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You may think that a little extra weight on your dog or cat is endearing, making them extra cuddly and, therefore, becoming the subject of many photographs that will be sent to your friends to confirm just how cute your fur baby really is.
But an overweight pet is not something to ooh and ahh over. It is a very serious condition that affects over half of the nation’s pets, which means that 80 million dogs and cats are at dire risk of developing potentially fatal health conditions. This includes everything from arthritis to cardiovascular disease to cancer. While health complications are never completely in your control, there are ways that you can help to protect your pets against grim conditions that can be prevented through actions intended to encourage a healthier lifestyle.
If your pet is already overweight, or you notice that they are getting heavier, it’s time to start implementing weight loss management strategies in order to reverse this trajectory and get their weight under control before more dangerous symptoms begin to develop.
Find out how many calories your pet should consume per day.
Just like with with humans, pets are allotted a certain amount of calories they need to consume every day. Some pet owners measure out a certain amount of food to give their pets throughout the day without knowing how many calories it ends up adding up to. The number of calories your dog or cat needs is dependent upon their their age, their size, their activity level, and whether they are neutered or not. Don’t follow the instructions listed on their bag of food. Instead, consult their veterinarian to discover the number of calories right for your specific pet.
Count their calories.
Never “guesstimate” when it comes to your pet’s diet. Once you are cognizant of how many calories they should be eating per day, find out how much food that equates to and be sure to divide it out throughout the duration of the day. If your pet is used to eating whatever they want, this may require a period of adjustment, but they will eventually get used to their new diet regimen.
Switch to healthy treats.
Just because you are trying to watch your pet’s weight does not mean you have to take away their treats. Throw them the occasional treat, but be mindful of what it consists of. Avoid sugary treats and opt for healthier alternatives. And be sure to count these treats as part of your pet’s calories for the day. Even a mere 30 extra calories per day can equate to an additional 3 pounds gained at the end of every year.
Encourage your pet to exercise! For dogs, go for a walk or run, take them hiking, or let them run around the dog park for a few hours. Cats, however, require a bit more creativity. Using a laser is a fun way to play with your cat and it gets them up and moving around for a short amount of time.

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THE connection between Dorothea Mackellar’s famous poem My Country and the Hunter Valley will be celebrated in Paterson this month with a display dedicated to her life and influences.
Mackellar’s father, Sir Charles Mackellar, bought a property named Torryburn, just outside Gresford, in 1898 as a family country retreat.
It was during one of her many visits as a teenager that she witnessed the breaking of one of the country’s longest droughts, in about 1900.
In an interview in 1964, Mackellar said she danced in the rain after the drought at her ‘‘parents’ property out of Maitland’’.
‘‘I was on the verandah writing a long letter to a friend in England. The paddock was cracked from the drought, a dark colour. As I wrote the letter, the land to the horizon became green,’’ she said.
The centenary of the poem’s publication in Australia is being marked by the Paterson Court House Museum with a dedicated display every Sunday in September from 11am to 3pm.
Honorary curator Val Anderson said some memorabilia would be on display for the first time and visitors could listen to the only recording of My Country made by Mackellar, at the age of 72 in 1958.
The history of Torryburn, now a thoroughbred stud owned by John Cornish and his family, is set out in a commemorative book put together by the Paterson Historical Society.

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Can you spell ESPYs?
Christopher Serrao, a resident of Whitehouse Station and one of eight winners of the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee, made an appearance in this year’s Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Awards (ESPYs), a two-hour star-studded event that aired on Sunday on ESPN and ESPN2.
Serrao, 14, an eighth grader of Readington Middle School, was featured in the special’s introductory video alongside the seven other “Octochamps” from 2019. The ESPYs were held virtually this year because of the coronavirus.
Despite not being able to walk the red carpet at this year’s ceremony, Christopher said he was “excited” to participate in the opening musical number.
“It was certainly unexpected for me, and it was really fun overall,” Serrao said. “It was cool to see that I would be among other sports celebrities and many other people, but I didn’t really know where in the song I would be placed. And when I was watching, I was like like, ‘Wow, that’s so amazing.’”
“I think it’s an uplifting experience during the pandemic, especially when there’s so much sadness,” he added.
The special, hosted by three-time WNBA Champion Sue Bird, two-time World Cup Champion and Olympic medalist Megan Rapinoe, and Super Bowl Champion quarterback Russell Wilson, helps to raise awareness and funds for the V Foundation for Cancer Research founded by ESPN and legendary basketball coach Jim Valvano.
While in years’ past the event honored top athletes and moments in sports throughout the year, the 2020 ceremony celebrated achievements in heroism and humanitarian aid.
Winners included Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love, who received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award for his commitment to growing mental health awareness, and the Los Angeles Dodgers, who received the Sports Humanitarian Award for building 51 baseball and softball fields in underserved communities across Los Angeles.
Christopher not only placed first in the 2019 national spelling bee, but made history in being apart of the first group in 92 years to share the title.
Following his win, Christopher was recognized on the field before a Yankees game, rang the Nasdaq Market Bell, appeared on Live with Kelly and Ryan and Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and was honored with a Joint Legislative Resolution at the New Jersey Senate and General Assembly at the Statehouse in Trenton.
The spotlight was well-earned, Christopher stating that he used to devote up to four hours each weekday and seven each Saturday and Sunday to studying for the competition.
“It’s a lot of pattern analysis, and learning about languages and their roots,” Christopher explained. “It’s kind of like a puzzle piece; you put together the different roots. And English is a very diverse language that draws from many other languages.”
His passion for mastering the mechanics of the English language was ignited by his sister, Danielle, who completed three rounds at the national spelling bee in 2015.
“I was rooting for my sister,” Christopher said. “She was a trailblazer who inspired me, and she kindled the love of spelling in me.”
Christopher was dually motived by the continuous support he received from his family over the past three years.
“I was really grateful that they were always there for me. They weren’t pushing me to do everything, but they told me that they would support me wherever I went,” he said.
Recognizing that his son “put a lot of hard work” into the competition, Dominic Serrao expressed his particular gratitude for all of the opportunities with which his momentous achievement has awarded him.
“We’re just grateful that there’s so many good things have come from it, and it’s something that he will take from him as a life lesson moving forward,” Dominic said. “You study hard, you be persistent, you stay focused, and success takes care of itself after that.”
The success has not come to a close yet. Christopher is currently working with another student on a sustainable invention that uses six different types of agricultural growing techniques to promote healthy food for all that will be submitted to the 2020 Spark!Lab Invent It Challenge.
Christopher and his team earned first place in the challenge two years running, with their inventions currently on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
And it doesn’t stop there. Christopher has another enterprise in the works that not only illustrates his own well-known achievements, but will help to secure those of others.
“I’m working on a book related to spelling that will help future spellers,” Christopher said. “That’s a solo project.”
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Time is flying and seriously it’s scary at times!
It has been more than 2 months since I last posted here but it only feels like yesterday. Talk about being a busy-bee! Work has been really hectic since I came back from vacation last April. So my weekends are really spent relaxing and having fun with family especially my little kulet. We’ve been hotel hopping during weekends, taking advantage of the off-peak rates for most of hotels here in the sandpit.
I don’t know if it’s just here, just me or the time is really passing by so quickly without us really noticing it. The hustle and bustle of our corporate life is sometimes overpowering the simple life I think we all should have. You know, like spending time reading your favorite book, sitting down by the beach admiring the sunrise or sunset with birds chirping and cold wind blowing, having coffee at your porch watching raindrops or kids playing in the street (imagining I’m in the Philippines). Ahhhhhhh I want another vacation. LOL. This adult-family life is really something! ha!
I remember when I was a child, all I think of was what time will I be allowed to go out so I can play with my friends or what did my grandma prepared for snack 🙂 In school, I worry about the next day quiz, the periodical exams, the reports, thesis or when can I save enough for our next kada get-away. Now, I think about mortgage, school tuition, groceries, retirement, savings, investments, etc. etc. all these things that make one person crazy! I’m not that old but I always wish the way of living back in the old days will come back, like 19640’s, 1960’s or even 1980’s. Life is less complicated. People don’t spend too much time at work. People spend actually ‘talking’ to each other, face-to-face, not via…this! gadgets, tablets, phones, computers even robots. Fashion, hobbies, games are not as complicated as what we have now. People has really evolved, sooo quickly. Most of the times, we tend to forget to appreciate every second of our day. We ran OUT of time. We run after time. We deprive ourselves with enough sleep because of work, a time to exercise or meditate to recharge our body, some parents even miss a lot of their children’s milestones because they are too occupied with work not wanting to miss the opportunity to miss their deadline because their promotion depends on it. Wow! Oh well, I guess that’s really ‘life’ is now. But I don’t want it to be mine.
No matter how busy work will be, I will never miss any of my kulet’s milestones, I will spend a lot of time with my family investing in our memory banks. I will AGAIN, stop and watch ants or bugs on the ground 🙂 I will sleep more, play more, TRAVEL more, be more friendly, smile more, be kind, PRAY even more and be thankful for this busy-wonderful-precious Life He gave me.
And with that, I will blog more. 🙂 I promise!
Let’s spend every second of this wonderful life on earth happily, wisely and worry-free.

