns into a nightmare when Mavis realizes Drac has fallen for the mysterious captain of the ship, Ericka, who hides a dangerous secret that could destroy all of monsterkind.
Drac and the gang are headed out on a vacation which is so funny because he owns a hotel for all the other monsters to go on vacation yet they all go on vacation with him. Does no one work anymore? Anywhoooo...we love Hotel Transylvania Mavis and the rest since the first movie. We also loved the flashback of Drac doing away with every Van Helsings (the vampire slayer) that has ever tried to do him in. Mavis, the good daughter she is decides her dad needs a vacation while there he falls for the ships captain...spoiler alert...a Van Helsing. She is working with an ancestor to finally end Drac. Hey...it's what vampire slayers do. No hate here!
My kids and I enjoyed the movie. We loved seeing the characters in a different way. Blobby and Drac's dance routine was hysterical. The werewolf babies are once again ridiculously funny. The on-line dating app was funny too! So many monsters looking for love. Our favorite character was Dennis' puppy Tinkles. How can two kids stow away an elephant size, drooling puppy?!
Definitely a fun, family film especially if you have watched the first two and love these characters.
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