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5 Mart 2015 Perşembe
PASSIVE VOICE WORKSHEET CEVAPLAR 1032 ADVANCED ENGLISH 2
THE PASSIVE
Stonehenge was built in prehistoric times. It was probably constructed as a place of worship. Many of its stones have been stolen over the years. It is visited by a lot of tourists every year.
We form the passive with the verb to be and the past participle of the main verb.
to be +past participle (pp)
We use the passive with the verb to be and the past participle of the main verb.
The passive forms are:
1.Present simple: am/is/are+pp
My car is serviced twice a year.
2.Present continuous: am/is/are being+pp
My car is being serviced now.
3.Past simple: was/were+pp
My car was serviced last month.
4.Past continuous: was/were being +pp
My car was being serviced when I went to the garage.
5.Present perfect simple: have/has been+pp
My car has already been serviced by two o’clock.
6.Future simple: will be +pp
(They will service my car.)
My car will be serviced tomorrow.
7.Future perfect simple: will have been+pp
(They will have serviced my car by Monday.)
My car will have been serviced by Monday.
8.Present infinitive. (to) be+pp
With ‘need to’:
(They need to service my car soon.)
My car needs to be serviced soon.
With ‘have to’:
They have to service my car.
My car has to be serviced.
9.Perfect infinitive: (to) have been+pp
My car should have been serviced last month.
-ing form: being+pp
I insist on my car being serviced today.
Modals: modal+be+pp
My car must be serviced before the trip.
The passive is used:
a)When the person who carries out the action is unknown, unimportant or obvious from the context.
Mrs. Archer’s ruby ring was stolen from her house last night.(We do not know who stole the ring.)
Rolls Royce cars are made in England. (It is not important to know who makes these cars.)
The cows are milked once a day. (It is obvious that the farmers milk the cows.
b) When the action itself is more important than the person who carries it out, as in the news headlines, newspaper articles, formal notices, instructions, advertisements, etc.
Two teenagers were seriously injured in a car accident last night.
c) when we want to make statements more polite.
e.g. My new blouse is ruined. (more polite saying, ‘You’ve ruined my new blouse.’)
1 What happens to a car when it is taken for a service? Look at the prompts and make sentences using the present simple passive, as in the example.
1. The oil/ change
The oil is changed.
2.the brakes/test
The brakes are tested.
3.The filters/replace
The filters are replaced.
4.air /put/in the tyres
The air is put in the tyres.
5.the battery/check
The battery is checked.
6.broken parts/repair
The broken parts are replaced.
2.Mr. Sullivan, who is a film director, is preparing scene for his new film. Read the orders and respond using the present continuous passive, as in the example.
1. Move that scenery, please.
It’s being moved now, Mr. Sullivan.
2.Put those props in place, please.
They are being put, now, Mr. Sullivan.
3.Check their costumes, please.
They are being checked, now.
4. Turn on the lights, please.
They are being turned on, now.
3. Detective Maguire is talking to a police officer about a burglary which happened early yesterday morning.In pairs, ask and answer questions using the prompts below, as in the example.
1. Have you dusted the house for fingerprints yet?
The house/ dust/for fingerprints yesterday.
The house was dusted for fingerprints yesterday.
2.Have you found any evidence yet?
A piece of material/find/ this morning
A piece of material was found this morning.
3.Have you interviewed the house owners, yet?
They/interview/last night
They were interviewed last night.
4. Have you questioned the neighbors yet?
They/question/this morning
They were questioned this morning.
5.Have you arrested any suspects yet?
Two men /arrest/yesterday evening
Two men were arrested yesterday evening.
6.Have you interrogated the suspects yet?
They/interrogate/last night
They were interrogated last night.
7.Have you recovered the stolen goods yet?
They/ recover/ this morning
They were recovered this morning.
4. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct passive tense.
1. A:Who looks after your garden for you?
B: It is looked after by my brother.
2.A:That’s a beautiful dress. Where did you buy it?
B: Actually it _was made_______(make) for me by my aunt.
3.A:Have you typed that letter yet, Miss Brown?
4.B: It _is being typed _______(type) right now, sir.
5.A:Did you make the coffee when you got to work this morning?
B:No, it _has already been made________(already/make) by the time I got there.
6.A:Are you going to pick up the children today?
B:No, they _are going to be picked up________(pick up) by Roger. I’ve already arranged it.
7.A:Has the new furniture for my bedroom arrived?
B:No, it _hasn’t been delivered_________(not/deliver) yet.
8.A:They are building a new sports center in town.
B:I know. It _is going to be opened_____ (open) by the mayor next month.
CHANGING FROM ACTIVE INTO PASSIVE
To change a sentence from the active into the passive:
· The object of the active sentence becomes the subject in the passive sentence.
· The active verb remains in the same tense, but changes into a passive form.
· The subject of the active sentence becomes the agent, and is either introduced with the preposition ‘by’ or omitted.
· Only transitive verbs (verbs followed by an object) can be changed into the passive.
· E.g. active: Peter feeds the cows. (transitive verb) passive: The cows are fed by Peter.
· But: They leave for work early every day. (The verb ‘leave’ in this sentence is intransitive; that is it is not followed by an object. The sentence cannot be changed into the passive.)
a report.
A report
was written
by Sharon.
We use by+ agent to say who or what carries out the action. We use with instrument/material/ingredient to say what the agent used.
· e.g. A kite was made by John. It was made with paper, paint and string.
The agent is often omitted in the passive sentence when the subject of the sentence is one of the following words: people, one, someone/somebody, they, he, etc.
· e.g. active: people eat a lot of junk food nowadays. Passive: a lot of junk food is eaten nowadays.
Object pronouns( me, you, him, etc.) become subject pronouns (I, you, he, etc.) in the passive.
· e.g. active: They rescued me. Passive: I was rescued.
Rewrite the following sentences in the passive, where possible.
1.Meg asked the policeman for directions.
The policeman was asked directions by Meg.
2.They didn’t come home last night.
It cannot be changed.
3.Their nanny takes them to the park every day.
They are taken to the park by their nanny.
4.I left very early yesterday afternoon.
Cannot be changed
5.Charles is moving house next month.
Charles’ house is being moved into.
6.The letter arrived two days ago.
7.Sam took these photographs.
These photographs were taken by Sam.
8.Someone is repairing the garden fence.
The garden fence is being repaired.
9.Do they teach Latin at this school?
Is Latin taught at this school?
11.I don’t like people pointing at me.
I don’t like being pointed at.
12.She hit him on the head with a tennis racket.
He was hit on the head with a tennis racket.
13.Who built the Pyramids?
Who were the pyramids built by?
14.The boss is going to give us a pay rise.
We are going to be given a pay rise by the boss.
15.They won’t have completed the work by the end of the month.
The work won’t have been completed by the end of the month.
PERSONAL/IMPERSONAL CONSTRUCTION:
The verbs think, believe, say, report, know, expet, consider, understand, etc. Are used in the following passive patterns in personal and impersonal constructions.
Active: people sayhe has lost his job.
Passive: a) It is said (that) he has lost his job. (impersonal construction)
b) He is said to have lost his job.(personal construction)
active: People knowthat she works hard.
Passive: c)It is known (that) she works hard.
d)She is known to work hard.
Active: People thinkhe left the country last night.
Passive: e)It is thought (that) he left the country last night.
f) He is thought to have left the country last night.
Complete the sentences, as in the example.
1. It is expected that he will win the race tomorrow.
He is expected to win the race tomorrow.
2. It is said that she speaks seven languages.
She …is said to speak seven languages…………………………
3. It is believed that the missing jewellery has been found.
The missing jewellery …is believed to have been found…………………….
4. It is thought that she is a talented pianist.
She …is thought to be a talented pianist…………………………..
5. It is known that she is hiding somewhere in the city.
She…is known to be hiding somewhere in the city………………………………
6. It is expected that the Turkish team will break the world record.
The Turkish team …is expected to break the world record…………………………
7. It is reported that the thieves have escaped from prison.
The thieves …are reported to have escaped from prison……………………………..
HOMEWORK (The homework will be checked in class next week)
Underline the correct answer:
Fire 1) swept/was swept through a furniture warehouse yesterday afternoon. Most of the stock inside 2) was damaged /damaged, but shocked workers 3) have been managed/managed to save a small amount of it. The police 4) are being investigated/are investigatingthe cause of the fire, but it 5) is thought/thinks that it was an accident. The shop manager 6) is being looked/is looking for another warehouse where stock can 7) keep/be kept.’ A lot of stock 8) has been lost/ has lost, but the shop 9) will open/will be opened tomorrow as usual’, said the manager. ’I’m just glad no one 10) hurt/was hurt’.
Rewrite the following passage in the passive.
Someone broke into the National Gallery late last night. The thieves had broken the alarm system before they climbed through a window. They stole some priceless works of art. They used a getaway car to escape. The police have questioned some suspects. They have not caught the thieves yet.
National Gallery was broken into late last night. The alarm system had been broken by the thieves before they climbed through a window. Some priceless works of art were stolen by them. A getaway car was used to escape. Some suspects have been questioned by the police. The thieves haven’t been caught, yet.
A few days ago, somebody stole Keith Dunn’s motorbike. Keith had left his motorbike outside his house. Keith reported the theft to the police. The police told him they would try to find his motorbike. This morning, the police called Keith and asked him to go to the police station. They found his motorbike. The thieves had painted it and then sold it to someone else. The new owner had parked the motorbike outside the police station. The police arrested the thieves.
A few days ago Keith Dunn’s motorbike was stolen. His motorbike had been left outside his house by Keith. The theft was reported to the police by Keith. He was told by the police that they would try to find his motorbike. This morning Keith was called by the police and was asked to go to the police station. His motorbike was found by them. It had been painted by then thieves and then sold to someone else. The motorbike had been parked outside the police station by the new owner. The thieves were arrested by the police.
Rewrite the following using the words in parenthesis. Here are some examples:
1. Last Monday, we chose the new spokesman.
(was) The new spokesman was chosen last Monday.
2. Richard the Lionheart led the Crusaders in the 12th century.
(by) The crusaders were led by Richard the Lionheart.
3. They will fire you if you go on behaving like this.
(get)You will get fired if you go on behaving like this.
4. Sheila doesn’t like people interrupting her when she is working.
(being) Sheila doesn’t like being interrupted when she is working.
5. People say that a change is as good as a rest.
(be)……A change is said to be as good as a rest.
6. Sylvia is organizing the wedding reception.
(by) The wedding reception is being organized by Sylvia.
7. Tom needs someone to help him with his homework.
(be) Tom needs…to be helped with his homework………………….
8. Someone sent us an anonymous letter.
(were) We ……were sent an anonymous letter……………
9. My father broke my mother’s glasses when he sat on them.
(got) …My mother’s glasses …got broken…
10. Erica covered the sofa with an old sheet.
(was) The sofa …………………………………………………………………………………….
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Avondale Tennis Club runs a variety of tournaments throughout the spring and summer. The tournaments have a range of formats so hopefully there should be something for everyone. Here is a brief description of our tournaments.
Seniors, Veterans and Juniors tournaments (also called our Club or Closed tournaments)
These are conventional knock-out tournaments, played over the best of 3 sets and take place throughout the summer. You must submit an entry form for these and the tournament secretary will then arrange the first round draw, allowing for some seeding of players. The draw is displayed in the club house. Players are requested to complete each round by a specified date. The finals are usually played over a weekend at the beginning of September. Club Finals weekend is the major event in the Club calendar each year and refreshments are provided throughout the weekend.
Handicap Tournaments
Like the Club Tournaments these are also knockout events but the stronger players are handicapped by the scoring rules which aim to ensure a broadly equal chance for all players and an opportunity for the lower ranked players to enjoy the thrill of playing in a Final. The scoring rules of these tournaments are quite different from normal tennis! Each rally earns the winner one point; the winner of the set is the first to 31. A match is played as the best of 3 sets. Serving follows the format of table tennis with 5 serves by one player. Every player is given a handicap by the committee, reflecting their ability and this decides how many points they have at the start of each set. A very strong player might even start with a negative score! For the doubles format, pairings are decided at random and then handicaps are assigned. The Handicap Tournaments commence in April with the Finals being played on a Sunday afternoon in June/July. Handicap Finals afternoon is usually an enjoyable event and afternoon tea is served for players, umpires and spectators.
Smiths Cups
The Smiths Cups, for Ladies’ Doubles and Men’s Doubles, are played over one weekend in March/April. The Ladies’ tournament is played on a Saturday afternoon with the Men’s on the Sunday afternoon. The format is a round robin tournament with each pair playing one set against all other pairs. The winners are decided by the number of games won. These tournaments provide an excellent opportunity for competitive tennis between the end of the Winter League season and the start of the Summer League. Entry is by pre-registration on the lists on the Club noticeboard.
Fayers Cup
The Fayers Cup is a round robin tournament which operates in the same way as the Smiths Cups except that it is for Mixed Doubles. The event is held on a Sunday afternoon in June/July. Entry is by pre-registration on the list on the Club noticeboard.
American tournaments
We hold American tournaments on each of the 4 public holidays throughout the summer (Easter, two bank holidays in May and August bank holiday). We sometimes add extra tournaments if the calendar allows. These are informal events with no pre-entry required – all you need to do is arrive at the Club at 1.15pm to register and play commences promptly at 1.30pm. A round comprises 8 games in total with a change of partner after 4 games. Six rounds are usually played with a break for afternoon tea. The emphasis is on social play but small prizes are given to the players winning the highest number of games.
Family tournament
This is a fun event held on a Saturday afternoon in June/July for adults and children. Two members of the same family (e.g. parent and child or maybe grandparent and grandchild) play together as a doubles pair on a round robin basis against other family pairs. There are two categories, based on the age of the child : U12 and U18. Entry is via a sign up sheet on the Club noticeboard and afternoon tea is provided.
Naming of our cups
We have traced the Smith’s Cup back to 1957 when Mr Smith was an established player of some standing. He had a daughter, Linda, who was disabled and lived in the first house, as you turned into Albany Road. Mr Smith donated the mens and ladies trophies to the Club.
The Fayers Cup: Bo & Babs Fayers as they were known, also lived up in Albany Road and were Club members and players. They donated the Cup for a mixed doubles competition.
We also have an Albany Cup played for at one of our American Tournaments.
And if you are wondering why Albany Road features so much in this description, Avondale Tennis Club- after a brief time in Avondale Road itself – was in Albany Road for some decades in what is now the Russet Drive area.
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Joy in the Camp as Zimbabwe Camp Meeting Begins
The Southern Africa regional camp meeting began on Sunday, December 16, at the headquarters church in Harare, Zimbabwe, with representatives attending from our churches in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland. Representing the Portland headquarters, John Musgrave, Director of West and Central Africa Work, and his wife, Rodica, arrived in advance and noted that as the saints began to gather, happy to be at camp meeting, truly there was joy in the camp!
They sent details in the following report.
In preparation for the camp meeting, a workers’ meeting was held on Friday, December 14. More than two hundred gathered for the three-hour session, which focused on the topic of “Unity.” The next day, another session was held with about double the number of workers attending. This time the subject was “The Mission of the Apostolic Faith.” It was brought out that our mission and principles have always remained the same, and still do as we capitalize on newer methods of delivering the timeless message of the Gospel.
In the afternoon, a session was held to give an overview of the Primary Pals, Answer, and Search Sunday school curriculum. Our southern Africa churches have recently begun using the Primary Pals lessons, and plan to implement the Answer and Search lessons in the new year. We reviewed each of the lessons for this week, showing how they were designed to be used. We also discussed ways to tailor the lessons to differing student needs.
On Sunday, the camp meeting officially opened with Sunday school for all ages. The classes were dispersed throughout the church building and the adjacent cafeteria area. In the Primary Department, the students acted out a skit from the Primary Pals lesson titled, “Journey’s End.” In it, they depicted the Wise Men traveling to see the Baby Jesus. The girls showed more boldness than the boys, and as a result, it was a female King Herod who instructed three “Wise Women” to return to him upon finding the infant. It was fun to watch, and everyone did a great job!
There were about two thousand in attendance for the morning meeting, filling the sanctuary, wings, and balcony. The choir and orchestra sounded outstanding as they provided music throughout the service, including an initial orchestra number of “We Have Come into His House.” Oniyas Gumbo, the Southern Africa District Superintendent, welcomed everyone, and we enjoyed a wonderful service. At the close, there was a great response to the altar call, with people filling the altar area and spilling over into the seats. It was apparent that many were receiving blessings from the Lord.
A youth service was held in the afternoon, and one highlight was the testimonies. A young man thanked the Lord for providing the means for him to travel from Bulawayo. Then we heard from others who had faced hardships in getting here, but placed a premium on attending. It was impressive to see their determination to follow the Lord, and hear them tell of His faithfulness. Later in the day, we witnessed this situation again as three young ladies arrived from Namibia after traveling since Friday morning.
Before the message, a young lady sang “Fill My Cup, Lord.” Then Killian Nyamuona, the Zimbabwe youth director, preached from Psalm 34:11. He encouraged the young people to have the proper respect for God that will lead them to a closer walk with Him.
In the evening, Jameson Nkiwane, a Zimbabwe board member and pastor from Bulawayo, preached the message, taking his text from Genesis 3:8-9. He used a situation that happened on his way to camp meeting to illustrate that only the one who knows where you are can help you. His car had broken down just after arriving in Harare, and he had to contact someone and tell them where he was in order to receive help. In the sermon, he encouraged those who were not saved to call on Jesus and confess where they are to receive salvation.
The Musgraves are enjoying their time among the saints in Zimbabwe. Yesterday evening, they attended the annual concert. Let’s keep the camp meeting in our prayers as we look forward to additional reports.
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The episode is called 'A Beautiful Day' and in Dexter's world it most definitely is. It is six months on from La Guerta's death which has made sure Dexter's safe - for now. Everything is going well with Hannah McKay, Dexter's girlfriend and serial killer in arms. Dexter turns up, after romping around with Hannah for a while, to a bench dedication in honour of LaGuerta.
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España: 1936, a beta AAR
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General of the Army
Location: Majorca
This turn sees the creation of the first Republican Army, el Ejército del Centro (Central Army) with Miaja as the commander and the creation of an Army Corps under the promoted Perea. Miaja will return to Madrid and assume personal command of the force defending the capital. This force has been sent to Sierra de Madrid last turn, but now their orders are to stay in the city.
A supply unit has been received and will march to Guadalajara.
In the east more anarchist militia is available, but the forces are still marching to their destinations. It’s important, if an assault on Zaragoza is to be made, that all forces occupy their positions. Then, we will try to take the capital of Aragón región.
The situation in the South is worsening. More and more units from Africa are crossing the strait of Gibraltar using planes sent by Italy and Germany. These countries ruled by fascists government have sided from the beginning with the rebels. Their troops are of far better quality than ours and when they decide to advance the South may be lost.
In the North, a Nationalist relief force from Galicia has taken Cudillero, and our units flee to Gijón. This will end the siege of Oviedo (costing us 1 NM point), but most troubling, again, is the feeling that we cannot stop their advance with our current forces.
From abroad we gain the possibility of buying some artillery. We select the option of the one which will arrive in Cantabria as we need the unit in Santander and increase artillery in the North. The lack of artillery is another weakness of our forces, who are in a desperate need of rearmament to face the enemy.
No combats this turn but it’s clear that the Republic situation becomes more difficult each turn. Nationalists, joined by their allies, are stronger and most of the regular officials of the army are with them.
Durk
Production is both from other nations and internal.
Nationalists in the South have commited two powerful forces as a spearhead in the area. In fact one of them has advaced to Malaga and will attack the city for sure. Our forces are far weaker there and although they have been ordered to hold at all costs, the city is seriously threatened.
The other force may point to Jaen and then turn North and begin an advance to Madrid.The enemy has a third force in Sevilla, presumably acting as reserve.
On the Aragon Front, finally, the Durruti Column will arrive at Barbastro and initiate preparations for an eventual attack on Zaragoza. Mera, a Republican general with anarchist connections, has been named as commander of the Ebro Column marching to Calatayud.
In the North, Nationalists have taken Irun on the border with France, thus isolating effectively the Republican zone from outside, but the enemy is not pressing very hard here.
In Teruel, the Valencia Column has arrived at Sarrion, led by Gamir Ulibarri. This Column is built up with two republican militia brigades plus an anarchist battalion from Valencia. This shows perfectly the lack of understanding between the factions inside the Republican Army. Anarchists and the rest of the Republicans don’t follow the same chain of command. So they are very reluctant to obey orders from a non-anarchist commander. The result of all of this is an increased need for command points to effectively lead the Valencia Column.
In the Center, after the fall of Segovia, this sector is more or less quiet. We formed our first army last turn and named Perea as our first Corps commander. There’s a strong enemy force in Ávila, but being Segovia and Ávila mountainous regions both sides seem to merely study each other for the moment.
Finally, in Mallorca the disembarked force will attack Palma. I’m not very optimistic about the outcome. Our troops, not at their maximum cohesion yet, are a mixture of Republican and anarchists units and, like what we have seen in the case of the Valencia Column, they have strong penalties acting together.
Nationalists attack and take Málaga, a hard blow for the Republican cause losing another Andalusian capital, after Sevilla, Cádiz, Córdoba and Granada (where the rebellion succeeded) and Huelva, taken in the first days of war.
In Palma the invasion forces are defeated. This leaves them in a difficult situation, as we don’t have a controlled harbor on the island where we can get supplies, so a presumable idea is to execute an evacuation to Valencia or Barcelona.
This is the situation at the beginning of September with the rebels achieving progress mainly in the South with the contribution of the troops depatched from Africa and airlifted to the Spanish mainland.
In Cartagena, finally, our only regular regiment, now at maximum strength, will be deployed in the Front of Granada, while some militia units will try to take the city, weakly defended at this moment.
But the general situation in the South is still very difficult with powerful enemy forces threatening all the front. Málaga has fallen leaving some of our units still locked behind enemy lines.
A new anarchist battalion is available in Valencia and is ordered to join Valencia Column led by Gamir, who orders his troops to advance towards Teruel. The garrison is inside the city and this could be a good chace to assault this position.
A new able commander, Hernandez Saravia (***), is available in Madrid but he is immediately relocated to Aragon, and is now leading the Durruti Column, eliminating any command penalties. Now an assault on Zaragoza has a very reasonable probability of sucess.
Mera has taken command of the Ebro Column south of Zaragoza, he can improve the performance of anarchist units under his command (offensive, defensive and fire bonus +20%) but he is not an anarchist commander.
In Mallorca our forces try to withdraw from Palma to Manacor and re-embark on the transports.
Unfortunately, a new battle is held in Palma where our fleeing forces are defeated again. This makes things ever harder for our troops in Mallorca.
Our Breguets bombers became obsolete, and this RGD is no longer available, but Soviet Union has offered bombers and I-15 and I-16 fighters as well. All three RGD’s are choosen, and they will allow RGD for aerial war with Soviet planes.
The Non Intervention Pact is signed, but as soon will be proven, Germany and Italy will break the pact and support their Spanish ally.
In Madrid the Giral government falls. Largo Caballero is now Prime Minister with support of the PCE (Communist Party of Spain). PCE is heavily influenced by Stalin’s NKVD.
Good new for the Republicans, our attack in Granada succeds and now the city is ours!
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What is Franco doing? no attack towards Badajoz and Merida? it is September, Nationalist must attack soon or will be late if they want to go for Madrid this year.
Headquarter game designer of Battles For Spain, Ageod English Civil War, España:1936 and Thirty Years War
I would be interested in:
a picture of a Me 109, and how is the air war is represented / modeled?
there is no such picture. The air warfare is represented with Regional Decisions. You have a small ammount of them, you can use it over your units as Air Defense, this can prevent for enemy bombardments. And also you can use Air Superiority, this decision can abort enemy Air Defense.
Othe Decision is Air Bombardment that can provoque some loss of cohesion in several enemy units but can be aborted by enemy Air Defense.
Each type represent one kind of mission and several types of aircrafts. You can also make night attacks in enemy cities (provoque lose of VP to the enemy) and strategic bombardments in enemy cities to make the enemy lose war supplies.
There are no Flak Units, and no air combat as in RuS. But this way permit to make some damage in enemy forces to make them lose a battle, just as it happens in history.
FENRIS
AGEod Guard of Honor
Location: Marseille (France)
and no so much Me109 in the SCW, Me108 perhaps et bombers, more italian planes.
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FENRIS wrote: and no so much Me109 in the SCW, Me108 perhaps et bombers, more italian planes.
around 29 i think.
Leibstandarte wrote: ... The air warfare is represented with Regional Decisions...
There are no Flak Units, and no air combat as in RuS...
To be honest, I'm a bit disappointed now.
Templer wrote: To be honest, I'm a bit disappointed now.
It is an abstraction, true, but in my opinion it works well and probably still the best option within the engine.
but what else could be done under AGE engine? yes, i like WitP style but it is another game, and without AGE engine features.
The RUS air units are in fact ground units, because they represent airfields and services etc... but what i need in the España development were attacks on ground units and strategic bombardment. This system makes this fine.
Granda has finally been taken. This is an outstanding sucess for Republican forces in the South, as the newspaper “La Libertad” (Freedom) explains it:
In spite of the conquest of Granada, the Southern front is still an uneasy situation for Republican forces. Several enemy strong combat groups are located in the area and our agents report Franco, head of the rebellion, is at Cádiz. Under his command rebel forces become even more dangerous.
In Aragon, we have the initiative. Hernández Saravia will lead the attack on Zaragoza with a huge contingent of (mainly) anarchist militia. Our adversaries are better quality troops, but let’s hope the motivation of our men (and their numbers) will be enough to take the Aragonese capital.
Meanwhile, another Aragonese city, Teruel, will be assaulted by the Valencia Column. Only a weak garrison remains in Teruel. The victory will be ours, for sure!
Quiet time in the Center. Enemy forces present in Ávila don’t try to attack Segovia, and our forces in Segovia and Madrid remain on alert. The North is quiet too.
In Mallorca the dramatic situation has become dire. Our forces have been decimated and all signs of cohesion have been vanished. We try to start an evacuation, so, while Republican forces (the red ones) try to withdraw to Manacor, anarchist battalions will try to begin boarding transports.
Unexpectedly, a Nationalist naval force composed of a Cruiser and a Destroyer appeared in the evacuation naval area and attacks our unprotected transports (a heavy mistake not to send naval units to cover the operation, believing no enemy naval units were present in the area). The result is the sinking of one of the transports and the capture of the other.
Good news from the Aragon Front. The assault on Teruel has been succesful. The garrison has been destroyed and the city falls to the Government troops!
In Zaragoza we achieved success too, winning a battle and causing more casualties to the enemy, but they won’t withdraw from the city and the capture of Zaragoza will have to wait.
Maybe the weather has prevented you to taking Zaragoza.
how do you make such mistake in Mallorca comrade? now your forces are lost. And you will lose that artillery.
Awesome progress. Please, remember every now and then to take a panoramic screenshot at MC filter so we can see the land exchanges.
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This AAR makes for some good reading while waiting for the game.
Regarding air warfare, AGE engine isn't really made for it. The way it works in RUS is far from historical, so I think it was a very wise decision to abstract air attacks for this game.
Maybe in the future engine improvements will change things!
Leibstandarte wrote: Maybe the weather has prevented you to taking Zaragoza.
I can consider myself an AGEOD veteran, but it was a foolish move on my side. Maybe Athena is not the smartest girl in town, but she still has capacity for surprise. I underestimate her and the prize was those valuable transports.
I agree with PJJ AGEOD engine is not suited for aerial warfare at this point, so an abstraction of it works fine for me.
“La Libertad” boosts the public opinion of the Republican-controlled areas as another city initially taken by the insurgents in their attempted coup d’etat is now back in loyal hands. Teruel is ours!
An operation to try save our troops in Mallorca has been planned. A couple of transports have unlocked this turn in Barcelona and will set sail for Mallorca. The War Fleer will depart from Cartagena and both units will converge and then try to evacuate as many troops as they can.
In Zaragoza the attack on the city and its defending forces will continue. Republican forces in Bujalaroz and Calatayud are ordered to converge on Zaragoza and support the attack, but the anarchists led by Mera (in Calatayud) will take 8 days to arrive (more than a turn, remember, in España:1936 turn are 7 days long). Should we force march the anarchists? We are near to conquering the vital communications hub which Zaragoza is.
In the South, Málaga has been left with a very weak garrison. It’s a nice chance to recover the city, while consolidating our conquest of Granada, so a battalion in Nerja will advance to Málaga. The enemy is strong and concentrated at some points of Andalucía, but have done a very limited offensive for the moment.
Center and North continue to be the most quiet sectors of all Fronts.
Two options are adopted this turn. The Ministry of War recruits new battalions among the Asturian miners. These troops will help to strenghthen our position in the North, but artillery is still badly needed there, as well as a military leadership for the units.
More artillery is purchased abroad. Unlike the last time when it was bought specifically to be delivered in Santander, this time can be sent anywhere. It’s presumed that the new artillery will appear in a port like Barcelona, Valencia, Alicante or Cartagena, but we’ll have to wait until next turn to know for sure.
Finally the battle for Zaragoza resumes, and this time our victory is even bigger, forcing enemy troops to withdraw. Unfortunately a garrison unit is inside the city as no assault order (red) was given to allow attacks against units inside the structure, only an offensive order (orange) was issued, so next turn the fall of Zaragoza will mark a brilliant end for the month of September.
Let’s talk about the aerial warfare in España:1936 a little bit. The Spanish Air Force of the pre-war time was very obsolete, so when the war begins only a RGD of air bombardment with Breguets XIX is available.
After the initial RGD’s are chosen asking the Soviet Union for SB-2 bombers and I-15 and I-16 fighters much better planes are available. Finally this turn we have available new “air” RGD’s
Here you can see the planes:
Tupolev SB-2 bomber known during the Spanish Civil War as “Katiuska”.
Polikarpov I-15 fighter, nicknamed “Chato” (snubnosed) by the Republicans and “Curtiss” by the Nationalist (initially confused by them with the Curtiss Sparrowhawk).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_F9C_Sparrowhawk
Polikarpov I-16 fighter, the popular “Mosca” (housefly) among the Republicans and “Rata” (Rat) for the Nationalists.
The first RGD is Air Bombardment. By paying 5,000 pesetas ($5 in game terms) and 2 EP we can reduce the cohesion of up to 5 elements by 20% in the target area.
The Air Defense can cause the enemy to lose one bombardment RGD. The target area must be owned by our side and has a cost of $3 and 1 EP.
Finally, Air Superiority can cause the loss of one Air Defense RGD. Has a cost of $1 and 1 EP and the target area must be one we don’t own.
As you can see, from a totally obsolete air force on both sides, and although a Non Intervention Pact has been signed by European Powers, the air war is becoming more complex with modern aircrafts models. The enemy has requested help from Italy, which could deliver to our opponents planes like the Fiat CR-32 or the SM-81:
Fiat CR-32 figther nicknamed “Chirri”.
Savoia-Marchetti SM-81 bomber, nicknamed “Slug” by its Italian pilots.
But the war goes on. Now we are centered in the last stage of the capture of Zaragoza. Hernandez Saravia’s men will rest this turn as their cohesion is a bit low, while the column arriving from Bujalaroz and composed of 2 brigades of four milita battalions will execute the assault.
Finally, Mera’s troops didn’t manage to arrive at the city, and now it will be for our advantage. Their orders are cancelled, and now they’ll march to Tarazona, taking the railway to Pamplona.
In Teruel, the Valencia Column has split, now a brigade is taking the railway controlled by the enemy north of the city, and allowing thus a rail link between Zaragoza and Teruel controlled by us. The anarchists will occupy Molina de Aragón in the meantime.
Our new Asturian battalions have been received in Gijón:
In the North the Front is still quiet but we will try to do a slight reorganization of the line. Anarchists of San Sebastián will try to retake the Irun area, where the French border is located.
The rest of the force of San Sebastián will march South, approaching Pamplona.
And finally a couple of militia battalions, reinforced with the artillery purchased in Santander, will march South.
In the Center, as the quiet situation remains, the Column in Guadalajara will move North and try to conquer Soria.
In the South, Pozas (***) a mediocre general (2-1-1 ratings) takes command of the forces in Granada, at least in this manner the strongest Republican force in the South Front no longer suffers from command penalties. The now Pozas force is ordered to advance to Alcalá la Real.
In Málaga, the militia battalion is ordered to assault the position (strength 73 against 37 for the defenders).
In the Mediterranean, our transports from Barcelona had suffered a delay and they are still near the city. A turn more must pass before we can proceed to evacuate some of our forces while supply is depleting. Our warships are already in the area for their covering mission.
The assault on Málaga is a total disaster. The enemy garrison was well entrenched and have repelled our assault easily.
Zaragoza is finally taken! The garrison is swept away and now this Objective has fallen to the Republic!
Very bad news again in the South. Finally the rebels have decided to take the offensive and want to re-take Granada. 10,000 men under the able Orgaz, including legionnaire elite units meet Pozas force in Alcalá la Real and inflict a heavy defeat upon us.
Xaloc wrote: Mera has taken command of the Ebro Column south of Zaragoza, he can improve the performance of anarchist units under his command (offensive, defensive and fire bonus +20%) but he is not an anarchist commander.
Xaloc wrote: , the Valencia Column has arrived at Sarrion, led by Gamir Ulibarri. This Column is built up with two republican militia brigades plus an anarchist battalion from Valencia. This shows perfectly the lack of understanding between the factions inside the Republican Army. Anarchists and the rest of the Republicans don’t follow the same chain of command. So they are very reluctant to obey orders from a non-anarchist commander.
Xaloc wrote: Mera, a Republican general with anarchist connections,
Mera was actual anarchist, with some Republican connections. About commandmant he was in the middle of common views here: He saw early that anarchists need a deeper war organisation (what had made Makhno in Ukraine), but he too didn't want that commandmant depend from a governement (which are oligarchy).
He became quickly aware of anarchist strenghts; and of their weakness that usually anarchists didn't want to see, that's why in the end he went to command regular troops.
Mera finally agreed to take a commandmant in Republican army, like Makhno took one in Bolshevik army.
Makhno was then not really a Bolshevik general, nor Mera a true Republican general.
For the game, ok, it is maybe easier to make Mera a Republican, for gameplay and newb understanding. However some explanations should be told in Mera tooltip.
ERISS wrote: For the game, ok, it is maybe easier to make Mera a Republican, for gameplay and newb understanding. However some explanations should be told in Mera tooltip.
If you want to write it i will add it
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Simple Question,
If you use all your strength to take the north, you lose territory in South but you can combinet your seperate force. So is a good or correct strategy / or a very bad strategy ?
For me a isolated troop is a dead troop.
For the Republicans is critical. Hold Madrid and join with the North (take Pamplona and Zaragoza). Against IA is possible. In pbem not so easy.
Ironclad61
Well, for Republic is more important join north with the Madrid-Barcelona-Valencia axis, Zaragoza is a key point in the begin of the war before nacionales can deploy all their power because later is harder try conect with Pais Vasco-Cantabria-Asturias and if north front falls well, Zaragoza lose a great strategic value, take if doesnt open a conection with other republica forces if north falls... first months you fight to save the north military forces, resources and prestige.
Lose some territory in "Castilla la mancha" is relative bad but if you mantein secure the vital conection between Madrid and Valencia and you can conect with north front... i certain prefer sacrifice the terrain and mantein a line Madrid-Albacete-Almeria and clear north part of the Peninsula... for Republica is a question of clear north fast because all industry is on the north (for example weapon factories, the main shipyards to repair big ships and the Vasque industry) and well, if Republic control the french line is a politic victory.
Practically in South out of the coast cities you dont lose nothing important for a war economy, maybe food... but if you control north you can receive supplies in this secure ports.
ERISS wrote: Mera was actual anarchist, with some Republican connections. About commandmant he was in the middle of common views here: He saw early that anarchists need a deeper war organisation (what had made Makhno in Ukraine), but he too didn't want that commandmant depend from a governement (which are oligarchy).
Yes I knew Mera was anarchist, but as he is represented as Republican for games purposes I had to improvise. I agee with you regarding anarchist commandment.
EDIT: removed and added in past post (#50)
Zaragoza has been taken and now all the citizens loyal to the Republic are jubilent about the event. Now the doors of Pamplona (and the link with the Northern zone) are open.
October is in its first week, let’s take a look at the general situation of the war. The enemy has a lack of offensive impulse during September in the South, its territorial gains during the last month are minimal. In our side, the conquest of Granada, Teruel and Zaragoza are the main successes.
This turn a really important political option became available: the creation of the Popular Army. Enabling this measure, the Government tries to replace the militia system with a more professional, disciplined army that can face the enemy with more guarantee of success. Obviously the option is chosen at once.
More Asturian battalions can be recruited and these options are chosen also.
Fortunately, at least, our first units of the Mallorca Invasion force can be evacuated with the support of the entire Republican War Fleet, included its flagship the battleship “Jaime I”. The units are a couple of militia battalions and the vital artillery unit. The shortage of artillery of the Republican forces makes every unit of this type precious.
In the Front of Aragón, once Zaragoza is conquered, Hernández Saravia marches toward the last of the Aragonese capitals in rebel’s hands:Huesca. His troops have rested a little bit and now refreshed will remove this flank before initiating the march on Pamplona, capital of Navarra.
In the Center sector, the force under Jurado will assault Soria, protected by a cavalry battalion only. His force is a full militia brigade with four battalions, let’s hope he will be able to take the city…
While in the Northern the front is quiet one turn more, in the South the situation is serious. Poza’s troops couldn’t withdraw from Alcalá la Real and now after their defeat will have to face the enemy there again, which can be potentially disastrous. Their cohesion is below 10 and thus movement is severly penalized (and Pozas, moreover, is unactivated).
Some milita around Málaga, on the other hand, became unlocked and will renew the assault on the city.
The attack on Soria is another failure for our militia. Our force was superior to the enemy by a 5:1 ratio, but all we get is a stalemate and without taking the city.
But a second battle for Soria takes place with the result of the death of our brigade’s commander, Jurado. The city remains under enemy’s hands.
In Alcalá la Real, in the Southern Front, a new disaster occurs when Poza’s routed troops are attacked again by Orgaz’s forces. We lose near 2,000 men.
But there is good news at least! Our second attack on Málaga is successful and the city is recovered for the Republic!
As the Republic, I suppose it would be wise to make as many gains as possible before the Nationalists start receiving strong support from Italy and Germany.
How are the internal problems within the Republic modelled? Can we expect to see some infighting and problems of co-operation between various political groups that have a negative impact on the military operations?
Well this will be the last update of this introductory AAR. With the game released the objective of the AAR is fulfilled, introducing the game to all of you interested on it. I hope you enyojed it and will enjoy the game, too.
Once again thanks to Leibstandarte for all the dedication to create España:1936 and to my fellow beta and opponent Durk for his kind text corrections.
To give a worthy end to the AAR, I’ll do a review of the fronts, hoping to find some AAR of your own soon!
The expedition to Mallorca was finally able to re-embark some of the troops. A couple of milita battalions and, the more important, the artillery unit are now safe on board the transport ships protected by the whole Republican War Fleet.
The other units will have to wait until the transports unload and come back to the Mallorca area, if they are not attacked and overwhelmed by the enemy before.
In the Center, the first Mixed Brigades become available and are being formed while some of the former militia battalions are being upgraded to ’36 Regular infantry. They will be better equipped and disciplined and with more chances to face the rebels successfully. A small enemy force has reached the outskirts of Madrid but Miaja will move there and attack.
The most favorable front for the Republic is in Aragón where the forces led by Hernández Saravia, Durruti and Mera have routed the enemy conquering almost all of Aragón. Now they can head for other cities like Soria and above all Pamplona, a key city for linking the Republican forces in the main Republican territories with the North.
The North has been a really quiet sector. Very few actions, but the enemy managed to relieve the siege of Oviedo and cut the French border in Irún, too. But San Sebastián, especially, and the rest of Republican-held northern cities are safe for the moment.
And the Southern Front where the situation has been the most difficult. The enemy has been passive, but here they have really strong forces, and from here the main offensive effort will come to take Andalucia or to take Badajoz, linking both rebel regions and then making the drive on Madrid. Here we lost Málaga, but managed to recover it again and conquered Granada, unfortunately too late to save Federico García Lorca’s life (he was executed on August, 19, 1936).
An event that occured this turn. Soviet armor arrived at the port of Cartagena. T-26 Soviet tanks arrives with the ship “Konsomol” and will be the first armored forces of the Republic, except for the light armored cars we had at the beginning.
And finally a picture of the military control map, where all controlled areas by both sides can be seen. Nationalists did achieve some progress mainly in the South while Republicans pressure grew mainly in Aragón.
A pleasure making my little contribution to the game and maybe will encounter some of you on the battlefield sharing an experience with the Spanish Civil War.
Location: Málaga, Spain
Good job with the AAR. Thanks for sharing.
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Want to immerse yourself in different, tantalizing musical worlds, all in the most diverse and unusual areas of the Hulencourt Golf Club?
Do you want to devote some of your time to an international festival that brings together music and debates?
Dynamic, eclectic and lively programming that links places and spaces to magnificent landscapes with diverse socio-cultural offerings! Combining music and sport, history, nature, gastronomy and heritage, for eight months the Festival will offer the opportunity to discover all the events of our next season! The opportunity to meet artists, speakers and share your impressions on the past season and the upcoming one, in a friendly atmosphere and high spirits!
Diversity…, this is the terms that may be used, once again, to describe this 12th edition of the Hulencourt Festival: piano and solo violin recitals with Nobuyuki Tsujii and Nemanja Radulovic, melodies performed by Antonio Serrano which drink in the jazz of Toots and blend notes of flamenco and blues, a trio performing for the first time in Belgium, a timeless formation presenting music from identical instrumentation, composed of Plamena Mangova, Dmitri Makhtin and Alexander Kniazev, acclaimed singer Noa will pay homage to Johann Sebastian Bach, a special homage to Beethoven for his 250th birthday with pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii, vocal and baroque music with the Anton Pann Ensemble, the Devaere, Mañalich et Malfeyt Trio and the Serenissima Duo, a cultural escapade in Paris with a concert of our Hulencourt Orchestra in the auditorium of the Louis Vuitton Foundation, the discovery of piano prodigies with Alexandra Dovgan and Petrica Daniel Ciobanu.
Thought and emotion, vast subject! This year we reserve a beautiful place for the diners-debates, a forward-looking view perpetually renewed with Jean-Claude Trichet, Nicolas Sarkozy, Ilham Kadri, Jean-Michel Bruffaerts and Princess Esmeralda of Belgium, eminent representatives from the areas of the economy, geopolitics, entrepreneurship and innovation, history and gastronomy, world-renowned speakers who will not leave you indifferent! Once again, we are honoured to collaborate with Christophe Berti, editor-in-chief of Le Soir newspaper, who will present the dinner-debates.
The historical significance of Hulencourt is quite symbolic for us and dates back to the 11th century. It was owned by the Countess of Boulogne and was used by the Count as a head-quarter while conquering England in 1066 fighting alongside William of Normandy. Nowadays Hulencourt, only a few miles south of Brussels, holds a very different type of head-quarters for a new emotional conquest and therefore the musicians, artists, personalities are very important ambassadors brought to Hulencourt from all over Europe.
Hulencourt has hosted many artists and personalities on its stage in the past as Toots Thielemans, Alfred Brendel, Stephen Kovacevich, Boris Berezowski, Mayte Martin, Andrea Griminelli, Quartetto di Cremona, Igudesman and Joo, Philippe Jaroussky, Renaud et Gautier Capuçon, Pieter Wispelvey, Richard Galliano, Jacques Attali, Frederic Mitterrand, Ana Moura, Maria Toledo, Nelson Freire, Nelson Goerner, Martin Stadtfeld, Jan Lisiecki, Arianna Savall, Thomas Zehetmair, Guy Braunstein, Pere Portabela, Stefan Tarara, Katia et Marielle Labeque, I Sonatori della Gioiosa Marca, Accordone, Alfio Antico, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Huascar Barradas, Enrico Pace, Igor Roma, Ruben Simeo, Stephen Waarts, Gabriele Carcano, Arcadia, Jacques Alphonse De Zeegant, Alicia Nafé, Ana Camelia Stefanescu, Emmanuel Pahud, Yefim Bronfman, Quatuor Hermes, Quatuor Modigliani, Laurent Korcia, Dorothee Oberlinger, Ghalia Benali, Dilek Türkan and others.
Dinner Conferences
Bozar, Brussels
Brussels at Studio 4 de Flagey
Brussels Royal Conservatory (Belgium)
Cercle Royal Gaulois
Church Notre Dame in Brussels (Belgium)
Flagey Studio 4 in Brussels, Belgium
Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel
Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Magritte
Louis Vuitton Foundation of Paris
Maison Stradivari d’Hulencourt
Notre Dame Cathedral in Laon (France)
Outdoor courtyard in front of the splendid Hulencourt greenhouse
Saint Michael and Saint Gudula Cathedral in Brussels (Belgium)
Salle Ambassador in Amigo Hotel (Belgium)
Salle Ambassador in Thon Hotel EU (Belgium)
Serate Musicali - Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milano (Italy)
Teatro Romano de Sagunto
Theatr Wielki in Warsaw (Poland)
Théâtre Jean Vilar
Open Air Green Garden Concert “Tribute to Ludwig”
thu25jun18 h 00 minOpen Air Green Garden Concert “Tribute to Ludwig”with pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii18 h 00 min Outdoor courtyard in front of the splendid Hulencourt greenhouseBio Description: At 30, Nobuyuki Tsujii, Japanese, plays in the big leagues. Blind at birth, he only learned music by ear. At the green garden party, in front of Hulencourt's magnificent new greenhouse, this outstanding pianist will give a grand recital dedicated to Beethoven, whose grandfather, Lodewijk, we sometimes forget was... Belgian! Ticket price: 30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance
At 30, Nobuyuki Tsujii, Japanese, plays in the big leagues. Blind at birth, he only learned music by ear. At the green garden party, in front of Hulencourt’s magnificent new greenhouse, this outstanding pianist will give a grand recital dedicated to Beethoven, whose grandfather, Lodewijk, we sometimes forget was… Belgian!
30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance
Cultural Escapade in Brussels at Studio 4 de Flagey: “Prodigies, the grand concert”
tue19may20 h 00 minCultural Escapade in Brussels at Studio 4 de Flagey: “Prodigies, the grand concert”with Alexander Kniazev, Alexandra Dovgan, Palmo Venneri & Hulencourt Symphony Orchestra20 h 00 min Brussels at Studio 4 de FlageyBio Description: A phenomenon: 12 years old, of rare maturity, pianist Alexandra Dovgan shines. Discovered in Russia last summer, this young star is lighting up the musical world: Theatre of the Champs-Elysees, Konzertgebouw in Amsterdam, tours in Japan and the USA. Alexandra Dovgan will play the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto N1 with the Hulencourt Orchestra directed by Palmo Venneri. Alexander Kniazev, worthy successor of Rostropovich, will give us an amazing interpretation of the concerto for violoncello and orchestra of J.A.De Zeegant! Ticket price: 30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance
A phenomenon: 12 years old, of rare maturity, pianist Alexandra Dovgan shines. Discovered in Russia last summer, this young star is lighting up the musical world: Theatre of the Champs-Elysees, Konzertgebouw in Amsterdam, tours in Japan and the USA. Alexandra Dovgan will play the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto N1 with the Hulencourt Orchestra directed by Palmo Venneri. Alexander Kniazev, worthy successor of Rostropovich, will give us an amazing interpretation of the concerto for violoncello and orchestra of J.A.De Zeegant!
Dinner-debate, a collaboration with Le Soir “Passions” Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
thu02apr19 h 00 minDinner-debate, a collaboration with Le Soir “Passions”with Nicolas Sarkozy - - SOLD OUT - -19 h 00 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeTicketsBio Description: Head of State between 2007 and 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy will present his book “Passions” at Hulencourt, in which he discusses his political journey, which began with a meeting of the RPR in Nice in 1975, followed by a meeting at Matignon with the Prime Minister at the time, Jacques Chirac. The former president also speaks at length about his private life, his second wife Cécilia who told him of “her desire to divorce” on the day of the televised debate between two stages of the presidential elections of 2007, and his first encounter with Carla Bruni, “the most important person in his life”. Ticket price: 110€
Head of State between 2007 and 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy will present his book “Passions” at Hulencourt, in which he discusses his political journey, which began with a meeting of the RPR in Nice in 1975, followed by a meeting at Matignon with the Prime Minister at the time, Jacques Chirac. The former president also speaks at length about his private life, his second wife Cécilia who told him of “her desire to divorce” on the day of the televised debate between two stages of the presidential elections of 2007, and his first encounter with Carla Bruni, “the most important person in his life”.
“Revolution” Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
tue24mar19 h 30 min“Revolution”with Janoska Ensemble19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: When the legendary Janoska Ensemble “Revolution” is not an ordinary title for a musical program. But can we really apply the epithet of “ordinary” to a formation as creative as the Janoska Ensemble? Starting with the family history, obviously endowed with unusual musical genes: for the Janoska family, their musical tradition has been passed down from father to son for 150 years! They pay tribute to the Beatles with versions of timeless hits such as “Let It Be” and “Yesterday”, as well as works by Tchaikovsky and Bach. Ticket price: 30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance
When the legendary Janoska Ensemble “Revolution” is not an ordinary title for a musical program. But can we really apply the epithet of “ordinary” to a formation as creative as the Janoska Ensemble? Starting with the family history, obviously endowed with unusual musical genes: for the Janoska family, their musical tradition has been passed down from father to son for 150 years! They pay tribute to the Beatles with versions of timeless hits such as “Let It Be” and “Yesterday”, as well as works by Tchaikovsky and Bach.
Dinner-debate, a collaboration with Le Soir “The Queen, the Egyptologist and the Pharaoh” Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
thu12mar19 h 30 minDinner-debate, a collaboration with Le Soir “The Queen, the Egyptologist and the Pharaoh”with Jean-Michel Bruffaerts and Princess Esméralda of Belgium19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: On 18 February 1923, when the wall of the burial chamber was opened and the intact tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun was discovered, there were about 15 personalities present, including Prince Leopold and, of course, Jean Capart. Queen Elisabeth was the guest of honour and she officially inaugurated the opening of the burial chamber. Mr. Jean-Michel Bruffaerts will present unpublished documents and photos! Princess Esmeralda of Belgium will be present for this exceptional event in Hulencourt. Ticket price: 110€
On 18 February 1923, when the wall of the burial chamber was opened and the intact tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun was discovered, there were about 15 personalities present, including Prince Leopold and, of course, Jean Capart. Queen Elisabeth was the guest of honour and she officially inaugurated the opening of the burial chamber. Mr. Jean-Michel Bruffaerts will present unpublished documents and photos! Princess Esmeralda of Belgium will be present for this exceptional event in Hulencourt.
“To the memory of a grand artist” Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
sat15feb19 h 30 min“To the memory of a grand artist”with the Mangova, Makhtin et Kniazev Trio19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: Upset by the death of his friend Nicolas Rubinstein in 1881, Tchaikovsky composed the first great Russian piece for a piano trio and dedicated it to the memory of a great artist. Twelve years later, following announcement of the death Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov began composing another trio, as monumental and romantic as the one who inspired him and offering the same dedication. Succession of singing virtuosos, almost dancing, with Plamena Mangova, Alexander Kniazev and Dmitry Makhtin. The profits will be devoted to the defence of the environment within the framework of the International Foundation of Lions CLubs (LCIF). Ticket price: 30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance
Upset by the death of his friend Nicolas Rubinstein in 1881, Tchaikovsky composed the first great Russian piece for a piano trio and dedicated it to the memory of a great artist. Twelve years later, following announcement of the death Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov began composing another trio, as monumental and romantic as the one who inspired him and offering the same dedication. Succession of singing virtuosos, almost dancing, with Plamena Mangova, Alexander Kniazev and Dmitry Makhtin.
The profits will be devoted to the defence of the environment within the framework of the International Foundation of Lions CLubs (LCIF).
“Tonos Humanos”
sun09feb16 h 45 min“Tonos Humanos”with the TRIO CUERDAS - - SOLD OUT - -16 h 45 min Maison Stradivari d’HulencourtBio Description: Spanish music of the 17th century, the “Tonos Humanos” were very popular songs at that time and talk about life and love. They can be happy, melancholic or satirical. On the program is composer José Marin, harp and guitar player. He was committed as a tenor in the royal chapel in Madrid and, at the same time, he was a priest, a thief and ... a murderer! Hannelore Devaere, Philippe Malfeyt and Francisco Javier Manalich will illustrate all facets of this turbulent life in the concert. Ticket price: 30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance
Spanish music of the 17th century, the “Tonos Humanos” were very popular songs at that time and talk about life and love. They can be happy, melancholic or satirical. On the program is composer José Marin, harp and guitar player. He was committed as a tenor in the royal chapel in Madrid and, at the same time, he was a priest, a thief and … a murderer! Hannelore Devaere, Philippe Malfeyt and Francisco Javier Manalich will illustrate all facets of this turbulent life in the concert.
Dinner-debate, a collaboration with Le Soir “How to mobilize the employees of Solvay to boost its growth potential?” Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
thu06feb19 h 00 minDinner-debate, a collaboration with Le Soir “How to mobilize the employees of Solvay to boost its growth potential?”with Ms. Ilham Kadri, President and CEO of Solvay SA19 h 00 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: With an international industrial background and proud to be the CEO of Solvay, a group with 155 years of history, Ilham Kadri will share her work philosophy and her vision of success. She will address the challenges and opportunities she has faced, in a rapidly changing society and a volatile geopolitical and economic environment. She will also reveal to us how to forge the fundamental values of common success and respond to the societal and environmental challenges of our modern societies through innovation. Ticket price: 110€
With an international industrial background and proud to be the CEO of Solvay, a group with 155 years of history, Ilham Kadri will share her work philosophy and her vision of success. She will address the challenges and opportunities she has faced, in a rapidly changing society and a volatile geopolitical and economic environment. She will also reveal to us how to forge the fundamental values of common success and respond to the societal and environmental challenges of our modern societies through innovation.
“From the altar to the stage”
sun26jan16 h 45 min“From the altar to the stage” with the Duo Serenissima - - SOLD OUT - -16 h 45 min Maison Stradivari d’HulencourtBio Description: Within the buildings of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, the seventeenth-century Counter-Reform was the catalyst for music to become the tool that turned religious doctrine and commandments into a spiritual journey. As a result, the polyphonic tradition finally gave way to monody! With this double concert, Elisabeth Hetherington and David Mackor want to take the listener on a dramatic journey through the eyes of those who are closest to Jesus: The Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene and the Apostles. Ticket price: 30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance
Within the buildings of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, the seventeenth-century Counter-Reform was the catalyst for music to become the tool that turned religious doctrine and commandments into a spiritual journey. As a result, the polyphonic tradition finally gave way to monody! With this double concert, Elisabeth Hetherington and David Mackor want to take the listener on a dramatic journey through the eyes of those who are closest to Jesus: The Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene and the Apostles.
“A modern take on the sounds of ancestral Romania - Dimitrie Cantemir” Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
sun15dec19 h 30 min“A modern take on the sounds of ancestral Romania - Dimitrie Cantemir”with the Anton Pann Ensemble19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeTicketsBio Description: Have you ever wondered what ancient Romania sounded like? The Anton Pann Ensemble takes advantage of Europalia Romania in Hulencourt to present the wonderful music of 17th century Ottoman composer Dimitrie Cantemir. Their performance offers a new take on these traditional sounds, a contemporary spotlight on this Baroque repertoire. Performing in the courtyard of Romanian and Boyard princes, they also play folk melodies. Ticket price: 30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance
Have you ever wondered what ancient Romania sounded like? The Anton Pann Ensemble takes advantage of Europalia Romania in Hulencourt to present the wonderful music of 17th century Ottoman composer Dimitrie Cantemir. Their performance offers a new take on these traditional sounds, a contemporary spotlight on this Baroque repertoire. Performing in the courtyard of Romanian and Boyard princes, they also play folk melodies.
Dinner-debate, a collaboration with Le Soir “Old, new and formidable challenges for the Central Banks of today” Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
thu05dec19 h 30 minDinner-debate, a collaboration with Le Soir “Old, new and formidable challenges for the Central Banks of today”with Jean Claude Trichet19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeTicketsBio Description: The recent crisis will certainly change the behaviour of central banks for the long term. Before the crisis, they controlled interest rates in the very short term and made sure to remain credible in case of inflationary shocks by reacting very quickly. Since the crisis, they have pursued unconventional policies, which now requires that they provide solutions to problems that did not exist before the crisis. Jean-Claude Trichet will share his views with us on crisis-resolution mechanisms and on economic news. Ticket price: 110€
The recent crisis will certainly change the behaviour of central banks for the long term. Before the crisis, they controlled interest rates in the very short term and made sure to remain credible in case of inflationary shocks by reacting very quickly. Since the crisis, they have pursued unconventional policies, which now requires that they provide solutions to problems that did not exist before the crisis. Jean-Claude Trichet will share his views with us on crisis-resolution mechanisms and on economic news.
"Letters to Bach” Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe with NOA, GIL DOR and OR LUBIANIKER - - SOLD OUT - -19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeTicketsBio Description: A singer with a voice so pure, the Israeli-American artist NOA (Achinoam Nini) pays tribute to the famous German composer of the 18th century, Johan Sebastien Bach! She revisits 12 instrumental pieces of the composer by adding original texts in English and Hebrew. With her long-time collaborator, Gil Dor and with Or Lubianiker, Noa breaks the barriers of language to bridge the gap between respect and joy, courage and hope. Noa made her divine voice a passport to the world. Ticket price: 30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance
A singer with a voice so pure, the Israeli-American artist NOA (Achinoam Nini) pays tribute to the famous German composer of the 18th century, Johan Sebastien Bach! She revisits 12 instrumental pieces of the composer by adding original texts in English and Hebrew. With her long-time collaborator, Gil Dor and with Or Lubianiker, Noa breaks the barriers of language to bridge the gap between respect and joy, courage and hope. Noa made her divine voice a passport to the world.
“The darling of the public plays enchanting piano melodies” Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Magritte 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
sun10nov11 h 00 min“The darling of the public plays enchanting piano melodies”with Petrica Daniel Ciobanu11 h 00 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Magritte, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeTicketsBio Description: Daniel Petrica Ciobanu is considered one of the most promising young pianists of his generation. His outgoing personality and creativity make him a performer of rare depth and refinement. A Yamaha Music Foundation Europe Fellow and Rotary's Young Musician of the Year, he has performed with renowned pianist Lang Lang at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Ticket price: 30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance
Daniel Petrica Ciobanu is considered one of the most promising young pianists of his generation. His outgoing personality and creativity make him a performer of rare depth and refinement. A Yamaha Music Foundation Europe Fellow and Rotary’s Young Musician of the Year, he has performed with renowned pianist Lang Lang at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
“Tootstology - Tribute to a jazz harmonica genius, Toots Thielemans” Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
fri08nov19 h 30 min“Tootstology - Tribute to a jazz harmonica genius, Toots Thielemans”with the Antonio Serrano Ensemble - - SOLD OUT - - 19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeTicketsBio Description: In Tootsology, Antonio Serrano, harmonicist and important ambassador of the best Spanish jazz, pays tribute to Toots, and has risen to the challenge of revisiting his entire career from the 1950s to the present. To do this, he had to carefully select the most representative themes of each era, a difficult task because of the long and prolific career of the great Toots Thielemans! Meanwhile, listening to his work and transcribing these old recordings was a very rewarding experience. Ticket price: 30€ – Seniors: 25€ – Students: 20€ – Kids from 6 to 12 years: free entrance
In Tootsology, Antonio Serrano, harmonicist and important ambassador of the best Spanish jazz, pays tribute to Toots, and has risen to the challenge of revisiting his entire career from the 1950s to the present. To do this, he had to carefully select the most representative themes of each era, a difficult task because of the long and prolific career of the great Toots Thielemans! Meanwhile, listening to his work and transcribing these old recordings was a very rewarding experience.
Tribute to Jacques BREL Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
sun09jun19 h 30 minTribute to Jacques BRELwith Olivier Laurent, Aldo Granato and Mikael Roux19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: More than just an impersonator, Olivier Laurent is a genius performer, an innately talented artist who set himself the goal of reviving the songs of Jacques Brel and who burns with passion on stage as though his life depended on it. The newspaper “Le Figaro” has gone so far as to refer to reincarnation. With the feel of a musical journey played a hundred times or more, and before an audience alternating between tears, laughter and ecstasy, it is through his voice, his fervour, his sense of irony and his tenderness that the artist pays this most fitting of tributes to the great Jacques Brel. Ticket price: 25€ - Seniors: 18€ - Students: 15€ - Kids under 6: Free
More than just an impersonator, Olivier Laurent is a genius performer, an innately talented artist who set himself the goal of reviving the songs of Jacques Brel and who burns with passion on stage as though his life depended on it.
The newspaper “Le Figaro” has gone so far as to refer to reincarnation. With the feel of a musical journey played a hundred times or more, and before an audience alternating between tears, laughter and ecstasy, it is through his voice, his fervour, his sense of irony and his tenderness that the artist pays this most fitting of tributes to the great Jacques Brel.
25€ – Seniors: 18€ – Students: 15€ – Kids under 6: Free
Bozar Next Generation : Hulencourt Symphony Orchestra Bozar, Brussels Rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Bruxelles
sun09jun11 h 00 minBozar Next Generation : Hulencourt Symphony Orchestrawith Palmo Venneri, Evelyne Berezovski and Stefan Tarara11 h 00 min Bozar, Brussels, Rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Bruxelles Description: This classical music concert is being organised by Bozar Next Generation and Hulencourt Festival. The event’s location is the magnificent Henry Le Boeuf Hall of the Brussels Centre for Fine Arts. This year, Evelyne Berezovski and Stefan Tarara will be performing piano concerto N2 by Belgian composer J.A.De Zeegant and the Shostakovich violin concerto N1 conducted by Palmo Venneri.
This classical music concert is being organised by Bozar Next Generation and Hulencourt Festival. The event’s location is the magnificent Henry Le Boeuf Hall of the Brussels Centre for Fine Arts. This year, Evelyne Berezovski and Stefan Tarara will be performing piano concerto N2 by Belgian composer J.A.De Zeegant and the Shostakovich violin concerto N1 conducted by Palmo Venneri.
Mendelssohn 48 Songs Without Words (II part) Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Magritte 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
sun02jun11 h 00 minMendelssohn 48 Songs Without Words (II part)with pianist Amir Katz11 h 00 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Magritte, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: This second instalment continues wordlessly where the first left off, focusing instead on pure associations and on a world infinite in its richness, a world that remains true and which enables each individual listener to create their own universe. This work involved condensing the last songs, op. 62, op. 67, op 85 and op. 102, showing that, over and above his prodigious skill as a pianist, Amir Katz remains someone who is capable of pushing the boundaries of music through his latest creations. Ticket price: 25€ - Kids under 6: Free
This second instalment continues wordlessly where the first left off, focusing instead on pure associations and on a world infinite in its richness, a world that remains true and which enables each individual listener to create their own universe. This work involved condensing the last songs, op. 62, op. 67, op 85 and op. 102, showing that, over and above his prodigious skill as a pianist, Amir Katz remains someone who is capable of pushing the boundaries of music through his latest creations.
25€ – Kids under 6: Free
Le Soir d'Hulencourt : The Conference Dinner « Le Polar Pod » Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
thu16may19 h 00 minLe Soir d'Hulencourt : The Conference Dinner « Le Polar Pod »with Jean-Louis Étienne19 h 00 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: Dinner, discussion and debate: the Polar Pod, a project first conceived by Jean-Louis Etienne in partnership with the organisation Ship ST will, for more than two years, drift along the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (24,000 km long, 2,000 km wide, with a flow of 150 million m3/sec) at an average speed of 0.5 knots. This “underwater space station”, first thought of in 2013, was recently granted support by the French government at the One Planet Summit held on 12th December in Paris. Ticket price: 100€
Dinner, discussion and debate: the Polar Pod, a project first conceived by Jean-Louis Etienne in partnership with the organisation Ship ST will, for more than two years, drift along the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (24,000 km long, 2,000 km wide, with a flow of 150 million m3/sec) at an average speed of 0.5 knots. This “underwater space station”, first thought of in 2013, was recently granted support by the French government at the One Planet Summit held on 12th December in Paris.
Magic sounds of the lute Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
sat04may19 h 30 minMagic sounds of the lutewith Edin Karazamov19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: The Bosnian lutenist Edin Karamazov first shot to fame accompanying Sting and Andreas Scholl - now he’s coming to Hulencourt for a solo performance. Listening to Edin Karamazov, this remarkably talented lutanist, is to explore the roads less travelled, taking the time to lose yourself in the labyrinth created by the strings of this magical instrument. Ticket price: 25€ - Seniors: 18€ - Students: 15€ - Kids under 6: Free
The Bosnian lutenist Edin Karamazov first shot to fame accompanying Sting and Andreas Scholl – now he’s coming to Hulencourt for a solo performance. Listening to Edin Karamazov, this remarkably talented lutanist, is to explore the roads less travelled, taking the time to lose yourself in the labyrinth created by the strings of this magical instrument.
Mendelssohn 48 Songs Without Words (I part) Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Magritte 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
sun28apr11 h 00 minMendelssohn 48 Songs Without Words (I part)with pianist Amir Katz11 h 00 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Magritte, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: Pianist Amir Katz gives an exceptional recital of Mendelssohn. The forty eight strong collection of Lieder ohne Worte is teeming with remarkable pieces. The Israeli pianist Amir Katz has carefully selected a number of these, all of which are skilfully rendered. For this first concert, Katz selected from Songs without words op. 19b, op. 30, op. 38 and op. 53. The virtuoso skill of Amir Katz, a performer with a remarkable ability to retain a clear sense of purity of line as well as extraordinary clarity from start to finish, is not to be missed. Ticket price: 25€ - Kids under 6: Free
Pianist Amir Katz gives an exceptional recital of Mendelssohn. The forty eight strong collection of Lieder ohne Worte is teeming with remarkable pieces. The Israeli pianist Amir Katz has carefully selected a number of these, all of which are skilfully rendered. For this first concert, Katz selected from Songs without words op. 19b, op. 30, op. 38 and op. 53. The virtuoso skill of Amir Katz, a performer with a remarkable ability to retain a clear sense of purity of line as well as extraordinary clarity from start to finish, is not to be missed.
Goldberg Variations BWV 988 Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Magritte 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
sun07apr11 h 00 minGoldberg Variations BWV 988with Gjorgji Cincievski, Marketa Janouskova & Nadia Debono11 h 00 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Magritte, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: The remarkable Gjorgji Cincievski, Marketa Janouskova & Nadia Debono tackle a brand new transcript, a recreation of J.-S Bach’s baroque masterpiece for harpsichord adapted for violin, viola and double-bass. This performance is a demonstration of the skill, the depth, the harmony and the infinite variations of chamber music, a fascinating reworking that reminds us of the physical proximity between the plucked strings of the harpsichord and classical stringed instruments. Ticket price: 25€ - Kids under 6: Free
The remarkable Gjorgji Cincievski, Marketa Janouskova & Nadia Debono tackle a brand new transcript, a recreation of J.-S Bach’s baroque masterpiece for harpsichord adapted for violin, viola and double-bass. This performance is a demonstration of the skill, the depth, the harmony and the infinite variations of chamber music, a fascinating reworking that reminds us of the physical proximity between the plucked strings of the harpsichord and classical stringed instruments.
The piano recital - A charity concert for the Fonds Joseph Maisin, in favor of cancer research Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
tue26mar19 h 30 minThe piano recital - A charity concert for the Fonds Joseph Maisin, in favor of cancer researchwith pianist Fazil Say19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: Don't miss the chance to hear Fazil measure himself against the incredibly strict demands of Beethoven as he tackles his subito piano runs, the rising crescendos falling back to pianissimo that the master was known for. Pianists are only human, however, striving to seek their own truth while letting their sense of joy shine through in their music. Watching the Turkish virtuoso, a remarkably committed artist for whom every performance seems to be a matter of life and death, is always an intense experience. An ever-productive composer, his work, typified by a real sense of sincerity, always has a profound impact on his audiences. Ticket price: 25€ - Kids under 6: Free
Don’t miss the chance to hear Fazil measure himself against the incredibly strict demands of Beethoven as he tackles his subito piano runs, the rising crescendos falling back to pianissimo that the master was known for. Pianists are only human, however, striving to seek their own truth while letting their sense of joy shine through in their music. Watching the Turkish virtuoso, a remarkably committed artist for whom every performance seems to be a matter of life and death, is always an intense experience. An ever-productive composer, his work, typified by a real sense of sincerity, always has a profound impact on his audiences.
Le Soir d'Hulencourt : The Conference Dinner «L’Empire et les Cinq Rois» Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
thu21mar19 h 00 minLe Soir d'Hulencourt : The Conference Dinner «L’Empire et les Cinq Rois»with Bernard-Henri Lévy19 h 00 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: Dinner, discussion and debate: The earth shook in Kurdistan. Are we witnessing the sun setting on the American empire and the retreat of the West? We now see the five kings of fallen empires - Persian, Ottoman, Chinese, Russian, Arabic - seeking to reclaim their former glory. How Trump is in the process of burying, not the America of Obama, but the America of Virgil. What were the Iranians thinking when they renamed what was formerly Persia in 1935, giving it a Nazi name instead? Why the real trap is that of Herodotus, and not that of Thucydides. Forty years after Barbarism with a human face, writer and philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy presents his take on contemporary barbarism. Ticket price: 130€
Dinner, discussion and debate: The earth shook in Kurdistan. Are we witnessing the sun setting on the American empire and the retreat of the West? We now see the five kings of fallen empires – Persian, Ottoman, Chinese, Russian, Arabic – seeking to reclaim their former glory. How Trump is in the process of burying, not the America of Obama, but the America of Virgil. What were the Iranians thinking when they renamed what was formerly Persia in 1935, giving it a Nazi name instead? Why the real trap is that of Herodotus, and not that of Thucydides. Forty years after Barbarism with a human face, writer and philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy presents his take on contemporary barbarism.
Concert for the Positive Planet Foundation Cercle Royal Gaulois 5, Rue de la Loi, 1000 Bruxelles
mon11mar20 h 00 minConcert for the Positive Planet FoundationHULENCOURT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WITH JACQUES ATTALI, STEFAN TARARA AND FILIPPO GORINI20 h 00 min Cercle Royal Gaulois, 5, Rue de la Loi, 1000 BruxellesBio Description: This concert features our Hulencourt Symphony Orchestra, the conductor Jacques Attali, violinist Stefan Tarara and pianist Filippo Gorini. The Foundation was set up to provide assistance to those founding income-generating businesses across 40 countries through the international NGO Positive Planet and the French NGO Positive Planet France. The work of the foundation also includes supporting what is known as the positive economy in any way possible through Positive Economy Advocacy, a group responsible for organising a whole host of internationally-renowned events including the Positive Economy Forum, which has been held in Le Havre and in San Patrignano in Italy. This concert promises to be an unforgettable event, with music by Verdi (Luisa Miller Overture), Sibelius (Violin Concerto OP.47) and Beethoven (Piano Concerto « Empereur »). Ticket price: 40€
This concert features our Hulencourt Symphony Orchestra, the conductor Jacques Attali, violinist Stefan Tarara and pianist Filippo Gorini. The Foundation was set up to provide assistance to those founding income-generating businesses across 40 countries through the international NGO Positive Planet and the French NGO Positive Planet France. The work of the foundation also includes supporting what is known as the positive economy in any way possible through Positive Economy Advocacy, a group responsible for organising a whole host of internationally-renowned events including the Positive Economy Forum, which has been held in Le Havre and in San Patrignano in Italy. This concert promises to be an unforgettable event, with music by Verdi (Luisa Miller Overture), Sibelius (Violin Concerto OP.47) and Beethoven (Piano Concerto « Empereur »).
REVERIE Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
sun17feb11 h 00 minREVERIEwith guitarist Stephanie Jones11 h 00 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: Featuring the music of William Walton, Astor Piazzolla, Giulio Regondi and Francisco Tarrega, played by the young Australian guitarist Stephanie Jones, one of the most promising breakthrough artists of her generation. A devotee of music in general, she began her studies on piano, moving onto the violin, the viola, the saxophone and the flute before finally settling on the classical guitar. Stephanie Jones is currently studying in Germany under the tutelage of Thomas Müller-Pering at the prestigious Franz Liszt University of Music. Ticket price: 25€ - Kids under 6: Free
Featuring the music of William Walton, Astor Piazzolla, Giulio Regondi and Francisco Tarrega, played by the young Australian guitarist Stephanie Jones, one of the most promising breakthrough artists of her generation. A devotee of music in general, she began her studies on piano, moving onto the violin, the viola, the saxophone and the flute before finally settling on the classical guitar. Stephanie Jones is currently studying in Germany under the tutelage of Thomas Müller-Pering at the prestigious Franz Liszt University of Music.
The Legendary Janoska Style Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
sat09feb19 h 30 minThe Legendary Janoska StyleWITH THE JANOSKA ENSEMBLE19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: Breathing new life into the genre of parlour music and reviving a charming repertoire, the Janoska Ensemble are a traditional group in the Austro-Hungarian sense of the term. Their repertoire has been revamped through a number of new arrangements, some rather jazzy, that the group themselves have been working on. A performance not to be missed.
Ondrej Janoska, violin Roman Janoska, violin František Janoska, piano Julius Darvas, double-bass
Ticket price: 25€ - Seniors: 18€ - Students: 15€ - Kids under 6: Free
Breathing new life into the genre of parlour music and reviving a charming repertoire, the Janoska Ensemble are a traditional group in the Austro-Hungarian sense of the term. Their repertoire has been revamped through a number of new arrangements, some rather jazzy, that the group themselves have been working on. A performance not to be missed.
Ondrej Janoska, violin
Roman Janoska, violin
František Janoska, piano
Julius Darvas, double-bass
Le Soir d'Hulencourt : The Conference Dinner «Leçons du pouvoir» Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
thu31jan19 h 00 minLe Soir d'Hulencourt : The Conference Dinner «Leçons du pouvoir»with Francois Hollande19 h 00 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: Dinner, discussion and debate: in the form of a list of lessons (being president, making decisions, travelling, coping with pressure, etc.), François Hollande gives his account of what it’s like being in power, both in France and internationally. The former President of France looks back on his time in power, discussing the difficulties the country went through as well as the major global and European challenges of the period through its main players: Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama. Ticket price: 150€
Dinner, discussion and debate: in the form of a list of lessons (being president, making decisions, travelling, coping with pressure, etc.), François Hollande gives his account of what it’s like being in power, both in France and internationally. The former President of France looks back on his time in power, discussing the difficulties the country went through as well as the major global and European challenges of the period through its main players: Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama.
The Toscanini Project Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
sun20jan19 h 30 minThe Toscanini Projectwith Francis Huster and Giovanni Bellucci19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: Actor, pianist, legend. All three of these aspects came together in the life of an individual renowned for his devotion to artistic excellence. Arturo Toscanini, celebrated here on piano by Giovanni Bellucci, is hailed as one of the ten greatest virtuoso performers of all time, exploring the work of Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Schubert and Beethoven to name just a few of the major triumphs from the work of the maestro that was Toscanini. Francis Huster gives a passionate performance as the celebrated conductor. Ticket price: 25€ - Seniors: 18€ - Students: 15€ - Kids under 6: Free
Actor, pianist, legend. All three of these aspects came together in the life of an individual renowned for his devotion to artistic excellence. Arturo Toscanini, celebrated here on piano by Giovanni Bellucci, is hailed as one of the ten greatest virtuoso performers of all time, exploring the work of Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Schubert and Beethoven to name just a few of the major triumphs from the work of the maestro that was Toscanini. Francis Huster gives a passionate performance as the celebrated conductor.
Ad Lucem, beautiful songs of Corsica Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
mon17dec19 h 30 minAd Lucem, beautiful songs of Corsicawith Belem and Barbara Furtuna19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: The language, identity, culture and fortitude of the people of Corsica is encapsulated in Barbara Furtuna, a group who have been promoting all of this over the course of a career spanning more than fifteen years. It is with a new line-up, however, that Barbara Furtuna will be performing at the Ad Lucem concert alongside Belem, a duo made up of Didier Laloy on diatonic accordion and Kathy Adam on cello. These two outgoing, atypical musicians have been performing together for twenty five years, playing a style of music that is both subtle and surprising and where notes and pauses are elegantly blended together with the most complex of rhythms. Ticket price: 25€ - Kids under 6: Free
The language, identity, culture and fortitude of the people of Corsica is encapsulated in Barbara Furtuna, a group who have been promoting all of this over the course of a career spanning more than fifteen years. It is with a new line-up, however, that Barbara Furtuna will be performing at the Ad Lucem concert alongside Belem, a duo made up of Didier Laloy on diatonic accordion and Kathy Adam on cello. These two outgoing, atypical musicians have been performing together for twenty five years, playing a style of music that is both subtle and surprising and where notes and pauses are elegantly blended together with the most complex of rhythms.
Beethoven's Diabelli Variations Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Magritte 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
sun16dec11 h 00 minBeethoven's Diabelli Variationswith pianist Filippo Gorini11 h 00 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Magritte, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: With support coming in particular from Alfred Brendel, with whom he studied, Filippo Gorini made the decision to tackle on one of the most complex pieces within the piano repertoire, the Diabelli Variations. Gorini has been able to perfect this set of variations, having played the music many times, including perhaps most notably at the Beethoven Competition, where he was the unanimous winner. Indeed, it was at The Beethoven House in Bonn where he recorded this first opus, the beginning of an extremely promising recording career. Ticket price: 25€ - Kids under 6: Free
With support coming in particular from Alfred Brendel, with whom he studied, Filippo Gorini made the decision to tackle on one of the most complex pieces within the piano repertoire, the Diabelli Variations. Gorini has been able to perfect this set of variations, having played the music many times, including perhaps most notably at the Beethoven Competition, where he was the unanimous winner. Indeed, it was at The Beethoven House in Bonn where he recorded this first opus, the beginning of an extremely promising recording career.
Tribute to C.Haskil & A.Grumiaux Théâtre Jean Vilar Rue du Sablon 9, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
sun09dec19 h 30 minTribute to C.Haskil & A.Grumiauxwith Palmo Venneri et Marketa Janouskova19 h 30 min Théâtre Jean Vilar, Rue du Sablon 9, 1348 Louvain-la-NeuveBio Description: As a tribute to Clara Haskil and Arthur Grumiaux, Palmo Venneri and Marketa Janouskova will play the full programme from the 1957 Besançon recital. Clara and Arthur were keen to place particular emphasis on the concept of balance, combining this with a sense of grace, humility and freshness. The famous 1957 Besançon recital, which featured music composed by Beethoven and Mozart, provided tangible evidence of the undying elegance of these two masters and the refinement with which they were able to marry intelligence and emotion through their fingers. Ticket price: Free with email booking
As a tribute to Clara Haskil and Arthur Grumiaux, Palmo Venneri and Marketa Janouskova will play the full programme from the 1957 Besançon recital. Clara and Arthur were keen to place particular emphasis on the concept of balance, combining this with a sense of grace, humility and freshness. The famous 1957 Besançon recital, which featured music composed by Beethoven and Mozart, provided tangible evidence of the undying elegance of these two masters and the refinement with which they were able to marry intelligence and emotion through their fingers.
Free with email booking
Two pianos, four hands! Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
fri23nov19 h 30 minTwo pianos, four hands!with Ferhan & Ferzan Önder 19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: Originally from Tokan in Turkey, Ferhan & Ferzan Önder are twin sisters who embody the beauty of the East. Written for two pianos and piano four hands, their programme explores the mystery of the Russian repertoire, transporting their audiences to the world of Igor Stravinsky and the shimmering sounds of The Rite of Spring and across the steppes of Central Asia, before stopping over in the picturesque surroundings of the Turkey of their compatriot Fazil Say, whose work they are known for faithfully reproducing. Concert in collaboration with LICF for diabetes research. Ticket price: 60€ - Kids under 6: Free
Originally from Tokan in Turkey, Ferhan & Ferzan Önder are twin sisters who embody the beauty of the East. Written for two pianos and piano four hands, their programme explores the mystery of the Russian repertoire, transporting their audiences to the world of Igor Stravinsky and the shimmering sounds of The Rite of Spring and across the steppes of Central Asia, before stopping over in the picturesque surroundings of the Turkey of their compatriot Fazil Say, whose work they are known for faithfully reproducing.
