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Alexander Manekovskiy
Automating Automation
Why Your Team Should Do a Code Review on a Regular Basis
Oct 21st, 2015 7:38 pm
While working with any system we have to take into account so many aspects that even armed with the best tooling and extensive test suites we cannot guarantee 100% (but surely we can plan and minimize the risks) that the development/maintenance cost of our software will not exceed the amount of profit it generates.
And to minimize the risks and costs we have to follow the best practices, methodologies and techniques. My personal approach to aforementioned good practices is very pragmatic - if something proved that it could be used to simplify the life of the team we’ll use it. And one of that things that are often underestimated or neglected is a code (or peer) review.
In software development, peer review is a type of software review in which a work product (document, code, or other) is examined by its author and one or more colleagues, in order to evaluate its technical content and quality.
What Are The Benefits Of Doing A Code Review?
The main intent of the code review is to identify source code defects and quality issues. Another big advantage is a knowledge transfer. This is maybe the least expected outcome of the code review process. I personally observed lots of cases when reviewers were giving links and citing some external resources in their comments. That additional resources were helping author to get deeper into details, see the issue from different angles and as a result produce better code.
For those who like numbers I recommend to read a study by Bacchelli A. and Bird C. Expectations, outcomes, and challenges of modern code review that characterizes the motivations of developers and managers for code review and compares it with actual results.
Also Steve McConnell gives enough facts of code review effectiveness in Code Complete:
Technical reviews have been studied much longer than pair programming, and their results, as described in case studies and elsewhere, have been impressive:
IBM found that each hour of inspection prevented about 100 hours of related work (testing and defect correction) (Holland 1999).
Raytheon reduced its cost of defect correction (rework) from about 40 percent of total project cost to about 20 percent through an initiative that focused on inspections (Haley 1996).
Hewlett-Packard reported that its inspection program saved an estimated $21.5 million per year (Grady and Van Slack 1994).
Imperial Chemical Industries found that the cost of maintaining a portfolio of about 400 programs was only about 10 percent as high as the cost of maintaining a similar set of programs that had not been inspected (Gilb and Graham 1993).
A study of large programs found that each hour spent on inspections avoided an average of 33 hours of maintenance work and that inspections were up to 20 times more efficient than testing (Russell 1991).
In a software-maintenance organization, 55 percent of one-line maintenance changes were in error before code reviews were introduced. After reviews were introduced, only 2 percent of the changes were in error (Freedman and Weinberg 1990). When all changes were considered, 95 percent were correct the first time after reviews were introduced. Before reviews were introduced, under 20 percent were correct the first time.
A group of 11 programs were developed by the same group of people, and all were released to production. The first five were developed without reviews and averaged 4.5 errors per 100 lines of code. The other six were inspected and averaged only 0.82 errors per 100 lines of code. Reviews cut the errors by over 80 percent (Freedman and Weinberg 1990).
Capers Jones reports that of all the software projects he has studied that have achieved 99 percent defect-removal rates or better, all have used formal inspections. Also, none of the projects that achieved less than 75 percent defectremoval efficiency used formal inspections (Jones 2000).
How It Is Working?
The typical code review process is following:
Author of change generates a patch and sends it to the code review system
Author invites his teammates to review the code
Code review participants are adding comments and suggestions on code improvement
Author either follows the suggestions and updates the code or rejects them
The code review is updated by author and a new review iteration is started
When all debates around the change are finished the code review is approved and the change is merged into the repository.
Code review is often supported by tools preferably integrated into the development environment. If you are working alone there is a site where you can ask for a peer programmer code review - Code Review. As like on a Stack Overflow this site has an army of active members that would happily help you no matter what language or technology you are using.
There are also a plenty of tools available on a market starting from aforementioned SO site to TFS support and integrated code review tooling inside GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and other OSS collaboration platforms.
If you are looking for how you can improve the state of the codebase and/or development process in general start practicing code review on daily basis.
Surely if the team never practiced code review before it would be harder to start but as Laozi said “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”. And I wish you to succeed!
Posted by Alexander Manekovskiy Oct 21st, 2015 7:38 pm development
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Some political notes as well
Hey, if you have any interest in being in a fantasy baseball league, go make a comment on this post.
Colby Cosh weighs in on the Danish cartoon fiasco zeroing in on the outrageous demand that a belief system be excluded from analysis.
Ann Coulter's column this week deals with the Danish Cartoon crisis. If you're reading this in subsequent weeks Ann's webpage wouldn't show it, so I'm hoping this Yahoo link has some legacy to it. Highlight of the column: "Muslims ought to start claiming the Quran also prohibits indoor plumbing, to explain their lack of it."
Ohh, we've heard over and over and over again how "images of Mohammed" are not allowed in Islam. Well, somebody decided to show how bunk that was: here is a collection of images of Mohammed that didn't result in massive protests. The images range from this picture from 1315 on file at the University of Edinburgh to Mohammed in the South Park episode "Super Best Friends". So Muslims everywhere can officially shut the #$&@%^$ up, okay?!
You may remember hearing that 3 "extra" images were passed off as Danish cartoons, including this weird looking thing. Well, Neander News was on the case, and has determined that its a bad photocopy of a photograph of Jacques Barrot, a Frenchman who won a pig squealing competition. Damn those Muslims are touchy. But we all knew that already.
The big political news in Canada is that Stephen Harper has decided to break about 66 promises at once by having his very own Belinda (though admittedly one who's far less of a whore, and his own Doug Roche. While the Liberals obviously are silent on it, conservatives across Canada [all 600 of us? -ed] are having wild debates about whether to stick to principles or support Harper's abandonment of them to possibly further the long-term conservative cause. My own opinion is a linear combination of the two, but my primary thought is this: there was a better way to handle this all.
Like the U.S. Vice Presidency, the Canadian Parlimentary Cabinet is not (as commonly believed) available only to people from a certain party. Harper is more than welcome to choose cabinet members from other caucuses, and in most nations a minority government is generally expected to do so. In other words, when Emerson asked to join the Conservatives (if that is indeed the timeline), Harper should have said no. And then selected Emerson to cabinet anyways. If you do the speech properly and put the proper initial spin on it, the story will take the form you want it to, and you can spin that form very well. Imagine, if you will....
David Emerson is not our first choice for International Trade Minister, nor is he our first choice for Minister for the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics. For the former, we would have preferred Calgary MP Diane Ablonczy and for the latter we much would have preferred Cindy Silver, our candidate in the North Vancouver riding this election. However, the people of Vancouver did not elect Cindy nor any of our other top-notch candidates in her city, and we do require a cabinet member to be able to provide liason services and overseeing of federal efforts in the run-in to the Olympics, and we cannot wait another two-to-five years for another general election in the hopes of Conservative representation. As well, it is only fair that our cabinet reach out to the other parties as is expected in a minority government in every other western democracy. Due to the small size of our cabinet and the concern we feel over corruption within the Liberal Party, in our first cabinet we are limiting this position to only one man, The Honourable David Emerson. David has previous experience as a cabinet minister which will be invaluable to the learning curve of our MPs who have spent their political careers in opposition. As well, David is from the City of Vancouver which as I have already stated requires cabinet representation due to Olympic requirements. Though Mr. Emerson has in the past been highly critical of our party, he does come from the Liberal's right wing and therefore on at least some issues can have common ground with the rest of our party and the five million Canadians who voted for us. For all of these reasons I am here to justify to you the selection of a Liberal member from the opposition benches to join us in cabinet. Mr. Emerson will not, however, be sitting with our caucus. He has not joined our party, and while I do not believe it to be appropriate for him to criticize the decisions our cabinet will make, I will be listening to his input during cabinet meetings in which he will take part. Unlike the Paul Martin minority government, our party plans to reach out to opposition members with whom we can find common ground. When I took over the Canadian Alliance leadership it was thought impossible to build bridges with the Conservatives, yet we proved it wrong. And now I am here to build bridges again, laying the foundation for a limited yet fair coalition with MPs from all the other parties who share our concern for a new era in Ottawa free of graft and corruption, free of the Chretien/Martin democratic deficit, and free of excessive government. To this end Liberal MP David Emerson has been invited to join our cabinet, an invitation to which he has accepted and I hope will set the tone for our 39th Parliament. I dream that one day this session can be looked upon as the session where everything changed for the better, where debates can take place along ideological lines rather than purely partisan ones, and where the people of this great nation can finally feel that they have a say in the way the country is run.
Of course, on the matter of the appointed Senator there's no advice I can give...that one was completely indefensible.
Mike Jenkinson wondered in the SUN this week whither the NDP. Oddly enough, "Jenks" was against the United Alternative. At least, he was. Of course, lots of people who were against it are no longer quite so upset with it. Naturally an NDP supporter was quick to call him on the column in the SUN today. But the main thrust was the SUNshine girls. You know, the comment staff must hate them: they attract such reader opinions that every once and a while flare up and overtake the columnists themselves.
Lavalife is running a "Singles Week" contest that includes a trip to the Dominican Republic. Sweet. All you have to do is send (free) smiles or (hideously expensive) emails. Hell, I can do that. So after about 300 smiles sent, I think I've got a rough chance of winning (rough = practically zero, of course, but hey if its free). Now bear in mind that women who send a smile back at me get their own entry, so the smiles are more likely to flow now than when there's no contest. How many smiles have I received back over the past 12 hours? Two. Two tiny miserable smiles. For crying out loud, are women just that uninterested in me that they literally won't flirt with me even when there are prizes available to be won for flirting, and no actual communication with me is necessary? That's really really sad.
Holt Renfrew gift certificates are alternate prizes. Not only are there a paltry number of male fashions to choose from versus the female fashions (its an e-gift card, so I assume its only on internet purchases), but the male fashions are for the most part unbelieveably chauchy or slightly gay. They might as well have a splash page reading "Non-Metrosexuals not permitted within the premises". And are those two pages the only online male fashions I could get? Geesh, hope I don't win 2nd place! (Sidebar: the gay sweater itself costs $300 more than the $500 ecard)
My apartment is almost cleaned up for the most dreaded of all bachelor-living phenomenon: the mother's visit. Yes, my mother is up in the city to buy a new computer, so I'm helping her with that. Of course, Wal-Mart and Save-On-Foods happen to be close by where we're going, but that's a total coincidence.... [likewise the total coincidence of being out of milk/bread/sour cream/pasta/dish soap/kleenex/batteries -ed]
As the comments to this post have mentioned, Edmonton comedian Lars C. has moved his blog to a new location. He does his own mini-review of the Sunday "headlining" show that I attended. Bonus feature: a picture featuring the adorable yet a little too raunchy for my tastes Kathleen McGee
Between Kim's western Saskatchewan and the long-standing campaign in Prince George to move the Alberta border to incorporate their area (no link, but was covered in Alberta Report once), it seems like the Republic of Alberta could within days of incorporation expand its territory considerably through a means never before used in geopolitical history: pleading.
"Game sales are dropping because unlike movies, game makers are devoid of original ideas and are just making sequels." That's the argument behind this slashdot post. +5 Insightful, you say? He obviously didn't catch Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Fun with Dick and Jane, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, King Kong, The Honeymooners, Guess Who, Bewitched, The Fantastic Four, The Longest Yard, The Dukes of Hazzard, Star Wars Episode 3, Saw II, The Ring 2, Miss Congeniality 2, Son of the Mask, Harry Potter 3, Elektra, Deuce Bigalow 2, Cheaper By the Dozen 2, Grease 3 (!), Kronk's New Groove, The Legend of Zorro, Herbie: Fully Loaded, or Batman Begins. And that's just for 2005! And that doesn't count DOOM which was based on a video game. Now coming up is Big Momma's House 2, Pirates of the Carribean 2, Underworld Evolution, Final Destination 3, and The Pink Panther. Also coming out soon is a Curious George movie. Yeah, but video games have too many sequels...
If you watch American Idol then you might enjoy the twins'...er...twins... from an old Maxim shoot. Well, okay, watching American Idol probably only diminishes your enjoyment of these images. And since looking at pretty girls in revealing clothing is always fun, here's Henin-Hardenne, the French woman who beat Sharapova at the Austrailian Open. Also be sure to check out Sara from Edmonton, one of UMM's featured babes (and check out the other babes too, go ahead). Other fun photos include two girls flashing at Edmonton Police HQ, some people having fun at an Eskimos bus trip party, a photo shoot of local girls, girls from Edmonton's Powerama show in April 2005, and this pic which I picked out as the highlight from the Mode Models page...the Portland girls are better. Did I miss the 2004 Edmonton Sex Show archives? I don't think so!
Finally, this Wikipedia article says "Some sociology researchers dispute the existence of puck bunnies" which means, as Douglas Adams once wrote, they just don't get invited to those kind of parties. After all, a puck bunny graces the links to this site. And how else do you explain the wives of the Edmonton Oilers?
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A moderately non-scientific explanation of the infamous "racism study"
You probably vaguely remember this study from around New Year's:
While people would clearly condemn racism in advance, the majority of non-black people would sit mute and indifferent as blatant acts of anti-black racism occurred before them, according to the Toronto research, published today in the journal Science.
"People expect in a very deliberate fashion that they'll be offended by racism, that they'll censor or avoid racists," said York psychologist Kerry Kawakami, the lead author of the study.
