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For many centuries, this theory was generally accepted, as most common observations seemed to support it. Many experiments were performed on the subject; most notably that of the biologist Jean Baptist van Helmont in the mid 1600s. In attempt to pink van cleef necklace imitation prove this concept, he placed a moist cloth and wheat grain inside a closed, wooden box. To his astonishment, he found a mouse nibbling at the box within a few days. Even in the 1600s there were skeptics about spontaneous generation in the scholarly community, including Francesco Redi, who had had doubts of its truth. He protested that Helmont's experiment was flawed because he had no way of determining whether the mouse was nibbling in or out of the box.
Redi performed his own experiment in a controlled environment, placing meat inside a sealed jar. Several days passed, and no maggots appeared on the meat. While this may seem to be proof that spontaneous generation is van cleef lucky alhambra necklace replica false, his colleagues insisted that the no life forms could have been created because he had cut off the meat from the air supply. Still obstinately refusing to believe the law of spontaneous generation, Redi performed his experiment once more, now with a very fine netting. Thus, air would still be able to move freely in and out of the jar, but flies could not.
This editable Main Article is under development and not meant to be cited; by editing it you can help to improve it towards a future approved, citable version. These unapproved articles are subject to a disclaimer. [edit intro]
Spontaneous generation is the idea that complex forms of life arise anew from van cleef lucky alhambra necklace imitation non living matter. This concept goes back to at least 330BC when the philosopher Aristotle observed that when meat is left to decay, maggots would appear on the meat within a few days. From this, he asserted that non living matter, such as the meat, could give rise to a life form, such as the maggots.
For many centuries, this theory was generally accepted, as most common observations seemed to support it. Many experiments were performed on the subject; most notably that of the biologist Jean Baptist van Helmont in the mid 1600s. In attempt to pink van cleef necklace imitation prove this concept, he placed a moist cloth and wheat grain inside a closed, wooden box. To his astonishment, he found a mouse nibbling at the box within a few days. Even in the 1600s there were skeptics about spontaneous generation in the scholarly community, including Francesco Redi, who had had doubts of its truth. He protested that Helmont's experiment was flawed because he had no way of determining whether the mouse was nibbling in or out of the box.
Redi performed his own experiment in a controlled environment, placing meat inside a sealed jar. Several days passed, and no maggots appeared on the meat. While this may seem to be proof that spontaneous generation is van cleef lucky alhambra necklace replica false, his colleagues insisted that the no life forms could have been created because he had cut off the meat from the air supply. Still obstinately refusing to believe the law of spontaneous generation, Redi performed his experiment once more, now with a very fine netting. Thus, air would still be able to move freely in and out of the jar, but flies could not.
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Vilaysane has had run ins before with law enforcement for drug and alcohol related offenses and previously has been placed on a 72 hour psychiatric hold, Miranda said.
A Riverside woman was charged with child abandonment Thursday after she left her 2 year old daughter in a grocery store over the weekend, officials said.
Chiengkham Vilaysane, 31, faces a felony count of child abandonment and a misdemeanor count of child endangerment, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Riverside County district attorney's office. She is expected to be arraigned van cleef and arpels mini alhambra necklace fake Monday in Riverside, he said.
According to police, Vilaysane walked into a Food 4 Less supermarket Sunday night in the 4000 block of Van Buren Boulevard with her daughter by her side.
At some point, the girl wandered off. Vilaysane continued van cleef and arpels zipper necklace fake shopping and never searched for her, Riverside Police Det. Paul Miranda said.
A good Samaritan spotted the girl and presented her to Vilaysane, who responded, "Oh, just leave her," police said.
Vilaysane then paid for her groceries and intentionally left the store without vca sweet alhambra necklace replica her daughter, police said. She never reported the girl missing, Miranda said.
When police showed the girl a photograph from surveillance camera footage, she identified Vilaysane as "Mommy," he said.
The girl is in the custody of Riverside County's Children's Services Division. She appeared to be in good health and showed no obvious signs of trauma, Miranda said.
Police released surveillance video Monday showing Vilaysane and the girl walking through the grocery store. Detectives were hoping the public would help them find Vilaysane.
The following evening, Vilaysane walked into a bank in Riverside in the 10300 block of Magnolia Avenue and was recognized by the teller from news reports. The teller notified police, and Vilaysane was arrested.
Vilaysane has another child, who is safe and being cared for by relatives, police said. According to Miranda, Vilaysane recently was kicked out of her family home.
Vilaysane has had run ins before with law enforcement for drug and alcohol related offenses and previously has been placed on a 72 hour psychiatric hold, Miranda said.
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United have alienated a section of their fans and former players with a series of soporific displays this season and were booed by their supporters at home on occasions.
Robson, United's longest serving captain, feels the fans are justified in being frustrated with the dour playing style of a club famed for entertaining fans with their attacking flair.
In an interview with Reuters, the 59 year old said the players could do more to woo the fans again.
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United have dominated possession against most opponents but have largely failed to convert it into goals, lacking creativity in and around the 18 yard box.
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"Sometimes you need attacking players with a bit of imagination and flair to actually produce that type of football
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Van Gaal has won league titles in Germany, Spain and Netherlands and having tightened the team's defence, Robson felt, the 64 year old was ideally placed to reinvent United's attack.
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A less optimistic Robson predicted a top four finish for the side with Manchester City and Arsenal as his picks to win the league.
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Robson also expects England to do well at this year's European Championship even though he doest not really see them beating world champions Germany or Spain.
MUMBAI (Reuters) Manchester United great Bryan Robson believes Louis van Gaal's players can do more to prevent boring displays and wants them to exhibit the same attacking football that has made the Premier League side arguably the world's most popular soccer club.
United have alienated a section of their fans and former players with a series of soporific displays this season and were booed by their supporters at home on occasions.
Robson, United's longest serving captain, feels the fans are justified in being frustrated with the dour playing style of a club famed for entertaining fans with their attacking flair.
In an interview with Reuters, the 59 year old said the players could do more to woo the fans again.
"Lot of people will always blame the coach but sometimes the players have to express themselves a little bit more," the former England captain said. "The players have to take that responsibility.
"We are in the entertainment business and that's why Manchester United vca bracelet imitation have 680 million fans around the world.
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United have dominated possession against most opponents but have largely failed to convert it into goals, lacking creativity in and around the 18 yard box.
Robson, who was in Mumbai to inaugurate a football pitch created by Apollo Tyres using recycled rubber, said United currently lacked players who could supply that extra bit of flair.
"Sometimes you need attacking players with a bit of imagination and flair to actually produce that type of football
"At the moment we are just a little bit short of that. We are not far off," said Robson, who scored 99 goals in 461 appearances for United during his 13 years at the club.
"People like (Wayne) Rooney, (Anthony) Martial, (Memphis) Depay and (Juan) Mata they have all got great ability and it's just about getting a little bit better."
Van Gaal has won league titles in Germany, Spain and Netherlands and having tightened the team's defence, Robson felt, the 64 year old was ideally placed to reinvent United's attack.
"When Louis van Gaal first came to the club he wanted to get a good, solid base to the team," said Robson, who has managed Middlesbrough, West Bromwich Albion, Sheffield United, Bradford City and Thailand's national team.
"We have proved this season that we are difficult to score against.
"So now I think Louis Van Gaal will look to be that little bit more attacking and try and get the side to (the level) which the Manchester United fans have always been used to."
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A less optimistic Robson predicted a top four finish for the side with Manchester City and Arsenal as his picks to win the league.
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It must be torture for passionate fans of "Fifty Shades of Grey" as they (along with the just plain curious) anticipate the film's Friday release. Early reports say the film's sex scenes will total a mere 20 minutes, but how well scrutinized those 20 minutes will be! When it comes to portraying S themes on screen, depicting extreme sexual practices tends to be trickier than getting into van cleef white gold bracelet knock off a latex body suit. One constraint for filmmakers is balancing how much the scenes should educate, fascinate or titillate the audience. At the same time, directors need to treat the practices being portrayed with respect. Given the resistance of Hollywood cinema to realistically depict BDSM culture, independent and international cinema has been best at producing films of this type, with many of them skirting risky censorship issues.
"The Duke of Burgundy," in theaters and VOD now, depicts a master/slave relationship between two lesbian lepidopterists (read Salon review). It is a terrific example of how to do S right. He keeps viewers captivated as he teases out meanings on who has the power in the relationship, and he never judges these women, who become excited by a "human toilet."
