In compliance with new state regulations regarding home occupations, the Royal Palm Beach Village Council gave preliminary approval Thursday, Jan. 20 to several amendments to the village code to assure that local regulations conform with state statutes.
Village Attorney Keith Davis said the ordinance brings the village into conformance with one of the most significant preemption statutes of the 2021 legislative session, having to do with how local governments can regulate home occupations, defined as business activity that occurs as a secondary activity at a residence in a residentially zoned area.
“It has to do with [when] you live in your house and you work from your home, or maybe you have a home office,” Davis said.
One of the biggest changes in terms of preemption, he said, is that the new law requires that home offices be regulated no differently than the same type of business in a commercial zoning district.
“Our old code said that you cannot have any employees in a home occupation,” Davis said. “The law now says the business has to be run by someone who lives in the house. You are now allowed to have up to two employees who do not live in the house who can come in every day to work.”
The village is still allowed to levy a business tax receipt for a home occupation, and parking regulations still apply.
“We are still allowed to regulate traffic and parking conditions, so whatever our parking codes are for any particular residential zone, those still apply, so you are still not allowed to have commercial vehicles parked overnight,” Davis said. “If you have a home occupation, you’re not allowed to generate more traffic or create more parking issues than [any other] residence in the same zoning district.”
The village is also still allowed to regulate aesthetics. “The house still needs to be a house; it can’t look like a store front,” Davis said.
The new law does allow some permissible signs that can be placed on residential businesses.
“A home occupation can enjoy the same regulations,” he said. “They can’t have more, bigger or different signs, but they are allowed to follow our sign code for residential properties, the same as residential properties without a home occupation.”
The village is still allowed to regulate nuisance-type activities, such as noise, odor, vibration or the use of hazardous materials.
“We can still have annual inspections to make sure it complies with zoning, but we can’t have our own home occupation permit, and we’re not allowed to prohibit employees any longer,” Davis said. “You can’t place more restrictions on a home business than on a commercially zoned property.”
He said the proposed ordinance would bring the village into conformance with the current state law.
Councilman Jeff Hmara noted that the new statute is less preemptory than the original bill, which stated that local governments cannot regulate home businesses differently than those in commercial areas, but the Florida League of Cities was able to inject some local control.
“You can see now that we still have some latitude,” Hmara said. “We can take action to prevent annoyances and things of that nature in a residential area. Otherwise, it started out that you can’t do anything different as far as limiting functions of businesses in commercial areas than you could in residential.”
Councilwoman Jan Rodusky made a motion to approve the first reading of the code amendments, which carried 5-0.


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15 April 2010 - 04:22 PMdoes anyone know if tippmann is going to come up with an Sl-68 III? I figgure with the sl68II back out its only a matter of time before they make one with more modern features, (IE: a 98c style feedneck, a bottomline, buttstock mounting points, anything that would be nice in a milsim pump marker)
also, what do you think should be on an SL-68 III and why? Someone should make a poll after this thread is up for a month or so.
30 January 2010 - 06:15 PMhttp://diekill5.deviantart.com/art/Paintba...agram-152344345
Edit: To summerize, it is a design depicting how to move a single barrel arround multiple firing chambers to get the effect of having a gatling gun without having more than one barrel, thus it being field legal.
16 September 2009 - 11:35 AMQuite some time ago i bought my pcs usp from a local paintball store. it cost me around $100 plus the springs i was buying for my 98c. i got it home, and as the only thing immediatley turning me off to the marker was the red ring arround the tip of the barrel, i immediatley (upon discovery) fitted the black one from the parts kit instead. also, as I found the magazine was no good as it wouldn't load from the back, I removed the spring and plunger from that so that i could unscrew the back and insert a 10 rnd tube. so now i had this "james bond" paintball pistol, i pulled it apart, put it together again, and let it sit for a while.
after a while more (still nobody to paintball with) i got it down again and took a closer look at it. shot a couple rounds through it, and realized, my magazine modifications (more deletions than anything) actualy made my problems worse. now i had a marker that was a little bit easier to feed but took more time. horray. I reinstalled the parts, took the marker apart again, picked at how it worked, and put it back together again. (this time with the medium velocity spring)
finally this year, (after 2 summers of no paintball) i took it down once more and began shooting off into the river. this time i got the idea to see how many shots i could get out of it. I got 31 shots including the final shot that ended in a loud vibration noise of the marker cycling back and forth, not far enough to catch the seer. this number, though unimpressive for most markers that run off of 12 grams, was par compared to the generic nelson pump that cockerpunk made and posted on youtube; impressive considering it was a semi auto.
although cockerpunk defined a useful shot as any shot above 200fps, i have no way of confirming that my shots were all above 200fps. they did seem to all go the same distance though.
the magazine, though annoying and clumsy to load, did the trick. I had 0 chops outside of the one time i decided to pull the hammer back and hit a lever, thus "full auto-ing" the marker. this full auto feature is nothing for fields to worry about as it is hard to pull off, and it chops every ball in the magazine.
the marker still shot decent when i cleaned the paint out. (shot it out really, with another paintball or 5) the paint i was shooting was 2 year old pmi premium. which i got because i heard it worked well with a flatline barrel. (yet to be confirmed)
the accuracy seemed enough to hit someone at maximum range if i really tried, i didn't though. i guess this is due to some underboring, as the barrel did get reasonably clean with paintballs shooting out of it.
the field striping process can be undergone within 3 seconds, and back again in 10. you let the hammer forward (without air in the marker), press a pin and pull it out the other side, remove a back block, and slide out the internals. reasembly is the same in reverse save the small lever on the left of the grip frame moves the seer down to allow the hammer to slide into place. if this is not done before the back plate is put back on your marker it will not fire.
overall the marker recieves a 7 out of 10. and this is being unbiased twords the crappy mag that could use improvement (thus being turned off to the whole marker) and without bias to the fixed barrel.
This marker was originaly made by piranah and since then usp has split off into a different company, taking the marker with them. the grip frame is that of a piranah, and it mounts to the marker in somewhat of a mix between that of a piranah and a spyder.
-has anyone tried a spyder grip frame on one of these?
the internals, im told are the same as a piranah. i am wondering if i can get a new bolt and hammer for this.
-does tech-t make one?
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At least 17 German banks and industrial firms have agreed to contribute to a fund from which payments will be made to an estimated 100,000 Jews who served as slave laborers during the Holocaust, the German government announced this week. Needy survivors may also be entitled to payments from the fund.
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Some newer articles added at end and then we need a change of topic.
Bloomberg, March 21
Germany may accelerate power-line projects to transmit more renewable energy to consumers after Japan’s nuclear disaster rattled voters in Europe’s biggest electricity market.
The Economy Ministry is preparing to use fast-track powers last exercised in 1990 when a newly united Germany had to build transportation infrastructure as fast as possible to replace crumbling roads in the east and improve connections in the country, according to a ministry document obtained by Bloomberg News. Control over power grids would be taken by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government from states and local councils.
“The scale of the challenge is comparable with infrastructure needs after reunification,” according to the document, an outline for a draft to be presented to the cabinet in two days. Power storage sites will be exempted from paying grid fees for 20 years rather than the current 10.
Merkel last year agreed to extend the life of Germany’s nuclear reactors in return for receiving 15 billion euros from their owners to help build the grids. The plan also commits the four main utilities to pay a nuclear tax from this year through 2016 of 2.3 billion euros annually.
Another 5 billion euros was earmarked for offshore wind parks. The steps cumulatively aim to speed Germany’s target of generating 80 percent of energy from renewable means by 2050.
The US and Australia have similar geo-political attributes.
