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Bayou Music Center
Bayou Music Center is located in the heart of Houston, Texas, at 520 Texas Ave, just a short walk from the downtown area. Built in the early 1900s as a movie palace, the venue has been transformed into a modern music hall with state-of-the-art sound and lighting systems. For photography enthusiasts, the location offers endless opportunities for capturing stunning shots of the city skyline, the bustling downtown streets, and the venue's iconic facade. Whether you are looking to snap some candid shots of your favorite musicians or want to create stunning portraits of the people and sights around you, Bayou Music Center is the perfect place to unleash your creativity and capture the energy and excitement of Houston's music scene.
What to Photograph
Bayou Music Center in Houston, TX, is a great location for photographers looking for unique and interesting shots. With its striking interior and stunning architecture, the venue offers a wealth of opportunities for capturing amazing images. The grand scale of the venue's main hall, with its soaring ceilings and ornate decorations, make it an excellent location for capturing wide-angle shots that capture the intricate details and fine craftsmanship of the building's design. For those looking for more intimate shots, the venue's smaller rooms offer a range of different textures and lighting conditions, allowing photographers to experiment with different techniques and styles. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just getting started in photography, Bayou Music Center is definitely worth exploring.
The Bayou Music Center, originally named the Verizon Wireless Theater, is a live music venue located in downtown Houston, Texas. The venue showcases musical performances ranging from rock and country to hip-hop and EDM. Built in 2002, the venue can accommodate up to 2,300 patrons and features state-of-the-art sound and lighting systems. The venue's central location in the heart of Houston makes it easily accessible by public transportation.
For photography enthusiasts who are interested in attending a concert at Bayou Music Center, there are a few tips to keep in mind. First, familiarize yourself with the venue's photography policy. While photography is generally allowed during concerts, some artists may have specific rules about photography or videography during their performances. Check the venue's website or social media channels for any updates or announcements regarding photography policies. Additionally, arrive early to secure a good spot near the stage, and be prepared to shoot in low light conditions. Consider bringing a tripod or stabilizer to help capture clear, steady shots without the blur and noise often associated with hand-held photography in dimly lit concert settings.
Nearby Festivals and Events
If you're a photography enthusiast planning to visit or live in Houston, Texas, you wouldn't want to miss the events or festivals happening around the area. One of the top attractions in the downtown Houston area is the Bayou Music Center, which hosts various concerts and performances throughout the year. However, the Bayou Music Center isn't the only place in town that draws crowds. Here are some other annual events and festivals that offer great opportunities for photographers:
- Houston Azalea Trail - March - This event showcases some of the city's most stunning gardens and landscapes that highlight the azalea flowers in bloom.
- Bayou City Art Festival Downtown - October - Art enthusiasts get to see thousands of pieces ranging from traditional to contemporary art, while photographers can capture some impressive and unique shots
- Texas Renaissance Festival - October-November - This festival is a great place to capture some medieval-themed photos, from jousting matches to elaborate costumes and displays.
- Miller Outdoor Theatre - Year-Round - Miller Outdoor Theatre features various free cultural and theatrical events throughout the year outdoors, offering photographs the opportunity to hone their outdoor photography skills.
- Houston Thanksgiving Day Parade - November - This colorful and festive parade offers some great compositions and color palette.
- Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo - February- March - This outdoor festival features concerts, rodeo competitions, carnival food and games, and a livestock show that provides a great opportunity for some rural western-themed photography.
These events are just a few examples of the many festivals and events held around Houston, TX. Photography enthusiasts should keep an eye out for these and any other events that interest them, as they offer unique insights and great opportunities to hone their craft.
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- Point of Interest
Season to VisitSome places are best to visit in certain seasons:
- Alley Theatre (0.11 miles)
- Tranquillity Park (0.14 miles)
- Sesquicentennial Park (0.15 miles)
- The Houston Ballet tour (0.2 miles)
- Hermann Square (0.21 miles)
- Location TBD (0.21 miles)
- Niels Esperson Building (0.26 miles)
- Houston Public Library (0.26 miles)
- Julia Ideson Building (0.27 miles)
- Market Square Park (0.29 miles)
- POST Houston (0.29 miles)
- Sam Houston Park (0.31 miles)
- The Heritage Society Museum at Sam Houston Park (0.33 miles)
- Bombay Pizza Co. (0.36 miles)
- Art Blocks at Main Street Square (0.38 miles)
- Downtown Houston Tunnel System (0.39 miles)
- DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Houston Downtown (0.4 miles)
- St. Joseph Catholic Church (0.43 miles)
- Christ Church Cathedral (0.43 miles)
- The Spaghetti Warehouse (0.44 miles)
- Sabine Promenade (0.44 miles)
- Houston Police Museum (0.47 miles)
- Sabine Street Bridge (0.5 miles)
- Houston Rodeo Parade (0.51 miles)


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Al Arabiya News on October 16, 2011 released the following:
“The eldest daughter of Saddam Hussein plans to publish a book of her father’s handwritten diaries, her lawyer, Haitham al-Harash, said.
Harash told United Press International that Raghad Saddam Hussein, 41, is looking for a specialized publishing company to print and distribute her father’s memoirs.
According to him, Raghad is receiving offers from publishing houses and is negotiating with them to claim all, legal rights to go to her and her family.
He did not say which era of the toppled Iraqi president’s rule the diaries will cover.
In October 2009, Khalil al-Dulaimi, who was the head of Saddam’s defense agency, wrote a book titled: “Saddam Hussein from the American Cell … this is What Happened!”
Dulaimi claims that the volume is the memoir of the Iraqi president, but Raghad has long disputed his assertion.
Meanwhile, Interpol is on the search for Raghad, accusing her of crimes including the incitement of terrorism.
The international police agency’s warrant was issued by Iraq and accuses her of funding terrorists tied to a number of attacks against coalition forces.
Raghad and her family are living under protection of the Jordanian royal family.
Saddam, the former president of Iraq, was convicted of crimes against humanity and executed in December 30, 2006.”
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Brazil to Boost Liquidity of 10-Year Foreign Bond, Valle Says
Demand for Brazilian international debt in reais and dollars has increased substantially, Valle said in an interview from Brasilia. The Treasury may sell bonds denominated in dollars or real in its next overseas issue, he said.
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The on-line accreditation for the tenth year of the Festival of Film Animation is opened from the 1st of November to the 2nd of December (together with the possibility of credit transfer). After this date you can make your accreditation at spot – in the Art Centre of Palacký University (Konvikt) from Thursday, 8th of December 2011.
Thanks to its pleasant visual appeal, traditional narrative animation can easily confuse the audience through its appearance because at first sight it might seem to be light-headed children's amusement. Similarly the term "gender" in the Czech environment is often distortedly presented as some kind of alien bogey.
Topics of this year's PAF correspond with the names of individual sections: GOYS AND BIRLS IN ANIMATION, LIGHT AND DARKNESS OF LIVE ANIMATION, PAF REWIND: ROTOSCOPY, COMPETITION: OTHER VISIONS, PAF CULT, APORT ANIMATION, KONVIKT RESIDENT. More details about individual sections and graphic design will be released during following hours and days.
The last summer event will be an open air party with Café Tungsram in Ostopovice near Brno. Saturday, 10th of September, together with Table, Pjoni & Ink Midget, VJ Věra Lukášová, VJ Kolouch, open air cinema etc. The location is reachable by Brno public transport.
During June and July PAF appears in several towns participating in one-day as well as few-day events, parties, concerts, festivals: Břeclav (Piksla), Luhačovice (Vincent), Žilina (Fest Anča), Uherské Hradiště (Summer Film School) ... and for August an event with Čestmír form Brno Tungsram Café is being planned.
The Festival of Film Animation and visual arts PAF took place from the 8th to the14th of May 2011; it was so far the greatest PAF event organized abroad. Within the framework of nine programme blocks, the New York audience became familiarized with Czech audio visual production of 2000 – 2010. The programme consisted of screenings in movie theatres, concerts, audio visual performances and installations in collaboration with New York artists, galleries and movie theatres of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
PAF is going to present its programme in various places of New York every day from the 8th of May to the 14th of May 2011. Details will follow.
The second section of this year's PAF: Light and darkness are the essential elements of moving pictures creation. Fascination with pre-cinematographic principles of animation is reflected in image projection, light animation of interwar avant-garde and also utopian projects of the present day. The section is devoted to non-traditional animation techniques and focuses on light editing, animation of luminous objects and construction of screening premises.
Other Visions competition is a curatorial selection of audio visual works. It aims to appreciate and to popularize the work of professionals as well as amateurs that penetrate through artistic and film scene in an original way. Other Visions dramaturgy searches for both visually and narratively original projects on the border of arts, video art and animation. The competition is implemented within the framework of the Festival of Film Animation that however works with category of animation within much wider interpretative framework than it is usual. Any classical animation, work with manipulated image, text, sequences of feature films and record of a performance are also accepted. Thus the work with moving image of film and video in the widest possible grasp is expected.
PAF returned from Svátek bláznů and Fest Anča, Žilina and continues in summer tour through Czech and Slovak festivals. On Sunday, 24th of July, PAF appears at the 37th year of Summer Film School, Uherské Hradiště. Few-day PAF programme in Uherské Hradiště becomes a festival of contemporary Czech as well as Slovak arts of moving picture art as well as portfolio of current trends and tendencies within manipulation with moving picture in galleries and cinemas.
Pjoni & Ink Midget's album official launch party takes place on the 10th of June in Meetfactory, Prague. WWW, Napszyklad, Midi Lidi DJs perform at that party too.
PAF invites you to an exhibition opening in The Brno House of Arts, where on Tuesday, the 3rd of May an opening of exhibition called Vystavovatel a jeho diváci ("The Exhibitor and His Spectators") takes place. Martin Mazanec, programme coordinator of PAF, participated in the project as a curator. The exhibition can be seen until the 12th of June 2011.
The visual artist Michal Pěchouček opens his so far largest exhibition entitled Lessons in Art (The Stone Bell, Prague) on the 15th of March. The conception of the exhibition is composed of two parts, two lessons devoted to the method of filmogram and the theme of Time for Bed. Pavel Švec and Viktor Takáč are the guests of the exhibition.
Andy Fehu made a documentary film about the last year's PAF; you can watch it right now.