"But our (research) showed that that's not the case when they're actually placed in that situation."
Indeed, while paying strident lip service to their anti-racist attitudes, most of the study's non-black subjects did not try to rebuke or even avoid a mock bigot who had been planted in their midst.
Well that sounds serious. But as with all things, the methodology is important. First off, lets take a break and look at a different study: showing that men consider women to be mere "objects". The Daily Telegraph explains the study:
Researchers scanned the brains of certain men as they looked at a photograph of a woman in a bikini and discovered that sections of the brain that usually reacted to objects lit up.
With men, who were known to have sexist tendencies, they also discovered that a part of the brain that usually turned on during social interaction actually de-activated when they saw the photograph.
Professor Susan Fiske, of Princeton University, told the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting that she believes that the results show that some men did not see sexualised women as a "human".
"I am not saying that they literally see them as an object, of course they know she is human," she said.
"But what the brain scans show is that they are reacting to this photograph as people react to objects. It is as if they are not fully human.
"They are not treating them as fully three dimensional humans."
Which prompted the now semi-famous quip from blogger Kathy Shaidle: photographs are objects.
So now lets go back to the methodology of our racism study:
For the study, researchers placed three students in a classroom, one white, one black, and one white or Asian. And while two of the students – the black and one white – were in on the scheme, the third believed they were all there waiting for a study to begin.
"Then the black person stands up and says `I forgot my cellphone,' and he walks out of the room. And as he walks out, he gently hits the other white person on the knee," Kawakami said. When the black person left the room, the white person turned to the other person and said something racist – "in some cases extremely racist," she said.
Despite using terms as offensive as "clumsy n----r," the planted bigot faced little or no reprisal from the majority of white subjects.
Indeed, said Kawakami, when asked subsequently to pick a partner for the purported study, some 63 per cent of the white students picked the bigot over the black.
The racist comments had such little impact, said Kawakami, that the same number of subjects chose the white person in corresponding experiments where the slurs were absent.
A control group of "forecaster" students, who faced no racist comments but were told of the experiment, predicted overwhelmingly that they would be offended and would lash out at the speaker.
The MSM have a lot of trouble summarizing scientific experiments, as that last paragraph demonstrates. Some piece of information is missing there, as these "forecasters" as depicted aren't a control group at all: a control group is how they react with a general non-racist complaint against the black guy. Something there isn't adding up, but for now lets just accept the first bit as given to us.
So you're in a room, and right in front of you a minority commits an offense against the other participant (ie. the actor). Said participant complains about the offense (in this case, bumping into somebody) using a racist term. So was this racism? Or perhaps was it something else... something less sinister and more conventional?
Let me relate this with a story from my workplace. We are a pretty non-diverse group. Sure we have black, hispanic, and Newfie employees (we used to have an asian, but he got a better job -- and yes we are dragging the bottom of the barrel to include Newfies as a race), but they're mostly old fat bald men with a bum knee. So we have the fat black guy with a bad knee, the fat Newfie with a bad knee, and a few fat white guys with a bad knee. There's a chunky hispanic guy too, but I think his knees are fine. Not a perfect thesis, I admit. But here's the deal: we actually have two hispanic guys at work: one of them is an extremely hard worker who does a very very very undesirable job with extreme speed/skill/devotion. The other doesn't do his job well (if at all), he pretends to have language barriers whenever its convenient for him, he runs crying to the boss if anybody so much as rolls their eyes at him, he is always too busy to do the less agreeable aspects of his job (forcing other employees to take time away from our jobs to pick up his slack) and all the while acting as if his shit doesn't stink and that he's some critical cog in the great wheel of my place of employment. In other words, he's a lazy Mexican. (technically he's from Ecuador, but we don't let that get in the way of our racist taunts of him).
Therein lies the rub, as they say. Quite often at work, people will describe him as a "lazy Mexican". The black guy calls him a lazy Mexican... even the other hispanic guy did it once! (Don't get me started on the Newfie). The reason for it is, I think, the same reason as the pariticpants in the study didn't react poorly to the "racism" exhibited in the study. Racism, as one traditionally understood it, isn't at play here. What is at play is that when we perceive and/or witness somebody doing something antisocial or otherwise objectionable, we assault and belittle them with every weapon at our disposal. (It is vital to note that neither the black guy nor the other hispanic guy are ever the recipient of racially charged assaults. They both act properly, in the sense that they show up for work, do their jobs, take the blame when they mess up and only take the credit when its deserved. We have no reason to be upset with them.)
So the black guy who bumps into the knee of a guy at the study (bad) to get his annoying cell phone (bad) and possibly disrupts a serious academic study (bad) is a "clumsy nigger". The hispanic guy who doesn't do his job properly (bad) and causes everybody else to take on more unpaid work (bad) is a "lazy Mexican". The asian woman who last summer sat right here on the St. Albert Trail/Yellowhead off ramp (bad. very bad. why the hell would you not pull forward so that people driving straight in the through lane could get by?) with her left hand signal on waiting for an unrealistically large gap in traffic is a "shitty Chinese driver". The superficially-pious Catholic who takes the last cookie at that family reunion (bad) is the "self-righteous Jesus freak". The sodomite who is, well, a sodomite (bad) is a "fucking faggot".
Racism doesn't factor into it at all. What factors into it is that when you're mad at somebody you don't like them for everything that they are. Chris Farley is a funny guy. That guy at work who feels the need to butt into your conversations with a witless remark is "an unfunny fat fuck". (Yes, bad language is a common thread in the circles I run).
If they really want to do something, they should have ran the study with another group where the black guy didn't do anything except get up and leave the room (ideally when asked by a researcher to come with them), and then have the other actor make a racist comment for no apparent reason (ie. "I can't believe I have to take a study with a nigger"). Then you might see your sought-after rebukes: after all, what did the black dude do to deserve the treatment? That's right nothing...clearly you are in the presence of a bigot.
The "racism study" merely told you what you probably already knew: when you are upset with somebody, nothing about them is sacred when it comes time to be very very very pissed off at the annoying nigger who hit you in the leg just to get his goddamned cellphone.
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Change of use and refurbishment of the existing building on Belgrade riverfront is our first project complete. It was derelict when we started and our client wanted cloud-like impression form the new interior. We thought that existing structure from seventies was extraordinary and have focused on the ceiling to get new looks and reorganize existing space.
The building named Danube Flower was built some thirty-five years ago to become a landmark at Belgrade waterfront. It used to house an exclusive restaurant which was a segment of a larger recreational centre accessible to the public. The project was sponsored by the communist government of the time and endorsed by then ubiquitous president J.B.Tito, who was the first guest at the restaurant on November 22nd 1973. It was a famed hangout spot until its decay in the nineties and its final closure which coincided with the start of the civil war in the country. For the period of fifteen years building was not in operation and has deteriorated considerably.
In many ways the building is particular but above all for its synthesis between architectural and structural reasoning. The main volume of the building, triangular in plan, is elevated some fifteen meters above the river and the ground level with the pedestrian esplanade. It is supported solely by the central core which contains two elevator shafts and double spiral staircase.
Cantilevers are reaching out some twelve meters giving a levitating feel to the building. In addition one more structural move is crucial for seamless interaction between exterior and interior of the building. Concrete floor-slab and ceiling shell are not connected at the perimeter of the building, allowing for the continuity of the glass facade to the full extent. Uninterrupted glass strip, with the total length of 150 meters, is wrapping around the building to give constant presence of the Danube River in the interior, with sweeping views reaching far out, both upstream and downstream.
Originally, building was planed on the grid of 7.3m equilateral triangles which defined its organizational and structural regularity, but with the different brief now we were looking for a change. Defining moment of the new spatial expression is the ceiling. Its design is the sequence of geometric transformations and subdivision applied to the original grid. As a result, approximately 390 backlit panels with the finite variation in shape and size are suspended from the triangular steel construction.
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The idea was to create light and spacious space so that visitors should be getting an impression of entering a cloud on arrival. In response we have opted for reflective resin floor finishes throughout and semi translucent ceiling; both aiming to expose sleek forms of Technogym training equipment in the open plan arrangement.
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Soule House, now and 1899
Published February 3, 2020 by Rob Ketcherside
The photos are taken in Seattle on Broadway looking northeast to James. The archival photo is from University of Washington Special Collections, number SEA3080.
Rob Ketcherside, top; UW Special Collections SEA3080, bottom
In the October 2019 photo on the left we can see East James Way cutting away right to the east. That street wasn’t built until ordinance 88400 in 1959.
Back in 1899 there was a bit of a gap already though, for James Street. James Street is still there, more of a small access road than anything else, same as Cherry Street east of Broadway.
Union Trunk
On the far left of the old photo we can just see part of the James Street Power House. It pulled a cable car up from Pioneer Square and provided electricity for street cars on Broadway to the north, to Beacon Hill to the south, and from its lower end on 11th to Madrona and Mount Baker. You can see the Beacon Hill tracks in the street.
All of those lines together were called the Union Trunk Line still in 1899. I did a blended rephotograph of the cable car on James and wrote about UTL for Capitol Hill Seattle Blog in 2012.
J. P. Soule
The tall thin house to the left was the residence of the Soule family. It was built in 1889 or 1890. To its right was a duplex they built after they moved to 23rd and Judkins in 1900. John Soule was a photographer, and in fact he took this photo. The UW has an entire album of his photos from around 1900. The UW catalog description says:
John P. Soule worked as a photographer in Boston from around 1859 until 1882 when he traveled west photographing in Colorado and Utah along the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and in Salt Lake City. In 1888, he moved to Seattle where he continued to work as a photographer.
That profile downplays his Boston work and completely ignores Soule’s true fame. First, consider that Soule was born in 1828. Daguerreotypes were invented when he was 11. Photography as a profession arose after 1850, when he was already an adult. Somehow, though, he still “dominated the field of stereography from the 1860s until the end of the 1870s,” in the words of Historic New England.
He opened his photography studio in Boston in 1861, when he was 33. He focused on things that stayed still, becoming an architectural and art photographer. His photographs of the aftermath of the 1866 fire in Portland, Maine are eerily similar to those he later took in Seattle in 1889. But Soule found his niche photographing famous works of art and sharing it with people who could never venture long distances to see the originals.
Ad in December 5, 1882 Salt Lake Herald.
Soule art photography
Soule established himself quickly, issuing catalogs of art photographs that could be ordered by mail. The Library of Congress has many of those photographs for free download today.
Twenty years later he left Boston and headed west, leaving his successful photograph reproduction business in the hands of his brother William, also a photographer, and their partner W. B. Everett. The company continued its focus on art photography, for example this 1890 catalog of their offerings. The Soule Photograph Company’s images are now in the collections of Historic New England.
“Emancipation”, a painting by G. G. Fish featuring two freed slaves looking up at Columbia, the embodiment of American freedom, holding the Emancipation Proclamation. Abraham Lincoln’s speech was delivered January 1, 1863. Soule photographed this painting later that year and sold prints. (Library of Congress)
Soule rephotography
John P. Soule spent at least a few years in Salt Lake City, from 1882-1885. Then he continued to Seattle.
Soule’s Seattle work is still accessible. Paul Dorpat shared it in his early columns, including 1987’s “After the Blaze”. More recently Jean Sherrard shared Soule again in 2017 in the continuation of Dorpat’s series. They have appeared many times over the years in Now & Then. I had no idea about this when I set out to rephotograph the house of John P. Soule, and it makes me very happy.
After John’s death, his wife Mary continued her civic activities, including president of the women’s auxiliary of Pioneer Association of Washington.
On the far right of the 1899 scene is a grocery, which by 1901 at least was owned by Eide & Offerdahl. In 1940 this store reportedly became the first Seattle location for Planned Parenthood, and Seattle’s first birth control clinic.
The name Planned Parenthood took effect in 1942, so at the time they were the local organization for Birth Control Federation of America (renamed from American Birth Control League in 1939).
None of those names appear in the 1940 Seattle city directory, so I haven’t yet confirmed that Planned Parenthood’s first home was here. I’m concerned that it may have been at 516 Broadway East in Capitol Hill.
Still not Capitol Hill
The 1899 photo is indexed by the UW under the subject heading “Capitol Hill (Seattle, Wash.)”. I dropped them a note in October letting them know this is really First Hill, but it hasn’t been corrected yet. Capitol Hill didn’t exist yet in 1899, and it’s only ever existed this far south in the minds of realtors, newcomers, and tourists.
The new photo has 600 Broadway on the far left, a medical office building built in 1990.
Most of the frame is taken by Zig Apartments, completed in 2017.
Streetcar tracks have returned again to Broadway, serving the First Hill Streetcar which opened after a very long wait in 2016.
Between now and then
Prior to Zig there was another building and a parking lot on the site. The building was photographed on July 21, 2010 by Joe Mabel, seen below. It was built in 1906 originally known as the Granada Apartments. In 1936 it was renamed Hotel Irvington.
“Seattle – SE corner of James & Broadway”, Joe Mabel, 2010. Wikipedia
The corner, 530 Broadway, featured a branch of Yasuko’s Teriyaki. It was there for many decades until demolition. For now the Yelp review page is still up, but I’ll link to Archive.org assuming that it won’t be there for long. Click through to read nostalgic reviews.