Huffington Post, March 21
While there may be good reasons for nuclear power to be used as a bridge fuel to a renewable energy future, I am confident that nuclear power is politically dead in the United States. This makes the research and development of alternative energy and carbon capture and storage that much more important and urgent. It also means that environmentalists who have either reluctantly or enthusiastically embraced nuclear power as a form of carbon free energy should move on to other solutions. The catastrophe in Japan will not soon be forgotten, and it will shape the politics of nuclear power plant siting for decades.
This analysis is based on a few fundamental facts of American political structure. Despite the strength of our national government, this remains a federal system of divided power. States retain sovereignty, and we have a deeply rooted tradition of local control of land use. Our national elected leaders pay a great deal of attention to geography and to opinion leaders at the community level.
The "Not-in-my Backyard" (NIMBY) syndrome is not a passing fad in American politics; it is a central element of land use politics in communities throughout this country. While it is true that the definition of a noxious facility varies from place to place, no one doubts the ability of an American locality to veto a land use they do not like.
The images of earthquake and tsunami damage will be combined with the nuclear accident and form a single image in the public's mindset about nuclear power.
And in a country that has trouble maintaining roads (at least where I am) never mind the drainage system…
Bloomberg, 20 March
Here a word for Indonesia as it mulls a nuclear future: Don’t!
Yes, that’s easy for me to say. The fourth most-populous nation is a shoo-in to join Brazil, Russia, India and China soon as a BRIC economy. BRIICs, anyone? To keep growing at about 7 percent, Indonesia needs energy, and lots of it. Hence the plan to build nuclear power plants.
If a country as developed, technologically advanced and earthquake-ready as Japan must scramble to avert a nuclear catastrophe, what hope do developing nations have?
No disrespect is meant. No one needs to convince me of Indonesia’s promise or how impressively far it’s come since the dark days of the 1997-1998 Asian crisis. Yet Indonesia’s regulatory environment is poor and its public sector far less tech-savvy than Japan’s; its disaster-response record needs work and it’s a very seismically active place.
If the ongoing drama in Japan tells the world anything, it’s that earthquake-prone nations should be aggressively pursuing non-nuclear options to fuel growth.
Granted, Japan’s drama is unique. At 40, the Fukushima Dai- Ichi power plant is almost as old as the median age of Japan’s 126 million people. The technology going into today’s reactors makes them far safer. The role of age in Japan’s crisis prompted some world leaders, like Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, to shut their oldest reactors.
Still, Japan’s disaster has been decades in the making thanks to falsified safety reports, underestimated risks and plain old corruption.
If ever there were a microcosm of what ails Japan, its nuclear power industry and a legacy of fatal accidents and conflicts of interest provide it. Too often, those writing nuclear-safety rules were also doing surveys and signing off on inspections.
At Fukushima, back-up diesel generators that might’ve averted the disaster were located in a basement and swamped by waves. “This in the country that invented the word Tsunami,” noted Ken Brockman, a former director of nuclear installation safety at the IAEA in Vienna.
One lesson we should remember from events in modern-day Ukraine in 1986 was the role of everything from design flaws to shoddy construction materials to insufficient training of reactor personnel. In other words, the human factor.
Mixed blessings for Australia? Uranium down but coal and LNG up. This is sure to complicate the political wrangling on energy and climate policy.
Courier Mail, March 22
AUSTRALIA should experience significantly increased demand for coal from nuclear-challenged Japan in the next couple of years and longer-term, demand for liquefied natural gas could soar.
But in the medium term, Fitch said "additional gas-fired power generation capacity is the natural substitute for (Japan's) nuclear power."
"Countries non self-sufficient in energy will always want a diversified portfolio and there just aren't that many alternatives," Morningstar analyst Mark Taylor said, holding out hope to Australian uranium companies whose shares have been hammered since Japan's massive earthquake struck.
"Japanese gas-fired electricity generators were operating at high capacity prior to the earthquake and have limited ability to further increase production."
He said, however, that Fitch estimated Japan lost up to 11 gigawatts of nuclear-fired base-load energy after the earthquake."
And the replacement of four of Japan's recently damanged nuclear plants by new gas-fired generation could increase LNG demand by nine million tonnes a year.
Each of Queensland's planned first stage LNG projects envisage capacity of from seven to eight million tonnes of LNG gas that has mostly been pre-sold under contracts.
"But gas-fired generation is the likely choice for new capacity given its relatively low carbon emission intensity and speed of construction.
"Moreover, the Japanese LNG import network appears to have spare capacity for additional imports and was reported as undamaged by the International Energy Agency after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami."
And in SA, centre of installed wind energy in Australia… the Premier thinks he has already detected the direction.
Adelaide Now, March 22
Former treasurer Kevin Foley yesterday said Australia should embrace nuclear power.
Mineral Resources Development Minister Tom Koutsantonis, while falling short of advocating nuclear power to be used in Australia, called for uranium enrichment plants in South Australia.
Mr Foley said: "I believe Australia should embrace nuclear power."
Both ministers said the Australian Labor Party should not be frightened of a vigorous public debate, but Premier Mike Rann distanced himself from their views.
"I won't be engaging in this debate," Mr Rann said.
"The old adage of digging something out the ground and sending it offshore has to change," he said.
"We've got to value-add here in SA. South Australians expect us to exploit our natural resources to the maximum potential.
"Down the track, I would like to see some form of enrichment, some sort of value-add. We have to go out and passionately support the uranium industry."
Personally, I don’t think the authors of the phrase “value add” had this in mind. When your thinking process has been infected by jaded PR sound bites, this is the kind of almost circular argument you get.
The Oz fly's Barry Brooks only option flag: I think the reason is obvious.
Atomic energy the only solution, says scientistWhile the struggle to control the reactor appears to be in its final phase;
The Australian, 23 March
The University of Adelaide's Barry Brook said yesterday nuclear power was the only rational alternative to fossil fuel and was necessary if Australia adopted a carbon tax.
"Nuclear energy is inevitable . . . it's a matter of when," Professor Brook told the annual Paydirt uranium conference in Adelaide. "The risk is that if there is a global price on carbon in the future, then Australia will become uncompetitive."
Battle to cool Japan plantThe message from the world regulator is clear;
The Age, 23 March
n another small step towards regaining control of the plant, the lights came back on in the control centre of the number three reactor, making it easier for workers toiling to get the vital cooling systems working again.
"As of 10.43pm (local time) the control centre for reactor number three had its lighting on," an official from plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) told reporters late on Tuesday.
The number three reactor is a particular concern because it contains a potentially volatile mixture of uranium and plutonium.
The health ministry advised residents in five towns or cities in Fukushima prefecture not to use tap water to make formula milk and other drinks for babies due to abnormally high radiation levels.
The government also ordered increased inspections of seafood after radioactive elements were detected in the Pacific Ocean near the Fukushima plant.
France's Nuclear Safety Authority warned that local contamination from the Japanese plant would last "for decades and decades".
World must learn from crisis, says atomic chiefThe Huffington Post has an interesting link filled article (despite the use of the word "only") by a former nuclear researcher and current Director (Emeritus) Hawaii Natural Energy Institute. See the original for the expanded details in the points below.
Sydney Morning Herald, 22 March
Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, also told a 35-nation agency board meeting on Monday that while the situation at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site remained serious, ''we are starting to see some positive developments''.
Pressed by reporters on whether his agency should be authorised to make its safety standards mandatory instead of voluntary as at present, he said ''there are some arguments'' from board nations in favour - but others were against.