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To provide an overview of conceptualizations of female sexual problems, and ‘Female Sexual Dysfunction’ in particular, throughout the 20th century, especially in relation to psychiatry and mental illness.Recent findings
In the past 15 years, there has been an increase in both medical and public discourse about ‘Female Sexual Dysfunction’. I discuss a variety of literature sources dealing with female sexual problems, where these are understood variously as problems of developmental psychopathology, as technical phenomena to be resolved through education, or as medical problems to be addressed pharmaceutically.Summary
The stigma of mental illness shapes much recent discussion of female sexual problems, as does the legacy of the postwar critique of psychodynamic psychiatry.

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LINCOLN SQUARE — An affordable housing project that’s been at the center of fierce debates among neighbors, the local alderman and city officials took a critical step this week toward becoming a reality.
The Chicago Plan Commission approved plans Thursday for a six-story, 63-unit affordable housing project at 4715 N. Western Ave. Developer Community Builders is behind the project, which has been in the works for two years.
The housing is planned for a metered parking lot across from the Brown Line station. The latest proposal also includes ground-floor commercial space and 18 public parking spaces.
The proposal still requires approval from the City Council’s zoning committee and the City Council. Ald. Matt Martin (47th) said he hopes the committee can review the nonprofit developer’s proposal before the end of the year.
The affordable housing development was first announced in 2020 and been revised multiple times.
Community Builders was pre-approved for highly competitive tax credits in December 2021 after two years of tense community meetings on bringing low-cost units to the increasingly expensive area while maintaining business district parking.
The city’s housing and planning departments approved an early version of the developer’s proposal last year but later said the developer needed to cut back parking and move the building’s entrance to secure final approval for the tax credits.
City leaders said at the time they did not want to use tax credits to subsidize so much public parking when their priority is maximizing affordable housing and encouraging public transit.
The latest compromise was ironed out in July after months of back-and-forth between the developer, neighbors, business owners, 47th Ward officials and city departments.