Based on an Anne Rice novel, Garry Marshall's misguided caper comedy has undercover cops (Rosie O'Donnell and Dan Aykroyd) chasing jewel thieves on a sex fantasy island called Eden. Marshall plays BDSM for laughs that never come. He styles O'Donnell and Aykroyd in outrageous leather outfits and studded collars, as if the mere sight of them in bondage gear is funny. Meanwhile, the "romantic" storyline features Mistress Lisa (Dana Delany) "disciplining" masochist Elliot (Paul Mercurio) by sitting on him or tying him up naked and flogging his cute caboose. When the Mistress and her slave actually have sex, it's boring vanilla missionary style sex, which is, perhaps, meant to be ironic. But "Exit to Eden" is boring, missionary style S "9 Weeks"
Perhaps the most erotic moment in Adrian Lyne's largely feeble attempt to make sadomasochistic relationships sexy is the closed eyes feeding scene. John (Mickey Rourke) dominates Elizabeth (Kim Basinger) in many respects, but she seems to be turned on by his control. Lyne's glossy (read: superficial) style makes the sensual texture of cherries and corkscrew pasta palpable, and the fleshy surface tension of Jell O is quite sexually suggestive. Of course, the playful "game" becomes increasingly more explicit with Elizabeth biting into a phallic hot pepper. And when she furiously chugs milk a few frames later, is there any doubt about the symbolism of the milky white liquid running down her face? What about the sticky honey he drizzles all over her tongue and thighs after? Elizabeth's "pain" in this scene generates some pleasure, but "9 Weeks" is all surface, no content. James (Paul Dawson) performs auto fellatio, unaware than his voyeuristic neighbor, Caleb (Peter Stickles) is watching; Sofia (Sook Yin Lee) and Rob (Raphael Barker) are a married couple who have sex in various strenuous positions; and Severin (Lindsay Beamish), a sarcastic dominatrix, flogs a "trust fund hipster" while he asks her probing questions. Mitchell, however, reveals that each of these characters is emotionally unhappy. This is in part because they hide, rather than communicate their feelings to their partners. In fact, the film is using the pain James, Sofia and Severin feel regarding physical sex as a way of addressing their emotional needs. They each want to feel "something," not nothing. Viewers who embrace "Shortbus" will enjoy the wild, sexy ride, but for those who think it tries too hard, it proves to be a rather facile film.
7. "Crash"
David Cronenberg, of "Videodrome" and "Dead Ringers" fame, is the only filmmaker who could adapt J. G. Ballard's novel about people aroused by auto accidents. His kinky characters give meaning to "auto erotica," and participate in sexy, sadomasochistic scenes in which James Dean and Jayne Mansfield's famous car accidents are recreated for everyone's sexual pleasure. The film, which can be read as a pointed commentary about humans and technology, has characters connecting by physically "crashing" into each other, either in car accidents or by "ramming" each other sexually from behind. If Cronenberg's tone shifts gears between serious and risible, it includes a notable appearance by Rosanna Arquette as Gabrielle, an injured woman with steel braces on her legs and scars on the back of her thighs. When she wears fishnet stockings, she looks like one sexy dominatrix.
6. "The Night Porter"
Liliana Cavani's provocative and controversial film, set in 1957 Vienna, has Max (Dirk Bogarde), a former Nazi officer, working as a night porter in an elegant hotel. He takes care of his guests until he is taken aback locking eyes with Lucia (Charlotte Rampling), the wife of a visiting American conductor. Max knew Lucia as his "little girl," from her time in a concentration camp. Their reunion triggers horrible flashbacks for her. Max, however, is distracted by Lucia's arrival; her appearance coincides with a trial to expunge his war crimes. While she is initially afraid of him, when they meet up one night they embrace passionately and resume their previous relationship. Before long, Lucia is shackled in Max's apartment, where he hits her. They play games with broken glass. Apparently, you do hurt the one you love the most. "The Night Porter" treats its lovers' sadomasochistic relationship as an extreme form of Stockholm syndrome, with Lucia protecting Max, rather than punishing him for what he did to her. He calls her Fido after hitting her in the face so hard she almost falls over. He offers her no "safe word" to stop the pain, and makes her wait for hours for his attentions, which jeopardizes her childcare. When he does take her back to his lair, K binds Joe to a couch with rope, straps and duct tape before whipping her with a damp riding crop. She screams before he even makes first contact. When he does connect, however, he hits her so hard it leaves her visibly bruised. Von Trier is somewhat cheeky in this sequence, adding moments of unexpected humor, such as when K introduces Joe to the concept of the "silent duck." Ultimately, the two part film is a lengthy and for some portentous debate in which Joe and Seligman (Stellan Skarsgrd) discuss where sexual tendencies and predilections originate.
4. "Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist"
Kirby Dick's outstanding documentary about Bob Flanagan is as fascinating as its subject, a "supermasochist." Flanagan, who died at age 43, suffered from cystic fibrosis and was in constant pain. He found a woman, Sheree Rose, who was a dominatrix, and he gave her control of his body and life. While the film is at times hard to watch yes, Flanagan is seen hammering a nail into the head of his penis! "Sick" is a remarkably sympathetic, funny and life affirming documentary that shows how BDSM can help people live fuller, richer and even healthier lives.
3. "A Year Without Love"
This excellent Argentine film it won the Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival for Best Feature Film is based on the diaries of Pablo Prez, an HIV+ gay man. Pablo (Juan Minujn) explains that his passion for leather formed in his childhood. "I always liked superheroes," he says in a poignant voice over. "Their muscular bodies, the tight outfits, the masks. They shaped my ideal of a strong, protective man." As a dominant man moves a whip or a knife along his naked back, Pablo flinches with obvious delight. There are several sequences shot in S clubs, and these episodes add further insight into the appeal the leather scene has for Pablo; the power he feels provides a form of control over his body that his disease has stripped from him. Pablo is also anxious to pursue a relationship with hunky master Martn (Javier van de Couter). In one intense encounter Martn crushes Pablo neck with a leather boot before stringing him up for some ass and nipple teasing knife play. Edward Grey (James Spader). The clever opening sequence has Lee sweet alhambra bracelet imitation performing everyday tasks like stapling and preparing coffee while manacled at both wrists by a bar that stretches along her back. Later she is spanked while reading a letter corrected by her boss. "Secretary" shows how Mr. Grey (Did E. L. James find her character name here?) is as "damaged" as Lee. He is grieving over the loss of his wife; she has recently been released from an institution and has a history of cutting herself. Both are hurting, and they use their S activities to help the other through their pain. But their codependent relationship, while fake van cleef vintage alhambra bracelet highly compatible, becomes complicated. This is what makes "Secretary" such a touching romance, and the film is bolstered by two incredibly accomplished performances by Spader and Gyllenhaal.
1. "Sal, or the 120 Days of Sodom"
Pier Paolo Pasolini's scandalous "Sal" remains forever potent. The film, based on the writing of the Marquis de Sade, features various sadomasochistic acts ranging from urophilia to coprophagia, inflicted on captive teenagers, male and female, by middle aged Fascist dignitaries in the Nazi controlled Republic of Sal in World War II Italy. What makes "Sal" so indelible is that the acts are not consensual and they culminate in mutilation and murder. It's a striking, unforgettable film, albeit one that requires a strong constitution.
It must be torture for passionate fans of "Fifty Shades of Grey" as they (along with the just plain curious) anticipate the film's Friday release. Early reports say the film's sex scenes will total a mere 20 minutes, but how well scrutinized those 20 minutes will be! When it comes to portraying S themes on screen, depicting extreme sexual practices tends to be trickier than getting into van cleef white gold bracelet knock off a latex body suit. One constraint for filmmakers is balancing how much the scenes should educate, fascinate or titillate the audience. At the same time, directors need to treat the practices being portrayed with respect. Given the resistance of Hollywood cinema to realistically depict BDSM culture, independent and international cinema has been best at producing films of this type, with many of them skirting risky censorship issues.
"The Duke of Burgundy," in theaters and VOD now, depicts a master/slave relationship between two lesbian lepidopterists (read Salon review). It is a terrific example of how to do S right. He keeps viewers captivated as he teases out meanings on who has the power in the relationship, and he never judges these women, who become excited by a "human toilet."