In Australia there is a final rush to install solar panels (sarcasm: surely they should just wait for nuclear?) before the solar bonus expires. I've quoted heavily as there is some interesting detail.
Renewable Electricity Is Our Only Viable Option: Part 2
Huffington Post, 21 March
This is thus no knee-jerk reaction: Nuclear fission is now no longer an option for our society. Mind you, I have a pro-nuclear stance, and even penned "There is Something About Thorium," for The Huffington Post. But I'm afraid even this cleaner fission option now no longer has any real chance.
I still hold long-term hopes for fusion, but my experience working at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on laser fusion, and my knowledge of the ITER magnetic confinement experiment in France, convinces me that we are at least a generation away, and more likely two or more, before any kind of commercialization will occur.
Here are the reasons why nuclear fission is dead:
3. The attitude of the public.
4. Freshwater. ... half of the water consumption in France is utilized by their 58 nuclear generation facilities...
5. Worst case scenario. This is hyperbole, but ...
The problem, though, is at least two-fold: time, or the lack of it, and the incapability of our decision-makers to make command decisions with our democratic form of government heavily influenced by lobbyists. China just did it, but I'm afraid the USA will mostly dawdle.
Race to cash in on solar bonus
The Age, 22 March
There is a last-minute rush from homeowners wanting to buy solar panels before the solar credits rebate is slashed by up to $1200 from July.
For the first 1.5 kilowatts of a home solar system, the federal government multiplies the number of small-scale technology certificates that are attached by five. This multiplier will drop to four in July.
Most people are opting for a 1.5 kilowatt system, which would generally produce 5-7 kilowatt hours per day and supply about one-quarter of the average household's energy needs.
A typical Australian house consumes about 18 kilowatt hours (kWh) per day.
The whole solar credits thing can be a tad confusing. Basically, when you install solar panels you are eligible for certificates from what is now known as small scale renewable energy scheme (SRES).
You may also hear the credits being called RECS, or renewable energy certificates, which is what they were known as until the beginning of year.
The reason for the name change was a glut in the market of RECS was pushing their price down, and potentially putting back projects such as wind farms because the companies creating wind farms need the certificates to be worth $45 or more to attract investment. At the end of last year RECS were worth about $30 - $32.
Now the government has split RECS into two – certificates for big installations, and certificates for small installations.
For systems up to 1.5 kilowatts, though, the federal government multiplies the number of certificates you get. Until July they will times them by five. On a 1.5 kilowatt system, that makes the certificates worth $5200 - $6800.
After July the multiplier will fall to four, and each successive July after that it will drop by one until no multiplier applies.
The current rush could be in vain with at least one provider saying that, after July, the amount consumers buying solar panels will be out of pocket for potentially won't change that much. "We predict that our pricing will not alter greatly at July 2011 due to a reduction in the cost of the goods, as forecast,"
And finally, IF you wanted to build a large scale solar voltaic facility, where do you build it? One criticism has been that the vast area takes up valuable acreage we need for other purposes.
Tata Power Ties Up With Australia’s Sunenergy For solar project
liveMint.com, 22 March
India’s Tata Power Ltd. Tuesday said it has entered into a partnership with Australia’s Sunengy Pty Ltd. for a pilot project to build a low-cost, solar powered plant that will float on water.
“Liquid Solar Array effectively turns a dam into a very large battery, offering free solar storage and opportunity for improved water resource management. If India uses just one percent of its 30,000 square kilometres of captured water with our system, we can generate power equivalent to 15 large coal-fired power stations,” Phil Connor, Sunengy’s executive director and chief technology officer said in a joint statement.
Floating the liquid solar array on water reduces the need for supporting structures and offers protection from high winds. In bad weather, the lenses submerge in water and also cools the cells increasing their life span and efficiency.
Plans for pilot power plant in India and the Hunter
ABC, 22 March
Sunengy will partner with Indian power giant, Tata Power to build the $1 million plant.
Chairman, Peter Wakeman says the solar panels float on water, which then cools the photo-voltaic cells under extreme heat from the sun rays.
Mr Wakeman says it is not only environmentally-friendly, but maximises the efficiency of expensive solar panels.
"To capture the interest of industry and the general public it's got to be cheap," he said.
"If it's not cheap they won't use it and so cost has always been the driver to get it down.
Large shallow water bodies... hmmm... I think The Hume for one could be a good dual use candidate, unless we value water skiing more?
The sacrifices we might have to make ;-)
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Nearly 25 years after opening the country's first virtual range, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College's police academy remains on the cutting edge of virtual simulation.
Within one room you can present many different situations and scenes very quickly.
Of all the training, close quarters combat is by far the most intense.
It does happen, and we have to stay on top of our game.
Tactical instructor Ian Nishimoto shows us some examples of what officers go through.
In this simulated scenario, he's with another officer in a school, pursuing an active shooter.
After his partner is wounded, Nishimoto engages the shooter and takes him down.
"It definitely raises the stress levels, and that's exactly where what we want them to be at that point, so they come out feeling a lot more competent but also confident in using their weapon and using it accurately and taking care of that threat," says Nishimoto. "About 90 percent are within just a few feet of law enforcement, deadly force encounters."
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"They have the opportunity to make a plan for next time," Revling says. "'How do I see myself doing this thing next time?' And they make a plan and work with their coaches and most importantly work with each other, and then go right back in for another simulation."
Revling estimates more than 2,000 police officers from around the area practice this close combat virtual simulation every year.
A recent analysis by the FBI found 75-percent of shootings involving agents also involved gunmen who were within three yards.
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Stone Bowl Farm, a ceramic arts residency center in West Pawlet, welcomes Yu-Ting Teng, a tea expert and teaware maker, whose work is collected across Taiwan for a special workshop on Taiwanese Tea ceremony and ceramic teaware making, Saturday and Sunday, August 4 and 5. The workshop will feature tastings, a presentation on the history and types of Taiwanese teas, tea ceremony demonstrations and hands-on practice making Taiwanese-style tea pots, tea cups and pourers. It runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, and costs $100, which includes instruction and lunch each day. Stone Bowl Farm offers ceramics residencies for emerging ceramic artists, workshops and classes in a converted 200-year old barn in the scenic Mettowee Valley. For more information, email [email protected] or visit stonebowlfarm.com.

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The government invested EGP 3.8bn in the Sinai Peninsula during the first half of FY 2015/2016, the Sinai Development Agency stated.
The agency added that 32% of the projects have been fully implemented, according to the state-owned MENA news agency.
The Egyptian cabinet has overseen the management of the Sinai Development Agency since it was established in 2012. The agency has implemented development programmes, including the establishment of a free investment zone and the construction of residential complexes, agriculture projects, and water treatment plants.
In December 2015, Egypt proposed development projects in the Sinai Peninsula at the cost of $1.5bn to Arab development institutions.
One month later, the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) said it is interested in financing development projects in Sinai “to support the Egyptian army in its battle against terrorism.”
Chairman of KFAED Abdulwahab Al-Bader said that the fund will finance projects worth at least $900m over the next three years. He expects that the funds will arrive in Egypt within less than two years.
Sinai is considered a vital and strategic region for Egypt and a priority in its national security agenda. The situation in the region has raised alarms over the past two years due to the surge in militant activity and the increasing number of operations targeting security personnel and facilities in Al-Arish, Rafah, and Sheikh Zuweid.
Sustainable development in Sinai has been a pressing concern ever since its liberation from Israeli occupation in 1982. Caught in turmoil and militant activity, Sinai has remained mostly underdeveloped and its community marginalised.
The Egyptian Ministry of Housing planned for 15 development communities in North Sinai in 2015 at the cost of EGP 16m. It is currently developing 140 acres, while an additional 120 acres are expected to be developed.