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The paper examines various narrative directions that emerge in the postmodern era. There are several postmodern narrative styles that emanate the idea pluralism and the intersections of various genres. The paper focuses on the emergence of postmodern fiction and lays out other dominant narrative strategies that create a scene of pluralism in the fictions. Each narrative style is discussed in connection with a central book that represents the play of inscription and subversion. Apart from the detailed study of the central book, many other postmodern texts from various authors are also scrutinized to support the argument of a particular idea. All these narrative patterns and styles are interlinked and carry similar postmodern purposes such as pluralism and various intersections. This inter-relationship is also dealt with while focusing on any dominant narrative pattern.
KEY WORDS: Pluralism, Subversion, Inscription, Narration, Intersection, and Genre
Postmodern fiction with ‘kaleidoscopic’ plurality evolves out of mass culture and deconstructs notions of history. The ‘well-wrought urn’ unity and totality from the perspective of culture, literature, art, and history are both present and absent in the ‘double voiced’ postmodern politics. Totality and unity are subsumed to be defied endlessly in the process. The metanarratives of history, society, literature, and art are questioned and subverted by the postmodern thinkers. Postmodern fiction, similarly, finds alternative versions in multiple mininarratives. The ironical fragmentation is celebrated in multiple ways. The fiction devoid of center plays with peripheries and indulges into multiple threads rather than adhering to one final center. This decentered fiction diverges into several forays generating endless narrative possibilities.
At the outset, it is essential to discuss the key introductory aspects of postmodernism and their major roots. Postmodern narrative techniques are the resultant factors of predominant cultural and theoretical changes that take place in the postmodern era. The disruption of cultural norms due to technological advancement and the horrors of two wars change the entire scenario of postmodern thought and as a result of that, philosophers, cultural critics, and linguists posit revolutionary theories in terms of culture, language, and philosophy. Postmodern thinkers like Derrida, Foucault, Barthes, Lyotard, and Baudrillard express the mood of the cultural context and change all the modernist preoccupations negating their conventionalities. The same cultural, philosophical and linguistic mood is reflected in the postmodern narrative as well. Post-structuralism, for instance, propagates new and different language theories and that new linguistic approach is utilized in postmodern fiction as well. Postmodern fiction represents fragmentary life coupled with the fragmentary form where there is no substance but just irony left as its residue. The postmodernists revisit the past and parody it and naturally their acts become ironical.
The new theories deny the totalitarian metanarratives of the past. Lyotard propounds mininarratives as opposed to the previously available metanarratives. According to him, the postmodern world does not and cannot have metanarratives. There are multiple and innumerable small narratives that have to be counted instead of the all-encompassing and dominant narratives. Postmodernists such as Rorty, Derrida and Wittgenstein go to the extent of denying truth altogether. There is no permanent truth available to us, or truth simply does not exist in the postmodern era. Naturally, unity and truth as concepts, so valuable previously, fade away and lead to complete fragmentation and this is reflected in the fiction. We cannot find reliable, author-centric, and cohesive fictions in this era. When the culture itself is changed into ironical fragments, the fiction, too, disintegrates into fragments.
The narrative strategies are explored with their inseparable connection with the theoretical and cultural background of the era. Narrativized history, referential problems of language, deformed form, deconstructed realism in magic realism, parodical intertextuality, Bakhtinian carnivalesque and heteroglossia, and an ironical self-reflexivity are found in postmodern fictions irrespective of their being in various cultural and regional locations. The approaches and narrative tendencies carried out by the writers are different from one another. These differences, in terms of the utilization of narrative strategies, and their cultural and theoretical associations are identified. Postmodern fictions in Latin America, America, Italy and Canada differ with respect to their approaches but narrate the same decentered world. Postmodern narrative tendencies are foregrounded historically, culturally and theoretically as history, culture, postmodern theories, and fiction inescapably correspond with each other.
It is equally essential to understand the relationship between history and postmodern fiction. The study displays the blurring of conventional boundaries between history and fiction, and exposes the inherent narrativity among them. Taking an explicit route to history, postmodern fiction includes historical data and personages in the framework of fiction. These historical explorations, however, are not simple in any way as they are full of contradictions and paradoxes. Postmodern revisit to history is not nostalgic but ironic. It does not depict history as a kind of authentic representation of historical reality but problematizes the entire notion of historicity.
Postmodern writers and even history writers like White acknowledge the existence of narrativity in history. They assert the fact that history is always subjective and a matter of reconstruction. The postmodern writers question the available version of history and present an alternative version. The fictionalization of history in fiction is an ironical attempt to narrate alternative versions of history. It rejects and blurs the difference between fact and fiction, or history and fiction. Further, E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime is explored with this postmodern idea of historicity. Both history and fiction mingle and become a process of narrativity. Doctorow offers an alternative and fictional version of twentieth century American history. Historical figures in connection with fictional characters are assigned both historical and fictional roles. The process mingles fiction and history inseparably. Historical figures like Evelyn Nesbit, Harry Houdini, Henry Ford and others are shown in fabricated association with fictional characters such as the Younger Brother, Father, Coalhouse Walker and others.
History is narrativized in such a way that fact and events presented can no longer be verified. The notions regarding authenticity and objectivity are questioned and subverted in the process of narrativization/fictionalization of history. The narrativized and fictionalized history of the historical figures such as Houdini and Nesbit suggest the postmodern phenomenon in which the personal lives of Houdini and Nesbit are narrativized. The narrativization of history poses certain questions to both authenticity and objectivity. The amorous relationship between Evelyn Nesbit and the Younger Brother, and Houdini’s obsession for his mother and his subsequent efforts to establish connections with his mother suggest alternative versions of history. The writer, in fact, ironizes the historical figures instead of the conventional way of glorifying them and subverts the glorified and recorded versions of history. The writer does not deny the existence of history but he questions the authenticity of the recorded/textualized history.
Apart from this, other novels such as The Name of the Rose, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), The Public Burning (1977), Immortality (1988), The White Hotel (1981) and many other postmodern novels suggest the postmodern viewpoint of history. History is visited by postmodern writers but with a tinge of irony. The subjective or alternative narrative of Goethe and Bettina in Immortality and an interpreted and ironical version of Holocaust in The White Hotel cannot be found in any historical record. Postmodern fiction presents an alternative version of history and thereby, questions objectivity and authenticity of the textualized history at large. Postmodernism usually contests the reliability of the past as the past is available through human constructs/textuality. Fictionalization of historical characters and surrounding them with fictional events and fictional characters suggests their intensified questioning of the past or history.
Further, magic realism and Bakhtinian carnivalesque spirit can be seen together as complimenting and corresponding with each other in the act of subversion in Robert Kroetsch’s What the Crow Said. Magic realism as an essential narrative strategy of postmodern fiction flourished in Latin America and then spread across the globe as an effective subversive tool. It plays a vital role in fiction along with the carnivalesque sprit to dismantle authenticity and norms of the society.
Like magic realism, which blurs all the binaries, carnivalesque spirit, too, with its liberating spirit, associates itself in the act of questioning all the conventions, norms, and prevailing forces of the society. Magic realism creates an atmosphere where magical becomes real and real becomes magical. Carnivalesque spirit, similarly, generates both subversive and liberating spirit and their fusion creates an altogether different world filled with magical elements as well as liberating spirit. This con/fusion is studied in detail in Kroetsch’s novel. The opening chapter of the book presents magical copulation between Vera Lang and the bees. The very act is both magical and suggestive of carnivalesque spirit. The narrator rightly mentions, “People years later, blamed everything on the bees; it was the bees, they said, seducing Vera Lang, that started everything” (1). Representation of lower body strata is one of the focuses of carnivalesque practices. Body and its bawdy functions such as copulation, which are considered as taboo in the conventional officialdom, are celebrated in carnivalesque practices.
The fusion of carnivalesque and magic realism cause conflicting multiple voices in the novel. This in turn invokes heteroglossia and its subsequent dialogism. Carnivalesque, a social theory propounded by Bakhtin, has been utilized in both novelistic form and content through the liberating spirit that allows the writer to distort and question all the social as well as novelistic norms. Representation of his theories is seen in the novel that replaces conventional monoglossia with polyglossia. Both, subversiveness and plurality, found in Bakhtinian theories, compliment postmodernist narrative multiplicity.
It is this similarity and corroboration in both magic realism and carnivalesque that carnival becomes a natural setting in Kroetsch’s novel: subversive nature, and eradication of the arch binaries such as the real and the magical, the center and the margin, the popular and the literary, the officialdom and the marketplace, the spiritual and the lower body stratum, morality and immorality, and life and death. The con/fusion transgresses all the conventional boundaries whether social or literary.
The case of such fusion is prevalent in postmodern books. Postmodern works of various authors such as Marquez, Carter, Rushdie, and Llosa are fraught with this fusion of magic realism and carnivalesque to subvert the metanarratives, and to repudiate the notions of realism and objectivity. Writers from different continents such as Japan, America, Latin America, Canada, Italy, and Argentina utilize this narrative strategy for their local purposes.
The narrative strategy is more popular among the writers of margins such as the feminist or the post-colonial writers as it becomes a weapon to dismantle dominant forces such as patriarchy, and colonialism. Angela Carter, for example, attacks the patriarchal system by narrating the story of the winged woman called Fevver. Writers from Africa, India and Latin America utilize this narrative strategy to question the authenticity of dominant discourses.
Indeed, it becomes vital to partake in the postmodern debate of form and content and highlight the problem of representation. Form and language, instead of being supportive and transparent in terms of representation, become stumbling blocks. Both the new linguistic theories and simultaneous deconstruction of center have caused this phenomenon.
With the advent of structuralism, language becomes a center of study in all the relevant fields. The concept revolutionizes the notion of conventional usage of language wherein Saussure posits that meaning is generated through the differential aspects of the signs and not through the etymological concepts. This play of signs in the meaning generation reaches new levels when post-structuralists such as Derrida, Foucault, and others as well as philosophers such as Wittgenstein and Rorty deny this concept of sign leading to the meaning through signifiers and state that sign might simply lead to yet another sign and the ultimate meaning might not be gained as sign does not lead to the ‘final signified’ as Derrida mentioned but simply to more signs. Form, like language, ceases to be reliable and authentic. Instead of becoming a reliable tool of representation for the writers, it proves to be a block that resists any kind of objective and authentic knowledge. Both language and form work together in postmodern fictions to stall/resist/deconstruct/defy representation.
This postmodern stance of language and the formless form is studied in If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. It is a good example that narrates the problem of representation. Calvino deconstructs the myth of transparent language and form as a reliable tool for representation. In the deconstructive process of representation, Calvino questions both the branches of epistemology and ontology. He presents multiple narratives simultaneously working together to resist both the notion of representation as well as the temptation of interpretation. The reader becomes complicit in the process of writing a text whose very modus operandi emphasizes that there are no beginnings or ends in narrative, that all texts come from other texts, and that all words come from other words.
The narrator in the novel, instead of leading to any closure or final meanings, plays with both the narratorial possibilities and the reader by including himself in the process of the narration. The reader is both empowered, as he becomes a central character, and enslaved as a hapless witness to this deconstructing process of form and language. The narrator opens the novel, “You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s new novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade” (3).
The other postmodern writers such as Pynchon, Fowles, Kroetsch, Barth, Auster, Rushdie, and Carter narrate the problem of representation in the same way as Calvino has done in the present novel. Except that the purposes of these authors that vary, the narrative techniques utilized by the writers fall in the same direction. The closure or final end is mocked at, parodied, and negated by the postmodern writers. In Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus the narrator falsifies her own claims made in the narration and makes the mockery of the final end. Kroetsch does not present logical and coherent ends in his novels. These writers deconstruct the closure and defy logical conclusions found in realist/humanist tradition.
It is found that while language ceases to be a transparent material for representation, form assumes alternative qualities such as deviating from the unity or merging multiple genres and the like. In If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller the phenomenon is presented by either deconstructing the unity of a particular genre or mixing multiple genres at the same time. The novel in the beginning seems to be a detective story which suddenly changes into multiple genres as it progresses. It turns into a diary, an erotic story, epistolary tale, and a magic realist story. Paul Auster in Invisible presents multiple points of view and breaks away from the unity by diverging into multiple genres such as an essay, letter, biography, poem or non-fiction. D M Thomas’s The White Hotel keeps deviating into an amorous narrative poem, the third person narrative, and an epistolary narrative.
This blurring of the form not only defies the unity of the novelistic form and closure, but also defies the possibility of stable and reliable representation. In the process of blocking simple and direct or authentic narration, the writers question the very possibility of genuine authenticity, originality and sometimes blur the distinction between original and fake or the plagiarized. The narrator in Calvino’s novel points out on numerous occasions this phenomenon. He questions/fractures the entire process of the creation of novel and its publication. He diminishes the distinction between genuine creation, translated work and plagiarized work. Marana, a fictional writer, translator, and plagiarizer, is shown to be publishing novels under his name and complicates the difference between the original and the fake.
John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman is can be seen to identify the role of both irony and parody in the act of subversion. The novel parodies the Victorian Period in terms of its literary field, social conventions, and historical notions. Fowles parodies the realistic conventions of representation and through irony subverts it. The writer parodies the styles of major Victorian novelists such as Charles Dickens and William Thackeray, thinkers such as Arnold and Carlyle, and poets such as Robert Browning and Lord Tennyson. He, simultaneously, parodies the entire society and its parochialism in the fiction.
With multiple voices being employed in the novel, the novel becomes a perfect example of Bakhtinian hiteroglossia. Multiple voicing, parodical and ironical inversion of the past and plurality of form add to the Bakhtinian phenomenon. The conflicting voices are suggestive of polyglossia which enhances postmodern multiplicity and plurality in terms of both form and content.
Parody is a popular form in the postmodern era with the help of which authors both install various styles, works, or history in their works and subvert the same in the process of narration. D M Thomas in his The White Hotel parodies the entire branch of psychoanalysis in the case study narrated by the writer. He simultaneously parodies the holocaust as well. Barth in his The Sot-Weed Factor parodies the styles of Henry Fielding, Lawrence Stern, and Tobias Smollet. Robert Kroetsch in his The Studhorse Man parodies the convention of representing objective reality in biography and goes on to question the entire notion of realism and its nature of unbiased objectivity. Postmodern parody becomes an essential tool for this ‘double voicing’ act of both using and abusing, installing and subverting the prevailing canons of both past and present.
Postmodernism with its disruptive and subversive nature assumes a quality of infiniteness in its journey of deconstruction. It is a process that has no fixed beginning or no fixed end. Unlike any other age in the history of English literature postmodern is and will remain a controversial material as it does not believe in fixities and is inescapably inclined to questioning. This ceaseless questioning is the only thing that remains permanent in postmodernism. Critics like Josh Toth have suggested the end of the contentious era, but with postmodernism taking multiple routes and encompassing endless multiplicity it is unlikely to resort to any stasis whatsoever.


