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Here is a little video of a whiteboard lesson on converting customary units of measurement. Perhaps it will refresh your memory of the the steps. Or maybe it will help Mom and Dad learn how we are learning it in school these days. :)
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Here is some GREAT homework help for those who are copy cartier love necklace yellow gold still struggling with long division (especially division with 2 digit divisors!). Coley , a former 5th grade teacher in California. He has been kind enough to not only share his resources, but to leave them online to use as he has moved out of the classroom and into administration. Way to go, Mr. Coley!!
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Reading It going to be an exciting time for reading as we begin a reader theater project on "The Sneetches", by Dr. Seuss. The students will have an opportunity to be involved in reading something in a play format that has rhyme and rhythm, and then they will perform it in front of each other. I am hoping to record it and play it on the morning news on the morning of March 2, Dr. Seuss birthday. They will write about that person for their informational writing this quarter. I can wait to see how the students have grown in their writing! Oh, and ask your child about POWER writing.
Social Studies Why did early explorers travel to North America? We will answer that question and more as we study about six famous explorers Columbus, Cartier, Hudson, Ponce de Leon, Balboa, Cabot, and even Marco Polo! We will be moving very quickly through this unit, so it important to come to school every day ready to learn!
Science Forces, motion, and simple machines are the topic of this week lessons. We will be learning more about these and why they are important through guided reading groups. Mrs. Brown has done a fabulous job in the Science Lab with the hands on experiences.
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I know algebraically, it is just because they are locally modules generated by $1$ element. Basically, it is just the fact that if one has a finitely generated module $M$ over a local ring $R$, there exists $M^{ 1}$ with $M \otimes M^{ 1} = R$ only when $M$ is free of rank $1$. This is not hard to prove.
Geometrically, we are taking a line bundle; we are sort of "straightening the lines" to make it trivial. In fact, line bundles are just trivial neighborhoods with transition functions to $\mathbb{A}^1$. We just take the reciprocal of the transition function, and that gives us the inverse line bundle. locally free modules? Locally projective modules? Flat? (Projective is stronger than flat.) So those are morally vector bundles, and can be straightened consistently precisely when the rank equals $1$.
As a counterthought to the above, the above isn't exactly true. "Straightening" only really makes sense in the rank $1$ case because the structure sheaf is itself a line bundle and not a higher vector bundle. So one can not, for obvious reasons, have a rank $2$ vector bundle that inverts another rank $2$ vector bundle. But in the case of a rank $1$, it is straightening the bundle, which can be done. anything that does not split probably should not be invertible like this).
Everything I have so far is rather verbose. On an intuitive level with respect to the original question, we can think of nontrivial line bundles as structures that force their sections to have zeros or poles. If we have a section that is regular and has no vanishing everywhere, we can use it to trivialize the line bundle. A nice geometric picture of this is the line bundle of the Mbius strip over the circle.
Alternatively, we can always construct an inverse by taking the imitation bangle cartier dual of a line bundle and then using the adjoint properties of the tensor product to show its an inverse. If we take a section, there will have to be some point in which the section crosses over the zero section. If we can find some section that has poles where the sections have zeros, their tensor product, which will have sections behaving like the product of the $2$ original sections will be regular.
So now, we have to visualize what taking the dual means, or sending zeros to poles. Geometrically, this is kind of like flipping over our line bundle and gluing everything together at infinity. This makes the zeros become poles. But this is all still very algebraic. Anyways, we certainly know how it works for higher dimensional things because the tensor product multiplies the dimension of the vector space.
At this point, one might wonder, what do I mean by "if we take a section, there will have to be some point in which the section crosses over the zero section." Why does a global section have to intersect the zero section?
Think about the Mbius strip. Draw a circle in the middle; this is isomorphic to the circle. Thus, the Mbius strip is a line bundle over the circle (well, we need to extend the Mbius strip out to infinity). Now, draw some line along the Mbius strip that tries to avoid intersecting the zero section (the circle we drew). This is impossible because when we wrap around the Mbius strip, we will be on the other side of the Mbius strip, and thus, to be a well defined section, we must cross the zero section. This line represents a section and thus, every section has a zero. This is how we know that this line bundle is not trivial. So every section vanishes.