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi issued a decree in August 2015 amending a number of provisions of law 14/2012 regarding the full development of Sinai. Ten articles were replaced, with the purpose of avoiding the involvement of state institutions in any legal disputes with investors who made legal contracts prior to the adoption of the law in early 2012.
The law stipulates that ownership of land and real estate in the region can only be held by Egyptian citizenship with Egyptian parents. Juridical persons whose capital is owned entirely by Egyptian citizens are also entitled to own land and real estate in the region.
The law further authorises Egyptians holding dual-citizenship and foreigner national to own buildings in the region without owning the land on which they are built. It also grants the right of usufruct to non-Egyptians for residential purposes for a period that does not exceed 50 years.
Under ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi the government permitted land ownership in Sinai by residents “for investment purposes.”


I picked up a copy of Bruce Chatwin’s What Am I Doing Here, recognizing the author’s name among the stacks of cheap paperbacks left as offerings to passersby on the street. It was one of those special books that fit precisely in the pocket of a suit jacket, enabling it to be taken everywhere, and I continued on my way into the afternoon. As I crossed the street the momentum of my arms knocked the corner of the book from its snug home, sending it flying into the air. The question of the title, staring up from the asphalt, had turned itself on me. Standing there in the crosswalk I traced the letters of the cover, considering where else I could possibly be. As I picked it up and hurried along, I began to thumb through the pages in search of an answer.
It wasn’t a question that seemed to be weighing on Chatwin’s mind. The first story uses it rhetorically, quickly casting off its epistemological weight for the sake of the unfolding drama. Traveling became a profession for him on the strength of his writing, and he spent his life flying from place to place, going between the empty summer cottages of his well-heeled and influential friends. His stories have the same staccato rhythm as his life: to Ghana where he helped Werner Herzog film Cobra Verde, before dinner in New York with Diana Vreeland, and an audience with Indira Gandhi in the middle of a labor protest.
As a traveler, his immediate predecessors—men like Charles Lindbergh, the famed pilot, or Wilfred Thesiger, the desert explorer—were technicians of the journey itself. Their efforts draw a direct line back to the high Middle Ages, to Ibn Battuta and Benjamin of Tudela, when travel was a physical labor rather than a passive event. Chatwin, on the other hand, was among the first generation of commercial jetsetters, a new kind of nomad who could circle the globe in a matter of hours without any technical expertise in the actual means of transit. It was all a simple transaction, a matter of boarding the Concorde and dropping a downer. This was something totally unprecedented. Not like the old hunter-gatherers who revolved around the climate and food supply, or the lives of settled people who revolved around their houses and places of work. The new nomads found themselves caught between worlds as a question of their identity, their profound desires splintered like the shards left behind when a fist strikes a mirror, one publisher’s imprimatur away from becoming a reality.
The conquistadors were known for making things up in their records of the Americas. Roland Barthes went to Japan and did the same thing. Parce que, the Orient is obsessed with harmony… Myth is the language of travel. Tour guides lie constantly, inventing ghosts, exaggerating histories, in the construction of a collective fantasy. Chatwin was famous for it too. He left behind a trail of acquaintances supremely pissed off to have been written into his own narrative, providing comic relief or genuine gravitas as it suited him. Others were delighted, pleased with his immortalization of their own pursuits. In the interest of full disclosure, Chatwin writes in the introduction, “The word ‘story’ is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.” As the New Journalists who emerged from this era would argue, the fictional process is always at work, indulging in the novelistic minutiae which could acquire some spiritual insight. The gift of the travelogue is the sense of travel it creates in the imagination, like a cocktail dress’ plunging neckline, giving the reader the feeling of a privileged altitude.
I had reached the chapter where Chatwin discusses his friendship with Werner Herzog. They were both in touch with what Chatwin referred to as “the sacramental aspect of walking.” The pair walked obsessively, the antidote to their spiritual jetlag, inventing long and perilous journeys for themselves as soon as their chartered plane touched down. On set, Herzog was famously hell bent on making things difficult. His film Fitzcarraldo is about an Irish rubber industrialist who tries to move a steamship over a steep hill in the Peruvian Amazon to reach a territory rich in rubber trees. Rather than using special effects to speed things along, Herzog insisted upon actually moving the three-hundred-and-twenty ton steamship over the hill, an effort that nearly ended in total chaos. “Walking is virtue,” he proclaimed, “tourism a deadly sin.” For his own part, Chatwin pursued the harsh nether regions of Patagonia and the Outback on foot, becoming a frequent resident of hospital beds in the process. His was a cobbled-together idea of the walking mystic, the idle aristocrat, and the subaltern scribe, a man who lived amongst, shared the plight of, and profited from the people of the world, from British socialites to Australian aboriginals. Flying offered a convenient connection to his next long walk.
The speed of modern travel is loaded with meaning, the culmination of our nomadic dreams. Out of the vast desert came this desire to appear and disappear. The prophet Muhammad is said to have flown from Mecca to Jerusalem in a single night, a distance of some seven hundred miles that would have taken weeks to travel on foot. These days an ordinary person can make the trip in a couple of hours, though what awaits beyond the clouds is nothing like heaven. To me, flying has always had a kind of Babylonian feel to it, as if I have somehow transgressed against a supreme being, waking up in Istanbul one morning having slept in New York the night before. In between these two worlds I have moved so quickly that my brain lags behind, expecting the sun to rise and set at the same time it did yesterday, confused at what I’ve done to it.
We aren’t allowed much vacation time as it is, and are intent to spend the least amount of that time in actual transit. This is both regrettable and understandable, like ordering takeout. The President has his own airplane. He lives with a different awareness of time, an accelerated twenty-four-hour time that turned his hair grey within his first year of office. We forgive him these luxuries, they afford the shortest distance between two points, recalling the saddest three words of the twentieth century: time is money.
I am a person on whom almost nothing depends, whereby in the passage of my time, very little is at stake. It has become a sick pleasure of mine to reach a destination as slowly as possible, to join Herzog and Chatwin in a tortoise-and-hare race against a world obsessed with speed. In their company I acquired the esoteric gnosis of the traveler, sharpening the philosophy of my own life as a kind of nomad, the product of a marriage that resulted from the ease of international travel. Over time, walking assumed this spiritual quality, becoming a pilgrimage in search of some deeper destination yet to be discovered.
The hajj is the greatest pilgrimage still in existence. The word itself translates as “to intend a voyage,” recognizing the spiritual intentions that accompany travel. It is no coincidence that most of the journey must be taken on foot. The path leads to the kaaba, a cuboid structure housing a mysterious stone that some believe to be an meteorite. There is a kaaba in everyone’s life, I thought. Lucky for the pilgrims to be sure of what it is.
Intending to find the kaaba of my own life, I started walking more and more to determine some kind of trajectory. I was living in Chicago at the time. From my apartment in the far north of the city I could make it ten miles in an afternoon, south to the Loop or north to Evanston, and if the weather were amenable, well into the night. It would always begin as a short walk to Lake Michigan, telling myself I would stop soon, until I caught a glimpse of the lake again, that opalescent orb drawing me with its mirage of colors to ignore the obstacles of unlimited travel.
There was a cosmopolitan group of flâneurs who wandered the streets, having gathered in Chicago due to its strange combination of unpublicized qualities: the sublime beauty of Lake Michigan, low cost of living, and empty tennis courts. They stopped into the cafes to flirt with the many blue-eyed baristas and drink a cappuccino with a heart drawn into the foam. They were influenced by the poet Rumi who drew from the spiritual tradition of the desert nomads. “This is love,” he wrote, “To fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” The greatest among them didn’t drive or even bike. They appeared and disappeared in the afternoon shade, masters of walking without feet.