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The history of the United States public debt started with federal government debt
incurred ... It fell during the 1990s, due to decreased military spending, increased
taxes and the 1990s boom. ... D...
The United States has a long history of running deficits, but there have also been
long stretches of surpluses as well ... Deficits/Surpluses From 1940 Until 2014 (*
fiscal years) ...... In the last 69 years, the U.S. government has managed to post
12 surpluses, with the most recent coming in 2001 ... Historical Spending
Historical Tables provides data on budget receipts, outlays, ...
What has the U.S. budget deficit has been every year since 1969? ... a
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Charts and history of US federal government deficit and debt, with links to the ...
Then came the Great Depression, and President Hoover decided to spend his ...
The role of Governmental Deficit Spending in the history of the United States of
View interactive visualizations of the U.S. federal budget since 1789. Compare
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Total Surplus or Deficit as % of GDP .... This historical table provides data on past
surpluses or deficits, GDP, receipts, and outlays, federal debt, and federal ...
Jun 10, 2015 ... The U.S. budget deficit narrowed further in May as revenue continued ... ahead of
the year-earlier levels, while government spending is up 6%.
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SpiderForest and SpiderSpawn were created in 2004 by Fernando “Ran Jado” Paniagua as a new host for webcomics. SpiderForest originally hosted fantasy comics, while SpiderSpawn was a host for humor comics, but in summer 2008, the two networks merged into one entity, taking the name of SpiderForest.
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| andsoitgoes chapter 1 . 11/20/2007
I like how this poem is worded; it's simple in a way that makes it attractive to the eye and easy to read.
It was sad, too.. the whole feeling of longing is one of the worst to experience.
Maybe you'd like the poem I just posted on here. It has a lot to do with loving someone you can't have; check it out if you want. :)
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Kristen Bauer’s life changed when she met Tim Cavanaugh while working as director of finance at Medallia HealthCare in Seattle.
She was in her mid-20s, had spent five years at Arthur Andersen, and was now working closely on business issues related to health care programs with Cavanaugh, an executive at Providence Health Plan.
Cavanaugh was impressed with Bauer’s business skills and financial acumen, so much so that he recommended her to his father-in-law, the famed money manager George Russell of Russell Investments, who was thinking about opening a family office and looking for someone to run it.
Bauer, now the CEO of Laird Norton Wealth Management in Seattle, met with Russell in 1998, and although she was only 28, got the job.
“He said let’s take a journey together,” Bauer recalls. “He also said ‘let’s have fun.”
Along with Cavanaugh, Bauer began the daunting task of building a single-family office from scratch. She found investment management at an ultra-high-net-worth level “incredibly complex.” Bauer quickly mastered it, however, and made a point to “translate” the arcane world of asset management to family members in plain English.
In 2004, the Russell family office opened its doors to other wealthy families and became Threshold Group. Bauer was its first employee, heading client services and eventually becoming president.
Bauer proceeded to help build Threshold into one of the country’s premier multifamily offices, offering such standard services as investment and tax management, estate planning and family governance, but also becoming an industry leader and innovator in impact investing and financial education.
By 2016 Threshold had reported over $3 billion in assets under management and a stellar national reputation, but Bauer realized the firm needed a partner if it wanted to be an industry leader.
“The bar was getting higher,” she says. “Family offices were evolving and expectations were increasing to keep up with technology demands and the need for greater scalability.”
Seeking a firm with national reach, a sophisticated platform and a compatible culture, Threshold reached out to New York-based Tiedemann Advisors and the two RIAs merged in 2017.
Bauer stayed on as a managing director heading Tiedemann’s Pacific Northwest division, earning the praise of CEO Michael Tiedemann for her “positive energy” and ability to “relate to her clients across generations.”
Tiedemann was hardly alone in noticing Bauer’s accomplishments. Following a nationwide search last year for a new CEO to lead Laird Norton, the Seattle-based firm recruited Bauer to take the helm in April 2020 — just as the coronavirus pandemic was shutting the country down.
Bauer quickly expanded the firm’s technology resources and initiated an education campaign that included both market reports and briefings from infectious disease experts.
The pandemic also proved to be a proving ground for workplace changes that impacted women, in particular, Bauer says.
“Covid taught us a lot,” she asserts. “We saw women take the brunt of the responsibility and we learned how to support mothers and create flexibility that lays the groundwork for the workplace of the future.”
'We're in a very personal business'
Bauer has made diversity, equity and inclusion a top priority, along with sustainable investing, for Laird. She hired a consultant to help the firm assess where it stands on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), including hiring and culture internally and promoting racial and gender equity in the community.
Balancing the roles of being a mother and a professional in the corporate world is a challenge Bauer is familiar with, having “really struggled” with it herself. “It can be a little exhausting being the only woman in the room,” she says. “I had to grow to feel confident that I had a voice, that I mattered.”
Looking ahead, Bauer says it’s critical that the financial advisory business “creates space for other voices.” As for Laird Norton, Bauer didn’t waste any time expanding the firm’s footprint. Last December, eight months after arriving at the company, she helped engineer a merger with Filament, a local rival, creating a $7 billion regional powerhouse in the UHNW advisory market.
This article is part of AdvisorEngine®'s community conversation initiative. We're excited to bring you interviews with wealth management professionals from across the industry. We hope you find inspiration and insights from the life lessons they've learned and the business practice challenges they've faced. If you’d like to participate or know someone we should profile, reach out to us here.