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Located in Trikuta hills, 13 km from Katra at the height of 1560 m above sea level with bright clouds and thinning air, this town is the holy cave temple of Mata Vaishnodevi, with spirituality and vibrancy lingering in the atmosphere. Revered and highly believed in, thousands of Pilgrims visit each year to seek blessings and show unflinching faith in this temple. Vaishno Devi is a religious trekking destination where pilgrims walk about 13 km uphill to reach the little caves which is among one of the 108 Shakti Peetha. Vaishno Devi, also known as Mata Rani is a manifestation of Durga, a Goddess according to Hindu mythology. The trek itself is very enjoyable, though it might be a little difficult for kids and elderly people. However, ponies and palanquins are available by various vendors to take you there at the top.
Popularly known as the "Paradise on the Earth" the state is world famous for its scenic splendour, snow-capped mountains, plentiful wildlife, exquisite monuments, hospitable people and local handicraft. Your trip to Jammu and Kashmir will be the most fulfilled and memorable journey ever as the state not only appeals you with its scenic beauty and snow-covered mountain ranges but the adventure sports will take you to a different world. Nestled in the Himalayan, Pir Panjal and Karakoram mountain ranges is renowned for its natural beauty and gentle people. Jammu and Kashmir is dotted with the most beautiful mountain peaks, massive glaciers, splendid monasteries, blue lakes, rivers, forests, verdant meadows and tall pine trees.
Meet and greet on arrival. After receiving from Jammu Railway station, proceed for Katra. welcome drink on arrival and check-in. After Breakfast/Lunch, proceed for visit to “Mata Vaishnodevi” Darshan. Onward to Bhawan by foot or Ponies (to be arranged directly) OR by Chopper (if you have booked tickets). After Darshan, leave by Chopper / Ponies for Katra back. Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel.
After breakfast take Foot Massage by our experts at hotel. If interested, you can organize Kanya Pujan and Havan at the Hotel Yagna Kund in presence of a Priest. It will add immense spiritual value to your Yatra. Proceed to Pahalgam (Valley of Shepherds) Pahalgam is situated at the union of the streams flowing from Sheshnag Lake and the Lidder River in the state of Jammu & Kashmir. Pahalgam is now Kashmir’s premier resort; cool even during the height of summer when the maximum temperature does not exceed 25 degrees Celsius, upon arrival check into the hotel. Overnight in hotel at Pahalgam.
After breakfast , check out from hotel & half a day sightseeing by driving to the picturesque Chandanwari and Betaab valley or ride by horseback across the wildlife sanctuary towards Baisaran meadows. After complete sightseeing drive to Srinagar.Arrive Srinagar , check in at the hotel , In the evening you can go for shopping around the local flea markets and also do window shopping or enjoy yet another short ride of the famous shikara. Overnight stay at Srinagar.
Morning after breakfast process for full day trip for Gulmarg(Meadow of Floyours) 2730 mts. above the sea level. The drive past colorful villages and rice fields, gives you an insight of the rich cultural past of Kashmir. you arrive at a small picturesue market town of Tangmarg and drive ahead on a scenic drive of 14 kilometers to Gulmarg. Gulmarg has one of the best ski slopes in the world and highest golf course with 18 holes. If youather permits one can also have the view of Nanga Parbat, the naked mountain that is over 26,000 feets and dominates the entire region, also enjoy. the Gondola cable car system, and ascend towards the Afarwatt Mountain range. The 08 minutes of ropeway will take you past colorful shepherd hutments to the loyour ridge of the Afarwatt peak. From here you can click lots of photos of the nearby mountain ranges that stand tall like sentinels guarding the rich natural beauty of Kashmir valley. you descend back to Gulmarg base after an hour or so and later do some horse-riding to the strawberry valley,Overnight stay at Gulmarg.
Morning after breakfast from Gulmarg Proceed for Srinagar, local sightseeing of Srinagar which include the Mughal Gardens, visiting Nishat Bagh built by Asaf Khan, the brother -in- law of Jehangir in 1632 AD, and Shalimar Bagh built by Jehangir for his wife empress Nur Jahan. Built in betyouen a period of 14 years the two gardens are a heritage left behind by the erstwhile Mughals, whose taste for laying exquisite gardens was fascinating. All the gardens are situated on the banks of the Dal Lake with the Zabarwan hills in the background . Afternoon will be at your leisure for individual activities. overnight stay at Srinagar.
Morning after breakfast process for full day trip of the majestic mountain resort of Sonmarg. The route towards Sonmarg takes you on a picturesque country side drive where You will come across rolling hills, green forests, clear water streams and blooming rice fields. you will zoom past the town of Kangan which handles all the local needs of this region. From Kangan, you will drive towards Mammar, famous for its trout farm and stopover for a warm cup of tea before you head towards Sonmarg. you will once again alight from our vehicles at the tourist spot of Gagangir. The spot is built in the middle of the river Sindh and looks like an island with snow glaciers covering one or the other spot. In Sonmarg it will take a 3 hour walk or horseback trip to the Thajwass glacier. After our return visit the small town market for some snacks or just pay a visit observing the local people going with their daily routine. In the evening drive back from Sonmarg and transfer to hotel / houseboat. Overnight stay at Srinagar.
Today after Breakfast proceed to Patnitop on route full Enjoy the day Overnight Stay at Patnitop.
After Breakfast Travel to Jammu and view of some local sites, Raghunath Temple, Bagh-e-Bahu and drop at Jammu Airport/Railway station for your flight to next destination.

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Côte d’Ivoire vrs Ghana: A football-economics tale of two countries
Côte d’Ivoire’s victory against Ghana during the 2015 African Cup of Nations final was widely unexpected and regarded as a historic victory. The Elephants, the Ivorian national football team, were certainly not the favourite team, but surprised most observers with a repeat of their victory against Ghana 23 years ago, again on penalty kicks.
As an economist and a football fan, I cannot resist drawing a certainly nonlinear correlation between soccer and economic growth, and revisit a compelling parallel with the different economic trajectories the two countries have taken in the last decade and their performance in the most popular sport in the world. The relationship between the sport and economic performance has never been confirmed, although Goldman Sachs found an interesting relationship between World Cup victories and equity markets. According to their study, the victory outperforms the global market by 3.5% in the first month, yet such enthusiasm fades away in the coming months.
By all means, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana are arguably two faces of the “Africa rising” narrative, with African economies emerging as leading poles of growth and prosperity, while distancing Africa from the often entrenched images of a continent of poverty, disease and despair. Ghana, the first sub-Saharan African country to claim its independence from a colonial power, has built arguably some of the best democratic institutions, yet the economy has struggled to pick up until recently. Across the border, post-independent Côte d’Ivoire emerged very rapidly as a regional economic leader in West Africa, thanks to a very dynamic and diversified economy.
In the past decade, however, the tide seemed to have turned in favour of Ghana, which emerged as a key point of entry for foreign direct investments in Africa. Its dramatically improved business environment and new oil sector helped boost the economy, making it less dependent on gold and cocoa exports.
Incidentally, I was posted to Ghana in 2005 and became an enthusiast of both Ghana’s economic miracle and national football team, the “Black Stars”. Since then the team has consistently placed itself among the top four countries in successive African football tournaments and reached the 2010 World Cup quarter-final after a remarkable extra-time victory against the United States. This period also marked the first discoveries of oil and the euphoria was just beginning.
Across the border, Côte d’Ivoire found itself in the middle of its “lost decade” of conflict, which sparked the move of the African Development Bank headquarters to its temporary home in Tunis. Many businesses moved their headquarters to neighbouring countries such as Ghana itself and Senegal, which replaced Côte d’Ivoire as the new regional hubs. Up to an extraordinary performance in 2006, the Elephants did not even pass the group stage for three consecutive editions of the African Cup of Nations.
A decade later, the tide seems to be turning once again. Côte d’Ivoire is in full recovery and leads the way as one of the fastest-growing economies in the world for two consecutive years. Building on a highly diversified economy and visionary leadership, Côte d’Ivoire is in full euphoria, banking on the historical return of African Development Bank to its headquarters and on the recent inauguration of the landmark HKB Bridge in Abidjan. As an AfDB employee now based in Côte d’Ivoire and covering the West African region, I could not hold back my enthusiasm at observing yet another symbol of “l’emergence ivorienne”, and my pride for the Bank’s key role as financier of this operation.
Across the border, Ghana is plunging into a vicious cycle of high spending, rising debt and currency depreciation. The “oil dividend” is yet to fully materialize and the country is plagued with frequent power outages. While Ghana has arguably great potential, it is in dire need of reform to adress its economic imbalances. Its growth rate in 2014 is expected to be nearly half of its neighbour and fellow African Cup finalist, Côte d’Ivoire.
Similar to the African Cup qualifications where Ghana had to confront what many consider to be the toughest qualifying group, Ghana has certainly been confronted with various exogenous challenges in its quest for economic development. However, just as their final loss in the African Cup of Nations final was to penalty kicks, the current economic difficulties are largely imputable to Ghana’s own mistakes.
Looking forward, it is not clear whether this victory will give a further boost to Côte d’Ivoire, as the previously mentioned study suggests, or to Ghana, who can still claim the match against its neighbour as one of its best performances. Besides the economic impact, football competitions are social events that reinforce a sense of national identity in many countries. A trophy or even a victory against a football heavyweight makes even the most merciless critic of his own country feel proud to be part of it. Such sense of unity in a still largely polarized country is probably what Côte d’Ivoire needs the most, to consolidate its economic growth and peace trajectory. While sentiment can take you only so far, in markets as in nation-building, the months ahead, including the handling of a peaceful election, will be the key goal Côte d’Ivoire needs to score, even if it comes to the final penalty kick.
By Emanuele Santi
Source: AfDB blogs