Meanwhile, I imagined myself a modern-day Odysseus, tempted by false paradises whose only charge was my time. I spent a year of my life being fed Ethiopian food and watching Barcelona matches on television in the company of some Amharic-speaking gentlemen who kindly used English to include me in the conversation. In my case, the lotus-eaters ate kitfo, an Ethiopian delicacy of raw ground beef mixed with butter and spices. The very taste of it extinguishes all ambition and clouds the mind with a blissful sense of well-being, and I abided in that state, until the restaurant closed its doors one day and released me from its grip, back into the city I had set out to explore.
It was summertime, and I could make it a few miles farther without the fear of frostbite. I went into the forests looking for morels and found only Russian ladies who would smile, shake their heads, and point to their bags full of them. At the end of the day I would bring home some cut of meat and grill it out in the courtyard, learning to control the elements, fire and air, to create optimal smoking temperatures.
After dinner I would go out for another walk, to watch the sun cast its dying rays on the lake. Once night fell I snaked through the residential neighborhoods as my instincts would propel me. I became obsessed with what I called the inhabitus, the idea that each dwelling played host to individuals with their own little strange habits, inside jokes, and family histories. I estimated the number of souls in every building, twenty-five souls, twenty-five different ways of making dinner. Urban living draws us away from these considerations, lest they play out as in Rear Window, and the dinner really masks some horrendous crime. I looked up at the windows from the sidewalk, what little I could make out from the dim light. I thought of their arguments, their laughter, sounds that would forever be locked into that arrangement of brick and mortar. How many times did I see that stupid fishnet stocking lamp from A Christmas Story? Who the hell stencils “Live, Laugh, Love” on their living room wall, in plain view from the window?
I did not hold everyone in contempt. There were plenty of pleasant front windows with pleasant decorative statements: a single orchid, a nice sculpture, a piano. A house nearby had a cardigan corgi mutt who stood guard every night, his short legs keeping him upright on the windowsill. The inhabitus spilled onto the streets in the form of lawn sculptures, movie posters, and flower arrangements. It was everywhere, a leather boot trampling a pack of Chinese cigarettes on the elevated platform. In my own front window there was my great grandmother’s beaux arts lamp featuring a topless woman reaching to the heavens, and a pair of dying basil plants. What that said about me I cannot say.
The greatest moments of these walks were the times when I forgot where I was, simulating the rapid travel of flight I had once paid dearly to acquire. The jagged stone promenade could pass for Montevideo on those blistering afternoons, young Latinos sunning themselves on towels laid over rock, while the lake itself went between the Caribbean and the Aegean, changing the color of a lime flavored paleta. Walking down the narrow alleyways at night I would think about Rome or Kyoto, and smell the honeysuckle growing along the wire fence. The inhabitus was central to this sense of travel, as aesthetic whims of the inhabitants gathered far flung corners of the globe, like some old Hollywood backlot. Finding mangosteen detritus by the lake one day, I classed Chicago among the world’s finest cities for its many rifts in space-time, offering only an elusive sense of itself.
Within these uncanny moments was another, more significant sense of travel, when the walking submerged into the subconscious, like breathing, and I simply floated through the air, crossing miles in the blink of an eye. I thought of the Lung-gom-pa runners of Tibet, a legendary group of monks who, trained in the art of meditation and breath control, were said to be able to run two hundred miles in a single day. The average tennis player will experience lesser moments of transcendence, sliding on gravelly clay to return a cross-court winner, as surprised as the opposing player to see it narrowly kiss the line. An inspired moment, when the potential energy of the body takes over and the mind is sublimely at rest, offers the deepest truths of the organism, that action precedes thought. It was this subconscious energy that propelled me downtown, as soon as it became more natural to keep walking than to stop, pounding the stone promenade with a subconscious rhythm. Only after the fact was I able to consider why I had walked ten or fifteen miles without food, water, or rest, winding up in mild delirium at a cafe in a part of the world I was not born in but traveled to in a moment of received wisdom.
The irony is that the restlessness that propelled Chatwin and so many other travelers of his generation is created by the speed and convenience of our modern forms of travel. It is the strange sense of fatigue created not by physical exertion but by the disorientation of the senses from flashing light and acceleration. So much opens up for the human body in the grips of true tiredness. Food tastes better, cold beer acquires a certain godliness, and the mind sheds much of its existential angst.
It is always this question of why that spoils our enjoyment of the what. The issue of where is also irrelevant. I saw a few photographs taken of me over a period of several years, by different hands at different angles in different parts of the world. It was the same picture over and over again, laughing, head thrown back in a terrible posture, shirt unbuttoned. I suppose you have to recognize what you’re good at it. I was laughing in New Jersey, laughing in Barcelona, I could have been laughing on the moon, shedding long hairs into space. As confirmed by the inhabitus, the human spirit will manifest itself regardless of its surroundings and there will be great monuments left behind by the casual acts of the individual.
In that golden age of travel, I never left Chicago, and my arms stretched only as far as my legs would take them. What a hero was Don Quixote, to have taken on those fearsome knights the cynics mistook for windmills. Life makes a fool of us all, even in the Marais, where sunglasses are worn like amulets to protect us from soul-bearing embarrassment. We can hop on a plane to avoid it and it follows us still. The world of insular communities and terre vierge was ending in Thesiger’s time, and now seems even more distant.
That we are able to use money in the purchasing of travel and experiences has made it a lot less interesting to be a traveler of the world in the traditional sense. Chatwin’s colorful universe pales in the age of the internet, like the pages of an old National Geographic. Ours is an age when satellite imagery reveals every pebble and footprint on this spinning orb, and every star and asteroid for many light years in all directions, and we are able to electronically surveil the interior lives of our acquaintances, their dining room centerpieces, weekend getaways, their likes and dislikes. The irony of the hyper-real is that it only emphasizes the surreal, a Zen dissolution of signs and signifiers, which makes memory itself the last frontier for exploration. On this fragile stage where all things are summoned, we are left alone with our haziest recollections, trading the present moment for the past, a reference between the map and the terrain that always passes through shadows.
With this somewhat grim view of modernity, there is no use in abandoning the ephemera as the world’s ascetics have seen fit, though it is all ephemeral. Instead, the consensus, in the company of Chatwin, is to play along with it, to be thrilled by the fiction and the fact, walking without feet to the sound of dropping veils. We can never really consume the terrain, only catch glimpses of it, whether it is the Philosopher’s Walk or the walk between the back door and the garbage. We will inevitably find ourselves caught in the orbit of some eternal idea, retracing our steps.
In Chicago there is a large pier that unfurls from the beach at Montrose in the shape of a question mark. In rain and shine it is home to an international group of amateur fishermen who tie up lines and sit facing the lake for hours. At the end of walk, one of the flâneurs had etched into the stone "A Land Not Mine," a reference to Anna Akhmatova’s poem, which captured the feeling of those walking days:
A land not mine, still
the waters of its ocean
chill and fresh.
Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk,
and the air drunk, like wine,
late sun lays bare
the rosy limbs of the pinetrees.
Sunset in the ethereal waves:
I cannot tell if the day
is ending, or the world, or if
the secret of secrets is inside me again.
Seated next to the fishermen I heard Spanish, Vietnamese, French, and Turkish, but most of the time passed in silence as we stared at the changing blue horizon, wearing sunglasses to shield ourselves from the evening sun as it reached eye level, a wash of craggy faces covered in the shade. As the crescent moon rose those nights over Lake Michigan, who could tell whose eyes were filled with tears?