In fact, we know replica cartier juste un clou bracelet that a line bundle is trivial if it has nonvanishing section. Since we can construct a trivialization by considering the map from $X$ (where $X$ is the variety or scheme we are working over) $L$ (the line bundle) given by $L$ maps to $X \times \mathbb{A}^1$ by $(x, y)$ maps to $(yf(x))$, where $f$ is the nonvanishing regular section. This gives an isomorphism. Hence, the zeros or poles of the section really gives us the interesting information of a line bundle.
This is really the significance of this Picard group construction. multiplication by rational sections over the variety). Hence, the line bundle is uniquely determined by zeros and poles up to adding the zeros and poles achievable by rational functions on $X$.
In general, the statement "nontrivial if and only if vanishing sections" is obvious by monodromy. And one could formally understand the tensor/Hom adjunction used in the Picard construction. But what does it mean really?
The Picard group, the way I think of it, is the set of all divisors. points if we are working over a curve. And these correspond to zeros and poles of functions.
To which we could ask, is this accurate? Isn't the Picard group more analogous to the class group? And even then, that is not always an isomorphism.
To which we would respond, yes that is true. we determine its order of vanishing at all the different possible zeros and poles. But one is correct that it is not always an isomorphism. However, for smooth complete curves, it most certainly is, and that is what most of this theory is used for.
We already have some issues if we do not work over algebraically closed fields because then we can not factor our polynomial all the way.
(Wikipedia gives the construction explicitly of line bundles $\implies$ class group element, and the thing about nonvanishing global sections being trivial makes it clear why it is well defined up to principal divisors.)
The bad behavior comes when it is not a factorial scheme. So we ask, what is an example of a scheme where the germs are not unique factorization domains? We will have issues. for example, look at Weil and Cartier divisors, as Weil does not always imply Cartier.
Now, in spite of all this rambling, I feel like I still do not have a deep geometric understanding as to why line bundles have inverses with respect to the tensor product. It's quite possible I'm missing a relatively simple way replica yellow gold cartier love bracelet of thinking about it. For example, thinking of the Mbius strip as a real line bundle $\mathscr L \to S^1$, then $\mathscr L\otimes\mathscr L$ corresponds to the Mbius strip with two half twists. You can think of complex line bundles analogously.
To make this rigorous, it's best to think about the transition function construction of a line bundle. We take an appropriate open cover $U_i$ over which the line bundles $\mathscr L$ and $\mathscr L'$ are trivial, and take transition functions $\phi_{ij}$ and $\phi'_{ij}$ on $U_i\cap U_j$. Then the tensor product has transition functions $\phi_{ij}\phi'_{ij}$ (which then concatenates or superimposes the respective twists).
It now follows that the dual or inverse line bundle $\mathscr L^$ has transition functions $1/\phi_{ij}$. That yellow gold cartier love bracelet fake is, it twists precisely the opposite of the original bundle, and when you tensor the two bundles you have no twist at all.
(By the way, this intuitive geometric notion of twist aligns with the tensor product notion in commutative algebra as giving extension of scalars.)
To my mind, "invertible with respect to the tensor product" is already the correct definition of a line bundle, in full generality. If that isn't the definition you're using I assume you're using something like "locally free of rank $1$," so let me say something about this.
Intuitively you should think of a line bundle as literally a bundle of lines; that is, a bundle of $1$ dimensional vector spaces. (This is why line bundles have something to do with maps to projective spaces: projective spaces are, by definition, moduli spaces of lines.) Among vector spaces, $1$ dimensional vector spaces are precisely the invertible ones with respect to the tensor product, and so among, say, vector bundles, it should be plausible that line bundles are precisely the invertible ones as well.
One way to make this precise is to show that invertibility is a local condition, as follows.
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Geometrically, we are taking a line bundle; we are sort of "straightening the lines" to make it trivial. In fact, line bundles are just trivial neighborhoods with transition functions to $\mathbb{A}^1$. We just take the reciprocal of the transition function, and that gives us the inverse line bundle. locally free modules? Locally projective modules? Flat? (Projective is stronger than flat.) So those are morally vector bundles, and can be straightened consistently precisely when the rank equals $1$.
As a counterthought to the above, the above isn't exactly true. "Straightening" only really makes sense in the rank $1$ case because the structure sheaf is itself a line bundle and not a higher vector bundle. So one can not, for obvious reasons, have a rank $2$ vector bundle that inverts another rank $2$ vector bundle. But in the case of a rank $1$, it is straightening the bundle, which can be done. anything that does not split probably should not be invertible like this).