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Classical music was an important and revealing feature of radio during the Second World War. It is difficult nowadays to imagine classical music being such a central issue in times of national crisis. However, it was very much the soundtrack to World War II: Hitler ordered that the overture of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger should introduce each of the Nuremberg rallies; Stalin arranged the broadcasting of Shostakovich's seventh symphony across the front line of the siege of Leningrad by flying in the orchestral parts to the beleaguered city; Oliver Messiaen composed modernism’s seminal Quartet for the End of Time while imprisoned in the Stalag VIIIa prisoner of war camp; and Laurence Olivier commissioned Walton's Agincourt music for his wartime film of Shakespeare’s Henry V.
For the BBC’s classical music radio broadcasts – and much other programming – there were challenges and issues to confront, good and bad solutions adopted and both creditable and discreditable results. Such music raised issues about the playing of works by ‘enemy composers’; the position of ‘new’ music; the significance of émigré refugees in British musical life; and the impact of de-nazification on British radio broadcasts after the war.
BBC radio, which faced substantial competition during the 1930s from commercially-funded stations beamed in from the near continent – Radio Luxembourg, Radio Normandy, and many others – regained its domestic monopoly of broadcasting when the Panzer divisions rolled across Belgium and northern France. For better or worse, it was the dominant voice of Britain and in Britain throughout the Second World War. The pre-1940 system of one National Service, a range of Regional Services on separate frequencies and the BBC Overseas Service was soon changed into a Home Service and a service known as either the Forces Service or the General Forces Service. In all of those, classical music – or ‘serious’ music as the BBC preferred to call it – played an important part.
The significance of classical music on UK radio was enhanced by the role that such music played within a society at war, symbolised by Myra Hess’s lunchtime concerts at the National Gallery in London. The wartime government created the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) in 1940 to promote musical activity on the home front, while the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) was not just about comedians and variety, but brought a good range of concerts and live music to the troops at home and overseas. Many people speak about a ‘cultural renaissance’ during the later years of the war that carried forward into peacetime. Among its fruits was the Arts Council, the successor to CEMA, and in broadcasting, the introduction of the Third Programme in September 1946.
During the war, to the dismay of many purists, BBC radio included many more gramophone record programmes than would have been permitted before the war. Nevertheless, the main source of programmes was the BBC orchestras, which regrouped as wartime pressures permitted. The BBC Symphony Orchestra itself was evacuated to Bristol on the assumption that it would be safer there than in London. The bombing of the Bristol docks from June 1940 onwards put paid to that idea. Kenyon has written about how ‘as the raids increased, it became progressively more difficult to justify moving about at night. Concerts began to be recorded in the afternoons and broadcast by the engineers at night.’ Its next home was Bedford, where the orchestra (but not its administration) was to remain from June 1941 until the end of the war.
Despite all the upheavals, a typical Sunday on the Home Service in 1942 included three live orchestral concerts, two live chamber music recitals and one on ‘gramophone records’, plus a talk by BBC critic Ralph Hill on ‘the essence of Brahms’. The rest of this sample week indicates a similar pattern and volume, a level of output which was sustained almost until the end of the war, when both resources and manpower shifted the emphasis more towards commercial recordings. From 1940 until the end of 1943, classical music accounted for around fifteen per cent of the Home Service output and nearly four per cent of the Forces Programme, with Home Service output slipping to ten per cent only in the last year of the war (when the General Forces percentage actually rose). The audiences for classical music programmes reached levels that were never to be achieved in peacetime. On a randomly sampled Friday in May 1945, a lunchtime performance of Beethoven’s fifth symphony was listened to by one and a quarter million adults, while an evening concert of music by Gilbert and Sullivan reached a remarkable three and a half million.
The BBC orchestras and others also played concerts in cities around the nation. Malcolm Sargent, who was to take over as chief conductor of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts in 1947, at least partly made his popular reputation in this way. Garnham explains that ‘his blitz tour with the LPO, bringing orchestral music to the music halls and variety theatres of major provincial cities, then suffering heavily under the bombings, had been a tremendously popular contribution to the war effort’.
The Proms themselves were dealt a shattering blow when their traditional home, the Queen’s Hall in Langham Place, was destroyed by firebombing during the night of 10-11 May 1941. The photograph of Henry Wood standing amid the ruins of the hall became, in Doctor’s words, ‘a powerful symbol of defiance and survival in Britain during the Blitz’. The Proms were relocated to the Royal Albert Hall. Once the BBC resumed running the Proms in 1942, these concerts – along with the recitals of Myra Hess – gave London some cultural continuity in a time of change and horror. The Proms had to be suspended late in June 1944 after a near miss with a V1 flying bomb, but resumed in time for the dying Henry Wood to complete his final performance ‘with a forceful and memorable broadcast of Beethoven's seventh Symphony’ on 28 July.
Beethoven’s music was everywhere, notably in the aural symbol of wartime resistance, the opening notes from his fifth symphony. That happened despite debate about the playing of ‘enemy music’. This is subject to some academic disagreement, but what is clear is that the BBC was reluctant to broadcast the works of living German, Italian or Finnish composers on the grounds that their royalty payments would be destined for hostile nations (or could at least be collected once the war had ended). Some academics have suggested that the BBC operated a much more jingoistic process of exclusion, especially of German composers, although the dominating presence of Beethoven and Bach confounds any suggestion of a policy of ‘racial’ exclusion. The composers for the sampled week in 1942 were overwhelmingly the late masters of the nineteenth-century classical canon, with the March from Wagner’s Tannhauser in the Forces Programme striking a German, martial note.
The real impact was felt on ‘new’ music (which represented and continues to represent only a small proportion of radio broadcasts, albeit one which attracts disproportionate attention from music and media academics). Arthur Bliss, who succeeded Adrian Boult as the BBC’s Director of Music in 1942, held the view ‘that in wartime, the BBC ought to give special support and encouragement to British Empire composers’. As a result, ‘the period from 1942 was one in which the new music heard on radio almost exclusively originated from countries allied to, or sympathetic to, the cause of Britain in the war’. In the sampled week, no non-British ‘new music’ was broadcast.
From a modern perspective, we might assume that Wagner’s work would be at the centre of any such exclusion, knowing his role in writing what Rose has called ‘arguably the seminal text of modern German antisemitism’, and the fondness of the Nazi leadership for his music. In the event, many of his works were played regularly. The first concert in the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s 1940 series ‘boldly devoted its entire second part, which was broadcast, to extracts from Wagner's operas’. In response to a letter of complaint, the Bristol Evening Post’s music critic expressed the majority and the BBC view that ‘by their unstinted applause, the audience gave the lie to the fantastic myth that the music of Wagner cannot or should not be appreciated by civilised people at war with Germany’.
Much more difficulty surrounded the work of Richard Strauss as a consequence of his willingness to accept musical posts in the Third Reich; and, for a while, broadcasts of Sibelius’ Finlandia, because of its nationalistic tone relating to a country at war with Britain’s ‘ally’, the Soviet Union. Even Max Bruch, banned by the Nazis for his presumed Jewish ancestry, was put by the BBC on the list where ‘the Corporation wishes to limit the performance of [their] works … to a minimum far below their appearance in peace time’ because the royalties payable for performances of his works would mean less available for “British, Allied and friendly composers”. It was a dubious distinction he shared with Verdi, Puccini and others.
What was actually broadcast largely exonerates the BBC from any claims that it was excluding musical works of value on a jingoistic basis. However, the British Government is much less easily defended over the internment of so-called ‘enemy aliens’, many of whom were actually refugees from those countries with which Britain was at war. Foremost among them was Hans Keller, a Viennese Jew who was to become one of the dominant forces in British music radio after the war, but he is simply the best known of dozens of musicians detained in camps on the Isle of Man and elsewhere. Senior BBC figures – notably Adrian Boult and Arthur Bliss – were active in agitating for their release, often but not always with some success. Keller himself was released from internment on 23 March 1941.
The role of BBC figures in challenging the government in this respect was especially creditable given what is now widely acknowledged as the extensive antisemitism within the BBC generally at the time. The Corporation’s own historian, Jean Seaton, has written that ‘the BBC displayed, both before and during the war, views and decisions that were quite simply anti-Semitic’, although there were clear exceptions as the efforts of Boult and Bliss on behalf of internees illustrate. Before the reality of the death camps was known – or at least truly comprehended – there was an evident wish to stay out of what was thought to be simply a ‘domestic issue’ for Germany; even, on occasion, to avoid addressing any issues relating to the Jews in that country for fear of making their situation worse.
In Germany itself after the war, classical music became a tool of reconstruction and de-nazification, an ironic riposte to the use which the Nazi regime made of the Austro/German music canon. Under the influence of American musicologists, the annual Ferienkurse (summer school) at Darmstadt from 1946 became the central event of modernist music, featuring composers such as Schoenberg, Berg and Webern, and their successors including Milhaud, Varese and Honneger. This approach was to dominate musical scholarship – though not usually radio output – for much of the rest of the century.
It is reasonable to conclude that, in its wartime broadcasting of classical music, the BBC struggled with side issues while fudging the central ones. In practice, BBC radio broadcast a great deal of Beethoven and Mozart, some Wagner, plenty of Elgar and Vaughan Williams and even in the end some Richard Strauss – a recipe for radio programmes that played a valuable and valued role in sustaining and uplifting those on the home front and overseas. As a result, classical music radio at least kept Britain firmly at the heart of the European Enlightenment, even as that was reaching its dreadful apotheosis.
By Tony Stoller
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- Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the green chile peppers and onion, and cook until tender.
- Place baked beans in the saucepan. Stirring often, cook 10 minutes, or until beans are a smooth, mashed mixture.
- Mix in taco seasoning mix and salsa. Transfer to a medium serving bowl. Top with Cheddar cheese. Microwave on high 1 to 2 minutes, if necessary, to melt the cheese. Serve warm.
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Media facade lighting refers to the use of LED lights and digital displays on the exterior of buildings to create dynamic visual effects and display multimedia content, such as images, videos, and animations. These lighting installations can be used for artistic, promotional, or informative purposes, and are often controlled by specialized software that enables real-time changes to the displayed content.
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Billionaire private equity titan Robert F. Smith has apologized to his investors after a $140 million settlement of an investigation into his personal finances, describing it as a “humbling experience.”
The Department of Justice said this week that the backer of Smith’s first private equity fund led Smith to use an offshore trust, which concealed $200 million of income from the IRS and helped Smith evade $43 million in federal income taxes.
Smith paid a $139 million settlement and avoided prosecution, but the revelations still incited chaos inside his software-focused private equity fund Vista Equity Partners, Axios reported.
A representative for Smith declined Business Insider’s request for comment on his non-prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice.
In a letter to investors, viewed by Business Insider, Smith apologized for his actions and expressed hope for the future.
“The decision made twenty years ago has regrettably led to this turmoil, which has put undue stress and burden
on too many,” Smith wrote. “I should never have put myself in this situation, and more importantly, I apologize for any issues or concerns that this may have caused for you.”
Remarks from Smith’s letter to Vista investors are published in full below.
I want to address with you the resolution of my tax matter with the Department of Justice.
I have entered into a settlement with the Department of Justice called a non-prosecution agreement, or NPA.
This agreement resolves all aspects of what was a personal tax matter.
No Vista Equity Partners entity is part of the settlement and the Department of Justice never claimed that Vista or any Vista funds were involved or under investigation. Importantly, the Department of Justice has never suggested that any Vista client money was misapplied, misused, or diverted. All of our funds are audited by Deloitte and there has never been any issue raised with respect to the accounting of our investors’ money. Your money has always been safe and invested appropriately.
Since first learning about the Department of Justice’s investigation, I have cooperated fully for the last four and one-half years and have provided all relevant information to them. Recently, the Department of Justice offered to resolve this matter with me. I decided that the best thing for Vista, including its employees and our investors, my family and me, was to resolve the matter by entering into the NPA. Under the NPA, I have admitted my culpability, I will pay full restitution …read more
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Californians won”t have any say about which party wins this year”s biggest political prize — the reins of the U.S. Senate.
But that doesn”t mean the Golden State has nothing at stake.
What happens in states like Kansas, Michigan, Arkansas and Alaska will determine whether California”s two Democratic senators get to keep two key Senate posts: Dianne Feinstein is head of the Intelligence Committee and Barbara Boxer chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee.
If Feinstein and Boxer suddenly find themselves in the minority party, they will have less clout to make national policy and secure funding for things like the Caldecott Tunnel”s fourth bore or Los Angeles subway improvements, drought relief, and a myriad of programs and causes.
Some political experts believe losing all that influence might push them toward retirement, leading to a mad scramble among ambitious California politicians who have been forced to sit on the sidelines for years.
And, no doubt, a lot of Democrats and left-leaning independents won”t like what a Republican Senate majority decides to do on issues as wide-ranging as immigration, health care, climate change and high-speed rail.
“Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi only half-jokingly told television host Bill Maher last month.
But many political analysts and average Californians view such comments with a jaundiced eye.
Whichever party holds the reins “is pretty much playing politics,” said Blanca Hernandez, 31, an undocumented immigrant who was raised in Richmond. “At the end of the day, it doesn”t really matter what the party is — it”s important what each politician”s real agenda is.”
That”s why Hernandez heckled President Barack Obama during a speech earlier this month for delaying any executive action halting deportations.
Long before this election season began, Hernandez said, she and many other immigration activists had basically given up on Congress passing meaningful reform no matter which party is in charge.
Political experts note that the majority party hasn”t been able to achieve much since a tea party rebellion in 2010 resulted in a Republican takeover of the House. Even when Senate Democrats overcome a GOP filibuster, most of their bills have been dead on arrival in the House, such as the bipartisan immigration bill in 2013.
So, the theory goes, even if Republicans hold a majority, they probably still won”t have the 60 votes they need to break a Democratic filibuster. And even if they do, President Obama can uncap his veto pen, especially if it means protecting his health care law or any cause he has championed.
Expect Republicans “to pick on the health care law, push for stronger military intervention and go after Obama on immigration,” said Bruce Cain, a Stanford professor who directs the Bill Lane Center for the American West. “But the main effect will be an increase in theater with an eye toward laying groundwork for the presidential race in 2016.”
If, for example, Republicans can ram through an immigration bill lacking the path to citizenship many Democrats consider a must-have, they will be intentionally drawing the president”s foul, Cain said. That could work to the president”s political advantage, he added. “It makes it clear that the real problem there is that he disagrees with Republicans — and not that he doesn”t have a clear vision or can”t get it together with his fellow Democrats.”
But if Obama vetoes GOP bills or resorts to executive actions, two Republican-led chambers could soon be howling in stereo.
Perhaps having the GOP run both houses of Congress will change Obama”s policy priorities, suggested Dan Schnur, who directs the University of Southern California”s Unruh Institute of Politics.
Schnur foresees “a series of policy tradeoffs — if the Republicans win control, climate change legislation becomes even less likely but perhaps a trade bill or tax reform becomes more of a possibility.”
But Mary Beth Sullivan, executive director of the California Institute for Federal Policy Research, is skeptical that a shift in Senate leadership “is going to make a whole lot of difference.”
Perhaps a few piecemeal immigration tweaks might happen, but expect the climate change stalemate to continue. In addition, she said, “cutbacks are still going to be as they”ve been over the past couple of years. Money isn”t going to start growing on trees.”
Hernandez, now working as a paralegal in Washington, D.C., said any executive actions or piecemeal immigration bills are only stopgap measures, so Congress still must pursue “actual, humane immigration reform” that protects everyone. But asked whether she believes one party is likelier than the other to deliver that, she replied that it”s up to individual senators to put people”s needs over their own electoral interests.
Many experts are predicting a political shakeout in California if the Republicans take the upper house.
Boxer — who declined to comment for this story — has said she”ll decide next year whether to seek a fifth term in 2016. But she hasn”t started raising money yet and has little banked.
Feinstein, who”ll be 85 when her current term ends in 2018, is thought to be likely to retire anyway. But wielding less influence might make that decision easier.
Asked whether he thinks Boxer will leave the Senate, Cain noted that “she kind of got pushed aside from leadership positions when her climate-change initiative failed in the Senate and she got blamed for not handling it right.”
But, Cain said, being in the minority might give Boxer a different role to play. Unlike in the House, where the minority party is truly sidelined, the Senate minority usually can still filibuster to force some across-the-aisle cooperation.
“You can forge enough of a role as opposition to things, and Barbara Boxer does that very well,” Cain said. “She could find a role as a critic that she couldn”t find as a dealmaker.”
One thing is certain: If one or both of California”s senators retires, a domino effect would sweep the Golden State as a cadre of prominent Democrats decide whether to run for the Senate in 2016, or governor or the other Senate seat in 2018.
Notable names in the mix include Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Kamala Harris, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former state Controller Steve Westly.
Among Republicans, Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin — now running for state controller — and former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are often mentioned as possible contenders for higher office. So they”ll also be watching the decisions of Feinstein and Boxer with great interest.
“This is going to be the political version of the California Gold Rush,” Schnur said. “An entire generation of Democratic politicians have had their ambitions stifled because of the length of time that Feinstein and Boxer and others of their generation have dominated statewide office. With up to three top-of-the-ticket opportunities opening up in the space of a couple of years, it”s going to be an absolute frenzy.”


