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Resurrected Houses of the Holy
Led Zeppelin reunited last night in London, England. I wasn't there.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell was. And she got mugged in her luxury suite. Good.
Anybody who wants to enjoy Led fucking Zeppelin from a "luxury box" deserves any negative fate they receive.
She was the only celebrity known to have had a problem at a concert that was filled with A-list names. Mick Jagger, for example, attended the show with girlfriend, L'Wren Scott, while his children, Georgia and James, came with their mother, Jerry Hall.
The two groups did not run into each other. Hall and kids were satisfied to sit in very good seats at the side of the stage near Bob Geldof, while Jagger was seated in resort mogul Sol Kerzner’s private box with Mica Ertegun and James Taylor.
Elsewhere in the O2 Arena, lots of other celebrities watched Zeppelin and a stellar roster of musicians put together by producer Harvey Goldsmith pay tribute to the memory of Ahmet Ertegun. They ran the gamut from Rosanna Arquette to guitarist extraordinaire Jeff Beck.
Arquette’s friend Paul McCartney was expected but not seen, although his security man arrived and lingered near Arquette in the VIP café before the show.
Also seen in the café were the entire Presley family — Priscilla, Lisa Marie, Riley and son Ben. The four appeared to have cornered the London market on mascara, and Priscilla now looks like Morticia Adams. Why? Who knows?
Juliette Lewis also was spotted in the O2, as was Nile Rodgers, New York radio personality Carol Miller, Will Arnett of "Saturday Night Live," legendary '60s pop icon Lulu with rock jewelry designer Loree Rodkin, the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl and, ultimately, Foreigner’s Mick Jones, who played one song — "I Want to Know What Love Is" — with a full band and girls’ choir as a tribute to Ertegun.
Any wonder why there was such a shortage of tickets? Every A-list moron on the planet decided to muscle their way into the show. Jerry Hall bringing her kids to the concert? It's not Barney and Friends. It's not even Hannah Montana. It's Led Zeppelin. Leave the tykes at home so a real fan could attend.
FOX News didn't enjoy the show:
There was no reason to be. If you were a Led Zeppelin fan when they last performed together 30 years ago, nothing has changed. But to paraphrase the song they chose for a final encore, it’s been a long, lonely time since they rock and rolled. After blowing on stage like a thunderstorm with a trio of hits — "Good Times Bad Times," "Ramble On" and "Black Dog" — the group stumbled.
A strange song selection combined with iffy audio dynamics didn’t help. "In My Time of Dying" and "Your Life" were a little obscure and too long for a crowd packed frighteningly like sardines onto the floor of an arena. To use the vernacular, it was a buzz kill.
The audience — which had gone wild singing the "ah-hah" refrain in Black Dog — drifted. Plant finally really spoke to the audience at that point: "Thank you for the thousands and thousands of emotions we’ve been going through for Ahmet." He added: "And to bring Jason in."
The reference was to Jason Bonham, who joined Plant, Page and John Paul Jones in place of his late father, John, on drums. Bonham the younger is a muscular, hard-hitting and enthusiastic drummer who gave the group a renewed zest for life.
His father would have been proud to see his bald son (funny since the remaining Zeps have heads of hair only Sweeney Todd could love) reinvigorate some of the hoariest music rock 'n' roll has ever seen.
Some things did not work so well. "Stairway to Heaven," the group’s famous seven-minute-plus reverie and radio staple, should have been the finale. Instead, it sort of popped up in the middle of the set and had a pedestrian quality. The sound quality was distorted, and the grander moments of this soap opera were lost. It was a disappointment.
On the other hand, "Kashmir," which has Middle Eastern tones and a shuddering drum line, was remarkable. When Plant twice hit beautiful high shimmering notes, the video operator was wise to show Page smiling from ear to ear. It was as if his partner had just made Olympic history.
"There are people from 50 different countries here," Plant announced before the song began, "and this is one of them."
Maybe because it was a one-off show and the group was nervous, there was little humor. The connection to the audience was more corporate than personal, a stark contrast to the later soul show when Moore, King and Sledge showed where Ertegun’s real heart belonged.
Yet meanwhile I fret, because I only want to know one thing. What was the new song that they played? What was it called? What does it sound like?
No? Not bringing it up? FINE THEN.
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Creating links between the OIG and local watchdogs
numéro 269 20 Août 2015
Transparency and streamlined accountability: what watchdogs, grant implementers and OIG want
Both watchdogs and the OIG are having trouble accessing useful and complete country-level data to track and verify grant budgeting, expenditure and results data. There are also significant obstacles keeping implementers from meeting requirements for reporting to national oversight structures. These two conclusions drove two days of strategic discussions at an Aidspan roundtable in early August drawing participants from 10 countries.
An ever-greater number of watchdogs are becoming Global Fund recipients
During an Aidspan regional roundtable held in early August, watchdogs representing more than 30 organizations spoke candidly about their struggles in securing funding – making their engagement in the Global Fund system a lifeline for their futures. How to manage conflicts of interest now that there is that engagement, however, remains relatively unclear.
Etienne Michaud is a senior strategy and policy manager at the Office of the Inspector General for the Global Fund. According to him, there are links to be made between watchdogs at local level as part of the OIG effort to consolidate its network of front-line advocates for transparency and accountability.
4. COMMENTARY
Country-led and community-owned? How cultural imperatives at the global level translate on the ground
After the recent Partnership Forum in Bangkok, the second in the series of consultations to support the development of the Global Fund’s new strategy, Anna Maalsen reflects on how the principles of community leadership and country ownership that are at the heart of the Fund’s culture actually translate on the ground.
New report measures impact of civil society participation in priority-setting in NFM concept notes
A new report released by the Eastern Africa National Networks of AIDS Service Organizations (EANNASO) measures the impact of civil society consultations on the final concept notes submitted. Notes submitted by Kenya, Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zanzibar and Zimbabwe were examined for how responsive they were to priorities identified by civil society during country dialogue.
Civil society urges responsible transition towards domestic funding of HIV and TB in EECA
A workshop jointly run by the Global Fund and Eurasian Harm Reduction Network aimed to provide more nuanced guidance to EECA countries on sustainability as they prepare to transition some or all of their programming to domestic funding sources.
In Malaysia, innovative but vulnerable work to reach MSM with HIV testing
AIDS advocates warn that given its low disease burden and relatively high GDP, Malaysia may become ineligible for Global Fund support after 2017, imperiling prevention efforts. Especially vulnerable, they say, are those that target MSM.
In Kenya, devolution is interrupting monitoring and evaluation
Devolution in Kenya has since 2013 caused some interruptions in the supply chain, stockouts at health facilities and has prevented consistent monitoring and evaluation of programs: all of which could have an impact on interventions supported by the Global Fund.
Sustainability at core of new HIV strategy in Moldova
In developing its new national strategic plan for HIV/AIDS, Moldova is preparing for a transition away from Global Fund support to prevention, treatment and care interventions.
10. ANNOUNCEMENT
A new chapter for GFO editor
This is my final issue at the helm of Global Fund Observer. It’s been an extraordinary two years of watching, and listening, as the Global Fund evolves and matures into a dynamic and responsive financing mechanism. I hope that GFO has, equally, evolved and matured to respond to and document the concerns and vision of grant implementers, partners and the people who benefit from Fund-supported programs.
Stephanie Braquehais
In identifying fraud, watchdogs are playing a vital role in ensuring transparency and accountability
The following is a transcript of an interview of Etienne Michaud during a recent visit to attend Aidspan’s Regional Roundtable in August 2015. The interview has been condensed for clarity.
Aidspan : The OIG has no presence at country level. How are you working with country-based organizations to support your work ?
We depend on whistleblowers, which means that we spend a lot of time and resources assessing and verifying which allegations are worth investigating. First we have to ensure that the information is solid, that it is relevant to the Global Fund… a first alert never has enough information.
So it takes us more time than we’d like to confirm the validity of some of the information. And then, the more that time passes, the harder it is to find sources and documents. So if we had systems in place in countries that were stronger, relationships that were tighter, I am sure that our alerts would be much more pertinent and we’d lose less time in trying to verify them. So we need to build a bridge between us and these organizations. Right now, the proportion of investigations to allegations is skewed: 45 investigations from 157 claims in 2014, with an even lower rate of cases reported and published. We need to do better at converting this, and this is where our ‘Speak Up’ campaign comes in; it’s a way for us to be more proactive, to strengthen the information channels. We want to be able to respond more quickly to flag irregularities even at the lowest levels, to prevent them from becoming bigger problems.
The ‘Speak Up’ campaign is an effort to encourage individuals to denounce fraud in the grant management and implementation process. Piloted in three countries -- Côte d’Ivoire, Malawi and Ukraine – we are hoping to expanded in the future.
Why are watchdog organizations absent from the Global Fund landscape
It’s true; these are not actors that are formally integrated and the Fund perhaps does not take them enough into consideration. Sometimes, among the CCMs we see [watchdog representatives] but that’s something that is at the discretion of an individual CCM and country so there is no clearly defined standard that is universally observed. CCMs have within their own mandates the responsibility for oversight and program coodination but they don’t always envision their role in the same way, with the same resources or level of independent action due to prevailing national contexts.
This would certainly be something that the Secretariat could pursue [in terms of requiring watchdog capability within the CCM], but one of the attributes of the NFM is a clarification of the roles and responsibilities of the CCM and its members, and a mechanism to help them coordinate better and be more efficient.
The other challenge is that a lot of these [local watchdogs] don’t always have the required institutional stability so that they can maintain their watchful eye; they’re young, undeveloped groups whose performance can vary wildly. So it’s important that we identify those groups that are really solid and equipped to play a bigger role. It would be realy interesting, for example, if we could see a track record of a watchdog group working at community level – where the needs are the most acute. Then we could watch to see how this works, and monitor their ability to be effective at the grass roots before expanding their remit to the national level.
Why is there no financial mechanism in place to support local watchdogs within the Global Fund?
There are funds available for groups that provide legal assistance but I think it would be valid to explore a way to integrate financial oversight/watchdog work into the Global Fund grants.
What could also be seen as concerning is the growing number of watchdog groups that are becoming grant recipients/sub-recipients, which means they are no longer able to carry out independent monitoring work. This would seem to risk a lot of the relationships or potential relationships for the OIG?
Yes, that is a legitimate question we should be asking ourselves. That said, by integrating watchdogs into the Fund ecology, we could also effectively be integrating that commitment to oversight and transparency into all of the grants we disburse: a great benefit to the Fund. Although, obviously, we would hope that all partners, not just the watchdogs, are committed to transparency, efficiency and accountability and that everyone, regardless of affiliation, is committed to eradicating fraud.
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Installation view of “Considerate Creations: Chameleons Part II” at Gallery 456, New York, 2017. Photo by Huang Kuo-Heng. Courtesy the artist and Taipei Artist Village.
TSAI HAI-RU, No.Yes.Yes.No., 2016, text, object, string, dimensions variable. Photo by Huang Kuo-Heng. Courtesy the artist and Taipei Artist Village.
Considerate Creations: Chameleons, Part II
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The “Considerate Creations: Chameleons” exhibition series, which opened at the Taipei Cultural Center in New York this spring, expanded on the topic of working women artists by highlighting yet another dimension in its second edition: motherhood. While preparing for the presentation at Gallery 456, Taiwanese curator Lee I-Hua shared the news that she was three months pregnant, which added an unexpected, personal significance to the show. The role of a mother is just one of many that female artists inevitably inhabit, according to Lee, who sees the “chameleon artist” as a global phenomenon.
Fellow Taiwanese artist Tsai Hai-Ru illustrates the often-contradictory nature of those various roles in No.Yes.Yes.No. (2016). The Chinese phrases “buyao/yaobu” (“不要/要不”), which can be associated with negotiation or compromise, were affixed to the wall. Red string was attached to each character, and the strands joined together to form a single braid—a burden carried by a Wonder Woman action figure. In an earlier installation of the work, instead of using a pedestal, the artist placed the figurine on the floor. As a result, Wonder Woman often fell over, becoming entangled in the string. Tsai has said that she feels the scenario without the pedestal more accurately resembles her intentions for the piece.
Dueling parts of the self also manifest in Hu Nung-Hsin’s Corpus Callosum (2017), named for the bundle of nerves that joins the two hemispheres of the brain. Hu centers the installation around an actual wall to literalize this division; on each side, she has woven into the wall a live coconut plant as a stand-in for nerve fibers. Above each plant hangs a motion-activated grow light, which can only be triggered from the opposite side of the wall, mimicking how the left-side of our brain controls the right-half of our body, and vice versa. In addition, the two halves correlate to different modes of thinking, such as analytical versus imaginative, and verbal versus visual. Speech itself becomes a tug-of-war for the bilingual artist, who included video recordings of language-learning exercises in order to emphasize the corpus callosum’s function as the conduit between her two selves.
Detail of HU NUNG-HSIN’s Corpus Callosum at Gallery 456, New York, 2017. Photo by Huang Kuo-Heng. Courtesy the artist and Taipei Artist Village.
Installation view of WONG KIT YI/ALI WONG’s Lunatic, Moonquake and I am Two People at Gallery 456, New York, 2017. Photo by Huang Kuo-Heng. Courtesy the artist and Taipei Artist Village.
Hong Kong-born Wong Kit Yi goes one step further by divorcing her artistic persona from her professional one, known as Ali Wong. In her second collaboration with composer Kyle Oppenheimer, the conceptual artist expresses her two alter egos through song. The first track “Lunatic” by Wong Kit Yi reads like free association poetry that traces historical and literary associations of the word as ascribed to femininity. The second track “Moonquake,” penned under her professional moniker, opens with lunar facts spoken over Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” (1905), then transitions to upbeat, electronic pop that unpacks the moon as a feminine trope: “soft, gentle, mysterious, passive / (receiving its light from the masculine / sun), orbiting about the earth as a woman / orbits about her man and her family.” Yet Wong’s lyrics purposefully move beyond the domestic space, articulating how the “stereotype of woman has been / molded by history, culture, society.” The installation concludes with an exploration of her “double” identity in a third song called I am Two People by both Wong Kit Yi and Ali Wong.
CHEN HUI-CHIAO, The Silver Dust #3, 2010, steel, ping pong balls, baking varnish, two pieces, 100 × 50 × 3.5 cm and 70 × 40 × 3.5 cm. Photo by Huang Kuo-Heng. Courtesy the artist and Taipei Artist Village.
CHEN HUI-CHIAO, Between Us, 2016, steel, ping pong balls, baking varnish, seven pieces, 25 × 25 × 3.5 cm each. Photo by Huang Kuo-Heng. Courtesy the artist and Taipei Artist Village.
WANG TE-YU, No. 89, 2017, fabric, fan, dimensions variable. Photo by Huang Kuo-Heng. Courtesy the artist and Taipei Artist Village.
Chen Hui-Chiao’s The Silver Dust #3 (2010) similarly draws inspiration from celestial bodies by alluding to their orbits in what would otherwise appear to be randomly scattered ping pong balls. The movement of these “planets” and “stars” is meant to parallel civilization’s political and social movements, while nodding to the limitlessness of the universe. The ping pong balls reappear in Between Us (2016), this time balanced upon steel bars, positioned up and down on a figurative scale like notes on sheet music. Chen deliberately coordinated the magenta color of the bars to match that of Wang Te-Yu’s No. 89 (2017), which features a large, balloon-like structure. The interactive nature of the two works reflects not only the artists’ history of collaboration but also Wang’s interest in creating pieces that engage the viewer and invite their participation.
Just as the biographies and resumes of the artists in “Considerate Creations: Chameleons Part II” showcase the various identities they assume on daily basis, the perception as to whether or not these are in competition with one another, or working harmoniously in tandem, varies equally from person to person. It is this pursuit to understand the individual artist’s role in a greater societal context that unifies the seemingly disparate works.
“Considerate Creations: Chameleons Part II” is on view at Gallery 456, New York, until July 14, 2017.