Yasuko’s was originally part of a chain created by Yasuko Conner. Yasuko started her chain by purchasing the store she worked at in Green Lake, Toshi’s Two. That store was the second opened by Toshihiro Kasahara. He invented teriyaki in 1972 at his lower Queen Anne store. So there was a very direct connection between this teriyaki store and the invention of teriyaki.
(A 1985 Seattle Times article called this her “Capital Hill” (sic) location.)
Fenimore Hotel
Joe Mabel took two other photos the same day of the building on the far side of the parking lot, the Fenimore Hotel. There is a view from the parking towards the south and a view of the storefront when it held Our Lady of Mount Carmel Center.
Granada and Fenimore on Broadway in 1912 Baist Map, via Paul Dorpat and Ron Edge
The Fenimore Hotel was built in 1909 by Marie Koester. A Seattle Times article that mentioned Koester’s Fenimore construction discussed recent construction in the area. It also had a neighborhood profile that was interesting and worth sharing:
An unwritten Law, and a deep-rooted predjudice [sic] of long standing in Seattle has been routed. Daring men have broke the ties that bound them and have proven the unwritten law unworthy. This law and this predjudice had the effect of establishing Madison Street as a dead-line beyond which investors intending to cater to the better classes of people dare not venture. Ruin was predicted for the man who was so bold as to put good money into a building in this so-called worse than bad community.
The south side of First Hill was the most maligned part of the city, without cause, but it has grown away from that condition and now harbors some of the finest apartment houses of the city which shelter a class of people as good as the best.
“Builders Overcome Old Prejudice,” July 4, 1909 Seattle Times p. 6
Japanese American hotel to microhousing
In 1939 the Seattle Times reported that the Fenimore was purchased from Koester’s estate by George Lewis. In 1959 it made brief news in the Seattle Times as it was sold to Leo Ohashi (misprinted as Hashi) by owners Yoshito and Yuki Mizuto. At the time William Watanabe held a lease on operating the hotel.
King County Assessor photo of Fenimore Hotel in 2018 prior to expansion construction start.
The Ohashi family continued to own it until 2017. It was then purchased by a partnership owned by the Sharkey and Padden families. Their partnership previously purchased the Cranmore, Summit Inn, and Broadmore in nearby neighborhoods and converted them to micro-housing. They planned to do the same with Roy Vue Apartments in Capitol Hill, but residents successfully achieved landmark status for that building.
Today the Fenimore is under expansion and remodeling as micro-housing called Anew Broadway.
Blended Zig and Soule
Here are the 1899 and 2019 photos blended together for another view of how they relate across 120 years.
UW special collections SEA3080 mixed with photo by Rob Ketcherside
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IJO MIMO TI KRISTI LATI ORUN WA
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STARTS: 10:00 AM
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STARTS: 9:00 AM
(MERCY DAY).
STARTS: 6:00 PM
(POWER DAY).
THE MISSION AND THE BOAT
THE SHEPHERD AND SOME CHURCH ELDERS
A UNIQUE WORSHIP STYLE
Once upon a time, there was a Parish at 71st and Elberhart avenue on the South side and another one at Irving Park and Damen Avenue on the North side. As man would reason: since these two locations did not have large crowd and much expenses were being incurred on monthly basis, why not merge together so as to save money. The merger went through (during the summer months), but was short lived. That was 1987.
In those days we did not have the understanding of the spirit of worship we experience today. There was a meeting convened by the authority of the Church, through the goodwill of Our Father in Christ (late) Rev. P.H. Ajose then the Head of Overseas Diocese of Celestial Church of Christ, and residing in London. The late Senior Evangelist Uma Oriere was the Zonal Evangelist of this area at that time. The meeting of reconciliation lasted 13 hours. The golden resolution coming out of the meeting was the establishment of three groups, namely: Southside group, North-side group, and The Far North group.
We were all given $1000 each with an ultimatum declaration. "We give you six months of trial. Go use your talents. At the end of the probationary period, we shall come for evaluation, and any group that fails to meet up would be disbanded and merged with others that made it."
We thank God Almighty, all three groups developed with leaps and bounds. The south-side group, (mainly what was left from the original Parish that started in 1974), evolved as Hyde Park Parish, then into what we have today as Chicago 1, operating in Calumet City. The North-side group became Midwest Parish, and later evolved as Oshoffa Parish. The Far North group was later christened St. Michael Parish. We thank God that all three parishes as of today have roof (they can call their own) on their heads.
St Michael Parish started from a private living room in a rented apartment early 1988. The late Rev. P. H. Ajose came with two other Elders and did lodge in that said rented apartment. The late Evang Ayodabo of west London Parish was taking his shower when the inspiration came. He was told the name of our Parish would be called St Michael and since that time, that has been the name. We celebrated our first Easter at that location. Within a couple of weeks, we moved to a sub-leased office space (through one gentleman by the name of Mr. Adewunmi) at 5900, N. Ridge Avenue, Chicago. We started with eight men, ten women and children.
Few months down the road the man left abruptly for his home country and we were saddled with responsibility of paying for the whole office space, costing a thousand dollars a month. This was a far cry from the three hundred dollars we were paying for subleasing. With hope, we were determined to forge ahead. Neighbors frowned at the smell of incense and the sound of music. The land lord once asked if it was possible to worship without burning incense and playing music! We were able to celebrate Juvenile Harvest that same year as well as adult harvest in October. The following year, October 1989, we had to part with the land lord; and as God would have it, Ravenswood location was readily available for November occupancy at a sum of two thousand dollars a month. Did members wonder how we would be able meet this new financial obligation? With God, all things are possible. That was a commercial lease that continued to increase steadily and annually by one hundred dollars a month. This we did for over a decade and a half. Then we desired to purchase our own property. Several contracts were written, much earnest money went into the process. We were bent on staying on the north-side. We limited ourselves. Howard was set as the northern boundary, Belmont the southern limit, with Western avenue as the western boundary. Chicago is a very special city, for it does not have eastern part on the north side of town. We saw and fell in love with lots of buildings. There was even a prophecy that said our location would have ''37''as part of the address. Using man's wisdom, we went in search of such places, east, west, north and south, but to no avail.
Again at God's own appointed time, the Lord directed us to the south side of town. Kudus Badmus' Century 21 Agency was the God sent through which our present location was contracted and purchased. Even after earnest money had been paid and awaiting approval and closing, breaking away from the attachment with Ravenswood location was like pulling out a tooth with a pair of pliers. Reasons?: Fear of the unknown- (the new location was too far from the north), fear of losing membership as a result of the distance (approx. 20 miles) from the old location.
Against all odds, we were able to move into our property at 6920 S. Harper Avenue in November of 2005.What a coincidence! We moved to Ravenswood in November and to South Harper in November It was then we realized our Zip-code was 60637!!! Remember the ''37''we were searching for a long time. God has been so good all along and today we acknowledge the grace of Jehovah Ebenezer for His mercies that endure forever .We also take this opportunity to commit the souls of the departed Elders who played active roles in the Genesis of our endeavor (Snr Leader Sheni Shofu, Senior Evangelist U. Oriere, Rev P. H. Ajose), into the hands of the living Lord. May their souls rest in peace. Amen.
We thank God for sparing the lives of all the members who were present when the Parish started. We hope to include various names of all concerned in the next detailed report. In the meantime, we wish everyone of us God's mercy that endures forever, In Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Happy anniversary to you all. Long live Celestial Church of Christ, long live St. Michael Parish. Amen.
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Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives
Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Volume Two
Edited by Einar Thorsen and Stuart Allan
Published in 2014, published by Peter Lang (New York)
This second volume of Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, namely by: 1) offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2008, including the use of social media in crisis reporting; 2) providing a new set of case studies highlighting important instances of citizen reporting of crisis events in a complementary range of national contexts; 3) introducing new ideas, concepts and frameworks for the study of citizen journalism; and 4) evaluating current academic and journalistic debates regarding the growing significance of citizen journalism for globalising news cultures. The book expands on the first volume by offering new investigations of citizen journalism in the United States, United Kingdom, China, India and Iran, as well as offering fresh perspectives from national contexts around the globe, including Algeria, Columbia, Egypt, Haiti, Indonesia and West Papua, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Myanmar / Burma, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Russia, Singapore, Syria, and Zimbabwe.
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Online technologies help us re-imagine contemporary forms of journalism and news storytelling. This outstanding volume cuts through the hype to present important insights on citizen journalism, through an array of case studies drawn as citizens around the world become key players in the sociology of news. This is an essential and compelling read for students, scholars, and all those interested in what the future holds for journalism.
Professor Zizi Papacharissi
Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago
This book puts the latest developments in citizen media into global perspective. Anyone who follows this trend will gain new insights - and far from losing momentum, this trend is gaining strength.
Professor Dan Gillmor
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication, Arizona State University
Those who think that to study citizen journalism is to court the trivial and the banal should think again: this is a serious book about a serious subject. Thorsen and Allan have gathered a compelling set of narratives and arguments that together make a powerful case for the role of citizens in the business of reporting crises around the world, a task that has long been reserved for the professional journalist. This is no mere celebration, however - the volume engages with the limits of citizen reporting, the better to place it within existing and emerging forms of journalism practice.
Professor Chris Atton
School of Arts and Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University
Introduction, by Einar Thorsen and Stuart Allan
Section One: Re-imagining Citizen Journalism
1) Social Media and the Mumbai Terror Attack: The Coming of Age of Twitter, by Yasmin Ibrahim
Our opening chapter by Yasmin Ibrahim, “Social Media and the Mumbai Terror Attack: The Coming of Age of Twitter,” docu- ments one of the initial points of journalistic engagement with social media which, with the benefit of hindsight, proved formative. This terror attack, which saw ordinary citizens relaying eyewitness accounts and imagery of the horrors across the webscape, raised troubling questions, including with respect to the role of broad- casting protocols in live telecasts of violent incidents. It also highlighted, she argues, the risks that emerge in social media platforms through the “act of sharing” during such moments of crisis.
2) CNN’s Citizen Journalism Platform: The Ambivalent Labor of iReporting, by Lindsay Palmer
Lindsay Palmer, in her chapter “CNN’s Citizen Journal- ism Platform: The Ambivalent Labor of iReporting,” examines the use of CNN’s citizen journalism platform, iReport. Taking the platform’s citizen coverage of the 2009 Iranian uprising as her case study, she contends that individuals prepared to think of themselves as iReporters typically become involved in complex, some- times contentious relationships with news organisations intent on making use of their work for their own purposes. Palmer’s analysis reveals that “citizen coverage of global conflict is a story of both exploitation and subversion,” one beset with tensions associated with the increasingly disruptive informational milieu consistent with network cultures.
3) Righting Wrongs: Citizen Journalism and Miscarriages of Justice, by Chris Greer and Eugene McLaughlin
The agenda-setting power of citizen journalism is the focus of Chris Greer and Eugene McLaughlin’s “Righting Wrongs: Citizen Journalism and Miscarriages of Justice,” with specific reference to miscarriages of justice. Their empirical analy- sis elucidates the interaction of media, political and judicial forces following the death of newspaper vendor, Ian Tomlinson, shortly after being struck by a police officer at the G20 Protests in London in 2009. The police denial that an officer had been involved was flatly contradicted by evidence revealed by the Guardian six days later, namely a video clip documenting the assault, handed over to it by an American visitor to the city. The rise of citizen journalism is shown to bring to bear countervailing imperatives for those institutions that traditionally have been able to control the information environment.
4) “I have a voice”: The Cosmopolitan Ambivalence of Convergent Journalism, by Lilie Chouliaraki
Disruptions to the flow of communicative power in the name of justice similarly reverberate in Lilie Chouliaraki’s chapter, ‘“I Have a Voice”: The Cosmopolitan Ambivalence of Convergent Journalism.” A vital dimension of journalism’s performative ethos, she argues, is characterised by a shift from the professional act of informing towards citizen-driven acts of deliberating and witnessing—what she calls the disposition of “I have a voice.” Whilst this shift in the epistemology of the news has been welcomed as a democ- ratisation of journalism, her contrasting case studies—the Haiti earthquake (2010) and the Egypt uprising (2011)—demonstrate that variation in the use of citizen- driven journalism reflects a concomitant variation in the power relations of Western mediation. Such structures, Chouliaraki believes, “selectively give voice to distant others, silencing the voice of the Haiti earthquake victims but amplifying the voice of Egyptian protesters, and, in so doing, encourage recognition of the plight of the later whilst depoliticising the condition of the former.”
5) Before the Revolutionary Moment: The Significance of Lebanese and Egyptian Bloggers in the New Media Ecology, by Kristina Riegert
Kristina Riegert’s “Before the Revolutionary Moment: The Significance of Lebanese and Egyptian Bloggers in the New Media Ecology” addresses similar themes. In contrast with celebratory claims crediting social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, with ushering in the Arab Spring in 2011, she delves into an array of factors that helped to engender the demonstrations that swept through the region. Of particular importance, she shows, is the emergence of bloggers and citizen journalists in the years beforehand, not as causal agents but rather as part of a wider media ecology confronting authoritarian power structures. She traces the online relationships between popular bloggers in Lebanon and Egypt in order to identify how, when and why citizen journalism makes a difference in a crisis media event like that of the Arab uprisings.