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GJL Animal Feeds has a range of Hamster, Gerbil, Guinea Pig, Rabbit, Rat, Chinchilla, Ferret, and Tortoise food. These come in small bags or the larger bags for commercial users. There is a selection of treats, toys, boredom breakers and tunnels available, We have small bags of Hay, Straw, Shavings, as well as Water Bottles and bowls. You can also purchase wormers and drops to stop the infestation of fleas and small parasites. You can collect all of these products or for a very small charge, we can deliver.
We don’t sell hutches, we’re joining the “Rabbit Welfare Association” and challenging the Pet Retail Industry, we only stock products that satisfy a rabbit’s behavioural and emotional needs and encourage you to provide large, safe and spacious areas for your rabbits.
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Approaches to Reading:
At Fishburn Primary School we aim to develop pupils’ spoken language, reading, writing and vocabulary in every subject. English is both a subject in its own right and the medium for teaching; for pupils, understanding the language provides access to the whole curriculum. Fluency in the English language is an essential foundation for success in all subjects.
Key Stage one pupils develop their phonic and early reading skills using Sounds-Write. Children then move onto Dandelion readers.
Key Stage two pupils study whole class novels and free reading with Titans Gauntlet books for catch up and intervention. Titans Gauntlet books are high interest and accessible for older readers.
Pupils have opportunities to undertake guided, shared and independent reading throughout the school day and in extra-curricular time. Children read in breakfast and after school club, take part in book clubs and have strong links with authors who we write to and have Skype conversations with. Our older children will read independently for 15 minutes each day and will be listened to by an adult in school as much as possible across a week. Reading skills will be taught early in the Autumn term and revisited often throughout the remainder of the year, according to the ability of the child. Shared class novels are also used in each class and children are able to develop stamina for reading as well as the full range of reading skills. In Key Stage Two- this is delivered through a ‘reciprocal reading approach’ to further enhance children’s reading skills so that they are able to:
- Infer and deduce.
A diverse range of group reading books and a staged reading scheme are available for each child. Electronic texts are also available for shared reading which gives children the choice of media they choose to engage with. We do not use any one published scheme to teach reading, instead we believe that it is important to provide pupils with a selection of reading books and experiences from different genres and subject matter.
Reception children are given reading books as soon as they have the blending ability to access Unit 1. For struggling readers, a lending library has been set up in order for children to take home reading books to share with adults.
There is a range of catch up materials for those who have worked through the programme and need further support: Phonics Bugs (134), Magic Belt (12), Titan’s Gauntlets (12), Songbirds (96), Talisman 1 (12), Talisman 2 (12) Rescue Stories (12), Rapid Phonics (56), Big Cat (23), Rigby Star (48) and Lego Phonics (20)= 437 further titles.
In Year 3, the Alba series is used to focus on those who did not meet the phonics standard by the end of Year 2 and their progress is tracked alongside Key Stage 1.
In Key Stage Two, there are approximately 200 fiction books in each classroom. The books are organised into reading standards as set out in the Oxford Big Reading assessment scheme. A significant spend has been made to give children access to high-quality non-fiction texts linked specifically to the topics they study in each year group.
Reading age tests are undertaken throughout the year to identify children who require extra support with their reading (see assessment). Staff are deployed throughout the school to work with children in order to improve their fluency, intonation, decoding skills and comprehension.
School have adopted the Durham County Council stranded sheets for the teaching of reading skills which teachers use to plan their lessons from. These sheets inform planning, assessment and intervention as required.
Reading with adults:
Home reading is encouraged and is an integral part of the child’s development and reading records are monitored by school leaders. In KS2 the expectation is that each child will be read with at least 3 times per week at home, although more is encouraged. Staff make every effort to ensure that all children receive similar opportunities to read with an adult. Each teacher keeps a weekly log of the children who have been read with along with making comments in children’s reading records. Parent and governor volunteers read 1-1 with children who are in need of reading recovery.