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PAHALA, Hawaii – Hawaii residents are facing the highest volcanic activity alert after officials warned Tuesday that the Big Island's Kilauea volcano is growing more explosive -- as a massive ash cloud grows in the sky.
The U.S. Geological Survery upgraded its previous volcano warning from "orange" to "red," signifying that an "eruption is forecasted to be imminent with significant emission of ash into the atmosphere likely," or that an eruption is already underway.
“At any time, activity may become more explosive, increasing the intensity of ash production and producing ballistic projectiles near the vent," local officials told Fox News amid the alert, which was issued just before 1:30 p.m. local time.
Nearly 20 fissures have opened since the Kilauea volcano started erupting 12 days ago. On Monday, another fissure spewing lava and unhealthy gas opened up, and a crack in the Earth that emerged a day earlier was sending molten rock on a slow run for the ocean, officials said.
The eruption has destroyed about two dozen homes in the Leilani Estates subdivision on the Big Island.
Volcanic air pollution and ashfall have been reported in Pahala, and National Weather Service radar and pilots have reported the top of the volcano's ash cloud is 10,000 to 12,000 feet above sea level.
In Hilo, Sandra Barnes told Fox News that she’d seen the ash cloud mid-morning between Pahoa and Volcano, Hawaii.
“I had to stop and take a picture,” she said. “That was a few hours ago. God knows what it looks like now. My kids and my mother are up there now.”
Down Highway 11, the main artery connecting the east and west side of the Big Island, a string of cars sit near the entrance of Volcano National Park. Though the park is closed, vacationers and some locals watch the ash fall from there.
“We’re not sure if it’s safe but it’s amazing,” Paul Rodaeo, a visitor from Oregon, said. “There really isn’t much more that’s open.”
The explosion sent an ash mushroom cloud downwind, dusting communities as far as 20 miles away.
“I had no idea until a friend stopped by and said look out the window,” Bridgett Fraser said.
Electric crews are on stand by in case more falling ash on electric lines triggers power outages.
Hawaii Electric Light said a light dusting of ash and moisture on utility insulators could result in electrical short circuits.
“If this occurs, we are prepared to respond once it is safe for employees to work in the impacted area," said Rhea Lee-Moku, spokeswoman for Hawaii Electric Light, said in a statement. "While we have equipment that can wash off ash from utility equipment, this is the first experience we will have with widespread volcanic ash.”
Nearly 2,000 people have been told to evacuate since May 3.
Fox News' James Rogers and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Comparative newcomer Tian Richards (Like Mary Jane) has reserved the lead role in The CW’s in-the-works Nancy Drew spinoff, Tom Swift, TVLine confirmed.
As we announced back in October, the potential series follows the “serialized adventures of the billionaire inventor, who is plunged into a world of science fiction conspiracy and inexplicable phenomena after the shocking disappearance of his father. Tom sets out on a journey in search of the truth, leaving the comforts of his usual monetary lifestyle, while struggling to stay one step ahead of a group of Illuminati who are hell-bent on stopping him. Tom̵
Tom Swift will appear in an episode of Nancy Drewthe upcoming second season. The plans are for Tom to run into one of Nancy’s investigations, an event that Nancy interprets as supernatural and Tom believes is cosmically paranormal.
Melinda Hsu Taylor and Noga Landau, showrunner and co-creator of Nancy Drewaccordingly created the project together with Cameron Johnson (Empire), and will write executive production. The project comes from uber makers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage.
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PARIS (France)- Algeria’s policy of deradicalization is based on consolidation of democracy, as a “strategic option,” Foreign Minister Abdelkader Messahel said Wednesday in Paris.
“The policy of deradicalization is based on consolidation of democracy, as a strategic option to fight exclusiveness -which is the only political programme of extremists- and exclusion -as they fight any opposition to their single rhetoric, whatever the content,” the Foreign minister said in a talk.
Messahel’s lecture, entitled “Against Terrorism and Extremism, Deradicalization: The Algerian Experience,” was given at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI).
Algeria, he stressed, considers democracy as an “antidote to extremist and radical speeches.”
This policy has made the population and the whole country “safe from potential future risks of radicalization,” Messahel noted, adding that it is comprehensive and multisectoral.
He added that the success of such policy is contingent on adhesion and involvement of citizens and all public and private players.
“It lays on an inclusive approach aimed at the elimination, within society, of all socioeconomic, political, religious, cultural factors leading to marginalization, especially of the young,” he said.
The policy “has been, and remains, a major axis” in the Algerian State’s policies and sectorial programmes.
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Learn more about ArcSite’s CAD drawing iPad app, how its mobile-first approach delivers more power and functionality than traditional CAD mobile apps.
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Our simple CAD app is built on the belief that easy CAD software should be accessible to all professionals who need to create and edit technical drawings. In contrast to popular CAD programs that cost thousands of dollars and require extensive training, ArcSite is extremely intuitive.
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Engineers and construction professionals often lament about the clunky interface found in the common CAD software available to them. While well-known CAD software such as AutoCAD contains powerful features, the user interface is often quoted as overwhelming.
As a team of former Autodesk developers, the founders of ArcSite understand the challenges AutoCAD users often face. Armed with the knowledge of traditional CAD software limitations and the knowledge of which features are necessary for mobile CAD users to do their job, they set out to create their own easy CAD software for mobile, called ArcSite.
What is ArcSite?
ArcSite is CAD software that’s easy to use without all the unnecessary bells and whistles. We took the features that are essential to your job and made those easy, intuitive, and give you more control where you need it. And, we made this available as an iPad app to cater to fieldwork and the growing need for mobility.
Not only did we leave out the clutter, but we also studied what traditional CAD software was lacking and created simple yet powerful functionality to help you get your job done easier. What’s more, drawing with ArcSite is more natural than using a mouse and keyboard.
We’ll go into more detail about this below, where you can learn more about ArcSite.
Easy to Use CAD Software
ArcSite is easy CAD software that doesn’t require learning. In fact, anyone can start using it right away without any training. Take it from one of our happy customers who expressed that most CAD software is frustrating because it requires training to learn. He went on to explain he once purchased AutoCAD for $1,000 and never ended up using it because he would “have to go to community college” in order to learn it.
Being familiar with the confusion of traditional CAD software, we left out anything that doesn’t make intuitive sense and provide you with a clean, uncluttered interface that anyone can use, even without previous CAD software experience.
Practical Yet Powerful CAD App
At ArcSite, we’re all about “less is more.” However, we believe this should never be at the expense of important functionality you need in order to do your job as easily and quickly as possible. This is why we give you more control in the areas you might need it, unlike many other CAD apps that oversimplify to the point where they drop certain functionality that should exist.
For instance, if you need to create a custom shape, symbol or block for your drawing, you can— and you can save it for future drawings. If you’d like, you can also assign attributes to these symbols so that ArcSite can create takeoffs and estimates from a CAD drawing.
Whether or not you create takeoff documents, this functionality does not take up extra room on your screen or require learning.
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If you’re used to drafting with pencil and paper, you might be wary about making the switch to digital drafting. Acknowledging that this is a concern, we made the freehand drawing on the ArcSite app as intuitive as drawing on paper. With our easy CAD software app for iPad, you can create CAD drawings with a stylus pen on the screen, or just use your finger. No ruler or eraser required.
How does this work? As you draw freehand, ArcSite automatically interprets your drawing as precise lines, curves, and shapes. In the case that you want to adjust a line, it’s still in your control.
We’re the first and only CAD app to offer this functionality to CAD users. Drawing on ArcSite is even easier than on paper.
Easy Mobile CAD App for iPad that You Can Travel With
ArcSite offers a convenient mobile CAD app for iPad that you can travel with between the job site and the office. No more traveling with paper plans and no more lack of lighting while viewing them. With our easy CAD app, you can pull your plans up on the screen within seconds for reference and demonstration.
When you use ArcSite, there is only one step to enter information or create drawings. Once it’s on your iPad, there are no extra steps involved as there usually are with the paper-then-computer process.
Easy CAD Software for Collaboration
You can create and/or edit and send drawings to other people involved in the job right from your iPad. This keeps the job running smoothly and maintains consistent information across all involved parties.
You can invite anyone to make edits on a drawing, or you can simply export the drawing in a variety of formats to send to those involved in the job.
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When you use ArcSite to generate a takeoff deliverable for the job, you have the advantage of consistent data for all parties involved in the job. Get associated job site photos, plans and the estimate zipped up in one neat deliverable.


