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Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions (Woody Allen).
Questions from the audience and online for the keynote speaker.
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is pleased to host the 28th Annual Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture. The Annual Lecture commemorates the significant impact on international nutrition by Martin J. Forman, who headed the Office of Nutrition at USAID for more than 20 years. The annual lecturer is invited to present his or her personal, often unconventional, views about large issues dealing with malnutrition.
Over recent decades, as global food systems have changed rapidly, so has the face of malnutrition. Obesity and the double burden of malnutrition have risen dramatically, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Many of these countries are using fiscal and regulatory tools to address these issues, with little evidence on their effectiveness.
This lecture will discuss findings from our evaluations of these public health efforts around the world. Some surprising new results—including impressive findings on the impact of marketing and front-of-the-package profiling options—may shift the focus of our actions. However, we still have much to learn about what works and how we can sustain dietary improvements. To date, no country has successfully arrested or even slowed the rise in overweight and obesity. Our challenge is assembling a set of effective programs and policies to address the new face of malnutrition.
Photos by Jamed Falik/IFPRI
Taking audience questions at a Capital Ideas panel entitled "How does creativity fuel your business mind?"
It was held at the Edmonton Journal on Aug. 20, 2014, and was moderated by Karen Unland.
Rialto Theater, Racine, Wisconsin, showing Question 7 and Days of Thrills and Laughter, "Returned by Public Demand," 1961. Jerome F. Barina, Lawyer, office on second floor at left.
The Rialto Theatre opened in 1925, seating was listed at 730. The theatre was operated by Warner Brothers and later by Marcus Theatre. The Rialto Theatre closed in 1969 and was later demolished.
LFA 0/1/5 Lutheran Film Associates Question 7 Photographs - Theaters showing Question 7.
ELCA Archives image.
La question du génocide arménien dans les manuels scolaires turques.
Interview de Pr Ahmet Kuyas professeur à Galatasaray.
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Nan Goldin
Exhibition view "Family Matters. Portraits and experiences of family today", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
(14.03.2014 - 20.07.2014)
© photo Martino Margheri
I was in my backyard today trying to get used to a new lens by shooting some birds that like to visit our feeder, when I saw a flash of orange that at first I thought was a blowing leaf. I saw it move again on the ground in a familiar way and I thought, no it can't be?
Could it?
Not in February?
OK, I have to find out?
There's more to this guys name than just the marking on his wing.
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Interesting photo subjects seen on a Sept visit to a couple locations along the Muskingum River including the Devola and Lowell Ohio Lock and Dams.
i've creatively dodged "what is sex" questions but this one was a bit harder. I guess you can have heat of the moment in public at 30 degrees.... otherwise you'd find a can..... ..
ah well.... HBW anyway!
3-D Cross-viewing Instructions.
Cross-viewing is the best way to view 3-D (in my humble opinion). It takes about 5 minutes on average to master this technique, but it is well worth it. After that it became effortless. Better than glasses because you lose none of the color. Here's how to do it...
1.Place the image in Figure 1 in the center of your screen.
2. Sit at your normal distance.
3. Slowly cross your eyes. You will see a double image.
4. Continue to cross until the middle two images overlap.
5. Adjust focus on middle image, keeping the two images overlapped.
6. You should see the image snap into perfect 3-D.
Contact me if you have any questions about this image.
This photo is part of a gallery. You’re welcome to visit the complete series.
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All along the 13th century the fortifications of Vide have been done and undone due to the dynastic dispute of King Dom Dinis with his brother, which owned these lands and had the pretension of becoming king, despite not being the first-born son of King Afonso III.
In 1279, Dom Dinis interpreted the fortification of the existing castle by his brother Prince Afonso Sanches as a covered operation to launch an assault to the crown, and departed with the royal troops to siege Castelo de Vide in 1281.
After solving the dispute, the fortifications previously built have been destroyed - a tower and several segments of walls.
Later, Dom Dinis permuted the lands owned by his brother for others away from the frontier, and assigned them to a noble he trusted to defend Portugal and his crown against Spain.
Since then, Dom Dinis ordered the reinforcement of the castle and the construction of a wall surrounding the town which gave the current name to the locality, Castelo de Vide (Castle of Vide).