6) Citizen Journalism in Real Time? Live Blogging and Crisis Events, by Neil Thurman and James Rodgers
Staying with the focus on blogging in nearby national contexts, Neil Thurman and James Rodgers’ chapter “Citizen Journalism in Real Time? Live Blogging and Crisis Events” analyses data gathered on the consumption of live online coverage of crisis events. They proceed to examine live blogging’s relevance to debates about citizen journalism with reference to recent examples from Syria and Algeria. In assessing the opportunities and challenges for live blogging or utilizing citizen contributions—and thereby for journalism more widely—they argue that this type of reportage, when used with care, can enhance our news provision to considerable advantage.
Section Two: Capturing Crisis
7) Tools in Their Pockets: How Personal Media Were Used During the Christchurch Earthquakes, by Donald Matheson
Section Two begins with Donald Matheson’s chapter, “Tools in Their Pockets: How Personal Media Were Used During the Christchurch Earthquakes,”which explores the roles of personal, portable media in people’s responses—suggestive of what he calls a “supportive intimacy” amongst strangers online—to the twin earthquakes that hit the city of Christchurch, New Zealand in 2010 and 2011. Matheson also reflects on the limits of citizen media, such as when the importance of place-based, face-to-face forms of community interaction came to the fore after electricity-based media collapsed in the wake of the second, devastating quake.
8) Hurricane Sandy and the Adoption of Citizen Journalism Platforms, by Trevor Knoblich
In “Hurricane Sandy and the Adoption of Citizen Journalism Platforms,” Trevor Knoblich extends this discussion of natural disasters. He points out that as new tools for capturing text, photographs and videos emerge, citizen journalists have increasing opportunities to participate in documenting, sharing, and providing nuance to breaking news events. In turn, each crisis event illustrates that public familiarity with a social media or other communications platform, as well as persistent access, largely determines how citizens choose to share information. His investigation shows how citizen journalists used a variety of tools to share information about Hurricane Sandy in the Eastern United States, as well as how they adapted when access to a given platform of choice became limited.
9) Live Reporting Terror: Remediating Citizen Crisis Communication, by Einar Thorsen
The pressures of breaking news similarly feature in Einar Thorsen’s “Live Reporting Terror: Remediating Citizen Crisis Communication.” For individuals caught up in the two attacks carried out by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway in July 2011, tragic forms of self-publishing emerged. In the case of the Oslo car bomb, eyewitness observations offered a sense of raw immediacy; victims of Breivik’s shooting spree on Utøya were publishing cries for help, confirming they were alive and desperate for information. Despite the different modalities, ordinary citizens’ contributions to documenting the unfolding crisis were vital. Through a comparative analysis of international news organisations’ live blogging of the attacks, Thorsen further highlights the global remediation of citizen eyewitness accounts—from the initial assumption that the attacks were grounded in “international terrorism” to the confirmation of Breivik as a domestic right-wing extremist.
10) Eyewitness Images as a Genre of Crisis Reporting, by Mette Mortensen
Several related chal- lenges where news imagery is concerned are brought to light by Mette Mortensen’s “Eyewitness Images as a Genre of Crisis Reporting.” She observes that amateur, non-professional image makers frequently become the initial link in the chain of breaking news because of the on-the-spot documentation they provide. News organisations draw upon eyewitness images for several reasons, not least due to their association with an exclusive insider perspective and proximity in time and space to events. Still, Mortensen argues, even if they are habitually considered authentic on account of their urgency, immediacy, and handheld aesthetics, this type of imagery recurrently puts the norms, editorial routines, and professional self-perception of journalism to the test.
11) Reformulating Photojournalism: Interweaving Professional and Citizen Photo-reportage of the Boston Bombings, by Stuart Allan
Stuart Allan’s “Reformulating Photojournalism: Interweaving Professional and Citizen Photo-reportage of the Boston Bombings” is the first of two chap- ters investigating another crisis event where journalism was severely tested, namely the bombing of the Boston marathon in April 2013 that killed three people and left 264 others injured. Allan’s analysis sets the experiences of professional news photographers that day in relation to the improvised photo-reportage shared by ordinary bystanders who happened to be on the scene. In so doing, he elaborates the concept of “citizen witnessing,”as he has developed it elsewhere (Allan, 2013), as one possible way to recast the prospects for refashioning journalism. Specifically, he argues for the need to create innovative spaces for a collaborative, co-operative ethos of connectivity between professionals and ordinary citizens in order to rein- vigorate, in this instance, photojournalism’s public service commitments.
12) Citizen Journalism, Sharing, and the Ethics of Visibility, by Graham Meikle
Graham Meikle’s complementary chapter, “Citizen Journalism, Sharing, and the Ethics of Visibility,” examines a further dimension of citizen involvement in the news coverage of the Boston bombings. The focus of his discussion concerns the use of the social media platform Reddit by networks of individuals who attempted to crowdsource the identities of possible bombing suspects by sharing images and speculation. Situating these events within the frame of citizen journalism, Meikle considers the centrality of sharing to social media and its uses for nonprofessional journalism and related forms of collaborative information provision. He argues that such uses reveal the need for an ethics of visibility to be secured on the basis of the lessons learned from what happened in Boston.
Section Three: Globalising Cultures of Citizen Journalism
13) Citizen Journalism, Development and Social Change: Hype and Hope, by Silvio Waisbord
The scene is set by Silvio Waisbord’s “Citizen Journalism, Development and Social Change: Hype and Hope,” which pursues questions that go to the heart of the relationship between citizen journalism and public dialogue and opinion for- mation. All too often, he argues, analyses fall into a celebration of citizen journalism “as the crystallization of individual expression,” which tends to obscure, in turn, important issues concerning communication rights and opportunities for collective actors, as well as the institutional contexts for participation and decision making.
14) A Latin American Approach to Citizen Journalism, by Clemencia Rodríguez
Clemencia Rodríguez’s “A Latin American Approach to Citizen Journalism” elab- orates a similar thematic, in part by exploring the factors shaping this approach as an alternative to the Global North’s priorities. In Latin America, she argues, citizen journalism is a practice of resistance, one that brings together social movements, activists, and other social justice collectives in a shared refusal to accept that only professional news organizations can practice journalism. In seeking to expand and enrich the public sphere with information key to democratic processes, its guiding tenets are informed by commitments to social responsibility and the public interest. In the course of her discussion, Rodríguez draws upon examples from her fieldwork with citizens’ media producers in regions of armed conflict in Colombia.
15) Getting into the Mainstream: The Digital/Media Strategies of a Feminist Coalition in Puerto Rico, by Firuzeh Shokooh Valle
In “Getting into the Mainstream: The Digital/Media Strategies of a Feminist Coalition in Puerto Rico,” Firuzeh Shokooh Valle considers several related issues as they have been taken up by women working for gendere quality. Specifically, she investigates how the feminist movement in Puerto Rico has employed a listserv— the coalition’s main virtual platform—to secure a safe space for news and infor- mation to circulate, as well as discussions, deliberation, networking, strategizing, consensus building, decision making, and task distribution.
16) Reporting a Revolution and Its Aftermath: When Activists Drive the News Coverage, by Yomna Kamel
The use of citizen media in the struggle for social change similarly figures prominently in Yomna Kamel’s “Reporting a Revolution and Its Aftermath: When Activists Drive the News Coverage.” Ranging from “the image of the Tunisian Bouazizi to the image of the Egyptian blue bra-girl who was dragged, stripped and brutally beaten by security forces in Cairo’s Tahrir Square,” she writes, “huge amounts of visual and textual content have been posted and circulated on social media platforms by citi- zen journalists, who are also activists after a cause.” Kamel proceeds to examine the nature of their relationships with professional journalists, showing how diverse forms of networking via social media have helped to amplify their voices. Many of those blurring the boundaries between citizen journalism and activism have succeeded in making their stories heard in international media contexts, which she assesses in relation to Al-Jazeera, the BBC, CNN, Russia Today and XINHUA.
17) Citizen Journalism in Indonesia’s Disputed Territories: Life on the New Media Frontline, by Kayt Davies
“While the IT avalanche of the past decade has made it technically possible for anyone to report anything from anywhere,” Kayt Davies writes, “the biting reality from the frontlines of simmering repressive contexts, such as Indonesia’s disputed territories, is that caution is required to keep citizen journalists safe.” In Davies’ chapter, “Citizen Journalism in Indonesia’s Disputed Territories: Life on the New Media Frontline,” she details the evolution of online media in these places and analyses the work done by humanitarian and new media groups. This includes consideration of how well their work fits existing definitions of media practices and roles, and the importance of allowing the people affected by conflict and repressive regimes to speak their truths.
18) Civic Responsibility and Empowerment: Citizen Journalism in Russia, by Karina Alexanyan
Karina Alexanyan, in “Civic Responsibility and Empowerment: Citizen Journalism in Russia,” examines the reasons why it is necessary to disentangle the role of the citizen from that of the journalist, and how both are shaped by socio-political contexts. In semi-authoritarian environments like Russia, she argues, online and mobile technologies have not only facilitated the emergence of participatory journalism, they have engendered “a novel sense of civic society, responsibility and consciousness” with significant implications for civic empowerment and activism.
19) Beyond the Newsroom Monopolies: Citizen Journalism as the Practice of Freedom in Zimbabwe, by Last Moyo
This theme echoes in a different way in Last Moyo’s “Beyond the Newsroom Monopolies: Citizen Journalism as the Practice of Freedom in Zimbabwe.” Focusing on the Kubatana blog as a case study, he evaluates the extent to which it serves as a forum for the articulation of personal freedoms otherwise difficult to express. Efforts to recast blogging as citizen journalism, he argues, have as their aim the establishment of an alternate- subaltern space where citizenship is imagined in radical terms, namely as discur- sive, deliberative, participative and transformative.
Section Four: New Crises, Alternative Agendas
20) “Blade and Keyboard In Hand”: Wikileaks and/as Citizen Journalism, by Lisa Lynch
Section Four commences with Lisa Lynch’s “‘Blade and Keyboard In Hand’: Wikileaks and/as Citizen Journalism.” She begins by pointing out that although some observers have labelled Wikileaks a “citizen media outlet” in order to dis- tinguish it from the professional press, closer scrutiny reveals that the relationship between Wikileaks and the citizen-journalist is not so straightforward. She explores Wikileaks’ roots in citizen media, its turn towards engagement with mainstream media, and its more recent incarnation as a “read-only” resource indexing materials of interest to activists and scholars concerned with the exercise of US soft power.
21) Beyond Journalism: The New Public Information Space, by Nik Gowing
Questions of power similarly underpin Nik Gowing’s chapter, “Beyond Journal- ism: The New Public Information Space,” which contends that the proliferation of social media is creating new levels of near-instant accountability while, at the same time, provoking acute vulnerabilities for business, governments and social systems. In tracing the features of this information space, Gowing proceeds to pinpoint a range of factors impacting upon institutions, forcing them to adapt to changing circumstances in a climate of uncertainty. Illustrating his thesis with a range of examples from different case studies, he shows why, in his view, certain guiding principles of political and corporate governance need to change.
22) The Evolution of Citizen Journalism in Crises: From Reporting to Crisis Management, by Hayley Watson and Kush Wadhwa
Related themes regarding crisis reporting and information flow resound throughout “The Evolution of Citizen Journalism in Crises: From Reporting to Crisis Management,” by Hayley Watson and Kush Wadhwa. In reassessing the role citizen journalists play in contributing to the construction of news, they con- sider its impact for crisis managers. Certain advantages as well as problems come to light in the course of their enquiry into how managers work to incorporate the real-time news and information afforded by citizen journalism into their response efforts.
23) Citizen Journalism in the Age of Weibo: the Shifang Environmental Protest, by Lei Guo
Casting a valuable light on these dynamics is Lei Guo’s chapter, “Citizen Journalism in the Age of Weibo: the Shifang Environmental Protest.” While cit- izen journalism is generally considered to be flourishing on China’s Twitter-like micro-blogging service Weibo, its effectiveness came under intense pressure when a large-scale environmental protest against a government-approved copper plant sought to use it as a platform to spread news about the ensuing conflict.
24) Little Brother Is Watching: Citizen Video Journalists and Witness Narratives, by Mary Angela Bock
Surveil- lance of a different register is examined in Mary Angela Bock’s “Little Brother Is Watching: Citizen Video Journalists and Witness Narratives.” In accentuating the importance of attending to the politics of witnessing giving shape to citizen journalism, she compares and contrasts the narrative strategies used by citizen and professional video journalists (VJs), respectively, as they endeavour to establish their authority. Her analysis is based on observations of practitioners, with one group—a self-described “cop watching” organization in the US—serving as an illustrative case study. Several stories posted by group members were chosen for textual analysis, with Bock paying particular attention to their authority-building narrative strategies.
25) Occupy Wall Street and Social Media News Sharing after the Wake of Institutional Journalism, by Kevin Michael DeLuca and Sean Lawson
“With institutional journalism flailing and failing in the internet Age,” Kevin M. DeLuca and Sean Lawson write, “there is much wailing about the future of news and democracy.” In their chapter, “OWS and Social Media News Sharing After the Wake of Institutional Journalism,” they actively resist the familiar confla- tion of institutional journalism with news and democracy. Instead, they argue that the internet, especially social media platforms, enables a proliferation of decentral- ized news practices to develop, which they term social media news sharing. Occupy Wall Street serves as a case study to explore the emerging news practices and politics that social media news sharing is creating.