Concert in collaboration with LICF for diabetes research.
Schubert's Winterreise Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
tue06nov19 h 30 minSchubert's Winterreisewith tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Julius Drake19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux GenappeBio Description: With a style combining simplicity and versatility, Ian Bostridge, accompanied by the pianist Julius Drake, is sure to delight scholars and connoisseurs of German Romanticism. Written in the form of a historical investigation, this extremely well-researched study will provide specialists with an opportunity to deepen their knowledge while introducing newcomers to Schubert's work to this unique piece. The English translation has already been a resounding success in the United Kingdom. Ticket price: 25€ - Seniors: 18€ - Students: 15€ - Kids under 6: Free
With a style combining simplicity and versatility, Ian Bostridge, accompanied by the pianist Julius Drake, is sure to delight scholars and connoisseurs of German Romanticism. Written in the form of a historical investigation, this extremely well-researched study will provide specialists with an opportunity to deepen their knowledge while introducing newcomers to Schubert’s work to this unique piece. The English translation has already been a resounding success in the United Kingdom.
Masterclass - 1st to 5th of May Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
tue01may14 h 00 mintue19 h 00 minMasterclass - 1st to 5th of MayBeethoven and Chopin with STEPHEN KOVACEVICH14 h 00 min - 19 h 00 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
Anton Pann Ensemble
Since it was established, Anton Pann Ensemble performed in recitals both in concert halls in Bucharest such as the Romanian Athaeneum or the Radio Concert Hall and in cities such as Craiova, Sibiu, Cluj-Napoca, Târgu-Mureș, Brașov, Iași, Constanța, Galați, Pitești, Slobozia, Vaslui, Cugir. The Ensemble gave concerts in important European cities such as Madrid, London, Brussels, Zagreb, Kraków, Wroclaw, Venetia, Bologna, Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara, Athens, Nafplio or Chisinau serving successfully the country and its cultural and traditional values.
The activity of the Anton Pann Ensemble includes participation in concerts and projects such as: numerous concerts in Turkey at the invitation of the Yunnus Imre Institute, the Hacettepe University, the European Commission in Turkey, the Romanian Cultural Institute; organization and participation in the project ”When we were Byzantium”; participation in the project ”Journey of Dimitrie Cantemir” which implied the organization and the performance in three concerts in Ankara and Istanbul; organization and participation in the project ”Tradition and Craftsmanship – Master Class of Traditional Instruments”, organization and participation in the Romanian tour ”Unicorn”.
Attali JACQUES
9 September 2010, Jacques Attali was appointed as a member of the directorate of the Musée d'Orsay. Jacques Attali has a passion for music: he plays the piano (he once played for the association Les Restos du Cœur), and wrote lyrics for Barbara, he is the author of the book Bruits (1977) (English: Noise: The Political Economy of Music), an essay which deals with the economy of music and the importance of music in the evolution of our societies. In 1978, he got to play himself in Pauline et l'ordinateur, directed by Francis Fehr.
Since 2003, he directs the Grenoble University orchestra, open to amateurs, under Patrick Souillot, he performed very different pieces, which ranged from a symphony composed by Benda to Bach's violin concertos, a mass composed by Mozart, Barber's Adagio and Mendelssohn's double concerto for violin, piano and orchestra. In 2012, he conducted the Musiques en scène orchestra, performing the opening of the Barber of Sevilla and co-directed the Lamoureux Orchestra with his friend, the geneticist Daniel Cohen, during the gala of Technion University, in Paris.
Bruffaerts Jean-Michel
Jean-Michel Bruffaerts, Scientific associate of the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels is the Project Coordinator of The Jean Capart Fund. The aim is to promote Belgian Egyptologist Jean Capart’s historical heritage in order to promote the historical and scientific aspects of Egyptology in Belgium. The Fund supports scientific works on the identification, gathering, selection, conservation, inventarisation and digitalization of Jean Capart’s archives as well as their promotion. The Fund works with the Association Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, which headquarters lies at the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels. To mark its launching, the Fund has published a booklet. Discover the work of one of Belgium’s greatest Egyptologist and help protect his heritage!
Ciobanu Petrica Daniel
Daniel Ciobanu first attracted international acclaim in 2017 at the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv where he won both Silver Medal and Audience Prize. He subsequently appeared at Carnegie Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Konzerthaus Berlin, St John’s Smith Square in London, Enescu Festival in Bucharest, and toured in Japan, China, Taiwan, South Africa and Brazil.
“A full and luminous sound, immense pianistic poise, sensibility, an originality without overwhelming ego” (Alain Lompech). Ciobanu’s distinctive musical personality and technical command has led to performances with orchestras such as Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Israel Philharmonic and Israel Camerata, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, George Enescu Philharmonic and Romanian National Radio Orchestra.
Dor Gil
Born 1952 in Israel. Studied classical guitar with the late Menashe Bakish, one of Israel’s foremost masters of guitar. Served in the Israeli Army as a musician in an entertainment unit 1971-1974. Following his military service, Gil continued his studies in the U.S.A concentrating on jazz at Berklee College in Boston and on classical theory and composition at Queens College in NY.
Upon returning to Israel in 1981Gil established himself as a guitarist as well as an arranger/composer performing live jazz and rock and recording with leading artists in Israel. During 1983 & 1984 he taught jazz improvisation and guitar at the “Jerusalem Academy of Music”. In 1985 Gil co-founded the “Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music” in Ramat Hasharon, Israel. In his capacity as “Rimon”s academic director for 5 years, Gil developed and wrote many core curriculum as well as advanced courses. He founded the school’s “computer aided music” program and developed a unique “music notation” application using one of the earliest softwares . During the next five-year period he performed in jazz festivals promoting different original projects in Israel and in Europe. In 1990 Gil started an artistic collaboration with Achinoam Nini , a talented “Rimon” student internationally known today as Noa. Together they have performed on the world’s most prestigious stages. Gil is Noa’ musical and artistic director as well as co-writer arranger, producer and guitarist.
Dovgan Alexandra
Alexandra Dovgan was born in 2007 into a family of musicians and began her piano studies when she was just four and a half. At the age of five, her talent was confirmed when she passed the competitive selection to join the Academic Central Music School of the Moscow State Conservatory, where she currently studies under renowned teacher Mira Marchenko.
Alexandra Dovgan’s performances are characterized by spontaneous depth and awareness, working in tandem with a sound of incredible beauty and precision.
She is a prizewinner at national level as well as at five international competitions, including the Moscow International Vladimir Krainev Piano Competition, the Astana Piano Passion International Young Pianists Competition and the International Television Contest for Young Musicians ‘Nutcracker’.
Duo Serenissima
Based in the Netherlands, Duo Serenissma was founded by award winning Canadian soprano Elisabeth Hetherington and Dutch lutenist David Mackor. Their name was inspired by the musical outpouring of Venice, commonly referred to as La Serenissima, or the most serene.
Since their founding in 2016, Serenissima has been invited to perform in esteemed concert venues around Europe, and have been featured in the Utrecht Early Music Festival, as well as the Concertgebouw as soloists with the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble. In addition to invitations from noted festivals and venues, they have been praised for their “beautiful and intimate settings of Monteverdi” (Het Parool, 2017) and the “…delicate singing and presentation of airs de cour et parodies spirituelles” (El Pais, 2017). Summer 2018, the Duo had the honour of bringing a programme of largely underperformed music written by 17thcentury nuns to the Ravenna Festival, playing in the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Basilica San Vitale.
HULENCOURT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The HULENCOURT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (HSO) is a pioneer initiative in Belgium. It was founded in 2012 by the pianist and conductor Palmo Venneri who remains its musical and artistic director. Since their inaugural concert at the Concertgebouw, Brugge (2012), the HSCO has been praised all over Belgium after performing at many of the major musical venues.
The historical significance of Hulencourt is quite symbolic for us and dates back to the 11th century. It was owned by the Countess of Boulogne and was used by the Count as a head-quarter while conquering England in 1066 fighting alongside William of Normandy. Nowadays Hulencourt, only a few miles south of Brussels, holds a very different type of head-quarters for a new emotional conquest and therefore the soloist members of the HSO are young international prizewinners brought to Hulencourt from all over Europe. The 73 core members of the HSO come from 23 different European countries and are captained by a German Concertmeister, the violin virtuoso Stefan Tarara.
Janoska Ensemble
Musical passion. That nicely sums up the spirit of the “Janoska Style”, with which the Janoska Ensemble has shot to international fame in no time – and certainly not just because of the consummate mastery of its instruments. At each performance the four artists dazzle their audience with their music and their vast reserves of creative energy. They see it as a personal challenge to fulfil, no to surpass, the high hopes of their fans.
True art knows no frontiers, and the music of the three brothers from Bratislava Ondrej, František and Roman Janoska and their Konstanz-born brother-in-law Julius Darvas proves that in remarkable fashion: their musical creations happily harmonize or colourfully contrast their classical fach with the music of other genres – from jazz and Latin to pop music. The consequence is not a mix of styles, however, it is a creative synthesis: the Janoska Style.
Kadri Ilham
Ilham Kadri has been appointed CEO of the Solvay Group, Chairman of the Executive Committee, member of the Board of Directors, by Solvay’s Board of Directors, with effect from March 1st, 2019. Dr. Kadri is a world citizen with Moroccan-French roots and professional experience across four continents. During her 22-year career, she has held diverse positions at top multinationals including Shell-Basell, UCB-Cytec, Huntsman, Rohm Haas-Dow Chemical and Sealed Air. Prior to her arrival at Solvay, Ilham Kadri was President and Chief Executive Officer of Diversey, a global leader in hygiene, cleaning solutions, food safety and infection prevention. Dr. Kadri is also board member at A.O. Smith, a U.S.-based leading global manufacturer and supplier of water heating equipment.
Kniazev Alexander
Born in 1961 in Moscow, Alexander Kniazev made his debut in 1978 in Russia, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Austria, USA, Japan, Korea, South America and South Africa.
He has performed as a soloist under Evgeny Svetlanov, Mstislav Rostropovitch, Kurt Masur, Yuri Temirkanov, Yuri Bashmet, Vladimir Fedosseyev, Neeme Järvi, Alexander Vedernikov, Hans Jörg Albrecht, Vassily Petrenko, Andris Poga, Maxime Chostakovich, Mikhail Pletnev, Charles Dutoit, Kazuki Yamada, Stéphane Denève, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Vladimir Jurovsky, Alexander Sladkovsky, Kazuki Yamada et Lawrence Foster; with the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Helsinki Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, Radio France Philharmonic, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Monte-Carlo Philharmonic, Marseille Philharmonic, Göteborg Symphonic Orchestra, Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck, Ensemble Kanazawa, Yokohama Sinfonietta, Den Haag Residentie Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and NHK Symphony Orchestra…
Makhtin Dmitri
Born in St Petersburg in 1975, Dmitri Makhtin started his musical education at the age of four with his parents, both professional violinists, and joined the Music School for gifted children in 1981. In 1989, he won the first prize at the Russian violonists competition. In 1990, he obtained a scholarship from the Young Musicians Foundation and of the Idyllwild Arts Academy (California), and then studied with P. Hirshhorn and H. Krebbers.
He is also the laureate of international competitions such as the Kloster Schontal, Niccolò Paganini, Louis Spohr, Tibor Varga, Montréal, Sibelius and Praetoria Competitions.
Dmitri Makhtin made his debut in 1997 in Paris with the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation, under the baton of Yevgeny Svetlanov, and in 1998 in the United States with the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin.
Mangova Plamena
Plamena Mangova won the second prize in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2007 and embarked on an international career. She made her studies with Marina Kapatsinskaya at the Pancho Vladigerov Sofia State Music Academy in Bulgaria, and then at the Queen Sofia Higher Music School, Madrid with the eminent teacher Dmitri Bashkirov and Claudio Martinez Mehner. She also worked with Abdel-Rahman El Bacha at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium and received the advice of renowned musicians such as Leon Fleisher, Rosalyn Tureck, Krystian Zimerman and Andras Schiff. She is a Laureate of various prestigious international piano and chamber music competitions, including “Paloma O’Shea” in Santander and “Vittorio Gui” in Florence, as well as the Juventus Festival in France.
Achinoam Nini (known also as NOA), Israeli born of Yemenite origin, raised in the US, resides in Israel with her husband and 3 children. She is Israel’s leading international singer/songwriter, having shared the stage with superstars such as Sting, Pat Metheny, Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, Andrea Bocelli and many more, and is Israel’s first Good Will Ambassador for FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. She has also been named Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by President Sergio Mattarella of Italy. Among her many accolades is the Crystal Award of the World Economic Forum, where she was also chosen a Global Leader of Tomorrow.
Together with her longstanding collaborator Gil Dor, she has released over 15 albums which have sold millions the world over. Noa was the first Jew to perform in the Vatican 20 years ago and has done so many times since, for three Popes. She and Gil Dor were the only artists chosen to perform in the culmination event of World Youth Day in Krakow, before Pope Francis and an audience of 2 million people.
Noa wrote lyrics to and recorded the hugely successful theme song for the Academy Award winning film “La Vita e Bella” and the award winning Luc Besson film “Jeanne d’Arc”.
Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium
Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium, Lady Moncada (Marie-Esméralda Adelaide Lilian Anne Léopoldine; born 30 September 1956) is a member of the Belgian Royal Family and the aunt of King Philippe of Belgium. Princess Marie-Esméralda is a journalist, author and documentary-maker. She is also an environmental activist and a campaigner for women’s rights and indigenous people’s rights. Princess Marie-Esméralda is the youngest child of the late Leopold III of Belgium and his second wife, Lilian Baels, Princess of Réthy. Her full siblings are the late Prince Alexandre of Belgium and Princess Marie-Christine of Belgium. Her half-siblings include the late King Baudouin of Belgium, former King Albert II of Belgium (who is also Marie-Esmeralda's godfather), and the late Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg.
Princess Marie-Esméralda is a journalist and author, writing under the name Esmeralda de Réthy. After studying law at the Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles, she graduated in journalism at Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve and then moved to Paris to pursue her career, working as free lance for international magazines.
Sarkozy Nicolas
Nicolas Sarkozy was born on 28 January 1955 in Paris (17th arrondissement). He is married with three children. Formerly a lawyer at the Paris bar, he became Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1983, a position he held until 2002. Elected as a National Assembly deputy in 1988, he has held various government posts: Minister for the Budget (1993-1995), Minister for Communication (1994-1995) and Government Spokesman (1993-1995).
On 7 May 2002, he was appointed Minister of the Interior, Internal Security and Local Freedoms in the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who became Prime Minister after Jacques Chirac’s re-election.
On 1 April 2004, he was appointed Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry in Jean-Pierre Raffarin’s government. He was elected Chairman of the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP) on 28 November 2004. He had also been elected Chairman of the Hauts-de-Seine General Council.
On 2 June 2005, he was appointed Ministre d’Etat, Minister of the Interior and Town and Country Planning. He officially took office as President of the Republic on 16 May 2007, following his election on 6 May with 53.06% of the votes.
Serrano Antonio
Antonio Serrano was born in Madrid in 1974. Up until age 7 he studied the harmonica (his main instrument) with his father, after which he went on to study with the great Larry Adler. Serrano’s technique on the chromatic harmonica developed quickly, and he soon found himself equipped with the skills to play a plethora of music styles, from classical music to jazz, blues, tango and flamenco.
Antonio first received international attention at the age of 13 when he performed in Paris in a duo with mentor Larry Adler. This concert marked the beginning of a long-standing relationship between the two harmonica players, one that would greatly enhance Antonio’s already promising professional career. The teacher and his pupil performed together on many occasions and in 1992, when Antonio was just 18, he performed in the Malcolm Arnold Harmonica Concerto, which was written specifically for the great master, Larry Adler.
Trichet Jean‐Claude
Jean‐Claude Trichet is chairperson of the Board of Directors of Bruegel. He is chairman of the Group of Thirty (Washington), European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission and President of SOGEPA (Société de Gestion des Participations aéronautiques) (Paris). He is a member of the « Institut de France » (Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques). Born in Lyon, Jean‐Claude Trichet is an honorary Inspecteur général des Finances and Ingénieur civil des Mines.He is a graduate of the Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Nancy, of the Institut d’études politiques de Paris, of the Université de Paris (in economics) and of the Ecole nationale d’administration. He worked in the competitive sector from 1966 to 1968. He was appointed to the Inspection générale des Finances in 1971.
He was assigned to various posts at the Ministry of Finance in the General Inspectorate of Finance and later in the Treasury Department, where in 1976 he became Secretary General of the Interministerial Committee for Improving Industrial Structures (CIASI). Jean‐Claude Trichet was made an adviser to the cabinet of the Minister of Economic Affairs in 1978, and then an adviser to the President of the Republic in the same year. In this capacity, he worked on issues relating to energy, industry, research and microeconomics from 1978 to 1981.
TRIO Devaere, Malfeyt & Mañalich
Hannelore Devaere studied historical harp at the Akademie für alte Musik, Bremen, with Andrew Lawrence-King. Her main focus is on music of Spain and Italy from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. As a soloist she can be heard in many recordings and is often featured on national radio. As a continuo player, she records regularly with many national and international ensembles, including Zefiro Torna, Romanesque, Elyma and Al Ayre Espanol. Hannelore is also a musicologist specialized in 16th- and 17th-century iconography and organology; as such, she has worked for the Museum of Musical Instruments in Brussels. She is a very active lecturer at symposia and music festivals, and is a published scholar. Hannelore was the first harpist on record to perform on the ice cap in the Antarctica and has a landing spot under her own name. Francisco Mañalich: tenor and gambist, born in Chile. After a successful training in his native country, he came to Paris where he specialized as a singer and gambist in music from the Renaissance period. Philippe Malfeyt: lute player and baroque guitarist. In 1983 he obtained the executive lute degree at The Royal College of Music in London. He has since been a sought-after soloist in the Netherlands and abroad.
Tsujii Nobuyuki
Described by The Observer as the “definition of virtuosity” Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii (Nobu), who has been blind from birth, won the joint Gold Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009 and has gone on to earn an international reputation for the passion and excitement he brings to his live performances.
In concert, Nobu has appeared with leading orchestras worldwide including the Mariinsky Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Tokyo Symphony and Japan Philharmonic, Seattle and Baltimore symphony orchestras, Münchner Philharmoniker, Filarmonica della Scala and Sinfonieorchester Basel under the baton of conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vladimir Spivakov, Juanjo Mena and Vassily Petrenko.
Venneri Palmo
Palmo Venneri has an exciting and multifaceted international career. He is widely praised through his chamber music recitals and conducting concertos with orchestra. He has wonderfully poetic touch, depth of musical insight and charismatic personality.
When he was only five years old, Palmo Venneri began to play piano with Laura Palmieri in Verona, pupil of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. At the age of fifteen years he won the First grand prize in the famous Italian piano competition “Muzio Clementi Kaway” giving many concerts in Italy.
Palmo Venneri was born in Verona (Italy) and grew up in Brussels, where he still lives. In 1990, he received a full scholarship to study in the Rotterdam Conservatorium
where he continued his studies with Jan Davidson and with Sergio Perticaroli in the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome.
The Hulencourt Music Academy is a piano course guided by concert and famous pianists. During 7 months, Maestros of the Academy will work intensively with every pianist improving their practicing methods, interpretation, performance skills and technique.
The Artistic Committee of the Hulencourt Music Academy will select 10 pianists. Each pianist will be offered, free of charge, four masterclasses per year with our Maestros and will participate in our concerts.
The masterclasses are open to:
• Pianists who audition for entry exams in a higher education institute
• Young professionals’ pianists who would like to improve their technique and interpretation skills
• Pianists who are currently studying in a higher educational institute and are interested in performing their repertoire in a masterclass setting
• Pianists preparing for national and international competitions
• Professional concert pianists who would like to participate in a masterclass setting.
Age limit, travel and accommodation
There is no age limit, but it is expected that the students will be on a professional track and will be able to participate in a masterclass setup, in front of an audience and should be able to perform in the public concert.
Each student is responsible for their own accommodation and travel. If you need our assistance, the organization would be happy to help you find a place in Brussels or Waterloo in a hotel or in a private home.
Stephen Kovacevich is one of the most searching interpreters, never afraid to take both technical and musical risks in order to achieve maximum expressive impact. As a pianist he has won unsurpassed admiration for his playing, appearing with many of the world’s finest orchestras and conductors including Hans Graf, Simon Rattle, and Yannick Nezet-Seguin. Stephen is also a committed chamber musician. His Onyx recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variation won him the 2009 Classic FM Gramophone Editor’s Choice Award and the ‘Top Choice’ by Gramophone Magazine in September 2015.
Internationally renowned as a soloist and concertist for performing works from the classical and romantic repertoires, Stephen Kovacevich dedicates himself to Beethoven in this masterclass.
When still a teenager, the American Stephen Kovacevich made his first public appearances with the San Francisco Symphony. But it was only in 1961 that his career really started, when he gave a recital at the Wigmore Hall in London in a program bringing Berg, Bach and Beethoven together. He was so successful that night that he was immediately shot to the top. Then he pursued a career as a soloist and chamber musician, accompanied by Major names such as Jacqueline du Pré or Martha Argerich. Since 1984, he has brilliantly been carrying out conductor activities, conducting for instance the Chamber Orchestra of Europe or the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
In 2003, he recorded the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas, earning the distinction ``Choc`` from the French leading magazine Le Monde de la musique, and also a ``Diapason d’or.`` This time, he has devoted himself to Beethoven’s second of the five piano concertos. In fact, this Piano Concerto No. 2 has been composed before the first one by Beethoven who was 25 years old at that time. This piece, full of subtlety and slow movements, ends on the high notes with robust themes, which reminds us of Mozart’s great classicism.
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The aim of the orchestra is to offer young professional musicians a unique experience, with the chance to play in magnificent venues and to participate in an intense experience and full immersion of classical and contemporary music.
The orchestra’s repertoire spans wide, but the core repertoire mostly comprises the main symphonic works from the classical and early Romantic periods. Its flexible structure allows the HSCO to perform a broad range of styles and all kind of formats, as from chamber music compositions to large monumental symphonies, from baroque to contemporary music, including several world premieres of works by: Misha Mullov-Abbado, Ohad Ben Ari, Guy Braunstein and Jacques Alphonse De Zeegant, composer in residence HSO.
Furthermore, significant artistic partners include the conductors Thomas Zehetmair, Sachio Fujioka, Niklas Willen, Benjamin Ellin and soloists as Boris Berezovsky, Stefan Tarara, Nelson Freire, Ainhoa Arteta, Alicia Nafé, Andrea Bacchetti, Jan Lisiecki, Nelson Goerner, Ruben Simeo, Richard Galliano, Augustin Dumay, Valery Afanassiev, Guy Braunstein, Evelyn Berezovsky, Gilad Karni, Ramon Ortega Quero, and Michael Barenboim.
Palmo Venneri
From 2000 to 2009 he studied at the École Normale Supérieure Alfred Cortot in Paris with Professor Germaine Mounier and he received three prizes, the Diplôme Supérieur d’enseignement, the Superieur and the Concertiste followed by a Special Alfred Cortot Prize given by president of the school and jury, the composer Pierre Petit.
Passionate about orchestra conducting and composition, he followed the teachings of Ilya Mashkevich.
Jacques Alphonse De Zeegant
Composer in residence of the Hulencourt Soloists Chamber Orchestra, Maestro Jacques Alphonse De Zeegant completed his studies at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles. Attending piano classes, he was a pupil of André Dumortier and Valéry Afanassiev. In the 1980s he stayed in Africa in the service of humanitarian work.
Upon his return, he completed his training with the composers Jacqueline Fontyn, who taught him orchestration, and Philippe Boesmans, who gave him compositional advice. His music does not create a new style but leaves room for freedom of interpretation and creates a kind of synthesis of changes occurring from classical times to this day. De Zeegant has composed numerous works, including duets for violin and piano (recordings: Laurent-Albrecht Breuninger and Johan Schmidt, prize-winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition; Stefan
Tarara and Lora Vakova), a piano trio performed by Trio Giocoso, a quartet (Hermès Quartet, 2015), a quintet (to Marguerite de Werszowiec Rey’s story Larmes de Perle), a few works for soloists (performance planned for 2018), songs for soprano and orchestra (singer: Ana-Camelia Stefanescu, a prize-winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition), two concertos: for piano and orchestra and for violin and orchestra (Piano Concerto No. 1, pianist Johan Schmidt; Violin Concerto No. 1, violinist Laurent-Albrecht Breuninger) – both recorded for Le Chant de Linos.
Further performances of the concertos are planned for 2016 (pianist Sergei Kasprov and violinist Augustin Dumay). The Concerto for Flute and Orchestra was recorded by Sibel Pensel and the Hulencourt Soloists Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Ellin (the effect of the Maxence Larrieu Competition). The year 2014 marked the world premiere, in Laon, of the composer’s Chemin des Dames Symphony based on a poem by Marguerite de Werszowec Rey (Hulencourt Soloists Chamber Orchestra, mezzo-soprano Kinga Borowska, conductor Benjamin Ellin); a year earlier, the oratorio Le Mystère de Salut (Choeur du Sablon, Bucharest Symphony Orchestra, conductor Benoît Fromanger) was performed at the Abbey of La Cambre, as was a revival of Visioni (for soloist, harp and choir). Many performers would like to have De Zeegant’s music in their repertoire and therefore commission him to compose pieces specially for them.
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mon08may19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony OrchestraHulencourt Symphony Orchestra, Musical Director: Palmo Venneri, Pianist: Jan Lisiecki 19 h 30 min Cercle Royal Gaulois, 5, Rue de la Loi, 1000 Bruxelles
Hulencourt Symphony Orchestra and the European Union Choir
mon03apr19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony Orchestra and the European Union ChoirHulencourt Symphony Orchestra and the European Union Choir, Musical Director: Palmo Venneri, Accordionist: Richard Galliano19 h 30 min Serate Musicali - Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milano (Italy)
fri18mar19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony OrchestraHulencourt Symphony Orchestra, Invited Musical Director: Sachio Fujioka, Pianist: Valery Afanassiev, Violinist: Augustin Dumay19 h 30 min Flagey Studio 4 in Brussels, Belgium
Hulencourt Soloists Ensemble Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
sat06feb19 h 30 minHulencourt Soloists EnsembleHulencourt Soloists Ensemble, Violinist: Augustin Dumay, Actress: Caroline Veyt19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
Hulencourt Symphony Orchestra and Polish National Choir
wed11nov19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony Orchestra and Polish National ChoirInvited Musical Director: Niklas Willen, Violinist: Stefan Tarara, Mezzosoprano: Alicia Nafé Soprano: Olga Pasichnyk19 h 30 min Theatr Wielki in Warsaw (Poland)
thu08oct19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony Orchestra and the European Union ChoirInvited Musical Director: Benjamin Ellin, Violinist: Augustin Dumay, Mezzosoprano: Alicia Nafé19 h 30 min Saint Michael and Saint Gudula Cathedral in Brussels (Belgium)
mon30mar19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony OrchestraInvited Musical Director: Thomas Zehetmair, Pianist: Nelson Goerner19 h 30 min Brussels Royal Conservatory (Belgium)
mon09feb19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony OrchestraInvited Musical Director: Benjamin Ellin, Flutist: Sibel Pensel19 h 30 min Flagey Studio 4 in Brussels, Belgium
sat31jan19 h 30 minHulencourt Soloists EnsembleInvited Musical Director: Cyril Englebert, Pianists: Pedro Burmester19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
wed12nov19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony OrchestraInvited Musical Director: Niklas Willen, Pianists: Nelson Freire19 h 30 min Flagey Studio 4 in Brussels, Belgium
sat30aug19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony Orchestra and the European Union ChoirInvited Musical Director: Benjamin Ellin, Mezzosoprano: Kinga Borowska19 h 30 min Notre Dame Cathedral in Laon (France)
mon19may19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony OrchestraPrincipal Director: Guy Braunstein, Violinist: Michael Barenboim19 h 30 min Brussels Royal Conservatory (Belgium)
mon03mar19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony OrchestraPrincipal Director: Guy Braunstein, Violinist: Stefan Tarara, Pianists: Ohad Ben Ari19 h 30 min Brussels Royal Conservatory (Belgium)
Hulencourt Symphony Orchestra Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
sun26jan19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony OrchestraPrincipal Director: Guy Braunstein, Oboist: Ramon Ortega Quero, Violist: Gilad Karni19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
Hulencourt Soloists Ensemble and Guy Braunstein & Friends
sun22dec19 h 30 minHulencourt Soloists Ensemble and Guy Braunstein & Friends19 h 30 min Salle Ambassador in Amigo Hotel (Belgium)
Hulencourt Soloists Ensemble, Palmo Venneri & Ruben Simeo
sun15dec19 h 30 minHulencourt Soloists Ensemble, Palmo Venneri & Ruben Simeo19 h 30 min Salle Ambassador in Thon Hotel EU (Belgium)
mon02dec19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony OrchestraPrincipal Director: Guy Braunstein, Flutist: Gili Schwarzman19 h 30 min Cercle Royal Gaulois, 5, Rue de la Loi, 1000 Bruxelles
sun06oct19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony OrchestraPrincipal Director and violinist: Guy Braunstein19 h 30 min Flagey Studio 4 in Brussels, Belgium
mon27may19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony OrchestraPrincipal Director and Accordionist: Richard Galliano19 h 30 min Cercle Royal Gaulois, 5, Rue de la Loi, 1000 Bruxelles
fri05apr19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony OrchestraInvited Musical Director: Benjamin Ellin, Pianists: Boris Berezowskiu & Evelyne Berezowski19 h 30 min Cercle Royal Gaulois, 5, Rue de la Loi, 1000 Bruxelles
Hulencourt String Soloist Ensembles Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
sun17mar19 h 30 minHulencourt String Soloist Ensembles19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
Hulencourt Winds Soloist Ensembles Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
sat23feb19 h 30 minHulencourt Winds Soloist Ensembles19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
tue18dec19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony OrchestraInvited Musical Director: Silvia Massarelli, Trumpetist: Ruben Simeo, Violinist: Stefan Tarara19 h 30 min Church Notre Dame in Brussels (Belgium)
wed14nov19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony OrchestraInvited Musical Director: Giuseppe Montesano, Violinist: Stefan Tarara, Pianist: Evelyne Berezowski19 h 30 min Golf Club d'Hulencourt - Salle Bruegel, 15, Bruyère d’Hulencourt, 1472 Vieux Genappe
wed03oct19 h 30 minHulencourt Symphony OrchestraInvited Musical Director and violinist: Guy Braunstein, Pianist: Ohad Ben Ari19 h 30 min Cercle Royal Gaulois, 5, Rue de la Loi, 1000 Bruxelles
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The card allows you to attend to all our events (concerts, readings, exhibitions, gastronomic events, dinner conferences and debates, masterclass, music and theatre concerts) scheduled between November 2018 and June 2019 in all our halls, giving the possibility to be placed in the 1st rows according to the date of the reservation, enjoy all our cocktails, borrow your card to the person of your choice if you are not available for one event, get our program / brochure of the Festival, receive our new magazine taking advantage of all exclusive benefits for our partners and invite a friend to join our Dinners debates organized in Hulencourt (05/12/2019 Jean Claude Trichet, 06/02/2020 Ilham Kadri, 12/03/2020 with Mr. Bruffaerts and The Princess Esmeralda of Belgium, 02/04/2020 with Nicolas Sarkozy).
The card allows you to attend to all our concerts, readings, exhibitions, gastronomic, music and theatre events scheduled between November 2019 and June 2020 in all our halls, enjoy all our cocktails and borrow your card to the person of your choice in case you cannot attend to one event and get our Festival program / brochure. A 50% discount will be applied when you reserve to participate to the Dinner debates we organise in Hulencourt (05/12/2019 Jean Claude Trichet, 06/02/2020 Ilham Kadri, 12/03/2020 with Mr. Bruffaerts and The Princess Esmeralda of Belgium, 02/04/2020 with Nicolas Sarkozy).
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Wawa Magazine
Fonds Jean Capart
Europalia Arts Festival Romania
Hôtel Métropole
Ville de Genappe
The Positive Planet Foundation
08/11/2019 at 7:30 pm Brueghel Hall in Hulencourt
“Tootstology - Tribute to a jazz harmonica genius, Toots Thielemans” with the Antonio Serrano Quartet
10/11/2019 at 11:00 am in Salle Magritte in Hulencourt
“The darling of the public plays enchanting piano melodies” with Petrica Daniel Ciobanu.
29/11/2019 at 7:30 pm in Salle Brueghel. in Hulencourt
“Letters to Bach” with Noa and Gil Dor
05/12/2019 at 7:30 pm in Brueghel Hall in Hulencourt
Dinner-debate “Old, new and formidable challenges for the Central Banks of today” with Jean Claude Trichet
“A modern take on the sounds of ancestral Romania - Dimitrie Cantemir” with the Anton Pann Ensemble
18/12/2019 Cultural Escapade at the Louis Vuitton Foundation of Paris
12th ceremony of the Positive Planet Awards & Concert with Jacques Attali, Palmo Venneri, Nemanja Radulović and the Hulencourt Symphony Orchestra.
26/01/2020 at 3:00 pm and 4:45 pm at the Maison Stradivari d’Hulencourt
Two concert performances of “From the altar to the stage” with the Duo Serenissima
06/02/2020 at 7:00 pm at Brueghel Hall in Hulencourt
Dinner-debate “How to mobilize the employees of Solvay to boost its growth potential?” with Ms. Ilham Kadri, President and CEO of Solvay SA
09/02/2020 at 3:00 pm at 4:45 pm at Maison Stradivari d’Hulencourt
Two concert performances of “Tonos Humanos” with the Devaere, Mañalich et Malfeyt Trio
15/02/2020 at 7:30 at Salle Brueghel
“To the memory of a grand artist” with the Mangova, Makhtin et Kniazev Trio
12/03 /2020 at Brueghel Hall in Hulencourt
Dinner-debate “The Queen, the Egyptologist and the Pharaoh” with Jean-Michel Bruffaerts and Princess Esméralda of Belgium.
“Revolution” Janoska Ensemble
Dinner-debate “Passions” with Nicolas Sarkozy
19/05/2020 at 8:00 pm at Cultural Escapade in Brussels at Studio 4 de Flagey
“Prodigies, the grand concert” with Alexandra Dovgan, Alexandre Knienez & Hulencourt Symphony Orchestra
25/06 /2020 at 3:00 pm in the outdoor courtyard in front of the splendid Hulencourt greenhouse
Open Air Green Garden Concert “Tribute to Ludwig” with pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii
Clara Haskil, prelude and fugue
INAUGURATION OF THE MAGRITTE HALL
HULENCOURT FESTIVAL WITH POLTRONA FRAU SUPPORTS THE NEW FARM CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF FAVARA, SICILY.
Ivan Bessonov from Russia wins Eurovision Young Musicians 2018
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Blüthner release new Dynasty edition
Rated as one of Belgium’s finest golf courses and located just 20 minutes south of Brussels, Hulencourt Golf Club offers the discerning golfer an ideal challenge. Built on historic grounds that date back to 930 AD, the club prides itself on maintaining the highest level of golfing tradition, fulfilling the vision of the club’s President and Owner, Mr Patrick Solvay.
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Hulencourt boasts two courses, “Le Vallon” and “Le Verger”.
LE VALLON
“Le Vallon” is our Championship course and widely acclaimed as being one of the best conditioned courses in Belgium. Designed by French architect Jean-Manuel Rossi, this challenging “inland links”” course has established itself as a fair but tough test for golfers of all levels. Reputed for its excellent year-round conditioning, with summer greens always in play, “Le Vallon” is a real joy to play.
“Le Verger” is our 9-hole course that suits beginners and younger players. Whilst only a 9-hole course, the layout is technically testing and as with “Le Vallon”, is always in good condition. Whether you are just learning the game, or you are an established player interested to fine tune your short game, “Le Verger” offers as good a challenge as any 9-hole course in Belgium.
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As a member of the Academy, you are coached and guided by the team of Jérôme Theunis, head pro at Golf d’Hulencourt since 2013 and coach of the best players from Belgium, including Nicolas Colsaerts, Thomas Pieters and Thomas Detry.
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Burt: PLP reduced taxes, cut spending and reduced deficit spending
Don Burgess, Deputy Editor
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17: The Progressive Labour Party claimed credit in its aims of reducing taxes, cutting spending, and reducing deficit spending.
David Burt, Shadow Minister of Finance, said in a press release the figure released by the OBA Government show that government’s finances for the last fiscal year were $39 million dollars better than the previous figures released by government.
Mr Burt said: “In February 2012, the Ministry of Finance projected that the budget deficit for the last fiscal year (2011/12) would be $268 million. However, today’s figures showed that the deficit came in at $229 million which is $39 million less than projected.
“The figures also show that the PLP government reduced total government spending by $102 million in fiscal year 2001/12 when compared to the previous year.
“The $229 million deficit is smaller than the deficit in the previous year even though revenues fell by $83 Million which was party a result of payroll tax reductions and special concessions to retailers.
“The figures also project that the current fiscal year deficit is expected to be $198 Million.
“This would represent two consecutive years of deficit reduction by the PLP Government.
“The PLP is hopeful that the OBA Government will continue the PLPs work to reduce the budget deficit, and looks forward to the Budget debate next month.”
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PLP elects new officers
Bob & Burt's battle over debt burden
Will private sector 'share the sacrifice'? - BPSU's Grant
PLP to OBA: "Stop inventing numbers"
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Burt Brothers Tire & Services
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What causes most regret?
We feel regret both for chances we missed in the past and opportunities our decisions today will cost us in future, but which do people regret most?
Luisa Papé & Luis F. Martinez 19 Oct 2017
We all have to make them – small or big decisions about education, career, romance or even leisure time, and it is sometimes surprising what a strong emotional experience it can be.
Regret is, in fact, one of the most frequently experienced emotions in human emotional life. Even though it can be a very unpleasant experience, it also drives us to learn from our mistakes and improve the quality of our future decisions. It is also one of the possible reasons why there has been an increased interest in past research.
But what causes more regret? The chances you missed in the past or the things that will have a negative impact in the future because of decisions that you make in the present? The authors Shani, Danziger, and Zeelenberg tried to answer exactly this question and made a direct comparison between regret that is caused by a missed opportunity in the past and regret that is related to a future missed opportunity. They demonstrated that possible future regret could influence people’s decision making more than regret caused by a past miss. We tried to shed further light on these findings.
The original experiment gave the participant a scenario where a choice had to be made between two importers that offer the same mug for the same price. One importer offered the mug at a discounted price in the past and the other importer will offer the mug at a discounted price in the future.
According to the suggestions in the further research section of their article, we modified their experiment by changing the joint evaluation into a separate evaluation. The participants had to evaluate the importers twice as they initially only received the information about one discount event, and after the presentation of a second scenario, they had to reevaluate their preferences with the knowledge of the second discount event.
That way, we were able to collect data for each situation separately as well as combinations of situations, with different orders of the missed opportunities. Additionally, we could also evaluate to what extent they changed their mind when introducing the new information.
The results showed that when the situations were separated, people felt more regret for a past miss. This was a surprising outcome for us because we expected to further prove the finding from the original study. Furthermore, they preferred mostly to purchase from the importer connected to the future miss, which also remains in sharp contrast to the findings of the previous study.
Another finding, however, was that introducing the future miss as new information had more influence on changing their mind about their feelings of regret. This in turn strengthens the theory that a future miss has a greater impact.
We think that a better insight into this concept could be important for the corporate sector, should companies for example need to decide how far in advance they can announce a discount. If customers feel too much regret for missing the future discount, they will have negative associations with the product and enjoy the product less.
Even though this remains a complex issue and a question that has not yet been answered in full, we regard contradicting results as a step forward to better understand the psychological mechanisms of past and future regret.
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Luisa Papé completed her Postgraduate Program in Management at the Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, Portugal. Her focuses during her studies were Marketing and Consumer Behavior. She currently lives in Vienna and works as Marketing Manager in the IT Industry.
Luis F. Martinez is Assistant Professor of Marketing at Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a PhD in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Tilburg University and he held a Visiting Scholar Position at MIT Sloan. His research interests include emotion, behavioral decision making, and consumer behavior.
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New guidelines for helicopter rescue on Nepal’s mountains
Rescue flight on Everest
A committee is to get to the bottom of it. Since Friday, new guidelines for helicopter rescue have been in force in Nepal, with which the government wants to prevent insurance fraud with “fake rescue flights” in the future. A “Tourist Search and Rescue Committee” will monitor all rescue operations. The committee includes representatives of the ministries of home and of health as well as of the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA), the Himalayan Rescue Association (HRA), the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) and the tourist police. Helicopter companies, expedition and trekking agencies, hospitals and insurance companies are now obliged to provide all details of rescue flights and medical care as well as insurance invoices in a timely manner so that the committee can review them. In the event of irregularities, the committee is also responsible for punishing the black sheeps in the sector.
No more intermediaries
The government dropped its original plan to place the rescue operations completely in the hands of a police unit in the Ministry of Tourism. Now the expedition and trekking agencies have to take on their responsibility. They are to arrange everything necessary to rescue their clients in case of emergency. Only the patient and a helper or guide will be allowed to be flown by the rescue helicopter. Hospitals are to provide the agency concerned with a cost estimate for the treatment of the client. Intermediaries between insurance companies and tourism agencies are completely banned from the rescue service.
CAAN to cap costs for rescue flights
Return flight by helicopter
After last spring’s climbing season, massive insurance fraud with “fake rescue flights” had been uncovered. Guides are said to have urged climbers and trekking tourists even when they felt unwell to get on a rescue helicopter and be flown back to Kathmandu for treatment. These flights were then invoiced to the insurance companies – often at a completely overpriced rate. A commission of inquiry of the Nepalese Ministry of Tourism named eleven companies from the helicopter and trekking industry as well as four hospitals in Kathmandu that allegedly cheated insurance companies. But this is probably only the tip of the iceberg.
The commission found out that some mountain guides had also mixed baking soda into the food so that their clients got diarrhoea and were flown out by rescue helicopters. In addition, helicopters were packed with allegedly sick climbers and trekking tourists, afterwards the insurance companies should pay for several individual flights instead of one. According to the government more than 1,300 helicopter rescue flights were reported in the first five months of the year alone.
International insurance companies had threatened not to cover any more rescue flights in Nepal unless the government intervened. They demanded to cap the cost: to 4,000 dollars per flight. The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal is now to set a cost ceiling, depending on flight hours, distance and rescue altitude.
Animal with four back legs
But is a committee really the smartest solution to get a grip on the problem? I am skeptical. Committees usually do not tend to work quickly and effectively – or as the British author John le Carré wrote (in his spy novel “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”): “A committee is an animal with four back legs.”
3. September 2018 | 15:36
CAAN, Fake rescue flights, Helicopter rescue, HRA, Insurance fraud, Nepal, Nepalese Government, Nepalese Tourism Ministry, NMA
Bad weather forces the climbers of the winter expeditions on the eight-thousanders K2 and Nanga Parbat in Pakistan and on Manaslu in Nepal to inactivity. The team from Kazakhstan, Russia and Kyrgyzstan led by Vassiliy Pivtsov returned to K2 Base Camp yesterday after the seven climbers, according to their own words, had fixed ropes on the classical Abruzzi route up to an altitude of 6,300 meters.
While the winter expedition teams at the eight-thousanders K2 and Manaslu have only just moved into their base camps, the Italian Daniele Nardi and his three companions on Nanga Parbat are in a more advanced phase.
Several winter expeditions in the Himalayas and Karakoram started in the first days of the year. Two of the three climbers who had succeeded the first winter ascent of Nanga Parbat in 2016 met in Lhukla in Nepal, however now with different goals: The Spaniard Alex Txikon wants to tackle K2 in Pakistan, the last remaining eight-thousander to be climbed for the first time in the cold season, the Italian Simone Moro is drawn to Manaslu again.
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Tag Archives: Duke Football Preview
BDN Football Friday kicks off the 2012 season preview – September 1 vs. FIU
More beer, Blue Devil Nation!
So, how was National Beer Day? Yeah, I bet. If only we could have that every weekend...oh wait, it's Beerfest in Raleigh this weekend. Sweet. It's also time for Football Friday.
Since the Blue Devils managed to go an entire week without a commitment, there's not much new on the recruiting front to talk about. The Spring Evaluation period kicks off this weekend, and with several top prospects coming off the board over the past few weeks, the coaching staff will be out in full force to check in on prospects and extend new scholarship offers. BDN Premium Members will be the first to know about the latest on Duke's recruiting efforts. You see what I just did there?
Spring practice is officially in the books, but the team continues to work to improve on an individual level. The spring semester is winding down and we wish the best to all our departing seniors, and a strong finish to the academic year to all our student-athletes. In just a few short weeks, the newest members of #dukegang will move into campus, and the preparations for the 2012 season will begin in earnest. With that in mind, it's time to kickoff our look at 2012 Duke Football schedule. The scheduling gods didn't do Duke any favors, as the Blue Devils will face one of the toughest schedules in the ACC and the country. It all starts with the home opener against a tough FIU team on September 1st in Durham.
Let's get this season started!
September 1: FIU at Duke
Under Head Coach David Cutcliffe, the Blue Devils are 2-2 in their season openers, pulling out victories against James Madison and Elon, while losing twice to pesky Richmond. This fall, Duke opens their season with a FBS opponent for the first time since a 2007 defeat to Connecticut. In 2011, the Blue Devils traveled to South Florida in week 5 and pulled out a thrilling 31-27 victory against T.Y. Hilton and the Golden Panthers. FIU went on to finish the season 8-5, earning the program's second ever bowl game. For the second offseason in a row, Head Coach Mario Cristobal turned down multiple BCS coaching opportunities to remain at FIU. In 2012, the Golden Panthers remain a program on the rise, despite the losses of Hilton and QB Wes Carroll; with a favorable schedule, they should be expected to compete for another Sun Belt Championship.
Offensively, FIU may not be as explosive as a year ago, but return enough starters to remain a formidable threat to score points. The Golden Panthers return their top rusher in Kedrick Rhodes, and four starters along the offensive line. Two young QBs, sophomore Jake Medlock and redshirt-freshman Laranzo Hammonds, are the frontrunners to take over for Carroll, and Hammonds may even see time in an occasional Wildcat scheme. Moreso than a year ago, the Golden Panthers will look to have a lot of success on the ground, making them an excellent early season test for the Blue Devils' defensive line. Other than Hilton, the Golden Panthers return all of their top receivers, led by senior Wayne Times. A year ago, the Blue Devils allowed 568 total yards to this offense, and if it weren't for a late fumble forced by Jordan DeWalt-Ondijo, may have come home with a loss. This year, the Duke defense will have to be more effective than last season's "bend but not break" effort against a very deep and experienced Golden Panther offense.
Thankfully, T.Y. Hilton will be long gone for the NFL by September, but FIU will be just as tough.
When Duke traveled to FIU a year ago, the Blue Devils' coaches were concerned about the tremendous speed of the Golden Panthers' defense. Sean Renfree and the Duke offense were up to the challenge, putting up 31 points and 384 yards of total offense. Most encouraging, however, was that the Blue Devils finished the game without giving up a sack or a turnover. As they prepare for their 2012 season opener, the Duke coaches will have many of the same fears, as the Golden Panthers return 10 of 11 starters on defense. Overall, FIU's defense was inconsistent in 2011, but did finish the season by holding their final 6 opponents to no more than 20 points. With another year's experience, this defense will be a stout challenge for the new up-tempo Duke offense. In particular, the Blue Devils will have to contain a speedy pass rush led by senior DE Tourek Williams. The secondary is just as formidable, highlighted by senior safety Jonathan Cyprien. In all, the Golden Panthers should have 16 upperclassmen on their defensive 2-deep entering the fall.
This isn't a pretty picture we're painting, here, is it? Much like a year ago, the Blue Devils will have to come out of the gates ready to play if they expect to start the season with a win. A year ago, a less talented but confident Richmond team was able to steal a win in Wallace Wade Stadium. Coming off two straight bowl appearances, the Golden Panthers will be just as confident, and seeking revenge for last season's loss in Miami. Over the past few seasons, we've seen how crucial a good start can be for this improving, but still fragile, Duke program. This season will be no different, and if the Blue Devils have any hope of improving upon their 3-win total of the past two seasons, they will have to play at a high level on September 1. It should be a great atmosphere in Wallace Wade Stadium, filled with the hope and optimism of a new season, and it should also be a highly competitive game on the field. We can't wait for kickoff. WE ARE DUKE.
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BDN previews Duke’s season opener vs. Richmond
September 2, 2011 Patrick Cacchio
2nd and 10 from the Duke 35 yard line
Renfree drops back, completes a pass to senior Austin Kelly across the middle. Kelly tries to elude a tackle but is brought down by Quan Sturdivant at the Duke 41 yard line. The clock hits zero. The Tar Heels celebrate and reclaim the Victory Bell. Duke’s 2010 season is over.
That was the last we saw of Sean Renfree and the Blue Devils, all the way back on November 27, 2010. Over the past nine months, Duke’s coaches and players have shed blood, sweat, and tears in preparation for the 2011 season. The 3-win 2010 season is gone, but not forgotten. It’s week one of the 2011 college football season, and time for Blue Devil fans to recite their familiar credo, “this year has to be better, right?”
Sean Renfree is ready to lead the Blue Devil offense in his second year as a starter
KEYS FOR DUKE
Second-year starter Sean Renfree and the Blue Devil offense have the potential to be one of the ACC’s top units in 2011. In order for that potential to be realized, the Blue Devils must accomplish two things: take care of the football and establish a consistent, effective running game. After struggling with turnovers early in 2010, the Blue Devils showed dramatic improvement in their final five games. Turnovers have continued to be a point of emphasis all offseason. Junior Desmond Scott and sophomore Juwan Thompson will pace the ground game and have had an excellent training camp running behind a big, experienced offensive line. Dave Harding has stepped in flawlessly for the injured Brian Moore at center, and he will have to play at a high level in his first college game action snapping the football. With several question marks on defense, the margin for error for the Duke offense is slim.
Defensively, Duke needs to see big games from their returning stars in senior Matt Daniels, sophomore Kelby Brown, and senior Charlie Hatcher. These three players will be supported by a group of talented but mostly inexperienced Blue Devil defenders, a typical recipe for inconsistency. Similar to the offense, there are two primary goals for the Duke defense in 2011: limit explosive offensive plays and improve their play at the line of scrimmage. Duke has a deep group of high-level athletes in their secondary, and the new 4-2-5 defensive scheme will rely on their ability to make plays all over the field in an effort to slow opposing offenses. In his second year as a starter, Ross Cockrell will have to develop into a shutdown cornerback for the Blue Devils. Seven redshirt-freshmen will enter the rotation on the defensive line for Duke in 2011, and the maturation of these young athletes will be key to the defense’s success. Expect to see flashes of ability from players like Jordan DeWalt-Ondigo, Jamal Wallace, and Dezmond Johnson. If the Blue Devils are able to successfully execute their new defensive gameplan, this group’s results should be greater than the sum of its parts.
If Duke is going to make a bowl game in 2011, their special teams unit will have to be special. The Blue Devils have the talent in the kicking game to dominate special teams at times this season. Will Snyderwine has established himself as one of the top kickers in the country. Alex King is a proven veteran with experience and versatility. Freshman Jamison Crowder is a playmaker at kick and punt return. Improved depth across the roster should lead to better kick and punt return units. The pieces are in place for a solid special teams effort; the players simply have to execute.
GAME ANALYSIS
To put it lightly, Duke was plagued by turnovers in 2010. Duke’s 28 turnovers, however, are eclipsed by Richmond’s 32 turnovers a season ago. Needless to say, the team that takes care of the football stands to have the best chance of winning this matchup. Late in the season, Sean Renfree appeared to turn a corner, throwing just three interceptions in the final five games. Limiting turnovers has been a point of emphasis for the Duke offense all spring and summer, while the Duke defense is hoping to create more turnovers than they did a year ago. If the Blue Devils can build a first half lead, expect the Duke secondary to make some plays when the Spiders are forced to pass. Duke should win the turnover battle.
Duke's young defensive linemen will need to pressure Richmond's Aaron Corp
Richmond plays a physical game of football, and in the last two meetings between these schools, dominated the line of scrimmage. The Duke defense has struggled to pressure opposing quarterbacks. With youth along the defensive line and a pass-happy offense, Duke will rarely win the sack battle. The key will be to limit the loss of yards on offense and to make some timely tackles for loss against the Spiders. The Spiders did graduate their top 3 tacklers from 2010, but still have the players to apply some pressure. Richmond will win the sack battle.
3rd Down Production
Richmond converted just 34% of their 3rd downs in 2010, while the Blue Devils were able to convert 40% of 3rd down opportunities. With a veteran offense returning, Duke should again have success on 3rd downs, utilizing their deep receiving corps to pick up 1st down yardage. The Duke defense has struggled on 3rd down in recent years, but with an improved secondary and a better scheme, they should do a better job of limiting big conversions. Duke will win the 3rd down battle.
Ross Cockrell will have a tough matchup with All-CAA WR Tre Grey, BDN Photo
Explosive Plays
The game features a trio of All-Conference wide receivers, all capable of opening the game up with an explosive play. Tre Gray will be a challenge for the Duke secondary, and his matchup with Duke’s Ross Cockrell will be one to watch. The “Killer V’s” will be up to their usual tricks, but Richmond will have to pick their poison as senior Cooper Helfet and sophomore Brandon Braxton also have big-play ability. On the ground, the Spiders will utilize a committee approach, while Duke will feature a heavy dose of Desmond Scott and Juwan Thompson, two players who have dominated training camp with big plays. Duke has too many weapons on offense; they will win the explosive play battle.
Rushing TDs
Richmond will look to establish their running game early, and if they are able to control the line of scrimmage, it could be another long season opener for the Blue Devils. Duke will be able to counter with a veteran offensive line and three talented runners of their own in Desmond Scott, Juwan Thompson, and Brandon Connette. With a deep offensive line, Duke should be able to run the ball into the end zone when needed. The Duke defense will have their hands full with trying to keep Richmond’s Kendall Gaskins out of the end zone, but Duke has a deeper stable of proven runners. Duke will punch a few in on the ground.
Both teams feature outstanding All-Conference kickers. Duke’s Will Snyderwine has connected on 86.4% of his career field goal opportunities. Richmond’s Will Kamin has hit 90.9% of his career field goal opportunities. This matchup is a push.
Since the arrival of David Cutcliffe in Durham, the Blue Devils have been one of the most disciplined teams in the ACC. In 2010, Duke committed just 55 penalties for an average of 40.6 yards per game. The Spiders were even better, committing just 50 penalties for an average of 35.5 yards per game. That trend should continue under new Head Coach Wayne Lineburg. This matchup is a push.
Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us. Fool us three times, not going to happen. Duke is ready for Richmond. There are sure to be some first-game jitters, but Duke won't get tangled in the Spiders' web. Sean Renfree has emerged as a leader on this Blue Devil team, and he will guide the Duke offense to a big night. The game will be won (or lost) along the line of scrimmage, and Duke’s linemen are bigger and stronger than they were two years ago. Desmond Scott and Juwan Thompson will have big days on the ground. Playing from behind, Richmond will be unable to establish a consistent power running game, forcing Corp to make plays through the air against the deep Duke secondary. The Blue Devils should come away from this game with a lot of positives to build on and a lot to learn from, while Duke fans will leave Wallace Wade Stadium thinking, “this year will be better!”
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BDN previews Duke’s 2011 special teams units
August 8, 2011 Patrick Cacchio
Prior to the arrival of Head Coach David Cutcliffe, Duke fans remember all too well the days of missed field goals (and extra points!!), botched snaps, muffed punts, and missed tackles. Duke’s special teams is now light years ahead of where it was just a few seasons ago, and should continue to improve and become a strength for the 2011 Blue Devils.
All-American Will Snyderwine will anchor Duke's kicking game again in 2011 -Duke Photography
Losses: Nick Maggio
Key returners: Will Snyderwine (R-Sr.), Paul Asack (R-Jr.)
Newcomers: none
2010 Review: Lou Groza semifinalist Will Snyderwine handled the kicking duties for the second straight season in 2010. After taking over for the injured Maggio in 2009, the former walk-on has now hit 38 of 44 (86.4%) field goal attempts in the past two seasons for the Blue Devils, with a career long of 52 yards at Georgia Tech in 2010. Snyderwine converted 32 extra points in 2010, extending his perfect career streak to 56/56. The combined field goal and extra point totals placed second all-time at Duke, with 95 points, and earned him All-American honors by the American Football Coaches Association, making him the first Blue Devil All-American kicker in school history. His value to the Duke team extended beyond field goals and extra points, as he increased his touchback numbers from 2/47 in 2009 to 11/60 in 2010. Charged to work on on-side kicks last offseason by Coach Cutcliffe, Snyderwine delivered, as the Blue Devils were able to recover 4 of 6 on-side kicks in 2010. Overall, the Duke kickoff unit ranked 3rd in the ACC and 18th in the country, allowing just 19.71 yards per return, with opponents average start at the 24 yard line.
2011 Outlook: Snyderwine returns to anchor the kicking game again in 2011, and has already garnered several preseason accolades, including the Lou Groza Award Watch List and several preseason All-American honors. The former walk-on has developed into a potent weapon for the Duke offense and special teams units. Snyderwine appears ready to cap off a historic career at Duke with a big senior season. With increased depth throughout the roster, the kick coverage should continue to improve and become a strength for the Blue Devils. Big plays occasionally haunted the Duke coverage unit, and they did give up one touchdown return on the season against Alabama. The only concern with the Duke kicking game in 2011 might be depth at kicker, where an injury to Snyderwine could significantly weaken the Blue Devils.
Highly-touted freshman punter Will Monday will challenge senior Alex King
Losses: Kevin Jones
Key returners: Alex King (Sr.)
Newcomers: Will Monday (Fr.)
2010 Review: Jones lost the starting job to King after a botched punt against Wake Forest in 2010. King was mostly dependable for the Duke punting game, averaging 41.1 yards per punt, finishing 7th in the ACC. Of 55 punts on the year, King was able to pin opponents within the 20 yards line 21 times, with 6 touchbacks. The Blue Devils’ punters achieved a net of 33.6 yards per punt, which ranked 9th in the conference and 106th in the nation. The punt coverage, however, faired worse, allowing 14.4 yards per return, which ranked last in the conference and 117th in the nation. The Blue Devils were only able to force 7 fair catches on the season and allowed a punt return touchdown against Maryland.
2011 Outlook: Punting appeared to be the biggest weakness among Duke’s special teams unit in 2010, and stands to be an area of significant improvement in 2011. The hope is that with better depth, speed, and athleticism, the punt coverage unit will do a better job of limiting opponent returns. Punting should improve as well, as King now has nearly a full year of starting under his belt, and will be pushed by highly-touted freshman Will Monday. The competition between King and Monday will definitely be one to watch this month.
Josh Snead led the Blue Devils' kick returners in 2010
Kick Return
Losses: none
Key returners: Patrick Kurunuwe (R-Jr.), Desmond Scott (Jr.), Conner Vernon (Jr.), Josh Snead (So.), Juwan Thompson (So.)
Newcomers: TBD
2010 Review: Scott, Snead, and Thompson were the leading return men for the Blue Devils in 2010, and Duke ended the season 4th in the ACC with an average of 20.9 yards per return. As true freshmen, Snead and Thompson ranked 7th and 8th individually with averages of 22.0 and 21.7 yards, respectively. The Duke return game provided the offense with an average starting position of the 27 yard line.
2011 Outlook: Duke has yet to return a kickoff for a touchdown under Coach Cutcliffe. Will 2011 be the year? With the three primary return men all back, Duke seems poised to continue to use kick returns as a strength. Scott, Snead, and Thompson will continue to share carries in the Duke backfield, and will also split the kick return duties. With their combination of size, vision, and speed, it may be difficult for any newcomers to break into the rotation, but the Duke staff has shown a desire to rotate multiple return men in an effort to keep players fresh throughout the season. The kick return job is another key competition to watch during training camp.
Senior Lee Butler is Duke's leading punt returner in 2011
Punt return
Key returners: Lee Butler (Sr.), Johnny Williams (Sr.)
Newcomers: ?Jared Boyd (Fr.), ?Tim Burton (Fr.), ?Jamison Crowder (Fr.)
2010 Review: Butler handled the vast majority of punt return duties in 2010, finishing with a respectable 8.6 yards per return, which ranked 5th in the ACC and 31st in the nation. With a season long of 33 yards, Butler was able to consistently advance the ball, but rarely broke out for big returns. Williams showed some explosiveness as a punt returner in 2009, but due to injuries and a position change, only returned 2 punts in 2010.
2011 Outlook: With both Butler and Williams back, along with a group of speedy youngsters headed by Jamison Crowder, Duke appears ready to develop the punt return game into a significant weapon. There is likely to be significant competition for the starting job, and with some improved blocking, 2011 might be the year that fans see an explosive punt return game from the Blue Devils. Coach Cutcliffe has historically emphasized the kicking game in past training camps, and the punt return unit is likely to see significant reps this August.
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BDN previews Duke Football’s week 7 game with ACC favorite Florida State
Duke will host another top ten opponent in Florida State on October 15
After their week 6 off week, Coach Cutcliffe and the Blue Devils will host yet another top 10 opponent in Wallace Wade Stadium on October 15th, as the Florida State Seminoles travel to Durham. Despite the loss of starting QB Christian Ponder, the Seminoles are the consensus favorite to win the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2011. In Jimbo Fisher's second season in charge in Tallahassee, FSU returns 18 starters from last year's Chick-fil-a Bowl Championship team that finished with a 10-4 overall record. Expectations are high for this fall, and with a win against top-ranked Oklahoma in September, the Seminoles could vault themselves into the national championship picture.
The Seminoles have always been a tough opponent for the Blue Devils, as Duke is 0-16 all-time against Florida State. This year will be no exception; Duke will certainly have their hands full against an experienced and confident FSU team on October 15th.
For Duke’s week 7 match up against FSU, we are fortunate to have the insight of onebarrelrum from Tomahawk Nation.
BDN: In his first year as Head Coach in Tallahassee, Jimbo Fisher led the Seminoles to their first 9-win season since 2003. What were the biggest changes seen on the field and within the program?
Expectations are high for Jimbo Fisher's second season as Head Coach at FSU
We'll start with program changes because that is what dictates and influences what happens on the field. Bobby Bowden's approach to the FSU program was that of CEO of a company much like Mack Brown at Texas. He delegated many responsibilities to other coaches. Fisher, however, is much more hands on with every facet of the program. Sure, his assistant coaches have their own responsibilities, but Fisher doesn't watch practice from a tower. He is on the practice field, managing and coaching, utilizing direct interaction with coaches and players.
Beyond Fisher's approach to coaching, there have been vast improvements in numerous areas including weight training, player tutoring, psychology, and nutrition. An army of support staff was brought on board to help boost all of these areas in an effort to improve the quality of play on the field. Under the waning years of Bowden, these areas had not kept up, or come close to matching other elite programs. Fisher has done an admirable job reorganizing and retooling the program so that it can compete with modern day elite teams.
On the field, the largest changes in x's and o's is most noticeable in the transition from Micky Andrew's man heavy scheme to Stoops' balanced defense that utilizes much more zone. FSU fans would like to all but forget the 2009 defense. It was the worst defense fielded by a Bowden coached team. In 2009 FSU was starting a 225 pound walk-on at defensive end. This year, the first and second string DE position will feature 4 players all over 265 pounds. It was also revealed that the defense was not provided playbooks in 2009. To say the least, Stoops had a lot of issues to address when he stepped on campus.
BDN: Florida State is the consensus top pick in the ACC in 2011, and will almost certainly receive a top-10 preseason ranking. With a win against Oklahoma on September 17th, many expect the Seminoles to vault towards the top of the BCS rankings. What does this team need to do to beat the Sooners, and is FSU ready to return to college football’s elite and compete for a National Championship?
Last year, many 'Nole fans did not expect to win in Norman against the Sooners. They also didn't expect FSU to get absolutely destroyed. It was a learning year for the Florida State defense, and the first exam was against OU. They obviously failed miserably as OU scored on its first five possessions. The FSU offense was in shock and could not come close to offering enough points to help as they dealt with their own struggles. This year, the defense has got to get at least a few stops. The offense has to manage the clock and keep OU's offense off the field and out of rhythm. Last year, the OU no huddle decimated FSU's young, learning defense and that can't happen again if they want a chance to win. The plan should be to shorten the game with long drives and converting on 3rd down (easier said than done, I know). If FSU is successful at limiting OU's offensive snaps, it will have a shot at winning in the 4th.
As for the second part, time will tell. If FSU can keep the game at least close with OU, it will have shown major strides since 2009. While competing for a title is extremely difficult for any team, I think FSU has the structure, players, and coaching staff to once again start competing with and beating the nation's elite.
QB E.J. Manuel has already led the Seminoles to two bowl victories
BDN: While most of the ACC will be breaking in a new quarterback in 2011, Florida State and Duke have to feel pretty good about their QB situation. E.J. Manuel filled in admirably for Christian Ponder over the past two seasons, leading the Seminoles to bowl victories over West Virginia and South Carolina. What do you expect to see from Manuel in his first year as a starter? With three explosive backs and top receiver Bert Reed returning, what questions remain for the FSU offense?
You are right about EJ, fans have been very pleased with his effort filling in when Ponder was injured. EJ is an extremely talented QB with smarts to boot. Though this year FSU fans hope he is even better. He had a mechanics problem in his throwing motion which eventually lead to needing shoulder surgery. The surgery and improved mechanics have helped him with velocity and hopefully accuracy. He is excellent in the option game and keeping his eyes downfield when flushed from the pocket. I look for Fisher to utilize him in the running game quite a bit on designed runs this year to make defenses account for all 11 offensive players. EJ has bulked up to over 240 pounds, hopefully preparing his body for the long season. Outside of his talents EJ is a vocal leader on the team. He also has great chemistry with a lot of the receivers having thrown to some of them for years in practice. Hopefully all those reps will pay off this season.
As of right now, going into fall camp, the biggest question mark for the offense is the offensive line. There are returning players with experience but it is a question of how healthy they will be for the season. Both tackles, Zebrie Sanders and Andrew Datko had to go under the knife and miss spring ball. Guard David Spurlock had multiple concussions last year keeping him out of a number of games and also missed spring ball. Fisher says that they are all healed up and should be fine. If they are really 100 percent then there is a lot less to worry about for the FSU offense, but I'd wait until fall practice gets going before I breathe a sigh of relief. At the beginning of last season receivers Willie Haulstead and Rodney Smith struggled. They had route issues, timing issues, and just needed quite a bit of time to get used to the college game. FSU needs them to continue their maturation and be ready to become major contributors. They will be counted on more than ever with the departure of WR Taiwan Easterling (left for pro baseball).
BDN: Mark Stoops did a nice job with a young FSU defense in 2010, though the group was inconsistent at times. With 8 starters returning in 2011, what improvements need to be made defensively for the Seminoles to compete for an ACC and National Championship?
For the defense, the most improvement should come from being in the new system for another year. While 2010 was a year to learn the basics, this year should show the grasp the players have of the different schemes and the understanding of their roles on any given play. Another issue last year was depth along the front. With so many young players, fatigue became an issue by the NC State game. FSU did not force a single punt in the second half of that game. Russell Wilson, time and again, was able to use his legs and arm to convert on 3rd and long. This year, there should be some serious depth along the front, along with another year of strength training, maturity, and familiarity with a new scheme. Same goes for the linebackers and secondary. With the way FSU is recruiting on the defensive side of the ball and Stoops' scheme, I have no doubt that FSU will field an elite defense in the not so distant future. A defense that can be leaned on to win games and perhaps a championship. There is some hope among fans that this defense won't have to wait another year to be special. Of course, we won't have to wait too long to find out.
BDN: Florida State is 16-0 all-time against the Blue Devils, and the series hasn’t been competitive, with the Seminoles winning each game by at least three scores. Having last met in 2007, the two programs will have to get reacquainted in 2011. Duke has made strides under Head Coach David Cutcliffe, but will still be a significant underdog at home on October 15th. What have you heard about Coach Cutcliffe’s Blue Devils and what will they need to do to compete with the Seminoles?
From what I understand Duke has made very good strides under Coach Cutcliffe. After this season it wouldn't be surprising to see a program offer Cutcliffe a pay increase. Duke was a scrappy team last year and proved to be much better than an annual speed bump in a number of ACC games. I look for that same level of play or even better from Duke this year. I can say it's a good thing FSU's defense has been tuned up since the 2007 match up. If these two teams faced off in 2009 I could have easily seen a Virgnia/Duke 2010 type shootout.
I know Duke likes to throw, but if they want to stay in it with the 'Noles this year, they need to shorten the game. They will have to eat up some clock with runs. Duke needs to seize some momentum early and hope for the best. If FSU puts up 2 or 3 quick TD's all hope may be lost as the revamped defense will be looking for pass. It will be the 3rd road game in a row for FSU, perhaps impacting how much time FSU spends on studying Duke's offense and defense. Best thing to do would be break tendencies and do the unexpected. For heavens sake, don't kick field goals on 4th and 3 inside the 25 or even 30 yard line. Duke will have to maximize every chance it has at TDs, as FG's just won’t get it done.
BDN: Thanks so much for your help! We look forward to hosting the Seminoles on October 15th!
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Football Friday, the extended version – previewing the Duke Offense
July 29, 2011 Patrick Cacchio
In just over a month, Duke and Richmond will kickoff the 2011 season under the lights in Wallace Wade Stadium
If you think football season is close, consider this: there is only one more Football Friday before Duke opens training camp. If that doesn’t get you excited, hopefully the rest of this column will. Early analysis suggests that this may be the longest Football Friday ever, so pace yourself!
No sales pitch this week. If you’re reading this, you already know how good BDN is. One other note: Duke football season tickets are still available, so if you haven’t got yours yet, time is running out. Away game tickets are also available, and we can say from experience that it’s a lot of fun to be part of the Duke faithful in watching a big Blue Devil road victory. Starting on August 1st, Duke will make single game home tickets available at GoDuke.
I don’t know what else to say. Last weekend, all seemed well at the ACC Football Kickoff in Pinehurst. Though still somewhat hard to believe, Butch Davis continued to weather the storm and appeared poised to lead the Tar Heels in 2011. Then, Wednesday happened. For reasons that still remain unclear, Chancellor Holden Thorp fired Davis after a closed-door meeting with the Board of Trustees. Thursday, Athletic Director Dick Baddour announced that he will be stepping down as well, and the Tar Heels later tagged Defensive Coordinator Everett Withers as interim Head Coach. The timing of all this is puzzling, to say the least, and leaves the Tar Heel players, fans, and administration in a difficult position. In addition to the financial costs associated with Coach Davis’ termination, the Tar Heels will now have to pay off their stadium improvements. With many players, fans and boosters upset with the handling of the football scandal for one reason or another, UNC is certainly in an unenviable position. We could spend all Football Friday talking about the scandal and these recent developments, but we’ll just highlight two points:
First, in the current climate of NCAA athletics, let’s be thankful for those who do things the right way. Duke is fortunate to be led by good people who want to win, and want to do it honestly. Thank you to Coach Krzyzewski, Coach Cutcliffe, Dr. Kevin White and Dr. Richard Brodhead for their outstanding character and dedication to Duke University. Every program has problems, but the Blue Devils’ leadership has handled these situations appropriately, consistently, and with class. And thank you to all of the coaches and administrators throughout the NCAA who continue to improve the lives of thousands of student-athletes and uphold the integrity of college athletics.
Those responsible should be held accountable for the egregious transgressions within the North Carolina football program, athletic department, and academic administration. It appears that this is finally being done, and one could argue that there is no wrong time to do the right thing. That being said, this puts the football program in a difficult position, and while it may be difficult for any Duke fan to say something nice about a Tar Heel, we all want what’s best for the ACC and the student-athletes. We want to see the ACC become a more competitive football conference, and we want to see programs win the right way. Hopefully, the Tar Heels will eventually arise from this scandal as a better program and a more respectable member of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Duke's Brandon Harper signed a free agent contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars this week
Congratulations to Duke’s Brandon Harper
With the NFL lockout finally over, Duke’s Brandon Harper was the first former Blue Devil to earn an opportunity as a professional, signing a free agent contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars. BDN wishes the best of luck to Brandon and all of the Blue Devil alumni pursuing their NFL dreams!
Dondo Files, episode 4
Duke senior receiver Donovan Varner has started a video blog, the Dondo Files, and released episode 4 this week. He has great messages for young players and fans about hard work and achieving your goals. This week, he discusses being able to take constructive criticism. With that in mind, how about more than 1 touchdown this year, Donovan? In all seriousness, though, we’re looking forward to a big year from the senior receiver and are proud to have him as a role model for young Blue Devils and players everywhere.
BDN previews continue
We hope you’re enjoying our week-by-week preview of Duke’s 2011 opponents. This week, we wrapped up Duke’s first half of the season with Tulane and Florida International, two important, but tough, games for the Blue Devils to win. After the off week, Duke will face yet another top 10 opponent in Wallace Wade Stadium as the ACC-favorite Florida State Seminoles invade Durham. Check back next week for a look at FSU along with Duke’s week 8 opponent, Wake Forest.
Last week, we took a look around the Atlantic Coast Conference, and our predictions weren’t too terribly out of line with the rest of the ACC media. The Blue Devils landed two players on the preseason All-ACC team in WR Conner Vernon and K Will Synderwine. Now that we got the ACC predictions out of the way, let’s take an in-depth look at the team that really matters - the Blue Devils. There are high hopes for a bowl game in 2011, and a lot of that may depend on how good the Duke defense can be, but the reality is that the Duke offense will have to carry this team for much of the season. For that reason, we kickoff our 2011 Duke Football Team Preview with a look at the high-flying Blue Devils’ offense. If this unit lives up to expectations, there should be plenty of excitement in Wallace Wade Stadium this fall.
Duke QB Sean Renfree is ready to lead the 2011 Blue Devils Offense
BDN Duke Football 2011 Team Preview: Offense
With considerable youth and inexperience on defense, the 2011 Duke Football team will rely on a veteran offense that finished 2nd in the ACC in passing offense and 7th in total offense a year ago. While the Duke offense showed flashes of dominance in 2010, there will need to be dramatic improvements across the board if the Blue Devils hope to make a bowl in 2011.
Key returners: Sean Renfree (R-Jr.), Brandon Connette (So.)
Newcomers: Anthony Boone (R-Fr.)
2010 Review: In his first year as a starter, Sean Renfree showed glimpses of his potential, but overall was inconsistent in leading the Duke offense. In particular, Renfree struggled with turnovers, finishing the season with an ACC-high 17 interceptions. Coming off of season-ending knee surgery in 2009, Renfree’s mobility appeared to be limited at times, particularly early in the season. More importantly, and not unexpectedly, the redshirt-sophomore struggled with his confidence throughout the season, especially on the heels of Duke’s embarrassing loss to Alabama. Despite the struggles, it wasn’t all bad for Renfree. He led the Blue Devils to three wins, finished third in the ACC with 3,131 total yards and completed 61.4% of his passes, including a midseason stretch of 16 consecutive completions and 28/30 completions against Navy, both school records. The 3,131 yards were the 3rd highest total in Duke history and helped to earn him the Carmen Falcone Award as Duke’s Most Valuable Player. The biggest area for Renfree to improve is certainly turnovers, and he demonstrated tremendous growth throughout the 2010 season. After throwing 15 interceptions in the first 7 games of the season, Renfree finished the season with just 2 interceptions in the Blue Devils’ final 5 contests.
In 2010, dual-threat QB Brandon Connette served as Renfree’s primary back-up and earned significant playing time with his legs. Connette set a Duke freshman record with 8 rushing touchdowns and finished the year with 321 yards on 78 carries. He struggled to move the ball through the air when called upon, finishing just 10/22 with 2 interceptions.
2011 Outlook: Simply put, the Duke offense will rely heavily on the play of Sean Renfree. If Renfree is unable to significantly reduce his turnovers, the Blue Devils will not be bowling in 2011. Now nearly two years removed from knee surgery and with a year of starting experience under his belt, Renfree’s mobility and confidence should be drastically improved from this time last year. With three of his top four receivers returning, along with 4 of 5 offensive line starters, Renfree will be surrounded by familiar faces and will be counted on to lead the Blue Devil offense. While there is no doubt within the Duke program that Renfree is the clear starter, he will continue to be pushed by a sophomore Connette and redshirt-freshman Anthony Boone, which should only help the Duke offense. Reports from spring practice were overwhelmingly positive for all three quarterbacks and for Renfree in particular. Coach Cutcliffe has anointed Renfree as the best returning quarterback in the ACC in 2011, and believe he is poised to have a “special” season. If the Blue Devils plan on playing in December or January, he will have to play like the best quarterback in the conference.
Coach Cutcliffe has senior Donovan Varner and the Blue Devils expecting to win in 2011-GoDuke, Duke Photography
Losses: Austin Kelly
Key returners: Conner Vernon (Jr.), Donovan Varner (Sr.), Brandon Braxton (So.), Tyree Watkins (R-So.), Corey Gattis (R-So.)
Newcomers: Jamison Crowder (Fr.), Blair Holliday (Fr.), Nick Hill (Fr.)
2010 Review: As you might expect, the performance of Duke’s wide receivers mirrored the ups and downs of QB Sean Renfree. Overall, Donovan Varner and Conner Vernon make up one of, if not the, top receiving tandem in college football. After his All-ACC campaign in 2009, Varner became just the 2nd Duke receiver to post back-to-back 60-reception seasons, finishing 2010 with 60 catches for 736 yards and 1 touchdown. After a breakout freshman season that earned him freshman All-American honors, Vernon topped his 2009 campaign with 73 catches for 946 yards and 4 touchdowns. The duo of Varner and Vernon partnered with senior Austin Kelly to form the top receiving trio in Duke history in 2010. Kelly battled injuries throughout his senior year, but still finished tied for the team lead with 4 touchdown catches. Outside of the top three, Duke’s younger receivers had an inconsistent 2010. After a good spring, freshman Brandon Braxton had an up and down season in his first year of college football, playing in 11 games and starting 5. Braxton finished 2010 with 14 catches and 1 touchdown; however, of those 14 receptions, 8 went for a Duke first down. Overall, fans should be excited with his potential and can pencil him in as the third starter alongside Varner and Vernon in 2011 after a strong offseason. Redshirt-freshmen Corey Gattis and Tyree Watkins saw the field sparingly in their first year of college eligibility.
2011 Outlook: Despite the loss of Kelly, Duke’s third-leading receiver in 2010, expectations are extremely high for the 2011 Duke receiving corps. Led by upperclassmen Varner and Vernon, this should be one of the top receiving units in the country. As good as Duke’s receivers were in 2010, they will need to be better in 2011, particularly in finding their way to the end zone and securing passes (not all of Dukes 2010 turnover troubles can be blamed on the QB). Expected improvements in the Duke running game should open up big play possibilities for Duke’s receivers, allowing them to eclipse their previous career highs. With Varner and Vernon likely to draw significant attention from opposing defenses, the opportunities will be there for Duke’s young receivers to step up and make plays. Braxton will get the first shot as the third starter at receiver, and is beginning to develop good chemistry with Renfree. Expect Braxton, Watkins, and Gattis to show dramatic improvement over 2010, and they should be pushed by true freshmen Blair Holliday and Nick Hill for playing time. The athletic ability of freshman Jamison Crowder will be hard to keep off the field, and he may find some time at slot receiver in certain offensive sets. Led by two determined, dynamic upperclassmen, this group has the potential to be the best in the ACC.
Senior Cooper Helfet will lead the Blue Devils' Tight Ends in 2011 - Rick Crank, BDN Photo
Losses: Brett Huffman, Brandon King
Key returners: Danny Parker (R-Sr.), Cooper Helfet (Sr.), Jack Farrell (R-So.)
Newcomers: Braxton Deaver (R-Fr.), David Reeves (Fr.)