Everything I have so far is rather verbose. On an intuitive level with respect to the original question, we can think of nontrivial line bundles as structures that force their sections to have zeros or poles. If we have a section that is regular and has no vanishing everywhere, we can use it to trivialize the line bundle. A nice geometric picture of this is the line bundle of the Mbius strip over the circle.
Alternatively, we can always construct an inverse by taking the imitation bangle cartier dual of a line bundle and then using the adjoint properties of the tensor product to show its an inverse. If we take a section, there will have to be some point in which the section crosses over the zero section. If we can find some section that has poles where the sections have zeros, their tensor product, which will have sections behaving like the product of the $2$ original sections will be regular.
So now, we have to visualize what taking the dual means, or sending zeros to poles. Geometrically, this is kind of like flipping over our line bundle and gluing everything together at infinity. This makes the zeros become poles. But this is all still very algebraic. Anyways, we certainly know how it works for higher dimensional things because the tensor product multiplies the dimension of the vector space.
At this point, one might wonder, what do I mean by "if we take a section, there will have to be some point in which the section crosses over the zero section." Why does a global section have to intersect the zero section?
Think about the Mbius strip. Draw a circle in the middle; this is isomorphic to the circle. Thus, the Mbius strip is a line bundle over the circle (well, we need to extend the Mbius strip out to infinity). Now, draw some line along the Mbius strip that tries to avoid intersecting the zero section (the circle we drew). This is impossible because when we wrap around the Mbius strip, we will be on the other side of the Mbius strip, and thus, to be a well defined section, we must cross the zero section. This line represents a section and thus, every section has a zero. This is how we know that this line bundle is not trivial. So every section vanishes.
In fact, we know replica cartier juste un clou bracelet that a line bundle is trivial if it has nonvanishing section. Since we can construct a trivialization by considering the map from $X$ (where $X$ is the variety or scheme we are working over) $L$ (the line bundle) given by $L$ maps to $X \times \mathbb{A}^1$ by $(x, y)$ maps to $(yf(x))$, where $f$ is the nonvanishing regular section. This gives an isomorphism. Hence, the zeros or poles of the section really gives us the interesting information of a line bundle.
This is really the significance of this Picard group construction. multiplication by rational sections over the variety). Hence, the line bundle is uniquely determined by zeros and poles up to adding the zeros and poles achievable by rational functions on $X$.
In general, the statement "nontrivial if and only if vanishing sections" is obvious by monodromy. And one could formally understand the tensor/Hom adjunction used in the Picard construction. But what does it mean really?
The Picard group, the way I think of it, is the set of all divisors. points if we are working over a curve. And these correspond to zeros and poles of functions.
To which we could ask, is this accurate? Isn't the Picard group more analogous to the class group? And even then, that is not always an isomorphism.
To which we would respond, yes that is true. we determine its order of vanishing at all the different possible zeros and poles. But one is correct that it is not always an isomorphism. However, for smooth complete curves, it most certainly is, and that is what most of this theory is used for.
We already have some issues if we do not work over algebraically closed fields because then we can not factor our polynomial all the way.
(Wikipedia gives the construction explicitly of line bundles $\implies$ class group element, and the thing about nonvanishing global sections being trivial makes it clear why it is well defined up to principal divisors.)
The bad behavior comes when it is not a factorial scheme. So we ask, what is an example of a scheme where the germs are not unique factorization domains? We will have issues. for example, look at Weil and Cartier divisors, as Weil does not always imply Cartier.
Now, in spite of all this rambling, I feel like I still do not have a deep geometric understanding as to why line bundles have inverses with respect to the tensor product. It's quite possible I'm missing a relatively simple way replica yellow gold cartier love bracelet of thinking about it. For example, thinking of the Mbius strip as a real line bundle $\mathscr L \to S^1$, then $\mathscr L\otimes\mathscr L$ corresponds to the Mbius strip with two half twists. You can think of complex line bundles analogously.
To make this rigorous, it's best to think about the transition function construction of a line bundle. We take an appropriate open cover $U_i$ over which the line bundles $\mathscr L$ and $\mathscr L'$ are trivial, and take transition functions $\phi_{ij}$ and $\phi'_{ij}$ on $U_i\cap U_j$. Then the tensor product has transition functions $\phi_{ij}\phi'_{ij}$ (which then concatenates or superimposes the respective twists).