The dawn of a new season brings with it a new look for FC Tucson Women, the defending Women’s Premier Soccer League Desert Conference champions.
The team will wear a maroon and black lightning-bolt Puma jersey design with sponsor name Dean Alan Architects PLLC on the front.
The jersey even has its own nickname — “Monsoon” — which is embroidered on the back.
Dean Alan Architects is in its second year as the jersey sponsor. Last season, the Puma shirts were known as “Desert King” with a dark blue and black scale look of a soccer ball.
“I grew up in Tucson so being a part of the community and supporting the community is really huge,” said Angela Gee, principal owner and founder of Dean Alan Architects. “Having a woman-owned business, supporting women, doing amazing things and being a role model for other people in the community is super important.”
FC Tucson Women started tryouts for the 2022 season on Sunday and third-year coach Kelly Pierce began a practice regimen for the first time Tuesday afternoon at a Kino North practice field.
Pierce’s team, coming off an undefeated 7-0-1 season, will open the 2022 WPSL season May 28 at the El Paso Surf, where the team concluded the season with the championship last July.
“Tons of new faces with our core group of returners, which I always love,” Pierce said of the makeup of her team. “Having a lot of new ones is great for us. I think it’s spreading all around, having players from Flagstaff, Phoenix, California, Yuma, El Paso … I like it.”
Among the returners are twins Laura and Priscilla Pimienta, both defenders, and goaltender Hope Hisey (a mamber of the Arizona soccer team who is the daughter of CDO baseball coach Jason Hisey, who just won the 4A state championship).
Bri Barriero, the team captain last year, also returns as well as forward Hannah Leitner, midfielder Haley Harris and defender Micaela Hornstein.
“I love being around the whole team environment again,” said Pierce, who also has coached Salpointe (her alma mater) to four state titles since 2018. “Just looking forward to those competitive games and seeing who is going to make the roster and who’s going to be on it from week to week.”
Pierce said she will coach a team of close to 40 players, a team large enough for reserve help if a player is unable to play a certain weekend.
The home opener at Kinor North is June 3 against the El Paso Surf.
The WPSL returns 120 teams, including 29 expansion teams for the 2022 season.
With realignment, FC Tucson will remain in the Desert Conference with three other returning teams and and the new Phoenix-based Arizona Arsenal Soccer Club.
The winner of the Desert Conference will advance to the West Region semifinals. The winners of the four regions will play for the national championship.
FC Tucson is unbeaten in its last 13 matches, going 11-0-2 since losing to Albuquerque FC in the 2019 season.
The club has finished first in its division five times since its inception in 2013, advancing to the playoffs in 2013 and 2018 while missing out due to a tiebreaker in 2015 and 2019.
The season was cancelled in 2020, and WPSL did not hold a postseason in 2021 due to COVID-19.
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Your New Baby – Breastfeed Or Bottle-Feed?
Deciding whether to breastfeed or bottle-feed your new baby will be one of the most important decisions you make. Breastfeeding is the healthiest choice, but not every mother and baby are able to enjoy this method of feeding. A new mother may choose to breastfeed for the first few weeks then use a bottle when it’s time to return to work. You can still provide your new baby with breast milk from a bottle but you will need to pump the milk first and this might not be so easy in the very beginning.
Breastfeeding creates a bond that is very special for both mother and baby. Although others will not be able to have this type of bond they will have different bonds that are almost as special. Be warned though, it can be harder on the mom when it comes time to quit nursing. It is almost like a depression stage, especially if this will be the last time you give birth, and it can be uncomfortable when your milk has to be absorbed back into your body. When you quit nursing it isn’t painful, but your body will make the milk for your baby and your breasts will be full but the baby won’t be relieving that pressure. If you decide to nurse or pump during this time be careful not to take much of the milk, just relieve the pressure, or your body will think the baby needs it and keep making it.
Bottle feeding is the preferred method of many mothers in today’s busy society. It allows others to help with feeding and makes it easier to leave the baby. Overall babies have done very well with formula but there are problems associated with it that aren’t found with breast milk. You may need to change your baby’s type or brand of formula because the baby can’t tolerate it. Some symptoms you need to change your formula are, but not limited to vomiting and excessive crying. A baby will usually spit up a little after burping, but any more than a teaspoon is reason for concern. Some babies are allergic to certain formulas and infant formula does not offer the natural immunities and digestive aids found in breast milk.
Both methods have benefits and drawbacks and are safe and healthy for your new baby.
Breastfeeding: It’s FREE; your milk is always handy, perfect temperature and ready in seconds, passes on natural immunities and helps with digestion
Bottle Feeding: Others can help with feeding, no more watching what you eat or drink and you get to buy some of those cute baby bottles
Breastfeeding: You need to be able to relax while feeding baby and privacy will be important. You will have to stop whatever you are doing and feed the baby yourself
Bottle Feeding: Formula can be expensive and the expense of buying formula and diapers puts a strain on any budget and there are no natural immunities passed on through formula


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Bouguereau – ANALYZED PAINTING #2
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So, let’s get into it. Here we have another William-Adolphe Bouguereau masterpiece, which displays a somewhat bashful woman with a perfect expression. I really love this one. Yes, I’m a sucker for art with the female form in nature, but I’m sure his design is speaking to me in a secret way as most masterpieces do.