2010 Review: For the past several years, the Duke tight end position has been led by two warriors in Brett Huffman and Brandon King. Seemingly always injured, it took a lot to keep them off the field. With some struggles along the offensive line, Huffman and King were called upon to aid the Blue Devils’ blockers for much of their careers, and did so admirably. The Duke staff likes to move the tight end around in their offense, and the versatility of Huffman and King allowed them to thrive in multiple roles. While Huffman and King assumed roles as the unheralded warriors of the Duke offense, junior college transfer Cooper Helfet emerged as another potent weapon in Sean Renfree’s arsenal. After struggling with an ankle injury early in the season, Helfet finished the year with at least 4 catches in Duke’s final 5 games, leading the team in receiving in two contests and earning two ACC Player of the Week honors.
2011 Outlook: Huffman and King will not be easily replaced in the Duke offense, but with two seniors and a talented group of young players, the tight end should remain a strength for the 2011 Blue Devils. Helfet appears poised for a breakout senior campaign and will be joined by redshirt-senior Danny Parker, who redshirted in 2010 after seeing 232 snaps as a junior in 2009. Redshirt-freshman Braxton Deaver should be ready to contribute in his first season of college eligibility and true freshman David Reeves may be too good to keep off the field in his first year in Durham. The concern for this group will be replacing the blocking of Huffman and King, but their receiving numbers should improve over 2010.
Desmond Scott leads an improved Blue Devil running game
Key returners: Jay Hollingworth (Sr.), Patrick Kurunuwe (R-Jr.), Desmond Scott (Jr.), Josh Snead (So.), Juwan Thompson (So.)
2010 Review: The 2010 Duke running game had nowhere to go but up, finishing last in the FBS in rushing in 2009. As they say, Rome wasn’t built in a day, and the Blue Devils took significant steps forward in 2010, increasing their rushing averages by 46.5 yards per game and adding 13 more touchdowns on the ground from 2009. Still, Duke finished last in the ACC in rushing and 104th in the country in 2011. Desmond Scott led the Blue Devils in rushing for the second straight season, finishing with 549 yards and a 4.4 yards per carry average. Scott established himself as Duke’s best all-around back and endeared himself to the Duke faithful with his game-winning touchdown dive against Virginia. Freshman Josh Snead showed flashes of his ability before injuries interrupted his season, but still finished with a team-best 4.9 yards per carry. Fellow freshman Juwan Thompson saw his offensive role increase as he adjusted to the college game, but was primarily limited to kick return duty. Junior Jay Hollingsworth came on strong late in the season, igniting the Duke offense with impressive 2nd half runs against Miami. Redshirt-sophomore Patrick Kurunuwe saw limited action on offense and special teams.
2011 Outlook: Duke returns all of their running backs in 2011, along with four of five starters along the offensive line. While blocking may be partly to blame for Duke’s struggles in the running game, Duke’s rushers must continue to improve their vision, burst, and strength. Improved confidence could go a long way to improving Duke’s running, as some of Duke’s best runs in 2010 appeared to come when the Blue Devil backs were “running with a purpose.” Scott has emerged as the face of Duke’s running game, and must become a consistent threat both on the ground and through the air for the Duke offense. While Scott is likely to again see the majority of carries, Duke’s depth at running back means that there will be significant competition for snaps in training camp and throughout the season, which should force this group to continue to improve. Snead and Thompson should take a big step forward in their second year of college football, and the overall depth at running back should allow Duke to do a better job wearing down opposing defenses. Thompson, in particular, appears poised to be a breakout candidate for the Duke offense. While no one should expect Duke to become a great running team overnight, the pieces are there for the Blue Devils to continue to improve on the ground, open things up in the passing game, and keep opposing offenses off the field.
Brian Moore will slide to center and anchor the Duke offensive line in 2011-GoDuke Photo
Losses: Bryan Morgan, Brandon Harper, Mitchell Lederman
Key returners: Kyle Hill (R-Sr.), Jon Needham (R-Sr.), Brian Moore (R-Jr.), Conor Irwin (R-Jr.), Dave Harding (R-So.), John Coleman (R-So.), Perry Simmons (R-So.)
Newcomers: Takoby Cofield (R-Fr.), Laken Tomlinson (R-Fr.), Marcus Aprahamian (Fr.), Lucas Patrick (Fr.), Cody Robinson (Fr.), Matt Skura (Fr.)
2010 Review: After watching Thaddeus Lewis play under seemingly constant pressure for four years, the Duke offensive line appeared to take a step forward in 2010. The group struggled again in run-blocking, but finished near the top of the ACC in sacks allowed per pass attempt. Morgan, though undersized, was the anchor up front, starting at center for 36 consecutive games. With little depth, the offensive line was asked to play through injury in 2010. For many weeks, Duke’s starters sat out practice but suited up on Saturday. That warrior mentality showed through on the field, as Duke improved their rushing by 46.5 yards per game, and the line successfully protected their first-year QB coming off knee surgery (25 sacks allowed, only 5.1% of dropbacks).
2011 Outlook: Of all the position groups on the Duke offense, the offensive line appears the most ready to take a big step forward in 2011. That being said, this group loses seniors Morgan and Harper and will need to continue to work hard and produce results on the field. Duke’s starting offensive line is expected to average close to 290 pounds in 2011, and that increased size and strength should help in both pass and run blocking. For the first time since Coach Cutcliffe’s arrival in Durham, the Blue Devils will be able to go two-deep across the offensive line without significant drop-off. In fact, there should be interesting position battles in training camp at right tackle and right guard, where redshirt-freshmen Takoby Cofield and Laken Tomlinson will push Perry Simmons and John Coleman for snaps. A talented group of freshmen offensive linemen should help solidify the position for the next several years and could see the field in the event of a significant injury. For the first time in several years, Duke has multiple NFL prospects among their offensive linemen, led by Brian Moore, Kyle Hill, Laken Tomlinson, Takoby Cofield, and Cody Robinson. Overall, the size, skill, and depth has improved, but this group will need to produce results on the field for the Duke offense to realize its full potential.
Recruiting updates
There’s more? Sure, why not? To reward our loyal members, let’s take a quick look at where Duke stands with a few uncommitted 2012 prospects:
Mallard Creek RB Jela Duncan is Duke's top remaining priority in the class of 2012
Running back: Jela Duncan is the guy here, and Duke would love to try and secure a commitment from him soon, though he seems content to wait out other offers. Earlier this week, we took a look at possible destinations for the Mallard Creek star, and the smart money is still on the Blue Devils here, whether it’s sooner or later. There’s no telling what will happen with North Carolina, but they remain in play for a few other backs, and with scholarship restrictions on the horizon, new offers will be few and far between. Scholarships are also scarce at South Carolina, another potential competitor for Duncan’s services. As for his current offers, Duncan hasn’t shown a lot of interest in Pittsburgh, Purdue, or Wake Forest up to this point. Some other prospects to keep an eye on include Dondre Brown, Jamie Gilmore, and Chris Mangus, but Duncan is the clear priority.
Braddock HS OL Robert Conyers recently visited Duke
Best available: Outside of running back, the Duke coaching staff feels very good about the class of 2012 and will be in a position to take the best available players with their last 2 or 3 scholarships. In the past week, Duke has hosted OL Robert Conyers and ATH Ryan Janvion, and it looks like a good bet that the Blue Devils will find themselves among the finalists for both of those Florida prospects.
In addition, we’ve long reported Duke’s interest in Korren Kirven, but they face a huge uphill battle against his in-state ACC schools and several top SEC programs. Kirven is expected to narrow his list soon, and it would be nice for the Blue Devils to make the cut, but there are no guarantees. Elsewhere along the defensive line, Duke is still very much in it for Alabama standout Torey Agee, and will likely be a finalist along with Vanderbilt. BDN’s thinking is that Auburn or Georgia Tech would jump to the lead for Agee, if they were to offer. Duke is a longer shot for Greensboro’s D.J. Reader, who plans to play both football and baseball in college. With the academic requirements at Duke, it takes a very dedicated student-athlete to balance classes along with two sports.
Duke has been the leader for top in-state linebacker Keilin Rayner, but something has kept him from pulling the trigger for the Blue Devils so far. He’s been busy on the camp circuit this summer, and we’ll see where things stand with him soon. It appears that other schools have closed the gap, but Duke is still in the running for his services and a good start in September could help the Blue Devils’ chances. Florida athlete Marcus Allen is another intriguing prospect who looks like a good fit in Durham with his success in the classroom and on the field, but with a Florida State offer in hand, it may be tough to pull him out of the sunshine state. California LB Jeremiah Allison is another star student-athlete who seems to fit the Duke mold, and if the Blue Devils can maybe get him on campus for an official visit, they could become a serious contender in his recruitment.
As always, BDN will keep you posted with new developments. By securing a solid 2012 recruiting class early in the summer, the Duke coaching staff has been able to get a head start on evaluating the class of 2013, and we’ll slowly start to introduce members to some of the early targets as we head into the fall.
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Duke travels to Chestnut Hill to take on the BC Eagles in week 3
Are you ready for some more football, Blue Devil Nation? Alright, I'll concede that Mark Watson's Peach Jam coverage has been out of this world this week, and things are really heating up for Duke basketball. So once you’ve had a chance to read and re-read all of that great coverage, get ready for a little Duke football. Duke football season is fast approaching, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. So get on board! Season tickets and new 3-game ticket packs are on sale now at GoDuke.com, or through the Duke Ticket Office at (919) 681-BLUE.
To preview the 2011 Duke football season, BDN is teaming up with other college football insiders to give an in-depth look at Duke's opponents. We kicked off our series earlier this month with a look at Richmond and Stanford, and continue this week with Duke's ACC opener at Boston College.
Duke fell to the Eagles in 2010 in Durham, 21-15. If it wasn't for a late goal line stand by LB Luke Kuechly and the BC defense, the Blue Devils may have pulled off the upset behind one of their better defensive efforts of the year. What should we expect from the 2011 matchup? We brought in BC insider BCHysteria of BC Interruption to help us preview the 2011 Eagles.
Duke fans got a first-hand look at BC All-American LB Luke Kuechly last fall
BDN: When looking at Boston College, we have to start with their defense. The defense loses senior leader Mark Herzlich this year and returns only 5 starters. We know how good All-American LB Luke Kuechly is, but who else is expected to step up for the Eagles, and what question marks remain heading into August?
There are a few names that you will need to know going into the 2011 season. First of all Kevin Pierre Louis is coming off a fantastic season where he logged in 93 tackles. Mix him in with Kuechly and BC should have a very dynamic linebacking corps this season. Another player that you should look out for is corner back Donnie Fletcher, who led the Eagles in interceptions last year. I expect big things out of him this season. One of the biggest questions for the Eagles has to be their defensive line, which is filled with unknowns. Max Holloway led the team last year in sacks, is returning, along with Kaleb Ramsey, but the rest remains one giant question mark. Who will step up on the line?
BDN: After an inconsistent 2010, there were mixed reports regarding the BC offense coming out of spring practice. With nine starters returning, including the dynamic rushing duo of Montel Harris and Andrew Williams along with a more experienced QB in Chase Rettig, what changes do you expect to see in the offense under new coordinator Kevin Rogers this fall?
Reports have come out that Rogers isn't going to be tweaking the offense that much from the style they played last year. Meaning a pro style passing game, with a few wrinkles here and there, but he's not going to suddenly turn the style into an Option style. During the spring game he did show some different looks like 5 WR sets which we did not see last year. I think what frustrated BC fans last year was a stale, predictable game plan and with Gary Tranquill gone, we hope to see that change this year. Hopefully that means much more success through the air and more points on the board.
BDN: After making two straight ACC championship games in 2007 and 2008, the Eagles seemed to take a small step back the past two years. With a tough road schedule in 2011, what are the expectations for the 2011 season? Which games are the most crucial on the Eagles' schedule?
That is the million dollar question haunting BC fans right now. We have watched the Eagles continue to step backwards (mostly on offense), but with Rogers will this change? BC has a very tough schedule this year starting with two solid out of conference opponents in Northwestern and UCF. Those two games could easily dictate the tempo of the season. Another important stretch for BC will be their October slate which includes Clemson, VT, Maryland and Wake Forest. If BC can take at least two of those, they will be in good shape to at least a bowl. So basically if BC starts off slow, they could easily finish 5-7, but if they turn it around like I hope they will 8-4 might be a possibility.
Duke last traveled to Alumni Stadium in 2006
BDN: Due to the new ACC scheduling, Duke and Boston College have been relative strangers in recent years. Duke last traveled to Chestnut Hill in 2006, and the Eagles have won the last 4 games in the series, though Duke did give the Eagles a scare in Durham last fall. What are your predictions for this year's matchup in Chestnut Hill? What does BC need to do against the Blue Devils to prevent an upset?
Last year was one of the scariest/frustrating games for BC fans. BC basically handed that game to Duke. If BC wants to win this year they are going to need to contain David Cutcliffe, last year Sean Renfree had his way against the Eagles secondary in the 2nd half. BC also has to not be stupid with the ball, Montel Harris' fumbled twice in the red zone. He is a much better running back than he showed in that game, and if he can hold on to the ball I expect BC to control the tempo of the game. I dont need to tell you, but Duke's defense was putried last year, if BC's offense can turn around their equally putrid offense, they should win.
BDN: With a stingy defense and a new-look offense, Boston College will be a tough early season matchup for the Blue Devils. How do you expect teams to try and attack the Eagles' defense this season? What will be the best way to slow Montel Harris and the Eagles' offense?
BC's defensive achilles heel has always been through the air. If you can get the ball in the air, and avoid the pressure you can beat the BC corners. This may change this year with a new look secondary, led by Fletcher, but keep your eye on highly recruited DB Albert Jean Louis. He is a hard hitter, who may keep opposing QB's from looking his way. Montel Harris can be stopped, and many teams found that out last year. Just frustrate Rettig, force him into a few bad decisions, and Spaz will hand the ball off incessantly to Harris. Harris wears down rather easily, and when D's know what’s coming, they can load the box up and stuff him. Happened most of last season.
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Felbaba-Klushina L.M., Votkalchuk K.A.
The state and prospects of preservation of some rare and relic species Lycopodiophyta at southern megaslope of the Ukrainian Carpathians (Transcarpathia)
Felbaba-Klushina L.M., Votkalchuk K.A. (2015). The state and prospects of preservation of some rare and relic species Lycopodiophyta at southern megaslope of the Ukrainian Carpathians (Transcarpathia). Chornomors’k. bot. z., 11 (2): 138-145. doi:10.14255/2308-9628/15.112/1.
The results of researches are represented for three species of divisio Lycopodiophyta (Diphasiastrum issleri (Rouy) Holub,Lycopodiella inundata (L.) Holub), Selaginella helvetica (L.) Spring, which are rare in Ukrainian Carpathians. Detailed description is provided for the habitats and plant communities, where these species occur; the number of individuals in the populations is detected. Their sozological status is defined with the forecast of populations’ development for the nearest years.
Kovalenko І.N.
Grass and subschrub layer as a structural component of forest communities in the North-East of Ukraine
Kovalenko І.N. (2015). Grass and subschrub layer as a structural component of forest communities in the North-East of Ukraine. Chornomors’k. bot. z., 11 (2): 146-155. doi:10.14255/2308-9628/15.112/2.
The main structural features of herbaceous and subshrub layer have been analyzed, and its functional role has been defined on the example of the forests of Ukrainian Polissya. High floristic biodiversity in forest ecosystems and heterogeneity of their flora have been specified on the basis of comparative floristic analysis. About 5–6 environmental groups are distinguished within each syntaxon in herbaceous and subshrub layer. Their number depends on the composition of forest stand, surface pattern and soil cover. Depending on the ecological-coenotic situation, all plant species of herbaceous and subshrub layer are distinct in going through the stages of ontogenesis, type of morphogenesis, life status, etc. Individual ecological amplitudes of forest herbs conform to environmental regimes of the relevant syntaxon, and with the proper management of these forests, the structure of the lower tiers will preserve its integrity and identity in the protected natural areas. The success of tree regeneration period is largely determined by the composition and structural features of ground vegetation.
Pavlovа N.R., Matviichuk Yu.V., Moysiyenko I.I.
Morphological and anatomical features of Leucojum aestivum L. (lower reaches of the Dnieper, Ukraine)
Pavlovа N.R., Matviichuk Yu.V., Moysiyenko I.I. (2015). Morphological and anatomical features of Leucojum aestivum L. (lower reaches of the Dnieper, Ukraine). Chornomors’k. bot. z., 11 (2): 156-164. doi:10.14255/2308-9628/15.112/3.
The article describes an ornamental and medicinal plant − Leucojum aestivum, that was included to the Red Data Book of Ukraine. L. aestivum is a perennial herbaceous of the family Amaryllidaceae. The natural habitat of the species includes the Mediterranean, European temperate climate regions (except of northeastern one), the Caucasus. L. aestivum is a hardy species that is very moisture-tolerant. It is extremely tolerant of soil type and will grow in sand, loam and clay soils although it prefers soils with a more neutral or alkaline pH. The morphological and anatomical features of the underground and surface structure were investigated; the model of formation shoots, the types of buds and seasonal rhythm of L. aestivum were described in the modern south of Ukraine.
Zhilyaev G.G.
The role of the vitality of differentiation in populations of seed renewal Homogyne alpina (L.) Cass. (Asteraceae) in the subalpine meadows Chornogory (Ukrainian Carpathians)
Zhilyaev G.G. (2015). The role of the vitality of differentiation in populations of seed renewal Homogyne alpina (L.) Cass. (Asteraceae) in the subalpine meadows Chornogory (Ukrainian Carpathians). Chornomors’k. bot. z., 11 (2): 165-177. doi:10.14255/2308-9628/15.112/4.
The results of field experiments (2011–2014) for research seed reproduction in a population Homogyne alpina (L.) Cass. (Asteraceae) in the subalpine meadows Chornogory (Ukrainian Carpathians) are generalized. It is proved that the differentiation vitality of seeds is the main precondition for the preservation of the balance of the change of generations and the conserve of viable populations of H. alpina. Because of differences in the reproductive potency, the role of seeds of high, medium and low vitality to save seed renewal process, changes under the influence of environmental factors.
Boiko M.F.
Ukrainian names of bryophytes
Boiko M.F. (2015). Ukrainian names of bryophytes. Chornomors’k. bot. z., 11 (2): 178-216. doi:10.14255/2308-9628/15.112/5.
In the article the names of Ukrainian families bryophytes (Bryobionta – Holovmokhobionty) are given, most of which are for the first time and on that basis it was made a complete list of all parts of Ukraine bryoflora: Anthocerotophyta (Ukrainian name Kvitkorohofity), Marchantiophyta (Ukrainian name Marshantiofity), Bryophyta (Ukrainian name Holovmokhofity ). Proposed a number of new species epithets liverworts and mosses. In the formation of new titles of mosses the following was used: special, distinctive, characteristic features of gametophyte and sporophytes morphology, physiology, life forms, etc. (Viychatka korotkopovstysta – Trichocolea tomentella, Kuschomoh lysokhvostyi – Thamnobryum alopecurum, etc.); features specific habitats (Vapnychka creidyana – Cololejeunea calcarea; Vodnik protyposzeszhyi – Fontinalis antipyretica, Voloholyub richkovyi – Hygroamblystegium fluviatile, Vsiudnyk purpurovyi – Ceratodon purpureus etc.); importance of the taxon (typical race, decorative, etc.), for example, Holovmoh sriblyastyi – Bryum argenteum, Krasunchyk naiprecrasnishyi – Ptilidium pulcherrimum; latin counterparts, transliteration, the author is given proper the first description taxa (Bezzhylka szyrna – Aneura pinguis etc.); latin names are derived from proper names (Merkiya Blytha – Moerckia blyttii, Lazarenkiya Kozlova – Lazarenkia kozlovii); reasonable borrowing from other national names of genera and species – in Polish, Czech and other languages (for example, Zolotomoh (zlotnik – Polish.) – Campyliadelphus, Sobacozub (psizubec in Cech. – Cynodontium) and others.
Khodosovtsev A.Ye., Klymenko V.M.
Didymellopsis perigena (Nyl.) Grube and Zwackhiomyces cervinae Calat., Triebel & Pérez-Ortega (Xanthopyreniaceae, Ascomycota) new for Ukraine species of the lichenicolous fungi
Khodosovtsev A.Ye., Klymenko V.M. (2015). Didymellopsis perigena (Nyl.) Grube and Zwackhiomyces cervinae Calat., Triebel & Pérez-Ortega (Xanthopyreniaceae, Ascomycota) new for Ukraine species of the lichenicolous fungi. Chornomors’k. bot. z., 11 (2): 217-222. doi:10.14255/2308-9628/15.112/6.
Data on two new to Ukraine species of lichenicolous fungi Didymellopsis perigena (Nyl.) Grube that grows on terricolous Placidium squamulosum (Ach.) Breuss and Zwackhiomyces cervinae Calat., Triebel & Pérez-Ortega on saxicolous Acarospora cervina (Ach.) A. Massal. are provided. The paper illustrated by two figures with the difference between genera Didymellopsis and Zwackhiomyces, and features of these species.
Korolyova O.V.
The loculoascomycete species diversity of National Park “Oleshkivski Pisky” (Kherson region, Ukraine)
Korolyova O.V. (2015). The loculoascomycete species diversity of National Park “Oleshkivski Pisky” (Kherson region, Ukraine). Chornomors’k. bot. z., 11 (2): 223-229. doi:10.14255/2308-9628/15.112/7.
The species composition of loculoascomycetes in the National Natural Park "Oleshkivski Pisky" has been studied. It includes 34 species from 18 genera, 10 families, 3 orders and group orders Incertae sedis, 2 subclasses of class Dothideomycetes. In the taxonomic structure of the investigated species composition it was established predominance of the subclass Pleosporomycetidae, of the order Pleosporales, of the family Leptosphaeriaceae, as well as genus Leptosphaeria. We analyzed the characteristics of habitat distribution of species in communities 4 types of vegetation. We have studied the ecological structure of mycobiota and consortial connections with 19 species of plants from 11 families. In the ecological structure it was established the dominance of saprotrophs. It was noted, that a variety of substrates equally favors the spread and herbotrophic and xylotrophic loculoascomycetes. Ecological features of the species relating to the stages of ontogeny, of habitat, and their distribution, were discussed.
Darmostuk V.V.
The southernmost locality Tuckermanopsis chlorophylla (Willd.) Hale in Ukraine
Darmostuk V.V. (2015). The southernmost locality Tuckermanopsis chlorophylla (Willd.) Hale in Ukraine. Chornomors’k. bot. z., 11 (2): 230-233. doi:10.14255/2308-9628/15.112/8.
An information of the new steppe zone and discovery of the southernmost locality Tuckermanopsis chlorophylla (Willd.) Hale in Ukraine are presented. It was found in the territory of the Landscape reserve "Sagi" on the bark of Pinus sylvestris. The paper contains ecology and distribution of this taxon in Ukraine.
Yatsuk I.I., Akulov O.Yu., Romanchenko O.V.
The new for Ukraine discomycete species Schizoxylon centaureae Bres.(Stictidiaceae Fr., Ostropales Nannf.) from Regional Landscape Park ‘Tiligulsky’, Odessa region (Ukraine)
Yatsuk I.I., Akulov O.Yu., Romanchenko O.V. (2015). The new for Ukraine discomycete species Schizoxylon centaureae Bres.(Stictidiaceae Fr., Ostropales Nannf.) from Regional Landscape Park ‘Tiligulsky’, Odessa region (Ukraine). Chornomors’k. bot. z., 11 (2): 234-238. doi:10.14255/2308-9628/15.112/9.
Non-lichenized ostropalean fungi have been poorly studied in Ukraine. The paper contains data on a new for Ukraine and worldwide rare species Schizoxylon centaureae Bres., found on the territory of Regional Landscape Park ‘Tiligulsky’. Characteristic features of this species include filiform spores, which disintegrate onto fragments, and its association with dead stems of Centauria sp and Asphodelussp. The article contains original illustrations and description of the species. Since this species has been so far known only from Portugal and Greece, our finding of S. centaureae in Ukraine substantially alters a modern concept of its distribution.
Kozyr M.S.
Econet for floodplain of Seim river (Sumy and Chernihiv regions, Ukraine)
Kozyr M.S. (2015). Econet for floodplain of Seim river (Sumy and Chernihiv regions, Ukraine). Chornomors’k. bot. z., 11 (2): 239-252. doi:10.14255/2308-9628/15.112/10.
Еconet project for floodplain of Seim river was developed, three key territories of local level (Piskivska, Konotopsko-Putyvlska, Baturynska) and Seimskyi regional ecocorridor were defined. Their characterization according to the method was completed. In the article the ways of integration for econet were proposed that were developed to the national ecological network due to favorable location of the region between Poliskyi, Galytsko-Slobozhanskyi, Dniprovskyi and Siversko-Donetskyi national level of ecological network. Connection ways of this econet with key territories of local level by local level ecological corridors were proposed.
Melnyk R.P.
Antropophytes participation in natural steppe area on the example of Burgunska beam (Kherson region, Ukraine)
Melnyk R.P. (2015). Antropophytes participation in natural steppe area on the example of Burgunska beam (Kherson region, Ukraine). Chornomors’k. bot. z., 11 (2): 253-260. doi:10.14255/2308-9628/15.112/11.
The features of the antropophytes participation in the natural and semi-natural steppe coenoses were investigated on the territory of Burgunska beam. (Kherson region, Ukraine). On its slopes there are pockets of indigenous steppe vegetation of class Festuco-BrometeaBr.-Bl. et R.Tx. in Br.-Bl. 1949. But the anthropogenic transformation of the steppe biome led to penetration in steppe community of alien species. According to the results of our research they represented 64 species, which belong to 59 genera, 24 families, 15 orders. Most of the investigated alien plants belong to mesophytic group and gemiagriophytes. They are well naturalized in the communities of meadow vegetation, that’s why they grow in the thalweg of the beam. The greatest numbers of diasporas of these species falls with the water streams from agrophytocenoses and they are representatives of the classes segetal vegetation Stellarietea mediae and Artemisietea vulgaris.
Prokopuk M.S., Pohorelova Y.V.
Higher aquatic flora and vegetation of National nature park “Pyryatynsky” (Poltava region, Ukraine)
Prokopuk M.S., Pohorelova Y.V. (2015). Higher aquatic flora and vegetation of National nature park “Pyryatynsky” (Poltava region, Ukraine). Chornomors’k. bot. z., 11 (2): 261-270. doi:10.14255/2308-9628/15.112/12.
It was studied a floristic richness, ecological structure and coenotic diversity of macrophytes in NNP "Pyryatynsky". There are identified 34 species of macrophytes, which form 16 groups of rank association of eco-floristic classification. Analysis of overgrown rivers and flood waters showed preservation of their natural structure, a wide variety of habitats and a poverty of species richness as evidence of anthropogenic transformation of ecosystems with significant downstream. The dominance of species of eutrophic swamps complex in some areas considered as the threat of increasing waterlogging processes and transformation of habitats. It is allocated rare component of flora, confirmed the feasibility of establishing the object of protected areas of Ukraine of national importance at this area. It is recommended to expand the list of regionally rare species.
Boiko M.F., Lobachevska O.V.
Vsevolod Maksimovich Melnychuk (to the 100th anniversary of his birth)
Boiko M.F., Lobachevska O.V. (2015). Vsevolod Maksimovich Melnychuk (to the 100th anniversary of his birth). Chornomors’k. bot. z., 11 (2): 271-272. doi:10.14255/2308-9628/15.112/5.
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Contrasts can be dizzying if one thinks about it too much ...
Woke this morning to the sound of Scott Simon's voice on NPR introducing a piece on New Orleans by one of the staff whose home was/is there. It was a fine piece with appropriate sounds in the background and the proper mix of humor, irony, and pathos for what exists no more. The images from my architect friend, Tom Butt's (not my special friend, Tom) report on his recent professional visit to Louisiana and the many photos of desolation that he included blew open memories that I thought had dimmed out long ago. Hadn't realized how touched I was by those images.
The replay of the hurricane of my childhood -- the one that uprooted my family and deposited us in Oakland, California, in 1927 has come into sharp focus again. I was six -- old enough to have the trauma renewed but more in feelings than in fact. Each time I read of the plight of those dispersed out into strange environments (like Creoles in Utah) something stirs deep inside that I can't quite get at ... .
Comments by this morning's reporter continue to resonate -- "... in a city that was only recently 80% black, that percentage has been reversed. Everywhere I look there are white people." And, "...the hotels and inns that remain are no longer filled with the visitors who used to come to share our culture, but with FEMA personnel and workers and agents." Though the voice was that of a white woman, there was obviously pain in it for what once was -- and hope that somehow it will all be restored. She sounded both nostalgic and resigned to the unknown future of her/our city.
My family never returned except for occasional visits to see Mammá, yet much of the culture is still embedded in my psyche -- at least through my own generation. Sadly, little if any of that was transmitted to our children. My parents mourned the loss, and it was in the mourning that their love of New Orleans and the music and the food and the superstitions and zest for life was given to us. It was fragile. I didn't know. Should have taken better care of it.
When looking through old fading family photos since Katrina, I'm discovering a freshening of memories. Something beyond nostalgia ... a kinship with today's scattered souls who may never return -- but who may not find today's world any more kindly than it was when my parents left. In many cases (especially since we witnessed the lack of caring over those endless days when corpses rotted away in gutters) there's strong evidence that our fate -- even in a time of brutal segregation -- we were luckier than those now dispersed into unknown futures. It is yet to be acknowledged that at least 5000 people are still unaccounted for. There has been no final count announced. I suspect that there will never be.
I also think of all those little Bettys caught in the aftermath of Katrina -- warehoused in strange cities -- lost to the vagaries of ghetto life, uprooted from poor schools in the south and tossed into poorer ones in the north -- with resources withheld or skimmed off by corruption in a system not yet free of the blindness of racism -- damned by low expectations and consigned to the least of all there is. Such thoughts demand that I participate in the saving of the children -- all children -- and in the saving -- save myself.
But as it was with my own life -- change will come. That it will be as profound a change as I've lived cannot be seen at this point. Change is irresistable; controlling the shape of it is unfortunately a collective thing -- demanding implementation by us all. Individuals have little power over the form it takes or the speed by which it moves. Yet, that little girl who arrived with hurricane-devastated parents in 1927 survived. There are remnants of a culture still influencing my life. The Catholicism and the French patois were casualities, but the jazz and the deep pride of being and the gumbo and jambalaya and the joie de vivre lives on, and for that I'm grateful. Perhaps that's why I cling to the uniqueness of my Creole (black) ancestry -- it's always given more than it took away. And I'm still adding to it -- though often despite a strong resistance to the constant threat of expropriation by the dominant culture.
Tonight we'll have dinner at Tadich's in San Francisco's financial district -- then on to the San Francisco Opera. The performance will be Ludwig van Beethoven's "Fidelio." Though not hard-wired for either symphony or opera, I find myself more and more open to listening keenly in the hope of making connections to the store of music of a kind that I feel rather than hear. I'm discovering that -- from time to time -- some universal is tapped into -- and that spiritual knowing kicks in ... and the music and the fine arts and the dance strikes some universal something and I'm on the inside -- with the composer or the artist or the dancer -- and there's the feeling of home. The feeling is rare -- but having felt it at all and at times emulating it -- the possibility keeps me ever searching in galleries and on concert stages and dance pavillions ... but mostly in the music of Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, and Shirley Horn, still. But at times now, also in the strains of Sibelius, Borodin, or Mozart or a Quaker choir singing "Tis a gift to be simple ...". Maybe the connection has to be made with something already within me, and after so many years -- what's in me grows richer and more complex with each day.
What's in me -- the starting place -- was/is my black Creole history and culture.
Photo: Papa George (Allen) standing beside his little shotgun bungalow that housed us in 1927. In the row just below him are Aunt Vivian Allen (Jernigan), Cousin Annabelle LeBeouf (Therence), my mother, Lottie Allen Charbonnet; Papa's sister, Great Aunt IsoBel Allen LeBeouf Warnie, Cousin Vernon Therence, Jr., Cousin Ruth Warnie (Strange), my sister Marjorie Charbonnet (Brooms) holding my younger sister, Lottie Charbonnet (Fields), Cousin Dick Therence, Cousin Josie Warnie (Duncan), and in the front row with scratches all over face, me.
Thinking of how stubbornly I cling to my black identity in a changing world ...
Read back through that last entry and could easily see how irrational it must read to others. And, it probably is. I've over-simplified wildly, but it felt good leaving my fingers ... and maybe that's all I needed -- to feed the words off the ends of my fingers just for the hell of it!
Thought earlier this evening about yesterday's Youth Symphony concert at Allen Temple Baptist Church. It was an afternoon performance of young classical musicians combined with the 100 voice Oakland Symphony Chorus. Loved every minute of it, most of all the Borodin.
At first I felt resistance to the music -- as though I needed to hold out against this European art form - but I couldn't. Beauty is not confined by such boundaries; and it was beautiful!
The concert was held in the 5000-member Baptist church in East Oakland in a cluster of buildings that takes up an entire city block. I remember Allen Temple from my childhood -- it was born in a small converted private home a block away from this site and pastored by Reverend Marion Wilde for many years. The grammar school that I attended is right across the street from this church. The home where I grew up is three blocks away. These are the streets of my childhood. It is now a crime-ridden very low income primarily African American ghetto. When I was a student at Highland elementary -- the community was largely second generation Portuguese and immigrant Irish. At that time there were probably only 20 or so black families living east of Lake Merritt -- and we were scattered throughout the greater area.
The Del Monte cannery hired most of the women in our community, and later National Biscuit Company. The men were employed by the huge Chevrolet Plant on 73rd Avenue and Foothill Boulevard. The biggest day of the year was Holy Ghost Day celebrated at the Portuguese hall on 71st Avenue with its colorful parades and banquets that involved us all, regardless of race or color. We were big on St. Patrick's Day, as well. We knew nothing of Kwaanza. This was long before Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. It would be years before I'd know of Harriet Tubman, James Weldon Johnson, or Sojourner Truth. I was introduced to Langston Hughes in the school auditorium of Elmhurst Junior High on 98th Avenue when he read his poetry in an assembly. All of this ran through my mind as I listened to the Borodin symphony -- a strange juxtaposition of cultures and memories. How the world has changed.
On this day in Oakland, this auditorium held an audience made up of 75% non-blacks. The huge symphony chorus was all white with a single exception. The youth orchestra was led by conductor Michael Morgan (African American) of the East Bay Symphony. The young people were European-American and Asian with one or two African American kids n the mix. I wondered about that, and why more of our children were not into this music?
Oakland is reputed to be the most racially-integrated city in the nation. That this many white people (there was standing room, only) would attend such a concert in the heart of the black community to listen to symphonic music for an afternoon might be a rarity in middle America, but in Oakland it all works. We truly do celebrate racial diversity -- and we've been at it enough years so that it's now effortless and unself-conscious.
So why then am I still so defiant and insistent upon defining myself racially?
Photo: "Jesus Loves Me" painting by Varnette Honeywood (1983). A gift received long ago from my son, Rick, 1945-1997.
Been thinking about those Nubians ...
It seems highly unlikely that the truth would be so simplistic, but could it be? Is the reason that there is such reluctance to credit black people with having created written language, mathematics, water systems, etc., simply coming from the earliest examples of racial bias? Is it so hard to imagine the greatness of the earliest of scholars coming out of one of civilization's earliest universities at Timbuktu and spreading throughout the known world from the great continent of Africa? Admittedly, the greatest advances came from the African continent from people of color -- but in a scholarly way were discounted because "...those people were not black."
I can hear him now. Bill. Insisting that it was the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, who brought us the beginnings of civilization as we know it (all assumed to be other than black). But what about the contemporaneous social and technological development taking place across the world in the Americas? What about the Inca, the Olmec, and the Maya? And what about Asia; what was going on in China eons ago? Isn't it quite possible that human beings were achieving similar advances in farflung parts of the world simultaneously?
Just because Europeans were the eventual victors in the great human struggles -- and created systems and processes for measuring human progress -- does that necessarily mean that they were right in all instances? The simple naming and creating of categories as a means of understanding human evolution -- isn't it possible -- that those systems and processes simply don't hold up against rapidly advancing humanity?
Having grown up in the "One Drop Rule" world, it is almost impossible for me to not know that everyone who is swarthy of complexion is partly African. It seems so easy for me to understand that those who settled farthest north (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, etc.) are blondest, fairest of skin, with downy covering over their bodies for warmth in the extreme cold of the polar regions. Or that people who settled in the Mediterranean coastal areas and around the Indian Ocean -- were darker-skinned than those farther north in European areas (Germany, England, Slavic regions). All one needs is a color wheel to watch the shadings as they naturally occur from the deep southern hemisphere to the northern polar regions.
How can one accept the reality of Lucy being the "Eve," the first known ancestor of humanity -- excavated from deep in the earth of Kenya -- and not be able to see that civilization sprang from that region as well, and that all human progress evolved through populations of black peoples over the millenia?
The radical changes wrought by populations on the move from the slave trades have done much to change the natural order but it's all there to see. Present-day mobility is completing the cycle of change. People like me and mine may be the beginning of the end of racial designations, I suppose. Race is becoming little more than a political choice. I have no idea what that will mean in terms of how we'll reorganize the world.
By the simple naming of racial groups Europeans have believed it possible to define us -- but always in relation to themselves. The black Sadu of India, the black-skinned Aborigine of Australia, Fiji Islanders, many Middle Easterners, Egyptians, Nubians (yes!), are all described as other than black African in circles we moved in during the university years. That left us with the Ubangis, the Bushmen, the Zulu, etc., who were inevitably depicted in loin cloths carrying spears -- as uncivilized (according to new world standards) and cannibalistic, primitive, taught to say "Bwama" in the presence of the white colonial powers. Having removed all others from the pantheon of the enlightened -- it was assumed that nothing but ill came from those of darker skin.
Great pharaohs of Egypt -- the thousand year dynasties -- great mathematicians and scholars and, yes, scribes were people of blackness but now reclassified under new rules written by the victors, as history has always been documented. (One day I'll have this conversation with Howard Zinn -- "A People's History of the World".)
Not sure this sheds much light on a very complicated age-old problem, but at least it's helped to organize my thoughts for another bout with Tom over the issue. I suppose that his doctorate will cut through my arguments like a machete through warm butter -- but I'll feel better when I've taken a shot at it -- again... .
Photo: oil on canvas painting by an artist (whose name I can't decipher) from Zimbabwe in southern Africa. It hangs on my livingroom wall near the fireplace.
Contrasts can be dizzying if one thinks about it ...
Thinking of how stubbornly I cling to my black ide...
Been thinking about those Nubians ... It seems hi...
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What's on at CCS 28 August - 1 September 2017
Craig McKenzie is presenting
on 31 August
Central Clinical School (CCS) has regular seminar series and postgraduate presentations. Event notices are posted on the CCS Events calendar.
CCS staff and students can see details of both public and local events (including professional development courses, trade fairs and Graduate Research Student calendars) and deadlines, at the CCS intranet's Announcements page
See CCS seminar index: www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/events/seminars.html
Mon 28/08/2017 ► 12:30 Alfred Psychiatry Grand Round Presentation
Tue 29/08/2017 ► 10:00 Department of Diabetes Student Journal Club
► 10:00 Shut up and Write for HDR students and EMCRs from the AMREP precinct
► 11:00 PhD Pre-submission seminar : Mr Jay Hocking
► 13:00 PhD Pre-Submission: Mr Yow Keat Tham
► 14:30 PhD Pre-Submission: Mr Mr Christopher Bain
Wed 30/08/2017 ► 09:00 AMREP- Free student counselling service
► 11:30 Immunology Seminar- Jessica Borger
Thur 31/08/2017 ► 11:30 Cutting Edge Journal Club: Craig McKenzie
► 12:00 The Alfred Grand Round: Kidney transplantation
► 14:00 Eat with an Expert
Labels: forthcoming events, What's On
Video of the week: Diabetes research at Monash
Watch CCS Monash videos
Monash University is delighted to present you with a virtual tour of its new state-of-the-art Diabetes research department. The support of local philanthropists, including current major donors, the Meydan and Jreissati families, is gratefully acknowledged.
Opened by the Honourable Greg Hunt MP, Federal Minister for Health, 23 August 2017, the new research department provides a sophisticated working space for 60 world class scientists, examining 10 critical areas of diabetes research.
With two of Australia’s most prominent diabetologists at the forefront of Monash University’s Department of Diabetes, Professor Mark Cooper AO and Professor Paul Zimmet AO, the university department will become the first and only in Australia dedicated solely to diabetes.
These new facilities will provide exciting opportunities to tackle diabetes and its complications leading to a genuine impact on one of the world’s fastest growing epidemics.
Learn more about the Department of Diabetes, within Monash University's Central Clinical School (CCS) which has a broad range of translational research investigating both causes and clinical therapies for diabetes and its complications, diabetic retinopathy, kidney disease and cardiovascular disease.
Labels: diabetes, Mark Cooper, Paul Zimmet, Video of the week
An Australian first: Monash launches new Diabetes Department
Research in the Diabetes department
Monash University will today officially launch its new Department of Diabetes – the first and only university department in Australia dedicated to the disease.
To be opened by the Honourable Greg Hunt MP, Minister for Health, the new Department is a partnership between Monash’s Central Clinical School in its Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and Alfred Health.
Minister Hunt welcomed the new Department and what it will deliver in finding new cures and treatments for diabetes. “Diabetes is a debilitating disease and serious health issue affecting more than 1 million Australians,” Minister Hunt said.
Labels: diabetes, Greg Hunt, Mark Cooper, Paul Zimmet
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The capacity of wireless networks
by Piyush Gupta, P. R. Kumar - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY , 2000
"... When n identical randomly located nodes, each capable of transmitting at bits per second and using a fixed range, form a wireless network, the throughput @ A obtainable by each node for a randomly chosen destination is 2 bits per second under a noninterference protocol. If the nodes are optimally p ..."
When n identical randomly located nodes, each capable of transmitting at bits per second and using a fixed range, form a wireless network, the throughput @ A obtainable by each node for a randomly chosen destination is 2 bits per second under a noninterference protocol. If the nodes are optimally
Adjusting the Power Consumption of a Solar Energy powered Wireless Network Node in Accordance with Weather Forecasts
by Thomas Mundt
"... Abstract—We present how weather forecasts estimating the solar radiation for the following days at a given location can be used to adjust the power consumption of a wireless network node. The node is powered by a solar panel which recharges a battery. We discuss two methods to adjust the configurati ..."
Abstract—We present how weather forecasts estimating the solar radiation for the following days at a given location can be used to adjust the power consumption of a wireless network node. The node is powered by a solar panel which recharges a battery. We discuss two methods to adjust
Adaptive clustering for mobile wireless networks
by Chunhung Richard Lin, Mario Gerla - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications , 1997
"... This paper describes a self-organizing, multihop, mobile radio network, which relies on a code division access scheme for multimedia support. In the proposed network architecture, nodes are organized into nonoverlapping clusters. The clusters are independently controlled and are dynamically reconfig ..."
This paper describes a self-organizing, multihop, mobile radio network, which relies on a code division access scheme for multimedia support. In the proposed network architecture, nodes are organized into nonoverlapping clusters. The clusters are independently controlled and are dynamically
Minimum energy mobile wireless networks
by Volkan Rodoplu, Teresa H. Meng - IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS , 1999
"... We describe a distributed position-based network protocol optimized for minimum energy consumption in mobile wireless networks that support peer-to-peer communications. Given any number of randomly deployed nodes over an area, we illustrate that a simple local optimization scheme executed at each n ..."
We describe a distributed position-based network protocol optimized for minimum energy consumption in mobile wireless networks that support peer-to-peer communications. Given any number of randomly deployed nodes over an area, we illustrate that a simple local optimization scheme executed at each
Directed Diffusion for Wireless Sensor Networking
by Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Ramesh Govindan, Deborah Estrin, John Heidemann, Fabio Silva - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking , 2003
"... Advances in processor, memory and radio technology will enable small and cheap nodes capable of sensing, communication and computation. Networks of such nodes can coordinate to perform distributed sensing of environmental phenomena. In this paper, we explore the directed diffusion paradigm for such ..."
Advances in processor, memory and radio technology will enable small and cheap nodes capable of sensing, communication and computation. Networks of such nodes can coordinate to perform distributed sensing of environmental phenomena. In this paper, we explore the directed diffusion paradigm
Capacity of Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
by Jinyang Li, Charles Blake, Douglas S. J. De Couto, Hu Imm Lee, Robert Morris
"... Early simulation experience with wireless ad hoc networks suggests that their capacity can be surprisingly low, due to the requirement that nodes forward each others’ packets. The achievable capacity depends on network size, traffic patterns, and detailed local radio interactions. This paper examine ..."
Early simulation experience with wireless ad hoc networks suggests that their capacity can be surprisingly low, due to the requirement that nodes forward each others’ packets. The achievable capacity depends on network size, traffic patterns, and detailed local radio interactions. This paper
Mobility increases the capacity of ad-hoc wireless networks
by Matthias Grossglauser, David Tse - IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING , 2002
"... The capacity of ad-hoc wireless networks is constrained by the mutual interference of concurrent transmissions between nodes. We study a model of an ad-hoc network where n nodes communicate in random source-destination pairs. These nodes are assumed to be mobile. We examine the per-session throughpu ..."
The capacity of ad-hoc wireless networks is constrained by the mutual interference of concurrent transmissions between nodes. We study a model of an ad-hoc network where n nodes communicate in random source-destination pairs. These nodes are assumed to be mobile. We examine the per
Wireless sensor networks: a survey
by I. F. Akyildiz, W. Su, Y. Sankarasubramaniam, E. Cayirci , 2002
"... This paper describes the concept of sensor networks which has been made viable by the convergence of microelectro-mechanical systems technology, wireless communications and digital electronics. First, the sensing tasks and the potential sensor networks applications are explored, and a review of fact ..."
This paper describes the concept of sensor networks which has been made viable by the convergence of microelectro-mechanical systems technology, wireless communications and digital electronics. First, the sensing tasks and the potential sensor networks applications are explored, and a review
Protocols for self-organization of a wireless sensor network
by Katayoun Sohrabi, Jay Gao, Vishal Ailawadhi, Gregory J Pottie - IEEE Personal Communications , 2000
"... We present a suite of algorithms for self-organization of wireless sensor networks, in which there is a scalably large number of mainly static nodes with highly constrained energy resources. The protocols further support slow mobility by a subset of the nodes, energy-efficient routing, and formation ..."
We present a suite of algorithms for self-organization of wireless sensor networks, in which there is a scalably large number of mainly static nodes with highly constrained energy resources. The protocols further support slow mobility by a subset of the nodes, energy-efficient routing
Critical Power for Asymptotic Connectivity in Wireless Networks
by Piyush Gupta, P. R. Kumar , 1998
"... : In wireless data networks each transmitter's power needs to be high enough to reach the intended receivers, while generating minimum interference on other receivers sharing the same channel. In particular, if the nodes in the network are assumed to cooperate in routing each others ' pack ..."
: In wireless data networks each transmitter's power needs to be high enough to reach the intended receivers, while generating minimum interference on other receivers sharing the same channel. In particular, if the nodes in the network are assumed to cooperate in routing each others &apos
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Daraya Tank Raid SF2
George MC posted a topic in CM Shock Force 2 Maps and Mods
About The Scenario This is one for the modern ‘Tread heads’ amongst you! This is a revised version updating the orginal to CMSF2, so you will need the base game CMSF2 to play this. Revised AI Plan using triggers; tweaked map using new CMSF terrain features and updated OOB for both Syrian Army and Rebels. This is SF2 version 2 which has a slightly reduced mission time based on player feedback. The actual scenario is very loosely based on events in Daraya, a suburb of Damascus where rebels from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) have attempted to create a stronghold near Damascus centre. In August 2012, the Syrian Army defeated the rebel forces and took control of the town. After the failed rebel offensive in late July 2012 ,the Syrian army started a campaign against rebels in the Damascus suburb. This, the 2nd Battle of Darayya, is the ongoing battle between the Syrian Army and the rebels in the Damascus suburbs of Darayya. In mid-December when the Army intensified their attacks with heavy shelling and Tanks raids into the city. This scenario depicts an armoured raid, typical of the tactics used by the Syrian Army to seize control of Daraya. You can view the video which shows these raids using footage (often filmed whilst under fire) shot by the rebels Syria - Men versus Tanks in Daraya - The Powerful T-72 Raids So your scenario looks like the scenes in the above film I’d suggest modding your game using the following excellent mods links are to CMODS: Longleft Flank’s Shot up Building; Pete Wenman’s ‘Squalor’ mod; Pete Wenman’s BlackSea favour objects for CMSF2 Map and Scenario Size This is a fairly small map although it’s very built up. Map Size: 720m x 512m Forces: Syrian Republican Guard armour Vs Syrian rebels (combatants and fighters) Best Played As Can be played RT or WEGO. This is best played Blue Vs Red AI or H2H only. There are two RED AI Plans. If playing H2H it is recommended the more experienced player takes the RED side. The scenario is NOT playable as Red VS Blue AI. You can grab it from TSDIII at the following link: http://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/cm-shock-force-2-2/cmsf-2-daraya-tank-raid/ Acknowledgments Many thanks to Buzz, Erwin and Snake Eye at the BFC forum who played through the early Blue Vs Red versions and provided a lot of feedback. Thanks to Lethaface and Sublime who played this H2H and provided excellent feedback in this regard. Thanks also to Slysniper who took the SF2 version for a spin and provided some useful feedback. Cheers Guys! Any comments etc you can email me at georgemc@blowtorchscenarios.com
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Sabres at Dawn AAR - BrotherSurplice vs Rinaldi (H2H)
BrotherSurplice posted a topic in Combat Mission Shock Force 1
Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone. This is an AAR of a PBEM played with the British Forces module of Combat Mission: Shock Force. The scenario is "Sabres at Dawn" - I am attacking with a British light armoured reconnaissance force and @Rinaldi is defending with a Syrian reserve mechanised infantry force. So, without further ado, let's do a quick analysis of the situation. My primary task is to attack and clear a compound known as the "East Yard" approximately 500m to the North-Northeast of my deployment zone. My secondary task is simply to destroy the enemy in the field. I must not suffer over 20% casualties and must have my force "arrayed for future operations", which presumably means I must keep ammunition expenditure to a reasonable level and have as little vehicles immobilised as possible. My force consists of light armour and mechanised reconnaissance infantry, supported by ATGM teams and rotary-wing assets. My enemy is defending positions in and around the East Yard, north of a deep irrigation ditch running west-east across the Area of Operations (AO). Intelligence states that there are no enemy units South of the irrigation ditch. Presumably, given the low quality of my enemy's units, his intent is to hold his position for as long as possible and bleed my forces as much as he can before being eliminated. Enemy forces are estimated to be a platoon-sized force from a reserve mechanised infantry battalion equipped with BMP-1s. It is possible that they may be supported by ATGM teams. Due to my enemy commanding a reserve unit, it is likely that the equipment, training and leadership of his units are of a low quality. However, several things should encourage me to caution. Firstly, my own force is small and very light, designed for reconnaissance, not assaults on fortified positions. The BMP-1 is not a fearsome machine in Shock Force, but even its low-velocity 73mm cannon can easily pop any of my vehicles if it can land a hit. Secondly (and more importantly), Rinaldi is a highly skilled and experienced player of Combat Mission. I myself have very little experience, with only two other PBEMs under my belt (one of which ended prematurely because my opponent got bored, the other of which ended with Rinaldi kicking my teeth in). I can expect my opponent to quickly develop a very clear appraisal of the situation, with great knowledge of the capabilities of both his and my own units. He will likely try and engage me at as short a range as possible to try and offset the advantages that modern optics and firepower give me. He will be on the lookout for any weakness or mistake and will exploit such opportunity ruthlessly. I must be very careful if I am to avoid being severely embarrassed here (doubly so, as Rinaldi takes great pleasure in denigrating the fighting ability of my countrymen ). Now for the terrain. The AO is small, only about 350x600m. To my immediate front and right, the ground is open and rises steeply, before gently falling off to the north. To my left, the ground rises more gently, with an MSR running North-South and a small Orchard running North along the edge of the map. The aforementioned irrigation ditch runs east-west, bisecting the AO. The briefing informs me that the ditch is unfordable, with only two crossing points, designated Tweedledum (to the north-west) and Tweedledee (to the north-east). North of the irrigation ditch, the terrain becomes more complex. There is a small compound immediately North and to the left of Tweedledum, known as the "Tool Houses". North of the Tool Houses there is a gentle hill, designated "Point 228". Immediately North of Tweedledee is my objective, the East Yard, a sprawling compound of one-storey buildings. North of the East Yard is another hill, designated "Point 225". Both Point 228 and 225 are covered in trenches. There is a thick haze covering the AO, the temperature is warm, the ground is very dry and there is a medium breeze blowing from the west. Finally, a view of the AO through the eyes of my enemy. He has some excellent positions to take advantage of, with a large obstacle to his front, the complex semi-urban terrain on his left and right, and elevated fighting positions to his left-rear and right-rear. Now to identify the key terrain (KT) of the AO. The first KT is the hill immediately to the front and right of my deployment zone. This is one of the highest points on the map and will provide excellent sight lines and fields of fire to the North. The second KT is Tweedledum and the Tool Houses. Tweedledum is one of only two points where the irrigation ditch can be crossed and the Tool Houses could provide cover and concealment for forces defending the crossing point. The Tool Houses could be a good place for a forward observation post. The third KT is Point 228. this hill provides sightlines and fields of fire across almost the entire AO, and the reverse slope offers an excellent place to conceal forces, for ambush or counterattack. Any advance towards the East Yard will be enfiladed by fire from Point 228. The fourth and final KT is the East Yard and Point 225. The East Yard is my objective and must be cleared, but is also likely to be the toughest nut to crack. If he so wishes, Rinaldi could hide units deep in this compound as my units approach, before making a potentially devastating point-blank ambush. Point 225 provides good lines of sight over the open ground south of the irrigation ditch and would make another good location for an observation post. Now for a detailed assessment of the force at my disposal. I command a small company-sized force from "A" Squadron of the 9th/12th Lancers. Firstly, we have the Command Troop with the Squadron Leader and Second in Command (2iC) mounted in Sultan APCs. A Tactical Air Controller team is mounted in a Spartan APC and will be directing the fires of a single Apache gunship. Secondly, we have 1 Troop, consisting of four Scimitar light tanks. These little fellows are fast, agile and equipped with a hard-hitting 30mm autocannon. They wield the heaviest firepower of my force but are very lightly armoured, only really able to resist small arms fire. Thirdly, we have the Support Troop, consisting of the command team and four four-man scout teams, all mounted in Spartan APCs. Each scout team has a SAW, a sniper rifle, an under-barrel grenade launcher and three light anti-tank weapons (LAW). These infantry teams will be needed to clear out the East Yard and conduct dismounted reconnaissance, but are all very fragile. This is undoubtedly the most vulnerable but also the most important part of my force. Last, but definitely not least, we have the Guided Weapons Troop, consisting of two Javelin teams mounted in Spartan APCs. Each team has five missiles. The Javelin is an excellent weapon, accurate and very hard hitting. These teams will likely be the best option for knocking out AFVs and other hard targets. Troops thus covered, all that remains is the time; it is currently 0530 and I have 50 minutes to complete my objectives. Phew, so much for a quick analysis! I still haven't really thought much about what my enemy might do or made a tentative plan yet. However, this post is getting rather long so I shall leave that for my next entry. Stay tuned!
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Hello everyone. I haven't posted in a long time and had to actually stop playing for about 2 years due to a project I was starting in "RL". I've been playing some casual H2H games with an old opponent and have been kicking an idea around in my head that I would like to present and get some feedback on. Then, I will start to play-test it. In short, it is a "Unbalanced Scenario Maker". The first page of the rules I will post here as it describes the overall objectives. For those that would like to read the full set of rules, complete with graphs and pictures, here is the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hOp47nNwMofaVM57eFdJE_W7zlRYLCgwmxzCaxl5Xuc/edit?usp=sharing COMBAT MISSION Unbalanced Scenario Maker / Unbalanced “Mini-Campaign” Maker Objective Tired of playing “Perfectly Balanced” H2H scenarios that are basically a contest to see who can capture the most flags? Worried that there is really no way to do otherwise without at least one of the two players knowing what advantage/disadvantage the other player will have? Wish you could decide to “hold the line”, “retreat”, “attack”, “probe” or just “defend” and have that decision affect future battles? This set of rules and simple tools will allow two relatively honest players to “blindly” create and play unbalanced scenarios and simple campaigns without the need for a 3rd party monitor. Players will be unaware of the amount and composition of the enemy forces. Decisions made in one scenario will affect the makeup and positioning of forces for the following battle. Players will have to decide whether it is worth more to “hold the line”, regardless of casualties or, fall back and sacrifice defensive posturing for the next scenario. PLEASE NOTE Objectives will be somewhat ambiguous for scenarios. Each commander will decide what objectives are best for their interests depending on the lay of the land, enemy resistance, and force composition. In the end, the objective is to capture territory … but that may not always necessarily mean “attacking” in each battle. The underlying concept is to attempt to provide more realistic objectives under varying conditions rather than a “perfectly balanced” scenario with “flags to capture”. The online Play by Email “Dice Rolling” site: http://www.pbegames.com/roller/ will be used to keep players honest. What a Player will Need: H2H Gameplay: Experience with PBEM. Quick Battles: Experience with setting up Quick Battles and unit selection by points. Basic Scenario Editing: Only the basics. Like how to set Deployment Zones, Terrain Objectives, Exit Zones and things of that nature. Honesty: The Unbalance Scenario Maker is designed to “Keep Players Honest” and verify their integrity, but there are ways to cheat. Please make sure you find a player whom you trust and whose main objective is to have dynamic, fun play … not just to win. Setup Steps: The setup for each game is divided into two parts. One part will be known and agreed upon by both players. This includes the map, deployment zones, etc … The other part is “secret” and only known by the player using those forces. Each of these steps is discussed in detail in it’s own section. Open Part of Setup: These steps are known and previously agreed upon by both players. Basically, this is the map that will be used for the scenario. Map: Select a Map. Zones: Agree on deployment zones, exit zones and objective zones and edit these onto the map. (More on this below) Sides: Once the map has been set with all zones and VOs, flip a coin to see which player deploys in which zone. Again, via pbegames.com can be used to provide an “honest” coin toss. (More on this below) Secret Part of the Setup: This part is only known by each player. Start Force: 2 six-sided die (2d6) are rolled for the “Start Force” points allotment. These will be the forces that each player starts the battle with. Reinforcement Forces: 2 six-sided die (2d6) are rolled for the “Reinforcement Forces” points allotment. These will be the forces that will enter the battle at a later time. Arrival Time: 2d6 are rolled to see at what time the reinforcements can be activated. This will be the “later time” that the reinforcements will arrive. These are the basic "outline" rules that show the overall idea of the system. The mechanics and details are fully explained in the complete Rules set in the above link. Please feel free to comment, question and suggest. I really enjoyed playing some of the Tiller Campaigns that Noob hosted a few years back. I would really like to capture that style of playing dynamic while still keeping the overall game an easy two-player PBEM system. Cheers!
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I'm looking for some good H2H scenarios to play and was wondering if anyone has tried this one before: http://www.theblitz.org/scenarios/combat-mission-battle-for-normandy/tt3-snafu-what-was-that-did-you-hear-that/b-15.htm?action=scenario&id=3594
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GhostRider3/3 posted a topic in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
Just a fictional meeting engagement Scenario I whipped up. Detailed map with some unique features for H2H play. This H2H Scenario was designed to give both opponets many options and replay ability. Both sides consist of overstrengthed Infantry Companies, some Light Recon units and Armor. The briefing covers when and what the reinforcements consist of briefly and when abouts they will arrive. Both sides have primarily equal forces in skill and numbers with one exception that the German player has about 3 less tanks. This was playtested to somewhat equal out the firepower. The object of course is to do the most damage by the end of the Scenario time while minimizing your own losses. The Map is Large and is a H2H battlefield consisting of Bocage, large fields, forested areas, Urban areas, and many roads, paths to manuever from, giving both players room for manuever, ambush, and plotting out strategy from where to defend, or attack from to wreak havoc on the other player. Version is 3.11 and you will need the Market Garden Module and Vehicle pack. You can find it here. http://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/cm-battles-for-normandy/mortville-and-nuertville/ @ the Scenario Depot III.
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I made this guide to try getting a PBEM off the ground, but I figured I'd post it here if anyone needs it. https://youtu.be/aycy-L8GE3k
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6978607 Sergeant William John Heron
Regiment/Service: 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers (British Army)
Sergeant William John Heron was the son of John and Annie Heron, of Coagh, Co. Tyrone. Sergeant Heron was killed in an action involving A & C Company’s of the 6th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on 27th April 1943. In an attempt to seize high ground in the Gollcah Gully in Tunisia, advancing troops came under very heavy and accurate machine gun and mortar fire as they assaulted crest after crest. The battalion suffered significant casualties in this action.
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CFD Modeling of Laser Guided Deposition for Direct Write Fabrication
J. C. Sheu (a1), M. G. Giridharan (a2) and S. Lowry (a3)
CFD Research Corporation, 215 Wynn Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805, USA, jcs@cfdrc.com
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-624-255
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2011
A computational model for simulating laser-guided particle deposition process is described. This model solves for the transport of gas and particle phases in a fully coupled manner. The optical forces on the particles are evaluated from Mie theory based on local laser intensity. Simulations were performed for different operating conditions of laser power, ambient pressure, and substrate traverse speed. Simulations revealed potential problems such as particle deflected away from substrate due to ambient air current disturbances, substrate overheating, and optical fiber clogging. Possible solutions for these problems are discussed
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NMF Roundup: Laidback Luke remixes Knife Party, Jason Ross and Dabin team up + more
It’s most important day of the week: New Music Friday. With the overwhelming amount of tunes hitting the airwaves today, Dancing Astronaut has you covered with the latest edition of The Hot 25.
After the release of their Lost Souls EP earlier this year, Knife Party have tapped Laidback Luke for a groovy remix of “Death & Desire,” and Jason Ross, Dabin, and Dylan Matthew team up for “One That Got Away.” Wave Racer has released a new single, “This N That” with LunchMoney Lewis, and Martin Garrix links with Dean Lewis for “Used to Love.” Walker & Royce tackle Dom Dolla’s “San Frandisco,” and Hot Since 82 takes it one deeper on “Tilted.” Arty lends his spirited hand to Gorgon City and MK’s “There For You,” and Axwell remixes Halsey’s “Graveyard.” Four Tet’s dingbat-riddled moniker unveils new content, and Nicky Romero, Mike Williams, and Amba Shepherd collaborate on “Dynamite.” REZZ and Malaa take no prisoners on “Criminals,” and Golf Clap deliver their iteration of “Let It Go” by Hood Rich and BRUX. NGHTMRE flexes on an interpretation of Habstrakt’s “The One,” and Herobust cranks up the intensity on “Smoke.” Chime keeps the Halloween spirit alive with “Haunted,” and Modestep sound the “Alarm” on their new single.
As each week brings a succession of new music from some of electronic music’s biggest artists, here’s a selection of tracks that shouldn’t be missed this NMF.
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NMF Roundup: ZHU and The Bloody Beetroots link for ‘Zoning,’ RÜFÜS DU SOL release new set of ‘Solace’ remixes + more
In perhaps one of the biggest collaborations to hit the airwaves on Sept. 6, The Bloody Beetroots and ZHU have teamed up for “Zoning.” RÜFÜS DU SOL have dropped off a new set of remixes for Solace, including an irresistibly groovy one by Hot Since 82. Grimes and i_o unexpectedly deliver “Violence,” and M83 returns with the dreamy “Temple of Sorrow.” Audien and Nevve bring blissful energy to “Buzzing,” and Cashmere Cat reveals “FOR YOUR EYES ONLY.” Arty is on a journey to “Find You” in his latest, and Walker & Royce team up with VNSSA for “Rave Grave.” KOAN Sound’s new EP lands pm Sept. 6, featuring sounds like “Vibrant,” and Claude VonStroke unleashes a new original, “Slink.” Sullivan King has released a two-track EP, and Armin van Buuren and David Hodges link for “Waking Up With You.” Fox Stevenson finally uncovers “Dreamland,” and 3LAU remixes San Holo’s “Lost Lately.”
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Toronto’s Electric Island announces venue change for 2019 season finale
Festival August 22, 2019 0 Comments
Toronto’s Electric Island series is characteristically known for their long-established home on the Toronto Islands. Known for their signature day-into-night outdoor parties on the island, the seasonal event series has faced an imminent challenge threatening their home base.
Leading into their final event of the season, Electric Island has announced their move to Ontario Place’s West Island, a convenient replacement for the long weekend festivities. Keeping in line with their trademark island atmosphere, the new venue offers an improved landscape for the festival infrastructure.
Throughout the summer, the Toronto Island has been affected by record high water levels, causing flooding in certain areas of the land and a temporary suspension of the ferry service to the island’s main beach area, Hanlan’s Point.
The 2019 season so far has seen stunning performances from artists like Bedouin, Hot Since 82 and Seth Troxler during their first three events throughout the summer. The season finale held over the August 31-September 1 weekend brings highly anticipated bookings to the city, including the debut of masked German headliner, Boris Brejcha and the return of Dirtybird kingpin Claude Vonstroke.
GA and VIP tickets are available for purchase here.
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Splash House announces stacked August lineup
Festival June 23, 2019 0 Comments
On the heels of another successful June edition, Splash House just dropped a huge lineup for August. Across three days and three resorts, DJs from multiple facets of dance music will provide an exquisite summer soundtrack.
Topping the bill are Dirtybird boss Claude VonStroke, symphonic house maestro Lane 8, and a special DJ set from Toro y Moi, among others. Some standouts from the rest of the roster are the Eric Prydz prodigy Cristoph and Pat Lok who will surely deliver a set full of diverse vibes.
As always, the party continues into the night all three days at the Palm Springs Air Museum with Hot Since 82, Mark Knight, and Walker & Royce slated to headline throughout the weekend. Check the full August lineup for Splash House below.
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Hot Since 82 teases long-awaited ‘8-track’ album with new single ‘You Are The Light’
UK techno & house star Hot Since 82 will release his album project ‘8-track’ in July, an expanded collection of tracks that he has been working on for over two years. New single ‘You Are The Light’ is the third taste of the album, after ‘Buggin’ and ‘Bloodlines’ already picked up 9 million streams. PRE
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Good Morning Mix: Hot Since 82 delivers fresh BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix
Festival May 15, 2019 0 Comments
Flashback to 2013, the year that Hot Since 82 would make his BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix debut. Pete Tong would go on to share the house music tastemaker’s two-hour effort over the BBC Radio 1 airwaves, to highlight Hot Since 82 as a standout electronic act. A benchmark in the budding career of any aspiring artist, a BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix conveys a clear message: The producer who lands one has what it takes to continue to rise in the intensely competitive modern music market.
That was then for Hot Since 82, who now returns to BBC Radio 1 to curate another Essential Mix for the reputed radio station. Hot Since 82’s 2019 Essential Mix expounds upon the producer’s refined underground sound, to package productions hailing from respected labels like Cocoon Records, Defected Records, and Proton into an undulating two-hours of easy-flowing house music.
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Contest: Electric Island unveils 2019 season lineup + win a pair of season passes
As the impending summer swelter creeps forward, Toronto’s vast suite of electronic events is starting to come into view, most notably the return of the Electric Island series. The 2019 season introduces a selection of techno and house heavyweights, including the return of Dirtybird label-head Claude VonStroke and UK house hero Hot Since 82, in addition to newcomers like lo-fi producer DJ Seinfeld and a DJ set from George Fitzgerald. Electric Island celebrates with events on May 19, June 22, August 10, and closes its term with a special two-day finale on August 31 and September 1.
Marking the inauguration of the summer season, the event series rings in their opening date with headliners Dubfire, Âme and Bedouin, wrapping up an afternoon of hazy melodies with a steadfast of techno and house tunes. Each event reigns support from local and international favorites, including Toronto native Jonathan Rosa and female duo Carrera & Tavares to warm up the crowd amid a profusion of surrounding talent.
Ahead of the 2019 season, Dancing Astronaut is giving away a pair of season passes to the Electric Island events for one lucky winner – valued at over $400. Enter for your chance to win access into all events for you and a friend this summer.
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Ultra Records releases ‘ULTRA Music Festival 2019’ compilation album, featuring ZHU, Black Coffee, Louis The Child, and more
Whether listeners will be basking in the Miami sun, or alternatively watching Miami Music Week and Ultra Music Festival unfold from a distance, Ultra Records ensures that electronic aficionados won’t need to shuffle incessantly to find the songs sure to keep the energy going, from dusk to dawn. Cue—or rather, queue—Ultra Records’ ULTRA Music Festival 2019, a diverse collection of 16 cuts from a selection of top-billed artists, all of which will take the decks at the festival’s 21st iteration, from March 29-31.
With appearances from ZHU, Black Coffee, Louis The Child, SNBRN, Flosstradamus, Hot Since 82, and a wealth of other respected acts, the compilation encompasses the range of genre and sound evident represented on this year’s lineup. In its engagement of an array of different sub-genres and sonic styles, ULTRA Music Festival 2019 is evidence of the electronic inclusivity that has long contributed to Ultra’s status as the world’s premiere electronic music festival.
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Movement shares first phase of 2019 lineup, topped by Chris Lake, Amelie Lens, and Orbital
House and techno titans will unite again atop Detroit’s riverfront Hart Plaza for another Memorial Day weekend segment of Movement Festival. So far, organizers have pulled back the curtain on only a small, yet lustrous, corner of their secured repertoire, including hot-button house authority, Chris Lake, the aptly named, old-school-meets-new-school Hot Since 82, Belgium’s fiercely flourishing techno temptress, Amelie Lens, and local-turned-global rap icon, Danny Brown, who satiates the fest’s longtime affinity for bolstering Detroit-native talent.
The festival, this year pegged for May 25-27 has long acted as a summertime commencement in Detroit–the techno promised land–as well as a harbinger of the annual electronic festival season at large. The 2019 installment will also include a live set from Orbital, who have been a pair of instrumental components in electronic music’s acclimation in both the UK and US fronts since the late ’80s. The upcoming edition will be the duo’s Movement debut, as well as their first live performance in Detroit in nearly two decades.
If last year’s expectation-eclipsing lineup, which included Claude VonStroke, Lee Burridge, Maceo Plex, REZZ, Dubfire, and a face-melting slew of multifarious talent, spanning house, techno, hip-hop, and experimental subsets across the electronic emblem, the ten thus-far-released acts are only a Costco-size sample of what’s to come.
Movement 2019 acts thus far include (in alphabetical order):
CHRIS LAKE
DJ NOBU
FLOORPLAN – LIVE
HEIKO LAUX
ORBITAL- LIVE
STEPHAN BODZIN – LIVE
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Inspiration comes in the most unlikely of places
I'd like to thank the pre-teen series of books called "The Babysitters Club" for helping me become the entrepreneur I am today.
For those of you not a female approximately my age, let me give you a quick rundown on the books. Basically 5 young friends start a business babysitting the kids in their local area. They market, they service clients, they come up with initiatives, they manage junior staff later on down the track. Basically they run the whole gamut of being an entrepreneur and all before they turn 15.
It may not sound too riveting, but as I discovered in a catch up with girlfriends the other day (where every one of us was obsessed with the books) this colourful collection of pre-teen tomes was like heroin to us twenty plus years ago.
While our adult selves might more closely relate (or at least wish we did) to a Carrie or a Charlotte (a'la Sex and the City), our pre-teen selves all had a corresponding character in the Babysitters Club. For those of you familiar with the books you won't find it surprising that everyone immediately pegged me as a "Kristy". She's the creator, the president, the loud and bossy one. Hrmm, ok, it's a fairly close approximation.
But Kristy taught me just as much as some of my favourite business biographies have. She taught me the challenges in managing a team, how to systemise, the importance of structure and order. And what's more, she opened my mind to the fact that running a business was possible at a young age.
Now Kristy and her gaggle of friends might be nothing more than words on a paper, but they helped spark something in me. Something aspirational and something that inspired action in me.
It makes me so thankful as a Mum that my girls (3 years and 8 months) already both love to read. Who knows, they might read the Baby sitters club when they're older and be inspired by Claudia to be an artist instead of following my route! I don't mind - inspiration comes from the most unlikely of places - if you're open to it.
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Researched, complied & edited by Rodney G. Dalton from various sources on the World Wide Web.
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Dublin News-Letter - SATURDAY March the 7th, to TUESDAY March the 10th, 1740
To be SOLD.
THE Printing Materials of Mr. Samuel Dalton, late Printer, at the Entrance of Darby's-square in Warburgh's-street.
There is also a House to be set in Warburgh's-street, and another in Darby's-square. Any one inclin'd to treat for the Printing Materials or Houses, is desired to apply to Mr. Rathborn Mills in Darby's-square.
JAMES DALTON, Bookseller, At the Corner of Bride's-Alley in Patrick-street, SELLS choice pick'd FEATHERS, dress'd after the London Manner, either by Wholesale or Retale, at the most reasonable Rates.
The Dublin Journal - From Saturday May the 19th, to Tuesday May the 22d, 1764.
The Rev. Daniel Hearn, Archdeacon of Cashell, against Edward Dalton, Esq; and Jane Dalton, Defendants.
THE Sale of the Lands of Ballyards, and the Deer-park of Bunrally, in the County of Clare, and the Lands of Doneen, in the County of Limerick, and the House in Limerick, in Possession of John Dobbins, pursuant to the Decree in this Cause, is further adjourned to Friday the 25th Day of May inst at One o'Clock in the Afternoon, at the Exchequer Office in Kennedy's Land, Dublin.
Dated May 11, 1764.
CLANBRASSILL.
The Dublin Journal - Tuesday January the 8th, to Saturday January the 12th, 1750-1.
TO be let and entered upon immediately, a compact, well improved, and divided small Farm, 26 Acres of Meadow and Pasture, and 39 Acres Arable, all choice good Land, with a convenient well built Dwelling-house and Out-offices, Orchard and Garden well planted, all in good and neat Order and Repair, situate in the County of Kildare, 15 Miles from Dublin and 1 from Naas, for the Term of 3 Lives or 21 Years, if the Lives so long last. Christopher Dalton, Public Notary, in Castle-street, Dublin, will treat with any Person inclined to take the same, and appoint a Person to shew the Concerns.- N.B. There are some Plow Cattle and Milch Cows, Brewing Vessels and useful Country Utensils, which will be sold reasonably on the Premises�.
Bath Journal - Monday, April 26th, 1773
To be SOLD,
A GENTEEL BAY GELDING, fifteen Hands High, five years old, rising six, trained particularly for a Whisky, so gentle that any Lady may with the greatest Safety drive him.- Enquire at Mr. Dalton's, Brock-street, Bath.
N.B. To save Trouble the Price is 25 Guineas.
Sussex Weekly Advertiser - Monday, July 31st, 1809.
On Wednesday last, at our Quarter Sessions, an appeal was heard upon a conviction against John Dalton and Joseph Midgley, journeymen hatters, at Oldham, for having entered into a combination to prevent Messrs. Henshaw, Barker, and Co. from employing one Elizabeth Johnson.
Salisbury and Winchester Journal - Monday, February 7th, 1825
On the 25th int. died, at Shanks House, Somerset, in the 73d year of his age, Nathaniel Dalton, Esq. the last of that family, and only surviving representative of the ancient and respectable families of Dyrdoe, Watts, and Joyce. For many years in retirement this gentleman kept up an epistolary correspondence with an extensive circle of acquaintance, and though ever conspicuous for a peculiarity of style and conduct, he possessed a heart accessible to the warmest friendship and sensibility. Endowed with a handsome fortune, he has left behind him many attestations of its liberal use. The erection of a magnificent organ in his parish church of Cucklington a few years since, and settling a liberal stipend for ever upon the organist, was one of his public acts; and whenever a private appeal was made by suffering humanity, his feelings and his purse responded to the call.
The Windsor and Eton Express - Saturday, December 5, 1835.
The Rev. Mr. GORE moved the next resolution, which was seconded by C. DALTON, Esq. The latter gentleman said that no person could have lived long in this town without being thankful for the many charitable institutions which were in it. They had a Dispensary, a Saving's Bank, and excellent National School, and several other institutions, which conferred the most important benefits on the town. Whenever any persons came forward to establish any thing to relieve the bodily wants of the poor they were certain of being successful - [cheers]. The very mention that it was to be for the benefit of the poor was sufficient. But they now came forward on a stronger ground, that of aiding the poor in a moral and religious point of view, and they hoped that the inhabitants of Windsor would aid them in every way they could - [cheers]. Many persons might not be able to render so much assistance as they could themselves wish in regard to augmenting the funds, but there were other ways in which they could render most important services. The ladies could be eminently useful in the establishment, and he felt assured that the ladies would second their efforts. Mr. Dalton here paid a high compliment to the zeal of the ladies in favor of benevolent institutions. He could assure the meeting how deeply the Committee felt the responsibility imposed upon them, but he hoped that they would succeed in placing the institution on the best and surest footing, and that it would confer on the children all those moral and religious benefits which were the aim and object of the promoters of it - [cheers].
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
The Windsor and Eton Express - 13th May 1837
Convict Chase and Capture.
About half-past two o'clock on Saturday afternoon a party of convicts employed in Woolwich Dock-yard; in charge of an officer and a military sentinel - four most determined characters - viz., Thomas Boutel, John Wallace, Thomas Dalton, and John Bannon, all of them very powerful men, particularly Boutel and Dalton, suddenly rushed upon the sentinel , a rifleman, on duty at the west gate of the dock-yard, violently assaulted him, and forcibly took away the rifle. On one of the officers approaching, Boutel, who had possession of the rifle, levelled it at him, and swore that if he came nearer to him he would blow his brains out. The four convicts immediately made their escape by scaling the gate.
Upon breaking out into the London-road, the convicts betook themselves to the brick-fields on the other side. Their ignorance of the localities induced them to climb a steep hill on the centre of Charlton sand pits, thinking it was part of the hanging wood; but finding a ravine of great depth intervened between them, and the only spot by which they could expect to escape, they rapidly descended in the full view of the excavators into the pits. Boutal, abandoning the rifle taken from the Yager, as impeding him, heavily chained as he was, and forced to employ one hand in holding up his fetters, gave it to his young companion Bannon; then squatting down upon his hams, and folding his arms over his knees, he rolled himself, bounding like a ball, down the face of a very steep precipice, fully eighty feet to the bottom, without sustaining any injury. They now struck into an orchard, and forced themselves through the hedge-rows of some gardens on the left, it is supposed with a view of reaching the covert of the large woods on the Eltham side of Shooters-hill, Dalton taking a different line up the face of the assent to the hanging wood, quickly pursued by Steadman, an active officer of the convict police establishment, who had now got sight of him for the first time. The others had, in passing through the gardens in the garb of convicts, with a firelock, alarmed all the inhabitants of that rural and retired spot, Woodland Place, most of whom shut themselves in, and watched from their upper windows the pursuit , which, as the convicts could now be seen crossing a sloping meadow, became exceedingly hot an animated, the yagars discharging several shots at Boutel and Bannon, but without effect. Captain Grove, observing that the convicts were taking different directions, ordered the bugle to sound for his men to extend from the centre with the view to outflank them all. In this was Wallace was captured. The other convicts gained the summit of the hill, crossed a bridle road, and being out of their pursuers struck into a close shaw of underwood and furze, admirably calculated for concealment. Their track was not quite lost, for a hat, shoes, and some articles of dress thrown off to facilitate their flight, continued to be picked up as the soldiers gained on them. In the gorse the proceeded to select a hiding place, and when the troops attained the summit, the convicts were not to be seen. A tinker in the bridle-road, by the bye, a very apt and efficient instrument to release them from their fetters if their escape was pre-concerted, was asked by Steadman, if he had seen anything of the fugitives; but notwithstanding an offer of a present , a crown, for any intelligence, he steadily refused to give that which Steadman believes he had it perfectly and accurately in his power to afford.
Baffled in this instance they soon after obtained intelligence from two boys as to the part of the furze the convicts had been seen to enter. The centre of the corps of soldiers having arrived at this point, Captain Grove ordered the bugle to sound the command to encompass this part of the wood; and so exactly was the order complied with, that had there been a hundred instead of three in the enclosure, they must have all been included in the gradually lessening circle and been captured. The villains were dragged, amidst the exultation of the young soldiers, from their lurking place; the rifle piece recaptured, and they were marched back to Woolwich under a strong guard. It was not without a violent struggle for nearly a quarter of an hour, that Dalton was overpowered in another part of the wood by an officer belonging to the police establishment.