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Astronomy For Everyone: 2018 Solar Probe
Touching the Sun: NASA Solar Probe
NASA plans to launch its first ever solar probe in the summer of 2018. While the title of this post speaks of touching the Sun, but in no way will NASA’s solar probe be sent to the surface of the Sun; at least not yet. The first hurdle for engineers designing this new spacecraft was the environment in which it will be tasked with operating within. The Sun is a formidable foe when it comes to harsh treatment of anything that passes close by. Many a comets, asteroids, and other types of space debris have found their way into the grasp of the Sun’s gravitational fields and fallen helplessly into the raging inferno. Touching the Sun is how to look at the research, but actually reaching the surface is not what the program was developed for.
Solar Wind and How it Affects Earth
The Sun is constantly expelling particles from its surface at tremendously accelerated speeds. One of the mysteries of the Sun is how those particles get the propellant to move them so quickly. NASA hopes to discover secrets about this effect and how to combat against them from earth in the future. The particles that are most damaging are the ones that move the fastest. They can even damage the DNA of humans on Earth. It’s one of the reasons for the research and hopefully science can come up with a cause and effect for these super-fast moving particles.
The Right Stuff: Heat Shield Tested by the Sun’s Rays
NASA’s solar probe will be protected by one of the sturdiest of solar heat shield. Considering that it will be travelling so close to our solar star, it will be operating in temperatures that exceed 2,500-Deg F. The heat shield, if all goes well, will keep the craft at a cool 85-Deg F; that’s a big difference in heat transfer. The probe will rely on its protective heat shield for most of its research time period. After that, it will remain as the closest object that man has sent to the Sun. The heat shield will be tested by the biggest oven in the solar system and NASA has assured us that it is up to the task.
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Nancy A. Collins, award-winning multi-genre author, will be joining a sinister line-up of horrorific guests during Monsterama Convention’s sixth frightening rotation around the sun! Monsterama, co-chaired by our classic monster-lovin’ fiend, friend and Kool Kat Anthony Taylor, creeps into the Atlanta Marriott Alpharetta this weekend, Friday – Sunday (Sept. 27-29)!
Prepare for a ghastly weekend of ghoulish proportions including a guest list filled to the blood-curdling brim with chillers like actor Ian Ogilvy [RETURN OF THE SAINT (78-79); DEATH BECOMES HER (1992); THE SORCERERS (1967)]; actress Jane Merrow [THE SAINT (1965); THE PRISONER (1967); THE AVENGERS (1967)]; actress Pauline Peart [THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA (1973); CUBA (1979)]; comic artist Craig Hamilton; author Jeff Strand [EVERYTHING HAS TEETH; FEROCIOUS; BLISTER]; creaturific artist Kool Kat Mark Maddox; Victorian chamber metal musicians Valentine Wolfe; Kool Kat Shane Morton, ghost host with the most, a.k.a. Professor Morte; glamour ghoul Kool Kat Madeline Brumby and so many more! Get wicked with our Kool Kat Nancy A. Collins and haunt on down to MONSTERAMA for a weekend of monster madness!
Collins’s writing career spans 30+ years as a spinner of wild monstrous tales in novels, comic books and short stories. She brought her infamous character Sonja Blue to life in her first novel SUNGLASSES AFTER DARK in 1989, which went on to win the Bram Stoker Award for best first novel. Collins expanded the Sonja Blue universe with several sequels and is currently working on new dark adventures for her infamous goth-punk vampire/vampire hunter character. Collins is the only woman to pen DC/Vertigo’s SWAMP THING, bringing much-needed controversy to Swamp Thing’s predominantly male perspective, from 1991 to 1993. In 2014, Collins was the first woman to be asked to write VAMPIRELLA, again giving the well-known character a new outlook with untapped new monstrous story lines and more.
ATLRetro caught up with Nancy A. Collins for a quick interview to talk comics; being drawn to monsters; killing it in a generally male-driven industries; and the monster mayhem of being a guest at MONSTERAMA!
ATLRetro: Your debut horror novel Sunglasses After Dark [goth-punk vampire goodness featuring kick-ass vampire/vampire hunter Sonja Blue] was released in 1989 and won the Bram Stoker Award. Can you tell us what inspired you to go against the grain and create your own style of vampire?
Nancy A. Collins: SUNGLASSES AFTER DARK was, in many ways, a middle finger to the then-current best-selling VAMPIRE CHRONICLES series by Anne Rice. It was my revolt against the “pussification” of the vampire. Little did I know that it would get even worse, decades later, with the TWILIGHT series.
Following your debut, you released several others in the series [IN THE BLOOD (1991); PAINT IT BLACK (1995); A DOZEN BLACK ROSES (1996); THE DARKEST HEART (2002); and a collection titled DEAD ROSES FOR A BLUE LADY in 2002], all followed by vignettes and novellas and comics. Basically, you’ve kept Sonja Blue “alive” and kicking for a hellacious thirty years! Any exciting new horrors coming our way in the land of Sonja Blue?
Sonja Blue – Art by Mel Odom
Well, I’ve been working on a new Sonja Blue novel called Kill City for the last five years. It’s a reaction to the most recent “de-fanging” of the vampire genre. Unfortunately, it’s been slow going due to my need to work paying gigs to keep body and soul together. But I would describe it as a cross between THE BIG SLEEP, HARDCORE, and THE SEARCHERS, but with vampires. And it’s the first novel to be told from Sonja Blue’s POV.
On to your monsterific comic book endeavors! From SWAMP THING, to JASON VS. LEATHERFACE, to VAMPIRELLA and beyond, you’ve delved deep into the land of what once was a male-dominated field. Can you tell our readers how you broke the barrier and what obstacles you had to face that your male counterparts avoided?
I landed the gig writing SWAMP THING largely for three reasons: DC was looking for a horror writer to take the character back to his “roots” (pun intended); I’d worked with the then-new editor on the book, Stuart Moore, on a Freddy Krueger prose anthology, and he put me on his short list because he’d had the fewest edits on my story; and, I was living in New Orleans at the time, and was able to provide local flavor. I was the first woman to write for SWAMP THING, and to date the only one, as well. For the most part, I did not run into any real obstacles regarding my gender among the editors and staff at DC. Most of the push-back I got was from the fans, many of whom did not appreciate or understand my focus on Swamp Thing as a “family man” and the emphasis on his family. I also received some blowback for depicting LGBTQ characters and depicting ecologically-driven protestors as something besides terrorists. I remember a particularly virulent letter from a fan who resented my depiction of abortion as a fact-of-life for many women. I also got a lot of hate for ending Swamp Thing and Abby’s marriage (an editorial edict, btw), for which some fans have still not forgiven me, decades later. However, DC/Vertigo is releasing my entire run on Swamp Thing in early 2020 in a hardcover omnibus format—nearly 1,000 pages—called the SWAMP THING BY NANCY COLLINS OMNIBUS. It’s currently available for pre-order through Diamond Distribution and Amazon, among other outlets.
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What was it like to be the first woman writing Vampirella, a character created by the one and only Forrest J. Ackerman? There’s got to be an interesting story about how you landed that gig. Care to share?
I ended up writing VAMPIRELLA largely due to Gail Simone, who asked me to write a story for her RED SONJA miniseries “Legends of Red Sonja” for Dynamite. It was my first comic story in fifteen years. I then pitched Nick Barrucci a Red Sonja one-shot called “Berserker,” which sold extremely well. Then Nick offered me VAMPIRELLA and allowed me free reign. As one of my mentors at DC Comics had been the late Archie Goodwin, one of the first real writers on VAMPIRELLA, I always felt he was looking over my shoulder the whole time I was working on the book. I’d like to think Archie would have approved.
Can you tell us one thing you did with the character, stepping away from the usual male-created female characters, to bring her into the twenty-first century, a character both men and women would be drawn to and proud of?
I often joke that I was probably the first writer on the series to never pleasure themselves to the character, which might have something to do with how I approached my run. I chose to reach back to characters from the original Warren run and incorporate them via modern storytelling into the series’ continuity. I also made the decision to make Vampirella a more integral part of the supernatural world by bringing in classic “monsters” from myth, legend, and the public domain, and expanded on her family and backstory. I also gave her a werewolf boyfriend and depicted their relationship as that of equal partners. Vampirella in my series is a no-nonsense monster-hunter with a well-defined sense of right and wrong but is also capable of recognizing her own prejudices and misconceptions regarding her fellow “monsters”.
What can you share about your current collaboration with comic artist Craig Hamilton? Anything monstrous and exciting being brought to life?
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Craig Hamilton and I, along with inker Larry Welch and colorist Gerhard, are working on BECOMING FRANKENSTEIN, a six-issue graphic series from Mel Smith’s Wild Card Ink. It is a prequel, of sorts, to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I’m not allowed to say much more than that, for the time being. But I will say that Craig’s art on it is absolutely gorgeous and we’re intensely proud and excited of what we’re creating. Becoming Frankenstein is shaping up to be best work of both our careers.
Before you became “Author Nancy A. Collins,” what inspired you to write? Did you begin writing as a child?
I’ve always been a storyteller. Even before I could read and write, I would draw stories and stand next to my parents and explain what was going on. It was a given from the age of three that I would eventually become a writer. Marked from birth, I guess you could say.
Have you always been drawn to monsters? Care to share your favorite monster or horror story? What makes that story special to you?
Like I said, I was marked from birth. My maternal grandfather was a huge Boris Karloff fan, and introduced me to the genre very early. It also helped that I grew up in the 1960s, when monster mania was percolating in the kid subculture with stuff like THE ADAMS FAMILY, THE MUNSTERS, Hammer Films, late night horror movie hosts, and GODZILLA flicks. It is hard for me to pick a favorite monster or horror story, but the first one that I can remember was a Dr. Seuss story about a pair of green pants with nobody in them that walked around on their own, which scared the bejesus out of me as a 3-year-old, for some reason.
Which writer from the past and which writer from the present have influenced and continue to influence you the most, and what is it about them that draws them to you?
There have been so many. But of the past, I would have t0 say Robert Bloch, who I would later meet as a young writer. Bob befriended me and was like a second grandfather. I devoured his short story collections, which are routinely excellent and the yardstick I use for what I consider makes a great short story, especially when it comes to weird/dark fiction.
Not only are you a killer storyteller, but you’re also a spooky horror film junkie and fanatic like us! Can you tell us your favorite horror movie and why it ranks at the top of your list?
I would have to say my favorite remains the original THE HAUNTING from 1963. It is a textbook example of how the viewer’s own mind can create far more intense scares than a room full of CGI technicians. Even after all this time, I still get goosebumps watching it.
As a writer working in the science-fiction, urban fantasy and horror genres, what challenges have you personally faced that seem to be a common theme amongst women in the industry?
Mostly being pigeonholed. I’ve written westerns, Southern Gothics, erotica, crime noir, urban fantasy, as well as horror—but I largely get described as a “vampire writer”, and that has become a largely female-centric field, in a lot of people’s minds. I also find myself labeled a “Strong Woman”, which is the nice way of saying I’ve had to put up with a lot of bullshit that male writers rarely are subjected to.
Can you give us five things you’re into at the moment that we should be watching, reading or listening to right now— past or present, well-known or obscure?
I’m currently enjoying the final season of PREACHER on FX, as well as the third and final season of LEGION, also on FX. I’ve also been binging THE BOYS on Prime. I also recommend GENTLEMAN JACK; a historical romance/drama on HBO about Anne Lister, an actual Regency-era noblewoman who lived openly as a lesbian, and even went so far as to marry another woman. And I always recommend watching THE VENTURE BROTHERS, regardless of the situation.
Any advice for women writers out there trying to get their foot in the door?
I have the same advice I give everyone, regardless. Keep submitting your stuff. Learn to tell the difference between legitimate criticism and bullshit. Nothing you write is carved in stone. Never fight with an editor. Never respond to the reviews on Amazon.
Getting back to what brought us here, MONSTERAMA 2019! Do you have anything exciting planned for our readers this year?
I’m hoping we’ll have the full-color promo posters for BECOMING FRANKENSTEIN ready in time for MONSTERAMA! If so, Craig Hamilton and I will be there signing them. And I’ll be on several panels over the weekend. The first is 6pm Friday, where I discuss Swamp Thing. The second is 10am Saturday, where I’ll be on a Southern Gothic panel, and the third is 10am Sunday, where I’ll be yacking about werewolves. Otherwise, I’ll be at my table in the dealer’s room.
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The Round Rock This geological marker provided an indication about a safe place to cross a river and gave a town its name.
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Twenty-first century Austin has a reputation as a quirky, hip, culturally-diverse town that’s home to the world-famous South-by-Southwest music festival and the University of Texas Longhorns. It’s come a long way since Spanish explorers arrived circa 1709. Austin Then and Now rounds up all of the hot spots in a unique photographic history of Texas’ capital city.
When Mirabeau Lamar succeeded Sam Houston as the President of the Republic of Texas, he moved the capital from Houston to Austin. The State Capitol that was eventually built in 1888 remains the largest statehouse in the U.S.
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Asteranthera ovata (Cav.) Hanst.
Columnea ovata Cav.
A creeping or climbing evergreen shrub which in nature inhabits the trunks of living trees and fallen timber, branching and rooting freely at the nodes. Stems slender, clad with whitish hairs. Leaves opposite, variable in shape but generally rcundish, 1⁄3 to 11⁄2 in. long, obtuse at the apex, covered with pale bristly hairs and edged with three to six coarse teeth; they are rather thick in texture where exposed to light but thinner in shade. Flowers rich raspberry-pink, borne singly in the leaf-axils at midsummer and later; corolla tubular at the base, spreading at the mouth, where it is about 11⁄2 in. wide. Anthers united into a star-shaped cluster – whence the name Asteranthera. Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 15.
Native of the temperate forests of Chile and neighbouring parts of Argentina from about 40° S. to the Straits of Magellan; introduced by Comber in 1926. It inhabits the cooler and moister types of forest, where it is often to be found with Desfontainia spinosa. Here, thanks to the saturated atmosphere, it is able to grow in open and quite sunny places in the forest, forming dense mats on logs and tree-trunks and so profuse in flower that scarcely a leaf can be seen. In cultivation this delightful species has proved fairly hardy, but rather shy to flower, no doubt because the humid yet bright conditions that it demands are not easy to reproduce. Propagation is, however, so easy (by cuttings, or division) that experiment would present no difficulties. A leafy soil is essential, and something to climb up or over. At Nymans in Sussex, where it has been cultivated since Comber first introduced it, it thrives on shady walls of both sandstone and brick. At Logan in Wigtownshire it is grown on the face of a peat wall. Dryness, at the root and in the air, are its chief enemies. It also thrives at Brodick, in the Isle of Arran.
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A Very BEEKMAN LANE Wedding!!!
I wanted to share some photos of my wedding taken by the wonderful Jennifer Sosa in association with Daniel Krieger Photography. Our wedding was styled and filled with antique elements and touches from our very own BEEKMAN LANE. We at BEEKMAN LANE offer event décor services for everything from a dinner party to a wedding. My wedding was recently featured on the stunning wedding blog Ruffled as well so check out that article for even more photographs!
When it came to our wedding, my husband Hans and I knew that we wanted to have a wedding that transported everyone to another era. We also knew that we wanted to have our wedding in Jersey City. I have lived here for about 5 years now, and Julia and I started our business BEEKMAN LANE here over a year and a half ago now. Hans and I love Jersey City and knew that our day needed to be in our great city! We decided on the magical Landmark Loew’s Jersey Theatre near Journal Square for the reception.
If you have never been to the Landmark Loew’s Jersey Theatre it is an absolute must!! It is beyond beautiful. The theatre shows classic movies throughout the year. Hans and I have seen everything there from The Stranger to The Big Lebowski. It is an absolute gem, and the proceeds from the films and events go to restoration, upkeep and preservation of this Jersey City landmark.
Our cocktail hour was on the balcony of the lobby. We chose our band, Carte Blanche, from Elan Artists. They specialize in 1920s and 1930s Jazz, as well as classic Latin music. They dress in period clothing, and set the mood for the evening. During cocktail hour they had an accordion and violin duo, and the full band for the reception.
We had a table set up with an antique Royal Typewriter from BEEKMAN LANE as the guest book with antique postcards held in vintage flower frogs, and a vintage table lamp and tray to complete the moment. Check out the Jersey City postcard below that shows the theatre in its heyday!