Based on an Anne Rice novel, Garry Marshall's misguided caper comedy has undercover cops (Rosie O'Donnell and Dan Aykroyd) chasing jewel thieves on a sex fantasy island called Eden. Marshall plays BDSM for laughs that never come. He styles O'Donnell and Aykroyd in outrageous leather outfits and studded collars, as if the mere sight of them in bondage gear is funny. Meanwhile, the "romantic" storyline features Mistress Lisa (Dana Delany) "disciplining" masochist Elliot (Paul Mercurio) by sitting on him or tying him up naked and flogging his cute caboose. When the Mistress and her slave actually have sex, it's boring vanilla missionary style sex, which is, perhaps, meant to be ironic. But "Exit to Eden" is boring, missionary style S "9 Weeks"
Perhaps the most erotic moment in Adrian Lyne's largely feeble attempt to make sadomasochistic relationships sexy is the closed eyes feeding scene. John (Mickey Rourke) dominates Elizabeth (Kim Basinger) in many respects, but she seems to be turned on by his control. Lyne's glossy (read: superficial) style makes the sensual texture of cherries and corkscrew pasta palpable, and the fleshy surface tension of Jell O is quite sexually suggestive. Of course, the playful "game" becomes increasingly more explicit with Elizabeth biting into a phallic hot pepper. And when she furiously chugs milk a few frames later, is there any doubt about the symbolism of the milky white liquid running down her face? What about the sticky honey he drizzles all over her tongue and thighs after? Elizabeth's "pain" in this scene generates some pleasure, but "9 Weeks" is all surface, no content. James (Paul Dawson) performs auto fellatio, unaware than his voyeuristic neighbor, Caleb (Peter Stickles) is watching; Sofia (Sook Yin Lee) and Rob (Raphael Barker) are a married couple who have sex in various strenuous positions; and Severin (Lindsay Beamish), a sarcastic dominatrix, flogs a "trust fund hipster" while he asks her probing questions. Mitchell, however, reveals that each of these characters is emotionally unhappy. This is in part because they hide, rather than communicate their feelings to their partners. In fact, the film is using the pain James, Sofia and Severin feel regarding physical sex as a way of addressing their emotional needs. They each want to feel "something," not nothing. Viewers who embrace "Shortbus" will enjoy the wild, sexy ride, but for those who think it tries too hard, it proves to be a rather facile film.
7. "Crash"
David Cronenberg, of "Videodrome" and "Dead Ringers" fame, is the only filmmaker who could adapt J. G. Ballard's novel about people aroused by auto accidents. His kinky characters give meaning to "auto erotica," and participate in sexy, sadomasochistic scenes in which James Dean and Jayne Mansfield's famous car accidents are recreated for everyone's sexual pleasure. The film, which can be read as a pointed commentary about humans and technology, has characters connecting by physically "crashing" into each other, either in car accidents or by "ramming" each other sexually from behind. If Cronenberg's tone shifts gears between serious and risible, it includes a notable appearance by Rosanna Arquette as Gabrielle, an injured woman with steel braces on her legs and scars on the back of her thighs. When she wears fishnet stockings, she looks like one sexy dominatrix.
6. "The Night Porter"
Liliana Cavani's provocative and controversial film, set in 1957 Vienna, has Max (Dirk Bogarde), a former Nazi officer, working as a night porter in an elegant hotel. He takes care of his guests until he is taken aback locking eyes with Lucia (Charlotte Rampling), the wife of a visiting American conductor. Max knew Lucia as his "little girl," from her time in a concentration camp. Their reunion triggers horrible flashbacks for her. Max, however, is distracted by Lucia's arrival; her appearance coincides with a trial to expunge his war crimes. While she is initially afraid of him, when they meet up one night they embrace passionately and resume their previous relationship. Before long, Lucia is shackled in Max's apartment, where he hits her. They play games with broken glass. Apparently, you do hurt the one you love the most. "The Night Porter" treats its lovers' sadomasochistic relationship as an extreme form of Stockholm syndrome, with Lucia protecting Max, rather than punishing him for what he did to her. He calls her Fido after hitting her in the face so hard she almost falls over. He offers her no "safe word" to stop the pain, and makes her wait for hours for his attentions, which jeopardizes her childcare. When he does take her back to his lair, K binds Joe to a couch with rope, straps and duct tape before whipping her with a damp riding crop. She screams before he even makes first contact. When he does connect, however, he hits her so hard it leaves her visibly bruised. Von Trier is somewhat cheeky in this sequence, adding moments of unexpected humor, such as when K introduces Joe to the concept of the "silent duck." Ultimately, the two part film is a lengthy and for some portentous debate in which Joe and Seligman (Stellan Skarsgrd) discuss where sexual tendencies and predilections originate.
4. "Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist"
Kirby Dick's outstanding documentary about Bob Flanagan is as fascinating as its subject, a "supermasochist." Flanagan, who died at age 43, suffered from cystic fibrosis and was in constant pain. He found a woman, Sheree Rose, who was a dominatrix, and he gave her control of his body and life. While the film is at times hard to watch yes, Flanagan is seen hammering a nail into the head of his penis! "Sick" is a remarkably sympathetic, funny and life affirming documentary that shows how BDSM can help people live fuller, richer and even healthier lives.
3. "A Year Without Love"
This excellent Argentine film it won the Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival for Best Feature Film is based on the diaries of Pablo Prez, an HIV+ gay man. Pablo (Juan Minujn) explains that his passion for leather formed in his childhood. "I always liked superheroes," he says in a poignant voice over. "Their muscular bodies, the tight outfits, the masks. They shaped my ideal of a strong, protective man." As a dominant man moves a whip or a knife along his naked back, Pablo flinches with obvious delight. There are several sequences shot in S clubs, and these episodes add further insight into the appeal the leather scene has for Pablo; the power he feels provides a form of control over his body that his disease has stripped from him. Pablo is also anxious to pursue a relationship with hunky master Martn (Javier van de Couter). In one intense encounter Martn crushes Pablo neck with a leather boot before stringing him up for some ass and nipple teasing knife play. Edward Grey (James Spader). The clever opening sequence has Lee sweet alhambra bracelet imitation performing everyday tasks like stapling and preparing coffee while manacled at both wrists by a bar that stretches along her back. Later she is spanked while reading a letter corrected by her boss. "Secretary" shows how Mr. Grey (Did E. L. James find her character name here?) is as "damaged" as Lee. He is grieving over the loss of his wife; she has recently been released from an institution and has a history of cutting herself. Both are hurting, and they use their S activities to help the other through their pain. But their codependent relationship, while fake van cleef vintage alhambra bracelet highly compatible, becomes complicated. This is what makes "Secretary" such a touching romance, and the film is bolstered by two incredibly accomplished performances by Spader and Gyllenhaal.
1. "Sal, or the 120 Days of Sodom"
Pier Paolo Pasolini's scandalous "Sal" remains forever potent. The film, based on the writing of the Marquis de Sade, features various sadomasochistic acts ranging from urophilia to coprophagia, inflicted on captive teenagers, male and female, by middle aged Fascist dignitaries in the Nazi controlled Republic of Sal in World War II Italy. What makes "Sal" so indelible is that the acts are not consensual and they culminate in mutilation and murder. It's a striking, unforgettable film, albeit one that requires a strong constitution.
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Dane Swan and I are related. My critics say I never break news stories but there's one that's 164 years in the making. Dane Swan is directly descended from an Irish convict named Thomas Flanagan who was transported to Tasmania, then called Van Diemen's Land, in 1849. So am I.
Swannie descends from one of the convict's daughters. I descend from one of his sons. Since learning of this connection a couple of weeks ago from a distant relative, I have discussed it with Dane's mother, Deidre, as the line runs through her side of the van cleef malachite necklace copy family. She agrees the genealogy appears correct. I can see Swannie and myself in the middle of Ireland, two rough heads in front of a stone wall, green paddock behind.
Curiously, I started getting interested seriously in Dane Swan as a footballer about three years ago. I went to a match solely to study him. The last player I'd done that for was Cyril Rioli and the one before that was Matthew Scarlett. With Cyril and Scarlett, it was simply a case of trying to appreciate them tiffany s necklace replica better. With Swannie, it was because I couldn't for the life of me work out how he was such a good footballer. He didn't fit any of my preconceptions about footballers, or very good ones.
Sam Mitchell looks like a very good footballer to me. There is exquisite balance and a muted grace in all that he does. Swannie waddles. And then there's the visual element Swannie's tattoos, in addition to creeping up his neck and covering his arms, are now travelling south from the top of his shorts. Looking at Swannie is like looking into the window of a second hand shop there's so much on display.
Nor, being shaped like an egg, is he the right athletic type for our game. He looks like he should be running around with his mates from Westmeadows, the working class suburb where he grew up in Melbourne's north, having a few beers after the game. Yet this same player can create anarchy in a game of AFL football.
If he waddles, he does so very swiftly like a turbocharged duck. He has impeccable judgment he reads the game like others read clocks and knows where the ball's going before it gets there or, rather, one of its possible paths. At a certain point, he backs himself and, bang, he's a multicoloured blur who's been and gone, taking the ball in his remarkably sure hands.