Bannon was dreadfully agitated when he was retaken with the rifle in his possession, and begged hard that they would not shoot him; but Boutel, on the contrary , told the officers and soldiers they might do what they liked with him, and continued to abuse them in the most insulting and revolting language all the way back to the dock-yard. Boutel, a most desperate fellow, is supposed in have been the ringleader of this affair. He has before been transported for burglary, and made his escape from Van Dieman's Land. He has been heard to say that the ship is not built that would ever take him out and that he would rather be hung than be sent abroad again, and that no man should ever take him there again alive.
London, England -(AP)- Nov 19, 1947
Hugh Dalton Gets Support of His Party.
Hugh Dalton, who resigned as chancellor of the exchequer last week after admitting a grave indiscretion� in disclosing budget secrets to a newspaper reported, was given a vote of full confidence Wednesday by the parliamentary Labor party, after Dalton made what he described as a �personal statement� regarding the budget leakage at a closed meeting.
Dalton was succeeded by Sir Stafford Cripps, minister for economic affairs. The vote of confidence said: �This parliamentary party places on record its full confidence in Hugh Dalton and assures him of the high regard in which he is held by his party colleagues�
London, (Special to The New York Times and The Gazette.) Sep 20, 1947
DALTON WARNS OF MORE DRAINS ON U. K. ECONOMY
Predicts New Gold and Dollar Deals and Calls Them �Danger Signals�
Calling Britain�s sale of gold to the United States from her reserves and her purchase of dollars from the International Monetary Fund this week �danger signals,� Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said today that there will be more sales of gold and there may well more purchases of dollars from the fund.�
These, Mr. Dalton warned at a press conference at the end of a day of London conferences on Britain�s financial crisis, would be �further danger signals to all concerned to play their full in productive effort and civic sacrifice.� Saying he had been told that some persons thought that suspension of convertibility of sterling meant that the dollar crisis was at an end, Mr. Dalton stated emphatically, �it did not mean anything of the kind.� One acute phase was ended by suspension of convertibility of sterling, he said, but add, �the dollar crisis continues and will continue, though we hope with diminishing intensity until we are living within our dollar income.�
Sales of gold and purchases of dollars, Mr. Dalton declared, are danger signals, not for Britain alone, but for the �whole sterling area,� because there is one common pool of gold and dollar reserves within the British Commonwealth.
The first Empire round-table discussion of the mutual danger and the general financial position� of the sterling area took place today. An official announcement said that the meeting was attended by representatives of the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Eire, India, Pakistan and Southern Rhodesia. � Further meeting between experts are being arranged,� the statement concluded. Mr. Dalton, who presided, said later that the conference considered in preliminary fashion how to defend sterling from a continuing heavy dollar drain.� This checking of the dollar drain, he added, can only be done by spending less dollars and by earning more dollars. There is no other way to do it.� How this in turn can be done is, he said, being studied by Commonwealth discussion a well as at today�s Anglo-Irish talks, which reached agreement on broad lines of new trade arrangements.
Eamon de Valera. Premier of Eire, was warmly cheered by a large crowd outside of No, 10 Downing street when he arrived for his first visit to London in nine years. Shouts of Good Old Dev� and the old Irish battle cry �Up Dev� were heard. For a few moments police had some difficulty in restraining the friendly enthusiasm of hundreds of onlookers. Mr. Dalton, at his press conference, said the British discussed with Mr. de Valera �how Britain and Eire could go further than they were doing now and had recently gone to meet each other�s need by mutual adjustment and purchases, and how we could co-operate to reduce the dollar drain.� Asked whether in his talks with John W. Snyder, United States Secretary of the Treasury, he had discussed the possibility of interim aid from the United States to Britain before the Marshall plan could take effect, Mr. Dalton was evasive, but he said his talks had been �very broad� and had covered all kinds of subjects.� Mr. Dalton emphasized several times during his long conference that Britain was �in a very serious position.� He stressed the growing danger of more unemployment and of lower living standards while Britain was �fighting the battle of balance of payments.�
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Storeroom Sermons of David Chadwell
The Agony of Change
Everything changes! Ask anyone 60 or above, and they will confirm that truth. For generations, the American elderly have talked about "the good old days." Mostly, when we talk about "the good old days" we talk about pleasant childhood memories.
With serious, honest reflection, the old days were not so good from one perspective. What is good about outhouses, no running water (of any temperature) in the house, wood-burning cook stoves, houses with little or no insulation, long hours of hard work, no safety rules, very limited medical help, lower life expectancies, and a constant struggle against poverty?
I am not a big fan of technology. Computers mystify me. Modern vehicles confuse me. I still understand repairing instead of throwing away and getting a new one. I am freaked out by systems that understand me better than I understand them. The availability of far more information than I can master intimidates me.
Do not get me wrong! I love microwaves! I greatly enjoy fast hot water! The comfort of modern vehicles is astounding! Our current standard of living is wonderful! Air conditioning is awesome! Quick information is addicting! Medical options are incredible!
When change occurs, it always is a combination of the desirable and the frightening. Religious change always challenges Christians to be a people of faith in God rather than a people of anxiety.
Have you ever taken the time to consider the changes confronting Christians in the first century?
Consider the Jews who became Christians.
They came from a focus that said the nation of Israel is all that concerned God to an understanding that all people were of concern to God (consider Genesis 12:3--all families of the earth; Jonah 4:10, 11--Should I not have compassion on Ninevah; Isaiah 42:6, 49:6--a light to the nations or Gentiles; Matthew 28:19--all the nations).
They came from the concept of holy geography [the city of Jerusalem from the time of Solomon] (Deuteronomy 12:5, 11, 13, 14; 1 Kings 9:3) to the concept that the whole world is God's and appropriate for worship.
They came from the concept of a priesthood (Exodus 28:1-4; Numbers 18:7) to the concept of a community of priests (1 Peter 2:9, 10).
They came from a controlling high priest (Leviticus 16) who represented them before God to Jesus Christ (Hebrews 9:11,12).
They came from a temple which was the only site of sacrifice and a place of prayer (see 1 Kings 8:27-53) to the concept that their bodies were God's temple (see 1 Corinthians 6:19, 20).
They came from a concept of national worship in one geographical place (Deuteronomy 16:16) to a concept of personal worship with no national center (Revelation 3:4).
They came from an emphasis heavy on structured ways to an emphasis on committed hearts.
Those are enormous changes!
Consider the idolatrous gentiles who became Christians.
They came from a faith that there were many gods to acknowledge and not offend, to an understanding there was only one actual, living God (Acts 17:22, 23; 1 Corinthians 8).
Most of them came from understandings that regarded anger, lying, drunkenness, stealing, and sexual exploitation as morally acceptable to an understanding that declared all those things were immoral.
They came from acknowledging all temples as sacred places to an understanding there were no physical temples or sacred places.
Many changes that create in us great anxiety are small in comparison to those changes!
Learning how to combine gentile believers in the resurrected Jesus Christ with Jewish believers in Jesus Christ was an enormous challenge!
To increase our understanding of their problem, it would be as demanding as combining former Caucasian adulterers, former African-American pimps, and former Hispanic alcoholics into an established congregation that ignored members who used meth.
The variety of needs would be enormous!
The only common thing all those people would have is faith in Jesus Christ.
The challenge would be enormous--and only possible through God's grace!
Again, if you think this is an exaggeration consider carefully Acts 15:1-29.
Paul and Barnabas just returned to Antioch (a gentile congregation) that sent them on their journey into principally gentile areas (Acts 131-3)
Often in their work, they first went to a synagogue (the Jewish place of Sabbath assembly) and then to the gentile community.
For an example, consider Acts 13:16-49.
The "men of Israel" were Jews.
"You who fear God" were gentiles.
Gentiles engaged in serious study of Judaism were welcome to attend Jewish synagogues.
What Paul and Barnabas found upon returning to Antioch shocked them.
Some Jewish Christians from Judea told the gentiles Christians in Antioch that they could not be saved (forgiven of sins) unless they were circumcised as a Jewish religious practice.
Paul and Barnabas strongly confronted these Christians, but they could not settle the issue.
All decided the matter must be referred to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem. The first recorded instance of using outside resources?
On the way from Antioch to Jerusalem, Paul and Barnabas reported in gentile areas the conversion of gentiles.
They reported in detail.
The end result was "great joy."
In Jerusalem, Paul and Barnabas reported all God did through them to the apostles and elders.
Some converted Pharisees insisted that gentile converts had to be circumcised and observe the law of Moses in order to be Christians--it was "necessary."
The apostles and elders called a meeting to be dedicated to discussing this issue of gentile conversion (the Jews [before Jesus] converted gentiles to Judaism--such was known as making proselytes. See Matthew 23:15.).
The meeting:
The meeting resulted in "much debate"--it was an emotional, contested matter that definitely contained two strong opinions.
Finally, James quoted from the Old Testament prophets verifying God's interest in the gentiles.
He declared it was not necessary for gentile Christians to be circumcised and keep the law of Moses.
He said gentile Christians should observe four Jewish standards--not to eat things given to idols, not to commit fornication, not to eat strangled things, and not to eat blood.
He affirmed Jewish Christians should not be concerned about the teachings of the law of Moses because those teachings were emphasized every Sabbath in synagogues.
As Paul affirmed (15:11), gentiles must depend on God's grace for salvation just like Jews must depend on God's grace for salvation.
A letter was sent to gentile congregations verifying the Jerusalem decision not to place Jewish practices on gentile Christians.
Gentiles were saved by God's grace just as were Jews.
Gentiles did not have to accept Jewish practices to be saved.
As you will see from scripture, this Jewish decision in Jerusalem did not end this highly controversial, highly emotional issue--Jewish converts to Christ and gentile converts to Christ were just too different in their behaviors. (Their cultures and backgrounds clashed.)
The Jerusalem Christian Leadership understood more about God's concerns than did many Jewish converts.
Just like today, a decision made by informed people with evidence from scripture did not end the matter.
Just like today, personal preferences and expectations were superior to God's intent stated by scripture.
Just like today, there were people more concerned about their fears than God's declarations.
Solutions are never as simple as making an announcement.
We do not quickly turn loose of matters we feel passionate about.
There is no substitute for understanding God's character and concerns in reforming our passions expressed in our desires.
Consider some things you should notice in Acts 15:
Paul, Barnabas, and the Christians at Antioch felt no shame in seeking help beyond themselves when they could not resolve a matter.
The meeting the Jerusalem elders called was open to all factions and views--it was not an announced decision enforced on uninformed people.
It was a meeting dedicated to one matter.
James, who was in charge of the meeting:
Recognized God at work where God was at work--even when God's work was unpopular with one group of Christians.
Understood God's purpose and kept the focus on God--not human preferences.
Refused to let anxiety determine the outcome and the course taken.
Asked gentiles to exhibit their faith in Christ by their behavior--live consistently with their new moral understandings.
Included the "whole church" in the decision to send a letter to gentile congregations.
Focused on the positive and the encouraging.
In every generation there will be something to learn and understand. The problems and challenges of one generation will not be the problems and challenges of the next generation. The conclusion of any age group that says: "We already addressed that so it does not need to be discussed or understood," or "Just accept the conclusions of the past and you will not have that problem," solve nothing.
The solution to challenges must always arise from mutual respect because we all are in Christ. Never seek a solution by questioning and destroying people's confidence in Christ. The effects of character assassination produce consequences that last a long, long time.
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Western Segment Open House
Thank you for attending the Western Segment Open House on March 28, 2019. For those of you who missed it, the presentation is here:
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The tunnelled section between Brentcliffe Road and Black Creek Drive is complete, and last year, construction activities began at all 15 underground stations including Kennedy Station. The preparatory works at the at-grade portion of the line, between Brentcliffe Road and Kennedy Station, also started this summer. Since the end of school, many work zones have been set up for construction and some major intersections along Eglinton Avenue have changed.
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Tunnelling for the Crosstown: What you may experience
As you know, tunnelling continues on the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) project as we build the underground portion of the future transit line.
The tunnel boring machines (TBMs) operate around the clock - 24 hours a day, seven days week. On average, they each travel about 10 metres per day. Our TBMs are working about 20 metres below ground, but we do sometimes hear from nearby residents who may experience vibration from the TBMs as they pass through the area. Read more »
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Eglinton Avenue West and Little Boulevard.
What: Traffic will be shifted to the north lanes near the intersection of Eglinton Ave West and Little Boulevard. During this shift, Little Boulevard will be reopened to traffic.
Where: With the reinstatement of Eglinton Avenue West in this area, a construction zone will occupy the south lanes while traffic on Eglinton Avenue West will continue to be one lane in each direction in the north lanes. Read more »
Eglinton Crosstown Construction Update
Metrolinx is making progress on the Crosstown project. Construction of a launch shaft east of Brentcliffe Road is complete and assembly of two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) is nearing completion. Utility relocation and headwall construction along Eglinton Avenue East between Brentcliffe and Bayview started in January 2014. Some works along the road have been completed and others are progressing well. The Crosstown Team appreciates the patience of our neighbours while we work to build transit. Read more »
Eglinton Crosstown Line Station and Stop Names
The Eglinton Crosstown Project is building the Eglinton Line, a 19-kilometre light rail transit (LRT) line that will run along Eglinton Avenue through the heart of Toronto, with a 10-kilometre underground tunnel in its central section. When it’s complete, the line will connect Mount Dennis in the west to Kennedy Road in the east, and will be up to 60% faster than bus service today. Read more »
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U.S. Open: Tiger Woods fights, scrambles, putts to a 1-under 70
Josh Dubow | The Associated Press
Published on June 14, 2019 | Updated 8:07 a. m.
Tiger Woods reacts after a bad tee shot on the fifth hole, which he double-bogeyed Thursday in the first round of the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, Calif.
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Tiger Woods slammed his club, kicked at the sand and cursed at himself as several shots from the tee and bunker went awry on the back nine at Pebble Beach.
Thanks to some clutch putting and sound strategy, Woods managed to prevent any of those mistakes from turning into bogeys and finished under par in a round at the U.S. Open for the first time in seven years. Woods finished with 11 straight pars for a 1-under 70 on Thursday, leaving him five shots behind leader Justin Rose.
“It’s typical Pebble Beach where the first seven holes you can get it going, and then after that you’re kind of fighting and kind of hanging on,” Woods said. “I kind of proved that today. I had it going early and had to fight off through the middle part of the round and hung in there with pars. Very pleased to shoot under par today.”
Woods had his only birdies on the front nine, connecting on the fourth, sixth and seventh holes where the course is easier than it is on the back nine. What prevented this from being better was the one hole Woods couldn’t save himself on.
Caught between clubs at the par-3 fifth, he hit a 6-iron way left. The ball bounced on the cart path and went even farther away from the hole. He pitched it back through the green, chipped past the pin and missed a 10-footer for bogey.
“A terrible tee shot,” he said. “I was in between clubs. I wasn’t committed to hit a 6-iron. I know from playing the practice rounds that I probably should hit 7 because I can hit it 15 yards short of the green, and there’s a little shelf there that will funnel the ball onto the front part of the green.
“And I hit a terrible shot, but the second shot was good. But the mistake was the third shot, and I hit it above the hole. And a simple little pitch shot, if I leave it 10 feet below the hole, easy shot, move on with the bogey.”
Woods erased that mistake with two straight birdies and then avoided any more bogeys by making sure any errant shots the rest of the way were left below the hole where the putts are much easier to convert.
Woods missed a shot far to the right on 13, dropping his club and cursing in frustration but managed to hit his third shot from short of the green to 5 feet and made par.
Then on the par-5 14th, Woods hit his second shot into the greenside bunker. His bunker shot went into the rough on the other side of the green, leading him to slam his club and kick the sand. He then chipped it 30 feet past the hole but made that putt as well, leading to his biggest fist pump of the day.
Woods then made par on the final two holes after ending up in the bunker to complete a round that included 11 one-putts.
“It’s just fighting it out and grinding it out,” Woods said. “But I still say that it’s important to miss the ball in the correct spots. And, granted, I made a few putts today, but they were all uphill. Hitting the ball in the correct spots, if I happened to not feel comfortable with a number, dump the ball 30, 40 feet, move on about my business.”
Woods is a three-time winner at the U.S. Open. He won by a record 15 shots here in 2000, again two years later at Bethpage Black and then in a 19-hole playoff against Rocco Mediate in 2008 at Torrey Pines.
He had top-10 finishes the next two years, including a tie for fourth at Pebble Beach in 2010, but has had little success at this tournament of late. Since shooting an opening-round 69 in 2012 at Olympic Club, Woods had failed to break par in 11 straight rounds heading into Thursday.
He missed three of the past five U.S. Opens with injuries and missed the cut the last two times he played in 2015 and ’18.
But after ending a more than decade-long drought by winning his 15th career major at the Masters earlier this year, Woods hopes to get back in contention at a course he has enjoyed success at in the past.
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U.S. Open: Pebble Beach is beautiful but it won't be easy
U.S. Open: Back at Pebble Beach, Tiger Woods smiling and thinking about historic win in 2000
Golf: Tiger's Masters win brings Jack back into conversation, as majors record again looks reachable
Doug Ferguson: Tiger Woods is back ... and so are the high expectations
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Mobile decoders also can be broken out into three sub-categories, function, sound, and combination function/sound. They all share the common use of being installed in rolling stock of some type.
How do DCC Functions operate?
A function decoder will respond to commands to switch on or vary a voltage. Very simple (cheap!) and older decoders may have as few as two functions and are typically employed to vary the locomotive speed and direction. More sophisticated decoders can have four or more functions which allow customized control of lighting or other electronic controls for rolling stock. A typical four function controller can also provide special locomotive lighting effects such as a Gyro-light headlamp by programming. Mobile decoders with more functions can add cab strobes or flashing ditch lights as well as controlling internal passenger car lighting or caboose and locomotive obstruction lights, firebox effects and interior illumination.
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How does DCC Sound work?
Prototype trains are large, noisy pieces of machinery. As modelers, we strive for accuracy and authenticity on our layouts, and one of the best ways to do this is to add sound simulations to rolling stock – especially locomotives. Crude steam whistle effects have been around almost as long as electric trains have existed, but the advent of DCC and mobile sound decoders have really given us a new dimension to our operations. DCC sound decoders are available for virtually any size locomotive that is large enough to provide a sound resonating space inside the loco or tender body. Sound quality can be excellent and depends on both the bit resolution of the pre-recorded sounds (the more bits, the more true to life the sound will be), and the size of the speaker and space in the locomotive. Sound used to be limited to the larger HO steam locomotives and the bigger scales; now there are an increasing number of N scale locos that are coming from the factory pre-equipped with sound decoders and speakers.
What DCC sounds are available?
Sound isn’t just limited to bells and whistles, either. These days, air brakes, radio dispatch calls, steam blow-down, chuff, and diesel engine sounds are all on the menu, and as if that weren’t enough, many sound decoders are capable of being dynamically loaded by computer with additional or new sound programs.
Sound decoders must be considered when you size your power booster system. A typical sound decoder can add as much as an additional half amp to the load your locomotive will draw. Where your system might operate a half dozen locomotives equipped with non-sound decoders at the same time, adding sound might limit your simultaneous operation to three or four.
Is it hard to add sound to a DCC equipped loco?
Adding sound to an existing DCC equipped locomotive can be a challenge. Space is at a premium in most locomotive bodies, and you not only have to find a place to stash the decoder itself, you need to find a space for the speaker. This has led to the development of decoders that are multi-function with sound AND operating functions combined in the same decoder. This is the more expensive way to go, but might be the only route to add sound to that small switcher that shunts cars around your yard.
Cost is also a consideration. Typical sound decoders hover in the $40 to $140 US range, with the higher priced decoders typically offering higher sound quality and the ability to upload different sound files should you decide to move your decoder to a different loco, or merely add more and different sounds. Some of the more popular decoders are manufactured by Digitrax, Soundtraxx, and LokSound and OSI.
DCC Decoders Everywhere
All of our discussion so far has been about mobile decoders and their capabilities and use. Decoders have also jumped off the train and onto the layout, so to speak, in order to remotely control nearly any device or effect. This decoders are called accessory or stationary decoders.
What are Stationary DCC decoders used for?
The primary use of stationary decoders today is to control turnout machines. There are two general types of turnout machines available today, solenoid driven such as Atlas Snap Switches and motor driven such as Tortoise. Within each type there are single and twin coil solenoid drivers and either a stall motor or voltage cutoff motor type. Which you chose and use depends on your choice of turnout and vendor.
Decoders of all types are programmable devices and stationary decoders are no different. Recently, their programming has become sophisticated enough to sense a turnout condition and train approach such that it is not possible for a locomotive to enter an improperly aligned turnout and derail or cause a short circuit. They will automatically line the turnout properly and allow the train to pass without difficulty.
What about DCC operation?
One of the biggest advantages of equipping a layout, especially a large one, is the ability for the engineer to control the turnouts from a handheld throttle as he follows the train around the layout. This makes for convenient operation if operating alone, or in an environment where the train would need to be stopped and the turnout thrown manually.
When computer control is added, such as through JMRI, automatic route setup and sequencing becomes a matter of a few minutes of programming a train movement and clicking to activate it. The complicated wiring of a large dispatcher’s panel from years ago can be eliminated in favor of a computer graphic representation of icons and maps, with train location and status updates displayed instantly.
Stationary decoders can be either powered from the track or via a separated DCC command and power bus. For layouts with only a few turnouts, powering from the track is a convenient method, although you must be aware of how the switch machine operates. For example, a stall motor switch machine decoder will require constant power, which needs to be considered in the overall sizing of the DCC system. A solenoid decoder will require a short burst of high current to operate the turnout, then be idle until the next time the turnout is moved.
How much do decoders cost?
Stationary decoders are generally found in about the same pricing space as mobile decoders. The cheapest single turnout decoders start at about $15 US and go up to $50 or so. Decoders are available that will operate multiple turnouts from a single decoder. Although these tend to be on the higher end of the scale, the multiple turnout addressing capability makes them very cost-effective in the long run.
The radio control modeling community has used small inexpensive servos for years to control flight surfaces and steering of vehicles. Recently, some stationary DCC decoders have become available configured especially to drive RC servos. At about 1/3 to ¼ of the cost of the typical stall motor switch machine, this is an attractive option as well. The major drawback of servo controlled turnouts is that servos are not designed to operate continuously in a stalled condition. Turnout machines such as the Tortoise hold the switch points in place with motor torque, but a servo motor needs to have power removed to prevent damage once the desired position is achieved.
Although stationary decoders are mostly used for controlling turnouts, Traintek has an interesting device called and Aux-box which is essentially a DCC-controlled electronic switch. It has up to 12 switched circuits that can be combined in groups if desired to offer SPST, SPDT, DPDT, or other more sophisticated current switching functions for control of other layout items. These can be features such as operating lift or draw bridges, turntables, sawmills and pumps. In short, anything that can be turned on and off with a switch or a relay can be controlled with the Aux-Box. Such capability is a bit pricey; the list price for that Aux-box is about $160 US.
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THE TRADITIONAL LAB PROCESS
When a cinematic release is shot on film, whatever format chosen, typically 35mm, up until recently the process to the cinema has remained unchanged. After developing the camera negative, ‘rush prints’ are struck and viewed to make sure the crew captured the required action. This is to check there were no mishaps on the shoot. The production may have moved on several days by the time the rush print returns to the director. He or she may have to rely on someone else’s judgement that all has been captured. If a set has to be dismantled or the crew has moved location a re-shoot can be a costly affair. Where as ‘pick-ups’ can be a relatively minor shot filmed or recorded after the fact to augment footage already shot, costing less to the production.
An initial optical grade may be done on these rushes to ‘normalise’ the image for viewing and for editing purposes. These rushes are compiled into what we would recognise as the final film, known as the ‘work print’. The original negative is only then finally cut to this ‘work print’, which in itself is risky because if you make a mistake at this stage you will never be able to recover that cut frame, because you can never rejoin the cut invisibly. The work print essentially provides a cutting list.
Along the edge of each negative (also the work print) is a unique numbering, or keycode. Keycodes are unique to every piece of film. They are exposed into the raw stock at manufacture, which only become visibly during processing. Through these codes any individual frame can be identified within the production. Precise matching is made using a dual gang synchronizer, the work print running alongside the negative and visually comparing the action and these keycodes.
From this edited negative an inter positive (IP) is struck which is usually known as the safety copy, in case of damage to the original. Then an inter negative is struck which has no splices and has scene-to-scene grading corrections which can then be printed at high speed as a ‘one light’ which finally produces the print we view at the cinema.
It is useful to note that that these copies incur quality losses, so some detail of the original negative is lost, something that the Digital Intermediate process does not.
Colour Grading Lab Style
Film is shot under many conditions and differences in light. Film density in the raw film stock and exposure needs to be evened out to provide continuity between scenes back to back. They may have been shot days apart, on different locations or it may simply have become overcast part way through the days shoot. Even pick-ups months apart may all have a different hue, due to developing differences (the bath may be slightly different), different film stocks, lens or even a different filter can change the look. Negatives must be graded, sometimes referred to as colour timing or what we think of as colour correction.
Traditional optical lab work only allows the overall balance and density to be changed. Individual colours in an image using optical grading techniques cannot be fettled without affecting the entire image. Without explaining the full logistics of how an optical printer works, the basic idea is that the full white printing light is separated in to its individual red, green and blue components. Each of which is passed through a light valve to adjust the intensity before recombining the sources at the printing gate. These valves are opened and closed by fractional amounts, letting controlled amounts of light through which are known as printer settings or lights.
The printer lights are determined during the grading session before printing. A change in one single point of colour will be barely perceptible. If a negative is overexposed by one stop in the camera, it takes approximately +7 printer points to correct for this. Another point, which can cause confusion, grading corrections work in reverse of how you would think, adding two points green actually removes green. Confused – well it’s not easy and can be truly seen as an art form in its own right.
Grading ultimately cannot compensate for under-exposed negative, and some shadow detail will be lost however much the print is lightened – some may refer to this as becoming ‘milky’.
It should also be noted the tolerance in projection standards around the globe will affect the look anyway, due to the intensity of the light source. Even down to the glass separating the auditorium from the projection room will change the colourimetry!
Some labs use a computer to log these printer light changes on every scene, using the frame count cue (FCC) these trigger points, cue the mechanical changes in printer lights. However some still use punch paper tape that runs alongside the film, as the name suggest punched holes trigger these printer light changes, it sounds archaic but the system has proved extremely reliable.
Remember when we are watching theatrical releases at the cinema via an optical projector, even though the film has gone through a DI process, we are still reliant on the lab to produce the final print runs.
The move towards DI away from the optical process’ of old is pretty much the standard work flow now.. Most films you see in the cinema will have been through a Digital Lab. The process allows a far more creative, controlled, flexible and intricate style, compared to optical grading. Plus films are rarely viewed in a ‘film only’ environment now. Chains and many independent cinemas, with the help of the Arts Alliance (UK) have ivested to go digital. Films are delivered on a hard drive, which are ingested onto a server (large hard drive) or downloaded to the server and then projected as a high quality image via streaming media through a digital projector, thus alleviating the expensive option of going back to film. Although I suspect traditional deliverables will still demand an optical copy. This is a compelling argument in itself to take your production through the Digital Intermediate route.
At some point if the project is captured on film it needs to be scanned or telecined for multiple formats to be struck from this master. D-Cinema, High Definition, DVD and a myriad of television standards will be struck from the Digital Intermediate master timeline. Many labs now are offering the full DI route as well as the standard lab optical process' offering a 'one stop shop' under one roof.
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Dark Suns - Orange (2011)
Band: Dark Suns
Country: Leipzig, Germany
Style: Progressive Rock/Jazz-Rock
Label: Prophecy Productions
This is an album I knew nothing about until I actually saw it on a couple sites, I didn't even know Dark Suns was working on a new album. Back when I was going through my initial progressive death metal phase, starting with Opeth and moving outwards, Dark Suns was one of the bands that definitely stuck out to me. In all honesty, I had thought the band might have broken up.
While Dark Suns was definitely a band that never made the same album twice, all three of their prior albums was an interesting take on progressive metal, I don't think anyone expect this album. As soon as the album opens, you as a listener will enter into a world devoid of most metal influences. This is an album which embraces the sounds of early and vintage progressive, psychedelic, and jazz rock, much like what albums from Opeth and Steven Wilson did earlier this year. Sounds coming from the likes of King Crimson, The Soft Machine, and Still Life are all bleeding out from the band on here, and whether you love it or hate it, it will certainly leave an impression on you.
I know the retro-prog sound is kind of getting a boost this year thanks to bands like these guys and Opeth really just taking a chance and removing most metal from their sounds, but I have to say that just like Opeth, these guys pulled it off in my opinion. Maybe it's just because I actually like music from the 60s and 70s a lot so I'm a lot more inclined to like this sort of album more than others but I think it's pulled off well. The vintage, barely distorted guitars that litter the record, the sedated organs that pump through nearly every track, and the occasional bursts of horns that just bring a sense of vitality to the album are all instances of a band taking a chance. A lot of these songs are also some of the shortest that the band has ever released, with the first half of the album's songs dwelling within the three minute frame. It's on songs like these where the band are throwing a more concise and melodic sound at you, the second half of the album, in my opinion, is more of a progressive listen. Not that they've made use of growling too much after their first full-length, but this album features the best vocal performances from Niko Knappe, also on drums, yet. His vocals go from a nice and relaxed sort of croon to King Diamond-esque falsettos, hear That Is Why They All Hate You In Hell. His use of harmonies is also a lot more developed, on Vespertine I hear a bit of Queen, but that might just be me. I enjoyed the horns on here as well, and I'm not usually a fan of brass instruments, but I think they added a nice flair to the album and I kind of wish the band had used them a little bit more throughout the album.
It's certainly not a record that everyone will enjoy, but like I said above, I'm kind of predisposed to liking this sort of stuff. While I do think there are some songs that are better than others, as a whole, it works. Definitely check it out if you're interested in a sort of retro-prog and jazz-fusion record.
Highlights: Eight Quiet Minutes, Ghost, Antipole
I am listening to tis band and album for the first time right now. Props on the well written review. I agree completely on the highlights. Great work and I will now bookmark your blog.
Top 50 - Albums of 2011
Top 10 - 2011 EPs
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The Ash Eaters - The Cruel Side EP (2011)
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Kólga - Demo (2012)
Band: Kólga
Country: Traverse City, Michigan
Style: Raw/Atmospheric Black Metal
Label: Lundr
Ah yes, finally I can talk about the demo release from the newest-ish project from Austin Lunn of Panopticon, Kólga. This demo was first announced around the middle of last year (I believe) and has been delayed and delayed much to my dismay and was finally released last month. This three song debut from Austin, along with Jack Hannert of Seidr and Marty Rytkonen of Charnel Valley, proves to be everything I expected it to be and more, which should give you an indication of how I feel about it right away.
If you're familiar with Austin's work with Panopticon within the last couple of years, the sounds you'll encounter on this demo shouldn't surprise you. What the three songs on here bring to the table are essentially an extension of what he did on his second split with Wheels Within Wheels or the on 2010's compilation On The Subject of Mortality, it's the post-rock and shoegaze influenced black metal that isn't so much blackgaze as much as something between the modern post-rock influenced/post-black metal groups and more classic atmospheric black metal groups. As much as I love his stuff, this isn't just Austin's project, and Harnnert and Rytkonen do help to bring a different flare to the record that does separate it from Panopticon. The sound on here is closer to more modern post-black metal than what I mentioned above for Panopticon, but it's more raw and cold sounding. Due to how raw the recording is, and it's been a product that has, in my opinion, hindered Lunn's work in the past, the drums stand out and are quite loud in the mix and can overpower some of the quieter moments on the record. Having said that, to say that the drums ruin the record would be false and beauty can always be found within each track, no matter how loud the drums are, it always shines through.
Nothing super original here but performed and written in as expected high quality. It's a solid debut that definitely has the potential to grow into something far stronger and more interesting if the trio decide to keep the project going. If you happen to be a fan of post-black metal or black metal that is focused more on atmosphere, do yourself a favor and look into this quickly.
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TikTok quietly picked up the assets of GeoGif, which created animated, location-specific overlays for video
Video sharing app TikTok passed 1 billion downloads last month, and its parent company ByteDance is ramping up its efforts to monetize those users with ads, while also continuing to add more features to the app to keep people engaged. In a move that could help both of those efforts, ByteDance has made a small acquisition, picking up the assets of a defunct startup called GeoGif, which developed location-specific, animated stickers and overlays for videos, suggested to users when they capture video or images in specific places.
It seems that the location-based, animated element of what GeoGif built is the key part of what might be coming soon to TikTok, since the app already had a range of visual and audio filters and stickers to alter appearances and your voice, or just to embellish and further personalize your video.
Here’s the general gist of what GeoGif can do for a video if you are, for example, in Miami for Spring Break. (Note: This is not the greatest example given the naff and objectifying subject matter, but it’s the only example the startup has provided.)
The terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed, although we are asking both Dean Glas, one of GeoGif’s co-founders, as well as ByteDance and we will update if we learn more. In any case, the deal appears to include only the assets of the startup, which ceased operating more than two years ago, judging by activity on its social media accounts and LinkedIn profiles. CEO Dean Glas and his co-founder Mendy Raskin are now both working on new startups.
“We are excited for GeoGif to have a new home at TikTok,” said GeoGif’s CEO Dean Glas, “and we believe our features will be enjoyed by millions of users. We will work closely to make sure it’s a smooth transition that provides a long-term positive impact for the TikTok community.”
A TikTok spokesperson also confirmed that the features that were built for GeoGif will get rolled into the main TikTok app: “GeoGif and TikTok share a common goal which is enabling people to connect, consume, and create great content. We’re impressed with what the team at GeoGif has built and with TikTok’s resources, we believe that we will deliver an even better user experience for our millions of users who love using TikTok to express their creativity through short videos.”
With TikTok, China’s ByteDance has created one of the world’s biggest video apps — and subsequently become one of the world’s most valuable startups — and it has used acquisition as a key lever for adding both users and features.
To help break into the US, the main app itself merged with Musical.ly last year after being acquired for between $800 million and $1 billion by Toutiao (a ByteDance sub-brand) in 2017. Other acquisitions have included Flipagram — another music-video app and startup — in 2017 for an undisclosed sum; the AR selfie camera FaceU in 2018, reportedly for $300 million; payments startup UIPay also in 2018; and — just last week — it appears ByteDance acquired a gaming startup, Mokun Technology, from previous owner 37 Interactive, also for an undisclosed sum.
It’s likely that the GeoGif acquisition was for a small sum: the company did not have anything close to mass-market traction, and it had raised only seed round of an undisclosed amount. It was originally spun out of parent company Bivid — which is also now defunct but had been a hyperlocal social network akin to YikYak, Highlight and Zenly, suggesting friends and others who were near to you for chit-chat and simply to know their whereabouts.
TikTok already runs ads and has other paid features in China, but in Western markets like the US, the company has largely only been doing limited runs and tests of different formats, such as this native video ad test we spotted in February.
In January, a leaked ad deck from the company in Europe also mentioned several advertising and marketing units it was running and planning to run including brand takeovers; in-feed native video; hashtag challenges; Snapchat-style 2D lens filters for photos; and 3D and AR lenses. It’s the latter of these where GeoGif’s efforts could be rolled in.
Also in January, Bloomberg reported that in 2018, ByteDance, for the first time, had failed to beat its own revenue forecasts: It had told investors when it was fundraising a monster $3 billion round that it expected to make between $7.4 billion and $8.1 billion in revenues for the year, and sources said it would be coming in at the lower end of that range.
These are, relatively speaking, huge numbers when you consider that ByteDance’s currency is social media apps, which often spend years making no money at all. But in the context of missing growth expectations, this slower expansion could be a lever for the company launching more ad formats in more places and launching more products, such as the Slack competitor it is also reportedly building.
This post was originally posted at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/HpykkIeL8XY/.
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MANHASSET, N.Y.—Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease that results in “inflammation in connective tissues, such as cartilage and the lining of blood vessels,” according to the Genetics Home Reference website of the National Institutes of Health, and attacks a number of systems within the body, from the skin and joints to the lungs, kidneys and central nervous system. Lupus tends to affect women more than men, and is more common in African American women more than Caucasian women; Hispanic, Asian and Native American women also see higher incidence rates than Caucasian women.
At present, there is no cure for lupus, and treatment is mainly symptomatic. Similarly, the exact cause of lupus is unknown.
New information out of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research is offering a few more answers about the autoimmune disease, however. Dr. Betty Diamond of the Feinstein Institute and colleagues have potentially found a way to determine an individual's risk for lupus via blood serum samples. The work was published in Molecular Medicine in a piece titled “Serologic features of cohorts with variable genetic risk for systemic lupus erythematosus.”
The researchers created an index to help determine a patient's risk for lupus based on a few biologic compounds in blood serum—namely the presence and amount of Immunoglobin G (IgG) and Immunoglobin M (IgM) antibodies, and the levels of C1q, a protein complex associated with protection from lupus.
The experiment focused on blood serum samples from five cohorts of women at risk for SLE: 40 Malian (West African) women with a history of malaria infection (MAL), 51 African American lupus patients (SLE), 80 healthy African American women (AAHC), 98 unaffected sisters of lupus patients (SIS) and 16 Caucasian healthy controls (CHC).
“We have been curious about why individuals of West African descent have a higher prevalence of lupus,” said Diamond, who was corresponding author of the paper. “A better understanding about the risk of lupus and why it differs between populations could help us better treat or even prevent people from getting the condition.”
Diamond's lab is looking at DNA-reactive B cells in SLE, as well as the role of C1q. As noted in the paper, "C1q is a complement component that is important in clearance of apoptotic debris and promotes immune tolerance through regulation of immune cell differentiation and cytokine release (Son et al. 2015). Ninety percent of individuals with severe hereditary C1q deficiency have SLE (Manderson et al. 2004)." The authors also noted that "Not only is C1q deficiency among the greatest risk factors for SLE, but C1q inversely correlates with disease activity (Horak et al. 2006). Anti-C1q antibodies have also correlated with disease activity (Bock et al. 2015)."
The team was able to confirm the hypothesis that high levels of IgG, low levels of IgM and low levels of C1q equate to a higher risk of lupus. Interestingly, being exposed to malaria was found to potentially delay the onset of lupus in those predisposed to the disease, thanks to increased levels of protective IgM antibodies and C1q. They reported that the risk index was highest in SLE patients, with risk second highest in unaffected sisters of SLE patients and third highest in healthy African American women. Healthy Caucasian women and malaria-exposed West African women presented with the lowest risk.
"The protective properties of IgM antibodies are known," the authors write. "IgM immune complexes engage C1q which will bind LAIR-1, an inhibitory surface receptor on hematopoietic cells (Son and Diamond 2015). IgM precedes IgG anti-dsDNA antibodies in mouse models of SLE and it has been shown in the NZB/W model that administration of IgM anti-DNA antibody will delay onset of disease."
Per the Diamond lab's website, previous work by the team has demonstrated “that LAIR-1 is an inhibitory receptor for C1q. Furthermore, in conjunction with HMGB1, C1q can polarize monocytes to an M2-like anti-inflammatory macrophage. The laboratory is interested in understanding how C1q interrupts pro-inflammatory pathways and in constructing a molecule with C1q-like function for therapeutic use.” LAIR1, or leukocyte-associated immunoglobulin-like receptor 1, is a protein that plays a role in immune response. As noted on the National Center for Biotechnology Information website (part of the NIH's National Library of Medicine), “The protein encoded by this gene is an inhibitory receptor found on peripheral mononuclear cells, including natural killer cells, T cells and B cells. Inhibitory receptors regulate the immune response to prevent lysis of cells recognized as self.”
"A tool such as this that can predict the risk of developing clinical SLE would be useful to assess the effectiveness of early interventions," the authors argued in the conclusion of their Molecular Medicine paper. "Therapy with hydroxychloroquine, for example, delays disease onset (Virdis et al. 2015); we would anticipate that its therapeutic effect would be reflected in the LRI. Longitudinal studies, including in our unique sisters cohort are needed to validate our findings. These observations additionally suggest new therapeutic approaches for the treatment of SLE."
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Eddie Grant (’20) commits to Lafayette College for soccer
Alexa Atlas, Online Editor|December 17, 2019
Eddie Grant ('20) steals the ball from his opponent.
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As one chapter comes to an end, another chapter opens up. Although Eddie Grant’s (‘20) time at Cherry Hill East is slowly winding down, the next chapter of his life at Lafayette College awaits. Grant is ecstatic and cannot wait to attend Lafayette for soccer this upcoming school year.
Lafayette is located in Easton, Pennsylvania. The school has a NCAA Division I soccer team that competes in the Patriot League. The team has found a tremendous amount of success this season, and Grant could not be more excited to contribute to the teams success next season.
Grant said, “I chose Lafayette because it is a tremendously competitive school academically and has a very good soccer team. I also really like how it is all undergraduates.”
From day one, Grant knew he wanted to play soccer in college. The sport has been a major part of his life for as long as he could remember, so he could never imagine life without it. Soccer has been Grant’s go-to ever since he was three years old.
“What I like most about soccer is that it relieves a lot of stress. When I am playing or training, I don’t have to worry about anything else,” said Grant.
Grant has been playing soccer for East since freshman year. All four years of highschool, Grant received the wonderful opportunity of playing for varsity. He feels very fortunate for this opportunity, especially since it allowed him to get close with the coaches. Grant adored his coaches and is thankful for all they taught him. Every day on the field was well spent, as Grant truly relished playing for East.
Grant said, “Playing for East has been a great experience for me. I loved being able to play with all my friends from school.”
Not only does Grant play soccer at East, but he also plays for SJEB Rush, a club soccer team in South Jersey. This team is a lot more competitive and the training is a lot more rigorous. They train very hard in preparation for playing teams all over the area. The team’s hard work paid off when they won the US Club Soccer (USCS) National Championship in 2018.
Teammates of Grant look up to Grant on and off the field. Not only is Grant an incredible midfield player, but he is also a team leader.
Kevin Lochbihler (‘20), one of Grant’s teammates, said, “On the field, Eddie is a high-level player, leading the attack as the highest goal scorer. He is always willing to work hard, win tackles and do what is best for the team. [Also], as the caption, he is very vocal. [Grant] is always teaching others through his instruction in games and training sessions where he demands an intense environment.
Grant’s coaches also noticed his special characteristics and all that he contributes to the team. As a result, they rewarded him with a few memorable awards. Some include the Golden Boot, the Offensive MVP and the first team all-conference. He even made All-South Jersey and All-State.
The recruitment process is difficult no matter what, but for Grant, it was extra challenging and stressful. During Grant’s junior year, he broke his femur. Grant went for a slide tackle at the Olympic Conference game, but fell down and was faced with a terrible injury. Unfortunately, he had to have surgery and had to attend countless hours of physical therapy every week. Grant was out for months. He came face to face with a dreadfully, long recovery process.
However, Grant did not let any of these challenges get in his way. Yes, it was now difficult for Grant to showcase his skills during his junior season. However, this did not prevent Grant from accomplishing his dreams and playing soccer at a Division I school. This bump in the road only made Grant work harder.
“I missed a very important time in the recruitment process, but I was able to work back and really showcase myself the summer going into senior year,” said Grant.
Although Grant was out for most of his junior year and had to fight past a painful injury, he still managed to get recruited by Lafayette for soccer.
Grant credits his success to his time at East. If it were not for East, Grant would not have come as far as he did, as a player and a student.
Grant said, “East has definitely prepared me well. I learned so much at this school academically and socially.”
Grant cannot wait to use all the skills East has taught him to help him excel in college. He is looking forward to playing soccer and studying economics in the next chapter of his life.
Hard work really does pay off. If it weren’t for all of Grant’s hardwork and dedication, he would not be where he is now.
Eddie Grant
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translated from Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet
Five men, including two believed to be accessories to murder, have been arrested on suspicion of gang raping a girl on-board a special, high school kids-only pleasure cruise in Sweden.
Four men aged between 18 and 19 were arrested when the luxury MS Galaxy landed after its cruise to Finland on Wednesday, with a fifth arrested yesterday. They are all accused of gang-raping an unidentified woman, and face charges of aggravated rape.
The prosecutor has given no more detail about the crime or the victim, and was initially even reluctant to disclose that it was a woman who had been raped.
Although the politically-correct Swedish police have gone to their usual lengths to obscure the identities and nationalities of the suspected perpetrators, a mistake by Sweden’s largest newspaper has revealed the men to be migrants.
A film crew from Aftonbladet was at the departure port for the general story and interviewed a number of students boarding the ship as it prepared to sail earlier this week for a feature on the cruise. We watched the video and our editor who speaks some Swedish said several non-Western young men who looked rather old to be high school pupils told the of their plan to have a good time while at sea, saying in poor English they wanted to “Just fuck about”. He remarked “because we are students we want to actually go fucking wild”.
That says it all really.
None of those men arrested were born in Sweden. They deny all charges of aggravated rape. In a further development, it has been revealed one of the men has a previous conviction and two of the men arrested for the gang-rape are suspects in a separate criminal case, a high-profile murder in Stockholm dating back to November 2015.
Rotherham Council Helped Asian Grooming Suspects Win Lifelong Anonymity
Picked up this essential post at the lovely Pam Geller's site. Reblogged here for enlightenment of those idiots who are saying we should give Sharia Law equal status with British law and if that does not happen it proves the British are racist.That’s rich. The fact that Islam is not a race is seemingly besides the point.
Rotherham Council has allowed the names of four Asian men suspected of sexually exploiting a white teenager to remain secret by dropping a legal challenge to keep them away from her, it has emerged. The vulnerable girl, who is white and from South Yorkshire, was found in a hotel room with one of the men in August, surrounded by cannabis, alcohol, condoms, and female Asian clothing ...
The Swedish ruling elite's politically correct obsession with immigrants has turned parts of this once peaceful, civilised and safe country into a lawless hell hole and borderline failed state. Perhaps the clearest indication of how bad things are in Sweden now is the news that Sweden is now so dystopian even migrants from some of the most violent and chaotic areas of Africa and the middle east want to return to their homelands
Lawless Immigrant Chaos Accounts for Quarter of Swedish Police Resources
Police officials in Värmland, Sweden have revealed 25 per cent of their time and resources are consumed by dealing with the lawlessness of illegal immigrants, as the Swedish government yesterday announced a further two billion Swedish Krona for policing to 2020. Chief Superintendent Lars Serenander estimates that around a quarter of police time is spent dealing with issues related to migrants ...
Sweden’s Mollycoddling of Rapists Blamed for Surge of Sex Attacks
Once known, as one of the safest and most orerly countries in the world, in recent years, thanks to an idiotic 'open doors' immigration policy, Sweden has now earned the unenviable title of 'rape capital of Europe.' The politically correct elite's view that they were being good 'global citizens' by allowing unvetted, undocumented, uneducated migrants to flood into their peaceful and pleasant land from many of the most violent, mysogynistic, racist, and sectarian trouble spots in the world, where western values are despised ...
A Mob Of 'Foreign Youths' Assault 35 Females At Swedish Music Festival
The number of sexual assaults in Europe as a result of the refugee crisis has been something that we have covered extensively, notably the "monstrous" attacks by men "of Arab or North African origin" that occurred on German women in Cologne during a New Year celebration (that led to the members of left wing parties in Germany's ruling coalition actually trying to have the word "rape" removed< from internal reports, because multiculturalism. White genocide by Sweden's left wing government
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Scene from the Ukraine civil war, is this what we want in Europe?
The Dutch referendum is not an IN/OUT question like the one we will vote on in June this year, but is officially about approving the EU's 'association treaty' with Ukraine which was negotiated in 2014 soon after the democratically elected government of Ukraine was replace by right wing extremist CIA puppets. Some in mainstream media have claimed that the civil war that has been going on in Ukraine for two years was started by Russian secret service agencies in response to the move to draw Ukraine into the EU and NATO in violation of a 1991 treaty with Russia, but in fact the conflict was provoked by America's neo - Nazi puppets in Kiev embarking on an ethnic cleansing program.
The European Union’s association agreement with Ukraine is more than a simple free trade deal; were it only that then the break down in relations between the Ukraine and Russia would probably have been avoided. The deal actually involves the EU in the reform of Ukrainian institutions and laws is all about paving the way for the Ukraine to become a full member of the EU.
It introduces wholly unnecessary military links with the European Union by establishing military dialogue, technological co-operation and the possibility of joint participation in EU missions.
Making Ukraine an associate EU member naturally includes visa free travel throughout the EU that would open the door to Ukraine’s 44 million people in addition to the visa free travel recently granted to Turkey’s 85 million (including Kurds) inhabitants.”
The Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, and by extension, the pro Ukraine lobby in Washington, is alarmed by the Eurosceptic feeling that is rising in the Netherlands and throughout Europe, telling a Washington, D.C. meeting last week: "The real purpose for the internal Dutch discussion is about the future of the European Union and internal political clashes… I think this is very dangerous for a country … to become the victim of this discussion. This is not a timely referendum."
What Poroshenko and his puppeteers in Washington clearly fail to understand is that it is eff all to do with them what democratic decisions are made by Dutch voters. The vote is being held as a result of public pressure in The Netherlands as reported by the Financial times. Opinion polls suggest a majority of voters are opposed to establishing links between the EU and Ukraine.
"Dutch opinion is divided 50-50," pro-EU activist Bogdan Globa told the Kyiv Post in March, "But it’s more likely that the Dutch will say ‘no’ to Ukraine. Too many of them are still afraid of the war in the east of Ukraine. They also think Ukraine could be another Greece."
Voters in The Netherlands are also worried about the undemocratic direction the EU is heading in and the fact that full membrership is being fast tracked for Turkey and Georgia. At least Ukraine is demonstrably a European nation. Turkey is in Asia, apart from the small enclave around Istanbul while the Europeanness of the Caucasian nations is dubious to say the least. We have reported elsewhere on the ambitions of the Brussels bureaucratic dictatorship to extend the European Union into Asia and Africa.
Theresa May is facing yet another cabinet revolt, as hardline Brexiteers in the Conservative Party are reportedly furious at her apparent desire for the UK to stick to EU regulation and have our courts answerable to EU Judges post-Brexit.
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Britain's Choice: Democracy Or Eurocracy
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Cameron’s EU Package: Not A Deal But A Few Turns In The Spin Machine
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Cameron Plays Deal Or No Deal In Europe
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EU Refuses to Block Eurozone Integration to Reach Agreement With UK
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Cameron's EU Deal Worthless. It Can Be Vetoed In European Parliament?
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Obama's intervention in UK politics triggers angry backlash
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E U To Push TTIP Trade Deal Before Obama Leaves Office
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While political leaders and the mass media constantly preach of the economic benefits and cultural enrichment that sping from mass immigration,EU Report Reveals Continent Being Changed By Migration just a few days ago we reported a study that found the economic benefits are a myth and today a report published by the EUs in house statistical bureau reveals immigrants have an adverse effect socially and culturally.
After The Brexit The Frexit;1 in 3 French Voters Want Out Of The EU
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Superstar, Underbelly Cowgate (Iron Belly) – Review
Author: Marianna Meloni in Comedy, Drama, Ed fringe 2019, Reviews 22 August 2019 0 69 Views
Nicola Wren is one of this year's winners of the Fringe review bingo, the unofficial (and also not actually existing) prize that goes to those shows with reviews covering the full range of star ratings. Her self-penned one-woman show revisits the most memorable episodes of her life and acting career, from conception to present day. To do so, she chooses a tongue in cheek tone, half documentary, half tell-all talk show. Admittedly, her life doesn't have much interesting to talk about, if not for the fact that she’s the youngest sister of Coldplay's frontman Chris Martin. But what this…
Actor and playwright Nicola Wren spills the beans about her relationship with her family, what it means to be the youngest sibling and the downsides of being the sister of a superstar.
Nicola Wren is one of this year’s winners of the Fringe review bingo, the unofficial (and also not actually existing) prize that goes to those shows with reviews covering the full range of star ratings. Her self-penned one-woman show revisits the most memorable episodes of her life and acting career, from conception to present day. To do so, she chooses a tongue in cheek tone, half documentary, half tell-all talk show.
Admittedly, her life doesn’t have much interesting to talk about, if not for the fact that she’s the youngest sister of Coldplay’s frontman Chris Martin. But what this show is really trying to say is that her life – as well as the subject matter of this show – are too often overshadowed by her brother’s stardom. Being the youngest, she’s always craved her siblings’ approval. Their opinions, even indirectly, have constantly interfered with her own self development. Superstar is an attempt to unearth that feeling of having arrived at the party too late and missing all the fun – which many of us can relate to.
It’s tempting to think audiences are attracted to Superstar because of their curiosity for celebrity gossip. Even though it never features on the bill, the big name is passed on through word of mouth and hovers over the play’s reputation. It is difficult to tell whether it would still have the same appeal without it.
However, having seen Wren’s previous work Replay at the Fringe 2017, I was stunned. At that time I didn’t know anything about her high-profile relative and loved everything about that play. It was very intense, the writing engaging and the delivery quite emotional (yes, I cried). She really is a talented theatremaker and, now that she’s brushed this big chip off her shoulder, she might feel more empowered to go ahead and pursue a brilliant career doing what she loves the most.
Written and Performed by: Nicola Wren
Directed by: Sadie Spencer
Producer: Nicola Wren and Something for the Weekend
Booking Link: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/superstar
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Amy K. Hoover, Michael P. Rosario, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2008)
Scaffolding for Interactively Evolving Novel Drum Tracks for Existing Songs
In: Proceedings of the Sixth European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2008). New York, NY: Springer, 2008 (10 pages)
Winner of the Best Paper Award at EvoMUSART 2008
Note: This paper is accompanied with a set of musical samples at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/neatdrummer
Note: The official Springer-Verlag version of this article is available at:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/e460174k81226827/
A major challenge in computer-generated music is to produce music that sounds natural. This paper introduces NEAT Drummer, which takes steps toward natural creativity. NEAT Drummer evolves a kind of artificial neural network called a Compositional Pattern Producing Network (CPPN) with the NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) method to produce drum patterns. An important motivation for this work is that instrument tracks can be generated as a function of other song parts, which, if written by humans, thereby provide a scaffold for the remaining auto-generated parts. Thus, NEAT Drummer is initialized with inputs from an existing MIDI song and through interactive evolution allows the user to evolve increasingly appealing rhythms for that song. This paper explains how NEAT Drummer processes MIDI inputs and outputs drum patterns. The net effect is that a compelling drum track can be automatically generated and evolved for any song.
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Kernel methods in medical imaging
Charpiat, G., Hofmann, M., Schölkopf, B.
In Handbook of Biomedical Imaging, pages: 63-81, 4, (Editors: Paragios, N., Duncan, J. and Ayache, N.), Springer, Berlin, Germany, June 2015 (inbook)
Charpiat, G., Hofmann, M., Schölkopf, B. Kernel methods in medical imaging In Handbook of Biomedical Imaging, pages: 63-81, 4, (Editors: Paragios, N., Duncan, J. and Ayache, N.), Springer, Berlin, Germany, June 2015 (inbook)
Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Neuroimaging: Examples, Challenges, and Extensions to Diffusion Imaging Data
O’Donnell, L. J., Schultz, T.
In Visualization and Processing of Higher Order Descriptors for Multi-Valued Data, pages: 299-319, (Editors: Hotz, I. and Schultz, T.), Springer, 2015 (inbook)
O’Donnell, L. J., Schultz, T. Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Neuroimaging: Examples, Challenges, and Extensions to Diffusion Imaging Data In Visualization and Processing of Higher Order Descriptors for Multi-Valued Data, pages: 299-319, (Editors: Hotz, I. and Schultz, T.), Springer, 2015 (inbook)
Justifying Information-Geometric Causal Inference
Janzing, D., Steudel, B., Shajarisales, N., Schölkopf, B.
In Measures of Complexity: Festschrift for Alexey Chervonenkis, pages: 253-265, 18, (Editors: Vovk, V., Papadopoulos, H. and Gammerman, A.), Springer, 2015 (inbook)
Janzing, D., Steudel, B., Shajarisales, N., Schölkopf, B. Justifying Information-Geometric Causal Inference In Measures of Complexity: Festschrift for Alexey Chervonenkis, pages: 253-265, 18, (Editors: Vovk, V., Papadopoulos, H. and Gammerman, A.), Springer, 2015 (inbook)
Learning Motor Skills: From Algorithms to Robot Experiments
97, pages: 191, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Springer, 2014 (book)
Kober, J., Peters, J. Learning Motor Skills: From Algorithms to Robot Experiments 97, pages: 191, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Springer, 2014 (book)
Computational Diffusion MRI and Brain Connectivity
Schultz, T., Nedjati-Gilani, G., Venkataraman, A., O’Donnell, L., Panagiotaki, E.
pages: 255, Mathematics and Visualization, Springer, 2014 (book)
Schultz, T., Nedjati-Gilani, G., Venkataraman, A., O’Donnell, L., Panagiotaki, E. Computational Diffusion MRI and Brain Connectivity pages: 255, Mathematics and Visualization, Springer, 2014 (book)
Single-Source Domain Adaptation with Target and Conditional Shift
Zhang, K., Schölkopf, B., Muandet, K., Wang, Z., Zhou, Z., Persello, C.
In Regularization, Optimization, Kernels, and Support Vector Machines, pages: 427-456, 19, Chapman & Hall/CRC Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition, (Editors: Suykens, J. A. K., Signoretto, M. and Argyriou, A.), Chapman and Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, USA, 2014 (inbook)
Zhang, K., Schölkopf, B., Muandet, K., Wang, Z., Zhou, Z., Persello, C. Single-Source Domain Adaptation with Target and Conditional Shift In Regularization, Optimization, Kernels, and Support Vector Machines, pages: 427-456, 19, Chapman & Hall/CRC Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition, (Editors: Suykens, J. A. K., Signoretto, M. and Argyriou, A.), Chapman and Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, USA, 2014 (inbook)
Higher-Order Tensors in Diffusion Imaging
Schultz, T., Fuster, A., Ghosh, A., Deriche, R., Florack, L., Lim, L.
In Visualization and Processing of Tensors and Higher Order Descriptors for Multi-Valued Data, pages: 129-161, Mathematics + Visualization, (Editors: Westin, C.-F., Vilanova, A. and Burgeth, B.), Springer, 2014 (inbook)
Schultz, T., Fuster, A., Ghosh, A., Deriche, R., Florack, L., Lim, L. Higher-Order Tensors in Diffusion Imaging In Visualization and Processing of Tensors and Higher Order Descriptors for Multi-Valued Data, pages: 129-161, Mathematics + Visualization, (Editors: Westin, C.-F., Vilanova, A. and Burgeth, B.), Springer, 2014 (inbook)
Fuzzy Fibers: Uncertainty in dMRI Tractography
Schultz, T., Vilanova, A., Brecheisen, R., Kindlmann, G.
In Scientific Visualization: Uncertainty, Multifield, Biomedical, and Scalable Visualization, pages: 79-92, 8, Mathematics + Visualization, (Editors: Hansen, C. D., Chen, M., Johnson, C. R., Kaufman, A. E. and Hagen, H.), Springer, 2014 (inbook)
Schultz, T., Vilanova, A., Brecheisen, R., Kindlmann, G. Fuzzy Fibers: Uncertainty in dMRI Tractography In Scientific Visualization: Uncertainty, Multifield, Biomedical, and Scalable Visualization, pages: 79-92, 8, Mathematics + Visualization, (Editors: Hansen, C. D., Chen, M., Johnson, C. R., Kaufman, A. E. and Hagen, H.), Springer, 2014 (inbook)
Nonconvex Proximal Splitting with Computational Errors
In Regularization, Optimization, Kernels, and Support Vector Machines, pages: 83-102, 4, (Editors: Suykens, J. A. K., Signoretto, M. and Argyriou, A.), CRC Press, 2014 (inbook)
Sra, S. Nonconvex Proximal Splitting with Computational Errors In Regularization, Optimization, Kernels, and Support Vector Machines, pages: 83-102, 4, (Editors: Suykens, J. A. K., Signoretto, M. and Argyriou, A.), CRC Press, 2014 (inbook)
Active Learning - Modern Learning Theory
Balcan, M., Urner, R.
In Encyclopedia of Algorithms, (Editors: Kao, M.-Y.), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 (incollection)
Balcan, M., Urner, R. Active Learning - Modern Learning Theory In Encyclopedia of Algorithms, (Editors: Kao, M.-Y.), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 (incollection)
Expectation-Maximization methods for solving (PO)MDPs and optimal control problems
Toussaint, M., Storkey, A., Harmeling, S.
In Inference and Learning in Dynamic Models, (Editors: Barber, D., Cemgil, A.T. and Chiappa, S.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, January 2012 (inbook) In press
Toussaint, M., Storkey, A., Harmeling, S. Expectation-Maximization methods for solving (PO)MDPs and optimal control problems In Inference and Learning in Dynamic Models, (Editors: Barber, D., Cemgil, A.T. and Chiappa, S.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, January 2012 (inbook) In press
Active Learning Methods in Classification of Remote Sensing Images
Bruzzone, L., Persello, C., Demir, B.
In Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing, (Editors: CH Chen), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA, January 2012 (inbook) In press
Bruzzone, L., Persello, C., Demir, B. Active Learning Methods in Classification of Remote Sensing Images In Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing, (Editors: CH Chen), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA, January 2012 (inbook) In press
Inferential structure determination from NMR data
In Bayesian methods in structural bioinformatics, pages: 287-312, (Editors: Hamelryck, T., Mardia, K. V. and Ferkinghoff-Borg, J.), Springer, New York, 2012 (inbook)
Habeck, M. Inferential structure determination from NMR data In Bayesian methods in structural bioinformatics, pages: 287-312, (Editors: Hamelryck, T., Mardia, K. V. and Ferkinghoff-Borg, J.), Springer, New York, 2012 (inbook)
In Encyclopedia of the sciences of learning, (Editors: Seel, N.M.), Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2012 (inbook)
Sigaud, O., Peters, J. Robot Learning In Encyclopedia of the sciences of learning, (Editors: Seel, N.M.), Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2012 (inbook)
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics: A Survey
In Reinforcement Learning, 12, pages: 579-610, (Editors: Wiering, M. and Otterlo, M.), Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2012 (inbook)
As most action generation problems of autonomous robots can be phrased in terms of sequential decision problems, robotics offers a tremendously important and interesting application platform for reinforcement learning. Similarly, the real-world challenges of this domain pose a major real-world check for reinforcement learning. Hence, the interplay between both disciplines can be seen as promising as the one between physics and mathematics. Nevertheless, only a fraction of the scientists working on reinforcement learning are sufficiently tied to robotics to oversee most problems encountered in this context. Thus, we will bring the most important challenges faced by robot reinforcement learning to their attention. To achieve this goal, we will attempt to survey most work that has successfully applied reinforcement learning to behavior generation for real robots. We discuss how the presented successful approaches have been made tractable despite the complexity of the domain and will study how representations or the inclusion of prior knowledge can make a significant difference. As a result, a particular focus of our chapter lies on the choice between model-based and model-free as well as between value function-based and policy search methods. As a result, we obtain a fairly complete survey of robot reinforcement learning which should allow a general reinforcement learning researcher to understand this domain.
Kober, J., Peters, J. Reinforcement Learning in Robotics: A Survey In Reinforcement Learning, 12, pages: 579-610, (Editors: Wiering, M. and Otterlo, M.), Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2012 (inbook)
Higher-Order Tensors in Diffusion MRI
In Visualization and Processing of Tensors and Higher Order Descriptors for Multi-Valued Data, (Editors: Westin, C. F., Vilanova, A. and Burgeth, B.), Springer, 2012 (inbook) Accepted
Schultz, T., Fuster, A., Ghosh, A., Deriche, R., Florack, L., Lim, L. Higher-Order Tensors in Diffusion MRI In Visualization and Processing of Tensors and Higher Order Descriptors for Multi-Valued Data, (Editors: Westin, C. F., Vilanova, A. and Burgeth, B.), Springer, 2012 (inbook) Accepted
New Frontiers in Characterizing Structure and Dynamics by NMR
Nilges, M., Markwick, P., Malliavin, TE., Rieping, W., Habeck, M.
In Computational Structural Biology: Methods and Applications, pages: 655-680, (Editors: Schwede, T. , M. C. Peitsch), World Scientific, New Jersey, NJ, USA, May 2008 (inbook)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has emerged as the method of choice for studying both the structure and the dynamics of biological macromolecule in solution. Despite the maturity of the NMR method for structure determination, its application faces a number of challenges. The method is limited to systems of relatively small molecular mass, data collection times are long, data analysis remains a lengthy procedure, and it is difficult to evaluate the quality of the final structures. The last years have seen significant advances in experimental techniques to overcome or reduce some limitations. The function of bio-macromolecules is determined by both their 3D structure and conformational dynamics. These molecules are inherently flexible systems displaying a broad range of dynamics on timescales from picoseconds to seconds. NMR is unique in its ability to obtain dynamic information on an atomic scale. The experimental information on structure and dynamics is intricately mixed. It is however difficult to unite both structural and dynamical information into one consistent model, and protocols for the determination of structure and dynamics are performed independently. This chapter deals with the challenges posed by the interpretation of NMR data on structure and dynamics. We will first relate the standard structure calculation methods to Bayesian probability theory. We will then briefly describe the advantages of a fully Bayesian treatment of structure calculation. Then, we will illustrate the advantages of using Bayesian reasoning at least partly in standard structure calculations. The final part will be devoted to interpretation of experimental data on dynamics.
Nilges, M., Markwick, P., Malliavin, TE., Rieping, W., Habeck, M. New Frontiers in Characterizing Structure and Dynamics by NMR In Computational Structural Biology: Methods and Applications, pages: 655-680, (Editors: Schwede, T. , M. C. Peitsch), World Scientific, New Jersey, NJ, USA, May 2008 (inbook)
A Robot System for Biomimetic Navigation: From Snapshots to Metric Embeddings of View Graphs
Franz, MO., Stürzl, W., Reichardt, W., Mallot, HA.
In Robotics and Cognitive Approaches to Spatial Mapping, pages: 297-314, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics ; 38, (Editors: Jefferies, M.E. , W.-K. Yeap), Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008 (inbook)
Complex navigation behaviour (way-finding) involves recognizing several places and encoding a spatial relationship between them. Way-finding skills can be classified into a hierarchy according to the complexity of the tasks that can be performed [8]. The most basic form of way-finding is route navigation, followed by topological navigation where several routes are integrated into a graph-like representation. The highest level, survey navigation, is reached when this graph can be embedded into a common reference frame. In this chapter, we present the building blocks for a biomimetic robot navigation system that encompasses all levels of this hierarchy. As a local navigation method, we use scene-based homing. In this scheme, a goal location is characterized either by a panoramic snapshot of the light intensities as seen from the place, or by a record of the distances to the surrounding objects. The goal is found by moving in the direction that minimizes the discrepancy between the recorded intensities or distances and the current sensory input. For learning routes, the robot selects distinct views during exploration that are close enough to be reached by snapshot-based homing. When it encounters already visited places during route learning, it connects the routes and thus forms a topological representation of its environment termed a view graph. The final stage, survey navigation, is achieved by a graph embedding procedure which complements the topologic information of the view graph with odometric position estimates. Calculation of the graph embedding is done with a modified multidimensional scaling algorithm which makes use of distances and angles between nodes.
Franz, MO., Stürzl, W., Reichardt, W., Mallot, HA. A Robot System for Biomimetic Navigation: From Snapshots to Metric Embeddings of View Graphs In Robotics and Cognitive Approaches to Spatial Mapping, pages: 297-314, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics ; 38, (Editors: Jefferies, M.E. , W.-K. Yeap), Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008 (inbook)
Support Vector Machines and Kernel Algorithms
In Encyclopedia of Biostatistics (2nd edition), Vol. 8, 8, pages: 5328-5335, (Editors: P Armitage and T Colton), John Wiley & Sons, NY USA, 2005 (inbook)
Schölkopf, B., Smola, A. Support Vector Machines and Kernel Algorithms In Encyclopedia of Biostatistics (2nd edition), Vol. 8, 8, pages: 5328-5335, (Editors: P Armitage and T Colton), John Wiley & Sons, NY USA, 2005 (inbook)
Visual perception I: Basic principles
Wagemans, J., Wichmann, F., de Beeck, H.
In Handbook of Cognition, pages: 3-47, (Editors: Lamberts, K. , R. Goldstone), Sage, London, 2005 (inbook)
Wagemans, J., Wichmann, F., de Beeck, H. Visual perception I: Basic principles In Handbook of Cognition, pages: 3-47, (Editors: Lamberts, K. , R. Goldstone), Sage, London, 2005 (inbook)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 25: Oriol Romeu of Southampton holds off Dimitri Payet of West Ham United during the Premier League match between West Ham United and Southampton at London Stadium on September 25, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)
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Christian Sarron (motorcycle racer). He/she was born on 27 March 1955, his/her birthplace is France. There is information in Classora Knowledge Base about 4 rankings, reports and surveys. (edit this text)
Christian Sarron (motorcycle racer). He/she was born on 27 March 1955, his/her birthplace is France. There is information in Classora Knowledge Base about 4 rankings, reports and surveys.
Name: Christian Sarron
Birthplace: France
Occupation: Rider
Updated 11/9/15 Classification of the MotoGP World Championship » Position 9 in last edition (1990)
Updated 11/9/15 Classification of the GP 250 (Moto2) World Championship » Position 10 in last edition (1990)
Updated 11/12/13 Riders Who Have Won the 250cc (Moto2) World Championship the Most Times » Position 26 in last edition (2014)
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fifeshouldersurgery
Pre-op info
Post-op info
Sunil Sharma
FRCS (Tr & Orth), FRCS (Glasg), FRCS (Edin), D.N.B. & Diploma (Ortho)
I underwent my Orthopaedic training in Glasgow and the West of Scotland region before embarking on sub-specialty training in shoulder surgery. My expertise in shoulder surgery was attained from a 1-year fellowship at the internationally renowned Reading Shoulder Unit under the supervision of Mr. Stephen Copeland and Mr. Ofer Levy. I was also awarded the Scottish travelling fellowship and British Elbow and Shoulder Society North American travelling fellowship, in 2006 - 2007. These travelling fellowships allowed me to visit shoulder surgeons in Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Clinique Générale, Annecy, France. I am actively involved in teaching and research. I am a faculty member on shoulder arthroscopy and shoulder arthroplasty courses.
Professional body Membership - Royal College of Surgeons, Glasgow, British Orthopaedic Association, British Shoulder Elbow Society (BESS)
Research Interests – Rotator cuff tears, Frozen shoulder, Shoulder instability , Shoulder Resurfacing Arthroplasty outcomes
Sharma S, Fraser M, Lovell F, Reece AT, McLellan AR. Characteristics of males over 50-years who present with fractures: Epidemiology and underlying risk factors. J Bone Joint Surg (B) 2008;90:72-7.
Sharma S, Shewale S, Sibinski M, Sherlock DA. A paired study of Perthes’ disease comparing conservative and surgical management in patients less than 8 years of age. International Orthopaedics 2009; 33(1):231-5.
Sharma S, Rymaszewski LA: The results of elbow arthrolysis for post-traumatic stiffness of the elbow. J Bone Joint Surg (B) 2007;89:77-81.
Sharma S, Azzopardi T. Reduction of abdominal pressure for prophylaxis of the mesenteric artery syndrome (cast syndrome) in a hip spica – a simple technique. Annals of Royal College of Surgeons of England 2006; 88:317.
Sharma S: A missed monteggia variant. Journal of Orthopaedics & Traumatology 2006;7(2):100-2.
Sharma S, Azzopardi T. A simple surgical technique for removal of radio-opaque foreign objects from the plantar surface of the foot. Annals of Royal College of Surgeons of England 2006;88(1):76.
Sharma S, Dreghorn CR: Shoulder arthroplasty registry – The Scottish experience. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 2006;88(2):122-6.
Sharma S: Upper gastrointestinal bleeding as a complication in patients having hip or knee arthroplasty. Orthopaedics 2006;29(3):255-257.
Arora J, Sharma S, Blyth M: The role of preoperative templating in primary total knee replacement. Knee surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy 2005;13(3):187-9.
Sharma S, MacKay G: Arthroscopic repair of ruptured distal biceps tendon using an endobutton. Arthroscopy: The journal of arthroscopic and related surgery 2005;21(7):897.
Rymaszewski LA, Sharma S, McGill PE, Murdoch A, Freeman S, Loh T: A team approach to musculoskeletal disorders. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 2005; 87(3): 174-180.
Sharma S, Nicol F, Hullin M, McCreath SW. Long term results of uncemented LCS total knee replacement in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. J Bone Joint Surg (B) 2005;87-B:1077-80.
Sharma S, Sibinski M, Sherlock DA. A profile of Legg-Calve-Perthes’ disease. J Bone Joint Surg (B) 2005:87-B:1536-40.
Sharma S, Massraf A: Ulnar nerve compression as a consequence of isolated pisiform dislocation. Injury Extra 2005; 36(4): 79-81.
Sharma S, Rymaszewski LA: Bone graft used as a cement restrictor in elbow arthroplasty. Orthopaedics 2004;27:810-2.
Sharma S: The effect of flexion of the knee in the postoperative period on blood loss in knee arthroplasty – A study on 50 patients. Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology 2004;5:11-3.
Sharma S: Impact of the full shift rota. Bulletin Royal College of Surgeons of England 2004;86:318-20.
Rymaszewski LA, Sharma S.: Radial head replacement. Current Orthopaedics 2003;16:331-40.
Sharma S: Cotton swabs used to dry the femoral canal prior to cementation leave behind particulate matter: a cadaveric experiment. Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology 2003;4:1-4.
Sharma S, Sharma A: MRI diagnosis of plantar fibromatosis. The Foot 2003;13:219-22.
Sharma S, Mainds CC: Open reduction of total talar dislocation. Grandrounds 2002; 2: 29-31.
Sharma S: Lateral process fracture of the talus presenting as chronic ankle pain. Emerg Med J 2002; 20:e2.
Sharma S, Cooper H, Ivory JP: An audit on blood transfusion requirements in revision hip arthroplasty. Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England 2002;84:269-72.
Sharma S, Sharma A: Recollection of verbal information given to Day case surgery patients – an audit on 200 Day Case Surgery patients. The Indian Practitioner 2001;54:237-41.
Mr. Sunil Sharma
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EH12 6UD
This is the CV webpage of http://www.fifeshouldersurgery.co.uk. It has been created by fifeshouldersurgery - shoulder surgery in Scotland shoulder surgery in scotland and fife shoulder unit We hope that this webpage provides you with lots of useful information. Sunil Sharma shoulder elbow surgeon and Sunil Sharma shoulder elbow surgeon
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Renault in Northern Morocco: The emergence of an automobile cluster in Tangier
Submitted by Yannick Lung, Université de Bordeaux on 31 mars 2015 - 15:46
Romanie
Benabedjil, Nadia; Bounya, Nadia; Layan, Jean-Bernard; Lung, Yannick; Piveteau, Alain
clustering, Délocalisation, FDI, greenfield, low cost
The greenfield plant of Renault in Tangier (Morocco) is part of the French carmaker
strategy aiming at the deployment of its Entry range not only for emerging countries, but
also for the European market. The success of the Logan platform, faced to limited
capacities of the Pitesti assembly plant (Romania), has led Renault to search a new
industrial site. Even if the Moroccan market is a low volume one, which could be to be
satisfied by the SOMACA plant, in the suburb of Casablanca, Tangier was chosen as a
place for a all-new assembly plant because the government of Morocco launched a plan
called “Emergence” to reproduce the maquiladoras’ strategy which succeeded in Mexico.
He proposes then very attractive arguments to the French carmaker to locate in the
North of Morocco, unless 30 kilometres of the Spanish territory.
Initially, it was an Alliance project with two plants planned: one for Renault, another
one for Nissan. The consequences of the financial crisis of 2008 led to freeze the
investment of the Japanese carmaker whose production capacities of the British and
Spanish plants were enough for the European automobile market, which started a period
of long stagnation. For Renault, the Tangier greenfield plant remains important because
the sales of the Entry range, marketed under the brand Dacia in Europe, continue to
progress. Morocco becomes a platform of export towards these markets, with the launch
of new models of the range: a monospace (Lodgy) and a small van (Dokker). Their
production started in Morocco in 2012.
The paper will present the results of a research project supported by the CNRS (France)
and the CNRST (Morocco) on this industrial location and the structuring of suppliers'
network. On the basis of a survey of the French car manufacturer and its main suppliers,
it will attempt to characterize the conditions of the emergence of an automobile cluster
in Northern Morocco, by specifying in particular the stakes at the level of the
employment relationship (compensation policy, recruitment, training, skills) and in the
development of a national supply chain.
Thème: Fragmentation of supply chains and growth of international/regional transactions
Voir aussi (bibliographie par firme)
Workplace unionism under decentralised bargaining in France: A case study of the CGT in the car industry
The theory of social exchange, a new explanatory paradigm of perceptions relating to the closure of automotive factories : a historical analysis of Renault Billancourt and (1989) and PSA Aulnay (2012)
A Fermi estimate of economic rationality: back-casting the way forward to zero-emission society and the roll of automotive industry
Le pari de la Kwid - innover à l'envers
Japanese carmakers in China: how to explain their decline?
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Halzephron Inn
Breakfast can be served as early or late as needed, all we ask is that you let us know what time you would like to eat, the night before.
Lunch is served Monday – Saturday 12.00 noon until 2.00pm,
Sunday lunch is served from 12.00noon until 3.00pm
Evening Meals are served every night from 6.00pm until 9.00pm.
Tables can be reserved in the bar or the restaurant.
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A Little Bit about the Area
The Lizard peninsular is the most southerly point in mainland Britain. The shoreline around The Lizard has many stunning coves and beaches some of which apparently have lost treasure within them, such as Dollar Cove just down the road. In 1669 a Spanish ship reputed to be carrying two tonnes of Spanish coins was wrecked nearby and it is said that even today these silver coins are washed ashore, documents on this ship are poor; however treasure hunting has gone on for centuries. In the mid 1800’s tin miners tried to sink a metre wide shaft under the wreck so that the coins would drop in to the tunnel, however the tunnel was flooded before they could get any coins.
Ever wondered how Helston got its name? Apparently the devil was flying across the sky carrying a huge stone which he wanted to use to block the gates of hell. St. Michael saw him and they had a great battle, halfway through the devil dropped the stone, where it was dropped became known as Helston! The stone is said to be built in to the walls of a local hotel, to celebrate St. Michaels victory, locals now do the Furry Dance through the streets on Flora Day.
Christmas Menu 2019
Why not join us this Christmas and celebrate in style with our fantastic festive menu. Please book early to avoid any dissapointment.
The Halzephron Quiz
Why not come and join us in our weekly quiz on Tuesday evenings. Start time 8:30 pm - entry fee £1.00 per person winning team wins the money. There is also a charity raffle run every week with the proceeds going to the Charity of choice of the previous weeks quiz winners.
Spanish Classes at the Halzephron
A fun and lively Spanish language course. We will be using all four skills, speaking, listening, reading and writing which will be practised through practical activities. The course is aimed at people wanting to be able to communicate whilst travelling, speak to Spanish people or simply as a way of having fun.
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The Cannes Film Festival
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Cannes Festival Palace: The red carpet
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Every May, Cannes becomes the centre of the cinematic universe for 12 days as more than 30,000 producers, distributors, publicists, stars and entourages flood the town. There's no question that the Cannes Film Festival is the most prestigious of all the international film festivals and certainly the most glamorous. Images of stars dressed to kill and slowly mounting the red carpeted stairs of the Festival Palace while photographers click away are flashed to media outlets throughout the world.
History of the Film Festival
The first festival of film at Cannes was scheduled for September 1939 as a response to the film festival in Venice which had degenerated into a forum for Mussolini's fascist propaganda. Hitler's invasion of Poland and World War II suspended festival activities but it began again in 1946, running uninterrupted ever since.
Structure of the Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival is best known for the 20 films presented "In Competition". At the end of the festival, the jury distributes awards for the best director, actress, actor etc. and the most prestigious award, the Palme d'Or.