The two bars served our signature cocktail, the Cuzco Fizz made with Pisco (a Peruvian Brandy), St. Germain and garnished with green grapes. The cocktail was a tribute to my husband’s Peruvian heritage, and the recipe was listed on display cards by the The Laughing Owl Press.
The seating cards were hand typed and then stamped with a chair on each card. They were set in a semi-circle in front of a breathtaking hand-painted theater created by a close friend. He included the personalized “screen” which was painted with historically accurate silent film style font. There was a sign made by our wonderful stationer Andrea from The Laughing Owl Press, which stated “Ladies and Gentlemen, Please Take Your Seats”.
After the cocktail hour the guests were asked to come down the staircase to the main floor of the lobby for dinner and dancing. The reception tables were set with gold flatware and amber colored water glasses to relate to the golden hues of the theatre. There were gold and mercury glass votives throughout the tables and buffet. The bouquets and centerpieces were by Jersey City’s own Antheia Floral Design! They were made with a mixture of gold and grey hues to emulate the metallics throughout the venue.
I cannot overstate how magical the band was! You can hear samples of Carte Blanche's music here on their site through Elan Artists. They sang Hans and my song “You Belong to Me” in the style of the Patsy Cline version. Then after dinner they got us all up and dancing with songs from early Jazz to Edith Piaf to Latin classics from the Buena Vista Social Club. Just amazing!!
Jonathan of David Ellis Events was our amazing caterer and also provided the flowers on the buffet table. The food was absolutely incredible and had touches such as seasonal popcorn as a dessert to play off the theatre theme. Our menu by The Laughing Owl Press was set up like a playbill. Our wedding cake was by the amazing The Hudson Cakery, and was delicious. The cake topper was by Jolie En Rose Vintage from Etsy, and showed a 1920s couple.
The favors were such fun! Guests picked up scones, marmalade, and tea for their breakfast the following morning. They then had a choice of classic movies separated by genre. On the table was a sign that said “Breakfast and a Movie, the Makings of a Perfect Sunday”.
It was an unbelievable night!! It truly felt as if you walked through the doors of the theatre and were transported back to the 1920s which is exactly what Hans and I wanted.
Tweet 05/04/2012 4 Comments
Marie Oldham on 05/05/2012 01:28AM said:
this is amazing, wish i had thought of the loews for our wedding!! congrats!
BEEKMAN LANE on 05/05/2012 04:54PM said:
Thanks Marie!!
Gena on 09/04/2012 02:54AM said:
We are getting married @ the Loews in Nov. I love this place and I love your parting gifts. How did you get the movies?
E.Tittlemouse & Co. on 02/17/2013 08:29PM said:
Absolutely Beautiful wedding pics! Wish you guys the best in your journey together.
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Beekman Lane is an Interior Decoration Studio and Antique & Home Goods shop located near Van Vorst Park in beautiful downtown Jersey City. We carry an eclectic mix of antique pieces ranging from rustic & industrial pieces to Mid-Century Modern.
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Yahoo Plans Splashy New San Francisco Digs (And Dreams of Neon Billboard’s Return)
July 26, 2013 at 4:20 pm PT
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According to multiple sources close to the situation, Yahoo is close to signing a lease for a splashy new San Francisco outpost to keep up with the fast growth of other Web companies that have opened high-profile offices here.
Yahoo’s Mayer apparently is hoping for a big PR announcement of the space in San Francisco, much as she did with the recent news that the company was opening new digs in Times Square in Manhattan, in the former offices of the New York Times.
Mayer apparently likes old media locations. While the company has been looking at a number of locations in an increasingly tight office real estate market in San Francisco, it has zeroed in on a large amount of space in the famed San Francisco Chronicle building at 5th and Mission Streets.
That is now the location of Square, the high-profile online payments company which did a handsome redo of its office there. It is expected to vacate and move to an even swankier new space nearby by the end of September.
It’s not clear if Yahoo has actually signed the lease there or how many floors it will take, but sources said that the deal is in advanced stages.
Yahoo, whose main headquarters are in Sunnyvale, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley, already has a large location in San Francisco that houses several hundred sales, engineering and other employees over three floors.
But it is located in a nondescript office tower in the duller financial district of the city and not in the more hip environs south of Market Street, which has seen a major renaissance over the last two years due to the opening of numerous Internet companies.
That’s where companies like Twitter, Airbnb, Square and also many Sand Hill Road venture firms have built dramatic and highly designed offices. In addition, companies with existing big Silicon Valley campuses, such as Google, have also located fast-forward spaces in San Francisco.
In fact, the search giant is apparently now dramatically expanding its footprint at its SF HQ in Morgan Stanley’s Hills Plaza building, which is right at the foot of the Bay Bridge on the city’s waterfront.
As does Google, so copies Yahoo these days — from free food to trendy offices.
In fact, sources said Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer — who was a longtime Google exec — has been eager to up the company’s attractiveness to younger entrepreneurs, which includes providing appropriate urban digs within a stone’s throw of twee coffee roasters and ironic donut purveyors.
There are, obviously, no molasses, Guinness-soaked pear donuts easily found in Sunnyvale.
Yahoo has tried to create some hipster cred in the big city before. In 2006, it founded an incubator space in San Francisco called Brickhouse, to foster fast-forward ideas. But it ended up shuttering it two years later due to cost-cutting.
The same expense-chopping was to blame for the end of the iconic Yahoo billboard on the eastbound lane of the Bay Bridge — a retro motel-style one with many quirky mottos, including, “A Nice Place to Stay in the Internet” — that the company gave up in 2011 after a decade. It has since been rented by Clear Channel to the Gap’s Old Navy.
According to sources, Yahoo’s marketing head has told employees that the company has been trying hard to reclaim its past glory, in neon lights at least.
I emailed Yahoo for comment, but horses will fly — it could happen! — before I expect any kind of substantive response from PR at the company.
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There’s a lot of attention and PR around Marissa, but their product lineup just kind of blows.
— Om Malik on Bloomberg TV, talking about Yahoo, the September issue of Vogue Magazine, and our overdependence on Google
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Public University Hosts Blacks-only Student Retreat – to Promote Inclusion
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Blacks-only Student Retreat – to promote inclusion? Inclusion by excluding non-blacks? Institutional racism.
California State University Fresno recently held a three-day student retreat for black students that aimed to foster inclusion and help incoming African American students adjust to college life and get involved in the campus community.
The inaugural “Harambee Student Retreat,” which took place Aug.14 through Aug 17, was free to participating students, who enjoyed housing, meals, workshops and activities meant to help aid in the “successful transition of incoming African American/Black students to Fresno State,” the university’s website states.
About 40 new students plus about a dozen returning students took part, and about $16,000 was set aside in the university’s budget to host the event, although the final cost has yet to be determined, said Shirley Melikian Armbruster, associate vice president of university communications, in an email to The College Fix.
Attended the Harambee Student Retreat at CSU Fresno w/ @JosephICastro Welcome to new Bulldogs. #BeBold pic.twitter.com/Lv9NPpMwj6
— Angie Barfield (@AngieBarfield) August 15, 2016
Fresno State President Joseph Castro, in an address to kick off the new school year, praised the retreat, noting “the call to better support African American students in connecting with their peers and the university was heard and put into action.”
“A first ever retreat, appropriately titled Harambee, which means ‘Let’s pull together,’ was held this week where new and continuing African-American students, along with African-American faculty, staff and alumni, could exchange ideas of how to create a greater sense of belonging on campus,” Castro continued.
Bold new @Fresno_State initiative to prepare African American students for success! #Harambee #Letspulltogether pic.twitter.com/w87KhZNsng
— Joseph I. Castro (@JosephICastro) August 15, 2016
CSU-Fresno president: ‘Create a greater sense of belonging on campus’
Videos and pictures of the retreat posted on Facebook show black students sharing stories, performing skits together, and even taking a trip to Wild Water Adventure Park, a park with water attractions near the central California campus.
According to the university’s website, topics broached at the retreat included information on how to receive assistance with financial aid and housing, as well as how to develop leadership skills and find a job.
“The retreat was a three-day residential orientation experience that allowed the students to make connections with alumni, faculty, staff and community members. It also provided an opportunity to introduce students to African-American clubs/organizations and encourage engagement,” Armbruster told The College Fix.
“The retreat was a student success event to assist African-American students in their transition to university life and instill a sense of belonging at the institution, which has an approximately 4 percent African-American student population, and help boost retention and graduation rates of African-American students, which are slightly below other groups at Fresno State,” Armbruster added. “With this proactive approach, the goal was to provide experiences and activities to facilitate a smooth social and academic integration of African-American students into the campus community.”
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Our research at McMaster University is focused on development of radiolabelled, ultrasound, and fluorescence molecular imaging probes, for use in medical imaging. We develop both small molecule and large biomolecule agents that target radionuclides, novel fluorescent compounds and microbubbles to tumors or metabolically active tissues, providing medical or research applications by PET, SPECT and ultrasound technologies. The development and translation of these agents benefits from several of the advanced instrumentation and specialized services of the Biointerfaces Institute, including bright-field and fluorescence microscopy, and the MALDI and small compound mass spectroscopy. As our work progresses we expect expanded use of BI facilities including Chemidoc Imaging. The Valliant Research Group (http://www.johnvalliant.ca) offers collaborative expertise and technical resource in radionuclide chemistry for development of radiolabelled probes, used in both biological and biomedical research to members and users of the BI.
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Rally! Really.
If you're reading this, you're probably not at the Friday 7pm rally organized by our pals at SaveOurSonics.org/SaveOurStorm.org. No worries, though, because there will two more chances to show the teams some love this weekend (as seen on the site's front page):
Seafair Torchlight Parade
Saturday, July 29, 2006 at 7:00 AM
We will be walking in the parade with our banners and shirts.
Seattle Storm Game
This game needs to be a sellout. Bring your "Keep our Teams here" signs. Volunteers needed before the game.
And if you're like me and are unable to join the throngs in person, you could always show your support by turning the image above into a car sign... computer desktop wallpaper... or...uh, fashionable paper briefs and pirate hat, held together with Scotch tape.
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Moore Dealt
The Sonics traded Mikki Moore to New Jersey today for a 2nd round pick in the 2009 draft. The Sonics roster now looks like this:
C - Sene, Swift, Petro
PF - Wilcox (?), Collison, Fortson
SF - Lewis, Gelabale, Wilkins
SG - Allen, Wilkins, Gelabale, Brown (?)
PG - Ridnour, Watson
Add it up and it's 13 guys, so we're still looking at a one, maybe two roster spots still available. Noel Felix impressed the heck out of everyone at the Rocky Mountain Revue (just curious ... am I the only one who thinks the Sonics' summer league sounds like something gay cowboys would put on?), so Felix may have an even better chance of making the roster. Otherwise, the Sonics may look to add another PG as a 3rd-stringer.
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Shinn on New Orleans
George Shinn, owner of the Hornets, made a few comments yesterday regarding his team's move to New Orleans, implying that a final decision on where the Hornets will call home after next season should come "as early as September, maybe as late as December or January."
Shinn also indicated that he would prefer to spend this season in Oklahoma before moving to New Orleans in the 2007-08. The Hornets are slated to play 35 games in OKC this season.
Insert nasty comment about how the Sonics are on a one-year trial in Seattle here.
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Artwork by Rafael Calonzo, Jr (Click for larger pic)
If you’ve followed the arena situation at all in Seattle, you’ve heard two different arguments. One, we need to build it to retain the tradition of NBA basketball in this city. Two, the NBA is blackmailing the city of Seattle and the state of Washington into building them an arena. This second argument has been reinforced, of course, by the recent sale of the team to Oklahoma City investors.
Well, neither side is right. It’s not necessary to carry on the tradition, and it’s not blackmail.
It’s extortion.
Let’s consult a dictionary, shall we?
From Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary:
Extort \Ex*tort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Extorting.] [L. extortus, p. p. of extorquere to twist or wrench out, to extort; ex out + torquere to turn about, twist. See Torsion.] 1. To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.
Now, Pete, you’re saying to yourself, isn’t that a little harsh? After all, are Clay Bennett and his colleagues holding a gun to our head? No, they are not. But a closer examination of the definition reveals that, yes, the city is being extorted. Or do you think that forcing the city to make a decision in 12 months isn’t duress? Or that moving the Sonics to Oklahoma would be anything but “tearing away” the team from its devoted followers?
Believe me, I have struggled with saying this out loud. As someone who writes for a website devoted to a sports team, it’s more than a little hypocritical of me to criticize those who throw their support and money behind the team. In fact, I admire the tenacity with which others have attacked this issue, trying to raise public consciousness of what is obviously a dire situation. And, most importantly, as someone who tied his shoelaces as a kid to mimic the way Gus Williams did, I have more than just a passing interest in Sonics’ basketball. But after having looked at this from every angle, I cannot legitimately justify going ahead with a new arena.
I’m sorry, but when you look at the current situation objectively, you cannot come to any other conclusion. At the present time, basketball fans in Seattle are faced with two options in regard to Clay Bennett:
1. Buy scads of tickets, hoping to convince the city council/state government to build a new arena for Mr. Bennett. End Result: Mr. Bennett becomes wealthier, both via increased sales and the added value to his team due to the new arena.
2. Don’t buy scads of tickets, watch Mr. Bennett move the team to Oklahoma City. End Result: Mr. Bennett no longer has to fly to Seattle and pretend to understand how to pronounce Puyallup.
So, we either give him a sack of money, or he takes our team and leaves town? That isn’t extortion? For crying out loud, if this was The Rockford Files, James Garner wouldn’t even take the case it’s so painfully obvious what is happening.
I’ve said this before, but I’ll repeat it: I don’t begrudge Schultz or Bennett their reasons for making more money, as we all have the same motivations. But did anyone else read the comments of Ray Allen recently? Look, I like Allen, he’s a gentleman and a terrific player; the consumate pro that any fan would love to have on his team. But when he starts complaining about how the Key lacks wireless connnections in the lockerroom, about how the coaches don’t have proper offices ... well, it makes me want to vomit. Let me get this straight – we need to spend $150 million in taxpayer money so Ray Allen can check his email? Are you kidding me?
The argument these stadiums/teams produce economic benefits is provably false, so the only argument can be that we as fans want others to pay for our fun. Sorry, folks, but I won’t play that game, because that makes us no better than Bennett, Schultz, Stern, and all of their ilk – and, in fact, makes us co-conspirators in an extortion scheme. Thanks, but I’ll pass.
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He once got busy in a Burger King bathroom
Has all this Sonics drama got you down? Then stop by Mirabeau Room on Queen Anne Wednesday night for ComedyNight, a weekly showcase of Seattle's best comedians (like me!).
This week's show will feature a guest performance by none other than Mr. Humpty Hump himself, Shock G of Digital Underground. Seriously. Plus, I will be doing a special piece entitled "Why The Sonics Are More Important Than Homeless Shelters". Seriously.
Save Our Sonics!
In case you haven't seen it yet, the good people at SaveOurSonics.org are organizing an effort to save our team. We've offered our services, and encourage everyone else out there to do the same. Keep hope alive!
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More Kemp Troubles
You know, you want to believe the best in people, and then ...
Shawn Kemp, 36, was arrested in Houston early Friday morning and charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana. Kemp allegedly had two ounces or less of the drug in his possession.
The story comes from a Houston television station, complete with video footage.
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Sonics top Sixers
The Sonics got a strong performance from young Robert Swift yesterday in Utah, as the 3rd-year center went for 13-10 with 6 blocks in only 25 minutes of play, and Seattle beat the undefeated Sixers 88-86. Louis Williams continued his high-scoring for Philly by grabbing 21 points, his 4th time in the +20 range this summer. Interesting to see how he fits in the Philadelphia equation when the pre-season gets underway.
Aaron Miles also made an immediate impact for the Sonics, as the former KU star scored 14 points in his first game for Seattle this summer. It's also worth noting that Swift got to the line 9 times on 11 field goal attempts, an outstanding mark for a young big man.
-Mouhamed Sene sat out his second consecutive game with a bum ankle
-Paccelis Morlende sat out
-Yotam Halperin only played 3 minutes
-Noel Felix continued to play well, and led the Sonics with 27 minutes played. It's beginning to look as though he'll get serious consideration for a roster spot this fall.