26) The Activist as Citizen Journalist, by Sue Robinson and Mitchael L . Schwartz
Rounding out this section, and the book overall, is Sue Robinson and Michael L. Schwartz’s chapter, “The Activist as Citi- zen Journalist.” Drawing on a case study of the educational community in Madison, Wisconsin, they investigate some of the ways citizen activists are “working their beats” to report information in online public realms. Particular attention focuses on two “super-contributor” activists on opposing sides of a controversial charter school, showing how citizens with agendas are attempting to fill “structural holes” in an ever-evolving media ecological network through Facebook posting, commenting and blogging. To what extent, they ask, is the relevance of professional journalism being called into question by activists tapping into a maturing citizen journalistic ethos to connect civically on issues of such importance for the community.
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[1] Variant preliminary design for the ground floor, 7 March 1822
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According to Interpol, a DNA database is planned in Rwanda.
==Resources==
*External links
**[http://www.isca.in/FORENSIC_SCI/Archive/v3/i5/1.ISCA-RJFS-2015-007.pdf Uzabakiriho (2015) The role of Forensic science in Criminal investigation in Rwanda]
*Press articles
**[https://www.journalducameroun.com/en/rwanda-to-create-first-ever-dna-database-for-all-citizens/ Journal du Cameroun: Rwanda to create first ever DNA database for all citizens (27th April 2019)]
**[https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/04/the-relentless-march-to-mandatory-nationwide-dna-databases-picks-up-pace-around-the-world/ Privacy News Online: The march to mandatory, nationwide DNA databases picks up pace around the world (3rd April 2019)]
**[https://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/rwanda-proposes-dna-database-all-citizens The New Times: Rwanda proposes DNA database for all citizens (20th March 2019)]
**[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/rwanda-dna-database-human-rights-privacy-a8832051.html The Independent: Rwanda sparks human rights concerns in proposing world’s first nationwide DNA database (20th March 2019)]
**[http://rwandaeye.com/parliament-passes-forensic-evidence-and-dna-database-system-bill/ Rwanda Eye: Finally-Rwanda moves closer to having DNA database (7th September 2016)]
**[http://allafrica.com/stories/201506050353.html All Africa: Rwanda: DNA Tests Will Help Tackle Paternity Disputes - PS (5th June 2016)]
**[http://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/article/2016-03-20/198156/ New Times: New forensic laboratory to open in 2017 (20th March 2016)]
**[http://appablog.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/eac-to-establish-forensic-referral-center/ APO: East African Community to Establish Forensic Referral Center (23rd March 2012)]
Uzabakiriho (2015) The role of Forensic science in Criminal investigation in Rwanda
Journal du Cameroun: Rwanda to create first ever DNA database for all citizens (27th April 2019)
Privacy News Online: The march to mandatory, nationwide DNA databases picks up pace around the world (3rd April 2019)
The New Times: Rwanda proposes DNA database for all citizens (20th March 2019)
The Independent: Rwanda sparks human rights concerns in proposing world’s first nationwide DNA database (20th March 2019)
Rwanda Eye: Finally-Rwanda moves closer to having DNA database (7th September 2016)
All Africa: Rwanda: DNA Tests Will Help Tackle Paternity Disputes - PS (5th June 2016)
New Times: New forensic laboratory to open in 2017 (20th March 2016)
APO: East African Community to Establish Forensic Referral Center (23rd March 2012)
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Faster Higher Stronger: Stories of the Olympic Games – 100 Metres (BBC Documentary)
Taking its title from the Olympic motto, this series explores the history of the modern Games through the stories of extraordinary athletes who have pushed performance to the limit and beyond in pursuit of gold.
Faster, Higher, Stronger examines how the most anticipated and hyped event in any Olympics, the 100 metres final, has been run faster and faster by men like Jim Hines, the first to run the race in under 10 seconds, Carl Lewis, the best finisher of them all and Usain Bolt, whose massive stride allows him to eat up the track.
Sprinters run the 100m in distinct phases and the programme reveals what they are and how the athletes, who are running at up to 28 miles an hour, have to master each of them to win. British athlete Allan Wells recalls the dip at the line that won him gold in Moscow in 1980.
Combining expert eyewitness testimony, rare historic archive, period reconstruction and special filming techniques to slow down and analyse performance, this is a unique insight into the most electrifying event in all of sport.
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Co-create the future: UI-SME collaboration and fair
On 12 November, the University of Ibadan organized a fair termed: The 2nd UI-SME Fair, tagged “Co-create the future: University of Ibadan and Small and Medium Enterprises,” which was held at the International Conference Center to bring together key stakeholders in the SME sector to provide crucial support for SME growth and sustainability.
The fair started with the introduction of the special guests: Prof A.I. Olayinka (VC), Prof Olanike Adeyemo (DVC Research, Innovation, and Strategic Partnership, UI), Dr Helen Komolafe (University Liberian), and Prof Adedoyin Soyibo (Pioneer Director, Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, UI) who chaired the occasion.
Fair participants at the IITA stand.
Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) are independent firms that employ less than a given number of employees. In low-income countries, SMEs contribute 60% of GDP and more than 70% of employment. SMEs are crucial economic catalysts in national development, poverty alleviation, and employment generation, Olayinka said.
The fair brought together key stakeholders in the SME sector, including consultants in different domains who can support businesses. SMEs are the drivers of the economy, but because of their limitations in fostering cooperative research and development, the University serves as a tripod supporting sustainable growth and development.
According to Prof Soyibo, the trade fair acts as a marketing tool or medium for advertising and promotion. It enables producers to meet face-face with consumers in a way that provides an immediate impact on products and services”. Trade fairs provide a platform for traders and individuals to support their survival and success and create a true relationship between national and international organizations as well as local, state, and national companies.
Dr Olufunke Ezekiel, a researcher in the Department of Food Technology, UI, who showcased the “town and gown relationship”, has been involved in collaborative research and development work with OKLAN Best Ltd. Adesfood UK via OKLAN Best Ltd initiated this research project on developing a processing line for the production of frozen jute mallow, locally called “ewedu” in Nigeria. Ezekiel worked to establish suitable processing conditions to improve the vegetable’s shelf-life and its transportation, sale, and consumption without loss of nutritional value and sensory qualities. The research was developed to export jute mallow to developed countries such as the USA and the UK.
To promote visibility and knowledge sharing, IITA exhibited some products and technologies. The booth was visited by over 50 participants who wanted to learn, inquire, or purchase goods.
The first-ever UI-SME Summit started on 7 November 2019 to foster cooperative research and development support for SMEs. Due to its success, the Vice-Chancellor approved that it become an annual Fair to ensure a robust interaction between the University community and SMEs and foster a greater town-gown relationship. The summit partners were IITA, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration (NAFDAC) and Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) as well as the Bank of Industry and Paylink.ng.
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Read “Comics” on Your iPhone, iPod touch
Iconology Inc., at the San Diego Comic Con, has launch of its Comics by comiXology app on the iTunes App Store. The Comics by comiXology App is a digital comic store, library and reader for iPhone and iPod touch that is launching with over 100 titles available from twenty popular comic publishers and many independent comic writers.
“The stunning display and innovative multi-touch user interface of iPhone and iPod touch have finally made comics appealing in a digital format,” said David Steinberger, CEO of Iconology, Inc. “By combining great comics with iPhone OS 3.0’s In-App Purchasing and location awareness features we are creating a revolution in the way comics are sold and read which could only happen with iPhone and iPod touch.”
Comics by comiXology heralds an entirely new comic book publishing and connected commerce model. Comic book enthusiasts can now not only read their comics in a format designed to preserve the comic book experience on an iPhone or iPod touch, but also locate and connect with local retailers to purchase the printed version of the titles. Through relationships with comic book retailers, Comics by comiXology will increase both digital and print sales of comics and deliver a powerful mobile marketing tool for comic book publishers and retailers.
Comics by comiXology offers a “guided view” that keeps the entire page of a comic intact, unlike other solutions where the page is cut into individual pictures the user browses like a photo application. Comics by comiXology is a reader app that contains all a user’s comics and offers its own digital comics store that supports multiple publishers.
Among the twenty publishers that have already signed up to deliver their titles through Comics by comiXology are many well-known industry icons including:
* AdHouse Books
* Arcana Comics
* Asylum Press
* Bluewater Comics
* Com.X
* Creative Impulse Entertainment
* Digital Webbing
* eigoMANGA
* First Salvo
* Image Comics
* Markosia
* Moonstone
* Red 5
* Th3rd World Studios
* Zenescope
Additionally, popular comics writer Robert Kirkman has agreed to deliver his titles exclusively through Comics by comiXology making it the only place to get “Walking Dead” and “Invincible” for iPhone and iPod touch.
The Comics by comiXology App is now available, including over 30 free comics, for $0.99 from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/.
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* A voice that sounds like a black male singing "No" fades in at 4:35 and continues throughout the song. (Sounds like another 70s/80s disco/funk sample) At 5:27 A scratchy sample saying "Yeah" is played forward, then backward, then forward again, with some additional scrubbing in between. At 6:00, "Yeah" plays again, but only once.
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*This track's title is referenced in "[[Sunshine Recorder]]" on [[Geogaddi]]
== Samples / Lyrics ==
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An Eagle in Your Mind
Running time 6:23
Appears on MHTRTC
2 Samples / Lyrics
All of the percussion on "An Eagle in Your Mind" was created using cut up samples of Michael Sandison's girlfriend's voice (Remix Magazine, 2002).
A video (made for the WATMM video contest) was created for "An Eagle in Your Mind" using stock footage sampled from Tatsuo Sato's anime film "Cat Soup." This video also offers an interpretation of the vocal sample heard during the track.
Samples / Lyrics
all atop of the santcus high above the sea a safe place on all counts a great place
At 1:53 an unidentified speech sample (thought by some to be the voice Welsh actor Philip Madoc) begins narrating a story. It is difficult to understand, but thought to be the following:
"the holts are nearly always close to sea
fallen boulders, old ruins, and cliffs
all at the top of a sand edifice
high above the sea
a safe place for cubs
we wait, tense
we're disappointed
she leaves her [?] loaded by others of us
the holts are evenly spread
about 500 meters apart [?] or so they advertise"
Another variation is as follows:
"Holts are nearly always close to the sea,
fallen boulders, old ruins, and cliffs,
all atop the sand edifice,
high above the sea:
a safe place for cubs.
We wait ... tense. We're disappointed.
She leaves her [?] to look for [others?]
The holts are evenly spaced, about 5 meters apart,
Only enough to fool the passers-by, or so they advertise
I love you"
[Simon Wilkinson] suggests similar words, with a few minor changes:
"She leaves us [wait?] [loaded for others of us?].
The holts are about 500 meters apart,
And of use only [?] pass us by, or they [advertise?]"
[Simon Wilkinson] also points out that the voice sounds similar to that of Welsh actor Philip Madoc (heard very briefly here at links Simon provided: [1], [2].
Thanks again to [JimE] for noticing something else:
"there's a background sound throughout the song which could be "sweat-sweat" (in the first part of the song), with "tension" coming in later. It's hard to recognise as speech, but it could well be; one of the interviews says that the "percussion" in the track was constructed using the voice of the girlfriend of one of BoC."
A voice that sounds like a black male singing "No" fades in at 4:35 and continues throughout the song. (Sounds like another 70s/80s disco/funk sample) At 5:27 A scratchy sample saying "Yeah" is played forward, then backward, then forward again, with some additional scrubbing in between. At 6:00, "Yeah" plays again, but only once.