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It’s no secret that the layout of Boston-area roads is a nightmare to newcomers and longtime residents alike, with so much of it being so utterly confusing that it actually has a sort of charm in a demolition derby kind of way. And you might think that it hasn’t always been that way, but you know what? It has, and look no further than Route 128 for proof of this.
While the present-day highway is weird in some ways (where does it begin? where does it end? why does it team up with other highways for no apparent reason?), the original version of Route 128 was so much of an ungodly mess that to explain its former route to someone would take hours and be about as exciting as staring at a pile of dirt. But the fact that there used to be a pokey and totally messed-up two-lane version of Route 128 leads to some interesting history that can still be seen here and there, with perhaps none more interesting than a stretch of Old Route 128 that still exists—and just happens to be in one of the most scenic parts of the Greater Boston area.
To explain the exact route that Route 128 once took from Gloucester to, say, Dedham would be something that no one should ever do unless you’re striving to become a person whom others talk about. But if you’re curious, the original version of the road actually went through the downtown areas of a number of communities, including Wakefield, Stoneham, Woburn, Lexington, and Waltham, with the roads that were designated with this route number generally still existing north and west of Boston.
The route from Weymouth onward south of the city was similarly odd and seemed basically thrown together as it ran along a hodgepodge of streets to what is now Route 228 in Hingham and Hull, where it ended right around Nantasket Beach. The part in between, which includes sections of the road in Milton, Quincy, Randolph, and (to a lesser extent) Canton and Braintree is the focus here, as unlike much of the rest of the original Route 128, the parts of this route are mostly off-limits to cars, which makes them perfect for hikers, explorers, lovers of history, and people who love to deal with snakes and biting insects depending on the season—and yes, the Blue Hills is home to both rattlesnakes and copperheads, so much as you’d like to do so, try not to peek into any rock crevices on this hike, especially if you see a pair of eyes staring back at you.
One of the best ways to see Old Route 128 is by parking at a lot that is familiar to many—the Houghton’s Pond parking lot on Hillside Street in Milton—though the more geeky history buffs might be more interested in parking at the lot around the corner where the ball fields and picnic sites are, since the access road off the Ponkapoag Trail just north of present-day Route 128 is—wait for it—part of Old Route 128! If you park at this latter lot, you are basically right at the start of the section of Old Route 128 that is off-limits to cars, but if you park at the Houghton’s Pond lot, you get to enjoy a hike along a short, scenic trail that skirts the northern and eastern edges of the pond before reaching this other lot. Finding the start of this part of Old Route 128 may seem confusing at first as it starts off as a narrow trail before quickly opening up to a paved road, but all you need to do is go to the end of the loop where the parking lot is and find the fire lane gate; this marks the start of the route.
Old Route 128 initially cuts through a heavily wooded part of the Blue Hills, with various trails leading left up into the reservation while parts of the present-day Route 128 can be heard (and occasionally seen) to the right. Speaking of which, this part of the “new” Route 128 is technically no longer Route 128, as the section between where Route 95 and 93 meet in Canton and the Braintree Split is now simply considered Route 93 and Route 1 (by the way, Route 1 North joins the highway on the Dedham/Westwood line and follows Route 95 South then Route 93 North before joining Routes 93 and 3 North at the split and please don’t ask about this). But even though there is an “End Route 128” sign just before the Route 95/93 intersection in Canton, traffic reporters and lifelong Bostonians still call the stretch of highway east of there “Route 128” in order to gleefully confuse tourists and newcomers even more than they already are, so yes, this part of Old Route 128 now follows Routes 93 and 1 for those of you trying (and failing) to take notes.
Getting back to Old Route 128, walking east along this serene little paved road is fascinating in an odd sort of way, as you will occasionally see a double yellow line down the middle and symbols painted on the pavement that indicate there may have been railroad tracks and a school here long ago, though neither of these appear to be true and it’s basically in keeping with the theme of Route 128 (both old and new) making absolutely no sense whatsoever. Much of the road feels like it is slowly being swallowed up by the Blue Hills and, for hikers, it is often used as a way to get to other parts of the reservation very quickly since it is basically wide, flat, and easy to walk on.
As you continue farther east, the road gets closer and closer to the present-day highway and you’ll see some wetlands, especially to the right, while hills form the landscape to the left. After a bit more than a mile of walking—and going through parts of Milton, Quincy, and Randolph—the road abruptly ends, and at this point you can either continue straight along a dirt path to Route 28 or take a left up a steep pipeline trail. At this point you can simply turn around and return to the parking lot, but if you’re into the outdoors, you can get ready to do some really fun exploring instead.
As mentioned earlier, a number of trails veer off Old Route 128 away from the current highway, and two particularly interesting points of interest can be found by taking any of these. If you find yourself at the end of the paved road, take the aforementioned pipeline trail (and be sure to have a map of the reservation as it’s easy to get lost), continuing on this path until you get to a parking area on Route 28. Cross the street and continue on for a bit, then take a right at marker #3005 and you will soon find yourself going up a winding trail. After a few minutes of climbing, look closely for an easy-to-miss little spur path to the right that goes up to a rocky outcropping where you’ll be rewarded with remarkable views of the forest and the hills in the background, making you forget that you’re only a few miles from the Boston line.
If you’re into serious hiking, return to the trail and continue on for a minute or two before looking for a narrow path on the left that seems to go straight up; this is the trail up Hawk Hill, one of many peaks in the Blue Hills and one of the only ones not on the Skyline Trail to the north. Going up and over Hawk Hill will give you more views, and if you’re daring, you can continue down to the valley below, but be forewarned—this is one of the steepest trails in the Blue Hills and when it’s wet, it’s downright dangerous. If you do try it, take a left when you reach the bottom and use your map to get you back to the pipeline and Old Route 128.
A second option to do off Old Route 128 is to get to the Oblique Path or the Beech Hollow Path at marker #2150, #2146, or #2123, all of which are only a few minutes from the pipeline trail and which will now be on your right. Whichever path you take, you’ll start climbing almost immediately, and your goal is to get to a minor trail between markers #2140 and #2155, which does a steep climb then a steep dropoff to marker #2154 where it starts climbing again and reaches the ledges of the south shoulder of Buck Hill, with gorgeous views of the wilderness to the south and west.
At marker #2162, the trail splits left and right around a sheer rock face (left is easy, right is more difficult) and soon emerges from the trees onto the huge bare summit of Buck Hill, which is one of the only places in the Boston area where you can get 360-degree views that include the Boston skyline, the ocean, hills in most directions, and on a very clear day, the mountains of Central Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. From here you can retrace your steps or (if you have good map skills) head west along the Skyline Trail and then work your way south on any number of paths that will eventually get you back to Old Route 128.
You may remember that parts of Old Route 128 in Canton and Braintree were also mentioned, and while these sections are perhaps not as interesting as the stretch just covered, it’s certainly worth pointing them out. The Braintree section is basically a continuation of the road through Milton, Quincy, and Randolph, but on the other side of the highway—and it can’t be accessed unless a) you have wings, or b) you have a death wish and think it would be fun running across the highway (don’t do that). To get to this part of Old Route 128 in a more traditional way where you won’t be killed instantly, walk back to whichever lot you parked at, take a left down the Ponkapoag Trail, and drive on Route 128/93/1/whatever toward the Braintree Split, getting off at Route 28 South in Randolph.
Less than a mile down at a light, take a left on Pond Street, which becomes West Street when you enter Braintree and which goes by a large reservoir on the right. Shortly after the end of the reservoir, look for a parking lot on the left, which marks the beginning of this other part of Old Route 128, though this section is very short and simply ends just before the highway (and yes, this is also part of the Blue Hills, though it is cut off from the rest of the reservation).
When you’re walking along this section, if you have a good sense of direction you will probably see that you’re heading toward the part you were just at, and it is basically cut into two pieces by the existing highway. Oh, and the Canton section of Old Route 128? Get back on Route 128 North and get off once again at the Ponkapoag Trail, but instead of taking a right onto the access road to the ball fields and picnic sites, take a left and you’ll find yourself on a ramp that takes you right back onto Route 128 North.
And why, pray tell, are you doing this? Well, the on-ramp is actually part of the Old Route 128 as well, and it will lead you to the new Route 128 where you can get off at the next exit (Route 138 North), take a quick left off that road, pull into the parking lot for the Hillside Pub, order a pint of Guinness and a shot of Jameson and ask yourself just before signaling for another pint of Guinness and a shot of Jameson, “What exactly did I just do again?”
A map of the Blue Hills Reservation, which includes Old Route 128, can be found at mass.gov/files/2017-08/blue-hills-trail-map-2016.pdf. The Braintree section is not listed as Old Route 128, but can be easily found by looking for marker #5620.


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Eldritch Series Book 1
October 19, 2021
Available in: e-Book
On All Hallows' Eve, the barrier between the living and the dead is thinnest.
Nicholas Harwood has inherited an unusual job---keeping the dead quiet. For several nights before All Hallows' Eve, he pours a potion derived from a family recipe on the graves of the late residents of Dante's Hollow to keep the dead from walking. So far, he's been successful. But something---in addition to snow---is in the wind, and he can't stop it alone. Nicholas and his unlikely group of companions---a druid sorcerer, a witch, and a ghost or two---are locked in a power struggle with rogue supernatural powers intent on unleashing great evil.
Augustina Van Hoven was born in The Netherlands and currently resides in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, two dogs and three cats. She is an avid reader of romance, science fiction and fantasy. When she's not writing she likes to work in her garden or in the winter months crochet and knit on her knitting machines.


