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Kenya Prisons clinch bronze by beating Al Ahly
Kenya Prisons clinched bronze in Tunisia. (SNA. File Photo)
Kenya Prisons came back from a set down to beat record African champions Al Ahly of Egypt 3-2 (25-13, 10-25, 25-20, 22-25, 10-15) and clinch the bronze medal in their women’s Africa Volleyball Club Championships in Monastir, Tunisia on Sunday.
This was a rematch between the two giants after they met in the group stages earlier in the competition.
The Egyptians on that occasion won 3-0. They made their dominance felt as they easily took the first set 25-13.
Good service balls especially from star setter Jane Wacu enabled Kenya Prisons, the 2012 champions to claw back into the match and sealed a massive 25-10 second set win.
This was a morale booster for the Kenyan side heading into the third set as they tied the game at 1-1.
Poor reception of the ball, an issue that had rocked Kenyan teams in the competition came to bite the wardresses.
Al Ahly who won the last edition in 2016 capitalised on unforced errors to take the third set 25-20 and lead 2-1.
Good blocking
With the match hanging in the balance, Kenya Prisons conjured up meaningful offence and good blocking to ensure that they remained in the match after a 25-22 fourth set win to set up the decisive set.
Kenya Prisons grew in confidence and dealt the final blow to seal the fifth set 15-10.
Kenya Pipeline finished fifth after a solid shift in the last two sets to beat Algeria’s Sonatrach in straight sets of 31-33, 25-12, 25-18 during their classification match.
The Kenyans overcame a closely fought first set to finally break down the Algerians. They scooped bronze in the last edition in 2016 but were eliminated by rivals Kenya Prisons at the quarterfinal stage this time around.
Meanwhile, hosts Carthage of Tunisia clinched their maiden title after after a hard fought 3-2 (16-25, 25-17, 26-24, 20-25, 15-11) victory over Egypt’s Shams.
Cheered by a huge home following, they fought back from a set down against the dark horses to ensure that trophy remained in Tunisia.
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July Reign
Here Comes The Flood
Melodic Rock Records
A great new addition to the MelodicRock Records roster.
July Reign are the brainchild of guitarist Sheldon Scrivner who, having heard Evidence One, contacted vocalist Carsten "Lizard" Schulz to enquire if he was interested in collaborating with Scrivner and long-time cohort drummer Mark Duran. The evidence of that conversation is what we have here. July Reign was signed by Andrew McNeice's MelodicRock Records and 'Here Comes The Flood' was born; the record is produced by Scrivner and Rolf Munkes and is due to be released the second quarter of 2016.
After a brief intro, the album kicks in with the immense 'Inferno'; a full-on guitar-led Rocker featuring fantastic work from Scrivner, a guitarist with whom I am not familiar but would love to hear more of. Anyone familiar with last year's Carsten Lizard Schulz Syndicate release 'The Day The Earth Stopped Turning' will know what a great set of pipes Carsten has and this is highlighted on 'Rage Of Pain' and 'Rest In Ruins' – two powerful hitters.
The album continues in more or less the same vein with Scrivner's guitar work really standing out, not forgetting the powerful drumming of Duran. This gives the sound an amazing depth, particularly on the track 'Heart Of The Sun', a beast of a song and my personal album highlight on the album. The sound on this release is very tight and far better than most debut releases, non-more so than on the title and final track, 'Here Comes The Flood', a beautiful song capturing a trio of musicians putting in there A-game; a great way to end the album and the cue to hit play again.
This really is an excellent debut release that showcases the talents of the three parts. It is well written, has great playing and the production is of the highest order. This is as good as Melodic Hard Rock gets and, in a year with so many great releases out or due out, it deserves its chance to stand with the big boys. A great new addition to the MelodicRock Records roster; here's hoping for more Reign (but not in July).
Mick Parry
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Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peac
Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace
Patricia Raybon
Undivided - Hardcover
“Mom, I have something I need to tell you…”
They didn’t talk. Not for ten years. Not about faith anyway. Instead, a mother and daughter tiptoed with pain around the deepest gulf in their lives – the daughter’s choice to leave the church, convert to Islam and become a practicing Muslim. Undivided is a real-time story of healing and understanding with alternating narratives from each as they struggle to learn how to love each other in a whole new way.
Although this is certainly a book for mothers and daughters struggling with interfaith tensions , it is equally meaningful for mothers and daughters who feel divided by tensions in general. An important work for parents whose adult children have left the family’s belief system, it will help those same children as they wrestle to better understand their parents.
Undivided offers an up close and personal look at the life of an Islamic convert—a young American woman—at a time when attitudes are mixed about Muslims (and Muslim women in particular), but interest in such women is high. For anyone troubled by the broader tensions between Islam and the West, this personal story distills this friction into the context of a family relationship—a journey all the more fascinating.
Undivided is a tremendously important book for our time. Will Patricia be able to fully trust in the Christ who “holds all things together?” Will Alana find new hope or new understanding as the conversation gets deeper between them? And can they answer the question that both want desperately to experience, which is “Can we make our torn family whole again?”
Contributor(s)Patricia Raybon , Alana Raybon
About the Contributor(s) Patricia RaybonPatricia Raybon is the award-winning author of I Told the Mountain to Move, a 2006 Book of the Year... Patricia Raybon
Patricia Raybon is the award-winning author of I Told the Mountain to Move, a 2006 Book of the Year finalist in Christianity Today magazine’s annual book awards competition; and My First White Friend, her racial forgiveness memoir that won the Christopher Award. She is also author of the One Year® devotional, God’s Great Blessings. A journalist by training, Patricia has written essays on family and faith, which have been published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, USA Weekend, and In Touch of In Touch Ministries; and aired on National Public Radio. She is also a regular contributor to Today’s Christian Woman online magazine.
With degrees in journalism from Ohio State University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, Patricia worked a dozen years as a newspaper journalist for the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. She later joined the journalism faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where for fifteen years she taught print journalism. Patricia now writes full-time on “mountain-moving faith.”
Patricia and her husband, Dan, are longtime residents of Colorado and have two grown daughters and five grandchildren. Founder of the Writing Ministry at her Denver church, Patricia coaches and encourages aspiring authors around the country and is a member of the Colorado Authors League and the Authors Guild.
Alana Raybon
Alana Raybon is a seasoned elementary- and middle-school educator. During the past ten years, she has served as a third-to-seventh-grade lead teacher to a diverse population in Texas and more recently in Tennessee. She has been a mentor to new and student teachers, an advisor to a school’s accreditation process, a tutor, and a member of various school-related committees. Alana and her husband parent their three young children and a teenage stepson. She was featured with her mother in a May 2011 Mother’s Day reflection in Glamour magazine
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A Brief Parish History St Justin Martyr began in November 1987 with the Area Dean of that time, Fr John Ealy traveling up monthly to serve Vespers on Sunday evening at St George Antiochian Orthodox Church. A weekly ad in the Florida Times Union was the primary method of getting the message out. Most of the time we were graciously hosted by St George Antiochian Church at its former location on Ashland Street. A wonderful core group developed and out of this group came the founders of St Justin Martyr.
Fr Ted Pisarchuk graduated St Vladimir’s Seminary in May 1994 and was assigned to St Justin Martyr. At that time St Justin Martyr became a recipient of a Church planting grant. On July 17, 1994 we celebrated our first Divine Liturgy in a classroom at the University of North Florida with an attendance of 35. One mid-August attendance was down to 17 and we built up from there. After much searching, by God’s grace we moved to the now former Mother of God Byzantine Catholic Church on Stacey Rd and were able to worship on Sunday mornings because they did not have a priest. The church was a perfect fit. It looked Orthodox, had an iconostasis, and plenty of room for us to grow. We worshipped there for 2 ½ years. Then the building was offered for sale. We tried to purchase it, but we did not have the finances and another church community purchased it. Within a month we were homeless. By God’s grace, and we believe, the intercessions of the Mother of God, we found refuge in the Mother of God of Zorno Syrian Orthodox Church that did not have a priest. After 6 months we found a demographically perfect 3800 sf office warehouse that we were able to convert into a church and fellowship hall. We were there for seven years.
On May 21, 2000 we had a special parish meeting and launched a $100,000 Property Acquisition Campaign. Then after much prayer and searching in May 2001 we found our present ten-acre parcel. It was truly a miraculous gift. We purchased what we thought was 6 acres of buildable land and 4 acres of wetlands for $245,000, the cost of 6 acres of residential land. Upon investigation it turned out to be 8 acres of buildable land. We got 8 acres of commercial land for the cost of 6 acres. Within days and weeks of our purchase a new interchange with I-95 was announced 2.5 miles south of the property. Within a few more weeks a development, a shopping center, and a hospital were announced for the area. Before we closed on the land it appreciated to $440,000. Over the next year we worked hard to develop a set of architectural drawings. It was bid out in August 2002 and came in way over budget. We went “back to the drawing board” using a new architect. Our blueprint this time was much improved. Our construction contract was cost plus and after some negotiations, holding off on certain items and with a timely $100,000 dollar loan from Archbishop DMITRI we began construction.
There was much volunteer labor from the community: building the stage and walls for the altar, all the painting, laying sod, and installing fellowship hall flooring. In thanksgiving to God, we celebrated our first Divine Liturgy on St Augustine Rd on April 10th, 2005, St John Climacus. Immediately after construction we began clearing a portion of our property for St Justin Cemetery. On May 14, 2005 Vladyka DMITRI consecrated the cemetery and on May 15, 2005 the Temple was consecrated.
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Boyfriend of ‘Real Housewives’ Bethenny Frankel found dead in Trump Tower
Jackie Ramsey | Saturday, August 11, 2018
Bethenny Frankel's Boyfriend Found Dead in Trump Tower Home
Bethenny Frankel's "RHONY" co-stars - including frenemy Carole Radziwill - are rallying around her, following her boyfriend, Dennis Shield's, heartbreaking death on August 10.
The on-again, off-again boyfriend of Bethenny Frankel - Real Housewives of NY star and founder of Skinnygirl Cocktails was found dead Friday in his apartment in Trump Tower.
A cause of death has yet to be determined.
Police responded to a 911 call of an unconscious man inside Trump Tower about 9:19 a.m., officials said in a press release.
An emergency medical service team pronounced Shields dead at the scene.
Bethenny Frankel has not made a public statement regarding Dennis Shields.
"This is really bad". I'm so sad for her.
In February, a source told PEOPLE the pair weren't together, but said Dennis was an important part of the RHONY star's life.
Shields, who had been friends with Frankel for almost 30 years before they began dating in 2016, lost consciousness before the medication could kick in.
Our thoughts are with Dennis' loved ones at this time. "His spirit lives on in our children".
Law enforcement sources told TMZ that Shields' assistant had tried to give him Narcan to revive him but the effort was unsuccessful.
In May, the reality TV star told Steve Harvey that their relationship was complicated, according to People. "It's like a partnership where if we're not being teammates and it's not working and one man is down, then the other man is down".
Frankel's on-off romance with Shields was a mainstay on Real Housewives of NY.
Bethenny Frankel has been active in the news lately and on social media as she comments regularly on episodes of RHONY and the recent cast shake-ups.
She added that they were trying to be good teammates and partners, and she thinks that relationships are "a little bit like a business".
Cam Newton confronted Kelvin Benjamin in a heated pregame chat
Benjamin didn't shake it, and although Panthers linebacker tried to intervene, Newton waved him off and kept the conversation going.
White House dismisses former Trump aide who branded him ‘racist’
But, as NPR reported , the very section that Manigault told Martin to read actually was the part that contradicted her claims. More details: Omarosa claims that Trump had a tanning bed installed in the White House residence, per the Post .
Tribune calls off $3.9 billion Sinclair media deal
Sinclair has become a significant outlet for conservative perspectives. The FCC did not immediately comment on Thursday.
Jose Mourinho 'desperate' for strong Manchester United start
I've had a good chat with him and I look forward to the new season and getting back to my best". "I'm going to enjoy this season". However, Mourinho's time in charge of the club has been filled with feuding with his players, ownership and the media.
Mourinho frustrated as Premier League clubs race to beat new deadline
One lie repeated 1,000 times is still a lie but the perception of people is that it's true. I think it is clear what is going on and how we are going to move in the future.
NCAA adopts college basketball reforms for draft, recruiting
College players would have to request an evaluation from the NBA Undergraduate Advisory Committee on their draft prospects. The changes also allow high school athletes more time and latitude in committing to a college basketball team.
Liverpool boss Klopp: Big spending always going to happen
We got the Champions League and that was a success, but we can only improve two more places without being champions. Paul Merson believes Liverpool FC need to sign another centre-half to finally win their first Premier League title.
Dez to Browns GM: 'I'm coming ... to see you'
The wide receiver was released by the Cowboys in April after catching 69 passes for 838 yards and six touchdowns in 2017. Bryant is on the invite list, but the 29-year-old pass-catcher initially refused to make contact with the organization.
Twitter CEO defends decision not to ban Alex Jones, Infowars
A number of platforms have reached a different conclusion, as the crackdown on Jones intensified this week . The company is resisting pressure to follow suit, clarifying that Jones has not yet broken its rules.
Last Meetings - Everton Finalising Yerry Mina and Andre Gomes Arrivals
Mina completed a €30.25 million move to the Toffees along with Andre Gomes, who joins the club on a season-long loan. Everton boss Marco Silva has insisted that Phil Jagielka still has a part to play for the club this season.
History made at Lord's as rain prevents play on day one
The hosts are leading the series 1-0, but will be without their marquee player Ben Stokes, who is busy with his hearing in court. For the second spinner's slot, there will be an interesting battle between Ravindra Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav .
North Korea threatens to keep nukes
It blamed "some high-level officials within the USA administration", who were "going against the intention of President Trump ". North Korea has in the past expressed anger over comments made by administration officials in the media, especially Bolton.
Melania Trump’s parents sworn in as U.S. citizens
Although Melania started from humble roots, she launched a successful modeling career prior to her marriage to the president. The president in January proposed ending most family-based immigration and replacing it with a skills-based system.
Charges against Najib in line with rule of law, says Hishammuddin
Najib and his allies are accused of plundering billions of dollars from 1MDB to buy everything from U.S. real estate to artworks. Dressed in a grey suit, Najib appeared calm as three charges of money laundering were read out at the Kuala Lumpur high court.
Official Trailer for Michael Moore's New Documentary 'Fahrenheit 11/9'
Asked if the film provides a "glimmer of hope", Moore shot back, "Fuck hope". Bush and the events that unfolded after the September 11 attacks in 2001.
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Man United, Mourinho's frustrations continue with 0-0 draw vs. Valencia
Sergio Conner | Wednesday, October 03, 2018
Shaw has been one of United's best players this season and he sprinted the most on Saturday. Image PA Images
The young English forward started on the left flank for Man United, but was later moved to the right wing after the introduction of Anthony Martial in the second half.
Marcus Rashford hit the crossbar with a vicious free kick from a tight angle in the 86th minute but the home side were jeered off the pitch on the final whistle after another lacklustre performance.
Jose Mourinho has recalled Alexis Sanchez to the starting eleven after the Chilean global was axed for the defeat at West Ham on Saturday.
Jose Mourinho is someone who purports to be all about the small details so what sort of message did that send ahead of another game United had to win?
"I'm actually slightly surprised he survived after Saturday, the performance was so bad", he told BT Sport. "I hope he now gets a run of games in the team".
United, already eliminated from the Carabao Cup by Championship outfit Derby last Tuesday before losing 3-1 at West Ham on Saturday, can at least point to an unbeaten record in Group H following this stalemate.
However, it took far longer for the game to come alive after a drab first half that summed up both sides' struggles so far this season.
The 20-year-old is in decent form and looks far more threatening than Lukaku or Sanchez. Against Valencia, he was one of United's most impressive players, though in fairness, there wasn't much competition.
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Graham Calls for Investigation of Feinstein's Office, Ford's Lawyers
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Trump, 48, also had tea with Ghana's first lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, at the presidential palace, known as the Jubilee House. Children carry flags as they greet USA first lady Melania Trump on arrival in Accra, Ghana , on October 2, 2018.
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Ronaldo dismisses rape claims as lawyers set to sue German magazine
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U.S. court lets Congress members sue Trump over foreign payments
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Former AS Monaco star Thomas Lemar made a significant impact in both of those victories. Atletico beat Real Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup final in the beginning of the season.
Teen attacked by shark at USA beach
The photo of the victim was released by the family via Rady Children's Hospital to the media Saturday, September 29, 2018. The attack occurred just before 7am local time, during the opening hour of California's popular spiny lobster season.
GE unexpectedly removes its CEO
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Trump says he wants 'comprehensive' FBI investigation of Kavanaugh
Trump says he's still hopeful that Kavanaugh is confirmed by the Senate and that he doesn't want to discuss alternative nominees. Deborah Ramirez alleges that Kavanaugh exposed himself at a party in the early 1980s when they were Yale University students.
What’s the timeline for a Kavanaugh vote in the Senate?
A lawyer for Mr Judge - a childhood friend of Mr Kavanaugh - said on Monday that his client's interview "has not been completed". He told the New Yorker that he had been thinking of the incident since the attorney was named as Trump's SC nominee.
Kavanaugh Classmate: 'I Don't Think Many Of His Answers Were Credible'
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A one-game playoff in 1980 was no better for the Dodgers, who were beaten 7-1 by Houston for the NL West championship. But it's hard to deny that the Rockies have real motivation to win while the Nats have something less than that.
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About 100 Muslims from the region packed into the Islamic Center of St. Joseph on Friday to celebrate one of their faith’s most important holidays: Eid-al-Adha.
It coincides with one of the largest annual gatherings of people in the world, when Muslims make the hajj, or pilgrimage, to the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
It’s a mandatory religious duty for Muslims to travel to the holy city at least once in their lifetime, and 3 million pilgrims made the journey this year.
Ayman Hassan, the leader at the Islamic Center of St. Joseph, said that he fulfilled hajj twice in the 1980s.
“You can’t imagine the spirituality that I was experiencing when I was in Mecca and Mina,” Hassan said. “It’s where Abraham, his wife Sarai, his son Ishmael and all their offspring used to live, and I really experienced the same spirituality that they were experiencing.”
Hassan added that many people wear white as a symbol of equality regardless of nationality, skin color or financial standing.
“It is a sign of unity,” he said. “In such white color uniform, you never recognize or figure out the wealthy from the poor, the arrogant from the humble, you can see all of them as one body, united, no difference between any two of them.”
Those who are unable to travel to Mecca still can celebrate from home, and many were fasting from sunrise to sunset Thursday to celebrate the Day of Arafat.
The local group of Muslims began their Eid-al-Adha celebration Friday morning by praying toward Mecca at the center. Then, families went home to slaughter a sacrificial animal, which honors a common monotheist story of Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God’s command.
“According to the way of the prophet Muhammad, we should divide the sacrificial animal after slaughtering into three-thirds,” Hassan said. “One-third for the poor and needy and this is the most important one, the second third to our neighbors, either Muslims or non-Muslims, but the closest, and third for the family members’ dinner.”
Hassan’s son Mostafa, who’s in fifth grade, sees Eid as a time to connect with family and friends, and that it’s similar to Christmas when adults give kids prizes and money.
“As a kid experience, it’s about having a good time basically,” he said. “On Eid, you should be happy; there is no reason to be sad or anything.”
The conclusion of hajj also symbolizes a rebirth and is an opportunity for Muslims to have sins forgiven so they can start a new chapter.
Mostafa said that he’s looking forward to making the trip to Mecca in the future.
“It’s a beautiful place over there,” he said. “I would be really happy to be around Muslims and be proud of my religion.”
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BizHawk 1.11.3
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1:24:07.68
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Michael Gottlieb & Iris Ward
Author's nickname:
qqwref & AdituV
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On Puzzle Island, the greatest accolade is the title of Puzzle Master. To earn it, you have to defeat the best seven Denki Blocks! players on the island, and then solve the current Puzzle Master's puzzles. This movie finishes every puzzle in Tournament mode, earns every bonus star, and then uses the stars to unlock and finish all 30 Club puzzles.
Game objectives
Emulator used: BizHawk 1.11.1
Completes all 265 puzzles
Collects all 125 stars
Aims for fastest time
Does not abuse programming errors
Denki Blocks! is a puzzle game released for the Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and several other platforms. The main Tournament mode has 8 stages, each of which have 25 puzzles. The puzzles in each stage can be done in any order, and there are many possible optimal orders, so for entertainment we chose orders that are related to the puzzles in each stage.
This run completes all 265 puzzles in the game, as well as collects all 125 bonus stars. That means (a) completing the 25 puzzles in each stage, (b) finishing the 5 extra puzzles in the first 7 stages, (c) doing every possible 3 of a Kind and Bonus Shape bonus in the Tournament stage, and (d) beating the 30 Club levels unlocked using the bonus stars. This also unlocks every trophy in the Trophy Room; while it is possible to do that while finishing only 255 of 265 puzzles and getting only 100 of 125 stars, we felt that this 100% definition was more satisfying.
Each puzzle has a bunch of colored blocks of various shapes and sizes, as well as some walls. A move brings all of the blocks in the same direction by one space, except for the ones that are blocked from moving (by walls, or by the edge of the playing field). Whenever two blocks of the same color touch, they stick together, making a bigger block that is then harder to move around. Puzzles specify one or more colors, and when you stick together all the blocks of those colors, you finish the puzzle.
The bonus stars and Club puzzles add some extra complexity to the puzzles. For a 3 of a Kind bonus, each of the three colors must end up paired in the same shape and the same orientation. For a Bonus Shape bonus, a selected color must end up paired in a certain shape. The Club puzzles also add several extra game mechanics, such as the Switch (which must be covered to beat the level) or the Key (which must be pushed to the Lock to beat the level).
In July 2014, I (qqwref) started working on a C++ program to optimally solve the puzzles. That turned out to be too difficult, so the program became a suboptimal solver, which could finish most of the puzzles efficiently. Eventually, I had good solutions for almost all of the puzzles and was thinking about putting them together into a TAS. Then AdituV joined on, writing a Lua script to save time. Together, we timed things, optimized solutions for real time instead of moves, organized them, and made the input file.
Every move takes 7 frames, except for the first move which takes 10.
Finishing pairing one of the required colors starts a 79-frame cutscene. If there are multiple colors, pairing two or three of them in the same move starts those cutscenes at the same time, which is faster. At the end of a puzzle, the game will play a 180-frame "Nice Pair" cutscene if two shapes are identical, a 421-frame "3 of a Kind" cutscene if three shapes are identical, or a 360-frame "Bonus Shape" cutscene if a shape matches the goal shape (in applicable levels). This is why many levels use solutions that are not the shortest known solution: the extra moves cost less time than the avoided cutscenes.
Some Club puzzles contain pieces that change the color of other pieces. The Painters (blocks with a dot in the center) cost 10 frames for every move where at least one block changes color. The Jokers (color-changing blocks), on the other hand, cost 10 frames per wave of color change. In levels with these elements, that extra time also had to be taken into account.
Outside of puzzles, the conversation cutscenes can be skipped by hard resetting the console at the proper time. This is almost always worth it, even though it means having to navigate through the game menus again.
Instead of running through an emulator, my program saves a lot of time by simulating the puzzles internally. When looking for a solution, we check positions 1 move deep, 2 moves, and so on, storing the sets of positions so we can ignore any positions we have already seen. A minimum-distance function gives a lower bound for the number of moves it could take to solve, so if we are trying to beat a given move count, we can discard any positions that the function says can't be solved in fewer moves than the goal.
When looking for an optimal solution, we simply keep track of every position, which means we either find a solution or run out of memory. Even with optimizations, though, many levels are very far from being optimally solvable. To look for a suboptimal solution, we keep track of the best 100000 or so solutions for each number of moves, with "best" being determined by a slight variant of the minimum-distance function. Even that wasn't enough for some of the hardest levels, though, so we created an initial move sequence by hand or computer and then let the program continue from there.
Searching for 3 of a Kind and Bonus Shape solutions was trickier, especially nearing the end of Tournament mode. For Bonus Shapes, where a color has to pair up into a given shape, we checked every position to make sure all current shapes could fit inside the goal shape, and discarded any with an unacceptable shape. For 3 of a Kind, when we saw a potential solution, we discarded the position if the shapes were not identical. In some harder 3 of a Kind puzzles, we also used the shape technique: define a goal shape, and make sure every shape of any color can fit inside it. The choice of goal shape for 3 of a Kind can matter a lot, so when we used this technique we tried a few different ones per puzzle.
When optimizing for time instead of move count, the biggest concern was to pair up as many colors as possible. This was done by checking the number of solved colors at each position; if we want to pair up every color at once, for instance, we can discard any position that has one color paired and another color un-paired. This technique made it possible to find a lot of clever solutions that saved cutscenes at the cost of only a few extra moves.
For many Club puzzles it was necessary to keep track of the exact number of frames used during the solution, as well as the move count. Instead of a goal movecount, there was a goal frame count, and any positions that used more frames than the goal were discarded.
In total, I would estimate several billion moves have been simulated with the search program.
The rerecord count is inaccurate - the real number is probably a few thousand.
There are no currently known improvements, and the solutions shown here beat or tie the time of all published solutions. With more time and RAM, the solver could search further and try more possibilities, but a lot of time has been spent already, and the search space is too large to find optimal solutions for everything.
ars4326: Judging!
ars4326: Hello qqwref & AdituV. Like your any% submission, very impressive how you guys put together tightly optimized solutions with a lua/search program (several billion simulated moves!). As for this 100% category, the solutions were even more interesting to see unfold, with the additional conditions of bonus shapes and '3 of a kind' thrown in (especially toward the end of the game). Outstanding work on these categories, overall :)
Accepting for publication to Vault!
Spikestuff: Publishing.
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The Games Microsoft Plays in GNU/Linux-bound South Africa
Posted in Africa, Free/Libre Software, GNU/Linux, ISO, Windows at 2:24 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
It’s subtle, yet very obvious
South Africa is gradually moving to Free software, but not without Microsoft’s interference. For example, recently there was a dumpage of 'adhesive' gratis software. Microsoft was aiming to capture the young minds first because they are least resistant to change, and thus can become trend-setting.
Proprietary software is like a drug in a state seeking a social and technical reform. Trust is lost when you in introduce and put it inside the equation. Several months or years after the original plan, figures came out to suggest that South Africa had lost a level of focus. Here is the article which has just been published:
During her speech, minister Fraser-Moleketi said that open source and open standards were important to government because they ensured interoperability and “guaranteed” the ability of government to “pass the baton” on to the next generation, unhindered by proprietary formats.
Open standards are favoured by most industry players because they are viewed as being less prescriptive than open source software which is very often associated with operating systems such as Linux.
Looking more closely at the numbers, this suggests that the delegates are a bit FOSS-hostile. Moreover, also based on the South African press, Microsoft now appears to be encouraging the deployment of FOSS on Windows and the rest of the Microsoft stack, using ‘donations’ [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].
David Ives, Microsoft’s group lead developer and platform strategy director, says the laboratory means a total investment of about R700 000, including five high-end desktop Dell PCs with Microsoft Vista and two high-end Dell servers with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 installed.
“After some discussion with the Cape IT Initiative, we realised that many open source developers were struggling to get their software to run on various Microsoft products such as Exchange, so we decided to do this installation to help,” Ives says.
There are a few observations worth making to put things in perspective.
CompTIA, a Microsoft lobbying arm, was seen brainwashing the government on its trips [1, 2, 3] (Microsoft soon joined them too, which makes its intentions crystal clear). No wonder they move from Free software to open source and then settle for “open standards”, where this happens to include specifications that Microsoft rams down ISO’s throat by breaking the law.
It has become more or less clear that when a country decides to adopt Free software, Microsoft will play hardball against progress. It always knows better what’s good for its shareholders these countries. █
“People everywhere love Windows.”
“That particular meeting was followed by an anonymous smear campaign against one of the TC members. A letter was faxed to the organization of the TC member in question, accusing the TC member in question of helping politicize the issue (which is, of course, untrue). I too had the dubious pleasure of hearing first hand how Microsoft attempted to remove me from the TC (they did not succeed, thanks to integrity and cojones of the organization I am affiliated with).”
Possible Microsoft Influence in FOSS Press, ISO, India, Portugal, and South Africa
FUD Warning: Mirosoft Casts “GNU/Linux” as “Piracy”
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In Rosedale Park, Kidz Kingdom brings playtime back to Detroit kids
The play center blends education with old-school fun and games
Jamilah Jackson
If you’re a ’90s baby that grew up in Metro Detroit, your playgrounds might not have been jungle gyms and slides, but rather indoor free-for-alls like Jeepers at Northland Mall, Caesarland and Major Magic. The catch was our parents having to travel a good distance to get to the fun. Danielle D. North is giving a new generation of Detroit kids the same amount of fun but a lot closer to home.
North opened the doors of Kidz Kingdom in 2016 right in her own backyard: the Rosedale Park neighborhood. “It’s an extension of my family,” the mother of two said. “We live in this community.”
North was intentional about where she opened her business. Not only was the proximity to her family’s home a plus but she was also heavily focused on helping redevelop the community around her. When she opened Kidz Kingdom, only a handful of businesses were occupying the plaza at Fenkell and Grand River. Now she says more and more businesses are opening up shop.
Kidz Kingdom is believed to be Detroit’s first indoor playground with a childcare center component. (Chuck E. Cheese, eat your heart out.) The play center is equipped with all the toys a kid could ask for, including an indoor tree house and bounce house, but from Monday through Friday, Kidz Kingdom is a licensed childcare center for children ages 1-5.
“They get to see me, the actual business owner, in this space and they can see the real possibilities of their ideas coming to life.”
Students learn where they play
The two teachers on North’s staff lead lessons based on a creative curriculum. “Kids learn through styles they gravitate toward based on their level of creativity,” North said.
At the front of the center is a planning area that outlines the learning areas. Children can choose whether to spend the day in the writing, reading, art or discovery. All materials in each center are available to the kids throughout the day once they finish group lessons. “We just give them the tools and support them through |LS|their learning|RS|.”
North says the students are thriving. She said she’s seen two-year-olds trace their name on a daily basis and three year olds writing their first and last names, independently, every day. Spanish is taught three days a week.
North is deeply committed to the quality of education her center provides, especially since her two-year-old son is enrolled. “I build a lot of my focus around them |LS|her children|RS| and what’s good for them.”
The center also provides emergency school closing drop off, after-school enrichment courses and summer camp for kids up to the age of 12. Of course, open play is available on the weekends as well as a party room for rental.
Not only does North and her team provide a “safe, fun and clean environment” for Detroit children to play, they also try to provide support for parents. Parents can enjoy Parents’ Night Out events and fitness classes. Even the budding entrepreneur can sign up for an 8-week course, facilitated by North with the help of the Build Institute, a local business incubator.
“It’s the first and only Build Institute course with childcare,” North said. “We’re in the back in the party room, while the kids are up front, learning and playing with our staff.” The Build Basics session gives new and established entrepreneurs a crash course in everything they need to start a business; from licensing to financial literacy and market research. Danielle finds joy in leading the class with the Build curriculum to back her up. “They get to see me, the actual business owner, in this space and they can see the real possibilities of their ideas coming to life.”
Although she owns a business, North still works a regular 9 to 5 until the center is able to fully sustain itself. She hopes to expand Kidz Kingdom’s services across the city and is currently on the hunt for two more spaces. “We plan to be a staple and a continued force in focusing on what families and kids need in the neighborhoods,” she said.
To learn more about Kidz Kingdom and all their services, visit www.kidzkingdomdetroit.com.
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Sidney Maurice Dewey1
M, #369851, b. 8 May 1902, d. 18 November 1968
Sidney Maurice Dewey was born on 8 May 1902.1 He was the son of Marshall Dewey and Ethel Julia Harvey.2 He married Dorothy Catherine Holt, daughter of J. D. Holt, on 6 June 1931.1 He died on 18 November 1968 at age 66.1
He was educated at Repton School, Repton, Derbyshire, EnglandG.1 He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, EnglandG, with a Master of Arts (M.A.)1
Child of Sidney Maurice Dewey and Dorothy Catherine Holt
Anthony Guy Dewey+2 b. 7 Jul 1932, d. 3 Oct 2011
J. D. Holt1
Child of J. D. Holt
Dorothy Catherine Holt+2 d. 10 Dec 1968
Dorothy Catherine Holt1
F, #369853, d. 10 December 1968
Dorothy Catherine Holt was the daughter of J. D. Holt.2 She married Sidney Maurice Dewey, son of Marshall Dewey and Ethel Julia Harvey, on 6 June 1931.1 She died on 10 December 1968.1
From 6 June 1931, her married name became Dewey.
Child of Dorothy Catherine Holt and Sidney Maurice Dewey
Anthony Guy Dewey1
M, #369854, b. 7 July 1932, d. 3 October 2011
Anthony Guy Dewey was born on 7 July 1932.1 He was the son of Sidney Maurice Dewey and Dorothy Catherine Holt.2 He married Caroline Rose Hanbury-Bateman, daughter of Lionel Martin Hanbury-Bateman, on 9 October 1968.1 He died on 3 October 2011 at age 79.3
He was educated at Repton School, Repton, Derbyshire, EnglandG.1 He gained the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery.1 He gained the rank of Captain in the Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons (TA).1 He lived in 2003 at Mallards, Hook-by-Warsash, Hampshire, EnglandG.1
Children of Anthony Guy Dewey and Caroline Rose Hanbury-Bateman
Martin Guy Dewey2 b. 13 May 1969
Nicholas George Dewey2 b. 1971
Lionel Martin Hanbury-Bateman1
Last Edited=10 Jun 2009
In 1931 see edn BATEMAN,B.1
Child of Lionel Martin Hanbury-Bateman
Caroline Rose Hanbury-Bateman+2
Caroline Rose Hanbury-Bateman1
Caroline Rose Hanbury-Bateman is the daughter of Lionel Martin Hanbury-Bateman.2 She married, secondly, Anthony Guy Dewey, son of Sidney Maurice Dewey and Dorothy Catherine Holt, on 9 October 1968.1
Her married name became Hardie.1 From 9 October 1968, her married name became Dewey.
Children of Caroline Rose Hanbury-Bateman and Anthony Guy Dewey
Martin Guy Dewey1
Martin Guy Dewey was born on 13 May 1969.1 He is the son of Anthony Guy Dewey and Caroline Rose Hanbury-Bateman.2
Nicholas George Dewey1
M, #369858, b. 1971
Nicholas George Dewey was born in 1971.1 He is the son of Anthony Guy Dewey and Caroline Rose Hanbury-Bateman.2
Roy Marshall Dewey1
M, #369859, b. 11 March 1910
Roy Marshall Dewey was born on 11 March 1910.1 He is the son of Marshall Dewey and Ethel Julia Harvey.2 He married Davina Alexandra Davidson, daughter of David Alexander Davidson, on 20 June 1945.1 He and Davina Alexandra Davidson were divorced in 1953.1
He was educated at Repton School, Repton, Derbyshire, EnglandG.1 He graduated from St. Catharine's College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, EnglandG, with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)1
David Alexander Davidson1
Child of David Alexander Davidson
Davina Alexandra Davidson2
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WARNING: this page is still under construction - it probably contains lots of typos and errors
Check it again in about 296 days and it should be fixed.
Florence Cecilia Smith-Bosanquet1
F, #632641, b. 1860, d. 5 May 1930
Last Edited=23 Jan 2017
Florence Cecilia Smith-Bosanquet was born in 1860.1 She was the daughter of Horace James Smith Smith-Bosanquet and Cecilia Jane Wentworth Bosanquet.1 She married Major Audley Walter Washbourne Money-Kyrle, son of Lt.-Col. John Ernle Money-Kyrle and Harriet Louisa Sutton, on 22 September 1887 at Ware, England.1,2 She died on 5 May 1930.3
From 22 September 1887, her married name became Money-Kyrle.1
Children of Florence Cecilia Smith-Bosanquet and Major Audley Walter Washbourne Money-Kyrle
Margaret Vincentia Money-Kyrle1 b. 22 Feb 1889
Joan Alice Money-Kyrle3 b. 29 Sep 1891
Ernle John Audley Money-Kyrle3 b. 30 Apr 1893, d. 19 Aug 1897
Roger Ernle Money-Kyrle+ b. 31 Jan 1898, d. 29 Jul 1980
[S4567] Bill Norton, "re: Pitman Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 6 April 2010 and 19 April 2011. Hereinafter cited as "re: Pitman Family."
[S465] Marquis Ruvigny, Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, being a complete table of all the descendants now living of Edward III, King of England: Essex Volume (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1907), page 251. Hereinafter cited as Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: Essex.
Helen Juliet Rachel Fox1
Helen Juliet Rachel Fox is the daughter of Samuel Middleton Fox.2 She married Roger Ernle Money-Kyrle, son of Major Audley Walter Washbourne Money-Kyrle and Florence Cecilia Smith-Bosanquet, on 8 May 1922.2
From 8 May 1922, her married name became Money-Kyrle.1
Children of Helen Juliet Rachel Fox and Roger Ernle Money-Kyrle
Ernle Money-Kyrle+1 b. 4 Mar 1923, d. Nov 1999
Audley Francis Money-Kyrle+1 b. 20 Jul 1925, d. 1999
Roger Spencer Money-Kyrle+1 b. 4 Feb 1928
John Middleton Money-Kyrle+1 b. 31 May 1931
Audley Francis Money-Kyrle1
M, #632643, b. 20 July 1925, d. 1999
Audley Francis Money-Kyrle was born on 20 July 1925 at Marylebone, London, England.2 He was the son of Roger Ernle Money-Kyrle and Helen Juliet Rachel Fox.1 He married Sheila Molly Likely, daughter of Francis Patrick Likely, in 1959 at Marylebone, London, England.1 He died in 1999.1
He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England.2 He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.2 He was a photographer and natural historian.1 He was research associate in agriculture between 1954 and 1957 at American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.2
Children of Audley Francis Money-Kyrle and Sheila Molly Likely
Julian Francis Money-Kyrle1 b. 20 Jan 1961
Alexander Roger Money-Kyrle3 b. 17 May 1962, d. 1998
Nicholas A. Money-Kyrle1 b. 1964
[S7109] Caroline Ainscough, "re: Ainscough Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 3 May 2014. Hereinafter cited as "re: Ainscough Family."
Roger Spencer Money-Kyrle1
M, #632644, b. 4 February 1928
Roger Spencer Money-Kyrle was born on 4 February 1928 at Marylebone, London, England.2,1 He is the son of Roger Ernle Money-Kyrle and Helen Juliet Rachel Fox.2 He married Margaret Cassé Wright, daughter of Dr. Frederick J. Wright, on 7 November 1964 at Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.1
He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England.1 He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, with a Master of Arts (M.A.)1 He was a doctor.2 He was registered as a Member, Royal College of Surgeons (M.R.C.S.) in 1964.1
Children of Roger Spencer Money-Kyrle and Margaret Cassé Wright
Richard Francis Money-Kyrle3 b. 1965
Roger William Money-Kyrle3 b. 1968, d. 1990
Oliver James Money-Kyrle3 b. 1970
Emma Helen Rachel Money-Kyrle3 b. 1971
John Middleton Money-Kyrle1
John Middleton Money-Kyrle was born on 31 May 1931 at Marylebone, London, England.1,2 He is the son of Roger Ernle Money-Kyrle and Helen Juliet Rachel Fox.1 He married Elizabeth Anne Simmons, daughter of Charles Simmons, on 9 July 1955.2
He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England.2 He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, EnglandG, in 1954 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)2 He was registered as a Associate, Royal Institute of British Architects (A.R.I.B.A.) in 1959.2 He was an architect.1
Children of John Middleton Money-Kyrle and Elizabeth Anne Simmons
Caroline Diana Money-Kyrle3 b. 27 Mar 1958
James Peter Ernle Money-Kyrle1 b. 11 Mar 1961
Elizabeth Anne Simmons1
Elizabeth Anne Simmons is the daughter of Charles Simmons.1 She married John Middleton Money-Kyrle, son of Roger Ernle Money-Kyrle and Helen Juliet Rachel Fox, on 9 July 1955.1
From 9 July 1955, her married name became Money-Kyrle.2
Children of Elizabeth Anne Simmons and John Middleton Money-Kyrle
Reverend Cecil Leigh Money-Kyrle1
M, #632647, b. 20 January 1868, d. 6 March 1962
Reverend Cecil Leigh Money-Kyrle was born on 20 January 1868 at Tupsley, Herefordshire, England.1,2 He was the son of Lt.-Col. John Ernle Money-Kyrle and Ada Frances Simons.1 He married Mary Maitland, daughter of George Maitland, on 22 January 1919.2 He died on 6 March 1962 at age 94, without issue.2
He was educated at Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire, England.2 He graduated from Oriel College, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, with a Master of Arts (M.A.)2 He was awarded the Military Cross (M.C.)2 He was Vicar at Much Marcle, Herefordshire, England.2 He fought in the First World War, where he was mentioned in despatches.2
Violet Erule Ada Money-Kyrle1
F, #632648, b. 20 January 1881, d. 20 September 1960
Violet Erule Ada Money-Kyrle was born on 20 January 1881 at Much Marcle, Herefordshire, England.1,2 She was the daughter of Lt.-Col. John Ernle Money-Kyrle and Ada Frances Simons.1 She died on 20 September 1960 at age 79 at Hereford, Herefordshire, England, unmarried.1,2
Eugenia Emma Money-Kyrle1
F, #632649, b. 29 January 1855, d. 7 December 1929
Eugenia Emma Money-Kyrle was baptised on 29 January 1855 at Hampton Bishop, Herefordshire, England.1 She was the daughter of Lt.-Col. John Ernle Money-Kyrle and Harriet Louisa Sutton.1 She died on 7 December 1929 at age 74, unmarried.2
William Kyrle Frederick Morrice1
M, #632650, b. 23 April 1900
Last Edited=16 Jul 2016
William Kyrle Frederick Morrice was born on 23 April 1900 at Cairo, Egypt.1 He was the son of Cuthbert Henry Morrice and Nellie Maud Money.1
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ED2012 4/5 Reviews ED2012 Children's Shows Reviews
The Boy And The Bunnet (Big Sky / The Famous Spiegeltent)
By Holly Close | Published on Thursday 16 August 2012
‘The Boy and the Bunnet’ (it’s probably not a spoiler to say that the bunnet is his hat, and not, as I thought, a rabbit) is James Robertson’s enchanting story about Neil, a boy who lives with his grandma by a mountain. Though it’s written in Scots, narrator Gerda Stevenson tells the tales in such a way that it is involving and fairly easy to follow, helped along by some gorgeously illustrated animation and a seven-strong band. Each of the traditional instruments is associated with one character, and James Ross’ score blends these sounds together beautifully. It may be a little low energy for some children, but overall it’s a sweet story told in a lovely and unusual way.
The Famous Spiegeltent, 6-19 Aug (not 13), 3.30pm.
tw rating 4/5 | [Holly Close]
READ MORE ABOUT: AR Fringe | Big Sky | The Famous Spiegeltent
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PROGRAMME of the El Grifo Concert 16th October:
Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828): Impromtu op. 90, Nr. 3
Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninow (1873 – 1943): „Melody“ in E-Dur, op. 3/3
Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918): La Plus Que Lente – Valse
Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918): L’isle Joyeuse
Nikolai Girschewitsch Kapustin (* 1937): 3 Etuden aus: Eight Concert Etudes, op. 40
J.S. Bach / Ferruccio Busoni (1866 – 1924): Chaconne in D minor BWV 1004
Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (1916 – 1983): 3 Danzas Argentinas op. 2
Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886): Mephisto Walzer No. 1
PROGRAMME of the Camel House Concert 17th October:
Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856): Carnaval, op. 9
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791): Piano Sonate Nr. 3 in b-moll, KV. 281
Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886): Liebestraum Nr. 3
W.A. Mozart / F. Liszt / Ferruccio Busoni (1866 – 1924): Figaro Paraphrase
The young pianist Lilian Akopova (www.lilianakopova.com) will play
Friday, October 16 at 7:30 pm, in the Bodegas El Grifo – Museo del Vino and
Saturday, October 17, 7:30 pm, in the Camel House, Macher.
You will listen to two completely different programs with wonderful piano pieces of Mozart, Schubert, Debussy, Schumann, Liszt, Rachmaninow, so that visiting both evenings will be worth it. For the detailed programs see, please, www.musicaclasicalanzarote.com/konzerte-2015
Lilian Akopova is a piano soloist, born in Erevan and raised in Kiew, who played with important orchestras and she won quite a reputation as a soloist and a musician in the field of chamber music. Several broadcasting stations such as Bayerischer Rundfunk and radio stations in France, Italy, Ukraine, Rumania and Portugal made recordings of her concerts.
In recent years she has been invited to the ‚Festival Classic Young Stars’ in Berlin, the ‚Stavanger Festival’ in Norway, the ‚Festival de Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche’ in France und the ‚Mozartiade’ in Augsburg.She performed soloist concerts at the Philharmonic in Berlin, the National Philharmonic in Kiev and in Portugal.
Anne Sophie Mutter judged Lilian Akopova in an interview: “Her virtuoso qualities have greatly impressed me”.
We look forward to welcoming you on both concert evenings.
Tickets: each concert € 25,–, both concerts together € 40,–.
Ticket sale: online on www.musicaclasicalanzarote.com/tickets/ and in the Vine Museum of Bodegas El Grifo, LZ-30, Km 11, San Bartolomé, Tel. 928524951.
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Happy 15th Anniversary, THG!
Time flies when you’re dreaming up exciting new experiences for guests around the world AND you’re having fun doing it!
On Friday, August 25th, THG celebrated our 15th Anniversary with a joyous happy hour celebration in our courtyard. The festivities were kicked off by Phil, the man who started it all and who leads with vision and kindness, inspiring our project teams to always keep pushing into new creative territory.
Phil gave a toast to the lifeblood of THG—the Hettemites, who pour their talents and passion into our projects each day in pursuit of excellence. He paid special tribute to three individuals in particular who have shaped the company: Corinne Cunningham, Phil’s first employee and “Maven of Information,” whose spirit lives on in everything we do; General Manager Debbie Saale, the heart and soul of THG, who holds us all together and keeps us on track every day; and Senior Vice President Anthony Pruett, who makes all of THG’s adventures and successes possible by making sure the company functions as a business.
Anthony, in turn, told stories of the early days and how THG got its start when Jeffrey Katzenberg recommended Phil for a project for the King of Jordan. It was the beginning of a journey that has taken THG around the world and to new heights of imagination every step of the way.
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Mars landscape has students reaching for the stars
An Australian school space centre featuring an interactive Mars landscape is preparing to inspire its first students.
Andrew Spence
Thursday September 21, 2017
Hamilton Secondary College's space centre is based on the Mars experience at the Victorian Space and Science Education Centre.
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Hamilton Secondary College, in the southern suburbs of Adelaide, will officially open its space centre at a ceremony during the International Astronautical Congress in the South Australian capital next week.
The centre – the first of its kind in the state – will be used by all of the school’s 1000 students as well as many visiting primary school from next month.
“Even students from pre-schools will be able to come in to observe and recreate what they have seen so it’s really engaging young people to raise their curiosity,” Principal Peta Kourbelis said.
The three-room centre includes a briefing room with theatre-style seating where students receive and plan their missions, a mission control room where students support the team of astronauts and the planet surface room.
The Mars room, below, features seven different types of rocks – and loads of red dirt – across six geological zones and lighting that can simulate a variety of conditions including storms, sunrise and red sunsets.
While many students at the school have the opportunity to study an intense STEM program, the space centre experience involves one-day missions where students are split into two teams of 12.
One team acts as mission support in the control room to monitor the weather on the planet and maintain communications in case one of Mars’ infamous storms approaches.
“The astronauts’ job is to analyse the surface and collect samples – sometimes there will be a robot or a rover with them,” Kourbelis said.
“They then take the specimens out and analyse them in the lab.
“It covers Geology, Environment, engineering and it broadens their aspect – it’s not just about putting astronauts on Mars, it’s about a whole lot more.”
The centre is based on the Victorian Space and Science Education Centre at Strathmore Secondary College in Melbourne.
Hamilton Secondary College has been the focus for South Australian Space School activities since 1997.
“We’ve already had a lot of success stories of students entering STEM-related careers and that has been because they have been introduced to this type of environment and they’ve got a better understanding of what the occupations are.
“This centre will further accelerate that because now we can start from earlier years and it’s an interactive learning space for students to be able to create, work together, analyse and develop those critical thinking skills.”
The new Mars exhibit provided the backdrop for South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill to today announce the immediate establishment of the South Australian Space Industry Centre, which aims to drive space industry innovation, research and entrepreneurial development.
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill (centre), Space and Defence Industries Minister Martin Hamilton-Smith and Education Minister Susan Close at the Hamilton Secondary College Space Centre.
Education Minister Susan Close, who also spoke at the launch, said the Hamilton Secondary College space centre would help students understand from a young age how STEM learning could evolve into space industry careers.
“One of the four attributes of a good education is that it is engaging for students and many young people are fascinated by space,” she said.
“Even more important than engagement is a capacity to understand what future employment looks like. What we want is for young people to be able to see that excelling in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths leads to careers in the new economy.
“We’ve heard how important the space industry is across the world and its increasing importance in Australia and South Australia so we need our young people to be prepared to step up and be part of that industry to gain the benefits of employment and job creation that it affords us.”
The International Astronautical Congress will be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre from September 25 to 29. It is expected to attract about 3500 members of the global space industry including the heads of all the major space agencies and Space X founder Elon Musk.
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"It's like an alien that lives inside you, a la Ridley Scott's Alien (laughs) that pops out and you're left bleeding on the floor and the alien's run away" -Sam Mendes on making films
Luther Whitney (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran thief, ready to retire. His wife is dead. His daughter Kate (Laura Linney) is estranged. One last heist, at the seriously rich Walter Sullivan (E.G. Marshall) mansion, deserted while the household holidays in Brmuda, together with the servants and staff. But Sullivan�s wife, Christy (Melora Hardin), unexpectedley changed her mind at the last minute, for reasons that become dramatically clear as Luther empties the giant vault, secured behind a one way mirror. As he hides from the unexpected homecoming, he sees the second, much younger Mrs Sullivan entertain a gentleman friend - the President of the United States, Alan Richmond (Gene Hackman). When the rough sex turns to a murder, the secret service, ever protective and present, try to cover it up. Luther is eventually identified as the witness, homicide detective Seth Frank (Ed Harris) is assigned to the case. Then his daughter is used to first bait him, then to frighten him off. Neither trick works, and the scheming Chief of Staff (Judy Davis) is left stranded, as are the secret service goons - and the President. In an act of justice, Luther reveals the truth to Sullivan; but will Sullivan, the President�s close friend and mentor, believe this preposterous story? And if so, what does he - and the rest of those in the know - do?
"There is a taut yet unhurried, almost deliberate pace to the opening first third of Absolute Power, in which the filmmakers relish their own powers: their creative juices flow with ease, too, as these veterans come together for a thriller that plays on Eastwood�s favoured notions of flawed but finally redeemed characters whose private lives are somehow incomplete or broken up by fate. The message is simple and predictable enough: absolute power corrupts absolutely. Even Judy Davis, as the (brilliantly conceived - and played - Chief of Staff), suffers from it. But it�s how these oldies get to it that makes it worth the ticket price. There is writer William Goldman, who�s been round the block a few times, Eastwood of course, as producer, director and star, Hackman, Ed Harris and Glenn Scott . . . even behind the scenes, the experience is awesome, with people like Henry Bumstead on production design. The one �youngster� is cinematographer Jack Green, whose second feature was Twister. This is his third. Dramatically and cinematically, the film is fabulous until, the final third of its two hours, when everyone tries a tad too hard, from scriptwriter to director. (And I do wish we�d seen a First Lady somewhere.) But even so, the premise is gripping, the entire cast is great and the scenes between Eastwood and Harris are cinema magic. "
"Clint Eastwood brings his classy direction and style to this rather controversially plotted political thriller. The first of two White House-linked murder films to grace our screens this year (Murder at 1600 is due for release in October), Absolute Power takes a fascinating premise and engages us in an enthralling journey of mind games and action with great skill. Tense and exciting with a top cast, Absolute Power is stunning entertainment; the thinking person, I believe, will get the most out of this one. The development of all the characters is done with ease, and it is not until the last quarter of the film, that the flaw in the script begins to show. Perhaps the sensitivity of the topic, and the writers� concern to be discreet in the handling of the unthinkable scenario.� But having said that, there is much to enjoy. Clint Eastwood is in fine form here, with a character who is perhaps not as flawed as we initially are led to believe. Gene Hackman, always strong, is magnetic and complex; Judy Davis has great presence as the Chief of Staff; Ed Harris - a hugely talented actor somehow beams rays of credibility in every role. Watch for the scene when Eastwood and Harris are having coffee together, chatting about the required skills of a master thief. There is so much business going on; we really feel the spontaneity of the moment. The first few scenes are real attention grabbers, as through the two-way mirror, we join Clint Eastwood�s character, Luther in watching the perverted, brutal proceedings. What we see is enticingly forbidden, yet irresistible all at once. Powerful and provocative in its premise and consequence, Absolute Power is absorbing, shocking and thoroughly entertaining."