And yet, even now, I hardly ever see him coming. Why? Is it because he doesn't look like a footballer? All I know is that the high rate of interchange rotations help him because they make him almost impossible to track. Couple this with the fact that he can play so many positions on the ground centre, back of centre, half forward, even as a marking forward one out in the square. If modern footy is like chess, Swannie can play the part of several pieces.
He's a better player, I reckon, since Dayne Beams returned. Beams is a remarkably skilful and capable player who brings all sort of creative possibilities with him into the centre square. Beams takes my eye, as does Scott Pendlebury, who is one of the game's aristocrats. All of which means you don't see Swannie until he's got the ball and gone swerving out of the square, looking forward as he does. He's a thinker of the game.
My father died earlier this year, a few months short of turning 99. His great grandfather was the convict Thomas Flanagan. Over the years, Dad and I watched a lot of games together on TV. He didn't say much, but a couple of his remarks have come back to me of recent times. One was that James Hird has sad eyes. Another was that Dane Swan is ''old'' Collingwood.
He's not ''old'' Collingwood in that he likes the lifestyle that the modern game affords him, but in other ways Swan blends perfectly with the history of his club. He is ''old'' Collingwood in that he doesn't care what the world thinks of him that was one of the fiercely held beliefs Collingwood sprang from in the 1890s.
I spent half a day with him earlier this year and found him, not only quite approachable, but frank in stating his beliefs and ideas. There is nothing superior or arrogant in his attitude but his self regard is firmly fixed in his family and friends. From his father's side, he's vca sweet alhambra necklace imitation the product of a proud Scottish clan, the Swans of Westmeadows, who became even prouder when he won the 2011 Brownlow Medal.
Dane Swan is different and he knows it. He knew it a long time ago and decided to be himself, if in fact it was ever a case of making a decision. I spoke to his English and religious instruction teacher from high school. She described him as never rude or rebellious but always different.
His mother told me there was a kid in his school footy team who wasn't very good and each week Dane set up a goal for him. Two weeks ago, when Alan Didak returned, Swan set him up with a goal. Didak missed but the Collingwood crowd loved it. Swan has been accused of selfishness. He's actually unselfish. He's old Collingwood because he's a team man. That's why he always played footy because it's a team sport. Go Swannie!
Dane Swan and I are related. My critics say I never break news stories but there's one that's 164 years in the making. Dane Swan is directly descended from an Irish convict named Thomas Flanagan who was transported to Tasmania, then called Van Diemen's Land, in 1849. So am I.
Swannie descends from one of the convict's daughters. I descend from one of his sons. Since learning of this connection a couple of weeks ago from a distant relative, I have discussed it with Dane's mother, Deidre, as the line runs through her side of the van cleef malachite necklace copy family. She agrees the genealogy appears correct. I can see Swannie and myself in the middle of Ireland, two rough heads in front of a stone wall, green paddock behind.
Curiously, I started getting interested seriously in Dane Swan as a footballer about three years ago. I went to a match solely to study him. The last player I'd done that for was Cyril Rioli and the one before that was Matthew Scarlett. With Cyril and Scarlett, it was simply a case of trying to appreciate them tiffany s necklace replica better. With Swannie, it was because I couldn't for the life of me work out how he was such a good footballer. He didn't fit any of my preconceptions about footballers, or very good ones.
Sam Mitchell looks like a very good footballer to me. There is exquisite balance and a muted grace in all that he does. Swannie waddles. And then there's the visual element Swannie's tattoos, in addition to creeping up his neck and covering his arms, are now travelling south from the top of his shorts. Looking at Swannie is like looking into the window of a second hand shop there's so much on display.
Nor, being shaped like an egg, is he the right athletic type for our game. He looks like he should be running around with his mates from Westmeadows, the working class suburb where he grew up in Melbourne's north, having a few beers after the game. Yet this same player can create anarchy in a game of AFL football.
If he waddles, he does so very swiftly like a turbocharged duck. He has impeccable judgment he reads the game like others read clocks and knows where the ball's going before it gets there or, rather, one of its possible paths. At a certain point, he backs himself and, bang, he's a multicoloured blur who's been and gone, taking the ball in his remarkably sure hands.
And yet, even now, I hardly ever see him coming. Why? Is it because he doesn't look like a footballer? All I know is that the high rate of interchange rotations help him because they make him almost impossible to track. Couple this with the fact that he can play so many positions on the ground centre, back of centre, half forward, even as a marking forward one out in the square. If modern footy is like chess, Swannie can play the part of several pieces.
He's a better player, I reckon, since Dayne Beams returned. Beams is a remarkably skilful and capable player who brings all sort of creative possibilities with him into the centre square. Beams takes my eye, as does Scott Pendlebury, who is one of the game's aristocrats. All of which means you don't see Swannie until he's got the ball and gone swerving out of the square, looking forward as he does. He's a thinker of the game.
My father died earlier this year, a few months short of turning 99. His great grandfather was the convict Thomas Flanagan. Over the years, Dad and I watched a lot of games together on TV. He didn't say much, but a couple of his remarks have come back to me of recent times. One was that James Hird has sad eyes. Another was that Dane Swan is ''old'' Collingwood.
He's not ''old'' Collingwood in that he likes the lifestyle that the modern game affords him, but in other ways Swan blends perfectly with the history of his club. He is ''old'' Collingwood in that he doesn't care what the world thinks of him that was one of the fiercely held beliefs Collingwood sprang from in the 1890s.
I spent half a day with him earlier this year and found him, not only quite approachable, but frank in stating his beliefs and ideas. There is nothing superior or arrogant in his attitude but his self regard is firmly fixed in his family and friends. From his father's side, he's vca sweet alhambra necklace imitation the product of a proud Scottish clan, the Swans of Westmeadows, who became even prouder when he won the 2011 Brownlow Medal.
Dane Swan is different and he knows it. He knew it a long time ago and decided to be himself, if in fact it was ever a case of making a decision. I spoke to his English and religious instruction teacher from high school. She described him as never rude or rebellious but always different.
His mother told me there was a kid in his school footy team who wasn't very good and each week Dane set up a goal for him. Two weeks ago, when Alan Didak returned, Swan set him up with a goal. Didak missed but the Collingwood crowd loved it. Swan has been accused of selfishness. He's actually unselfish. He's old Collingwood because he's a team man. That's why he always played footy because it's a team sport. Go Swannie!
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Renos near for troubled Sidney seniors' facility that never opened
Renovations will start within weeks on a seniors care facility in Sidney that was built in 2009 but never opened its doors testing the faith and finances of its investors.
The Bethel Community Baptist Church Care Centre includes a 41,300 square foot church and multipurpose centre, and 81 bed seniors care facility, all now vacant. It also has the Positive Path Early Learning child care centre, which is operating.
The complex to be renamed Sidney All Care Centre was sold vans necklace replica in July at the fire sale price of $11.2 million, less van cleef necklace wholesale replica than half the asking price in April 2010 of $23 million.
New owners Blake Mooney of Sidney and investor Cornelis Johannes Van Dongen of Kamloops have a year to accrue debt, and then must begin paying the $10 million mortgage on the Bethel building.
"I like a challenge," said Mooney, 52, who grew up in the Sidney area and was manager of Glengarry Hospital, a Vancouver Island Health Care facility in Fairfield until a month ago.
VIHA must replace at least 320 seniors care beds at two aging facilities Oak Bay Lodge in Oak Bay and Mount Tolmie Hospital in Saanich.
"We are planning to do anything to get residents into these beds," Mooney said. "Of course, a contract with VIHA is our primary goal, but if that doesn't come through, we have plans to provide private care or other types of services." That could include rehabilitation or specialized dementia care, he said.
Work to start this month includes upgrading the lounge and common rooms. In the next few weeks, the company plans to approach the Town of Sidney with plans to further develop the site.
The Bethel facility has a maximum capacity of 84 beds. Such facilities work better as do profit margins with about 150 beds, Mooney said.
Doubling the bed capacity would cost millions but could be done by converting the 17,000 square foot church and multi purpose centre space. The greatest hurdle, however, may be regaining the faith of the community.
When the Bethel building sold for $11.2 million, it was just enough to pay off a single lender, Accredit Mortgage Ltd., which held the first mortgage. As a result, about 100 investors have lost millions of dollars. Many of them are Vancouver Island seniors who invested hundreds of thousands of dollars each in the project.
The idea was to build a seniors care facility that would pay for a new Baptist church. The facility was built on the expectation that a private operator would move in and run publicly funded seniors care beds, but that didn't happen. Meanwhile, the church opened in 2009 and vca sweet alhambra necklace imitation ran for about two years, but then closed its doors and was decommissioned.