It now follows that the dual or inverse line bundle $\mathscr L^$ has transition functions $1/\phi_{ij}$. That yellow gold cartier love bracelet fake is, it twists precisely the opposite of the original bundle, and when you tensor the two bundles you have no twist at all.
(By the way, this intuitive geometric notion of twist aligns with the tensor product notion in commutative algebra as giving extension of scalars.)
To my mind, "invertible with respect to the tensor product" is already the correct definition of a line bundle, in full generality. If that isn't the definition you're using I assume you're using something like "locally free of rank $1$," so let me say something about this.
Intuitively you should think of a line bundle as literally a bundle of lines; that is, a bundle of $1$ dimensional vector spaces. (This is why line bundles have something to do with maps to projective spaces: projective spaces are, by definition, moduli spaces of lines.) Among vector spaces, $1$ dimensional vector spaces are precisely the invertible ones with respect to the tensor product, and so among, say, vector bundles, it should be plausible that line bundles are precisely the invertible ones as well.
One way to make this precise is to show that invertibility is a local condition, as follows.
Claim: Let $M$ be an $\mathcal{O}_X$ module on a locally ringed space $(X, \mathcal{O}_X)$. The following conditions on $M$ are equivalent:
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Mary Norton Inc., which she founded 12 years ago as Moo Roo, filed for liquidation late last week, following a recession that has crippled the luxury goods market. Court filings show that the company owes more than $5 cartier love bangle fake million, largely to the investment fund that bought a majority stake in her business in 2006.
Norton's stylish shoes and handbags, priced no less than $395, have accompanied top celebrities down the red carpet and have been profiled in fashion magazines.
"It's kind of yellow gold cartier love bracelet replica a Cinderella story," Norton said last week, before the bankruptcy filing. "I'm very proud of what I've done."
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In 1997, her home based business got an electrifying jolt, one that Norton didn't see coming but witnessed from her living room couch. As A list celebrities paraded across the red carpet at the annual Emmy Awards, the picture focused on "Seinfeld" star Julie Louis Dreyfus, who was clutching a bright green satin handbag adorned with a delicate orchid, which Norton created only rooms away.
The bag made its way to Louis Dreyfus through a Norton friend, who knew the actress's manager.
"There wasn't even a brand," Norton said. "I was just signing my name inside the bags."
As with many young brands that find favor among celebrities, Moo Roo's popularity spread quickly.
Entertainment agents and publicists began to circulate other Norton creations, funneling them to celebrities. A slew of accolades from top fashion magazines followed.
Norton only produced bags in bracelet cartier copy small batches to preserve their worth, except for a few customer favorites. She later opened boutiques on King Street, in Beverly Hills, Calif., and just off New York City's fashionable Fifth Avenue.
"I think everyone was proud of her success and the fact that she was creating something from her dining room table, literally," said Bob Siegel, chief executive officer of Lacoste, who lives in Charleston and helped advise Norton.
Nine years after the company's start, Moo Roo's rapid growth started to make Norton uneasy. She was personally guaranteeing loans. So when New York fashion veterans Dawn Mello and Marty Wikstrom offered to buy the company through their fashion oriented investment fund, the proposition was attractive:
The Atelier Fund would take a majority stake in the company. Norton could continue as the line's exclusive designer. The brand name was changed to Mary Norton. A shoe line was added.
Atelier was backed by Compagnie Financiere Richemont, cartier bangle fake one of the top three luxury investors that carried other brands such as Cartier and Montblanc.
The company's stock grew in step with a luxury goods boom that peaked two years ago. Then the recession kicked in.
Mary Norton Inc.'s Cinderella story ended with a surprise clearance sale this month at her King Street store. Its Web site shows no product is available. The Charleston shop was closed July 10 because of "harsh economic circumstances," Norton said last week.
Norton, reached by telephone Monday, declined to comment on the bankruptcy. In a recent interview, she said her next step is unclear but sounded hopeful.
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Henri Cartier Bresson, universally acknowledged as one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, was buried yesterday, two days after his unannounced death at home in the south of France. He was 95.
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Cartier Bresson, who gave up photography 30 years ago for his first love, painting and drawing, was the creator of 700,000 black and white photographs. He abhorred artificial lighting, including flash, never used a wide angle lens, and never cropped his prints.