"Clint Eastwood's latest thriller comes with a lot of pre-sale baggage. After all, American reviews were rather dismissive, box office was relatively disappointing, it took several months for the film to get here, and the media (in Sydney) wasn't able to see it until the night before commercial release. By definition, it must be a turkey, right? Wrong. While it may not be as accomplished as Eastwood's Unforgiven, as a thriller it's an involving, intricate and intelligent work, one that takes the viewer on not so much a rollercoaster ride, as a deliberate and intriguing tram journey through various nooks and crannies.While Absolute Power, featuring a literate screenplay by William Goldman, is certainly flawed, it's nevertheless engrossing and entertaining enough to make it above average in an overcrowded genre. Eastwood acts the way he directs, without overdoing it, subtly yet with increased fascination. He's still a pleasure to watch on screen. The opening robbery sequence, during which Luther watches the progress of a violent sexual encounter, is fascinating. He communicates with nothing but eyes and expressive face, and it's wonderful to watch. Eastwood is in excellent company on screen, especially by the wonderful Ed Harris whose sly, laconic cop is a marvel, while Judy Davis has some moments to relish - in particular a dance sequence with the President. Hackman is the only problem, playing a one-note, unpresidential President in a very typical, Hackman way. There's little room for him to move. Despite some incongruous plot moments, Absolute Power is a witty and engaging thriller, a film that may be short on action, but its relaxed, careful style gives the film a unique and intriguing edge. Most importantly, it's a darn good yarn, more than competently told."
ABSOLUTE POWER (MA)
CAST: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis, Scott Glenn, Dennis Haysbert, E.G. Marshall, Melora Hardin
DIRECTOR: Clint Eastwood
PRODUCER: Clint Eastwood, Karen Spiegel
SCRIPT: William Goldman (based on the novel by David Baldacci)
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Jack N. Green
EDITOR: Joel Cox
MUSIC: Lennie Niehaus
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Henry Bumstead
AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTOR: Columbia TriStar
VIDEO RELEASE: August 9, 1999
VIDEO DISTRIBUTOR: Col TriStar
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[[Image:Setilive.org_classify.png|right|250px]] '''SETI Live''' is a citizen science application that is a collaboration between [[SETI Institute]], TED, Science Channel and Zooniverse. Jill Tarter announced the collaboration on March 12th 2011 on her TED blog and said "millions of people will soon be able to search the [[ATA]] data in hopes of finding a signal."<ref>http://blog.ted.com/2011/05/12/the-search-for-cosmic-company-goes-on/</ref> SETI Live was launched February 29th 2012 by Jill Tarter at the annual TED conference in Long Beach, California.<ref>http://www.seti.org/node/967</ref><ref>http://www.tedprize.org/join-the-search-on-setilive/</ref><ref>http://www.npr.org/2012/02/28/147590627/seti-site-up-again-and-searching-for-intelligent-life</ref><ref>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2108098,00.html?xid=gonewsedit</ref><ref>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/01/BAEH1NDDB7.DTL</ref><ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seti-institute/seti-live_b_1310878.html</ref><ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46578217/ns/technology_and_science-space/#.T0_ArmNSS8U</ref><ref>http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-02-29/news/chi-want-to-help-find-et-now-you-can-20120229_1_signals-array-of-radio-telescopes-alien-life</ref> SETI Live launched with an interesting collection of dual-beam test signals and switched to a live dual-beam ATA signal feed several days later. SETI Live replaced the [[setiQuest Explorer]] app as the [[setiquest wiki:About|setiQuest project]]'s featured Citizen Science app.<ref>http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/seti-live-and-alien-encounters</ref><ref>http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2012-02-28#comment-3105</ref> == Description == Users will "join the search" by performing real-time analysis on 3-beam [[waterfall plot]]s in the crowded RFI bands that [[SonATA]] has been skipping.<ref>http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2012-01-17</ref> Users view multi-beam waterfalls, highlight a potentially drifting signal by clicking to apply yellow markers, and finish by applying a classification tag. Users can comment on signals, favorite them, and build collections. Hash #tags are supported in comments and a trending keywords tag cloud is on the main talk page. It was announced that "the real-time analysis of community members will actually decide what the ATA observes next."<ref>http://corporate.discovery.com/discovery-news/science-ted-and-seti-ask-the-question-are-we-alone/</ref> == Signal classifications == [[Image:SETI_Live_-_describe_the_signal.png|right|100px]] The original 4 signal classification options were: * vertical * diagonal * erratic * broken * delete - removes the yellow marks On March 12th 2012 a two tier signal classification system was introduced. An option is selected from the first tier of classifications: * broken * continuous * parallel * delete - removes the yellow marks Then an option is selected from the second tier of classifications: * erratic * wide * narrow * delete - removes the yellow marks Eliminating the original ''diagonal'' option makes sense because drift rate is selected by the two yellow marks connected by a line. The new classification options allow for 3 x 3 = 9 combinations which should improve the science logging aspect of the project. == Badges == [[Image:SETI_Live_-_badges.png|right|100px]] Badges are awarded for reaching different achievement levels. A viral marketing technique of allowing users to share achievements on Twitter and post to Facebook is integrated into SETI Live. Here is a list of the seven different badges, a description of their icons, and the Twitter sharing quote text: * '''registration''' - Saturn - "is now a SETI Citizen Scientist." * '''classify''' - spiral galaxy - "just classified their ### th target" * '''follow up''' - star? - * '''post to_talk''' - two talk bubbles - "is discussing the possibility of life beyond Earth." * '''returner''' - lightning bolt - "is now a SETI Seeker." * '''signals marked''' - oscilloscope waveform - "has marked ### signals from the ATA." * '''ET found''' - alien - Some of badges are re-awarded after performing an action several times. Most levels are multiples of 5 such as { 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, 100, 250, 500, 750, 1000, ... }. Note that after completing the on-line tutorial it appears that the alien badge is awarded. This is just an example of what a badge award looks like. The actual alien badge is reserved for when ET is found. == Goals == Initial science goals:<ref>http://setiquest.org/blog/setilive</ref> # Users help map out RFI so that SETI Institute can train computers to efficiently ignore it # Maybe a group of Citizen Scientists will spot a non-RFI signal partially hidden in the RFI (ET?). == How it works == [[Image:How-ata-setilive-works.png|right|250px]] How SETI Live's signal discovery works: # The receiving dishes observe signals from distant stars # The signal is sent to SETI Live # SETI Live creates pictures of the data called Waterfalls # The Waterfall pictures are quickly scruitinized for signal by the Citizen Scientists (you!) # SETI live gathers info about any signals found and sends the info to the ATA # The ATA re-observes, trying to detect the same signal and determine what it is # (repeat) == Walled Garden == Like other Galaxy Zoo projects, a major part of SETI Live is its own integrated forum and comment system. Signal comments are limited to 140 characters and forum comments are unlimited in size. There was concern<ref>http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/seti-live-and-alien-encounters</ref><ref>http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2012-01-17</ref> before the launch that this walled garden approach would keep users on the SETI Live website and not encourage participation in the parent setiQuest project. Due to this one-way flow, SETI Live is not expected to increase traffic to the setiQuest forum. == Trivia == * The Zooniverse spent 8 months searching for a TED funded SETI Scientist position.<ref>http://blogs.zooniverse.org/blog/2011/05/02/work-at-the-zooniverse-seti-scientist-post/</ref><ref>http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2012-01-31#comment-3044</ref> * The original SETI Live design was going to emulate<ref>https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=ZOONIVERSESETI</ref> [[baudline]]'s 3-channel RGB color mixing overlay spectrogram feature<ref>http://baudline.com/manual/channel_mapping.html#position</ref> but this was canceled due to visibility concerns. The human eye is not as good at distinguishing the color blue as it is with red and green, so seeing signals in the blue beam would be more error prone. * During SETI Live's first day of operation 10000 users signed up and 80000 signals were classified. * On launch day the ATA was "snowed in"<ref>https://twitter.com/#!/jilltarter/status/175256211514601475</ref> and archive test signals were shown to users. * The [[baudline signal analyzer]] was used to extract, shape, and create the dual-beam test signals that were used during the first several days of the launch. * First tuning. SonATA begins with the observation frequency range (1420- 1730 MHz). * SETI Live reached one million classifications and 32000 total people on March 12th 2012 which is 12 days after launch. * The repaired third [[beamformer]] was returned to service and began serving 3 beams to SETI Live on March 16th 2012. Previously only single and dual beam signals were being processed. * In April 2012 two SETI Institute officials commented that the setiQuest community and data aspect of the project had both been "outsourced" to SETI Live.<ref>http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2012-04-10#comment-3184</ref> * [[Waterfall plot]] AGC processing was changed on May 3 2012 to give the displays a more consistent brightness scale. <ref>http://talk.setilive.org/science/discussions/DSL1003fb3</ref> * Second tuning on May 18 2012. SonATA changes its observation frequency range (~1200 - 1300 MHz).<ref>http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2012-05-22#comment-3226</ref> * Map observation groups (GSL_) to dates.<ref>http://setiquest.sigblips.com/seti_live/observation_group_dates.txt</ref><ref>http://talk.setilive.org/science/discussions/DSL1003uep</ref> * In June 2012 two prominent setiQuest members were banned from SETI Live for debating the value of human signal recognition vs. automated software RFI detection algorithms. <ref>http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/automatic-detection-and-classification-squiggles#comment-3255</ref><ref>http://talk.setilive.org/discussions/DSL1004out</ref> * Followups were to go live on June 14 2012 but the SETI Live website went down. Gremlins or [[AWS]] outage?<ref>http://blog.setilive.org/2012/06/15/followups-test-party-crashed-by-gremlins-lets-try-again/</ref><ref>http://blog.setilive.org/2012/06/15/followups-test-party-2-starts-late-but-well-keep-going-also-more-testing-next-week/</ref> * SETI Live reached three million classifications and 65790 total people on August 3rd 2012 which is 156 days after launch. * Third tuning on August 9 2012. SonATA changes its observation frequency range (~3800 - 4200 MHz).<ref>http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2012-08-21#comment-3321</ref> * The SETI Live website was improved on November 13 2012 and followups are supposed to be working this time. <ref>http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2012-11-13</ref><ref>http://blog.setilive.org/2012/11/09/improved-site-on-its-way/</ref> * The cost to develop and operate SETI Live is estimated to be $400K. <ref>http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2012-11-13#comment-3518</ref> * SETI Live's TED funding runs out in January 2013. <ref>http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2012-11-27#comment-3539</ref> * It's December 4 2012 and followups are still not working. <ref>http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2012-12-04#comment-3557</ref> * December 11 2012, late by 6 months but followups are now operational. <ref>http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/community-meeting-2012-12-11#comment-3621</ref> == References == <references /> == External links == * http://www.setilive.org * http://blogs.zooniverse.org/seti/ * http://setiquest.org/blog/setilive * http://setiquest.org/forum/topic/setilive-grand-opening [[Category:Apps]] [[Category:Software]]
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Molex Encouraged by eSync Alliance Membership Growth
Reconfirms commitment to alliance that will improve automotive software updates and diagnostics
by Jon Knox
Molex, a member of the board of the eSync alliance, is pleased to announce the accelerating growth in membership. The alliance is an industry-wide initiative developing and promoting the technology needed for automotive Over-the-Air (OTA) and in-vehicle networks, which reduce the cost of software and firmware updates and recalls, and improve data services for the connected car. Since forming in 2017, the group’s membership has grown to now include Alpine, Excelfore, HELLA, Molex and ZF, and its most recent member, Mobica.
“The eSync Alliance addresses a lack of standardization by promoting a secure and open path for end-to-end OTA vehicle data transmission,” said Mike Gardner, director advance technology market development, Molex. “The eSync OTA System helps automakers significantly drive down the cost of vehicle recalls by creating a bi-directional pipeline for updating software, diagnostics, and data gathering from electronic components in connected vehicles.”
“OTA solutions are beginning to reach beyond infotainment into other aspects of an automobile’s functionality,” said Rick Kreifeldt, Executive Director of the eSync Alliance. “Security and safety are extremely important, and the industry is pushing for a standardized solution. Molex and our other Alliance members understand this need. As the leading industry association advancing OTA specifications, we anticipate significant growth in the Alliance’s membership.”
“For many years, automotive technology companies have pursued a proprietary approach to development. However, in today’s environment of open-source development and shared standards, companies are increasingly aware that large-scale adoption of their product or platform requires shared standards and a more open development approach. This also applies to OTA security, in which companies are looking for a robust developer community to develop and support solutions,” Edward Sanchez, Senior Analyst, Strategy Analytics.
“Being a member of the eSync Alliance allows us to further drive our commitment in the development of an important standard that advances the industry,” said Derek Forcher, Senior Vice President of Sales for North America, Mobica. "We will apply our long automotive experience and expertise in software to develop eSync-compliant best-of-breed OTA solutions for our customers.”
The eSync Alliance recently reached a milestone with the release of Version 1.0 of the eSync Compliance Specification. This helps members to build upon the eSync system, and develop their own customized solutions that they can deliver to Tier One suppliers. Automakers may choose to develop or adapt proprietary cloud solutions to become eSync-compliant.
The open and agnostic eSync platform, based on original development work by Excelfore, provides a secure server client architecture which is agnostic to network and operating systems. This enables remote updates, diagnostics, telematics, and data collection directly from end devices in the vehicle. Using patented technology, the system optimizes compression of OTA software updates, and minimizes airtime needed for delivery.
eSync OTA and diagnostic traffic is fully encrypted with bi-directional authentication. The eSync OTA System scales from the smallest sensor to head units to super computer autonomous driving systems.
About the eSync™ Alliance:
The eSync™ Alliance is an industry initiative to drive a multi-company solution for over-the-air (OTA) updates and diagnostics data in the automotive electronics space, potentially saving billions of dollars per year for automakers. By working together in the Alliance, companies will benefit from a simplified development environment made possible by a standardized yet customizable open platform. The Alliance is based around the eSync™ platform of cloud and embedded components, originally developed by Excelfore, for providing a secure data pipeline to devices within a vehicle. Further information at: www.eSyncAlliance.org
eSync, and the e-in-s logo, are trademarks of the eSync Alliance.
About Molex:
Molex brings together innovation and technology to deliver electronic solutions to customers worldwide. With a presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers a full suite of solutions and services for many markets, including data communications, consumer electronics, automotive, medical, and industrial. For more information, please visit www.molex.com.
Molex is a registered trademark of Molex, LLC in the United States of America and may be registered in other countries; all other trademarks listed herein belong to their respective owners.
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ARES E-Letter Issues
Editor: Rick Palm, K1CE
ARES E-Letter Archive
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ARES® Supports 60,000 Runners in Atlanta for Peachtree Road Race
LZ Drill in Washington State: Joint Emergency Exercises Work on a Small Scale
Anatomy of a CERT: East Lake (West Central Florida) CERT
Letters: An Emergency Paging Method
Letters: Georgia County Interfaces with Emergency Management via Planning Committee
Letters: San Diego Winlink Net Marks Five Years
ARRL Staff Developing Patch Display at HQ; Send in your Group's Patch!
Connecticut ARES Region Conducts Simplex Test
Georgia Group to Conduct 9/11 Memorial Special Event
Remembering Hurricane Katrina Ten Years Ago This Month
ARES® Briefs, Links
Katrina 10th Anniversary Mississippi Memorial Event Set (8/10/2015); Amateur Radio Volunteers Support Michigan's Premier Bicycle Tour (7/22/2015). September is National Preparedness Month. This year FEMA is asking you to take action now - make a plan with your community, your family, and for your pets. Plan how to stay safe and communicate during the disasters that can affect your community. FEMA asks everyone to participate in America's PrepareAthon! and the national day of action, National PrepareAthon! Day, which culminates National Preparedness Month on September 30.
For the last 45 years, Atlantans have celebrated Independence Day in the United States in unique fashion: by closing one of the City's busiest thoroughfares and allowing 60,000 runners, supported by 5000 volunteers, including over 50 Amateur Radio volunteers, and nearly 200,000 spectators for the Peachtree Road Race, sponsored by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Atlanta Track Club.
The Amateur Radio response is coordinated by Race Committee Members David Ziskind, KE4QLH, and Chris Balch, KS4MM (ARRL Volunteer Counsel and AEC for Atlanta ARES). Operators come from ARES groups and Amateur Radio clubs all over the metropolitan Atlanta area.
Working closely with the Atlanta Fulton County Emergency Management Agency (AFCEMA), Atlanta Police and Fire Departments, as well as numerous federal and state law enforcement and public safety agencies, the Amateur Radio contingent provides crucial on course intelligence and safety reports for injured runners, race conditions, and even the occasional suspicious package. Learning from the experience of colleagues in Boston, net control operations for the race are located at AFCEMA's underground Emergency Operations Center. AFCEMA Director Matthew Kallmayer has worked closely with Atlanta ARES EC Ken Reid, KG4USN, to stock the EOC with 3 dual band radios (2 Kenwood V71s and an ICOM IC-2820). Accordingly, we were able to run and respond to 3 different nets (as well as a D-STAR link to the Atlanta Police Headquarters) providing coordination among public safety, Atlanta Track Club organizers, and media outlets. Race communications benefited from the loaned repeaters of the Atlanta Radio Club, the Metropolitan Atlanta Telephone Pioneers Amateur Radio Club, and the Georgia Tech Amateur Radio Club.
This year provided a particularly challenging environment as July 4 saw Atlanta hit by a long line of severe and dangerous thunderstorms just as the race got underway. As the storms intensified, Track Club officials made the decision to hold the last half of the runners (half the field was already on the course) and move those waiting to start indoors for safety. After a 30-minute delay, 25,000 race participants emerged into the rainy late morning and completed their annual jog down Peachtree Street. - Chris Balch, KS4MM, AEC Atlanta ARES
One hour before the Airlift Northwest medical helicopter was due to arrive, the rain was coming down so hard, cars were pulling off the streets because wipers couldn't clear their windshields. The wind was gusting and heavy thunder shook the area. Yet, by 6:30 PM, the storm had cleared for the most part, and the training exercise began.
Riverside Fire Authority, Centralia (Washington) ARES, Lewis County 911 center and Airlift Northwest had planned this joint exercise for weeks. Several years earlier, Centralia ARES established eleven emergency helicopter landing zones (LZ) around the community of 16,000 located in southwest Washington State. The local hospital had been the only designated landing spot for medical helicopters, but the community is divided by two large rivers and Interstate 5. Any large earthquake would likely collapse all or most of the overpasses and bridges creating small pockets within the city that would be difficult to reach by normal disaster response services.
The helicopter landing zone project began by locating open fields, school yards and vacant lots that could be used as alternate landing zones. Level landing zones of at least 100' x 100' were needed. The fields could be grass, packed dirt, a roadway or even snow. Identifiable structures such as water towers needed to be marked. High tension lines, trees, fences, light poles and other hazards had to be assessed. Each year, the Centralia ARES team checks each landing zone to be sure it still meets requirements.
The landing zones were in place but had never been needed nor had a helicopter ever landed on any of them - until now. The joint exercise began to take form when we asked Riverside Fire Authority Chief Mike Kytta if he thought we could get Airlift Northwest, the local medical helicopter service located 25 miles to the north of Olympia, to fly in as a practice drill. Coincidentally, Riverside Fire was planning an exercise for their volunteers that could easily be turned into a request for a medical aircraft response. A quick e-mail to Airlift Northwest brought the response "We can make that happen." The joint exercise was set for a month later.
Excitement was in the air at the next ARES meeting as the exercise was discussed. The team retrained on how to set up a landing zone, helicopter landing procedures and LZ safety. While Chief Kytta would be the overall Incident Commander, the ARES team designated a communications supervisor, landing zone supervisor, aircraft communicator and safety officers. Remaining volunteers were assigned positions around the perimeter of the landing zone as this would be in a residential area and the landing of a helicopter was sure to attract spectators. Chief Kytta asked that ARES members provide notification to those homeowners living around the landing zone, and a simple flyer was created for distribution accordingly.
The Centralia Street Department agreed to provide barricades to block off an adjacent street so we would have adequate parking for emergency vehicles. They also provided orange traffic cones to help identify the 100' x 100' landing area from the air. Since it was possible that a delay might mean a night landing, ARES also purchased traffic flares and chemical lights just in case.
Also, the Centralia ARES group had just completed a one year project of creating an ARES communications vehicle and this event would be the first real test of its equipment. During its last training meeting before the exercise, the team went over safety procedures again, established where team members would park the communications vehicle, the fire department aid truck and a fire engine and marked the 100' x 100' landing zone. A simplex frequency was designated for all landing zone personnel. The team felt ready to make the exercise a success, but hadn't thought about the weather.
Exercise Commences
On the day of the event and in the middle of the storm, a text message to Fire Chief Kytta brought back the reply that they were ready to go if the weather permitted. As the storm passed, Riverside Fire Authority began their part of the exercise. Fire Department volunteers were dispatched to a simulated vehicle accident where the people in the car had been ejected from the vehicle. Fire Department personnel arrived on scene and began a search of the wooded area for victims. In this simulation, they were to locate four victims. One had minor injuries, two were "walking wounded," and one was in critical condition and would, as planned, need airlift out by medical helicopter to a trauma center.
As the drill progressed, Centralia ARES began setting up the landing zone and prepared to communicate with both the fire personnel and the aircraft. Riverside Fire and crews located their "victims" and began transporting them towards the landing zone after requesting the local 911 center call for a medical helicopter.
Inside the ARES communications vehicle, team members took updated information on the patient's condition from the aid crew in the field. It is approximately a 10 minute flight from the Olympia airport to the landing
Lyle Olmsted, KB7PI, waits to meet Airlift Northwest flight nurse. (photo courtesy KD7OWN)
zone and it was timed to have the fire department aid vehicle arrive at the landing zone a few minutes before the helicopter. As the fire truck and aid vehicle arrived and parked, ARES members could hear the aircraft approaching in the distance.
When the Airlift Northwest helicopter was in sight, the ARES aircraft communicator made contact and provided updated landing zone information that included wind direction, identifiable landmarks, landing zone coordinates and known hazards to the aircraft. In moments, the aircraft was circling the field and settling down to a safe landing.
Everyone waited as the helicopter shut down and the flight nurse got out and approached the fire department aid crew. They simulated patient transfer procedures and then everyone was allowed to approach the helicopter to get a closer look. The flight nurse briefed the ARES team about the equipment on board, demonstrated how to load a patient and discussed patient preparation with the fire department crews. The pilot spoke to the team about the helicopter and outlined what he needed for an emergency landing zone to safely land the aircraft. Thirty minutes later, the ARES team cleared the landing zone and directed the helicopter back into the air.
What began as a simple training exercise to establish potential helicopter landing zones for the community turned into an opportunity to work with a served agency, Riverside Fire Authority, and to test ARES equipment and procedures for landing an actual helicopter. The Airlift Northwest crew was generous with their time and equipment. Chief Kytta and his fire department training staff were tremendously helpful in setting up this valuable exercise.
You don't have to have all the answers when planning interesting training, you just need to start asking for help. Training opportunities are everywhere if you are willing to ask, even for smaller ARES teams. - Bob Willey, KD7OWN, Centralia (Washington State) ARES Emergency Coordinator [Willey is a retired Operations Commander with the Centralia Police Department and has been an Amateur Radio operator since 2001. The Centralia ARES team was formed as a result of the devastating 2007 floods that covered the area and completely cut Interstate 5 for several days.]
[In last month's issue, an article "Critical Partnership: CERT Joins with Amateur Radio Club for Field Day in West Central Florida," touched on the synergistic relationship between a CERT group and large Amateur Radio club. This month, we'll explore this relationship more fully, a whole that seems more than the sum of its parts - ed.]
East Lake CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) in Palm Harbor, Florida is very active in Amateur Radio in the north end of Pinellas County. [Pinellas county lies to the east of Tampa with a population of about one million on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Clearwater is the county seat, and St. Petersburg is its largest city.] Combining forces with the Upper Pinellas Amateur Radio Club (UPARC) results in a pool of nearly 70 licensed amateurs with training that goes beyond traditional ARES training. ARES trains us to be communicators using a variety of frequencies and modes in emergencies. A CERT educates ordinary citizens about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations. Using the training learned in the classroom and during exercises, CERT members can assist others in their neighborhood or workplace following an event when professional responders are not immediately available to help.
One aspect of this training is communications. Many CERT teams use basic Family Radio Service (FRS) radios for this. We have found that FRS is not always reliable for this purpose. East Lake CERT realized the shortfalls of FRS and began to recruit and train Amateur Radio operators to be their communicators through Technician and General licensing classes, mentoring and word of mouth.
Brief History of CERT
The first CERT was born in California out of a need of support for first responders following catastrophic earthquakes. The program was intended to fill the gap between what first responders were capable of providing and the needs of the community immediately following these events.
The training units were developed using lessons learned from actual events. The most immediate needs were prioritized and combined with preparedness objectives to present a well-rounded and inclusive program that would enable volunteers to prepare, plan and respond in the safest and most efficient way.
In February, 1985, a group of Los Angeles City officials went to Japan to study its extensive earthquake preparedness plans. The group encountered a society that had taken extensive steps to train entire neighborhoods in one aspect of alleviating the potential devastation that would follow a major earthquake. These single-function neighborhood teams were trained in fire suppression, light search and rescue operations, first aid, or evacuation.
In 1986, the City of Los Angeles Fire Department developed a pilot program to train a group of leaders in a neighborhood watch organization. A concept developed involving multi-functional volunteer response teams with the ability to perform basic fire suppression, light search and rescue, and first aid. This first team of 30 people completed training in early 1986 and proved that the concept was viable through various drills, demonstrations, and exercises. Expansion of the program, however, was not feasible due to limited City resources, until an event occurred in 1987 that impacted the entire area.
On October 1, 1987, the Whittier Narrows earthquake vividly underscored the threat of an area-wide major disaster, and demonstrated the need to expedite the training of civilians to prepare for earthquakes and other emergencies. Following the Whittier Narrows earthquake, the City of Los Angeles took an aggressive role in protecting the citizens of Los Angeles by creating the Disaster Preparedness Section within the Los Angeles Fire Department. Their objectives included:
⢠Educate and train the public and government sectors in disaster preparedness
⢠Research, evaluate, and disseminate disaster information
⢠Develop, train, and maintain a network of Community Emergency Response Teams (CERTs).
In 1993, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) decided to make the concept and program available to communities nationwide. The Emergency Management Institute (EMI), in cooperation with the LAFD, expanded the CERT materials to make them applicable to all hazards.
In January 2002, CERT became part of the Citizen Corps, a unifying structure to link a variety of related volunteer activities to expand a community's resources for crime prevention and emergency response.
As of November 2011, 50 states, three territories and six foreign countries were using the CERT training.
East Lake CERT History
East Lake CERT was established in 2005 by Mark Weinkrantz and District Chief Mark Teolis. The first class was trained by Lealman CERT. Not all teams are able to sustain the interest of their members, are not able to recruit new members, or have the funds to progress. In this regard, East Lake CERT has been very fortunate to have been able to expand their membership as well as focus on one of the most valuable assets following a disastrous event: communications. East Lake CERT has 30 licensed amateurs. They train weekly with a net held on UPARC's VHF repeater.
Communicators also train with the entire CERT team in several drills throughout the year. In June, East Lake CERT activated its own UHF repeater with the call W4ELC. East Lake CERT has partnered with UPARC's 40 members to provide CERT training to UPARC members and UPARC has welcomed the CERT communicators to use the W4AFC repeater.
East Lake CERT Moves Forward into Future
Where do we go from here? What does the future hold? East Lake CERT has been working closely with fire departments in North Pinellas County municipalities to initiate training of Fire Department personnel to be Amateur Radio operators, position radio equipment in each station and train personnel on the use of the radios. The goal is to provide a backbone of emergency communications through Amateur Radio that can be activated in an emergency in North Pinellas County. That network could then interface with Pinellas County's EOC, or support local, neighborhood operations. East Lake CERT is about to open communications with Tarpon Springs, Florida and Sunstar (an ambulance company) to include them in the network.
UPARC and East Lake CERT have come together to form an alliance and partnership for the good of our local communities. A CERT trained Amateur Radio communicator is someone you want around when disaster strikes. An Amateur Radio network among Fire Districts could be the lifeline that supports our CERT teams in whatever tasks they are called upon to perform. East Lake CERT has focused on helping members become licensed operators and in the establishment of a North County emergency communications system. Having CERT trained volunteers and radio operators in every community is our goal in order to live up to our mission statement: "The Greatest Good For The Greatest Number." - Contributing authors: Kevin Poorman, KV4CT, East Lake CERT; David Moore, KK4DLX, East Lake CERT; Barb Conciatori, KI4VOV, East Lake CERT; and Andy Miller, KJ4FEC, Upper Pinellas Amateur Radio Club
Should a situation arise where radio operators need to be notified of an impending emergency/disaster or requested to assist with an occurring incident, a page can be sent out using the cellular phone grid and the Internet. There are several different types of emergency paging systems and I have tried almost all of them. Currently, our local government uses this method and it is effective and easy.
"But wait! If there is a disaster, those phones/Internet may not work!"
Most warnings such as a tornado watch/warning or severe storm warning are broadcasted far in advance of the onset of hazardous conditions. At this point, many hams are monitoring frequencies and listening for news. Local incidents that occur without advanced warning such as a nuclear power plant evacuation or aircraft down are likely the ones where a quick call up is needed, but even these events do not necessarily take out the entire phone/Internet system.
"I don't have a phone or I do not want to receive texts."
Test messages could be limited to just once a week. These tests are to make sure you are receiving the sent texts. There are few individuals today without a mobile phone at their disposal. Any phone that can receive texts can be used to receive the page.
When a page is sent it will likely tell you where to tune to get information such as "tune to 7200 kHz LSB or 145.450 MHz FM." That would alert operators to tune in and get the details they need for responding.
A text message is sent to your phone's e-mail address, which consists of your phone number followed by the provider's "@ domain.com". Most carriers charge for this. The fee is usually small and worth it if you receive an alert. It is only free when you have signed up to receive text messaging through your phone carrier.
These are the phone e-mail addresses. Just substitute/insert your cell phone number and send yourself a test message.
Common U.S. Carriers:
1234567890@txt.att.net
1234567890@mymetropcs.com
1234567890@tmomail.net
U.S.Cellular
1234567890@email.uscc.net
Crickett Wireless
1234567890@sms.mycricket.com
1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com
1234567890@mmst5.tracfone.com
1234567890@vtext.com
"Who would send out the pages?"
The EMA Director, for example, could send out a page and contact all operators with just one e-mail. Most operators carry their phone with them. This system is simple to use and a great way to advise the radio community of anything that might be of importance. -- Steve Bellner, W8TER, Maumee, Ohio
[I tried it and it works well. -- ed.]
Amateur Radio operators in Glynn County (Georgia) stand ready to provide communications to our Emergency Management Agency as an active partner on the county Local Emergency Planning Committee. A multi-band communications center organized by Don Wellons, N4CMA, with county assistance can be activated and fully operational in our EOC upon order of competent authority. In addition, the county has multiple go-boxes with VHF/UHF transceivers that can be deployed to Amateur Radio-licensed responders throughout the county. This capability, combined with a U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary mobile emergency communication trailer assembled by David Lawrence and his volunteer team of USCGA Land Based and Mobile Operational Radio Facilities (most are also licensed radio amateurs) will provide a viable communications network in the event that traditional systems may be disrupted in the early hours or days of a disaster. -- Bob Shoreman, KK4VIK, Corresponding Secretary, Glynn County, Georgia Local Emergency Planning Committee
For the past five years I have been conducting the San Diego Winlink EmComm Weekly Drill and News. Here's how it works: A drill message goes out every Thursday, and San Diego and upper Baja, Mexico area radio amateurs can keep their operating skills sharp and their equipment readiness verified by just hitting "reply" to the message.
A drill message last month went out celebrating five years of the San Diego Winlink EmComm Weekly Drill and News being in continuous operation. In total for the five year period, 259 weekly messages were sent and received with more than 3500 check-ins during that period. In another drill message recently, I gave my view of some of the highlights (and a couple of the lowlights) of our experiences with emergency communications in San Diego County during this period. -- Ed Sack, W3NRG, Coronado, California
We're working on putting together a patch display here at ARRL HQ. We're looking for ARES or other public service communications groups, that have their own patches, to send us one for the display. Obviously we do not need the ARES patches we sell, but ones designed and used by local groups. Any group that wants to contribute one can mail it to ARRL, attn. Mike Corey, 225 Main St. Newington, CT 06111. -- Mike Corey, KI1U, ARRL Emergency Preparedness Manager
Connecticut is a leader in emergency/disaster communications support in all modes for all hazards. The ARRL Section's ARES Region 5 (covering a large portion of the western aspect of the state) executed its third annual simplex test on August 1st. The test, spearheaded by Paul Gibb, KB1TOR, was created to study how communications could be carried out throughout the geographically large Litchfield and northern Fairfield counties without the use of repeaters. The goal of the test is to light up as many EOCs as possible in the region. This year 46 stations participated in the test, which was held on the 2, 6 and 40 meter bands.
Gibb is the Special Projects Coordinator for the state's Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security (DEMHS) Region 5 Regional Emergency Planning Team (REPT) in Connecticut. Gibb has been instrumental in getting nearly every EOC in Region 5 equipped with Amateur Radio transceivers, VHF/UHF antennas, and in some cases NVIS antennas for HF work. Gibb was recognized by ARRL Section Manager Betsey Doane, K1EIC, at the annual section ARES meeting in Southington this past spring for his accomplishments. -- Dana A. Borgman, KA1WPM, Public Information Coordinator, Connecticut Section, ARRL
Cherokee County (Georgia) CERT/ARES will be operating Special Event station N4A on Friday, September 11, and Saturday, September 12 in remembrance of those families and loved ones who lost their lives, and the Public Safety members who gave countless hours during and following the 9/11 attacks.
Jim Millsap, WB4NWS, District EC for the Metro Atlanta District ARES, reports "We will be operating from the Cherokee County EOC Ham Station and the Cherokee County CERT/ARES trailer on HF frequencies in the General Class band of 20, 40, and 80-meters on Friday, but the biggest event activity is expected on Saturday. Stations are invited to check in on Friday or Saturday. A special certificate will be provided to those who make contact and send a self addressed #10 envelope." (More details will be provided on QRZ as the event dates draw closer).
Katrina was one of the most devastating hurricanes in the history of the United States. It is the deadliest hurricane to strike the United States since the Palm Beach-Lake Okeechobee hurricane of September 1928. It produced catastrophic damage - estimated at $75 billion in the New Orleans area and along the Mississippi coast - and is the costliest U. S. hurricane on record. (source: National Hurricane Center)
Here are two snippets from a special edition (just the second issue!) of the ARES E-Letter that was released on September 2, 2005:
"I know many people would like to move now. Please don't. I know many of you want to enter the fray, come to the coast and get involved. Please, not yet. Transportation and logistics, including volunteer groups coming in, must be done in an orderly manner or we may only add to the chaos and confusion." - (then) ARRL President Jim Haynie, W5JBP"
"Numerous reports are coming in on the devastation and relief response, including ARES, manifested by Hurricane Katrina. This special release addresses initial ARES responses and planning. Everyone has seen the media reports and the public notices of various governmental agencies and Non-Governmental Organizations, so they will not be reiterated here. The purpose of this edition is to share early reports and stories of what our fellow ARES members are doing in the field in response to one of the worst natural disasters to beset the United States. These efforts are only preliminary, and in no way represent the total ARES effort, which will evolve over the hard hours, days and weeks to come. - K1CE"
Much reporting on the amateur community's response was published in QST and elsewhere, but early reporting was covered in "The Katrina Chronicles 1," November 2005 QST, pp 43-48, and "The Katrina Chronicles 2," February 2006 QST, page 50, with authors Rick Lindquist, WW1ME, and Steve Ewald, WV1X.
Katrina changed the face of emergency management and FEMA in this country, as it did for Amateur Radio emergency/disaster communications training and programs, bringing a new level of "professionalism" to our ranks. Let's hope we'll never need it for another disaster on the scale of a Hurricane Katrina. Take a moment to remember the victims, and the radio amateurs who did their best to mitigate their suffering. -- K1CE
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Online trolling used to be funny, but now the term refers to something far more sinister
By Evita March, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Federation University Australia
The definition of "trolling" has changed a lot over the last 15 years. Shutterstock
It seems like internet trolling happens everywhere online these days – and it’s showing no signs of slowing down.
This week, the British press and Kensington Palace officials have called for an end to the merciless online trolling of Duchesses Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle, which reportedly includes racist and sexist content, and even threats.
But what exactly is internet trolling? How do trolls “behave”? Do they intend to harm, or amuse?
To find out how people define trolling, we conducted a survey with 379 participants. The results suggest there is a difference in the way the media, the research community and the general public understand trolling.
If we want to reduce abusive online behaviour, let’s start by getting the definition right.
How empathy can make or break a troll
Which of these cases is trolling?
Consider the comments that appear in the image below:
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Without providing any definitions, we asked if this was an example of internet trolling. Of participants, 44% said yes, 41% said no and 15% were unsure.
Now consider this next image:
Of participants, 69% said this was an example of internet trolling, 16% said no, and 15% were unsure).
These two images depict very different online behaviour. The first image depicts mischievous and comical behaviour, where the author perhaps intended to amuse the audience. The second image depicts malicious and antisocial behaviour, where the author may have intended to cause harm.
There was more consensus among participants that the second image depicted trolling. That aligns with a more common definition of internet trolling as destructive and disruptive online behaviour that causes harm to others.
But this definition has only really evolved in more recent years. Previously, internet trolling was defined very differently.
We researched Russian trolls and figured out exactly how they neutralise certain news
A shifting definition
In 2002, one of the earliest definitions of internet “trolling” described the behaviour as:
luring others online (commonly on discussion forums) into pointless and time-consuming activities.
Trolling often started with a message that was intentionally incorrect, but not overly controversial. By contrast, internet “flaming” described online behaviour with hostile intentions, characterised by profanity, obscenity, and insults that inflict harm to a person or an organisation.
So, modern day definitions of internet trolling seem more consistent with the definition of flaming, rather than the initial definition of trolling.
To highlight this intention to amuse compared to the intention to harm, communication researcher Jonathan Bishop suggested we differentiate between “kudos trolling” to describe trolling for mutual enjoyment and entertainment, and “flame trolling” to describe trolling that is abusive and not intended to be humorous.
How people in our study defined trolling
In our study, which has been accepted to be published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, we recruited 379 participants (60% women) to answer an online, anonymous questionnaire where they provided short answer responses to the following questions:
how do you define internet trolling?
what kind of behaviours constitute internet trolling?
Here are some examples of how participants responded:
Where an individual online verbally attacks another individual with intention of offending the other (female, 27)
People saying intentionally provocative things on social media with the intent of attacking / causing discomfort or offence (female, 26)
Teasing, bullying, joking or making fun of something, someone or a group (male, 29)
Deliberately commenting on a post to elicit a desired response, or to purely gratify oneself by emotionally manipulating another (male, 35)
Based on participant responses, we suggest that internet trolling is now more commonly seen as an intentional, malicious online behaviour, rather than a harmless activity for mutual enjoyment.
A word cloud representing how survey participants described trolling behaviours.
Researchers use ‘trolling’ as a catch-all
Clearly there are discrepancies in the definition of internet trolling, and this is a problem.
Research does not differentiate between kudos trolling and flame trolling. Some members of the public might still view trolling as a kudos behaviour. For example, one participant in our study said:
Depends which definition you mean. The common definition now, especially as used by the media and within academia, is essentially just a synonym to “asshole”. The better, and classic, definition is someone who speaks from outside the shared paradigm of a community in order to disrupt presuppositions and try to trigger critical thought and awareness (male, 41)
Not only does the definition of trolling differ from researcher to researcher, but there can also be discrepancy between the researcher and the public.
As a term, internet trolling has significantly deviated from its early, 2002 definition and become a catch-all for all antisocial online behaviours. The lack of a uniform definition of internet trolling leaves all research on trolling open to validity concerns, which could leave the behaviour remaining largely unchecked.
Our experiments taught us why people troll
We need to agree on the terminology
We propose replacing the catch-all term of trolling with “cyberabuse”.
Cyberbullying, cyberhate and cyberaggression are all different online behaviours with different definitions, but they are often referred to uniformly as “trolling”.
It is time to move away from the term trolling to describe these serious instances of cyberabuse. While it may have been empowering for the public to picture these internet “trolls” as ugly creatures living under the bridge, this imagery may have begun to downplay the seriousness of their online behaviour.
Continuing to use the term trolling, a term that initially described a behaviour that was not intended to harm, could have serious consequences for managing and preventing the behaviour.
Evita March does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Originally published in The Conversation.
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When OPOL Does Not Work - Exposure, Glamour Factor and Resources
When OPOL does not work, it can be difficult to find the reasons. Many people put it down to lack of exposure to the minority language, oftentimes citing a minimum requirement of 30% to 40% of exposure.
Annabelle from The Piri Piri Lexicon is a linguist. Here she takes apart the "myth" that children need at least 30% exposure to a language in order to acquire it.
Not being a linguist myself, I can only speak of our own experience. We are a quadrilingual family (see our family language diagram):
Mother - Algerian Arabic
Father - German
Mother & Father - French
Majority language outside the home - English
Our two older children (8 and 5) are exposed to English for at least 8 hours a day, between school, friends, after-school activities, TV and books. Knowing that they are roughly awake for 13 hours a day, that leaves 5 hours for the three other languages. So:
English -> 60%
Arabic, French, German -> 40%
Our "method" is OPOMLAH (One Parent One Minority Language At Home). That does not accurately describe it either as we have three minority languages, being myself in charge of transmitting two of these.
According to the 30-40% rule, there would be no way for our children to speak anything but the majority language. In particular they would have no German at all, as they only see their father two hours a day, and that's when he is not away overnight for work (15%).
Let me tell you this is far from being the case. They do speak German, and in the case of the eight-year old, can read and write it. How come?
To start with there is the week-end, which we strive to always spend together, immersed in our three home languages. We travel once a year to Germany, and get visitors a couple of times a year, for a weekend at a time. We have loads of books and DVDs.
The main advantage we have is: we do not speak English at home.
Both BabelDad and I speak English fluently. We do code-switch, but we only speak French between us, making English the majority language OUTSIDE the home.
The second very important factor is that German is supported by books and DVDs.
Everything has got a name in German. The girls may not know the words, but they can be sure their dad does and will share it.
This is contrary to Algerian Arabic (or Moroccan Arabic) which lacks resources. Books and programmes are in an altogether different language - classical arabic. Also, the Algerian word for car is tounoubil (automobile), a truck is camioune (camion) and a phone is tilifoune (téléphone). The classical Arabic words exist (sayyara, shahina and hatif). But I would never dream to use them in my daily conversations as it would simply be odd.
Moreover, speaking a second language is usually a positive thing, yet not all languages fall into the same tier.
In most western countries, French and German are glamorous. Arabic is not glamorous.
We are fortunate to be in England, where I can feel at ease speaking my language, most of the time. Not sure I would feel the same way in other countries.
In a bilingual family, where one of the home languages is the majority language, the 30%-40% rule makes sense to me. That means that ideally, the main carer should speak the minority language.
However, the facts that:
the majority language is also a family language
the minority language is not supported by written and visual resources
could have precipitated the demise of Arabic acquisition in Stephanie's family. If the minority language had been French, or Spanish, or German, then the outcome might have been different.
As Annabelle points out, it is hard for parents to quantify how much exposure their children get to various languages. Even when an approximation is possible, language absorption is subject to exposure, as well as the languages' social status and availability of supporting resources.
Labels: arabic, books, english, french, german, multilingual, opol
Annabelle 29 May 2013 at 20:54
All I can say is Thank you! You are the perfect example that this is a myth!
BabelMum 29 May 2013 at 21:18
Yes, your family and mine are examples showing it is not a straightforward percentage thing...
The European Mama 29 May 2013 at 21:30
What a great post, shows that this is not only a myth but simply not doable! And, some things such as languages can't be quantified!And thanks for mentioning my post!
Pleasure!
As I said in the post, the 30% may make sense in the case of a bilingual family with majority language spoken at home. It seems a long shot to apply to other multilingual settings, impossible in many cases.
Stephanie-InCultureParent 30 May 2013 at 04:30
Loved reading your example and thanks for thinking about my case too! I think you are right on the demise of Arabic being related to a combo of factors: lack of materials and the majority language being a family language. Add in no Arabic in the community at all (unlike Spanish and French depending on where in the US you are). The kids just don't hear Arabic much at all beyond dad and babysitter (who has less hours now that we started Spanish).
Coming to the realization must have been disappointing,
Having said that, your girls possibly know more Arabic than many other children who were not spoken to actively, who were rather exposed to it passively when their parents spoke Arabic between them.
I am sure a trip to Morocco would give them a massive boost! I know it does in our case.
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Category: Paul Simon
Single Song Sunday: Paul Simon’s American Tune
(on being an American on Independence Day)
July 4th, 2010 — 11:28 am
We live in complicated times, in a complicated country. Oil gushes into our waters, and each day, I watch the hurricane news, waiting for the perfect storm that will lead to the destruction of the East Coast beaches in whose warm waves and on whose clinging sand I have spent so many summers. The New Orleans project which won our hearts in the months following Katrina is out of money, though it shimmers with hope on the new series from the folks who brought you The Wire. My inner city students dwell in poverty, living lives of hardship with no obvious way out, and so do many of my neighbors, in our tiny rural town where next year, due to budget cuts, there will be no more music in the schools.
Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn’t be America without all this trouble and strife. Though as a teacher, a school board member, a community hellraiser, a Unitarian Universalist, and a parent, I work for a better day with every minute of my being, I recognize that the Constitution is far from a utopian document; rather, the independent spirit on which we were founded contains the tensions of our continued successes and frustrations.
Still, I am dismayed by the way we have learned to think of ourselves as King George III, with our own politics and politicians as the enemy. Trust in government “of the people” is gone, as is trust in the citizenry, if the news is to be believed. On forums and facebook, through picket lines and protests and policymaking, my fellow Americans act as if they have abdicated their ownership of the dream, coming out in proud and unlistening opposition to a nation that is supposed to be their own. Thinking about the future here can be bleak, sometimes, and though I put on a happy face and promise them love eternal, I struggle to answer my children’s questions about what will be, when they are grown.
But yesterday we spent the morning in the bearded crowds at the Brattleboro Farmer’s Market, munching lumpen sugar donuts made in some hippie kitchen, marveling at the freshest of uberlocal basil and lamb and flowers, and the easy mix of tourists and organic farmfolk with which we shared the open air. After lunch we took to the Connecticut River, sharing the tiny midriver island with comfortable strangers, picking raspberries and watching as my father-in-law at the helm pulled a series of children – ours, and our new friends – gleefully shrieking through the water behind him. As night fell, we drove home through the green hills of Vermont and Massachusetts, and the girls exclaimed with sleepy delight as through the interstate treelines came flashes of light and sparks from a dozen or more fireworks shows and backyard barbecues, their temporary light fading into stars.
And though I had planned another post for this morning, my mind turned to this country, unbidden. And in my breast stirred hope.
You don’t need to go looking for America, as Paul Simon wrote in some other, earlier American tune. It’s all around us, its best and its worst. And though it’s hard to be bright and bon vivant when we are so weary from this American life, it’s all right, what with tomorrow ever another day.
I’ve spent several long car rides steeped in various versions of Simon’s American Tune, most especially Eva Cassidy’s posthumous release; it’s a masterful soundtrack for sorrow, with an undercurrent of hope that lifts the spirit. And certainly, though Cassidy brings the beauty and pain for which she has become famous, much of the success of this song can be found in 1973 original: the soaring melodies, the lyrical back-and-forth between the deeply personal and the despairingly political, which have attracted so many to it, both as fans and cover artists.
But the way the song becomes grounded in the various folkstyles of American music holds special interest to us today, as America celebrates itself. In the space among and between Darrell Scott‘s gentle fiddle-and-mandolin driven bluegrass take, Storyhill‘s ragged SXSW backstage singer-songwriter campfire duo, the rise and fall of Glen Phillips‘ live and unreleased electrified solo performance, Mark Erelli‘s chunky, slippery, deceptively optimistic home demo recording, Willie Nelson‘s typically cowboy tenor, Charlie Wood‘s majestic piano blues, Mae Robertson‘s sea chanty-inspired, gospel-voiced plainsong, the broken harmonies of the Indigo Girls live at the Newport Folk Festival, and more, these visions of America capture all the mystery and madness, the love and longing, the frustration and the uplifting determination, the quintessential spirit of the American love for country, in all its bittersweet forms.
Eva Cassidy: American Tune
Darrell Scott: American Tune
Storyhill: American Tune
Glen Phillips: American Tune
Mark Erelli: American Tune
Willie Nelson: American Tune
Charlie Wood: American Tune
Mae Robertson: American Tune
Indigo Girls: American Tune
Want to support the continued production and performance of American tunes? Then remember: though the sharing ways of folk and the political change that it so often embodies are embedded in the form, downloading is just the beginning of a lifelong process. Click on artist names above to pursue and purchase the works of the icons and icons-to-be that we celebrate here.
Coverfans interested in more tributes to America The Beautiful, including Willie Nelson’s take on our “other” national anthem and a decidedly odd cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s America from UK progrockers Yes, will enjoy this morning’s five-song set from Cover Freak. I’m also particularly proud of America The Beautiful: Coverfolk For A Thoughtful Fourth, a post we put up for Independence Day 2008 whose sentiment is worth revisiting, though the songs are no longer live.
If you have energy to spare afterwards, don’t forget to lend your support to us, too, as we continue to work hard twice each week to bring you the best coverage of the folkworld we know how to provide. Tell your friends, donate if you can, and add this site to your feedreader so you don’t miss a single feature.
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(Re)Covered, XV: More covers of and from
Talking Heads, Pat Wictor, Lori McKenna, Mark Erelli & Paul Simon!
March 6th, 2010 — 10:32 pm
Our music library may be vast, but we’ve never claimed to be completists here at Cover Lay Down. There’s always something missed or previously unheard, and always something new, too, released just in time to taunt us in the aftermath of a topical post.
Serendipitous addenda come from fellow bloggers, readers, labels, artists and library visits into our welcoming ears and hands. From there, they make their way back to you via our (Re)Covered features, wherein we share new and newly-rediscovered songs that dropped into our laps just a bit too late to make it into earlier features.
Our recent post covering the Talking Heads songbook has proved to be immensely popular, netting huge surges in traffic after receiving mention from both Metafilter and Very Short List. As is generally the case, with popularity comes an increase in suggested also-rans, and though many of the songs readers sent along were not folk at all – for example, I had already considered and rejected Guster’s uber-funky alt-jamband take on Nothing But Flowers and Moxy Fruvous’ slammin’ live cover of Psycho Killer as far too rock for our readership, and passed over Miles Fisher’s electrocover as fun but far too weird, when compiling our original post – this Jason Spooner track, recommended by fellow Star Maker Machine regular FiL, is a great slow-burn acoustic folk jam that fits the bill perfectly.