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Welcome to Greenwood Phinney, a reader blog of news, opinion and conversation about the neighborhood.
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Neighbors voted, and the Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance listened. Due to this year’s cold, late summer, the NFMA has announce that they will be extending the season in for the Phinney, Magnolia, and Lake City markets. “We are hoping this extra effort will help farmers regain some of what was lost earlier in the season. […] [Read More]

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BackgroundNevirapine has been used as antiretroviral agent since early 90. Although nevirapine is not currently recommended in initial anti-HIV regimens, its use remains consistent in a certain number of HIV-1-positive subjects. Thus, our aim was to determine clinical and genetic factors involved in the development of severe nevirapine induced liver toxicity.MethodsWe retrospectively analyzed all HIV positive patients who were followed at the Infectious Diseases Unit, DIBIC Luigi Sacco, University of Milan from May 2011 to December 2015. All patients treated with nevirapine who underwent a genotyping for the functional variants mapping into ABCB1, CYP2B6, CYP3A4 and CYP3A5 genes were included in the analysis. Severe hepatotoxicity was defined as ACTG grade 3-4 AST/ALT increase during the first three months of nevirapine treatment. The causality assessment between NVP exposure and drug-induced liver injury was performed by using the updated Roussel Uclaf Causality Assessment Methods. Hardy Weinberg equilibrium was tested by (2) test. A multivariable logistic regression model was constructed using a backward elimination method.ResultsThree hundred and sixty-two patients were included in the analysis, of which 8 (2.2%) experienced a severe liver toxicity. We observed no differences between patients with and without liver toxicity as regards gender, ethnicity, age and immune-virological status. A higher prevalence of HCV coinfection (75.0% vs 30.2%; p=.0013) and higher baseline AST (58IU/L vs 26IU/L; p=0.041) and ALT (82IU/L vs 27IU/L; p=0.047) median levels were observed in patients with liver toxicity vs those without toxicity. The genotypes CT/TT at ABCB1 rs1045642 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), showed a protective effect for liver toxicity when compared with genotype CC (OR=0.18, 95%CI 0.04-0.76; p=0.020) in univariate analysis. In the multivariate model, HCV coinfection was independently associated with higher risk of developing liver toxicity (aOR=8.00, 95%CI 1.27-50.29; p=0.027), whereas ABCB1 rs1045642 CT/TT genotypes (aOR=0.10, 95%CI 0.02-0.47; p=0.004) was associated with a lower risk.ConclusionsAccording to our findings HCV coinfection and ABCB1 rs1045642 SNP represent independent determinants of severe liver toxicity related to nevirapine. This genetic evaluation could be included as toxicity assessment in HIV-1-positive subjects treated with nevirapine.
Clinical and genetic factors associated with increased risk of severe liver toxicity in a monocentric cohort of HIV positive patients receiving nevirapine-based antiretroviral therapy / A. Giacomelli, A. Riva, F.S. Falvella, M.L. Oreni, D. Cattaneo, S. Cheli, G. Renisi, V. Di Cristo, A. Lupo, E. Clementi, S. Rusconi, M. Galli, A.L. Ridolfo. - In: BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES. - ISSN 1471-2334. - 18:1(2018 Nov 12).
|Titolo:||Clinical and genetic factors associated with increased risk of severe liver toxicity in a monocentric cohort of HIV positive patients receiving nevirapine-based antiretroviral therapy|
GIACOMELLI, ANDREA (Primo) (Corresponding)
GALLI, MASSIMO (Penultimo)
|Parole Chiave:||Nevirapine; Pharmacogenetic; Hepatotoxicity; ABCB1|
|Settore Scientifico Disciplinare:||Settore MED/17 - Malattie Infettive|
|Data di pubblicazione:||12-nov-2018|
|Digital Object Identifier (DOI):||http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3462-5|
|Appare nelle tipologie:||01 - Articolo su periodico|


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LENA MALU 1991-2006
She was with me in college, moved cross-country with me three times, and was always a dear friend. She loved to play “Puppy in a Blanket” and was a playmate and protector to all cats, even ones who wandered into our yard. Never did I see her chase a cat.
Lena was the only one in her puppy kindergarten class to receive a perfect A+ score. We were so proud -- she was like our “first daughter” and we kept her puppy kindergarten report card in our scrapbook.
Not that she was always perfect! She was a fearful dog, and barked like mad when any stranger rang our doorbell. This drove me crazy for years, but I always knew that she was doing it because she wanted to protect us. From this personality of hers (actually common to her breed), I learned how to act around fearful dogs and how to gain their trust. This has helped me in my petsitting, as I have several clients with timid dogs (large and small) and, without exception, I have become good friends with each of these animals.
I forgot to mention that she did tricks - she could sit, down, stay, roll over, and would sit with a treat on her nose.
When she was a puppy I started singing a little song to her while I pet her, “Little head head head, head head... little ears. Little ears.... (etc)” She loved that through her last day.
She hated to have baths, but would get in the tub when it was time.
She followed me around the house like a shadow, from room to room.
She always slept on the floor beside my side of the bed.
I miss her.


The LRRWMO wishes to encourage the public to take small actions in their own life that benefit area waters. As such, have a 10-year outreach plan including a variety of public outreach.
Outreach and Education
Fees are changing as of 2023
Our fees will be changing, starting 1/1/2023. See the forms on our Permits page.
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Rum River Watershed Partnership
Find out more about native gardens, raingardens, and shoreline stabilization by visiting the Blue Thumb website.


Back when this was about all HRT had.
D&M GE 44T 10 was built for the M&STL as D742 in 1942, it was rebuilt by GE and sold to the D&M in 1956. D&M #10 normal asigment was at D&M's parent company STRAITS CORP BIG CUT quarry near Miller... (more)
The D&RGW purchased six GE 44 ton shop switchers in 1941-42, becoming some of Rio Grande's first diesel locomotives. D&RGW 41 was sold to the Utah Power & Light as a switcher at the Carbon (power)... (more)
A General Electric diesel locomotive from 1942? Indeed! The D&RGW purchased six GE 44 ton shop switchers in 1941-42, becoming some of Rio Grande's first diesel locomotives. D&RGW 41 was sold off t... (more)
Narrow gauge operation at Batesville White Lime in Batesville, AR as seen in this October 1999 view. The locomotive is a GE 44 tonner and the cars are all homebuilt.
After Dinner. When she treated me to a birthday dinner on the Newport Dinner Train, my wife warned me in no uncertain terms that inquiring about a photo runby would be in poor taste... (more)
Looking much better than her last photo op for RP (seen here: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=97281), ARC #3 sits in the parking lot of a lumber yard in Statesville. The "mainline" of... (more)
A GE 44 tonner was not a common sight alone the Class 1's of that day. Now preserved at the Cowan Depot Museum.
A GE 44 tonner sits among some dirty packed snow while a GT transfer train runs through the Vulcan Materials plant on the IHB.
Claremont and Concord GE 44 Tonner 18 on the City job enters Claremont Yard to pick up cars, brought up from Claremont Jct. by the Newport job . Freight engine footboards and riding them were not ... (more)
Hartwell Railway 2 approaching Airline. They will set out the hoppers at Airline and return to Hartwell light.
Ware Shoals RR 1955 crosses over the SCL (ex-P&N) to get to the Southern RY interchange tracks.
Hartwell Railroad crossing a bridge west of Hartwell, GA || June 1973
Rare critter. 9999 was the last of the fleet of PRR 44 tonners to roam the streets of Philadelphia. It's street running days over, it auditioned for the job of shop switcher several places, fina... (more)
T.R. Miller Mill 44-ton #11 working at Brewton, AL in May 1972. This was a forest products company and the bards on the front of the locomotive allowed it to push lumber buggies into the kiln.


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1. 20,000 Gold after a fight (hope this will reduce ban risk)
3. Faster Heroes level up
4. Free Fight Energy
5. Loot ticket increases when used (not tested)
6. Item increases when used
7. Enhance won’t decrease item
8. Evolve cost no soul shard.
9. Only need 1 soul shard to summon new heroes
10. Auto button is always available
11. x2 Speed is always available
12. Elite Map Tries never decrease
WAKFU Raiders is an engaging and tactical mobile role-playing game based upon the popular massively multiplayer online title WAKFU. Immerse yourself as you explore the World of Twelve to solve the mysterious anomalies happening within the Etatim Dimension.
Discover, collect and evolve over 30 colourful, distinctive & powerful characters. Get hooked by WAKFU Raiders’ unique real-time fighting mechanics with many layers of strategy thanks to its intricate combo battle system. With multitudes of quests & bosses to conquer, and online Player Versus Player mode for more replay value, aim to become the master of WAKFU Raiders!
• Unique Fast-Paced Real-Time Combat System: Players can strategically combo their attacks for maximum damage and trigger Ultimate Skills to unleash awesome cool moves!
• Epic Characters & Adorable Monsters: Collect and evolve over 30 unique and different characters from the unique WAKFU universe. Fight epic bosses, each with their own custom abilities.
• High Quality Audio & Visual: Experience immersive battle animations & effects, as well as quirky trademark WAKFU visuals and sound bites.
• Competitive Tournaments & PVP Arena: Create the best party you can and outshine the competition.
• Ongoing Content Updates: Create new weapons of war with the Crafting System, participate in Daily Events for exclusive loot, and stay ahead online with the VIP System. More features to come post-launch.
How To Install the mod
- Download All Part
- Install this Apk
- Copy folder OBB to Androidobb
- play game – Done
- ติดตั้ง APK ลงเครื่องมือถือ Android ของคุณ
- ก๊อบโฟลเดอร์ใน OBB ไปไว้ที่ Androidobb (ถ้ามีมาให้)