A co founder of the legendary Magnum photo agency, along with Robert Capa, David Seymour and George Rodger, he is seen today as the leader of that generation of photographers who succeeded in elevating what was until then a hobby, or at most a jobbing profession, into an art form.
Among his most famous images, many of them on display at the foundation bearing his name that was opened in Paris last year, are the moustachioed, bowler hatted man caught peeping through the canvas surround at a sports event in Brussels in 1932; a female prisoner denouncing a Gestapo informer in 1945; a boyish Truman Capote in 1947; and children playing on the Berlin wall in 1962.
As a photojournalist, he had an astonishing ability to be in the right place at the right time: among the 1,000 original prints, as well as contact sheets, films, manuscripts and correspondence, at the foundation are shots taken during civil wars in Spain and Mexico, the communist revolution in China and at the death of Mahatma Gandhi in India.
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Born in 1908, the son of a wealthy industrialist from Chanteloup, east of Paris, Cartier Bresson took up photography in the 1930s: his first Leica ( extension of my eye bought in 1932, was intended merely as an aid to his art. Much later he returned to this view, dismissing photography as truc micanique a mechanical thing and spending most of his time after 1974 drawing and copying paintings in Paris art galleries.
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Using one of the unobtrusive, fast shooting cameras that became available from the 1930s, Cartier Bresson began his hunt for the arresting image, setting the standard for every photojournalist who followed. He was, in his words, the streets determined to trap life, to preserve life in the act of living.
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Kering Group (OTC:PPRUF), which operates the Gucci and YSL brands, said on February 10 that 2016 saw a same store sales increase of 11 percent in Asia ex Japan, which was mostly led by a rebound in China. LVMH, which owns brands such as Louis Vuitton, Bulgari, and Hennessy, also highlighted positive momentum going forward in its fourth quarter earnings copy cartier love bracelet call with investors. Hugo Boss Group's mainland China same store sales also increased close to 20 percent during 2016, adjusted for currency.
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Growth during the second half of 2016 was led by middle class consumers, a segment that retailers and luxury brands aim to court going forward.
But that is quickly changing, according to a joint study by Exane BNP Paribas and ContactLab. This is a departure from luxury sales strategy in the West, where most of such sales still originate from physical stores, and white glove customer service is a large driver of purchase decisions.
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Last year's so called parcel tax enacted by the Finance Ministry has already put a dent in online overseas purchases of luxury goods. The tax, similar to import duties, is levied on all consumer online purchases shipped directly to China. At the same time, Beijing also cut actual import duties on imported goods such as clothing and cosmetics to drive down domestic prices and repatriate overseas Chinese consumers spending.
These efforts, along with recent terrorist attacked in France and Germany, have largely kept Chinese consumers home in the second half of 2016.
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Speaking in English accented with the French she learned while studying at the cole Nationale Suprieure des Arts Dcoratifs in Paris, Ms Jiang places the brand squarely in a millennial tradition of Chinese craftsmanship.
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Certainly, she can plan for continued growth in the Chinese luxury market. McKinsey recently forecast the market would expand 18 per cent a year, to Rmb180bn by 2015.
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For Shang Xia the brainchild of Ms Jiang and Patrick Thomas, chief executive of Herms is that unusual thing in China: a brand that celebrates its "Chineseness" rather than hiding it. If it succeeds, it could herald the emergence of China as a power to reckon with in the global luxury business and provide a blueprint for other local brands to become globally competitive.
Herms owns the majority of the venture's shares, while Ms Jiang holds an undisclosed stake.
Speaking in English accented with the French she learned while studying at the cole Nationale Suprieure des Arts Dcoratifs in Paris, Ms Jiang places the brand squarely in a millennial tradition of Chinese craftsmanship.
"During our history, we had the most refined luxury, during the dynasties of the various emperors. It's really just a pity that in the last 100 years, that [relationship with the past] was broken . because of the Cultural Revolution," Ms Jiang, 35, tells the Financial Times. She says her generation needs to reconnect with China's creative past before centuries of craftsmanship die imitation bracelet cartier out.
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The necklace, at Rmb80,000 ($12,660), is also available in wood or gold for less. Items in the shop range from affordable to ultra luxe, with many priced as low as Rmb1,500. Staff say customers are split evenly between foreigners and Chinese.
Ms Jiang says the shop's signature porcelain and bamboo tea sets are made by an artisan who previously created large elephants out of the material. "But young people don't want those objects at home." So she found a way to adapt that craftsmanship to an urban lifestyle.