Jason Spooner: Slippery People (orig. Talking Heads)
(from The Flame You Follow, 2007)
Bonus: Jason Spooner: The Luckiest Man (orig. The Wood Brothers)
(live from MVYRadio @ SXSW 2008; more Jason Spooner here)
In an interesting email exchange with Pat Wictor after our recent feature on the NY-based singer-songwriter attempted to used his recent career path to exemplify the challenges artists face in moving from “emerging” to “established”, Pat humbly suggested that I had made the common mistake of confusing buzz with name-recognition and much more typical under-the-radar career growth – an error all the more frustrating because I myself have addressed this issue of bloggers mistaking buzz concentration as an indicator of popularity in previous posts, specifically in regards to the shortened buzz-and-fall cycle which has accompanied the rise of the rapid-fire blogging world. Mea culpa.
As Pat points out, his career continues to grow, albeit in more subtle ways out of the “new artist” limelight; recent developments include growing audience sizes, his first major tours of California, Texas, the Midwest, and the Carolinas, and a move from opening act slots to co-bills in much larger spaces. But that doesn’t mean he’s rich and famous yet, folks. Instead, says Pat, he’s engaged in “the long, slow work of building an audience, person by person,” and that’s where a blog can be a fine vehicle, indeed. Here’s a matched set of subtly different covers of Mississippi Fred McDowell’s You Got To Move from Pat’s work with frequent stage-sharer and fellow 2006 Falcon Ridge Emerging Artist Abbie Gardner (of similarly up-and-growing folk trio Red Molly) – one from his album, one from hers – to help keep these artists on your radar where they belong.
Pat Wictor w/ Abbie Gardner: You Got To Move (orig. Mississippi Fred McDowell)
(from Heaven Is So High…, 2006)
Abbie Gardner w/ Pat Wictor: You Got To Move (ibid.)
(from Honey On My Grave, 2006)
We’ve featured local singer-songwriters and frequent touring companions Mark Erelli and Lori McKenna here in fits and starts over the years: our first-year Mother’s Day post offered a pair of now long-gone coversongs from the housewife-turned-singing sensation; the release of Mark’s 2008 album Delivered occasioned a similar subfeature, including several covers which have suffered the same fate.
But their recently recorded cover of Mary Gauthier’s Mercy Now, which came to me via Bottom of the Glass, is a full-bore delight, with driving beat, lightness, and harmonies that lend a bit more hope and perhaps a touch more steel to what seemed to be an untouchable original. And sending you off to purchase the recent 1% For The Planet benefit compilation from which it comes is a great way to support ecological causes, to boot. As a bonus, in lieu of reviving old posts ad infinitum, I’ve included a few favorite othercovers from those previous posts.
Lori McKenna w/ Mark Erelli et. al.: Mercy Now (orig. Mary Gauthier)
(from 1% For The Planet: The Music, 2010)
Lori McKenna: In Your Eyes (orig. Peter Gabriel)
(from American Laundromat’s High School Reunion cover compilation, 2005)
Lori McKenna: Fake Plastic Trees (orig. Radiohead)
(from The Kitchen Tapes, 2004)
Mark Erelli w/ Jeffrey Foucault: Alright For Now (orig. Tom Petty)
(from Innocent When You Dream, 2007)
Mark Erelli: A Case of You (orig. Joni Mitchell)
(live from Mark’s Mp3 of the Month series)
Finally, in other covernews, the new Peter Gabriel all-covers album Scratch My Back is, by most accounts, sappy, maudlin, emotionless and tame; it wasn’t even that hard to find a reviewer willing to call it “the worst cover album in the history of cover albums.” But the good news is that it’s part of a reciprocal project, which means upcoming Peter Gabriel covers from each of the artists whose work Gabriel mangles on his own release. And if Paul Simon’s cover of Biko, released in tandem with Gabriel’s cover of Boy in the Bubble as the second “Double A-side” single from the project, is any indication, we’re in for a great ride.
Our Paul Simon cover feature is yet another part of our long-dead archives, and we’re surely overdue to revisit his songbook, so expect another round of Simon covers to come sometime in 2010. In the meanwhile, stay tuned to the usual indieblogs for Peter Gabriel covers from Bon Iver, Regina Spektor, and more in the weeks ahead.
Paul Simon: Biko (orig. Peter Gabriel)
(single, from the Scratch My Back project, 2010)
As an added bonus, since we’re looking back that far today, here’s another stunning Peter Gabriel cover from an album featured in our very first post here at Cover Lay Down, way back in September of 2007.
Richard Shindell: Mercy Street (orig. Peter Gabriel)
(from South of Delia, 2007)
Cover Lay Down posts new features and coverfolk sets every Wednesday and Sunday, and the occasional otherday.
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(Re)Covered VII: More covers of Cyndi Lauper, Paul Simon, Britney Spears
August 19th, 2008 — 11:15 pm
We’re in an indiefolk mood today, thanks to an increasingly large pile of new material flowing in from fan recommendations, the labels, and the blogosphere at large. As such, there’s nothing particularly rare here today, just a bunch of great web-scavenged covers, most of which had their coming out party long after we originally featured the songwriters that first made them famous — making them a perfect fit for yet another long-awaited edition of our longstanding (Re)Covered series here on Cover Lay Down.
At the height of her popularity, Cyndi Lauper’s strength was in powerful yet simply-stated melody and lyric; in simplicity, however, a song’s flexibility is limited, so it was a nice surprise to find not one but two great new covers coming out over the past few months, especially after finding so many covers of so few different tunes for our May feature on the songs of Cyndi Lauper.
This cover from Canadian indiefolkers The Acorn has been making the blogrounds since at least June, most recently ending up on This Morning I Am Born Again, but it bears repeating for the way it transforms what was once a bouncy throw-away theme for the kid-friendly underground pirate adventure flick The Goonies, turning a cinematic bit of eighties cheese into something lo-fi and fragile, full of string undertones and indie half-tension, the post-millenium’s high-culture equivalent of the exotic comfort of a warm goat-cheese brie.
Meanwhile, alt-folk trio Girlyman gives a chilling, harmony-rich rendition of Lauper ballad All Through the Night, proving once again that good songwriting will out, even through the worst sappiest power ballad production (see also: Supertramp covers). I posted Girlyman’s wonderful version of George Harrison’s My Sweet Lord last year as part of a megapost on the solo work of the post-Beatles Fab Four; I certainly would have shared this perfect live cut when we featured Cyndi Lauper songs last month if I had known about it, but the hype for their gigantic live album Somewhere Different Now, also released in May, seems to have gotten lost in the sea of late spring releases and a recent label change-over for the intrepid and outed members of Girlyman. Special thanks, then, to the anonymous tipster who prompted me to track this song down, which in turn led me to an album which perfectly captures the sweet harmonies and raw yet intimate presence that typifies a small-venue Girlyman show.
The Acorn: Good Enough (orig. Cyndi Lauper)
Girlyman: All Through The Night (orig. Cyndi Lauper)
Our original exploration of the Paul Simon songbook was large enough to separate into two posts: one on his solo work, and one on his work with that Art guy. But, as I mentioned back then, Simon’s influence on music is immense; as such, as musicians new and rising continue to mine the cultural jetsam for songs that have some personal resonance, coverage of Paul Simon’s vast catalogue remains vast and evergrowing.
From the recently “released” Bedroom Covers album from The Morning Benders, with its wonderfully hushed and lo-fi versions of many favorite and respectable pop tunes, comes an echoey take on Mother and Child Reunion with shades of Iron and Wine, only played out at a tenor’s 45 rpm; Bedroom Covers is a total freebie, and it rocks: we’ll surely come back to it down the road for upcoming Covered in Folk features (we’re way overdue for a Fleetwood Mac set). Plus two versions of what may well be my favorite Paul Simon composition of all time: a pensive yet hopeful bedroom cover from the recently-featured Mark Erelli, and — for those who lean that way — a great countrygrass cover from Darrell Scott’s very promising all-covers “acoustic folk” album Modern Hymns, released just yesterday on the highly credible folklabel Appleseed Recordings, via blazing newcomer blog A Fifty Cent Lighter & A Whiskey Buzz, who also offers up Scott’s solid take on oft-covered Joni Mitchell favorite Urge for Going.
Darrell Scott: American Tune (orig. Paul Simon)
Mark Erelli: American Tune (ibid.)
The Morning Benders: Mother and Child Reunion (orig. Paul Simon)
Finally: the “Britney Spears takes over culture” thing is pretty much over, but even after both an All Folked Up feature and a (Re)Covered revisit, her songs continue to crop up everywhere that indie hipsters crave irony. Today’s evidence comes from The Portland Cello Project, which finally hit stores this week after months of slow-burning hype. I’m by no means the first to notice The Portland Cello Project, and technically, they’re not folk, either — critics are calling the guest-vocalist-with-multiple-cello sound chamber pop; their myspace page lists them as indie/classical/rock. Listen through their whole self-titled debut, though, and you may think you’ve discovered yet another new folk, akin to the experimentation of, say, Abigail Washburn’s Sparrow Quartet project (which also features cellist Ben Sollee).
The album tracks each feature collaboration from the Pacific Northwest indiefolk crowd, including star turns from Loch Lomond’s Ritchie Young and indiefolk darling Laura Gibson; I especially like the delicate indietune Under Glass, and Stay, a wonderful, plucked-sting acoustic waltz with guest Anna Fritz. Captain Obvious gets cred for picking the Gibson and Under Glass for sampling. And PCP gets TOTAL bonus points here for a secret, hidden covertrack, which sets the Mario Brothers theme song to a classical ensemble sound, and then slowly buries it in a faux-military drumroll — that no other blogger has mentioned that says what it needs to about how most critics listen to label freebies, sadly.
Whatever you call it, this is surprisingly solid, listenable music, covering a huge range of pleasurable soundscape; though it’s among the more upbeat and fun songs on the album, their version of Toxic still comes across as authentic, not just some marching band cover. And since the Britney covers always bring a smile, and given the increasing prevalence of cello in folk music, I’ll allow it just this once. With a few other recent Britney covers scavenged from the webs that fall on the edge of folk: Sia’s delicate acoustic version of Gimmie More, and French-Israeli singer-songwriter Yael Naim’s ubiquitous pop-folktronic Toxic, just in case you haven’t heard it. And so the trend continues.
Portland Cello Project: Toxic (orig. Britney Spears)
Yael Naim: Toxic (orig. Britney Spears)
Sia: Gimmie More (orig. Britney Spears)
803 comments » | (Re)Covered, Acorn, Britney Spears, Cyndi Lauper, Darrell Scott, Mark Erelli, Morning Benders, Paul Simon, Portland Cello Project, Sia, Yael Naim
Schoolday Coverfolk: National Teacher Appreciation Week, May 6-10
May 6th, 2008 — 11:23 pm
In my other life, I’m a middle school teacher; I spend most of my days surrounded by twelve year olds, trying to balance entertainment with mentorship, and curriculum with life lessons. Before that, I taught in a boarding high school, tutored gifted and talented kids in a tiny rural elementary school, ran a before-school program, and did public demonstrations at a science museum.
And before that, I was a dropout. And before that, I was a goofball, who needed a little good advice now and then, but couldn’t really sit still long enough in the classroom to make any teacher want to defend me.
But Mrs. Carter liked me, though I don’t know why. The way she looked at me – like I had something worth watching for – made up for the fact that I was always the understudy when we were picked for the school play, always the alternate for work with the poet in residence. I learned to rise to the occasion, and to focus on doing things well, instead of doing things best; I gained confidence in my abilities. And though after that year, I turned back into the goofball for a good long time, I never forgot Mrs. Carter. And I never forgot that look.
It’s a well-kept secret in educational circles that it isn’t just the good kids, or the smart kids who get voted “most likely to be a teacher”, who come back to school to sit on the other side of the desk (or in my case, to stand atop the desk and gesticulate wildly to make a point). We come from all the cliques, from the woodshop wannabes to the cheerleading squad, from the lit mag proto-hipsters to the band geeks. But I can’t think of any teacher I have ever spoken with who is not honored and thrilled and genuinely surprised when that rare student comes out of the woodwork to say “you mattered, and now I matter.”
A few years back, at a five year reunion, this kid came up to me, and thanked me. He said I was the one who changed his life; that now he was doing what I had taught him to do, and hardly a week went by where he didn’t think about what I had taught him.
And I looked at him, and smiled, and was secretly joyous. But all I could think about was that this kid was the goofball. The one who was always pushing the envelope. The one who messed around in film class, though he always came through with something pretty cool when the work was due. The one who spliced thirty second of a shower scene from a Penthouse video into his remade music video for Van Halen’s Hot For Teacher. And showed it on the day the Academic Dean came to observe me in my first year of teaching.
And then I remembered Mrs. Carter. And I thought about calling her up, and thanking her. But Mrs. Carter isn’t around anymore.
There are surprisingly few songs about the teaching profession which portray it in a positive light (though there are a couple of other memorable songs out there about teachers as sex objects, such as Police classic Don’t Stand So Close To Me and Rufus Wainwright’s The Art Teacher); of these, fewer still have been covered by folk artists. More common are songs about school as a part of adolescent or childhood experience — songs where the teachers are there, unmentioned, just hovering in the background. But as a teacher myself, I know that no classroom feels safe unless the teacher has set a tone that makes it safe. Even without mention, as long as curriculum and classroom exist, a teacher is always there.
Today, then, in celebration of National Teacher Appreciation Week (USA), we bring you a set of quirky covers of teachersongs, and some schoolsongs which touch lightly and broadly on our experience of the classroom, that childhood stew of fear and freedom where our personalities were transformed.
Together, the songs make a perfect soundtrack to a google search for that one special teacher who reached out and changed your life. Write the letter, send the email, make the call: let them know they made a difference today. You don’t even have to say thanks — just letting them know that you remember them, and that you turned out okay, is a rare and precious reward.
Petty Booka, Teacher’s Pet (orig. Doris Day)
(from Ukelele Lady; more Petty Booka here)
Matt Nathanson, Starfish and Coffee (orig. Prince)
(from For The Kids, Too; more Matt Nathanson here)
Fionn Regan, Getting Better (orig. Beatles)
(live on BBC Radio 1; more Fionn Regan here)
Mark Erelli, Lonestar (orig. Lori McKenna)
(Mp3 of the Month web release; more Mark Erelli here)
David Wilcox, The Kid (orig. Buddy Mondlock)
(from How Did You Find Me Here; more David Wilcox here)
Cry Cry Cry, The Kid (ibid.)
(from Cry Cry Cry; more here here here)
Bree Sharp, We’re Going To Be Friends (orig. White Stripes)
(website release; more Bree Sharp here)
Jack Johnson, We’re Going To Be Friends (ibid.)
(from the Curious George soundtrack; more Jack Johnson here)
Art Garfunkel w/ Paul Simon and James Taylor, (What A) Wonderful World (orig. Sam Cooke)
(from Watermark; more Art Garfunkel here)
Luther Wright and the Wrongs, Another Brick in the Wall (orig. Pink Floyd)
(from Rebuild the Wall; more Luther Wright here)
See also: Kate and Anna McGarrigle cover Loudon Wainwright III’s Schooldays
793 comments » | Art Garfunkel, Bree Sharp, cry cry cry, David Wilcox, Fionn Regan, Jack Johnson, James Taylor, Luther Wright, Mark Erelli, Matt Nathanson, Paul Simon, Petty Booka
Covered in Folk: Paul Simon (From Bleeker Street to Indiefolk)
January 2nd, 2008 — 09:24 am
The ninth post in our very popular Covered In Folk series addresses the solo output of Paul Simon. This is unusual — with the exception of our ongoing Beatles series (part 1, part 2), previous posts have covered the total output of a given artist; see, for example, posts on the songs of Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground and Tim and Neil Finn. It’s also backwards, since Simon’s solo career is really his second wave of fame, after his first incarnation as a folk icon with partner Art Garfunkel.
But however tempting it was to address both phases of Paul Simon’s career in one post, it was just too much to tackle all at once. And, as you’ll see below, there’s something especially timely about Paul Simon covers, as regards a specific subsection of the folkworld.
So stay tuned in the coming weeks for the songs of Simon and Garfunkel, including folkcovers by the Indigo Girls, Jonatha Brooke, Johnny Cash, and Emiliana Torrini. And for those of you that don’t otherwise follow the hippest darlings of the blogworld, enjoy today’s introduction to a branch of folk music so new, its artists don’t even use the term.
The solo songs of Paul Simon have enjoyed a sort of renaissance in the ears of the indie world recently, due in no small part to three bootlegs floating around the blogs: Swedish indie-pop artist Jens Lekman’s radio-station cover of You Can Call Me Al, and two versions of Graceland, one from indie remix experimentalists Hot Chip, the other from Dan Rossen of psychfolk indiedarlings Grizzly Bear.
I’ve mentioned my bias towards good sound quality here before; though I know that the swamp of sound is deliberate in the case of the Rossen cover (in the other covers, it’s a result of off-the-radio taping), the genuinely hissy, fuzzy quality of all three of these recordings keeps me from passing these songs on without caveat. That said, these songs are worth serious consideration, so they’re here today, if you want ‘em. Fans of the abovementioned artists either already have these, or need them badly; if you’ve never heard these artists of the new indie almost-folk movement, these covers provide a decent entry into their core sound, but I highly recommend tracking down more of their work before you decide whether you’re a fan or not.
But though I’m fond of these interpretations, and respect them for the love they clearly show towards the originals, I also think there’s better Simoncovers out there, both in and out of the indiefolkworld.
There’s plenty to pick from; Simon’s songs address universal themes, and they are eminently singable. There are as many acoustic Paul Simon covers as there are streetcorner buskers. But most merely sandpaper these songs, stripping the instrumentation away to deliver them with broken voice and road guitar. Only a few bring new life to songs which have forever been marked as an emotional mirror for a generation of baby boomers. Now that takes talent, forethought, and perspiration.
Today, we bring our usual full plate brimming with covers of the post-Simon and Garfunkel work of Paul Simon. Not all manage to surpass the originals, it’s true. Like the newest batch, some are imperfect, albeit spectacularly so. But there’s something special and wonderful and new in each one. And the best ones, like the best covers of anything once-and-forever-loved, remind you of how wonderful the originals were without sacrificing the power of their interpretation.
As always, today’s songs are a pretty diverse set, though they tend to cluster around the solo acoustic approach. Some are earnestly, almost delicately reinterpreted, others are lo-fi, almost all are live. Very few come from artists that consider themselves folk, but each has just enough folk sensibility to be welcomed into the fold. I’ll leave it to each of you to find your own favorites. Just remember: there’s more to a great cover than who’s doing the covering.
Jens Lekman, You Can Call Me Al
Dan Rossen (of Grizzly Bear), Graceland
Hot Chip, Graceland
As above; flawed but powerful recordings of covers with real possibility. The recorded output of Jens Lenkman, Grizzly Bear, and Hot Chip aren’t always folk music, but they always make my ears happy; see today’s bonus section for further evidence that these folks are worth a second listen.
Julie Doiron, Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard
Peter Bjorn and John, Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard
Two of the post-folk indie movement’s newest, coolest musical phenomena boil down what was once a jumpin’ streetfolk tune into a folk lullaby (Julie Doiron) and an oldtimey backalley strut (Peter Bjorn and John).
Peter Mulvey, Stranded In A Limousine
Plucky all-out solo singer-songwriter fare from Peter Mulvey’s all-covers subway session Ten Thousand Mornings, previously featured here.
Eva Cassidy, American Tune
Eva Cassidy, Kathy’s Song
Two of Paul Simon’s most wistful, etherial tunes set to perfection by the mistress of dark resophonic strings and clear-voiced longing. Eva, your songs live on without you.
Follow the links above to artist homepages. Buy compilations, songs, and albums direct from the source. Support labels, stores, and artists. It’s just that simple.
Today’s bonus coversongs provide a deeper glimpse into the coverwork of Hot Chip and Grizzly Bear, key players from opposite ends of the new folk-tinged indie movement:
Hot Chip, Sexual Healing (orig. Marvin Gaye)
Grizzly Bear, He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss) (orig. The Crystals)
Grizzly Bear, Owner of a Lonely Heart (orig. Yes)
We’ll have a full set of stellar folk covers of Simon and Garfunkel songs soon enough. In the meanwhile, stay tuned for a post on the coverwork of folk punk artist Billy Bragg, yet another Single Song Sunday, and the third installment in our very popular (Re)Covered series, all in the next week or so.
855 comments » | Covered in Folk, Dan Rossen, Eva Cassidy, Grizzly Bear, Hot Chip, indiefolk, Jens Lekman, Julie Doiron, Paul Simon, Peter Bjorn and John, Peter Mulvey
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‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Trailer & Playable Game
Disney has released a trailer for their upcoming, classic video game inspired film, ‘Wreck-It Ralph’.
‘Wreck-It Ralph’ is an upcoming animated movie that is a love note to classic video games. Not only is the entire film centered around an arcade and classic games, but there are quite a few references and cameos by “real life” video game characters. I’d describe the movie as a mix of ‘Monster’s Inc.’ and Toy Story’. See it in action below.
The voice cast seems great and features the talent of John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, and Jane Lynch (among others). Try to count all the cameos and let us know who you find in the comments.
To ease the wait until the movie comes out, Disney has released a fully playable version of ‘Fix-It Felix Jr’.
‘Wreck-It Ralph’ comes to theaters on November 2nd.
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Christianity's demographics, vitality, and influence have tipped markedly toward the global South and East. Addressing this seismic shift, noted Christian literary scholar Susan VanZanten recounts how her focus has shifted from American to African literature, leading her to advocate for a global approach to education and scholarship. Reading a Different Story recounts her journey of reorientation, reflects on the challenges of being a Christian woman scholar, and shows how the rise of global Christianity necessitates changes in academic life.
The Turning South: Christian Scholars in an Age of World Christianity series offers reflections by eminent Christian scholars who have turned their attention and commitments toward the global South and East. In order to inspire and move the rising generation of Christian scholars in the Northern Hemisphere to engage the thought world and issues of the global South more vigorously, the series books highlight such reorientations and ask what the implications of "turning South" are for Christian thought and creativity in a variety of cultural fields.
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"This engaging intellectual autobiography is a rare treat for anyone pondering what it means to be a Christian scholar and teacher in the twenty-first century. It offers no vague generalizations. Rather, VanZanten has crafted clear-eyed, generous, and wise reflections on her journey into this vocation--from the intertwined blessings and challenges of her Dutch Reformed roots, through the liberating effects and pitfalls of collegiate and graduate study, to experience in an ecumenical range of Christian higher education. The dominant connecting theme is the value of learning to hear the voice of the 'other,' particularly those outside the North Atlantic context."
Randy L. Maddox, William Kellon Quick Professor of Wesleyan and Methodist Studies, Duke Divinity School
"In this beautifully written memoir, an exceptionally creative, courageous, and faithful scholar-teacher invites readers to join her on a journey that has led her to a truly global sense of both literature and Christianity. Encountering Susan VanZanten's expanding vision, we are challenged to broaden our own--and also given fresh resources that will help us to face that challenge. Along the way she also shares valuable reflections on gender, literary theory, and teaching. I highly recommend this book to those who teach in church-related colleges and universities."
Dorothy C. Bass, Valparaiso University
"Susan VanZanten's wonderful narrative tells how her dedication to teaching led her along unexpected paths: forging her own nuanced synthesis of feminist positions; creating her unique theory of faith and literature; engaging with global and especially African literatures to bring together her love of literature, her political commitments to justice and peace, and her Christian faith. Hers is the fascinating story of an indirect route to wisdom, deepening faith, and integration of mind and heart. It will be enlightening for young scholars being pressured to figure out too much too soon, and inspiring for established scholars who know they are still trying to do so."
Patrick H. Byrne, professor of philosophy, Boston College
"VanZanten offers a rich weave of memoir and theological reflection and makes a compelling argument for curricular globalization that is dialectical, deep, and humble. She shows how a life of scholarship is also an adventure rife with mystery and grace. All who teach or read literature and all who seek to understand what shalom has to do with story will want to read this thoughtful book more than once."
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"[VanZanten] recounts the intellectual and spiritual journey that led her to focus on African literature and advocate for an inclusive approach to education. . . . She argues for curricular globalization and the idea of Christian cosmopolitanism, the belief that all human beings share an identity as special creations of God. . . . Many--especially those who work in Christian higher education--will appreciate VanZanten's thorough exploration of what it means to be a Christian scholar-teacher."
"What is compelling about [VanZanten's] story is her discovery of postcolonial African literature, especially South African literature. Reading literature beyond the bounds of our own culture, she contends, is mandatory for Christians. She stakes out a position for 'Christian cosmopolitanism,' based on the premise that 'all human beings share an identity as special creations of God.'. . . Her suggestions of books by African authors will appeal to fiction readers."
"I recommend [this book] highly. . . . [It has] a thread of personal narrative interwoven with the larger story, and for some readers that will be particularly compelling."
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"This is a beautiful book. . . . While not a work of literary criticism, this well-written book nonetheless provides the reader with glimpses of a scholar's love of literature as it turned from American novelists Faulkner and Melville to African writers Gordimer, Coetzee, Achebe, and others. Readers unfamiliar with these works--American or African--are given just enough of a taste of VanZanten's appreciation for them to want to investigate them further. Theological seminaries, Christian colleges, and other educational institutions in the Global North still struggle to reconfigure their curricula to take into account the southward shift of world Christianity. VanZanten's intellectual autobiography provides a set of signposts for such reconfiguring. . . . Graduate students and younger faculty members at North American Christian colleges will find VanZanten's book especially helpful as a way of reflecting upon their own growth as scholars and teachers."
Benjamin L. Hartley,
International Bulletin of Missionary Research
"VanZanten is an apologist for 'Christian cosmopolitanism.' She wants believers' allegiances to transcend geopolitical borders. Specifically, she wants us to read widely and well in order to better love God and to love our neighbors, both near and far. While she specifically appeals to her colleagues in academia, the principle applies to the rest of us just as well. . . . VanZanten's account in Reading a Different Story is intensely personal; the specific contours of her life will vary drastically from yours and mine. . . . But for those of us who read regularly . . . Susan VanZanten's invitation to turn south in our literary interests is one we'd do well to heed."
Tim Høiland,
Englewood Review of Books
"It was with great pleasure that I read [this] memoir. . . . [VanZanten's] short (130 pages) and engagingly-written book would reward a person who might know that the world of religion and academics is changing rapidly, but who might feel a bit disoriented in locating oneself in a global culture that is being newly constructed on what Thomas Friedman has called 'a flat earth.' What Susan VanZanten leads us through, with scholarly precision and care for documentation, is this: we are encouraged to enlarge our places of origin--both spatially and psychically--and to make the acquaintance of new neighbors in our nearby-yet-global world. . . . She engages and enlarges our Christian worldviews to realize what we've known all our lives, but now know more deeply: that all humans are image bearers of God and are our brothers and sisters. . . . [A] delightful book."
Ronald A. Wells,
Historical Horizons blog (Calvin College History Department blog)
"A wonderful, slim book by literature professor Susan VanZanten who [writes] wonderfully about her coming to appreciate the stories of the developing world."
Byron Borger,
Hearts & Minds Books blog
"Honors to Baker Academic for this surprisingly thrilling, very informative series called 'Turning South: Christian Scholars in an Age of World Christianity.' . . . Reading a Different Story was particularly delightful for me. . . . This book is splendid, and a fun read for anyone interested in global travel or world missions. It is very important for those who teach, especially for college professors wanting to be current in efforts to be properly multicultural. Its great strength, though, is how it brings to us insights about African literature and other important writings from the postcolonial years in the global South."
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2017 | HopCulture - Waiting Three Hours in the Cold for a Single Beer
In Denver, it’s 32 degrees. To keep warm, I rub my hands together and stomp the sidewalk; despite my thick Carhartt socks, I feel like someone has driven a frozen nail through each of my big toes.
Arriving at 9:00 a.m. puts me at spot number 42. In order to claim the first spot, I would have needed to arrive at 2:00 a.m. like Jeffrey Cox, whose air mattress forms the boxy head to the snake of people wrapped around the city block that Black Project Brewery inhabits, three miles south of the Colorado State Capitol.
Cox, a stringy young man, hunches on an air mattress at the front of the line, his long blonde hair obscuring the fleece blankets wrapped around his shoulders. He wears a pair of John Lennon-style mirrored sunglasses and drinks from a plastic cup. Coffee, to keep him warm on a night with a low of 17 degrees? No. Beer. A rare release from Casey Brewing in Glenwood Springs, several hours west, where he’d spent the previous afternoon.
“I heard a bunch of my friends talking about it so I figured I’d come hop in line with them,” he said.
Only three more hours until Black Project Brewery opens.
I’ve flown from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Denver, Colorado, to stand in this line and buy two bottles of beer: Oxcart and Stargate: Peach Rye Whiskey, each $30. The former is a blend of one, two, and three-year-old barrel-aged beer. The latter is a spontaneously fermented beer aged in a wet Laws Whiskey House Secale Rye Barrel over Colorado-grown Cresthaven peaches.
Why stand on a line on a freezing Denver morning for two bottles of beer? Or rather, for the privilege of paying $60 for two bottles of beer? I have plenty of time to consider this question as I commiserate with the people around me, many of whom have brought folding chairs and blankets to help brave the line. Several of the people in line seem to know each other, despite being from different places. They’ve connected through friends, online communities, or at past beer-related events — they’re in an elite class of beer fanatic and they easily recognize their own. The talk is only about beer.
“For me, the big thing about beer in Denver is the culture,” says Jared Montgomery, who waits near me in the line. Although he’s from Chicago, he looks like the stereotypical Coloradan, and the stereotypical beer drinker: tall, rugged, warm. “Beer is something you can build community around.”
It all sounds nice, but can’t you meet pleasant people and build community without standing in the cold? Visit a climbing gym, go swing dancing, or, if you’re less active, become a regular at a bar. So again: Why stand on a line in the freezing Denver morning for two bottles of beer?
Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales, South Broadway, Denver, CO
In order to find an answer, it helps to understand a little bit more about the brewery. Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales is the creation of husband-and-wife team James and Sarah Howat. Sarah wears a septum ring and bangs; her husband sports a thick beard and looks like he just walked down from Pikes Peak with an axe over his shoulder. The only other principal in Black Project is Otter, the jet-black brewery cat, who has his own Instagram: @otterthebrewerycat.
Sarah, who was born and raised in Colorado Springs, got a degree in marketing at Metropolitan State University in Denver and wanted to open her own business. She met James — a Chicago-native and graduate of Colorado State University — at a nightclub, and the two got married. James, who holds a degree in microbiology and natural sciences education, taught high school science and homebrewed in his free time.
“We fell in love with beer together,” Sarah says. “I think the first time we tasted New Belgium’s La Folie, we knew we wanted to open a brewery.”
After five years as a teacher, James quit his job, and Sarah abandoned the last year of her graduate counseling program so that the two could open a brewery. In July 2013, James and Sarah signed the lease on a space that became Former Future, a neighborhood taproom known for its “clean” beer — mostly light, refreshing, single-strain lagers. At the same time, they started aging sour beer in barrels. This was an investment in the future: unlike IPAs or porters, which take only a few weeks to brew, barrel-aged sours need anywhere from several months to several years to mature.
In 2014, their golden ale, Flyby, won a medal in the Wild Ale category at the Great American Beer Festival; in 2015, they won a second medal in the same category for a dark sour aged on cherries called Ramjet.
“For me, it was probably after the second medal that I thought we should start dedicating everything to Black Project,” James says. Former Future faded; Black Project took off.
At the time, it may have been a harrowing decision to put all of their energy into a side project, though now it seems like the right move. With the recent explosion of breweries across the country, it’s hard for breweries to stay competitive. This is especially true in Denver, where breweries combine to make over 200 unique beers every day. As a result, many breweries in Denver specialize: aptly named Grandma’s House on Broadway is “styled to look like your grandma’s house,” and Ratio Beerworks, founded by two punk musicians, hosts live concerts on their brewing floor. Beryl’s Beer Company barrel ages many of their small batch creations and Black Shirt focuses almost exclusively on red ales.
Black Project belongs to a small minority of American brewers specializing in spontaneous wild ales, which means that they don’t ferment their beer with packaged yeasts, or even cultured yeasts, but with wild bacteria and yeasts floating through the air. This is the primary way in which the process for making spontaneous beers differs from that of other styles. After making wort — unfermented beer — more typical brewers cool their beer in a sterile environment and add packaged or cultured yeast strains, which ferment the beer. Contrariwise, brewers of spontaneous ales pump the wort into open-air steel containers called koelschips, where it sits overnight, becoming “infected” with floating bacteria and yeast. Because brewers simply leave their koelschips open to the elements, they don’t know what type of microbes they’ll attract.
“Any place is going to have its own uniqueness,” James says, equating spontaneous beer to the wine concept of terroir, in which the same grapes grown perhaps a few hundred feet apart might have different characteristics. The microbes floating in the air around a brewery in Belgium might impart grassy or barnyard notes, while the ones above the Black Project brewery in Denver tend to bestow the final product with stone fruit flavors like peach and apricot. Other American breweries working with spontaneous ales include Allagash in Portland, Maine, Jester King in Austin, Texas, Russian River in Sonoma, California, and Crooked Stave, just up the road from Black Project in Denver. Smaller breweries that only produce spontaneously fermented sour beer form an even more exclusive club, members of which include De Garde in Tillamook, Oregon, OEC in Oxford, Connecticut, and The Ale Apothecary in Bend, Oregon.
The labor- and time-intensive processes required to make spontaneously fermented beer means that in three years, Black Project has only put out about 200 barrels. By contrast, Boston Beer Co. — which brews Sam Adams — shipped nearly double that number of barrels in the first quarter of 2016, on average, every hour.
“We dump almost twenty percent of all the beer that we brew,” James says. “If you’re not willing to do that, you won’t make good beer.”
An hour and a half before the doors open, the brewery’s social media manager comes around with a steaming pot of coffee and doles out “Chicago pours” — a term used in beer circles to describe the quarter- or half-cups that breweries often pour for customers waiting in line for a ticket or bottle release. Not long after, Sarah comes around with two rolls of tickets — one red, one blue — and begins handing them out to the first hundred people in line. With tickets in hand, I can breathe more easily, because I’m guaranteed two bottles.
As I near the door, I hear the pop of carbonation, and a cheer goes up from inside the tasting room. I stand on tiptoes to get a look inside and see beer dripping from the ceiling, perhaps fifteen feet overhead. Stargate is over-carbonated. Word travels down the line: Black Project will only sell Oxcart until they can diagnose the problem, which might take several days to a week. The reward for three hours in line dwindles to a single bottle.
Holy fucking shit.
Surprisingly, no one seems particularly upset. Black Project’s willingness to put the beer into the hands of nature is, for better or for worse, the reason they’re here. When someone buys a Black Project beer, they’re not simply buying the liquid, but investing in American ingenuity and experimentation. Even as a failed batch drips over the heads of fans packed into the taproom, spirits remain high. If a dependable, consistent pale ale is the workhorse of the craft beer revolution, then the spontaneous ale is the performance art. Not an easy thing to bottle, but well worth the price of admission. -HopCulture
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Room Service: The Oberoi, Dubai
By Rebecca Gonsalves http://www.independent.co.uk
While waiting to go through passport control at Dubai airport, a sign informed me that as little as 20 years ago there was only one skyscraper amid the desert here. Since then this arid, inhospitable landscape has grown into a major business hub and has created a luxurious service industry to cater for the wealth it attracts.
Once through customs, I was greeted by a man in full morning suit who directed me to a BMW waiting to transfer me to The Oberoi. As I availed myself of Wi-Fi and bottled water, there was barely time to relax before we had pulled up to the entrance of Dubai’s latest luxury address.
As is common in Dubai, the high-rise hotel is accompanied by a twin building, a business centre that houses offices, meeting rooms and shops. Both structures rise out of an oasis of lush green before curving out towards the top, creating an impressive landmark. With 252 rooms, The Oberoi is – by Dubai standards – a “boutique” hotel. It is the latest offering from the chain founded in India 80 years ago and as such influences from the subcontinent abound, from lithographs of historic places to original works of art by Mrinmoy Barua. In the split-level lobby, high ceilings, leather seating areas and a huge crystal chandelier convey a modern aesthetic.
The ground floor also accommodates three restaurants, offering Indian, Asian and Western cuisine. The hotel only opened six months prior to my stay, which perhaps accounted for the quiet dining rooms in the evenings – a shame, as the food was exceptional, including a Chinese-style chicken and sweetcorn soup at Umai. Up on the 27th floor, a rooftop bar, Iris, is the place to go for cocktails with a view of the Burj Khalifa – the tallest building in the world.
A well-equipped spa offers traditional Asian massages including Balinese, Thai and Ayurvedic rituals. Outside, an infinity pool is framed by loungers, to which an attendant will bring a wooden tray bearing bottled water and sun lotion. Service throughout the hotel is attentive, almost to a fault. More peculiar, though, was the experience of reclining on a lounger as cranes and machinery toiled away on the construction of a neighbouring skyscraper – the transformation of this city continues apace.
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The Official Scorecard - UFC VI - Clash of the Titans
At UFC VI Oleg Taktarov took home the tournament win in an epic final match and Ken Shamrock defeated Dan Severn to win the UFC Superfight Championship, a title that would eventually become the UFC Heavyweight Title, but the legacy of UFC VI is that it was the Tank Abbott show. If UFC VI was nothing else, it was the night that the legend of Tank Abbott was born.
“Tank” Abbott (0-0) vs. John Matua (0-0)
If you’d told the crowd in Casper, Wyoming that D. L. “Tank” Abbott, as announced by Michael Buffer, would end his career with a lousy 10-14 record, you’d be mocked the same way Tank mocked Matua after this twenty second fight stopped. In the fifteen years of fights since this event, this is still one of the most brutal KOs the UFC has ever seen. Matua, billed as six foot two and 400 pounds, was representing Hawaiian Bone Breaking as his martial art. I’ll believe the six foot two, but you can keep the 400lbs. and the bone-breaking. But hey, hype is hype, yes?
The fight starts, the two bulls rush each other, Tank lands some bombs, Matua smacks the canvas with the back of his skull, and Tank takes a free shot.
Tank Abbott wins via KO – Round 1, 0:20
Fight Score: 8 out of 10
Paul Varleans (0-0) vs. Cal Worsham (0-0)
Worsham entered the fight as a Tae Kwon Do blackbelt, while Varleans was a Trapfighter, an unknown art claimed to be an ambiguous hybrid style. This was a minute long rock ‘em, sock ‘em brawl with Worsham getting the better of the initial exchanges until Varleans made good use of his ten inch height advantage and dropped an elbow to the back of Worsham’s head, sending the scrappy Tae Kwon Do fighter face first into mat, ending this brawl and setting up a match with Abbott in the next round.
Paul Varleans wins via KO – Round 1, 1:02
Pat Smith (3-3) vs. Rudyard Moncayo (0-0)
After making it to the finals in UFC II, and a stop in K-1, Pat Smith returned to the Octagon for another shot at winning the tournament. Smith welcomed his opponent, Moncayo, a Kenpo stylist, to the UFC by sprinting across the cage and blasting him with a running front kick that gave Moncayo a fleeting moment of air time. Smith showed an quickly evolving MMA game by working for a standing guillotine, taking the full mount, and the ending the fight with a rear naked choke. It’s too bad that this marked Smith’s final fight in the UFC. Wait, you’re saying, he won, so he moves on to the next round. It’s been fifteen years, so I don’t mind throwing out a spoiler: Smith dropped out instead of facing Taktarov.
Pat Smith wins via submission (Rear Naked Choke) - Round 1, 1:08
Oleg Taktarov (3-1) vs. Dave Beneteau (2-1)
At UFC V, Dan Severn defeated both Taktarov and Beneteau en route to his tournament win. Going in, you had to suspect that the winner of this fight between the two grapplers, Sambo and Wrestling/Judo, respectively, was most likely going to be the tournament winner. Beneteau landed some good punches against the fence on Oleg, who made it through the storm long enough to catch Beneteau in a guillotine at just under the minute .
Oleg Taktarov wins via submission (Guillotine Choke) – Round 1, 0:57
“Tank” Abbott (1-0) vs. Paul Varleans (1-0)
Varleans kept it real in this fight by wearing the same black shirt that was torn in his earlier fight with Worsham. Mid 90s, grunge was the rage, who am I to critique a man’s fashion? Tank had been a professional for less than a minute and the crowd was already chanting his name heading into this fight. Tank landed a right hand to start and pressed Varleans against the fence with a takedown. Now, when I say “pressed,” I mean Tank was actually trying to grind Varleans face into the chain link. Ever the showman, Tank looked up and smiled to what had become his crowd.
If there was a theme to UFC VI, it was that Tank reminded everyone that someone could get seriously hurt in there. Five UFCs were in the record books, and there was a sense that some of the danger of that first event, the unknown, the potential that someone could get killed had subsided a bit, but Tank was a reminder that indeed, we were still in the wild west.
Tank Abbott wins via TKO – Round 1, 1:53
Fight Score: 7.5 out of 10
Oleg Taktarov (5-1) vs. Anthony Macias (1-1)
This was supposed to be Pat Smith vs. Taktarov, but Smith succumbed to stomach pains backstage. Yeah, I don’t buy it either. Joel Sutton was to be the first alternate to step in, but was unable to continue after his prelim match, so the task fell to Anthony Macias, who was victorious in the second prelim bout of the evening. Now here’s where things get, let’s say, hmmm, dicey.
You see, Macias and Taktarov trained together with the Lion’s Den, and while Macias was a Muay Thai fighter, he immediately shot in for a single leg on Oleg, who was the much more well-versed submission fighter. Keep in mind that Taktarov would later say that winning this tournament would mean that he could stay in the US and bring his family over here, and while I’m not saying his training partner gave him a free pass to the finals, I’m also not scoring this fight very high at all.
Oleg Taktarov wins via submission (Guillotine) – Round 1, :09
Fight Grade: 2 out of 10
Ken Shamrock (17-4-1) vs. Dan Severn (5-1)
Superfight Championship
This was a superfight between the two biggest names in the UFC following the departure of Royce Gracie after his draw with Shamrock at UFC V. Severn was coming in hot on the heels of winning the tournament at UFC V, and Shamrock had amassed a wealth of experience fighting in Japan in Pancrase. The winner of this fight would be declared the first “Superfight” Champion, and would defend the title against the winner of Taktarov vs. Tank.
In just over two minutes, Shamrock sunk in a guillotine (a theme for the night) and finally won the “big” fight in the UFC after his draw with Gracie, a draw which Ken would have won if judges were utilized, to become essentially the first UFC heavyweight champion.
Ken Shamrock win via submission (Guillotine Choke) Round 1, 2:14
Fight Score: 6 out of 10 – Sorry, I know it was a title fight, but Severn fights never do it for me.
Oleg Taktarov (6-1) David Abbott (2-0)
UFC VI Tournament Final
It was East vs. West. It was Rocky IV for a new generation. The Cold War continued on in this fight… Okay, it wasn’t really any of those, but it was USA vs. Russia for all the marbles in a fantastic match that amazingly went on for nearly eighteen minutes. After two rounds of quick KOs and submissions, it looked like Tank was on his way to another quick win, but Taktarov took Tank’s best and kept working for that submission when everyone in the building knew that Tank was one punch away from the win. The longer the fight went on, the longer it was clear that Oleg was in this fight as much as Tank was.
After a grueling battle, where they were fighting the altitude as much as one another, Oleg took advantage of a gassed and prone Tank and took the win with a rear naked choke. Neither fighter could get off the mat after it was over though Tank was able to get to his feet first and walked out of the cage before Oleg, who needed oxygen and had to be held up by his corner as he was announced the winner.
Oleg Taktarov wins via submission (Rear Naked Choke) – Round 1, 17:45
Fight Score: 10 out of 10
Total: 53.5 out of 80
Average Fight Score: 6.68
Certainly, the Taktarov vs. Macias fight hurt the overall score, but with Tank’s debut, the crowning of the first Superfight Champion in Shamrock, and Oleg Taktarov winning the tournament in the great final fight, UFC VI falls into the must own category. Get this DVD if you don’t have it already!
It’s unfair to compare these older events to modern MMA shows, but I’ll stand by a grade of “A” for this event.
65% and above = A
60-65% = B
55-60% = C
50-55% = D
Under 50% = F
Note: The first prelim bouts pitting Joel Sutton vs. Jack McGlaughlin and Anthony Macias vs. He-Man Ali Gipson (a 10 for the name alone) were not shown, nor were they scored here.
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Kangana Ranaut and Vikas Bahl, who had teamed up for the impressive Queen, are reportedly planning to come together once again for a film, in which Kangana will play the role of a stylish chef.
“Kangana and Vikas have already had a few detailed discussions about the movie, especially after the release of Shaandaar. They are keeping the details of the film under wraps, but one thing that has been finalised is that Kangana will play a stylish chef in it,” says an insider.
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There is no official announcement made about the project, but it seems that the project will apparently go on floors next year.
Kangana is currently preparing for Vishal Bhardwaj’s Rangoon, which also stars Shahid Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan, and it's gonna hit the screens on October 2, 2016.
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Bloodborne Hands-On Preview
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FROMSOFTWARE have become synonymous with creating difficult, trial-and-error style action RPG’s. From King’s Field to Demon’s Souls, then Dark Souls and Dark Souls II, they have proven to be masters of the genre. Now the team is stepping it up again for the PS4 exclusive Bloodborne. Firstly the elephant in the room: Bloodborne isn’t Dark Souls, but the two games share a lot of similarities.
Instead of the Souls series’ use of medieval and fantasy locations and monsters, Bloodborne goes for the more gothic horror route. Your character and the enemies that they come up against look like they are from a puritan witch-hunter’s nightmare and it looks awesome! Decaying dogs, hollowed townspeople, and monstrous, grounded crows are just a sampling of the types of enemies that players will get to face.
While Bloodborne handles similarly to Dark Souls, it is a very different experience. While Dark Souls focused on defensive combat, hiding behind your shield and waiting for the perfect time to strike down an enemy, Bloodborne goes a different route. None of the characters available in the demo had a shield, so playing defensively is immediately off the table. Instead, you have to take on a more aggressive strategy to slay your enemies. Enemies are also more densely placed than in the Souls games, so you will often be facing upwards of five monstrous beasts at one time.
The Victorian setting also allows for one other major departure from the Souls franchise in the form of firearms. All of the demo characters came equipped with a small rifle in their left hand. While the gun itself wasn’t too powerful, it can stagger an entire group of enemies at once, allowing for you to get up close and personal with your sword strikes. Players will pick up ammunition for their gun from defeated enemies or through pick-ups scattered through the world, though it does feel like the ammunition will be a semi-scarce resource so that players don’t just go all Rambo through the game.
One of the cool new gameplay mechanics that FROM have introduced is the ability for some weapons to transform. One character is equipped with a straight-sword for quick strikes, but with a simple flick of L1 he attaches it to the stone he is carrying on his back and it becomes a massive hammer that while slower, is capable of performing devastating blows. Another character was equipped with twin blades, but could alternate between single and double with the same press of L1. Switching to single gave them access to their gun, while double blades were faster and dealt a lot more damage. The ability to switch up your play style on the fly really feeds into the whole faster pace that Bloodborne is introducing, and if executed properly may very well be one of its strongest facets.
FROMSOFTWARE have always managed to make the most out of the hardware they are building for, and Bloodborne is no different. Even though I only played a small alpha build, the game looked stunning. Everything from the character models to the lighting and particle effects really showed what developers can do with the new hardware. One of the things tha I noticed immediately is that one of the playable characters was wearing a coat that looked like it was made of raven’s feathers. As I ran around as this character, I saw that each of the feathers was individually animated and was moving on their own as the character walked or attacked. The attention to detail is staggering and I can’t wait to see what else the developers have in store for us.
The Souls franchise has gained many followers all over the world, with multiple wiki’s created to help players through the game and a bustling online community. Even 2009’s Demon’s Souls still has a strong online community, that looks like it will never slow down. Bloodborne is a bit of a departure from the norms of the series, but it still feels like the next evolution in what those games are trying to achieve. As someone who has played the Souls games extensively, I felt right at home. The controls were familiar and almost identical to their predecessors, yet the entire package felt fresh and new. The new fast pace, aggressive gameplay style really suits this new world and I can say that after running through the demo twice, I am fairly certain that on February 6th, Bloodborne will be the game that finally convinces me to buy a PS4.
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Jolting the brain fights deep depression
Delivering electrical jolt deep in brain found to help depression, researchers say
Implanted electrodes emit impulses of electrical stimulation into brain
Expert: "We are regulating the abnormal signals to brain causing the depression"
Treatment is only for severe depression that hasn't responded to other therapies
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By Amy Burkholder
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Imagine what a pacemaker does to your heart: Its electrical impulses regulate a heartbeat that's out of whack.
In deep brain stimulation for depression, tiny electrodes are implanted into a specific node of the cerebral cortex.
Now picture a pacemaker-type device that jolts the brain and regulates mood circuits, potentially easing deep depression no other treatments can touch.
In what some are hailing as a brave new use of existing technology, researchers presented evidence this week at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons' annual scientific meeting that deep brain stimulation does just that, improving both severe depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder, a frequent companion disorder.
"Depression is a physiological disorder, and basically we are regulating the abnormal signals to brain causing the depression," says Dr. Ali Rezai, director of the Center for Neurological Restoration at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Rezai conducted the research along with scientists from Butler Hospital/Brown Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Researchers used deep brain stimulation on 17 severely depressed patients. Those treated with deep brain stimulation had a 50 percent decrease in depressive symptoms after 12 months. Patients also reported a better ability to function, improved short-term memory and improved quality of life. Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains how deep brain stimulation works »
Deep brain stimulation for psychiatric patients involves neurosurgeons implanting the device and psychiatrists adjusting the charge.
Surgeons place tiny implantable electrodes into a specific node of the cerebral cortex that is believed to be malfunctioning. The cerebral cortex, sometimes referred to as the "gray matter," governs information from the senses and movement, and regulates thought and mental activity.
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From the cerebral cortex, wires are tunneled behind the ear into the chest, where there's a power source for the electrodes that emit electrical impulses into the brain. Scientists theorize this stimulation blocks the abnormal brainwave activity, easing the obsessions, moods and depressive symptoms associated with these psychiatric disorders.
Researchers stress that this is not an option for people who are mildly or occasionally depressed but rather for people suffering from major depression and for whom all other methods -- including psychotherapy, drug therapy and electroconvulsive therapy -- have failed. Researchers say it could ultimately prove life-saving for this population: The suicide rate among people with major depression runs as high as 15 percent.
"This research substantiates earlier findings which indicate DBS holds promise and hope for select patients suffering from severe and treatment-resistant major depression, Rezai said. "I feel that as we learn more about this rather new technology, efficacy will continue to improve."
According to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, deep brain stimulation has been used in the past two decades to treat Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and other tremor and pain disorders, with more than 35,000 deep brain stimulation implants worldwide. Potentially using it for depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder is just one example of expanding off-label use.
The idea of using an electrical jolt to shock away depression isn't new. Doctors have been using electroconvulsive therapy, in which a brief electric stimulus is used to produce a seizure, for decades. Rezai insists that this treatment is much more selective than electroconvulsive therapy, does not produce seizures and does not have the same cognitive and memory side effects.
"In this group of patients, we saw no major side effects," Rezai said, although deep brain stimulation can be associated with brain hemorrhage, and a there's a small risk of leakage of cerebrospinal fluid.
MayoClinic.com: Deep brain stimulation for depression
Even surgeons who are very conservative in advocating surgery for psychiatric disorders think deep brain stimulation could be a promising treatment for not only severe depression but a range of disorders.