This track's title is referenced in "Sunshine Recorder" on Geogaddi
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#1 biggest challenge this season - getting a c von lebaobei123 04.03.2019 03:00
LOS ANGELES -- Josh Beckett and Adam Wainwright were both on their game in a pitching duel that exceeded all expectations. Pinch-hitter Justin Turner delivered an RBI single in the eighth inning off Wainwright, and the Los Angeles Dodgers edged the St. Louis Cardinals 1-0 Thursday night in their first meeting since last years NL championship series. Beckett pitched seven sharp innings in his showdown with the Cardinals ace, who held the Dodgers hitless through five. Left fielder Matt Kemp helped Beckett by throwing out a runner at the plate in the seventh. Beckett scattered four hits, walked two and struck out four. The right-hander has a 1.34 ERA over his last seven starts, a stretch that began with his no-hitter in Philadelphia on May 25. His season ERA is 2.11 in 15 starts. "I knew it was going to be tough, but I dont think I deserve very much of the credit," Beckett said. "My defence really picked me up tonight, and we got a late run off of a pretty tough pitcher." Juan Uribe, just off the disabled list after missing 34 games with a right hamstring strain, led off the eighth with a single and advanced on a sacrifice bunt by Drew Butera before rookie Miguel Rojas infield single put runners at the corners. Turner, batting for reliever Brian Wilson, came through with his 20th RBI of the season. "I think hes used to that. Hes gotten some big hits for us this year," Kemp said. "Hes always ready to hit, and tonight he got the big hit. It was a battle today. It was a battle of the pitchers -- two good pitchers going at it, and we had to wait out Wainwright." Wilson (1-2) tossed a perfect inning and Kenley Jansen got three outs for his 24th save. "Thats how playoff games usually are -- 1-0. When we play them, its always two good teams going at it," Kemp said. "I think our pitchers match up with their pitchers, and vice versa. Weve had some battles over the years, and theyve gotten the best of us the last couple of years. But hopefully we can grind it out and see them in the playoffs again this year." The Cardinals won 97 games last season, five more than Los Angeles, and beat the Dodgers in the NLCS. Wainwright won Game 3 at Dodger Stadium. This time, Wainwright (10-4) took a hard-luck loss, giving up five hits while going the distance for the 19th time in 201 regular-season starts. The right-hander was runner-up to Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw in last years NL Cy Young Award voting. "I think one run would have been enough tonight the way he was throwing the ball," said Cardinals second baseman Mark Ellis, a former Dodger. "He was typical Wainwright. He has four above-average pitches and throws them wherever he wants. He knows their lineup and how to throw those guys." Wainwright walked his first batter, Dee Gordon, then retired 15 in a row before Rojas led off the sixth with a clean single to left field. Beckett followed with a Texas Leaguer to right, and Allen Craig made a diving catch with the outfield playing shallow against the pitcher. Gordon followed with a bloop single to left, but Yasiel Puig grounded into a double play. Puig, the NL player of the month for May, is batting .242 with no homers, six RBIs and 25 strikeouts in 25 games since his last home run on May 28 against Cincinnatis Homer Bailey at Dodger Stadium. Craig hit a two-out double in the seventh, just beyond Puigs reach on the right-field warning track, then tried to score on Jon Jays sharp single to left. Kemp charged the ball and threw a perfect strike to Butera in front of the plate for a sweep tag as Beckett thrust both arms over his head in jubilation. Cardinals manager Mike Matheny challenged the call by umpire Vic Carapazza, but a replay review upheld the decision and the game remained scoreless. "I wasnt surprised they sent him. Right there in the late innings, its do or die," Kemp said. "I got a good jump on it, got to the ball quick and threw it. Butera made a good tag and we got the out. Defence is just as important as offence. Defence won us that game today." NOTES: Cardinals RHP Joe Kelly, on the DL with a left hamstring strain thats sidelined him for 66 games, is scheduled to begin a rehab assignment Friday with Triple-A Memphis. ... Dodgers shortstop Hanley Ramirez missed his third straight game with a sore right shoulder and had an MRI. ... The Dodgers flight from Kansas City didnt arrive in Los Angeles until about 2 a.m. following their 5-4 win over the Royals, and manager Don Mattingly called off batting practice. ... The Cardinals began a five-game stretch in which they will face all three pitchers who have thrown no-hitters this season, including Kershaw on Sunday and San Franciscos Tim Lincecum on Tuesday. ... The Dodgers were 20-14 in Uribes absence. ... Adrian Gonzalezs RBI streak ended at seven games, one shy of the L.A. 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Vonn punctuated her near-perfect season in perfect fashion Friday, earning her fourth overall World Cup title with a dominating giant slalom victory.With new head coach Carl Robinson at the helm, the Vancouver Whitecaps will look to get back into the MLS Western Conference playoff picture. TSN soccer analyst Luke Wileman tells you everything you need to know about the 2014 Whitecaps, while TSN soccer analyst Jason deVos tells you how they will succeed or fail during the new campaign. Luke Wileman: After missing out on the playoffs in 2013, Vancouver Whitecaps have re-tooled ahead of the new season. They lost their leading scorer, Camilo, in controversial circumstances, but the Caps will enter the 2014 season with a stronger overall squad. The biggest change of the offseason was the departure of head coach Martin Rennie. After two years with the club, Rennies contract was not renewed, and after a long search, the Whitecaps promoted Carl Robinson from his role as assistant coach to take the top job. I said at the time that Robinson was the perfect choice. He already knew the inner workings of the club from his time on Rennies coaching staff, but has brought a fresh outlook. Robinson is heading into his rookie season as a head coach, and it will be a steep learning curve, but theres little doubt he is ready for the task ahead. The way he handled difficult situations during the offseason was superb, and his leadership and communication with players through preseason has earned him plenty of respect within the locker room. So what can we expect from Robinsons team? The Whitecaps coach has made no secret of the fact that he wants to play an attractive entertaining style of soccer. He has also said he wont be afraid to give youth a chance. Robinsons squad is young, but with experience in key areas throughout the team. In fact there is a strong veteran presence down the spine of the team with David Ousted in goal, Jay DeMerit and Andy OBrien at the back, Nigel Reo Coker in midfield and Kenny Miller up front. The Whitecaps have made some strong additions in the offseason but the biggest question mark is whether they will be able to replace the league-leading 22 goals scored by Camilo. There wont be one person who shoulders the responsibility of filling the void left by the Brazilian, it will need to be a team effort, and the way the squad has been built should help that to happen. Uruguyan duo Sebastian Fernandez and Nicolas Mezquida have shown evidence of their creativity and technical ability during preseason, and the expected arrival of Chilean attacking midfielder Pedro Morales from Spanish side Malaga will be a massive piece of the puzzle. Vancouver already has quality in attack. Keeping Kenny Miller fit is key for the Caps. It will also be interesting to see the development of youngsters Kekuta Manneh, Darren Mattocks, Erik Hurtado, Omar Salgado and Russell Teibert. All five of those players have the ability to contribute significantly to the Whitecaps attacking play. The Whitecaps added former MLS All-Star Steven Beitashour at right back to replace the retired YP Lee and have options in the central defensive positions with DeMerit and OBrien likely to be favoured to open the season, but Carlyle Mitchell, Johnny Leveron and draft pick Christian Dean all capable of stepping in at any time. With Carl Robinson likely to play a 4-2-3-1 formation, the two defensive midfield players will need to protect the back four but also start a lot of the Whitecaps play moving forward. On his day, Nigel Reo-Coker can be one of the top midfielders in the league, but Robinson will want to see more consistency from the Englishman this season dictating the play and getting box to box. One of the Whitecaps big offseason additions was young Argentine midfielder Matias Laba who arrived from Toronto FC. Hes a superb signing who will commplement the qualities of Reo Coker.dddddddddddd Laba is a destroyer. He breaks up the play and gets it going again in an effective manner. The defensive midfield pairing of Reo Coker and Laba could be particularly strong for the Whitecaps this season. Despite my view that the overall squad is better than a year ago, the Whitecaps wont find it easy to achieve their goal of making the playoffs in a Western Conference that is packed with quality. Last year, Vancouver improved on their points total from a year earlier, but didnt make it to the postseason. They improved, but not enough because the other teams around them had made bigger strides. This time around, the Whitecaps have made some significant changes. It might take them time to settle into their new identity, but it should be a fun ride. TSN Soccer analyst Jason deVos weighs in on how the Whitecaps will succeed or fail during the 2014 season. Jason deVos: Vancouver Whitecaps will succeed if… …the young guns come out firing. Rookie head coach Carl Robinson has a squad full of talented youngsters. Russell Teibert, Kekuta Manneh, Gershon Koffie, Omar Salgado, Darren Mattocks, Nicolás Mezquida, Matías Laba, Erik Hurtado, Andre Lewis and Sam Adekugbe are all under the age of 23. With youth comes inconsistency; an amazing performance one week, followed up by a flat one the next. If Robinson can get the young players to find a measure of consistency, the Whitecaps will fare far better than many predict this season. The reason for that is that this team is quick - and I mean, lightning fast. Mattocks, Manneh and Hurtado are whippets, and will win races against virtually every player in MLS. If the experienced players in the squad - Nigel Reo-Coker, Andy OBrien and Jay DeMerit - can shepherd the young players along the right path, the Whitecaps are going to surprise a few people this season. Vancouver Whitecaps will fail if… …they show up one week and not the next. Succeeding in professional soccer is all about finding a level of consistency from week to week. Reliability comes with experience - something that is severely lacking from this squad of players. The onus is on Robinson to set the standards of performance that he expects from all of his players. Experienced campaigners like Reo-Coker, OBrien and DeMerit wont be the issue - they know what they need to do to succeed in the game, and will rarely dip below a 7 out of 10 performance. It is the young players that need to learn this. They need to learn that you cannot turn it on one week, then not bother showing up the next. That will be Robinsons biggest challenge this season - getting a consistent level out of his talented crop of youngsters. If he can do that, this will be an exciting season for Whitecaps fans. If not, the Whitecaps will again fail to make the playoffs. 2013 finish: 13-12-9 (seventh in Western Conference). Did not qualify for MLS Cup playoffs. Whos In?: M Mehdi Ballouchy (Re-Entry Draft), D Steven Beitashour (traded from San Jose), M/F Sebastian Fernandez (loan from Boston River), M Matías Laba (trade from Toronto), M/F Nicolas Mezquida (transfer from Boston River), GK Paolo Tornaghi (signed). Whos Out?: GK Joe Cannon (option declined), M Jun Marques Davidson (option declined), F Tommy Heinemann (option declined), F Corey Hertzog (option declined), D Greg Klazura (option declined), GK Brad Knighton (traded to New England), M Daigo Kobayashi (option declined), D Lee Young-Pyo (retired), D Brad Rusin (option declined), F Camilo Sanvezzo (transfer to Queretaro), GK Simon Thomas (option declined). SuperDraft: D Christian Dean (1-3), MF Andre Lewis (1-7), F Mamadou Diouf (2-30). ' ' '
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Magical dinosaur adventures are a VR treat at E3
One of E3’s best demos this year was shown, not on a glitzy mega-booth, but in a quiet back room, without fuss or fanfare.
“Back to Dinosaur Island 2” is a proof of concept virtual reality demo from Crytek, for its forthcoming game Robinson: The Journey. Shown on an Oculus Rift Crescent Bay prototype, it’s the follow-up to a demo shown earlier this year.
Crytek rented a room in a quiet corner of the Los Angeles Convention Center to show a short demo to anyone who happened to pass and fancied spending ten minutes in the early Tithonian period.
That earlier GDC demo featured a terrifying T-Rex, sniffing around a player who had unwisely decided to camp in the vicinity of some giant eggs. While impressive, it was fairly static and kind of monotone blue-ish. By contrast, this new demo is a full bloom of colors that also demands the player to move.
The demo begins with the player clinging to the face of an enormous cliff, surrounded by a beautiful Jurassic landscape of mountains, jungles and waterfalls. To look directly down is to experience the wonder of a lovely view, but also to feel a wave of vertigo.
VR hands float in front of the player, who must maneuver them in order to clasp onto a series of pulleys that pull upwards. Control is handled through direction of gaze and then controller buttons.
During the ascent, pterodactyls emerge from hidey-holes, soaring above, below and behind the player, occasionally allowing themselves to come close enough to show off the creatures’ detail. Rocks tumble down from the top of the cliff, as a mother seeks to protect her young. The player dodges those with ease.
There is one moment of nice visual storytelling, when a baby pterodactyl falls out of its nest. It tumbles toward its death, only to be rescued by a parent in mid-air. It is a reminder that this is a game, and not just a demo.
If you let go of the pulleys, you will fall. Daddy Diopecephalus will not save you. When I let go, I was hoping for a VR-extravaganza of violent death on the rocks below. Unfortunately, the screen just goes blank, and resets where you left off.
But that is the only disappointment in an otherwise breathtaking demo. Robinson: The Journey will likely be a walking game with low level interactivity. It is an excuse to explore a world of dinosaurs at a leisurely pace.
At the top of the cliff, the player finds out more information about creatures and locations, by staring at them for a long time and receiving data packets. But this seems almost like a distraction in such a lush and beautiful place. It is enough just to be there.
For Crytek, the demo is an opportunity to show off its CryEngine technology, which the company hopes will be widely used in the development of VR games. This is just a demo of a single section of a game, and is heavily garlanded with detail. But if VR really is going to look and feel this good, it’s going to command significant attention from many people, including non-gamers seeking a new escapism.
Also at E3 last week was another VR dinosaur demo. Time Machine VR (above) is from Minority Media, which obviously does not have the same graphical resources as Crytek. It’s an underwater exploration of an ancient world, getting up close to sea monsters on a scientific expedition.
There is far less visual detail at play here, though more freedom of movement. The player moves among seabed rocks in an attempt to approach creatures without being seen. Time can then be frozen for a final approach and investigation.
Minority Media makes use of lots of gamey conventions that seem superfluous, like choosing the correct tool (i.e. controller button) to observe animals. But once again, the principal of exploration, of looking and seeing strange things, seems to be VR’s strongest pull, rather than its ability to create modes of interactivity or even of play.
This E3 was a good one for virtual reality. Next year we should see more clearly how far VR’s video game piggy back ride has run its course.
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Red Crystal Palace
attempts to heal a fractured future
Red Crystal Palace was a mobile tent with a crystal ball inside, operated by a nurse seeking predictions about the future from people on the street. In exchange, the nurse shared free tea and red crystals with participants.
The nurse asked people 3 questions:
1- Who will be the next president?