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New Arena for Sacto
It appears the Kings won't be using moving vans any time soon.
"Negotiators for the city and county of Sacramento moments ago finalized a deal with the Maloof family to finance a new arena for the Sacramento Kings," report Mary Lynne Vellinga, Terri Hardy and R.E. Graswich of THE SACRAMENTO BEE. "The financing package would rely on voter approval of a new quarter-cent sales tax that would produce about $1.2 billion over a period of years, sources said."
from nba.com
Just wondering: If there was a vote today on a 1/4-cent increase in the sales tax, with the money dedicated to building a new arena for the Sonics, would you support it?
Lost amidst the furor of the Sonics' sale to Clay "You can call me Jaws" Bennett, the Sonics are on tap to play the Sixers this afternoon in the Summer League.
Philly's been the juggernaut of the League this summer, running off to a 4-0 start behind some serious whoopings. Louis Williams, who appeared in 30 games for the 76ers last year, has been pacing them with 20 point outings in 3 of the 4 games. It would be nice to Sene back in the lineup after turning his ankle a few days ago, but we'll have to wait until later (tune in to sonicscentral for up-to-the-minute coverage; kudos to them for have a man on the scene for all of us losers who follow basketball in the summer). Otherwise, we may be treated to another version of the Robert Swift Show. It really has been nice to see how well Sene's played; I still don't know that I'd have taken another big man project in the first round, but he's beginning to get me to come around.
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The Bomb has dropped
The Sonics are heading to Oklahoma. Sonics fan suicide watch starts . . . now:
SEATTLE - The city's oldest major league franchise has been sold to a group from Oklahoma City, according to a report in the Seattle Times quoting multiple sources.
The sale is reportedly being made to an investor group led by Oklahoma businessman Clay Bennett. Bennet was instrumental in the temporary relocation of the Hornets to Oklahoma City following Hurricane Katrina. But the Hornets are scheduled to return to New Orleans following the 2006-07 season.
A news conference to announce the sale of the Seattle Supersoncis has been scheduled for 3 p.m.
from KING 5
Thanks to Susan for the tip. I think I need several drinks and maybe some drugs. Anyone else?
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Sene signed, sealed for Summer League
The Seattle Supersonics signed the #10 pick in the NBA draft, Mouhamed Sene, to a two-year deal yesterday. Sene will join Yotam Halperin, Deng Gai and several other guys you've never heard of in the Rocky Mountain Revue summer league on Friday. Here's the complete summer league roster:
3 Tony Bobbitt G 6-3 200 10/22/79 Cincinnati
2 Denham Brown G/F 6-6 220 1/6/83 Connecticut
30 Ronnie Burrell F 6-9 220 7/21/83 UNC-Greensboro
9 Andre Emmett G 6-4 220 8/27/82 Texas Tech
15 Desmon Farmer G 6-5 220 10/7/81 Southern Cal
16 Noel Felix F 6-9 225 10/4/81 Fresno State
33 Deng Gai F 6-9 220 3/22/82 Fairfield NBDL
22 Yotam Halperin G 6-5 210 1/24/84 Israel
23 Keith Langford G 6-3 210 9/15/83 Kansas
5 Paccelis Morlende G 6-2 185 4/19/81 France
11 Kenton Paulino G 6-2 180 6/23/83 Texas
42 Jared Reiner F 6-11 255 4/8/82 Iowa
18 Mouhamed Sene F/C 7-0 230 5/12/86 Senegal
24 Omar Williams F 6-9 220 8/11/81 George Washington
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What in the Wilcox is going on?
The Wacky World of Wilcox continues today with two conflicting reports on contract negotiations with Dunktron 3000:
Sonics won't trade Wilcox! (from the Seattle P.I.)
Sonics to trade Wilcox . . . for Shawn Marion! (from the Tribune)
This all proves, of course, that no one knows what the hell is going on. Stay tuned!
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Radman and Kobe, Sitting in a Tree
It appears that former Seattle Supersonic Vladimir Radmanovic is bringing his erratic shooting, questionable hairstyles and armpit of doom defense to the other team in LA:
Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - The Los Angeles Lakers may have found a sweet-shooting big man to capitalize off double teams on Kobe Bryant, as the club reportedly agreed to a five-year contract with free agent forward Vladimir Radmanovic late Saturday.
The Los Angeles Daily News reports that the Lakers will sign the 6-foot-10 forward to a $30 million contract on July 12, the first day players can officially sign with teams.
from the Seattle P.I.
Wait a minute . . . five years for 30 mil? Isn't that less than the Sonics offered him last summer? I guess he must really like Kobe.
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Speculating on Apple's Touch Strategy
August 27, 2009 dispar 2 Comments
This is mere speculation on my part, based on some rumours.
I’m quite sure that Apple will come up with a video-enabled iPod touch on September 9, along with iTunes 9 (which should have a few new “social networking” features). This part is pretty clear from most rumour sites.
AppleInsider | Sources: Apple to unveil new iPod lineup on September 9.
Progressively, Apple will be adopting a new approach to marketing its touch devices. Away from the “poorperson’s iPhone” and into the “tiny but capable computer” domain. Because the 9/9 event is supposed to be about music, one might guess that there will be a cool new feature or two relating to music. Maybe lyrics display, karaoke mode, or whatever else. Something which will simultaneously be added to the iPhone but would remind people that the iPod touch is part of the iPod family. Apple has already been marketing the iPod touch as a gaming platform, so it’s not a radical shift. But I’d say the strategy is to make Apple’s touch devices increasingly more attractive, without cannibalizing sales in the MacBook family.
Now, I really don’t expect Apple to even announce the so-called “Tablet Mac” in September. I’m not even that convinced that the other devices Apple is preparing for expansion of its touch devices lineup will be that close to the “tablet” idea. But it seems rather clear, to me, that Apple should eventually come up with other devices in this category. Many rumours point to the same basic notion, that Apple is getting something together which will have a bigger touchscreen than the iPhone or iPod touch. But it’s hard to tell how this device will fit, in the grand scheme of things.
It’s rather obvious that it won’t be a rebirth of the eMate the same way that the iPod touch wasn’t a rebirth of the MessagePad. But it would make some sense for Apple to target some educational/learning markets, again, with an easy-to-use device. And I’m not just saying this because the rumoured “Tablet Mac” makes me think about the XOXO. Besides, the iPod touch is already being marketed to educational markets through the yearly “Back to school” program which (surprise!) ends on the day before the September press conference.
I’ve been using an iPod touch (1st Generation) for more than a year, now, and I’ve been loving almost every minute of it. Most of the time, I don’t feel the need for a laptop, though I occasionally wish I could buy a cheap one, just for some longer writing sessions in cafés. In fact, a friend recently posted information about some Dell Latitude D600 laptops going for a very low price. That’d be enough for me at this point. Really, my iPod touch suffices for a lot of things.
Sadly, my iPod touch seems to have died, recently, after catching some moisture. If I can’t revive it and if the 2nd Generation iPod touch I bought through Kijiji never materializes, I might end up buying a 3rd Generation iPod touch on September 9, right before I start teaching again. If I can get my hands on a working iPod touch at a good price before that, I may save the money in preparation for an early 2010 release of a new touch device from Apple.
Not that I’m not looking at alternatives. But I’d rather use a device which shares enough with the iPod touch that I could migrate easily, synchronize with iTunes, and keep what I got from the App Store.
There’s a number of things I’d like to get from a new touch device. First among them is a better text entry/input method. Some of the others could be third-party apps and services. For instance, a full-featured sharing app. Or true podcast synchronization with media annotation support (à la Revver or Soundcloud). Or an elaborate, fully-integrated logbook with timestamps, Twitter support, and outlining. Or even a high-quality reference/bibliography manager (think RefWorks/Zotero/Endnote). But getting text into such a device without a hardware keyboard is the main challenge. I keep thinking about all sorts of methods, including MessagEase and Dasher as well as continuous speech recognition (dictation). Apple’s surely thinking about those issues. After all, they have some handwriting recognition systems that they aren’t really putting to any significant use.
Something else which would be quite useful is support for videoconferencing. Before the iPhone came out, I thought Apple may be coming out with iChat Mobile. Though a friend announced the iPhone to me by making reference to this, the position of the camera at the back of the device and the fact that the original iPhone’s camera only supported still pictures (with the official firmware) made this dream die out, for me. But a “Tablet Mac” with an iSight-like camera and some form of iChat would make a lot of sense, as a communication device. Especially since iChat already supports such things as screen-sharing and slides. Besides, if Apple does indeed move in the direction of some social networking features, a touch device with an expanded Address Book could take a whole new dimension through just a few small tweaks.
This last part I’m not so optimistic about. Apple may know that social networking is important, at this point in the game, but it seems to approach it with about the same heart as it approached online services with eWorld, .Mac, and MobileMe. Of course, they have the tools needed to make online services work in a “social networking” context. But it’s possible that their vision is clouded by their corporate culture and some remnants of the NIH problem.
Ah, well…
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January 17, 1973 - December 29, 1973 (50 episodes)
Tachibana, Naoki (played by Tachibana, Naoki) is a pilot for a currier company. He flies a red and white Cessna. When a hostile alien attempts to invade Earth, using giant monsters made out of ordinary animals or inanimate ojects, Naoki's older brother Shinya is killed in the first attack.
During the next attack by the same monster Naoki foolishly tries to revenge his brothers death by using the unarmed airplane to attack the monster. The plane is shot down but before it hits the ground the plane is caught by a strange green light. The Emerald Seijin Kain (voiced by Naya, Gorou) gives Tachibana, Naoki the ability to transform the plane into the giant robot warrior Jambougu Êsu (Jumborg Ace)
Before Shinya was killed he gave Naoki his watch. It is that watch which becomes the henshin device. When it detects the presence of a monster its crystal flashes. Then Naoki shouts "Jum Faito" (Fighter) to begin the transformation.
As Tachibana, Naoki turns the Cessna end over end to end it transforms into Jumborg Ace.br>
Tachibana, Naoki controls Jumborg Ace from inside the giant robot's head. Jumborg Ace mimics Naoki's movements. If he throws a punch then Jumborg Ace will punch the monster. If Naoki kicks then Jumborg Ace will kick the monster. Conversly, the monster's attacks against Jumborg Ace can affect Naoki. For example a blinding beam of light aimed at Jumborg Ace will blind Naoki. Damage to Jumborg Ace will show up later as damage to the plane.
Of course Jumborg Ace can fly. At super speed his body becomes a streak of light.
Jumborg Ace has several energy weapons, the main one, most often used to destroy the giant monsters, is "Beam Emerald" (second photograph).
Some of Jumborg Ace's energy weapons come from his hands.
Some use his entire body, and others come out of his belt.
Jumborg Ace's energy weapons are very colorful.
Jumborg Ace has a larger variety of energy weapons than any other tokusatsu hero I've seen.
Just when I thought Jumborg Ace was done introducing new energy attacks he pulls out "Screw Hurricane". The energy spins around the monster setting it on fire and causing it to explode.
Sometimes energy weapons aren't effective, for those situations Jumborg Ace has physical weapons, "Jum Sword", "Jet Knife" (throwing daggers) and also explosives, "Jumb Missile".
And of course there is hand to claw combat.
Jumborg Ace also has a heat ray, which is not used as a weapon but as a tool, to thaw out jet planes frozen by a giant monster's freeze ray (episode 17).
When Jumborg Ace is running low on energy a warning light flashes on its belt and on Tachibana, Naoki's belt.
Jumborg Ace has one major weakness, extreme cold could destroy it. So in episode 17 when a monster tries to use a freeze ray on Jumborg Ace, Kain appears between the robot warrior and the monster, taking the full blast of the ray himself. Then using his last remaining bit of energy on the monster Kain dies. Tachibana, Naoki has to hide his sorrow over the loss of his mentor, because his family and friends do not know that he controls Jumborg Ace.
At the end of each battle Jumborg Ace turns back into Tachibana, Naoki's Cessna at the command "Flight Return".
Starting around episode 21 the invaders start making more use of the human sized "Gross Star Men", who usually got in a fight with Tachibana, Naoki (he probably got tired of leaving all the action to the stuntman in the Jumborg Ace costume.)
Jumborg Ace is defeated in episode 27 but restored in episode 28. Episode 30 reveals that there is an emergency exit on the bottom of Jumborg Ace's right foot.
In episode 27 Tachibana, Naoki buys a new car, a Honda Z. After the defeat of Jumborg Ace, by Matagone's super robot warrior, Naoki attempts to defeat the monster by crashing his car into it. He would have been killed if a second Emerald Seijin (Kain's brother?) had not intervened. This Emerald Seijin give Naoki's car the power to >transform into the super robot warrior Jumborg 9. Naoki actives the transformation from car to warrior with "Jum Faito Two Dash". Originally he said "Break Return" and slammed on the breaks to transform 9 back into his car but in the later episodes he says "Quick Return" instead.
Naoki controls Jumborg 9 with a steering wheel, pedals on the floor, and switches on the dash, just like a car. The pedals control Jumborg 9's running speed. Intead of flying Jumborg 9 moves swiftly across the ground, running fast. Jumborg 9 has thicker armor than Jumborg Ace, which protects it from explosives.
Besides doing "Jum Kick" 9 also has energy weapons and an energy shield.
Like Jumborg Ace, Jumborg 9's entire body could become an energy weapon.
Jumborg 9's "Boomerang Cut" is similar to Ultraseven's "Eye Slugger". 9 removes part of his forehead and hurls it at the monster. 9 can energize the boomerang with a black beam that causes it to circle the monster at an increasing rate of speed. The energy released causes the monster to explode.
Jumborg 9's face is a weapon. Not only does he fire laser beams from his eyes and throw his forehead but he also has a bream that comes out of his mouth. The "Cross Power" ray from his belt vaporises the monster. Another ray from his belt causes them to explode.
Jumborg 9's final energy weapon was used only once, in the last episode.
Jumborg 9 could transfer energy to Jumborg 9 and Tachibana, Naoki could transport himself from Jumborg 9 to Jumborg Ace.
Jumborg 9 has its own theme song Fight! Jumborg 9.
There is also a song for both super robot warriors, Ace & Nine.
Also fighting the invaders is the Protection Association Troop (PAT). The membership of PAT changes frequently through out the series. There is sometimes three men, sometimes four. There's always at least one woman, but sometimes two. It's hard to keep up with the changes and I may have missed someone.
The PAT commander is killed in episode 12. Episode 14 reveals that there was someone above him. It also sees an introduction of a new commander, the previous commander's brother, and two additional officers join the team, but Ippei (first man in third photograph) is dismissed from the service in episode 19 (because his widowed mother needs him to work the family farm). At some point one of the other men leaves so that there are again only 3 men and 1 woman.
In 32 the leadership of PAT changes again. Two Science Guard Men (SGM), 1 male, 1 female, join PAT. The man taking charge. SGM was the organization in "Mirrorman", another Tsuburaya series. By episode 35 there is only one woman. In episode 42 PAT shrinks to 2 men and 1 woman when another man is killed in action. In episode 43 a young SGM pilot; Murakami, Hiroshi joins PAT, switching to the PAT uniform in episode 44.
PAT starts out with two fighter planes, Jet Condor and Viking Star.
The SGM officers bring with them a verticle take of red jet fighter. By episode 35 its gone.
In episode 37 Jet Condor and Viking star are replaced by Hunter Q, which can operate in space as well in Earth's atmosphere. Normally Hunter Q is piloted by the PAT commander. If two fighters are needed Hunter Q can split in two seperate aircraft, one piloted by the commander the other by the next senior PAT member.
In addition to their jet fighters PAT also had rocket powered yellow cars which (beginning in episode 14) could fly. These cars are also armed with missile launchers (episode 20).
When the original jet fighters are replaced, by Hunter Q, the yellow cars are also replaced, with a red truck that carries only one person, the driver (Bamos I), and a blue vehicle that has room for the driver and one passenger (Bamos II). Of course both of these vehicles are armed.
The red truck converts into a helicopter and the blue vechicle into a boat.
PAT had it's own theme song (introduced in episode 13) Shining PAT.