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Just as with the work I’ve done in India as part of my dissertation research on human trafficking aftercare practices, it has not taken long for Africa to begin to change and shape me.
If you’ve ever truly traveled or been on a missions trip, you probably know what I mean. Having spent years living over seas, and having traveled to somewhere around 40 countries in my time, it still changes me.
The Kingdom of God is represented by every tribe and tongue. Spending time with those “tribes” and submersing myself in those “tongues” always seems to do something deep in my spirit. It is something I can’t describe in human terms which perhaps that is the best indication of the Spirit of God working in my heart. As Jesus himself described, the Spirit of God is mysterious and comes and goes like the wind– not seen, but keenly felt in ways that one cannot deny.
If you take the time to travel and serve in a cross-cultural context and take time to get to know the needs and struggles of others, you’ll undoubtedly find something awaken or reawaken within you. For me this reawakening is almost always the desire to live like Jesus– to completely pour myself out in love and in service to others.
Oftentimes on trips like these I’m traveling with colleagues from a justice oriented NGO I help run in the states. They end up being trips where downtime is spent “thinking big”, like the time we tried to figure out how we could open up a child care center in the brothels of Mumbai, or how we could facilitate trafficking leaders in Assam to help trafficking victims develop marketable job skills.
I’ve always been one to dream big and do bi; “go big, or go home“, I’ve often said. But recently, I’ve been thinking that maybe I’ve been wrong all this time. This “go big or go home” attitude marginalizes the thousands of small, but crucially important things people do every day that build up the “Kingdom” every bit as much as those few big dreams that actually do come true.
As I sit in the heart of Africa waiving away malaria infested mosquitoes, I am reminded that changing the world might not be a matter of failing to think big enough, but rather a failure to not think small enough.
You see, sometimes we fail to fulfill God’s calling for us by actually shooting too big. With all this talk of building the “Kingdom” we dream of radical, massive change while we actually forget that instead of a Kingdom created building by building, this Kingdom is built brick by brick.
One small change at a time.
I think my friend Lawrence Garcia said it best the other day:
“Most of us can’t change the world in large scale ways, but we can do “little” things which cumulatively make this pain filled place just a bit brighter, even beautiful; we can say, “thank you,” “please,” “you’re welcome,” and “good morning” and “evening.” We can tip a bit more, hold the door open for a stranger, smile at the cashier and gas station clerk or bartender; we can lend a compliment, ask someone how their day is going, even pay for a meal. These and thousand other little things we can do (and which cost very little) to pick up the oft broken pieces of ourselves and society and mend them into something truly glorious.”
My friends– if we really want to lead radical lives that subversively flip our culture upside down, we’ve got to break the American mindset of going big or going home. We must resist the cultural conditioning that success is equal to how big we think.
Instead, let us do things by way of Kingdom principles– principles that are almost always backwards to what culture tells us.
Let us change the world… by thinking smaller.
We might not all have “big” things we can do, but if I remember correctly, Jesus said something about the last being first– that the little things are those which count the most in the Kingdom of God.
Let us continue to radically change culture.
But let us do it by changing mindsets by thinking smaller.
Let’s think and do smaller, but do it with more fervor and consistency.
Then, and perhaps only then, will we see the Kingdom of the mustard seed sprout high before our very eyes.


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BLA13753 Bella - Electric Food Slicer - Stainless Steel
Bella Electric Food Slicer: Slice meats, cheeses and other foods to your liking with this deli-style slicer, which features precision thickness control. The nonslip feet and blade guard provide safety while the slicer is in operation.
Enjoy deli-style food in your home
Slice meats, cheeses and other foods to your liking with precision thickness control and a stainless steel blade.
Maintain a stable workspace
Slip-resistant feet prevent the slicer from sliding on your countertop.
Safely slice your food
A blade guard helps protect your hand while the slicer is in use.
Enjoy reliable performance
Cast-aluminum motor case and metal base ensure durability.


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Alexa is a Staff Attorney in the Tysons office of Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP, where she works on U.S. nonimmigrant and immigrant visa matters. She has experience in O-1s, L-1s, I-140s, as well as H-1Bs, TNs, E-3s, and PERM.
Prior to joining BAL, Alexa worked as an associate attorney at a national immigration law firm for over five years. Additionally, Alexa was the co-president of her law school’s Immigration and Refugee Interest Society. Outside of work, Alexa enjoys horseback riding, drawing, painting, and visiting museums.
Education & Admissions
Catholic University Columbus School of Law, J.D.
George Mason University, B.S., Global Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Admitted to: State Bar of Maryland
American Immigration Lawyers Association

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Macbeth Gallery records
The Macbeth Gallery records provide almost complete coverage of the gallery's operations from its inception in 1892 to its closing in 1953. Through extensive correspondence files, financial and inventory records, printed material, scrapbooks, reference and research material, and photographs of artists and works of art, the records document all aspects of the gallery's activities, charting William Macbeth's initial intention to lease his store "for the permanent exhibition and sale of American pictures" through over sixty years of success as a major New York firm devoted to American art. The collection measures 131.6 linear feet and dates from 1838 to 1968 with the bulk of the material dating from 1892 to 1953.
William Healey Dall Papers
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women’s Committee.
Scurlock Studio Records, Subseries 4.5: Black and white negatives in cold storage arranged by job number
Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964
Scurlock, George H. (Hardison), 1919-2005
The materials document the orders placed by the clients of the Scurlock Studio. The photographs primarily depict individual portrait sittings but there are also portraits of children, groups, and other subjects.
Moses and Frances Asch Collection
Distler, Marian, 1919-1964
This collection, which dates from 1926-1986, documents the output of Moses Asch through the various record labels he founded and co-founded, and includes some of his personal papers. The Asch collection includes published recordings, master tapes, outtakes, business records, correspondence, photographs, and film.
Miscellaneous art exhibition catalog collection
Primarily exhibition catalogs for modernist art exhibitions held in New York City during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Also included are catalogs for Boston exhibitions, mainly pre-1900, and a few other locales; exhibition announcements; gallery publications; and other printed material.
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Patent Medicines
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Patent Medicines forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
The Garden Club of America collection
33 Linear feet ((garden files))
3,000 Lantern slides
This collection contains over 37,000 35mm slides, 3,000 glass lantern slides and garden files that may include descriptive information, photocopied articles (from journals, newspapers, or books), planting lists, correspondence, brochures, landscape plans and drawings. Garden files were compiled by Garden Club of America (GCA) members for most of the gardens included in the collection. Some gardens have been photographed over the course of several decades; others only have images from a single point in time. In addition to images of American gardens, there are glass lantern slides of the New York Flower Show (1941-1951) and trips that GCA members took to other countries, including Mexico (1937), Italy, Spain, Japan (1935), France (1936), England (1929), and Scotland. A number of the slides are copies of historic images from outside repositories including horticultural and historical societies or from horticultural books and publications. The GCA made a concerted effort in the mid-1980s to acquire these images in order to increase its documentation of American garden history. Because of copyright considerations, use of these particular images may be restricted.
Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1976 Festival of American Folklife
The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
Gordon Davis Gibson papers
This collection is comprised of the professional papers of Gordon D. Gibson. The collection contains his correspondence, field notes, research files, museum records, writings, photographs, sound recordings, and maps.The bulk of the collection consists of Gibson's southwestern Africa research. This includes his field notes, film scripts, photographs, sound recordings, and grant proposals he wrote in support of his fieldwork in Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. In addition, the collection contains his research notes, maps, drafts, publications, and papers presented at conferences. While most of his research focused on the Herero and Himba, the collection also contains his research on the Ovambo and Okavango and other southwestern African groups. In the collection is a great deal of photocopies and microfilms of literature on southwestern African ethnic groups, many of which are in Portuguese and German and which he had translated for his files. He was also interested in African material culture, especially Central African headgear. His research on African caps is well-represented in the collection, and includes photos of caps at various museums, source materials, research notes, and textile samples of knots and loop work. Gibson's files as the curator of African ethnology at the National Museum of Natural History also make up a significant portion of the collection. Among these records are his files for the museum's Hall of African Cultures and other African exhibits; his files on the museum's African collections, early donors and collectors of the collections; his personnel files; documents relating to his committee work; department and museum memos; meeting minutes; and his records as head of the Old World Division and acting chair of the department. The collection also documents the efforts to establish the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Film Center, now the Human Studies Film Archives, as well as his work on the planning committee to establish the Museum of Man at the Smithsonian. Memos and minutes relating to the Smithsonian's Center for the Study of Man are also present in the collection. In addition to Gibson's field photos, the collection also contains African photos taken by others. Among these are Herbert Friedmann's photos of Kenya; Hausmann's Libya photos; photos by Ralph Kepler Lewis during the Morden Africa Expedition in Kenya; and photos by Lawrence Marshall, Volkmar Wentzel, Alfred Martin Duggan Cronin, and Father Carlos Estermann. There are also photos of the exhibit cases from the Hall of African Cultures; photos of Smithsonian and non-Smithsonian African artifacts; and copies of photographs he obtained from different archives, including the National Anthropological Archives. Other materials in the collection include his files as film reviews editor for the American Anthropologist during the 1960s and 70s and his activities in different organizations.
Princeton University Poster Collection
An extensive and comprehensive collection of posters from World War I and World War II.