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Also part of the official selection are the "out of competition" films which are often by well-known directors and the "Un Certain Regard" films which frequently tackle less-commercial subjects. Completing the official selection are "Special Screenings", (sometimes at midnight) attended by the film crews, "Short Films" which receive their own award, "Cannes Classics", showcasing the best of festivals past, and works from the Cinefondation, the festival-sponsored studio that helps young directors develop their films under mentoring.
Director's Fortnight showcases films by international directors that show promise. Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee were some of the prior "discoveries".
Critics' Week presents a carefully-selected program of seven feature films and seven shorts. It is the director's first or second film and the style tends toward the avant-garde.
Marché (Marketplace) is the strictly commercial section. Some thousand films are screened in and around the festival palace as producers and distributors try to strike deals. The entire ground floor of the festival palace is filled with stalls of various production companies.
Getting Tickets to Festival Films
Unless you are connected to the film industry and apply well in advance it is nearly impossible to see a "competition" film or a film in the Marché screened in the Festival Palace. But you may be able to see films in Critics Week or Un Certain Regard. Free tickets to films entered in those categories are available through Cannes Cinephiles association on a first-come-first-served basis. They also have the occasional ticket to a festival film screened in a local theatre. Look for the Cannes Cinephiles booth outside the Festival Palace. For Directors Fortnight you can buy tickets at a booth next to the Theatre Croisette where the films are shown. You can also try your luck with other hopefuls holding up a sign for a spare invitation outside the festival palace.
In recent years, the festival has put on nightly screenings on the beach. The program is usually a good selection of Film Festival classics plus an occasional premiere.
Other Festival Activities
Cannes is crowded and expensive during the Festival but only in and around La Croisette. The rest of Cannes goes on as normal so you can still enjoy the beaches and the hilltop Le Suquet section. To participate in the festival excitement, you can always watch the stars walk up the red carpet for the nightly screenings in the Festival Palais.
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Region 5 farmers picket President’s office
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Removal from farmlandsSeveral farmers in Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) staged a protest outside the Ministry of the Presidency on Tuesday morning as they continued to be barred from entering farm lands located in Naarstigheid, West Coast Berbice (WCB).During the picketing exercise, the farmers, mostly from Hopetown and Bath Settlement, WCB, called on President David Granger to reverse a decision taken by the Regional Executive Officer (REO) Ovid Morrison, to remove them from the lands, which they have been farming on for the past 27 years.Two weeks ago, Morrison erected a ‘No trespassing’ sign leading to the lands, telling the farmers at a recent meeting that he would reclaim the lands to do a mixed farming project and as such, they would have to remove by March 2017.However, member of the Hopetown/Naarstigheid Farmers’ Group, Krishna Suelall, revealed to Guyana Times that some 200 farmers engage in cash crop farming, aqua-culture and livestock rearing on the lands.He explained that the lands belonged to the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary (MMA) project, which has been supporting the farmers over the years. Suelall added that the land was leased to the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) but has been occupied by the farmers ever since. He continued that the Council never used the lands, hence the MMA repossessed the lands and allowed the farmers to continue their work.“Over the years, (the MMA) stopped us and this new REO, Mr Ovid Morrison, put up a sign last week, preventing us from going on the farm. Is a lot of cash crops, we suffering, millions of dollars in losses right now because a lot of plants and trees ready to go down and we can’t put it down,” the farmer stated.Suelall said that they are attempting to get the attention of the President so that he can intervene on their behalf.“Right now we are here, appealing to the President. Mr Granger was at Fort Wellington a few months ago and encouraged us to go into farming and that he will support us… we expand our cultivations and now this REO is trying to stop us. He wants to stop us so he can do his own farming project,” the distressed man noted.Meanwhile, Chairman of the Hopetown/Naarstigheid Farmers’ group, Ivan Harry, related to Guyana Times that during the protest action that the farmers have been providing employment to a lot of young people in the region and this move by the REO will render many of them jobless.“We have been providing employment to people; we spent a lot of money, a lot of time (on those lands) and some people there, that’s all they do for a living. If you throw them out of the lands, what are they going to do, we employ a lot of young people so what will happen to them now,” Harry questioned.Moreover, the farmers had pointed out that the Regional Chairman indicated to them that this matter was never discussed at the level of the RDC and the REO was not authorised to evict the farmers from the lands.Last week, Regional Chairman Vickchand Ramphal told this newspaper that the decision to displace the farmers from the lands was not taken by the regional administration.While the farmers were told by Vice Chairman Rian Pieters on Thursday last to continue their daily farming activities, the men complained that the REO already has an excavator in the area clearing parts of the land.The farmers are expected to lobby the MMA at a meeting scheduled for this Friday.Farmers from the Hopetown/Naarstigheid group picketing the Ministry of the Presidency on Tuesday read more
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LEON Observes Positive Elections
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The Liberia Elections Observation Network (LEON) says it observed positive voting and counting processes overall and continues to observe the tallying and post-election environment, according to a press release yesterday.LEON is a platform of four Liberian Civil Society Organizations: The Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (JPC), Liberia Crusaders for Peace (LCP), Federation of Liberia Youth (FLY) and National Union of Organizations for the Disabled (NUOD), with the goal to meaningfully contribute to the democratization process in Liberia by providing an avenue for civil society to participate in monitoring and observing the 2017 elections.LEON noted that there were problems with slow application of procedures, poor queue control and lack of direction for voters on which polling places they were assigned to.“Although this led to long queues in many precincts on election day, Liberians exercised their vote in a generally calm manner.“Tallying is ongoing around the country and it is positive that the NEC has started to issue partial results as they come in,” the release said.LEON continues to monitor the tallying process in all centers around the country and notes that the process is extremely transparent for both party agents and observers.LEON deployed 1,140 observers throughout Liberia before the election day. They were stationed in approximately half of all polling precincts and 20 percent of polling places.“They observed opening, voting and the counting process sending findings on these different processes by text directly to a computer database. Reports are still arriving from remote areas and data verification is ongoing. This statement is based on the checked and verified reports from just over one-third of these observers.”LEON said it issued two reports on election day on opening and voting. “LEON observers are still observing the tallying process in all centers around Liberia and LEON will release further statements based on their reports.“LEON will also issue a final report once all its observers’ reports have been received which will include an analysis of the entire process from voter registration on wards.”By the end of voting LEON observers assessed that the voting process was good or very good in 87 percent of polling stations observed. “This was a slight improvement on their morning assessment and can be linked to the fact that, in many places, the queues had subsided and the polling process was smoother in the afternoon.”Voting procedures were generally observed to be followed correctly, which meant that important safeguards against multiple voting and intimidation such as checking fingers for ink, punching the voting card and voting in secret were in place.Long queues were a problem in many polling stations observed and led to disorder and tensions in around 10 percent of precincts. Some queues were caused by the late opening of the polling places, mostly due to the late arrival of either polling materials or staff.However, the majority of problems were caused by poor queue control, which was noted in 26 percent of polling places observed, and lack of clear identification of which polling place voters should go to. For instance, in Precinct 30097, Montserrado District 3, there were only two queue controllers for seven polling places. LEON Observers noted people leaving polling places without voting, and it is not known if they returned later and were able to exercise their right to vote.Gender VoteFrom the NEC gender control sheets in the polling places observed, approximately 52 percent of voters were women. There is thus the possibility that some men, who would not have had a preference in the queues, did not return to vote.Poor line management also led to tensions in the precincts affected. However, the tensions only spilled over into violence in 13 of the polling precincts where LEON observers were stationed, which indicated the commitment of Liberians to a peaceful process.Observers also reported interference by candidates or partisans in two precincts (33080 Nimba District 1 and 24003 Margibi District 4).LEON Observers noted that on the average two of the polling staff were women. However, the Presiding Officer was a woman in only one-fifth of polling places observed.“Polling staff followed procedures accurately and in full view of observers and party agents. However, they were often very meticulous, particularly during counting, which made the process very slow in some places.”A small number of voters were missing from the Final Registration Roll in half of polling places observed. These were allowed to vote if their voter ID card numbers fell within the range assigned to the polling place, in accordance with procedures and added to the supplementary voters’ list. A few polling places had much larger numbers added to the list, sometimes as many as a third of all people voting. Special categories of people, such as security services and people working with the NEC or observer groups were allowed to vote at a different polling precinct to where they had registered and would account for some of these additions to the supplementary register. However, there were strong indications that not all inaccuracies in the voters’ list were resolved by the NEC prior to the election.LEON conducted a person to list audit of the voter register during the week the Preliminary Registration Roll was exhibited and found that around 4 percent of the 3,033 voters checked were missing from the PRR.“We will continue to follow issues with the FRR through tallying and will give further analysis in the final report.”LEON noted that people still waited to vote in 78 polling places at 6.00 p.m., with the average being 37 people waiting.In Bong County, Precinct 06017, 370 people were still waiting to vote, but LEON can confirm that the polling place stayed open until 12:30 a.m. until they had all voted.Counting started immediately thereafter, in accordance with procedures, and finished at 7:30 a.m. on 11th.Observers reported that 99 percent of the counts observed were conducted correctly, with 99 percent offering a clear view of the process to party agents and observers. LEON commends the NEC for having extremely transparent counting procedures.About 92 percent of observers reported no irregularities or problems, and 91 percent rated the process as good or very good as a result. However, 5 percent of counts did not conduct the reconciliation of how many ballots were used prior to the opening of the ballot box and counting of ballots. Similarly, a record of count forms and the Presiding Officer’s worksheet were correctly completed in all but 4 percent of counts observed.It said there were problems in 31 counting places of party agents interfering in the process and 5 incidences of minor violence.Party agents were present during voting and/or counting in 97 percent polling places that LEON observed. Most commonly found were Unity Party (in 87 percent of polling places), ANC (84 percent), ALP (78 percent), LP (59 percent), CDC (55 percent), MOVEE (51 percent). Male party agents outnumbered women by 2 to 1 on the average. Unfortunately, party agents were reported to have tried to interfere in the process in 10 percent of polling places and 7 percent of counts observed.SecurityA security personnel was present at 96 percent of all polling stations and only on four occasions did security personnel enter a polling place when there was no disturbance.LEON also noted that security forces played a positive role during the campaign period with most of the 382 rallies observed being conducted peacefully.Physically Challenged, Elderly VotersPersons with disabilities were 84 percent of polling places and were assessed as accessible to elderly or disabled voters. However, in the large cities, many polling places were on the first floor and voters with disabilities were not always assigned to these and had to be carried up.The NEC is to be commended for printing tactile ballot guides for blind and partially sighted voters. These were present in polling stations for both presidential and representative ballots. LEON observers reported that blind voters were using the tactile ballot guides in half of all polling places. Most of the other polling places had no blind people come to vote indicating that blind voters frequently took up the option of voting for themselves. Voters can ask for assistance to vote from a person of their choice.LEON observers noted that in 7 percent of polling stations a member of the polling staff assisted the voter, which is contrary to procedures.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
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May 9, 2014 Heritage Florida Jewish News
PAGE 18B Resoumes, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Orlando, Florida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled appearance,_ court . or immed=ately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are heanng or voice impaired, call 711. May 2, 9, 201'4 L 108961 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COU NT, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2013-CA- 000180-0 DIVISION: 39 VISTANA DEVELOPMENT, INC., a Flodda corporation, Plaintiff, vs. ROGER L THOMAS, ET AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: W.T. BERITO, INC. 2752 N. HAMPDEN 1MM CHICAGO, IL 60614 Notice is hereby given that on May 28, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. by alectmnic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following descnbed real properties at www. myorangeclerk.realforeclose. corn: COUNT(S) IX AGAINST DEFENDANT, W.T. BERITO, INC. Unit Weak 40 in Unit 2620, an Float Odd Unit Week in Vistana Cascades Con- dominium, pursuant to the Declaration of Condomini- um as recorded in Official Records Book 5312, Page 2312, Public Records of Orange County, Florida, and all amendments there- to ("Declaration"). (Con- tract No.: 01-26-042481) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Us Pendens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Civil No. 2013-CA-000180-O, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 24th day of April, 2014. EDDIE FERNANDEZ CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA By:/s/Michael N Hutter MICHAEL N. HU'R'ER FIodda Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LIP Post Office Box 112 Odando, Flodda 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4390 Telecopier: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Orlando, Florida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hsaring or voice impaired, call 711. May 2, 9, 2014 L 108962 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2013-CA- 000645-0 DIVISION: 39 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff, vs. JOSEPH P. FONTENOT, ET. AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: EDNA E GAVIRIA ACOSTA CRR 45 49 39 MEDELLIN, ANTIOQUIA 00000 CUBA Notice is hereby given t'hat on May 21, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclerk.realforeclose. corn: COUNT(S) II AGAINST DEFENDANT, EDNA F. GAVIRIA ACOSTA An undivided .8147% inter- est in Unit Co4B of Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contem- porary Resort, a leasehold condominium (the "Con- dominium"), according to the Declaration of Con- dominium thereof as re- corded in Official Records Book 9755, Page 2293, Public Records of Orange County, Florida, and all amendments thereto (the "Declaration"). (Contract No.: 10020884.000) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the LJs Pandens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Civil No. 2013-CA-000645-O, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Flodda. DATED this 28th day of Apnl, 2014. EDDIE FERNANDEZ CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNT, FLORIDA By:/s/Michael N Hutter MICHAEL N. Hu'rrER Rorida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Odando, Flodda 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4390 Telecopier: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABILmES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you am entitled, at no cost to you, to the prevision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Odando, Flonda, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less. than 7 days; if you are headng or voice impaired, call 711. May 2, 9, 2014 L 109031 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2013-CA- 010229-0 DIVISION: 33 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Ronda corporation, Plaintiff, vs. MILAGRO G. LADERA JIMENEZ A/K/A M. LADERA JIMENEZ, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: RALPH ANDERSON TRINA ANDERSON 23837 WlLSHIRE BLVD. ELKHART, IN 46516 Notice is hereby given that on May 21, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclerk.realforeclose. com: COUNT(S) IV, v AGAINST DEFENDANTS, RALPH ANDERSON, TRINA ANDERSON An undivided .3503% in- terest in Unit 90B of Dis- ney's Saratoga Spdngs Resort, a leasehold con- dominium (the "Condo- minium"), according to the Declaration of Condomin- ium thereof as recorded in Official Records Book 7419, Page 4659, Public Records of Orange County, Florida, and all amend- ments thereto (the "Dec- laration"). (Contract No.: 7044471.000) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lis Pendens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Civil No. 2013-CA-010229-O, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 28th day of April, 2014. EDDIE FERNANDEZ CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA By:/s/Michael N Hutter MICHAEL N. HUl-rER Florida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Orlando, Florida 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4390 Telecopier: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance, Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Odando, Florida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court " appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. May 2, 9, 2014 L 109032 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNT, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2011-CA- 004386-O DIVISION: 35 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Flodda corporation, Plaintiff, vs. EDUARDO BARRERA A/K/A E. BARRERA, ET. AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: GEORGE PANAGIOTIS BABIOLAKIS ANNETTE BABIOLAKIS 15 RI'I-FER CRESCENT UNIONVILLE L3R 4K4 CANADA Notice is hereby given that on May 21, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclerk.realforeclose. com: COUNT(S) VI AGAINST DEFENDANTS, GEORGE PANAGIOTIS BABIOLAKIS, ANNETrE BABIOLAKIS An undivided .1845% in- terest in Unit 48 of Disney Vacation Club at WALT DISNEY WORLD Resort, a leasehold condominium (the "Condominium"), ac- cording to the Declaration of Condominium thereof as recorded in Official Re- cords Book 4361, Page 2551, Public Records of Orange County, Rodda, and all amendments thereto (the "Declaration"). (Contract No.: 30637.000) COUNT(S) VII AGAINST DEFENDANTS, GEORGE PANAGIOTIS BABIOLAKIS, ANNE'ITE BABiOLAKIS An undivided .5362% in- terest in Unit 62E of Disney Vacation Club at WALT DISNEY WORLD Resort, a leasehold condominium (the "Condominium"), ac- cording to the Declaration of Condominium thereof as recorded in Official Re- cords Book 4361, Page 2551, Public Records of Orange County, Ronda, and all amendments thereto (the "Declaration"). (Contract No.: 30637.002) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lis Pandens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Civil No. 2011-CA-004386-O, now ending in the Circuit Court in range County, Florida. DATED this 28th day of April, 2014. EDDIE FERNANDEZ CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNT, FLORIDA By:/s/Michael N Hutter MICHAEL N. Hu'n'ER Florida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Odando, Florida 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4390 Telecopiec (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the prevision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Odando, Florida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or . immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. May 2, 9, 2014 L 109033 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2013-CA- 012388-0 DIVISION: 39 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff, vs. GARY ADRIAN, ET AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: NESTOR H. GONZALEZ BEDRINANA PRISCILA E. ORI]Z SENA BRUSELAS 748 CAPITAL FEDERAL BUENOS AIRES 01408 ARGENTINA Notice is hereby given that on May 21, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for 'sale the following descnbed real properties at www. myorangeclerk.realforeclose. COrn: COUNT(S) XlII AGAINST DEFENDANTS, NESTOR H. GONZALEZ BEDRINANA, PRISCILA E. ORITZ SENA An undivided .3683% interest in Unit 73A of Disney's Animal King- dom Villas, a leasehold condominium (the "Con- dominium"), according to the Declaration of Con- dominium thereof as re- corded in Official Records Book 9077, Page 4252, Public Records of Orange County, Flonda, and all amendments thereto (the "Declaration"). (Contract No.: 9021744.000) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as Of the date of the Lis Pendens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Civil No. 2013-CA-012388-O, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 28th day of April, 2014. EDDIE FERNANDEZ CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA By:/s/Michael N Hutter MICHAEL N. HUTrER Florida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Odando, Rorida 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4390 Telecopier: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABlUTIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the pmviaion of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resoumes, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Odando, Flodda, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. May 2, 9, 2014 L 109034 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNT, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2013-CA- 010709-O DIVISION: 40 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Ronda corporation, Plaintiff, vs. ALAN J. LONG, ET AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: BRIAN BRINKLEY NATALIE BRINKLEY 415 S. PARKSIDE AVE. ITASCA, IL 60143 Notice is hereby given that on May 21, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclerk.realforeclose. com: COUNT(S) II AGAINST DEFENDANTS, BRIAN BRINKLEY, NATAUE BRINKLEY An undivided .2518% interest in Unit 125A of Disney's Saratoga Spdngs Resort, a leasehold con- dominium (the "Condo- minium"), according to the Declaration of Condomin- ium thereof as recorded in Official Records Book 7419, Page 4659, Public Records of Orange County, Flonda, and all amend- ments thereto (the "Dec- laration"). (Contract No.: 7076401.000) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lis Pendans must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Civil No. 2013-CA-010709-O, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 28th day of Apdl, 2014. EDDIE FERNANDEZ CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COU N], FLORIDA By:/s/Michael N Hutter MICHAEL N. HUTTER Flodda Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LIP Post Office Box 112 Odando, Florida 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4390 Telecopier: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABIUTIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this pmceading, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Odando, Florida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. May 2, 9, 2014 L 109035 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2013-CA- 009873-0 DIVISION: 33 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a FIodda corporation, Plaintiff, vs. GREGORY A. wrl-rE, ET AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: JOSE CORDERA MARIA ELENA QUINTANA 1307 MAGDALNA AVE. APT. 11 SAN JUAN, PR 00907 Notice is hereby given that on May 21, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclerk.realforaclose. corn: COUNT(S) Xl, Xll AGAINST DEFENDANTS, JOSE CORDERA, MARIA ELENA QUINTANA An undivided .4379% interest in Unit 1H of Dis- ney's Saratoga Springs Resort, a leasehold con- dominium (the "Condo- minium"), according to the Declaration of Condomin- ium thereof as recorded in Official Records Book 7419, Page 4659, Public Records of Orange County, Flodda, and all amend- ments thereto (the "Dec- laration"). (Contract No.: 4017903.002) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Us Pendens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Civil No. 2013-CA-009873-O, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 28th day of Apdl, 2014. EDDIE FERNANDEZ CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA By:/s/Michael N Hutter MICHAEL N. HUI-rER Florida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Odando, Florida 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4390 Telecopler: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABIUTIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Odando, Flonda, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. May2, 9, 2014 L 109036 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2013-CA- 011652-O DIVISION: 43A PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Flodda corporation, Plaintiff, vs. MARY E. GAUDREAU, ET AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: NICHOLAS S. DAWES VEVECA D. DAWES 8226 WOODSWORTH DR. ORLANDO 32817-1542 Notice is hereby given that on May 21, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclerk.realforeclose. com: COUNT(S) III AGAINST DEFENDANTS, NICHOLAS S. DAWES, VEVECA D. DAWES An undivided .2546% inter- est in Unit 50A of Bay Lake Tower at Disoey's Contem- porary Resort, a leasehold condominium (the !'Con- dominium"), according to the Declaration of Con- dominium thereof as re- corded in Official Records Book 9755, Page 2293, Public Records of Orange County, Flodda, and all amendments thereto (the "Declaration"). (Contract No.: 10005796.001) COUNT(S) IV AGAINST DEFENDANT, VEVECA DAWES An undivided 1.0184% in- terest in Unit 73B of Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary Resort, a leasehold condominium (the "Condominium"), according to the Decla- ration of Condominium thereof as recorded in Of- fioial Records Book 9755, Page 2293, Public Re- cords of Orange County, Florida, and all amend- ments thereto (the "Dec- laration"). (Contract No.: 10020379.000) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lis Pandens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Civil No. 2013-CA-011652-O, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Flodda. DATED this 28th day of April, 2014. EDDIE FERNANDEZ CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA By:/s/Michael N Hutter MICHAEL N. Hu'rrER Florida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Odando, Flonda 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4390 Telecopier. (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Odando, Florida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon reoaiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. May 2, 9, 2014 L 109037 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COU Nl', FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2013-CA- 007397-0 DIVISION: 35 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Flonda corporation, Plaintiff, vs. CRISTINA DISING, El" AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: CRISTINA DISING 3213 DELAWARE AVE. KENNER, LA 70065 Notice is hereby given that on May 21, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclerk.realforaclose. corn: COUNT(S) I AGAINST DEFENDANT, CRISTINA DISlNG An undivided 3092% inter- est in Unit 71B of Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contem- porary Resort, a leasehold condominium (the "Con- dominium"), according to the Declaration of Con- dominium thereof as re- corded in Official Records Book 9755, Page 2293, Public Records of Orange County, Florida, and all amendments thereto (the "Declaration"). (Contract No.: 10019080.000) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lis Pendens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Civil No. 2013-CA-0073g7-o, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 28th day of April, HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 9, 2014 2014. EDDIE FERNANDEZ CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNT, FLORIDA By:/S/Michael N Hutter MICHAEL N. HUTTER Flodda Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Odando, Flodda 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4390 Talecopier: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the prevision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Odando, Flodda, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hsadng or voice impaired, call 711. May 2, 9, 2014 L 109038 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2013-CA- 012388-O DIVISION: 39 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Flodda corporation, Plaintiff, vs. GARY ADRIAN, ET AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: LEONEL JOSE QUINTERO ESPEJO KARLA ALEJANDRA MACHADO SOSA CALLE SOUBLE'CI'E EDIF JARDIN PL PISOS APTO 5B GUARENAS VENEZUELA 101000000 VENEZUELA Notice is hereby given that on May 21, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclerk.realforeclose. com: COUNT(S) VIII AGAINST DEFENDANTS, LEONEL JOSE QUINTERO ESPEJO, KARLA ALEJANDRA MACHADO SOSA An undivided .6753% interest in Unit 73A of Disney's Animal King- dom Villas, a leasehold condominium (the "Con- dominium"), according to the Declaration of Con- dominium thereof as re- corded in Official Records Book 9077, Page 4252, Public Records of Orange County, Flodda, and all amendments thereto (the "Declaration"). (Contract No.: 9022363.000) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Us Pendens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Civil No. 2013-CA-012388-O, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Flodda. DATED this 28th day of April, 2014. EDDIE FERNANDEZ CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA By:/s/Michael N Hutter MICHAEL N. HUTFER Flodda Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Odando, Florida 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4390 Telecopler. (407) 841-0168 Attomeys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Odando, Florida, (407) 838-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. May 2, 9, 2014 L 109039 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2013-CA- 009508-O DIVISION: 40 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Rorida corporation, Plaintiff, vs. AFREEN KISTEN, El- AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: ARNOLD A. GARZA 2415 TAMESIS DR. EDINBURG, TX 78539 Notice is hereby given that on May 21, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclerk.realforeclose. corn: COUNT(S) IX AGAINST DEFENDANT, ARNOLD A. GARZA An undivided .5536% interest in Unit 103C of Dianey's Animal Kingdom Villas, a leasehold con- dominium (the "Condo- minium"), according to the Declaration of Condomin- ium thereof as recorded in Official Records Book 9077, Page 4252, Public Records of Orange County, Florida, and all amend- ments thereto (the "Dec- laration"). (Contract No.: 9010829.000) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lis Pandens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made )ursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Civil No. 2013-CA-009508-O, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 28th day of April, 2014. EDDIE FERNANDEZ CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNT, FLORIDA By:/s/Michael N Hutter MICHAEL N. Hu'rrER Flodda Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Odando, Flodda 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4390 Telecopler: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABIUTIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Odando, Flodda, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your soheduled court appearance, or immediately ulon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. May 2, 9, 2014 L 109040 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNT, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2013-CA- 010825-0 DIVISION: 39 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Flonda corporation, Plaintiff, MS. BRIAN SCHMITZ, ET AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: FEDERICO G. GONZALEZ ADRIANA FEDATO GONZALEZ COMES DA SILVA ALAMEDA DIAMANTE 508-RESIDENCIAL 9, ALPHAVILLE SANTA DE PARNAIBA 6540175 BRAZIL Notice is hereby given that on May 21, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following descdbed real properties at www. myorangeclerk.realforeolose. corn: COUNT(S) IV AGAINST DEFENDANTS, FEBERICO G. GONZALEZ, ADRIANA FEDATO GONZALEZ GOMES DA SILVA An undivided 1.6295% in- terest in Unit 68B of Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary Resort, a leasehold condominium (the "Condominium"), according to the Decla- ration of Condominium thereof as recorded in Of- ficial Records Book 9755, Page 2293, Public Re- cords of Orange County, Flodda, and all amend- ments thereto (the "Dec- laration").- (Contract No.: 10018327.000) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the lis Pandens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made )ursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Civil No. 2013-CA-010825-0, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 28th day of April, 2014. EDDIE FERNANDEZ CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNT, FLORIDA By:/s/Michael N Hutter MICHAEL N. Hu'rrER Florida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Odando, Flodda 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4390 Talecopier: (407) 841-0168 Attorosys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to )articipate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certaio .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.aist an c e. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Orlando, Flodda, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification If the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hsadng or voice impaired, call 711. May 2, 9, 2014 L 109041 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNT, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 20Gg-CA- 020482-0 DIVISION: 40-2 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff, vs. DIVINA G. MATOS, ET AL. Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: RYAN J. GREENING 6762 MARSHALL STREET FORT HOOD, rx 76544-1317 Notice is hereby given that on May 21, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclerk.realforeclose. corn: COUNT(S) I AGAINST DEFENDANT, RYAN J. GREENING An undivided .3284% in- terest in Unit 34A of Dis- ney's Saratoga Springs Resort, a leasehold con- dominium (the "Condo- minium"), according to the Declaration of Condomin- ium thereof as recorded in Official Records Book 7419, Page 4659, Public Records of Orange County, Flonda, and all amend- mants thereto (the "Dec- laration"). (Contract No.: 7014481.000) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lis Pendens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Civil No. 2009-CA-020482-O, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Flonda. DATED this 28th day of April, 2014. EDDIE FERNANDEZ CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNT, FLORIDA By:/s/Michael N Hutter MICHAEL N. HLITrER Flodda Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LIP Post Offce Box 112 Odando, Flonda 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4390 Talecapier: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABIUTIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Odando, Florida, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. May 2, 9, 2014 L 109042 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNT, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2011-CA- 002224-0 DIVISION: 40 PALM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a Florida corporation, Plaintiff, vs. ALLEN JOHN HUGHES, ET. AL Defendants NOTICE OF SALE TO: BEATRICE HARRIS 1969 MCGRAW AVE. APT. 5C BRONX, NY 10462-8049 Notice is hereby given that on May 21, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. by electronic sale, the undersigned Clerk will offer for sale the following described real properties at www. myorangeclerk.reaiforeclose. com: COUNT(S) XIII AGAINST DEFENDANTS, BEATRICE HARRIS An undivided .4036% interest in Unit 46A of Disney Vacation Club at Disney's BoardWalk Villas, a leasehold condominium (the "Condominium"), ac- cording to the Declaration of Condominium thereof as recorded in Official Re- cords Book 5101, Page 147, Public Records of Or- ange County, Fiodda, and all amendments thereto (the "Declaration"). (Con- tract No.: 4020238.000) Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from this sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Iis Pendens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date. The aforesaid sale will be made pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure in Civil No. 2011-CA-002224-O, now pending in the Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida. DATED this 28th day of Apnl, 2014. EDDIE FERNANDEZ CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA By:/s/Michael N Hutter MICHAEL N. HU13R Florida Bar No.: 650730 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP Post Office Box 112 Odando, Florida 32802-0112 Telephone: (407) 649-4390 Telecopiar: (407) 841-0168 Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH DISABIUTIES If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provisioo of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Odando, Flonda, (407) 836-2303, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are heanng or voice impaired, call 711. May 2, 9, 2014 L 109043 IN THE CIRCUIT
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Posted on August 31, 2018 by Mike Glyer
(1) #BACKTOHOGWARTS. Warner Bros. kicked off the weekend with a behind-the-scenes featurette for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
Excited about #BackToHogwarts tomorrow? Watch J.K. Rowling and the cast of #FantasticBeasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald reminisce over their favourite Hogwarts memories.
(2) FIRST DAY OF FALL. Bill Capossere’ gives the new release a favorable review, “The Fall of Gondolin: A welcome addition to Christopher Tolkien’s close looks at his father’s work”. He also explains to Fantasy Literature readers:
As with Beren and Lúthien, with regard to the stories themselves (as opposed to the analysis), there is little “new” here; the various versions can be found in others of Christopher’s HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH books. What the stand-alone offers that those books do not is a single-minded focus on one story, allowing us to trace the tale’s evolution more fully and in more detail. I’ve personally found that singular focus to be well worth the purchase price despite owning the versions in other books. Also, I should note that both the publisher and Christopher are (and have been) quite upfront and transparent about this. There’s been no attempt to present these as “new” texts.
And about one part, The Last Version, he says –
Unfortunately, cruelly even, Tolkien abandoned this version, what Christopher calls “this essential and (one may say) definitive form and treatment of the legend,” just after Tuor passes the last gate. I’m with Christopher when he confesses that for him it “is perhaps the most grievous of his many abandonments.”
(3) TANSY RAYNER ROBERTS REVIEWED. At Fantasy-Faction, Richard Marpole praises the novella “Cabaret of Monsters by Tansy Rayner Roberts”.
Rayner Roberts’ writing style is lively and conversational, she doesn’t shy away from grown-up words or a bit of satire here and there either. Evie’s attempts to get away with wearing trousers in a city still mired in traditional gender roles adds a pleasant dash of feminist commentary to proceedings. (Though, among the Creature Court and the bohemian set at least, alternative sexualities and genders seem to be well represented and completely accepted in Aufleur, which is always nice to see.) There are plenty of pretty descriptions and well-turned phrases here, but they don’t slow down the pace.
(4) HERE’S MY NUMBER AND A DIME. NASA is waiting for a call. Engadget has the story: “Mars Opportunity rover will have 45 days to phone home”.
As a planet-wide dust storm enveloped Mars, many were concerned about the fate of the Opportunity rover. After all, Opportunity is dependent on solar panels; the opacity of the dust storm meant that she wasn’t getting enough light to stay powered. The team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory last heard from Opportunity on June 10th. Now, the storm is lifting, and once its opacity reaches a tau level of 1.5, the little rover will have 45 days to respond to the team’s signals. Otherwise, NASA will stop actively listening for the rover.
The tau measures the amount of dust and particulate in the Martian atmosphere. The team hopes that, once the skies have cleared enough and the rover has recharged its batteries, Opportunity will be able to hear and respond to the signals that Earth is sending its way. If 45 days have passed without a response, the team will cease its active efforts to recover the rover. “If we do not hear back after 45 days, the team will be forced to conclude that the Sun-blocking dust and the Martian cold have conspired to cause some type of fault from which the rover will more than likely not recover,” said John Callas, Opportunity’s project manager, in a statement.
However, that does not mean they will abandon all hope, as the article goes on to explain.
(5) MORE WORLDCON 76. Stephanie Alford’s report includes some good panel notes.
“Three Days at WorldCon 76: Friday”
While WorldCon76 was my second worldcon, it was my best con ever! Big backpack stuffed with con survival gear (food, books, journals, pens, etc.), bowler hat squarely on my head, I wandered the convention center with a big smile on my face.
“Three Days at WorldCon 76: Saturday”
1001 Years Later – What Happened to Arabian Fiction – Shayma Alshareef and Yasser Bahjatt
“Three Days at WorldCon 76: Sunday”
SETI: What Do We Do When We Find Them? – Andrew Fraknoi, Guy Consolmagno, SB Divya, Douglas Vakoch, Lonny Brooks
(6) PIXLEY AT WORLDCON. Joy Pixley explains the con’s distinctive features in “Back from Worldcon!”
Worldcon is much more oriented toward books than other large fan cons like Comic Con, that have huge movie trailer premieres and feature famous celebrities. I mean, Worldcon does have celebrities, it’s just that we readers and writers think of authors as being big celebrities, not actors. So it doesn’t have quite the glitz or the production value of commercial cons, but then, the guests of honor actually walk around the convention center and go to talks and sit down for drinks, just like everyone else. To me, that makes it feel so much more inclusive and approachable.
(7) SEVERIN OBIT. Marie Severin, who was a pioneering woman in comics, mostly for Marvel, died August 29. The Washington Post’s Matt Schudel marked her passing: “Marie Severin, versatile Hall of Fame comic-book illustrator, dies at 89”.
Ms. Severin spent more than 50 years as an illustrator, handling all three of the major visual tasks in comic-book production: penciling, inking and coloring. She worked closely with Marvel’s editor in chief Stan Lee for decades and in 2001 was named to the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame.
In the 1970s, Ms. Severin was a co-creator of Jessica Drew — better known as the superhero Spider-Woman — and designed the character’s skintight red-and-yellow costume.
“Marie Severin did it all — penciler, inker, colorist, character creator,” historian and publisher Craig Yoe, the former creative director of Jim Henson’s Muppets, wrote in an email. He called her “one of the last of comics’ greatest generation.”
(8) ZADAN OBIT. He brought musicals to live TV, some of them genre: “Craig Zadan, 69, Dies; Produced Musicals for Stage, Screen and TV”.
Craig Zadan, an ebullient showman who helped engineer a revival of Broadway musicals on television with live NBC broadcasts of “The Sound of Music,” “Peter Pan,” “Hairspray” and “The Wiz,” died on [August 21st] at his home Los Angeles. He was 69….
The success of “Gypsy,” broadcast in 1993, led to ABC, where [he] produced “Annie” (1997), with Kathy Bates and Alan Cumming, and “Cinderella” (1999), with Brandy Norwood in the title role and Whitney Houston as the fairy godmother….
(9) HEATH OBIT. Russ Heath (1926-2018), a long-running comic artist, although less known in genre, who drew for Hero Initiative (fund that helps comic book artists in need), died August 23. The New York Times obit is here: “Russ Heath, Whose Comics Caught Lichtenstein’s Eye, Dies at 91”.
Heath seemed to feel his comics had done more than just catch the renowned pop artist’s eye.
(10) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
[Compiled by Cat Eldridge.]
Born August 31, 1890. E.E. “Doc” Smith. Writer, the Lensman and Skylark Universe series, each of which has a lot less novels in them then I thought they did, but which have influenced a number of later genre works including the Babylon 5 series. I admit I’ve not read them, so are they worth reading?
Born August 31 – Steve Perry, 71. Apparently there’s quite a living to be made in writing genre fiction that’s based in universes created by someone else as he’s written novels in the Predator, Aliens, Aliens versus Predators, Conan, Indiana Jones, Men in Black and Star Wars franchises. Not to mention both books based on both work by Leonard Nimoy snd Tom Clancy. And Isaac Asimov. not sending a lot of originality here.
Born August 31 – G. Willow Wilson, 36. Writer of such work as Air, Cairo, Ms.Marvel and Alif the Unseen. She won the World Fantasy Award for the latter and a Hugo Award went also to Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal.
(11) COMICS SECTION.
In the Bleachers gives us a gaming crossover.
Tom the Dancing Bug insists he was only joking about the solution to a mystery.
(12) RETURNING THIS FALL A Superheroes Fight Back Trailer from the CW to let everyone know their new season starts October 9.
(13) EPISODE IX CASTING. ScienceFiction.com learned “‘Star Wars Episode IX’ May Be Looking For Another Female Lead!”
A character breakdown for the upcoming ‘Star Wars: Episode IX’ has been released, and it teases a new female character who could be joining the cast soon! It was previously reported that the film was on the hunt for two new female leads, one being a 40-50 year old female to play a character being called “Mara”, and the other being an African-American actress, age 18-26, to portray a character by the name of Caro.
That Hashtag Show reported that the film is now looking for another actress age 27-35, for a character being called “KARINA.” The character breakdown describes the supporting role as:
“A younger Charlize Theron with street smarts and a sharp wit… a good sense of humor, solid comedic timing and a strong voice.”
(14) THE CONTINENTAL. If people still put destination stickers on their luggage, John Scalzi’s bags would be accumulating a new batch next year.
For everyone else in Europe, in 2019 I will be in London, Budapest, Northern Spain and Dublin. I'll be ALL OVER your continent!
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) August 31, 2018
(15) QUICK SIPS. Charles Payseur gives Tor.com’s short fiction a whirl in “Quick Sips – Tor dot com August 2018”.
Two short stories and a novelette round out the SFF originals from Tor this month, with a definite focus on science fiction, on futures of humanity interacting with the universe and, perhaps more importantly, with the Earth. Whether that means dealing with the touch of climate disaster and change, or working to move beyond the bounds of our terrestrial home through uploading and flight, or gaining a new and non-human presence to co-inhabit the planet with, the pieces look at how humans see the Earth, and how that perspective shifts as the gaze becomes less incorporated in a human body. It’s a month full of strangeness and longing, risks and looming dangers, and it makes for a fascinating bunch of stories. To the reviews!
(16) MARVEL SHOWS HEART. Several stars of Marvel films have sent short videos — as themselves — to a teenager who has terminal brain cancer. Josh is a particular fan of Deadpool, causing actor Ryan Reynolds to lead the charge. He’s also recruited Tom Holland (Spider-Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Chris Pratt (Star-Lord), and Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) to make videos of their own. You can see all five at “Marvel stars line up crossover to send powerful vibes to teen with terminal cancer” on SYFY Wire.
(17) VIDEO OF THE DAY. Tink by Mr. Kaplan on Vimeo is a short film about an animated Rube Goldberg machine.
[Thanks to Cat Eldridge, Martin Morse Wooster, Mike Kennedy, JJ, John King Tarpinian, Chip Hitchcock, Carl Slaughter, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit belongs to File 770 contributing editor of the day Daniel Dern.]
Posted in Pixel Scroll | Tagged Bill Capossere, Charles Payseur, Christopher Tolkien, Fantastic Beasts, Hogwarts, J.R.R. Tolkien, Joy Pixley, Marie Severin, Mars Exploration Rovers, Marvel, Star Wars, Stephanie Alford, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Tor.com
Classic Sci-Fi Films Online
By Carl Slaughter: Available on YouTube.
4D MAN. Shakespearean story of a scientist who abuses his discovery because he can’t resolve his personal problems – love triangle, family drama, office politics. A tragic man whose new found powers render him indestructible to others but who is all too capable of self destruction. A great deal of time is devoted to building up to the protagonist/antagonist’s trip wire.
More videos follow the jump.
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2018 Pegasus Award Nominees
The 2018 Pegasus Award finalists have been announced. The Pegasus Award is given by the Ohio Valley Filk Fest (OVFF) for excellence in filking.
Anyone in the filk community can vote on the winners, and community is broadly defined — check out the rules here.
Whether or not you vote, enjoy the sound clips of the nominees here. The ballot is here.
The last full day to vote if you are not attending OVFF is October 14. Balloting will re-open on the evening of Friday, October 19 during and immediately after the Pegasus Nominees Concert, for those who are attending OVFF and wish to submit their ballot there.
Best Filk Song
Fight Like A Girl Erin & Rand Bellavia
Goodnight, Sarah-Jane Talis Kimberley
Han Solo for President Eric Distad
I Am I Eva Van Daele-Hunt
Pageant Legend Katy Dröge-Macdonald /Ju Honisch
Best Classic Filk Song
Arden Zander Nyrond / Chris O’Shea
Creature of the Wood Alexander James Adams
Legolas Dr. Mary Crowell
Mommy, Can I Have A Spaceship? Joey Shoji
Siren Song Michelle Dockrey / Tony Fabris
Best Performer
Faithful Sidekicks
Sunnie Larsen
Random Fractions
Stone Dragons
Twotonic
Best Writer/Composer
Lauren Cox
Leslie Hudson
Kari Maaren
Cathy McManamon
Eva Van Daele-Hunt
Best Roadtrip Song
The Alien Jellyfish Song Chris Conway
Cliffs of Insanity Erin & Rand Bellavia
Fellowship Going South Leslie Fish
Oregon Trail Tim Griffin
Road to Santiago Heather Dale
Best Song About Community
Home to FilKONtario Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Gone Filkin’ Tom Jeffers
Many Hearts, One Voice Steve Macdonald
Three Days Away Mike Whitaker
Welcome Home Mark Bernstein
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Pixel Scroll 8/30/18 I, For One, Welcome My New Cybernetic Pixel Scroll Wrangler
(1) THE (AMERICAN) GODS THEMSELVES. Neil Gaiman pointed to Leslie S. Klinger’s announcement of a planned reference work about “American Gods”.
I’m thrilled to announce that next Fall, William Morrow will publish Annotated American Gods, with my notes based in significant part on Neil’s manuscripts, journals, and research material as well as many other sources, including conversations with Neil and answers to the questions of “Who are all these unidentified gods anyway?”. I believe that this will be a large-trim edition, with the notes on each page in the margins, based on the 10th Anniversary edition text. Among other things, the notes will highlight all of the significant textual changes that were made for that edition. There will be black-and-white images of various people, places, and maybe even gods!
(2) ATTRACTIVE IDEA. You might say the Worldcon’s YA award gets some love from the Word of the Day:
@worldconya You have a fan! @MikeGlyer
Word of the Day: Lodestar — See the full definition https://t.co/ezyLn2Ds5K
— Lily 'is home and tired' Valley (@LilyValleylives) August 29, 2018
(3) TREK FEATURES IN PRE-EMMY ANNOUNCEMENT. Deadline hails fans with some award news: “‘Star Trek’ Beams Up TV Academy’s 2018 Governors Award”
“Bridge to engineering — what’s that, Scotty?” “Ach, it’s the Governors Award, Captain — comin’ right at us!” “Mister Spock?!” “It seems that Star Trek has been selected to receive that honor from the TV Academy next month, Captain.”
The award to Star Trek recognizes “the visionary science-fiction television franchise and its legacy of boldly propelling science, society and culture where no one has gone before,” as the Academy put it. The honor will be beamed up September 8 during Night 1 of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
(4) POETRY CONTEST DEADLINE. 40th Anniversary Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association Speculative Poetry Contest deadline is August 31. Acclaimed Irish poet John W. Sexton is this year’s judge and esteemed Texas poet Holly Lyn Walrath is Chair. You do not have to be a SFPA member to enter poems. Rules at the link.
(5) MORE TO CTHULHU THAN MEETS THE EYE. With HPL’s 128th birthday this month, Bryan Thao Worra takes on the question “How Can Writers of Color Reconcile H. P. Lovecraft’s Influence with His Racist Legacy?” at Twin Cities Geeks.
…When I would read a story like The Shadow over Innsmouth, it felt more relevant to our journey than most of the refugee narratives on the market. Someone arrives in town to discover peculiar folks are nice at first, then turn into monstrous horrors who have bizarre traditions they want the protagonist to partake in? That’s an oversimplification, certainly, but the seeds are there to be sown. It can be sensitive to have a conversation on the real politics that ignited the Laotian Secret War, but a conversation on an alien war between Great Old Ones and Elder Things, with poor humanity caught between mindless horrors duking it out? There’s a tale that could be told, although not without its complications. Are the Great Old Ones NATO or the Warsaw Pact to Lovecraft’s Elder Things and Elder Gods? Lovecraft’s Fungi from Yuggoth appear in The Whisperer in Darkness; there, the reader learns these creatures take the brains of their victims to their distant planet in shiny metal cylinders. Simple science-fiction horror or an interesting metaphor for the cultural brain drain of a country as refugees board the metal cylinders of American planes to escape to safety?
…If I encouraged my community to read only safe, respectable literature touching on Laos, we’d find our people depicted typically as the faceless, coolies, or the enemy. In the works of writers like H. P. Lovecraft, and others, I felt we could at least start to flip the script and assert our true authentic voice from an unexpected direction. When I began writing in earnest, I had a desire to avoid many of the colonial, imperialist, and feudal trappings that disempower us. I saw science fiction, fantasy, and horror as a way to discuss our journeys and to empower ourselves, even as there can be no doubt these genres are filled with any number of paranoid and small-minded figures who may know how to put a sentence together but not necessarily an inclusive core. But like any zone of literature, one works at it.
(6) MORE ON JOHN WARD. Game Manufacturers Association (GAMA) board member Jeff Tidball addresses the question “It Is Wise for GAMA to Seek a New Executive Director”. As Mark Hepworth noted in comments, Tidball very carefully avoids saying why Ward was not kept on. He does say that Ward was appointed ten years ago in very different circumstances:
The GAMA board of directors announced on Friday that it is not renewing the employment agreement of its Executive Director, John Ward. (Read a copy of the press release hosted on this site.) A fair number of members want to know why, and that’s great, because it indicates that GAMA’s members are interested in the governance and management of their trade organization.
The board’s decision arose in a closed meeting of the board, so the details and voting record of individual board members are confidential. The board’s consensus in recent discussion has been that the decisions made by the body are the decisions of the entire body, and so it would be inappropriate to publish a list reciting the votes of each member.
(Side note: This is based on very recent dialogue, the ultimate resolution of which is still pending. The question arose in the first place when a previous board decision led to a board member’s business being threatened. So, if you’ve seen or been part of board meetings in the past where detailed notes and vote-tallies were circulated, that’s why what I’m reporting here may be different from your experience.)
I wasn’t on the GAMA board ten years ago when John Ward was hired as its Executive Director. Many people, some of whom were intimately involved in the hiring process, some of whom were on the board at the time, many of whom were acquainted with the state of GAMA at that time, have assured me that John Ward was the best candidate for the position of ED when GAMA faced existential crises of finances and responsible organization. I believe them.
It’s been suggested that because John was the right person for that job, ten years ago, he must therefore still be the right person for the current job. There’s a logical disconnect there. The right person to turn a company around is not necessarily the right person to envision its future. The right person to fight a war is not necessarily the right person to rebuild the landscape. And so on. The skill sets are different.
Circumstances change, and GAMA’s have changed. The change is largely thanks to John Ward. The board gives him credit for what he’s done and applauds what he’s accomplished. So make no mistake: I thank John Ward for the hard work he’s done for GAMA. At the same time, I believe that a new voice and skill set would be better to lead GAMA for the next ten years.
(7) ALTERNATE NATURAL HISTORY. Ursula Vernon did a bunch of these today. Not in a single thread, so you’ll need to seek them out. Here is the premise and two lovely examples:
People who missed the original posts—these veggies, alas, are fictional, in honor of @casskhaw the Microfiction Queen’s birthday. I’m sorry, I’d like to grow some of them too!
— The Wombat Resists (@UrsulaV) August 30, 2018
The Penitent Order Of St Genevieve strictly forbade use of animal products to its knights, which proved difficult during the Crusades. Generations of monks perfected the Genevieve Leatherlock, an apple so tough its fruit leather could be used as armor, tack, and building material https://t.co/bBCNaoRVur
The Casey Persimmon was a mouth-puckeringly tart fruit rarely eaten raw. Instead it was used primarily to make a liquor called White Ruin, which was much prized by pirates. Persimmons have a high vitamin C content, so this would have helped stave off scurvy as well as sobriety. https://t.co/4xz9sP1eWY
(8) BOUNCED OFF THESE BOOKS. Liz Lutgendorff finds most of the books that topped NPR’s poll “shockingly offensive” — “I read the 100 “best” fantasy and sci-fi novels – and they were shockingly offensive”. (The poll was a product of 5,000 nominators and 60,000 voters.) Lutgendorff used this test to help evaluate the list:
The test had three simple questions:
1: Does it have at least two female characters?
2: Is one of them a main character?
3: Do they have an interesting profession/level of skill like male characters?
It was staggering how many didn’t pass. Some failed on point 1….
Many failed on my second criteria, like Out of the Silent Planet or Rendezvous with Rama.
C S Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet was one of the oldest books on the list, aside from Jules Verne. It’s an early attempt at explaining space flight and encountering an alien race. Most of the plot revolves around the main character, Ransom, trying to understand the aliens before managing to escape back to earth.The most entertaining aspect of the book is the ludicrous physics. There is one woman in the story, who Ransom exchanges about three sentences with before she wanders off. Perhaps you can forgive that on age, the book being from 1938.
The same can’t be said for Rendezvous with Rama, which was written in 1973. It was critically acclaimed and won many of the main science fiction prizes such as the Nebula Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Hugo Award and Locus Award. The story centres around a group of space explorers who have to investigate a mysterious spacecraft that enters the solar system.
While there are more women, almost all are subordinate to the main male lead. There is one female authority figure who is on the Council of Rama (the organisation directing the efforts of investigation), but she doesn’t play a significant role. I also got distracted by the fact that, inexplicably, the male lead sleeps with almost all the women mentioned in the book.
Finally, most would fail on the third part of the test because the women characters were all mothers, nurses or love interests. They were passive characters with little agency or character development, like the women in A Canticle for Leibowitz and Magician. They were scenery, adding a tiny bit of texture to mainly male dominated world….
(9) NELSON OBIT. An opportunity here to take note of her fascinating career — “Miriam Nelson, 98, Golden Age Dancer and Choreographer, Dies” in the New York Times – even if Jerry Lewis provides the unlikely genre connection:
Miriam Nelson, whose seven-decade career as a choreographer and dancer spanned the golden ages of Broadway, Hollywood and television, died on Aug. 12 at her home in Beverly Hills, Calif. She was 98.
Much of Ms. Nelson’s movie work was for nonmusicals. She choreographed the madcap party scene at Holly Golightly’s apartment in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961), and also appeared in it as the glamorous party guest in gold brocade and pearls who argues with the man wearing a fake eye patch.
Behind the camera, Ms. Nelson taught … Jerry Lewis to hoof it like a space alien in “A Visit to a Small Planet” (1960) and the whole cast of “Cat Ballou” (1965) — led by Jane Fonda, who she said was a balletically trained natural — to execute Old West dances for the hoedown scene.
(10) THE ROADS MUST SCROLL. Today’s trivia –
Moving sidewalks may have been synonymous with airports since the mid-20th century but the technology was known even earlier. A “moving pavement” transported people between exhibits during the Paris Expo in 1900 and science fiction novelist H.G. Wells even mentioned them in his 1899 tale “A Story of the Days to Come.”
Sources: USA Today “A short history of airport moving walkways “ (2016) and QI “Moving Walkways”)
Born August 31, 1797 — Mary Shelley. Author of Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) considered by many to be very first genre novel. Though not appreciated for it until rather recently, she was a rather excellent writer of biographies of notable European men and women.
Born August 30 — R. Crumb, 76. Ok, this is a weird associational connection. Back in 1966, The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick was illustrated by R. Crumb in Weirdo #17. Crumb days text is by Dick. It’s really, really weird. You can find it here.
Born August 30, 1955 – Judith Tarr, 63. Perhaps best known for her Avaryan Chronicles series, and myriad other fantasy works. She breeds Lipizzan horses at Dancing Horse Farm, her home in Vail, Arizona. Need I note horses figure prominently in her stories?
(12) WORKING FOR LEX. Here’s one of the DC Crossovers that have been discussed in Scrolls — Lex Luthor Porky Pig Special #1 variant,. Became available August 29, according to Graham Crackers Comic Books.
Facing financial and personal ruin, a desperate Porky Pig applies for and gets and entry-level position with LexCorp. Grateful to his new benefactor, Porky becomes Luthor’s most loyal employee and defender. But when a major scandal breaks in the news and Lex is called before a Congressional Committee, guess who is about to be offered up as the sacrificial pig?
(13) ESA ASTRONAUT INTERVIEW. Newsweek interviews European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti about her time after her stay on the ISS and her current role on the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway project (“Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti: NASA Lunar Gateway Is ‘Natural Next Step in Exploration’”).
Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is [… the] first Italian woman in space […] the former fighter pilot spent almost 200 days on the International Space Station (ISS) from 2014 to 2015—a record spaceflight for an ESA astronaut.
As well as investigating how fruit flies, flatworms and even human cells behave in space, Cristoforetti gained fame for brewing the first espresso on the ISS….
Q: What is your role with the Gateway?
A: I’m a crew representative for the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway project. It’s a space station that will be built around the moon in the early 2020s. For human spaceflight, you always want astronauts involved so that they can give a little bit of perspective to the future crew members, users and operators. I’m just starting that, I’m just getting myself into the topic.
(14) INNERSPACE. The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival debuts October 1-7 in New York, and will explore “the medicinal and therapeutic use of psychedelics and investigate the existence of inner worlds through trance music and science fiction, horror, surrealism, fantasy and virtual reality film.”
Simon Boswell will be there —
Renowned film composer and noted psychedelic Simon Boswell will headline a night of music on October 3 at Mercury Lounge on the Lower East Side for a special concert at The Inaugural Psychedelic Film and Music Festival. Performing with his musical group The AND, Boswell will play pieces from his illustrious film composition career in rock, electronica, gothic horror and futuristic styles.
Mr. Boswell is notable for integrating electronic elements with orchestral instruments to create vibrant and atmospheric soundtracks for widely praised cyberpunk, horror and science fiction films including Santa Sangre (1989), Hardware (1990), Dust Devil (1992), Shallow Grave (1994), Hackers (1995) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999). He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Original Television Music for the BBC series The Lakes (1997) and in recent years has composed for several film projects and toured worldwide with The AND, performing live music against video backdrops of remixed content from his impressive film resume.
Tickets available on Ticketfly: https://ticketf.ly/2nyeb1o
(15) IN VINE VERITAS. Someone reading today needs this book – just not sure who it is. Altus Press announces plans for “Tarzan, Conqueror of Mars”. (No indication there is any connection with the series of similarly-themed action figures from days gone by.)
In 2014, Altus launched The Wild Adventures of Tarzan, with Tarzan: Return to Pal-ul-don. Two years later came the monumental King Kong versus Tarzan, a dream project long thought unachievable.
Now, in association with Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. and Altus Books, the Wild Adventures announces its most breathtaking project to date.
Tarzan, Conqueror of Mars!
Fans of Edgar Rice Burroughs and his amazing creations have long dreamed of reading a novel in which the Lord of the Jungle visits the Red Planet and encounters John Carter.
In Tarzan, Conqueror of Mars, this finally happens!
When a witch doctor’s sorcery hurls the ape-man’s soul out of his magnificent body, Tarzan discovers himself on a weird, treeless landscape, a dying planet inhabited by creatures unknown to him. Marooned on Mars, Tarzan must learn to survive in an unfamiliar environment. With no hope of rescue, the ape-man begins the arduous journey that takes him from being a friendless stranger on an alien world to his rise as a force to be reckoned with. For on Barsoom—as Martians style their home planet—there exists apes. Great apes of a type not found upon Earth. Hairless giants resembling gorillas, but possessing two sets of arms. Not to mention ferocious lion-like monsters known as banths as well as the elephantine zitidars. Tarzan will go up against these fearsome creatures, and so begins the perilous march that elevates him from naked and unarmed castaway to the undisputed Ape-lord of Barsoom!
Written by genre giant Will Murray, Tarzan, Conqueror of Mars ultimately brings the famed Lord of the Jungle into open conflict with Edgar Rice Burroughs’ other great hero, John Carter, Warlord of Mars. In the end, which one will be victorious?
(16) DRIZZT IS BACK. R.A. Salvatore’s Timeless, on-sale September 4, marks the return of Drizzt Do’Urden, the legendary dark elf fighter that’s been a mainstay of fantasy books and the successful Forgotten Realms RPG games for over 30 years.
Not only will readers get more of the swashbuckling, sword-and-sorcery action Salvatore is known for; they’ll also get to know more of the characters who dwell in the Forgotten Realms.
Salvatore is unique, because he was one of the originators of modern Epic Fantasy—but he has continued to evolve, and to take on new fans. With TIMELESS, a master of Epic Fantasy is poised to make a huge splash in a beloved genre.
(17) SEND FOR THE MUPPET CORONER. According to Rolling Stone reviewer Peter Travers, “‘The Happytime Murders’ Review: Puppet Raunchfest Is Dead on Arrival”.
A few critics are calling it the worst movie of the year. Unfair! The Happytime Murders, the R-rated look at a serial killer running wild in a puppet-populated L.A., has what it takes to be a contender for worst of the decade. Directed by Brian Henson (son of the late, great Sesame Street and Muppets icon Jim Henson) and starring a painfully stranded Melissa McCarthy, this toxic botch job deserves an early death by box office….
(18) EIGHTIES UNERASED. James Davis Nicoll continues his Tor.com series with “Fighting Erasure: Women SF Writers of the 1980s, Part II”.
Let us journey onward, this time to women who first published speculative fiction in the 1980s whose surnames begin with B….
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff cannot be the sole Bahá’í author/musician active in speculative fiction, but she is the only one I know. Her body of work is small enough—eight books or so—that one could read the entire thing in a week or two. Those who might want just a taste could try The Meri, in which a young woman with great magical potential struggles against a society profoundly suspicious of magic. Alternatively, you could explore her shorter work in the collection Bimbo on the Cover.
(19) EPIC NERD CAMP. Karen Heller’s Washington Post article “‘Growing up, we were the weird ones’: The wizarding, mermaiding, cosplaying haven of Epic Nerd Camp” profiles Epic Nerd Camp, a summer camp in Starrucca, Pennsylvania where “men in kilts and women withhair stained with all the colors of Disney” can eat bad summer camp food, fight off bugs, and spend their days engaging in LARPing, cosplay, “wandmaking, sword fighting, boffer games, Quidditch, waizarding, chainmaille, escape rooms and FX makeup.”
Heller credits Dr. Seuss with originating the word “nerd” —
Nerds have been with us forever, but the term seems to have been coined by Dr. Seuss, circa 1950. (From “If I Ran the Zoo”: And then, just to show them, I’ll sail to Ka-Troo/And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep, and a Proo,/A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker too.) The word gained further popularity on TV’s “Happy Days,” where the Fonz applied it to almost any young person who was not the Fonz. Around the same time, geek — once the name for carnival performers who bit the heads off live chickens — came into its modern interpretation, referring to intense enthusiasts.
(20) THE WALK NESS MONSTER. A sauropod stepped in something, once upon a time: “170-million-year-old dinosaur footprint found in Scotland”.
An extremely rare 170-million-year-old dinosaur footprint has been found in Scotland. Paleontologists, however, are keeping its precise location secret until they can complete their research.
The footprint was discovered earlier this year by Neil Clark, curator of paleontology at the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum. Clark told Fox News that he had just given a talk in Inverness in the Scottish Highlands and decided to “visit the Jurassic rocks” in the area.
“After about a half hour looking, I spotted the footprint and was able to immediately recognize it as the footprint of a sauropod dinosaur,” he told Fox News. “I had to do a double take on the footprint as I couldn’t believe that such an obvious footprint had not been seen previously, considering the number of researchers who visit the coast each year.”
[Thanks to John King Tarpinian, JJ, Chip Hitchcock, Cat Eldridge, Mike Kennedy, Martin Morse Wooster, Carl Slaughter, Andrew Porter, and Mark Hepworth for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Karl-Johan Norén.]
Posted in Pixel Scroll | Tagged Altus Press, Bryan Thao Worra, DC Comics, dinosaurs, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Emmy Awards, James Davis Nicoll, John Ward, Lodestar Award, Lovecraft, Mark Hepworth, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Muppets, Neil Gaiman, R.A. Salvatore, Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, Star Trek, Tarzan, Ursula Vernon, YA
Cyborg 2087
By Carl Slaughter: Terminator meets Star Trek meets Six Million Dollar Man meets Time Tunnel.
Our great grandchildren will have chips implanted in their brains. From these chips, they will control everything from cars to doors to refrigerators to printers.
Computers, phones, and CDs will in museums, as will TVs and radios, because they will download, watch, listen, and communicate without the aid of any other device.
Many generations later, as their bodies adapt through evolution, our descendants will be born with slits to accommodate those chips (just as women will eventually be born without uteruses after babies are conceived and gestated in labs). All manner of cottage industries will accompany this trend.
And all manner of dangers. If someone can hack into your brain chip, they can theoretically control your brain, virtually enslaving you without you realizing it.
With that chilling prediction as an introduction, here is a review of Cyborg 2087:
Cyborg 2087 is a B science fiction movie [released in 1966] starring Michael Rennie of The Day the Earth Stood Still fame and Warren Stevens of Forbidden Planet fame.
A scientist develops radio telepathy technology that is later used to create a dystopia. A cyborg with the resistance travels back in time to prevent the scientist from selling his invention to the Pentagon.
Two other cyborgs travel back in time to stop him. Of course, there is a climactic battle of cyborg versus cyborg.
This was 30 years before the Borg, 20 years before Terminator, 10 years before The Six Million Dollar Man, and at the same time as the original Star Trek.
Plenty of science premise in movie and plenty of rehearsing the implications of science. In classic touch, at the end of the story, the chief protagonist has to choose between love and destiny — sort of.
Trivia: One of the characters is named Professor Sigmund Marx. Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx?
Where to Find the “Author’s Cut” of Vertlieb’s “Dracula In The Seventies: Prints Of Darkness”
By Steve Vertlieb: It was in 1997 that I first received a rather flattering telephone call from an editor in New York, asking if I’d be willing to participate in a new published anthology that he was compiling for Midnight Marquee Press. The book would assemble many genre writers of the period in a collaborative effort celebrating the “life,” and death of Bram Stoker’s literary creation Dracula in film.
The “editor,” whose name shall go unspoken here, said that he had grown up with my work in such publications as The Monster Times, and that he would be honored to include a chapter by me in the pages of his forthcoming book, which was to be called Dracula, The First Hundred Years. I was asked to write a somewhat light-hearted examination of the Dracula, and related vampire films, and television productions of the 1970’s. Prompted, perhaps, by his professed “love” for my work, I agreed, and began fabricating a new article for his publication.
I set about writing a lengthy new piece and, once finished, sent it off by mail to New York. I received a congratulatory telephone call from the “gentleman” in question shortly following its receipt, advising me that he was delighted with my work. He said that it was everything that he could have hoped for, and more, and that while many of his writers would need to be heavily edited, my work would be published essentially as I had written it.
Now, it’s normal for an editor to send each of his stable of writers the “proofs” of their edited work once completed, prior to publication, so that they might be gone over and approved for content. Months went by, however, without any further communication from the book’s editor. I’d begun hearing ominous rumblings from a number of writers, grumbling that their efforts had been heavily tampered with and changed, and that there was brewing trouble in “paradise.” I continued to rest easily, however, in the spoken assurance that my work would be published essentially as written.
When the book was at last published, however, I discovered to my horror that my work had been badly distorted, compromised, and truncated. Wherever I had spoken of actor Christopher Lee with affection and reverence, my text had been re-written to ridicule and attack him. Wherever I had spoken of actor Frank Langella with respect and admiration, my text had been re-written as would reflect the secret yearnings of a smitten school girl in drooling affection for her hero. Large chunks of my writing had been unceremoniously removed and altered, without either my knowledge or permission by an unscrupulous “editor” who had unkindly inserted his own cryptic observations and prejudice under my name and byline, shabbily using my personal reputation either to malign or revere the films and performances that he had either loved or loathed.
When I asked why he had done this to me, he replied that he thought that “it was funny.” Reviewers of the volume, who had taken offence to many of the cruel observations expressed supposedly by me, were harsh in their very personal criticism of my work. I set about composing a letter writing campaign to address these issues, stating rather forcefully that the offensive opinions determined objectionable were either edited, or added, after my work had been submitted, and neither with my knowledge or consent. Consequently, sales of the volume plummeted, and the editor complained that I had “murdered” his book.
In the twenty years since its publication, the title has come to be reviled by readers, and wholly disavowed by its unwitting publisher. In the decades that followed, I’d longed to have my work published in its entirety, and as originally conceived as written. Here, then, for the first time ever, and with the enthusiastic permission of Midnight Marquee Press, is the published premiere of my original work … “Dracula In The Seventies: Prints Of Darkness.”
Posted in Like Show Business | Tagged Bram Stoker, Dracula, Steve Vertlieb
2018 Killer Nashville Awards
The 2018 winners of the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion, Claymore, Reader’s Choice and several other awards were announced by the annual conference on August 25.
Congratulations to Dana Chamblee Carpenter whose book The Devil’s Bible received the Silver Falchion in the Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror category and was named Best Overall Novel.
Killer Nashville 2018 Silver Falchion Awards
Silver Falchion Award: Best Overall Novel
Dana Chamblee Carpenter
The Devil’s Bible
Silver Falchion Award: Best Nonfiction
Shayla McBride
A is for Author
Silver Falchion Award: Best Juvenile Novel
The Fourth Ruby
Silver Falchion Award: Best Suspense
Debra Gaskill
Kissing Fitz
Silver Falchion Award: Best Short Story Collection
Backyard Volcano
Silver Falchion Award: Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror
Silver Falchion Award: Best Action Adventure
Linda Sands
Grand Theft Cargo
Silver Falchion Award: Best Mystery
Joseph L.S. Terrell
The Last Blue Noon in May
Silver Falchion Award: Best Cozy
Lori Robbins
Lesson Plan for Murder
Silver Falchion Award: Best Procedural
Henry Hack
Silver Falchion Award: Best Thriller
Christopher Greyson
The Girl Who Lived
Silver Falchion Award: Best Attending Author
Dadgummit
Killer Nashville 2018 Claymore Awards
Killer Nashville Claymore Award Winner
Cathy Perkins
The Body in the Beaver Pond
Killer Nashville Claymore Award / 1st Runner Up
Danny Lindsey
Murder in Choctaw County
Killer Nashville Claymore Award / 2nd Runner Up
Elena Melissa Hartwell
Under Fallow Ground
Killer Nashville 2018 Readers’ Choice Award
Baron R. Birtcher
South California Purples
Killer Nashville 2018 C. Auguste Dupin Detective Award
Amy Nygaard
Design of the award, this one presented in 2014.
The Killer Nashville 2018 John Seigenthaler Legends Award
Otto Penzler
Posted in Awards | Tagged Claymore Award, John Seigenthaler Legends Award, Killer Nashville, Killer Nashville International Reader's Choice Award, Silver Falchion Award
Dublin 2019 Attending Membership Rates Will Rise on September 3
On September 3, 2018, membership rates will rise for Dublin 2019 – An Irish Worldcon. The rates from that date are as follows:
Full Adult Attending membership rates rise to €210 from €180
First Worldcon rates, for adults attending their first Worldcon, rise to €130 from €110
Young Adult Attending membership rates rise to €130 from €110
Child Attending rates rise to €70 from €65.
These rises take effect at 00.01 Dublin time on Monday, September 3.
The rate for a Supporting membership is unchanged at €40. The rate for an Infant, born after 16 August 2013, remains unchanged at €5.
As part of the convention’s policy to encourage families and children to attend Dublin 2019, discounts of up to 10% for Adult-Child families of three or more members are available. Families should register as Supporting members and fill out a Family Membership request form on the website to have the balance calculated.
An instalment plan is available to Adult, First Worldcon, Young Adult, and Family members to spread part of the membership cost over a series of bimonthly payments. To activate it, prospective members should register as Supporting members, activate their Family Membership if any, and then fill out the Instalment plan request on the website. The total charge for the membership will be frozen at the time of signing up to the plan.
Dublin 2019 – An Irish Worldcon will take place in the Convention Centre Dublin from August 15 to August 19. Activities at the Dublin Worldcon will include the 2019 Hugo Awards, the world’s leading awards for excellence in science fiction and fantasy, as well as the spectacular Masquerade costume display. There are typically 650 to 800 separate programme items, including author readings and autograph sessions, films and videos, academic presentations, and panel discussions on speculative literature and other media, many involving fans and audience.
“We hope that as many people as possible will take advantage of our advance rates and enjoy the fantastic entertainment that we’re putting on for them, including the first Fringe Programme at a Worldcon,” said convention Chair James Bacon. “Dublin 2019 – An Irish Worldcon is committed to being accessible and family-friendly both for veteran fans and fans who are joining us for the first time.”
More than 2500 people have already signed up as members of Dublin 2019. The Dublin 2019 organisers are working to enlarge participation through the con’s own FANtastic Dublin fund as well as the Con or Bust scheme.
Guests of Honour for Dublin 2019 include YA author Diane Duane, and screenwriter and Hugo winner Ian McDonald, as well as game designer Steve Jackson (Melee, Chaos Machine, Munchkin) and editor Ginjer Buchanan. Science Guest of Honour will be Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered radio pulsars in 1967 as a postgraduate student. Bill and Mary Burns will be fan Guests of Honour.
More information and membership registration for Dublin 2019 are available at https://dublin2019.com. Follow us on Twitter at @dublin2019.
Posted in Worldcon | Tagged Dublin 2019
Pixel Scroll 8/29/18 Scrollvolt Of The Pixeldestrians
(1) CASE DISMISSED. In May 2018, Fur Affinity, winner of the 2012 and 2013 Ursa Major Awards for Best Anthropomorphic Website, banned several dozen accounts for Code of Conduct violations — Section 2.7 “Do not identify with or promote real hate or terrorist organizations and their ideologies.”
Furry artist Scott Malcolmson (whose fursona is Roy Calbeck), filed suit in Arizona against IMVU, Fur Affinity’s parent company, on grounds of breach of contract and defamation of character.
The suit was dismissed on August 27. Boozy Badger analyzed the result in a Twitter thread which starts here.
Analysis is as follows:
Because IMVU did not take any particularized action to seek people in Arizona to use the site, there are not sufficient contacts to justify Arizona hearing a case where the Defendant is a Delaware Corporation. pic.twitter.com/peHEtsfa04
— Boozy Badger (@BoozyBadger) August 29, 2018
IMVU is a Delaware corporation. The court did not find its connections to Arizona legally sufficient for IMVU to be sued there. The court further said:
Plaintiff objects that he is a per se litigant filing in forma pauperis. That may be so. However, in our legal system, there is but one law and it applies to rich and poor alike. That Mr. Malcomson is too impecunious to litigate in IMVU’s home state of Delaware cannot detract from IMVU’s constitutional right not to be sued in an improper forum.
Boozy Badger noted:
Jurisdiction, Forum, and Venue are literally most of a semester of Civil Procedure in law school. There are options OTHER than Delaware, but you can’t sue just anywhere.
Wikifur’s article on “History of Fur Affinity” has more background:
COC 2.7 bans (May 2018)[edit]
On May 15, 2018, several dozens FA accounts were banned from the site for presumed violations of the site’s updated Code of Conduct, Section 2.7 (“Do not identify with or promote real hate or terrorist organizations and their ideologies”).[68] This included personal and group accounts related to AltFurry (FurRight), Furry Raiders and other perceived Alt-Right connected accounts.
Complaints came in swift, from people claiming to be false positives[69][70] to banned and not banned users that argued that biased staff had failed to also struck down left-leaning “hate/terrorist” individuals and groups (e.g. Deo Tas Devil, Antifa, “Far-Left”/”Alt-left” accounts and Communist Furs).[71][72] Instructions were passed among the affected and sympathizers to vacate to other sites, specifically, InkBunny,[73][74][75] and discussions were started to pin down who was to blame for the bans (from Antifa-cowered FA staff to outright ban demands/orders from the online news site Dogpatch Press).[76][77]
It would be three days later (May 18), when legal proceedings initiated by Roy Calbeck were to take the form of a lawsuit against FA’s parent company, IMVU, for:
Defamation/Breach of Contract against IMVU for actions taken by their wholly-owned subsidiary, @FurAffinity…
(2) GONDOLIN FALLS TOMORROW. Smithsonian says after two lifetimes of work this probably is it: “J.R.R. Tolkien’s Final Posthumous Book Is Published”.
Though J.R.R. Tolkien passed away in 1973, he has never really stopped publishing. For decades his son and literary executor Christopher Tolkien has painstakingly catalogued and edited his father’s papers, creating new books out of unfinished and unpublished manuscripts. Most of those tales delve deep into the history of Middle-earth, the fantasy realm where Tolkien’s best known works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series take place. Now, it’s likely that work will come to an end with one last Tolkien book. Critic Andrew Ervin at The Washington Post reports that The Fall of Gondolin, which will be released tomorrow, is likely J.R.R. and Christopher Tolkien’s swan song.
(3) SFF MARKETING. Cat Rambo appeared on the Science Fiction & Fantasy Marketing podcast: “Writing Tips, Selling Short Fiction, and What SFWA Can Do for You with Cat Rambo”. Here are a few of the many topics touched on during the conversation:
How Cat ended up publishing her first two Tabat novels through Kevin J. Anderson’s Wordfire Press (which he talked about when he was on Episode 194 and Episode 138) and how marketing goes when working with a small press.
Some tips from her recent non-fiction publication Moving from Idea to Finished Draft.
What’s been going on at SFWA since we had MCA Hogarth on the show back on Episode 20 (more than three years ago!) and why both trad and self-published may find a membership useful.
What it takes to qualify for SFWA membership.
Benefits that come with SFWA membership and how the Nebula convention has changed over the years to have helpful panels for all.
(4) FUTURE TENSE. This month’s entry in the Future Tense Fiction series: “When We Were Patched” by Deji Bryce Olukotun.
The last time we ever spoke, my partner Malik asked me whether I believed speed or power made for the best athlete. I was puzzled, of course, feeling that neither could explain why some athletes excelled more than others, even in straightforward competitions like sprinting or the javelin. “There are enough variables to make it unclear,” I observed, “whether speed or power offers a better advantage in competition, or whether some other factor confers the greatest advantage.” It seemed to me an unanswerable question….
It was published along with a response essay by algorithmic bias expert Jeanna Matthews, “Algorithms Could Create an Even Playing Field—if We Insist on It”.
Big decisions about our lives are increasingly made jointly by humans and computer systems. Do we get a loan? Are we invited for an interview? Who should we date? Which news stories should we read? Who won the tennis match? This is our reality today. In “When We were Patched,” Deji Olukotun explores what the boundaries of these human and machine partnerships will be. Could we get the best of both, or will we end up with the worst of both? …
Each month in 2018, Future Tense Fiction—a series of short stories from Future Tense and ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology and science will change our lives—is publishing a story on a theme.
(5) FOLLOWING ARMSTRONG’S FOOTSTEPS. Slate compiles the early reviews: “Here’s What Critics Are Saying About First Man“.
Space! Now that I’ve got your attention, the reviews of Damien Chazelle’s First Man, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, today are in—and fortunately, like the film itself, there’s really no way for them to spoil the ending. The space drama follows Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) in his literal and metaphorical journey to become the first man on the moon.
It’s a story and a genre we know all too well, but this doesn’t hold the film back—it even improves upon its galactic forbearers. Critics agree that the story is masterfully handled by Chazelle, who mixes realism with reverence, without overblowing the drama.
And of course, it’s simply an irresistible opportunity to employ space metaphors, whether that’s about “soaring,” “sky-high expectations,” “slip[ping] the surly bonds of earth or “shoot[ing] the moon.” (Michael Nordine at IndieWire wins this space race: “Chazelle is an adept flight commander, guiding the action with the elegance of a space dance in one scene and the intensity of a rocket launch in the next … It may not be a giant leap for filmmaking, but it’s another small step for this filmmaker.”)
(6) A WRITER’S DAY. John Scalzi’s to-do list for Wednesday.
Things to do today:
1. Go to the elections board to sign up for an absentee ballot
2. Pick up a new beard trimmer because I lost my previous one somewhere on the road
3. Go to Taco Bell and yell JESUS YOU CALL THAT A BURRITO until they kick me out AGAIN
(7) NEW HORIZONS SPOTS TARGET. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft — which performed a Pluto flyby about three years ago — has officially spotted its next target (“Ultima in View: NASA’s New Horizons Makes First Detection of Kuiper Belt Flyby Target”). The craft took a series of long-duration images from which the star field was subtracted to pick out the Kuiper Belt object (nicknamed Ultima Thule) New Horizons is headed toward. The closest encounter with Ultima Thule is expected to be early (EST) New Year’s Day 2019.
Mission team members were thrilled – if not a little surprised – that New Horizons’ telescopic Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) was able to see the small, dim object while still more than 100 million miles away, and against a dense background of stars. Taken Aug. 16 and transmitted home through NASA’s Deep Space Network over the following days, the set of 48 images marked the team’s first attempt to find Ultima with the spacecraft’s own cameras.
“The image field is extremely rich with background stars, which makes it difficult to detect faint objects,” said Hal Weaver, New Horizons project scientist and LORRI principal investigator from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. “It really is like finding a needle in a haystack. In these first images, Ultima appears only as a bump on the side of a background star that’s roughly 17 times brighter, but Ultima will be getting brighter – and easier to see – as the spacecraft gets closer.”
This first detection is important because the observations New Horizons makes of Ultima over the next four months will help the mission team refine the spacecraft’s course toward a closest approach to Ultima, at 12:33 a.m. EST on Jan. 1, 2019. That Ultima was where mission scientists expected it to be – in precisely the spot they predicted, using data gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope – indicates the team already has a good idea of Ultima’s orbit.
(8) REMEMBERING WILLY LEY. Steven Levy’s WIRED article “385 Feet of Crazy: The Most Audacious Flying Machine Ever” is about Paul Allen’s effort to build a giant airplane called a Stratolaunch which he wants to use to carry rockets to the edge of space and then launch from the stratosphere. It includes this sentimental memory about a writer who was important to a lot of fans back in the day.
As a teenager, Paul Allen was a sci-fi and rocketry nerd. He dreamed of becoming an astronaut, but that ambition was scuttled by nearsightedness. His childhood bedroom was filled with science fiction and space books. Bill Gates remembers Allen’s obsession. “Even when I first met him—he was in tenth grade and I was in eighth—he had read way more science fiction than anyone else,” says Gates, who later founded Microsoft with Allen. “Way more.” One of Allen’s favorites was a popular science classic called Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, by Willy Ley, first published in 1944. As Allen tells it in his memoir, he was crushed when he visited his parents as an adult and went to his old room to reference a book. He discovered that his mother had sold his collection. (The sale price: $75.) Using a blowup of an old photo of the room, Allen dispatched scouts to painstakingly re-create his boyhood library.
(9) OPTIMUS SOLUTION. Daniel Cohen’s Financial Times article “Tales from the storage unit: inside a booming industry”, in a survey of storage spaces, recommends Inner Space Stations in York:
A large model of the Optimus Prime character from TRANSFORMERS stands beide the entrance of its main store, on a busy road. A Dalek is visible through a window; a model of a STAR WARS stormtrooper guards the reception. The sizes of the units correspond to planet s in the solar system; the smallest lockers have an image of Mercury on the door, while the biggest show Jupiter. ‘It’s just making fun,’ says Graham Kennedy, the owner. ‘Quite often there’s a stressful reason for going into storage. So I’ve decided to lighten it.’
[Compiled by Cat Eldridge]
Born August 29, 1898 – C.S. Lewis. Author of the Narnia books and The Space Trilogy, also The Screwtape Letters which I got assigned in University a very long time ago. Ardent Christian, he wrote three dense book on that religion, Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain. There’s a Doctor Who episode with Matt Smith that riffs off the Narnia book entry way if memory serves me right.