Other regular characters in this series are Tachibana, Naoki's sister-in-law, nephew (Kazuya) and boss (Banno, Daisaku). Naoki's sister-in-law works at a coffee shop which provides meals for the PAT team members. Naoki occasionally helps out there too. Naoki lives with his sister-in-law and nephew. His famiy and friends do not know that he controls Jumborg Ace and flying off to fight monsters gets him in trouble with his boss (he's too good a pilot to fire though). The only person on Earth who knows that Naoki pilots Jumborg Ace is Ken, a young boy, who was in the Cessna when a monster attacked.
Music is an important part of this series. Tachibana, Naoki plays the trumpet (in early episodes). When he's sad he plays beautifully, when he's angry he just makes noise. In episode 8 his girlfriend plays the violin. In episodes 9 and 10 another pilot, who plays the saxaphone, tries to take Naoki's job away from him. In episode 16 an alien female sings. In episode 34 another alien female sings. After a long time of not playing it Tachibana, Naoki remembers his trumpet at the end of episode 47.
Jumborg Ace and Jumborg 9 battle the daikaiju (giant monsters) created by the Gurosu Seijin (Growth Aliens).
Episode Titles
Jambougu Êsu featured music by Kikuchi,Shunsuke.
Tachibana, Naoki also stared in Za Kage Sutâ [The Shadow Star] (1976).
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Birth Control and the Population Explosion
During a talk in chapel, college chaplain Joseph Washington, Jr.
All terms: 1960-1969, Birth control, Chapel, Washington, Joseph
Advertisment for Abortions at Hillcrest
This advertisement in the November 11, 1993 edition of The Dickinsonian lists available services and locations for the Hillcrest Women's Medical Center.
All terms: 1990-1999, Abortion , Birth control, Dickinsonian, Dickinsonian
The Dickinsonian Reports on Condom Distribution at Dickinson
Liz Lukacs and L. J. Simmons reported in the October 1, 1987 edition of the Dickinsonian on the decision of the Health Center to distribute condoms, free of charge, describing how the Health Center, Sexuality Resource Group and Women's Center were all involved.
All terms: 1980-1989, Birth control, Board of Trustees, Chris, Dickinsonian, Dickinsonian, Health and hygiene, Health Center, Health services, Lukacs, Liz, Sex Education Week, Sexual behavior, Sexual health, Sexuality Resource Group, Sexually transmitted diseases, Simmons, L.Z.
This article by Tari Getz '91 in the June 1988 edition of Dickinson Today presents the history, purpose and spirit
of the Women's Center, describing it as a place of comfort for all.
Date: June, 1988
All terms: 1980-1989, Activism, Birth control, Brasser, Julie, Dickinson Today, Getz, Tari, Gleeson, Katie, Health services, Holland Union Building, Nicastro, Mara, Romano, Mary, Ruocco, Karen, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Take Back the Night, Women's Center, Women's Center (student run), Women's rights movement
Editorial: "A few small steps do not constitute a revolution"
This article by Features Editor Ken Ross comments that “Although
the campus itself continues to improve with age, now is the time for ‘real’
social change at the College.” Ross brings up such issues as the lack of availability
of condoms on campus (except when the Health Center is open), the scarcity of ‘alternative’
(alcohol-free) activities on campus and the situation of women on campus. He
All terms: 1990-1999, Alcohol, Birth control, Bookstore, College catalog, Counseling services, Curriculum, Health Center, Health services, Ross, Ken, Sexual behavior, Temperance
The Office of Student Services Initiated a Trial Program of Gynecological Referral
In the middle of the spring 1976 semester, the Office of Student Services initiated a trial program of gynecological referal. The funding for the problem was limited so no services were provided by the school. The goal of this program was rather to find out what services women at Dickinson needed. They hoped to provide such car at the college in the future.
All terms: 1970-1979, Abortion , Birth control, Gynecology, Health and hygiene, Health Center, Health services, Sexual behavior, Sexually transmitted diseases
35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade Poster
On the 35th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortions the Women's Center placed hangers hung with different phrases around campus to get student attention and make students more aware of the history of being able to choose and make decisions over one's own sexuality and the choice to bear children. This poster says "Don't Like Abortion? Get a Vasectomy!"
All terms: 2000-2009, Abortion , Activism, Anniversaries, Birth control, Radesky, Caroline, Roe v. Wade, Women's Center (student run), Women's rights movement, Zatae Longsdorf Center for Women
Reaction to Feminist Collective Celebration of 35th Anniversary Roe v. Wade
After seeing posters attached to coat hangers put up by the Women's Center in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, an anonymous student put up a reaction coat hanger with this poster. Some of the Womens Center celebration awareness posters included phrases like "Don't like abortion? Get a vascetomy!" and "Keep your theology off my biology." The anonymous student wanted to make it known that abortion and other female issues are much more complicated than narrowing them down to religion/politics and other aspects of opinion.
All terms: 2000-2009, Abortion , Activism, Anniversaries, Birth control, Feminist Collective, Religion and spirituality, Women's Center, Women's rights movement
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Collinwood High School is Saved
by Eric S. Gordon
Dear parents, caregivers, residents, partners, and friends-
As you know, the District has engaged over the past year in long-term planning for our schools that included analyzing data and gathering stakeholder input. Last month, I presented to you and to the greater Cleveland community a set of draft recommendations for proposed impacts to our K-8 and high school portfolio.
Following extensive community engagement on these initial recommendations at meetings across the city, and in discussions with our Board of Education, we have explored additional options with District staff. Based on those steps, I am releasing a revised set of recommendations that will be presented to the Board of Education for their consideration on Tuesday evening. The full set of revised recommendations will be available shortly at QualitySchoolsforCLEKids.org.
Although much of the plan proposed in October remains unchanged, I am recommending two significant amendments to our high school recommendations.
First, I will propose to the Board that any decision regarding New Tech Collinwood and the Collinwood campus be delayed for at least one year. As part of this recommendation, we are asking the Greater Collinwood community to form a Friends of Collinwood High School community group to:
develop and implement a robust manufacturing careers pathway and post-graduation opportunities for scholars
create and implement a strategy for recruitment and retention of students to ensure program viability, and
identify community partners and businesses to assist in providing opportunities for the Collinwood campus to become a mixed-use asset for the Five Pointe area.
This recommendation reflects the strong desire of community stakeholders in the Greater Collinwood community to pursue innovative options to keep the campus viable.
It is important to note that I am still recommending the consolidation of the Martin Luther King, Jr. and Glenville programs at the existing Glenville campus. This will allow us to continue enhancing our scholars’ learning experiences by eliminating excess capacity in outdated facilities and by using those operational savings to expand academic and extracurricular offerings.
Secondly, after extensive community feedback, I am withdrawing the recommendation to phase out and close New Tech West. While my team and I examined alternative options for co-locating this model with another program, we found no options that will maintain the integrity of the program without adversely impacting other schools. I will therefore recommend continuing New Tech West in its current location to continue its progress on academic growth and enrollment viability.
I am grateful for the thoughtful input and participation of the school community in the long-term planning process. I remain inspired by the passion of our school community that was evident at community meetings and in my personal interactions with many of you.
I look forward to your continued involvement as we work together to provide quality schools for all of Cleveland’s kids.
Eric S. Gordon
CEO, Cleveland Metropolitan School District
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Oxford teen’s penis ‘degloved’ by his bike’s handlebars in freak crash - doctors urge ensuring bars have grips to avoid similar cases
by Simon MacMichael December 8 2019
Case report also reveals that youngster’s scrotum was ripped open in incident
A teenage cyclist from Oxford had his penis ‘degloved’ and scrotum ripped open by his bike’s handlebars in a freak crash, it has emerged. Doctors are urging people to ensure their bikes have grips on the handlebars to avoid similar injuries.
The incident has come to light through a BMJ Case Report, reports the website IFL Science.
The 14-year-old cyclist was said to have been riding along at walking pace, with one hand on the handlebars, the other holding a drink when he crashed into a parked car and impaled his groin.
He was taken to Accident & Emergency at the city’s John Radcliffe Infirmary, where doctors discovered a large gash extending from his groin, across the public bone and to his perineum and which had also ripped open his scrotum.
His penis was also “partially degloved” – in layman’s terms, that means the skin was totally ripped from the underlying tissue with the blood supply cut off.
Surgeons successfully repaired the wound and no significant neurovascular damage was discovered, with the youth allowed home from hospital the following day with a course of antibiotics.
In a follow-up appointment four weeks later, he said that he had normal sensation in the area, and no problem passing urine, although it is not clear whether there has been any effect on his sexual function.
Doctors say that one lesson to be drawn from the unfortunate youngsters’ injuries – the first of this severity they have traced that can be attributed to a bike’s handlebars – is to ensure that handlebars have rubber grips to prevent such an incident from happening.
They pointed to a study that examined more than 800 injuries sustained by children while riding a bike, and noted that in 21 cases, handlebars were a factor; moreover, in 10 cases where life-threatening injuries occurred, the handlebars had no covering.
The writers added that including adults, incidents in which a penis is degloved mostly result from attacks by dogs, industrial accidents and what is euphemistically described as “sexual misadventure.”
"Handlebar injuries causing blunt abdominal trauma are well described in the literature; however, reports of impalement or degloving injuries are sparse," they said.
"It is relatively unique in the series of handlebar-related injuries in existing literature and serves to broaden our experience of impalement injuries caused by bicycle handlebars."
Last year we reported how the father of a six-year-old boy had appealed to parents to make sure that their children’s bikes had proper bar grips after his son was killed when he was impaled on its handlebars.
The grips on Denny Curran’s bike had worn away, causing the metal end of the handlebar to become exposed, and he died after his iliac artery became severed when he crashed.
>> US father’s warning after six-year-old dies after being impaled by his bike’s handlebars
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Simon has been news editor at road.cc since 2009, reporting on 10 editions and counting of pro cycling’s biggest races such as the Tour de France, stories on issues including infrastructure and campaigning, and interviewing some of the biggest names in cycling. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, his background has proved invaluable in reporting on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, and the bike industry. He splits his time between London and Cambridge, and loves taking his miniature schnauzer Elodie on adventures in the basket of her Elephant Bike.
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MARCH--Sprouts Alive!
March 1, 2014 at 12pm to March 30, 2014 at 12pm – Minnesota Landscape Arboretum n the plant word it is time to begin! How do seeds turn into sprouts? Let's look in a microscope at shoots with baby leaves and roots. Prepare a sprout snack in the Harvest Kitchen, design seed pictu… Organized by Jill Leenay | Type: children-families, nature, education
Preschool in Nature: Spring in Blooming Colors
March 18, 2014 at 9am to April 10, 2014 at 10:30am – El Dorado Nature Center Enrich your child's sense of wonder, independence, and love of learning in a unique, interactive, natural setting. Through music, movement, art, stories, and explorative science activities, our fun,… Organized by EDNC Preschool in Nature | Type: preschool, toddler, class, nature
March 28, 2014 at 10:30am to April 18, 2014 at 11:15am – El Dorado Nature Center Investigate the incredible, changing natural world with your child while discovering creatures large and small. Stories, songs, puppets and parachute play are all a part of this fun-filled class. Par… Organized by EDNC Preschool in Nature | Type: preschool, toddler, class, nature
Trickles to Torrents
March 29, 2014 from 9am to 1:30pm – Calero/Rancho San Vicente Join a park docent for a moderate 5.5-mile loop hike to see how water from winter storms finds its way to the valley below. Meet at the Calero Park office off of McKean Rd. (south of reservoir), then… Organized by Santa Clara County Park Staff | Type: recreational, hike
March 29, 2014 from 9am to 1:30pm – Calero/Rancho San Vicente Join a park docent for a moderate 5.5-mile loop hike to see how water from winter storms finds its way to the valley below. Meet at the Calero Park office off of McKean Rd. (south of reservoir), then… Organized by Santa Clara County Parks Staff | Type: recreational, hike
Maple Syrup Hike at Petrifying Springs Park
March 29, 2014 from 10am to 4pm – Petryfying Springs Park With warmer weather, that can only mean one thing - it’s time for Maple Syrup! Join us for one of three hikes (11:00/1:00/3:00) that day in Petrifying Springs County Park. Meet at Pavilion #6. Free;… Organized by Pringle Nature Center | Type: public, program, family, maple, syrup
Farm Day with The Art Barn
March 29, 2014 from 12pm to 4pm – Chattahoochee Nature Center Spring is back and so are the animals! Whether they are on the farm, in the woods or in our homes, animals play a central role in our lives. Discover the importance of spring animals and how to best… Organized by Tracy Begley | Type: nature
Math in Nature: Oh, Deer!
March 29, 2014 from 1pm to 3pm – Pocono Environmental Education Center Saturday, March 29 – 1:00-3:00pm$5 Join us for a fun, hands-on math program that includes games and outdoor activities. This program is recommended for 7th – 12th grade students. Call for details! Organized by Pocono Environmental Ed Center | Type: nature, math
How Does Your Garden Grow? at Plainsboro Preserve
March 29, 2014 from 3pm to 4:30pm – New Jersey Audubon' s Plainsboro Preserve It’s time to plan your garden, and we are planting for birds and butterflies. How to prepare your garden bed, the advantages of a raised garden, and planting choices that will attract butterflies an… Organized by Plainsboro Preserve | Type: family, nature, program
March 29, 2014 from 7pm to 9pm – Chattahoochee Nature Center The night will bring a New Moon, and without the moonlight shining bright, you can get the best of CNC’s night hike adventure! Our trail experts will lead you and yours down one of our woodland or ri… Organized by Tracy Begley | Type: nature, hike, night
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CityLine Hungary Ltd.
Address: H-2220 Vecsés
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The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner or the Fairchild Aerospace Metro is a 19-seat, pressurised, twin turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild at a plant in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
The Fairchild Metro was created in the late 1960s specifically to serve the emerging regional airline market. It was developed as a stretched version of Swearingen's Merlin II corporate turboprop, which was introduced in 1965. Regular production of the Metro began in 1971, the same year Fairchild acquired Swearingen. The Metro was the regional airliner first used by many of the most successful regional airlines of the 1970s and 1980s, including Skywest Airlines, Horizon Airlines, Comair and Wings West.
The SA227-AC Metro III was initially certified in 1980 at up to 14,000 pounds (6,350 kg) this increasing to 14,500 pounds (6,577 kg) as engines and structures were upgraded. An option to go as high as 16,000 pounds (7,257 kg) was offered. Externally, improvements incorporated into the Metro III were a 10 ft (3.05 m) increase in wing span, four-bladed props, redesigned "quick-access" engine cowlings and numerous drag-reducing airframe modifications, including landing gear doors that close after the gear is extended.
Over the years, a total of 331 Merlins, 117 Merlin IVs and 605 Metros would be built.
Currently, our fleet comprises of two AN-26 cargo aircraft registered as HA-TCN and HA-TCO, one Boeing 737-200 registered as HA-LEW and one Fairchild SA227-AC Metro III registered as HA-FAO. Using its aft loading ramp, AN-26 can accommodate a wide variety of cargo up to 6170 kilograms. Boeing 737-200 is loadable from its left side and can accommodate up to 15000 kilograms, the Metro III aircraft can take 2100 kg.
Basic dimensions
Length 59,35 ft inch (18,09 m)
Height 16,66 ft (5,08 m)
Wing span 57,0 ft (17,37 m)
Max speed 246 knots (455 km/h)
Max operating altitude 31000 ft (9448 m)
Max range 1800 nm (3333 km)
Empty weight 8800 lbs (3992 kg)
Max takeoff weight 8800 lbs (3992 kg)
Max usabale fuel 4342 lbs (1970 kg)
Max passenger capacity 19
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25 years of Hubble Space Telescope images
Kim Walker 0 Comment NASA, The Baltimore Sun Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, science
NASA celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, which is operated by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Rare solar eclipse sweeps across parts of Africa, Europe and the United States
Tim Swift 0 Comment Travel, World astronomy, science, solar eclipse
The East Coast bore witness to a hybrid solar eclipse this morning, which kicked off around 6:38 a.m. according to Weather.com. The eclipse lasted about 30 minutes.
Massive hurricane circles around Saturn’s north pole
Michael Gold 0 Comment NASA, World hurricane, NASA, Saturn, science, space
New images released by NASA this week depict an enormous hurricane whipping around Saturn’s north pole. Taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, the photos show a storm with an eye about 20 times the the size of a typical hurricane on Earth.