"This sort of study opens the door to applying DBS to all sorts of psychiatric conditions, even eventually Alzheimer's disease and morbid obesity," said Dr. Michael Schulder, spokesman for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and president of the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. He stressed that all studies on patients with psychiatric disorders need to be conducted carefully and with proper scientific rationale.
Researchers concede that using the brain pacemaker, manufactured by Medtronic Inc., to treat severely depressed patients is still years away. A clinical trial is being launched this year, and studies may be ongoing at least for the next four. Other companies, including St. Jude Medical Inc. and Cyberonics Inc., are also testing the technology, which they hope will treat the estimated 4 million adult Americans who live with severe depression, unresponsive to conventional treatments.
Researchers are energized by the treatment's long-range prospects. Said Rezai, "It is very promising news for the many suffering patients and their family members that have virtually given up hope."
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The Religious Affiliation of
Manfred Haller
Religion: demonolatry
Name: Behemoth
Alter Ego: Manfred Haller
Other Names: Man-Elephant; Manfred Ellsworth Haller; Man Elephant; Manfred Heller
Classification: villain
Publisher(s):
First Appearance: The Savage She-Hulk #17 (June 1981): "Make Way For the Man-Elephant"
First Appearance (Additional Details): (as Behemoth) She-Hulk (vol. 2) #25 (Mar. 2008): "Beasts of the Field"
Creators: David Anthony Kraft, Mike Vosburg, Frank Springer
Super? (Has Super Powers/Special Abilities/Technology): Yes
Number of Appearances: 18
Enemy of: She-Hulk, Lady Liberators, The Tuareg
Employer: Haller Hydraulics
Occupation: business owner, engineer, philanthropist
Nation: USA
Note: first wore armor; then empowered by Cyttorak
This character is in the following 5 stories which have been indexed by this website:
Civil War: Battle Damage Report #1 (Mar. 2007)
Essential Savage She-Hulk (July 2006): "Make Way For the Man-Elephant"
The Savage She-Hulk #17 (June 1981): "Make Way For the Man-Elephant"
She-Hulk (vol. 2) #25 (Mar. 2008): "Beasts of the Field" (lead character)
She-Hulk Vol. 6: Jaded (Aug. 2008): "Beasts of the Field" (lead character)
Suggested links for further research about this character and the character's religious affiliation:
- http://www.comicvine.com/behemoth/29-12626/
- http://marvel.wikia.com/Manfred_Haller_(Earth-616)
- http://comicbookdb.com/character.php?ID=3481
- http://comicbookdb.com/character.php?ID=29454
- http://www.marvunapp.com/master/manamanj.htm
- http://www.marvunapp.com/master/befbep.htm
- http://www.marvunapp.com/master/haahal.htm
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Classic Game Themes: Arcania - Gothic 4
November 08, 2015 / Roger Edwards
Dynamedion are an award winning company and team of composers based in Germany. They specialize in soundtracks and game compositions, usually in the orchestral form. Over the years they have produced both musical scores and ambient sound designs for such titles as Ryse: Son of Rome, The Elder Scrolls Online and the Gothic series. Tilman Sillescu is both the co-founder of Dynamedion, as well as a prodigious composer in his own right. He previously taught at Mainz University. As Lead Composer and Creative Director at Dynamedion GbR, he has scored many exciting video game projects as well as writing and producing music for movie trailers, television and libraries.
The score for Arcania: Gothic 4 contains both ambient and thematic tracks which enrich the gameplay and overall atmosphere. The cue I have chosen plays over the games end credits and is listed on the games soundtrack CD as "credits song". It is an initially sombre piece that grows in power ending in a triumphant crescendo of brass. The vocalisation adds a semi-religious quality to the track and overall feels somewhat like a requiem. This particular music cue was written by Tilman Sillescu himself and is indicative of the level of quality that Dynamedion produce.
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My Top 10 Highlights of 2015
2015 could be summed up in just three short words: WHAT A YEAR!
From sitting in with heroes, to new albums, to attendance breaking festivals, to opening for several notable acts, breaking some personal records, to ALL the driving; it's been a big one.
Here are my ten favorite moments:
10. TANQUERAY'S -- ALL YEAR
I could make a list of my top 10 Tanqueray's shows, but decided to group them all together for writing's sake. Whether it be every Thursday with Leisure Chief, the occasional Sunday with Ancient Sun, other nights with Control This, Holey Miss Moley, or Evan Taylor Jones, or sitting with The Groove Orient, Beebs and a laundry list of others; Tanqueray's has provided a plethora of special moments this year! It is easily the venue I performed at the most this year (67 times to be exact) and is a gem in the midst of a chaotic downtown Orlando. From sharing the stage with local heroes, to welcoming excellent out of town acts such as Naughty Professor, Loose Willis, Serotonic, etc., debuting new instruments, or jamming with the drummer of Motörhead (that happened!), there are just too many to list.
Thanks to Dan for providing one of the few true outlets for original music in Orlando and to Jereme, Dave, John, Heath, Brad, Scott, Jenni, Crystal for always taking care of the musicians and patrons.
9. ANCIENT SUN'S ALBUM RELEASE @ HOUSE OF BLUES ORLANDO + (SITTING IN WITH CAPTAIN GREEN @ TANQUERAYS) -- 3/20
I've sat in with a lot of bands over the past few years and am often mistaken for being a part of said band (TGO and BAHMM, to name a couple). However, there is one group that teeters the line and that is Ancient Sun. I've played 5th Beatle with these guys for a couple years and it's always a pleasure to share the stage. They are some of my best friends and I've happily been a part of several notable occasions in their history. When they joyously completed their Kickstarter to fund their debut album "In The Fold", and were asked to be a part Dropa Stone's EP party at the House of Blues, it was time to unveil this thing on the big stage.
After recording on a majority of album and doing numerous shows, we were poised for the moment and brought the house down. We played the album top to bottom and the crowd was nuts. I've never signed as many things as I did after that night, and I was glad to be a part of Ancient Sun's milestone. Props to funkUs for having jam on their closing set that followed.
BONUS: We went to Tanqueray's after the show ended for some after party festivities with The Groove Orient and Captain Green. Captain Green is one of my favorite touring acts period and I've had the pleasure of hosting them at Red Lion, in addition to sharing the stage at other venues during the Florida stints. I brought my horn into a packed house and was immediately invited to play. I had been listening to their recent CD and it payed off in trying to stay afloat with their crazy (in a good way) arrangements. Perfect cap to an already great night, culminating to one of my top highlights of 2015!
8. ON THE COME UP w/ LEISURE CHIEF @ THE SOCIAL -- 8/27
Over the 1st half of the year, Leisure Chief started tapping into Orlando's hip hop community. At Tanqueray's we often feature many of O-Town's top emcees on the mic including E-Turn, B True, Swamburger of Solillaquists of Sound and our 9th member, Damez. We opened up for the only and only E-Turn in June for her album when afterword, Swam approached us with a new idea for the Orlando music scene. His show format would be called ON THE COME UP and would feature one main local act and promote/treat them like the touring headliner they will eventually become and build a stacked lineup of heavy hitters in other circuits all in efforts to build hype for the local band scene. We were the first band on his list and were honored to take part!
This show was extra special as it marked the debut of Leisure Chief's full band with horns and percussion. For years we had wanted a horn section to complete the sound of the band as I can only do so much myself, and we found the perfect fit with Gabe Carson (tenor sax) and Paul Chong-You (trumpet). Add in local legend Ito Colon of Shak Nasti and Con Leche, and a real force was born!
Table For Three was as solid of an opener we could have wanted and playing with our soul brothers in Fat Night is always a treat. After SKIP's return to the stage, we closed out the show with a bang!
ON THE COME UP is to date our most successful local show attendance and numbers wise, and we are thankful to have started the trend!
7. CHARLES NEVILLE w/ GENT TREADLY @ RED LION PUB -- 10/24
This picture says it all, (Thanks Arielle)! To have been able to host and play alongside a legend of New Orleans was truly special. If you do not know Charles Neville, he is the 2nd eldest brother and saxophonist of the famous family known as the Neville Brothers. That's Art Neville who is founder/keyboardist of The Meters, Platinum R&B recording artist Aaron Neville, Cyril Neville who is the percussionist and vocalist of The Meters and Charles who has toured with the likes of James Brown, B.B. King, Ray Charles and Dr. John.
When I was first approached by Gent Treadly's management to book this show, I seriously thought it was a joke. A Neville at Red Lion? Lo and behold, it was true and I brought my alto and flute hoping to sit in on a tune. To my surprise, Charles presented a very down earth and humble demeanor and we talked about music and life for roughly an hour before the show (see picture above). After genuinely getting to know him, he invited for a couple tunes on the first set and then the entire 2nd set after that.
Saying it was pretty cool wouldn't be giving it justice, but this moment was most definitely a highlight of the year.
6. THE LION'S DEN GRAND OPENING - 4/10
For those who don't know, my family owns Red Lion Pub in Winter Park, FL. I tend to keep my booking/family duties off my site as they are separate entities. However this year marked a huge step for their business and my musical agenda. We leased out the adjacent room next door and decided to bring a new music venue to the greater Orlando area building an intimate stage hall known as The Lion's Den. I was asked to take the reigns as the booker and coordinator of the events and had no idea what would transpire nor what to expect. Since April of this year we have had a roller coaster of moments in trying to create a new scene. This show on April 10th marked the official start of it and my venture as a venue manager.
I brought forth 3 of Orlando's brightest up and coming bands in The Groove Orient and my own groups Holey Miss Moley and Leisure Chief, combined with the two main DJ's of the underground movement known as BODY//TALK in VSN QST & GRÜV to bring the heat. We crammed nearly 200 people into Red Lion and it went as well as I could have hoped, setting a mark on the FL scene and to myself and my family's relief, that this new endeavor was possible.
5. GREAT OUTDOORS ARTIST AT GIGANTIC! -- 7/3 - 7/5
When Kenny Blair asked me to be an Artist at Large after Gov-Fest in February, I told him that I would set a new personal record for sit-ins come July. Until that point, the most I had was at Bamboo Jamboo in 2014 with 13 total sets, whether with a group of my own or being invited to the stage. The goal I spread around would be 20 sets for the weekend and with 33 bands on the list, and already having a commitment during for Thursday night of the festival, I had my work cut out for me! Fast forward to July 4th weekend and I was ready to strike horns blazing.
After the weekend was said and done, in addition to sets with Leisure Chief and Holey Miss Moley (rain delayed to a 3am start!): I took the stage with Jahman Brahman, Cope, Squeedlepuss, Flat Land, S.P.O.R.E., Savi Fernandez Band, Displace, Row Jomah, Unlimited Devotion, Endless Flow, Legacy Orchestra Collective, The Happy Campers, Post Pluto, Wild Root Music, Sarasota Steel Pan Band, Dem Lil Econ Boyz, Este Loves, Jimmy Rector, and Black Peters. This amounted to 21 total sets in 3 days, just outdoing what I set to accomplish. I could write an entire post all those experiences alone.
To this day, I still have encounters of fans after shows floored by how much they saw me on stage that weekend. It flew by so quick, I'm not even sure how it all happened. But it did, and that marked a tremendous highlight for me.
4. SEROTONIC OPENING FOR THE MOTET @ STATE THEATER -- 8/20
Let me start by saying this: Serotonic is my favorite active band in Florida. I first saw them at Orange Blossom Jamboree 2 years ago after they were the contest winner to perform at the festival, and they blew me away! Individually, they were all stellar and their music captured the vibe of some of my favorite groups like Soulive and Snarky Puppy. Since that time, I've become good friends with them and have always had the utmost respect for them. With that all being said, when I was asked by my good friends to fill in for Jon Tucker on saxophone for this big show, I was honored!
After a couple stints in the saxophone chair just prior (Tanqueray's in Orlando and Ringside Cafe w/ Leisure Chief and Row Jomah), simply learning their tunes off Youtube, I was excited to get a solid rehearsal in and be put to the true test. Fast forward to the night of, we were ready and the show was packed. Also joining us was drummer/percussion extraordinaire Adam Volpe, who is another stellar musician in the funk/jazz circuit to complete the sound.
Simply put, it went off and I had one of my personal best performances to date! With all these factors combined, this show was easily one of my favorites of the year.
3. SUWANNEE HULAWEEN -- 10/29 - 11/1
By far one of the best stretches of 2015 was Suwannee Hulaween. Spirit of Suwannee Music Park is hands down my favorite place to play music. Big event or small, every experience is nothing short of beautiful. Bear Creek in 2011 was my first ever musical festival and in short, it changed my life forever. This year I was able to perform there on 5 different opportunities and this marked the biggest one yet. Not only did I have the pleasure of kicking off the festival with Leisure Chief and winding down Sunday with Holey Miss Moley, but it was also the extra performances that made Halloween weekend one to remember forever. I also had the pleasure of sitting in with Beebs and Her Money Makers, Come Back Alice and The Groove Orient in additional to some epic late night jam sessions.
Each night with the Leisure Chief crew, we set up guerrilla jams at our camp as soon as the stage music discontinued to packed audiences. Thursday we brought a hip hop set with Damez, Friday Con Leche took the reigns and then Saturday was absolutely off the chain! We performed a NASTI CHIEF jam with us and the one and only Shak Nasti that brought some serious thunder and one of my all-time favorite moments. It was nearly 4am in the morning (with Daylight Savings losing another hour mind you), and we were at the peak. Just at that moment we were joined by none other than Nick Casserino from The Nth Power (pictured above). To play with someone of that magnitude (my love for Nth Power is well known) with the cast of musicians on stage on my favorite Shak tune was absolutely surreal for me. Add in many of my musician compatriots from other bands in the audience from Orlando, Tampa Bay, Jacksonville and beyond witnessing this occurrence?
It felt so rewarding to have taken full advantage of what became Spirit of Suwannee's biggest event ever! I didn't even mention the great music I got to see/hear myself throughout the weekend, which alone was wonderful. If you have never been to SOS Music Park, do yourself a favor and go!
2. MY SOULQUARIAN REVUE @ LITTLE ECON LOVE FEST -- 3/28
It's still hard to believe this happened in the same year. What transpired at Little Econ this past March was one of the best moments of music career. When Trey Miller approached me on having my own set at the 2nd Little Econ Love Fest, I wanted to put on a show that no one had ever seen before. Immediately I thought of the all-star sets I have seen at Bear Creek over the years and wanted to do something like that but on a central Florida scale. But how and what would we play?
Here is where my revue concept was born and I thought of bringing together musicians from all the various groups I've performed with and encountered on the Florida festival circuit since I started on the scene. That still left the question of what would we play? Many who know me, know well my passion for jazz, funk and groove music. I could have went a predictable route but then I thought of my all influences and decided to take a left turn.
Until I amassed this project together, not many knew my love for hip-hop. More specifically the neo-soul, east coast hip hop era known as the Soulquarian movement at Electric Lady Studios in NYC. This collective featured D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, The Roots, Common, J Dilla, Mos Def, Q-Tip, Talib Kweli, Jill Scott, and others that launched a new breed of groove and soul that have directly and indirectly influenced a ton of artists today from all over the world. Before I discovered this music, I was admittedly dismissive of hip hop when I was younger, only knowing the "rap" on the radio. My whole perspective changed after I heard Common's Like Water For Chocolate, followed up with Badu's Mama's Gun and THEN D'Angelo's Voodoo. Through these classic albums, my listening palette expanded immensely!
All of this lead to me grouping together 26 musicians from 13 bands between the I-4 corridor, paying tribute to the Soulquarians. With this many cats involved rehearsals all together would be impossible, so I divided the set into 4 groups to each major artist of movement and had one of my bands bare the brunt of each. Ancient Sun did Erykah Badu, Holey Miss Moley did the Roots, and Leisure Chief did Common & D'Angelo; all joined by guest vocalists, emcees horns, and percussion.
I put forth roughly 6 months of total preparation into this one set planning, organizing, writing charts, arranging the songs, etc. When the night came, I was a little on edge which is rare for me nowadays at least on stage. Maybe it was coming off back to back sets with LC and HMM just before, but I rushed to the main stage after leaving early during HMM's encore to round everyone up and line check.
What transpired was nothing short of remarkable, and with all things considered it turned out about as well as it could have. Everything flowed so well and it was almost like time was still during it's entirety. It's difficult to put to words in seeing a project like that come to fruition but it has been one of most rewarding projects I've done. People literally came to me in tears, it moved them so much.
Without a doubt one of the best moments I've experienced.
You can listen, learn more and relive the set in it's entirety on my bandcamp page. February marks revue #2 where I take on Frank Zappa!
1. ROOSEVELT COLLIER TRIO w/ VICTOR WOOTEN @ RED LION PUB -- 10/2
If you would have told me a few years ago that I would be sharing the stage with some of my biggest local idols in my family's bar with the cream of the crop in Orlando's scene witnessing the magic, I would have said, "In my dreams!" . Then throwing in, "By the way Victor Wooten, one of world's best musicians, will also be in the building"; I would have said "never a chance". Well, long story short that all happened on the magical evening of October 2nd!
I was elated to host Roosevelt Collier Trio + Brown Note, who have each given me numerous inspirational moments over the years as a musician. This alone was going to be fantastic.
We kick things off and Brown Note is on all cylinders, when Rosie comes up to me saying a special guest will be gracing our presence tonight. Victor Wooten had a clinic at Sam Ash that same day and Roosevelt went there and invited him to the show. Now, I had told many friends who went to invite him out but for it to actually be happening at my event, in my family's establishment? Whoa.
When he arrived, I thanked him for being here and let him inside through the back of the room by the sound so he wouldn't get bombarded by all the musicians in the crowd. I was then immediately called on stage with special guests Bobby Koelble and Ito Colon already joining the trio. What a lineup!
Just after I finished taking a solo, I thought I was done for the night. It actually became quite the opposite. After Matt Lapham tore up the bass with a solo himself, and the band teased some Michael Jackson, he quieted the band and addressed the audience, claiming there was a special guest in the audience. When I learned Victor Wooten was initially coming, I had hoped he would grace the stage but never did I think it would be while I was up there too!
Matt hands over his bass and the Doctor simply says "C#...1, 2, 3, 4" and the first down beat that ensued between Victor Wooten and Anthony Cole on drums was nearly too much to handle! Never had I been a part of a pocket so deep, a groove so tight. The vibe of the stage and the music went to an unthinkable level for me. It's hard to describe all the emotions that channeled at that moment. Everything up to this point in my music and recent booking career lead to this. Needless to say, I did not sleep that night and since
Thanks to all the musicians involved for that moment! I will cherish it for the rest of my life. You can watch for yourself below:
There you have it folks: WHAT A YEAR!
Here's to the Hometeam New Year's Rally this weekend to kick off 2016 and what's in store for the future for all of us!
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The Candlewood Suites hotel is pictured from East Fourth and Crosby streets.
New hotel opens in downtown Chester
By Colin Ainsworth
Special to the Times
CHESTER >> City officials gathered Thursday morning to mark the opening of the new Candlewood Suites at Third and Welsh streets and the end of a decades-long absence of hotels in the downtown area. The ribbon-cutting ceremony by developer Sailesh "Sam" Patel and officials brought a two-year construction process and roughly decade of planning to a close.
“The location was attractive because Kimberly-Clark was across the street … (Harrah’s) casino was in the area and chemical companies,” Patel, head of the Turnersville, N.J.-based VB Hospitality LLC, said by phone Friday.
Patel noted each of the industries draws guests or employees from out of state. “Chester is a fast-growing city. It’s close to Philadelphia – Philadelphia can only grow one way, which is outward,” he said.
“Mr. Patel has been trying to bring this project forward for the last 10 years,” said Drake Nakaishi, executive director of the Chester Economic Development Authority. “The impediment was always that the site was owned by two different entities (Chester Water Authority and Redevelopment Authority of the City of Chester). When they need to come to an agreement on wanting to sell, best use, and price, it takes a while to iron that stuff out.”
A tri-party agreement was reached between CWA, the redevelopment authority and VB Hospitality in 2016, with groundbreaking held in mid-June 2017 on the 89-room extended stay hotel. Located at 351 Welsh St., the building extends east to Crosby Streets, bounded by East Fourth Street and Route 291. The rooms, both studios and suites, feature full kitchens and other extended stay amenities.
City government came to a lease agreement to provide overflow parking in the adjoining city parking lot, according to Nakaishi.
Patel also worked with the city Office of Workforce Development to recruit hotel staff, estimating 90 percent of hotel employees are city residents. “We see employers hiring local folks,” Nakaishi said. “A lot of employers like hiring local people if they have the skill set and appitude – you don’t have to worry about commute times.”
The Candlewood Suites is the city’s third hotel to open in 47 years. Following the 1972 groundbreaking of the Howard Johnson’s – today the Days Inn – in the 1300 block of Providence Avenue, Chester saw no hotel development until the 2008 opening the Best Western one block north.
The sole development of hotels uptown in the last half-century was a marked change from the many hotels and lodging houses once located downtown, including the Colonial-period Washington House – named for George Washington’s stay during the Revolutionary War – in the 500 block of Market Street (today Avenue of the States) and the Colony Hotel in the 500 block of Welsh Street, often host to political visitors in the mid- to late-20th century.
While Nakaishi there was no formal feasibility study for a downtown hotel, “what we did notice was the Best Western tended to be filled all the time,” he said. “Harrah’s, the (Talen Energy) stadium, Kimberley Clark, Widener (University) – all of those have expressed interest in talking with Mr. Patel; some already have.”
According Nakaishi, the opening of an extended-stay hotel fills one void in the lodging demand, both temporary and permanent, brought by economic revitalization throughout the city. “We have a number of other developments which will bring in people doing construction, workforce development and new employees,” he said.
“I think the biggest problem I have is how I can build houses and build them fast,” he said. “A number of developers have floated conceptual ideas and offers to build new apartments, new condos, new housing. Some of it takes a certain amount of (time) to be kicked around before you have something that makes sense.”
Nakaishi pointed to the roughly 500 employment positions anticipated between by the Agronomed Pharmaceuticals facility set to open June 22 in the 100 block of Broomall Street and the Silvercare Nursing and Rehabilitation Campus, soon to open in the former Sacred Heart/Community Hospital site on West Ninth Street.
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'The L Word' Reboot Is Officially In Development!
Try not to freak out, but it looks like our favorite show is confirmed for a sequel series!
By Gemma Dart
Via Entertainment Weekly
Yes, you read that right—your all-time favorite show, The L Word, could be coming back to screens VERY soon for a sequel series. Rumors have been spreading over the last few months about a reboot of the show and fans nearly lost their sh*t when social media blew up with pics of the cast reunion in June this year. After months and months of speculation it looks like we are finally getting the answer we've all been praying to the lesbian gods for!
For those who can remember, back in May, the creator of the original show, Ilene Chaiken, posted a frustratingly ambiguous tweet of excitement that left us all in a fit of intrigue.
And if that wasn't enough to get the hearts pumping with pure lesbian adrenaline, Kate Moennig responded to the Tweet shortly after...
And if THAT didn't leave us practically sobbing on the floor in confusion and anticipation, this reply from Jennifer Beals definitely did the job.
To say we were all a little perplexed by these mystery-ridden tweets would be the understatement of the year. But as we now know, it seemed like they were referring to the aforementioned cast reunion we all went bananas over. But now that the show is said to be in development for a reboot, we can't help but wonder if they knew about it all along.
Now for the moment you've all been waiting for: actual proof.
Sources have told Variety that Showtime is indeed working on a reboot of the show that ended (much too soon for our liking) in 2009 and that many of the original cast will be returning, not only as the characters we love, but they will also be serving as producers of the new series. Keeping in the fam, we love it.
Permission to officially breakdown in happy tears, granted.
According to Variety, it's said that the reboot will "center around a new ensemble of women, following their lives, loves and tribulations. ... Jennifer Beals, Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey are expected to appear in the series with their characters as a point of connection from the prior series to the new one." Other stars from the original series are also believed to be making an appearance, making our hearts ache with joy.
The groundbreaking original series aired from 2004 and went on to win a number of GLAAD Media Awards for "bringing lesbian characters to the forefront of television." Sarah Kate Ellis, the GLAAD president and CEO, recently said, "The past few years have seen lesbian and queer women characters in television killed off in shockingly high numbers. It is refreshing and exciting to see GLAAD Media Award-winning 'The L Word' returning to television where it can tell nuanced, entertaining, and beautiful stories of a largely underrepresented community."
Now there are still many, MANY questions that, for the moment, remain unanswered... Who are these new characters? Will they be truly diverse? Who killed Jenny? Do we care? Has Shane changed? Will the prospect of a new writer and creative team — and almost a decade passed — change things that queer women didn't like about the show?
Until we get those answers, at least we can rest assured knowing our favorite show will soon be back, ready for us to binge.
All good things to those who wait, right?
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Turkish court frees 8 activists from jail pending verdicts
Oct. 26, 2017 | 12:14 PM
A court in Istanbul on Wednesday ordered eight human rights activists released from prison pending the outcome of their trial on charges of belonging to and...
Activists accused of aiding terror groups on trial in Turkey
Eleven human rights activists, including the two local heads of Amnesty International, went on trial in Turkey on Wednesday, accused of belonging to and...
11 rights activists to go on trial in Turkey on Oct. 25
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Istanbul charging Amnesty Turkey chief, 10 others for terror
Turkey's official news agency says the Istanbul prosecutor's office is charging Amnesty International's Turkey chief and ten others for belonging to and...
Amnesty Turkey chief, others charged with terror offenses
The Istanbul prosecutor’s office is charging Amnesty International’s Turkey chief and 10 others for allegedly belonging to and aiding terror groups with the...
Germany, Sweden protest to Turkey over jailing of activists
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Germany and Sweden made a joint protest to Turkey on Wednesday about the jailing of two human rights activists, demanding that the men be told what exactly...
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Texans deserve revision of drug policies
By Natalie San Luis - Updated on February 7, 2013 at 4:00 am
Revisions to both state and federal drug laws are long overdue. Hopefully Texas legislators will realize just what Texas law sacrifices in the name of a little bit of dope.
New and improved work-study
By David Laude - Updated on February 7, 2013 at 3:57 am
The effects of full-time employment pose challenges to graduating in four years, but new programs to incentivize behaviors consistent with student success are in the works.
Organics about more than better health
By Grayson SImmons - Updated on February 5, 2013 at 10:30 pm
When college students go to the grocery store, one of the biggest decisions they face is the choice between conventional and organic foods.
Seek an education beyond the classroom
By Laura Pereyra - Updated on February 5, 2013 at 10:27 pm
UT’s Intellectual Entrepreneurship Consortium is a game-changing initiative that pairs undergraduates with both graduate students and real-world internship opportunities.
DIY study abroad
By Maria-Xenia Hardt - Updated on February 4, 2013 at 11:16 pm
Want to study in Brazil or Portugal? The Daily Texan columnist offers an alternative to UT's study abroad programs: a do-it-yourself approach that will earn you valuable class credit for less than half the cost.
What to Watch: February 4 - 8
By The Daily Texan Editorial Board - Updated on February 3, 2013 at 11:03 pm
From 2-4 p.m. on Wednesday, Lee Mun Wah, an acclaimed diversity trainer, will conduct a workshop that teaches students how to interact with others who are different from themselves.
A call to fight Powers' plan
By Dana Cloud - Updated on February 3, 2013 at 10:59 pm
In a speech last Tuesday, UT President William Powers Jr. announced plans to turn over all non-academic University services (food, housing, parking, etc.) to private contractors.
We Asked: pathway to citizenship?
By The Daily Texan Editorial Board - Updated on January 31, 2013 at 11:12 pm
The Question: Do you support providing a path to citizenship for the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants already in this country?
Powers’ contradictory vision
By - Updated on January 31, 2013 at 11:06 pm
On Tuesday, Jan. 29, UT President William Powers Jr. presented a narrative, “Smarter Systems for a Greater UT,” which sounds too good to be true.
UT tracks veterans
In an article published on Jan. 16, The Daily Texan reported that the University “will need to figure out how many student veterans there are” in order to track graduation rates among this population.
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Sons of Vesta, Protagonist Music, Slave Union Records
Devices, Balboa, Violent Breakfast
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Pyramids formed in late August 2005 after three long-time friends, who had played with one another for many years in A Petal Fallen , found a house in Philadelphia and decided to write music together again. Living together in the Veggieplex Theatre and being largely unemployed, we found a lot of time to practice, ended up playing our first show only a few weeks after beginning to write, and began recording a full-length only a month after conceiving the band.
As we were finishing the recording of our record Following the Tracks, Forcing Motion Through Phases, we played a lot of shows and had a lot of fun, but upon its completion Chris decided Philadelphia was not for him and moved back to Seattle, followed shortly thereafter by Eric. With a three-week tour on the horizon and only one person left to play it, Larry and Daniel decided to help out and we took Pyramids on the road with only 1/3 of its original members, even writing some new songs (for the Devices split) in the process.
At the moment Pyramids has found permanent membership in Sean, Dave, and Benn, and is nearing completion of a new LP, Through the Hourglass. Following is already out of print in its LP form, and will hopefully be repressed soon, to coincide with our upcoming split 7”s. In a month or two we should be recording for yet another split, this time with our tour partners from last year, Capsule.
Following the Tracks, Forcing Motion Through Phases (2006, Slave Union Records)
Through the Hourglass (2007, Protagonist Music)
Pyramids VS Devices split (2008)
Pyramids VS Balboa split (2008)
Pyramids VS Violent Breakfast split (2008, Sons of Vesta)
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Newest Dogs Trust Research Shows: 63% Less Dogs on the Streets of Sarajevo Compared to 2013
Dogs Trust dog count, conducted annually since 2012, shows that there are 63% less dogs on the streets of Sarajevo than in 2013, when the Dogs Trust Mass Neutering Programme was first introduced.
“Even though initiatives of local authorities are still insufficient and a law compliant Dog Population Management System is still not fully functioning, Programmes created, supported and coordinated by Dogs Trust have contributed to a continuous decrease in the number of stray dogs, increase in public health and safety and improvement of overall dog welfare” emphasized Anel Becirovic, Head of Dogs Trust Representative Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Research shows that the four municipalities of the City of Sarajevo have 20% less dogs, and the rest of Canton Sarajevo has 28% less stray dogs compared to 2017 figures.
According to this year’s dog count, conducted in June 2018, a total of 65% stray dogs in the City of Sarajevo have an ear tag and are neutered, and 80% of them have been neutered, microchipped, vaccinated and have received anti parasite treatments through the Mass Neutering Programme supported by the Dogs Trust Foundation.
In order to have a permanent decrease in the stray dog population it is necessary to neuter another 10% of the remaining dogs.
By neutering another 10% of the stray dog population in Canton Sarajevo through the Mass Neutering Programme, the Dogs Trust Representative Office will achieve its initial aim of neutering 80% of the initial stray dog population.
„This result would prove that we have successfully achieved the ‘heard immunity’ for rabies, meaning that a majority of dogs will be vaccinated against this disease leading to a reduced risk of infection. At the same time, this would lead to a high number of neutered dogs which, according to dog population management experts, means that the stray dog problem would be under control and it would be necessary to conduct only periodical mass neutering campaigns along with systematic prevention of dog abandonment” emphasized Becirovic.
Less puppies and increased welfare of stray dogs
Compared to last year, research recorded less puppies throughout Canton Sarajevo, with 5.9% less than last year in the City of Sarajevo, and 7% less in remaining municipalities.
Programmes supported by Dogs Trust, such as the Veterinary Training Programme, Education Programme, Dog School and public education have all contributed to an evident positive shift in public awareness which is a key prerequisite for every positive change.
Our research shows increased stray dog welfare throughout Canton Sarajevo; meaning there is a smaller number of injured dogs, less underweight dogs and dogs with skin diseases. Stray dogs in Canton Sarajevo are better socialised and friendlier!
Results prove that the problem can be solved only through implementation of a law-compliant System
The results of this research clearly show that the stray dog problem can only be permanently and efficiently solved in a law-compliant and humane way by using preventive measures such as educating veterinary experts, children, dog owners and raising awareness of the general public, and interventive measures such as mass neutering of abandoned and free neutering of owned dogs, rehoming, which all lead to a permanent and sustainable solution that is in line with current local legislation.
“We hope that the newly elected responsible authorities will work on the implementation of the current legislation and will establish all the elements of a sustainable Dog Population Management System so that Canton Sarajevo can set an example for all other regions in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” concluded Becirovic.
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Orthodontics: More Than Just Teeth Straightening
When asked what their orthodontist does, most people will answer "straightens crooked teeth." Yet there's a good deal more to it than that.
To practice in the field of orthodontics, a dentist must be trained not only in dentistry, medicine, and pharmacy, but in physics and engineering. They must have the touch of a master craftsman, and the eye of an artist. To fully serve their patients, orthodontists must be part scientist, part psychologist, part detective, and part businessman. Becoming an orthodontist requires four years of formal postgraduate training leading to a dental degree, and two more years of graduate studies in orthodontics. But their education doesn't end with a diploma. In many ways, that's where it begins.
Though it may not be obvious from the casual office visit, the practice of orthodontics has changed dramatically in just the last few years. With ongoing research have come continuing advances in ceramic, clear and invisible braces. There are more sophisticated tools to diagnose orthodontic problems, plus innovative materials and techniques to treat them. There are new drugs to control pain, and cosmetic dentistry procedures no one had heard of 10 years ago. Plus, the number of adults getting braces has risen dramatically. This means that now orthodontists must practice adult orthodontics which presents different challenges.
The field continues to change so rapidly that it's estimated orthodontists must acquire an entirely new set of knowledge every two to four years. In fact, in many states, meeting minimum standards for continuing education is mandatory for orthodontists to retain their licenses. In addition to the formal courses is all the time spent reading professional journals and reviewing new products. Fortunately, orthodontists have no lack of opportunity to learn. By the American Dental Association's count, some 3,000 to 5,000 organizations offer continuing education courses to those in the dental profession.
From the hundreds of thousands of hours of specialized training offered annually, each orthodontic professional can choose the courses he or she feels are most needed to expand and update his or her skills.
The practice of orthodontics is a profession, a science, an art, and a lifelong commitment to provide the best and most advanced possible care for your teeth.
Clear Braces: The Beauty of Choice in Orthodontics
If you want to avoid looking unattractive while you straighten your teeth, you may find clear braces an attractive option.
You can get the orthodontic work you need without having to compromise aesthetics along the way.
When people say "clear braces," they usually mean what orthodontists and braces dentists call ceramic braces.
Instead of the big ugly metal brackets used in traditional braces, these braces have tooth-colored ceramic brackets that are far less noticeable.
Clear elastics and white-colored metal means everything is less visible to others.
But sometimes when people talk about "clear braces," they mean Invisalign braces or another system of clear plastic aligners.
Though they straighten teeth, they are no braces per se. The trays fit over the teeth like an ultra-thin mouth guard, slowly moving teeth into place.
They're not just invisible; they're also removable. But, as with so many other things, beauty can have its price.
Ceramic braces cost slightly more than their metal counterparts. Moreover, the ceramic brackets are somewhat more prone to breakage. And plastic aligners simply can't move teeth as dramatically as can actual braces.
Make sure you've learned the pros and cons before making a final decision.
Usefulness of Denture Adhesives and How To Clean Your False Teeth
Endodontics - the Root Canal Treatment Appointment
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Paternal Line By Name
Carmen Isabel Sardiñas Ramos
Manuel Rodríguez Díaz
Orlando Rodríguez Sardiñas
Dr. Orlando Rodríguez Sardiñas &
Father of David Pierce Rodriguez
Dr. Orlando Rodríguez Sardiñas (1938-present)
Birth: 05 Sep 1938 | Regla, Havana, Cuba
Father: Dr. Manuel Rodríguez Díaz (1907-1978)
Mother: Carmen Isabel Sardiñas Ramos (1912-1994)
Cuban poet & author | Pen name: Orlando Rossardi
Director of Radio y Televisión Martí (1984–2004)
Professor at the University of New Hampshire, University of Southern California, University of Texas, University of Wisconsin, & Miami-Dade College.
Active Member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE)
Correspondiente of the Real Academia Española (RAE)
>> Orlando's Bio & Photos
Photos of Orlando & Susan Rodriguez
Orlando Rodríguez Sardiñas (circa 1955)
The Rodriguez family in Madison, Wisconsin (circa 1974)
(Top to bottom) Orlando, Susan, David, Jeff, & Pippin
The Rodriguez family in Miami, Florida (1998)
(Clockwise L-R) David, David's fiancée Josie, Michael, Susy, Orlando, Jeff, & Susan
The Rodriguez family in Miami, Florida (Nov 2010)
(L-R) Susan, Orlando, Susy, Abbey, & David
Children & Grandchildren of Orlando & Susan Rodriguez
Dr. Orlando Rodríguez Sardiñas and Susan Brehmer Miles have four children and two grandchildren.
David Pierce Rodriguez
Jeffrey Miles Rodriguez
Michael Blaine Rodriguez
Susy Brehmer Rodriguez
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2. Neo Del Corral
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Retailer News
Virgin Wines confident of successful Christmas after strong sales growth
By Martin Green
| 03 December, 2018
Virgin Wines is expecting a bumper Christmas trading period after enjoying 12.5% sales growth during 2018 so far.
The online retailer’s financial year begins in July, and from then until October sales are up 15% year-on-year.
It said that new customer acquisition is 10% ahead of 2017, while email, corporate and gift sales have achieved a combined growth of 38%.
Chief executive Jay Wright said: “There is no arguing that as an industry we are faced with challenging conditions, but this is the point where it becomes more important than ever to roll up our sleeves, adapt as a business and make the most of the many opportunities that still exist.
“Our results over the last couple of years prove that even in this difficult UK market you can still have a successful business that combines both sales growth with increased profits.”
Christmas started early for Virgin, which released its third wine advent calendar at the beginning of September. More than 4,000 customers reserved a calendar within the first 10 days of its release, and a total of 12,000 have been snapped up so far.
Anyone that buys an advent calendar is granted access to a digital advent hub that offers information on the wine and a video. Winemakers, buyers and writers like Matthew Jukes are among the individuals presenting these videos.
Wright added: “The whole business is focused on what is important, which is ensuring our customers receive exceptional wines that represent outstanding value for money all backed up with world class customer service and continued innovation.
“I know every person in Virgin Wines is focused on those things which is why our customer retention levels are so high, saving us from driving unnecessary levels of cost into new customer acquisition.”
Virgin Wines reports record Christmas sales
Broadland reports profits up driven by key brands
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Generic Famvir (Famciclovir)
Famvir is an anti-viral medication which treats Herpes simplex (types I and II), Varicella zoster, and the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).
Famvir is an anti-viral medication which after transformation in human organism turns into penciclovir which is active against such viruses as Herpes simplex (types I and II), Varicella zoster, and the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Penciclovir penetrates into the cells infected by virus where being subjected to treatment by viral ferments it turns into penciclovir-triphosphate which inhibits replication of viral DNA. The medication has not effect on the non-infected cells. Famvir is active against certain strains of Herpes simplex with changed DNA polymerase which are resistant to Acyclovir (Zovirax). Famvir is administered to treat infections caused by Herpes simplex (types I and II): primal infection, aggravation of the chronic infection, prevention, shingles or chickenpox (Varicella zoster), postherpetic neuralgia, recurrent genital herpes.
Take Famvir with or without food. Take each dose with a glass of water. The recommended dose for treatment of recurrent genital herpes is 1,000 mg twice daily during one day. Recurrent cold sores should be treated by 1,500 mg taken as a single dose. To suppress recurrent genital herpes take 250 mg twice daily during 1 year. Treatment of shingles require 500 mg every eight hours for a week. In HIV-infected patients for treatment of cold sores and genital herpes 500 mg of Famvir is taken twice daily for 5-10 days. Do not take Famvir in larger amounts. Follow all recommendations of your doctor.
Do not allow contact of the affected areas with other people. Do not touch your eyes after you touched the affected areas. Wash your hand frequently to avoid spreading of the infection to others.
Famvir is contraindicated in patients hypersensitive to the components of this medication, pregnant and breastfeeding women, children. Correction of the dose and certain cautiousness are needed in treatment of patients with kidney failure.
The most common side effects are headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness, allergic reactions. Some adult patients experience mental confusion, hallucinations. In the patients with decreased immunity pain in the stomach, fever symptoms occur.
No specific interactions are known for this time.
symptoms of Famvir overdose are unknown. If recommendations for treatment of the patients with kidney failure are not observed, acute kidney failure is possible. Seek for immediate medical attention if overdose is suspected.
Store at room temperature between 59-77 F (15-25 C) away from light and moisture, kids and pets. Do not use after expiration term.
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By Annette Charity, Culture November 8, 2017
You may know Peter Facinelli as a twilight star but this multi-dimensional actor, dad, and all around advocate for children serves the community beyond the entertainment sphere. I attended a pre-event dinner hosted by Peter Facinelli to support the upcoming “Swing for kids” charity to benefit Orthopedic Institute for Children that took place yesterday, November 6, 2017. I was able to speak to Peter and talk, charity, movies, dad life, and of course the value that the Orthopedic Institute for Children provides children and families in need.
Swing for Kids golf tournament was an all day annual fundraising event, hosted by Craig T. Nelson to raise awareness and funds for the ever growing Orthopedic Institute for Children. The event is crucial to growth and continued expansion of the organization. All proceeds donated during the event are used towards building a new Physical Therapy Center that will help kids heal faster, and receive the treatment necessary to rehabilitate quicker; giving parents the peace of mind knowing that all resources are fully equipped to aid in their child’s rehabilitation.
The pre-event benefit dinner took place at the swanky new French Bistro, Les Coulisses in Downtown, Los Angeles. With its speak-easy vibe, it was a night filled with delicious dinner, and conversation with premier Orthopedic surgeons that explained how vital these renovations are to the children. This is really a group of surgeons and care professionals that take pride in their work, and have an apparent passion for working in an environment that thrives on caring and making a difference in each and every childs life that happens to be affected with Orthopedic issues. There are no restrictions for the children to be seen, no health insurance requirement, or funds necessary. Any parent, anywhere in the world can bring their children to the Orthopedic Institute for Orthopedic treatment in Los Angeles. The institute has an exceptional relationship with UCLA Health, OIC is a non profit that utilizes the UCLA facility to perform procedures and surgeries while accessing care to the best and brightest doctors in the world. Many of whom even relocated to California just to be part of this amazing non-profit. Every day is a chance to make a difference in a childs life and that is exactly what is achieved on a daily basis.
I chatted with Peter regarding the Foundation, Movies, Kids and the Orthopedic issues!
Annette: What got you excited about the Orthopedic Institute for Children? Why are you so interested in it?
Peter Facinelli: I have three daughters myself, for me I like to be part of things that help children. But I also have a daughter that was diagnosed when she was six with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, that affects bones. She’s ok now, because in 50% of cases it goes away and never comes back, and that’s what you hope for, so that’s really good. I also have an 11 year old who does soccer, she does a lot of soccer and organization helps a lot of sports injuries.
The organization helps raise money to go towards children with physical therapy needs. It’s really important to make sure that kids are out playing and not sitting at home hurt and not feeling good. That’s important to me.
Annette: So you’re an active dad? That’s wonderful!
Peter Facinelli: Ya, I’ve been through a lot with them. I have daughters that play basketball, soccer, I’ve coached soccer for five years with my oldest. I’m very supportive of my kids, it’s important to me.
Annette: How were you introduced to this organization?
Peter Facinelli: I have a friend of mine, Alexandra who introduced me to the organization. She asked me if I wanted to be part of it, I thought it was a really great charity. I really enjoyed the fact that they were doing the Swing for the Kids Charity program, where Craig T. Nelson is hosting. I’m excited for that, I think doing fun charitable events is a great way to draw attention to an organization. I’m not a great golfer but for children, I’ll go out there and give it my best swing.
Annette: Give it your best swing! What the organization does is really incredible, so going out there and trying to help as many kids as possible is really amazing.
Peter Facinelli: Anytime I can take an organization like this, and get it out there, it’s really important to me.
Annette: The goal is…
Peter Facinelli: We need more donations, more people involved, and more people spreading the word.
Annette: Great! Can you also tell me a little bit about yourself and some of the new projects your currently working on?
Peter Facinelli: I just came here straight from set on Swat, which is kind of fun, episodes should be airing in December. I also did two films back to back, one with Ron Perlman, another one called Gangster Land that’s coming out in December where I play Bugs Moran, set in 1920’s Chicago gang. It was kind of fun to be able to do a period piece based on a true story.
I directed my first feature this year that is a romantic dramedy, called Breaking and Exiting.
Annette: I love romantic comedies, I mean romantic dramedies.
Peter Facinelli: It’s a romantic movie, a relationship movie, I’ve been writing producing and doing a little of everything!
Here you have it, Peter Facinelli doing it all. Career, children, charity advocate and so many projects to be worked on simultaneously. If you want to find out more about the Orthopedic Institute for Children (OIC) and how you could participate and contribute, it’s a great organization that really strives and helps children in need. Follow your passion, follow your dreams and make your footprint count in a way that will make you smile.
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Hi this post is very interesting! Seemed a great event!
Looks like you had fun in this event, have a wonderful day!
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Fab Five Of The Holidays
It’s holiday time and that means holiday cheer, sparkle and a new series on Fashion Trend Forward called fab five will be going live…
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A fascinating and in-depth look at the history, breeding and training of the Thoroughbred - the aristocrat of racehorses, the maker of fortunes, the personification of speed and power, and an international currency. Yet it is not only the lure of such amounts of money and the social value which fascinates the public, owners, and horseman - it is the horse itself. It is almost as if man found a part of his poetic spirit - a connection with the freedom of nature in the Thoroughbred and the excitement that it brings.
Millions of people attend race meetings each year and you'll see great racing footage from all parts of the world at the most prestigious racetracks and talk with famous trainers and owners; covers the great international races such as the Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe, Epsom Derby and Melbourne Cup. Billions of dollars are spent within the Thoroughbred industry, so how does the Thoroughbred world operate? How do you breed a winner and where does this horse come from?
The speed, spirit and temperament of the Thoroughbred has its origins in the deserts of Arabia; its heritage is the pure breeding of the Arab horse - the Arab was the strongest genetic influence in the creation of the Thoroughbred; here swift steeds with stamina were needed to cover the vast plains carrying warriors and nomads who depended on skill, agility and speed for survival. These qualities coupled with spirit and intelligence were the basis for the Thoroughbred. It's an extraordinary fact that every Thoroughbred horse today can trace its male ancestry in an unbroken line to one of three Arab stallions: the Byerly Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Arabian. You'll hear names like MATCHEM, ECLIPSE, SIR ARCHIE and understand the profound influence these stallions had in shaping the bloodlines of living descendants of the original three Arabians - the internationalism of the Thoroughbred had begun!
You'll visit internationally respected breeding farms from Kentucky to England to Ireland (standing DANZATORE and SIR TRISTRAM) to New Zealand and finally to Japan and a piece on our very own Claiborne Farm situated right in the middle of the Bluegrass - the optimum breeding environment with generous footage of NIJINSKY II, SIR IVOR and the great SECRETARIAT all then-current residents at stud at the Hancock-owned farm. Watch as SECRETARIAT is shown being walked out of his stall en-route to his paddock where he is promptly turned out and then proceeds to rip it up and frolic much to the viewers' delight - see for yourselves why "BIG RED" has always been referred to as a, "big playful ham", for the camera with his legendary and amusing antics!
Several different theories of breeding are explored and top international breeders and genetic experts reveal the most widely used methods from traditional to computer science to produce a racing champion and you'll lastly visit yearling auctions around the world and see how marketing, commercialism, and fashionable bloodlines are increasingly becoming bigger factors in Thoroughbred selection than sheer track performance - a trend that many feel will lead to the deterioration of the breed.
A terrific piece that gives a great overview of the international racing and breeding industry. Any lover of horse racing will truly appreciate this powerhouse piece that thoroughly educates as well as entertains.
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Camouflage in xeroderma pigmentosum
Gayathri Krishnaswamy, Swetha Sunny Kurian, CR Srinivas, L Sorna Kumar
Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Date of Web Publication 11-Nov-2016
C R Srinivas
Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Peelamedu, Coimbatore - 641 004, Tamil Nadu
Krishnaswamy G, Kurian SS, Srinivas C R, Kumar L S. Camouflage in xeroderma pigmentosum. Indian Dermatol Online J 2016;7:553-5
Krishnaswamy G, Kurian SS, Srinivas C R, Kumar L S. Camouflage in xeroderma pigmentosum. Indian Dermatol Online J [serial online] 2016 [cited 2019 Jul 18];7:553-5. Available from: http://www.idoj.in/text.asp?2016/7/6/553/193897
Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is an autosomal recessive disorder resulting from abnormal DNA repair causing photosensitivity, oculocutaneous pigmentation, and early neoplasia.[1] Patients usually present with diffuse freckling of the skin in the photoexposed areas, which later develop numerous hypopigmented atrophic macules giving rise to a mottled appearance. The most important treatment in these patients is photoprotection.
Camouflage is a term derived from the French word “camoufler” meaning “to blind.” It is defined as concealment by some means that alters or obscures the appearance. Camouflage is well known to be used by army soldiers to hide from their enemies by wearing greens and browns to match their environment.
Camouflage creams are used to mask discoloration of the skin. The British Association of Skin Camouflage (BASC), founded in 1985, defined remedial cosmetic skin camouflage as “the art of concealing discoloration, blemish, or scar with the application of specialist camouflage creams that are matched to the surrounding skin tone.” In Dermatology, camouflage is commonly used in patients with vitiligo.[2]
A 27-year-old male patient, clinically diagnosed as a case of XP, presented with photosensitivity and mottled pigmentation of the face, arms, trunk, and back. A few erythematous macules were present over the nose and left cheek. Camouflage cream was applied over the face using the technique described in [Figure 1].
Figure 1: Camouflage set. Green camouflage cream was applied over the erythematous areas as a base
The patient was instructed to apply the camouflage on a daily basis using the above mentioned technique [Figure 2], [Figure 3], [Figure 4]. The patient was highly satisfied with the final outcome of the camouflage [Figure 5].
Figure 3: Camouflage color was selected according to the patient's skin color
Figure 4: Selected camouflage cream was applied in multiple thin layers to achieve color matching
Figure 5: Before and after camouflage application
Using camouflage creams is a simple method of concealing pigmentary changes in cases of XP. The procedure of application can be easily taught to the patients. The added advantage of the camouflage cream is that it gives some amount of photoprotection, which is beneficial to patients with XP. Camouflage can be applied over sunscreens in that multiple layers of camouflage cream are needed to achieve color matching. Sunscreens require repeated application. Moreover, an adequate amount of sunscreen to obtain the desired protection may not be applied.[3]
To assess the sun protection factor (SPF) of the camouflage cream, the Minimal Erythema Dose (MED) was determined in a volunteer before and after applying camouflage cream using a targeted phototherapy device Levia, a nonexcimer source of light which delivers in the wavelength range of 300 to 320 nm. Narrow band UV B was used instead of broadband UV B simulator, as it was not available [Figure 6]. The MED developed at a dose of 287 mJ [1.25 MED] over the normal skin, and it did not develop on camouflage-colored skin even at a dose of 3000 mJ [11.5 MED].
Figure 6: Determination of MED on normal skin and camouflage-covered skin using targeted phototherapy unit
The SPF was determined using the following formula:
SPF = MED of the sunscreen protected skin/MED of the unprotected skin
This yielded a SPF of at least 10.4.
Camouflage cream has shown to have sun protective properties, however, it may be advised to be used along with sunscreen for added sun protection.
Declaration of patient consent
The authors certify that they have obtained all appropriate patient consent forms. In the form the patient(s) has/have given his/her/their consent for his/her/their images and other clinical information to be reported in the journal. The patients understand that their names and initials will not be published and due efforts will be made to conceal their identity, but anonymity cannot be guaranteed.
Irvine AD, Mellerio JE. Genetics and Genodermatoses. In: Burns T, Breathnach S, Cox N, Griffiths C, editors. Rooks text Book of Dermatology sossex; Wiley-Blackwell; 2010. p. 15.70-15.74.