By Jeffrey Ozawa
From the Gorumando blog archives, originally published in April 2013
Photos by Jaimie Lewis


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First Republic Provides Lifeline Manila Times
On Thursday, AMERICA’s biggest banks moved to support the First Republic, easing fears that the regional lender could be the next domino to fall after the collapse, including the Silicon Valley bank.
A consortium of 11 U.S. private banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase, has announced it will invest $30 billion in First Republic.
The move marks a dramatic initiative by lenders to strengthen the system following the failure of three medium-sized lenders last week.
“These actions by America’s largest banks reflect their confidence in the First Republic and banks of all sizes,” the group said in a joint statement.
“Together we are channeling our financial strength and liquidity into the larger system where it is needed most,” the banks said.
First Republic shares cut back on earlier losses and traded higher on Wall Street on Thursday after reports it could receive an infusion of funds from some of the country’s most prominent financial institutions.
“This show of support from a group of large banks is welcome and demonstrates the resilience of the banking system,” said the heads of the Treasury Department, the US Federal Reserve, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in a joint statement.
Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo are each putting up an uninsured deposit of $5 billion in the First Republic, while Goldman and Morgan Stanley will put in $2.5 billion each.
A group of five other lenders, including PNC Bank and US Bank, are providing $1 billion each.
In a statement, First Republic founder Jim Herbert and CEO Mike Roffler said “the collective support strengthens our liquidity position…and is a vote of confidence for the First Republic and the entire US banking system.”
The action comes on the heels of emergency measures taken Sunday night by the Federal Reserve and other US regulators to reassure all depositors of two bankrupt banks, Silicon Valley Bank (SBV) and Signature Bank.
The collapse of the SVB last Friday raised fears of a contagion effect, especially acute fears that more banks could be hit by a run on depositors.
The crisis also spread to Europe when the Swiss central bank stepped in to support Credit Suisse after it came under pressure.
Founded in 1985, First Republic is the 14th largest US bank by assets with $212 billion at the end of 2022.
The San Francisco-headquartered lender also has a presence on the East Coast, including New York and Florida, as well as western states such as Washington and Wyoming.
The bank is known for private banking and wealth management. Due to his clientele, he has a high percentage of uninsured deposits, which keeps him under scrutiny after the failures of SVB and Signature.
Crypto banking giant Silvergate also shut down last week in the face of market turmoil and regulatory pressure.
While First Republic’s clients come from a wide variety of sectors, there were fears that many might try to flee to the relative safety of large, well-capitalized Wall Street banks in light of the ongoing financial market turmoil.
According to S&P Global Ratings, 68 percent of bank accounts contain deposits of more than $250,000, which is automatically guaranteed by US regulators.
“We believe that the risk of deposit outflows at First Republic Bank is elevated,” S&P said on Wednesday as it moved to downgrade the lender’s rating.


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Keepin' It Real is an aptly titled disc by Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers. Among the 13 tracks are edgy performances of such blues standards as "Good Morning Little School Girl," "Baby Please Don't Go," and "Pretty Thing," but it's the six originals that really ignite this set. Since the band had been working out these songs during live shows, the tracks were usually captured in one take when they finally played them in the studio…..
Here and Now is as about as near to perfect as a modern-day blues album should get. Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers shine collectively like a well-polished diamond on this outing, produced by Piazza and guitarist extraordinaire Rick Holmstrom……
Tough and Tender was the first new studio for Piazza and the Mighty Flyers since 1992's Alphabet Blues. The kickoff track, "Power of the Blues," announces their triumphant return with a clarion call from Rod that "we've got the power of the blues."…….
Soul Monster is Piazza's 24th album and 3rd release for Delta Groove. Over the last 44 years of playing music Piazza's virtuosity on the harmonica and respect for tradition has been celebrated by fans and critics alike. The Mighty Flyers have taken home the Blues Music Award for Band of the Year no less than 4 times and Rod himself was honored with a BMA for Instrumentalist of the Year in '98. Last year band member Honey Piazza took home her first BMA for the 2008 Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year. Interplay, spontaneity, and classic chops are what have kept the Mighty Flyers soaring above… and it's all here! Rest assured that Piazza & company deliver on a winning formula; a tantalizing recipe that's been brewing for decades.
Both on 1 CD,19 titles in all, recorded from 1980 thru 1983. From Little Walter's "Mellow Down Easy" to Honey's "Texas Twister".
See, what we have in mind is the strong suggestion you part with enough dead presidents to purchase this disc,and thereby partake ofone of the coolest consbos of roots rock,rhythm'n blues,roadhouse Swing and hellfire on wax.Call it what suits you — rockabilly,blues,Jazz whatever.Cause were talking transcendence of any one idiom here,the kind of music that tells your head what your feet already know.From the spring-loaded "Too Young To Have Fun" to the Jimmy Reed standard "Take Out Some Insurance" and the churning original "Texas Twister" this is one staggering platter,with the kind of fiery playing and singing that clears away the competition.This kind of heart and soul cant be taked.In this,their second longplayer,The Mighty Flyers move from Southern Cal phenoms to national breakout. They'll crowd your dancefloor all night long.
Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers - Big Blues Party movie was released Oct 25, 2005 by the Blind Pig studio. This group, a three-time winner of the W.C. Handy "Best Blues Band" award, is featured in live performance at an unspecified venue.The award-winning blues band the Mighty Flyers is recognizable by Rod Piazza's virtuoso harmonica and fiery vocals, as well as Honey Piazza's infectious piano playing Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers - Big Blues Party video. This high-quality live recording was filmed for television in March of 2005 Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers - Big Blues Party film.–by cdUniverse
Just uncovered, a limited amount of the 1990's classic CD by Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers, featuring such greats as Worried Life Blues, Chicken Shack Boogie, and California Blues
"The Blues are to me many things, but most of all, it is a spirit. the records may have a sub-par recording, or the performer may be lacking state-of-the art equipment, but if that one ingrediant is there, then the spirit has been captured. If in listening to this record, you too feel that spirit, then the excitement and expression of the blues is our common bond to share." - Rod Piazza

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It’s been over two years since we heard the word “coronavirus” for the first time. We have seen our family members spending days on the hospital bed. We were distressed about their recovery. On top of the mental stress, the medical expenses of their treatment added the stress of finances. During these unprecedented times, it was health insurance that came to the rescue of many. The insurance sector aided patients as well as their families in reducing the financial burden. Insurance companies received a huge number of health insurance claims.
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- Omega-3 fatty acids supplementation decreases metabolic syndrome prevalence after lifestyle modification program
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
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- The additional effect of omega-3 supplementation in association with lifestyle modification program (LSMP) in free living-adults was evaluated.We studied 39 adults (control group with LSMP (G1, n = 16) and LSMP plus supplementation of 3 g of fish oil per day (360 mg of docosahexaenoic acid and 540 mg of eicosapentaenoic acid) (G2, n = 23)) during 20 weeks. The fish oil group showed a significant decrease in waist circumference (1.3%) followed by metabolic syndrome reduction (29%) mainly due to normalization of blood pressure (33.3%) and triacylglycerol (27.3%). Omega-3 supplementation provided additional benefits to LSMP in the resolution of metabolic syndrome
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Dubai is known for having some of the most incredible supercars on the planet! Roaming the streets are countless Rolls Royce, Bugatti, Bentley and Ferrari models, not to mention plenty of Pagani, Gumpert, Spyker and plenty of other bespoke automobiles.