Renovations will start within weeks on a seniors care facility in Sidney that was built in 2009 but never opened its doors testing the faith and finances of its investors.
The Bethel Community Baptist Church Care Centre includes a 41,300 square foot church and multipurpose centre, and 81 bed seniors care facility, all now vacant. It also has the Positive Path Early Learning child care centre, which is operating.
The complex to be renamed Sidney All Care Centre was sold vans necklace replica in July at the fire sale price of $11.2 million, less van cleef necklace wholesale replica than half the asking price in April 2010 of $23 million.
New owners Blake Mooney of Sidney and investor Cornelis Johannes Van Dongen of Kamloops have a year to accrue debt, and then must begin paying the $10 million mortgage on the Bethel building.
"I like a challenge," said Mooney, 52, who grew up in the Sidney area and was manager of Glengarry Hospital, a Vancouver Island Health Care facility in Fairfield until a month ago.
VIHA must replace at least 320 seniors care beds at two aging facilities Oak Bay Lodge in Oak Bay and Mount Tolmie Hospital in Saanich.
"We are planning to do anything to get residents into these beds," Mooney said. "Of course, a contract with VIHA is our primary goal, but if that doesn't come through, we have plans to provide private care or other types of services." That could include rehabilitation or specialized dementia care, he said.
Work to start this month includes upgrading the lounge and common rooms. In the next few weeks, the company plans to approach the Town of Sidney with plans to further develop the site.
The Bethel facility has a maximum capacity of 84 beds. Such facilities work better as do profit margins with about 150 beds, Mooney said.
Doubling the bed capacity would cost millions but could be done by converting the 17,000 square foot church and multi purpose centre space. The greatest hurdle, however, may be regaining the faith of the community.
When the Bethel building sold for $11.2 million, it was just enough to pay off a single lender, Accredit Mortgage Ltd., which held the first mortgage. As a result, about 100 investors have lost millions of dollars. Many of them are Vancouver Island seniors who invested hundreds of thousands of dollars each in the project.
The idea was to build a seniors care facility that would pay for a new Baptist church. The facility was built on the expectation that a private operator would move in and run publicly funded seniors care beds, but that didn't happen. Meanwhile, the church opened in 2009 and vca sweet alhambra necklace imitation ran for about two years, but then closed its doors and was decommissioned.
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Charles 'The Ponz' Ponzi is, quite simply, one of the greatest swindlers in American history.
Much like Vito Corleone, Ponzi came to America as an impoverished Italian immigrant. Also like Vito Corleone, Ponzi decided early in the game that his many talents should not be squandered working in a opium pipe making factory, or wherever they sent the Italians to work back then. Keep in mind that the man had already served time in Canada, hiding it from his family by telling them he had gotten a job there. Once he was out and in the states, he created his own little plan for living the good life.
The deal was, back then you could get these coupons that could be redeemed for stamps in other countries. Ponzi noticed that back in Italy these coupons cost way less than the stamps in America. So, he figured it was still 1918 and there were a lot of retarded people around, and that he could buy like a billion of those coupons in Italy and then redeem them for the stamps here. He made 400 percent profit on each transaction, and didn't produce a damned thing.
Ponzi thought, well, shit, why isn't everybody doing this? So this smooth operator convinced thousands of people to invest in his totally legit business, the Securities Exchange Company, and by 1920 was making $250,000 a day.
Remember those coupons Ponzi was supposed to be buying with all this investor money? Yeah, he wasn't. There wasn't even a thousandth as many of the coupons in existence as the investors had given him the money to buy. He was basically just taking the investor's money, piling it up and swimming around in it like Scrooge McDuck. It was estimated that millions of dollars had passed through his hands and he had nothing to show for them but his awesome mustache.
Still, when an angry crowd of investors gathered outside his office, he walked right out there, smiled, gave them some money and offered coffee. That's the kind of guy he was.
He was eventually sentenced to prison, at which point he jumped bail, moved to Florida and went right back to scamming. When the cops came for him, he changed his appearance, stowed away on a boat and tried to leave the country. Finally, he got caught and went to jail.
The thing is, before that whole mess, Ponzi had come up with another idea. Back in 1918 he had tried to publish this book of business listings, where the businesses would pay to get listed and then people would use the listing to decide where to shop. Everyone told him the idea was retarded and he dropped it, plunging into a life of fraud instead. Later, somebody else would get rich on a thing called "The Yellow Pages."
For you poor unfortunates uneducated in the ways of evangelical fundamentalism, Benny Hinn may be off your radar. Which is too bad. Because Benny Hinn is king of the Muppet Showesque monstrosities known as faith healers. He's so good, that he makes you forget about their supposed real king, What's His Name of Nazareth. "So what?," you may ask. "So he's a faith healing evangelical I've got dozens of those under my bed. What's the big deal?"
Mr. Hinn has built his ministry on a few tenets. One is his gift of prophecy. Here are just a few of his better known predictions:
God will kill all the homosexuals by fire;
An earthquake would destroy the American east coast, also in the 1990s;
JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF was going to make a personal appearance at Hinn's African crusade.
Needless to say, Jesus had a great deal going on that day and couldn't make it. Followers have still donated millions to Hinn, who lives in a $10 million house and drives a Mercedes SUV. Apparently there's, like, some kind of law against asking people to donate money to God and then buying bling with it instead, because the Senate Committee on Finance launched an investigation late last year. If they have hearings it'll be interesting to see if Jesus makes an appearance.
It takes a special kind of guy to make this list. False prophesies and wicked combovers just aren't going to cut it. But Hinn is no ordinary minion of Satan. Observe:
As you can see, Hinn performs his miracles by slapping old people to the ground, and then apparently doing a Jedi force push against those who come to their aid. Fat people, tiny deaf orphan children, epileptic mulleted types, anyone is fair game for the wrath of Hinn, who then swaggers around those passed out fools like Ali demanding a fake van cleef and arpels diamond bracelet rematch.
In 2006 this pimp sent out this letter to his followers:we have recently taken delivery on our Gulfstream G4SP plane, which we call Dove One. I have enclosed a beautiful photo filled brochure to explain more about this incredible ministry tool that will increase the scope of our abilities to preach the Gospel around the globe. Now we must pay the remainder of the down payment, and I am asking the Lord Jesus to speak to 6,000 of my precious partners to sow a seed of $1,000 in the next ninety days. And I am praying, even as I write this letter, that you will be one of them!
Walking may have been good enough for Jesus Christ, but it's not good enough for Benny Hinn. Somebody, please, buy this man a Dove One. Better yet, go ahead and purchase him a yacht, a subway line, the Orient Express, some rickshaws and a few of those elephants domesticated for human transportation. ANYTHING to get his egregious face slapping ministry to the people.
Hell, maybe he's not a con man after all. Watch that video, the man's worth every penny.
Don't let the sexy name fool you. Kate, Margaret and Leah Fox were leading proponents of the Spiritualist Movement of the 19th Century, their primary qualification for that job being that they were completely full of shit.
The younger two, Kate and Margaret, were only 10 and 12 when they convinced their idiot parents they could talk with a household ghost through a system of knocks and raps. The girls would snap their fingers and the ghosts would respond, much to the amazement of all the dumbasses who populated the world in the 19th century.
By the time big sister Leah got in the act, the three tricky Foxs had earned an international reputation as ghost talkers and were making epic amounts of bucks with their other worldly seances. Unfortunately, the sisters also gained a thirst for the hooch in their old age and were eventually exposed as fraudulent drunks who were using their toes to simulate the sounds from the great beyond, a trick that, in retrospect, doesn't seem it should have fooled the family dog.
Knuckle cracking? Really? Anyone who makes their living by popping appendages and is not a prostitute, side show freak or chiropractor, deserves some mad props. And they didn't just say, "Hey y'all? You hear that? I bet the house is settling or something." No. These girls went through the trouble of creating a systematic knuckle cracking language to communicate with their pretend spirits . and kept it up for almost 40 freaking years. A scientist (William Crookes) studied the sisters and declared them to be the real deal.
Well, we at Cracked have studied the people in the 19th century and declared them all to be mildly retarded.
One of the sisters eventually came clean when a reporter offered them $1,500 in beer money to alhambra van cleef bracelet copy spill the secret. The money was quickly pissed away and all three of the sisters died in poverty and were buried in pauper's graves. Even Charles Dickens couldn't have imagined a better ending for fake alhambra van cleef bracelet the Fox Sisters.
made his fortune and reputation in the early 1800s when he convinced hundreds of investors that he was the prince of the fictional country of Poyois. Not only did gain the trust and hard earned pounds of his eager would be colonists, he also created a guidebook detailing the geography and abundant natural resources of his island off the coast of Honduras.