Kaliyadan F, Kumar A. Camouflage for patients with vitiligo. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 2012;78:8-15.
Azurdia RM, Pagliaro JA, Diffey BL, Rhodes LE. Sunscreen application by photosensitive patient is inadequate for protection. Br J Dermatol 1991;140:255-8.
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399 BCE: Socrates
2 comments May 19th, 2013 Headsman
It might have been May 19, 399 BCE* — and if not, we’re in the neighborhood — that the original gadfly** philosopher Socrates obeyed a death sentence from his native Athens and quaffed a cup of deadly hemlock. It’s one of the most famous executions in history, and arguably one of the most consequential.
Socrates left no original writings that survive for us. Posterity sees him via the works of his students Xenophon and especially Plato, but he was a well-known figure to contemporaries in the polis.
For decades, the man with the method and the familiar daemon had been philosophizing around town. Socrates comes in for mockery in an Aristophanes play lampooning newfangled intellectual trends in the 420s BCE
“Like Ozzy Osbourne, [Socrates] was repeatedly accused of corruption of the young.”
The weird and unsatisfying corrupting-the-young and impiety charges which putatively caused the man’s trial and death sentence have been much-debated in the centuries since. It seems clear that at some level the “real” crime in the eyes of the hundreds of fellow-citizens who judged Socrates had to do with the students who weren’t reverential successor-eggheads, but toxic contemporary politicians. Socrates tutored the treacherous demagogue Alcibiades, who convinced Athenians to mount a catastrophic invasion of Sicily that cost Athens the Peloponnesian War; he rolled with Critias, one of the notorious tyrants of Athens during the 404-403 Spartan puppet dictatorship that resulted from losing that war.
All the while, Socrates had openly preached a dim view of the Athenian democratic system. Again, we don’t have the master’s direct words here, but something like the dialogue presented by the Socrates character in Plato’s allegory of the cave — in which non-philosophers are a lot of purblind morlocks — is difficult to square with anything but an elitist take of civilization. There’s a reason this could be a bit of a sore subject in a city that had just seen the glories of its late imperial apex possessed by Spartan hoplites, especially when espoused by a guy who rubbed chitons with the tyrants themselves.
Even so, Socrates was only narrowly convicted. Once convicted, the legal game had both the prosecution and the defendant propose a punishment, and the jury select one.
Were this system still practiced somewhere, game theorists would have a field day with it. But Socrates just opted out of the match by proposing that he be “punished” with a public pension for his services to the polis. There’s being a gadfly, and then there’s telling your jury to go take a long walk off a high rock: he was death-sentenced by a larger margin than had voted to convict. Plato makes this a much more martyr-like scene than Xenophon; the latter emphasizes that the septuagenarian chin-waggler didn’t much mind being excused from the frailties of advancing age.
Plato used Socrates repeatedly in various dialogues, and it goes without saying that these are cornerstones of the literary canon. The dialogues of most relevance† for his execution specifically are:
the Apology, Plato’s account of the defense Socrates mounted at trial: it’s in this text that Socrates is reported to utter the words, “the unexamined life is not worth living.”
Crito, a conversation between a wealthy guy of that name and the condemned Socrates in which the philosopher expounds his theory of citizenship and social contract in refusing Crito’s blandishments to escape before execution.
the Phaedo, in which Socrates argues for the immortality of the soul, and then gets down to the business of swallowing his fatal draught.
Soon the jailer, who was the servant of the Eleven, entered and stood by him, saying:—To you, Socrates, whom I know to be the noblest and gentlest and best of all who ever came to this place, I will not impute the angry feelings of other men, who rage and swear at me, when, in obedience to the authorities, I bid them drink the poison—indeed, I am sure that you will not be angry with me; for others, as you are aware, and not I, are to blame. And so fare you well, and try to bear lightly what must needs be—you know my errand. Then bursting into tears he turned away and went out.
Socrates looked at him and said: I return your good wishes, and will do as you bid. Then turning to us, he said, How charming the man is: since I have been in prison he has always been coming to see me, and at times he would talk to me, and was as good to me as could be, and now see how generously he sorrows on my account. We must do as he says, Crito; and therefore let the cup be brought, if the poison is prepared: if not, let the attendant prepare some.
Yet, said Crito, the sun is still upon the hill-tops, and I know that many a one has taken the draught late, and after the announcement has been made to him, he has eaten and drunk, and enjoyed the society of his beloved; do not hurry—there is time enough.
Socrates said: Yes, Crito, and they of whom you speak are right in so acting, for they think that they will be gainers by the delay; but I am right in not following their example, for I do not think that I should gain anything by drinking the poison a little later; I should only be ridiculous in my own eyes for sparing and saving a life which is already forfeit. Please then to do as I say, and not to refuse me.
Crito made a sign to the servant, who was standing by; and he went out, and having been absent for some time, returned with the jailer carrying the cup of poison. Socrates said: You, my good friend, who are experienced in these matters, shall give me directions how I am to proceed. The man answered: You have only to walk about until your legs are heavy, and then to lie down, and the poison will act. At the same time he handed the cup to Socrates, who in the easiest and gentlest manner, without the least fear or change of colour or feature, looking at the man with all his eyes, Echecrates, as his manner was, took the cup and said: What do you say about making a libation out of this cup to any god? May I, or not? The man answered: We only prepare, Socrates, just so much as we deem enough. I understand, he said: but I may and must ask the gods to prosper my journey from this to the other world—even so—and so be it according to my prayer. Then raising the cup to his lips, quite readily and cheerfully he drank off the poison. And hitherto most of us had been able to control our sorrow; but now when we saw him drinking, and saw too that he had finished the draught, we could no longer forbear, and in spite of myself my own tears were flowing fast; so that I covered my face and wept, not for him, but at the thought of my own calamity in having to part from such a friend. Nor was I the first; for Crito, when he found himself unable to restrain his tears, had got up, and I followed; and at that moment, Apollodorus, who had been weeping all the time, broke out in a loud and passionate cry which made cowards of us all. Socrates alone retained his calmness: What is this strange outcry? he said. I sent away the women mainly in order that they might not misbehave in this way, for I have been told that a man should die in peace. Be quiet then, and have patience. When we heard his words we were ashamed, and refrained our tears; and he walked about until, as he said, his legs began to fail, and then he lay on his back, according to the directions, and the man who gave him the poison now and then looked at his feet and legs; and after a while he pressed his foot hard, and asked him if he could feel; and he said, No; and then his leg, and so upwards and 118upwards, and showed us that he was cold and stiff. And he felt them himself, and said: When the poison reaches the heart, that will be the end. He was beginning to grow cold about the groin, when he uncovered his face, for he had covered himself up, and said—they were his last words—he said: Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? The debt shall be paid, said Crito; is there anything else? There was no answer to this question; but in a minute or two a movement was heard, and the attendants uncovered him; his eyes were set, and Crito closed his eyes and mouth.
Such was the end, Echecrates, of our friend; concerning whom I may truly say, that of all the men of his time whom I have known, he was the wisest and justest and best.
A few books about the death of Socrates
* The Phaedo places Socrates’ trial on the day after Athens consecrated a ritual boat for its annual pilgrimage. (This was supposed to be the very boat that the hero Theseus had sailed back after defeating the minotaur in time immemorial, and the Athenians maintained it for centuries in a seaworthy state to make ceremonial voyages to the island of Delos, a sanctuary for Theseus’s patron Apollo. This is also the very conveyance in question in the “Ship of Theseus” paradox, a philosophical conundrum proceeding from the question of whether the thing was still “Theseus’s ship” if every single component of it had been replaced in the intervening years.) Anyway, Theseus aside, that mention of the consecration gives us Mounichion 7 on the confusing lunisolar Attic calendar for the trial of Socrates.
During the ship’s sacred voyage, Athens was to remain ritually “cleansed.” This condition included not conducting any executions. A date for the death of Socrates is established by Xenophon and Seneca reporting that the boat returned after 30 days — which was about twice as long as ordinarily required, but the archaic craft was very vulnerable to bad weather. 30 days is an eminently doubtable nice round number, but where ancient dates are concerned, we takes what we can gets.
“Counting inclusively, as was then the custom, Socrates died on Thargelion 6, which is the very day recorded for his birth,” notes Reason and Religion in Socratic Philosophy. It’s possible that Socrates’s birthday became associated with Thargelion 6 because Thargelion 6 was associated with Socrates via his execution … but Thargelion 6 became known as man’s execution date. It also happened to be the Athenian festival “Thargelia” (and the day before Plato’s Thargelia 7 birthday).
There are other dates out there. In particular, a number of easily accessible pages claim that the hemlock was downed on May 7, 399. I’m not positive, but it appears to me that this might have originally been arrived at by counting 30 days exclusively from Mounichion 7 to reach Thargelion 7, then noticing that Thargelion typically began sometime in May, and smushing together “May” and “7” from alien calendars … after which it’s been repeated on the basis of previous source’s authority. If there’s better support for this date than I infer, I welcome correction.
For my part, I’ve dated this entry based on the astounding Hellenic Month Established Per Athens calendar, specifically its dates for Thargelion of the 1st year of the 95th Olympiad. Thargelion 6 corresponded to May 18/19, says HMEPA — Greek days began at sundown — and since Socrates died at the end of daylight, just before sunset, that’s a Gregorian May 19th. Again, though, all this is built upon a chain of questionable inferences based on a few questionable passing remarks from just a couple of ancient sources. In the end, one just can’t know for sure.
** Plato reports in the Apology Socrates characterizing himself as such this way — “a sort of gadfly, given to the state by God; and the state is a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life” by his stings — bequeathing to us the evocative metaphor.
† Find these essential execution-related dialogues here, here, or here, or just the highlights here.
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1569: Vladimir of Staritsa, royal cousin
Add comment October 9th, 2012 Headsman
On this date in 1569, Vladimir of Staritsa was forced by Ivan the Terrible’s goons to drink poison.
Vladimir was Ivan’s (barely) younger cousin, both of them grandsons of Russia’s state-building Ivan the Great.
Ivan the Terrible, of course, was the heir to the throne, an inheritance he received at the tender age of three when his father died unexpectedly — leading to Ivan’s famously miserable childhood of being kicked around by the boyars.
The dreadful relationship thereby fostered between throne and nobles came to a crossroads in 1553, when Ivan the Terrible appeared to be on his deathbed. The fading tsar tried to get those boyars to swear loyalty to Ivan’s infant son. Most of the boyars openly preferred the adult Vladimir of Staritsa.
This dramatic encounter is a pivotal episode in Sergei Eisenstein’s classic film Ivan the Terrible.
Instead of dying, Ivan surprisingly recovered. Awkward!
Vladimir actually survived this episode, and he himself may not even have been actively trying to claim the throne: the boyars hated Ivan plenty without his seditious assistance.
And for a while it looked as if any ill feelings were water under the bridge. Vladimir swore loyalty to Ivan upon the latter’s recovery, fought military campaigns alongside Ivan, and was even depended upon by Ivan as a guarantor of peace among Ivan’s own several potentially rivalrous sons.*
But that was the 1550s.
As the 1560s unfolded, Ivan grew increasingly mistrustful of his boyars’ loyalty.** According to this volume, an elevation of Vladimir to the throne was the object of at least one plot during those years. As Ivan’s only male cousin, he was a natural successor should Ivan be deposed, and therefore a natural focal point for Ivan’s enemies.
When Ivan eventually gave rein to his paranoia and unleashed the bloody purges of the oprichnina, Vladimir inevitably succumbed. Ivan decreed his death and forced him to administer the sentence by his own hand with a draught of poison, even going so far as to extirpate Vladimir’s wife and children, too.†
In a twist of the cruel irony Russian history is so susceptible to, Ivan the Terrible’s homicidal suspicion of his relations helped to doom Ivan’s own Rurik dynasty: after Ivan accidentally killed his own son and heir in a fit of pique, the succession which might have found a backup option in Vladimir and his offspring instead utterly collapsed — plunging Russia into the “Time of Troubles” out of which one of those former boyar families, the Romanovs, emerged with the throne after all.
* See Sergei Bogatyrev, “Reinventing the Russian Monarchy in the 1550s: Ivan the Terrible, the Dynasty, and the Church”, The Slavonic and East European Review, Apr. 2007. (pdf here)
** Ivan’s nasty turn after 1560 might trace to the untimely death of his wife Anastasia Romanovna, whom Ivan suspected might have been poisoned by those hated boyars.
† One daughter Maria Vladimirovna of Staritsa, survived.
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Spiritual Boredom
Rediscovering the Wonder of Judaism
Dr. Erica Brown
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Break the Surface of Spiritual Boredom to Find the Reservoir of Meaning Within
“We need to be bored. When we get bored and take responsibility for our boredom, we arrive at a new level of interest, introspection, or action that has been stirred by the very creativity used to keep boredom away. The relationship between boredom and creativity is far from accidental. Creative minds are often stimulated by boredom, regarding it as a brain rest until the next great idea looms on the horizon of the otherwise unoccupied mind.”
—from Chapter 10
Boredom is a crisis of our age. In religious terms, boredom is sapping spirituality of its mystical and wholesome benefits, slowly corroding our ability to recognize blessing and beauty in our lives, to experience wonder and awe. What happens when our need for constant newness minimizes our interest in prayer, learning, and the mysteries of nature?
This intriguing look at spiritual boredom helps you understand just what this condition is, particularly as it relates to Judaism, and what the absence of inspiration means to the present and future of the Jewish tradition. Drawing insights from psychology, philosophy, and theology as well as ancient Jewish texts, Dr. Erica Brown explores the many ways boredom manifests itself within Judaism—in the community, classroom, and synagogue—and shows its potentially powerful cultural impact on a faith structure that advises sanctifying time, not merely passing it.
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11 MAR 19 12:28 ET
By Chloe Melas, CNN
(CNN) — Justin Bieber is asking fans for their prayers.
The pop star, who has been open about his struggles with depression, took to Instagram over the weekend with a candid post about the difficult time he’s going through.
“Just wanted to keep you guys updated a little bit hopefully what I’m going through will resonate with you guys. Been struggling a lot. Just feeling super disconnected and weird. I always bounce back so I’m not worried just wanted to reach out and ask for your guys to pray for me. God is faithful and ur prayers really work thanks .. the most human season I’ve ever been in facing my stuff head on.”
In an interview with Vogue in February, Bieber told the magazine that he had just cut short a weeklong group-therapy retreat and that he had been battling depression since his 2017 Purpose tour.
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“I got really depressed on tour,” he said. “I haven’t talked about this, and I’m still processing so much stuff that I haven’t talked about. I was lonely. I needed some time.”
Bieber, who was discovered on YouTube by Scooter Braun at just 13, said that being in the public eye for much of his life has taken its toll.
“Just thinking about music stresses me out,” he also told the magazine. “I’ve been successful since I was thirteen, so I didn’t really have a chance to find who I was apart from what I did. I just needed some time to evaluate myself: who I am, what I want out of my life, my relationships, who I want to be — stuff that when you’re so immersed in the music business you kind of lose sight of.”
Bieber, who married Hailey Baldwin in September, also said he and his wife are in couples’ counseling.
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The Ridgecrest Quake-3% Chance of a Mag 7 Again this Week Says USGS
Updated: Ridgecrest quake damage not as severe as first thought…There is a high probability that more aftershocks will follow; There are no reports of serious damage in Los Angeles related to tonight’s earthquake. No infrastructure damage or injuries have been reported in Beverly Hills, Costa Mesa, Glendale, Long Beach and Santa Monica. … Continue Reading
A federal judge says evidence of alleged extramarital affairs can be used in the criminal trial of San Diego Congressman Duncan Hunter.
By Kevin Tripp, KABC Monday’s ruling involves a case where the Republican Representative is accused of using campaign money to pay for a series of affairs. Hunter is facing 60 charges and is scheduled to go on trial in September. His wife has recently changed her plea to guilty. Hunter says he is innocent and…… Continue Reading
Trump on possible Iran response: You’ll find out.
President Donald Trump speaks to the media in the wake of Iran shooting down an American drone. By Joshua Berlinger, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Barbara Starr, Shirzad Bozorgmehr and Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Iran shot down a United States military drone on Thursday, further escalating the already volatile situation playing out between Washington and Tehran in the Middle East. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard…… Continue Reading
Another American tourist died in her hotel room in the Dominican Republic, resort says.
By Sheena Jones, Christina Maxouris and Ray Sanchez, CNN Another US tourist has died in the Dominican Republic, bringing to eight the number of Americans to die in the country over the past year. Leyla Cox, 53, died June 10 in her hotel room, Excellence Resorts in Punta Cana confirmed to CNN on Sunday. Officials in the…… Continue Reading
The Trump Administration is cutting almost one-billion dollars from federal funding for California’s high-speed rail.
http://images.tritondigitalcms.com/6616/sites/320/2019/05/16144006/Rail-Cash-V1-KT.mp3 By Kevin Tripp, KABC The US Department of Transportation says they’re cutting the funds because California is failing to make progress on the project. They’re halting a 929-million dollar grant that’s part of a 2010 agreement. Governor Gavin Newsom says the decision is illegal. The Trump Administration is also considering asking California to…… Continue Reading
Alabama governor signs nation’s most restrictive anti-abortion bill into law.
SF journalist’s home raided over confidential source
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Why Spurs should look to La Liga for midfield talent
27th July 2015 by henryf
Spurs’ attempts to sign a player of Modric’s quality, since his sale to Spanish giants Real Madrid, have miserably failed in recent years.
Players such as Paulinho and Etienne Capoue to name a few, have failed to impress at White Hart Lane, meaning Spur’s search for an outstanding central midfielder continues.
In order to resolve this problem, a search into La Liga could be the answer, and although they have failed in their quest to sign Mario Suarez, there are plenty of midfielders Spurs should be looking at who wouldn’t cost the earth. Here are three examples:
Ignacio Camacho – Málaga
Camacho has become one of La Liga’s most promising midfielders recently. At 25 years of age, he is around the peak years of his career. He is strong, has a good range of passing, and a decent strike and would make a great signing for Tottenham.
Rubén Pardo – Real Sociedad
La Liga expert Guillem Balague is a big fan of La Real starlet Ruben Pardo so he must be good.
The midfielder is superb technically for his age, and being only 22 years old, he will have a wonderful future at any club he plays for. He still must develop physically in order to cope with the challenge of Premier League football, however his appreciation of the game means that he is one of Spain’s most promising young players.
Grzegorz Krychowiak – Sevilla
After Ivan Rakitic’s departure from Sevilla, you could forgive any Sevilla fan for feeling a little distraught. However, Sevilla pride themselves in how they scout talent, and found a gem of a signing in Krychowiak.
The midfielder was bought for little money from Ligue 1 and has adapted well to La Liga. He scored in the Europa League Final last year, in his home country of Poland, and has proved to be a wonderfully versatile midfielder for Sevilla since he joined them. He is the type of player Spurs should be looking for.
henryf
JOHNNY says
No matter how many midfield players that is recommended why not try to narrow it down to the best all round midfielder a 10 out 10 player and let us know who would be sensational at WHL , this posting of three or four midfielders is only making the job harder for Spurs to sort the scout that would have to inform MP would be quaking , this signing would be one of the most important signing to boot so i would be looking for a midfielder that was as close to a two footed speed merchant energy box to box Yaya , Lampard , Gerrard , and Hazard all rolled into one , they are out there with all the rubbish signings we signed last year someone was not doing their job it must have been to trouble to over work themselves much travelling to much not seeing the family much fed up with sleeping out of a suitcase just wanting the easy life .
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The Female King of Colonial Nigeria
Ahebi Ugbabe
Nwando Achebe
Format: Paperback 29 b&w illus., 12 maps, 9 music exx., 5 tables
Winner, 2012 Gita Chaudhuri Prize (The Western Association of Women Historians)Winner, 2012 Barbara "Penny" Kanner Prize (Western Association of Women Historians)Winner, 2013 Aidoo-Snyder Book Award, African Studies Association Women’s Caucus
Nwando Achebe presents the fascinating history of an Igbo woman, Ahebi Ugbabe, who became king in colonial Nigeria. Ugbabe was exiled from Igboland, became a prostitute, traveled widely, and learned to speak many languages. She became a close companion of Nigerian Igala kings and the British officers who supported her claim to the office of headman, warrant chief, and later, king. In this unique biography, Achebe traces the roots of Ugbabe's rise to fame and fortune. While providing critical perspectives on women, gender, sex and sexuality, and the colonial encounter, she also considers how it was possible for this woman to take on the office and responsibilities of a traditionally male role.
Nwando Achebe is Professor of History at Michigan State University. She is author of Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900–1960.
“The fascinating history of an Igbo woman who was exiled from Igboland, became a prostitute, traveled widely, learned to speak many languages, then later became king in colonial Nigeria.”
“An unusual biography and a compelling tale about the life of an extraordinary woman.”
— Stephan F. Miescher, University of California, Santa Barbara
“This important, but neglected, story of Nigeria’s only female warrant chief is thoroughly grounded in local meanings and local categories, yet speaks to some of the most important concerns in comparative women’s history: from slavery and freedom, to sexuality, power, and spirituality.”
— Jean Allman, Washington University of St. Louis
“An important contribution to the study of modern African history. It will be of special interest to scholars of African history, women's studies, and comparative politics.”
— Anene Ejikeme, Trinity University
“The Female King of Colonial Nigeria makes a solid contribution to the literature on women’s (auto) biography and the cogent treatments of gender, and sexualities. The book will benefit scholars, students, and those interested in issues of women and gender. ”
— African Studies Quarterly
“[A] fascinating exploration of the fluidity of gender and the nature of political authority. And it’s a remarkable reconstruction not only of colonial rule at the local level, but also of pre-colonial life and post-colonial memory. I highly recommend.6/29/12”
— New Books in Gender
“Achebe presents a compelling history that embodies yet transcends the local. This thorough and detailed biography will be of great use to specialists in Igbo history and to scholars of women's and gender history more broadly. ”
— American Historical Review
“The Female King is a thoughtful, well-written, and amply documented work that should have great influence on those who write about the Igbo, about African women, and about African history. ”
— Women's Review of Books
“The Female King of Colonial Nigeria will be a valuable read for a variety of audiences. Whether one is interested in colonial history, gender history, family history, or women’s history, there is much to be found in this biography to enrich and complicate one’s understandings.”
— Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
“The Female King of Colonial Nigeria is a rich and significant book that illuminates history, culture, politics, and gender constructions in Igbo land. The book is lucidly written, provides good examples of field methods, and will enrich scholars and students of a wide range of disciplines from history to anthropology and gender studies. ”
— Intl. Journal of African Historical Studies
“The Female King of Colonial Nigera . . . is one of the most compellingly argued, rigorously researched scholarly writings in the fields of history and women studies in colonial Igbo society, Nigeria and Africa. ”
— Leeds African Studies Bulletin
“[This is] the story of a woman, Ahebi Ugbabe, who rose from the status of a local girl and commercial sex worker to that of a village headman, a warrant chief and a king....[This book]... salvage[s] the history of a woman who became the only warrant chief in colonial Nigeria...distinguishes between Western concepts of gender and sexuality, and the indigenous meanings of these concepts in an African setting.... [A] well-written, amply researched, and efficiently documented [book]. It is a major contribution to African history and the practice of oral history.March 2013”
— Reviews in History
Ekene / Acknowledgments
Nkwado / The Preparation: All Trees Grow in the Forest, but the Ora Singled Itself Out
Nkowa / The Introduction: Unspoken, Blame the Mouth; Unheard, Blame the Ear
1. Oge Nwatakili: The Time of Childhood, ca. 1880<N>1895
2. Mgbakpu Ahebi: Exile in Igalaland, ca. 1895<N>1916
3. Performing Masculinities: Homecoming--and She Becomes a Man, ca. 1916<N>1948
4. Inside King Ahebi's Palace, ca. 1916<N>1948
5. Mastering Masculinities: Ekpe Ahebi Masquerade--the Final Insult, ca. 1931<N>1948
Mmechi / The Conclusion: Ahebi Today--the Works That We Do Are the Things by Which We Are Remembered
Appendix: Select Criminal and Civil Cases in Nsukka Division, 1921<N>1935
Glossary of Enugu-Ezike Chronological Terms
Glossary of Igbo, Igala, and Akpoto Words
Interviews with author Nwando Achebe:
New Books in Gender Studies
Africa Past & Present
African Writers' Day Conference
Yoruba Women, Work, and Social Change
Africa After Gender?
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Women's Songs from West Africa
Edited by Thomas A Hale and Aissata G Sidikou
Exploring the origins, organization, subject matter, and performance contexts of singers and singing, Women's Songs from West Africa expands our understanding of the world of women in West Africa and their complex and subtle roles as verbal artists. Covering Côte d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and beyond, the essays attest to the importance of women’s contributions to the most widespread form of verbal art in Africa.
Thomas A. Hale is Liberal Arts Professor of African, French, and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is author of Griots and Griottes (IUP, 2007) and editor (with Aissata G. Sidikou) of Women's Voices from West Africa: An Anthology of Songs from the Sahel (IUP, 2012).
Aissata G. Sidikou is Assistant Professor of French at the United States Naval Academy. She is author of Recreating Words, Reshaping Worlds: The Verbal Art of Women from Niger, Mali, and Senegal.
“These essays affirm the importance of women performers and the importance of the songs in articulating women's issues in the Sahel region of Africa today.”
— Mildred Mortimer, University of Colorado, Boulder
“This book is a valuable source of information for Africanists interested in the role played by women in the continuity of tradition in African culture. . . . Recommended.”
— Choice
“ Women's Songs from West Africa, is a valuable resource for scholars interested in West African music, and represents a remarkable achievement.”
— Ethnomusicology Review
Women’s Songs and Singing in West Africa: New Perspectives
Thomas A. Hale and Aissata G. Sidikou
1. Wolof Women Break the Taboo of Sex through Songs
Marame Gueye
2. Jola Kanyalen Songs from the Casamance, Sengeal: From ‘Tradition’ to Globalization Kirsten Langeveld
3. Azna Deities in the Songs of Taguimba Bouzou: A Window on the Visible and Invisible
Boubé Namaïwa
4. Initiation and Funeral Songs from the Guro of Côte d'Ivoire
Ariane Deluz
5. Praises Performances by Jalimusolu in The Gambia
Marloes Janson
6. Music about Feminine Modernity in the Sahara
Aline Tauzin
7. Songs by Wolof Women
Luciana Penna-Diaw
8. A Heroic Performance by Siramori Diabate of Mali
Brahima Camara and Jan Jansen
9. Women’s Tattooing Songs from Kajoor, Senegal
George Joseph
10. Drummed Poems by Songhay-Zarma Women of Niger
Fatima Mounkaïla
11. Space, Language, and Identity in the Palm Tree
Aissata G. Sidikou
12. Bambara Women’s Songs in Southern Mali
Bah Diakité
13. Patriarchy in Songs and Poetry by Zarma Women
Aissata Niandou
14. Muslim Hausa Women’s Songs
15. Lamentation and Politics in the Sahelian Song
Thomas A. Hale
16. Transformations in Tuareg Tende Singing: Women’s Voices and Local Feminisms
Susan J. Rasmussen
17. Income Strategies of a Jelimuso in Mali and France
Nienke Muurling
Women's Voices from West Africa
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Get Your Dose Of Karma At The Paramount
January 31, 2019 / peter sloggatt
Huntington-based Gnarly Karma,playing the Great South Bay Music Festival, above, will play to the home crowd when they open for TR3 at The Paramount on Feb. 1.
By Sophia Ricco
sricco@longislandergroup.com
Huntington-based Gnarly Karma is stoked to hit the stage of The Paramount this week. The band opens Friday for one of their musical influences, Dave Matthews Band guitarist Tim Reynolds and his band TR3.
Gnarly Karma has a dynamic sound that anyone could love. They are composed of singer and guitarist Mike “Manicotti” Renert; drummer Jarrod “Rock” Beyer; bassist Ryan “McMagic” McAdam; saxophonist Billy “Bad Bones” Hanley; and lead guitarist Adam “Sklarface” Sklar.
All are locals: Menert is from Cold Spring Harbor; Beyer, McAdam and Hanley from Elwood; and Sklar from Syosset.
The band has dreamed of playing at The Paramount for years.
“It’s something that we’ve been working towards since we started,” Renert said. “Growing up, I always went to the city to see shows and wished there was someplace in Huntington to see concerts. When the Paramount opened, we said, ‘We’re gonna play there. We might start out opening but one day we’ll get to headline.’”
Formed six years ago, Gnarly Karma has gained notoriety for their eclectic music style and spirited live performances at venues like Long Island’s Great South Bay Music Festival, Alive After Five in Patchogue Village, and South by Southwest Music Festival, in Austin, Texas.
Gnarly Karma band memers, from left, are: Billy Hanley, Jarrod Beyer, Mike Renert, Ryan McAdam and Adam Sklar.
But for Gnarly Karma, the Paramount gig is a home game. Renert said he couldn’t put into words the excitement he felt knowing he would be playing for his home community on Friday.
“The goal was always to get into The Paramount on the main stage. We’re super-pumped about that,” Renert said.
The band’s music appeals to a broad audience, and each member brings his own musical perspective. Beyer’s drumming is influenced by Latin rhythms, Hanley loves Motown and funk, Sklar is into all things classic rock, while McAdam prefers modern alternative rock. As the singer/songwriter, Renert focuses on his lyrics and wants listeners to connect with them.
“We all bring a flavor to the song and when it all comes together, it’s really something that everyone can listen to,” Renert said. “I love that we all have different musical influences.”
One of Renert’s inspirations happens to be headliner, Tim Reynolds, who he idolized as a songwriter with Dave Matthews. He remembers going to sleepaway camp, when first learning to play the guitar and his counselor played him “Dave and Tim Live at Luther College” on cassette.
“That album is timeless for me, I listen to it all the time,” Renert said. “When I think of acoustic song-writing, I think of Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds on that album. It’s really unbelievable. I would always listen to it and say Tim Reynolds lead guitar playing is amazing, and now we’re opening for him.”
Gnarly Karma will be releasing new songs this year and hope to perform at more gigs across the country. Catch them open for Tim Reynolds and TR3 on Friday, Feb. 1. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $15-40.
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The Marshall Tucker Band Brings Southern Rock To The Paramount
December 06, 2017 / Long Islander Admin
The Marshall Tucker Band and its Southern rock sound will grace the stage of The Paramount in Huntington on Thursday, Dec. 7.
December 06, 2017 / Long Islander Admin/ Comment
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King Crimson Bringing It All To The Paramount
November 07, 2017 / Long Islander Admin
The newest configuration of progressive rock band King Crimson will bring its complex sound and unique formation to The Paramount next week.
November 07, 2017 / Long Islander Admin/ Comment
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The Paramount Gears Up For 14 Shows In 14 Days
The Paramount will host a record-breaking run of 14 shows in 14 days, beginning Thursday, Nov. 2, the longest streak of consecutive shows in the history of the venue.
The Paramount, concert, music, Huntington village
Eli Young Band Bringing Country Tunes To The Paramount
The sounds of Texas will fill The Paramount on Election Day, when the Eli Young Band stops in Huntington to give country music fans a taste of its new album, “Fingerprints.”
Eli Young Band, The Paramount, country, music
Cold Spring Harbor Students Receive Prestigious Music Honors
October 27, 2017 / Long Islander Admin
The music program at the Cold Spring Harbor School District tallied seven students receiving 2017 All-State New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA) honors and two students being selected for the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) All National Choral Ensembles.
October 27, 2017 / Long Islander Admin/ Comment
Arts, Life & Style, Local People, Music, Schools
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Dee Snider Gonna Rock The Paramount In Huntington
Rock 'n' Roll legend Dee Snider will bring his intense blend of hard rock and heavy metal to Huntington when he takes the stage at The Paramount with opening acts Voices of Extreme and Killcode.
Dee Snider, The Paramount, rock and roll, Twisted Sister
An Evening With Ambrosia & Friends At The Paramount
Ambrosia & Friends will bring an evening of hits from the ’70s and early ’80s to The Paramount stage later this month.
Arts, Life & Style, Local Events, The Paramount, Music
Ambrosia & Friends, The Paramount
Jonny Lang To Bring Blues, Synth To The Paramount
Guitar wunderkind Jonny Lang will perform songs from his new album, “Signs,” at The Paramount on Oct. 19.
Life & Style, Local Events, Music, The Paramount
Jonny Lang, The Paramount, Signs
Engeman’s ‘Gypsy’ Cast Is Broadway Quality
September 28, 2017 / Long Islander Admin
The John W. Engeman Theater’s rendition of “Gypsy” instantly sets the scene, as the orchestra opens up the production with a jazzy introduction that brings audience members back to the 1920s.
September 28, 2017 / Long Islander Admin/ Comment
Life & Style, Music
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‘Mystic Rhythms’ Covers Decades Of Rush
Renowned Rush tribute band Mystic Rhythms will debut their epic four-part show Rush Thru Time at The Paramount on Sept. 30.
Rush, tribute, band, Mystic Rhythms, The Paramount
Huntington Natives to Perform In Inaugural Great Eastern Music Festival
A pair of Huntington natives will perform in the Montauk Historical Society’s inaugural Great Eastern Music Festival next weekend.
Life & Style, Local People, Music
Great Eastern Music Festival, Montauk, historical society, Huntington, Kirsten Maxwell, Bill Scorzari
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Tag: victim of identity theft
Tips to keep your personal data secure throughout tax season
March 16, 2012 March 16, 2012 H. Cutner
When tax season comes around, there is already a great deal of stress on people’s minds, especially when they receive a communication of any form from the Internal Revenue Service, but the internet – while adding a great deal of convenience – has opened up a whole new world or risk as online criminals try to hook victims with phishing tactics at this time of year. These criminals prey on their victims by using the fear that is high at this time of year to obtain information that these individuals…
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TD Insurance enables customers with identity theft-busting tools
October 21, 2011 October 21, 2011 Marc
TD Insurance Inc. has announced that it is taking steps to make it simpler for its customers to monitor their own accounts so that they have added protection against identity theft. The insurer, which is among the top 10 bank-owned insurance agency and brokerage firms in the country, as well as TD Bank, “America’s Most Convenient Bank”, are offering their customers the use of the ITAC Sentinel Plus program. Its features include the following: • Daily surveillance of debit and credit card accounts over the internet, with additional monitoring of…
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Identity theft protection now available to Allstate customers in California
August 26, 2011 May 8, 2013
Allstate Insurance Company has unveiled its latest offering to residents of California, which consists of identity theft expenses coverage, that will help to minimize the cost and the time needed by victims who need to salvage their identities. Every year, approximately 9 million people in the United States fall victim to identity theft, resulting in millions of dollars and hours spent for the recovery of the stolen identities. According to Assistant Field Vice President Phil Telgenhoff from Allstate, the victims of some of the more challenging cases of identity theft…
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Lexington, Va. Part 2 of 3. Washington and Lee University.
Founded, 1749, as Augusta Academy, near Greenville;
Reestablished at Timber Ridge, May, 1776,
as Liberty Hall Academy;
Moved to Lexington and chartered
as a college, 1782;
Endowed by George Washington, 1796,
and named for him.
Under presidency, 1865 -1870, of Robert E. Lee
(buried in the University Chapel)
whose name after death was incorporated in the official title.
This is the beautiful campus of Washington & Lee University,
the nation's ninth oldest institution of higher learning.
No other school in the nation can boast the legacy
of two of America's most famous generals -
George Washington and Robert E. Lee.
It was founded as Augusta Academy in 1749
and was renamed several times.
In 1776, it was renamed Liberty Hall.
In 1798 it was named Washington Academy to honor
its benefactor, George Washington,
who saved the school from financial ruin
with a generous endowment of $20,000 in 1796.
In 1813, it was named a college and in 1871,
it became Washington and Lee University
to honor its 11th president, Robert E. Lee (1865-1870).
After the Civil War, Lee revived the school,
setting it on its course as a modern university
by introducing practical education into the liberal arts curriculum.
Perhaps the most distinguishing characteristic
of Washington and Lee University
is its student-run Honor System,
and the environment it creates on campus and in Lexington.
A W & L student's word is accepted and respected
both on campus and in the community.
Since its inception, the Honor System
fosters a sense of trust and community
that continues to enhance the lives of the students
during enrollment at W & L
and later on in their professional and personal lives.
Washington and Lee University's motto,
"Not unmindful of the future,"
incorporates the visions of Washington and Lee.
While looking to the future,
the University honors its traditions of classical
and practical education,
that nurtured America's founding and growth as a nation.
This is approaching Lee Chapel and Museum
at Washington and Lee University.
In 1866, Lee argued for construction of a Chapel
as a place where students could attend daily worship
and meet for special occasions.
The Chapel has been an integral part of the University's
historic campus and a center for
ceremonies, lectures, and cultural events since 1868.
Lee Chapel was named a National Historic Landmark
in 1961, and in the early 1960s,
the Ford Motor Company Fund
contributed to its restoration
and the museum renovation.
Established in 1928,
the museum was renovated again in 1998.
In 2007, to mark the 200 anniversary of Lee's birth,
new exhibitions were installed.
Today, the Lee Chapel and Museum
chronicles the heritage and history of
Washington and Lee University,
including its ties to its famous namesakes.
This Victorian Chapel has been the center
of University Activities since its construction in 1867.
In the museum, you can learn the story of the University,
whose benefactor was George Washington
and whose president was Robert E. Lee -
two of America's most famous generals,
who happened to be related by marriage.
General R. E Lee became president of
Washington College in 1865.
With an eye to the future,
he built this chapel to serve the University's growing needs.
Unfortunately, no pictures are allowed inside.
In the museum, one can trace the history of
the University - from its humble beginnings as
Augusta Academy to Lee's modern legacy
of civility and honor.
When Lee died in 1870,
the Lee Memorial Association was formed
and, under the advice of Mrs. Lee,
commissioned sculptor Edward Valentine of Richmond
to create a statue of the late general and college president.
Completed in 1875,
the recumbent statue was stored on campus
until an addition to the Chapel was dedicated in 1883.
The addition included both a statue chamber and a crypt,
where Lee, his parents, his wife and seven children,
as well as other immediate descendants are buried.
Outside the crypt doors,
Lee's beloved horse,Traveller, is buried.
General Lee's Beloved Traveller
Rarely has an animal captured so much affection.
Traveller, first called Jeff Davis and later Greenbrier,
was born in 1857 near Blue Sulphur Springs (now in West Virginia).
In 1862, Lee purchased him
and renamed him after one of George Washington's horses.
This sturdy American saddlebred,
sixteen hands high, iron gray with a black mane and tail,
carried Lee through many of the Civil War's major campaigns,
and later on pleasant late afternoon rides into the hillsides around Lexington.
Not long after Lee's death, Traveller stepped on a nail
and developed tetanus necessitating his destruction.
He died in the summer of 1871
and was buried in a ravine behind the college.
A century later, his skeleton was reburied here.
For years, his mounted skeleton was displayed at the University.
It was a custom among students,
when facing a particularly hard exam,
to write one's name on Traveller's bones for good luck.
Eventually, the skeleton became a mass of graffiti
and the University disassembled the skeleton
and packed it away in boxes.
It was rescued by the Daughters if the Confederacy
and Traveller was laid to rest close to his master.
Stature of Cyrus Hall McCormick
Native of Rockbridge County Virginia
He liberated agriculture,
befriended education, and
advanced the cause of religion.
Trustee and Benefactor
of Washington and Lee University.
Cyrus McCormick, who grew up
on his family's 532 acre farm, "Walnut Grove,
north of Lexington,
was known as the "Father of Modern Agriculture,"
and made one of the most significant contributions
to agriculture and America's prosperity,
when he invented the horse-drawn reaper in 1831.
Horse-drawn tours are available.
Stay tuned for Stonewall Jackson's cemetery.
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Osborne pledges to cut the Child Trust Fund
Back in the day, the Conservatives always used to say that while Labour wanted to put wealth in the hands of the state, they wished to spread it amongst the people. Their goal, they insisted, was a 'property-owning democracy'.
In the past year, would-be 'progressive Conservatives' and 'Red Tories' have revived this tradition of Tory thinking, seeking to link Cameron's political project to a bold new agenda for spreading asset ownership through society.
In one fell swoop, George Osborne has revealed just how superficial and opportunistic Tory thinking on assets really is. Today Osborne announced that an incoming Tory government will abolish the Child Trust Fund for all children except those in the poorest third of households.
Under the Child Trust Fund, all children get a sum at birth which is held in trust for them until they are 18 - with a further state payment scheduled for the child's 7th birthday. The sum is £250 for most children, rising to £500 for children in the poorest third of households. Families, too, can contribute into the CTF to a maximum of £1,200 per year.
Osborne's proposal is to take the CTF away from the bulk of future children, leaving it as a policy specifically for the 'poor'.
The defence of this proposal presumably goes like this: 'Kids in the middle classes will get savings from their parents anyway. They don't need this help from the state. So let's limit the state assistance to those most in need.'
Well, I suppose this is better than the Lib Dem policy which would also take the CTF away from children in the poorest third of households (its what they call 'progressive austerity'). Nevertheless, Osborne's proposal remains a misguided policy for at least three reasons.
First, the assumption that the 'middle-class' parents will save anyway for their children is flawed. There is evidence which shows that the CTF has increased parental saving for children - in other words, that it has helped to prompt net saving on children's behalf. Part of the explanation for this may lie with one of those ideas that the Cameroonians were supposedly very keen on a little while back - the idea of 'nudge'. The presence of the CTF may help to 'nudge' parents into saving they want to make but which they might otherwise not make. Thus, by taking it away from 'middle-class' families, one might well discourage saving for children in this group.
Second, there is a well-known political dynamic according to which benefits for the poor tend over time to become poor benefits. By removing the bulk of families from the CTF, Osborne's plan will obviously diminish 'middle-class' interest in the program. The program will become politically more marginal and, thus, an easier prospect for further cuts down the line.
My third reason for rejecting the proposal arises from a basic difference of philosophical principle with Osborne and the Conservatives. I think all citizens have a right to a decent sum of capital on maturity. This right, as a right, should not be made dependent on their parents' decisions about whether, or how much, to save. The CTF embodies this principle, albeit modestly in terms of the amounts of resources going into the accounts as of right from the state. Abolishing the CTF for most children shows just how far the Conservatives are from accepting this idea of a right to capital as a right of citizenship. They want our life-chances to be more at the mercy of our parents' decisions.
'Property-owning democracy'? 'Ownership for all'? Time was, these were Tory and Liberal slogans. But it seems that Labour is the only one of the three main parties which really believes in them now.
Posted by Stuart White at 13:49
Labels: Child Trust Fund, Conservatives
Rajiv Prabhakar said...
So this is what progressive conservatism amounts to in practice. Taking away a modest grant that is provided to all children while at the same time raising the inheritance tax threshold that will benefit the wealthiest in our society.
Osborne’s promise to limit the Child Trust Fund chips away at the universal welfare state and points towards a means-tested and residual future. As Stuart White notes, benefits for the poor can quickly become poor benefits.
I’ve done research with parents on their attitudes to the Child Trust Fund. One of the main findings of this was a strong commitment to a provision of a Child Trust Fund for all. They felt all children should get something, irrespective of background.
This proposal also has implications for efforts to improve the financial capability of the young. Part of the purpose of the Child Trust Fund is to help young people learn about money in a practical fashion and in a way they are likely to find engaging. There are lessons at school on how to manage the Child Trust Fund. Evidence shows that the Child Trust Fund can help youngsters plan ahead, and planning for the future is a priority area. What will happen to the Child Trust Fund and the opportunities for learning under these proposals? Would lessons be restricted to only those with Child Trust Funds, or would they happen at all?
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on: September 11, 2018 In: Africa
The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea visited their shared border to celebrate Ethiopian new year together on Tuesday – marking the countries’ reconciliation on a frontier where their soldiers faced off against each other just months earlier.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki visited their troops stationed at Bure, a region that saw some of the fiercest fighting during their 1998-2000 war.
Tensions over the border burned on after the fighting ended – until Abiy offered to end the military standoff this year as part of a package of reforms that has reshaped the political landscape in the Horn of Africa and beyond.
“PM Abiy Ahmed and President Isaias Afwerki are visiting Bure Front along Ethio-Eritrea border to celebrate the New Year with members of the Ethiopian & Eritrean Defence Forces following the full normalisation of the relations between the two countries. #Ethiopia #Eritrea,” Fitsum Arega, Abiy’s Chief of Staff, said on Twitter.
Pictures on Fitsum’s Twitter account showed Abiy and Isaias walking side by side.
Since signing an agreement in Asmara on July 9 to restore ties, the Eritrean and Ethiopian leaders have moved swiftly to end the two decades of hostility.
Eritrea reopened its embassy in Ethiopia in July, and Ethiopia reciprocated last week.
The two countries have resumed flights. Eritrea has agreed to open up its ports to its landlocked neighbour and last week announced plans to upgrade a road between them.
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Ethiopia follows a calendar similar to the ancient Julian calendar — which started disappearing from the West in the 16th century — meaning the country will enter its year 2011 on September 11.
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(Source: AFP)
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Review of Janet Schmalfeldt: In the Process of Becoming: Analytical and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
Seth Monahan
KEYWORDS: musical form, perception, Schenkerian analysis, Schmalfeldt, Adorno, Dahlhaus, Hepokoski, Caplin, Beethoven, Chopin, Haydn, Mozart, Clementi
Received May 2011
[1] This has been a banner season for the “Tempest” sonata. In 2009, Peeters published a widely read volume of essays that explored the unique analytical and performative challenges of Beethoven’s op. 31, no. 2.(1) In that same year, members of the Society for Music Theory (SMT) had occasion to see several leading lights of the new Formenlehre, William Caplin, James Hepokoski, and Janet Schmalfeldt, go head-to-head with competing interpretations of the sonata’s notoriously ambiguous opening movement.(2) Now, the “Tempest” provides the point of departure for Schmalfeldt’s much-anticipated essay collection, In the Process of Becoming: Analytical and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music.
[2] Schmalfeldt has written about the opening of the “Tempest” before, of course. Her 1995 essay, “Form as the Process of Becoming: The Beethoven-Hegelian Tradition and the ‘Tempest’ Sonata,” was a landmark text of both Beethoven reception and contemporary formal analysis. In addition to lending its title to the current volume, that study appears here (with key additions) as Chapter Two, where it serves as the centerpiece of the book as a whole.(3) For it is in her “Tempest” analysis that Schmalfeldt most convincingly makes her case for the “processual” conception of form that is at the heart of her project.
[3] As Schmalfeldt’s readers know, this process-based understanding of the “Tempest’s” opening movement is an inheritance from Dahlhaus, who regarded the work as a milestone of Beethoven’s development and of nineteenth-century music in general. Spurred by its ostensible lack of a clear-cut primary theme—the mercurial, caesura-riven introduction seems to elide directly into the sonata transition—Dahlhaus came to believe that the work announced a fundamentally new formal impulse, one that “thwart[ed] and negated” the customary schematic-modular conception of sonata form (Dahlhaus 1989, 14).(4) Rather than offering the listener a series of discrete, easily-identifiable functional/thematic regions, this was a music whose “form” was nothing less than the work’s own unique “process of coming into being” through the continuous transformation of its materials (1991, 118).
[4] In making Dahlhaus’s “processual” idea her own, Schmalfeldt does much to clarify and demystify an elusive and sometimes jargon-clouded concept. Throughout her study, a “process”-based approach to form generally signifies one whose aim is to uncover and articulate the ambiguities that arise when composers knowingly manipulate familiar functional signifiers (introductions, continuations, conclusions, and so on) in order to frustrate any simplistically schematic understanding of form. Most often, this involves the strategic dissolution of sectional boundaries. In the “Tempest” and elsewhere, Schmalfeldt is especially interested in situations where the listener can claim retrospectively to have traveled from functional region x to functional region y, but without being able to determine the precise moment when one gave way to the other. Relationships of this sort are indicated throughout with the “ ” symbol: e.g., “MT Transition” refers to a main theme that becomes a transition at some indeterminate point.(5)
[5] Schmalfeldt is quick to stress that these innovations necessarily imposed new “participatory” demands on auditors of all sorts.(6) Deprived of the usual Formenlehre roadmaps, listeners would need to assess and reassess their positions within the unfolding musical argument more or less continuously, leading to a heightened state of engagement and the experience of form as an emergent father than fixed feature of the work.(7) At the same time, performers—“the most active of all listeners,” by Schmalfeldt’s reckoning (116)—would be entrusted more than ever to play “a determinative role in our understanding of the formal process” through the nuances of their interpretive choices (58).
[6] Taken together, the book’s first three chapters lay out the main substance of Schmalfeldt’s theory of musical “becoming.” Chapter One introduces the idea of “form as process” and traces aspects of processual thinking in the analytical work of contemporary authors (including Caplin, Hepokoski, Lewin, and Newcomb), mid-century writers like Dahlhaus and Adorno, and fin-de-siècle titans Schoenberg and Schenker. Chapter Two goes deeper still, charting the roots of Dahlhaus’s “Tempest” critique within a long-standing “Beethoven-Hegelian tradition.” Extending from Hoffmann to Schoenberg via Marx (each of whom situated the composer within a broadly Hegelian model of historical change), this tradition culminated in Adorno’s radical insistence that Beethoven’s middle style was itself realized through precisely the same kind of dialectical movement as Hegel’s philosophy. The revelation that Beethovenian form could be perceived dialectically resonates throughout Dahlhaus’s writings and finds fruition in the extended Dahlhausean analysis of the “Tempest” that closes Chapter Two. From there, Chapter Three moves on explore eighteenth-century precedents for Beethoven’s formal/processual innovations in a series of chamber and stage works by Haydn, Mozart, and Clementi.
[7] At that point, though, the text undergoes a curious transformation of its own: from Chapter Four onward, Schmalfeldt’s tightly-knit monograph “becomes,” as it were, more of a loosely knit essay collection. The remaining six chapters—all but one of which have appeared (at least germinally) in print elsewhere—are best understood as standalone studies that relate by varying degrees to the organizing principle of “processive” form. Chapters Five and Seven follow most directly from the book’s opening thesis. The former (“On Performance, Analysis, and Schubert”) aims, pace Adorno, to uncover a Beethovenian influence on the formal processes of Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A Minor, op. 42 (D. 845) and then explores what these structural ambiguities might mean for performers.(8) The latter asks similar questions of several movements by Mendelssohn, culminating in a lengthy investigation of thematic construction, cyclical design, and processual techniques in the Octet, op. 20.
[8] Other essays explore the issue of musical “process” from rather different angles. In Chapter Six, “Music that Turns Inward: New Roles for Interior Movements and Secondary Themes,” Schmalfeldt looks at “cyclic and processual formal techniques that draw new kinds of attention to deeply felt, song-inspired interior movements and secondary (as opposed to main) themes” (136), focusing in particular on Schubert’s Lebensstürme (D. 947) and Piano Trio No. 2 in E Major (D. 929). In the aptly titled final chapter (“Coming Home”) she examines closural processes in several songs and piano works by Schumann, with special interest in the various ways that his music seems to convey a “longing for home” (257).
[9] The two remaining essays stand rather apart from the book’s main thesis of “processual” form. Chapter Five, on Beethoven’s “‘Bridgetower’ sonata” (née “Kreuzer”), op. 47, seeks to demonstrate that Beethoven’s “new path” of 1803 “involved an intensive, maybe even obsessive, attention to molecular, often-pitch specific motives as generative forces” (91).(9) Chapter Eight addresses Chopin’s characteristic use of diatonic and chromatic ascending-thirds progressions and offers close readings of the opening and Andante movements of his Cello Sonata, op. 65, in an effort to “shed new light” on how the work “responds to the German sonata tradition in a language that is uniquely Chopin’s” (216).