Sarhan A. Photography is currently in Dubai. He recently visited the famed Al Ain Class Motors, a supercar dealership known for buying and selling some of the most expensive and rare cars.
Al Ain Class Motors has been in business for over 20 years. In that time they have sold too many Bugatti Veyrons to count! What started as a single dealership in 1992 has now grown into a chain of five supercar dealerships, all with an impressive selection of cars.
When Canadian-based Sarhan A Photography visited one of the dealerships, he was pleasantly surprised by the cars for sale. Inside the showroom was a Bugatti Veyron 16.4, Bugatti Veyron Sang Noir, a pair of McLaren P1s, Koenigsegg CCX, Koinegsegg CCXR Special Edition, two SLR McLarens, Ferrari 458 Speciale, Maybach 62, Rolls Royce Phantom Series 2, one-off Rolls Royce Pininfarina and Lykan Hypersport and many more.
With so many special supercars under one roof, it makes you think about the market for these cars. No doubt many, if not all, of these supercars will be on the streets of Dubai in the next couple of months. Al Ain Class Motors is a must-visit for any supercar enthusiast visiting Dubai!


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Reaper may refer to:
- The Reaper - the Pack-a-Punched PPSh-41 in the Zombies mode of Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty: Black Ops III.
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SERI has conducted a pilot project, in conjunction with the Department of Rural and Community Development (DRCD), to raise awareness of social enterprise among public representatives.
SERI developed a national and local Social Enterprise Charter for public representatives to sign and commit to supporting social enterprise.
The aim of is project was to increase the understanding and knowledge of what social enterprises are and the impact they have in communities across Ireland.
Below you can see the parties who have committed to the charter and also the local representatives who have signed and supported our local charter.

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Music Lessons in Huntington Beach, CA
Comprehensive list of Huntington Beach, California based teachers and instructors offering private music lessons.
Located in Huntington Beach, RockStars Music Studios is one of the largest and most successful private music schools in Orange County. Est. in 2004, more than 200 students come to RockStars every week for private lessons and our innovative group classes. At RockStars, we go beyond the traditional lesson setting of two chairs and a music stand. RockStars has some of the most talented instructors in
Concert Music School is committed to supply music education to you and your child and is tailored for 21st century parents. Concert Music School classes held at our new studio in Huntington Beach or at your child's school using the latest state of the art instruments. We accept students from 2.75 year old through adults.
Clifton Dance Project Huntington Beach, California Developing strong technique in the art of dance while enhancing the dancers' connection to the music and the art form. Check out our new classes starting in September!
On the SW corner of Magnolia and Garfield. What is the finest age to start music lessons? What prior experience should I have?
We're a music school situated in Fountain Valley providing professional music instruction in a quiet and nurturing environment. We provide group lessons and private lessons for students as young as 18 months old, up through high school level and adults. We have music students at all ages and levels. Students participate in music recitals, evaluations and competitions when they are available to do so.
We trust that aesthetic education through instrumental music performance is important to the school curriculum. Our goal is to supply educational leadership to the membership of the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association. To fulfill our aim, we supply opportunities for professional growth through developmental resources.
Since it's founding in 1987, the Fountain Valley YAMAHA Music School's aim has always been to supply a positive environment to assist our students gain their maximum musical potential. Currently we currently have seventeen faculty members, all of them active members in the music community with advanced music degrees, and approximately four hundred students.
- Wonderful school with great teachers and staff.
This dance class is designed for adults who want to increase strength and flexibility to maintain fitness and health. Dance Fit will incorporate various dance styles including Ballet and Jazz as well as Yoga techniques. Learn proper exercises and stretches that can be done on a daily basis to aid strengthen muscles, increase flexibility, and evolve proper body alignment.


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Occasionally, you can find Pumbaa and Maynard here waiting for their lunch break. But it's mostly a sad reminder of the past.
- If this is your first visit to Disneyliesland, you won't want to just walk past this attraction by yourself just to keep your family happy.
- You must be at least as statuesque as your companions to go on.
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- No shoplifting or drinks encouraged.
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**JUST ANNOUNCED DIRECT FROM JAMAICA** in honour of celebrating Bob Marley’s Birthday Jamaican touring band KONFRONTATION will perform a surprise show with special guest KY-MANI MARLEY at the Curtin this Sunday February 3rd.
This special event continues celebration of the Australian inaugural Bob Marley Day Festival and coincides with Bob Marley birthday celebrations worldwide.
Bob’s second youngest son, Ky-Mani Marley will take part in a very special sideshow. Ky-Mani is a mesmerising performer known for his gritty vocal delivery. He is credited for his own distinct style which draws heavily on his Miami roots, but bears all the hallmarks of the Marley passion for Jamaican music.
This visit to Australia also celebrates the fortieth anniversary of Bob Marley’s Babylon Bus Tour, when he first visited Australian shores.
“We aim to unite lifelong and new fans in the shared love for Bob Marley’s anthology of timeless music. Get up, be vocal about what your care about. Stand up for your rights. Join in an amazing moment of social and musical togetherness” – Stick Mareebo (Co-organiser of Bob Marley Day)


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A Conversation with Playwright and Director Emma Dante moderated by Teresa Fiore
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 – 6:30-8:30pm
Lecture Hall 101, Feliciano School of Business
We are pleased to present a Skype conversation with internationally acclaimed and multiple award-winning director Emma Dante on the occasion of the U.S. premiere of her play Le sorelle Macaluso (The Sisters Macaluso).
Watch the trailer of Le sorelle Macaluso (with English subtitles)
The play brings to a summa Dante’s exploration of the dialogue between tragedy and comedy in its intense and refined treatment of family and death. Represented for too long as an enfant terrible in a country like Italy that considers even 40-year-olds still unripe, Dante has now reached a unique form of maturity that weaves together themes, sensibilities and influences that are as universal as they are local. In her work, Sicily, her (is)land of origin and a lush source of inspiration for her art, turns into a theater of the world. A place between geographies and civilizations, a light-filled space replete with shadows, a baroque corner plagued by paucity, Sicily — and in particular its capital, Palermo — is for Dante the home of a profoundly local humanity, often a vibrant lumpenproletariat. She delves in the dark meanders of this quotidian, through plays that explode into excess despite their minimalistic mise-en-scène and plots. To learn more about Emma Dante, read Dr. Fiore’s article on the 2017/18 Peak Performances Catalogue.
The conversation, moderated by Teresa Fiore, Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies represents a unique opportunity to learn about Emma Dante’s versatile career in theater, opera, cinema and literature. Two long-time members of Dante’s Compagnia Sud Costa Occidentale (Elena Borgogni and Sandro Campagna) will join the conversation in person. The event will feature excerpts from selected theater pieces, scenes from her movie Via Castellana Bandiera as well as an exchange focused on Le sorelle Macaluso, to be presented as part of the Kasser Theater’s Peak Performances calendar (November 16-19, 2017), which is fully devoted to women innovators and the gender gap in the arts.
The surtitles for Le sorelle Macaluso were actually developed as part of a Montclair State University project back in 2015, when the play was part of the EXPO calendar at the Piccolo Teatro of Milano, Italy. In a somewhat unforeseen turn of events, those very surtitles have “returned home” with the presentation of the play on campus. The story of how the English surtitles were produced by University student Marta Russoniello under the supervision of Marisa Trubiano and Teresa Fiore (Italian Program, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures) will be included in the program in order to highlight the pleasures and challenges involved in rendering into English a text written in Sicilian and Apulian dialects, which interestingly relegates Italian to a secondary role.