The castle itself is located in a corner of the fortification complex and integrates the beautiful Medieval Borough.
Scarborough Castle stands on a massive promontory of rock that rises above the North Sea. Its 12th-century great tower is the centrepiece of a royal castle begun by Henry II. It became one of the greatest royal fortresses in England and figured prominently in national events during the Middle Ages. Its buildings are mostly relatively recent additions to a site which, as a natural fortress, has been intermittently inhabited and fortified for nearly 3,000 years.
Before the Castle
Reconstructed Roman pottery from the site of the Roman signal station at Scarborough Castle (on loan from Scarborough Museums Trust)
With its own anchorage, Scarborough has long been an important gateway to north-east England. Fragments of pottery dating to between about 2100 and 1600 BC are the earliest evidence of human activity on the headland.
But it is only in the first millennium BC that there is clear evidence of a settlement there. Excavations suggest two distinct periods of habitation, the first about 800 BC and the second about 500 BC, but it is not clear how extensive either settlement was.In the late 4th century AD a fortified tower was erected on the headland. Finds of coins and pottery, and architectural similarity to other sites, suggest that it was one of a set of signal stations built along the north-eastern coast of Britain at this time. Exactly when and why these were built is much debated, but whatever their purpose, they seem to have been abandoned in the early 5th century. It has long been supposed that the name Scarborough derives from Old Norse. However, the whole idea of a Viking settlement at Scarborough has recently been questioned and an alternative Anglo-Saxon derivation for the name Scarborough as ‘the hill with the fort’ has been suggested.Nonetheless, it is clear from the discovery of a chapel within the foundations of the Roman signal station as well as a small cemetery that there was human activity on the headland by 1000.
The Early Castle
Scarborough is first clearly documented in the mid-12th century as a borough prospering beneath the walls of a great royal castle.The castle’s founder was William le Gros, Count of Aumâle. Created Earl of York by King Stephen in 1138, he proceeded to establish himself as the unrivalled political master of the region. His work at Scarborough probably began in the 1130s. Later in the 12th century the chronicler William of Newburgh recorded that Aumâle was responsible for enclosing the plateau of the promontory with a wall and erecting a tower at the entrance, on the site of the present great tower or keep. But within a few years of the castle’s foundation Henry II acceded to the throne and demanded the return of all royal castles. Scarborough, which was built on a royal manor, was one of these, and Scarborough Castle passed into the hands of the Crown.
A Royal Castle
In 1159 Henry II began to rebuild the castle, planting a new town beneath its walls at the same time. About £650 was spent on the castle over the next ten years, an enormous sum.[8] The principal object of expenditure was the great tower, built 1159–69, most probably as architectural confirmation that the castle had changed hands.King John is known to have visited Scarborough several times and seems to have developed it, along with Knaresborough, as a major royal castle to control Yorkshire. He spent £2,291 on Scarborough, more than on any other castle in the kingdom, in two phases: first, the creation of an outer wall to the inner bailey in 1202–6, and second, the extension of that wall down to the cliff in 1207–12. During the second stage he also constructed a hall in the inner bailey as well as a new royal chamber block and a separate aisled hall in the outer bailey.
The Castle in the Later Middle Ages
Henry III provisioned and maintained the castle throughout his reign, which became one of the greatest royal fortresses in England. Edward I continued to use it as a royal lodging, holding court and council at Scarborough in 1275. Prisoners from his Scottish wars were also held there. In 1312 it was briefly the scene of a siege when Edward II's favourite, Piers Gaveston, took refuge in the castle. In 1308 Lord Percy and his wife were granted licence to live in the castle and over the next 40 years the Percy family built a bakehouse, brewhouse and kitchen in the inner bailey. The buildings were generally only repaired in extreme need. Richard III was the last king to stay there, in 1484, while assembling a fleet to resist the expected invasion of Henry Tudor, later Henry VII.
The Castle under the Tudors
Though dilapidated, Scarborough Castle continued to play an important role in times of crisis. When the popular rebellion against Henry VIII known as the Pilgrimage of Grace broke out in October 1536, the constable, Sir Ralph Eure, declared his support for the king and was besieged in the castle. Although damaged by gunfire, the castle was held successfully. Twenty years later the castle was involved in another doomed plot, when in 1557 Thomas Stafford seized the castle and held it for three days, believing he could incite a popular revolt against Queen Mary. The castle was easily captured, and Stafford and his accomplices were executed.