[10] But if the collection falls shy of being through-composed monograph, it is nevertheless unified by Schmalfeldt’s distinctive authorial voice, which weaves together the perspectives of a critic, a historian, and a performer. As an analyst, she is unfailingly musical and self-consciously eclectic, combining a supple, listener-centered phenomenology of form with a Schenkerian interest in motive and long-range contrapuntal structures.(10) Her consistent attention to performance considerations is surely one of the book’s most appealing features: in its pages we encounter not the author herself as pianist-critic, but also real-life recording artists (Goode, Bilson, Pollini, Staier, et al.), hypothetical instrumentalists, and even the Romantic composers themselves as music-makers.(11) No less congenial is the book’s characteristically rapt tone; never an author to soft-pedal her admiration, Schmalfeldt writes in such a way as to make her reverence for the works she loves palpable on nearly every page. It is a collection that reminds its readers again and again why we, as critics and performers, do what we do.
[11] That the book is driven, above all, by a love of pieces—that it unfolds as a series of more or less self-contained analytical vignettes—does not come without tradeoffs, however. At times, tensions emerge between the book’s large-scale theoretical aims (i.e., an exploration of musical “becoming”) and its local commitment to rigorous exegesis. Though her analyses are often compelling narrated, they can also become detail-laden in a way that distracts from the main thesis.(12) For instance, there are times when the Schenkerian elements in Schmalfeldt’s readings risk seeming incidental or decorative, in that it is not always clear (at least to this reviewer) whether the many dutiful references to Kopftöne, linear progressions, and voice exchanges do any kind of palpable “work” for analyses that are ostensibly about form-as-process.(13)
[12] That being said, when the Schenkerian apparatus is more robustly built and given a central analytical role (as in the Chapter Two “Tempest” discussion), more troubling methodological tensions come to the fore: those between the synchronic fixity of Schenkerian graphs and the protean fluidity of Dahlhausean analytical prose. Sensing this, Schmalfeldt expends no small effort staging a reconciliation, explaining that “although the completed Schenkerian graph would seem to represent a single, final view, its production itself entails the process of hearing the music in time and interpreting it multidimensionally” (44; see also 50–51).(14) Though the second of these statements is undoubtedly true, the first is misleading: a Schenkerian graph does not “seem” to represent a “single, final view”; it does represent this—a “single” view, if not necessarily a “final” one. Simply put, there is no Schenkerian equivalent for Schmalfeldt’s indispensable “ ” sign. Graphing conventions as we know them make no provision for the vicissitudes of real-time assessment and reassessment; there is no room for interpretive “multidimensionality.”(15) What is more, analysts who commit to graphing a piece will inevitably find themselves compelled to think and indeed hear in terms of the categories permitted by those conventions. A bias toward stable contrapuntal understructures can hardly be avoided, and these may very well rub against the uncertainties and contingencies that Dahlhausean analytical narratives seek to accentuate.
[13] Tensions of this very sort arise in Chapter Two, when Schmalfeldt pointedly resists granting the “Tempest’s” D-minor tonality the same kind of emergent character she so convincingly ascribes to its formal functions, on the grounds that the seemingly ephemeral opening tonic can be linked to a later structural dominant by way of a nine-bar linear progression. Though perfectly legitimate within a Schenkerian understanding of musical process, such a reading flatly contradicts Schmalfeldt’s much-touted phenomenological outlook in which initial perceptions—e.g., D minor as “ephemeral” rather than structural—would continue to exist as part of the perceptual fabric even when they have been effectively “overturned” (19).(16) One regrets that Schmalfeldt passes over this opportunity for methodological reflection, since there is much to be gained by contemplating the different and often incompatible ways that analytical paradigms invite us to conceive of music as a “process.”(17)
[14] Setting that issue aside, though, Schmalfeldt is right in pointing out that a specifically dialectical understanding of musical “process” is gaining traction in the field, assisted both by her own writings and by those of Hepokoski and Darcy and, to a lesser extent, Caplin (9, 16). Future researchers will be tasked with documenting these sorts of “processual” techniques in the music of the later Romantics—their presence in Brahms is already well-known—and also more fully in Beethoven’s predecessors. (Such research might, I suspect, reopen the question of whether this “processual” approach to form is really a hallmark of Romantic composition, or whether classical composers were at times no less sophisticated in their manipulation of listeners’ functional/rhetorical expectations.(18)) One can also imagine the clarity that a taxonomic approach might bring to the issue of formal-functional reinterpretation, since there are, for instance, significant differences between elisions involving adjacent formal sections (as with the common “MT Transition”) and more radical elisions that “elide away” a generically obligatory section altogether, as in Dahlhaus’s hearing of the “Tempest” (“Introduction Transition,” skipping “MT” entirely).(19) For those wishing to undertake such analytical journeys, Schmalfeldt’s study shall be required reading. For the rest of us, it will make for a rewarding study, and one that brings us into intimate contact with the many wonders of nineteenth-century musical form and its expressive powers.
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Hepokoski, James and Warren Darcy. 2006. Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lee, Mike Cheng-Yu. 2010. “A Response to Schmalfeldt’s ‘Form as Process of Becoming’: Once More on the Performance and Analysis of Schubert’s Sonata in A Minor, Op. 42.” Music Theory Online 16, no. 2.
Martin, Nathan. 2010. Review of Beethoven’s Tempest Sonata: Perspectives of Analysis and Performance (Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2009). Theory and Practice 35: 169–89.
Schmalfeldt, Janet. 1991. “Towards a Reconciliation of Schenkerian Concepts with Traditional and Recent Theories of Form.” Music Analysis 10: 223–87.
Schmalfeldt, Janet. 1995. “Form as the Process of Becoming: The Beethoven-Hegelian Tradition and the ‘Tempest’ Sonata.” Beethoven Forum 4: 37–71.
—————. 1995. “Form as the Process of Becoming: The Beethoven-Hegelian Tradition and the ‘Tempest’ Sonata.” Beethoven Forum 4: 37–71.
Schmalfeldt, Janet. 2010a. “One More Time on Beethoven’s ‘Tempest,’ From Analytic and Performance Perspectives: A Response to William E. Caplin and James Hepokoski.” Music Theory Online 16, no. 2.
—————. 2010a. “One More Time on Beethoven’s ‘Tempest,’ From Analytic and Performance Perspectives: A Response to William E. Caplin and James Hepokoski.” Music Theory Online 16, no. 2.
Schmalfeldt, Janet. 2010b. “Response to Mike Cheng-Yu Lee.” Music Theory Online 16, no. 2.
—————. 2010b. “Response to Mike Cheng-Yu Lee.” Music Theory Online 16, no. 2.
Schmalfeldt, Janet. 2011. In the Process of Becoming: Analytical and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
—————. 2011. In the Process of Becoming: Analytical and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1. See Bergé, ed. 2009. For reviews of that collection, see Damschroder 2010 and Martin 2010.
2. This debate occurred as part of a special session dedicated to the career of Janet Schmalfeldt organized by the Committee for the Status of Women (CSW) at the Society’s 2009 annual meeting in Montréal. The session’s presentations, along with Schmalfeldt’s responses, are documented in Volume 16 of this journal; for the “Tempest” debate, see Caplin 2010, Hepokoski 2010, and Schmalfeldt 2010a.
3. The most important and extensive new material appears at pages 33–36. It is also noteworthy that the original article’s third through sixth paragraphs have been excised and relocated to Chapter 1 (pages 10–11).
4. Hepokoski has challenged Dahlhaus’s attribution of singular significance to this movement, noting that many of its putative innovations have direct precedents in Beethoven’s preceding sonata-form movements (Hepokoski 2010). As Schmalfeldt notes, though, none of Beethoven’s prior primary themes feature shifting tempo indications of this sort (2010a)—a factor that determines much of the movement’s singular character.
5. Though the “becoming” symbol is Schmalfeldt’s own invention, readers may also recognize it from Caplin’s (Caplin 1998) and Hepokoski and Darcy’s recent form treatises (Hepokoski and Darcy 2006).
6. “Listeners of this kind of music are being asked to participate within that process...by remembering what they have heard, while retrospectively reinterpreting formal functions in the light of an awareness of the interplay between conventions and transformations” (116). Of course, one might ask whether this “participatory” element is not in fact a function of any music whose basis is a well-established formal genre, as is implied by Hepokoski and Darcy’s “dialogic” conception of form (Hepokoski and Darcy 2006, 10–11). As Hepokoski writes, the very concept of musical “form” may reside most significantly in “the composer- and listener-activated process of measuring what one hears against what one is invited to expect” (Hepokoski 2001—2002, 135).
7. The text advocates “a type of ‘structural listening’ that...invites both first-time and ‘first-time’ listeners to listen ‘both forward and backward,’ as Adorno has recommended” (9; see also 32, which quotes and discusses Adorno 1993, 136).
8. Similar concerns are addressed with great subtlety by Lee 2010; see also Schmalfeldt’s response (Schmalfeldt 2010b).
9. Violinist George Bridgetower was the sonata’s unstated dedicatee and, Schmalfeldt argues, the inspiration for the work’s uniquely “collaborative” writing for its two instruments (92).
10. Schmalfeldt envisions her “chief contribution” to the Dahlhausean tradition to be her “renewal of an effort to imbue both formal and Schenkerian concepts, taken together, with a capacity to capture, if tenuously, the dynamic, processual nature of the musical experience” (12).
11. Chapters Four and Eight speculate how intimate kinships between historical composers and performers (e.g., Beethoven and the violinist Bridgetower, Chopin and the cellist Franchomme) might manifest themselves in the inner workings of unusually collaborative chamber duets.
12. These concerns are offset at various points by Schmalfeldt’s helpful inclusion of lists (in Chapters Five, Six, and Eight) that direct the reader to pieces that share formal attributes with those under study (and thus more convincingly showing “processual” form to be a broad cultural practice).
13. There may be generational differences at work here. For scholars trained at a time when Caplin and Hepokoski/Darcy serve as foundational texts, Schenkerian methods are more likely to serve as optional rather than obligatory elements of the tonal-analysis toolbox. But there are also stark differences between Schenkerian and Dahlhausean conceptions of musical “process” that Schmalfeldt does not directly engage; see Note 17 below.
14. We see a similarly optimistic effort to “reconcile” Schenker with more conventional analytical paradigms in Schmalfeldt’s 1991 essay “Towards a Reconciliation of Schenkerian Concepts with Traditional and Recent Theories of Form” (Schmalfeldt 1991).
15. This is not to suggest that Schenkerian concepts or Schenkerian prose are necessarily incompatible with a “processual” analysis in the Dahlhausean sense—only the obligation to elucidate the supposed “structure” of a piece by way of a single synchronic graph. It is perhaps no coincidence that one of Schmalfeldt’s most satisfying conflations of Schenkerian and Dahlhausean interests—an exploration of the varied prolongational schemes that would follow from contrasting performance choices in Schubert’s A-minor sonata, op. 42 (120)—unfolds without the aid of actual Schenkerian graphs.
16. Dahlhaus hears the tonic D minor in bar 3 of the opening movement as “provisional and not fixed,” and with good reason—its tonic status is far from clear and will be undermined by the itinerant C-major music immediately to follow (1991, 117). But Schmalfeldt demurs; notwithstanding its “fleeting” character, she finds this to be a “genuine tonic,” as it serves as the anchor of several ascending prolongational fifth-progressions (44–45; see also her Example 2.1, page 39). That is to say, in a very un-Dahlhausean maneuver, she privileges bar 3 as a structural tonic based solely on events that remain unheard for another thirty seconds or more: the completion of the D–A Zug at measure 13 and then reprise of that ascent in measures 21–33. Schmalfeldt doesn’t reveal whether she has ever attempted to graph a more properly Dahlhausean hearing of the opening, one in which D emerges as (or “becomes”) tonic over twenty-odd bars. One imagines that the difficulties would be telling.
17. A probing comparison of Dahlhausean and Schenkerian “processuality” would naturally exceed the scope of this review. But it seems to me that the epistemic differences are not subtle. As Schmalfeldt explains, Dahlhausean/Adornian processuality is “participatory” and “communicative”; it depends upon a listener’s stylistic competency and ability to foresee what kind of formal-functional events “ought to” come next in an unfolding work. By contrast, Schenkerian contrapuntal-prolongational “processes” are, despite their generic familiarity, largely unforeseeable within the compass of any single composition. That is to say, the Schenkerian who encounters an unfamiliar eighteenth-century work will expect its “tonal structure” to arise through nested configurations of linear progressions, arpeggiations, unfoldings, reachings-over, and so forth. But no amount of insight or experience will allow that same analyst to predict how, or in what order, these contrapuntal devices will actually be arrayed or interlinked (e.g., even when a simple linear progression is audibly underway, the real-time listener can usually only guess its eventual terminus). Thus, we might say that Schenkerian middle- and foreground “processes” tend to be revealed only retrospectively, rather than arising within a dialectic of foresight and hindsight.
18. Though Schmalfeldt is eager to identify antecedents for what she believes to be a properly nineteenth-century “processual” practice (see Chapter Three), she resists any implication of a full-blooded processual tradition in Haydn or Mozart, waving away Hepokoski’s (2010) challenge that there are “hundreds of analogously processual examples” in the classical repertoire by implying that he fails to grasp the difference between “motivic transformation” and “formal reinterpretation” (Schmalfeldt 2010a). But the charge misfires; Hepokoski and Darcy have in fact made an extensive and compelling case for the presence of “processual” techniques in the music of the late eighteenth century and of Haydn in particular. Their notion of the “continuous exposition”—especially the “bait-and-switch” sort—pivots on exactly the sort of “formal reinterpretations” that Schmalfeldt’s book celebrates (Hepokoski and Darcy 2006, 51–64). It is unclear whether Schmalfeldt gives any credence the idea of continuous expositions in general. (Her analysis of the finale of Haydn’s Piano Trio in C major Hob. XV:27 [68–73]—a continuous exposition if there ever was one—suggests not.)
19. Hepokoski and Darcy’s “continuous” exposition type arguably falls into the second, more radical, category, as it involves the direct passage from a sonata’s transition (TR) to its closing zone (C), such that the expected secondary-thematic zone is “elided away.” See Hepokoski and Darcy 2006, 51–64; see also Note 18 above.
See Bergé, ed. 2009. For reviews of that collection, see Damschroder 2010 and Martin 2010.
This debate occurred as part of a special session dedicated to the career of Janet Schmalfeldt organized by the Committee for the Status of Women (CSW) at the Society’s 2009 annual meeting in Montréal. The session’s presentations, along with Schmalfeldt’s responses, are documented in Volume 16 of this journal; for the “Tempest” debate, see Caplin 2010, Hepokoski 2010, and Schmalfeldt 2010a.
The most important and extensive new material appears at pages 33–36. It is also noteworthy that the original article’s third through sixth paragraphs have been excised and relocated to Chapter 1 (pages 10–11).
Hepokoski has challenged Dahlhaus’s attribution of singular significance to this movement, noting that many of its putative innovations have direct precedents in Beethoven’s preceding sonata-form movements (Hepokoski 2010). As Schmalfeldt notes, though, none of Beethoven’s prior primary themes feature shifting tempo indications of this sort (2010a)—a factor that determines much of the movement’s singular character.
Though the “becoming” symbol is Schmalfeldt’s own invention, readers may also recognize it from Caplin’s (Caplin 1998) and Hepokoski and Darcy’s recent form treatises (Hepokoski and Darcy 2006).
“Listeners of this kind of music are being asked to participate within that process...by remembering what they have heard, while retrospectively reinterpreting formal functions in the light of an awareness of the interplay between conventions and transformations” (116). Of course, one might ask whether this “participatory” element is not in fact a function of any music whose basis is a well-established formal genre, as is implied by Hepokoski and Darcy’s “dialogic” conception of form (Hepokoski and Darcy 2006, 10–11). As Hepokoski writes, the very concept of musical “form” may reside most significantly in “the composer- and listener-activated process of measuring what one hears against what one is invited to expect” (Hepokoski 2001—2002, 135).
The text advocates “a type of ‘structural listening’ that...invites both first-time and ‘first-time’ listeners to listen ‘both forward and backward,’ as Adorno has recommended” (9; see also 32, which quotes and discusses Adorno 1993, 136).
Similar concerns are addressed with great subtlety by Lee 2010; see also Schmalfeldt’s response (Schmalfeldt 2010b).
Violinist George Bridgetower was the sonata’s unstated dedicatee and, Schmalfeldt argues, the inspiration for the work’s uniquely “collaborative” writing for its two instruments (92).
Schmalfeldt envisions her “chief contribution” to the Dahlhausean tradition to be her “renewal of an effort to imbue both formal and Schenkerian concepts, taken together, with a capacity to capture, if tenuously, the dynamic, processual nature of the musical experience” (12).
Chapters Four and Eight speculate how intimate kinships between historical composers and performers (e.g., Beethoven and the violinist Bridgetower, Chopin and the cellist Franchomme) might manifest themselves in the inner workings of unusually collaborative chamber duets.
These concerns are offset at various points by Schmalfeldt’s helpful inclusion of lists (in Chapters Five, Six, and Eight) that direct the reader to pieces that share formal attributes with those under study (and thus more convincingly showing “processual” form to be a broad cultural practice).
There may be generational differences at work here. For scholars trained at a time when Caplin and Hepokoski/Darcy serve as foundational texts, Schenkerian methods are more likely to serve as optional rather than obligatory elements of the tonal-analysis toolbox. But there are also stark differences between Schenkerian and Dahlhausean conceptions of musical “process” that Schmalfeldt does not directly engage; see Note 17 below.
We see a similarly optimistic effort to “reconcile” Schenker with more conventional analytical paradigms in Schmalfeldt’s 1991 essay “Towards a Reconciliation of Schenkerian Concepts with Traditional and Recent Theories of Form” (Schmalfeldt 1991).
This is not to suggest that Schenkerian concepts or Schenkerian prose are necessarily incompatible with a “processual” analysis in the Dahlhausean sense—only the obligation to elucidate the supposed “structure” of a piece by way of a single synchronic graph. It is perhaps no coincidence that one of Schmalfeldt’s most satisfying conflations of Schenkerian and Dahlhausean interests—an exploration of the varied prolongational schemes that would follow from contrasting performance choices in Schubert’s A-minor sonata, op. 42 (120)—unfolds without the aid of actual Schenkerian graphs.
Dahlhaus hears the tonic D minor in bar 3 of the opening movement as “provisional and not fixed,” and with good reason—its tonic status is far from clear and will be undermined by the itinerant C-major music immediately to follow (1991, 117). But Schmalfeldt demurs; notwithstanding its “fleeting” character, she finds this to be a “genuine tonic,” as it serves as the anchor of several ascending prolongational fifth-progressions (44–45; see also her Example 2.1, page 39). That is to say, in a very un-Dahlhausean maneuver, she privileges bar 3 as a structural tonic based solely on events that remain unheard for another thirty seconds or more: the completion of the D–A Zug at measure 13 and then reprise of that ascent in measures 21–33. Schmalfeldt doesn’t reveal whether she has ever attempted to graph a more properly Dahlhausean hearing of the opening, one in which D emerges as (or “becomes”) tonic over twenty-odd bars. One imagines that the difficulties would be telling.
A probing comparison of Dahlhausean and Schenkerian “processuality” would naturally exceed the scope of this review. But it seems to me that the epistemic differences are not subtle. As Schmalfeldt explains, Dahlhausean/Adornian processuality is “participatory” and “communicative”; it depends upon a listener’s stylistic competency and ability to foresee what kind of formal-functional events “ought to” come next in an unfolding work. By contrast, Schenkerian contrapuntal-prolongational “processes” are, despite their generic familiarity, largely unforeseeable within the compass of any single composition. That is to say, the Schenkerian who encounters an unfamiliar eighteenth-century work will expect its “tonal structure” to arise through nested configurations of linear progressions, arpeggiations, unfoldings, reachings-over, and so forth. But no amount of insight or experience will allow that same analyst to predict how, or in what order, these contrapuntal devices will actually be arrayed or interlinked (e.g., even when a simple linear progression is audibly underway, the real-time listener can usually only guess its eventual terminus). Thus, we might say that Schenkerian middle- and foreground “processes” tend to be revealed only retrospectively, rather than arising within a dialectic of foresight and hindsight.
Though Schmalfeldt is eager to identify antecedents for what she believes to be a properly nineteenth-century “processual” practice (see Chapter Three), she resists any implication of a full-blooded processual tradition in Haydn or Mozart, waving away Hepokoski’s (2010) challenge that there are “hundreds of analogously processual examples” in the classical repertoire by implying that he fails to grasp the difference between “motivic transformation” and “formal reinterpretation” (Schmalfeldt 2010a). But the charge misfires; Hepokoski and Darcy have in fact made an extensive and compelling case for the presence of “processual” techniques in the music of the late eighteenth century and of Haydn in particular. Their notion of the “continuous exposition”—especially the “bait-and-switch” sort—pivots on exactly the sort of “formal reinterpretations” that Schmalfeldt’s book celebrates (Hepokoski and Darcy 2006, 51–64). It is unclear whether Schmalfeldt gives any credence the idea of continuous expositions in general. (Her analysis of the finale of Haydn’s Piano Trio in C major Hob. XV:27 [68–73]—a continuous exposition if there ever was one—suggests not.)
Hepokoski and Darcy’s “continuous” exposition type arguably falls into the second, more radical, category, as it involves the direct passage from a sonata’s transition (TR) to its closing zone (C), such that the expected secondary-thematic zone is “elided away.” See Hepokoski and Darcy 2006, 51–64; see also Note 18 above.
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The Carlos Gardel Tango Show
One of the largest and most elegant of BA's many tango shows is performed at the luxurious Esquina Carlos Gardel in a part of the city known as Abasto. The theatre is beautiful in its old-style appearance and features high tech acoustics and superb dancers. The performance is one of the biggest in Buenos Aires and apparently one of the most expensive, and it shows.
For the patron, in this instance, the former Berton House resident-writer, the show begins with a glass of Brut and a video show of the history of tango. Dinner is an option but we didn't partake. Wine flows through the night, though not quite in an endless stream as advertised. As the curtain opens the orchestra plays a sad sounding song that haunts the performance throughout; a beautiful refrain leading to the signature Mi Buenos Aires Querido.
Gardel was the preeminent Argentine singer, song writer and movie star, associated with the tango. He, along with lyricist Alfredo Le Pera, wrote many of the world's most popular tango songs. Gardel photos and representations abound in this theatre, and around the city. Born in 1890, Gardel (and Le Pera) died in a plane crash in 1935, sealing his fate as a tragic hero. His death was mourned throughout Argentina and around the world.
The show is quite amazing indeed with colour, sound and highly impressive dancing. I think the audio levels were a bit high, possibly to compensate for the large number of older American tourists in the audience, but that was a minor irritation. The female lead singer was terrific, and her male counterpart was quite good too. The haunting melody remains.
Argentina's disappeared: never forgotten
It's Canada, eh?
Film Review: No
A final walk through el Rosedal
Papa Francisco si ~ Palace no!
A word about garbage - and cartoneros
Honouring writers
Pope Francis is a hands-on kind of guy
The junta takes control: March 24, 1976
Policia - always nearby
Book Review: The Purchase by Linda Spalding
las Malvinas ~ The Falklands ~ always good for div...
Our favourite coffee shop ~ Esquina Sinclair
A visit to a mosque ~ King Fahd Islamic Centre
El Obrero... and No se olviden de Cabezas
Mendoza Wineries ~ Salentein
Papa argentino ~ Pope Francis
Mendoza Wineries ~ Bodega La Azul
Mendoza Wineries ~ O. Fournier
Tommy - Deaf, dumb and blind dog
Posada Cavieres
The Italian side of Maipu
MALBA ~ Museo de Arte Latinoamerica de Buenos Aire...
We have a maid? We have a maid.
IKEA comes to La Boca
The kitten and the statute
Jeem's Used Car Emporium
Full moon ~ Who are these guys?
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Occupy the DOE
IT’S TIME TO OCCUPY THE PEP
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH, 5:30PM
Brooklyn Technical High School, 29 Fort Greene Pl (between Fulton and Dekalb) in Brooklyn
Near the Nevins 2/3/4/5 or the Dekalb B/D/N/Q/R
On Thursday, February 9th, the Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) will hold an open meeting and then a vote to close down dozens more schools. The PEP is an un-elected 13-member body (the majority of whom are appointed by Mayor 1% Bloomberg) whose decisions dramatically affect the lives of the 99%. Every time a vote for school closings has come before the panel, they have voted on behalf of their puppeteer, Mayor Bloomberg. No matter what impassioned students, parents, educators or elected officials have said in the past, the PEP has ALWAYS voted against the people. PEP meetings are open to the public.
We, students, parents and educators from the 99%, invite you to join us in having our OUR OWN VOTE on the fate of our schools.
If you don’t believe Mayor 1%’s puppet board should be empowered to make decisions about our schools, come help us OPEN THE MEETING UP! In October, the panel walked out of their meeting and we held our own meeting. Click here to see how it went down. Now, let’s do it with thousands!
Ways YOU can Occupy the PEP:
Option A: Are you a student, parent, educator or elected official from a school that the PEP has targeted for closure? Members of your school community should plan to use THE PEOPLE’S MIC to speak out about the mayor’s policies and about your school! To see how the people’s mic works, click here.
EXAMPLE: I am here because the panel shouldn’t be voting without the community’s consent to close down schools. In my school…
EXAMPLE: I am here because the mayor has it all wrong, and because he wants to take over space in our public schools to hand it over to charter schools. Our school is an amazing community…
EXAMPLE: I am here because what is happening here is wrong! Because the people have spoken and they say enough is enough!…
Or you can plan a song, performance, or skit. Every school that the PEP plans to vote on will have a chance to speak out and use the people’s mic. Please practice! The people’s mic can be tricky and you have to speak in short phrases of three to seven words and wait for people to respond. But it’s a powerful tool that can change the balance of power in the room! Let’s use it!
Then the PEOPLE (not the puppet panel) will vote on the state of your school!
Option B: Not from a closing school? Well then we need your help to support the occupation of this undemocratic meeting! There are definitely ways you can participate. We need your voice to help amplify the voices of those speaking on behalf of their schools. We also need folks to sit near the aisle to protect the people’s mic. And we’re asking folks to wear shirts or stickers that identify who the occupiers are and what we stand for. For example, you might consider wearing a shirt or sticker that says “Student Against School Closings” or “Parent for Community Control of Schools”, etc. There will be speeches, performances, skits, signs to hold, and more! Join us.
Please contact occupythedoe@gmail.com with any questions. Let’s open up the PEP and put the decision making power where it belongs—with the people!
Occupy the DOE! Call to action: photos needed for OCCUPY THE DOE video!
I’m Marie, one of the teachers who worked on the Occupy the DOE video last month http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbmjMickJMA. The meeting today at Wall St was inspiring and really motivating! I was very moved by everyone’s perspectives, especially about the charter school movement.
At the meeting, we came to consensus that, given the success of media in spreading the message of our movement, a video (or videos) would be a powerful tool for action at the upcoming December 14th PEP. We are proposing to use a portable small video projector, to display a video on the walls of the meeting room at the PEP. The video will not have sound.
We need your immediate help to create these videos! The content of the video will be a photo essay – many images displayed in sequence, on a loop.
These images will be sourced from you! Or from friends. So if you feel comfortable, grab a camera(or a cellphone, iPhone, etc)! Instructions for those who can help are below.
And don’t forget to forward this email to anyone you think can help!
1ST VIDEO
Working title: “Separate is Not Equal”
Charter vs. Public
One video we agreed upon will focus on the Brown vs. Board of Ed. statute, “Separate is Not Equal.” It will show pictures that depict the opulence of Charter Schools, contrasted with images of the poverty of public schools.
Here’s what you need to do:
Take photos of your school’s facilities.
Note whether the image is Charter or Public.
Email them to me: mmounteer@gmail.com
Remember not to send images that allow you to be identified – we want to avoid specific DOE members from being singled out.
The images we would need from Charter Schools:
(The images do not need be high-res — iPhone photos are fine, it’s the content we’re after)
Photos of separate entrances to the building (one for Charter and one for public),
separate entrances to auditoriums,
separate bathrooms,
separate water fountains etc…
Anything that shows the division clearly
And anything that shows the wealth:
Smartboards,
new computers/computer labs,
new science labs/science equipment,
new books,
new gym equipment,
lots of space in the cafeteria,
new playground equipment, etc.
The images we would need from Public Schools:
Anything falling apart or old:
leaky roofs,
old gym equipment,
old computers,
old books or lack thereof
pavement for a playground, instead of playground equipment
overcrowded cafeterias (no kids faces clearly visible)
I am also toying with an idea – that we juxtapose our own images with iconic images from the Civil Rights movement, of separate water fountains and entrances to schools, etc. My fear is that it would be too incendiary and distract from our message, but also it may draw attention in a dramatic way that could further our cause. I’m curious to hear what people think.
2ND VIDEO
Working title, “In Solidarity with Occupy the DOE”
This is a simple concept – images of the people that support us who maybe can’t be at the PEP meeting. I was thinking any group that wants to, can take their picture behind a banner that say OCCUPY THE DOE and we could project that as we were speaking to show the amount of people that support us. We can open it up to Occupy groups like Save our Schools across the country and get images from everywhere. We can then use that projection for whatever we do, any meeting we go to.
So here’s the action item list:
Create a banner that reads OCCUPY THE DOE
Find students, parents, teachers, (administrators!) who want to pose with the banner.
Find a time to take a group photo op, and take a picture of everyone smiling and holding the banner.
Email it to me! mmounteer@gmail.com
I am excited to see all the wonderful photos from all of us brave educators! It would be nice to have something done by next Sunday’s meeting so get those pictures to me as soon as possible!
Marie Mounteer
mmounteer@gmail.com
Calling all future Occupiers of the Department of Education!
Occupy the DOE will be meeting at 4:30 on the steps of Tweed 0(52 Chambers) with the Children’s Brigade as part of the National Day of Action in support of OWS.
Even though the mayor and the other 1% think that they can break the Occupy Wall Street movement by clearing Zucotti Park, we, the 99%, will show them that they ARE WRONG this Thursday!
As scheduled, Nov. 17th will be a full day of non-violent mass demonstrations throughout the city to celebrate Occupy Wall Street’s two month anniversary, and the birth of a movement that has inspired people locally and globally.
We will celebrate this historic day through sign making, speak outs, teach ins, and a march across the Brooklyn bridge. This will be a family friendly event, with activities for children. Feel free to bring cupcakes, art supplies, your mic check and a whole lotta noise!
A better future on the horizon and we celebrate it this Thursday. Why? Because we are unstoppable and another future is possible!!!!!
ALSO, PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!!!
From Alternet:
Occupy the Education System: Students, Teachers and Parents Find New Spirit and Challenge the Attack on Public Schools
In the past couple of weeks, Occupy Wall Street has spurred dedicated education activists into some of the most innovative and inspiring actions.
November 9, 2011 |
Mouse over and click the photographs in this story and you can listen to audio recordings as well.
“I work hard, but my grades don’t matter. But I have a voice and I will be heard!”
Jordan is 13, and she’s speaking to a crowd of mostly adults, sitting on the granite steps of the New York City Department of Education at Tweed Hall. Or rather, she is speaking through them, as her words echo through the people’s mic used at Occupy Wall Street just few blocks south from where she’s speaking.
Tonight the steps of the DOE themselves have been occupied and are packed with teachers, students, parents, and supporters holding a general assembly on the state of public education in New York. (full article)
Footage from OCCUPY DOE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Tonight!
Teachers, Students and Parents Against Privatized Education Join Occupy Wall Street
From theREALNews Network
by Jaisal Noor
From NY1
From Gotham Schools
http://gothamschools.org/2011/11/07/occupy-protesters-join-teachers-and-parents-on-tweed-steps/
Educators use Occupy Movement to Empower Students, Defend Public Education
***Calling all parents, students, teachers, school aides, community organizations, youth groups, and community members concerned about creating public education in the interest of the 99%***
OCCUPY the Department of Education invites you to the:
People’s General Assembly
on Public Education
Date: Monday, November 7th
Location: Steps of Tweed Hall, 52 Chambers St.
Please join us for the exercise of democracy, the raising of silenced voices, outrage at the lack of public representation in decisions of educational policy, the creation of a People’s Agenda for our schools and creation of collective actions that can realize this agenda.
During the OCCUPY the Panel for Educational Policy (PEP), we invited Chancellor Walcott to this forum. He declined our offer but we still think he should hear our voices. Please encourage him to come along with members of the City Council Education Committee in this exercise of real democracy.
Click here to send Walcott your invitation
Councilman Robert Jackson, Chairperson, Education Committee
Brought to you by the OCCUPY the DOE Committee of Occupy Wall Street
October 25th Occupy the PEP!
At the Panel for Educational Policy (PEP)* meeting on October 25th, Chancellor Walcott (the 1%) is planning a “conversation on raising standards in the classroom.” But we have some more pressing issues for changing public education.
Video edited by teachers who participated on Oct. 25th
An excerpt from the meeting on the 25th featuring members of NYCoRE (Seth Rader and Karla Tobar)
Watch live streaming video from occupynyc at livestream.com
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Amazing, well-edited youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbmjMickJMA
NYTimes coverage in SchoolBook: http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2011/10/25/walcott-event-disrupted-by-protesters/
NY1 coverage: http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/education/149635/education-panel-meeting-disrupted-by–occupy–protesters
Epoch Times: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/united-states/teachers-and-parents-occupy-education-meeting-63296.html
Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/25/occupy-wall-street-department-of-education_n_1031812.html
GothamSchools:
http://gothamschools.org/2011/10/25/discussion-of-common-core-to-compete-with-human-mic-tonight/
http://gothamschools.org/2011/10/25/protest-derails-doe-meeting-on-curriculum-after-just-minutes/
http://gothamschools.org/2011/10/25/underneath-the-shouting-a-hum-about-curriculum-standards/
Occupy wall street livestream videos (though they are hard to sort through): http://www.livestream.com/occupynyc
Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/10/26/2011-10-26_school_boss_disrupted.html
Fox News: http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/protesters-shout-down-schools-chancellor-walcott-20111025
A NYPost editorial where we’re “thugs”: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/the_thugs_win_again_sIavzdrhUBM3HxPHHY7IxH?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=
http://ednotesonline.com/
http://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2011/10/last-night-at-pep-we-occupied-doe.html
http://raginghorse.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/occupy-the-department-of-education-walcott-takes-it-on-the-hop
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Home Breaking TV chef Steffen Henssler blames himself: I should have known
TV chef Steffen Henssler blames himself: I should have known
TV chef Steffen Henssler lays the blame for his Failure as a successor of Stefan Raab himself: “I should have known,” he said the “New osnabrück newspaper”. “The audience did not want to see me in this Form – even if it hurts. I have to accept.” The 46-Year-old returns after his one-year trip to ProSieben to his place at the transmitter Vox. There, he starts this Sunday (5. May), at 20.15, a new edition of his Show “Grill den Henssler”.
“In “Schlag den Henssler” the corset is very tight; I couldn’t unfold me so as in “Grill the Henssler”, where I do a lot of spontaneous,” said the Hamburg-based chef and restaurateur of the newspaper. “Of course not, it is always annoying when something works. In the end it is only TV. I had to close not a factory and 500 people in unemployment.”
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So, it looks behind the Scenes of “Grill the Henssler”
By Denise Snieguole Wachter Steffen Henssler: “You know that it can fail,”
“blow to the Henssler” tried that, regretted it: “I’m not knit. If one assumes a Format of such a strong protagonist such as Stefan Raab, you know in advance that it can fail,” said the 46-Year-old. “I try me and will continue to do so. If you now have a very abstruse offer a political talk would be – for example – then I would not cancel and at least briefly think about it.” And he already has an idea of what he would shit talk as a political Moderator as the First “school. I would probably stay first in my theme to drive people away.”
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Don't Count A Candidate Or A Baseball Team Out -- Comeback Players of Other Years
by Greg Prince on 12 August 2016 1
Harry Truman trailed Thomas Dewey by five points in the final Gallup Poll of 1948.
The New York Giants fell 13 games behind the Brooklyn Dodgers in the summer of 1951 [in August].
I somehow passed geometry in ninth grade.
Stories of extraordinary comebacks are woven lovingly into the American tapestry. A few stand out as legend. Y’know why? Because they don’t happen all the time.
On August 11, 2016, a former [Republican] Speaker of the House invoked Truman ultimately defeating Dewey to suggest his favored presidential candidate of the moment isn’t necessarily in fatal electoral trouble. [How much have you to bet Newt?] “Usually,” a trenchant Twitter observer countered, “the part of the campaign death rattle where partisans cite Truman & 1948 comes later.”
That this extreme example emerged on the 65th anniversary of the sure-thing Dodgers expanding their lead over the Giants to its largest margin of the 1951 season may be an innocent coincidence or a harbinger of god-knows-what. That it also arrived on the very same day the Mets seemed to implicitly concede their 2016 campaign — or at least suspend active pursuit of the second National League Wild Card — perhaps reminds us how infrequently extraordinary comebacks come together.
I’m no geometrician, but the only angle I see that will connect the Mets to the playoffs is the line about it not being over till it’s over — which, conveniently, was drawn up in-house at Shea Stadium, so we have every right to cling to it. Again, though, that’s the stuff of legend. The stuff of legend doesn’t pop up every day.
You know who pops up every day? Met batters. They also strike out, ground out, fly out, and, if appearances are any indication, give up easily. I doubt they’re consciously throwing in the towel or waving the white flag, as both actions would require effort, but their collective demeanor does not inspire faithful fervor, let alone a modicum of confidence
On Thursday afternoon, the Mets lost to the Diamondbacks, 9-0. Noah Syndergaard wasn’t great. Jon Niese wasn’t good. The offense wasn’t present. I’d make the forfeit joke, but it’s been made already. I didn’t think we’d descend into are they even trying? territory in 2016, but their manager sort of went there in his postgame remarks, so we as mere fans don’t have to be overly polite.
The Mets looked beaten against the D’Backs the way lousy teams looked beaten against the Mets a year ago. Arizona, despite stealing away like the love child of Ron LeFlore and Robbie Dupree, is not roaring toward a Western Division title in case you were wondering. They reveled in a delightful (for them) three games at Citi Field, but otherwise they’ve endured a dreadful season. The Mets, meanwhile, front-loaded their joy into April and selected portions of May, June and earliest July. They’ve been nothing but dour since.
The “won” and “lost” columns contain absolutely equal quantities: 57 apiece. The Mets were nine games over .500 on July 7. They are nine games under .500 five weeks later. There’s a law of averages lurking somewhere inside those numbers, but a team that is 0-7 in its last seven one-run games seems determined to find a way to not win every chance it gets. They have famously not directly followed one win with another in more than a month and haven’t taken any of the past five series they’ve played.
Their relative proximity to the Wild Card — three games as of this writing with 48 to play (or ten games closer to Miami than old New York was to Brooklyn with 44 to go) — continues to tantalize, at least until you watch them conduct their on-field affairs for a month. The best that you can do between the moon and sullen Citi is attempt to conjure a scenario in which a procession of healed and hearty Mets march forth from the DL and into the lineup, proceeding to power themselves and their simultaneously rejuvenated teammates to heights the lot of them had forgotten they were capable of reaching. Reyes comes back, Cespedes comes back, Cabrera comes back, Wheeler comes back, the whole darn shootin’ match comes back. The Marlins, the Cardinals and the Pirates all find themselves stuck in the completive mud while the Mets hijack the first hovercraft they see and whoosh right by them.
It could happen. It could. It probably won’t, but it would be irresponsible of us not to entertain such a fantasy, just as it would be negligent of us to not consider that three out with 48 to play is simply another plot point on the downward graph that will have us six out with 42 to play, 10 out with 35 to play, whatever out with however many to play until sub-mediocrity lands upon its inevitable level.
You can blame the manager, because managers are hired to be blamed. You can absolve the manager, because though the manager wears a uniform, he does not swing ineffectually, pitch without fluidity or forget to go through the motions of holding opposing base runners on. It’s probably partly Terry Collins’s doing that the Mets have been avoiding awesomeness for weeks on end, though it was probably also probably partly Terry Collins’s doing that the Mets soared above most of the N.L. pack for a spell. I almost wish I could rub two rhetorical sticks together and offer you a flaming hot take on the matter. All I will tell you is I don’t take other people’s livelihoods lightly, thus I’m probably not temperamentally suited to lead a #Fire Terry torch patrol. Then again, I’m not exactly prepared to go all Tiananmen Square in his defense.
If the Mets as currently constituted were good enough to not be swept soundly by the last-place Arizona Diamondbacks, any manager could have guided them to a 1-2 record in their past three games. They’re not that good. Maybe they will be before it gets too late. Truman caught Dewey. The Giants caught the Dodgers. I eked out a 70 on the New York State Geometry Regents of June 1978, which served as my adolescence’s veritable Shot Heard Round the World. I wasn’t a witness to the first two miracles, but I can assure you I wouldn’t have bet an isosceles nickel on myself with 48 days to go in that particular school year.
Yet here I am today, complaining about the Mets, just like I did in ninth grade. Yes, that Regents Diploma really took me a long way.
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HomeNewsSpiders know the meaning of web music
Spiders know the meaning of web music
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Spider silk transmits vibrations across a wide range of frequencies so that, when plucked like a guitar string, its sound carries information about prey, mates, and even the structural integrity of a web.
The discovery was made by researchers from the Universities of Oxford, Strathclyde, and Sheffield who fired bullets and lasers at spider silk to study how it vibrates. They found that, uniquely, when compared to other materials, spider silk can be tuned to a wide range of harmonics. The findings, to be reported in the journal Advanced Materials, not only reveal more about spiders but could also inspire a wide range of new technologies, such as tiny light-weight sensors.
'Most spiders have poor eyesight and rely almost exclusively on the vibration of the silk in their web for sensory information,' said Beth Mortimer of the Oxford Silk Group at Oxford University, who led the research. 'The sound of silk can tell them what type of meal is entangled in their net and about the intentions and quality of a prospective mate. By plucking the silk like a guitar string and listening to the ‘echoes’ the spider can also assess the condition of its web.'
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This quality is used by the spider in its web by 'tuning' the silk: controlling and adjusting both the inherent properties of the silk, and the tensions and interconnectivities of the silk threads that make up the web. To study the sonic properties of the spider's gossamer threads the researchers used ultra-high-speed cameras to film the threads as they responded to the impact of bullets. In addition, lasers were used to make detailed measurements of even the smallest vibration.
'The fact that spiders can receive these nanometre vibrations with organs on each of their legs, called slit sensillae, really exemplifies the impact of our research about silk properties found in our study,' said Dr Shira Gordon of the University of Strathclyde, an author involved in this research.
'These findings further demonstrate the outstanding properties of many spider silks that are able to combine exceptional toughness with the ability to transfer delicate information,' said Professor Fritz Vollrath of the Oxford Silk Group at Oxford University, an author of the paper. 'These are traits that would be very useful in light-weight engineering and might lead to novel, built-in 'intelligent' sensors and actuators.'
Dr Chris Holland of the University of Sheffield, an author of the paper, said: 'Spider silks are well known for their impressive mechanical properties, but the vibrational properties have been relatively overlooked and now we find that they are also an awesome communication tool. Yet again spiders continue to impress us in more ways than we can imagine.'
Beth Mortimer said: 'It may even be that spiders set out to make a web that 'sounds right' as its sonic properties are intimately related to factors such as strength and flexibility.'
Silk during high-rate ballistic impact
The work was conducted by researchers from the Oxford Silk Group, along with collaborators at Oxford's Department of Engineering Science, Strathclyde's Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering, and Sheffield's Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The research was supported by The Leverhulme Trust, EPSRC, and BBSRC.
A report of the research, entitled 'The Speed of Sound in Silk: Linking Material Performance to Biological Function', is to be published online in the journal Advanced Materials.
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Ironic history
By Pivní Filosof February 08, 2009
Braník will never be mentioned among the best of Czech brewing, quite the contrary. Today, the beer seems to be the favourite among lower income people that drink it straight from bottles at room temperature. But it wasn't always like that. You can still find people that remember it with love and a lot of nostalgia, specially the dark beer.
But it's not really about the beers from Braník, past and present, what I wanted to talk, but about a coaster of Braník that I found the other day, or actually, about the text written on the back, which in Czech goes pretty much like this.
"Braník Brewery was established in 1899 by brewers and publicans as a social brewery as defense against big breweries."
Then it goes on with the usual marketing bollocks.
What a bunch of idealists those brewers and publicans where. But history is cruel. Today Braník belongs to AB-InBev, and it's not much more than a cheaper version of Staropramen. The brewery was shut down a couple of years ago, with production being shifted across the river to Smíchov and the future of the beautiful facilities is in the shape of luxury flats, if the financial crisis so allows.
Those valiant gentlemen must be turning over in their graves.
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Ian 8 February 2009 at 15:57
When i worked for Inbev there was a competition. Who could take the best photo with an Inbev product. I wanted to find some homeless people and say 'Branik, helping the homeless since 1899'. I resisted the temptation. Irony is not their strong point.
Iain 8 February 2009 at 22:38
Well, seeing this ber mat, i would say they actually have a pretty finely-tuned sense of irony. That or a pretty sick sense of humour... ;)
Bailey 9 February 2009 at 14:47
I want to be called Ian/Iain too!
I'm surprised no-one has thought to flog this in the UK as a super premium fine Czech lager...
Velky Al 10 February 2009 at 11:20
I remember getting Branik in the Co-op in Alness (north of Inverness for those not in the know) a few years ago, for something like a pound a bottle. Then the Co-op started its own "Czech Lager" which was rather similar and also made by the Prazske Pivovary.....
Evan Rail 10 February 2009 at 13:58
My head is spinning...
Pivní Filosof 10 February 2009 at 20:36
You've been drinking too much Braník from a bottle at room temperature....
Well, look what I found in my files
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In 2019, Townsend Investigations is now under the ownership of Charles Townsend, Jr., the original "Charlie" from the original 1970s TV series and the "Charlie's Angels" films. Like the original Charlie, Charlie Jr. chooses to remain anonymous. A new office manager, or "Bosley", has also come aboard. The new Angels are about to set out on their first case. Join the new Angels as they fight crime!
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Are Your Children Safe from Spyware?
by Robert P. Lipschutz and John Clyman
If you have kids, then the computer they use -- which may also be the computer you use -- is vulnerable to infestation by spyware. Spyware preys on the behavior of children, and teens in particular, by parking itself in the programs they download and on the sites they visit. Peer-to-peer music-swapping software, free online games, screen savers, song-lyrics sites are prime destinations for kids and many of them can carry an unwanted payload that can melt down a machine. But by teaching your kids appropriate behaviors and habits, and using some protective software, you can go a long way toward preventing spyware from gaining a foothold on your system.
Just how serious a threat does spyware pose? It can hijack your Web browser, barrage you with endless pop-up ads, slow your PC to a crawl, or crash it entirely. An adware-infested PC can become so slow and unstable that it turns into little more than an expensive desk ornament. In its worst forms, spyware known as dialers and keyloggers can force a modem to dial expensive toll calls or can capture every keystroke you make, putting confidential information from passwords to credit-card numbers at risk. Keyloggers are far more dangerous than adware and browser hijackers but, fortunately, much less common. Broadly speaking, spyware is software that infiltrates your computer without your informed consent and almost a with some negative consequence.
Internet Explorer storms of endless popup windows are a common symptom of spyware infestations.
What's more, a lot of spyware clutters up your system when it installs, won't let you control its behavior, and actively resists removal. In short, spyware is not something you want to let onto a PC in the first place unless everyone who uses the computer, dads, moms and kids, is prepared to accept the consequences.
One potential privacy threat that's sometimes lumped in the same category as spyware is tracking cookies. Unlike most spyware, though, cookies aren't programs that run on your computer; they're simply small data files that sites can ask your browser to save so that they can identify a returning user. Because some networks of sites do share cookies and use them for purposes like targeting ads in Web pages, cookies from some sources can be classified as a privacy threat. Most cookies, though, are innocuous, and cookies never present the same active dangers and inconveniences as spyware and adware programs.
Is Anywhere Safe?
First the good news - and there isn't much. We've found that high-profile sites aimed at young pre-schoolers and kindergarten-age kids, like Nick Jr. and pbskids.org, provide safe and spyware-free environments. Your children are safe here and spyware vendors seem to stay well away from these kinds of sites. Under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), children under 13 are legally treated differently than older children -- companies can't ask them to disclose any personal information. We surmise that possible legal action, highly protective parents that would fight back hard to protect their young children, and the potential for high profile public relations disasters keep spyware vendors from playing here.
Spyware Targets Older Children and Teenagers
However, older kids and teenagers seem fair game. The sites they frequent are often free on the surface but with a heavy spyware price to pay. More viral services such as peer-to-peer file sharing sites are "good" carriers because teens are densely interconnected and spread discoveries rapidly around their peer network. Free goodies are also appealing when you don't have a lot of disposable income and are influenced by peer pressure for conformity. Entertainment- and celebrity-oriented sites that teens might be inclined to visit can be particularly sketchy.
In fact, downloading any software from an unknown source is potentially unsafe. We've seen spyware bundled along with downloadable games, screen savers, emoticon packs, utilities, Flash animations -- you name it. In fact, some companies even sell software that claims to help control spyware but in fact installs spyware.
In general, companies that have a strong, established brand to protect, and a clear mechanism for generating revenue, seem to stay away from spyware. Sites outside of the mainstream and software that has no obvious way of supporting itself, by contrast, should raise more concerns -- as should sites that bombard you with pop-up ads, especially ones that employ scare tactics urging you to scan your computer.
Let’s look at a few examples:
Free Peer-to-Peer
Are you prepared to cope with the consequences when your kids install peer-to-peer file-sharing software?
Free peer-to-peer file-sharing software like Grokster and Kazaa are hugely popular among older children and typically include adware, a fact that's disclosed in the long and wordy licensing agreements they display during the installation process. We doubt most people bother to read all the small print, instead clicking Yes to move through the screens as quickly as possible and get the software installed so they can begin using it. This is precisely one of the dangerous behaviors that you need to train your kids to avoid. Parents should consider paid versions of services like this but read carefully to make sure the paid product is indeed free of adware.
GAIN Carriers
Claria, the company behind GAIN adware, bundles its payload within ScreenScenes, a "free" screen saver, DashBar, a "free" search engine toolbar, WeatherScope, a "free" weather forecaster, and many other "expensive" free programs. By downloading these packages, available across the Internet, you become prey to numerous ads that in our experience start out annoying and can become crippling. We'd rather find ourselves in need of a jacket on a cold day than succumb to these electronic annoyances. Incidentally, GAIN is also bundled with many of the free peer-to-peer file sharing packages.
ZANGO Games
Another adware vendor, 180solutions, through its Zango division, creates games like "David vs. Goliath" and "Secret Chamber" that come with adware. Although the Zango sight mentions the targeted ads you will be receiving, most users will never visit the Zango site as the games are available from many free download sites like download.com and tucows where you may or may not see any warning at all.
Lyrics Sites
Music-lyric sites may trick your kids into downloading spyware.
Spyware is often delivered via an ActiveX control that you load in your browser. Music-lyrics sites seem to use this technique particularly frequently -- if you want to view the lyrics to a song, they'll insist that you download their ActiveX control first. It turns out this control has nothing to do with viewing lyrics, but is a deception that the site uses to convince you to download ad-serving software.
Finally, spyware doesn't always reach your child's PC through Web browsing: It can also arrive via any channel that can send files or Web pages, and many popular communication channels used by children including e-mail and instant-messaging file transfers. An attachment that promises to be a free screensaver or other interesting content could easily contain spyware.
These are just some of the spyware of the thousands of spyware traps that lurk on the Internet. In fact, it's safe to say that anywhere you find free entertainment, spyware is usually not more than a click away waiting for you to make a mistake.
No Free Downloads
Many computers get infected with spyware because users ask for it - although your kids probably didn't realize what they were getting themselves into. The urge to get something for nothing can be a huge temptation, and "free" software designed to entice kids often contains adware components that the publishers use to generate revenue.
Unfortunately, it's not always easy to spot spyware until it's already installed -- and by then it can be too late. (With some spyware, you may not even know after it's installed, except indirectly when it affects performance and stability or you start observing unexpected behavior.)