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Certainly, she can plan for continued growth in the Chinese luxury market. McKinsey recently forecast the market would expand 18 per cent a year, to Rmb180bn by 2015.
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Despite its current hot streak and its solid play when recently acquired big man Nene has been in the lineup, Washington's 18 46 record is the NBA's worst other than that of absolute doormat Charlotte. Interim coach Randy Wittman is 16 31 since replacing buddy Flip Saunders (2 15) on Jan. 24. The fact that Wittman winning slightly more than a third of his games is seen as progress tells you all you need to know about how downtrodden this franchise has become.
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That track record of success hasn't been replicated in Washington. After his prize acquisition, guard Gilbert Arenas, led the Wizards to the second round of the playoffs in 2005 for the first time in 23 years, coach Eddie Jordan's team averaged a 42 40 record the next three seasons while losing 12 of 16 postseason games against LeBron James and the Cavaliers. Since then, the Wizards are 86 224. They've overhauled the entire roster, save forward Andray Blatche, who's currently on a "conditioning" assignment, changed coaches three times as well as the owner. But Grunfeld cartier love ring white gold imitation remains.
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If Ottawa were an Australian city, everybody would grumble about the cold. If it was a British city, things would be worse: People would refuse to leave their houses at all, like a nation of wild eyed recluses. If Ottawa was an American city, re positioned slightly south, everyone would be outwardly pleasant about the weather, but secretly bitter; and then somebody would slip on an sidewalk and there would be a class action lawsuit against Mother Nature.
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Winterlude concert crowd in Confederation Park.
Actually, this determination to make something positive out of disadvantage is part of Canada's historical character: the country once harvested ice blocks and shipped them to Cuba and India; and the snow shoe, as one museum explains, is not an encumbrance but "a symbol of courage and adventureand reminds us of those who founded our beautiful country by walking on thousands of kilometres of snow".
I am fascinated by this positivity. It seems so alien so impossible. Do they really mean it when they write "This is why I love winter!" on a brochure above a picture of a family wearing 75 layers of clothing? Recently, my curiosity got the better of me: upon learning that Ottawa actually celebrates winter with an annual three week festival called "Winterlude," I decided to buy a fur trimmed parka and fly in to investigate.
Winterlude was started in 1979and it now attracts more than a million visitors each year during February. Many of the city's cultural institutions get involved, including the Canadian Museum of Nature, with its new "Arctic Voices" exhibition spotlighting Canada's arctic environment; and the National Gallery, which curates a "Wintry Journey" through the collection.
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But the centre of events is actually Federation Park, just across the street from my downtown hotel. On my first morning in Ottawa, I drink copious amounts of coffee and then go outside into a chill so sharp ice sculptures around the city are perfectly intact, despite being carved nearly a week earlier. The ice works are huge and intricate, glittering like something pulled up out of the Arctic. The crowd is thrilled by these statues, snapping photos in every direction as they munch steaming Beavertail pastries.
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Within 10 minutes, I'm gliding beneath bridges and past residential neighbourhoods, feeling liberated in a way that I hadn't quite expected. School kids are practising relays along the iceand a Japanese woman skates behind an office chair, which she occasionally turns around to sit on and rest. Populating the canal is a full cross section of Ontario, excluding no demographic or skill level. Everybody is here, fooling around togetherand there's no shame in moving your body like a brutalist art piece, all angles and inelegant jutting.
Eventually I make it all the way to Dow's Lake, where the canal widens before continuing south. Dow's Lake is the location of Winterlude's oddest event: the 35th Annual Accora Village Bed Race. "Which bed will be the fastest?" I hear somebody ask in the crowd. Then I catch sight of modified hospital beds, lined up behind a starting line in the middle of the lake ice. Each bed decorated like a tank or pinata, for example, and all contestants are dressed to draw knock off cartier white gold love ring attention. One team has open backed gowns with fake derrieres. "Avert your eyes," the announcer warns. "I see many a bare bum on the ice." Moments later they are off, screaming down the lake as though we were in a psychedelic emergency room.
Winterlude is full of these kind of shenanigans. One day I drop by the ByWard market for lunch, and notice a plump white tent where a "stew cook off" is under way.
"Ten dollars, 23 stews," yells a man by the door.