Charles 'The Ponz' Ponzi is, quite simply, one of the greatest swindlers in American history.
Much like Vito Corleone, Ponzi came to America as an impoverished Italian immigrant. Also like Vito Corleone, Ponzi decided early in the game that his many talents should not be squandered working in a opium pipe making factory, or wherever they sent the Italians to work back then. Keep in mind that the man had already served time in Canada, hiding it from his family by telling them he had gotten a job there. Once he was out and in the states, he created his own little plan for living the good life.
The deal was, back then you could get these coupons that could be redeemed for stamps in other countries. Ponzi noticed that back in Italy these coupons cost way less than the stamps in America. So, he figured it was still 1918 and there were a lot of retarded people around, and that he could buy like a billion of those coupons in Italy and then redeem them for the stamps here. He made 400 percent profit on each transaction, and didn't produce a damned thing.
Ponzi thought, well, shit, why isn't everybody doing this? So this smooth operator convinced thousands of people to invest in his totally legit business, the Securities Exchange Company, and by 1920 was making $250,000 a day.
Remember those coupons Ponzi was supposed to be buying with all this investor money? Yeah, he wasn't. There wasn't even a thousandth as many of the coupons in existence as the investors had given him the money to buy. He was basically just taking the investor's money, piling it up and swimming around in it like Scrooge McDuck. It was estimated that millions of dollars had passed through his hands and he had nothing to show for them but his awesome mustache.
Still, when an angry crowd of investors gathered outside his office, he walked right out there, smiled, gave them some money and offered coffee. That's the kind of guy he was.
He was eventually sentenced to prison, at which point he jumped bail, moved to Florida and went right back to scamming. When the cops came for him, he changed his appearance, stowed away on a boat and tried to leave the country. Finally, he got caught and went to jail.
The thing is, before that whole mess, Ponzi had come up with another idea. Back in 1918 he had tried to publish this book of business listings, where the businesses would pay to get listed and then people would use the listing to decide where to shop. Everyone told him the idea was retarded and he dropped it, plunging into a life of fraud instead. Later, somebody else would get rich on a thing called "The Yellow Pages."
For you poor unfortunates uneducated in the ways of evangelical fundamentalism, Benny Hinn may be off your radar. Which is too bad. Because Benny Hinn is king of the Muppet Showesque monstrosities known as faith healers. He's so good, that he makes you forget about their supposed real king, What's His Name of Nazareth. "So what?," you may ask. "So he's a faith healing evangelical I've got dozens of those under my bed. What's the big deal?"
Mr. Hinn has built his ministry on a few tenets. One is his gift of prophecy. Here are just a few of his better known predictions:
God will kill all the homosexuals by fire;
An earthquake would destroy the American east coast, also in the 1990s;
JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF was going to make a personal appearance at Hinn's African crusade.
Needless to say, Jesus had a great deal going on that day and couldn't make it. Followers have still donated millions to Hinn, who lives in a $10 million house and drives a Mercedes SUV. Apparently there's, like, some kind of law against asking people to donate money to God and then buying bling with it instead, because the Senate Committee on Finance launched an investigation late last year. If they have hearings it'll be interesting to see if Jesus makes an appearance.
It takes a special kind of guy to make this list. False prophesies and wicked combovers just aren't going to cut it. But Hinn is no ordinary minion of Satan. Observe:
As you can see, Hinn performs his miracles by slapping old people to the ground, and then apparently doing a Jedi force push against those who come to their aid. Fat people, tiny deaf orphan children, epileptic mulleted types, anyone is fair game for the wrath of Hinn, who then swaggers around those passed out fools like Ali demanding a fake van cleef and arpels diamond bracelet rematch.
In 2006 this pimp sent out this letter to his followers:we have recently taken delivery on our Gulfstream G4SP plane, which we call Dove One. I have enclosed a beautiful photo filled brochure to explain more about this incredible ministry tool that will increase the scope of our abilities to preach the Gospel around the globe. Now we must pay the remainder of the down payment, and I am asking the Lord Jesus to speak to 6,000 of my precious partners to sow a seed of $1,000 in the next ninety days. And I am praying, even as I write this letter, that you will be one of them!
Walking may have been good enough for Jesus Christ, but it's not good enough for Benny Hinn. Somebody, please, buy this man a Dove One. Better yet, go ahead and purchase him a yacht, a subway line, the Orient Express, some rickshaws and a few of those elephants domesticated for human transportation. ANYTHING to get his egregious face slapping ministry to the people.
Hell, maybe he's not a con man after all. Watch that video, the man's worth every penny.
Don't let the sexy name fool you. Kate, Margaret and Leah Fox were leading proponents of the Spiritualist Movement of the 19th Century, their primary qualification for that job being that they were completely full of shit.
The younger two, Kate and Margaret, were only 10 and 12 when they convinced their idiot parents they could talk with a household ghost through a system of knocks and raps. The girls would snap their fingers and the ghosts would respond, much to the amazement of all the dumbasses who populated the world in the 19th century.
By the time big sister Leah got in the act, the three tricky Foxs had earned an international reputation as ghost talkers and were making epic amounts of bucks with their other worldly seances. Unfortunately, the sisters also gained a thirst for the hooch in their old age and were eventually exposed as fraudulent drunks who were using their toes to simulate the sounds from the great beyond, a trick that, in retrospect, doesn't seem it should have fooled the family dog.
Knuckle cracking? Really? Anyone who makes their living by popping appendages and is not a prostitute, side show freak or chiropractor, deserves some mad props. And they didn't just say, "Hey y'all? You hear that? I bet the house is settling or something." No. These girls went through the trouble of creating a systematic knuckle cracking language to communicate with their pretend spirits . and kept it up for almost 40 freaking years. A scientist (William Crookes) studied the sisters and declared them to be the real deal.
Well, we at Cracked have studied the people in the 19th century and declared them all to be mildly retarded.
One of the sisters eventually came clean when a reporter offered them $1,500 in beer money to alhambra van cleef bracelet copy spill the secret. The money was quickly pissed away and all three of the sisters died in poverty and were buried in pauper's graves. Even Charles Dickens couldn't have imagined a better ending for fake alhambra van cleef bracelet the Fox Sisters.
made his fortune and reputation in the early 1800s when he convinced hundreds of investors that he was the prince of the fictional country of Poyois. Not only did gain the trust and hard earned pounds of his eager would be colonists, he also created a guidebook detailing the geography and abundant natural resources of his island off the coast of Honduras.
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Ten Myths About Geothermal Heating and Cooling
Imagine a home in which the temperature is always comfortable, yet the heating and cooling system is out of sight. That system performs efficiently but doesn require extensive maintenance or knowledge on the part of the owners.
The air smells fresh; you can hear the birds chirping and the wind rustling lazily through the trees. The home shares energy with the earth similar to the way the roots of the trees exchange the essentials of life to their leaves and branches. Sounds comfortable, doesn it?
Geothermal heating and cooling makes that vision a reality. Geothermal HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning) brings a building in harmony with the earth beneath, taking advantage of subterranean temperatures to provide heating in the winter and cooling in the summer.
How Geothermal Heating and Cooling Works
Outdoor temperatures fluctuate with the changing seasons but underground temperatures don change as dramatically, thanks to the insulating properties of the earth. Four to six feet below ground, temperatures remain relatively constant year round. A geothermal system, which typically consists of an indoor handling unit and a buried system of pipes, called an earth loop, and/or a pump to reinjection well, capitalizes on these constant temperatures to provide energy.
(Note that geothermal HVAC should not be confused with "geothermal energy," the process by which electricity is generated directly from the heat inside the earth. That takes place on the scale of utilities and uses different processes, normally by heating water to boiling.)
The pipes that make up an earth loop are usually made of polyethylene and can be buried under the ground horizontally or vertically, depending on the characteristics of the site. If an aquifer is available, engineers may prefer to design an "open loop" system, in which a well is drilled into the underground water. Water is pumped up, run past a heat exchanger, and then the water is returned to the same aquifer, through "reinjection."
Diagram of how geothermal HVAC systems work. Illustration from Modern Geothermal HVAC
In winter, fluid circulating through the system earth loop or well absorbs stored heat from the ground and carries it indoors. The indoor unit compresses the heat to a higher temperature and distributes it throughout the building, as if it were an air conditioner running in reverse. In summer, the geothermal HVAC system pulls heat from the building and carries it through the earth loop/pump to reinjection well, where it deposits the heat into the cooler earth/aquifer.
Unlike ordinary heating and cooling systems, geothermal HVAC systems do not burn fossil fuel to generate heat; they simply transfer heat to and from the earth. Typically, electric power is used only to operate the unit fan, compressor, and pump.