Born August 29 — Nancy Holder, 65. Perhaps best known for her myriad work, fiction and non-fiction, based off the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. However I’ll single her out as a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award including Best Novel for Dead in the Water.
Born August 29 – Michael P. Kube-McDowell, 64. Extensive writing in the Star Wars genre but also has written such novels as The Quiet Pools which was a Hugo Award nominee and Emprise which was a Philip K. Dick nominee. Several of his short stories were adapted into episodes of theTales from the Darkside series.
Born August 29 — Lenny Henry, 60. Co-creator with Neil Gaiman and producer of the 1996 BBC drama serial Neverwhere. Narrator of Anansi Boys. Appeared, well appeared isn’t quite proper, in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as the voice of the Shrunken Head.
John King Tarpinian likes to think this is how it looked on the plane home from Worldcon 76 – Off the Mark.
Jungle cruise: Rhymes with Orange.
(12) HISTORY REVEALED. Michael Cassutt will be signing The Astronaut Maker at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena, CA on September 6. (More details at “Michael Cassutt discusses and signs The Astronaut Maker”).
One of the most elusive and controversial figures in NASA’s history, George W. S. Abbey was called “the Dark Lord,” “the Godfather,” and “UNO”–short for unidentified NASA official. He was said to be secretive, despotic, a Space Age Machiavelli. Yet Abbey had more influence on human spaceflight than almost anyone in history. His story has never been told–until now. The Astronaut Maker takes readers inside NASA to learn the real story of how Abbey rose to power, from young pilot and wannabe astronaut to engineer, bureaucrat, and finally director of the Johnson Space Center. During a thirty-seven-year career, mostly out of the spotlight, he oversaw the selection of every astronaut class from 1978 to 1987, deciding who got to fly and when. He was with the Apollo 1 astronauts the night before the fatal fire in January 1967. He was in mission control the night of the Apollo 13 accident and organized the recovery effort. Abbey also led NASA’s recruitment of women and minorities as space shuttle astronauts and was responsible for hiring Sally Ride. Written by Michael Cassutt, the coauthor of the acclaimed astronaut memoirs DEKE! and We Have Capture, and informed by countless hours of interviews with Abbey and his family, friends, adversaries, and former colleagues, The Astronaut Maker is the ultimate insider’s account of ambition and power politics at NASA. (Chicago Review Press)
(13) JUST DRAWN THAT WAY. Need a goat? Remember to smile: “Goats ‘drawn to happy human faces'”.
Scientists have found that goats are drawn to humans with happy facial expressions.
The result suggests a wider range of animals can read people’s moods than was previously thought.
The researchers showed goats pairs of photos of the same person, one of them featuring an angry expression, and the other a happy demeanour.
The goats made a beeline for the happy faces, the team reports in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
(14) THE ACME OF SOMETHING OR OTHER. Maybe this will be your cup of tea but I confess: I plan to be somewhere (anywhere) else when this picture is in theaters: “The ‘Wile E. Coyote’ Movie Has Ordered A Pair Of Writers Who Aren’t From ACME!”
The Roadrunner had better watch out as there is a new ‘Wile E. Coyote’ movie in the works and Warner Bros. has just tapped The Silberman Brothers (‘Living Biblically,’ ‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’) to write it! Jon and Josh are going to have a lot of work ahead of them to bring this iconic character to the big screen for an audience base that had significantly changed from when the toon was originally popular.
While this “Super Genius” will always be known for creative inventions that pave the way for perfect slapstick humor, the lack of dialogue for a feature film might mean that we’re getting some massive changes to the Wiley cartoon. While there is no mention of his arch nemesis and his uncatchable meal of The Roadrunner being part of the film, it would be hard to imagine a story that doesn’t include him.
(15) DIAL EIGHT. Another thing I didn’t get done at Worldcon 76 – meeting Galactic Journey’s Gideon Marcus. By now he’s back in 1963 keeping track of the myriad developments in outer space: “[August 29, 1963] Why we fly (August Space Round-up)”.
Bridging the Continents
Communication satellites continue to make our world a smaller place. Syncom, built by Hughes and launched by NASA late last month, is the first comsat to have a 24-hour orbit. From our perspective on the Earth’s surface, it appears to do figure eights around one spot in the sky rather than circling the Earth. This means Syncom can be a permanent relay station between the hemispheres.
It’s already being used. On August 4 the satellite allowed Nigerian journalists and folks from two U.S. services to exchange news stories as well as pictures of President Kennedy and Nigerian Governor General Dr. Nnamdi Zikiwe. Five days later, voice and teletype was exchanged between Paso Robles, California and Lagos, Nigeria. This 7,7700 mile conversation represents the longest range real-time communication ever made.
I think he means 7,700 miles – but of course I would!
(16) GAMING, IT’S NOT JUST FOR BREAKFAST ANYMORE. The BBC reports on the finding of an ancient gaming board and how it may be the clue to the location of an important lost monastery (“Medieval gaming board clue to lost monastery”).
The discovery of a medieval gaming board may have helped bring archaeologists closer to confirming the site of a lost early monastery.
Archaeologists have been actively seeking the Monastery of Deer in Aberdeenshire since about 2008.
Monks at the monastery wrote the important 10th Century illuminated manuscript, the Book of Deer.
Layers beneath the disc-shaped stone gaming board have been carbon dated to the 7th and 8th centuries.
Charcoal also found at the remains of a building uncovered by archaeologists during the latest dig at the site, near Mintlaw, has been dated to the same time, between 669 and 777AD.
Smithsonian follows up with more about the game board itself and its monastic connections (“Archaeologists Unearth Medieval Game Board During Search for Lost Monastery”).
According to The Scotsman’s Alison Campsie, monks likely used the board to play Hnefatafl, a Norse strategy game that pits a king and his defenders against two dozen taflmen, or attackers. As the king’s men attempt to herd him to safety in one of the four burgs, or refuges, located in the corners of the game board, taflmen work to thwart the escape. To end the game, the king must reach sanctuary or yield to captivity.
The board “is a very rare object,” archaeologist Ali Cameron of The Book of Deer Project, who is in charge of excavations, tells Campsie. “Only a few have been found in Scotland, mainly on monastic or at least religious sites. These gaming boards are not something everyone would have had access to.”
…The game board’s discovery and dating to the 7th and 8th centuries offer tantalizing indication that the dig site was, in fact, home to the medieval monastery, but as Mark Hall, a medieval games specialist at the Perth Museum and Art Gallery, cautions, “This temptation remains just that until further evidence presents itself to make a valid link between the disc and the date.”
(17) MORE COMICS CROSSOVERS. Daniel Dern is keeping an eye open for these: “Sometime within the last year we got a great bunch, notably the Batman/Elmer Fudd (including the narrated-by-Denny-ONeil video). A bunch just came out today, including Lex Luthor/Porky Pig, Joker/Daffy Duck, and Catwoman/Sylvester.”
And io9’s James Whitbrook looks ahead to when “All the Incredible New Comic Series to Cozy Up With This Fall”.
DC/Hanna-Barbera Crossovers—DC’s bizarro mashups between its comics universe and the animated antics of Hanna-Barbera’s most beloved creations continues with another wave of weird and wonderful adventures.
Deathstroke/Yogi Bear #1—Frank Tieri, Mark Texeira
Green Lantern/Huckleberry Hound #1—Mark Russell, Rick Leonardi
Nightwing/Magilla Gorilla #1—Heath Corson, Tom Grummett
Superman/Top Cat #1—Dan DiDio, Shane Davis
(18) GAME OVER. Camestros Felapton discovered spammers have taken over the abandoned Sad Puppies IV website but kept most of the content to make it look like Kate Paulk is selling slot machines in Italian –
[Thanks to ULTRAGOTHA, John King Tarpinian, Cat Rambo, Mike Kennedy, JJ, Cat Eldridge, Martin Morse Wooster, Chip Hitchcock, Joey Eschrich, mlex, Daniel Dern, Michael Toman, Carl Slaughter, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Andrew.]
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2018 Splatterpunk Awards
Winners of the inaugural Splatterpunk Awards were announced at KillerCon in Austin, TX, August 24-26.
WHITE TRASH GOTHIC by Edward Lee (Deadite Press)
HEADER 3 by Edward Lee and Ryan Harding (Necro Publications)
“The Tipping Point” by Jeff Strand, from Everything Has Teeth (Thunderstorm Books)
GORILLA IN MY ROOM by Jack Ketchum (Cemetery Dance Publications)
SPLATTERPUNK FIGHTING BACK, edited by Jack Bantry and Kit Power (Splatterpunk Zine)
Also announced was the inaugural winner of the —
J.F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Award
David J. Schow
The nominees were selected by Splatterpunk Awards jurors: David J. Schow, Gerard Houarner, Monica J. O’Rourke, Mike Lombardo, and Tod Clark. Jurors were ineligible for consideration for a Splatterpunk Award in any category.
The award trophy doesn’t fail to live up to the name —
The newly-inaugurated Splatterpunk Award, courtesy Killercon, and made as a 3-way tribute to Mike Parks, Bernie Wrightson & Thomas Kuntz. pic.twitter.com/4BTqeSIOYF
— David J. Schow (@DavidJSchow) August 27, 2018
[Via Doris V. Sutherland.]
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CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH CELENA DIANA BUMPUS, CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN SAN BERNARDINO WITH ALLYSON JEFFREDO
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH CELENA DIANA BUMPUS
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The Riverside Poetry in Motion workshop meets every Tuesday at the Janet Goeske Foundation & Senior Center, located at 5257 Sierra St, Riverside, CA 92504. They can be reached at (951) 351- 8800.
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The San Bernardino workshop meets every other Tuesday at the Rowe Branch Library, located at 108 E Marshall Blvd, San Bernardino, CA 92404. They can be reached at (909) 883-3411.
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CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH MAE WAGNER
The Redlands workshop meets every Wednesday at the Joslyn Senior Center, located at 21 Grant St, Redlands, CA 92373. They can be reached at (909) 798-7550.
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The Ontario workshop meets every other Wednesday at the Ovitt Library, located at 215 E C St, Ontario, CA 91764. They can be reached at (909) 395-2004.
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CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN COLTON WITH JESSICA CARRILLO- BILINGUAL
The Colton workshop meets every other Thursday at the Advance to Literacy Center, located at 656 N 9th Street, Colton. They can be reached at (909) 370-5083.
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Local artists from the mile-high mountain community of Wrightwood are putting together the town’s fourth annual literary festival the last weekend of September.
Guest faculty this year include novelist and publisher Yi Shun Lai (author of Not a Self-Help Book: The Misadventures of Marty Wu), the cross-genre poet Nicelle Davis (The Walled Wife), and journalist-poet Alejandro Escudé (My Earthbound Eye), with a keynote presentation and conversation with award-winning Young Adult author and poet Ron Koertge (Shakespeare Bats Cleanup).
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For $55, festival registration includes any two workshops, lunch, the keynote presentation, and free entry into the annual “soapku” contest and Wrightwood Poetry Slam. Saturday night and Sunday festivities are free to the public, including the guest faculty reading, a group hike, presentation of the annual Young Authors Award, and a poetry slam, where poets will compete in a rowdy contest of verse for a $200 prize. Find more at https://www.wrightwoodlitfest.com
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From September 30th to November 18th, Inlandia Institute in partnership with Riverside Art Museum will present writing workshops using inspirations by current exhibitions at RAM to give voice to the migration stories of our multicultural community. Workshop participants will view artworks and with guided writing prompts reflect on their family's migration stories, or imagine their own creative immigration adventure.
Join Frances J. Vásquez on September 30, 2:00 p.m. -- 4:00 p.m. for a workshop inspired by the exhibition of authentic ancient treasures, Uncovering Ancient México: The Mystery of Tlatilco.
Join Frances again on November 18, 2:00 p.m. -- 4:00 p.m. for a workshop focusing on two art exhibitions as the spark for writing stories of migration and immigration, Codex Rodriguez-Mondragon by Sandy Rodriguez who makes powerful historical and visual linkages to present day ICE agents... and Refugee Stories by Kathryn Clark who, in a series of embroidery panels and works on paper that follow the journey of Syrian refugees into Europe.
The workshops are free for RAM members; included with paid general admission.
About Frances J. Vásquez
Frances J. Vásquez facilitates Tesoros de Cuentos writing workshops in Casa Blanca and is a contributor to the Inlandia Literary Journeys column in The Press-Enterprise and The Sun. She Graduated from UCR with BS and MBA Degrees. Frances serves on the Inlandia Institute Board and is a member of the Multicultural Council of the Riverside Museum Associates.
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1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WTH CELENA DIANA BUMPUS
Our Riverside Janet Goeske Senior Center workshop is ongoing for participants 50+. They meet every Tuesday from 1:00pm to 2:30pm.
The Riverside Janet Goeske Senior Center is located at 5257 Sierra St, Riverside, CA 92504. They can be reached at (951) 351-8800.
Please note that there will no meeting on 9/17, 10/15, 11/19, 11/26 (holiday), 12/10 and 12/24 (holiday).
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6:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSOP IN ONTARIO WITH TIM HATCH
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1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN CORONA WITH ANDREA FINGERSON
The Corona workshop meets every other Saturday at the Corona Public Library, located at 650 S Main St, Corona, CA 92882. The library can be reached at (951) 736-2381.
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5:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN SAN BERNARDINO WITH ROMAINE WASHINGTON
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5:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN COLTON WITH JESSICA CARRILLO- BILINGUAL
1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH CELENA DIANA BUMPUS
Our Riverside Janet Goeske Senior Center workshop is on going for participants 50+. They meet every Tuesday from 1:00pm to 2:30pm.
10:00 am: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH MAE WAGNER
January 22, 2020 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Our Redlands workshop is ongoing for participants 50+. They meet every Wednesday from 10:00am to 12:00pm.
The Joslyn Senior Center is located at 21 Grant St, Redlands, CA 92373. They can be reached at (909) 798-7550.
6:00 pm: THE EQUILUX: OPEN MICS FOURTH FRIDAY AT THE CORONA PUBLIC LIBRARY
Join the Corona Public Library for a night of open mics happening the fourth Friday of every month! Acoustic, spoken word, acapella, poetry, freestyle, performance art and comedy are accepted.
Performances may be on any subject and in any style or genre but must be appropriate for a broad audience. Feel free to bring art pieces for display. Art supplies will be provided for the duration of the event. Light refreshments will be provided as well.
Child care will be provided for children that are potty-trained. Open to adults 18+. The library is located at 650 S Main St, Corona, CA 92882. They can be contacted at (951) 736-2381. Visit the City of Corona website for more information.
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1:00 pm: SHEROES STORYTELLING WORKSHOP WITH STEVIE TAKEN
In preparation for "Sheroes," an Inlandia Institute event of live storytelling at the Riverside Public Library for Women's History Month, we are seeking storytellers to sign up for a series of two FREE storytelling workshops. Storytellers will present true stories from their own lives inspired by women who have had an influence on them.
Have a story in mind, or maybe two? Think about telling your story in the style you would tell a friend. At the workshops we will take turns telling our stories and offering feedback. The feedback is intended to help develop the presentation of our stories for the benefit of an audience. Stories must be true (there is room for artistic interpretation), happened to you, told in the first person, and under ten minutes in length.
Space is available, but limited. The workshops will be held Saturday, 1/25 @ 1pm and Saturday, 2/29 @ 1pm. Both workshops will be held in Riverside (address given upon confirmation). Participation in the workshops do not obligate you to share your story at the "Sheroes" event on March 5th, nor guarantee that your story will be selected to be included in the program.
Below are a set of guidelines for live storytelling which we have borrowed from The Moth, (https://themoth.org/share-your-story/storytelling-tips-tricks), a live storytelling podcast which is highly recommended; they present stories in the style we are aiming to achieve. Plus, it's a great companion for a walk around the neighborhood, a long drive, cleaning your house, or not cleaning your house.
If you have any questions, or would like to reserve your spot for the workshop, contact Stevie Taken at stevietaken@gmail.com, or call (562)704-9949.
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1:30 pm: CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER: HOBBITS AND BIG-BRAINED BABIES
February 2, 2020 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Inlandia Institute proudly presents Sang-Hee Lee in conversation about evolution of humans and self-evolution with her best selling book, Close Encounters with Humankind, Sunday, February 2, 1:30 pm at the Culver Center.
When and where did our earliest ancestors first appear? When did we first walk upright? How did we become meat eaters? Are we still evolving? Lee explores our biggest evolutionary questions, and takes us along unexpected paths in our pursuit for answers.
In Lee’s hands, fossil teeth become data that allow us to discover when we began to live long enough to be grandparents.
She questions agriculture’s role in human history by showing an increase in disease and malnutrition after the introduction of farming.
Lee even suggests that social bonding—the key to humanity’s rise—was triggered not by our prized intelligence, but instead by the simple fact that large brains, coupled with narrow birth canals, forced us to seek help from others to successfully give birth.
Her curious nature and surprising conclusions make Close Encounters with Humankind a must-see illuminating delight!
Sang-Hee Lee is an anthropologist, specializing in human evolution. She is Professor in Anthropology and the Associate Dean in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, University of California at Riverside. Lee has been writing for the academia and the general public in various topics of human evolution through newspaper and magazine columns. She wrote a best-selling and award-winning book in Korea with Shin-Young Yoon and translated it into English, Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species. The book is now in Spanish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Greek. Portuguese and Russian translations in progress.
“When we look more closely at the human journey, we see not a straight line, but a curvy, winding river.” —Sang-Hee Lee
This event is free and open to the public, followed by light refreshments and book sales. In partnership with UCR Arts and the UCR Center for Ideas and Society.
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2:00 pm: FIRST SUNDAYS AT RAM WITH KAREN RAE KRAUT AND NICOLE CLOEREN
In a fresh new approach to Inlandia’s First Sundays programming at Riverside Art Museum, Master puppeteer Nicole Cloeren joins our beloved storyteller Karen Rae Kraut for a powerful mix of interactive storytelling and puppetry. Karen's stories and Nicole's puppets will open your eyes to new ways of interpreting the world and open your hearts to a powerful form of play. Nicole transforms everyday objects into unique and delightful characters to teach audience members basic puppeteering skills through interactive participation.
Join Karen and Nicole for the exciting adventures of “Fifi Cherchez le Duck.” Fifi and her devoted friends stand up for justice against a swindling King! We invite the audience to jump into the action with guided puppet play, Sunday, February 2, 2-2:30 pm at 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 92501.
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Harpeth Scholastic Shooting Complex
Creating Tomorrow's Champions Today
Harpeth Scholastic
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Trap - Skeet - Sporting Clays
The HSSC is a scholastic shooting complex dedicated to providing a safe, structured training environment for youth shooting sports in Williamson County.
TNSCTP
The Tennessee Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) provides youth, age 9 through college, an opportunity to participate in shotgun shooting sports like skeet, trap, and sporting clays with peers from across the state. Tennessee SCTP is designed to teach the importance of safe firearms handling, responsibility, leadership, teamwork, and to promote healthy competition.
Tennessee SCTP has more than 2,000 athletes participating annually. Athletes from our program have won over 33 gold medals at the SCTP National Championships in Sparta, Illinois, far outpacing the next closest program. Several Tennessee SCTP shooters and coaches have been chosen for Junior Olympic Development Camp. The program has been covered in more than 30 national magazines and 10 nationally broadcasted television shows.
Safety is our first priority. All participants must pass a certified Hunter Education Course and receive additional training. Coaches receive first-rate classroom training and hands on safety and shotgun training. Scholastic clay target shooting has proven to be among the safest sports available in schools today.
ClayTarget Shooting
Trap shooting began in the U.S. around 1825 and the first recorded match was conducted in Cincinnati, Ohio, Six years later America led the way in developing artificial targets for the trap competition. The first targets were glass balls containing feathers. Clay targets would be developed later and become the standard for the sport. Adam Bogardus, Ira Paine and Annie Oakley were some of the greatest trap shooters in the 19th century. In a one-day exhibition, Bogardus broke 5,681 glass balls straight before missing one and Oakley shot 4,722 of 5,000 glass balls released.
The first scholastic trap team in Williamson County was started at Battle Ground Academy with 20 student athletes in 2006. The concept for a scholastic range was developed that same year. In 2010 a Partnership was developed between the Williamson County Scholastic Teams, the Tennessee Wildlife Federation and the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency for the use of the land in College Grove to build the Harpeth Scholastic Shooting Complex. In 2013 the first stage of the range was built which consisted of two trap fields and one dual purpose trap and skeet field. In 2017 the HSSC added a 5 stand practice area. In 2018 another dual purpose trap and skeet range will be completed.
The field now serves as a training complex for seven teams that consist of approximately 150 student athletes. Teams currently exist at Battle Ground Academy, Centennial High School, Franklin High School, Independence High School, Page High School, Summit High School and a team for home schooled children called the Harpeth Crush.
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HTML5 Pendulum
Game developers today, especially those working on 3D, are paying a lot of attention even with the slightest details. One of the aspects in 3D-game development I can think of is the proper application of shadows.
Games in 2D before didn’t really care much about putting on shadows as it wasn’t really much important then. The gaming industry nowadays demand their games to look as realistic as possible. Gamers love playing games in full video detail and game devs really look into what the people want.
If you want to see how HTML5 can create the shadow element, try this one here. The code is also there if you want to mess around a bit.
PhysicsJS The gaming industry trend has evolved from making just simple, plain-old games to considering how real it can get. In FPS games, when you throw a grenade for example, sometimes it...
Study: U.S. gaming population has nearly tripled in three years Venturebeat reports: The number of people playing video games in the U.S. has risen 241 percent since 2008, according to a new study from market research and consulting company Parks...
Alien Invasion Remember that scene in the Avengers where Tony Stark mentioned that some guy was playing Galaga? That was the first thing that popped into my head when I came across...
ImpactJS Game Tutorial ImpactJS is an impressive engine to use in your HTML5 game development projects. It comes with its own level editor allowing you to create a massive world for your game....
HTML5 Simple Canvas Tutorial Diving into the world of game development can be a daunting task, but luckily there are tutorial makers who are glad to help. An often problem with these tutorials is...
Development, Game, HTML5, pendulum, shadow
Games-4, HTML5 Demos, HTML5 Game Dev Tutorials, HTML5-4
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A selection from Their Unfinished Business
“No. No way. Absolutely not!”
Ali Conlan crossed her arms over her chest and glared at her twin sister across the dinner table.
“What’s the big deal?” Audra asked. Arching her brows, she added, “I mean, unless you’re not over him. Alice.”
It turned out a person really could see red when mad, Ali realized as her vision tinted crimson.
Through gritted teeth, she said tightly, “Don’t call me Alice. And I am over Luke Banning. I was over him five minutes after he left town with you eleven years ago.”
If her sister wanted to fight dirty, she would fight dirty right back, Ali decided.
But Audra didn’t so much as blink before replying blandly, “And you’ve forgiven me for leaving and for that little ... misunderstanding. Why don’t you give him the same break? It was a long time ago. You need to move on.”
“I have moved on!” Ali hollered, tossing down her napkin and rising slightly from her chair. She sounded defensive even to her own ears, but it didn’t help that her one-time, two-bit actress of a sister said sotto voce, “Me thinks she doth protest too much.”
Reeling in her temper, Ali glanced around the table where her brother Dane and Audra’s husband, Seth Ridley, sat. Clearing her throat, she said more calmly, “I am over Luke Banning. I haven’t spent the past eleven years pining for the man. In fact, I’ve hardly given him a second thought. I’ve been too busy.”
“Oh yeah? When was the last time you had a date?” Audra asked.
It felt good to be able to say, “I have one this weekend, as a matter of fact. With Bradley Townsend.”
“The developer?” Dane made a face.
“Actually, he’s a man,” she drawled.
“I’m not sure I like him,” her brother said. Audra, amazingly, did not offer an opinion. In fact, she had become suddenly engrossed in rearranging the cutlery at the side of her plate.
Her husband, however, seconded Dane’s view. “Me either.”
Ali exhaled sharply in frustration. “Look, my personal life is not the issue here and neither is Luke Banning. The resort’s future is what’s important right now.”
Dane, always the voice of reason, smiled and nodded. “I couldn’t agree more.”
Ali returned his smile, glad to have him on her side in this matter. That made it two Conlans to one. End of discussion. She picked up her coffee cup and had just taken a sip when he added, “I think we need Luke Banning.”
Somehow she managed to choke down the hot liquid, but an undignified coughing fit ensued. When it had passed enough for her finally to speak, she demanded, “How can you say that, Dane?”
“We need another investor, Ali. It’s as simple as that. If we want to buy that extra acreage when it comes on the market and put in a championship-caliber golf course and clubhouse, we need more capital. So our choices are either take out a loan to finance the expansion or take on another partner.”
“There is a third option,” Audra interjected sweetly before winking at Ali. “I could bankroll it.”
Ali felt her lip curl at the suggestion. Audra knew Ali wouldn’t allow her sister to sink any more of her vast personal wealth into their three-way partnership.
“Don’t even go there, Aud. We’ve discussed it before. The answer is still no.”
Glancing at her sister, Ali wondered again how it was possible for two people who had once shared a womb to turn out so differently. Not just physically, although even in that regard they were night and day. Audra was a blue-eyed bombshell of a blonde who had more curves than should be legal, while Ali was tawny-eyed, brunette and athletically slender. They barely looked like siblings let alone twins. In temperament, though they were even more divergent. Ali was generally the more sedate, studious and practical of the pair. She left being flamboyant, frivolous and outrageous to Audra. In fairness, though, her sister was really none of those things any longer.
Since returning to Trillium Island a year earlier after a life-altering and nearly life-ending event, Audra had become much more subdued and centered. Now she was also much happier thanks to her recent marriage to Seth Ridley.
Audra and Ali had cleared the air and ended a decade-long estrangement, and for the most part Ali was delighted to have her sister back. Even so, the two women managed to lock horns on everything from fashion to politics.
Differences aside, though, Ali knew Audra and Dane were right about Saybrook’s. If they hoped to make the resort not just profitable once again, but to put it back on the map as a hot vacation destination, then they needed a golf course. It was the only way to compete with the upscale mainland resorts that had lured away so much of Saybrook’s business over the past decade.
A bigger investment from Audra was out of the question if the Conlans’ business venture was to remain on relatively equal footing. As it was, Audra had sunk more money in than either one of her siblings.
A loan wasn’t in their best interests either since the economy remained soft, gas prices were up and the experts were already predicting traffic would be down when the summer tourist season officially kicked off at the end of the month.
“We need another investor,” Dane said quietly. Ali sighed in defeat. “I know we do, but Banning? Does it have to be him?”
Dane shrugged.
“When we first talked about this idea, we agreed we wanted someone with ties to Trillium Island. Someone who would appreciate Saybrook’s charm, as well as its importance not only to the island’s history but to its overall economy. Luke fits the bill, especially since he’s done very well for himself since leaving,” he said patiently.
Of course she did. Not because the man who’d broken her heart had called or written to her, but because she couldn’t pick up a magazine or turn on the nightly news without seeing just what a huge success he’d become.
Dane wasn’t finished driving the point home.
“Luke Banning’s name on this project will give Saybrook’s the kind of international exposure it hasn’t had since the resort’s heyday in the nineteen-forties and fifties when members of the Rat Pack and other Hollywood legends made it their Midwest destination.”
“I thought that was part of Audra’s appeal,” Ali said nastily.
But her twin didn’t rise to the bait. “I’m old news, sweetie. Now that I’m married and haven’t appeared on a tabloid cover in nearly a year, I’m a has-been.”
Audra grinned at her husband of three months after saying it, clearly pleased to be passé after nearly a decade of generating headlines with her infamous antics.
Ali damned herself for being so practical. Their arguments made perfect sense, and if it weren’t for her personal history with Luke, she would be the first to suggest approaching him. The fight had nearly gone out of Ali, but she decided to make one last stand.
“Who’s to say Luke will want to have anything to do with the island? He left here more than a decade ago and has been pretty happy to stay away from it since then,” she pointed out. “Now that he’s such a big shot, he’s probably forgotten all about this place. It certainly doesn’t hold many happy memories for him given his childhood.”
Dane cleared his throat and glanced toward Audra, who said, “Luke’s interested.”
“You’ve spoken to him?” Ali’s incredulous gaze cut to her twin. “So this family dinner to discuss the future of the resort is really just a formality. You and Dane made the decision for Conlan Corporation behind my back.”
“Not behind your back, Ali. We ... um, actually, I made a phone call to Luke about a month ago and merely tossed the idea out to him,” Audra said. “He got back to me a couple weeks ago, having decided the idea has merit, at which point I told him I needed to discuss it with the pair of you before things could go any further. I discussed it with Dane last week and now we’re discussing it with you.”
“You guys talked about this last week and you’re just now getting around to cluing me in? How thoughtful,” Ali muttered.
“I can always call Luke back and tell him you can’t handle the idea of doing business with him,” Audra offered.
Ali’s vision blurred red once again.
“I can handle doing business with him,” she snapped. “Although I doubt I’ll actually have to. I’m sure Mr. Entrepreneur of the Year will delegate this project to some minion or another. We might not speak to him other than a conference call every now and then.”
She was feeling better already about the prospect. Surely, a businessman of Luke Banning’s stature would not jet in from New York City to dirty his hands with a project as relatively small as this one, even if sentiment apparently had him opening his wallet to help finance it.
“So, it’s agreed,” Dane said. “The Conlan Corporation is offering Luke Banning a stake in the resort.”
Ali begrudgingly grunted her consent while Audra flashed a triumphant smile.
It wasn’t until Ali was pulling on her jacket at the end of the evening that Audra said, “By the way, the meeting will be a week from Wednesday.”
“What meeting?”
“The meeting with Luke. That was the earliest he could get here to look over our plans for the golf course and club house.”
Ali didn’t waste her breath giving voice to the scathing retort that came to mind. She banged out the side door and was in her car before Dane could rush after her and attempt to play peacemaker.
“I think that went rather well,” Audra said, grinning at her brother as they stood by the side door and watched Ali’s car speed up the long drive that led back to the main road.
“Yeah,” he replied dryly. “No one’s bleeding.”
Audra’s thoughts turned to Luke Banning. “Not yet anyway.”
The sun was hot for mid-May, but Ali tipped back her head as she knelt in the small flowerbed that ringed her mailbox and took a moment to enjoy the way it felt on her face. Northern Michigan’s winters were always long, especially when lake-effect storms were added in. This winter had felt interminable. Just a few weeks earlier the last of the snow had finally melted from the woods that bordered the northern edge of her property. Trillium, the three-petaled flower for which the Lake Michigan island was named, bloomed there now, offering a much warmer carpet of white.
It was Sunday, which meant she had just three days to reconcile herself to seeing Luke again. She was over him, no matter what Audra seemed to think. But he’d been Ali’s first love, which made him impossible to forget. And he’d left her behind after three years of dating without a second thought, which made his desertion impossible to forgive. So of course the prospect of seeing him again had her on edge. That was only natural.
It didn’t help that Audra had ideas for this reunion that clearly went beyond business. In the past week, her twin had hinted broadly that Ali might want to do something with the shoulder-length hair she always wore pulled into a simple ponytail. And she had tried to convince Ali to wear more fashionable clothing than the conservative button-down blouses and straight, below-the-knee skirts that populated her wardrobe.
Ali ignored the unsolicited advice. This was business, not a social call. She wasn’t going to doll herself up for Luke Banning’s return. No, indeed.
Indifference, that’s what Wednesday’s meeting called for. Nonchalance.
Ali yanked a weed out of the flowerbed and tossed it atop the small heap of wilting interlopers next to her, warming to her strategy.
She would be ruthlessly polite and exceedingly casual when she and Luke were finally face to face. She would show him, Audra and everyone else who thought otherwise that the past was ancient history, and that the fact he’d spent the past decade in New York City growing wealthy and respected and enjoying the tabloid-documented attentions of supermodels and liposuctioned socialites was of absolutely no concern to her.
She snatched up her gardening trowel and hacked at the hard ground with its dagger-like metal point.
On Wednesday, she would be professional and businesslike. She would be cordial, but in a detached -- hack! hack! -- and disinterested -- hack! hack! -- way.
She swiped at the sweat beading on her brow and then set aside the trowel so she could wrap her fist around the base of another weed. As she knelt there locked in an intense tug-of-war with a deep-rooted dandelion, she heard the motorcycle. The mere sound of the engine reeled her back in time, as it always did, resurrecting the bittersweet memories she’d just convinced herself were safely buried and of no threat to her emotional well-being.
Even as her heart seemed to kick out an extra beat, she told herself she was being foolish. It wasn’t Luke. It couldn’t be Luke. She still had three days, nearly seventy-two hours, before she would see him again. Besides, he wouldn’t still be driving a damned motorcycle after all these years. He probably traveled in a limousine, a stretch one so long it would barely fit on the ferry that brought vehicles over from the mainland.
But as she shielded her eyes from the sun with one grimy hand, a Harley Davidson Sportster crested the hill and rumbled into view.
In the years he’d been gone, sightings of Trillium Island’s most famous son seemed to be about as common as sightings of Elvis, and they’d proved to be as reliable. There was no mistaking the Harley rider’s identity, though, especially since he was flouting state law by forgoing a helmet.
Even with the space of thirty yards and the span of more than a decade separating them, Ali knew him at a glance. Wind ruffled the almost-black hair she’d once run her fingers through. He was wearing it shorter these days, looking more like a respectable adult than the rowdy teenager and young man he’d been. Aviator sunglasses obscured his eyes, but she remembered that they were the same shade of blue as the cool waters of the great lake that surrounded the island.
A dozen feet from her driveway the bike slowed and all hope that Luke would somehow fail to spot her evaporated.
Indifference, she reminded herself.
Disinterest.
Nonchalance.
And yet all she felt was mule-kicked when he brought the bike to a stop in front of her mailbox, grinning for a long moment in that sexy way that had haunted her dreams and taunted her heart.
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Hispanic immigrants are dramatically changing the demographic and economic landscape of Tennessee. Today, Nashville/Davidson County’s Hispanic population exceeds 62,000 with strong population growth in the Middle Tennessee suburban areas. Each county surrounding Davidson County saw the Hispanic population double between 2000 and 2010.
The Hispanic Family Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for Hispanic families in Middle Tennessee. We work through our platforms of— Economic, Education, Social Services, Advocacy and Culture—to provide programs that strengthen the Nashville Hispanic community.
The mission of the Hispanic Family Foundation is to work through our platforms of— Economic, Education, Social Services, Advocacy and Culture—to provide programs that strengthen the Nashville Hispanic community.
The values we trust
We are confident that the success of our Mission is based on the following values:
We Value Family
We Value Education
We Value a Pathway to Citizenship/Immigration Reform
We Value Culture and Heritage
We Value Entrepreneurship
We Value Businesses Opportunities
We Value Collaboration, Partners, and Non-Profits that support the Hispanic community
HFF advocates for all Latino families in Nashville and is committed to programs that improve their quality of life. We work with Latino families to provide:
Resources and programs that create pathways for economic mobility and stability;
Educational programs for continued learning that empower families to achieve success;
Social service support to enhance quality of life;
Heritage programs that celebrate, honor and energize the Latino culture and
Advocacy for the Hispanic community.
We have a collaborative mindset at the Hispanic Family Foundation. We partner with agencies that have a successful track record in addressing the needs of the community. This partnership allows the Hispanic Family Foundation to leverage it many assets including our accessibility and location, our media partners, creative services, social media – all while maintaining a lean management model.
By consistently delivering results, HFF has earned the trust of the community. That trust will allow us to continue to foster strong partnerships with organizations, groups and companies that share a passion for Hispanic issues.
Entrepreneurs Mark and Diane Janbakhsh are founders of the Hispanic Family Foundation. They were both raised in the Nashville area and have a strong commitment to the community. Their success in business, combined with their love of the community, lead them to found the Hispanic Family Foundation in 2013 to enhance the lives of Hispanic families and children.
Monica Reyna
Vocational Counselor / Program Manager
Monica Reyna, with a Degree in Science Education and 15 years of experience in the field. As the Social Services Director of HFF, her passion is to empower Hispanics who come to HFF for help, to face challenges and fulfill their dreams developing their full potential and placing at the necessary tools to accomplish them. Monica is a visionary, a diligent and compassionate individual who believes in fairness and justice.
Dedication is what defines us
"Coats and a Little Bit of Love"
HFF 2nd Annual Coat Drive.
"Fiestas Patrias"
Benefiting Hispanic Family Foundation.
"HFF Folkloric Group"
Spreading the beauty of the Hispanic heritage.
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Character Details
Helen Mirren as Cora Baratheon (née Lannister)
Name: Cora Baratheon (née Lannister)
Aliases: Lady Baratheon. Lady Cora. Milady. Mother. Grandmother. She Who Must Be Obeyed.
Faction: House Baratheon
Organization: The Stormlands
Occupation: Relict
Rank: Great Noble Lady
The Lady Cora died peacefully in her sleep.
In Cora Baratheon it isn't difficult to see the remnants of great beauty — much faded, yet also refined by the recent illness which has left her skin milk-white and thrown her superb cheekbones into high relief. Her nose is straight and classical; her lips, painted a muted coral-red, are composed in an amiable smile which doesn't waver under provocation; and yet there's nothing much she can do about the moods of those large, quick, intelligent blue eyes of hers, which now and again seem prepared to slice the skin right off your bones.
Her figure is small yet stately, gaunt yet elegant, composed almost entirely of angles and pearls and elaborately-arranged white hair beneath a veil of delicate golden lace. Whatever shape she may have is indeterminate: her flowing blue and gold silks, stitched in her own variation upon the latest King's Landing styles, see to that nicely, though her golden girdle with the buckle in the shape of a solid gold lioness provides the occasional hint. She speaks in a pleasant, educated alto, in the accents of the court — and also with her long-fingered and beringed white hands, which are in the habit of emerging from her sleeves, clawlike, to underline a point. She carries the scent of orange blossom, and something else which it would be difficult and expensive to try to pin down.
She is no longer seen to stand on her own two embroidered golden slippers. Where her sedan chair won't reach her emaciated frame is usually toted about by her latest steward, Elfrid, a strapping young blond fellow of twenty-three who never seems to feel the strain, no matter how many steps he must climb.
Cora was born a daughter of the Lord of Casterly Rock in the year 51 AC, raised and educated to be a great lady, and obliged at the age of seventeen to become the second wife of the heir to Storm's End. Her marriage was the seal upon an alliance dictated by the political exigencies of the day — and soon to sour.
Oh, the personal relationship between Boros Baratheon and his lady smouldered with not inconsiderable heat — an apparently endless procession of children was born to them in the early years they spent together — but when loyalty clashed with loyalty, too many harsh words were spoken, and it became patent to the meanest intellect (such as Lord Boros's) that a lioness could never be made a doe, they settled upon a dignified separation and the putting on of a good show.
These two Baratheons had long divided their time between Storm's End and King's Landing, Boros ostensibly prosecuting his house's interests as heir and Cora doing rather a better job of it by serving as lady-in-waiting to Alysanne Targaryen. From this perch she did much to dictate the fashions of the capital and the manners of its court: she had the money for it, the necessary political instinct well-camouflaged by charm, and the leisure, too, once her husband returned to the Stormlands and she was no longer quite so constantly producing little Baratheons. Her proximity to the Dragonlords (and especially the Dragonladies) placed her in an excellent position in which to be of use now and again to the Baratheons (notably via her brokering of the marriage between her niece by marriage Jocelyn, and Aemon Targaryen, in the year 74 AC) as well as the Lannisters (ever staunch supporters of Jaehaerys I); thus she kept in with both families and there was never any move by the Baratheons to interfere with her independence, or by the Lannisters to cut her off from that radiant flow of gold.
Her husband was (soon) Lord of Storm's End; her father, her brother, and her nephew Jason, were Lords of Casterly Rock; she enjoyed royal favour; she was untouchable. No matter how many handsome young knights and lordlings (not to mention Lyseni ambassadors) were seen to appreciate her Lannister good looks, her penchant for drinking and dancing, her bountiful hospitality, and above all her absent husband. Nothing, you understand, was proved to her discredit. Not by anyone who remained alive and credible and willing to talk for very long.
Hardly a maternal creature she left her sons and step-sons largely to the care of nursemaids and then masters-at-arms (it was, she put about nobly, for Their Own Good), and she has only herself to blame for how solitary, nasty, brutish, and tall they and their descendants have grown to be. Daughters came in for more personal attention, and from the moment they began to toddle were held to the most relentless standards. Training to be a lady is, in Cora's estimation, every bit as demanding as training to become a knight — and offers even greater possibilities for advancing one's house and one's bloodline…
After superintending the funeral arrangements for her adored Queen Alysanne late in the century Cora repaired to Storm's End for a long visit — and then to Casterly Rock for the same — and took up residence in neither stronghold, but in her own small jewel-box of a manse a comfortable sedan chair ride from the Red Keep. She did as she had always done: schemed, intrigued, listened to her little birds, represented Lannister interests first and foremost and Baratheon ones when the stars aligned and the current lord happened perhaps foolishly to trust her, hosted sumptuous banquets, embroidered altarcloths of such richness and intricacy that lesser ladies felt sick about them, pursued flirtations which never quite put her beyond the pale, supervised those tending her garden, played cyvasse via raven with far-flung friends, and saw to the needs of Alysanne's charities — though all of this on a smaller scale as the years wore on. It is possible she noticed, when her husband kindly made her a widow in 104 AC. Twice the capital's rumour mill had it she might marry again. Twice they were disappointed.
Early in the year 121 AC she suffered an illness of several months' duration which had an effect somewhat deleterious upon her already waning health.
Once she was well enough to travel the maesters caring for her urged her to seek a warmer and more salubrious climate in which to recuperate. They had in mind a quiet keep by the sea; but for a woman who'd spent half a century not only surviving but prospering in the scorpion-pit known as King's Landing — a statistic which tells its own tale — nowhere less than Oldtown would suffice.
Lannister? Baratheon? Cora will be trying to marry you off to her advantage.
Fellow relic of a bygone age? Let's discuss the failings of young people today.
Are you a young lady hoping to learn how it's done?
Are you short on cash and long on optimism?
Do you fancy a game of cyvasse?
See above re: Lannister. (Being a Baratheon's not prohibitively squalid either.)
Gently-Faded Notoriety
There aren't so many now who remember the glory days of Cora's career as Queen Alysanne's right-hand woman and the ostensible Lady of Storm's End. Ah, the feasts, the tournaments, the frocks… Likewise nobody recollects the dragonlord with whom rumour had it she had something going on, though rumour never could make up its mind which. Or how frequently she was seen in the company of the Lyseni ambassador and his paramour in the early '80s (just offering friendly hospitality to important visitors from afar, don't you know). Or the young Baratheon knight known to be informally in her service who lost his temper one night in '95 and skewered a Crakehall lordling with whom she'd stood up to dance four times in the space of an evening. Or the knight who begged her favour and went off quietly to hang himself with it. Et cetera.
Frail As A Flower-Petal
Since her recent illness Cora's life has been circumscribed by maesters to an extent which one would imagine onerous to a woman of her temperament. But let us note OOCly that she is not averse to being carried everywhere in the arms of a handsome young man, and that she is especially likely to be resting whenever somebody she doesn't care to see comes to call upon her. Her ill health is genuine, beyond doubt — but she uses it as a tool, as she does everything else.
Will See You In Hell
See above re: Lannister. Thwart her plans and you'll receive a one-way ticket; and, of course, all debts will be paid with crushing interest.
Cora Logs
Logs featuring Cora.
(121-07-19) On Tidying
(121-07-15) Showtime at the Whimsy
(121-06-11) On Weeding
(121-06-10) On Pruning
(121-06-09) Pearls Before Bedtime
Logs that refer to Cora.
(121-08-25) Informal Explanations
Almost Acquaintance ~ A hazard from Cora's homeland, whom luck would have it she met soon after arriving in Oldtown. A clever woman, and a desperate one — more sophisticated avoidance tactics will have to be drawn up, if this isn't to become a habit.
Jason Lannister
Nephew ~ The favourite nephew, of course, and would be even if his hobbies included setting small fluffy kittens on fire. Cora will tell him when he's wrong — but that isn't so very often, and she has a way of doing it which only makes her seem more credible when, far more frequently, she tells him he's right. She corresponds with him often, as she did with his brother before him, for she has alway been a canny and reliable set of eyes and ears looking out for Lannister interests in the capital — and a Lannister voice, too, when needed.
Lorn Lannister
Great-Nephew ~ Heir to Casterly Rock. Recipient of lavish nameday gifts.
Niece ~ The marriage between Malena Lannister and Samael Hightower struck Cora as a very fine notion — it was time, after all, for that little hoyden to do one useful and suitable thing in her life — and she threw her influence behind it privately. Perhaps that's why they're not friends.
Ludvik
Great-Nephew ~ One of a horde of Lannister descendants of varying degrees; Cora hasn't seen him since he was a small boy, and would be unlikely even to recognise him on sight, given the time that has passed and his unusual (for the family) colouring.
Boros Baratheon
Late Husband ~ Not altogether bright, Boros Baratheon, but formidable in battle, and despite his advanced years very good for one thing, as might be deduced from the births of Cora's children between eleven and thirteen months apart during their first years together — and then the single odd one out, nine months after a visit he paid to King's Landing during their long unofficial separation. The length of the period of time during which they could tolerate one another's company in private (they were always so correct in public) dropped off sharply after a certain point — then, over fifteen or twenty years, time soothed a percentage of their mutually inflicted wounds, and they were once again able to share a bottle of wine and discuss the antics of the children and the grand-children in level tones and with a measure of good humour. Plenty of cross-generational dynastic marriages have been worse.
Boremund Baratheon
Late Stepson ~ Already a man grown when Cora wed his father, what he thought of this beautiful young stepmother is anyone's guess — and plenty of people guessed that he thought quite a lot of her, night and day, as though that household required an extra bone of contention. Certainly as Lord Baratheon he was inclined to forgive her her deviations from the party line; and she for her part refrained from swindling or betraying House Baratheon too noticeably.
Borros Baratheon (the Elder)
Grandson ~ Of an age with Cora's children, and raised with them at Storm's End, any loyalty he might have to her is surely for their sake. Since he grew to maturity and (eventually, after a great deal of waiting) succeeded to his father's dignities he and she have been occasional allies, as circumstances dictate, but their worlds are too far apart to be bridged by more than stilted respect.
Amadys
Grandson ~ Ungrateful rat.
Borros
Great-Grandson ~
Sirawen
Granddaughter ~ Another Baratheon girl being allowed to run wild. Should be married off advantageously.
Great-Granddaughter ~ Another Baratheon girl being allowed to run wild. Should be married off advantageously.
Alysanne Targaryen
Late Patroness and Friend ~ For nigh on thirty years Cora served as lady-in-waiting to Queen Alysanne, becoming over time the leader of a crack team of highly-trained ladies who kept the feminine side of the court running like a well-perfumed machine. To all appearances she was devoted to her queen — it may even have been the truth, given that she was prostrate for weeks after Alysanne's funeral (she couldn't be prostrate before it, she had things to do), and she has since continued a great deal of charitable work in her memory, particularly among whores and war-orphans and similarly abject souls.
Rhaenys Targaryen
Relation By Marriage ~ Cora was instrumental in arranging the Targaryen/Baratheon union of which Rhaenys is the fruit. But though House Baratheon has long stood squarely behind Rhaenys's claim to the throne, House Lannister supported King Jaehaerys's own choice: his second son Baelon, and then Baelon's son, Viserys. As was her usual practice in a pinch, Cora sided with her Lannister kin, which just coincidentally resulted in her maintaining her own privileged position in court circles in a time when the name 'Baratheon' didn't necessarily make one hugely popular. … Besides, she's never liked the Velaryons, and will never pass up an opportunity to do a Velaryon down.
Victim ~ In the year 76 Cora and Jaehaerys Targaryen were seen to be on friendly terms; then, abruptly, they weren't, and this reserved and mild-mannered and dutiful minor scion of House Targaryen discovered within himself a passionate hatred of the Lannisters and all their works. His enmity doesn't seem to have affected Cora one way or another; if they happen to meet socially, she's as pleasant and courteous to him as ever she was.
Elfrid Hill
Steward ~ A handsome blond bastard from the Westerlands who has been a part of Cora's household for most of his life, as a page boy, a general helper-out, and in the last two years (since the previous incumbent was pensioned off) her steward and confidential secretary. And, given he was already in constant attendance upon her anyway, why not use him as her new set of legs? He has a private life, of sorts — one evening off every fortnight, during which he is understood to be very popular with the ladies (one might almost say 'golden-tongued') — but is otherwise content in his fanatical devotion to his lady.
Jacsen
Personal Maester ~ Upon arriving in Oldtown Cora felt a change of maester was in order; she settled on Jacsen, a frank and intelligent man not all that much younger than she herself, of whom an old friend of hers spoke well in passing, and who then compounded his suitability by holding to his professional discretion despite his personal dislike of his previous masters. Trust will take time; the preconditions exist.
Maid ~ The plain one. You'd never know she's there — but she knows you're there, oh yes she does. And she disapproves.
Maid ~ The pretty one. Nobody really knows what it is she does, but no man who comes to call on Cora would ever dare question the miracle, lest it cease to be.
Eddrick Hill
Page ~ Known as Edd. Aged nine in years, and roughly fifty-seven in sheer dastardly cunning. Another blond bastard running errands for Cora Baratheon whilst having a sheen of civilisation applied to him. Can't think where she picks them up.
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First gallery opens inside civilian control line near DMZ
What was once a security exhibition center has been renovated into Yeongang Gallery, the first-ever art gallery within the civilian control line. It is covered with photo-printed screens and walls made of 680 doors from around the world. [THE GONG GAM]
YEONCHEON COUNTY, Gyeonggi - Landscapes of surreal and paradoxical beauty unfold when visitors pass a security checkpoint and cross the civilian control line in Yeoncheon County, whose northern border is the demilitarized zone (DMZ).
The Imjin River, fields and mountains along the river, with less human impact than other rural areas of Korea, make such idyllic and peaceful scenes that they look unreal sometimes. But from time to time, the sounds of gunfire, sirens and North Korean broadcasts toward the South interrupt the tranquility.
The standoff between the two Koreas, as evidenced by those sounds, has kept the region from industrial development, ironically protecting its unique nature.
Unsurprisingly, this area is inspiring to artists. The paradoxical beauty of the place is exquisitely represented in artist Han Sungpil’s photograph “Observation” and video work “Uncanny Serenity,” now on display at Yeongang Gallery in Yeoncheon.
On the second floor of Yeongang Gallery are hanging photographic works by Han Sungpil as part of the gallery’s inaugural exhibition, “Innocence.” [THE GONG GAM]
The first-ever art gallery within the civilian control line opened on Thursday with the inaugural exhibition titled “Innocence.” It is Han’s solo show featuring 11 of his photos and the video piece.
The gallery, with an air-raid shelter next door, was once a security exhibition center. As part of the renovations, Han and designer Cho Sang Gi covered the walls of the building with photo-printed screens and walls made of 680 doors from various countries. The walls will also bear messages of peace from 17 countries including Canada and Turkey. And Han will replace the photo-printed screens every three years. Now, some of the screens feature photos of Yeoncheon’s unique volcanic landscapes, including columnar jointing. The photos are also exhibited inside the gallery.
“Working in Yeoncheon is re-understanding a place I once thought I knew somewhat,” the artist told reporters at a preview on Wednesday. “The tensions between the two Koreas isolated this area from Korea’s rapid postwar industrial development. As a result, it preserved Yeoncheon’s columnar jointing and other geographical features that were formed by lava even before humans appeared. They embody the sublimity of accumulated time - much longer than the history of tensions between the two Koreas.”
BY MOON SO-YOUNG [symoon@joongang.co.kr]
The exhibition runs through Nov. 20. The museum is located at Hoengsan-ni 243, Jung-myeon, Yeoncheon County. A valid photo ID is required to pass the security checkpoint. For details, call (02) 2268-1973 or e-mail info.yeonganggallery@gmail.com.
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The Guiness 14
While doing some research on the guano industry in the 1800s, I came across the Guinness 14. Apparently, after an OCD-suffering lunatic travels to all 317 nations and territories of the Travelers' Century Club, he (and it's always a he) will then have to travel to the Guinness 14. These are 14 places that are so difficult to reach, no one has reached more than 12 of the 14 locations. Just what and where are these 14 elusive sites?
1. Ashmore & Cartier Islands Territory (Australia). Conveniently located between Australia and Indonesia. Favorite drop-off point for smugglers of asylum seekers and refugees since it is officially Australian territory.
2. Bouvet Island (Norway). The most remote island in the world. The closest land is Antarctica, 1000 miles away.
3. Clipperton Island (France). Off of Mexico's Pacific coast. Who knew?
4. The Coral Sea Islands Territory (Australia). Outside the Great Barrier Reef.
5. Franz Josep Land (Russia). Eurasia's northernmost islands.
6. Golan Heights (Israel and Syria). Only place most people have heard of before.
7. Heard & McDonald Islands (Australia). Halfway between Oz and South Africa. Has Australia's highest mountain.
8. Howland, Baker & Jarvis Islands (U.S.). Amelia Earhart disappeared just before reaching Howland Island.
9. Kingman Reef (U.S.). Halfway between Hawaii and American Samoa.
10. Paracel Islands (Vietnam, China, Taiwan). It's got fish, oil, and gas so there will be a fight.
11. Peter I Island (Norway). Off the Antarctic coast.
12. South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands (U.K.). Of Shackleton fame.
13. The Sovereign Military Order of Malta. It's in Rome and claims sovereignty. A relic of the Crusades.
14. Spratly Islands (China, Vietnam, Taiwan). Again, plenty of fish, oil, and gas found here.
Labels: Geopolitics, Travel
Alien Photo A Sham!
After days of speculation and buzz, a Colorado man finally revealed his irrefutable photographic evidence of the existence of aliens. What a let down. I mean, come on, the dude didn't even try.
Labels: TV
Cultural Oppression of Uyghurs via Complimentary Condescension
This just in: Noble and music-loving Uyghurs have knowledge of fire and cook their meats!
On June 26th, the infamous Olympic torch will parade through the streets of Kashgar. Fortunately, the Chinese government was kind enough to give us foreigners insight into the mysterious and exotic Uyghur culture, spirit, and psyche. The following is a straight cut-and-paste job from the official torch website:
"In Xinjiang Province, there are four main nationalities: Uyghur, Tajik, Uzbeks, and Kirghiz. The Uyghur nationality is mainly distributed in the Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang Province). With a population of more than 7.20 million, Uyghur people speak Uyghur and have their own writing characters. The Uyghur nationality believe in Islam. Their households are characterized by flat roof with trap door on it. Within their house visitors could find parlor, bed room , handiwork and storage rooms. The exquisitely decorated niche ,carved from plaster, has rich flavor of the Uyghur nationality . The Uyghur nationality have "Kaizai" Festival, (vegetarian diet-breaking festival). Uyghur people are known as "the singing and dancing nationality", famous for its "Twelve Muqams" dancing performance, which is a musical epic. The Uyghur nationality attach great importance to clothing, they are always tidily dressed. All the Uyghur people wear small four-corner flower hats. The Uyghur people has the famous bridal-veil raising ceremony. Among the entertaining programs of the Uyghur Nationality Village are " Uyghur Nationality Custom Introduction", "Sing and Dancing"," Instruments Playing", and other conventional performances.
Uyghur language
Uyghur language is a Turkic language spoken in Xinjiang ,China.
The language traditionally used the Arabic script since 10th century. The government introduced a Roman script in 1969, but the Arabic script was reintroduced in 1983."
Based on this description, we now know the Uyghurs:
are Muslim;
live indoors;
are into craft projects;
love to sing;
love to dance;
are not slobs;
(I don't even want to imagine what the 'Uyghur Nationality Village' is);
love to play musical instruments;
have been influenced by the A-rabs;
have so much power over us softies at the Politburo that we let them write in their squiggly script again in 1983.
I'm surprised they left out friendly and good in sports.
Kindly ignore ginormous Mao statue in Kashi central square.
Labels: Central Asia, Central Asia- Xinjiang, Geopolitics
80s McDonald's Sandwiches
I understand that one of the goals of this blog is to share information and insight about GOOD food and great restaurants. But as a child of the 80s, I really enjoyed McDonald's, its styrofoam clamshell containers, and even the sandwiches in them. Although my favorite back then was the Filet-o'-Fish (I used to call it a fishburger), there were also the McDLT and the McRib. The McDLT was a great concept, but it never took off commercially. The McRib, on the other hand, developed a cult following and will still randomly appear on menu boards. The weird thing was how and why they shaped the meat to look like it had rib bones in it.
McDLT with George Constanza
Labels: Food, TV
Uncontacted Tribes
Surprisingly, there are over 100 tribes around the world that have very limited, if any, contact with the outside world. Most are in Papua New Guinea and the Amazon. Today, Survival International circulated these photos of an uncontacted tribe along the Peruvian-Brazilian border to end arguments, no doubt made by oil and timber interests, that nobody lives in this region.
Here is an iconic image of a Sentinelese man aiming his bow and arrow at an Indian Coast Guard helicopter surveying tsunami damage in the Andaman Islands. There are 40 to 500 Sentinelese left in this world.
Here is an informative piece put out by Survival International about the plight of uncontacted people around the world.
James Bond Stop Motion Movie
This creative and well made video includes practically all the cars in the Minichamps and Corgi Bond collections. Bravo to the filmmaker!
Labels: 007, Art, Cars, Diecast- Minichamps, Movies
Hillary Clinton as Robert Mugabe
In a recent appeal to seat the delegates of Michigan and Florida, Clinton argued, with a straight face, that the situation stateside is akin to what is going on in Zimbabwe.
Obviously, she meant to compare the Democratic nomination process to the recent flawed election in Zimbabwe. Woe is her, as the party machine (Democratic Party/ZANU-PF) does everything in its power to suppress the will of the people. Hillary is the victim, again.
A closer inspection of the facts and dynamics in the U.S. and Zimbabwe reveals that the analogy is not so far off. Except for one thing. Clinton is not the victim. She is Robert Mugabe.
For decades, Mugabe worked hard and made sacrifices to free his fellow people from the yoke of oppression that was white rule in Rhodesia. He was awarded with leadership of his country. When, in recent years, his rule became more despotic and outright nutty, fellow heads of state around Africa failed to intervene or even criticize out of respect for one of the elder statesmen of Africa.
For decades, Hillary Clinton worked tirelessly and made many personal sacrifices to improve the lot of working Americans. She was first awarded with a seat in the Senate and later, as the presumptive nominee for the 2008 presidency. But as the campaign dragged on, she and her surrogates committed a number of wrongs, both negligently and intentionally. Unfounded charges of sexism, race baiting, exploiting fear, mentioning assassination, ignoring caucus states. She's done it all. But because of the respect and goodwill she has garnered over the years, party elders and leaders have refused to intervene or prematurely end the nomination process. They have allowed Clinton to sink deeper and deeper into madness and self-destruction.
Mugabe is blind and delusional because of his ego. As the father of Zimbabwe, he believes that he is entitled to rule Zimbabwe forever. He dismisses the power and popular appeal of his opponents, even when they receive more popular votes. In the face of an election defeat, Mugabe and his goons used his power to declare, against the facts and raw numbers, that there was no defeat. There will be a run-off and he will win by a landslide.
Clinton is delusional because of her ego and blind ambition. She believes that the presidency is rightfully hers. After all, she lived through the shame of the Lewinsky scandal and voted for war against Iraq. She did not do these things out of a respect for the sanctity of marriage or because it was the right thing to do. She did these things to position herself for the presidency. Now, despite Obama's lead in pledged delegates, superdelegates, the popular vote, the number of contest wins, and polls showing his lead over her, she believes she is a better candidate. And once we go to Puerto Rico, Montana, and South Dakota, she and her minions (I'm looking at you, Terry McAuliffe) assert, she will win the nomination.
Mugabe has destroyed Zimbabwe. Nobody-- not the Zimbabwean people, not African leaders, not the U.N. or Britain-- has stepped in to help and stop the madness. Hillary Clinton will destroy the Democratic Party if she continues. The superdelegates, the only people with the power to step in and stop the madness, need to act. Now. For the good of the Party, and for the good of the nation.
Labels: American Politics, Geopolitics
Monaco Grand Prix Posters
With the Formula One Monaco GP starting in less than four hours, here is a stroll down memory lane as we look back at Monaco GP posters of yore.
Labels: Art, Cars, Formula One
Tintin Covers
Love him or hate him, Tintin gives us an insightful glimpse into mainstream 20th century Western European attitudes toward history, colonialism, foreign cultures, science, fantasy, adventure, and themselves.
The Michelin Bibendum's Metamorphosis
The Michelin Man is also known as Bib the Michelin Man and Bibendum. This universally recognized figure was created in 1898 by Marius Rossillon after the Michelin bros. (Andre and Edouard) noticed how a stack of bicycle tires looked like a human.
The first ad showed a mummy-like figure toasting to his thinner and weaker competitors. With a glass full of road hazards, Bib said, obtusely in Latin: Now is the time to drink-- The Michelin tire drinks up obstacles. "Bibendum" means to drink in Latin and the name stuck, although not in the less worldly U.S. of A.
Note the horseshoe garnish in the drink. The two gentlemen on the sides are Dunlop and Continental.
For much of its life, Bib was portly, wore specs, and smoked a big stogie.
In the last quarter of the 20th century, Bib looked more like an animated cartoon character, with simple lines and a child-friendly face.
As the century came to a close, Bib slimmed down quite a bit. Obesity was becoming an epidemic in industrialized countries and it did not fit Michelin's sporty image.
Where did that spare tire go? Now and then.
Source of info here.
Labels: Art, Cars
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Alaska In Russia
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Don't Mess with Kashgar
The Silver Helmets of Lanyu Island
The Drag Strips: Tobacco Liveries in F1
El Yucateco Xxxtra Hot Habanero Sauce
Russian Military Parade Down Memory Lane
Thar She Blows: Chaiten Volcano In Chile
The Farce That Is The Kite Runner
The Adobe!
How Do You Say Renntransporter in French?
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Entries with the tag: darcy tucker
Darcy Tucker No Longer On The Leafs’ Books
from Mark Zwolinski of the Toronto Star,
Six years after leaving Toronto, Darcy Tucker is still signing autographs for the Maple Leafs.
Six years after buying him out, the Leafs have finally stopped mailing him a regular paycheque.
Tucker has been receiving a million dollars annually since then Leafs GM Cliff Fletcher decided in 2008 that the franchise wanted to go in another direction. Tucker, now 39, played eight seasons in Toronto, and the club made the playoffs in five of them (and missed by one and two points, respectively, in the two years after the 2004-05 lockout).
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Darcy Tucker Retires
from Darren Dreger of TSN,
Never one to back down, Darcy Tucker has decided its time to face life’s next challenge and in doing so, he’s announcing through TSN, his decision to retire from the National Hockey League.
“After spending the whole summer anticipating I would play, it got to a point where I knew it was time.”
“I just knew, during workouts I didn’t have that same feeling,” Tucker told TSN, “and I needed to be fair with my family.”
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Time Running Out On Darcy Tucker
from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,
Darcy Tucker isn’t ready to talk about it.
Not yet, anyhow.
It’s too soon, too personal and too unknown.
For the first time in his adult life it is September and training camp is about to begin all around hockey, just not for him. This competitor has no place to compete. He is available to anyone in hockey, only right now nobody seems to want him.
There has been a nibble or two—him playing the part of a fish—but nothing more than that. There are no invitations of merit. There are no contractual offers. There are no promises of any kind and there may not be any coming.
Is This Considered Low Sticking?
Keep an eye on Sharks goaltender Evgeni Nabokov.
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Tucker Suspended For A Game
Went for a walk, sorry I am late with this…
TORONTO (March 23, 2010) – Colorado Avalanche forward Darcy Tucker has been suspended for one game, without pay, for making excessive physical contact on an icing play, in NHL game #1079 against the Los Angeles Kings, last night, the National Hockey League announced today.
Under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, and based on his average annual salary, Tucker will forfeit $11,658.03. The money goes to the Players’ Emergency Assistance Fund.
Tucker was assessed a minor penalty for tripping Kings player Matt Greene on the play, which occurred at 10:13 of the third period.
Ruutu Calls Tucker To Apologize For The Hit
from Chip Alexander of the News & Observer,
Canes forward Tuomo Ruutu said today that he has called Darcy Tucker of the Colorado Avalanche and apologized for the hit from behind that left Tucker with a concussion.
Ruutu was suspended for three games by the NHL for the hit in Friday’s game in Denver.
“It was a bad hit by me,” Ruutu said. “I wasn’t really worried about the suspension. I was worried about the guy.
“It looked pretty bad. It just happened. I think he’s doing better. I’m so sorry about what happened but everything happened so quickly.
“I wish I could get it back but I can’t.”
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Tuomo Ruutu Hit On Darcy Tucker
Ruutu received 5 minutes for boarding along with a 10 and game misconduct.
from Adrian Dater of All Things Avs,
...it seems like Darcy Tucker escaped potentially catastrophic injury tonight. After being taken from the ice on a stretcher from Tuomo Ruutu’s hit from behind, eyewitnesses said later tonight that Tucker walked out of the Pepsi Center. He was on his way to the hospital for further tests, but Avs personnel told me Tucker appears to have “escaped” with a concussion and stitches to the head.
added 11:40am, According to Ben Hankinson, Ruutu receives a 3 game suspension.
Welcome Back Enemy
from Damian Cox of the Toronto Star,
...But you sure don’t go out of your way to comfort the enemy, right?
Well, apparently, if you’re the Leafs, you do.
Mired in a depressing five-game winless streak to start the season, the game operations staff thought that with the Colorado Avalanche in town Tuesday night it was a perfect time to pay tribute to Darcy (Sideshow Bob) Tucker, one of the feistier, most popular and more publicity-conscious Leafs to play in Toronto in recent years.
First came a generous video collage 10 minutes into the game and then a loud ovation, to which Tucker responded by standing at the Colorado bench and waving to the Air Canada Centre faithful.
All that was missing was a bouquet of roses.
While the fans clapped and the Avs players tapped their sticks, the players who currently skate for the Leafs sat stonefaced on the bench or stood motionless on the ice.
“No impact on us as players at all,” insisted veteran winger Jamal Mayers.
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Tough Year For Tucker
from Adrian Dater of The Denver Post,
It has been one awful season for Darcy Tucker. The hoped-for rejuvenation of his career, with the Rocky Mountains as his scenic backdrop, did not exactly go as planned.
“This year’s been a tough year personally,” said Tucker, signed by the Avalanche last summer to a two-year, $4.5 million free-agent contract. “But all you can do is work every day; just come to the rink and try to have each day get better.”...
Tucker is a no-nonsense man who doesn’t engage in long, philosophical conversations about himself. He knows he hasn’t played well and says so. But one factor that contributed to the worst season of his career — torn knee ligaments suffered in a game at Anaheim on Nov. 24 — is something Tucker could use as a crutch. But he won’t.
“I’m not the type of guy who gets those things and tries to make excuses out of them,” Tucker said. “It’s part of playing hockey, and you’ve got to battle through them. And I haven’t done a good enough job of doing that.”
Tucker Avoids Suspension
According to Adrian Dater at All Things Avs:
Darcy Tucker escaped suspension. From my league sources, Tucker will not be suspended for his clipping incident against Minnesota’s Nick Schultz Thursday night.
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Did Tucker Attempt To Injure
from Russo’s Rants,
Late in the second period, Tucker and defenseman Nick Schultz clashed deep in the Wild’s zone. After the pushing match, the two lined up next to each other and Tucker began screaming at him as the Wild was on a penalty kill. Schultz was called off the ice on a line change and as he skated by, Tucker continued barking at him.
Then, 6:33 into the third, in a despicable act but one he’s done often in his career, Tucker came in way late on Schultz, bent down and went right for the knees. He was called for clipping.
I got Schultz alone in the locker room, and he was still fuming. Here’s his comments:
“My concern is at the end of the second, he tells me he’s going to come and take out my knees, and then he actually does it. It says everything you need to know about that guy.
All Darcy Tucker
from Aaron Lopez of the Rocky Mountain News,
People seem to have a lot of opinions of you, both good and bad. Do you really care what people think?
As a player, you just go out and play the game. As far as fans, I don’t think they know me as a person. They just know me as a hockey player. Whatever I do on the ice or whatever happens on the ice, that’s part of playing the game. It’s my obligation to do the best for my team each and every time I go on the ice. That’s all I really concern myself with.
Tucker In A Comfort Zone
from Mike Toth of Sportsnet,
In search of a soulmate ever since his brother-in-law Shayne Corson packed it in, Darcy Tucker may have found the answer in the mountain air of Colorado. After giving up his head coaching role when Joel Quenneville came aboard, Tony Granato is back as bench boss of the Avalanche and played a huge role in enticing Tucker to Denver…. Unless Joe Sakic returns, it could be tough for the Avalanche to make the play-offs. But surrounded by veterans such as Ryan Smyth and Adam Foote, at least Tucker will be in the company of like-minded warriors.
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Darcy Tucker Signs with the Avs, 2 Years
From TSN (no link yet available):
Darcy Tucker has agreed to a two year deal with the Colorado Avalanche worth $4.5 million.
Update 4:06pm ET: TSN link.
Tucker A Fit In Calgary
from Eric Francis of the Calgary Sun,
Darcy Tucker, a Calgary Flame.
Love it or hate it, it might just be a perfect fit.
No, it hasn’t happened yet and, no, we’re not suggesting it absolutely will.
But you can bet it’s a possibility—an intriguing one—GM Darryl Sutter is looking into as he prepares for the start of the free agent freeze Tuesday.
After all, Sutter tried to trade for Tucker just a few years back.
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Tucker Out In Toronto
Darcy Tucker’s career with the Toronto Maple Leafs is over.
Maple Leafs general manager Cliff Fletcher alerted Tucker of Toronto’s intention to buy him out on Tuesday afternoon.
“Its a business, Darcy knows that,” Tucker’s agent Carlos Sosa told TSN.
Tucker Prepared to Depart Leafs
From Michael Traikos at the National Post,
A day after disparaging remarks were made about his client, Darcy Tucker’s agent said the Toronto Maple Leafs forward has prepared for the possibility of playing in another city next season.
“This is a business,” Carlos Sosa said in a phone interview from his law office in Seattle. “And if the Maple Leafs want to make a business move between June 15 and 30 when they can buy out contracts, that’s their right to do that. We can’t control that.
“Is he going to retire? No, that’s out of the question. He’s got lots of years left. He wants to win a Stanley Cup. But if a buyout comes, we will pursue the other markets that come available.”
Tags: carlos+sosa, darcy+tucker
Leafs Rumors
by Alanah McGinley on 06/10/08 at 11:25 AM ET
All the news from Spector:
Thankfully we’ll know in about three weeks what Sundin will do, putting an end to months of speculation over his future. I still have my doubts that the Leafs will buyout Tucker but I am convinced Raycroft will be bought out. As for Redden, why would the Leafs want him?
Tags: darcy+tucker, mats+sundin, trade+rumors, wade+redden
Have Battles Taken A Toll On Tucker
via George Gross of the Toronto Sun,
One player he (Fletcher) won’t be able to move—if I can believe a rival club’s executive—is Darcy Tucker.
“I wouldn’t give my last draft choice in order to get him,” was the way the fellow put it to me.
“It’s not because he isn’t an honest, hard-working player, but because he has lost it. The many wars against much bigger and tougher fellows are telling on him. He is trying hard, but he can’t get there anymore.”
Tucker Staying in Toronto
From Howard Berger at the National Post,
Tucker has a no-trade provision in the four-year, US$12-million extension he signed last March, and he has been evasive when answering questions from reporters about his willingness to waive the clause. But, after the Leafs’ morning skate at Montreal’s Bell Centre on Thursday, Tucker opened up a bit, and he sounded like a man who is firmly entrenched in Toronto. “I believe in the organization and playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs,” he said. “I signed here last year to stay. At that particular time in my career, I could have taken the option to explore free agency and I didn’t. Not only have the Maple Leafs been good to me, but I think my allegiance to this team has shown in the last eight years.” When asked about the prospect of changing his mind before Feb. 26, Tucker replied, “I don’t see myself changing that philosophy.”
Tags: contracts, darcy+tucker, trade+rumors
Ruutu & Tucker Go At It
Jarkko Ruutu and Darcy Tucker had a great middleweight fight last night that seemed to send a wake-up call to the Pens.
Empty Netters has a breakdown of the game if interested.
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from Tim Wharnsby of the Globe and Mail,
But the real-life Toronto NHL team has had more strange twists and turns this season than any Hollywood film — all before the 20-game mark, which the Leafs will hit when they visit the Boston Bruins tonight.
“My favourite movie is Shawshank Redemption,” Leafs forward Darcy Tucker said. “It’s a movie about an innocent man sent to prison. He has to crawl out, for the lack of a better [phrase], a tunnel of [expletive] in order to free himself. Maybe we have to go through something similar to become a better team.”
The strange but true happenings with the Leafs in the past six months are Harold Ballard-esque, and the eccentric former owner passed away more than 17 years ago.
Tags: darcy+tucker, toronto+maple+leafs
Report- NHL Looking At Leafs/Rangers Pre-Game Incident
from CBC,
The NHL is investigating an on-ice incident involving abrasive New York Rangers forward Sean Avery, according to the Canadian Press.
Avery, 27, shoved Jason Blake and got into a heated exchange with Darcy Tucker during the pre-game warmup prior to Saturday’s 3-2 shootout victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs at the Air Canada Centre.
“He has no sense of class,” Tucker told reporters following Monday’s skate.
Avery allegedly irked Tucker by saying something inappropriate to Blake, who revealed Oct. 8 that he is suffering from a rare but treatable form of leukemia (chronic myelogenous).
added 6:30am on 11/13/07, from the Globe and Mail,
The agent for New York Rangers forward Sean Avery was steaming mad that a radio report yesterday suggested that taunts made by his client during the pregame skate on Saturday evening were directed toward Toronto Maple Leafs winger Jason Blake, who is battling against cancer.
The FAN 590 in Toronto reported that an unnamed Rangers player said Avery ignited a scuffle with Leafs forward Darcy Tucker because of insensitive remarks.
Although Avery did not publicly comment yesterday on the radio station’s accusation, behind closed doors he and other Rangers said the remarks made by Avery were directed at Tucker and his family.
added 7:01am on 11/13/07, from Larry Brooks of the NY Post,
Sean Avery is preparing to file a libel charge against a Toronto radio personality who reported yesterday that Saturday’s pregame skirmish between the Rangers’ winger and the Maple Leafs’ Darcy Tucker was incited by Avery referring to Jason Blake’s cancer condition, The Post has learned.
Advised by his attorney to decline public comment, Avery has privately denied the charge as broadcast by Howard Berger over The Fan 590.
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Pre-Game Scuffle
via Steve Zipaty at On the Rangers Beat,
During warmups, a helmetless Darcy Tucker and Sean Avery renewed acquaintances—-with words and shoves—-at the red line near the boards.
Avery yapped, Tucker took exception, they separated, then came together again as players from both sides gathered around and eventually, Avery skated away.
Tucker was just interviewed during the first period intermission and called Avery one of the classless players in the league. Tucker and Avery did have a fight in the 1st period and Tucker was asked if it was over between Avery and himself. Tucker said it is never over…
Tags: darcy+tucker, sean+avery
Two Key Leafs Return
from the CP via TSN,
The Toronto Maple Leafs will have two more familiar faces back in the lineup when they travel to Buffalo to play the Sabres on Friday night.
Forward Darcy Tucker and defenceman Bryan McCabe are each ready to return from injury.
Tags: bryan+mccabe, darcy+tucker, toronto+maple+leafs
Leafs Need Defense
“In a perfect world, we’ll take this team as an offensive-minded team and teach it to make the right decisions defensively,” said Maurice. “It’ll be a painful process for them.
“But then you have the chance to be a very, very good team.”
The Maple Leafs should also get better with the return of Tucker and defenceman Bryan McCabe, who has missed six games with a groin problem. Both would like to play Friday night in Buffalo or Saturday night at home against the New York Rangers.
*Leafs currently have the highest goals-against in the NHL with 62, but are 2nd in the league for goals scored, with 53.
Tucker Positive After Workout
by IwoCPO on 10/29/07 at 08:12 AM ET
From the Toronto Sun,
Wearing a navy blue nylon training suit and a determined look on his face, Darcy Tucker glided around the Lakeshore Lions Arena ice with relative ease yesterday.
Not bad for a guy who, according to some reports, had little more than mush inside his right knee.
“I was pleasantly surprised at how well it went,” Tucker said. “I just wanted to see how it felt.”
Tags: darcy+tucker, injuries, toronto+maple+leafs
Darcy Tucker Out Indefinitely
From Sportsnet.ca,
Maple Leafs forward Darcy Tucker will be sidelined indefinitely after suffering a right knee injury.
He suffered the injury Saturday night in the third period of a 6-4 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks.
Update 10:15am ET: From the Globe & Mail,
Tucker has experienced knee soreness since the summer, but a collision along the boards early in the third period on Saturday hit his knee directly and has knocked him out of action.
An MRI performed on Sunday indicated damage to Tucker’s knee. He will not require surgery, but there is no time frame for a return.
What Makes Tucker Tick
from Rosie DiManno of the Toronto Star,
Fans are captivated by the thing that makes Tucker tick, granting him latitude, more forgiveness than most athletes get, and an unabashed fidelity. “I don’t think it’s necessarily a love affair. But fans can see how much I want to win, for myself and for the city. I’ll do anything to win a hockey game.
“A lot of this city is blue collar. Guys get up in the morning, have their Tim Hortons, go to work. They understand that I have the same blue-collar attitude towards my job. Maybe I didn’t grow up in Toronto watching the Leafs. But I grew up on a farm in Alberta. When I wasn’t playing hockey I was working my tail off like the rest of the world.”
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Smokey And The Bandit Star Burt Reynolds Dies At 82
His Hollywood career spanned 60 years and included numerous awesome car movies.
Khodrocar - Anyone over the age of 30 with the slightest passion for cars knows Hollywood legend Burt Reynolds as The Bandit – the professional show-off with a black Pontiac Firebird Trans Am who constantly made Sheriff Buford T. Justice look like a fool in the 1977 blockbuster Smokey And The Bandit. Today the world lost Reynolds at the age of 82, with numerous sources reporting the cause of death as cardiac arrest. But his legacy as one of the most loved on-screen car guys of all-time will certainly endure.
That legacy extends far beyond his role as the Bandit, not to mention the black 1977 Trans Am he made famous. His acting career actually began in the late 1950s, but many consider 1972’s Deliverance to be his breakout film. His on-screen car legacy launched with 1973’s White Lightning, where he played an ex-con trying to help the Feds bust up a moonshine-running ring.
Following Smokey and the Bandit, Reynolds went on to star in a slew of car-themed films. Aside from the first Bandit sequel, he played an aging stuntman in 1978’s Hooper, which is still one of the most epic car stunt movies of all time. He starred in The Cannonball Run – a surprisingly accurate if comedic portrayal of veteran auto journalist Brock Yates’s real-life adventure in the infamous Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash. Yates had a guest role in the feature, and the ambulance Reynolds drove in the 1981 film was the actual ambulance Yates used in the real race.
1983’s comedy Stroker Ace saw Reynolds playing a NASCAR driver, and he reprised his Cannonball role for a sequel to the film in 1984. He also had a very small part in the final Smokey and the Bandit sequel, and he ended the 1980s on television as private detective BL Stryker driving a 1960 Cadillac convertible. Fast forward to 2001 where he had a prominent role in the racing film Driven, and of course we can’t forget his role as Boss Hogg in the 2005 cinematic reboot of The Dukes of Hazzard. In fact, many people credit Smokey and the Bandit as the inspiration for the original Dukes 1979 television series. Some might say he came full circle as the definitive wisecracking Hollywood car hustler.
To say his various roles and on-screen personas influenced generations of car fans is a tremendous understatement. He will most definitely be missed. Rest easy, Bandit – we'll be 10-10 on the side.
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Thanks as always to the Watchful Horseman, keeping his watchful horseman's eye on the nothing happening with the still-mythical racino at the Big A.