Up Close: 2012 Wellcome Image Awards
Pete Sweigard 1 Comment Up Close, World Britain, England, Medical photography, Microscopy, science, Wellcome Image Awards
The Darkroom will take you Up Close in a new series featuring images and techniques that truly augment our perceptual power, altering our understanding and appreciation of the world. First up are sixteen winning photos from the 2012 Wellcome Image Awards, which highlight the best in medical and microscopic photography, and is sponsored by the London-based Wellcome Trust charitable foundation. This remarkable set of photos includes everything from magnified views of a moth fly to a human brain during a surgical procedure to the building blocks of your morning cup of coffee (caffeine crystals) – all as you’ve never seen them before.
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BRIAN SIBLEY : his blog
my world and welcome to it
COTTON PICKIN'
What were you watching on television over the Christmas holiday period and how did it measure up to your seasonal telly memories from the past?
If you are British and over the age of thirty then those memories would undoubtedly include Christmas specials from the likes of Mike Yarwood, Paul Daniels, The Two Ronnies and, of course, Morecambe and Wise...
The man responsible for those and many other great BBC television programmes was BILL COTTON (left) who died earlier this year and who at various times in his long and prolific career was Head of Light Entertainment, Controller of BBC 1 and Managing Director of Television.
The programmes which he either created or oversaw include The Generation Game, Jim'll Fix It!, Parkinson and a legion of memorable sit-coms such as Dad's Army, The Good Life, To the Manor Born and Monty Python's Flying Circus.
As a huge fan of many of those shows it was a thrill to have the job of researching and writing a two-part tribute to this great TV impresario, Showman and Star Maker - A Tribute to Bill Cotton which is being broadcast on BBC Radio 2, beginning tonight at 7:00 pm with the second part going on-air at the same time tomorrow.
The programmes are presented by Paul O'Grady and feature, among others, Bruce Forsyth, John Cleese, Val Donican, Cilla Black, Rolf Harris, Des O'Connor, Michael Parkinson, Terry Wogan, Sandie Shaw, Sue Lawley and Tom Jones - all of whom I got to meet --- in person!!
Here's a little anecdote from one of those encounters...
Bruce Forsyth gave me a great interview talking about the impact which Bill Cotton had on his career and at the end of it I mentioned that I had a bone to pick with our Brucie...
"Oh," he asked, "what's that?"
"Well," I told him, "when I was a youngster, I wrote to you when you were the star of the TV hit Sunday Night at the London Palladium, asking for an autographed photograph. I got the photo but I was terribly disappointed because the photo I got back had a printed autograph!"
"Ah," said Bruce, "well I used to get masses of fan mail... In fact, I remember turning up at my agent's office one day and there was this long line of mail sacks all the way down the hall. 'What's all that?' I asked. 'Your mail!' he answered. So, the agent used to send out the photos for me..."
"Hmmm," I replied, "well, Bruce I was in one of those sacks!" And I produced the photo to prove it.
"Right!" said Brucie, "give it 'ere!" And grabbing a pen he signed it again - this time with a genuine signature and, as the note on it says, IN REAL INK!
And here is Bruce playing piano as a guest (following Jamie Cullum!) on another of those shows launched by Bill Cotton, Parkinson...
So, once again you can catch Part One of Showman and Star Maker - A Tribute to Bill Cotton on BBC Radio tonight at 7:00 pm and Part Two can be heard tomorrow, New Year's Day, at the same time.
Posted by Brian Sibley at 00:01 9 comments
Labels: humour, Me, radio, TV
BRIDGEWORK
Do you know how many bridges there are in Venice?
FOUR HUNDRED AND NINE!
Although, to be fair, some sources say 378 and still others 400, but then we are talking about the city of mystery and - in any case - there is, as of last year, a new bridge, so it may well be time for a recount...
The Ponte di Calatrava (designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava) is Venice's first new bridge in seventy years - and only the fourth to cross the Grand Canal - but it has been the subject of ceaseless debate and criticism, chiefly for its design which uses traditional Venetian materials of glass and stone but a great deal of chunky iron underwear and has a functional modernity that is at odds with the classical architecture of most of the city...
It has also been slated for its lack functionality: unevenly placed steps on the ascent and descent that are a tripping hazard and also - since many of the steps are glass - a slipping hazard in wet and icy weather...
Then there is the cost: several times beyond the approved budget (even without the decorations that were originally intended for it, but which, somehow, got left off drawings!) and which is destined to rise even more as the bridge now has to be adapted to provide wheelchair access under modern-day Italian laws relating to disabled access...
As for all those other bridges (however many they are): they span some of the 150 canals that divide the island city of Venice into what are, effectively, 118 smaller islands...
After eleven years of visiting we still haven't crossed all those bridges, but here are a few we have traversed, some of them many times...
Did you know that at midnight tomorrow, New Year's Eve, Greenwich Mean Time will be given a Leap Second? As Wikipedia explains...
A leap second is a one-second adjustment that keeps broadcast standards for time of day close to mean solar time. Broadcast standards for civil time are based on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), a time standard which is maintained using extremely precise atomic clocks.
To keep the UTC broadcast standard close to mean solar time, UTC is occasionally corrected by an intercalary adjustment, or "leap", of one second... When a positive leap second is added at 23:59:60 UTC, it delays the start of the following UTC day (at 00:00:00 UTC) by one second, effectively slowing the UTC clock.
So, at midnight tomorrow, there will be seven - not six time - 'pips' and just before you get to shout HAPPY NEW YEAR, you'll have one whole second of extra life!
Make sure you live it -- to the full!!
Oh, yes, and still on the subject of timings... I know that Christmas is been and gone and that the shops are full of New Year Sales (instead of the Pre-Christmas Sales) and that the Radio Times contains more summer holiday advertisements than programme details, but there's still time - although not much - in which to catch Wendy Hiller and Alec McCowen in my Christmas radio dramatisation of The Fox at the Manger.
Based on the story by P L Travers, the author of Mary Poppins, it can be heard, on-line, until 31 December via the BBC's Radio 7 iPlayer (you'll find The Fox on the alphabetical listing of shows) but you've only got today and tomorrow to tune in!
A FOOTNOTE on the Ponte di Calatrava...
The original glass steps had - at more expense - to be made opaque as voyeurs were (apparently) photographing up the skirts of women from boats passing underneath...
These Italians! Any excuse!
Images: Brian Sibley & David Weeks © 2006/8
For more Venice imagery, visit my website to view the album Venice Observed and then follow the links at the foot of that page to three further albums of photographs.
Labels: books, bridges, P L Travers, radio, Time, Venice
MOUSE-BOAT
After posting that photo of Walt Disney in a gondola earlier today, we spotted - on our way back from the Ospidale - a nasty glass figurine of his Master's Mouse playing gondolier with Minnie as passenger...
Needless to say, this is not a genuine, authorised, copyrighted Disney image - but then, again, this particular piece of 'Genuine Venetian Glass' was very probably made in Taiwan!
As for the invalid: I've got to keep wearing the bandage, keep taking the tablets, keep off food that requires biting or chewing and, as far as possible - and this is a bit of a challenge - keep my trap shut!!
Labels: Disney, Mickey Mouse, Venice
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE...
"'But where do the people walk?'
inquired I of my gondolier."
- Hans Christian Andersen
STREETS FULL OF WATER.
- Robert Benchley
in a telegram to his editor at The New Yorker
And speaking of the need for gondolas, here's a photo of a famous gondola-passenger - Walt Disney - with his wife, Lilian, and youngest daughter, Sharon, being ferried up the Grand Canal in 1951, when Walt was attending the Venice International Film Festival.
They are passing what is now the Bauer Hotel (a stone's throw from our apartment), possibly on their way either from the celebrated Hotel Danelli or en route to the equally famous Hotel Gritti Palace...
This photo is really fascinating because - from the presence of the suitcases behind the passengers - it is clear that when it was taken (almost sixty years ago) gondolas were still being used as taxis, taking people wherever they required to go in the city, rather than - as now - as a mere tourist attraction following a site-seeing circuit...
I was just imagining asking one of the gondoliers who have a station behind our apartment if they'd take me to the hospital for my appointment this morning!
Images: David Weeks & Brian Sibley © 2006/8; photo of Walt in Venice from Michael Barrier.
Labels: Disney, Hans Christian Andersen, quotes, Venice
DECIDEDLY DOGE-Y
My first thoughts about my bandaged face were, you will remember, Christmas Carol-related, but David, subsequently, said I looked like I was playing the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet - a part which, actually, I think I'd be rather good at!
Now, however (especially with my woolly hat on), I think I have a certain kinship with the Venetian Doges who were the chief magistrates and leaders of the Most Serene Republic of Venice for over a thousand years...
See what I mean...?
Images: Doge Mocenigo by Bellini, 1480; Doge Sibley by Weeks, 2008.
Labels: health, Me, Venice
JAW-DROPPING ART
"Pictures, were there, repleat with
such enduring beauty and expression:
with such passion, truth and power:
that they seemed so many young and fresh
realities among a host of spectres."
- Charles Dickens
"Painting is the way Venetians write."
- John Ruskin
"White walls, the paper of the mad."
- Venetian Proverb
A few hours after writing this blog posting, I was having an unexpected Venice adventure: I yawned and dislocated my jaw!
We went straight to the Ospidale (water taxi fare: €45!) but the doctors in Pronto Soccorso (the Venetian equivalent of A&E) couldn't get it back into its correct sockets, so I had to wait three hours - in what was excruciating pain - for a specialist to come over from the mainland. He was terrific, but had a heck of a struggle because the jaw had been dislocated for such a long time.
Finally - after a needle full of Valium in the bum - the muscles relaxed sufficiently for him to get the jaw relocated and we set off by boat back to our apartment.
BUT --- almost an hour later, and three stops down the line, out it popped again! As soon as we could, we jumped ship and headed back to back to the Ospidale...
The specialist (who was, by now, back home on the mainland)was telephoned and turned round and set off across the lagoon once more.
Another three hours of agony ensued until he got there and put things right for the second time. On this occasion, however, he decided that - having had my jaw out of sync for best part of six hours - I would have to have to bandaged up to prevent it from moving until the muscles relax and go back to where they should be...
So I now look rather too like Marley's Ghost with his kerchief wound about his head (to keeping his jaw from dropping open) and I've got to remain like this - on a liquid-only diet, too! - until Monday when I will see more specialists at the Ospidale who will advise me what's best thing to do next...
Some holiday!!
Images: Brian Sibley & David Weeks © 2007/8. The top image shows Titian's Assumption of the Virgin located in the Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari.
Labels: art, Dickens, health, Me, quotes, Venice
BEWITCHED, BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED
"The senses are so dazzled and almost
bewildered, I think, on arriving here,
that we are tempted at first to run
(or rather swim) up and down...
...staring at one thing...
...peeping at another...
...and endeavouring to find our way about
the strange new world, much as a cat does
on arriving at a new abode."
- Frances Trollope
Of course, back in the 19th Century, Fanny Trollope - who was a novelist and, incidentally, the mother of Anthony (Barchester Chronicles) Trollope - probably had people to show her the sites of Venice.
Today's visitors - despite being told that half the fun of visiting the city is in getting lost - are often encountered in the desperate throes of map-reading - usually with the aid (or not) of a totally inadequate map!
There are, in fact, only a couple of decent maps of Venice - and the best of those is the one from Magnetic North - but you'll never find them on sale in the city!
Labels: maps, quotes, travel, Venice
VENETIAN ENCOUNTERS
It is, as the cliché runs, a Small World...
On Christmas Eve, we were walking along a street in Venice, late at night, when we were accosted by an Italian couple who said to David, "Excuse us, but we met on Kalymnos in August: you performed magic for us at the Artistico taverna in Emporios and your friend, here, used to sit under the trees reading..."
Now, apart from the extraordinary fact that they identified us by the light of the shop windows of Prada and Fendi when we were all muffled up against the cold in coats and scarves and hats and yet when we last met - in a remote corner of a tiny Greek island - we were all in shorts and T-shirts, BUT they live in Milan and come to Venice every year - for one night only - to attend the Christmas Eve Mass in San Marco... And yet we happen to meet: what are the odds...?
Of course, Venice is - and always has been - a city of encounters...
Whilst tourists - being intent on seeing the sites - tend not to see the residents (who, in turn, do their best to ignore the tourists), there are places where their worlds, inevitably, coincide...
People meet in bars and cafes in campos and on bridges. They stop to talk: their voices ricocheting off ancient walls and mingling with the lap and slap of water in the canals, the chitter-chatter of heels on flag-stones, the murmuring of pigeons and the accordion-accompanied serenading of gondoliers...
Labels: Artistico, Emporios, Greece, Kalymnos, people, quotes, Venice
DECEMBER THE TWENTY-FIFTH
It's Christmas Day
in the Morning...
...and we're just back from the Basilica San Marco, where the faithful were celebrating the first Mass of Christmas. Visit the Cathedral when it is unlit and you might consider it nothing more than a grey, dusty mausoleum, but when illuminated - as it was tonight - it is flooded with a breathtaking golden radiance...
It is, perhaps, the nearest experience to being inside light: warm, reassuring, womb-like; a cradle in which we - together with the new born Christ Child are gently rocked to and fro within the golden heart of an ancient Faith - beating, pulsating across the centuries...
Now, what kind of greeting should I send you on this very special day?
Well, I think what would be appropriate would be to quote one of the lyrics written by LESLIE BRICUSSE for the 1970 film...
Bricusse wrote the song, 'December the Twenty-Fifth', for the scene featuring Fezziwig's Ball, in which Ebenezer Scrooge relives the Christmas jollifications that he enjoyed as a young man before he became - as Charles Dickens describes him - "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!"
The song is sung by Scrooge's former employer, Mr Benjamin Fezziwig, his wife, family and guests and - although written by a later hand - is truly the embodiment of the seasonal spirit which Dickens was attempting to invoke in writing A Christmas Carol...
Of all the days in all the year
That I'm familiar with
There's only one that's really fun
December the twenty-fifth!
Ask anyone called Robinson
Or Brown, or Jones, or Smith,
Their favorite day and they will say
December the twenty-fifth, m'dears
The dearest day in all the year
At times we're glad to see the back
Of all our kin and kith
But there's a date we celebrate
At times our friends may seem to be
Devoid of wit and pith
But all of us are humorous
December the twenty-fifth m'dears
And now, before you set about your own festivities, enjoy the original film rendition of 'December the Twenty-Fifth' as it was energetically performed by Laurence Naismith and Kay Walsh as Mr and Mrs Fezziwig, throwing themselves into the spirit of the day with total abandonment whilst being observed by Albert Finney as Ebenezer Scrooge and Edith Evans as The Ghost of Christmas Past...
So, from David, buttons and myself may we wish You and Yours...
A Very, Very
m'dears!
Images: San Marco on Christmas Eve © Brian Sibley; Title-cards from Scrooge by Ronald Searle. You can see more of Searle's artwork for Scrooge and Dickens' A Christmas Carol at Perpetua - Ronald Searle Tribute.
And buttons offers his own seasonal greeting here.
Labels: A Christmas Carol, books, Christmas, Dickens, films, Ronald Searle, Scrooge, seasons
'TIS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS...
Don't forget, dear readers, that - right now - Santa is going through those lists to find out who's been naughty and whose been nice! If you doubt it, check out this report - c. 1932 - from Santa's Workshop...
Here in Venice...
Children are obviously more nice than naughty since there are clearly enough of them to require Santa calling on the assistance of a couple of look-alikes...
Elsewhere, the question remains: how on earth (and all around the earth) does Santa manage top get all those deliveries made in just one night?
Well, at long last - courtesy of a couple of penguins and my friend, the illustrator GORDON FRASER - I can now reveal the secret, for so long hidden, behind Santa's extraordinary annual efficiency!
You can see more of Gordon Fraser's fun artwork on his blog Empire of the Gothtwinz.
Now, off you go like good little children and get to sleep and if you happen to hear any unusual bumps in the night, tonight --- no peeking!!