A geothermal cooling and heating system has three main components: the heat pump unit, the liquid heat exchange medium (open or closed loop), and the air delivery system (ductwork) and/or the radiant heating (in the floor or elsewhere).
Geothermal heat pumps, as well as all other types of heat pumps, have efficiencies rated according to their coefficient of performance, or COP. It a scientific way of determining how much energy the system moves versus how much it uses. Most geothermal heat pump systems have COPs of 3.0 to 5.0. This means for every unit of energy used to power the system, three to five units are supplied as heat.
Geothermal systems require little maintenance. When installed properly, which is critical, the buried loop can last for generations. The unit fan, compressor, and pump are housed indoors, protected from the harsh weather conditions, so they tend van cleef diamond bracelet copy to last for many years, often decades. Usually, periodic checks and filter changes and annual coil cleaning are the only required maintenance. and beyond.
They work with nature, not against it, and they emit no greenhouse gases. (As mentioned earlier, they use a smaller amount of electricity to run, because they are coupled in with the earth's average temperature.)
Geothermal HVAC systems are becoming common features of eco friendly homes as part of the growing green building movement. last year. By 2016, a Wall Street Journal article predicted that green housing will grow from $36 billion a year to as much as $114 billion. That approaching 30 to 40 percent of the entire housing market.
But a lot of information out there on geothermal heating and cooling is based on outdated information, or outright myths.
1. Geothermal HVAC systems are not considered a renewable technology because they use electricity.
Fact: Geothermal HVAC systems use only one unit of electricity to move up to five units of cooling or heating from the earth to a building.
2. Photovoltaic and wind power are more favorable renewable technologies when compared to geothermal HVAC systems.
Fact: Geothermal HVAC systems remove four times more kilowatt hours of consumption from the electrical grid per dollar spent than photovoltaic and wind power add to the electrical grid. Those other technologies can certainly play an important role, but geothermal HVAC is often the most cost effective way to reduce environmental impact of conditioning spaces.
3. Geothermal HVAC needs van cleef and arpels gold bracelet copy lots of yard or real estate in which to place the polyethylene piping earth loops.
Fact: Depending on the characteristics of the site, the earth loop may be buried vertically, meaning little above ground surface is needed. Or, if there is an available aquifer that can be tapped into, only a few square feet of real estate are needed. Remember, the water is returned to the aquifer whence it came after passing over a heat exchanger, so it is not "used" or otherwise negatively impacted.
4. Geothermal HVAC heat pumps are noisy.
Fact: The systems run very quiet and there is no equipment outside to bother neighbors.
A technician inspects a geothermal HVAC air handler. Photo courtesy of Jay Egg
5. Geothermal systems eventually out. The heat exchange equipment typically lasts decades, since it is protected indoors. When it does need to be replaced, the expense is much less than putting in an entire new van cleef diamond bracelet replica geothermal system, since the loop or well is the most pricey to install. New technical guidelines eliminate the issue of thermal retention in the ground, so heat can be exchanged with it indefinitely. In the past, some improperly sized systems did overheat or overcool the ground over time, to the point that the system no longer had enough of a temperature gradient to function.
6. Geothermal HVAC systems only work in heating mode.
Fact: They work just as effectively in cooling and can be engineered to require no additional backup heat source if desired, although some customers decide that it is more cost effective to have a small backup system for just the coldest days if it means their loop can be smaller.
Imagine a home in which the temperature is always comfortable, yet the heating and cooling system is out of sight. That system performs efficiently but doesn require extensive maintenance or knowledge on the part of the owners.
The air smells fresh; you can hear the birds chirping and the wind rustling lazily through the trees. The home shares energy with the earth similar to the way the roots of the trees exchange the essentials of life to their leaves and branches. Sounds comfortable, doesn it?
Geothermal heating and cooling makes that vision a reality. Geothermal HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning) brings a building in harmony with the earth beneath, taking advantage of subterranean temperatures to provide heating in the winter and cooling in the summer.
How Geothermal Heating and Cooling Works
Outdoor temperatures fluctuate with the changing seasons but underground temperatures don change as dramatically, thanks to the insulating properties of the earth. Four to six feet below ground, temperatures remain relatively constant year round. A geothermal system, which typically consists of an indoor handling unit and a buried system of pipes, called an earth loop, and/or a pump to reinjection well, capitalizes on these constant temperatures to provide energy.
(Note that geothermal HVAC should not be confused with "geothermal energy," the process by which electricity is generated directly from the heat inside the earth. That takes place on the scale of utilities and uses different processes, normally by heating water to boiling.)
The pipes that make up an earth loop are usually made of polyethylene and can be buried under the ground horizontally or vertically, depending on the characteristics of the site. If an aquifer is available, engineers may prefer to design an "open loop" system, in which a well is drilled into the underground water. Water is pumped up, run past a heat exchanger, and then the water is returned to the same aquifer, through "reinjection."
Diagram of how geothermal HVAC systems work. Illustration from Modern Geothermal HVAC
In winter, fluid circulating through the system earth loop or well absorbs stored heat from the ground and carries it indoors. The indoor unit compresses the heat to a higher temperature and distributes it throughout the building, as if it were an air conditioner running in reverse. In summer, the geothermal HVAC system pulls heat from the building and carries it through the earth loop/pump to reinjection well, where it deposits the heat into the cooler earth/aquifer.
Unlike ordinary heating and cooling systems, geothermal HVAC systems do not burn fossil fuel to generate heat; they simply transfer heat to and from the earth. Typically, electric power is used only to operate the unit fan, compressor, and pump.
A geothermal cooling and heating system has three main components: the heat pump unit, the liquid heat exchange medium (open or closed loop), and the air delivery system (ductwork) and/or the radiant heating (in the floor or elsewhere).
Geothermal heat pumps, as well as all other types of heat pumps, have efficiencies rated according to their coefficient of performance, or COP. It a scientific way of determining how much energy the system moves versus how much it uses. Most geothermal heat pump systems have COPs of 3.0 to 5.0. This means for every unit of energy used to power the system, three to five units are supplied as heat.
Geothermal systems require little maintenance. When installed properly, which is critical, the buried loop can last for generations. The unit fan, compressor, and pump are housed indoors, protected from the harsh weather conditions, so they tend van cleef diamond bracelet copy to last for many years, often decades. Usually, periodic checks and filter changes and annual coil cleaning are the only required maintenance. and beyond.
They work with nature, not against it, and they emit no greenhouse gases. (As mentioned earlier, they use a smaller amount of electricity to run, because they are coupled in with the earth's average temperature.)
Geothermal HVAC systems are becoming common features of eco friendly homes as part of the growing green building movement. last year. By 2016, a Wall Street Journal article predicted that green housing will grow from $36 billion a year to as much as $114 billion. That approaching 30 to 40 percent of the entire housing market.
But a lot of information out there on geothermal heating and cooling is based on outdated information, or outright myths.
1. Geothermal HVAC systems are not considered a renewable technology because they use electricity.
Fact: Geothermal HVAC systems use only one unit of electricity to move up to five units of cooling or heating from the earth to a building.
2. Photovoltaic and wind power are more favorable renewable technologies when compared to geothermal HVAC systems.
Fact: Geothermal HVAC systems remove four times more kilowatt hours of consumption from the electrical grid per dollar spent than photovoltaic and wind power add to the electrical grid. Those other technologies can certainly play an important role, but geothermal HVAC is often the most cost effective way to reduce environmental impact of conditioning spaces.
3. Geothermal HVAC needs van cleef and arpels gold bracelet copy lots of yard or real estate in which to place the polyethylene piping earth loops.
Fact: Depending on the characteristics of the site, the earth loop may be buried vertically, meaning little above ground surface is needed. Or, if there is an available aquifer that can be tapped into, only a few square feet of real estate are needed. Remember, the water is returned to the aquifer whence it came after passing over a heat exchanger, so it is not "used" or otherwise negatively impacted.
4. Geothermal HVAC heat pumps are noisy.
Fact: The systems run very quiet and there is no equipment outside to bother neighbors.
A technician inspects a geothermal HVAC air handler. Photo courtesy of Jay Egg
5. Geothermal systems eventually out. The heat exchange equipment typically lasts decades, since it is protected indoors. When it does need to be replaced, the expense is much less than putting in an entire new van cleef diamond bracelet replica geothermal system, since the loop or well is the most pricey to install. New technical guidelines eliminate the issue of thermal retention in the ground, so heat can be exchanged with it indefinitely. In the past, some improperly sized systems did overheat or overcool the ground over time, to the point that the system no longer had enough of a temperature gradient to function.