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Yacouba Sawadogo is a farmer from Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa. He has been using a traditional farming technique called Zaï to help soil damaged by drought. He is notable for spreading an improved soil and water conservation practice in Burkina Faso.
He went to a religious school where the students often didn't have enough to eat. Since he was the smallest and youngest, he was the one who had to go without.
The northern parts of Burkina Faso are very dry and often have droughts. The most recent big drought in happened in the 1970s, resulting in a famine (lack of food) which killed a lot of people.
The drought caused a lot of desertification. There were also other problems like overgrazing, bad land management, and overpopulation. These problems meant that a lot of land could not be used to grow food.
Together with Mathieu Ouédraogo, another local farmer, Yacouba Sawadogo tried different ways of fixing bad soil in about 1980. He uses simple traditional things: cordons pierreux (lines of stones) and zaï holes. Both Sawadogo and Ouédraogo have tried to get other people to do the same things.
Cordons pierreux (stone lines)Edit
Cordons pierreux are thin lines of fist-sized stones laid across fields. They catch water. When rain falls, it pushes silt (special dirt) across top of the field. The rocks slow down the water so it soaks into the ground more. The silt also makes a good place for seeds of local plants to grow. The plants slow the water even more, and their roots break up the soil, so it's easier for more water to soak in.
Zaï holes are holes dug in the soil. They also catch water, but in a different way. They used to only be used a little bit to make land better for growing plants. Yacouba Sawadogo had the idea to fill the holes with manure and other things to make food for the plants. The manure attracts termites, whose tunnels help break up the soil even more. He also made the holes slightly bigger than the traditional ones. Zaï holes have been used to help cultivate trees, and crops like sorghum and millet.
Yacouba Sawadogo holds "Market Days" to get other people to do these things, especially zaï holes. People come to share seeds and learn from each another.
Problems with Burkina Faso GovernmentEdit
Yacouba Sawadogo's work with zaï holes helped him make a forest of about fifty acres (20 hectares). The nearby city of Ouahigouya took the land to make money.  Sawadogo and his family members each get one tenth of 1-acre (4,000 m2) out of the plot, and don't get any other payment.
- Kaboré, Daniel and Chris Reij. "The Emergence and Spreading of an Improved Traditional Soil and Water Conservation Practice in Burkina Faso". International Food Policy Research Institute, February 2004. http://www.ifpri.org/publication/emergence-and-spreading-improved-traditional-soil-and-water-conservation-practice-burkin (last accessed 10 April 2010)
- Mann, Charles C. "Our Good Earth: The future rests on the soil beneath our feet." National Geographic, September 2008. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/soil/mann-text (last accessed 15 September 2008)
- Indigenous Knowledge Notes #77, The World Bank, February 2005. http://www.worldbank.org/afr/ik/iknt77.htm (last accessed 15 September 2008)
- Leonard, Andrew. "How to help Yacouba Sawadogo". Salon.com, Sept. 11, 2008 15:18 PDT. http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/09/11/helping_sawadogo/index.html Archived 2009-01-31 at the Wayback Machine (last accessed 15 September 2008)

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What to do on a sunny Bali Sunday with kids? Visit the turtle centre on Serangan Island of course! This under-visited attraction makes for a perfect half-day outing from anywhere in south Bali — especially if combined with a meal out on the nearby beaches.
The Turtle Conservation and Education Centre (TCEC) was set up to function both as a hatchery and a protection centre for injured turtles that fishermen bring in. Last time we visited, the Centre was almost deserted — no so this time. There was a large school group and a half-dozen foreign tourists wandering through. The large pool (turtle-shaped, of course) had a good amount of water in it (unlike last time, when it was almost empty for cleaning) and the very large turtles seemed to be quite happy (almost smiling) as they swam around.
The second section has a dozen or so open-air tanks containing hundreds of turtles, some brand new, others up to about 50cm in shell diameter. The tanks are low enough for kids to look into and we were lucky enough to arrive when the staff were feeding the turtles, and while it wasn’t quite a feed frenzy, the kids did get a lot of enjoyment watching them munch away.
There’s also a small sandpit with some fenced-off circles containing eggs — not much to see here unless there’s some hatching going on.
Lastly, and we missed this last time, there’s a small enclosure for tortoises (or at least that’s what I think they were!) between the hatchling centre and the small shop. The kids also enjoyed watching these guys but they really couldn’t understand why the tortoises wouldn’t get in the water to cool down.
From the sunbaking tortoises, it’s a hop, skip and a jump to the small visitor centre where you can sign a guest book, buy some turtle-ish souvenirs and make a donation (there is no admission, but donations are welcome and appreciated — we gave 50,000 rupiah for the three of us).
While you can get a very simple meal here, you’re far better off to drive across the apocalyptic wasteland to the beaches on the far east coast of Serangan. It’s not very far at all, a gazillion trails without signage (despite the 5,000 rupiah “admission” cough, cough) wind across the island, so it will likely take five to 15 minutes to actually find the beach.
The beaches are lined by a bunch of shacks — they are shacks — with basic deckchairs and a smidgen of shade. Be warned that a few large piles of trash — perhaps ex shacks — mar the beach a little too. This is real surferville — lots of boards for hire and the Serangan breaks can get big and fast here.
Each shack is painted a distinct colour — my daughter picked “Meria’s” (yes, its pink) — and we settled in for a simple meal of nasi goreng and (cough, cough) chocolate and banana pancakes. It won’t win any haute cuisine awards; even for shack food it was just average, but Meria was very friendly. She claimed to be one of the first to have set up on this patch (some 20 years ago) and we’d be inclined to believe her, as the building looked to be at least 200 years old. When I went to take my boy to the toilet he pointed at the door and just said “No, Dad!”
But grotty bathrooms and shanty setting aside, it does have a real rustic charm to it — added to by the wasteland you have to drive through to get here.
The beach is bordered by groins to the north and south, but the surf can be powerful offshore so while it is okay for kids to wade in the shallows, you’d be wanting to keep a close eye on them.
Ours had a bit of a play in the waters, but were just as happy lounging on the lazy chairs and watching the remote control cars that were being driven around on the sand by a couple of Indonesian families.
Perhaps it was just because it was Sunday, but the crowd was really mixed: a local school group at the Turtle Centre, a group of people flying remote control planes half way to the beach (Will, aged three was VERY interested in that), then at the beach quite a few Australian and Japanese surfers mixing it up with local families, all in a very relaxed setting.
The beaches at Serangan at not Bali’s most beautiful, but combined with a visit to the Turtle Centre this is a relaxing and slightly off-beat way to spend a half day — if you have the time, we recommend it.
Getting to Serangan Island
You will need your own transport (car or motorbike) or a taxi (organise for the return trip) to reach here. It’s roughly a 15 minute drive from Sanur and closer to 30 minutes from Kuta or Seminyak.

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Collect your choice of gallery quality Giclée, or fine art prints custom trimmed by hand in a variety of sizes with a white border for framing.
Rummaging in my grandfather's attic last weekend, I found an old trunk (that apparently had belonged to HIS grandfather) marked "Science Expedition - 1861". Inside, along with a wild assortment of outdated (and rather questionable) scientific instruments, was a selection of notes and illustrations, most of which had disintegrated with age. This diagram, showing the strata of the earth, was the only surviving document of their expedition.

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Oh so lovely! Calm, natural and relaxed.
What do you think of the rustic vibe?
Get the look: Sitting room – linen cushions, throw, large cotton rug, wooden tea light holder, this table lamp is very similar (this one off vintage industrial table lamp is a-ma-zing!). Keep an eye out for similar here. Bathroom – linen dressing gown / robe, bath mat, towel, rustic bench, market bag. Bedroom – linen duvet cover set (I also love all the linen bedding from here – beautiful!).
I’m feeling a little link love coming on….
Proof a small kitchen can be bright and beautiful.
She danced all night…and all the way home is one inspiring tumblr!
Throwing shapes: hexagonal tiles and a round window.
Biggest trend this Autumn – the ‘she shed’ (remember Jeska’s?), have you created your own one yet?).
Last day to enter the Instagram give-away to win this vintage beni ourain rug in assoc with Maroc Tribal (check out these beauties here too)! I know!
Have a great start to the week!
PS this post isn’t sponsored, I simply love the look and feel of the space and thought you might too!


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Have you ever sat down on a park bench, drinking in the afternoon sun, and thought “The world needs now is another crowdfunded racing-styled quartz chronograph?” Well you’re in luck.
Manchester Watch Works comes to us from Manchester, Vermont and their latest piece, the Morgan, is handsome and actually quite nicely designed. Based on 1960s racer designs their watches look like a cross between Tissot and Tag and come with a Isaswiss quartz movement in a 40mm case.
Early birds will pay $228 for the chrono on a leather strap but you can also grab it on a nylon NATO. It will have three face styles – black, blue, and orange – and features plenty of blue lume for night driving.
The watch is nearly fully funded on Kickstarter and should ship in October, just in time for a little leaf peeping in your fancy 1960s roadster.