The Civil War
In September 1642 a local gentleman, Sir Hugh Cholmley, was commissioned to hold Scarborough for Parliament, but he was soon persuaded to change sides. Immediately afterwards, while Cholmley was visiting Charles I in York, 40 seamen under the command of Cholmley’s cousin Captain Browne Bushell surprised the guard at night and took the castle. Cholmley rushed back and persuaded Bushell to return the castle to him. For the next two years Scarborough served as an important Royalist base, its interception of shipping inflicting serious coal shortages on London.Early in 1645, however, Parliamentarian forces closed in on Scarborough. After three weeks Sir Hugh was forced to retreat from the town to the castle, where for five months he resisted one of the bloodiest sieges of the Civil War. The bombardment was so intense that the massive walls of the great tower sheared and half the building collapsed. Eventually Cholmley ran out of gunpowder, then money and finally food. He surrendered on 25 July 1645. The castle was again besieged when the Parliamentary garrison of 100 men under Colonel Boynton declared for the imprisoned king on 27 July 1648, after Parliament had failed to pay them. Boynton eventually surrendered in December. Instructions were given that the castle should be slighted, but opposition from the town preserved it from destruction
Prison and Barrack
The Master Gunner’s House at Scarborough Castle, which was probably converted from an existing building in the early 18th century From the 1650s the castle also served as a prison – among those held there was George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends (the Quakers). In response to the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745–6 a barracks block was constructed within the walls of King John’s chamber block, and this remained in use into the mid-19th century.
The 20th Century
On the morning of 16 December 1914, in the opening months of the First World War, two German warships fired more than 500 shells on the town and castle from the bay. Seventeen civilians were killed and more than 80 seriously wounded. In 1920 Scarborough Castle was taken into state guardianship by the Ministry of Works. Under its ownership the 18th century barracks block damaged in the German bombardment was demolished. The site of the Roman signal station and chapel was excavated in the 1920s, and the castle was placed in the care of English Heritage in 1984.
Important Question: "Have we simply joined ourselves to some expression or institution of Christianity, or has our heart been changed?" -Paul Washer
I am looking for advice on places to get quality prints at good prices... whether it is ok to order from someplace (where???) on the internet that is noted for quality nature prints, or better to look more locally. I live aways from the big city of Portland with lots of options!
How about the Flickr printing option... anyone use that and have feedback??/
I SOLD SOME!!! I was so excited, now I want to do more! I suppose I better get a business licence next and keep track of receipts. I am using the money from this sale to get some mats and prints, so I can put some in local fairs this next month...
Also wondering about any leads to online tutorials or info on matting photos so they look really nice for selling..
OR suggestions on good ways to sell prints... places to get postcards or cards made...
anyone have experience with selling through Flickr, how is that working?
Can anyone share info with me on putting signatures on photos?
I know so little!!!!
Oh yeah, and I want to make a good business card ... any suggestions?
Originaly I thought it was a victim of a heteropteran predator but the massive bulk of the body, which was a least double that of other aphids sharing the same plant, caused me to wonder if the excessive bulk was from housing an internal parasitoid which then eat its way out.
Any ideas welcome
Aphidius (a genus of aphid parasitic wasps) I believe to be the culprit from other pictures that I have seen. The hole being the exit hole of the adult wasp.
When you are not at award ceremonies, people are not honoring you and work what do you do for fun?
Answer #13:
I am a part time poet. I have written a poem that goes as:
I climbed and climbed, where is the peak my Lord,
I ploughed and ploughed, where is the knowledge treasure my Lord,
I sailed and sailed, where is the Island of peace my Lord,
May Almighty bless my nation with vision and sweat (hard work) resulting into happiness
FORT CARSON, Colo. – Katie Carrol, director of public relations and broadcasting, Better Business Bureau, fields questions from Fort Carson Soldiers during the question and answer portion of her briefing, “Your Rights as a Consumer,” a seminar sponsored by Army Community Service presented at Fort Carson’s The Hub, March 15, 2012.
(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Craig Cantrell, 4th Inf. Div. PAO)