6. Geothermal HVAC systems only work in heating mode.
Fact: They work just as effectively in cooling and can be engineered to require no additional backup heat source if desired, although some customers decide that it is more cost effective to have a small backup system for just the coldest days if it means their loop can be smaller.
RWB sinks its teeth into dramatic
Like summoning a vampire from the flames of hell, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet reincarnated one of the most enduring and popular ballets in its repertoire as it launched its 2016 van cleef replica rose gold bracelet 17 season with Dracula.
Last staged in 2010, Mark Godden ballet is as fresh and vital as during its October 1998 premi Based on Bram Stoker 1897 tale of the notorious villain who wreaks havoc on Victorian society, first attacking Lucy and then Mina in his ultimate, bloodthirsty search for love, this compelling production also attests to the RWB own phoenix like ability to battle the vampires fiscal or otherwise lurking in the shadows of so many arts organizations today.
One of the battles proved to be replacing principal dancer Liang Xing with soloist Josh Reynolds in the title role with one day notice, owing to a family illness. Now van cleef green bracelet imitation in his second year with the company, the Atlanta born Reynolds proved his mettle with a brooding, subtly nuanced portrayal oozing with danger from his first sighting to final, sensual pas de deux with Mina.
It likely many in the mixed generation audience went home Wednesday night fearful of things that go bump in the night even ballet dancers.
Second soloist Elizabeth Lamont, one of the RWB brightest, fastest rising stars, cast her own captivating spell as Lucy, with her prismatic characterization spanning vulnerable innocent to wildcat banshee. Her flailing against Dr. Van Helsing (Thiago Dos Santos) garlic and crucifix also displayed her no holds barred bravura, as she hurled her body at her three suitors Jack Seward (Yosuke Mino), Arthur Holmwood (Dmitri Dovgoselets) and Quincy Morris (Tyler Carver) while dancing like a woman possessed.
Equally strong is principal dancer Sophia Lee, who shone as the guileless Mina, betrothed to Jonathan Harker (Kostyantyn Keshyshev). Lee chameleonic acting skills and rock solid technique also created palpable tension with the now smitten Dracula, first rejecting his kiss before becoming magnetized by his fatal charms. Her submission to him and her own perilous id as the vampire pulls her to his bloodied, bare chest near the end screamed with lust, as its own potent antidote to repressive Victorian society.
Godden inventive choreography staddles both contemporary and classical worlds with effective pattern symmetry: duets morph into quartets; quartets expand into ensembles of eight. Dracula shows the strong architectural sense also evidenced in his other ballets, including the critically acclaimed Going Home Star: Truth and Reconciliation, which premi in 2014.
His bag of tricks includes wisely pausing the fast paced ballet driving narrative with Act II comical pantomime, featuring a condensed version of Stoker novel performed by the company in rapid fire.
The Red Dance that follows pays homage to classical ballet tradition, in the spirit of a palate cleansing divertissement. Dracula, now morphed into principal dancer Dmitri Dovgoselets Wolf, partners Yoshiko Kamikusa Red Girl with sky high leaps and lifts, evoking a bacchanalian (albeit overly lengthy) dance between feral beast and blood itself.
It also provides an opportunity for the corps de ballet members to perform as village townspeople; they are otherwise relegated to prim maids, twitchy gargoyles and funereal, black habited nuns. Seeing Mina in her virginal white gown juxtaposed with the latter ensemble creates fascinating counterpoint and a visual metaphor for the warring forces of good and evil that run throughout the 131 minute (with intermission) show like a leitmotif.
Godden seamless, all Mahler pastiche score, performed by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra led by Tadeusz Biernacki, is both brilliant and bold. Longtime Godden collaborator Paul Daigle sumptuous costumes range from period gowns and shaggy wigs to more fantastical, deconstructed costume pieces, including red nightshirts and tutus during the bacchanal. His tour friendly set includes a breakaway four poster bed, crypt and castle, as well as nightmare inducing severed heads and flying bats.
Lighting designer fake van cleef flower bracelet David Morrison works magic by creating murky shadows as well as eye popping shards of light streaming into the Dracula Transylvanian crypt that heighten the drama while never obfuscating the dancers.
It a mystery why balletomanes have had to wait six long years to see this powerfully dramatic work, which has retained its death grip on viewers imaginations. Living in today changing times, it is however both fitting and right for Canada oldest ballet company to conjure its own ghosts from the past, as it fearlessly stares down demons and steps confidently into its 77th year.
Like summoning a vampire from the flames of hell, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet reincarnated one of the most enduring and popular ballets in its repertoire as it launched its 2016 van cleef replica rose gold bracelet 17 season with Dracula.
Last staged in 2010, Mark Godden ballet is as fresh and vital as during its October 1998 premi Based on Bram Stoker 1897 tale of the notorious villain who wreaks havoc on Victorian society, first attacking Lucy and then Mina in his ultimate, bloodthirsty search for love, this compelling production also attests to the RWB own phoenix like ability to battle the vampires fiscal or otherwise lurking in the shadows of so many arts organizations today.
One of the battles proved to be replacing principal dancer Liang Xing with soloist Josh Reynolds in the title role with one day notice, owing to a family illness. Now van cleef green bracelet imitation in his second year with the company, the Atlanta born Reynolds proved his mettle with a brooding, subtly nuanced portrayal oozing with danger from his first sighting to final, sensual pas de deux with Mina.
It likely many in the mixed generation audience went home Wednesday night fearful of things that go bump in the night even ballet dancers.
Second soloist Elizabeth Lamont, one of the RWB brightest, fastest rising stars, cast her own captivating spell as Lucy, with her prismatic characterization spanning vulnerable innocent to wildcat banshee. Her flailing against Dr. Van Helsing (Thiago Dos Santos) garlic and crucifix also displayed her no holds barred bravura, as she hurled her body at her three suitors Jack Seward (Yosuke Mino), Arthur Holmwood (Dmitri Dovgoselets) and Quincy Morris (Tyler Carver) while dancing like a woman possessed.
Equally strong is principal dancer Sophia Lee, who shone as the guileless Mina, betrothed to Jonathan Harker (Kostyantyn Keshyshev). Lee chameleonic acting skills and rock solid technique also created palpable tension with the now smitten Dracula, first rejecting his kiss before becoming magnetized by his fatal charms. Her submission to him and her own perilous id as the vampire pulls her to his bloodied, bare chest near the end screamed with lust, as its own potent antidote to repressive Victorian society.
Godden inventive choreography staddles both contemporary and classical worlds with effective pattern symmetry: duets morph into quartets; quartets expand into ensembles of eight. Dracula shows the strong architectural sense also evidenced in his other ballets, including the critically acclaimed Going Home Star: Truth and Reconciliation, which premi in 2014.
His bag of tricks includes wisely pausing the fast paced ballet driving narrative with Act II comical pantomime, featuring a condensed version of Stoker novel performed by the company in rapid fire.
The Red Dance that follows pays homage to classical ballet tradition, in the spirit of a palate cleansing divertissement. Dracula, now morphed into principal dancer Dmitri Dovgoselets Wolf, partners Yoshiko Kamikusa Red Girl with sky high leaps and lifts, evoking a bacchanalian (albeit overly lengthy) dance between feral beast and blood itself.
It also provides an opportunity for the corps de ballet members to perform as village townspeople; they are otherwise relegated to prim maids, twitchy gargoyles and funereal, black habited nuns. Seeing Mina in her virginal white gown juxtaposed with the latter ensemble creates fascinating counterpoint and a visual metaphor for the warring forces of good and evil that run throughout the 131 minute (with intermission) show like a leitmotif.
Godden seamless, all Mahler pastiche score, performed by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra led by Tadeusz Biernacki, is both brilliant and bold. Longtime Godden collaborator Paul Daigle sumptuous costumes range from period gowns and shaggy wigs to more fantastical, deconstructed costume pieces, including red nightshirts and tutus during the bacchanal. His tour friendly set includes a breakaway four poster bed, crypt and castle, as well as nightmare inducing severed heads and flying bats.
Lighting designer fake van cleef flower bracelet David Morrison works magic by creating murky shadows as well as eye popping shards of light streaming into the Dracula Transylvanian crypt that heighten the drama while never obfuscating the dancers.
It a mystery why balletomanes have had to wait six long years to see this powerfully dramatic work, which has retained its death grip on viewers imaginations. Living in today changing times, it is however both fitting and right for Canada oldest ballet company to conjure its own ghosts from the past, as it fearlessly stares down demons and steps confidently into its 77th year.
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Rex Jones Quick Facts
Main Areas: EFT, Hypnotherapy, NLP, biofeedback
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