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You may have heard me talking about another conversion I am working on, where I am taking a Warlord Games M7 Priest and turning it into a Priest Kangaroo or 'defrocked' Priest (full conversion article to come!). From this conversion, I have two of the 105mm howitzers from the Priests left over, while at the same time my brother had some Warlord M3 half-tracks he wanted me to assemble for him. So what better then to convert one of these half-tracks into the T19 Howitzer Motor Carriage?
The T19 was a US made M3 half-track with a mounted 105mm howitzer. Only 320 odd were built at the start of 1942 as a stopgap measure to be used in North Africa until the M7 Priest replaced it. Despite this, some were still used in Sicily, Italy and even in Southern France.
Now the mount for the 105mm is not 100% accurate. In fact it's not even really close. This is partly due because getting clear shots of the mount is hard, but mostly due to fully replicating it is beyond my skill level and mostly hidden out of sight due to the sides of the half-track. So I instead aimed to make a realistic looking gun-mount, if not a authentic one. Once it is mounted into the back of the half-track it is hard to get a clear line of sight to it, especially when the crew are added in, so I didn't feel like I needed to get it spot on. I crafted the mount out of spare plastic bits and a StuG pig-snout mantlet.
The crew are from the same M7 Priest kit as the howitzer and they work perfectly with this vehicle. I also have the plastic M3 driver in the driver's seat. While one of the metal crew is reloading the gun, the commander is on the radio and the third guy is chilling out, peering over the front of the half-track. The overall look to the crew is one of relaxed preparedness.
In Bolt Action, the T19 is listed in the Armies of the US book as a M3 105mm HMC. It is a 7+ open-topped armoured carrier, with a forward-facing medium howitzer. The M3 105mm HMC allows for an optional rear-facing MMG, but I haven't bothered, as I find rear-facing weapons generally useless, especially in a long-range support vehicle like the T19.
This T19 is going into my brother's US army that is based on the North-western European theatre. Not a 100% accurate, maybe it is one from Southern France that got lost. Having a mobile medium howitzer is a pretty nice option. While it doesn't have much armour, the range of the howitzer lets you sit back and with good use of cover, your T19 should be able to survive for a little while, at least long enough to hopefully delete some enemy infantry squads with it's big HE stick.
This was a relatively easy conversion if you have the spare 105mm howitzer and crewmen available. The M3 half-track is left mostly intact and the gun mount is the main part that you will need to craft. If you make your own, I think you will be left with a pretty unique model that is very useful in Bolt Action, so you should give it ago! If you do, drop by the Bolt Action Alliance facebook page and share some pictures with us, we love seeing the cool conversion possibilities people come up with!
"Anf" is a long-time gamer from Down Under, who currently focuses his hobby time on Bolt Action.
With an equal love of rockets and Ice Hockey, he constantly explores weird and wonderful army lists
in his never-ending quest to collect them all.


The Liberal electric car plan Â– initially announced in the 2011 budget Â– would position Quebec as a world leader in electrified transportation, premier Jean Charest said.
The 10-year plan includes financial incentives up to $8,000 annually towards the purchase of an electric car.
Other incentives include bonuses for companies that produce electric car parts, and develop public recharging stations.
Quebec would like to put 300,000 electric cars on the road in the next decade.
The plan will cost more than $500,000, but the investment will pay off, Charest said.
Â“We need to encourage consumers to give this option consideration. WeÂ’d like them to think about it,Â” he said.
Increasing electric car use in the province is key to cutting QuebecÂ’s greenhouse gas emissions, the premier said.
Hydro-QuÃ©bec CEO Thierry Vandal hopes the convenience of electric-powered cars will appeal to Quebecers.
Â“YouÂ’re going to be plugging your car in overnight, and your car is going to be full when you leave home Â— your fuel is at home.Â”
The public utility stands to profit from QuebecÂ’s shift to electricity-powered vehicles.


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Thank you donors!
We have just came back from Cerro de Pasco.
These weeks were so much intense and constructive for all of us.
After a bad acclimation step at 4500 meters above sea level, we started soon the new study beginning with children’s hair sample in the municipality of Paraghsa, the most affected site here in the Simon Bolivar District, in Pasco, the andean region.
We sampled 81 childrens’s hair between 5-14 years old, who are the most vulnerable age range to heavy metals exposition. We will analyze heavy metals concentration in it: heavy metals are neurotoxic, carcinogenic, teratogenic and obviously toxic for our body, and for all living beings.
Paragha is surrounded by mountains of mining waste that are without any type of isolation, so the contaminated dusts are everywhere and people who live 10 meters far from these high mountains are exposed 24 h a day to these contaminants. These polluttants pass through the soil into the subsoil and to the under water reserve that were exploted by mining activities too. So the water of this town is undrinkable and the use is reduced at 1 hour a day!
Here in Cerro de Pasco multiple human rights are violated every day: human right to water, to education, to health, to live in clean environmental, to property, to information… simply it’s not respected the human right to LIFE!
Heavy metals make people sick and they kill them. Here the Cerro SAC company (ex Volcan company) is making a real environmental crime: we are talking of a genocide carried out by more than 50 years.
This territory is bumbarded by a lot of mines: everywhere you go, you find a mine in a radius of 10 Km.
Parallel to the health study we are sampling water of most affected rivers basins, some lakes transformed in mining waste desposals and tap water, always to detect heavy metals levels and to understand the enviornmental quality.
With your help we are carring out the chemical analysis and legal actions to move the city to a healthy site and asking to mining company to apply social responsability and reduce mining waste exposition to inhabitants.
We thank you a lot for your great and generous support. Above all who are thanking all of you are Paraghsa children and Pasco population!!
pH water: 1,46!

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Satellite TV provider Dish and low-cost airline Southwest are expanding their partnership to loan iPad 2 tablets to passengers for free during flights on certain routes.
The companies announced the news on Tuesday and said that the program will be available to passengers on Wi-Fi enabled flights between the Denver, Oakland and Chicago Midway airports.
Flyers will be able to pick up their free iPads at in-terminal Dish kiosks prior to their departure. They will then have to return the tablet at the kiosk after arriving at their destination.
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Forum focuses on old town hall, Route 202 and rescue fund
The Lebanon Board of Selectmen held a community forum on Saturday, Jan. 25, in order to update residents about the latest developments in town.
Thirty-five people attended the event, which Selectmen Ben Thompson led. Thompson discussed such topics as the Old Town Hall, plans for paving Route 202 in the Spring, and the rescue station’s repair fund.
The community forum does not set anything in stone; its main point is to simply inform the public of the possible outcomes of the topics discussed.
First on that list was the Old Town Hall, located at the corner of Heath Road and Center Road. A few years ago, the town voted to raise $60,000 to begin renovating the Old Town Hall. The building was raised up and set over further away from the road, and a new foundation was poured, so the building wouldn’t be sitting directly on the ground. In the election this past June, voters voted against appropriating funds to further the renovation of the building. At the forum, possible actions were discussed; the building could continue to sit there with no further renovation, or the town could possible raise another vote to appropriate funds.
The forum’s next point of discussion was the upcoming paving plans for Route 202. This summer, the state plans to repave the Lebanon section of 202 from the Sanford border to the Rochester, New Hampshire, border. Thompson discussed possible security measures that could be taken on the road, such as placing rumble strips. The Lebanon section of 202 has seen a significant increase in accidents during the past three years.
Finally, Thompson spoke about the Rescue Station Repair Fund. The town is asking for donations in order to fix up the rescue station, which apparently has fallen into poor condition in the past month. Due to the deficit in the department’s budget, the town is asking for donations to assure that it does not add to the debt. If anyone would like to donate money to repair the rescue department, they can drop off donations at the Lebanon Town Office.
The board of selectmen hopes to hold more of these events in the future to keep information available, and to keep the public informed.
In other news, selectmen is expected to meet with Interim Rescue Chief Ray Parent this week. The board and Parent will be working together to create a budget for the rescue department for the remainder of the fiscal year. The department reportedly has a deficit of approximately $200,000; as a result, the budget for the department is expected to be limited to the bare essentials. Selectwoman Karen Gerrish and Selectmen Ben Thompson have been discussing ways to clear up this deficit without having to ask the town to appropriate funds. The board is planning on using FEMA reimbursement funds as well as selling unneeded rescue equipment to pay off the deficit.
OFFICIALS HOLDING CONSTITUENTS’ HOURS
State Representatives Josh Plante and Bill Noon will be holding constituency hours this Saturday, Feb. 1, from 10:30 a.m. to noon. 2014. Residents are encouraged to stop by with the questions and concerns they would like to discuss.
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2014 Dog Licenses are due by this Friday, Jan. 31. As of Feb. 1, there will be a $25 late fee charged.
The license fee is $6 for a dog that has been either spayed or neutered, or $11 for an unaltered dog.
If you no longer have a dog, please notify the town office by calling (207) 457-6082.