As for any grown-ups who've got time on their hands today - unlikely though that may seem - you may care to tune in to my Christmas radio dramatisation of P L Travers' seasonal fable, The Fox at the Manger, starring Dame Wendy Hiller and Alec McCowen, which is receiving a repeat on BBC Radio 7 at 10.15 am and 9.15 pm today and at 2.15 am tomorrow morning, Christmas Day.
To help you, here's all you need to know about BBC Radio 7; what you need to know about how to listen to Radio 7; the current 'What's On' page for Drama and how to listen again on-line via BBC iPlayer where the play will be listed on this page following its first transmission and can be heard for the following seven days until New Year's Eve.
Images: Venice Santas by Brian Sibley and Santa & Tardis by Gordon Fraser
Labels: cartoons, Christmas, Santa, Venice
Well, here we are in Venice!
...and, as the song says,
it's beginning to look a lot like
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I'll never forget the Christmas - too long ago now to attach a date to - when I spotted a book in my local bookshop entitled The Fox At The Manger. It was written, it said on the cover, by P L Travers, the author of Mary Poppins.
Although, at the time, I had yet to read any of the books about Miss Poppins, I knew and loved the Disney musical film based on her exploits whilst serving as a "practically perfect nanny" in the household of Mr and Mrs Banks in Cherry Tree Lane.
The Fox at the Manger, I discovered, was nothing like Mary Poppins - except that it was a tale shot through with magic! It re-told the events of the first Christmas - familiar from every nativity scene - but with an unexpected twist.
The animals in the Bethlehem stable - donkey, cow and sheep - who witness an unusual birth in the midst of their straw-filled little world are dismayed and alarmed when an alien creature enters their domain: a red, furry, fox - the chicken-stealing outlaw of the countryside. But the fox has come to the manger to bring his own, unique gift to the Christ Child...
What that gift is you must read for yourself --- or discover it by listening to a radio dramatisation that I made of the story some years back and which is being repeated this Christmas on the BBC.
The Fox at the Manger which stars Dame Wendy Hiller as the storyteller and Alec McCowen as the Fox is being broadcast on BBC Radio 7 at 10.15 am and 9.15 pm on Christmas Eve and, again, at 2.15 am on Christmas Day morning.
It will also be available to hear, on line, via the BBC's iPlayer for seven days following transmission.
If you'd like to hear The Fox at the Manger, here's all you need to know about BBC Radio 7; what you need to know about how to listen to Radio 7; the current 'What's On' page for Drama and how to listen again on-line via BBC iPlayer (the play will be listed on this page following its first transmission and can be be heard there until 1 January )
And, while on the subject of Sibley radio shows, And Yet Another Partridge in a Pear Tree... my 'Cautionary Tale for Christmas Showing that it is Better to Give than to Receive' can still be heard, on-line, via the BBC's Radio 7 iPlayer (you'll find it on the alphabetical listing of shows) but you've only got today and tomorrow to tune in...
Tomorrow we go to VENICE, so any delays in approving blog-comments will be due to changes in European time zones or, more likely, my inability to get on-line!
It has been said of the city which the Venetians call La Serenissima...
"Other cities had admirers,
Venice alone has LOVERS."
- Paul de Saint-Victor
But it has also been said...
"The abuse that the city suffers derives
from its own fatal gift for manufacturing
endlessly seductive clichés."
- Jonathan Keates
So, welcome to one of the most complex cities in the world!
As for buttons, he can't wait to get there!
Images: The Fox and the Raven from Aesop's Fables (and later The Fox at the Manger) by Thomas Bewick; Venetian Masqueraders © by Brian Sibley
Labels: Christmas, fantasy, Me, P L Travers, radio, religion, Twelve Days of Christmas
A VERY ROCKWELL CHRISTMAS
Among my favourite Christmas images are those created by the great American artist and illustrator, NORMAN ROCKWELL.
Even though he has been dismissed by many as an arch-sentimentalist whose portrayals of 20th Century American life were overly sweet and thus not worthy of being considered real art, it is impossible not to admire the meticulous precision of his designs and the detailed naturalism which he achieved in his paintings.
Many of Rockwell's most memorable pictures adorned the front covers of popular American magazines - most notably, Saturday Evening Post to which he contributed for over forty years.
Rockwell (1894-1978) created numerous iconic images, many of them celebrating the Christmas holiday season and, in particular, the personage of Santa Claus, of which the following St Nicks are just a representative delegation...
Norman Rockwell also illustrated several Dickensian scenes and characters such as this trio of Christmas Waits...
A cherubic Mr Pickwick en route to Dingley Dell with a laden Christmas hamper ...
And, from A Christmas Carol, Mr and Mrs Fezziwig dancing the Sir Roger de Coverley...
And - of course - Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim...
You can read more about the artist at the Norman Rockwell Official Web Site and at that of the Norman Rockwell Museum.
FINAL REMINDER!!
Don't forget... Time's running out if you want to hear Penelope Keith in my seasonal entertainment, And Yet Another Partridge in a Pear Tree...
This 'Cautionary Tale for Christmas Showing that it is Better to Give than to Receive' can be heard, on-line, via the BBC's Radio 7 iPlayer (And Yet Another Partridge... will be found on the alphabetical listing of shows) but you've only got today and tomorrow to tune in!
Also, you can read the full text of the Bracegirdle letters on my website, Brian Sibley: The Works.
ROGER the LIBRARIAN has just uncovered yet another, American, parody on 'The Twelve Days of Christmas', though of unknown date and authorship...
Twelve Days After Christmas
The first day after Christmas my true love and I had a fight,
And so I chopped the pear tree down and burned it just for spite.
Then with a single cartridge, I shot that blasted partridge,
My true love, my true love, my true love gave to me.
The second day after Christmas, I pulled on the old rubber gloves,
And very gently wrung the necks of both the turtle doves.
The third day after Christmas, my mother caught the croup;
I had to use the three French hens to make some chicken soup.
The four calling birds were a big mistake, for their language was obscene.
The five gold rings were completely fake and they turned my fingers green.
The sixth day after Christmas, the six laying geese wouldn't lay,
I gave the whole darn gaggle to the A.S.P.C.A.*
On the seventh day what a mess I found,
All seven of the swimming swans had drowned,
The eighth day after Christmas, before they could suspect,
I bundled up the eight maids a milking, nine pipers piping,
Ten ladies dancing, 'leven lords a leaping,
Twelve drummers drumming and sent them back 'collect'.
I wrote my true love, "We are through, love", and I said in so many words,
"Furthermore your Christmas gifts were for the birds!"
* American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Labels: America, art, Christmas, illustration, Norman Rockwell, Santa, Twelve Days of Christmas
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A portrait of our Capital during the Games.
About the Panorama
To celebrate a record breaking year, we’ve taken the world’s biggest picture of the capital. Taken after the end of the London 2012 Games, it's your chance to share your favourite views of the capital and to document London’s year in the global spotlight.
The 320 gigapixel image - taken by expert photography firm 360Cities – comprises 48,640 individual frames which have been collated into a single panorama by a supercomputer.
If printed at normal photographic resolution, it would be almost as tall and as wide as Buckingham Palace.
PS. Our old friend Buzby is hiding in the gigapixel image too. Find him, click the link and you could win one of three iPad 3's. Be the first, and you'll also get a year's free BT Broadband.
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The 320 gigapixel panorama was photographed by Jeffrey Martin, Holger Schulze and Tom Mills (from expert panoramic photography firm 360Cities.net) and then subsequently created by Jeffrey Martin.
It is comprised of 48,640 individual images shot over a period of three days and processed over a period of three months.
The pictures were taken using Canon EOS 7D cameras with EF 400mm f/2.8 IS II USM lenses and Extender EF 2x III teleconverters driven by special Rodeon VR Head ST robotic panorama heads from the Clauss company in Germany.
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2003 - 2004 LEGISLATURE
2003 Assembly JOINT RESOLUTION 10
January 28, 2003 - Introduced by Representatives M. Williams, Krawczyk, Foti,
Kerkman, Rhoades, Musser, Albers, Olsen, Hundertmark, Krusick, Seratti,
M. Lehman, Pettis, Jeskewitz, Vrakas, Powers, Gunderson, McCormick,
Towns, Ladwig, Kreibich, Bies, Wieckert, Grothman, Gielow, Underheim,
Friske, Lassa, Ainsworth, Nischke, Gronemus, Ott, Van Roy, Turner,
Gottlieb, Freese, Hahn, Johnsrud, Schooff, Weber, A. Williams and
Townsend, cosponsored by Senators Brown, Stepp, Breske, Harsdorf, Lazich,
Risser, A. Lasee, Roessler, Welch, Kedzie, Schultz and Hansen. Referred to
Committee on State Affairs.
AJR10,1,51 To amend so as in effect to repeal section 4 (3) (c) of article VI; to renumber and
2amend section 4 (1) of article VI and section 12 of article VII; to amend section
34 (4) of article VI; and to create section 4 (1) (b) and (c) of article VI and section
412 (2) of article VII of the constitution; relating to: 4-year terms of office for
5certain county officers (first consideration).
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Currently, the constitution provides for the election every 4 years of county
sheriffs, and every 2 years of clerks of circuit court, registers of deeds, and district
attorneys, and, unless a county appoints a medical examiner, coroners. Under
current statutes, county clerks and treasurers, and surveyors unless a county
appoints a surveyor, are also elected every 2 years, except that the constitution
abolishes the offices of coroner and surveyor in counties having a population of
500,000 or more.
This proposed constitutional amendment, proposed to the 2003 legislature on
first consideration, requires counties to elect county clerks and treasurers every 4
years, and changes the terms of office from 2 years to 4 years for district attorneys,
coroners, elected surveyors, registers of deeds, treasurers, county clerks, and clerks
of circuit court. For clerks of circuit court and coroners, the first elections to 4-year
terms will be held concurrently with the first gubernatorial election following
ratification, which is when the constitution provides that sheriffs are to be first
elected to 4-year terms. For district attorneys, elected surveyors, registers of deeds,
treasurers, and county clerks, the first elections to 4-year terms will be held
concurrently with the first presidential election following ratification.
The proposal does not change the times for holding regular elections for any
county offices, and does not affect the terms of office of elected county chief executive
officers (they already serve 4-year terms), or the terms of office of county supervisors
or sheriffs.
A constitutional amendment requires adoption by 2 successive legislatures,
and ratification by the people, before it can become effective.
AJR10,2,1 1Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That:
AJR10, s. 1 2Section 1. Section 4 (1) of article VI of the constitution is renumbered section
34 (1) (a) of article VI and amended to read:
AJR10,2,74 [Article VI] Section 4 (1) (a) Except as provided in pars. (b) and (c) and sub. (2),
5coroners, registers of deeds, district attorneys, and all other elected county officers,
6except judicial officers, sheriffs, and chief executive officers, shall be chosen by the
7electors of the respective counties once in every 2 years.
AJR10, s. 2 8Section 2. Section 4 (1) (b) and (c) of article VI of the constitution are created
9to read:
AJR10,2,1710 [Article VI] Section 4 (1) (b) Beginning with the first general election at which
11the governor is elected which occurs after the ratification of this paragraph, sheriffs
12shall be chosen by the electors of the respective counties, or by the electors of all of
13the respective counties comprising each combination of counties combined by the
14legislature for that purpose, for the term of 4 years and coroners in counties in which
15there is a coroner shall be chosen by the electors of the respective counties, or by the
16electors of all of the respective counties comprising each combination of counties
17combined by the legislature for that purpose, for the term of 4 years.
AJR10,3,618 (c) Beginning with the first general election at which the president is elected
19which occurs after the ratification of this paragraph, district attorneys, registers of
20deeds, county clerks, and treasurers shall be chosen by the electors of the respective
1counties, or by the electors of all of the respective counties comprising each
2combination of counties combined by the legislature for that purpose, for the term
3of 4 years and surveyors in counties in which the office of surveyor is filled by election
4shall be chosen by the electors of the respective counties, or by the electors of all of
5the respective counties comprising each combination of counties combined by the
6legislature for that purpose, for the term of 4 years.
AJR10, s. 3 7Section 3. Section 4 (3) (c) of article VI of the constitution is amended so as in
8effect to repeal said paragraph:
AJR10,3,119 [Article VI] Section 4 (3) (c) Beginning with the first general election at which
11shall be chosen by the electors of the respective counties once in every 4 years.
AJR10, s. 4 12Section 4. Section 4 (4) of article VI of the constitution is amended to read:
AJR10,3,1513 [Article VI] Section 4 (4) The governor may remove any elected county officer
14mentioned in this section except a county clerk, treasurer, or surveyor, giving to the
15officer a copy of the charges and an opportunity of being heard.
AJR10, s. 5 16Section 5. Section 12 of article VII of the constitution is renumbered section
1712 (1) of article VII and amended to read:
AJR10,3,2118 [Article VII] Section 12 (1) There shall be a clerk of the circuit court chosen in
19each county organized for judicial purposes by the qualified electors thereof, who,
20except as provided in sub. (2), shall hold his office for two years, subject to removal
21as shall be provided by law; in.
AJR10,3,23 22(3) In case of a vacancy, the judge of the circuit court shall have power to may
23appoint a clerk until the vacancy shall be is filled by an election; the.
AJR10,3,25 24(4) The clerk thus elected or appointed of circuit court shall give such security
25as the legislature may require requires by law.
AJR10,4,2
1(5) The supreme court shall appoint its own clerk, and may appoint a clerk of
2the circuit court may be appointed a to be the clerk of the supreme court.
AJR10, s. 6 3Section 6. Section 12 (2) of article VII of the constitution is created to read:
AJR10,4,74 [Article VII] Section 12 (2) Beginning with the first general election at which
5the governor is elected which occurs after the ratification of this subsection, a clerk
6of circuit court shall be chosen by the electors of each county, for the term of 4 years,
7subject to removal as provided by law.
AJR10, s. 7 8Section 7. Numbering of new provisions. (1) The new paragraph (b) of
9subsection (1) of section 4 of article VI of the constitution created in this joint
10resolution shall be designated by the next higher open paragraph letter in that
11subsection in that section in that article if, before the ratification by the people of the
12amendment proposed in this joint resolution, any other ratified amendment has
13created a paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 4 of article VI of the constitution
14of this state. If one or more joint resolutions create a paragraph (b) of subsection (1)
15of section 4 of article VI simultaneously with the ratification by the people of the
16amendment proposed in this joint resolution, the paragraphs created shall be
17numbered and placed in a sequence so that the paragraphs created by the joint
18resolution having the lowest enrolled joint resolution number have the letters
19designated in that joint resolution and the paragraphs created by the other joint
20resolutions have letters that are in the same ascending order as are the numbers of
21the enrolled joint resolutions creating the paragraphs.
AJR10,5,922 (2) The new paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 4 of article VI of the
23constitution created in this joint resolution shall be designated by the next higher
24open paragraph letter in that subsection in that section in that article if, before the
25ratification by the people of the amendment proposed in this joint resolution, any
1other ratified amendment has created a paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 4
2of article VI of the constitution of this state. If one or more joint resolutions create
3a paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 4 of article VI simultaneously with the
4ratification by the people of the amendment proposed in this joint resolution, the
5paragraphs created shall be lettered and placed in a sequence so that the paragraphs
6created by the joint resolution having the lowest enrolled joint resolution number
7have the letters designated in that joint resolution and the paragraphs created by
8the other joint resolutions have letters that are in the same ascending order as are
9the numbers of the enrolled joint resolutions creating the paragraphs.
AJR10,5,2210 (3) The new subsection (2) of section 12 of article VII of the constitution created
11in this joint resolution shall be designated by the next higher open whole subsection
12number in that section in that article if, before the ratification by the people of the
14created a subsection (2) of section 12 of article VII of the constitution of this state.
15If one or more joint resolutions create a subsection (2) of section 12 of article VII
16simultaneously with the ratification by the people of the amendment proposed in this
17joint resolution, the subsections created shall be numbered and placed in a sequence
18so that the subsections created by the joint resolution having the lowest enrolled joint
19resolution number have the numbers designated in that joint resolution and the
20subsections created by the other joint resolutions have numbers that are in the same
21ascending order as are the numbers of the enrolled joint resolutions creating the
22subsections.