And here's the link to Jerry Bossert's item in the NY Daily News today. As noted by Mr./Ms. Anonymous and by Steve Zorn, Senator Eric Adams, the newly appointed Chairman of the Senate Racing, Wagering and Gaming Committee, has no experience in racing that we know of, and his statement does indeed sound straight out of the governor's PR machine. And one could say that the senator reveals his ignorance of the subject when he cites the "partnership between NYRA and Delaware North" that he's so excited about. In fact, there is no actual partnership between the two other than the percentage of revenues that Delaware North will be statutorily obligated to turn over to NYRA when and if the facility is up and running. The company was selected by the governor, and any negotiations which may or may not be currently going on are between Delaware North and the state. Makes one wonder if the Chairman, who, as mentioned, has recently been in the news on other matters, has even a basic understanding of the proposed arrangement.
- New all-time lows today for the stock of Magna Entertainment in the wake of the collapse of the complicated spin-off plan that would have spared the company from having to repay its massive debt to controlling shareholder MI Developments next month. I tried to decipher the plan in this post last year. Matt Hegarty of the Form sums up the mountain of red ink.
Magna's most recent balance sheet lists $265 million in accounts payable, $71.9 million in short-term debt, $379.3 million in long-term debt, and $112 million in "other liabilities." It has lost $500 million over the past five years, and efforts by the company to raise money by selling tracks and structuring partnerships in its marquee tracks have failed.
Magna officials did not return phone calls Thursday.
Maybe their phones were turned off. The National Post of Canada ran the headline Magna Entertainment's race may be run.
That plan disintegrated this week after MID said new debt financing for the deal was "unlikely" to be found, given "current global economic conditions [and] the continued disruptions in the financial markets."
As a result, US$274-million in outstanding loans that MEC owes MID will be called in next month, potentially triggering a feeding frenzy among MEC's other creditors.
If it is unable to repay that sum alongside an outstanding balance on a US$40-million credit facility to an unnamed Canadian chartered bank, "substantially all of its other current and long-term debt will also become due on demand," the company said.
MEC, the largest owner of horse racetracks in North America including Santa Anita in California, said negotiations with MID are continuing, which may include an extension on the repayment date of Mar. 20. [National Post]
Maybe Frank should put a call in to John Malone of Liberty Media, who, having rescued Sirius XM from a looming deadline for debt repayment, could also throw a lifeline to Frank and finally put HRTV on his DirectTV so we can FINALLY WATCH SOME DECENT RACING AROUND HERE instead of watching NOTHING on TVG!!!
Posted by Alan Mann at 2:45 PM
I wonder if Delaware North is in line behind Ratner who was recently turned down in his attempt to use federal stimulus money for his stalled project with MTA at Atlantic Yards.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/02/20/2009-02-20_brooklyn_borough_president_marty_markowi.html
I can hear the cries of DelNorth; Credit markets seized up on us, we'll put thousands to work on this shovel ready project, and the state will get rich once the gaming hall is up and running." So will Delaware North if it doesn't have to fork over the $370million that it agreed to pay the state! Queens community groups should stand up against money going to a private project that allegedly had funds committed for the agreed upon highest upfront fees that were the primary reason DelNorth won the bid. Why DelNorth doesn't just get broomed aside I'll never understand. Standing by a non-performing New York based company has gone way to far.
So if BetFair paid $50M USD for TVG, which assumed no debt was much larger in market penetration, revenue and profits then HRTV is by a significant amount on each point, does that mean Magna's half-stake is worth at best $10 - $15M or one Green Monkey?
If only the NTRA was interested in moving towards having true marketing control and had the cash.
Too bad the DeFrancis hook into Laurel Park slots profits queried any real bid by Magna in MD.
There are some real fine horse folk in MD getting sold down the river if Magna fails as a racing company as it will be at least 2012until any slots revenue helps the purses, even if coming from places other than Laurel Park.
Even the Whitney's Are Broke!!!
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Whitney Gala, a sure sign of the racing season each August, won’t be held this year.
“We felt we need to be sensitive to what’s going on with the economy,” John Hendrickson, the husband of Marylou Whitney, said Wednesday. “In light of the downturn we thought it would be in poor taste to do an extravagant party.”
Instead, he said, they would continue their focus on improving the lives of the backstretch workers. Last summer they were involved in a program that provided more than 6,000 Sunday dinners for the workers and their families. “That really made us feel great,” Hendrickson said from their Saratoga Springs home.
The invitation-only Whitney Gala has been a local tradition since 1959, which Marylou and then-husband, the late Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, originally held at Siro’s restaurant near Saratoga Race Course, on the eve of the Whitney Stakes. For decades the party has been in the Canfield Casino in downtown’s Congress Park, where onlookers gather for Marylou Whitney’s grand entrance, based each year on a different theme, and to watch as guests arrive.
"And one could say that the senator reveals his ignorance of the subject when he cites the "partnership between NYRA and Delaware North.."
Does anyone besides me think that the Senator actually committed a great Freudian slip? Some of the erudite commenters here have alluded many times to the behind-closed-doors insider deals that might have been struck, eliminating the transparency of a fair RFP process for the franchise in the first place. W
No, I think the Senator was simply unaware of the perception problem when he honestly mentioned what he knows or has been told, and that is a "partnership between NYRA and Delaware North." As mentioned, all erudite (great word!) commenters, have linked the NYRA and DelNorth together as a team for some time now, even before the racing part of the franchise was finalized. DelNorth left Empire Racing after promises made in some dark room that it would be the favored bidder of the NYRA for the gaming portion of the franchise at Aqueduct. Recall the language in the original Spizer MOU, giving the NYRA as much influence when selecting a gaming operator as the State.
The whole deal stinks! Maybe investigators are having another look at the entire franchise award process and that's why nobody can committ to anything?
Can anyone confirm if the rumor is true that Stronach is close to a deal to sell Santa Anita Park to a group of foreign investors? The only thing I have seen is reference to Frank being in California last weekend with a bunch of attorneys.
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Yes, agree, this bears more monitoring.
Is Adams hinting that, The Governor is going to designate Aqueduct as a "shovel ready" project under The Federal Stimulus Program, just signed by President Obama ??
Is this the way, they will proceed with Delaware North?
Thereby using Federal money and waiving the requirement for the $370 million up-front Aqueduct payment.
The Governor stated clearly, that he chose, Delaware North, because of their (enormous),
'Up-Front' payment.
One side of me says, after years of related sagas, who cares, just get monies through to NY racing sector & Queens community, but another says, obviously, lawsuits would then have to fly, from the other bidders -
but if this happens…then, no-one gets anything, until prolonged court hassles again, run this project.
Must also admit, not really ethical, giving DelNorth monies, as they're our damm well, TAX MONIES & DN haven't paid, anything upfront.
Be different, if they requested, band-aid, short term monies, had previously paid their promised upfront payment & were already, fully operational.
Delaware North Developer, Don Peebles, (who is based in Florida & has unfortunately, never completed a project in New York), was all over TV this week, promoting, The Obama Housing Stimulus Program.
Peebles is known to be a very large fundraiser, for President Obama and other African American politicians.
A comparison maybe tendered, with Developer, Bruce Ratner / Atlantic Yards Project -
he still has yet to pay, the $100 Million, he owes to the MTA, for purchasing the land.
Yet has lobbied hard for allocated federal stimulus funds, fortunately just turned down by the MTA.
http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2009/02/mta-denies-money-to-ratner.html
BUT, he still has a good shot, at obtaining some of the federal pork, directly through Gov. Paterson.
A Paterson spokeswoman said the governor is still examining whether this project warrants stimulus funds, adding there's a lot of competition.
A comment states, could it be possible that Paterson will also bail out Ratner, but not our Queens hospitals?
Alan - the queenscap comments on this, make LATG comments, seem Saintly.
In answer to 8:41 AM Anonymous said... "And one could say that the senator reveals his ignorance of the subject when he cites the "partnership between NYRA and Delaware North.."
Does anyone besides me think that the Senator actually committed a great Freudian slip?
Yes - seems to me that the new 'boy', on the racing block Senator Adams, is combing DelNorth & NYRA, as a confirmed package, only trouble with this is.
If/when, DelNorth goes down, they will now take NYRA, in it's existing format, with them, if this pact is confirmed.
Then, the Franchise Oversight Board, can deem NYRA in default.
To my knowledge, no actual worthwhile Aqueduct agreements, have been set in stone.
I would like someone from NYRA, to clarify this confirmed DN pact, as I would be more than surprised, if they concur to Senator's Adams, public proclamation
The Watchful Horseman has been busy. Intriguing posts! Speaking of the NYRA, what was the result of that meeting held December 22nd with the Franchise Oversight Board run by Laura Anglin, and Posio and Kehoe from NYRA? Shortly thereafter, NYRA CFO Posio just sort of disappeared with no confirmation of her being fired or resigning. The FOB asked for monthly operating statements from the NYRA and a line by line description of the 2009 proposed budget that was not satisfactory to the FOB. The FOB hasn't even met, at least publicly announced, since the December meeting to follow-up. Maybe State Comptroller DiNappoli is having a look at the organization's post bankruptcy balance sheet as he is permitted to do so at any time for any reason? Hayward, Duncker and the NYRA have gone pretty quiet in the last couple of months, leaving breeders and horsemen with some real uneasy feelings.
Ms. Posio did leave NYRA under unclear circumstances. No meetings of the Oversight Board since then that I know of.
seems there may be two explanations for Ms. Posio's going away; either she was not a very good CFO and her math skills were poor so she got fired, or she was being instructed by other more senior executives or teh board to put numbers to paper that didn't reflect reality, so she hightailed it out of there and is cooperating with interested parties.
If for any other reason, i think we would have heard.
24 Feb'09 - various reports coming throu' http://timesunion.com/ASPStories/Story.asp?StoryID=772988&LinkFrom=RSS
Gov Paterson's office, announcing, Belmont a goer.
And Delaware North, now publicly stating, they want Belmont Legislation passed, to alter the VLT rates changed before the 31 March, this year ! or they don't pony up their invisible Aqueduct dosh.
Perhaps a face saving way, for Delaware North, to withdraw from Aqueduct, through the backdoor, from whence they came, for if such legislation is passed, other bidders will/must have lay-down mazure to sue…
& everyone goes back to court, nothing happens at Aqueduct in the short/medium term..
prthaps also, a face saving exercise, for Gov Paterson, until electionssss, which seem to be already, higher on his agenda
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (him, of many 'chit's), somehow, will suddenly now agree, to this legislation, especially before the 31st of March - THIS YEAR??
It will be fitting, April Fools Day, the following day..
The NY Times, 21st Feb - Charles J. O’Byrne, the former top aide to Gov. David A. Paterson whose resignation amid a tax scandal last year destabilized the administration, will return to help oversee the governor’s 2010 re-election campaign, the governor’s Paterson's office said on Saturday.
The person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss decisions that the administration had not revealed publicly, said it was possible that more top positions in the governor’s cabinet could change hands in the coming days and weeks.
Even if DelNorth thinks it is entitled to "franchise protections" any increase in percentages for them at Aqueduct should not occur until Belmont Park is up and running VLT's. Until such time, DelNorth should put up the $370 million as committed and if in 2015 Belmont has VLT's, their percentages at Aqueduct change then. Anything else would be a poke in the eye to the other bidders that played by the rules of engagement, spending millions and millions, perhaps with no chance of ever winning if this thing was "fixed" from the get go.
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The Cock
SG18 9NA
3rd Monday from 7 to 7:30pm
Ron Green: 01767 315306
Richard Cass: 01767 318166
eastbeds@mgccanglia.com
The natter was started by Gordon Warren and Barry Wilgrass in early 1972 at the Red Lion Deadmans Cross. It later moved to Southill and settled there for a number of years. When the pub there was refurbished it changed in character and it was decided that it was no longer suitable and a move was needed. In January 2004 we were warmly welcomed to the Cock Inn in Broom and we have been meeting there each month ever since.
What is now the Cock has, in its time, served as a shop and alehouse. Inside it retains most of the original wood panelling and has a wonderful old world atmosphere. It has been expanded to include rooms from the cottages that used to be separately occupied. They have become the dining room and kitchen. There is no bar counter. The ale has always been tapped from the barrel and passed up the cellar steps at the top of which is now a drinking area. We generally meet in one of the rooms that once served as the publican's parlour, and enjoy the lively chat in the cosy interior during the winter months. The so called tap room, formerly used as a shop, and the skittles room are at the front of the pub. Indeed, some of the nattering may take place during a skittles game for those of us who like to throw things about. The pub was sold by Greene King in 2013 and is now a Free House. Nick, the landlord, usually has a selection of guest real ales and cider and Greene King IPA is the regular standby. In the warm summer evenings we can enjoy these excellent ales outdoors in the courtyard.
The good sized car park and the attached field are accustomed to interesting visiting cars. The Austin Healey and TR clubs also meet at the Cock . We have had some other vintage, PVT and classic marques to visit, especially in the summer, and these have provided an interesting variety on the field.
Of course we are devoted to our MGs but you will get a warm welcome whatever you drive or ride.
Various Pub Venues
1st Wednesday
For more details email Murray Bain
mjwbain@hotmail.com
The MG 101 Group, meets at lunchtime in various locations in the Bedford area.
CB4 6AJ
1st Tuesday of each month, 8pm
For more details Alan Yeo: 01223 243570 or email
midcambs@mgccanglia.com
The Cambridge Pub meet uses the White Horse Milton for its venue; meeting in the evenings from ~ 8.00 pm and earlier in the lighter months. The pub has an ample car park, and the beer and food are both very good.
The Chestnut Tree
1 Mill Road
West Wratting
3rd Saturday Lunchtime, from 12:00pm
For more details John A Cope 01223 291293 or email
eastcambs@mgccanglia.com
Weeley Heath
CO16 9ED
Lunchtime - 1st Sunday from 12:00pm
For more details Max Collier: 01206 250868 or email
eastessex@mgccanglia.com
Margaretting
CM4 0EQ
2nd Thursday from 7.30pm
Andrew Woods 01277 210009
midessex@mgccanglia.com
David Tynan 01795535776
davidtynan@mgcc.com
Longham
NR19 2RD
1st Tuesday from 7.30pm
William Ball 01508 471506
midnorfolk@mgccanglia.com
The Club Meet at the White Horse at Longham, near Dereham in Norfolk, takes place on the first Tuesday of each month and is supported by an active band of MG enthusiasts (male and female) with a wide range of cars. There are currently around 25 regular members with cars ranging from the 1930's (Triple M's), through the 50s (TD, TF, Z Magnettes and MGAs) 60s, 70s & 80s (MGBs, Cs, Midgets, Farina Magnette Mk III), 90s & 00s (MGRV8, Fs, TFs and Zs). You may even see an MG3!
We organise our own Local and Anglia Centre events, as well as supporting other Classic Car events locally.
Our annual Club Meet highlights are our Open Evening with Pride of Ownership at our August meeting and the annual Norfolk Riviera Run which takes place between Christmas and New Year. See the events page for more details.
We often meet at lunchtimes at various locations. Please contact us for more details.
Our Facebook page is 'MG Longham Natter and Bus Pass Group'
You are very welcome to join us at our meet from 7:30pm onwards and on any of our events, even if you don't (yet) have a MG! You can be sure of a warm and friendly reception.
Details of how to find the White Horse can be found at www.longhamwhitehorse.co.uk or by searching the postcode NR19 2RD. It is just off the A47, west of Dereham. For further information, or just to let us know to expect you, our contact details are above.
The Bird in Hand
Wreningham
NR16 1BH
4th Friday 7.30pm
Stuart Middlemiss 01508 570487
eastnorfolk@mgccanglia.com
Our club meet is held at The Bird in Hand at Wreningham on the B1113 Mulbarton Road south of Norwich, on the 4th Friday of each month, from 7.30pm. Using Google Maps, search on the postcode NR16 1BH for the exact location.
The Bird in Hand, owned by Gill and David Brake,and largely run by their son and daughter, Alex and Lizzie, are enthusiastic about classic cars and have been campaigning to have us there! It is an ideal venue for our meet, with a large car park, delightful garden and good food and beer.If you wish to eat, the phone number for advance booking is 01508 489438.
The Norwich 'Burblers' began in 2006 merely as a local informal group of mostly RV8 owners but has now grown to about a hundred members spread over the UK and overseas, with many different MG models represented, plus the odd Healey 3000! (well, it was built at Abingdon, after all).In October of 2007, we decided it was time for a regular monthly get-together and the BurbleNat is the result.
Newcomers and all MG's are given a very warm welcome; there are no cliques of established members chatting only amongst themselves, I assure you! We'd especially like to see more owners of older MG's, to augment the more modern MG’s, from the MGA onwards, which attend.
We also organise various trips and events during the year and often meet up for an impromptu chat in a local pub somewhere. The founder members remain involved in the MGCC V8 Register (and regularly attend the Needham Market Natter) but we also have an active network of members who compare notes on all sorts of issues, to do with various types of MG.
We also have a digital collection of Rover literature on the RV8 and maintain an ever-growing dossier of part numbers, sources and services for the RV8.
But please, do not have the impression that the RV8 dominates the Burblers; lots of members have, or have had, other MG's and all are passionate about the Magic of MG!
Hilborough
IP26 5BW
Alison Isaacson 07940 129561
southnorfolk@mgccanglia.com
We meet at the Swan in Hilborough on 2nd Thursday of the month. Predominantly set up for MGF/TF owners in the original instance but we welcome all. The pub offers very good home cooked food and as many of us have a distance to travel we usually eat and chat. The Swan is the perfect location in the summer months as the outside area is perfect for parking up and enjoying the sunshine.
The Triple Plea,
Nr Halesworth
IP19 8QW
Hosted by Peter & Lesley Skipper
eastsuffolk@mgccanglia.com
The Triple Plea Inn is the home venue of MG Car Club East Suffolk pub meet which is a family and dog friendly free house pub and restaurant situated just north of Halesworth, Suffolk, specialising in local produce freshly cooked by the landlord chef.
They have established a good reputation for good quality food and friendly service in pleasant surroundings of a large bar area and separate restaurant barn area which for our visits we have sole use of. Plus this venue has a large car park and garden area to the rear.
They stock a good range of beers, lager's and wines plus guest real ales on tap at any time plus a range of good menu choices and ever changing specials board.
Meetings third Wednesday of the month - unless amended in the monthly reminder e-mail
IP6 8EA
2nd Friday from 7.30 pm
John Cumming 01359 731141
Graham Wills 01379 890732
midsuffolk@mgccanglia.com
The inaugural meeting was 13th June 2003 and came out of 3 friends, John, David and Graham, meeting on a monthly basis for a natter and a pint as there was not already an MG Car Club Meet in Suffolk. Now, 20 to 30 enthusiasts meet each month cumulating in a Dinner at the Lion in early February with 50 friends, or so, enjoying good food and conversation.
The Lion is well situated for the A14, A140 and A12 and has one bar, a restaurant area, outdoor tables and chairs for those sunny warm evenings and a reasonably sized car park. Since the first Mid-week Run in April 2004, they have become an important part of the club meet social scene. The Runs are organised each month by a different member and partner/friend and continue to attract 25 to 30 members at each event. Several members are keen followers of the MG Car Club Racing series and visit a number of the major race circuits as a group. Discounted Race entry tickets are available from the MGCC at Kimber House.
All MG owners and spouses, partners and friends will receive a warm welcome.
Do not hesitate to contact John or Graham for more information or just turn up on a club meet night from 7:30 pm on the 2nd Friday of each month.
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More info on 1979 Memorial Cup
1979 Memorial Cup: Misc
Categories: Memorial Cup tournaments > 1979 in Canada > 1979 in ice hockey
The 1979 Memorial Cup occurred May 6-May 13 at the Palais des Sports in Sherbrooke, Quebec, the Colisée de Trois-Rivières in Trois-Rivières, Quebec and at the Verdun Auditorium in Verdun, Quebec. Participating teams were the winners of the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Western Hockey League which were the Peterborough Petes, Trois-Rivières Draveurs and Brandon Wheat Kings. Peterborough won their first Memorial Cup, defeating Brandon in the final game.
1 Round-robin standings
2 Scores
3 Winning roster
4 Award winners
Round-robin standings
Brandon Wheat Kings (WHL) 4 2 2 16 14
Peterborough Petes (OMJHL) 4 2 2 15 15
Trois-Rivières Draveurs (QMJHL) 4 2 2 11 13
Round-robin
May 6 Trois-Rivières 4-3 Peterborough
May 7 Trois-Rivières 4-1 Brandon
May 8 Peterborough 7-6 Brandon (OT)
May 9 Peterborough 3-2 Trois-Rivières
May 10 Brandon 6-1 Trois-Rivières
May 11 Brandon 3-2 Peterborough
May 11 Peterborough 2-1 Brandon (OT)
Winning roster
Bob Attwell, Dave Beckon, Terry Bovair, Carmine Cirella, Keith Crowder, Ken Ellacott, Dave Fenyves, Larry Floyd, Bill Gardner, Chris Halyk, Anssi Melametsa, Larry Murphy, Mark Reeds, Brad Ryder, Stuart Smith, Greg Theberge, Tim Trimper, Jim Weimer. Coach: Gary Green
Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy (MVP): Bart Hunter, Brandon
George Parsons Trophy (Sportsmanship): Chris Halyk, Peterborough
Hap Emms Memorial Trophy (Goaltender): Bart Hunter, Brandon
Goal: Bart Hunter, Brandon
Defence: Norman Rochefort, Trois-Rivières; Brad McCrimmon, Brandon
Centre: Laurie Boschman, Brandon
Left wing: Ray Allison, Brandon
Right wing: Tim Trimper, Peterborough
1978 Memorial Cup Memorial Cup Succeeded by
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Categories: 1979 in hockey | Memorial Cup
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How to raise a child in Geelong to barrack for another team. Yes, it is possible.
by Chris Gemmill | Mar 21, 2017 | News |
Don’t let the idea of your child barracking for Geelong put you off moving to Geelong, Bellarine or the Surf Coast. Parental hard work and determination can cut through the toughest of play-ground situations to keep “We Are Geelong” off your home entertainment system.
The sun is setting and the Kardinia Park stadium lights are beginning to take effect. You can see the glow from your backyard. When the wind is blowing from the right direction, you can hear the roar of the crowd. The anticipation of the match is building. There are Geelong listed players living directly opposite your house, and further down the street from you. All of your son’s school friends and most of his family support the local team. It may sound like ‘Mission Impossible’ but don’t be deterred prospective Geelong residents; you can raise a child in Geelong who supports an AFL team other than the Geelong Cats. Oh yes, it can be done.
Be under no illusion, the task before you is a difficult one, where ‘negative’ influences abound. Many a Geelong supporter will be willing to offer their advice as to where your child’s allegiance should lie. The ‘mission’ I chose to accept began in 2010 with the birth of my second child, a son (I saw the early writing on the wall that my first born daughter would follow Geelong, just as her mother does). I was adamant that this new addition to the family would support the Carlton Football Club, just as his father and grandparents did before him.
There’s no doubt I was up against it. Years of mediocrity from the Blues, coinciding with Geelong’s run of success from the ‘07 premiership, meant my powers of persuasion needed to be first class. What I did have in my favour was Carlton’s history of success, so the process of indoctrination started with adorning my son’s bedroom with Weg posters celebrating the 1987 and 1995 premierships. The latter holds particular significance, as it was Geelong we smacked that day. Next came the timely viewing of some classic victories from years gone by. Let’s face it, there haven’t been too many recent classic’s to draw on.
The poster that hurts Geelong fan’s to this very day is an important part of Chris’s pro-Carlton arsenal.
After the full-scale propaganda assault, the key to success in this scenario is an early start, and the concept of the ‘non-negotiable.’ It is vital to impress upon your child that ‘it has always been this way’, or ‘you’ve always barracked for Carlton’. When he or she looks around their bedroom and sees their Carlton posters, Carlton scarf and jumper, a Chris Judd signed raffle ticket wishing them ‘all the best,’ there’s a shrug of the shoulders and an acceptance of your word as gospel.
Prized possession: Chris Judd’s autograph takes pride of place in George’s bedroom.
With these solid foundations in place, it was smooth sailing through the pre-school years, with a fair degree of insulation from the threatening pro-Geelong forces. But once the school days kick in, and you begin frequenting your local Auskick centre, the pressure starts to mount. The annual ‘super clinic’ at Simmonds Stadium is always a particularly challenging time. If you haven’t done the groundwork prior to this, you’re in big trouble. Coming face to face with the likes of Joel Selwood, Harry Taylor and Andrew Mackie is enough to test any young person’s loyalties. But, to my son’s credit, he has held firm, even in the face of some robust questioning of his choice of team from a heavily tattooed, bearded and recently delisted forward/ruckman.
As has always been the case when brainwashing, er, encouraging your child’s love of the game, and a particular team, you cannot beat the excitement of game day. Walking to the ground and seeing your child realise there’s thousands of other Carlton supporters other than just the two of you is a watershed moment. Hearing the club song ring out over stadium speakers pre-game adds to the anticipation. The games, as they always do, ebb and flow. After several false starts in the form of some ten-goal hammering’s, at last father and son witnessed a Carlton win in Round 6, 2016. This victory sealed the deal. The cherry on top came some weeks later via a tidy 19 point win over the local team.
George = 100% on-board.
Despite this possible shift in team fortune, it’s important to remain vigilant and accept the ever present danger living in a one team town presents. However I’m confident the hard yards have been done, and that my son is now a committed ‘other than Geelong’ supporter.
Helping the cause is that while the Carlton premiership window remains shut for now, the blinds may be opening. Simultaneously, the sun appears to be setting on Geelong’s golden era. Ultimately though, my boy is happy to be a little different from the majority of his peers, and takes great pride in wearing his Blues kit to Auskick each Sunday morning, especially when we’ve had a win!
George takes a leap over Geelong midfielder George Horlin-Smith.
Don’t let the prospect of your child barracking for the Cats hold you back from moving here. With hard work and determination, you can nurture resilience in your child to barrack for a team of your their choosing. Meanwhile, it’s game on between my wife and I for the team allegiance of child number 3.
Chris Gemmill is a senior teacher at Geelong High School where government legislation prevents him from exercising some of these dangerous influencing techniques on the student population. Special shout out to the most excellent George Horlin-Smith for being a very good egg.
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Remount Park Print Page
Memorial Avenue Plaque 4 : March 2014
Photographs supplied by Peter F Williams
The Remount Park is a memorial to the Australian Light Horse. The site of the park was once a remount depot for the Australian Light Horse during World War One. The memorial avenue which leads to Light Horse Parade contains a series of plaques and traces the path followed by the regiments during the campaigns of the first World War.
Provost Mews , Holsworthy
Liverpool City Council
REMOUNT PARK
A MEMORIAL TO THE AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE
(MEMORIAL AVENUE PLAQUE)
(plaque 2)
On the site of this park there once stood a Remount Depot for the Australian Light Horse
This memorial avenue traces the path followed by the ALH regiments during the campaigns of the First World War.
The delta at the start of the avenue symbolises the Nile Delta in Egypt where the active life of the ALH began.
The texture and colour of the pathway is that of the desert over which the Lighthorsemen fought.
Along the route the vegetation represents that found in the places where the ALH campaigns occurred. Eucalypts along the avenue are those also found in Egypt where the troops awaited there initial orders.
In the Parade Ground the sculpture "Last Farewell" captures the bond between the lighthorseman and his mount.
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Spaghetti Western > Blue Underground >
GRAND DUEL (1972) (DVD) May 21, 2013 Blue Underground
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AKA: Il grande duello
DVD: May 21, 2013
Publisher: blue-underground.com
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The legendary Lee Van Cleef (FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE, THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK) stars in this classic 'Spaghetti Western' stylishly directed by Giancarlo Santi from a clever screenplay written by Ernesto Gastaldi (TORSO, CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS). Also known as THE BIG SHOWDOWN and STORM RIDER, GRAND DUEL has been newly transferred in stunning High Definition from the original Italian negative and fully restored for this release!
Audio Commentary with Journalists C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke
Spaghetti Western Trailer Reel
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GRAND DUEL (1972) (DVD)
NOTE: These are all DVD release. As much as I want to support Blue Underground and Synapse, I will be waiting for the Blu-Ray version. I saw the Mill Creeks Double Feature with Keoma for $5, but this Blue Underground version of GRAND DUEL will feature audio commentary from C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke . The KEOMA DVD released by Anchor Bay and Blue Underground also contained audio commentary, so that's definitely something nice to have.
GRAND DUEL
SPAGHETTI WESTERNS UNCHAINED: DJANGO, DJANGO KILL... IF YOU LIVE, SHOOT!, KEOMA, TEXAS ADIOS (DVD)
SPAGHETTI WESTERNS UNCHAINED
Four action-packed, must-see 'Spaghetti Westerns' starring the legendary Franco Nero and Tomas Milian
DJANGO:
Franco Nero (CAMELOT) stars as the lone stranger who roams the West dragging a coffin filled with chaos towards a destiny ruled by vengeance. Co-writer/director Sergio Corbucci (THE GREAT SILENCE) packs his landmark classic with indelible images, unforgettable performances and some of the most shocking brutality of any 'Spaghetti Western' ever made. This is the still-controversial epic that defined a genre, launched a phenomenon and inspired over 50 unofficial sequels. This is the one and only DJANGO!
DJANGO KILL... IF YOU LIVE, SHOOT!:
Tomas Milian (TRAFFIC) stars as a half-breed bandit double-crossed and left for dead who rises from the grave to seek his revenge. But when his quest leads to a bizarre town called 'The Unhappy Place,' he is plunged into an odyssey of gruesome torture, graphic violence and relentless sexual depravity. This is the landmark movie that fans and critics still consider to be the strangest - and most controversial - 'Spaghetti Western' ever made. This is DJANGO KILL!
KEOMA:
Franco Nero (DIE HARD 2) is KEOMA, a half-breed gunfighter weary of killing as a way of life. But when he returns to his troubled childhood home, Keoma is caught in a savage battle between innocent settlers, sadistic bandits and his vengeful half-brothers. In a wasteland gone mad with rage and pain, can one man massacre his way to redemption?
TEXAS, ADIOS:
Franco Nero (STREET LAW) stars as Burt Sullivan, a tough Texas sheriff who heads deep into Mexico with his younger brother to arrest the man who murdered their father years earlier. But when they uncover a shocking family secret, the brothers find themselves trapped in a lawless land where violence is a pastime, vengeance is a birthright and sudden death is a way of life.
SEXCULA (1974) (DVD)
Impulse Pictures
SEXCULA
“Those Evil Deeds of the Countess…SEXCULA!”
SEXCULA is a skin flick of legendary lost status. Shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, it was screened once before disappearing and sought after by cult aficionados for decades. Now, Impulse Pictures is proud to bring you the world premiere of SEXCULA. Sex film fans can finally get a look at this elusive crazy Canadian erotic/horror hybrid for the first time ever.
Starring a Marilyn Chambers lookalike in dual roles as Countess Sexcula, a buxom cutie with no qualms about lying nude on a table for the entire movie, and a horny bride who can’t wait for her ring. The nudity and sex are delivered nonstop in this campy horror romp. Watch in amazement at the naked picnic, the “girl-on-gorilla” strip tease, and stare in awe as a female pleasure-robot puts the plot into a time warp!
Bizarre only begins to describe… SEXCULA!
Digital (1.33:1) Transfer from the ONLY Remaining Theatrical Print Stored in the Basement of the Canadian Film Archives
Liner Notes from Porn Archaeologist Dimitrios Otis
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MediaShift Podcast #254: Facebook Upends News Publishers; Lawsuits Mount Against Net Neutrality Repeal; The Information’s Jessica Lessin
by Jefferson Yen
Jessica Lessin speaking at The Information's San Francisco Subscriber Summit. (The Information)
In the news this week, Facebook made a surprising move with its News Feed, saying it would prioritize posts from friends and family over those from news publishers and businesses. But not all publishers are up in arms about the changes. A flurry of lawsuits was filed by 21 state attorneys general and other groups against the FCC for overturning net neutrality rules. Quirky, independent publisher The Awl is shutting down after nine years due to lack of advertising. Our Metric of the Week is Facebook News Feed Metrics, and Jessica Lessin, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Information, joins us to talk about her accelerator that supports subscription news businesses around the world.
Don’t have a lot of time to spare, but still want to get a roundup of the week’s top news? Then check out our Digital Media Brief below!
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Top News Of The Week
Facebook Upends Publishers with an Emphasis on Friends and Family Posts
Right as publishers are getting more reliant on the Facebook News Feed to deliver traffic and build engagement for them, the social giant pulls the rug out from under them. After a lot of soul searching and a nationwide tour, Facebook honcho Mark Zuckerberg and his team decided that people have a more positive experience seeing posts from friends and family rather than from media, businesses and brands. As Zuckerberg told the New York Times: “We want to make sure that our products are not just fun, but are good for people. We need to refocus the system.” In the understatement of the new year, Facebook exec Adam Mosseri said “there will be anxiety” from partners and publishers. According to Campbell Brown, Facebook’s head of news partnerships, this will mean people are “likely to see less content that comes directly from publishers.” Cue the apocalyptic score.
Some took a fatalistic view. Frederic Filloux of Monday Note said that journalism has been a pain in the neck for Facebook since day one, and because of issues around fake news and bad PR, “it’s clear that Facebook will gradually pull the plug on news. Publishers should stop whining and move on.” Larger legacy publishers with a diverse revenue stream like the New York Times and Washington Post should be able to bounce back from the change without too much damage, according to a study from Parse.ly. But young upstart digital native publishers who have relied on social media referrals may see a larger impact due to the changes. According to Axios’s Sara Fischer, the change could spur publishers to pivot away from short-form video to investing in artificial intelligence and chatbots as they try and drive greater engagement. The key, as always, is for publishers not to rely on a third party for its entire business model and diversify or die.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/technology/facebook-news-feed.html?_r=0
http://wgbhsocial.org/uncategorized/how-to-react-to-facebooks-new-news-feed/
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends-c1804146-882a-427c-aeda-2c83895b2ed9.html?chunk=5#story5
https://digiday.com/media/change-will-take-time-figure-heres-facebook-explaining-feed-change-publishers/
https://mondaynote.com/facebook-is-done-with-quality-journalism-deal-with-it-afc2475f1f84
https://medium.com/@scottkleinberg/facebook-news-feed-changes-good-for-social-media-managers-a802ee63142
The Lawsuits Mount Against the FCC’s Repeal of Net Neutrality Rules
Several lawsuits were filed on Tuesday to fight the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality rules. One lawsuit was filed by 21 state attorneys general. According to New York’s attorney general Eric Schneiderman: “The repeal of net neutrality would turn internet service providers into gatekeepers — allowing them to put profits over consumers while controlling what we see, what we do, and what we say online.” Other lawsuits were filed by Free Press and Public Knowledge, as well as Mozilla and the Open Technology Institute. It was a foregone conclusion that there would be a legal fight after the repeal of net neutrality by the FCC under President Trump, and now the courts will have to weigh in.
Notably, the lawsuits are coming before the FCC repeal is printed as part of the Federal Register. Mozilla’s chief legal and business officer Denelle Dixon wrote in a blog post that this is because federal law is ambiguous about how soon the suits could be filed. There’s also an effort in the U.S. Senate to override the repeal but they only have 50 votes, 1 vote shy of passing, with all Democratic Senators on board plus Susan Collins of Maine as the lone Republican joining them. If the resolution passes not only would it restore net neutrality it would also prevent the FCC from passing similar measures in the future. But the problem is that they only have support from 80 members of the House of Representatives and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan might not even bring it to a vote. For those who support net neutrality, it appears that the courts will be their best bet for now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/technology/net-neutrality-lawsuit-attorneys-general.html
https://www.cnet.com/news/the-first-lawsuits-to-save-net-neutrality-filed/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/01/15/the-senates-push-to-overrule-the-fcc-on-net-neutrality-now-has-50-votes-democrats-say/?utm_term=.c89b6cd3669e
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/01/16/nearly-two-dozen-attorneys-general-sue-block-fccs-repeal-net-neutrality-rules/1038532001/
Independent Publisher The Awl Will Shut Down
The Awl, a small but mighty independent website that launched nine years ago, announced it will shut down at the end of the month, saying that the business is no longer viable. Publisher Michael Macher said a structural shift in how media buyers and agencies relate to publishers has left fewer ad dollars going to indie publishers. According to the site’s editor Silvia Killingsworth: “It’s a bad time for independent publishers. In a way, it’s kind of a miracle The Awl lasted as long as it did. It’s impossible to be a tiny pirate ship out there when all there are are big cruisers.”
The Awl was founded in 2009, when starting a scrappy group blog on WordPress seemed like a good idea. Like other blogs of the time it grew and spawned sister sites: The Hairpin, The Billfold, and Splitsider. The Hairpin will also be shut down, while the Billfold and Splitsider will continue for now. But where digital publishing was once the wild west it has now become a crowded field with social media platforms gobbling up digital ad dollars. The role of publishers on platforms was a favorite topic of The Awl, but the site had its own trouble with platforms switching from WordPress to Medium and then back to WordPress after a year. The loss of founders like Choire Sicha also hurt the site. In the long run, it will take more than biting, eccentric commentary to run an online business, which requires a lot of financial support from its community.
https://www.theawl.com/2018/01/awl-ends/
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/16/16899140/the-awl-hairpin-shuts-down-amid-downturn-web-publishing
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/business/media/awl-hairpin-closing.html
http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/01/hurry-up-before-its-gone-new-york-city-the-awl-and-the-hairpin-are-shutting-down/
Here are some other stories we’re following
A story about an anonymous woman’s date with comedian Aziz Ansari that ran on Babe.net has been criticized for sensationalizing her story.
Under pressure from British politicians, Facebook will investigate whether Russians influenced the results of the Brexit vote.
According to a new Gallup/Knight survey, Americans say that having more news sources makes it harder to stay informed.
And pioneering group blog HuffPost will be ending its section of unpaid bloggers, relying on paid contributors.
Music on this Episode
Can’t Hate The Hater by 3 Feet Up
Sinking Feeling by Jessie Spillane
DJ by Jahzzar
Backed Clean Vibes by Kevin Macleod
Air Hockey Saloon by Chris Zabriskie
I Never Wanted To Say by Lorenzo’s Music
I’m Going for a Coffee by Lee Rosevere
Jefferson Yen is the producer for the MediaShift Podcast. His work has been on KPCC Southern California Public Radio and KRTS Marfa Public Radio. You can follow him @jeffersontyen.
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The United Math Circles Foundation is an official umbrella organization for the Berkeley Math Circle. The United Math Circles Foundation is a non-profit organization.
The Berkeley Math Circle (BMC) is a weekly program for over 500 San Francisco Bay Area elementary, middle and high school students. The weekly sessions are held on Tuesdays evenings at the UC Berkeley campus. The program is jointly sponsored by the:
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Emulating famous Eastern European models, the program aims at drawing kids to mathematics, preparing them for mathematical contests, introducing them to the wonders of beautiful mathematical theories, and encouraging them to undertake future careers linked with mathematics, whether as mathematicians, mathematics educators, economists, or business entrepreneurs. Read more about the BMC
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Hanna Hantao Chen Achieves at Math Prize for Girls!
Math Prize for Girls is the world’s largest math prize for young women high school age or younger. Hanna tied for 16th out of 300 girls, got an Honorable Mention, and was invited to the next round of competition!
Congratulations, Hanna!
Harry Main-Luu, previous assistant for MTRW and BMC-Upper, was named one of the 4 UC Berkeley University Medal runners-up!
"Every year, the competition for the University Medal – the award given each year to the graduating senior who best embodies the highest ideals of UC Berkeley – is fierce. Candidates for the medal, which was established in 1871, must have overcome significant challenges, had an impact on the lives of others and carry a GPA of 3.96 or higher."
Read Harry's profile below:
Alumnus Evan O'Dorney continues success after BMC!
He finished the Mathematical Tripos in Cambridge and is now a Ph.D. student at Princeton under Manjul Bhargava. He was called on to write the music for a film advertising the Churchill Scholarship, by which he went to Cambridge. To read more about Evan and his time at the Berkeley Math Circle, visit the Program page.
Congratulations to Justin Lee for being a winner of the 10th United States of America Junior Mathematical Olympiad (USAJMO)!
The USAJMO test is given to the top combined scorers on the AMC 10 and AIME. Justin distinguished himself among 300,000 students who also participated in the American Mathematics Competitions.
Espen Slettnes Wins First Place at 2018 Broadcom MASTERS and Receives Minor Planet named after him!
Our very own seasoned math circler Espen continues to reap awards. Among more than 900 winners from regional science fairs in California, he went on to win both the 1st prize in Mathematical Science as well as Project of the Year Award across all categories in the junior division at the 2018 California Science and Engineering Fair.
In other math-related fields, he received a bronze medal at 2018 USA Physics Olympiad (USAPhO). He is also competing in the Gold division of the USA Computing Olympiad (USACO), having easily aced the Bronze and Silver divisions last year.
He has also been accepted as one of 45 pre-college students worldwide to form the inaugural cohort of World Science Scholars, a new initiative to nurture the next generation science researchers, led by Professor Brian Greene of Columbia University. The scholars will explore a broad range of new disciplines expanded from mathematics. The video above includes footage from MAA MathFest 2018 in Denver earlier this month; near the end, Espen is talking to Dr. Michael Pearson, executive director of MAA.
More recently, Espen won first place (out of 80,000 middle school students who competed) at 2018 Broadcom MASTERS! This competition is the premier science and engineering competition for middle school students and is a national science fair organized by The Society for Science and Public. He was also selected out of a gifted, national applicant pool to be named as a Caroline D. Bradley Scholar. He will receive a merit-based scholarship for high school.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory also just named a minor planet after Espen to recognize his achievements. His name will be added to the Minor Planet Center database (run out of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Massachusetts). Look out for Minor Planet 34379 Slettnes in the sky!
Congratulations, Espen!
Espen at the 2018 Broadcom MASTERS competition in Washington, D.C.
Zach and Ave Golden awarded at the World Mathematics Team Championship
Zach (in black shirt) and Ave (in black cardigan), seasoned circlers, return to BMC with Bronze Award (for Zach) and Merit Award (for Ave), in the individual rounds at the World Mathematics Team Championship, held in Thailand in November 2017. Congratulations to this brother-sister team and thank you for continuing to reinforce the BMC name on the map. Welcome home!
Vinayak Kumar Earned Gold Medal at the WMTC
Vinayak returns to the Circle with a gold medal around his neck, placing 5th individually in the Advanced Division at the World Mathematics Team Championships. Congratulations, and welcome home!
BMC Alumnus Laura Pierson Continues to Reap Awards
Seasoned circler and alumnus, Laura Pierson, keeps going on her mathematical journey with great success. She placed in the top five at the Math Prize Contest in 2016 among all girls in the U.S., earning herself a gold medal. This year, in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, she has been named the Top 300 Scholar. Her talent also earns her a spot in the top 40 finalists to compete later in the year. We look forward to hearing good news while cheering for her on this journey.
Bio: Laura is currently a senior in high school and still connected to BMC. She coordinates the Monthly Contest and the awards. She has also given lectures at the Circle. Laura won the USAJMO in 2015 while she was in 10th grade, placing in top 12. In 7th grade, Laura, being the youngest member of the USA team, won a silver medal at the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO) in Luxembourg.
BMC Alumnus Evan Chen Continues His Passion for Math!
Evan Chen is a PhD student in math at MIT.
He is one of the coaches of the USA IMO team,
serving as the assistant academic director at the American summer training program (MOP),
the editor-in-chief of the USA national math olympiad (USAMO),
and the coordinator for the USA IMO team selection.
Evan is also the author of a popular textbook Euclidean Geometry in Math Olympiads
used by students preparing for mathematical olympiads.
As a high school student, Evan was himself an IMO gold medalist and winner of the 2014 USAMO
(which he took from 12:30am to 5am in Taiwan).
Outside of math and teaching, Evan enjoys StarCraft and Korean pop dance.
Espen writes a poem!
BMC student Espen has written a beautiful poem called "My True Number". We wanted to share as it is quite appropriate for the Berkeley Math Circle! Please do not take out the poem without copyright.
My True Number
By Espen Slettnes, Jan 6th, 2014
My shadow and I stood in a complex plane.
"What value are you?" I winked and asked.
"3435i", said he, and he asked me mine.
I said I was 33+44+33+55.
"That's what I am, but times i"he replied.
Our eyes met and danced
as we added and multiplied and exponentiated and tertiated
until we reached the magnitude of beauty,
in the silence of ∞, where I saw my true self.
I spoke no words but the simple language of the universe.
I rose and vaporized into numbers,
integrated with the Universe,
and we became 1.
The complex plane is a way to represent all complex numbers in 2 dimensions. A complex number is made up of a real and imaginary part.
i is the imaginary unit, defined as √ -1
Tertiation is repeated exponentiation, which is repeated multiplication, which is repeated addition.
∞ means infinity - larger than any number
(33+44+33+55) = 3435 (each digit raised to its own power)
Copyright © 2014 Espen Slettnes. All rights reserved.
Berkeley Math Circle featured on "The Monthly"!
The Berkeley Math Circle has been featured "The Monthly," East Bay's Premier Magazine of Culture and Commerce, titled "Proving Their Passion" by Sarah Weld. Check out the Berkeley Math Circle on the news here!
Nico Brown of the Berkeley Math Circle wins first place at the Berkeley Mini-Math Tournament!
Nico Brown wins 1st place at BmMT 2013.
Nico Brown and Vincent Pisani at BmMT 2013.
BMC's own Nico Brown won the Berkeley mini Math Tournament (BmMT), the middle school student variant to the BMT for high school students, this past weekend.
Nico's score in the Individual round placed him into the top six students who entered the final Countdown elimination round, a series of timed questions... and he emerged the overall champion!
He wouldn't have got there without Team BMC coached by Intermediate Circle parent Tor Slettnes--Vincent Pisani, Arav Karighattam, Nate Fish, Espen Slettnes, and Nico--so congratulations to all!
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On 1st April 2011 (and no it wasn't an April Fools!), a friend of ours from Peru, Si Small, organised an event that was called "Extreme Laundry on Snowdon". Around 50 crazy fools, including Matt, attempted to climb Snowdon carrying a washing machine, ironing board and laundry basket! All in aid of Action for Kids.
After waking up to a very gloomy morning, everyone headed to the foot of Snowdon to pose for a few photos before getting ready to climb. Matt and Si (in the green) led the way and carried the washing machine for the first stint.
As the group progressed up the hill, the weather got steadily worse. With the wind getting quite strong, some of the group, including the children, turned round and went back down the mountain.
The rest of the team carried on through the wind and rain, but two thirds of the way up the mountain the gale force winds hit around 50mph, and sadly the challenge itself had to be abandoned. With people literally being knocked off their feet and the washing machine swinging around dangerously, almost everyone stopped climbing and made their way back to the warm and dry of the hotels (and pub!).
The washing machine was abandoned by the side of the track (people were notified!), and although Matt, Si and the others were disappointed that the challenge couldn't be finished, they could celebrate that £4000 had been raised for such a great charity, Action for Kids.
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Ballmer Touts Windows 7 Sales
Microsoft Corp. has sold twice as many copies of Windows 7 in its first few weeks than any previous version of the operating system, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said. A company spokeswoman said Mr. Ballmer was referring to both boxed copies of Windows 7 and copies it sells to PC makers for inclusion on their machines.
The new software, which has received favorable reviews, also could give Microsoft a badly needed image boost in the wake of Windows Vista, which suffered from technical snafus when it was launched in 2007.
Mr. Ballmer said Microsoft does "quite well" among students but said the company can improve its standing in that market. "Windows 7 gives us a real opportunity to come back again at audiences that have been tougher for us". Apple's share of new PC shipments in the U.S. was 9.2% in the third quarter, up from 4.8% in the same period four years ago.
Windows 7 Sales Beat Mac OS X Market Share
Google Widens the Road for Android Nav App
Microsoft Warns On Windows 7 Zero Day
DNS Problem Linked to DDoS Attacks Gets Worse
Windows 7 use continues to climb
Microsoft cuts 800 more jobs
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26/10/2018Ministerial Launch of the Care Leavers Covenant
NNECL were delighted to support today’s launch of the Care Leavers Covenant, a Department for Education initiative, to support care leavers leaving care. The event was launched by Nadhim Zahawi, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families and included performances from The Big House, interviews with care leavers and a panel discussion.
In his speech Nadhim Zahawi highlighted his expectations for the higher education sector:
Many universities already do a huge amount to support care leavers and some like Manchester and Leeds have already signed the covenant. One of my ambitions is to see more care leavers participating in higher education and I want all universities to set out how they will support care leavers to get into and succeed at university – for example by offering 52-week-a-year accommodation to care leavers during their first year.
The Care Leavers Covenant has been established to improve support to young people aged 16-25 leaving care. The initiative aims to harness the expertise and resources of businesses, education providers and charities to ensure those leaving care have the necessary support and opportunities to succeed and thrive. The initiative is being coordinated by Spectra First which has background in delivering national programmes and targeted programmes for care leavers.
Over 50 organisations from the public, private and voluntary sectors have committed their support to the initiative to date. Each organisation which commits to the Care Leaver Covenant is expected to offer a targeted package of support to care leavers which may include; work experience placements, internships, mentoring, financial advice, additional training and education.
Further information about the covenant is now available on the newly launched website and App.
Phil Bakstad, Co-Chair of the National Strategy Group said:
NNECL warmly welcomes the introduction of the Care Leavers Covenant. This visible demonstration of commitment by both government and the organisations signing up to the Covenant sends a clear message to care-experienced young people that a wide range of opportunities are open to them as they leave care and that they will be supported to achieve their aspirations, whatever they may be.
Significantly, the Covenant will provide higher and further education institutions with the opportunity to reaffirm their commitment to Care Leavers and further embed good practice in this invaluable work across the sector.
Spectra will be speaking at the NNECL conference on 28th November in Birmingham. If you were not able to attend the launch but would like to find out more about the Care Leavers Covenant, you can book your tickets here.
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Book Review: Valley of the Free (Pandemonium Rising, #0.5) by Michael Sliter
January 9, 2020 Petrik Leo Comments 0 Comment
Valley of the Free by Michael Sliter
Series: Pandemonium Rising (Book #0.5 of 4)
Genre: Fantasy, Grimdark Fantasy
Published: 18th December 2019 by Dragyn Press (Indie)
Short, violent, and bloody; this is a good place for you to try Sliter’s writing.
Valley of the Free is a prequel novella to Mike Sliter’s grimdark fantasy series: Pandemonium Rising. The story follows Ferl’s quest for vengeance, and this little novella depicts the conception of the infamous Ferl’s Company. Having read—and loved—the two available books in the main series so far, I can safely vouch that no prior reading of the main series is required. You can enjoy Valley of the Free without any knowledge of the main series; excluding the main character—Ferl—only one or two other characters appeared briefly. In fact, I do honestly think that this is a very starting point for you to try Sliter’s work. Valley of the Free is not as dark/brutal as Sliter’s debut work, Solace Lost, and it’s good to familiarize yourself with his writing style and gritty content first. I would say that Valley of the Free is more attuned to Wisdom Lost in terms of content and quality, which, in my opinion, delivers a more balanced narrative and also encapsulates Sliter’s craft at his best so far.
Same as the main series, characterizations are still the heart of Sliter’s storytelling; this is one thing that he learned well from reading Abercrombie. I’ve always enjoyed Sliter’s style of characterizations. There’s something about the way he makes sure that every event we read always unfolds and perceived directly from the character’s point of view that reminds me of Abercrombie’s style. Yes, Sliter’s books are dark, violent, and that’s still applicable here. But I found the dialogues traded between Ferl, Ashland, Christoph, and all the other characters he encountered to be engaging and even funny at times. I certainly didn’t expect to enjoy reading Ferl’s Mercenary Company conception this much—heck I honestly almost forgot who Ferl was—but this one kept me thoroughly entertained and hooked. Also, for such a short book, I’m amazed that Sliter managed to deliver an action scene—including some of the most terrifying pigs I’ve ever read—that made me feel so invested; I don’t usually feel invested in reading action scenes contained in novellas due to the lack of time spent with the characters and characterizations. I don’t think I have any issues with this novella other than the one that I often encountered with stories in the medium itself, which is that it’s a bit too short to my liking.
“She hated it, this killing. But Ashland knew that people tended to hate the things they were best at. The blacksmith eventually resented his hammer. The fisherman would rather toss his pole in the lake at times. The innkeeper would, by some point, just as soon burn down his livelihood, turning the place into kindling. And, in similar fashion, she wished that she did not have to kill. But life always had different plans.”
Filled with morally ambiguous characters and gory actions, Valley of the Free provides a quick and bloody reading experience. Finishing this made me eager to get back to the main series. By Pandemonium’s brain, I hope my memory will be enough to remember the necessary details when the third book—Faith Lost—in the main series comes out. Give me Faith Lost already, Sliter! Grimdark fantasy fans, get on this series, this is a good place for you to start your journey and it’s only $0.99!
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Removing the risk: Downstream oil and gas embraces digitalisation
Downstream oil and gas can embrace change that respects its safety-first, risk-avoiding approach. Digitalisation and data analytics may be crucial, learns Brian Attwood.
“Minimising costs to remain competitive remains a major challenge for oil and gas operators. At the root of this challenge is the double-edged combination of dwindling oil reserves in mature sites and fluctuating international prices,” says Bryan Christiansen, founder and CEO of mobile software firm Limble CMMS.
Where oil and gas are concerned, public discussion of the impact invariably focuses on upstream or the domestic consumer. Rather less often does it consider the implications for the downstream oil and gas industry.
Yet, to a large degree, it is here that solutions to the imbalance between supply and consumption demand will have to be found. As access to resources is restricted and existing markets become less dependable, the need to find cost savings from improved processes and new revenue streams will grow.
Where then are oil and gas businesses, especially downstream, focused in terms of challenges and solutions?
For an indication of where and how present problems are influencing current and future thinking, there are few better places to start than some of the sector’s key annual events.
They must optimise the performance of these assets and the personnel in a manner that keeps the systems dependable with minimal to zero unplanned downtime
Bryan Christiansen, founder & CEO, Limble CMMS
June sees two of these taking place: the massive Downstream 2019 exhibition and conference in Houston and Future Oil & Gas in Aberdeen (with the associated Future Downstream show taking place in December).
A scan of their respective agendas displays recurring concerns that might be categorised in terms of performance, safety, culture and strategic development.
For performance, read those top quartile behaviours – reliability, efficiency and enhancement; ie, doing more and doing it better. Safety encompasses a wider remit than the term usually implies – relating not only to maintaining and improving the situation of people but also environmental priorities and cyber-security.
Culture is about striking the right balance between legacy and change and assessing the degree to which both factors need to adapt to one another. How much can or must a business work with the people and assets it has? And in the event of change, how can this be done while making best use of resources – human, financial or technological?
Lastly, focus on the strategic development of downstream coalesces around three things: sector integration (whether upstream and downstream or refineries and petrochemical); adaptation of resources to perceived market demand; and digitalisation.
Nothing to chance
To outsiders, the oil and gas industry’s uneven embrace of change may appear half-hearted but this perception ignores the constraints under which firms operate.
Christiansen sums up the multiple challenges thus: “The facilities and assets used in the oil and gas sector are mostly complex, extremely expensive, and difficult to repair/replace. Added to that is a workforce typically made up of multiple third-party personnel with varying education and skill levels .
“They must optimise the performance of these assets and the personnel in a manner that keeps the systems dependable with minimal to zero unplanned downtime. This is critical to survival and breaking even.”
Damien Valdenaire – science executive, refinery technology at Concawe and a speaker at the forthcoming Aberdeen conference – outlined recently in a Future Oil & Gas interview the considerations that downstream in particular faces: “It may take longer to develop and evolve than in other sectors for refineries operate in a highly secure and regulated environment. Every new technology needs to be proven with 100% reliability and must improve the risk matrix of the refinery.
“Every scenario must be tested with new technologies, in an environment with potentially explosive atmosphere with heat and fire. Safety of the operator is always the first priority.”
Another conference speaker, Intoware CTO and co-founder James Woodall, cited the heavy burden of auditing and compliance which surrounds downstream activities. All of it necessary but, traditionally, a substantial burden in terms of time and human resource and one that has made it hard for firms to respond to situations with the necessary agility.
Digitalisation clearly has the ability to transform this situation; tracking can be done in real time by workers at all levels so that an audit query which once took a day to answer is reduced to seconds, says Woodall.
The benefits are fundamental. Combining automation with connectivity aided by sensor technology opens the door to data collection on a massive scale. Data analytics and improved algorithm enable higher levels of predictive analysis leading to more sophisticated machine learning and the programming of machines and products to calculate risk with previously unmatched degrees of accuracy.
Lloyd’s Register report Predictive analytics in oil & gas: the future in focus cites the wide body of knowledge to be garnered from health diagnostics, aerospace, logistics, insurance and retail. Within downstream, says Lloyd’s, refineries and maintenance have led the way with predictive analytics and the application of a connected 4.0 approach.
Making headway
ABB, Fluenta and FLIR Systems have recently unveiled emission and detection products. ABB’s Dynamic QR code assistance tool for continuous emissions analysers represents a step forward over static predecessors.
While traditional QR codes display a limited amount of predefined, hard-coded information, DQR codes record the real-time status of the device. Software pulls updated data and status information from a central unit, which can be in control of several separate ABB gas analyser modules.
Sophisticated detection technology is a boon for a sector whose focus on safety has left it vulnerable to shutdowns.
“False alarms and failure signals force on-site inspections and result in costly personnel time, with control centres required to file a report,” says Fluenta marketing director Alex Keys.
“By optimising detection technology to manage specific types of risk, operators can achieve the most reliable and rapid detection of actual hazards without initiating a high number of false alarms.”
It can also be useful in the event of gas flaring – a regular solution method of handling gas that arrives as an unwanted part of an oil production stream.”
For Fluenta, this has involved harnessing ultrasonic technology suitable for fast, reliable flare gas measurement.
Reduction in fuel consumption and carbon emissions are crucial to environmental responsibility
Mike Watson, CEO, Tube Tech International
“The technology tolerates some condensed liquid, is not affected by gas composition and endures fluctuations in pressure and temperature. By deploying ultrasonic flare gas measurement, the oil and gas industry is better positioned to manage process upsets and prevent disruption, saving millions in potential lost revenue.”
FLIR Systems’ GF-Series optical gas imaging (OGI) cameras offer another means to limit the use of flaring and can quantitively measure methane emissions to create a datum point for future calculations.
Drone technology too enhances emissions and inspection technology for both cameras but also sensors. Finnish company Aeromon recently announced that its bh12 drone sensors, capable of distinguishing between 70 different gases, had moved into production phase after a pilot project in the midstream focused on maritime fuel oil use.
Expensive ‘housekeeping’ is another target. British company Tube Tech International has won EU grants valued at €5 million for its pioneering robotic technology cleaning techniques for heat exchanger fouling removal. Fouling buildup impacts performance, energy use, environmental impact, profit and product quality, leading to asset replacement, high expenditure and revenue losses.
CEO Mike Watson [pictured above] comments: “Clients frequently comment on the quick return on investment after our team have been in, not only are they able to instantly increase their profit, but reduction in fuel consumption and carbon emissions are crucial to environmental responsibility.”
As Lloyd’s notes, advances in refinery and maintenance are ripe for extension into other aspects of downstream businesses – safety, risk assessment, decision making and behavioural prediction, for example. Some aspects are immediately obvious – wearable sensors will be as intrinsic to industry as drone-based ones, with the additional benefit that they monitor staff health and efficiency as well as that of plants and processes.
Then there are the security and auditing features, the former borrowing from the experience of the defence industry, the latter from the financial world’s experience with blockchain and extending far along supply chains.
Further ahead still is MIT’s experiment with the further reaches of machine learning. Its engineers have developed an algorithm that programs AUVs operating in the upstream industry to take calculated decisions after assessing reward (the likelihood of an oil seep) versus risk (the possibility of the machine becoming stuck).
The more clearly quantifiable this and other risks are rendered by technological advances, the more certain the adoption of new products and processes downstream.
Clearly the pressure will increase for companies to be more agile in their responses. Within the downstream environment there is more prospect for petrochemical expansion than in the refineries market, with the driving force being a growing middle class in the developed world fuelling consumer demand.
Industry leaders believe this will require more integrated processes, the better connecting of upstream and downstream, refining and petrochem, and in the context of cyber–security, IT and OT. Christiansen cites the digital oilfield as an example of proactive tools enhancing operational visibility that “aid the decision-making process from oilfield to refinery – optimising production and reducing environmental, health and safety risk”.
One of the ironies of digitalisation and automation is that it is likely to create a shortage rather than a surplus of labour and skills. Industry body OPITO cites data analytics, robotics and remote operations, to which one might add metrology, hardware production, technological and safety expertise.
Expect too to see more UK companies developing revenue streams from training and consultancy. The inroads by Aberdeen-based Norwell EDGE, which recently signed an agreement with Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam University [see image above] and the British Safety Council in India demonstrate the potential of this market.
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Old Money, New Streams: August Recess is Over
Take it from somebody who catches Pokémon in Homewood Cemetery: Pittsburgh is a city of Old Money.
Section 14 was developed in 1890 with millionaires in mind, said Jennie Benford, director of programming for the cemetery’s historical fund. By that time, the scale of wealth had changed “beyond what anyone had ever seen in this country,” she said. (P-G, Diana Nelson Jones)
A million bucks back then would be worth about 27 million now, but remember even a lot of the OG millionaires didn’t stop at a million. And the way they made it — well, you know how it involved a lot of fire and blood, but that’s another story.
Many of us are liable to work with nature, when we can. There being fewer and fewer choices.
As part of a “Come Help or High Water” campaign launched last week, the group is looking to raise $80,000 to eliminate Eagle Lake by building a drainage piping system.
The Allegheny Trail Alliance provided $10,000, and the nonprofit has requested $50,000 from the Allegheny Regional Asset District, leaving an approximate $15,000-$20,000 gap in funding. Allegheny County is a longtime partner with the nonprofit.
“A drainage system will pull water under the ground and then parallel the trail,” Ms. Beichner said. “Water will then naturally find its way to the river.” (P-G, Lacretia Wimbley)
This is how we have to do things now, with the Old Money. Make the pitch, schmooze some gatekeepers and pass the hat. There are worse systems.
Downtown Pittsburgh has seen an uptick in stabbings so far in 2019, even as overall violent crime across the city has declined, Mayor Bill Peduto said Thursday. //
“We’re not going to solve this problem simply by having police,” Mr. Peduto said, referencing a recent Downtown stabbing in which a woman was fatally stabbed in front of a police officer and another in which police responded within 60 seconds. “It’s not simply a police issue. It is an issue that deals with mental health, homelessness and addiction.” (P-G, Shelly Bradbury)
Yes, plus the fact that our nation is having a midlife identity crisis, with powerful interests aggravating our populace even as they herald global catastrophe. Sure.
He added that people who are homeless will always go to areas of the city where they can receive help and can walk to services like laundromats, showers and medical facilities.
“We have a homelessness epidemic, it’s happening on a national basis, where cities are seeing thousands of homeless residents who are moving into the central business district because that’s where the services are,” he said. (ibid)
Were this an occasion to be clever, our Mayor might suggest that criminals are turning to knives owing to his anti-gun crusade, thus many lives are being spared. But that would have been trolling, and inaccurate.
It sounds like some people want to beef up the city’s police presence and policing practices Downtown beyond any terribly scrupulous concern for civil liberties, and “get tough” on vagrancy, transients and seeming riffraff using more profiling and prior constraints. One would think to hear that from commercially-oriented types like the Chamber of Commerce, though perhaps not as much from philanthropic sorts like the Cultural Trust — since more enlightened methods for addressing urban strife must lie somewhere in all that Old Money. Not that we don’t love the arts for their own sake, nor think calling attention to managing public safety is necessarily the worst thing to come out of philanthropy. It’s just a noteworthy response. After all, if Downtown is not for all, it’s not for us — and it’s obviously still stronger than any sort of social tension or hate. We just need to have a larger conversation.
Even when it comes to affordable homeownership and gentrification (which bears only a tangential relationship to affordable housing, homelessness or Downtown stabbings but… okay) philanthropy is crucial in getting new concepts like “community land trusts” up and running, as we examine in this “DevelopPGH” article by at PublicSource, a news outlet which itself underwritten by philanthropy.
Those sorts of livability solutions are healthy and productive channels for our anxieties and investments, though it seems like they rarely scale to our satisfy our needs. But we’ll keep trying, won’t we?
It is difficult to know how to read such stories if you’re not familiar with the Funders and Doers series from the P-G’s Rich Lord, Pittsburgh’s Powerful Nonprofits. If you cannot access it right now just go and get a digital subscription, so you have the thing.
While you’re at it, if you also want to know how government contractors, developers and other private vendors can impact our bearings, read about The Network from the same reporter. It’s a little dated (2010) and the present in-networks may have shifted closer to the philanthropic, academic and high tech spheres (and may not be so Zappala-centric anymore) but it gives one a good flavor how business affects local politics.
The P-G ought next do a birds’ eye view of Big Labor currents and influences; its endorsements, donations, political organizing work and so on. Aside from the nonprofits and the contractors, organized labor is the sphere that never gets enough quality critical examination.
Speaking of which, don’t think we forgot to give you a post-primary election breakdown, or an orientation on our next heists and new platforms. Or to include a lot of the lesser-known reporting and wired-in voices in the city. We’re just getting rebooted and reacquainted. But if there was ever a time to strap on the old pads, it’s now eh? Brb, beebees
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on September 3, 2019 by Bram Reichbaum.
Comet Voter Guide: Feeling Surreal in the Pittsburgh of 2019
WTAE, Andrew Stockey
Politics is getting out-of-hand. Right?
Were I closer to Andrew Carnegie’s winter home, for example, my permission to have an abortion would have just been revoked.
True, I am biologically male. But “stuff happens” and sometimes men find themselves needing to help secure and furnish the costs of an abortion (or “go Dutch”) or arrange for a ride, or actually help a pregnant woman past any anti-choice protestors outside of some clinics, or just generally hold their hand and help them make that parenting decision. We men are not undergoing abortions ourselves, but in most senses they happen due to own actions and impact our own lives, so they’re “ours” as well. And sometimes we experience those abortions to our benefit.
If people start losing dearly held rights, things are going to get volatile.
So, in my capacity as Blogger in Chief at the Pittsburgh Comet, I’m sure I speak for all of Pittsburgh when I say we would welcome any of yinz Southron refugees who find your way up the Ohio River, or who come down from the east over the mountains after having made it up the Atlantic, to live as free men and women again. Bring us barbecue.
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But then again, we don’t want to have to deal with chaos and dissolution forever, do we?
When it comes to fascism, this is just one convenient tactic. Eliminating reproductive freedom strikes a chord upon traditionalism, patriarchy and religious majoritarianism, not to mention cruelty in domination for its own sake. It’s a useful whip with which to order society under strongmen.
But fascist excitement is only one of our problems. Peoples have dealt with it before, and they eventually outlast that authoritarian perversion one way or another. Unsettlingly, we are also merely one generation or so into the Dawning of the Interwebs, and “coincidentally” only now entering the Era of Climate Change.
And so it’s hard to think about climate change without reflecting on colonialism and industrialization. Surreality has crept into political life since the bombs dropped and the Cold War began, a recognition that the world is only violently and precariously organized, and could turn on us at any moment. Climate change however reminds us that moment is approaching at ferocious speed, or indeed already past.
So what’s a blogger to do? Here I am, a White, middle-aged man, with an Internet connection. I don’t know to how to stop from getting crushed by our world falling down around us, but I must feign tell you what to do, it’s in the White middle-aged men orientation handbook.
Local politics. Of course! We’ll discover what to do on the global stage by paying heed to politics at its most basic, the nitty-gritty. Elegant, right? And what town could be grittier than Pittsburgh? Our coat of arms bears a fort, which in 1762, White invaders defended by distributing plague-laden blankets against a native siege.
But local politics requires a certain effort. In dealing with these people. Ugh. No, hold on. Let me put on my game face.
County Council, countywide Democratic At-Large Seat: Definitely the marquee race in this election cycle. 20-year incumbent John DeFazio is 78 years old, oversaw the leasing of Deer Lakes Park to the natural gas hydrofracturing industry as a spectacle of profitable possibility, and otherwise tends toward the conservative. He also used to be a studio wrestler, along with his County Council colleague the late Chuck Martoni, who has also served on that council 20 years, which may give one an insight into that part of County culture. Meanwhile, Bethany Hallam is a political millenial who has done an enormous amount of homework, and has overcome challenges which make her relatable and have informed her worldview. Vulnerability looks good on a candidate, in this day and age. If you’re even distantly progressive, Hallam will come as a wonderful breath of fresh air to you for the 15-member group.
County Council District 13: Challenger Liv Bennett is running on “Affordable Housing • Save the Environment • Criminal Justice Reform,” which is honestly everything I’d personally like to hear concerns a regional politician. Her opponent, incumbent Denise Ranalli Russell, is more staid and conservative.
City Council D1 “The North”: If you hate Mayor Bill Peduto, and/or you are rather conservative for an otherwise pro-labor Democrat, and you can live without strategic planning or much change at all (new fountains aside), Darlene Harris is your woman. Bobby Wilson is again seeking to unseat her, and again has the support of Peduto. If you’re liberal or progressive, an admirer of Peduto, or just not enthused about Harris’s signature leadership for any of myriad reasons, Bobby Wilson is your guy.
Kraus, by Darrell Sapp, P-G
City Council D3 “Southside/South Oakland”: The District has two great progressives to choose from in incumbent Bruce Kraus and challenger Ken Wolfe, and a more conservative alternative in Chris Kumanchik. It’s a really tough district to navigate, what with Carson St., and anyone who needs to cross two bridges to get there needs to defer to the locals. Separately from who best represents that area’s interests, I will say that City Council seems to lack a certain hammer to Mayor Peduto’s anvil lately — an optimizer. Council President Kraus’ assignment of Councilman Burgess to the Finance Chairmanship was a recognition of shifting coalitions, but I wonder if Kraus’ term of leadership on that body still has relevance.
City Council D5 “South Squirrel Hill / Hazelwood”: Corey O’Connor is running unopposed for the party nomination to his third term on City Council, which makes things easy for me as I am a constituent. But I can’t let him off the hook that easy. He knows that broad patch of grass across from Big Jim’s has grown long and far to seed this spring, and he knows that it never ordinarily is permitted to grow like that. And so he knows DOMI is digging its talons deeper in the pie, to pseudo-blight and then transform the parcel into servicing the robotrail through Schenley to Oakland. And you know meanwhile the Run rats are inventorying fallen chunks of concrete from the underpasses, and making records of landslide and flooding activity, and spilling ink. O’Connor better be sure that PWSA and the Parks Conservancy does an excellent job with the stormwater remediation. Be sure officials focus on that, and on leaving no conspicuously unnecessary traces in the park.
City Council D7: “Greater Lawrenceville”: I’ll be darned if anyone can seem to tell a difference between incumbent Deb Gross’ record and what challenger Dierdre Kane says she wants to accomplish. As near as I can figure, this is about how Gross came up with Peduto as part of the “New Pittsburgh”, and Kane came up via Lawrenceville United and the old. I can’t say who would be preferable, but I will say that I’d miss it if Gross left Council and then nobody was left to challenge the Mayor archly from his Left, all Lisa Simpson-like.
Burgess, by Megan Harris, WESA
City Council D9: “Greater Homewood”: 12-year incumbent Rev. Ricky Burgess may be the most powerful member of Pittsburgh City Council. The nine-member body will never elect him Council President, because nobody trusts him that much to be a heartbeat away from the mayoralty. But his influence stretches from the powerful Finance Committee chairmanship, to the Pittsburgh Land Bank, to the Housing Authority, and much of the hottest land in Pittsburgh. And he’s a trained parliamentarian, a teacher of rhetoric, and of course of course a preacher. How he manages to fly under the radar in all these stories about Penn Plaza and other gentrifying increments, I’ll never know. Whether one of his several opponents like Cherylie Fuller will unseat him seems doubtful, but every vote against him is a reprimand.
District Attorney for Allegheny County: Police reform and oversight together with police-community relations are a tremendous topic in Democratic politics today. 20- year Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. hasn’t demonstrated the initiative and concern requisite to a Democrat of this day and age, just hasn’t treated the issue with the anxious seriousness his constituents sorely require. Maybe he missed a generational, cultural shift, maybe his politics are so good he’s never had to sweat it. Meanwhile Turhan Jenkins has demonstrated the qualifications, the willingness to listen and to evolve, and the fortitude. Jenkins deserves every vote he can get, and Zappala deserves to see them.
Mind you, we’re not demanding Zappala march out into the wilderness, never to darken our door again. His experience and expertise would qualify him for any number of jobs at the federal Department of Justice, if indeed he wouldn’t care to name his price in the private sector for a while. In Pittsburgh, we don’t banish people who lose elections, we immediately ask them for help with other projects. Everyone’s a value, sometimes it just takes more figuring out where to place everybody for optimal performance. Sometimes — more often that we do — we just need to cycle through some new blood, and point the old towards a new challenge.
Pittsburgh Public School Board of Directors, D4 “Squirrel Hill / Shadyside”: I am a constituent of this district. I must have first met activist Pamela Harbin two superintendents ago, when Mark Roosevelt grievously overreached and (among other Godzilla-esque transformations) shuttered Schenley High School because it was old and in the way. We both fought and deplored the sale of that jewel.
During the following administration however, Harbin and I grew to respectfully disagree about more and more. I thought merit-pay for teachers with excellent performance reviews was a worthy idea; Harbin believed merit pay would open the door to administrative favoritism. I favored last year’s countywide referendum to raise taxes to fund before-school, nutrition and after-school services for all students (which won within the city limits of Pittsburgh, and did best in municipalities like Braddock, Wilkinsburg, Homestead, Duquesne and Swissvale, as well as Penn Hills); Harbin thought the money would be an unaccountable “slush-fund” to enrich consultants and nonprofit executives. I thought city leaders and the foundations could be helpful to the board in organizing a nationwide executive search for new superintendent and a public outreach campaign to establish priorities, much like Pittsburgh undertook to find Police Chief Cameron McLay; Harbin thought that would be meddling with the new board’s prerogative.
Fast-forward to one week ago, when a local left-leaning education policy blog published a sensational expose painting Harbin’s opponent, Anna Batista, as hopelessly indebted to education privatizers, developers, and corporations — mostly because, as a longtime organizer with Great Public Schools Pittsburgh (backed heavily by the teacher’s union) Harbin is restricted to a fairly inflexible set of ideological positions. If you want an open mind to a variety creative partnerships or initiatives, you’re probably looking to support an alternative, just to be given a fresh hearing!
Fast-forward again to yesterday, when a local friend on Facebook asks something like, “Does anybody know what Batista or Harbin make of Superintendent Anthony Hamlet? Because for a long time I’ve been hearing little but disturbing news!”
And this was my honest answer:
A report on plagiarism and inconsistencies on Hamlet’s resume applications adjoins a picture of Harbin here, who was helping to pass out the petty signs.
If Labor believes in Harbin, that’s outstanding. I think she’d be well suited to take a run at City Council, and maybe disrupt what seems like the actual Peduto machine. Or, she could continue to break ground pairing labor advocacy with organizing around racial equity, a worthy project. But unlike the City, the School District has had an overabundance of labor’s political influence for the past couple years. Voter backlash to the Roosevelt era drove it so far left into labor’s arms, it evidently wound up overcorrecting and sliding in the gutter.
Meanwhile, on Anna Batista’s website, I was thoroughly impressed by the breadth, scope and clarity of positions she’s taken, and particularly smitten by what she had to say at the very bottom about making testing for “Gifted and Talented” students universal. As a Colfax 2nd-grader, had my mother not complained when my friends were getting tested though I was overlooked, my life might have turned out a bit different — though stratification of the “eyeball the kids to see if they might be gifted” system, along with the “whisk them away to the Gifted Center once a week” system, was felt by all us students as profoundly weird.
Did Batista and I agree on everything? I tracked her down and asked her about merit pay based on teacher evaluations.
No, she replied at first. There’s no way to control for which teachers have higher or lower-performing students. It’s inherently unfair.
Sure there is, I insisted! It’s possible to control for poverty, for other socioeconomic markers, or simply for relative improvement for relatively poor-achievers. They’ve done this with math, I think I whined.
“Sure, if you want a fight with the teachers’ union,” Batista responded with resignation. “If you open up Merit Pay, you’ll get in a fight with the teachers’ unions. If you open up Gifted, you’ll get in a fight with some Squirrel Hill parents.”
Not only does Batista think all children should be tested for gifts and talents meriting special nurturing, she thinks there ought to be ways to provide that enrichment within each school, and to work it into curriculums so students don’t feel so profoundly separated — and so that designated “gifted” students don’t, ironically, miss out on machine-shop and other fantastic Vo-Tech offerings while experiencing computer science and public speaking workshops.
“Some parents [of ‘Gifted’ students] don’t like that,” she explained. “It makes them feel special. Maybe I shouldn’t have said that,” she allowed, seeing as how Colfax Elementary “is like half Gifted” these days, “but I’ve never been afraid of a fight.”
So that’s Anna Batista’s idea of equity: she emphasizes the need to measure progress and demand greater equity in results. The concerns she says she hears in the District most often are “ineffective teachers who have either checked out or don’t care, access to guidance counselors and good guidance counseling, and segregation.” And while she agrees wholeheartedly with Harbin that public schools should be receiving more state funding, as a Board member she’s not going to rely on the “sledgehammer” rhetoric of complaining about funding in response to all concerns, but little else. She wants to wrestle creatively and collaboratively with whatever resources, in the meanwhile, are actually being made available to our children.
Labor’s answer to a lot of this demand for innovation has been “Community Schools”: providing “wraparound” services through other agencies in school buildings where children need them. It’s been slow and steady going getting them off the ground in Pittsburgh, to as-yet uncertain results. However, Harbin and her allies in labor seem singularly resistant to allowing key local leaders a seat at the table, and I don’t see how these Community Schools can scale up with that much aggravated, ideological mistrust between stakeholders.
I very much like Anne Batista, and I’m worried about the pattern the District has fallen into: a tug-of-war cage match between labor and the marginalized groups it organizes on one side, and the “New Pittsburgh,” on the other — with the former dominantly in charge right now, though quite unsteady on its feet, suggesting drunkenness. Last election cycle, I recommended to readers three soon-to-be school board members, all of whom labor also backed. I asked each of them how they “balance” the ideas of labor with those of the innovators, the foundation-types, A+ Schools — and they each gave me a balanced answer about their need to walk that tightrope. Lynda Wrenn, however, actually walked that tightrope more faithfully than any of them — that’s why they gave her the Chair after the prior board leader (backed by the teachers’ union) stepped away amidst controversies. Wrenn’s endorsement of Batista was extremely encouraging to what were already my leanings. I’d like to keep that independent-minded torch alive.
SCHOOL BOARD D2: A decade or more ago, I used to play ultimate frisbee with Kirk Rys, and found him to be a bright, positively spirited, compassionate, dare-I-say sweet? teammate and competitor. I’m positive he’d be an excellent school board member. At the same time, representation matters, and it would be a shame for many if that district lacked African-American representation it felt it could relate to and trust, and Devon Taliaferro also comes highly recommended. I don’t think you can make a wrong choice between those two.
OTHER PPS SCHOOL BOARD SEATS: I don’t know. Try to find someone who doesn’t sound like they’re carrying water for the Superintendent. The board has to provide oversight, and it has to provide more of it than it has been.
What does that say about labor, though? Anything bad? I hate being on the opposite side of working people, in any respect. While labor needs to keep a hawkish eye on district administration to restrain any abuses, I don’t think it does itself any favors by getting out all over its skis when it comes to politics. Let the School District engage with and respond to the broader political reality. To put my advice into just 7 words borrowed from 38 Special:
~~HOLD ON LOOSELY, BUT DON’T LET GO~~
Oh, and as long as I have Big Labor’s attention… when this is over, let’s you and I not forget to support the P-G Newspaper Guild! We literally couldn’t while away the hours like this kibitzing about regional politics, if they weren’t doing such hard work. And for years, without a contract! C’mon gang, let’s get something on the schedule to show them some support.
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MacDermid’s Research Team Talks New Cyanide-free Immersion Gold at SMTAI
December 14, 2015 | Patty Goldman, I-Connect007
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Goldman: That's a good reason to present it here, so they know what's new and coming down the road.