But with some awareness of the patterns that characterize spyware, you can begin to see ways to make more informed decisions and to teach your children when caution is warranted. We believe that the more parents and their children know about adware, the more they'll see that these allegedly free downloads can be costly mistakes. Just as you protect your children in the real world by instructing youngsters never to get into a car with strangers, and teaching older children how to make decisions despite peer pressure, you can help protect your machine from spyware by instructing kids of all ages in safe surfing and downloading habits.
You can try to pin blame for the spyware scourge on spyware authors, a lack of government oversight, or plenty of other factors -- but ultimately, regardless of who's responsible, you have to step up as a parent and teach your kids how to behave responsibly when they're online.
In our next article, we'll discuss the habits and behaviors you can teach your children to avoid spyware, and the tools you can employ so they can exercise discretion in where they surf and what they download.
Robert P. Lipschutz is president of Thing 7 and the father of three children. John Clyman is president of technology consulting firm Narrative Logic, LLC, and a leading expert on anti-spyware software.
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Afghanistan is a major site of military, foreign policy and aid intervention for the UK, among other countries. This project considers how negotiations and initiatives to advance national reconciliation in Afghanistan have shaped the political settlement. Afghanistan’s political settlement today reflects contrasting priorities and perspectives of different types of actors, including customary institutions, recently established civil society organisations, the Afghan state, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), international aid agencies, and insurgent and criminal networks. It has a large rural population with traditional forms of governance. This has resulted in a new elite of self-appointed warlords and local militias, and these new power brokers have eroded the authority of jirgas in administering disputes. Afghanistan has also seen shifting international responses over time as to which elites should be bargained with (the process in the early 1990s focused on the Taliban, while the recent process excluded them).
Project research methodology is active and participatory in assessing different elements of Afghanistan’s political settlement, and its relationship with negotiation processes. The research identifies options to work with local organizations in order to build mutual capacity, and follows a similar model to the Nepal study. Namely:
A joint analysis stakeholder workshop;
First hand documentation of at least 20 selected case studies of initiatives to support transition in Afghanistan;
And development of applied participatory learning to include a joint stakeholder policy learning workshop, using Conciliation Resources ‘Accord’ methodology.
Afghanistan is an important case study in understanding the relationship between the international conflict, internal conflict, legal regimes and division which shaped post-conflict interventions. It demonstrates how a range of multi-departmental military, development and foreign policy responses interact to affect political settlements. Moreover, gender equality has been both used as a justification for military intervention, and as a key international focus for reconstruction. The project is also important to understanding how international and external actors attempt transformation in practice
Jonathan Cohen, Zahbia Yousuf, and Alexander Ramsbottom (Conciliation Resources)
Adhikari, M. (2018). India in South Asia: Interaction with Liberal Peacebuilding Projects. India Quarterly: A Journal of international Affairs, (Online 1 April 2018).
Larson, A., & Ramsbotham, A. (2018). Incremental peace in Afghanistan (PSRP Report). London: Conciliation Resources.
Larson, A. (2017). Processing peace in Afghanistan (PSRP Report). London: Conciliation Resources.
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Gary D replied to Mr T's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
If yiou look at Nick's pictures, at the very top left of each, the left coin looks to have a wider border.
I seem to recall the rock test but I don't have the collection with me at the moment so can't check. To see the rim difference you really need to place the two observes side by side.
You could try here https://onedrive.live.com/?id=943941AD323D5647!135&cid=943941AD323D5647
Colin G said " Surely true democracy is being given a choice by representatives and then those representatives delivering the choice that received the majority of votes. " We do not have a house of representatives here in the UK. It's government that makes the laws, parliment only supplies oversite.
If I recall correctly May was unopposed as all the Brexit in chiefs had run for cover as they knew the the stick had manure on both ends.
err the customs union and single market are two totally different animals. So now you are saying that Turkey is in the EU as they are a member of the customs union.
They were shiting themselves over UKIP and nobody took it seriosly that leave would win. Basically the country was peed off over the government and voted to give them a good kicking.
The MPs may have disappointed 17.4 million people but then they still have a duty of care for the other 50 million.
The trouble is nothing will be better than the Germany + which we already enjoy. At least the EU can get 27 governments to agree whereas we can even get one.
Lake Titicaca late last year.
1913 penny - Freeman 175 & 176
Gary D replied to 1949threepence's topic in Wanted
Can't remember that far back, If I did have one from Crocker it will be the current one in my collection.
Yes looking back it was a 176 I had slabbed before putting it on ebay. I had a reserve of £180 which it didn't quite reach. I then offered it to the highest bidder at the reserve. They had a bit of a winge about reserves I assume because they hadn't got it for their maximum bit. Obviously didn't understand what a reserve was.
Mine didn't come from crocker. Both came from ebay unidentified. I think the slabbed one sold for about £120.
I take it you don't remember the 1970s before we join the then common market. Anyway we can unilaterally recind A50, no permission require from the EU and they can't prevent it.
Mine hopefully will be coming up soon with Colin Cooke. I have only ever had one coin slabbed and that was a F175 which was top pop of 2 at the time, it was my spare which I hoped would get a better price as I wished to sell it. Under performed I must say, so much for slabbing.
Prehaps the first thing parliment could do post brexit is re-enact the treason laws.
Ah a fantasy piece, who's minting it, the London Mint office?
Political party's don't win elections they lose them and the conservatives are doing so badly with running the show labour should be miles ahead, but they are not.
Yes for those that bothered to read the leave manifesto options 1 and 3 were what we got to vote for.
I think the biggest problem is that a large part of the population voted for something that there wasn't a box on the ballot paper for.
Let's See Your Toned English Milled Silver!
Gary D replied to Paulus's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
I believe at one stage you could order the case along with the coins, before that I believe they were third party made. Some of the larger cases would hold multiple sets.
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When we think of the beautiful Isla Fisher, we think of her role in “Wedding Crashers” as the ultimate “stage 5 clinger.” Her scenes were hilarious and scary all at the same time!
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RIP Henry Gibson
I was going to cover some of the usual folderol I cover here today, but, sadly, we have another passing to note with the death at 73 of Henry Gibson from cancer.
Gibson — whose stage name derives from an early character he did with roommate Jon Voight — was a personal favorite of mine. Not a large man, he was the kind of actor who might have one or two scenes in a movie, but was pretty much guaranteed to bring something detailed and memorable to his usually hilarious scenes; a relatively recent case in point was his great turn as the befuddled shocked clergyman towards the end of “Wedding Crashers.” He’s also familar to fans of “Boston Legal” as one of the show’s recurring judges.
With his eccentric but unassuming air, he gained his greatest fame as a cast member on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” a faster paced, but more shtick-laden late sixties/early seventies forerunner of SNL. His signature bit involved him reciting absurd, vaguely counter-cultural, poetry in his ultra deadpan style while holding a giant flower and bowing with exaggerated politeness at the end. (He was famously spoofed on the show by John Wayne, who brought his own unique socio-political sensibilities to his verse.)
Numerous movie and TV roles followed, including probably the closest Henry Gibson ever got to a leading film role, cast brilliantly against type as a controlling and hypocritical country music patriarch in Robert Altman’s masterpiece, “Nashville.” Later, he’d play out-and-out villains, but usually in more comical contexts. Fans of eighties comedies have a special affection for his commanding role as the patriarch of a very strange family who loom in Tom Hanks‘s fevered imagination in Joe Dante’s comedy horror homage, “The ‘Burbs.” He was also the head neo-Nazi in “The Blues Brothers.”
All in all, the loss of Gibson at the relatively young age of 73 is a sad one and hit me personally a bit harder than expected. I’ve loved Gibson’s work since childhood and, whether he was playing a Napoleonic villain or a gentle preacher totally out of his depth, there was an abiding soulful quality to his work that made him all the more funny. Truly original performers like him are few and far between.
My friend, Zayne, has a very nice remembrance of Mr. Gibson at More a Legend than a Blog, and Edward Copeland shares my appreciation of his work as country music legend Haven Hamilton.
There’s less of him than I’d like on YouTube, but I did find a few fine moments of Gibson, which you can check out after the flip.
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Tags: Boston Legal, Haven Hamilton, Henrik Ibsen, Henry Gibson, John Wayne, Jon Voight, Kentucky Fried Movie, Lynda Carter, Nashville, Robert Altman, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The 'Burbs, The Blues Brothers, Wedding Crashers, Wonder Woman
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Rocksteady Studios
Batman: Arkham VR Review (PS4)
review by Sammy Barker Thu, 06 Oct 2016 00:30:00 +0100
Rocksteady's never been shy depicting Batman as the mentally deranged individual that he so clearly is, and with the British studio back on development duties for this short virtual reality story, it's Bruce Wayne's busted psyche that once again takes centre stage. Batman: Arkham VR may only take you about an hour to see through, but this is borderline essential material for fans of the franchise's gritty fiction.
And that's because Gotham City has never quite felt so real before. Batman: Arkham Knight captured the sheer scale of the sprawling metropolis like no game before it, but standing in Crime Alley as a spooked Master Bruce brings an authenticity to the rain-slicked streets. Admittedly, it's annoying to have to revisit the origins of the Dark Knight yet again, but at least this time it comes with the added novelty of virtual reality.
It's sitting at the piano of Wayne Manor that this story really starts to pick up pace, though. Worldly butler Alfred alerts you to an incident that demands your immediate attention, and from there you'll find yourself gearing up as the Caped Crusader. Using two PlayStation Move wands to reflect your hands, you'll need to attach your gear to your utility belt, and even don the cowl. There are some nice little touches here – like a mirror which shows you dressed as Batman – that really add to the immersion.
Once in the Batcave, you're free to play around with Bats' not insignificant number of gadgets. For example, you can analyse blood vials, inspect the Batmobile, and hack into nearby radio stations. There's even a minigame that tests your ability to toss Batarangs, and while the aiming is all handled automatically, it's fun playing with all of the tools at your disposal – it makes you feel like you really are a detective with access to some serious cutting-edge technology.
And this is important, because the campaign very much plays out like a murder mystery. You'll find yourself travelling to a half-dozen or so different locations, attempting to track down the assailant of one of your allies. We'll refrain from revealing too much as any more information will ruin the surprises in store for you, but there are some great cameos here – and some real shocks towards the end. It gets pretty dark quickly, and it actually made us jump a couple of times.
Once you've beaten the adventure, you can replay it again, attempting to solve Riddler puzzles which encourage you to comb each environment in a little more detail. This is a nice addition, as, while it's not going to extend your playtime enormously, it does give you a good reason to go back, and makes the relatively steep price of entry that little easier to swallow. When all's said and done, though, you're still only going to get about three hours play time total out of this.
Which is probably the package's biggest problem. Some jittery PlayStation Move tracking issues aside, what's here is pretty darn incredible, and we'd honestly play an entire campaign this way – but you're not getting anything close to that, and that's a shame. There's hope that Rocksteady will take the lessons that it's learned here and invest into something a little more substantial, but for now, you're just going to have to make do with this appetiser.
How much would you pay to be Batman for an hour? If your answer sits somewhere in the region of £15.99/$19.99, then Batman: Arkham VR is a virtual no-brainer. With the exception of the finicky motion tracking and brief running time, this is an exceptional short story that eloquently demonstrates many of the advantages of virtual reality. But perhaps the most impressive thing here is that, in transforming you into the Dark Knight, it illuminates both the pros and cons of being a masked vigilante. And while the former interactions will make you feel downright awesome, it's when the Caped Crusader slowly begins to unravel that it comes into its own.
Review copy provided by Warner Bros
About Sammy Barker
A true PlayStation veteran, Sammy's covered the world of PS gaming for years, with an enormous Trophy count to prove it. He also likes tennis games way more than you.
AhabSpampurse
Thu 6th Oct 2016
It's weird, because the reviews I'm seeing for both the games and the hardware seem to be predominantly positive, however there are some websites (kotaku for instance) who feel the PSVR is essentially broken. They referred to it as an "island for Sony's misfit toys."
I'm really excited for the launch next week, but it is unusual to see numerous writers giving it high praise, and a minority of others stating it's a waste of money and time. Normally I would just form my own opinion, but the admission price to do that in this instance is quite high.
JoeBlogs
@AhabSpampurse The best thing would be to have a rich gadget-loving mate who would buy one and let you try it out for a couple of hours. Sadly, I have no such mate.
@JoeBlogs I do, kind of, which is where I had a fiddle with the Rift. Sod it. You only live once. Even if it ends up being a disaster it'll probably be a collectors item in 20 years like my Virtual Boy is now!
@AhabSpampurse You've got a Virtual Boy?! Lol, does it still work? The Angry Video Game Nerd VB episode is a classic if you haven't seen it.
@JoeBlogs I do and it does. I've always had a soft spot for Nintendo stuff from my younger days. If you've ever got a spare £200-£300 lying around they're fairly easy to get from eBay
I'll have to check that episode out!
Galvatron
@AhabSpampurse - Galvatron applauds your comment re reviews from other sites.
Kotaku, which reviewed the PSVR by its most corrupt 'Reviewer' Kirk Hamilton, has by some distance some of the most biased, sneering comments I've seen since he and other reviewers reviewed.....PlayStation Vita.
If Hamilton despises VR and evidently Sony this much, as is obvious to infer from his tone and wording, then why bother giving titbits of charitable comments near the end of his review and the comments section which fly foul in the face of his review? Example - "id like to add the actual feeling of being Batman is awesome" - this is in the COMMENTS SECTION of his Batman / PSVR review, yet HE BASICALLY TEARS INTO THE GAME THROUGHOUT THE REVIEW and these positive comments are nowhere in his actual review.
Hmmmm.......
It's a similar story with other reviews, and it's exactly what prompted Galvatron to pen 'Reviewing the Reviewers' a few years ago, and it's clear the state of the reviewing community is rife with bias, petulance and in many cases amateur journalism by fools who refuse to look at their own work and 'fess up.
I have no doubt PSVR, as a first on mainstream consoles, will be fiddly and have embryonic issues such as the cabling, stutters etc - but if it's evident there is much joy in the immersion factor, why feel the need to trample on it?
Sammy did a good review on the hardware, but someone needs to call out shockingly unprofessional and biased reviewers like Hamilton, who has previous for his work on other titles.
What we need is a show where reviewers fully disagree with verdicts and openly discuss them, then annihilate them with reasoned objectivity, not petulance on a grand scale.
I'll be buying Batman VR, let's see what these same fools say to Driveclub VR next week.
Galvatron awaits....and will comment. Perhaps directly to Hamilton to ask him why he felt the need to lower Kotaku's reputation further 😏
get2sammyb
@AhabSpampurse That's quite a funny way of describing it actually. An "island for Sony's misfit toys" — I really like that line.
However, I do think it comes across a little more negative than the situation reflects. I think those "misfit toys" come together in a way that's pretty damn powerful.
Most of the reviews that I've seen are positive. Like I said in my review, it's not perfect and there are obvious areas that will be improved over the years to come, but I still think what they've got is incredible.
Batman: Arkham VR is a good example of that.
slimcrowder
@Galvatron Why do you refer to yourself in third person?
oats-81
Not into this VR schtuff....maybe its just me.
@Galvatron "I have no doubt PSVR, as a first on mainstream consoles, will be fiddly and have embryonic issues such as the cabling, stutters etc - but if it's evident there is much joy in the immersion factor, why feel the need to trample on it?"
This. I tend to give new tech a bit of leeway at launch and was happy to do so in this instance, but I took absolutely no positives from his review, as any that were mentioned were small and largely overwhelmed by the negative tone.
And cheers for commenting @get2sammyb, you've reassured me that there's definitely some positives there to enjoy. I'll just make sure my expectations are suitably managed.
Personal choice, just as it's yours to highlight, though there are more interesting points to make re PSVR, n' est ce pas?
Galvatron finds first-person often more cathartic, though it appears not to Autobot sensibilities 😏
Bad-MuthaAdebisi
Nearly all of the PSVR games I'm only going to bother paying a few quid for if they're PSN only, all other physical releases that aren't full games I'll rent, in 6 months time when I eventually pick one up I'll have a lovely pool of games.
@Galvatron Who needs PSVR to pretend to be something you're not when you've got website comment sections.
@slimcrowder - is that question in first or third-person?
This is getting confusing? "What IS real" 😝
Bread-Not-Toast
Looks alright but paying £350 plus for a thing that only plays tech demo like games, just doesn't seem worth it to me.
GBMatthew
Mon 10th Oct 2016
More of an experience than a game but hopefully in time we will get some good VR games. I just hope this isn't another Move fiasco.
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Poor Robby
Princeton professor Robert George gives an interview in the National Review celebrating the "anniversary" of his book, What is Marriage? George is the co-founder of National Organization for Marriage and the Witherspoon Institute. This book was part of a coordinated strategy to influence the Supreme Court last summer. In conjunction with the book, Witherspoon financed the thoroughly discredited study by Mark Regnerus that purports to prove, according to National Organization for Marriage, that gay couples are terrible parents. In addition to the book, co-authors Ryan T. Anderson and Sherif Girgis gave innumerable interviews and penned innumerable polemics about the evils of gay marriage.
The book was cited by Justice Alito in his dissenting opinion in United States v. Windsor. However, that was the wrong justice:
National Review:
How do you feel the article and book have influenced the national debate about gay marriage?
I wish I could say that it shaped the opinion for the majority in the Windsor decision (which invalidated a section of the federal Defense of Marriage Act). It didn’t. In fact, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion for the majority failed to address our arguments at all. Kennedy simply assumed the validity of something like the revisionist view of marriage, without defending it or addressing the criticisms that we and others have made of it.
No. Justice Kennedy was more interested in due process and equal protection than the religious theory that was contrived for legal purposes stating that the purpose for marriage is to crank out children. Kennedy wrote:
By seeking to injure the very class New York seeks to protect, DOMA violates basic due process and equal protection principles applicable to the Federal Government. The Constitution’s guarantee of equality “must at the very least mean that a bare congressional desire to harm a politically unpopular group cannot” justify disparate treatment of that group. Department of Agriculture v. Moreno, 413 U. S. 528–535. DOMA cannot survive under these principles. Its unusual deviation from the tradition of recognizing and accepting state definitions of marriage operates to deprive same-sex couples of the benefits and responsibilities that come with federal recognition of their marriages. This is strong evidence of a law having the purpose and effect of disapproval of a class recognized and protected by state law. DOMA’s avowed purpose and practical effect are to impose a disadvantage, a separate status, and so a stigma upon all who enter into same-sex marriages made lawful by the unquestioned authority of the States.
George is befuddled that Kennedy wasn't baffled by their bullshit. Their simple equation;
Marriage = Procreation
Gays cannot procreate
ergo gays cannot marry
falls apart when subjected to the simplest of questions like; "So then we should deny marriage to senior citizens?" This all makes Robby George very sad. Sniff, sniff.
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Holier-than-thou Texas AG indicted for fraud
Texas Attorney General and Tea Party star Ken Paxton has been indicted with two first-degree felony counts of securities fraud and a third-degree felony count of failing to register with the state securities board. These are serious charges. Under Texas law, a first-degree felony carries a sentence of 5 to 99 years or life in state prison; a third-degree felony is punishable by two to 10 years in state prison.
On Sunday, June 28, 2015 in the wake of the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, Paxton issued an official memorandum intended to frustrate marriage equality. According to Paxton, county clerks and justices of the peace were not obligated to issue licenses or perform same-sex marriages if they had personal religious objections. At the same time the memo noted that clerks who did not issue licenses could be subject to lawsuits. Attorneys with the ACLU advised that anyone following Paxton's advice would be breaking the law.
Prior to that, in March of this year, Texas sued the United States challenging Department of Labor rules that required the state to recognize same-sex couples who were married in another state. Paxton claimed that extending Family and Medical Leave Act benefits to same-sex couples would violate the Texas Constitution.
Getting back to the current issue, the GOP has been working the smoke machine claiming that the indictments were politically motivated. The truth is that this is the work of a grand jury in Paxton's home town. The investigation was performed by the Texas Rangers, an organization with an impeccable apolitical reputation.
In brief, among other things, Paxton is accused of urging investors in 2011 to invest $600,000 into technology firm Servergy without telling them he would earn a commission on it, and misrepresenting that he was investing in the company. At the time Paxton was a member of the Texas House of Representatives.
Paxton owns at least 10,000 shares in Servergy which is based in his hometown of McKinney. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission began investigating Servergy in 2013 after receiving complaints and it is now under investigation for defrauding investors. The status of the SEC investigation is unknown at this time.
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'I was desperate for work, desperate to find a stable career and trade I could rely on': the CJ Barbers worker tells his story
CJ Barbers
I am writing this to dispel a great deal of misinformation spread about me and my public campaign against CJ Barbers. I am the worker who was exploited by CJ Barbers and I understand why local businesses are coming out in support of their neighbours. I believe this comes from a positive place but I think you should know my side of the story before you come to any conclusions.
Before I started working at CJ Barbers I was desperate for work, desperate to find a stable career and trade I could rely on long-term. I could not afford private tuition, so to gain experience I was giving out free haircuts for the homeless on the streets of Brighton. It was while I was promoting this practice on St James Street that I was approached by a manager at CJ Barbers. After a trial I was told that they would train me if I worked as an unpaid apprentice for two months and after this I would be hired officially and paid a full salary. This sort of arrangement is illegal but is a far too common practice in the barbering trade. Because of the role's illegality there could not possibly be a contract. I was desperate and overly-trusting, so naively I agreed.
After beginning work I had a feeling that things weren't right. I was not receiving the promised education and my time was totally consumed with busy-work. I would be constantly cleaning the shop and would be assigned P.A. work, such as planning and booking hotels and flights for the boss's holiday. I mentioned to the managers that I thought that maybe I should find work elsewhere but I was assured, "Don't give up! Just think - after a few weeks you'll be on a full salary!" so I persevered.
After two months I approached my boss and enquired about when I would be paid. I was told that they were pleased with my work and my first pay check would be in two weeks. It was after this pay day when I only received £100 that I told them I could no longer afford to work there. I was told there was no hard feelings but when I contacted the following week for a reference they refused to provide one - despite me working for two months for free and being told they were pleased with my work. I later found out they also lied about my progression and ability as a barber. I was told by CJ Barbers that I was nowhere near ready to cut hair. When I spoke with barbers in other shops I discovered this to be a lie used to keep me from leaving.
I felt horrible about the whole situation. My trust and my vulnerable situation were totally exploited. I thought that these people had my best interests at heart but it was all a facade to use me for free labour until I caught on. This is why I approached SolFed who informed me of my workers' rights. CJ's did not come close to fulfilling the legal requirements needed to employ an apprentice or a volunteer - So I was in fact entitled to minimum wage for this period which would come to £2800. I have evidence to prove I worked for this entire period.
We gave CJ Barbers plenty to time to respond to our letters and agree to negotiation but they did not respond so we began our campaign. CJ Barbers have begun to use aggressive and illegal tactics against us. They have threatened to send my photo out to prevent me ever working in Sussex again, and they have also expressed interest in using my photo to post in shops framing me a sexual predator (a completely baseless accusation). They have approached the local newspapers spreading lies about the nature of our campaign making verifiably false statements about us. They have even threatened violence against me- saying they would "sort me out once they find my address".
The reason for this campaign is not just to get the money that I am owed. It is also to raise awareness and create a precedent to stop these exploitative fake "apprenticeships" in Brighton and throughout the UK. SolFed has given me the support network and information I need to begin a larger campaign against these practices. Although CJ Barbers is one of the worst culprits, the are by no means alone and we aim to use this very public campaign as a springboard from which to launch our larger mission to end these shady practices in the UK barbering industry as a whole. A minute step in an ongoing struggle for fairer treatment for workers across all trades.
This article was published on 9 June 2019 by the SolFed group in Brighton. Other recent articles:
CJ Barbers: intimidation and histrionics fail to impress (posted 22. June)
'I was desperate for work, desperate to find a stable career and trade I could rely on': the CJ Barbers worker tells his story (posted 9. June)
'I train people for free because that's how it works': CJ Barbers owner Cyrus Shabani admits to not paying worker (posted 4. June)
CJ Barbers Dispute: Business Threatens to Blacklist SolFed Member (posted 23. May)
Education Workers (posted 18. May)
The Campaign against Laibaz continues from Manchester
Laibaz dispute update from Manchester
Solidarity with Polish Workers (ZSP Week of Action against Amazon and Manpower) from Manchester
Statement on Laibaz dispute from Manchester
Kinder, Pay Up from South London
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Soma Games Stories on And Sons Podcast: Video Game Dreamers
In case you didn’t know, Soma Games was Founded by Chris Skaggs in 2005. Rande Bruhn John Bergquist joined the team in 2008. People ask us all the time for the story behind Soma (you can read chapter one and two with Chapter 3 being written soon). This past week Chris and John got to share just a…
June 12, 2019 Leave a commentGames & Faith, Gaming, News, Soma GamesBy adamans
God is Good – Even When You Have No Idea What’s Happening
This post was actually something from my personal blog back at the end of 2011 but I found myself going back over it and it seemed germane for today, so we’re reposting it.
Proverbs 21:31 says “The horses are prepared for battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord.”
Coming home from work today caps off a lot of hard work, a lot of sacrifice and stress – and a “couldn’t be better” entry to a much needed week and a half of rest, family and recharging.
A week ago today we finally released the game that we’ve been working on for about nine months. It’s probably fair to say that four of those months were pretty light duty as we planned and tweaked and were at least partly distracted by other things but from July to December we were hard at it. And while the game was first imagined as something small and light and shallow it took on a life of its own. It morphed and deepened and grew a soul. Suddenly, a game we thought was a tiny time waster was recognized as something else. I remember the day we all sat down and started a prayer time and we all started looking at each other thinking – this isn’t what we thought. This is a Soma Game and a prequel to GRoG.
From there the metaphors, the details, even the delays started to look different in the light that God was actively engaged in the design process and now we were off making a game about spiritual warfare and destiny and guardian angels. It was awfully exciting. But it was also taking FOREVER. We were way over budget and a July launch got pushed to September, then to Thanksgiving and finally to Dec 15. To be true, by that time we were all freaking out more than a little. I’d love to say that we all had “peace beyond understanding” but we didn’t. We all knew this was taking way too long and costing way too much money and the stress was building. But we also knew that we needed to get it right – it had to be solid. And the truth is, the bug list seemed to grow every day instead of shrink. Features were still being added even after we were supposed to have code lock and the project just refused to be finished. Now on the bright side it was truly getting better and better. Not only were bugs getting fixed but all the finer details were being polished. Lightning bugs in the backyard, Photon pushing monsters and Lamplighter healing the friends near her, these and more were all last minute adds that made huge differences. We also kept experiencing that joy of serendipity. The Bonchows, giant versions of the enemies, started as a joke from a typo and become a built in feature on accident. The game was taking on a shape that we only barely glimpsed at the beginning and the time stress was counterbalanced by a real sense of discovery and excitement. Wind Up Robots was going to be a cool and well polished game.
July 1, 2015 Leave a commentGames, Games & Faith, Soma GamesBy Cryptopur
The G We Always Wanted To Make
There’s an old saying that you never really finish a poem, you just give up on it.
At the risk of getting ahead of myself, sometime this month we expect to submit G Prime to Microsoft and call it “done.” – I’m practically giddy.
When we started our first game, G: Into The Rain, we had no idea what we were doing and the “how hard could it be” attitude came crashing into the complex reality of video game development like a raw egg meeting the cast iron skillet. When we finally launched several months later it was bittersweet. On the one hand I was happy with what we’d done but many, many compromises had to be made along the way and there was a part of me that was sad at all the things that we couldn’t do or had to be left out.
June 10, 2015 Leave a commentGames, Games & Faith, Soma GamesBy Cryptopur
Expression or Outreach
Coming back recently from CGDC has me thinking again about something I always think about at CGDC – whether or not we’re the “black sheep” of that group…and if we are, is that a good thing or a bad thing.
Last year at the end-of-conference Town-Hall part, where everybody can basically bring up anything they want, Mikee Bridges from GameChurch said something that brought this idea back to the front of my mind. I don’t remember exactly what he said but it was something along the lines of “Are all of our [game projects] actually serving the function of outreach[1]?”
It’s a perfect question for Mikee. After all, GameChurch’s mission statement is one of outreach – specifically an outreach to gamers. But I was surprised at how quickly my mouth popped open and I said “that’s not what we’re doing…” And I’ve been pondering that brief exchange ever since.
August 6, 2014 7 CommentsGames & Faith, Soma GamesBy Cryptopur
Iliad House and an interview with Phil Lollar
A couple of days ago I had the pleasure of ‘meeting’ Phill Lollar via a quick phone interview. We don’t typically review games or upcoming projects here but this one seemed like a special case and I reached out to see if I could chat with the the gentleman. If you don’t know him, Phil…
August 8, 2013 Leave a commentGames & Faith, Gaming, Soma GamesBy Cryptopur
Project Mouseworks
For several months we’ve been hinting, being coy, posting images here-and-there but not really saying anything concrete about what we’ve been working on. There’s good reason for that and no small part is simply the legal things where any cart-before-horse announcements would earn us some well-deserved hot water, but all of that is over now.
It’s time to start talking about Redwall.
Soma Games has officially optioned the rights to make a Redwall video game – and now that my hyperventilation has begun to wear off I’m ready to start sharing some of the details. But before I get to anything technical I really want to tell a story, cause that’s just the kind of guy I am.
April 10, 2013 33 CommentsGames, Games & Faith, Redwall, Soma GamesBy Cryptopur
The Seam Between Hoorah! and Amen!
JB and I were recently interviewed for an upcoming article. As usual, there were the typical WhoWhatWhenHow questions, but it isn’t every writer who asks the more important question:
Once that question hits the table, I get riled up. I start talking faster and louder, and my hands start gesturing widely like my Italian grandfather’s. It gets me talking about ‘calling’ and ‘inspiration’ and ‘The Kingdom.’ If you let me ramble, and this gentleman did, I’ll start using military metaphors and words like ‘infiltrate’ and ‘mission.’ Whatever else the listener has gleaned at this point, they certainly have an answer…and an insight into Soma Games that they probably didn’t expect.
December 18, 2012 3 CommentsGames & Faith, Soma GamesBy Cryptopur
The Loss of Beauty
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
Few things pierce my soul like the glorious beauty of autumn. Driving up Rex Hill on a day like today when it’s aflame with a glistening golden fire…it makes me cry for the glory of it all.
The other day I was taking a contemplative walk around the neighborhood with JB and we both stopped as we turned a corner and stared. The maples, elms and oaks we screaming in colors so vibrant and varied that every attempt to capture it with a camera was thwarted. The whole scene was like a living Parish painting. I felt so ALIVE to simply stand there and breathe it all in.
Two days earlier, I’d walked that same street – and didn’t notice a thing.
November 15, 2012 Leave a commentGames & Faith, Soma GamesBy Cryptopur
Soma Culture :: Friends are Better Than Money
We had a post a while back where I was reflecting on something Seth Godin (allegedly) said,
“…it’s pointless to have 1000 people ‘following’ you if you can’t call any of em to crash on their couch when you’re in town.“
The week of the cruise there were lots of reasons to do it differently. We had deadlines, we were busy, it was long drive. So really the logical thing to do would be to grab a quick flight, stay in a hotel, and jet home the next morning – easy peasy. But instead we decided to take the road less travelled, all 636 miles of it. Bill Johnson has this great bit about how most of the really good things we want out of life, especially in the Kingdom, are just beyond the veil of inconvenience.
August 27, 2012 Leave a commentFlurry Friday, Games & Faith, Soma GamesBy Cryptopur
An Open Letter To Kris Vallotton (et al.)
(This was originally written as an email to the above mentioned addressee. But then I thought, “I wonder if that busy guy would ever have the chance to actually read mail from a stranger?” Then I thought that except for a few details, it’s really a letter I should write to a bunch of leaders,…
May 30, 2012 1 CommentGames, Games & Faith, Soma GamesBy Cryptopur
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Hannity : FOXNEWSW : January 14, 2016 10:00pm-11:01pm PST
of the night? frank luntz and his focus group are next. we've got the best ones dialled and the one that was fairly obvious and not obvious. and look who is here. dr. charles krauthammer with what he thought was the surprise of the night. plus, chris stierwalt and howie kurtz. >> i stood on the stage and watched marco look at governor bush and say someone told you that because we're running for the same office that criticizing me will get to you that office. it appears the same someone has been whispering in old marco's ear, too. constipated? trust number one doctor recommended dulcolax use dulcolax tablets for gentle overnight relief suppositories for relief in minutes and stool softeners for comfortable relief of hard stools. dulcolax, designed for dependable relief [eerie music] i am the ghost of cookies' past...residue. oh...so gross. well, you didn't use pam. so it looks like you're stuwith me! bargain brand cooking spray leaves annoying residue. that's why there's pam. doh no, i'll take you up to me othe front of the school. that's where your friends are. seriously, it's, it's
of the night? frank luntz and his focus group are next. we've got the best ones dialled and the one that was fairly obvious and not obvious. and look who is here. dr. charles krauthammer with what he thought was the surprise of the night. plus, chris stierwalt and howie kurtz. >> i stood on the stage and watched marco look at governor bush and say someone told you that because we're running for the same office that criticizing me will get to you that office. it appears the same someone...
The Kelly File : FOXNEWSW : January 29, 2016 12:00am-1:01am PST
election. >> frank luntz and his focus group are here, and we'll speak with ted cruz, fresh from the debate stage and we'll have all star analysis. the kelly file starts right now. >> and hello again from des moines, different location, but still here, moments ago, seven of the top republican presidential contenders faced off for the final time before the iowa caucuses. the candidates addressed what is wrong with washington, addressed illegal immigration, the threats from isis, social issues and their own inconsistent statements. but perhaps one of the biggest stories of the night, not their attacks on one another, but on democratic front runner, hillary clinton. charles krauthammer is with me now, charles, your thoughts. >> hello there. i am ready for your question. i thought this was a very interesting evening because the absence, well, i don't say why. there was a very spirited debate, much more substantive than any other and there was almost none of the earlier debate. it did not having to do, i thought with the kind of personal level we heard before. i'll leave it to the viewers
election. >> frank luntz and his focus group are here, and we'll speak with ted cruz, fresh from the debate stage and we'll have all star analysis. the kelly file starts right now. >> and hello again from des moines, different location, but still here, moments ago, seven of the top republican presidential contenders faced off for the final time before the iowa caucuses. the candidates addressed what is wrong with washington, addressed illegal immigration, the threats from isis,...
Red Eye : FOXNEWSW : January 15, 2016 12:00am-1:01am PST
stage tonight, he was here, with us. >> what were the biggest moments of the night? frank luntz and his focus group are next. we've got the best ones dialled and the one that was fairly obvious and not obvious. and look who is here. dr. charles krauthammer with what he thought was the surprise of the night. plus, chris stierwalt and howie kurtz. >> i stood on the stage and watched marco look at governor bush and say someone told you that because we're running for the same office that criticizing me will get to you that office. it appears the same someone has been whispering in old marco's ear, too. constipated? trust number one doctor recommended dulcolax use dulcolax tablets for gentle overnight relief suppositories for relief in minutes and stool softeners for comfortable relief of hard stools. dulcolax, designed for dependable relief >>> hillary clinton is disqualified from being commander in chief of the united states. someone who cannot handle intelligence information appropriately cannot be commander in chief and someone who lied to families of the victims in benghazi cannot be pr
stage tonight, he was here, with us. >> what were the biggest moments of the night? frank luntz and his focus group are next. we've got the best ones dialled and the one that was fairly obvious and not obvious. and look who is here. dr. charles krauthammer with what he thought was the surprise of the night. plus, chris stierwalt and howie kurtz. >> i stood on the stage and watched marco look at governor bush and say someone told you that because we're running for the same office...
The O'Reilly Factor : FOXNEWSW : January 14, 2016 8:00pm-9:01pm PST
. >> what were the biggest moments of the night? frank luntz and his focus group are next. we've got the best ones dialled and the one that was fairly obvious and not obvious. and look who is here. dr. charles krauthammer with what he thought was the surprise of the night. plus, chris stierwalt and howie kurtz. >> i stood on the stage and watched marco look at governor bush and say someone told you that because we're running for the same office that criticizing me will get to you that office. it appears the same someone has been whispering in old marco's ear, too. i sure had a lot on my mind when i got out of the hospital after a dvt blood clot. what about my family? my li'l buddy? and what if this happened again? i was given warfarin in the hospital but i wondered if this was the right treatment for me. then my doctor told me about eliquis. eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots and reduces the risk of them happening again. not only does eliquis treat dvt and pe blood clots, but eliquis also had significantly less major bleeding than the standard treatment. knowing eliquis had both..
. >> what were the biggest moments of the night? frank luntz and his focus group are next. we've got the best ones dialled and the one that was fairly obvious and not obvious. and look who is here. dr. charles krauthammer with what he thought was the surprise of the night. plus, chris stierwalt and howie kurtz. >> i stood on the stage and watched marco look at governor bush and say someone told you that because we're running for the same office that criticizing me will get to you...
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CBS Evening News : WTSP : January 10, 2016 6:00pm-6:30pm EST
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: republican poll ster frank luntz along with goggle conducted a focus group of iowa republicans friday night. >> iowa voters have become so sophisticated that they know that the people that they choose is not necessarily the people who the rest of america chooses. they think they're going to choose cruz. but they're starting to think that the rest of america may choose trump. >> reporter: according to the most recent poll of likely iowa caucus goers, cruz and trump are virtually tied with rubio a distant third in new hampshire, trump has a commanding lead and the fight for second and third is playing out between rubio, chris christie, cruz, jeb bush and john kasich. on "face the nation," house speaker paul ryan said he would support trump or cruz if one of them is the nominee and predicted republicans would eventually coa less around the party's pick. >> i think primaries inevitably but once you get through the primary, i think we union fie as a conservative movement. >> reporter: there were some potentially concerning numbers in the polls for hillary clinton. they show she beats trump
: republican poll ster frank luntz along with goggle conducted a focus group of iowa republicans friday night. >> iowa voters have become so sophisticated that they know that the people that they choose is not necessarily the people who the rest of america chooses. they think they're going to choose cruz. but they're starting to think that the rest of america may choose trump. >> reporter: according to the most recent poll of likely iowa caucus goers, cruz and trump are virtually...
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This Week With George Stephanopoulos : WCPO : January 10, 2016 9:00am-10:00am EST
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raised at a focus group of likely caucusgoers in iowa conducted by frank luntz and google. >> how many say trump will win? raise your hands? ooh. he won't be happy with that. only two. how many say ted cruz will win? if trump is the nominee is anyone in the room who would not vote for him? wow. >> i do not believe trump would put a good face on the republican party as president. >> you'd be prepared to see hillary clinton in the white house? >> unfortunately. >> but others find a lot to like about him. >> the man knows how to negotiate. he knows how to find the right people. >> reporter: trump's first television ad promoting his muslim ban generated the expected buzz. >> spot-on. the things he talked about in that ad is what is affecting america right now, illegal immigration and isis. >> reporter: but does he do it in a way that's constructive? >> all: no. >> fear based. >> reporter: with this group trump's questions about whether cruz who was born in canada to an american mother is eligible to be president appeared to backfire. >> it exposes trump as unserious. he said his strongest
raised at a focus group of likely caucusgoers in iowa conducted by frank luntz and google. >> how many say trump will win? raise your hands? ooh. he won't be happy with that. only two. how many say ted cruz will win? if trump is the nominee is anyone in the room who would not vote for him? wow. >> i do not believe trump would put a good face on the republican party as president. >> you'd be prepared to see hillary clinton in the white house? >> unfortunately. >>...
The Kelly File : FOXNEWSW : January 29, 2016 6:00pm-7:01pm PST
of the folks voting in iowa on monday and you'll see how his entry into the frank luntz lion's den went, next. >> how many of you walked in here supporting marco rubio, raise your hands. one, two, three of you. how many of you are going home, most likely to vote for rubio, raise your hands. that's the impact of a single debate. from bank of america to help pay for her kids' ice time. before earning 1% cash back everywhere, every time. and 2% back at the grocery store. even before she got 3% back on gas, all with no hoops to jump through. katie used her bankamericard cash rewards credit card to stay warm and toasty during the heat of competition. that's the comfort of rewarding connections. apply online or at a bank of america near you. >>> breaking tonight, less than 4 hours after a big debate, senator marco rubio held a rally in dubuque, attracting perhaps his biggest crowd yet in the state of iowa. senator rubio got high marks for his performance in the debate, the daily caller writing, rubio wins debate while cruz flubs it. the national journal wrote, rubio makes the most of his
of the folks voting in iowa on monday and you'll see how his entry into the frank luntz lion's den went, next. >> how many of you walked in here supporting marco rubio, raise your hands. one, two, three of you. how many of you are going home, most likely to vote for rubio, raise your hands. that's the impact of a single debate. from bank of america to help pay for her kids' ice time. before earning 1% cash back everywhere, every time. and 2% back at the grocery store. even before she got...
Charlie Rose : KQED : January 12, 2016 12:00pm-1:01pm PST
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smiley, al hunt and frank luntz. >> it's legacy time now. i think will definitely-- if he's smart he will rise above it but the debate will be about why didn't he get more done. here again, did he not try hard enough. or was he obstruct. >> dowd: we continue with charlie's interview with dr. david agus, his new book is "the lucky years: how to thrive in the brave new world of health." >> to me catcher say verb, not a noun, you are can serg, you don't get cancer, you have cancer. so the body, it's a process it's going through. if i sequence your blood, or a hundred people in new york city today, i would find that sefn of them had all the chang of leukemia in their blood yet they don't have leukemia, because the environment didn't allow it to grow. so you need dna changes and a per missive environment. all of our therapy has been here. the next generation, i think, will target here. >> dowd: we conclude way remembrance of david bowie. >> the idea of having to say that i'm a musician, in anyway, is an embarrassment to me because i don't really believe that. i've always felt that i i do is i
smiley, al hunt and frank luntz. >> it's legacy time now. i think will definitely-- if he's smart he will rise above it but the debate will be about why didn't he get more done. here again, did he not try hard enough. or was he obstruct. >> dowd: we continue with charlie's interview with dr. david agus, his new book is "the lucky years: how to thrive in the brave new world of health." >> to me catcher say verb, not a noun, you are can serg, you don't get cancer, you...
The Kelly File : FOXNEWSW : January 29, 2016 9:00pm-10:01pm PST
see how his entry into the frank luntz lion's den went, next. >> how many of you walked in here supporting marco rubio, raise your hands. one, two, three of you. how many of you are going home, most likely to vote for rubio, raise your hands. that's the impact of a single that's the impact of a single debate. ♪ (cell phone rings) where are you? well the squirrels are back in the attic. mom? your dad won't call an exterminator... can i call you back, mom? he says it's personal this time... if you're a mom, you call at the worst time. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. where are you? it's very loud there. are you taking a zumba class? weinto a new american century. born with a hunger to fly and a passion to build something better. and what an amazing time it's been, decade after decade of innovation, inspiration and wonder. so, we say thank you america for a century of trust, for the privilege of flying higher and higher, together. ♪ as long as you love me, it's alright bend me shape me, any wa
see how his entry into the frank luntz lion's den went, next. >> how many of you walked in here supporting marco rubio, raise your hands. one, two, three of you. how many of you are going home, most likely to vote for rubio, raise your hands. that's the impact of a single that's the impact of a single debate. ♪ (cell phone rings) where are you? well the squirrels are back in the attic. mom? your dad won't call an exterminator... can i call you back, mom? he says it's personal this...
This Week With George Stephanopoulos : WABC : January 10, 2016 10:00am-11:00am EST
by frank luntz and google. abc news got an exclusive first look. >> how many of you say trump is going to win? raise your hands. ooh. he won't be happy with that. only two. how many say ted cruz will win? if trump is the nominee is there anyone in this room that wow. >> i do not believe trump would put a good face on the >> so, you'd be prepared to see house? >> reporter: but others find a >> the man knows how to negotiate. people. >> reporter: trump's first television ad promoting his muslim ban generated the expected buzz. >> he's spot-on. the things he talked about in that ad is what is affecting america right now, illegal immigration and isis. >> but does he do it in a way that's constructive? >> all: no. >> no. >> absolutely not. >> it's more fear based. >> reporter: with this group trump's questions about whether cruz who was born in canada to appeared to backfire. >> it exposes trump as unserious. he said his strongest lawyers said it's a settled issue and cruz is eligible. >> reporter: one candidate in the back of the pack is getting a second look. >> but over the last 60
by frank luntz and google. abc news got an exclusive first look. >> how many of you say trump is going to win? raise your hands. ooh. he won't be happy with that. only two. how many say ted cruz will win? if trump is the nominee is there anyone in this room that wow. >> i do not believe trump would put a good face on the >> so, you'd be prepared to see house? >> reporter: but others find a >> the man knows how to negotiate. people. >> reporter: trump's first...
Making Money With Charles Payne : FBC : January 11, 2016 6:00pm-7:01pm EST
: donald trump attacking hillary clinton by going after her husband. but pollster frank luntz says he thinks that's a dangerous strategy. >> people want to know how you stand on the issues and trying to tie bill clinton into hillary, trump is doing weaker than any other candidate. you cannot win this elect without getting at least 45% of the female vote. charles: according to the latest fox news poll says hillary clinton -- bill clinton is more respectful of women than donald trump. you have been passionate about this. you talked about this over and over again for a long time. long before donald trump brought it up. you have got mixed feeling about how it's presented in the political arena. >> it can't just be that bill clinton is a bad guy. you have to look back at the way hillary treated these women who were accuse her husband of sexual assault. ' she called them names that i could not say on tv without getting suspended. we need to take a look at that. and put the focus on hillary and how she is relating to what happened. she played a direct active role. she did some things that ma
: donald trump attacking hillary clinton by going after her husband. but pollster frank luntz says he thinks that's a dangerous strategy. >> people want to know how you stand on the issues and trying to tie bill clinton into hillary, trump is doing weaker than any other candidate. you cannot win this elect without getting at least 45% of the female vote. charles: according to the latest fox news poll says hillary clinton -- bill clinton is more respectful of women than donald trump. you...
This Week With George Stephanopoulos : KGO : January 10, 2016 8:00am-9:01am PST
. frank luntz conducted it and some of the voters had concerns about you and the electability issue. let's listen. >> my biggest thing is bernie seems old. and i'm sorry. bernie is old, and i see how that office ages people. bernie won't make it. >> can he go the distance in my mind, no. >> one of the biggest flaws of bernie sanders was admit or state that he's a socialist. >> people think it's communism. >> so those issues of socialism, communism and age getting in the way of your electability. how do you reassure those voters? >> well, for a start i would urge those voters, voters all over this country, take a look at recent polls in which bernie sanders is matched with republican candidates, trump on down, hillary clinton is matched with republican candidates, and you know what, in many of those polls including the major recent one, quinnipiac poll, we beat trump nationally by 13 points, secretary clinton beat him by seven points. look at a recent new hampshire poll. just in new hampshire, we did much, much better against republican candidates than did hillary clinton. so, if peo
. frank luntz conducted it and some of the voters had concerns about you and the electability issue. let's listen. >> my biggest thing is bernie seems old. and i'm sorry. bernie is old, and i see how that office ages people. bernie won't make it. >> can he go the distance in my mind, no. >> one of the biggest flaws of bernie sanders was admit or state that he's a socialist. >> people think it's communism. >> so those issues of socialism, communism and age getting...
With All Due Respect : BLOOMBERG : January 26, 2016 8:00pm-9:01pm EST
on the stage with frank luntz, and he asked the donald trump had ever asked god for forgiveness. matter-of-factly, "nope." mark: our thanks to governor perry. when we come back, president obama's former campaign manager joins us. don't forget, if you are watching this program in washington, you can now listen to us at the radio on 99.1 in the nations capital. right back after this. ♪ the only way to get better is to challenge yourself, and that's what we're doing at xfinity. we are challenging ourselves to improve every aspect of your experience. and this includes our commitment to being on time. every time. that's why if we're ever late for an appointment, we'll credit your account $20. it's our promise to you. we're doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. because we should fit into your life. not the other way around. mark: our next guest is president obama's former campaign manager, david plouffe, who joins us from san francisco. we don't want to talk about anything but politics today. you spent a lot of time in iowa 4 and 8 years ago. what do you
on the stage with frank luntz, and he asked the donald trump had ever asked god for forgiveness. matter-of-factly, "nope." mark: our thanks to governor perry. when we come back, president obama's former campaign manager joins us. don't forget, if you are watching this program in washington, you can now listen to us at the radio on 99.1 in the nations capital. right back after this. ♪ the only way to get better is to challenge yourself, and that's what we're doing at xfinity. we are...
The Real Story With Gretchen Carlson : FOXNEWSW : January 31, 2016 12:00pm-1:01pm PST
listen to frank luntz talking about some of the different strategies between those two. >> cruz is in your face. rubio is going after the christian conservative vote. >> ted cruz has been going after the evangelical vote as has donald trump, for that matter. >> it's 57% of the caucus goers. by the way, you teased that you're going to tell people about the caucus situation, the caucus situation is important because it's so extensive. my point here is this, it's not a five-minute deal. if we have a snowstorm blow in here like they say is going to happen, it's going to make it difficult for a lot of people to spent time and you're going to see what the time they need to cast a vote and the way it's compiled is fascinating. snow will have an effect tomorrow. >> the other thing, eric, i grew up in minnesota north of iowa and they're going to bring a bunch of hot dishes tomorrow night, too. have you ever had hot dish? >> i have to be honest with you i have not and i come from chicago, the midwest. >> tuna noodle casserole would be at the top of my list. >> i think they have it for breakfast
listen to frank luntz talking about some of the different strategies between those two. >> cruz is in your face. rubio is going after the christian conservative vote. >> ted cruz has been going after the evangelical vote as has donald trump, for that matter. >> it's 57% of the caucus goers. by the way, you teased that you're going to tell people about the caucus situation, the caucus situation is important because it's so extensive. my point here is this, it's not a...
MediaBuzz : FOXNEWSW : January 24, 2016 2:00pm-3:01pm PST
to is both sides. >> pollster frank luntz asked people in a focus group what they thought of the media coverage. let's look. >> why have they not been fair? >> targeting him and taking their words and pulled them out of context which the media is good. >> donald trump show all the time. every day. >> 100 percent fair for the media to abuse you when you are running for the presidency because it gives us a chance to see how you will handle it. >> it is unfair for the media to abuse you? >>> asking tough questions, absolutely, but what donald trump has done effectively is used social media to his advantage, and he has been able to deliver the narrative and guess what, the media is the one asking the questions and he is accessible, he is out there, being able to not afraid to answer the questions. all the reason he get as little of air time is because he is willing to come on shows look thick and the sunday shows and the morning shows and late night shows but to finish up on "national review," donald trump is not running as a trueblue conservative so he does not have to pass their li
to is both sides. >> pollster frank luntz asked people in a focus group what they thought of the media coverage. let's look. >> why have they not been fair? >> targeting him and taking their words and pulled them out of context which the media is good. >> donald trump show all the time. every day. >> 100 percent fair for the media to abuse you when you are running for the presidency because it gives us a chance to see how you will handle it. >> it is unfair...
Fox and Friends First : FOXNEWSW : January 11, 2016 2:00am-3:01am PST
sean penn after his trip down mexico toith el chapo. he's in hot water. also frank luntz gives us an exclusive look at the ben sglaz benghazi movie called 15 hours. right now right here on the channel you trust for your morning news. i tried depend last weekend. it really made the difference between a morning around the house and getting a little exercise. only depend underwear has new confidence core technology for fast absorption and the smooth, comfortable fit of fit-flex™ protection. get a coupon at depend.com may not always be clear... but at t. rowe price, we can help guide your retirement savings. for over 75 years, investors have relied on our disciplined approach to find long term value. so wherever your retirement journey takes you, . make the most of your retirement savings. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. >>> welcome back everyone. a lawmaker wants to make it a crime to videotape police activity from close range. the proposed bill is expected to be considered in today's session. john cavanaugh says people who rush in to film police interactions are endangering of
sean penn after his trip down mexico toith el chapo. he's in hot water. also frank luntz gives us an exclusive look at the ben sglaz benghazi movie called 15 hours. right now right here on the channel you trust for your morning news. i tried depend last weekend. it really made the difference between a morning around the house and getting a little exercise. only depend underwear has new confidence core technology for fast absorption and the smooth, comfortable fit of fit-flex™ protection. get...