"These are students," a man instructs me carefully, gesturing at two young girls wearing white hats and holding their ladles like weapons. "They take it very seriously. This is the best." One of the girls fills my bowl with steaming prime ribs; the other places a sweet potato flake on top with the dainty precision of a sous chef in a Michelin star restaurant.
Winterlude concert crowd in Confederation Park.
In fact, fine dining comes later, in the evening. Many restaurants around Ottawa offer a dedicated Winterlude menu for reasonable pricesbut the Courtyard Restaurants takes things one step further, offering an Annual Canadian Game Dinner. Over the course of several hours I eat pheasant terrine, boar bacon, elk strip loinand roast North Pacific black cod with hash brown potato. The executive chef, Ian Reed, is a young tattooed man with slicked back hair and a denim shirt. "The ideas are always flowing," he tells me, as a waiter delivers Canadian maple sugar pieand my pants begin to split from the strain.
There is more to come in Winterlude a winter design festival, a chocolate tour, "martinis and manicures", open mic in one of the many Irish style pubs but the temperature drops so drastically that I feel compelled to scuttle back to my hotel like a hermit crab.
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If Ottawa were an Australian city, everybody would grumble about the cold. If it was a British city, things would be worse: People would refuse to leave their houses at all, like a nation of wild eyed recluses. If Ottawa was an American city, re positioned slightly south, everyone would be outwardly pleasant about the weather, but secretly bitter; and then somebody would slip on an sidewalk and there would be a class action lawsuit against Mother Nature.
But Ottawa, being Canadian, is an all round genial kind of place. Ottawans approach their meteorological situation as only Canadians can: with a buoyant attitude almost childlike for its lack of sarcasm. Fathers hose puddles in their backyards, which freeze into private rinks. ("It's great for kids," one woman tells me. "Better than playing video games!") Farmers' markets sell winter fare like Tibetan yak, encouraging customers to "enjoy the sublime taste of ancient beasts, so nutritious and easy to digest". Officeworkers skate to work on a frozen canal, transforming inconvenience into a morning workout.
Winterlude concert crowd in Confederation Park.
Actually, this determination to make something positive out of disadvantage is part of Canada's historical character: the country once harvested ice blocks and shipped them to Cuba and India; and the snow shoe, as one museum explains, is not an encumbrance but "a symbol of courage and adventureand reminds us of those who founded our beautiful country by walking on thousands of kilometres of snow".
I am fascinated by this positivity. It seems so alien so impossible. Do they really mean it when they write "This is why I love winter!" on a brochure above a picture of a family wearing 75 layers of clothing? Recently, my curiosity got the better of me: upon learning that Ottawa actually celebrates winter with an annual three week festival called "Winterlude," I decided to buy a fur trimmed parka and fly in to investigate.
Winterlude was started in 1979and it now attracts more than a million visitors each year during February. Many of the city's cultural institutions get involved, including the Canadian Museum of Nature, with its new "Arctic Voices" exhibition spotlighting Canada's arctic environment; and the National Gallery, which curates a "Wintry Journey" through the collection.
The mascots for the festival are the "Ice Hog Family" Mama and Papa Ice Hog, and their children, Noumi and Nouma. According to official literature, the Hogs "love everything about winter: the snow, copy cartier trinity ring the wind, the cold. Every year, they hold a great celebration to say goodbye to winter and remind it to come back and play again next year. Sometimes they spend weeks playing games, dancing and holding competitions".
The Hogs live in Jacques Cartier Park, in Gatineau, which transforms during the festival into "Snowflake Kingdom" a sprawling theme park of snow slides and maple taffy that seems to send children into paroxysms of delight, though perhaps that is just the sugar.
But the centre of events is actually Federation Park, just across the street from my downtown hotel. On my first morning in Ottawa, I drink copious amounts of coffee and then go outside into a chill so sharp ice sculptures around the city are perfectly intact, despite being carved nearly a week earlier. The ice works are huge and intricate, glittering like something pulled up out of the Arctic. The crowd is thrilled by these statues, snapping photos in every direction as they munch steaming Beavertail pastries.
On the far side of the park is a stretch of the Rideau Canal, knock off cartier ring the 202 kilometre waterway connecting Ottawa with Lake Ontario in the south. Each winter for the last 45 years, aboutseven kilometres have been buffed and polished into the world's longest skateway, which cuts right through the city. There is no admission chargeand, though most locals prefer to bring their own boots, the rest of us can stagger across to a small hut where rentals are sharpened on a spinning stone that sounds like a meat slicer.