2- When will the war in Iraq be over?
3- What will you be doing five years from now?
The nurse visited Washington DC, Los Angeles, and Chicago with her tent on wheels.
In exchange for their time, project participants were given potassium ferricyanide crystals.
Visitors could consult the crystal ball inside the tent for hints to answer the nurse’s questions.
Interview tapes were broadcast via short-range AM station during the Multimediale DC festival in April 2007.
Provisions Library Gallery in Dupont Circle, Washington DC.
INTERVIEWS RECORDED IN 2007: 26 March and 21 July in Chicago, 7 April in Los Angeles, 6 May in Washington DC. First edit was broadcast in Washington DC on a short-range AM transmission in late April as part of the Multimediale Festival and throughout the summer.
AUDIO ENGINEERING: Shelly Steffens at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago
MUSIC: Paul Bonneau – Preambule No. 37, Fleetwood Mac – Crystal, Terry Riley – A Rainbow in Curved Air, Farsheed Toosi – Glasscutter, Shelly Steffens and Fereshteh Toosi on waterphone and synthesizer, remixes and original songs by Charlie Gokey
This project was made possible by the Artists Residency Program at Experimental Sound Studio, a program funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
THANK YOU: Robin Amer, John Biewen, Donald Braman, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, Vince Gallegos, Charlie Gokey, Robin Hewlett, Allan Hovland, Lou Mallozzi, Griselda Mendoza, Multimediale artists and organizers, Mahyar Nili, Prelinger Archive, Provisions Library and staff, Siobhan Rigg, Jacob Ross, Don Russell, Jesse Seay, Farsheed Toosi, Niels Van Tomme, Jeff Young, Vocalo.org.
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“What do you wanna do today?” Josh looked at his friend, David. “I’m bored. I’m tired of just hangin’ around the house, but it’s too hot to do anything else.”
“I figured we’d go downtown,” said David.
“Downtown? I don’t wanna go downtown,” said Josh. “It’s too hot and hotter there with all those people and all those tall, granite buildings and no shade.”
“Precisely why we should go?”
“Why in the Hell would you want to roast in the concrete jungle downtown, when we could go to the beach and, at least, jump in the water, when we got too hot?”
“Because, duh, dummy, today is Nude Day. Today is the one day in the year of naked women’s tits, asses, and pussies publically displayed and legally exposed for our viewing pleasure,” said David rubbing his hands together with excitement. “No matter if it’s illegal to be so exposed all the other days of the year, today Nude Day celebrators are given a free pass, so long as it’s a woman and not a man exposing himself.”
“Where downtown? I don’t want to be endlessly walking around in the hot sun looking for naked women in the way we did last year,” said Josh.
“No matter where we go downtown, the park, a bar, or just aimlessly walking around, there’s always naked or semi-naked chicks out and about on Nude Day. Some brave soul is always walking around naked or taking off her blouse and bra. Then, of course, there’s the Nude Day parade. I don’t want to miss that public display of skin.”
“Nude Day parade? Last year the Nude Day parade was filled with gay men and lesbian women, not that there’s anything wrong with gay men and lesbian women, but I’d rather go to the beach,” said Josh.
“The beach? We always go to the beach. You always want to go to the beach. The beach, the beach, the beach, I’m tired of going to the beach. Why the beach?”
“I love walking the beach with my bare feet walking on the hot sand, while hearing the ocean in the background. It’s so calm and beautiful.”
“That’s bullshit,” said David. “You just want to go to the beach because of your foot fetish. You just want to see women’s naked feet, never mind seeing their tits, asses, and pussies.”
“So? At least I’m not leering at women, while hoping they strip naked one day a year on Nude Day. At least with my foot fetish, something that I can enjoy 365 days a year, whether women are barefoot, in high heels, open toed shoes, or flip flops, I’m more respectful of women,” said Josh agreeing with himself by nodding his head. “You spend all your time staring at women’s breasts and undressing them with their eyes, while the worst that I do is compliment them on their shoes and/or ask them if they’d like a foot massage,” said Josh, while clutching his hands to his chest, as if he was about to have an orgasm. “Ah, naked feet, lots of naked feet and toes. The beach is my Nirvana, my foot fetish Heaven. I love walking the beach. There’s not a better place to see more naked, women’s feet than at the beach.”
“Seriously, though and I realize that feet are your fetish, but aren’t you tired of seeing, touching, feeling, and smelling women’s feet? You work as a shoe salesman 40 hours a week, I’d think you’d be sick to death of women’s feet.”
“What are you nuts? Just as you never tire of seeing tits, I never tire of seeing, touching, feeling, and smelling women’s feet. I love women’s feet, whether naked feet or feet that are shrouded in white gym socks, or masked by pantyhose. Women’s feet are my passion,” said Josh looking as if he was going to have an orgasm in his pants.
“I dunno. I just don’t get it. I can’t see how you can even compare a woman’s foot to a woman’s breast. Give me tits any day to feet,” said David. “Definitely, I’d much rather suck a nipple than a toe.”
“Actually, working in a shoe store is not only about feet. You’d love working there. I get a lot of down blouses with women leaning down to look at their new shoes,” said Josh with a smile. “I get women, who come into the store, women who are so very modest, that you’d think their knees were cemented together. Then, I get the opposite women, who purposely flash me their panties, that is, if they’re even wearing any,” said Josh with a laugh. “If only they knew that I’m more interested in their feet than their tits, their panties, and their pussies, how shocked they’d be? If only they knew that what I really want is to suck their toes and lick their feet and not finger their pussies and lick their cunts.”
“Feet, feet, feet, it’s always about feet with you. Give it a rest. Seriously, Josh, don’t you ever get tired of women’s feet? Women have other and better parts than feet.”
“Not to me they don’t. I never get tired of seeing, feeling, and licking women’s feet. I live for women’s feet, in the way that you live for seeing, feeling, and sucking on women’s breasts,” said Josh.
“Oh, God, I just love tits. Don’t get bahis firmaları me started on tits,” said David. “No matter if they’re A cup, B cup, C cup, D cup, or, God help me, double D cup,” said David clutching his chest. “I love tits in the way you love feet.”
“I wish I could feel and lick every foot and suck on every toe that attracts my attention,” said Josh. “I’d be in Heaven.”
“And I wish I could feel every breast and suck on every nipple,” said David. “I’d be the happiest man alive.”
“God, open toed shoes and sandals drive me mad with desire!” Josh grabbed his crotch. “Seeing a women’s toe peeking out her shoe is much like you seeing a women’s cleavage peeking out her blouse.”
“Tube tops and low cut tops make me wild with lust!” David grabbed his crotch. “Every time I see a tube top, I want to pull it down to expose her breasts.”
“Yet, you do realize, of course, unlike you, who are attracted to every woman, who has breasts, no matter what she looks like, I’m more selective in my search for the perfect feet and toes. Not every foot sexually appeals to me,” said Josh with a look of a fashion designer rejecting a model for a crooked seam.
“That’s not true, Josh. I’m a connoisseur of breasts, too. My rule of thumb is that women must have two of them,” he said with a laugh. “All kidding aside, I don’t like them too big or too small or hanging too far down and/or breasts that aren’t shapely. Breasts that are flat and flabby don’t do anything for me either,” said David. “My favorite tits are firm, C cup breasts with big nipples. With her shoulders back and her chest puffed out, breasts that are displayed proudly are what makes me horny and what makes me glad that I was born a heterosexual man.”
“Much like you with your specific selection of breasts, there are some feet that do nothing for me. Fat feet, feet with cracked and yellowed toenails, and calloused feet with bunions are gross. Yuck,” said Josh. “Give me the delicate foot but not one that’s deformed by being squished in a high heel shoe all day. A smallish size six to size seven shapely foot is a work of art. I can just see Michelangelo sculpting the perfect woman’s foot, while touching, feeling, and licking her feet, as he created his masterpieces. You know,” said Josh leaning into his friend, as if about to tell him a secret. “Japanese women have the best feet. Matter of fact, Asian women have better feet than American women. As they do with the rest of their body, Asian women take better care of their feet.”
“Gees, don’t get me started on tits,” said David. “I love tits, areolas, and nipples. The bigger the tits the better, so long as they aren’t too big and disproportionate to the woman’s body, as are Dolly Parton’s and Pamela Anderson’s tits. Their tits are just too big. Tits make me crazy with lustful desire. They make my hands twitch and my fingers ache,” he said raising his hands shoulder high and opening and closing them. “Whenever I see a beautiful rack, my lips take the shape of a goldfish,” he said puckering his lips, as if he was a baby breastfeeding. “Playing with a women’s tits and fingering her nipples, while she sucks my cock is better than winning the lottery.”
“Feet do that to me,” said Josh, holding his hands at thigh level, while opening and closing them. “Sometimes, without the woman even knowing, I stare at her feet, especially whenever I find the perfect pair that’s so blatantly exposed in an open toed shoe or sandal. If only they knew I was lusting over their feet. I’ve always wondered if there are women, who find their feet as sexually arousing and sensually seductive, as I do. Yeah, sure, lots of women love a foot massage, but I’m looking for that one special woman, who wants as much attention paid to her feet, as I’ll willing to give.”
“I still can’t believe that I was turned down for that mammography job they posted at the hospital. I am a male nurse, after all. It isn’t as if I’m just a guy walking in off the street with a breast fetish applying for a mammography job. I’d love nothing better than to position women’s breasts through two panes of glass, while squeezing them. Oh, my God, I’m getting an erection just thinking about seeing and touching so many tits every day. I swear, I’d work for nothing.”
“Which is why they’d never hire a man to give women a mammography test,” said Josh with a laugh.
“Lesbians have it made,” said David. “Lesbians could give mammography tests to women and no one would suspect them of getting aroused from seeing, touching, and feeling so many breasts. I betcha doctors get aroused seeing, touching, and feeling so many breasts, too. I betcha doctors go home and masturbate over all the tits they’ve seen.”
“Too bad you didn’t continue with your education and go to medical school,” said Josh. “The guys who have it made are plastic surgeons, those who do breast implants and breast augmentation surgeries. They see, touch, and feel tits all day long. Maybe you could work for one of them.”
“Nah, applied and denied, kaçak iddaa I’ve already looked into that. They only hire beautiful women,” said David looking at his friend with curiosity. “So, why are you suddenly on the foot fetish kick again? I thought you were cured of your foot fetish. What happened with Doctor McCracken that you were seeing for a while?”
“Doctor McCracken is more twisted than I am. We share the same foot fetish, but he’s a cross dresser. He even showed me his collection of women’s shoes,” said Josh with a laugh. “Admittedly, it was fun going through his collection of shoes, but at size 12, watching him modeling women’s shoes did nothing for me,” said Josh making a sour face. “Watching him model those ridiculously huge gun boats that he had for shoes made me feel, as if I was in a Woody Allen spoof of a movie,” said Josh laughing.
“No way! I never pegged old McCracken for a cross dresser. He’s 6’5″ tall. Not a good looking man, looking a bit like Howard Sterns, he must make for one ugly woman.”
“Yeah, I can’t even imagine him dressed in drag. You should see his closet, though. His closet is filled with flats, pumps, sandals, sneakers, espadrilles, flip flops, and heels, especially stilettos. Oh, my God, I love stilettos. He doesn’t want his wife to know, which is the reason why he keeps his shoe collection under lock and key at his office,” said Josh with a laugh. “I told my Mom that he cured my foot fetish, which is why I’m telling her that I’m going downtown with you to see naked and semi-naked women for Nude Day and to watch the Nude Day parade, instead of going to the beach to see feet. She’d think me more normal wanting to see naked women than just wanting to see naked feet.”
“Are you still giving your Mom foot massages?”
“Oh, God, yeah. Every night I get an erection, while rubbing her feet. She always raises her skirt higher than necessary, whenever I give her a foot massage. I suspect she knows that I’m aroused massaging her feet, because she rests her heel against my throbbing cock and subtly wiggles it around, as if giving me a foot hand job,” said Josh with a laugh. “I love rubbing my swollen cock against her soft feet, only I can’t help but get the feeling that she wants me to massage more than just her feet, if you know what I mean.”
“Gees, Josh. That’s incest. Next you’ll be telling me that you took a bath with your Mom, while washing her feet.”
“Oh, God, I’d love to be naked with her in the bathtub, while washing her feet,” said Josh closing his eyes and looking, as if he was imagining the scenario. “She’s always flashing me her panty in up skirts, her naked pussy in up nightgowns, her bra in down blouses, and breasts in down nightgowns.”
“Not that I’d ever want to see any part of her, but I’ve never seen any part of my Mom,” said David. “Your Mom is hot. My Mom is not.”
“I can’t tell you how many times my Mom has caught me masturbating. Whenever she sees my erect cock, she stares at it, before closing my bedroom door without saying anything. I’ve heard her masturbating a few times and, figuring she was masturbating over me, I was tempted to open her bedroom door and watch her play with her pussy, while I massaged her feet.”
“Tell your Mom that I’ll massage her breasts. She has a great rack. I’d love to see, feel, fondle, and caress her big tits, before sucking her big nipples.”
“Hey, that’s my mother you’re talking about.”
“Sorry,” said David falling quiet for a moment. “I’m just curious.”
“Curious about what?”