Nable: Exactly. We put it out there to show it to the industry and say, “Yes, we do have an alternative. If you're willing to work with us, come and talk to us in person.”
Goldman: That helps, especially if they ask their PCB supplier, "Could you use this?" I think that would be beneficial for you and MacDermid.
Nable: We've done our rigorous testing, but of course, everything can’t be done in our labs. We need to get out into the real world and qualify it there. That hasn't happened just yet, but there is interest and there have been talks, but in the very early stages.
Santos: We're in the stage of marketing it and letting the customer know the benefits and performance similarities with the existing cyanide-based finish.
Goldman: A chance to work with them and see what questions they have about it. About how long does it take to get the proper amount of thickness?
Nable: Just to give you a perspective, for ENIG applications it deposits about two micro-inches of gold in about ten minutes, which is similar to that with cyanide versions.
Goldman: So, it's not a time-saver, not that it would be, but with the reduced waste treatment, improved safety, and the lower temperature—these are all important things. And even their customers would be interested in the cyanide-free part, I would think.
Santos: Yes, because they pay a lot of money for the waste treatment, permit application, etc.
Goldman: We talk about value-add processes and, of course, waste treatment is not considered value-add. It's an extra expense. So, to reduce the extra expense is very important. And Cherry, you have your own poster?
Santos: Yes, I have a poster on immersion tin. Immersion tin is not a new process. It's been around for years and has been successfully used as a final finish for the automotive industry.
Goldman: Not as glamorous. Not as pretty as gold.
Santos: No (laughs). The challenge for immersion tin is the deterioration of solderability performance after heat treatment. As it goes through heat treatment, it loses thickness due to the formation of copper-tin intermetallic compound between the tin finish and the Cu metal substrate. For this to be solderable, there has to be a free tin layer left after the heat process because the copper-tin IMC has inferior solder wetting. We just listened to a talk that discussed the different final finishes, and there is no ideal finish. There is no perfect finish.
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While at SMTAI in Chicago recently, I met with two of MacDermid’s research team, Jun Nable, research project manager, who has been with MacDermid since 2007, and Cherry Santos, associate research fellow responsible for formulation work for metal plating solutions. We talked about the posters they were presenting and why they chose SMTAI.
Patty Goldman: I understand that you both presented posters here at SMTA, so why don’t you tell us a little about them.
Jun Nable: The poster that I presented is about a new cyanide-free immersion gold that's suitable for PCB surface finishes. What makes this different is it is cyanide-free. It's more environmentally-friendly, it's easier to handle, and has the advantage of simplified operating parameters. The majority of conventional immersion gold in use right now contains cyanide. When you hear the word cyanide, you know it's toxic. We need to take special precautions when handling it.
Santos: And there are requirements for waste treatment.
Nable: Right, like waste permits and things like that. So, that's the conventional immersion gold generally in use in the industry. We are providing an alternative to that without compromising the performance of the surface finish.
Goldman: That's very important. There must be a lot of interest in cyanide-free. How thick is the final gold finish?
Nable: For ENIG purposes, the target is around two micro-inches. In terms of plating performance like plating rate, the cyanide-free immersion gold is comparable to the conventional immersion gold. It's comparable, if not better in solderability, appearance and uniformity.
Goldman: And how about the controls and lifetime of the bath, things like that?
Nable: I mentioned earlier about simplifying the operating parameters. The advantage of this cyanide-free immersion gold is we can operate at 40°C. Conventional immersion gold operates at a much higher temperature of 80°C. Also the pH is near neutral for this cyanide-free bath. So, it's much more simplified. Not to mention the energy savings as well, by not having to get to that high temperature.
Goldman: That has got to be a nice selling point. A lot of people here are with EMS companies. Has there been a lot of interest in your new process?
Nable: There has been some interest. Every time you give an alternative that has new features, of course, it has to be further qualified.
Santos: There's always that skepticism with any new finish. It has to go through a rigorous qualification process.
Goldman: So, in order for a PCB fabricator to begin using this, it still has to be qualified by their customers?
Santos: Yes, it has to go to trial production and get OEM approval. The customer needs to assess the performance and ensure that it meets the specified standard for their target application. Does the alternative finish perform similarly or better than the current finish?
Goldman: There is no universal finish.
Santos: There is none that fits everything. It depends on the application, the end-use environment, which finish you need for a specific application. The talk also mentioned that there should be at least 0.1 micron of metallic tin after the reflow cycle, which is a pre-treatment process that the immersion tin goes through. So, that is exactly my poster: The reflow effect on the immersion tin solder wetting.
We also went to another talk given by George Milad about IPC thickness requirements. He mentioned that for the tin finish to be solderable after two reflow cycles, you need at least one micron of immersion tin to begin with to have free-tin at the end of the reflow cycle, so that it would still be solderable.
Goldman: And your immersion tin achieves that?
Santos: Yes. So, it's comparable to what competitors have.
Nable: This study also contributes to the understanding of how the immersion tin finish changes with thermal exposure. We wanted to dig a little bit deeper into the mechanism of how immersion tin changes.
Goldman: Surface finishes are of interest to the audience here.
Nable: Right. And that's what we do at MacDermid. We both work in the electronics solutions division and our projects particularly are more focused on final finish, surface finish type of projects. But we're not limited to that.
Goldman: Anything else going on?
Nable: I also want to share that I am a volunteer officer for our local chapter in Connecticut for SMTA, so this is really nice to be able to participate in SMTAI and meet people, and meet the other chapter officers as well. This is the international conference, so this is where all chapters might come together.
Santos: Jun is actually the president of the SMTA Connecticut chapter.
Nable: I am. We try to organize activities or meetings that would be of benefit and relevant to our members that we can all learn from. We get ideas from SMTAI, having these technical talks to gauge the current issues and level of interest in certain topics. We try to bring that back to our local chapter because not all of our members can come to SMTAI.
Santos: The venue of previous SMTA Connecticut chapter expo and forum is just five minutes’ walk from our Waterbury, Connecticut site and fairly accessible to all local members.
Goldman: I hear there are new acquisitions at MacDermid. You probably don't get involved in that. You certainly hear about it, but it probably has no effect on you. It's got to be an exciting time for MacDermid. You work for a great company.
Nable: Every day is exciting. All we know is also what’s been publicly announced. As far as technical people like us are concerned, before or after the announcements, it doesn't change our daily responsibilities. We still work on solving technical problems. We try to come up with innovative solutions for our customers.
Goldman: It doesn't change what you're doing. You might just have a broader audience later on. As researchers, do you get out in the field much to work with customers?
Nable: Not so much. On occasion, if needed, we do go out in the field to provide support.
Santos: It's mostly the process specialists that go into the field. Once in a while, if the formulator needs to be in the field, then we may be called upon.
Goldman: Now, when your new processes first go to a customer, will you go with them for the very first tests and all that?
Santos: If necessary, we do provide support. The process specialist takes over when the product goes to the field. Bringing a product to the field is a long process. It starts with the researcher working on the formulation. If the formula is ready for scale up, let’s say from a liter beaker to a 50-liter tank, the process specialist then becomes heavily involved. When we scale up at our Waterbury site, both researcher and process specialist work together. We assess the performance and resolve issues we encounter until we meet all the requirements. When the product is brought to the field, the process specialist already has an idea and background of the requirements, performance, etc.
Goldman: Thanks so much for your time, and best of luck with both of your projects going forward.
Nable: Thank you.
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Reply: Decktet:: General:: Re: Thematic games that fit the card types (loc./person/event)?
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My game uses Personalities as characters, locations as settings, events as . . . well events in the stories of plays that players are developing. I'm biased, but I like the game. As have those I've played it with:
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I tried this left-hand vs right-hand this morning and enjoyed it a lot. I got a little bored during the drafting phase and skipped ahead just to see what the rest of the game was like. There didn't seem much opportunity for stealing cards; I only did it once.
At the end it was pretty close, but left hand won. Left hand won all three "best" categories by small margins, and right hand won Patron and People, and Festival was a tie.
I'm already thinking how to do a solo version of this. Maybe during the drafting phase, turn over cards from a draw pile one at a time. You can either select the exposed card or the hidden card to be in your hand.
The stealing part could be simulated like the automa in the solo version of Jacynth. When you play a number card, turn over a card from the newly-shuffled draw pile and if it has a higher number, you must discard your card and use that one instead (edit: or possibly discard both of them.) Of course that would mess up the balance of plot, setting and characters, but that happens with the stealing too. I'm still thinking about this, and haven't tried it yet.
It occurs to me that if this works I could probably play it in the hand without too much trouble. The three rows could all be fanned out in one hand, organized with the plot on the left, the setting in the middle and the characters on the right. And instead of using tokens, I could just draw three aces. The first would be the festival, the second the patron and the third the people. That would work fine for solo play.
Scoring could just be beat-your-own score, or possibly try to beat an arbitrary number to win the point. I was scoring around thirty in my two-handed game, so maybe a score of 35 or more would win the point.
I'm just doodling out loud here.
Games of the Moment 35
by Demetri
GotM is back! No time for preamble! ONLY GAMES.
THE AFOREMENTIONED GAMES
This was simultaneously the last game I played in 2019 and the first of 2020. Those were also the same game. Several games have followed since. I've been doing science, y'see. Forensic science. Because Machi Koro has been murdered, and I intend to find the culprit.
Machi Koro went from a hobby darling to a black sheep to dead in a startlingly short amount of time. The mere mention of the name can set people off something fierce. "Too long", "too lucky", "a box of lies", and "absolute garbage" are comments I've heard leveled at the game. And for a while I agreed; after all, I sold off my own copy of Machi and its expansions a while ago. But after our new year’s game I thought back to my many, many games of Machi Koro. They were really fun until they suddenly weren't. That was too sudden of a switch to be without cause. Rather than just move on, I decided to put in some time and figure out what killed Machi Koro. I had some theories, specifically regarding the expansions, and after about 10 plays they proved to be mostly accurate.
I propose that the Harbor expansion killed Machi Koro and Millionaire's Row took the fall. The true negative impact of Harbor just didn’t sink in until Millionaire’s Row came out, at which point everyone dropped the game. Have you ever wondered why the game box estimates 30 minutes? We all know those are more suggestions than fact, but that’s just it - Machi Koro is SUPPOSED to take 30 minutes. Harbor makes that impossible. Tons of red cards, both in low numbers and on the most frequent doubles rolls, plus 2 extra landmarks? One of which costs more than any other? Of COURSE that makes it overlong. Millionaire’s Row dilutes the quantity of blue cards which isn’t a problem on its own, but coupled with Harbor’s issues it takes considerably longer to actually get anywhere.
If you jettison Harbor and just play with the base and Row the game is significantly improved without ever overstaying its welcome. The 5-5-2 setup keeps decisions from being too scripted and the MR cards allow for several viable paths to victory, which was a weakness the base game ran into. There’s probably an optimal custom mix that incorporates some of Harbor’s good ideas while removing other cards but I haven’t bothered to figure that out yet. Who knows, may happen in the future. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that this makes Machi Koro a fantastic game, but it’s not the black hole of fun some claim it to be if you’re selective with which cards you include.
I've been putting Texas Showdown through its paces since...November-ish of last year? Thereabouts anyway. I got myself a copy after seeing that it won the trick taking guild award for the year. Like Voodoo Prince before it this thing offers some neat twists on the genre. I liked Voodoo Prince, but we fatigued on it after a few months of frequent play revealed its hands to be a bit samey. Texas Showdown looks to have more longevity, with a couple caveats.
The first and most obvious is that Texas Showdown is luckier than VP. It’s much closer to a traditional trick dodging game. No bids, no playing chicken with number of tricks taken, just avoid ‘em. The twist comes in with playing off suit - that basically doesn’t exist. If someone can’t play the led suit and they toss in another one, the next player must try to follow either of the suits in play. Whoever plays the highest card of the most-played suit takes the trick, with ties in quantity going to the higher numbered suit. Notably, there are no duplicate numbers and higher numbered suits are fewer in quantity (for example 0-11 is one suit, 71-74 is a different one).
The other proviso, and possibly the more important one, is that Texas Showdown is much better the more players you have. 6 is a riot, 5 is great, 4 is good, 3 isn’t worth your time. It aims for a much lighter, sillier feel than a lot of the recent crop trick takers. It’s a game of gleefully throwing your friends under the bus while trying to avoid having the same done to you. Did someone try to dodge a trick by playing a rare high card? Play a slightly lower one and stick ‘em. It’s simple, yes, but polished.
So it’s a goofy, large-ish group, high interaction cards and numbers game. I don’t know if I necessarily love it, but of course I’m gonna enjoy something with all those attributes. The completely pasted on yeehaw aesthetic just makes it even cuter. How can you not be won over by tiny cacti?
Wait, this the GOOD kind of euro! With scads of conflict! And actual decisions! And super quick turns! I thought these were dead! Well ok, they might still be. HT isn't exactly new. But it's new to me dammit, and two games in I like it much more than I suspected. That’s not enough plays for a proper review of a game with this much going on but I sure don’t mind writing my notes on it here.
I won’t get into the rules of this in any depth because, as simple as the game is once you understand it, explaining it is kind of a bear. It’s basically a rules-dense abstract game. What’s important to note is that there’s not a single action in this game that does not enable or directly create conflict in some form. You could try to play this defensively I guess, but why would you do that when you can shove cubes directly in the way and have your opponents give you extra actions just to remove ‘em?
Players can build some absolutely degenerate combos in this game, as was evidenced in my last play on an alternate board where I built a point-vomiting route and stomped the gas towards endgame, winning the whole thing. It really demands that players police each other, which is something I’m generally a fan of but can be awkward if it’s too action-inefficient to do so and still make actual progress. That’s my main concern at the moment, though it may have been a consequence of the alternate board having a funky layout that was a bit less interwoven than the standard.
Overall though, I was surprised at just how much fun I had with this. Would I seek out a copy for myself once it becomes available again? Probably not, no, but I’ll gladly play other people’s given the option. Games like HT give me hope that maybe someday euros will recover from their current complexity-good-interaction-bad phase. Likely won’t happen quickly, but eventually? Maybe?
Looks like I’m 1 for 1 on quality selections for the Cardboard Diogenes Club. I was getting Ars Alchimia vibes from this and I was dead on. If Japan keeps taking euro mechanisms and using them better than Germany does we’re going to have to come up with a more accurate label.
Little Town is a localization of Studio GG’s Little Town Builders. Its accomplishment is equal parts simple and impressive: it packs an entire worker placement game into 30 minutes. This isn’t a microgame situation either; it’s got as many actions and as much agency as many euro games do, it just respects its players’ time more. And this isn’t just a typical “place dude get thing” WP game either.
Turns are incredibly simple. You’re always going to place a worker, either on the board to collect resources or in the market to spend resources on buildings. Workers don’t just go on the thing you want to collect though, they take an empty spot on the grid and trigger all 8 squares around them in any order you please. What elevates this concept from mild improvement to being worthy of note is that any buildings constructed are placed on the grid, permanently changing the landscape and adding ever more options to pick stuff up from. By the end of round 4 the board will be loaded with buildings and actions will generate tons of goodies, but you’ll need to balance greed with actually getting points made.
In summarizing what makes Little Town innovative I’ve unintentionally explained almost all of the rules. There are other little sparks, like having to pay other players a coin to use their buildings and players having secret goals, but the point is that this is no slouch in its genre despite its ease of play and length. I can think of several 90 minute WP drudgeries that Little Town completely embarrasses. My only concern is that once the game is set up it’s completely luckless, which can sometimes make for an anti-climactic finish in round 4 as one or two players realize that they aren’t really in the running. For some that’ll actually be a positive, I consider it more of a neutral. Point is it’s really good and deserves more attention. Maybe then people who haven’t played it will stop asking “iS ThiS a TinY tOwNs RipOfF?”. The original release of this came out first, you cretins.
THE EXPERIMENTAL SHORT SEGMENT
Woah, something different! Don’t panic. Everything will be fine, I promise.
I’ve played a lot of games recently. Don’t have a ton to say about all of them, either because I’ve spoken about them at length before or haven’t played enough to form developed thoughts. But as this post was a bit shorter than my norm I’m putting all of these micro-opinions here for your perusal. Will this become a regular segment? Who can say? It is a mystery.
Navia Dratp
This game kind of rules??? I was gifted the core sets in one box, and early impressions are that this system deserved better. It’s like Dreamblade crossed with Chess/Shogi and I didn’t realize just how much I love that premise until now. What an insane concept to even say much less manufacture. I understand why it died ignored by the public at large (along with many other minis games of that era) but man, this is REALLY fun.
Clue VCR Game
We only played the tutorial case so I’m reserving judgement, but I was genuinely impressed with how this thing is structured. Sure it’s a bit heavy on “watch the tape and remember inane details”, but the way the cards give concrete info to different players and keeping track of who knows what to minimize how much you help each other is way more interesting gameplay than most modern deduction games can manage. Very much looking forward to playing a full game.
Beagle or Bagel?
I dodged this in a post-Xmas white elephant exchange only to immediately play it afterwards. This may shock you to learn, but Beagle or Bagel is not a particularly compelling game.
Sainome Colosseum R
Adorably goofy dueling game. I'm not convinced that players have any significant control over their fates, but I'm also not quite sure that I care. It’s really cute and REALLY funny.
Tyrants of the Underdark
I keep waffling on whether or not this is my favorite deckbuilder, then every time I play it I find a reason to like it even more. We had a new player so we ran the standard Drow and Dragons. He proceeded to put us in the dirt. Oops. Likely going to make an effort to play the expansion decks more in coming weeks; I’ve played them by far the least and that should be rectified.
Irish Gauge
Always. Be. Chuggin’. Our most recent game saw two other players completely remove pink cubes from circulation early on. It managed to hurt everyone else more than me, despite my early position being the reason they did it in the first place. Won comfortably. God this game’s great.
March of the Ants
Got a standard length 4p game of this in just last night. WOW does this do a lot with a little. I’ve always had an affection for 4X but the sheer length and need for familiar players has made playing them with any frequency difficult. This somehow, inexplicably, actually delivered on the promise of 4X in a reasonable amount of time. Very excited to try this more, I think it’s got potential.
THE LAST BIT
Phew. That was a lot of games, and it wasn’t even everything I played.
Y’know how I really like Japanese games? I’ve been playing a bunch of them lately as I came up with a possible concept for a piece, and if it actually comes together I want to have some of what I've written be a surprise. Not going to go into much more detail than that as I don't even know how it'll end. Consider this a preview of a preview I guess? Ugh, that felt gross.
Anyway, yeah. Keeping busy. I’ve got a couple review copies lined up, as well as another sale I’m attending. That one’s gonna be tricky - I’m used to arranging some trades and walking out with a couple boxes. Can’t do that per the rules of the Cardboard Diogenes Club! Should I have allowed myself to make trades freely? Maybe. But then it wouldn’t be much of a challenge, now would it? If Cindy wants to pick stuff up she's welcome to, but I never steer her towards acquiring anything cardboard anyway so I can't influence her. Couldn't if I wanted to. Her interests and tastes are even pickier than mine.
Thanks so much for reading! See you all again soon.
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finding goshen
When the ever-unfolding drama of the last chapters of Genesis comes to a climax, Joseph has drawn his father and entire family down to Egypt to weather the remainder of the famine. This wasn’t exactly what Jacob had in mind after all the years he spent in Padan Aram with Laban, building his family. But, this seems to be the story of the Jewish people. Exile upon exile has befallen us since our departure from the Garden of Eden.
Published in torah
calmness of inheritance
It is astonishing how Rav Shaul sees the messianic community as a body with the Ruach completely active and accessible. He calls us all to live in that Ruach. To the Galatians, he says the following:
Published in besorah
sober judgment of self
Humility and timidity are not the same. Thankfully, it is more-or-less common knowledge now that humility is not about thinking poorly of oneself. Humility is often described in terms of awareness of one’s short-comings, and willingness to learn and grow from the influence and wisdom of others. In terms of a life worthy of the Kingdom, Rav Shaul gives an astonishing exhortation on humility in his letter to the Romans:
it is not in Heaven, so make a decision
This story is, without a doubt, a pearl to me - in fact, I would consider it a suitable bedtime story for (in the distant future) grandchildren of mine. Filled with action and a fantastic ending, this account speaks volumes to us in the realm of decision. Here we have the Sages, the brilliant minds of Israel, having a delightful halachic dispute over the purity status of an oven of a man named Achnai. Indeed, of all the minds, history states that R. Eliezer is said to have been the brightest. Truly, even in this story, it appears that Hashem agrees with R. Eliezer in his decision. But the rest of the Sages do not concur. No way.
Published in mesorah
Thursday, 14 October 2010 16:09
order as peace
For Rav Shaul, “order” was a communal necessity. The gifted congregation in Corinth was instructed to conduct their meetings orderly (1 Cor 14:40). There is a very short phrase in Rav Shaul’s discourse on this matter that deserves particular intention:
“God is not a God of disorder but of peace.” (1 Cor 14:33, NIV)
order in the face of chaos
Luis Urzua has played a special role in this drama [Chilean mine ordeal]. He is credited with having kept the miners together back in August when there was no hope in sight. When the rescue mission was planned, he chose to be the last miner out. Mr Urzua, 54, known respectfully as Don Lucho by the miners, kept them going for those awful first 17 days, when no one up above even knew they had survived. "For a miner, their shift leader is sacred and holy," rescue official Dr Andreas Llarena told the UK's Guardian newspaper. "They would never think about replacing him. That is carved in stone; it is one of the commandments in the life of a miner." -- bbc.co.uk 10/13/2010
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PseudoPod 644: Flash on the Borderlands XLVII: Horror Comedy Showcase
Authors : Chris Sumberg and Buzz Dixon
Narrators : Dave Robison, Scott Campbell, Karen Bovenmyer, John Bell, Graeme Dunlop, Alasdair Stuart, Brian Lieberman, Alex Hofelich, Kate Kastelein, Tad Callin, Dani Daly, Kitty Sarkozy and Shawn Garrett
Audio Producers : Marty Perrett and Shawn Garrett
“The Gerunding” was first published in the October 1987 issue of National Lampoon
“’Mama!’ Is a Four-Letter Word” was published in IMPACT Press (1999) and Chronogram (2002)
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This episode of PseudoPod is brought to you by AMC Shudder. Check out Shudder’s great content at shudder.com and use promo code pseudopod for a free 30-day trial. What’s waiting for you in this trial? Shudder is a premium streaming video service, super-serving fans of all degrees with the best selection of horror and thrillers. Not only classics you know and love, but a couple less visible gems that we want to draw your attention to.
Firstly, The Old Dark House is a classic horror film created just before the Hays Code dropped, so there’s some content that is particularly shocking for its 1932 release date. This also was inspirational for a young Ray Bradbury and his Uncle Einar stories, which were inspirational for the artist Charles Addams. Secondly, Murder Party is an exceptional entry in the black humor end of the genre, made all the more striking if you know any struggling creatives. I first saw this at a horror film festival wearing my Army of Darkness shirt. One of the filmmakers greeted me at the door, and noting the shirt, assured me I would love their film. They were not wrong.
The thing I’m most looking forward to is the Shudder original series released this week — Critters: A New Binge. I have an arguably unreasonable affection for the Critters franchise, as they indelibly scarred me as a kid. Head over to shudder.com and use promo code pseudopod for a free 30-day trial.
“…and now, some excerpts from Cacophonus Audio’s forthcoming dramatic audiobook adaptation of Buzz Dixon’s 1980s horror classic…THE GERUNDING…”
“It is precisely because we fear that which we fear that we are afraid of it. ”
—Larimo Kurlius, Intellecto Pretentioso
Luckinbill, Maine, 1807 B.C.
Konomoro, wisest of the witch doctors in the seven tribal councils, felt uneasy deep in his red heart. The Norseman standing before him was stark naked and drenched in blood that gushed from hundreds of ornate, foreboding runes carved in his body.
Surely this was an evil sign… (Continue Reading…)
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Punjab News 24SportsIndia still on top, England grab fourth position after 4-1 series win
India still on top, England grab fourth position after 4-1 series win
India continued to be at the numero uno position but England grabbed the fourth spot in the ICC Test Team Rankings after completing a 4-1 series victory at The Oval on Tuesday.
The Virat Kohli-led side had started the series at 125 points but the series loss meant it is now on 115 points.
India had lost the five-match series after conceding a 1-3 lead to hosts England after the fourth Test. The visitors on Tuesday lost the fifth and final Test by 118 runs.
England begun the series in fifth position and 97 points but the emphatic victory over top-ranked India has resulted in a big gain of eight points and lifted them to 105 points as they surpassed New Zealand.
Joe Root’s England side are now just one point behind South Africa and Australia, who are both on 106 points with the former marginally ahead on decimal points.
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Van Halen's tour plans go boom
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:13 am Post subject: Van Halen's tour plans go boom
Van Halen's road plans have taken a rocky turn
It's the LA Times so registration is needed, and it probably rolls off into their archive after 7-14 days.
"Eddie Van Halen declined interviews through his publicist and girlfriend, Janie Liszewski. Conversations with the business team behind the tour paint a picture of a rock star who is somewhere between Axl Rose and Michael Jackson on the music industry scale of eccentric recluses."
I suspect that Boucher would be better served to have cited Jimmy Page as an eccentric recluse (drugs and wackiness) rather than Axl (drugs and rage) or Jacko (drugs and playing with kids). It also ties in with a later point Boucher makes about Roth, and fits with Eddie since he was the first and arguablly the biggest guitar hero of rock in the generation after Page's.
I had only been paying attention to this in passing. I knew that the point of this one was to tour with Roth and obviously cash in on the nostalgia. I'd didn't pay attention enough to see that Eddie made the call to let his 15 year old son take over on bass and give Mike Anthony the boot. That's pretty much a jackass thing to do since as the article points out Mike's always been a rock solid bassist and terrific back up singer in the midst of the nuttiness that surrounded the band over the years. In addition, he always stayed loyal to the "band" concept when Eddie was feuding with Roth and later Sammy. He did it in a way without slagging the lead singers when they fell out with Eddie, but always carried on with the band and doing his job.
Fong
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject: Re: Van Halen's tour plans go boom
Hell, we all saw this coming. Unlike the tour with Sammy, however, Eddie decided to skip the tour and just lose it at the onset.
jdw wrote:
I had only been paying attention to this in passing. I knew that the point of this one was to tour with Roth and obviously cash in on the nostalgia. I'd didn't pay attention enough to see that Eddie made the call to let his 15 year old son take over on bass and give Mike Anthony the boot.
I quite liked this quote from the article:
Eddie Van Halen remains, by all accounts, a gifted guitarist and rock auteur, but the decision to jettison Anthony in favor of a teenager may have been the first sign that the new enterprise was guided by creaky logic.
I guess he gets by because he referred to the "new enterprise", because the logic behind Gary Cherone was pretty f'n creaky in its own right.
That's pretty much a jackass thing to do since as the article points out Mike's always been a rock solid bassist and terrific back up singer in the midst of the nuttiness that surrounded the band over the years.
Eddie's wanted Mike out for years. As far back as 1996, when Sammy was out, Ed was making overtured to Billy Sheehan, he of Mr. Big fame, to come in. Anthony was a Hagar supporter, and I guess that didn't sit well with the brothers Van Halen. Still doesn't.
In addition, he always stayed loyal to the "band" concept when Eddie was feuding with Roth and later Sammy. He did it in a way without slagging the lead singers when they fell out with Eddie, but always carried on with the band and doing his job.
Mike has been in Sammy's camp since as far back as I can recall. When VH toured in the mid-90's behind Balance, Mike and Sam shared a separate dressing room from the brothers. On the Sammy reunion tour, Mike and Sammy had their own private jet. Sammy has gone as far as to say that Eddie wanted to do the 2004 tour without Mike, but Sammy put his foot down on that one. I recall reading an interview Mike did last year in which he said he hasn't been a fan of Roth in quite a long time.
-HJF
(anyone wanna place bets on the first Sting-Stewart Copeland blowout?)
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:53 am Post subject:
Aren't people tired of Van Halen? Didn't the last big Hagar-VH tour bomb because tickets were ridiculously priced and no-one wanted to see them again? While a lot of people have been waiting for the Diamond Dave reunion with VH, I can't see them being able to give Eagles ticket prices and sell out the shows.
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Beaches, Mount Ainos National Park, Melisani Cave-Lake
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Kefalonia Characteristics
Largest of the Ionian Islands, Kefalonia has a land mass of 728 sq.km and 254 km of coastline. Its population is over 32,000. It is 56 nautical miles from Patras. Its Capital is Argostoli, and its main port, Sami. The highest point is Mt Enos (1627m).
This is a large island and its easy to escape the tourists but it fills up in summer! Its biggest drawbacks are long distances between places of merit over tortuous mountain roads and the unfortunate cement architecture from the devastation of the 1953 earthquake.
Kefalonia is a beautiful, rugged and mountainous island with many diverse geological elementssubterranean caves, sandy beaches, unique fir forests.
It also plays host to loggerhead turtles and the Mediterranean Monk Seal, one of the 6 rarest animals in the world. Kefalonia has a unique breed of horses. Additionally the island has many species of wild flowers and spice and produces wonderful wines. The island is especially known for its Robola grape, which produces a lemony dry white wine. New wineries on the island are creating very good Greek wines.
Argostoli, Kefallonoa's Capital and the Lassi Peninsula
Big, busy Argostoli sits on a promatory jutting into Kefalonia's long and narrow bay. The bay's deep waters making it an ideal port town.
Many boats are dry docked here in the winter months.
Originally a smugglers' hideaway, it grew by virtue of the protection from pirates afforded it by the Venetians into a large warehousing port for the export of raisins.
Its narrow traditonal looking streets were actually destroyed by an earthquake in 1953. Post-quake Argostoli received lots of financial help from Kefalonians living abroad and was rebuilt as traditionally as possible under the circumstances. Photos of the destruction and rebuilding are housed in the Historical and Folk Museum. It has a plethora of public buildings grouped around its central square. Platia Vallianou and two of its famous bell towers have been rebuilt.
The Archeological Museum on George Vergoti St. which runs parallel to the harbor, (8:30-3, closed Mon, fee.Tel: 28300) contains many finds from around Kefalonia. Ivory and gold statues, votive offerings to Pan from the Cave of Melissani, coins from the ancient city-states and loads more.
The Historical and Folklore Museum on 12 Ilia Zervou St. (9-2, closed Sun, fee) is particularly interesting in light of the hints contained therein as to pre-quake Kefalonia. Many pictures, maps, furniture, icons, memorabilia as well as the Venetian's island records are on display.
The only structure to survive Kefalonia's earthquake intact in Argostoli was the British-built Drapanos Bridge. You can see the bridge from the waterfront.
Once over the bridge, the road passes, on its way to Sami, via the village of Razata where a dirt road leads up to the 7th Century BC ancient city of Krani or Paliokastro (old castle). Remains of a Doric Temple to Demeter and lengths of the Cyclopean walls are to be seen there.
The Lassi Peninsula on which Argostoli sits has a few sandy beaches, disco bars and tavernas. It's traditional when visiting Kefallona to hike or bike around this tiny peninsula just north of the city. In its north there are Katavothres or swallow holes. Geologists poured 150 kilos of green die down the holes to see where the water emerged and found out fifteen days later across the island near Sami in the cave lakes of Melissani and Karavomylos.
At the tip of the peninsula is the Lighthouse of Aghio Theodori, a Doric Rotunda funded by British High Commissioner Charles Napier. (picture above in the center)
A brisk 15 minute walk inland will bring visitors to the WW II Memorial to the Italian soldiers who lost their lives fighting the Nazis. To the south of Argostoli are some wonderful beaches but commercialized with package tours–Plati Gialos and Makris Gialos. Here are two of the island's most luxurious hotels–The Mediterranee and the White Rocks.
S. E. of Argostoli, Lavatho and Mt. Ainos
Once past the overbuilt Piati Gialos and Makris Gialos, the coastal road breaks free and the village of Minies appears. Minies holds the ruins of a 6th Century BC Doric Temple. You are in wine country in this area. Continuing on will bring you to Avithos beach with red sand, and a few amenities near the village of Svoronata. Just across the water is the islet of Dias.
Some of the oldest Olive trees on the island may found in the next village of Domata where one tree can actually hold 20 people squeezed within is hollow trunk. Olive trees can live a few thousand years. Left, is the Church of the Virgin with some rather ostentatious real gold baroque decor.
The village of Kourkomelata is just about all new construction and financed by Kefalonia's wealthy ship owner Mr. Vergotis. The next village Metaxata hosted Lord Byron for a few months while he polished up Don Juan and pondered his role as a member of the Greek Committee.
To the west lies Lakidra, the most important village of the area, rebuilt largely by French donations. Here were discovered, in the suburb of Kallithea, near the Church of St. Nikolaous the Aliprantidon four Mycenaean tombs also thought to be by some archeologists the Tomb of Odysseus.
Inland Villages of the Plain of Omalos
North of Metaxata is the seat of old island administration, the Castle of Aghios Georgos (Open June-Oct, 8:30-7, Sun 8:30-3, closed Mon). This castle spreads extensively over the 320 meter hill and commands a view of the mountains and surrounding plains. First built by the Byzantines and then rebuilt after the ousting of the Turks by the Greeks and Venetians under Nikolas Tsimaras in 1500. It once housed 14,000 souls within its immediate vicinity.
Just below the Castle is the one time Byzantine Convent of Aghios Andreas. The earthquake of 1953 shook the walls to reveal 13th century frescoes under the whitewash. The church is now the Museum of Agh. Andreas Monastery (Mon-Fri, 9-1:30/5-8, Sat 9-1:30, closed Sun) and houses icons, religious tracts, and a donation of immensurable value by the Princess Roxanne of Epiros–the sole of St. Andrew's right foot.
The breadbasket Plain of Omalos lies to the east and the Monastery of Aghios Gerasimos, the islands patron saint. His bones rest in a silver reliquary in the small church built over his hermitage. Pilgrims from all over Greece worship here. The Si.Ro.Ke. winery is just opposite and sometimes open for wine tasting.
Megas Soros (1628m) is the highest peak in the Ainos Range of mountains its airs are the most rarified of all the Ionian islands. The Argostoli-Sami road branches towards its summit and ascends to 1300m and the tourist pavilion from which you may hike to the top. From here on a clear day may be seen the whole shebang: The Peloponnese, Corfu, Zakynthos, Lefkada and Ithaki.
A unique species of black fir, Abies cefalonica covered these slopes at one time but due to two major fires and exports nine-tenths have been lost. The trees now form the Mt. Ainos National Park. The forests were so extensive that ancients called the island Melania or "the Dark." An ancient, almost extinct, breed of wild horses also roams the park.
Just below lies the 8th Century BC Temple of Aenesian Zeus where still lie the bones of animal sacrifices.
Lixouri and the Paliki Peninsula
From Argostoli, ferries make the trip across the strait to Lixuri in about half an hour. Lixouri is known for its sense of humor and for being home to the poet and satirist Andreas Laskaratos. Lixuri is now a working community, the highlight of which is the elegant Iakovatos Mansion. An icon museum and library, it is one of the few survivors of the earthquake and offers a revealing look at how beautiful things must have been compared to what they are today. On the west side of town, its hours are 8-1:30 Mon-Fri, 9:30-12:30 Sat.
Some nice local, non built-up beaches are accessible from the peninsula: Aghios Spyridon, Michalitsata, Lepeda are all sandy. From the village of Mantzavinata a dirt road leads south to a long stretch of golden sand and Palliki's best known beach Xi which features umbrellas and tavernas.
Just to its south is the now stationary Monolith of Kounopetra. It used to vibrate before the quake. To the north are the villages of Kaminarata, Delaportata and Damoulinata. The beach of Petani has nice white sand and almost is deserted. At the northern tip of the peninsula is beach Aghios Spyridon II.
The South Coast of Kefalonia
There are loads of good sandy, sheltered beaches to be found here in the lee of Megas Soros including Spartiaand Pessada. Below Karavados village, Lourdata is the most popular and longest beach. This beach is also beginning of the Nature Trial, funded by the WWF. A 2.5 hr walk which encompasses most of the island's fauna and passes the ruined Monastery of St. Francis of Assis founded in 1218.
Kato Kastelios is a small resort with a pretty beach curving along Mounda Bay. Just below Ratzakli village is Potamaki beach and a nesting place for protected loggerhead turtles. Please leave the turtles to themselves!
The village of Markopoulo, just inland, is the yearly scene of the appearance of thousands of harmless baby snakes with small crosses on their heads. The appear at the beginning of August and disappear into the church by the altar near the silver icon of the Panagia Fidon (Virgin of the Snakes). At least that's what they did before the quake. Now villagers pick them up to protect them from motorists and gawkers, put them in glass jars and after the service deposit them within the church, which was rebuilt in exactly the same spot as before. They disappear just as in pre-quake days. The unfaithful claim that the church is simply on the reptiles' migratory route, while the faithful point out that the snakes fail to appear when the island is in trouble such as the year of the earthquake (1953) and during the German occupation.
Skala is the biggest resort in this section of the island with all the amenities but still not too overblown. Inland, above Pastra are the remains of the ancient city of Pronnoi with little to be seen. Close by, however, in 1992, at the hamlet of Tzanata, archeologists discovered the main contender to the Tomb of Odysseus status deep below (7m) a vineyard. These 12th Century BC finds are called the most important ancient tombs in western Greece. There were bones, sigil's and gold jewelry. Unfortunately they can't be viewed, since they are all under study at the University of Patras.
From Tzanata the road descends through the Poros gap to Poros where ferries link to Kilini on the Peloponnese. This was originally the port of the ancient town of Pronnoi. Poros has a beach and is under development.
The Port of Sami and Northern Kefalonia
Sami is a utilitarian port town with its own beach and campsite but little else in the way of interest. Ferry traffic goes from Sami to Patras, Corfu and Italy. People often stay overnight here because the nearby caves and beaches are worth a visit. Four km east is one of the nicer beaches of the eastern coast: Andisamos. Because it has only has a small cantina, Andisamos keeps the crowds at bay. It's in a lovely green setting backed by hills.
Sami is near the village of Chaliotata and its magnificent Dragarati Cave (open dawn-dusk, fee), which has many orange and yellow stalactites and stalagmites. One of its hollows is so big and the acoustics so good that opera singer Maria Callas preformed a concert here and occasionally concerts are still held.
The more expensive, prettier and better cave is the Purple Cave or Melissani Cave, a half hour walk from Sami. This is the one connected to the swallow holes across the island and thought by some to be the Cavern of the Nymphs referred to by Homer. This subterranean cave-lake has vivid blue waters in a channel leading to the enclosed section where the nymph Melissani drowned herself when she was spurned by Pan. Sunlight filters down through a hole in the roof making it rather attractive.
There are a variety of other undeveloped caves available to spelunkers in the Sami area but are dangerous to the untrained. Angela cave near Poulata is reputed to be the best.
Aghia Evfimia is a small coastal village with two hotels at the base of Kefalonia's northern most appendage and where ferries to Ithika and Stakes may be boarded. There are some decent pebble beaches off the road from Sami heading into town. Above it, and spared by the quake, is the traditional village of Drakopoulata. Close by are other traditional villages clinging to the slopes of Mt. Agh. Dinati. The soil has a particularly high mica content and causes the teeth of grazing goats to turn silver in color.
Up the Coast to Mytros, Assos and Fiskardo
From Argostoli the road north towards the island's tip reveals one beautiful scene after another. Aghia Kiriaki has the first good beach, below the village of Zola, and sits at the elbow joint linking the Paliki peninsula to the rest of the island. Eight km on, Myrtos Bay has a good pebble beach, a pricey cafe and sunbeds but no afternoon shade. Its three km below the village of Divarata. Perhaps the best view of Myrtos for photographic purposes is along the road north to Fiskardo. From that high vantage point, you can admire the white sand, blue water and tall limestone cliffs of Myrtos.
Assos is perhaps the prettiest spot on the island and here were filmed many of the sunset scenes from the movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin . The whitewashed and pastel houses of Assos straddle the isthmus of a peninsula. This tiny fishing village of 85 residents gets overwhelmed in season and the reasons are obvious. It sits at the bottom of a steep and winding road tucked in the cranny of the isthmus and a a huge rock topped by a Venetian castle. No beaches exist but there are small coves accusable by boat. The Castle may be reached after a serious climb but is worth it for the views. A car can get you up as well. The village was destroyed in the earthquake but rebuilt by French funds which did a pretty good job in keeping with its natural surroundings. At night when the day trippers leave, it returns to its small Greek fishing village persona, although many yachties may berth there for overnights. The castle is in a state of ruin but quite a bit remains. During WWII, 1,500 Italian troops were lined up and shot by the Nazis here.
The road continues north to Cape Ather and passes several villages on the way to picturesque Fiskardo, (pop 100) which was spared the earthquakes wrath but has turned into a trendy over-hyped tourist attraction with little charm in season. There are one or two shingle beaches to either side but better ask the way. There are many over priced tourist shops. Off season is the time to visit Fiskardo, not July or June.
In Argostoli, the areas around the fruit market by the harbor have several good unpretentious tavernas: Taverna Diana, Patsoura and Tzivas near the fruit market. Near the Folklore Museum are two garden restaurants with excellent food and traditional specialties: O Mezes and Sto Psito.
In Platia Vallianou, the central square of Argostoli, El Greco, Kefalos and Caliva are dependable.
Most of the nightlife is in Argostoli.
Some of the oldest tool and artifact discoveries in all of Greece have been discovered on Kefalonia. In Fiskardo at the northern most tip of the island in particular, items over 50,000 years old have been retrieved. Somewhat later inhabitants seem related to the elusive Pelasgians who also occupied parts of Sicily, Epirus and other Aegean islands long before recorded history. Many of the skulls found on Kefalonia show death by violent means.
Mycenaean culture was introduced by the Achaeans via the Peloponnese in the 14th C BC. The main city seems to have been Krani near Argostoli. A major Mycenaean tomb has been discovered near Poros just across from Ithika and archeologists are hoping to discover the Palace or Tomb of Odysseus there. Homer never refers to Kefalonia however, and many think that the island was part of the Kingdom of Odysseus and therefore known as part of Ithika.
Herodotus and Thucydides make first written reference to Kefalonia and its 4 independent city-states of Sami, Pali, Krani and Pronnoi all of which opposed Athens and were allied with Corinth.
The Byzantine period was good for Kefalonia, despite many piratical incursions from Sicily and as far away as Spain. The Normans under Duke Robert Guiscard unsuccessfully attempted to rest control of Kefalonia from the Byzantines but were rebuffed. The Duke died of fever in the current yacht haven of Fiskardo, which is actually named after him, but Grecianized. He was the terror of his day who sacked Rome and made emperors and kings quake in fear.
The next 760 years found Kefalonia a victim of the machinations of the Normans, The Vatican and the Venetians who were the most successful. Their Pirate-Robber-Count Matteo Orsini founded a particularly heinous dynasty at the end of the 13th Century.
In 1483 the expanding Turkish Empire captured Kefalonia only to lose it again in 1504 to the Venetians and their Spanish allies under Gran Capitan Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba who captured the the fort of Aghios Georgos and slaughtered the Turkish garrison. After repairing the fortress the nearby town became the Venetian capital but was destroyed and later abandoned after the earthquake of 1636. Argostoli became the capital in 1759.
The nascent Greek War for Independence brought Lord Byron to Kefalonia in 1823 as an agent for the London based Greek Committee. He subsequently went to Messolonghi to lead troops against the Turk but was smitten by fever and died. Greeks love Lord Byron and name many of their children 'Vyron'. Even a whole neighborhood in Athens (Vyronas) is named after after him.
The British occupied Kefalonia and the Ionian islands for many years after the Turkish withdrawal and when in 1849 the Kefalonians revolted and demanded union with Greece.
In 1943, during WW II, upon Italy's surrendered to the Allies, the occupying Italian Acqui Division joined the Kefalonian Greeks in fighting the Nazis and for eight days fought off the invasion until all were subsequently massacred in mass executions ordered by The Furher himself. Greeks call them the Martyrs of Keffalonia. Their bodies were burned to hide the evidence but estimates are that between 5 000 and 10,000 Italian soldiers were killed.
For 5 days in August 1953 Kefalonia was rocked by a series of earthquakes. In all, 113 tremors turned almost all of Kefalonias' 350 villages and towns into rubble with the force of 60 Atomic bombs emanating from the very first quake. Europe rallied, as did the many Kefalonians who lived abroad and money came pouring in to help the survivors and to rebuild.
After reading about Kefalonia's turbulent history perhaps you'll enjoy the natural beauty of the island and friendliness of the islanders even more. Assos is recommended.
The Complete Details
By Air: There is at least one flight per day from Athens.
By Ferry:Sami is where ferries arrive/depart from/to Italy and depart for Patras at least once a day.
During high season 2 or 3 ferries leave Sami for Venice and Bari via Corfu.
Daily ferries depart for Ithaki and Zakynthos. See map below. There are 6 ports on Kefalonia.
On the island, there is bus service and car and motorcycle rental.
Island Resources
Argosotli Postal Code 28100
Argostoli Port Authority Tel: 25151
Tel.code: 2671 / 4
Argostoli Tel Code: 2671
Olympic Airways Argostoli Tel: 28808/881
Sami Tel Code: 2764
Sami Ferry Info Tel: 22031
Regular & Tourist Police Tel: 22200
Fiskardo Port Authority Tel: 51212
Poros Port Authority Tel: 72460
Lixuri Port Authority Tel: 22224
Island Bus Info KTEL Tel: 22276 / 22281
Argostoli National Greek Tourist Org. Tel: 22248
Port Aghia Evfimia Post Code: 28081, Tel: 61500
Panagia or Snake Festival at Markopoulo: Aug 15
Wine Festival at Fragata: 1st Sat after Aug 15
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Advertised personal sins will not be forgiven in Islam. Allah Almighty will not forgive the sins that are publicly disclosed and bragged about:
Muslims need to watch out from being proud and bragging about sins they have committed to gain worldly publicity and reputation among people. Such sins will not be forgiven by Allah Almighty. Let us look at what Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said:
The following Hadith (Saying of the Prophet) was sent to me by brother Nuh Mikal Ba'th; may Allah Almighty always be pleased with him.
Narrated Abu Huraira: "I heard Allah's Apostle saying. "All the sins of my followers will be forgiven except those of the Mujahirin (those who commit a sin openly or disclose their sins to the people). An example of such disclosure is that a person commits a sin at night and though Allah screens it from the public, then he comes in the morning, and says, 'O so-and-so, I did such-and-such (evil) deed yesterday,' though he spent his night screened by his Lord (none knowing about his sin) and in the morning he removes Allah's screen from himself." (Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab), Volume 8, Book 73, Number 95)"
So my Muslim brothers and sisters, and especially the brothers, before you go bragging about how you got lucky yesterday, or how you made all the girls like you, you should first consider Allah Almighty, and fear Him, and know that you will ultimately meet Him.
If you have committed a sin in secret, then keep it in secret, unless of course you feel that you need to seek help (and I underline help) and talk about it with a friend or loved one, or feel that you must share your problem with somebody. But don't go around bragging about it for the sake of looking "cool" or "hot" or anything stupid like that. We all make mistakes and we all sin. Allah Almighty Understands and Knows. But what He doesn't like is for you to go around and spread evil to the people and advertising sins and tempting people to commit them.
All sins can be forgiven in Islam, except associating partners with Allah Almighty: "God forgiveth not that partners should be set up with Him; but He forgiveth anything else, to whom He pleaseth; to set up partners with God is to devise a sin Most heinous indeed. (The Noble Quran, 4:48)"
No body knows which sins will be forgiven and which won't. Every person Allah Almighty created will be Judged uniquely. His life record will be played before him, and all of the good and bad deeds he committed will be pointed out for him. Allah Almighty will then decide on sentencing the person to Hell or Heaven: "Then shall anyone who has done an atom's weight of good, see it! And anyone who has done an atom's weight of evil, shall see it. (The Noble Quran, 99:7-8)"
Allah Almighty's Mercy and Forgiveness are Great. He didn't really create us to punish us. I just ran a query using my web site's Noble Quran's Search Engine, and searched for all of the Noble Verses that contain "Most Merciful" and "Oft-Forgiving". I got 112 Noble Verses for "Most Merciful", and 84 for "Oft-Forgiving". Most of the returned Noble Verses do contain both expressions in them. But the point here is that Allah Almighty elaborated so many times about His Holy Mercy and Forgiveness.
There seems to be, however, sins that are not forgivable such as the ones mentioned above. But like I said, only Allah Almighty ultimately Knows which ones will be forgiven and which won't.
Islam and the Noble Quran - Questions and Answers.
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There's still plenty for Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman to salvage in 2019
October 1, 2019by Lee Spencer
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If there’s any consolation for Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman after being eliminated from the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs on Sunday, it’s the overwhelming contribution each veteran made to their respective organizations in 2019.
While that’s not much consolation for these hard chargers, both drivers lit a spark as newcomers with their teams. Prior to Busch being recruited by Ganassi Racing and Newman arriving at Roush Fenway Racing, their predecessors were simply spinning wheels.
And there’s no reason to believe that either racer will throw in the towel, despite watching the remainder of the Playoffs from the sidelines.
“Our Playoffs were a nightmare,” Busch said. “We didn’t execute. We didn’t have lap times. We have to regroup for these last seven races to make something better out of our season. It was a nightmare for three races.”
In the first 26 races of the regular season, Busch led the charge for Ganassi. He won at Kentucky Speedway in July—the first victory for the No. 1 Ganassi team since 2013. Busch also posted five top fives and 14 top 10s and remained in the top 10 in the standings until the postseason arrived.
But at Indy, Busch hit the wall and finished 30th. The team’s bad luck continued throughout the first Round of the Playoffs, with Busch’s first DNF of the season at Las Vegas followed by an 18th-place result at Richmond and a 20th-place finish at the Charlotte Roval.
“We’re out, but we can try to salvage something overall,” Busch added. “We were a top-10 team all year, but the wheels just came off. This was a nightmare. We just didn’t have the speed. It was crazy.”
While Busch’s season hit the skids in the Playoffs, Newman had been trending up over the past month. He was 16th after Darlington but with finishes of eighth at Indianapolis, 10th at Las Vegas and fifth at Richmond, Newman climbed to a season-best ninth in the standings entering the Roval race. With a 14-point cushion coming to Charlotte, Newman appeared to be in good standing. Then the wheels came off.
“I felt like I made a lot of mistakes trying too hard,” Newman said on Sunday. “We did not have the race car, and that’s what I had to do. I felt like we were in a position at one point and then just kept trying too hard trying to keep the 10 car (Aric Almirola) behind us and missed the curbs. That was unfortunate.
“We came in at a big deficiency and finished one point out or whatever it was, but, no matter what, we are still going to fight for fifth. I’m proud of everybody at Roush Fenway for the fight and the opportunity that they’ve given me. We’re not done; we’re just out at this point.”
Don’t expect Busch or Newman to bow out without a fight. Newman has five wins at the remaining seven tracks including three at this week’s venue—Dover International Speedway. A win for Newman would end a personal streak dating back to the 2017 spring race at Phoenix and would mark the first time the No. 6 Ford would return to Victory Lane since Mark Martin at Kansas in 2005.
Busch also has wins at five of the next seven venues, including one at the Monster Mile. As consistent as the No. 1 team has been all season, it’s imperative for Busch to end on a high note, particularly if he intends to stay the course with Ganassi Racing in 2020.
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Tag: Walk in Health Care Clinics Near Me in Mercer County
Nextcare Urgent Care in Mercer County
If a sudden illness or an injury strikes, you and your family need to know that when you choose to use a 24 hour medical clinic in Mercer County to treat your injuries, you are making the right choice. There are at least three ways that a 24 hour medical clinic is more effective than a traditional 24 hour emergency clinic attached to a hospital emergency room.
The first is access. When you visit a clinic your average wait time (door-to-doctor) is much shorter than compared to a hospital-attached ER. A visit to a walk in clinic in Mercer County for example, has a wait time of just fifteen minutes before you are seen by a board certified physician, with access to all emergency resources and the latest facilities. Compare this to the national average of 24 emergency clinics’ wait time of 172 minutes for the “best” in the country. The urgent care facility is clearly more effective.
The quality of your physician in Mercer County , and their access to emergency resources should be high on your list of medical priorities, and here, the 24-hour walk-in, beats a hospital ER. Looking at our medical clinic in Mercer County, for instance, the facility offers not only all the services of a traditional ER or clinic, but it does so with top ranked, board certified doctors who are able to successfully administer emergency services, and when needed for long-term care, admit the patient to the hospital of their choice. Urgent care’s also provide rested doctors; most hospital accidents occur when staff have been overworked on long shifts, where the professionals in 24 hour urgent care’s are well staffed and ready to respond to your care.
The walk in emergency facility in Mercer County will treat you for common complaints to serious emergencies without any delay in lab results or physician diagnoses. There is no need to wait days or weeks to find out test results from overwhelmed medical labs when a 24 hour medical clinic has those resources on site and available to your doctor right away. Another advantage of the 24 hour medical clinic in Mercer County is the access to the full array of X-Ray, diagnostic CT, and ultrasound scanners to treat every patient from broken bones to complications with pregnancy. For these reasons, 24 hour medical clinics in Mercer County are decidedly more effective for immediate medical care than traditional hospital ERs.
Top Three Reasons Why an Walk in Urgent Care Clinic Is The Choice of a New Generation
If your clinic was named the Safe Care Urgent Care would you patronize it? Of course not! Yet isn't that the type of service you receive when you sit in a hospital emergency room for hours and hours waiting patiently (and pathetically) for your name to be called? Now, let's say your clinic is named Urgent Care. Wouldn't you flock to it like a thousand ants on a discarded lollipop? Of course you would-and the choice is now yours.
Next time you have an accident or feel ill you can choose between the snail's pace of a hospital emergency room or a very fine urgent care clinic in your neighborhood. Look, there's no denying that a hospital emergency room does great work when your injury or illness is life threatening. If this is the case, they whizz you to the back and all available doctors and nurses get to work on you in a flash. If your injuries are non-life threatening, however, you will sit for hours surrounded by the maimed and the infectious and chances are you will walk out of there sicker than when you came in.
If you are not one of the lucky few who have a regular doctor, the next time you fall ill or have an accident try an urgent care clinic. You will find that you receive much, much faster service (of the same quality you would receive elsewhere), be treated with dignity and respect (not like a number), and pay an affordable price at an affordable walk in clinic. With all the fine urgent care facilities open and opening around the country, the deck is stacked against the hospital emergency room these days.
Let's take a look at some of the medical problems that one would visit a walk in clinic for. This is a short list and is by no means the extent of what these amazing facilities do on a daily basis.
Abrasions & lacerations Cutting oneself happens quite often. Whether it is at the work place or the kitchen table, many individuals seek medical help at their urgent care clinic of choice for this type of injury. An abrasion is a superficial flesh wound. A skinned knee is a perfect example of an abrasion. No permanent damage occurs when one receives an abrasion, yet medical help is sometimes needed to clean and bandage the wound-and to guard against infection.
A laceration is much more serious flesh wound and is generally deep enough to expose bacteria directly into the bloodstream. A laceration can also affect an artery or major vein and bleeding will be hard to stop. If you have received a laceration of any type please get to a walk in clinic as soon as you can.
Sprained Ankle With over nine million sprained ankles a year in America, urgent care clinics have grown accustomed to treating them in a professional manner. A sprain occurs when your ankle ligament is stretched beyond its normal range or when it gets torn by over stretching. Either way, an urgent care clinic can provide the best treatment available for sprains whether it includes bracing, bandaging, icing, pain killers and/or crutches.
Burns Although there are obvious degrees of burns, it is important to get to an urgent care clinic as soon as possible when you have received any type of burn. Treatment needs to occur quickly in order for your wound to heal properly. An urgent care clinic will do everything it can to minimize scarring as well as all other pertinent treatment.
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Hubble Captures Incredible Photos of Comet Borisov as It Speeds Past Our Sun
Comet 2I/Borisov has become something of a cosmic celebrity in recent months, and researchers have been collecting snapshots with paparazzi passion. These new pics are the most revealing yet, taken as the interstellar visitor makes its closest approach to Earth.
The newly released images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope were taken from a distance of just under 300 million kilometres, providing astronomers with unprecedented detail of the odd little comet.
And we do mean little. It seems to be 15 times smaller than first predicted.
“Hubble gives us the best measure of the size of comet Borisov’s nucleus, which is the really important part of the comet,” says astronomer David Jewitt from the University of California Los Angeles.
“The radius is smaller than half a kilometre. This is important because knowing the size helps us to determine the total number, and mass, of such objects in the Solar System, and in the Milky Way.”
That list is currently a short one. Just one other object – an asteroid with the jaw-breaking name Oumuamua – has been confirmed as an interstellar traveller.
Back in August, Crimean amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov observed a previously unlisted comet heading our way, out at a distance of around twice that of Mars’s orbit.
After doing the sums on its trajectory, it quickly became clear that the ball of rock and ice couldn’t have come from the frozen wastes at the edge of our own Solar System, where other comets originate. It had to come from further afield, flying towards the Sun at an insane speed of around 175,000 kilometres per hour.
Finding two alien objects in two years is either a huge stroke of luck, or an indication that if we look hard enough, we’ll almost certainly find more like them. The question is, just how many should we expect?
“Borisov is the first known interstellar comet, and we would like to know how many others there are,” says Jewitt.
The comet’s nucleus is too small to be resolved from 298 million kilometres away, a relatively close distance that currently puts it somewhere just inside the asteroid belt.
But as you can see in the picture below, it still puts on quite a display. These most recent images are nothing short of stunning, revealing a fog of gas and dust as the nucleus, long frozen in the wilderness between stars, now slowly defrosts in the Sun’s warmth.
(NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (UCLA))
Earlier, Hubble caught the comet with a cheeky photobomb by the spiral galaxy 2MASX J10500165-0152029. You can see that pic up top left, with the galaxy’s bright central core smeared slightly as Hubble tracks Borisov across the sky.
With the visitor putting distance between it and our planet later this month, these images are about as good as it’s going to get for 2I/Borisov.
Hopefully we won’t have to wait too long before we see another one just like it heading our way. By then, we’ll be sure to have our cameras ready.
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Scrisoare Deschisa catre Smithsonian Institute in cazul Scandalului antiromanesc “Mostenirea maghiara: Radacinile renasterii”/“Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival”. Folclorul si traditiile romanesti nu sunt nici unguresti nici tiganesti. In atentia mass-media, a MAE, SIE si SRI
July 18th, 2013 VR 3 Comments »
To: The Smithsonian Institute Board of Regents
The Directors and Managers of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
The Ethnographers, Historians and Managers of the “Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival” event
Fm: Media Professionals of the Worldwide Romanian Diaspora
Re: Request for Information, Clarification and Corrective Actions Regarding Representations and Incidents at the 2013 “Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival” Event, National Mall
· Purpose. The purpose of this correspondence is to request information, clarification and corrective actions regarding representations and incidents at the 2013 “Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival” event staged at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on behalf of numerous media professionals and media organizations of the worldwide Romanian Diaspora.
EXCLUSIV Dan Tanasa Ro, in atentia SRI, SIE si MAE: Budapesta cheltuiește un milion de dolari ca să promoveze “Ungaria Mare” in SUA. Scandalul antiromanesc de la Smithsonian Folklife Festival. GALERIE FOTO
Dublu scandal antiromanesc in SUA. Reactia MAE inexistenta. Ungurii fura “Ciocarlia” romaneasca si agreseaza ziaristi romani la Smithsonian FolkLife Festival. ICR pune paie pe foc: Tigani autointitulati ansamblul “Ciocarlia” reprezinta Romania
Associated Press prezinta Transilvania drept o regiune a Ungariei in stirea despre Festivalul unguresc de la Washington. Ambasada Romaniei nu are nici o reactie.
· Event Background. Between 26-30 June and 3-7 July, the Smithsonian Institute organized “Smithsonian Folklife Festival” on the grounds of the U.S. National Mall. This year, the guest of honor was the country of Hungary which was invited to participate in the program by Smithsonian Institute organizers. Under the name of “Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival”, the Hungarian program was produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in partnership with the Balassi Institute, Budapest. Major support was provided by the Hungary Initiative Foundation and National Cultural Endowment of Hungary. Additional support was provided by the Hungarian American Coalition, American Hungarian Federation, Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Embassy of Hungary in Washington, D.C., and others. The stated overarching goal of the Folklife Festival programsin general is to present and bring close to attendees the folk cultural heritage of invited countries to the American public. The showcase of traditions of culture was masterfully done. However, several incidents happened on the background of a tense political situation in Hungary and Romania today that require specific answers from the American organizers, namely the Smithsonian Institute/Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. The geo-political issue in which the Smithsonian Institute has apparently inserted itself is important enough that it demands answers from the Board of Regents, as well as directors and managers of the “Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival” event.
“Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival” Overview. As a guest of honor, Hungary was handed the opportunity to showcase its rich culture and traditions to a large American and international audience on the Washington, D.C. National Mall. The preparation for this program took approximately two years, according to the Hungarian organizers,with over one million dollars of expenses paid by the Government of Hungary, according to the Hungarian Ambassador in Washington, D.C., as well as other substantial donors. This data was publicized at the following URL:http://www.americanhungarianfederation.org/news_smithsonianfolklife2013.html
Approximately 120 participants were brought to Washington, D.C. from Hungary, Romania, Serbia, and around the U.S.A. Among them, approximately 30 participants were dancers and singers, most of them from Romania, a preponderance from the Romanian region known most famously as Transylvania.The master chef in one of the food kitchen tents at the festival, for example, is a well-known Magyar (ethnic Hungarian) restaurant owner in Chicago who was born and raised in Romania, still celebrates his Romanian roots and spoke with journalists in his native Romanian language as well as English for media interviews. It therefore came as an unwelcome surprisethat Transylvania was constantly cited only in a Hungarian ethnic context during the stage performances and afterwards during recorded video interviews with performers and organizers. Numerous discrepancies arose which caught the attention of attending members of the credentialed media, which need to be addressed by the Smithsonian Institute responsible personnel and experts. These items are detailed herein.
Map Graphics, Regional and Village Naming Conventions by Smithsonian Institute. Prominently displayed around the “Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival” tents and exhibits were large maps, detailing the areas from which the songs, music, arts and crafts were drawn; the vast majority of which are in Transylvania within the sovereign territory of Romania. Names of villages and regions, on Romanian territory, are presented with only the Hungarian names and leaving attendees and audience members with the clear misunderstanding that Transylvania is a part of modern Hungary. In fact, research indicates that the maps, as illustrated and presented by the Smithsonian Institute at this Festival, are strikingly similar to Hungarian “separatist” maps publicized by those seeking to break Transylvania away from the country of Romania. These are maps used by Hungarian ultra-nationalists and separatists in their ambition to “liberate” a large portion of Romania to “autonomy” for the Magyar minority. Against this background, those of us in the media and international Romanian Diaspora wish an explanation: How were these maps selected by the Smithsonian Institute? Which experts at the Smithsonian vetted these map graphics? Did the Smithsonian organizers, sponsors, managers or historians seek to blur the distinction between Transylvania as part of the sovereign territory of Romania, versus suggesting that it is somehow part of modern-day Hungary, or was this misrepresentation a simple error and oversight by the Smithsonian Institute for which it takes responsibility? Did anyone take into account regional sensitivities when drawing up this map for public display?
Traditions, Songs and Cultural Traditions Presented at the Festival. Media observers noticed and recorded traditional Romanian songs, dance and dress being presented several times on such venues as the Danubia Stage, but with the announcers making only passing reference to the “Transylvanian” and “Hungarian” roots but without acknowledging the actual historic Romanian roots. The fact that various Romanian traditions were presented as Hungarian was even acknowledged on-camera in media interviews with performers, event managers and organizers (in at least one case the interviewee stated that the organizers “were not proud, but not ashamed” of the Romanian roots of the songs, dance and dress that were being presented as Hungarian traditions). During the Hungarian Ambassador’s radio address about the Festival, he makes no mention of Romania or even Transylvania in his eight-minute interview, or even acknowledges the multi-cultural traditions presented on the stages by a talented cast (as noted, comprised of many Romanian citizens). Repeatedly, all references are solely toward Hungary. Against this information, could the Smithsonian Institute and experts please offer explanations? Was the Board of Regents or any other responsible executive body of the Smithsonian Institute aware that Romanian songs, dance and dress were presented on-stage but without acknowledging the Romanian roots? Who was the responsible historian or ethnographer from the Smithsonian Institute who vetted the songs, dances and dress that appeared on stage, and was it a conscious decision to mention the “Transylvanian” history in reference to Hungary, but without adequately citing Romanian culture and traditions? How does the Smithsonian wish to respond to the query as to why “Hungarian” roots for revival was presented by so many Romanian citizens and drew heavily on Romanian traditions, but was presented almost exclusively as “Transylvanian” or “Hungarian” culture?
Incidents of Intolerance, Separatist and Ultra-Nationalist Actions by Hungarian/Magyar Participants. Shortly after the construction of the large festival dance pavilion was completed, some of the Hungarian/Magyar participants in the festival raised a flag over the structure. The flag was the Hungarian-colored flag of the Magyar Separatist Movement in Transylvania, also displayed on the festival map as “Székelyföld”. It was taken down by Festival organizers, but perhaps was prologue to later incidents of intolerance. After a wonderful, high-energy performance at the Danubia Stage, three Magyar/Hungarian performers cursed at an elderly woman who had a wrist-ribbon of Romanian colors (this is on video). The same performers accosted a U.S. citizen and journalist, also wearing a wrist ribbon of Romanian colors (similar, incidentally, to those on the trim of many of the dancers’ costumes), cursed the cameraman and one Magyar/Hungarian member physically grabbed the hand and arm of a media professional while another said in Hungarian language, “while wave that Romanian flag, Transylvania belongs to Hungary.” This entire incident is also on video. The Romanian flag was being held by a Romanian national while a Romanian journalist, incidentally, was simply conducting an interview on the gravel path adjacent to the Festival “tavern” tent with another U.S. citizen of Romanian descent who was raving about what a marvelous performance it was. These audience members and credentialed media personnel were happy and excited about the excellent stage productions, “high-fiving” many performers and speaking at length in Romanian language with numerous Romanian cast members who were delighted to be recognized and appreciated by fellow Romanian countrymen. It was on this scene of pleasant celebration of an excellent stage production that the three Magyar/Hungarian performers inserted their separatist and ultra-nationalist agendas, alleging that the presence of Romanians and their flag on the National Mall was “a provocation” and insisting that the Romanians—and the media members and associated U.S. citizens of Romanian descent—leave the area. Videos and images have been made available, and reportedly other citizens have already written the Smithsonian requesting answers. The undersigned media members and Romanian Diaspora would like the Smithsonian to kindly address whether the Smithsonian Institute organizers vetted the performers? Were the performers who were pursuing Magyar Separatist agendas known to the Smithsonian? As many cast members were Romanian citizens and presenting Romanian dances, dress and traditions, a few singing Romanian songs in Romanian language, can the Smithsonian executive team please explain the rationale behind the “Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival” event featuring these as “Hungarian” but without acknowledgement that Transylvania is Romania? Do the historians, experts and event organizers at the Smithsonian believe that Transylvania is part of Hungary?
Conclusions. Although we are not seeking, as members of the media and worldwide Romanian Diaspora, a judgment on the actions or conduct of a number of Hungarian/Magyar participants or the incidents themselves, we collectively are calling upon the Smithsonian Board of Regents—which includes several high ranking officials of the United States Government and therefore has significant clout on geo-political issues such as the Magyar Separatist movement—and the Smithsonian executive management to issue a joint and public statement on the issues we raised in this letter. At this point, an observer would conclude that the Smithsonian Institute and the senior U.S. government officials on the Board of Regents either tacitly or explicitly endorse the ethnic-Hungarian—Magyar Separatist movement in Transylvania. Apparent efforts by the Festival event organizers—from map graphics to stage presentations, to chasing away Romanian audience members and media, to the attempt by Hungarian artists to fly the Hungarian Separatist Flag from the top of the constructed festival dance pavilion and statements to the media made by these performers expressing strong desire of autonomy for Transylvania—indicate the need for precise explanations and an official position published by the most senior executive members of the Smithsonian. The stage performances, music, dress and dance were spectacular and thrilling to observe. That many of these were adopted by Hungarian groups and shared and enriched by and between Gypsy/Roma, Romanian, Jewish and Hungarian ethnicities is testimony to the treasure that is multi-cultural heritage. That such beauty on stage, could be marred by apparent displays of separatist agendas, ultra-nationalism and intolerance among some Magyar/Hungarian participants—as well as academic blurring of the Romanian territory of Transylvania as being “Hungarian”—remains an issue in need of direct comment and a statement of position from the Smithsonian. In summary, the issues for direct comment by the Smithsonian’s executive team:
The Festival’s use of the map of the Hungarian Kingdom and Magyar Separatists representing Romanian Transylvania with Hungarian graphics and text;
Why the Smithsonian organizers failed to acknowledge that three of the six featured communities for the “Hungarian” Folklife festival are Romanian;
An explanation as to why Romanian songs, dances and costumes were featured as “Hungarian” on the stages and on the website of the Hungarian festival;
A statement on the Magyar/Hungarian cast members and performers exhibiting their Separatist agenda, both in interviews and in incidents of intolerance captured on video by credentialed journalists, and in response we respectfully request a clear statement of the Smithsonian’s position on these incidents;
An explicit acknowledgement by the Smithsonian Institute from your experts, historians, ethnographers and executive management team as to whether the region of Transylvania is legally and geo-politically part of the sovereign state of Romania, and whether any presentations, graphics, artworks or public statements suggesting otherwise are in factual error;
An explicit acknowledgement by the Smithsonian Institute experts and executive team including the Board of Regents that there was no intent by the Smithsonian, or the event organizers, to take a position supporting the Magyar/Hungarian Separatist movement to the detriment of the sovereign nation of Romania.
We have a team of expert historians and ethnographers ready to work with the Smithsonian Institution experts and revisit the program and determine which of the traditions presented under ”Hungarian Heritage” name may have been, in fact, Romanian in origin and artistic credit.
Sincerely, the undersigned members of the media and Romanian Diaspora
PhD. Eugen Vasilescu, Georgetown University, U.S.A.
PhD. Marius Petraru, California State University – Chief Redactor, Miorita U.S.A.
PhD. Theodore Bucur, Professor HEI of Lille, International Expert, France
PhD. Adrian Boeru, National University of Arts Bucharest, Romania
PhD. Adrian Botez, Publisher, Writers’ Union of Romania
Prof. Lia Lungu, Folklore Interpret; awarded U.S. Citizen for Extraordinary Ability, NY
Valentin Tepordei, Professor & Researcher USGS Scientist Emeritus, Arlington, VA
Mihai Boicu, Researcher, Professor, George Mason University (Fairfax, VA) U.S.A.
Daniela Ionescu,Masters in History of Art, California State University, U.S.A.
PhD Vasile Lechintan, Historian, Transylvania, Romania
Adelina Palade, Councelor and Analyst, Chamber of Deputies, Romania
Editorial Staff „Miorita USA” Romanian American Newspaper
Editorial Staff of„Ziaristi Online”, Romania
„Iuliu Maniu” Foundation, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Marcela Maria Băjeanu –Gymnastics Coach, Maryland, U.S.A.
Ana Hontz Ward – Journalist, Voice of America, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
Dorin Suciu, Journalist, Romania
Corneliu Leu, Publisher, Canada
Dan Tanasa, Freelance Journalist, Madrid, Spain
Mihaela Biliovschi, International Journalist, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
Dacian Dumitrescu – Deputy Chef Editor, Romanian Breaking News Press
Victor Roncea, Journalist, Founding President „Civic Media” Association, Romania
Dana Deac, Vicegovernor, Cultural Society„Filarmonia” Turda, Plastic Artist & Journalist, Romania
Cultural Association„Miorita”, California, U.S.A.
Benone Neagoe, Military Journalist, Romania
Corneliu Vlad, Journalist, International Policy
Phd Grid Modorcea, Journalist and writer, New York
Eng. Simona Botezan, Deputy Manager „Miorita”, Washington, D.C.
Dan Leontescu, Editor “The Eastern European Echo”, Seattle WA, U.S.A.
Elena Andronache, Independent Group for Democracy, Founder, Romania
Eng. Gabriel Neagu, System Analyst, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Theodor Codreanu, Writer, Romania
Florin Palas, Journalist, Romania
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by matt | Mar 29, 2010 | Scott Kimball
Ted Peyton, who was convicted of sexually abusing Scott Kimball in the 1970s and 1980s, registers with Boulder County as a sex offender after concerned mothers in Nederland contact the Sheriff’s Office about the fact that he is not registered. Cmdr. Rick Brough,...
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Iwo Story
by dustintuccillo | Oct 16, 2015 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
We so often forget about those amongst us that have stepped up and made a difference. It’s important for us to keep the spirit of Marines and their sacrifices alive and in the minds of those of us who still care and know what it takes to keep this country free. So, we decided to look a little closer to home and identified one of our own…Matt Blakely.
Matt participated in the landings and battles on the Island of Iwo Jima where he was the recipient of the Silver Star. We asked Matt if he would share his experience with us and as is the case with many of his generation and those that have stepped up when others wouldn’t or couldn’t, he was reluctant and didn’t think it was a big deal. We thought it was and finally convinced him to give us his story about his participation in the actions that have now become a part of Marine Corps history and legend. We hope you enjoy the article and keep in mind there are allot of forgotten heroes amongst us who stepped up to made a difference and just simply returned to society with little or no recognition for their sacrifice or contribution. I guess this is our small way of going back and saying not only as Marines, but also as Americans, thank you! So, from all of us…Thanks, Matt and Semper Fi!
Reflection, a Remembrance: Iwo Jima 1945
Matt Blakely
In 1942, I was a civil engineer employed by Boeing Aircraft doing research work. Through an odd circumstance, I enlisted in the Navy and was cleared into the Office of Naval Intelligence. After 14 intense months at the US Navy Oriental Language School in Boulder, Colorado learning the Japanese language and being educated in their culture, I graduated and selected the Marines for intelligence service. After finishing the Basic School, aboard Quantico, I was commissioned a 2nd Lt and was immediately ordered to the FMF, 4th MarDiv on Hawaii.
My assignment to the 4th MarDiv was around the time the division was preparing for its fourth island invasion since being activated at Camp Pendleton only two and a half years earlier. I was assigned to the Division D-2 (later called G-2 in Marine lexicon) between operations. There were approximately 10 officer interpreters and half dozen enlisted linguists that practiced speaking, reading and translating radio broadcasts daily to maintain proficiency in the Japanese language. The enlisted personnel eventually were assigned to the RCT’s (Regimental Combat Teams) during operations along with 2 officers. The remaining officers were assigned to the division to translate and interrogate. Those assigned to the RCT’s were assigned to the S-2 where they would conduct prisoner snatches and conduct spot interrogations and forward the information up to division for additional analysis. Between operations some of us were ordered TAD on Hawaii for prisoner interrogation work at the POW installation. This duty was considered prized not only for the training experience, but also for the liberty associated with the area.
Operation “Detachment” and the 4th MarDiv involvement was soon underway for the assault on the Island of Iwo Jima by the 5th Amphibious Corps. D-Day came on February 19th, 1945. I hit the beach shortly after 0900 in the first wave with RCT 25. We encountered only sporadic resistance at the beginning; the Japanese were holding back major actions until the entire east landing beach became jammed with troops and equipment.
Shortly after the landing a top secret “red bordered” Japanese document was found by the RCT’s S-2 and I was ordered to deliver the document to the division command back aboard ship for D-2 analysis. After commandeering a boat and getting aside the ship, I nearly didn’t make it up to the ship’s deck from the boat via the rope ladders. Climbing from the bouncing small landing craft with full combat gear and weapons I became exhausted, but was gratefully dragged over the ship’s rail by two very helpful and welcomed sailors. I delivered the captured document and prepared to return to the beach. I was probably the only Marine to make 2 landings on Iwo before noon on D-Day.
The conquest of this sulfur island was made extremely costly for the Marines by the Japanese defenders. The defenders had the advantage in terms of assets, manpower, armored equipment, artillery and supplies. Iwo was an island fortress with a determined enemy and heavy resistance was underway by mid morning. I was with the 4th MarDiv, RCT 25 at Blue Beach 2. The 4th was the northern most unit of the attacking force of the 5th and 4th Divisions with the 3rd in reserve. Blue Beach 2 was directly under enfilade fire from the rock quarry cliff area. The going was rough.
The defenders were determined and had previously dug in and set up in preparation for the coming invasion. They had pre-registered targets and established fields of fire covering every square meter of the island. The Japanese fire was deadly, right on and highly accurate, except for 320MM Spigot Mortars that floated through the air and with a demoralizing affect.
The advancing off the beach to take the high ground was terribly slow, but the 4th Division was able to proceeded inland wheeling to the north than to the east through the territory of Japanese 2nd Mixed Brigade. For 25 days until March 16th, officer and enlisted Marine interpreters handled the translator and interrogation duties involving the few captured Japanese, translation of documents and analysis of maps.
Prisoners remained the best source of intel and a Japanese officer was the “cream”, but they were scare. Documents were fairly plentiful, but did not provide the level of intel needed. One day melted into another with varying successes in intelligence gathering that started to provide greater value. Continuous scouting and patrolling for any intel assets was the order of the day. RCT 25 Commanding Officer, Col, Lanigan, was especially intel conscious and encouraged aggressive actions. During these actions, we encountered areas of stubborn defense held by fanatically dedicated Japanese defenders. Some of these actions are now part of Marine Corps History and fill the annals of epic battles – Hill 382, Turkey Knob, The Amphitheater, The Meat Grinder and Charlie Dog Ridge.
We got a prisoner here and a prisoner there and after interrogation would cross checked the information against their comrades. In an atmosphere of deadly combat, we continually tried to affect a live capture. The intelligence we gathered for the infantry units was eventually extended to include the air, artillery and armor assets. Intel demand increased.
We conducted these intelligence operations under the continual and deadly mortar, rocket, artillery, grenade and sniper fire; suicide attempts and booby traps were always present, but the intelligence gathering was vital.
I had civil engineering training in land surveying and map making that became useful in developing the use of enemy maps. The maps the Marines used were developed from aerial recon photos which hardly defined the true topography in any detail. The terrain in the north and parts of the east were made up of a high plateau with a myriad of alley ways or corridors formed by the deep crevices in the rocky heights. Man-made inter-connecting tunnels with cave openings were everywhere and armed with every possible type of weapon. Captured Japanese maps were detailed and up to date; interpreting from these Japanese contour maps eventually allowed our troops to more easily, locate and identify positions and possible enemy defensive locations.
I witnessed exceptional and extraordinary acts of selflessness and courage on the part of Marines and Corpsmen throughout the agonizingly and exhaustingly slow progress of the division. We were able to take ground and proceeded to wheel right to the east coast of the island to defeat Japanese troops who were diabolically concealed and highly effective.
For three days starting on March 13th, the 4th Division was held at a standstill by a final “last ditch” effort of the Japanese. We were unable penetrate and advance. On the 15th, while in enemy territory searching for possible prisoners or material information, I was able to convince 2 Japanese officers to “give up” despite their decision to commit seppuku in the Samurai way. As a result, they eventually supplied the information we needed to finish off the Japanese 2nd Mixed Brigade. Mop-up actions followed to the east coast through the 16th. I was eventually cited for this action.
The 4th MarDiv boarded sea transport back to Hawaii. VJ Day came in August after the Okinawa success and this interpreter headed north to China for duty with 3/7/1.
In retrospect, a remembrance – As Dwight D. Eisenhower so aptly said regarding personal military honors, “Humility must always be a portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifice of his friends.” It was the Brotherhood of Marines that contributed to our success and continues to contribute to the success of the Marne Corps. There is no room in Marine lexicon for the pronoun “I”; the Marines are and have always been about “WE”…The Team!
“For Conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy on Iwo Jima, VOLCANO ISLANDS, on 15 March, 1945. First Lieutenant Blakely was given the task of going ahead of friendly lines and into enemy territory to accomplish a particularly hazardous mission. While under heavy enemy fire form mortars, rockets and grenades, he operated with complete disregard for his own safety. Through his heroic efforts, the further movement of friendly troops in the pockets of resistance was facilitated. His courage and conduct throughout were in keeping with the highest traditions of the untied stated naval service” H.M. Smith LtGen USMC
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