- Introductory remarks: Jedediah Wheeler (Executive Director, Arts and Cultural Programming, Montclair State University)
- Special guest (in videoconference): Emma Dante (Acclaimed Playwright Theater and Film Director)
- In conversation with: Teresa Fiore (Inserra Chair, Montclair State University), Sandro Campagna and Elena Borgogni (actors, Compagnia Sud Costa Occidentale
- Presentation about the surtitling of the play by Marisa Trubiano(Associate Professor of Italian, Montclair State University)
Born in Palermo in 1967, Emma Dante explores the themes of family and exclusion through a poetics of tension and madness, imbued with tragedy and humor. Before becoming a well-known playwright and director, she received her diploma in 1990 at the Silvio D’Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art in Rome. In 1999, in Palermo, she founded the company Sud Costa Occidentale, with which she won the 2001 Scenario Prize for the show mPalermu and the Ubu Prize for Innovation. In the same year, she was awarded the Goffredo Fofi Lo Straniero Prize for a Young Artist. In 2003, she won the Ubu Prize for Best New Italian Play with Carnezzeria and in 2004, the Gassman Prize for Best Director as well as the Critics Award (National Association of Theater Critics) for dramatic art and direction. In 2005 she was awarded the Golden Graal Prize for Best Director for the play Verso Medea. She published Carnezzeria: Trilogia della famiglia siciliana with a preface written by Andrea Camilleri (published by Fazi), in 2007. Her first novel, Via Castellana Bandiera (published by Rizzoli, 2008), won the Vittorini and Super Vittorini Prizes in 2009. In the same year, she won the Sinopoli Culture Prize and opened the season at the Teatro La Scala of Milan with her setting of Bizet’s Carmen, directed by Daniel Barenboim. Between 2000 and 2010, the following shows were presented in Italy and abroad: mPalermu, Carnezzeria, Vita mia, Mishelle di Sant’Oliva, Medea, Il festino, Cani di bancata, and Le pulle. She is the author of two stories for children and adults, published by Dalai and adapted for the stage: Anastasia Genoveffa e Cenerentola and Gli alti e bassi di Biancaneve. January 2011 marked the beginning of an Italian and international tour of La trilogia degli occhiali, published by Rizzoli – it comprises three chapters: Acquasanta, Il castello della Zisa and Ballarini. In April 2012, she produced La Muette de Portici by Auber, directed by Patrick Davin, at the Opéra Comique in Paris. Photo credit: Carmine Maringola.
Sandro Campagna graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art “Silvio D’Amico” in Rome and specialized in Stage Combat achieving the Level Three Certificate at the British Academy of Dramatic Combat in London. He collaborated with the National Academy of Dramatic Art as Assistant and Teacher for the Course of Movement and Scenic Combat directed by Master Francesco Manetti. In 2006 he met Emma Dante and joined her Compagnia Sud Costa Occidentale, which marked the beginning of a long-time collaboration. He is featured in the performances of Cani di bancata, Le Pulle, Verso Medea, Le sorelle Macaluso, and Bestie di Scena as well as in the film Via Castellana Bandiera. He worked as a Master of Stage Weapons and Choreographer for the Teatro alla Scala of Milan, the National Theater of Opera Comique in Paris, the Teatro di Roma, Teatro Argentina in Rome, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, and Teatro Regio in Turin. He is also a teacher at the School for the Performing Arts Crafts hosted by the Teatro Biondo Stabile in Palermo, and directed by Emma Dante.
Born in Siena in 1986 to a family of artists, Elena Borgogni joined – at the age of five – the theatrical activity of the international company Corps Rompu, directed by Maria Claudia Massari, and worked at national and European theatres and festivals. In 2008, she met Sicilian director Emma Dante, and she started an intensive path of study and work under her guidance. She acts in numerous plays directed by her, including Le Pulle, Carmen(conducted by Daniel Barenboim, for the opening of the 2009 season at La Scala in Milan), and La Trilogia degli Occhiali. She also plays the lead role in Verso Medea, with live music by the Mancuso brothers. She is Fenella, the mute lead, in the opera La Muette de Portici, first played at the Opera Comique of Paris in April 2012. While still involved in the Sud Costa Occidentale company directed by Emma Dante, she worked on the Strauss opera Feuersnot as assistant movement director, which opened the 2013/2014 season at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, and in the same year she played the three lead characters of Tre Favole per un Addio. In Le Sorelle Macaluso, she plays the youngest sister, Antonella. She is part of Emma Dante’s latest creation, Bestie di scena, co-produced by the Teatro Biondo of Palermo, Il Piccolo Teatro of Milan and the Avignon Festival.
Teresa Fiore is the Theresa and Lawrence R. Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies at Montclair State University. She is the author of Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy’s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies (Fordham UP, 2017) and the editor of the 2006 issue of Quaderni del ‘900 on John Fante. Her numerous articles on Italian American culture, migration to/from Italy, Sicilian culture, and 20th-century Italian literature and cinema appear in Italian, English and Spanish in both journals and edited collections. She coordinates a regular program of cultural events and educational initiatives on campus, through which she has also presented performances, workshops and talks linked to Italian theater and performances in a broad sense (Teatro delle Albe and the Mancuso brothers; Romeo Castellucci; Emio Greco; Karin Coonrod), also thanks to regular collaborations with Peak Performances/ACP at the Kasser Theater on campus.
Marisa Trubiano is Associate Professor of Italian at Montclair State University. Her current research projects include the translation of Flaiano’s theater into English. Il caso Papaleo (The Papaleo case) was published in the Journal of Italian Translation. Another translation project began in 2015, Translating Voices Across Continents, supervising students’ preparation of surtitles in English of a number of theatrical productions offered by the Piccolo Teatro di Milano on the occasion of Expo 2015, and has continued, with a number of operas for important venues such as the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Opera di Firenze and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. This project, in partnership with Prescott Studio (Florence) and facilitated by the Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, is part of a larger translating/titling initiative. Last year, she supervised a student cooperative education project, editing full translations and creating surtitles for a well-known Italian theater festival in New York, InScena!
- Co-presented by the Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies and the Arts and Cultural Programming | Peak Performances* at the Kasser Theater in collaboration with the Italian Program (Department of Modern Languages and Literatures) at Montclair State University
*The Office of Arts and Cultural Programming (ACP) provides a place for important artists to create and perform innovative works. ACP produces and presents such works through its Peak Performances series to provide unique theatrical experiences that foster both creativity and learning for on-campus and community audiences over the academic year. Performing artists include members of the University campus from the Department of Theatre and Dance and the John J. Cali School of Music, as well as with established and upcoming creators on a national and international level.
Emma Dante’s BIO
Interview with Emma Dante (Rai TV, in Italian, 5 connected episodes)
Emma Dante and the Compagnia Sud Costa Occidentale by Spedalieri Francesca in TheatreForum. Summer/Fall2014, Issue 45, p31-40. 10p. (Scholarly article in English available through libraries)
Peak Performances 2017/18 Season: Women Innovators in the Performing Arts(includes Emma Dante’s Le sorelle Macaluso, Nov. 16-19 2017)
Emma Dante – Sud Costa Occidentale, a documentary by Clarissa Cappellani (2011)
Emma and Her Sisters – Fiore’s article on Emma Dante on the 2017/18 Peak Performances CatalogueLe sorelle Macaluso by Emma Dante (trailer w/ ENG subtitles)
Further resources about Palermo as Italy’s Capital of Culture and of European Contemporary Art in the Year 2018
Press release and videos (Italian Ministery of Culture official website)
Palermo Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2018 (official video)
The City of Palermo, Italy is the host city of Manifesta 12 in 2018 (Manifesta official website)
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