1Be it further resolved, That this proposed amendment be referred to the
2legislature to be chosen at the next general election and that it be published for 3
3months previous to the time of holding such election.
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Smarty Scoop On Weekend Events June 15-17
written by CSP Team June 14, 2018
StoryLand: A Trip Through Childhood Favorites
300 E. 7th Street, Charlotte, NC
June 15-September 8, See website for schedule, Ages 2-8, Free
Summary: Beloved children’s books will come alive with Storyland: A Trip Through Childhood Favorites, an imaginative, book-based experience for children ages birth to 8 years old.
2018 Supra Boats Pro Wakeboard Tour and Pro Wakesurf Tour
Stumpy Creek Boat Landing
160 Stumpy Creek Rd., Mooresville, NC
June 16, 10:00am – 4:00pm, All ages, $10 adults, $5 kids
Summary: The world’s top wake athletes will be heading to Stumpy Creek Boat Landing/Lake Norman in Mooresville, NC on June 16 for the 2018 Supra Boats Pro Wakeboard Tour and Pro Wakesurf Tour.
2018 Queen City Father’s Day Festival
Carole Hoefener Center
June 16, 1:00pm – 5:00pm, All ages, Free
Summary: The 2018 Queen City Father’s Day Festival is the perfect place to buy dad something cool. More than 50 vendors, crafts, games, displays, food, and a bouncy house for the kids.
Summer Jazz Series At Freedom Park
1900 East Blvd, Charlotte, NC
Summary: Come jam to the city’s best jazz!
Charlotte Symphony Summer Pops
See website for schedule, All ages, $5-$20
Summary: Since 1983, Summer Pops has brought the Charlotte community together to share picnics, laughs, and great music with family and friends. Your favorite summer concert series now includes the Symphony Park experiences you love PLUS two new uptown in-theater options. Tickets to all Summer Pops performances – indoor and outdoor at the Park – are available individually or as part of discounted packages. See tabs above for Premium Club Seating and ticket packages. Tickets to outdoor performances at Symphony Park are also available at the gate.
301 N. Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC (704) 372-6261
Summary: Step into a world where science is brought to life through interactive exhibits and explosive experiments during daily programs. Connect with the past and visit the future with groundbreaking exhibitions, larger-than-life IMAX Dome films and hands on activities that let you explore more. Plan your visit today. Click on the links below for detailed information on special events, featured exhibitions, featured shows and IMAX.
Featured Exhibitions: For information on all exhibitions click here.
Featured Shows: For information on all featured shows click here.
IMAX: For information on all featured movies and showtimes click here.
Discovery Place Kids – Huntersville
105 Gilead Road, Huntersville, NC (704) 372-6261
Summary: Explore the theme of I CAN at Discovery Place KIDS-Huntersville. The children’s museum features developmentally-appropriate experiences that encourage imagination and offer the opportunity to build confidence while testing skills by trying new things. The exhibits, themed around a small town, allow children to learn through play.
Theme Areas: For a complete description of all nine theme areas click here.
Featured Shows: For a complete listing of all featured shows click here.
Current and Upcoming Events: For all current and upcoming events click here.
Charlotte Nature Museum
1658 Sterling Road, Charlotte, NC (704) 372-6261
Summary: Bring little ones for just an hour or the whole day and experience wildlife through live animal exhibits and interactive education programs. The Museum is easy to navigate with fun surprises around every corner. Kids can roam The Great Hall and visit Beginnings, an area filled with young animals and information on their lifecycles.
Featured Exhibitions: For complete details on exhibitions and exhibits click here.
Featured Shows: For a complete schedule of show times click here.
300 Carowinds Blvd., Charlotte, NC
June 9 – June 24, 10:00am – 10:00pm, All ages
Explore: what’s new, calendar and hours, park map and directions
Play: rides and attractions, shows and entertainment, special events
Stay: camp wilderness, preferred hotels, special discounts, easy pay
Open Quarry Swim At Carrigan Farms
Carrigan Farms
1213 Oak Ridge Farm Hwy. (west entrance), Mooresville, NC
June 10-28, See website for schedule, All ages, $15 per person, cash or check only
Summary: Located in Mooresville, NC, The Quarry at Carrigan Farms, LLC is a natural, spring fed, body of water where swimming is enjoyed by many. Mined in the late 1960’s for its granite stone, once a spring was discovered, the quarry filled with water and is now a favorite spot for those wanting to cool off in the summer.
River Jam Concert Series
U.S. National Whitewater Center
5000 Whitewater Center Pkwy, Charlotte, NC
May 3 – September 29, See website for schedule, All ages, Free, $6 parking
Summary: River Jam at the U.S. National Whitewater Center brings together live musical performances throughout the year to a one-of-a-kind outdoor venue, right in the middle of the world’s largest man-made whitewater river. Genres including roots rock, americana, bluegrass, folk, and funk take center stage Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights as well as during each of the USNWC’s festivals. Bring your friends, enjoy our large food and craft beer selection, and take in the sights and sounds of River Jam.
Sounds On The Square
The Square at Spirit Square
345 North College Street, Charlotte, NC
May 11 – August 31, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, All ages, Free
Summary: Don’t miss our free outdoor performances every Friday night this summer at Spirit Square! Local musicians will perform from 7:00-8:30 PM in the Square at Spirit Square. The events will be moved indoors if there is inclement weather. Concessions and beverages will be available for purchase. Don’t forget to bring your own lawn chair!
Blakeney’s Summer Concert Series
Village Green at Blakeney
Ardrey Kell and Rea Road, Charlotte, NC
May 25 – September 1, 7:00pm – 10:00pm, All ages, Free
Rockin’ and Reelin’ Movie And Concert Series
Pineville Lake Park
1000 Johnston Drive, Pineville, NC
June 1 – June 22, See website for schedule, Free
Summary: Concerts start at 7:00pm and movies start at 8:00pm.
Corner of Main & Concord Road, Davidson, NC
See website for schedule, All ages, Free
Summary: Our Concerts on the Green are a summer family favorite! Concerts take place the first and third Sunday evenings of the month from to 6:00-8:00 p.m. on the town green in front of the Davidson Public Library, at the intersection of Main Street and Concord Road.
Music On The Green Concert Series
The Green at Promenade Rd and I-485, Charlotte, NC
May 4 – September 15, See website for schedule, Free
Summary: Live music every Friday and Saturday during the summer.
Food Truck Fridays And Concert Series
Stumptown Park
120 S. Trade Street, Matthews, NC
April 13 – September 28, See website for schedule, All ages, Free
Summary: Favorite area food and dessert trucks will provide varied menus including seafood, Tex-Mex, burgers, sandwiches, specialty dishes and more. There will also be a great line-up of local and regional bands, inflatables and a craft beer pavilion
Stonecrest Summer Concert Series
Stonecrest Shopping Center
7900 Rae Road, Charlotte, NC
April. 6 – September 29, See website for schedule, All ages, Free
Summary: Live music every Friday and Saturday night throughout the summer.
Mingling On The Greens
Birkdale Village
8712 Lindholm Drive, Huntersville, NC
June 1 – August 25, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, All ages, Free
Summary: Join us for live music every Friday & Saturday night from 7pm – 9pm, June 1st to Aug 25th. Bring a chair or a blanket and the whole family; it’s a good time for all! For a complete listing of dates and bands, please visit us on Facebook
Old Town Cornelius 2nd Friday Street Festival
Oak Street Mill
19725 Oak Street, Cornelius, NC
May 11 – October 12, See website for schedule, All ages, Free
Summary: 2nd Friday is #OTC’s monthly throw-down featuring a jam-packed lineup of live music, food trucks, craft breweries, local artists, kids activities and much more! The event is RAIN or SHINE so mark your calendars because this is going to be a festival series that you simply don’t want to miss!
Music Box Lunch
Romare Bearden Park
300 S. Church St., Charlotte, NC
April 3 – August 31, 12:00pm – 1:30pm, All ages, Free
Summary:Tuesdays and Fridays from April 3rd, 2018, through August 31st, 2018, enjoy live lunchtime music in Romare Bearden Park.
Charlotte Knights
BB&T Ballpark
324 S. Mint Street, Charlotte, NC
Charlotte Hounds
American Legion Stadium
310 N. Kings Drive, Charlotte, NC
Sportsplex at Matthews
1505 Tank Town Road, Matthews, NC
YMCA of Greater Charlotte Event Calendar
19 Locations throughout the Greater Charlotte Area
Summary: Most people know their neighborhood “Y” because of its incredible sports, camps and fitness programs but the “Y” has so much more to offer. Spend some time (it will take a while) on the website and learn about all the opportunities the “Y” provides. I promise, you will be amazed.
Free Wednesday Evenings At The Mint Museum
The Mint Museum – Randolph
2730 Randolph Road, Charlotte, NC
The Mint Museum – Uptown
500 S. Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC
Every Wednesday from 5:00pm – 9:00pm, All ages
Summary:Enjoy free access to both Mint Museum locations every Wednesday night.
Bank of America’s Museums On Us Day
Various locations around Charlotte
The first Sunday and Saturday of every month, All ages, Free
Summary: Now in its 20th year, this distinctive program offers Bank of America and Merrill Lynch credit and debit card holders the opportunity to visit more than 150 of the most popular cultural institutions in the United States free of charge on the first full weekend of every month.
300 E. 7th Street, Charlotte, NC (704) 416-4630
See website for hours of operation
Summary: This collaborative effort between the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and Children’s Theatre of Charlotte is a 102,000-square-foot facility recently ranked by Livability.com as the No. 1 children’s library in the United States. ImaginOn features two state-of-the-art theaters, a dedicated library space for kids 11 and under, four multi-use classrooms, a teen-only library, a multimedia production studio, and interactive exhibit space.
6000 Sample Road, Huntersville, NC (704) 875-6521
Summary: Carolina Raptor Center is dedicated to environmental stewardship and the conservation of birds of prey through education, research, and the rehabilitation of injured and orphaned raptors. As a charitable 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, CRC relies on public financial support to fulfill our mission. Supporters can release a raptor, adopt a bird, make a charitable donation, purchase a membership or sponsor a capital improvement project. CRC’s environmental education programs reach approximately 40,000 students each year. Our Raptor Trail hosts more than 35,000 visitors a year. Visit our calendar page for event times or just come and enjoy our nicely maintained trails and see all the amazing birds of prey.
The Schiele Museum of Natural History
1500 East Garrison Blvd, Gastonia, NC (704) 866-6900
Summary: The natural wonders of North America and North Carolina coupled with the rich history of our region are all reflected in The Schiele’s exceptional exhibitions and diverse programming. Whether you’re indoors or out, with the kids or your colleagues, by bringing you a lot closer to nature, The Schiele will bring you a little closer to yourself.
Featured Exhibits: For a complete listing click here
Planetarium: For a complete schedule click here
Events Calendar: For all events click here
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June 11, 2014 Chester Progressive
Y 8B Wednesday, JUne 11, 2014 Bulletin, Record, Progressive, Reporter Same great coffee. Full assortment of pastries, soups and sandwiches. Made fresh daily! Midtown 231 Main St., Quincy 283-5061 Next Door to Papa Murphy's b )ht n, day Sonshine FI Made-to-order arrangements, plants, plush animals, bath and baskets and other gift (sso) 2s 4s43 212 Main St." Chester Vickl Mason, Owner Gifts "Jewelry � Cards OM-fashioned soda fountain Educational toys Year round "Christmas Shop" Gift Certificates 258-2222 220 Main St., Chester evergreen �PARTY/. Delicious Party Platters & Freshly Baked Items from our Bakery for every occasion! S )ecial Hotline Celebrate with us... Weddings, family events, business meetings, company Family Style Ranch Meals Group Rates Reservations 1-800-33-HOWDY (530)283-0930 � 2116 Greenhorn Ranch Rd. � Quincy We accept all competitor coupons 231 Easy & Deficious! The perfect way to celebrate those special occasions Main St., Quincy � " ~i]d Midto,a n Coffee) starts early with delicious, freshly ground coffee and an assortment of handmade pastries, cookies, scones, sandwiches, muffins, breads, and seasonal items such as soups and tarts. Featuring a varied menu full-service catering and special orders for groups of any size. Stop in and enjoy a wholesome breakfast or lunch in our warm and friendly shop. A perfect place to meet your friends, make� new ones, hold a business meeting or study for school. Free WiFi. We are proud to serve you/ 231 Main St., Quincy 283-5061 I':! xt Door to Papa Murphy's The High Sierra Community Youth Orchestra celebrates its performance in the 12th annual Face the Music Studio Spring Concert. Photo courtesy Face the Music Studio Face the Music Studio is proud to announce that the 12th annual Spring Concert featuring the High Sierra Community Youth Orchestra was a huge success. Approximately 180 people showed up to listen to the evening of music. "The featured young performers all played fabulously and the orchestra performed beautifully," said director Johnene McDonald. "It was obvious that the audience enjoyed the variety of musical selections. The intermission featured a savory variety of potluck refreshments. The evening was thoroughly enjoyed by all who attended." McDonald thanks the Central Plumas Recreation and Park District, Plumas Arts, Plumas Unified School District, Quincy Elementary School and all of the musicians who made this performance possible and successful. The 2014-15 orchestra session will start rehearsing again in October and will start working on new music for the annual County Courthouse Potluck Concert in December. Plumas Arts will be presenting the Courthouse Lawn Art Show on Saturday, June 28, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Last year was Plumas Arts' first try at bringing back the much-loved local event that had previously taken place on the courthouse lawn over the Fourth of July weekend. The public is invited to come and enjoy fine art booths and stroll around downtown Quincy on a sunny summer Saturday. Vendors come from far and wide offering one-of-a-kind items for sale. Booth space is still available for handmade arts and crafts and information booths. Give a call to Plumas Arts at 283-3402 for more information or download the application at plumasarts.org. dinner at Whitehawk Annual fundraiser helps support the ALIVE program Debra Moore Staff Writer dmoore@plurnasnews.com ALIVE has a wish list: a new van, carpet and an updated kitchen ... all to benefit adults with developmental disabilities who rely on the program's services. Proceeds from a fundraising dinner to be held at Whitehawk Restaurant on June 17 will go toward the wish list. The restaurant hosts a "Keep It Local" fundraising dinner once a month to support local organizations. Bob Battistoni, the program's coordinator, wants to ensure that this year's event is a successland he is encouraging the public to attend. In addition to the dinner, � attendees will be able to bid on a variety of items including overnight golf packages, art, beauty treatments and much more. "It's really a nice event," Battistoni said of the evening. Members of ALIVE are familiar faces in the community, largely because the program focuses on integration. It assists men and women age 18 and older with developmental disabilities to live independently, develop job skills and fmd employment. Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., program participants can sign up for a variety of classes. Many take place in the Jackson Street office of ALIVE and it's that facility that needs improving. Battistoni said the program strives to get the participants into the community as much as possible, and they work out at the fitness center and perform tasks around town such as picking up recycling at the county courthouse and other facilities. The participants can keep the money that they earn and often put it toward a variety of trips and events organized by ALIVE. Battistoni said that a core group has been part of ALIVE for many years, while others come in and out of the program. Looking to the future, Battistoni said that ALIVE is gearing up to "support people with autism," as that population continues to grow. To support ALIVE, part of Plumas Rural Services, make a reservation for the dinner by calling the Whitehawk Restaurant at 836-4985. Cocktails begin at 5 p.m., with dinner at 6 p.m. Restaurant owner Sharon Adams said the choice of entrees for the ALIVE dinner will be chicken piccata, salmon or pasta primavera. Search and rescue seeks donations The Plumas County Search to the citizens and businesses and Rescue Team will be of Plumas County. starting its fifth annual "We are also recruiting telemarketing fundraiser� new members to be a part of June 16. the SAR team," said Grant. "The company that handles Classes for new members will this for the SAR team has start soon. To ask questions been very reliable and done a about the fundraiser or good job bringing in express interest in joining donations to help the team in the team call or stop by the purchasing much-needed sheriff's office, 1400 E. Main safety equipment," said St. in Quincy. Ask to speak Communications Supervisor with Lori. Hours are Monday Becky Grant. and Tuesday 10 a.m. - 3:30 The event lasts throughout p.m. and the phone number is the summer as calls are made 283-6375. :J
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