State of the Union With Jake Tapper : CNNW : January 17, 2016 6:00am-7:01am PST
to frank luntz months ago when you said that you've never asked god for forgiveness. do you regret making that remark? >> no, i have great relationship with god. i have great relationship with the e vn jell calls. nationwide, i'm leading everybody. i like to be good. i don't like to have to ask for forgiveness. i am good. i don't do a lot of things that are bad. i try and do nothing that's bad. i live a very different life than probably a lot of people would think. and i have a very -- >> always or just now? >> after i great relationship with god, and i have a very great relationship with evangelicals, and i think that's why i'm doing so well with iowa. >> the life you have now when you say that you try to do good, that sounds very different from decades of tabloid media coverage in new york in which some of your wilder escapades -- >> i'm talking about over the last number of years. i'm leading a very good life. i try to lead a good life and i have. and frankly the reason i'm doing so well in iowa and leading, including the cnn poll, where i'm 33-20 in iowa, that's -- and by the w
to frank luntz months ago when you said that you've never asked god for forgiveness. do you regret making that remark? >> no, i have great relationship with god. i have great relationship with the e vn jell calls. nationwide, i'm leading everybody. i like to be good. i don't like to have to ask for forgiveness. i am good. i don't do a lot of things that are bad. i try and do nothing that's bad. i live a very different life than probably a lot of people would think. and i have a very --...
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Trailers: The Upcoming Horror Comedy The Restaurant
Ahead of the Marche du Film in Cannes (8th-17th May 2018), Genre sales specialists Devilworks has revealed the second title in their Cannes lineup the Supernatural Horror Comedy The Restaurant. Set in New York, Andy manages an Italian eatery where in exchange for business he feeds undesirables to a demon in the basement. Everything was going smoothly... until the busboy found out. It was executive Produced by Kris Maxx, written and directed by Eric Ford-Holevinski. The deal was negotiated by Ben Yennie founder of The Guerrilla Rep on behalf of the film makers and Samantha Richardson on behalf of Devilworks. Check out the trailer below.
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Phononic signs a refrigeration agreement with Pepsi Bottling Ventures
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According to a recent survey commissioned by Phononic, 50% of food retail executives admitted that they did not figure out how to use technology as successfully as non-food retailers, and 60% thought their organizations did not invest enough in the store. technology.
Dana Krug, Phononic Food and Beverage General Manager, said: "We are pleased to partner with Pepsi Bottling Ventures to provide food retailers with the innovative solid state cooling technology they need to increase operating margins and maximize sales potential.
Phononic Merchandising Refrigerator uses solid state cooling technology to provide retailers with a more sustainable alternative to compressor refrigeration.
The North Carolina-based company says its refrigerators can store more inventory, increase sales and reduce replenishment with "up to 30% capacity."
US technology company Phononic has partnered with Pepsi Bottling Ventures (PBV) to extend the sale of its Merchandising Refrigerator to retailers of bottlers.
Randy Quirk, vice president of food services at PBV, said: "Phononic's sustainable solid state cooling technology is groundbreaking and further drives our goal of improving environmental sustainability throughout the organization and in the communities in which we operate.
“Phononic Merchandising Refrigerator is an incredible asset to our retail store customers. Each sustainable unit offers compact, energy-efficient merchandise footprint, uniform temperature and maintenance costs. Based on these features, our Customers are now free to rethink in-store layouts and optimize refrigerator placement to create incremental revenue opportunities."
The company said its solid-state refrigeration and refrigeration technology "helps food retailers reimagine the shopping experience."
“Phononic's unmatched solid-state thermal performance brings new revenue streams and channels to new launch opportunities. As food and beverage industries continue to be affected by checkout efficiencies and in-store convenience innovations, food retailers are facing increasing The challenge: Adjusting the business to meet consumer demand, sustainability signs and technology upgrades while balancing their bottom line."
North America's largest Pepsi-Cola manufacturers, distributors and distributors bring sustainable solid-state technology to their retail customers by deploying Phononic Merchandising Refrigerators
About Phononic
Phononic is reimagining cooling and heating in ways never before possible. Its breakthrough technology is transforming the industry and creating new markets through innovative solid-state solutions that undermine traditional patterns and ways of working. Phononic's thermal engine and integrated system design enables designers, engineers and industry leaders to reinvent and explore possible things. By changing the retail environment's sustainable freezers and refrigerators to disrupt the food and beverage industry, Phononic's solid state technology is making compressors obsolete.
Phononic is a key element of innovation and needs to fundamentally change the way efficient, effective and sustainable. Rethink things that are designed to stay calm and hot.
According to a recent survey commissioned by Phononic, 50% of food retail executives admit that they did not figure out how to use technology as successfully as non-food retailers, and 60% believe their organizations are not investing enough technology in the store. In the face of today's "grocery wars," technology differentiation is critical for food retailers - from dealers to grocery stores and convenience store owners. Phononic's solid state cooling and freezing technology helps food retailers reimagine the shopping experience, reduce service, maintain and restock, while achieving optimal in-store placement.
“Phononic's sustainable solid state cooling technology is groundbreaking and further drives our goal of improving environmental sustainability throughout the organization and within the communities we operate,” said Randy Quirk, vice president of food services at PBV. “Phononic Merchandising Refrigerator is an incredible asset to our retail store customers. Each sustainable unit offers compact, energy-efficient merchandise footprint, uniform temperature and maintenance costs. Based on these features, our Customers are now free to rethink in-store layouts and optimize refrigerator placement to create incremental revenue opportunities."
Phononic, a global leader in cooling and heating technology, is transforming the industry with innovative solid-state solutions and today announced a partnership with Pepsi-Cola Bottling (PBV), the largest private bottler produced by PepsiCo in North America. , sales and distribution of some of the world's most well-known consumer brands. The partnership will expand the current deployment of Phononic commodity refrigerators, including PBV customers in large retail chains and convenience stores, to provide food retailers with innovative and sustainable compressor refrigeration alternatives.
Phononic delivers total cost of ownership value through sustainability, increased reliability and reduced maintenance costs by up to 70% compared to conventional compressor-based refrigerators. And, with a 30% increase in capacity, Phononic refrigerators can store more inventory, drive higher sales and lower replenishment, while using only carbon dioxide and water to provide an unparalleled sustainability footprint, which is more extensive than any other. The refrigerant used is cleaner and safer.
“We are pleased to partner with Pepsi Bottling Ventures to provide food retailers with innovative solid state cooling technology to increase operating margins and maximize sales potential,” said Dana Krug, vice president and general manager of Phononic Foods and Beverages. “Phononic's unmatched solid-state thermal performance brings new revenue streams and channels to new launch opportunities. As food and beverage industries continue to be affected by checkout efficiencies and in-store convenience innovations, food retailers are facing increasing The challenge: Adjusting the business to meet consumer demand, sustainability signs and technology upgrades while balancing their bottom line."
To learn more about the disruptive approach to Phononic's commercial food and beverage refrigeration and refrigeration technologies, visit: https://phononic.com/food-beverage/.
Phononic teamed up with Pepsi Bottling Ventures to change the food and beverage retail environment with solid-state cooling technology
Phononic announced a partnership with Pepsi Bottling Ventures (PBV). The partnership will expand the current deployment of Phononic commodity refrigerators, including PBV customers in large retail chains and convenience stores, to provide food retailers with innovative and sustainable compressor refrigeration alternatives. Phononic delivers total cost of ownership value through sustainability, increased reliability and reduced maintenance costs by up to 70% compared to conventional compressor-based refrigerators. The Phononic refrigerator has a 30% increase in capacity, can store more inventory, bring higher sales and lower replenishment, while using only carbon dioxide and water to provide an unparalleled sustainability footprint, more widely than any other The refrigerant is cleaner and safer.
About Pepsi-Cola Bottled Enterprises
PBV is the largest private bottler in Pepsi-Cola products in North America - manufacturing, selling and distributing some of the world's best-known consumer brands. PBV is a privately held company that operates 18 bottling and distribution facilities
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Election Roundup: Race to the finish line!
by Andrew Surabian
Political Director
Last week Tea Party Express announced our endorsement of Dan Sullivan for U.S. Senate in Alaska. Sullivan is challenging incumbent Democrat Sen. Mark Begich and recent polls show a neck and neck race between the two, although it would seem as though Sullivan has the slight advantage. Tea Party Express also announced the launch of a statewide radio advertisement blitz featuring 2010 Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Joe Miller. In the ad, Miller goes after Begich for supporting President Obama’s policies 97% of the time, as well as for his support for Obamacare. You can listen to the ad which is currently running statewide, here.
The U.S. Senate race in Iowa between Republican Joni Ernst and Democrat Rep. Bruce Braley has been one of the most closely watched races of the cycle, with some analysts even predicting that it would be the race that decides which party controls the U.S. Senate. If the newest poll on the race is any indication, this race is going to be a barnburner until election day. A new poll released by NBC News shows Ernst with a 3 point edge over Braley, 49-46, which is within the poll’s margin of error. In fact, the Huffington Post’s average of polls shows Ernst with just a 1 point lead over Braley.
While the polls are close, Republicans did get some great news out of Iowa last week when it was announced that absentee voters between the two parties were largely even. This is important because the Democrats were counting on their supposedly superior ground game to help Braley establish a big lead in early voting as a way to blunt against the momentum of Ernst. Unfortunately for them, it doesn’t seem like that’s come to fruition.
Last week we told you about how the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee had announced that they would be pulling their resources out of Kentucky. However, it looks like they’ve changed their minds. Following a poll that showed Sen. Mitch McConnell’s lead dwindling to only 1 point over his democrat challenger, the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee decided to jump back into the Kentucky race with a $650,000 ad buy. Even with the race apparently tightening up, according to the Huffington Post’s average of polls, Senator McConnell still holds a 4 point lead over the Democrat Grimes.
This past week, Sen. McConnell also earned the support of one of the tea party movement’s most popular Congressmen, Rep. Thomas Massie. Congressman Massie who represents the 4th district of Kentucky is predicting a big win for Senator McConnell.
North Carolina has been a race where the Republican nominee, State House Speaker Thom Tillis, could not seem to get ahead of incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan, as for months Hagan led in over 10 consecutive polls and thus race was largely written off by observers. Also with a libertarian candidate siphoning off a large amount of support from Tillis, it seemed as though a Republican win in North Carolina may just have been a bridge too far. However, in the last 2 weeks momentum has shifted and Tillis may just pull off a big upset.
Recently released polls from Survey USA and NBC News both show the race between the two tied, with the Washington Post noting how the new polls could spell trouble for Sen. Hagan.
The Democrat incumbent certainly didn’t help matters when last week she decided to skip a live televised debate with Speaker Tillis. It’s been speculated by some that the reason for her decision to skip the debate was her reluctance to speak about recent charges of corruption levied against her and her husband.
Read other articles from this week’s newsletter here!
GOTV: Headed for the grand finale by Donlyn Turnbull
Interview with Kay Rivoli, National Grassroots Director for Tea Party Express by Justin Petty
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Vodafone to protect the skies with trials of world’s first air traffic control drone tracker
Mobile phone operator Vodafone has announced trials of the world’s first air traffic control drone tracking and safety technology.
The company’s new system is integrated with 4G Internet of Things (IoT) technology to protect aircraft from catastrophic accidents as well as prevent inadvertent or criminal drone incursions at sensitive locations such as airports, prisons and hospitals.
Vodafone explained that commercial civilian drones are too small to be tracked by conventional radar and present a serious risk to pilots worldwide, particularly in the immediate vicinity of airfields and airports.
The risk of operating drones, which are being increasingly deployed for criminal purposes such as drug smuggling and delivering contraband to prisoners, is growing at an exponential rate.
Analysis from the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research (SESAR) project indicates that by 2050 drones will log more than 250 million flying hours per year over densely populated areas of the European Union, seven times the cumulative annual flying hours of conventional crewed aircraft.
The Vodafone IoT drone tracking and safety technology trials support the objectives of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), with whom Vodafone has collaborated. EASA is currently developing new pan-European rules to regulate the operation of drones.
The new technology developed by Vodafone also enhances the European Union’s potential to become the centre of global innovation in drone technology in line with the European Commission’s “U-space” vision for innovative and safe drone operations.
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World Cruises - Silver Cloud
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Exploring the secrets of the world is not a task for an ordinary cruise – especially when the secrets are about uncharted wonders, extreme latitudes, and entire months with no time for boredom. It is the “The Uncharted World”, and in 2021 it will be explored by the first Expedition World Cruise in history: the first designed to host the pioneers of beauty, guests who want to see the world raw and unfiltered, unafraid of its purest form. From Ushuaia to Tromso. The first-ever Expedition World Cruise.
Fully inclusive, Silversea’s Expedition World Cruise 2021 is unprecedented with regards to the scope of immersive experiences on offer: the itinerary is crafted to connect the most rewarding travel experiences around the planet. This experience-focused expedition will appeal to those with a passion for discovery, who like to stay active on their travels, and continue to challenge their own sense of adventure. From Ushuaia to Tromsø, the 167-day voyage will call at 107 of the planet’s most amazing destinations, in 30 must-visit countries—including six new ports of call for Silversea (Naxos, Folegandros, Nafpaktos, Ksamil, Bejaïa, and Fort William).
This highly experiential expedition will enable guests to engage with remote destinations through hands-on exploration; immersive shore excursions, which are included; informative lectures from Silversea’s Expedition Team; and featured lectures from many world-class experts, including, among others, the inspirational Felicity Aston MBE—a recipient of the Polar Medal and the first and only woman to cross Antarctica alone—and Tim Severin—a world-renowned explorer who has retraced the storied journeys of Saint Brendan the Navigator, Sindbad the Sailor, Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, The First Crusade, and Genghis Khan. Guests will enjoy a private dinner on London Tower Bridge’s walkway, an exclusive Viking feast in Kjarnaskogur Forest in Iceland, and a number of other bespoke events around the world. Moreover, for a segment of this innovative World Cruise, Silversea’s Senior Vice President of Expedition and Destinations Experiences, Conrad Combrink, will feature as Expedition Leader, enriching the voyage for guests.
Departing Ushuaia on January 30, 2021, Silversea’s ultra-luxurious ice-class crossover, Silver Cloud, will journey between Antarctica’s highlight destinations, before setting course for Chile’s Valparaiso via the Chilean Fjords. Subsequently, guests will set sail for Papeete, Tahiti, via Easter Island and the fabled Pitcairn Island, before voyaging towards Lautoka, Fiji. Calls in a number of other iconic destinations in Oceania—including remote exploration stops in Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea—precede guests’ arrival in Cairns, Australia, which then leads to the Kimberley Coast. Guests will subsequently unlock various destinations in Indonesia, before arriving in Singapore. Next, Silver Cloud will set sail for Sumatra, Sri Lanka and Cochin, India, prior to reaching Piraeus (Athens), Lisbon, and Reykjavik. Part of an emphatic conclusion, guests aboard Silversea’s 2021 Expedition World Cruise will then explore the highlights of Iceland, ahead of calls in the Svalbard Region and the voyage’s conclusion in Tromsø, Norway, on July 16, 2021.
28 January 2021 Fly from the UK overnight to Santiago
29 January 2021 On arrival transfer to a hotel for a 1 night stay
30 January 2021 Transfer from the hotel to the airport for a charter flight to Ushuaia. On arrival transfer to the port and embark Silver Cloud
31 January 2021 Drake Passage
1 February 2021 Drake Passage
2 February 2021 Antarctic Sound
3 February 2021 Antarctic Peninsula
6 February 2021 South Shetland Islands
9 February 2021 Cruise Chilean Fjords
10 February 2021 Cruise English Narrows
11 February 2021 Tortel
13 February 2021 Castro, Chile
14 February 2021 Puerto Montt, Chile
15 February 2021 Niebla, Chile
17 February 2021 Valparaiso, Chile
19 February 2021 Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile
20 February 2021 Alexander Selkirk Island, Chile
25 February 2021 Easter Island, Chile
2 March 2021 Adamstown (Pitcairn Island), Pitcairn
5 March 2021 Atuona - Hiva Oa (Marquesas Island), French Polynesia
6 March 2021 Fatu Hiva (Marquesas Islands), French Polynesia
8 March 2021 Fakarava Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia
9 March 2021 Rangiroa Island, French Polynesia
10 March 2021 Moorea Island, French Polynesia
11 March 2021 Papeete (Tahiti), French Polynesia
12 March 2021 Bora Bora (Society Islands), French Polynesia
14 March 2021 Rarotonga Island, Cook Islands
15 March 2021 Aitutaki, Cook Islands
16 March 2021 Palmerston Island, Cook Islands
17 March 2021 Cross International date line (loose a day)
19 March 2021 Apia, Samoa
22 March 2021 Somosomo (Taveuni), Fiji
23 March 2021 Lautoka, Fiji
25 March 2021 Pentecost Island, Vanuatu.
Ambrym Island, Vanuatu
26 March 2021 Champagne Beach, Vanuatu
27 March 2021 Nendo Island, Solomon Islands
28 March 2021 Santa Ana, Solomon Islands
30 March 2021 Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
31 March 2021 Garove Island, Papua New Guinea
1 April 2021 Madang, Papua New Guinea
2 April 2021 Tami Islands, Papua New Guinea
3 April 2021 Dobu Island, Papua New Guinea.
Dei Dei Hot Springs (Fergusson Island), Papua New Guinea
4 April 2021 Samarai, Papua New Guinea
6 April 2021 Cairns, Australia
8 April 2021 Thursday Island, Australia
12 April 2021 King George River (Kimberley, Western Australia), Australia
13 April 2021 Hunter River Region (Kimberley, Western Australia), Australia
15 April 2021 Buccaneer Archipelago Region, Australia
17 April 2021 Ende Flores, Indonesia
18 April 2021 Takpala (Kalabahi), Indonesia
19 April 2021 Pulau Kital, Indonesia
20 April 2021 Anano Island, Indonesia
21 April 2021 Bau-Bau, lIndonesia
22 April 2021 Palopo (Sulawesi), Indonesia
25 April 2021 Semarang (Java), Indonesia
27 April 2021 Singapore, Singapore
30 April 2021 Anak Krakatoa, Indonesia
1 May 2021 Ujung Kulon National Park. Indonesia
3 May 2021 Padang Sumatra For Cupek, Indonesia
4 May 2021 Bawemataluwo, Indonesia
6 May 2021 Belawan For Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia
11 May 2021 Galle, Sri Lanka
12 May 2021 Colombo, Sri Lanka
13 May 2021 Cochin, India
16 May 2021 Mormugao (Goa), India
19 May 2021 Muscat, Oman
20 May 2021 Sur, Oman
22 May 2021 Salalah, Oman
27 May 2021 Safaga (Luxor), Egypt
29 May 2021 Suez Canal Transit, Egypt
31 May 2021 Rhodes Island, Greece
Symi, Greece
1 June 2021 Naxos, Greece
2 June 2021 Athens (Piraeus), Greece
3 June 2021 Monemvasia (Laconia), Greece
4 June 2021 Itea, Greece
Nafpaktos, Greece
5 June 2021 Ksamil, Albania
6 June 2021 Day at sea
7 June 2021 Sousse, Tunisia
8 June 2021 Porto Empedocle (Sicily), Italy
9 June 2021 Trapani (Sicily), Italy
10 June 2021 Cagliari (Sardinia), Italy
11 June 2021 Bejaia, Algeria
12 June 2021 Day at sea
13 June 2021 Seville, Spain
15 June 2021 Portimão, Portugal
16 June 2021 Lisbon, Portugal
17 June 2021 Oporto, Portugal
18 June 2021 La Coruna, Spain
20 June 2021 Saint Malo (Brittany), France
21 June 2021 Honfleur, France
23 June 2021 London (Tower Bridge), United Kingdom
25 June 2021 St Peter Port, Guernsey
26 June 2021 St Mary's (Isles Of Scilly), United Kingdom
Tresco (Isles Of Scilly),United Kingdom
27 June 2021 Pembroke, United Kingdom
28 June 2021 Iona,United Kingdom
29 June 2021 Fort William, Scotland, United Kingdom
30 June 2021 St. Kilda, United Kingdom
1 July 2021 Day at sea
2 July 2021 Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland
Cruise Surtsey, Iceland
3 July 2021 Reykjavik, Iceland
4 July 2021 Latrabjarg Cliffs, Iceland
Dynjandi Waterfalls, Iceland
5 July 2021 Vigur Island, Iceland
Cruise Along Hornbjarg Cliffs, Iceland
6 July 2021 Akureyri, Iceland
8 July 2021 Jan Mayen Island, Norway
10 July 2021 Svalbard Northern Region, Norway
14 July 2021 Cruise & Explore Bear Island (Svalbard), Norway
15 July 2021 Gjesvaerstappan Islands, Norway
Cruising Along North Cape Norway
Skarsvag (Nordkapp), Norway
16 July 2021 Tromso, Norway.
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TAB Event - Possible Futures - Japanese Postwar Art and Technology
Possible Futures - Japanese Postwar Art and Technology
NTT ICC Inter Communication Center
This year, the sixtieth since the end of World War II, provides many occasions for reflecting upon our history. During the postwar years, Japan has successfully rebuilt its economy largely through policies emphasizing the development of new technologies; the result is the material abundance we enjoy today. During those years, progress in science and technology also directly benefited the lives of people in general. The excitement of trying out new imaging and audio media and of successfully connecting - whether by radio or over the Internet - never palls. Even before the rise of computers, those tools we take for granted today, a host of artists had been keenly interested in technology and in using it as a means of expression. That desire arose from more than curiosity about the new and the satisfactions of consumption; it was driven by the joy of rediscovering the familiar world, of seeing time and space in new and lively ways.
This exhibition both offers a retrospective of those artists' many and varied experiments using technology and presents recent work in this vein by Japanese artists. The exhibition thus offers a valuable opportunity to engage in an interdisciplinary review of postwar art, spanning imaging, sound, and other domains, and to examine the many trends, from industry to the counterculture, that have contributed to the directions in which the artists of today are moving into the future.
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Experimental Workshop, Atsuko Tanaka, Takahiko Iimura, Jikan-ha, Nam June Paik, Takehisa Kosugi, CTG, Hitoshi Nomura, Minoru Yoshida, Toshio Matsumoto, Keigo Yamamoto, Keijiro Sato, Fujiko Nakaya, Hakudo Kobayashi, Eiichi Izuhara, Toshio Iwai, Daizaburo Harada, Masaki Fujihata, Teiji Furuhashi, Kouichiro Eto, Ryota Kuwakubo, Akitsugu Maebayashi, Seiko Mikami, Sota Ichikawa
Open Space 2013
Same venue
From The Terada Collection 046 “The Sacred and the Profane”
1 min away
Project N 54 - Mihoko Ogaki
“150 Years of Modern Japanese Music”
Naho Yokoya “Kagamishi, Blue, Bird”
6 mins away
T-Life Design
Paul Baron
"Possible Futures", ICC'S latest (last?) exhibition
Tactical MuseumTactical Museum is maintained by Roger McDonald, a founding member of Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT] and an independent curator. He shares on his blog his impressions of the latest (some say last?) exhibition at the ICC space in Hatsudai:
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Home / Bizarre / UFOs Around the World: Norway
UFOs Around the World: Norway
For the past several months, I’ve been conducting interviews with leading UFO researchers from countries around the world in an effort to paint a clearer picture of global UFOlogy today.
This week, our global UFO trek transports us to the idyllic setting of Norway, and to filmmaker Terje Toftnes, who has explored the UFO enigma in his acclaimed documentaries The Portal: The Hessdalen Light Phenomenon and The Day Before Disclosure.
Terje Toftnes
RG: Who have been the defining figures in Norwegian UFOlogy over the past 70 years, for better or for worse, and why?
TT: As the main investigator of the Hessdalen UFO-phenomenon and an internationally established lecturer on these topics, Dr. Erling Strand is certainly a defining figure in Norwegian UFOlogy. Also important are Mentz Kaarbø and Ole Brænne for their role as editors of the only Norwegian UFO magazine since the seventies. Being the present leader of Norwegian UFO Center, Oftedal is a significant figure. This list should also include individuals such as Kenneth Jacobsen and Arnulf Løken, who are long-time leaders of local UFO groups. Also worthy of inclusion are Bjørnar Hvidsten, an Oslo-based event organiser and UFO activist, and Terje Wulfsberg, a Westcoast-based event organiser and UFO activist. I would also include myself as the producer of two internationally rewarded documentaries on the UFO subject: The Portal – The Hessdalen Light Phenomenon and The Day Before Disclosure, both of which are available on Vimeo through my website.
Dr. Erling Strand, of Project Hessdalen.
RG: Aside from the anomalous lights often sighted around Hessdalen, what do you consider to be the most compelling Norwegian UFO incident on record, and why?
TT: There are so many, from the “Ghost Rockets” of the 1940s, to several reports of close encounters with landed craft and face-to-face meetings with ETs. Many retired airliner pilots I have met with have told me privately about numerous incidents with UFOs during their careers.
RG: Why is Hessdalen so important? What clues, if any, might it offer as to the underlying nature of the UFO enigma?
TT: Hessdalen received national attention from February 1981, as reports came of daily observations of lights and structured craft moving up and down the small valley. For more information about this, I would recommend my documentary, The Portal. Hessdalen has been visited by many researchers and scientists from all over the world, among them Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who proclaimed that Hessdalen was a “UFO-laboratory” due to the high frequency of observations there in the 1980s.
A famous time-lapse image of the mysterious Hessdalen lights.
RG: Is Hessdalen still an active area for UFO sightings?
TT: Yes, still active but not as much so as in the 1980s and 1990s.
RG: What is the Norwegian government’s official stance on UFOs? When was the last time it issued a statement on the subject?
TT: The subject of UFOs doesn’t seem to be a noticeable to our government, and I cannot recall any comments made by any officials.
The Norwegian Ministry of Defence building in Oslo.
RG: Does the Norwegian Ministry of Defence have an official UFO investigations unit?
TT: Not to my knowledge.
RG: Has the Norwegian government shown more or less transparency on the UFO subject than the US government?
TT: No files have been released from our government. It’s simply not a topic here.
RG: Does Norway have a national UFO investigations organisation today, and how many smaller Norwegian UFO groups are you aware of?
TT: We have a group called Norwegian UFO center that collects reports and presents them in their magazine, together with articles on the subject. It is published four times a year. Some smaller private groups of engaged people have been organised over the years, but nothing significant. Actually, just recently, in May 2019, we had a full-day conference on the UFO subject in Oslo, and it gathered 100 attendees. Not bad!
RG: What are the most active regions of Norway for UFO sighting reports hotspots?
TT: Hessdalen is probably still the place, and, as far as I know, some fjords on the west coast.
RG: Have you personally had any UFO sightings?
TT: Once, in Hessdalen. Around midnight, sitting on a mountain top with several people. Two bright lights appeared right above us, hovering side-by-side for 20 seconds before they shot into the stars. No sound. Pretty amazing!
RG: How long have you been involved in the UFO subject; roughly how many cases have you personally investigated; and what conclusions, if any, have you drawn about the underlying nature of UFO phenomena?
TT: I have been interested in the subject since I was a 12-year-old boy in 1962 and came across a book on my father’s bookshelf: George Adamski’s The Flying saucers have landed. He bought it in 1954 after a UFO incident on a Norwegian airfield where he worked at the time. A large disc had hovered over the remote military airfield and was seen on radar and by many of the personnel there. This incident triggered my father’s interest, and later my own. I have pursued the subject all my life and I’m convinced of its legitimacy and importance. I believe we are being visited—or, perhaps more accurately, monitored—by many ET groups. All the ongoing craziness on this planet must be of great anthropological interest to anyone out there watching. I also believe that an apparent alien hybridisation programme is a key part of this story, which is still unfolding. Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs, John Mack, Barbara Lamb and many others have done a great job exploring this.
But, as Edgar Mitchell once pointed out to me: “Beware, you are entering a minefield!” So much dis-and-mis-information; so many wild conspiracy theories; so many self-proclaimed experts and prophets with and big egos, and so on… these are choppy waters to sail. The truth is out there—unfortunately, it’s not always down here. That’s one of the reasons the media has kept its distance, as a great deal of UFO reports are hard to verify. Quoting someone who is later proved to be a fraud does not well serve the publishing businesses. I can understand the editors’ reluctance. It can be very unclear at times what one should believe or not.
RG: How can Norwegian UFOlogy, and UFOlogy in general, better itself?
TT: It depends on what your goals are. Are UFOs something we “need” to force on the general public, or is this a phenomenon that by itself attracts the people who are ready for it? I kind of feel the latter is where I stand at the moment. What we can best do is to help make credible information available, but people must decide for themselves whether or not they wish to engage with it. It is an evolutionary process; one that that cannot be pushed too much. It must follow a natural flow. We cannot save the planet by yelling out that UFOs are real, but by presenting credible information through quality presentations, we can create a curiosity for this and other “paranormal” phenomena, showing that they are not paranormal at all, but actually completely normal and explicable. Mainstream science has just not arrived here yet. Discovering that we are not alone in the universe and becoming a part of a galactic brotherhood is likely to be a natural part of our evolution and it will come when the world is ready for it. But we probably have to grow up first as a civilisation, and to discipline our barbaric nature, which still haunts us and keeps visitors at safe distance. Meantime, we UFO-nerds can enjoy the ride.
To learn more, visit Terje Toftnes’ website, New Paradigm Films. Also visit the Norwegian UFO Center.
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Newton families displaced after apartment fire
Published Dec 12, 2018 at 11:57 pm (Updated Dec 13, 2018)
Residents were evacuated from Brookside Terrace Apartments in Newton on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2018. (Photo by Laurie Gordon).
Fire, smoke, and water left about 13 units in a Newton high-rise apartment building uninhabitable on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2018, according to Newton Police. (Photo by Laurie Gordon).
Newton - Flames leapt out the front windows of an upper floor at Brookside Terrace Apartments on Mill Street, shortly after 7 a.m. on Thursday, leading to evacuations, minor injuries, and damage to the 9th and 10th floors, Newton Police said. Eight people were transported to Newton Medical Center for various reasons, including for respiratory treatment, diabetic issues, and a leg injury, according to Newton Police Lt. Robert Osborn. All patients were released within a few hours, Osborn stated.
Police evacuated residents to Newton Firehouse No. 1 on Mill Street, across from the apartment complex. Osborn said that the lone resident of apartment unit 10-T, which was gutted by the fire, later learned that her service cat, who initially seemed to have gone missing, had in fact died.
Newton Police noted that while the investigation has so far determined the origin of the fire, the cause remains undetermined.
Nancy Staso, who lives on the 9th floor, said, “The mayor, the fire department, and the ambulance squad were wonderful and treated us like kings and queens. They got us all out of the building and then people from Hayek's [Market] brought us food as well as Dunkin’ Donuts and Weiss [Markets]; they even brought diapers for the baby and food for the cat.”
Nancy’s son, William, is grateful everyone escaped in time.
"Property management was great keeping us updated and getting us out," he said.
The mother and son at 5 p.m. were waiting to see if they would be given a place to stay for the night after being told they would not be allowed back into their apartment for the foreseeable future.
Lt. Osborn said that fire, smoke, and water rendered about 13 apartments uninhabitable.
The Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office and County Sheriff were on scene, and firefighters from smultiple nearby fire departments assisted, including, Andover Borough, Andover Township, Branchville, and Sparta.
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After Hours at the Bell Museum: Colors
Bell Museum of Natural History 10 Church Street Southeast Minneapolis, MN, 55455 United States (map)
The Bell Museum of Natural History is open late to celebrate art, science, and the natural world with special activities and guests!
Free with museum admission/membership
May 4: Colors
Gallery Conversation — 5:30 – 6:30 pm: Gain unique perspectives on our special exhibits from artists and University of Minnesota experts in an engaging, informal gallery talk. Tour Hungry Planet: What the World Eats with Dr. Paul Porter, professor in Agronomy and Plant Genetics. Porter has biked across parts of Africa and South America to look at agriculture, and will discuss how and where we produce what that the world eats, and why he feels the challenge of feeding the world in the future is less challenging than many are led to believe.
Sketch Night — 6:30 – 8:30 pm: Explore your creative side—whether you're an accomplished illustrator, casual hobbyist, or budding artist. Gather to draw, color or craft a variety of themed specimens that are often tucked away safely in the Bell's vaults! Our theme for the evening is flowers & fruits. We'll have a wide selection of specimens on hand including many tropical fruits and flowers, and have a paper flower making station. Get a jump on spring!
ExploraDome shows — 5:30 – 7:00 pm: You decied where to go—anywhere in the observable universe. Stop in anytime (or several times) during our ExploraDome Open House and sample the experience on us.
Stargazing with MIfA — 7:00 – 9:30 pm: Special presentations from the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics are followed by outdoor telescope observations (weather permitting) at 7:30 pm. The presentation will go on rain or shine! The presentation and stargazing are free, but regular admission fees apply for other After Hours activities.
Tagged Science, Adults, Casual
Minnesota Astronomical Society: Virgo Venture at the Cherry Grove Observatory
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Bikes and Type Specialists
Articles of Association of the IG
Info Magazine
Articles of Association of the Victoria Interest Group
§1 Name, Domicile and Corporate Year
The community founded in 1988 has the name "Victoria Interessengemeinschaft" (= Victoria Interest Group), in the following called <Victoria IG<. It is party politically independent and non-denominational. All the cost are covered by the membership fees. It has no commercial objectives. Corporate year is the calendar year.
§ 2 Purpose and Objectives
The Victoria IG is a community of people with the target of preserving and maintaining Victoria vehicles as techical objects of cultural value as well as papers and records documenting the history of the Victoria Werke AG Nuremberg (Germany), from the founding year 1886 (Legal company name: Frankenburger & Ottenstein) until the merge in the Zweirad Union AG in 1958.
Holding an international annual meeting. The host of this meeting may on demand be supported financially by the Victoria IG. The amount will be set in the Executive Board meeting during the annual meeting.
Issueing the Victoria Info Magazine.
Support and advisory service of our members when restoring historic vehicles by our Type Specialists.
Establishing and running an Internet Portal.
Re-manufacturing of spare parts.
Encouragement and joint work with international institutions and museums.
§ 3 Charitable Status
The Victoria IG has solely and and directly non-profit objectives.
The Victoria IG acts in an altruistic way.
Financial meany of the Victoria IG may only be used for statutable purposes. Members are not supported by finacial means of the Victoria IG.
No person may be supported by finacial means that different from the objectives of the Victoria IG.
§ 4 Membership
Membership is open to all respectable persons and legal entities, government agencies, companies and organizations (minors under 18 require the consent of a legal representative), after approval by the Board, who support the objectives of the Victoria IG (see § 2.1 of the Statute). All adult members are eligible for any office within the Victoria IG. The Victoria IG is made up of members and honorary members.
§ 5 Honorary Memberhip
By unanimous decision of the board, persons who have rendered outstanding services to the Victoria-IG will be appointed as honorary members. Honorary members are exempt from payment of membership fees..
§ 6 Membership Fee
The members of the Victoria IG are obliged to pay an annual membership fee. The membership fee is set by the board meeting and published in the Victoria Info Magazine as the official organ of the Victoria IG. The annual membership fee is to be paid in full at the beginning of the calendar year, irrespective of the actual starting date. If the membership starts in the second half of the year, only half of the membership fee needs to be paid.
§ 7 End of Membership
Membership ends:
The notice of resignation must be provided to the board in writing. It is effective by end of the calendar year with a thee-months time of notice.
For individuals by their death, for legal entities by their closure or cancellation.
By exclusion from the Victoria-IG:
By a majority vote of all present board members in a duly summoned board meeting. The exclusion can only be made by major reason. The member concerned by the exclusion process shall have the opportunity to make representations on the accusation in written form. The right to make representations shall be deemed granted if the representation is not received by the board within a two weeks period after the annoncement of the exclusion proceedings.
The membership ends with immediate effect if the membership fee due at the beginning of the year is not paid despite a reminder with fixing of a period of time.
§ 8 Member Assembly
Member assemblies shall be held upon written request of at least a quarter of the members, or if the board (see § 9) states it neccessary on behalf ot the Victoria-IG and gives reasons. The member assembly always constitutes a quorum. Changes to the Articles of Association or the termination of the Victoria-IG require a 3/4 majority of the members present at the members assembly. Minutes have to be kept over the course of the member assembly. These minutes have to be signed by the executive board (see § 9).
The agenda of the member assembly must contain the following points:
a. Taking attendance and voting rights
b. Report of the board
c. Report of the treasurer
d. Discharge of the board
e. Requests and miscellaneous
In the member assembly, each present member has one vote, including honorary members. The right to vote can be transferred to a present member by written permission, in doing so a present member must not vote for more than two other members. Simple majority decides.
§ 9 Board
The executive board consist of:
a. 1. Chairman
b. 2. Chairman
c. Treasurer
d. Webmaster
The extended board consists of:
a. the executive board
b. Membership manager
c. Type specialists
d. IG contacts in the countries
The Victoria-IG is represented by two members of the executive board conjointly.
The board members are - each in particular - elected for a period of four years provided that this is to be continued until new elections.
If no member meeting is called (see § 8), board members may also be elected for a period of four years during a board by simple majority.
§ 10 Board Meeting
The board meeting consists of the executive board and the extended board. It is held annually during the Victoria meeting. All board members shall be invited by publishing in the meeting programme in the info magazine. Requests from members need to be filed to the board in writing 14 days (date of the postmark) ahead of the board meeting. The board meeting shall constitute a quorum by simple majority. Vote abstentions are not counted. At equality of votes the request is rejected. Minutes have to be kept over the course of the board assembly.
§ 11 Administrative tasks
Task in the board are honorary work.
§ 12 Auditors
For a cash audit two auditors may be elected. They have to audit cash and accounting and report to the member assembly. Auditors must not be members of the board.
§ 13 Termination
The Victoria-IG may only be terminated on a member assembly called particularly for this reason by 3/4 majority. Remaining property - after meeting obligations - is to be delivered to the Motorcycle Museum in the 'Museum Industriekultur', Nuremberg by conjointly decision.
The above Articles of Association were decided and joinlty redefined at the board meeting in Miehlen on July 29th, 2005.
Heide, 20.12.2005
Kay Rauen, 1. Chairman
Manfred E. Sprenger, 2. Chairman
Roland Beckedorf, Treasurer
Changes according to the Board Meeting in Stockach/Seelfingen, August 2, 2013
Lieth, October 25, 2013
Edgar Köhnke, 1. Chairman
Johannes Koch, Treasurer
Peter Keller, Webmaster
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Once the bully on the block, Monsanto is on the run. Environmentalists will recall the early years of genetically modified (GM) crops when wind pollination contaminated the crops of traditional farmers and the company forced victim-farmers to pay for patent infringement, an atrocity upheld by the US judicial system until the horrendous consequences of GM foo...
Turkic Muslims: China and the Muslim world’s Achilles Heel
A list of 26 predominantly Muslim countries considered sensitive by China reflects Chinese concerns that they could reinforce religious sentiment among the People’s Republic’s Turkic Muslim population with potentially far-reaching consequences if the Islamic world were to take it to task for its crackdown in Xinjiang, the most frontal assault on Islam in rec...
Turkey no more ‘Sick Man’ of Europe
by Madanjit Singh Ahluwalia on 17 Sep 2018 4 Comments
In 1853, the British press dubbed Turkey the “Sick man of Europe”. Towards the end of that century, Punch magazine published a cartoon of a puzzled Sultan Abdul Hamid II, in full military regalia, sword strapped to his side, staring at a public poster announcing the reorganization of his empire by three directors - Britain, France and Russia. The poster list...
The battle for Idlib: A potential Catch-22 for China
An impending Russian-backed Syrian assault on Idlib, the war-wracked country’s last rebel stronghold, risks putting Uyghurs in the spotlight at a time that the Muslim world has remained silent amid mounting media and academic attention on China’s crackdown on the ethnic Turkic group in its strategic north-western province of Xinjiang. Spotlighting Uyghur act...
Multiculturalism disintegrates India – II
by B S Harishankar on 15 Sep 2018 2 Comments
India has a golden history enshrined in the mind of Jews, going back 1200 years. The most distinctive aspect of this Indo-Judaic experience is the total absence of discrimination towards Jews by Hindu society. The only country in the world where Jews could live without fear of persecution was India, because of the great Indian tradition of inclusion and onen...
Multiculturalism disintegrates India - I
An orchestrated attempt has recently emerged in the contemporary Indian academic, cultural and political scene to define, elucidate, interpret, explicate and emphasize our past and present within the framework of multiculturalism. This new theory has been launched when the exclusively European secularism has been routed from India. Multiculturalism which has...
Criticism of Saudi leadership seeps through cracks as report questions kingdom’s utility for Britain
Signs of opposition to policies of Saudi King Salman and his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and potentially increased domestic polarization have in the past week spilled on to the streets of London while a just released report questioned the economic and political benefits of Britain’s relationship with the kingdom. The London incidents, involving a ...
The long shadow of the Gulf crisis: Qatar key player in Gaza crisis
Dug in for the long haul in its increasingly bitter dispute with the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, Qatar is emerging as a key player in efforts to prevent tension between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, from spinning out of control. Qatar’s increasing role counters Saudi and UAE efforts to shape Palestinian politics in their...
Sri Lanka Perspectives: August 2018
by R Hariharan on 11 Sep 2018 1 Comment
The failure of parliament to ratify the Delimitation Committee Report (DCR) introduced by the government on August 24 illustrates confusion in the ranks of the ruling national unity coalition. In a rare show of unanimity, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the United National Party (UNP), Tamil National Alliance (TNA), Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) an...
Russia denounces the diarchy at the heart of the UNO and the USA
by Thierry Meyssan on 10 Sep 2018 3 Comments
The Western powers are moving inexorably towards Internet censorship, thereby facilitating the dissemination of propaganda and war indoctrination in their countries. In this context, an extremely violent tension is tearing apart the international scene. Aware of the increasing risk of general confrontation, Moscow is attempting to find credible interlocutors...
Human Rights madness: The new barbaric brotherhood
by N S Rajaram on 09 Sep 2018 7 Comments
Scottish writer Charles Mackay (1814 – 89) may be unknown to the present generation but his 1841 book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and Madness of Crowds, in which he gave vivid accounts of crowd hysteria from financial bubbles to major historical events like the Crusades and witch-hunts, has remained an enduring classic. The first two chapters of the boo...
A reality check on the New Yorker’s bizarre attack on Kofi Annan
by Bhaskar Menon on 08 Sep 2018 6 Comments
Hours after former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan died on August 18, The New Yorker published a bizarre attack on him by staff writer Philip Gourevitch. As head of the UN’s peacekeeping department in the 1990s, said Gourevitch, Annan had “presided over the ignominious failures” of “missions in Somalia, Rwanda, and Bosnia,” and right until his death “had ste...
Self-fulfilling prophecies: Chinese fear attacks by Uyghur jihadists
A seemingly obsessive fear of Uyghur nationalist and religious sentiment has prompted Chinese leaders to contemplate military involvement in Syria and Afghanistan and risk international condemnation for its massive repression in its north-western province of Xinjiang, involving the most frontal assault on Islam as a faith in recent history. Chinese fears...
The GM scare
by K P Prabhakaran Nair on 06 Sep 2018 3 Comments
At the height of the controversy surrounding the official release for commercial cultivation of the genetically modified mustard (DMH-11), a close colleague of this author wrote a strongly worded letter to Shri Harshvardhan, Union Minister for Science and Technology, pointing to the way in which the President of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences ...
Crunch time in Pakistan
It’s crunch time in Pakistan. Resolving Pakistan’s financial crisis is likely to require newly appointed Prime Minister Imran Khan to not only accept an International Monetary Fund (IMF) straightjacket but tackle his and Pakistan’s convoluted relationship to militancy. With the breeding ground for militancy built into the country’s DNA and Mr. Khan owing his...
Transforming the educational firmament
On the education beat, one recalls an overwhelming sense of fatigue while covering events at which India pledged, with obvious insincerity, to achieve the universal goals of education for all by year X, ad infinitum. No one wanted to address the known obstacles. First, the absence of adequate investment to build schools in every panchayat so that universal p...
Civilian abductions in Kashmir: Blame the likes of Syed Salahuddin
Keeping families out of a personal fights and vendettas is a code of conduct that has been followed universally since times immemorial. Soldiers in opposing armies, mafia, warlords, insurgents, and revolutionaries follow this code. Against this backdrop, recent reports of terrorists kidnapping families of Police personnel in Kashmir are worrisome. Reports th...
Krishna, the Purushottama
What is the mystery of Krishna? What is it that makes him keep his hold on the people of India and now the world thousands of years after he departed from this world? To make things more interesting, his followers include not only the bhaktas who see him as a divinity but also people who consider themselves rationalists and even atheists that do not accept t...
How come Washington became so wrapped up in Central Asia
by Grete Mautner on 01 Sep 2018 4 Comments
Central Asia has traditionally been regarded by Washington as “Russia’s soft underbelly”, since it’s a common belief within American think tanks that by establishing control over this region the US will be capable of subjecting the whole of Eurasia to its will, which means that American hegemony should remain uncontested. Even back in the Soviet days, when M...
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Review: A Powerful, Emotional, Raw Play
By Kaila M. Stokes
Chokehold written by Anthony P. Pennino was a profound outlook on the prevalent racial issues in our country today. It opened with a director type figure named Jason, played by Roland Lane, moving lights and the camera to a perfect angle viewing a chair. There was a TV set up reflecting whatever the camera was getting for the audience the entire show. This type of viewing was unique because the audience was seeing what was going to be sent out to the public and then also catching everything “behind the scenes” as well. The lights were outside event style flood lighting used to create drama and shadows in a very open space. Jason then calls action and in walks Devon. Well, he is actually forced in by two characters dressed as cops who are yelling and getting physical with Devon. Devon, played by David Gow, is a frightened “white boy” who seems to be oblivious as to why he is there under duress. David Gow’s performance is moving to say the least. He went on an emotional journey unlike any other and reached those emotional peaks bringing the audience along with him. The reason Devon was there is because of no reason at all. Due to Devon’s pure and innocent “whiteness” he has been chosen to be a sacrifice for the greater good of the movement this group of people believe in called Justice Now Front. The Justice Now Front is made up of five friends that have tried to peacefully protest when a black person is killed unlawfully by police, they have tried writing letters, doing interviews; but they are at their wits end and believe that the only way people will start to listen is if they start to sacrifice innocent white people. No matter your beliefs, Chokehold is a remarkable view inside the lives of people readily affected by this painstaking issue and are out to make a difference whether they are using the right or wrong methods is the question.
The director, Tim Cusack, should be commended for taking such a huge issue in our country and still finding the humor in the text, in the actors and the beauty in each characters story. It felt as if the audience knew each character by the end. Even though the end was surprising, there was a buildup that makes the audience hold their breath. The time was taken for each characters’ story to development from point A to point B. Tika, played by Marija Juliette Abney, is a stunning actress that delivers lines with grace and ownership. Tika was the voice of reason throughout the play, asking each one of her friends to look inside themselves for their own stories and see if this was the right path or not. She delivered a beautiful monologue about her heritage incorporating movement that was fresh, exciting, and allowed for the words to flow like her physicality.
photo by Alberto Bonilla
There were moments in this serious play that made you laugh; specifically Rokia Shearin (playing Dominique) always had a spit-fire delivery that kept the audience on their toes. She is a strong black woman that believes she is doing good not evil. During her story, the act of killing someone breaks her down into a mere mortal like the rest of us and it is humbling to watch. Andre, played by Michael Oloyede, surprised everyone. His anger and rage grew throughout the piece erupting into a violent irrevocable scene of carnage at the end. His pain represents so many that act on that pain. Chokehold reminds us that no matter how bad it gets, if you stoop to that level, you have lost your own self.
The couple things that could have changed were; the moment when Dominique decides she should kill Devon and the physicality of Carter, played by Thomas Mussnich. Carter was the other police officer hostage-taker partnered with Andre. He was constantly brooding with his shoulders hunched forward, and fists clench. Throughout the piece he comes to a realization that he does not want to do this and delivers a moving monologue about leaving his mom and sister to fend for themselves. Ultimately, he has a change in heart. With this enlightenment he gains, it would have been an interesting element to see his physicality change too. He could have softened a bit throughout the play making him go from physically menacing to relatable.
A huge moment was when, after all the arguing about who was actually going to commit the crime, Dominique decides she will put it all to rest and do the deed herself. She wraps her hands around the night-stick, thrusts her hands over Devon’s neck, begins to choke him for about three seconds, and pulls away in fear. What a major moment! This needed to be held longer to let the audience simmer in the pot of discomfort that is killing someone! It was the only missed opportunity of the entire show, but it needed to be held longer and the audience needed to see the fear take over her.
Overall, Chokehold, had everyone on the edge of their seats. Without giving away anything, this show is funny, provocative, honest and gut-wrenching all in one. And all of this is done in a little black box theater at the 14th Street YMCA? Theater is a wonderful tool to let your voice be heard. Chokehold used this tool in a beautiful and titillating way to raise awareness. I would run to see this while you still can!
Labels: 14th Street Y, Chokehold, Review
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The Medium Theatre Company makes interactive performance.
For your banquet or your bedroom, your mansion or the moon.
The Medium Theatre Company is a Philadelphia-based collaborative of performers and artists. Since 2012 we have produced over 10 original plays performed in tiny bedrooms, vast mansions, and on humble stages around the U.S.
We are now launching our first foray into audio theatre with the podcast Nobody Knows.
Scroll down to find out more.
Theatre that you can taste, smell, touch.
See, hear and fully feel.
Since 2012 the Mediums have made eight full-length original works and performed in more than a dozen cities around the U.S. See what's coming your way on our events page or click on a showcard to see more of our past and current work.
Learn out more about all of our past shows ➔
Midway between rare and well-done.
A reasonable balance.
UPCOMING EVENTS: Come see us stumble around in our underwear ➔
NEWS: Find out where we've been and what we've been up to ➔
SHOWS: See more of our past, present and future work ➔
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Ellen Page in Talks to Star in Drew Barrymore’s ‘Whip it’
January 14, 2008 Rodney 5 Comments
Drew Barrymore is preparing for her directorial debut titled, ‘Whip it.’ The film is an adaptation of the popular novel, ‘Derby Girl.’ It is also highly speculated that fellow Canadian Ellen Page, (one of the most sought out young actresses in Hollywood) is in talks to play the lead role in ‘Whip it.’
Comingsoon.net gives us these details about the upcoming project:
Meet Bliss Cavendar, a blue haired, indie-rock loving misfit stuck in the tiny town of Bodeen, Texas.
Her pageant-addicted mother expects her to compete for the coveted Miss Blue Bonnet crown, but Bliss would rather feast on roaches than be subjected to such rhinestone tyranny.
Bliss’ escape? Take up Roller Derby.
When she discovers a league in nearby Austin, Bliss embarks on an epic journey full of hilarious tattooed girls, delicious boys in bands, and a few not-so-awesome realities even the most bad-assed derby chick has to learn.
Since I saw Ellen Page in 2006’s ‘Hard Candy,’ I knew this girl was going places because she gave such an electrifying performance as the young tormentor of a possible child molester. I have yet to see ‘Juno,’ but from what I hear, she is definitely on the fast track in Hollywood. (Definitely a step up from ‘The Trailer Park Boys’ :P)
Having Ellen Page attached to this film is definitely peaking my interest on this project. I’m also a little curious to see how Drew Barrymore is going to do in her feature film directorial debut.
So what are your thoughts movie fiends? Do you think this is a good project for Miss Ellen Page to take on?
Michael C. Hall is as Humble as They Come
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