Within 10 minutes, I'm gliding beneath bridges and past residential neighbourhoods, feeling liberated in a way that I hadn't quite expected. School kids are practising relays along the iceand a Japanese woman skates behind an office chair, which she occasionally turns around to sit on and rest. Populating the canal is a full cross section of Ontario, excluding no demographic or skill level. Everybody is here, fooling around togetherand there's no shame in moving your body like a brutalist art piece, all angles and inelegant jutting.
Eventually I make it all the way to Dow's Lake, where the canal widens before continuing south. Dow's Lake is the location of Winterlude's oddest event: the 35th Annual Accora Village Bed Race. "Which bed will be the fastest?" I hear somebody ask in the crowd. Then I catch sight of modified hospital beds, lined up behind a starting line in the middle of the lake ice. Each bed decorated like a tank or pinata, for example, and all contestants are dressed to draw knock off cartier white gold love ring attention. One team has open backed gowns with fake derrieres. "Avert your eyes," the announcer warns. "I see many a bare bum on the ice." Moments later they are off, screaming down the lake as though we were in a psychedelic emergency room.
Winterlude is full of these kind of shenanigans. One day I drop by the ByWard market for lunch, and notice a plump white tent where a "stew cook off" is under way.
"Ten dollars, 23 stews," yells a man by the door.
"These are students," a man instructs me carefully, gesturing at two young girls wearing white hats and holding their ladles like weapons. "They take it very seriously. This is the best." One of the girls fills my bowl with steaming prime ribs; the other places a sweet potato flake on top with the dainty precision of a sous chef in a Michelin star restaurant.
Winterlude concert crowd in Confederation Park.
In fact, fine dining comes later, in the evening. Many restaurants around Ottawa offer a dedicated Winterlude menu for reasonable pricesbut the Courtyard Restaurants takes things one step further, offering an Annual Canadian Game Dinner. Over the course of several hours I eat pheasant terrine, boar bacon, elk strip loinand roast North Pacific black cod with hash brown potato. The executive chef, Ian Reed, is a young tattooed man with slicked back hair and a denim shirt. "The ideas are always flowing," he tells me, as a waiter delivers Canadian maple sugar pieand my pants begin to split from the strain.
There is more to come in Winterlude a winter design festival, a chocolate tour, "martinis and manicures", open mic in one of the many Irish style pubs but the temperature drops so drastically that I feel compelled to scuttle back to my hotel like a hermit crab.
READ MORE:
Vancouver: 5 places off the beaten track
A Kiwi's guide to driving in British Columbia
Cruising through Alaska's Tlingit country
The route takes me back across the Rideau Canal, still crowded with skaters despite the dark; and through Federation Park's Crystal Garden, which seems even more energised than it did in the morning. All the sculptures are back lit with coloured lights now. There is a thump thump of bass musicand people laughing before a DJ on the stage. Surely this is the ultimate sign of Canadian defiance: a dance party in sub zero temperatures. People genuinely seem to love the weather. It's impossible not to be charmed as well, so I linger for a moment, warming my hands around a fire pit. And then I go inside.
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Initial investigations suggest the gang who targeted Mr Keane and Ms Murphy may cartier replica ring gold also have carried out a raid on a property at Brighton Avenue, Rathgar, last Tuesday week.
In that incident, on July 26, four armed men burst into a home and tied the occupants with cable ties.
Detectives think that the terrifying incident, which was over in minutes, was a cartier replica leve ring case of mistaken identity and that the raiders targeted the wrong house. One member of the gang was armed with a handgun and the others with hammers and knives.
They forced their way into fake Cartier love ring price the house on Brighton Avenue at about 6.15pm.
It is understood some of the gang wore wigs when they called to the front door and made threats.
A source explained: "The gang were shouting 'give us your drugs and money'."
However, the innocent occupants of the house told the mob that they had neither drugs nor cash. When another housemate arrived, the raiders panicked and fled. Gardai are still hunting for the men.
Two months earlier, on May 26, Ms Murphy was ambushed by raiders as she entered her home on May 26, at Drayton Manor, Brittas Bay.
They held her at knifepoint, threatened her, gagged her and tied her to a chair, demanding she give them her jewellery as well as demanding access to the safe.
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