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Shah Theatre Academy
The Shah Theatre Academy was formed by a group of Durban theatre enthusiasts in 1962, headed by Ronnie Govender and Muthal Naidoo and named after Krishna Shah, the Broadway director who conducted a clinic on aspects of the theatre having been brought from New York to direct Tagore's King of the Dark Chamber and Alan Paton's Sponono.
It was meant to foster non-racial theatre. While the approach relied heavily on the realist tradition of the 1960s New York theatre, much of what was later to be called Indic theatre developed in this academy. Without grants or subsidies the Academy went on to train several leading actors, directors and playwrights, including Stanley Mnuyandu, Benjy Francis, Guru Pillay, Kessie Govender, Welcome Msomi, Essop Khan, Saths Cooper and Babs Pillay.
1992 Grahamstown Souvenir Programme, p 45
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USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program
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Statement of Work
Purpose: Provide consultancy in assessing the supply chain management information system in Zanzibar
Period of Performance: February 2021 and March 2021
Place of Performance: Zanzibar and virtual/desk work
The Ministry of Health, Social Welfare, Elderly Gender and Children (MOHSWEGC) Zanzibar embarked on the reform process from the beginning of 1990’s and through these reforms; the ministry became fully fledged in the early 2000’s. The Zanzibar health care delivery system has been divided into tertiary, secondary and primary care services; the primary health care services being spread throughout the islands (Pemba and Unguja)s. The primary health care services have been transferred to the President’s Office, Regional Administration, and Local Government Special Department (PORALGSD). The distribution allows good access to primary services to 95% of the population living within or less than 5km to the nearest public health facility.
Through the Chief Pharmacist Office (CPO) and the Central Medical Stores (CMS); MOHSWGEC is responsible for procurement of commodities in collaboration with the Procurement Unit. The CMS is responsible for storing and distributing health commodities to all public health facilities. The health procurement and logistics systems are challenged by limited qualified human resources and issues related to contract management including order processing, delivery and payment terms. All these issues impact the efficiency of the health procurement system hence compromising availability of health commodities.
In November 2013, the MOHSWEGC conducted a strategic review of the national supply chain for health commodities. The review examined broader systems issues affecting the availability of commodities, the performance of the supply chain, and CMS’s ability to fulfill its responsibilities. Supply chain partners and stakeholders proposed interventions in five key areas: financing, policy, and planning; warehousing, inventory management, and distribution; system design and the LMIS; procurement and the private sector; and human resources. The review recommended CMS transformation; and implementation of the recommendations and resulted in CMS achieving a semi-autonomous status.
Some additional and notable benefits of the 2013 review include storage capacity increase, and improved distribution of health commodities. This improved availability and accessibility at all times. The MOHSWGEC has continued to strengthen collaboration between alternative medical practitioners and health institutions in areas of drug monitoring and research. The cold storage system for drugs in Unguja and Pemba was also strengthened. Whilst a lot has been achieved to date, there are still some gaps that require immediate attention as noted below:
The procurement system for health commodities and supplies is still challenged with lengthy procurement processes, poor specifications for some health commodities, inadequate and unpredictable funding for medicines and inadequate infrastructure contributing to shortages of drugs
The increase of demand for health services has led to increase in number of health facilities and hence it is recommended to strengthen security at HFs premises, health commodity monitoring compliance of rational drug use practices by health providers
Recent initiatives such as digitization of the Zanzibar health system, decentralization of the health care services and modernization of logistics system requires RGOZ to also ensure that the public health supply chain system is upgraded to meet the new expectations
Despite the positive development of the overall Zanzibar health supply chain performance, there are still areas to improve. Based on Zanzibar Annual performance review reports of 2015/16; Zanzibar had experienced stock outs of essential commodities. There was an increase in the proportion of facilities experiencing stock out of tracer drugs from 37% in 2013/14 to 68% in 2015/16.
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Therefore, the MOHSWEGC conducts a holistic review of the health supply chain in order to fully address the observed challenges identified in the entire system. In this case the review will assess the current situation, analyse options available to address areas requiring improvement and develop strategies to strengthen the health supply chain. It is expected that the review will lead to improving management of health commodities ensuring 100% stock availability of essential medicines in all primary health facilities in the country..
The purpose of this scope of work is to review Management Information Systems for health commodities in Zanzibar. The scope will include analyzing different paper based and electronic MIS tools available at different levels, document weaknesses and strengths of the tools and recommend the best options for considerations.
The objectives of this STTA are to;
In this review the specific tasks will be carried out and the results compared to determine efficient management information systems to improve logistics information systems. Key steps to perform the tasks include literature review, data collection, data cleaning and analysis and report preparation and dissemination. The tasks include:
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IDOT Announces Area Road Closures For Labor Day WeekendThe Illinois Department of Transportation has suspended road work over labor day weekend in order to improve traffic flow for the holiday weekend, however closures will still remain in effect for several area roads.
In Jefferson County, both I-64 Eastbound and Westbound and I-57 Southbound will be restricted to one lane north of the merge near Mt. Vernon. I-57 Southbound will also be reduced to one lane at the entrance ramp from IL-15.
In Clay County, US-50 East of Flora will be undergoing bridge rehabilitation. Travel will be restricted to one lane in each direction with concrete barriers in place.
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There was a period of time in my life when my hair started to fall out. It started with a small circular patch on one side of my scalp and then it moved to the other side too. Eventually, two bald circular patches reigned both front sides of my scalp. I remember feeling worried and anxious about it. I would look at my bald patches whenever I was close to a mirror. It seemed that the more I looked at them, the more the baldness expanded.
That’s when I decided to stop focusing on my hair loss and instead focus on things that made me happy, like spending quality time with my boyfriend, going for walks in nature, and working on my blog. With this new shift of focus, there were days in which I didn’t even remember I had ever suffered from hair loss.
After some time, something incredible happened. Beautiful thick black hair started to grow, filling my entire scalp. It turned out that, after I stopped paying attention to the problem, the problem solved itself. Or should I say, the problem lost its power. I now understand that focusing on the problem just made it worse.
If you are facing any health challenge right now, I am by no means trying to tell you to ignore the disease, nor do I want you to believe that it is going to cure itself overnight. I still encourage you to go to the doctor and take the necessary treatment. However, if you spend most of your days thinking about the problem, you’ll be creating a low vibration in your body, which will only create stress in your cells and affect your inner peace. Instead, have hope that the disease is healing. Set a habit of making daily affirmations such as “my body is healing”, or “my body knows how to heal.”
Sometimes, even when the problem isn’t there yet, it becomes our reality. This is because we obsess over it to the point that it has no choice other than to manifest. Sure, there are things we cannot control, and that are just destined to happen. We cannot avoid the loss of a loved one, or the diagnosis of a chronic disease. But we can control how we respond to those things. When we only focus on the ugly of a problem, we are just giving it more power. However, when we decide to focus on a challenging or uncomfortable situation with the lens of hope and love, just as it happened with my hair, it will eventually get better.
I know it’s easier said than done, especially just after receiving bad news. But even in the darkness, we can find the light. Difficult situations happen for a reason. They exist to teach us a lesson. In my case, I needed to learn to take more care of my body by giving it the right fuel. I needed to slow down, drop the drama, and enjoy life more. After I did that, I regained a bit of control over my health, and my hair started to grow again.
Unfortunately, I cannot guarantee your problem will be totally eradicated once you start focusing on the positive. But I can assure you this:When you are gentle with yourself and focus your energy on the people and things that make you happy, life gets much better. Click To Tweet