“Have you seen them?”
“Seen what?”
“Your Mom’s tits?”
“Gees, David, you’re such a pervert, when it comes tits.”
“C’mon tell me. Have you seen them?”
“Yeah, I have. So?”
“No way. How did you get to see them?” With his eyes bugging out of his head, David straightened his posture and was at full attention to hear about Josh seeing his mother’s tits. Even though I’ve tried to sneak a peek, I’ve never seen my Mom’s tits,” said David with obvious disappointment that was quickly replaced by the sexual excitement of what Josh said.
“My Mom is always flashing me her breasts. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen her big tits.”
“No way. Oh, my God. Be still my heart,” said David clutching his chest again, as if he was having a heart attack.
“I’ll be sitting on her bed talking to her and suddenly, she’ll stand and remove her bathrobe and put on her bra, while looking at me in her mirror.”
“Is she naked?”
“No, she’s wearing panties, but still, her naked tits are right there, three feet away from me,” said Josh.
“You lucky bastard. I can’t believe you saw your Mom’s tits. What do they look like? Tell me.”
“I’m not going to tell you about my Mom’s tits. You’ll start masturbating. Tell me about your Mom’s feet and then maybe I’ll tell you about my Mom’s tits.”
“My Mom’s feet? What’s to tell? They’re two feet with ten toes. All feet look alike to me, except for men’s feet. Men’s feet are kaçak bahis gross. They all have hair growing out of them.”
“Your Mom looks like she’d have nice feet. I’d love to cum all over your mom’s feet,” said Josh looking up at his friend.
“Fuck you, Josh. And I’d love to cum all over your Mom’s breasts,” said David fingering his cock through his pants.
“Did you ever give your Mom a foot massage?”
“Me give my Mom a foot massage? What are you nuts? No. That’s gross. I’d never touch my Mom’s feet. Yuck. I’d rather eat nails.”
“I’ll let you massage my Mom’s breasts, if you let me massage her feet,” said Josh.
“Yeah, sure, right. As if that would ever happen. Me massaging your Mom’s breasts and you massaging my Mom’s feet isn’t up to us,” said David, suddenly studying his friend. “If only we could and if only they would, how do we get our Mom’s to go along with that?”
“We can get them drunk,” said Josh with seriousness.
“My Mom doesn’t drink,” said David.
“Oh, well. It’s a good thing there are as many breasts out there, as there are feet,” said Josh.
“C’mon, Josh I really wanted to go to the Nude Day festivities downtown,” said David. “Please?”
“In the way that most women strip practically naked at the beach, we’ll see more at the beach than we’d ever see downtown, especially if we go off the beaten path.”
“Off the beaten path? What do you mean, off the beaten path?”
“If we walk along the other end of the beach, past the fence,” said Josh with a sinister grin, “we’ll see topless, maybe even naked women.”
“We can’t walk there. That’s all private, Josh. We’re not supposed to be there. We’ll be arrested for trespassing.”
“I know it’s all private, but feet are feet to me, whether on a public beach or a private beach. The real difference is for you. The women on that private beach sun topless and naked. So long as we keep walking, they won’t bother us. Who knows, we may even get lucky.”
“Okay, let’s go. I really need to see some tits today.”
Josh and David walked along the pubic beach and continued all the way down the beach and past the fence that held the sign, Private, No Trespassing. As soon as they entered the privately declared domain, everything changed. It was as if they were at a different beach. The sand was whiter and cleaner. The homes were bigger and more luxurious. Then, they saw what they hoped they’d see, naked women.
Oblivious to them staring, they saw a few topless women sunbathing, but they were either at a distance from them, facing the other way, or lying on their stomachs. They couldn’t make out much of the details of their naked breasts or their naked feet. With the private beach much smaller than the public beach, about to come to the end of the private beach and turn around to return the other way to walk the length of the public beach again, an older woman lying out naked and holding up a martini glass, called them over.
“Yoo-hoo! Hello?” She waved them over.
“Hi,” said Josh.
“Hi,” said David.
“Please don’t mind me. I’m a naked, old, drunken broad,” she said with a laugh, while brushing aside her shoulder length blonde hair. “Would you give me a hand?”
Immediately Josh looked down at her tanned feet and painted toes, while David stared at her big sagging breasts and exposed nipples.
“Sure,” said Josh.
“Sure,” said David.
“I’m sitting on this old, rickety, uncomfortable lawn chair because I don’t have a ladder high enough to reach my chaise lounge chair in the garage. The man who cleaned out my garage last fall stored the thing on a hook that’s too high up for me to reach. I don’t have anyone else to ask. My neighbors don’t like me because I’m a naked drunk. They’d never allow their husbands to help me for fear that I might steal them,” she said with a laugh, while staring at them. “Truth be told, I don’t want their old husbands. I’m into much younger men,” she said pausing, while laughing, “men more your age. All of my ex-husbands were younger than me, except for the last one, he was older, but damn, if I can remember his name,” she laughed.
“Sure no problem,” said Josh. “We’ll get your chair for you.”
Josh and David followed the woman to her garage and David gave Josh ten fingers up to reach her chaise lounge chair.
“Thank you. Thank you, so very much,” said the woman standing there in the buff, while sipping her martini. “I hope I’m not embarrassing you boys, but I was once a nudist. Now that I’m older, I really don’t give a care who sees me naked.”
“You have a great body,” said David staring at her breasts.
“You’re in wonderful shape,” said Josh staring down at her feet.
“Oh, pooh,” she said. “I’m old and wrinkled,” she said looking down to where David stared at her breasts and to where Josh stared at her feet. “If you don’t mind, can you just check the chair for spiders, before setting it up in front of my house on my private beach space? I hate spiders.”
“No problem,” said David.
Both men checked the chair for spiders, before lugging it to the beach.
“Thank you,” she said. “I so missed my chair. If I had my purse with me, I’d give you a tip.”
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The Senior Bowl is an All-Star Game consisting of players from all the high schools across Alberta where the teams are split in a "North" vs. "South" fashion. The planning for each years Senior Bowl actually begins in November as the coaching staffs for both the “North” and “South” All-Star teams are picked from the ranks of the high schools throughout the province. The staff’s are filled from the provincial finalist teams in Tier I, II, III, IV and 6-Man and championship teams from leagues with no provincial final representation. In April two selection camps are held to screen the over 600 nominee players from the team leagues in Alberta and out of it two 40+ man teams were finalized. Finally over the May long weekend the teams reconvene for a three day training camp followed by an Awards Banquet and the Senior Bowl Game. Since 1990 the concept of showing off the best talent that Alberta high schools have that was dreamed of in 1968 has come true. With the continued support of its sponsors the game will continue to grow in its tradition and interest. Sometimes dreams do come true.
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SENIOR BOWL 2019
North - 23
South 14
The 30th Senior Bowl was played on May 20th under blustery May Long Weekend Conditions. It had been since 2014 that the North was victorious in this All-Star Game for Graduating Grade 12 players but the North did indeed prevail this day 23-14 at Hellard Field in Calgary before a packed house of 1246 spectators.
The South opened the scoring with 80 yard TD run from Crescent Heights (Med. Hat) tailback Kaden Wagner but it was all North from there with 23 unanswered points with touchdowns from QB Silas Fagnan from Bonnyville and a scoop and score from Holy Rosary (Lloydminster) defensive end Dominic Caco sandwiched around three field goals from Austin O’Brien’s (Edmonton) Ethan Hartman. The South made it interesting late with TD pass from Henry Wise Wood (Calgary) QB K.J. Stembridge to Medicine Hat’s Lachlan Hardiker early in the forth to pull within 9 points but the North ran out the clock to preserve the victory.
The M.V.P.’s of the game were Fagnan for the North and defensive back/kicker Jonathan Guistini from Notre Dame in Calgary for the South. In 30 years of history the South continues to lead the series 16-13-1.
Earlier in the day in the Junior Bowl for U16 players the South made a comeback capped by a 18 yard FG with 2 minutes left to take the game 14-13. As well, in the 6-Man All-Star Game held in Lacombe the South prevailed over the North 44-20.
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Silas Fagnan (Bonnyville)
Dante Tabacu (Holy Rosary, Lloydminster) Quarterbacks
Dominic Britton (St. Mary’s, Calgary)
K.J. Stembridge (Henry Wise Wood, Calgary)
Runningbacks
Dayton Gibb (Wainwright)
Nash Etson (Holy Rosary, Lloydminster)
David Lezama (Harry Ainlay, Edmonton)
Nathan Zacharias (Lloydminster) Runningbacks
Paul Ayedegbe (Sir Winston Churchill, Calgary)
Simon Degraff (St. Mary’s, Calgary)
Ethan Duncalf (Drumheller)
Roy Outh (Chestermere)
Nathan Brake (Sturgeon, Sturgeon County)
Tyrone de Vega (Ross Sheppard, Edmonton)
Travis Heggart (Salisbury, Sherwood Park)
Connor Meeks (Spruce Grove)
Callum Noonan (Archbishop Jordan, Sherwood Park)
Tanner Shaw (Salisbury, Sherwood Park)
Ethan Wedman (Paul Kane, St. Albert) Receivers
Jamie Bacchus (W.H. Croxford, Airdrie)
Mack Ginther (William Aberhart, Calgary)
Lachlan Hardiker (Medicine Hat)
Dylan Neis (Cochrane)
Luke Nonda (Notre Dame, Calgary)
Chevy Thomas (Notre Dame, Calgary)
Luke Viccars (Ernest Manning, Calgary)
Kade Wagner (Crescent Heights, Medicine Hat)
Michael Del Pero (Strathcona, Edmonton)
Jared Holliday (Archbishop Jordan, Sherwood Park)
Tayler Lanigan (M.E. LaZerte, Edmonton)
Petya Medvedev (Archbishop O’Leary, Edmonton)
Ty Thompson (Ross Sheppard, Edmonton)
Cullen Wagner (Holy Rosary, Lloydminster)
Tommy Walters (Salisbury, Sherwood Park) Offensive Line
Samuel Hammond (Henry Wise Wood, Calgary)
Mahaz Khan (Nelson Mandela, Calgary)
Chace Laprise (Henry Wise Wood, Calgary)
Jon Moman (MCLA, Calgary)
Spencer Odding (Crescent Heights, Calgary)
Connon Taylor (Medicine Hat)
Iwinosa Uwubanmwen (Notre Dame, Calgary)
Dominic Caco (Holy Rosary, Lloydminster)
Grayson Christie (Holy Rosary, Lloydminster)
Eric Desilets (Notre Dame, Red Deer)
William Farguson (Hunting Hills, Red Deer)
Jacob Hegerfeldt (Spruce Grove)
Justin Rutherford (Harry Ainlay, Edmonton) Defensive Line
Matt Bruce (Foothills, Okotoks)
Steven Groves (Henry Wise Wood, Calgary)
Josh Howe (Medicine Hat)
Jacob Kamajian (Holy Trinity Academy, Okotoks)
Cameron Michaud (Ernest Manning, Calgary)
Tyler Monds (Notre Dame, Calgary)
Evan Eide (Holy Rosary, Lloydminster)
Aaron Federuik (St. Joseph’s, Grande Prairie)
Dolan Hills (Hunting Hills, Red Deer)
Justin Matchett (William E. Hay, Stettler)
Michael Spaulding (Harry Ainlay, Edmonton)
Gabriel Speerin (St. Joseph’s, Grande Prairie)
Jake Taylor (Salisbury, Sherwood Park) Linebackers
Caleb Callaghan (Crescent Heights, Calgary)
Austin Hillard (Notre Dame, Calgary)
Trent Kehrig (Bishop Grandin, Calgary)
Justin Maser (Medicine Hat)
Spencer McLeod (Canmore)
Taylor Viney (Catholic Central, Lethbridge)
Tanner Winter (Medicine Hat)
Jared Bussier (Ponoka)
Cody Charron (Salisbury, Sherwood Park)
Tyler Desutter (St. Joseph’s, Grande Prairie)
Turner Douglas (Lacombe)
Kyle Godina (Salisbury, Sherwood Park)
Josh Hoyt (Harry Ainlay, Edmonton)
Joshua Piepgrass (St. Joseph’s, Grande Prairie)
Skylar Saar (Salisbury, Sherwood Park) Defensive Backs
Mack Bannatyne (Ernest Manning, Calgary)
Joseph Bell (Cochrane)
Tyshon Blackburn (St. Francis, Calgary)
Tyreese Briston (Notre Dame, Calgary)
Mahamadou Diallo (Lester B. Pearson, Calgary)
Jonathan Giustini (Notre Dame, Calgary)
Dodjang Lual (Brooks)
Tyler Turner (Brooks)
Kicker/Punter
Ethan Hartman (Austin O’Brien, Edmonton)
Cam Fraser (Salisbury, Sherwood Park)
Mike Taylor (Salisbury, Sherwood Park)
Frank Yuzyk (Archbishop Jordan, Sherwood Park)
Brett Hotchkiss (Lloydminster)
Jarrett Burzuk (Hunting Hills, Red Deer)
Paul Schwartz (Ardrossan)
Paul Hayward (Holy Rosary, Lloydminster)
Bryan Noel (St. Joseph’s, Grande Prairie Coaches
David Diluzio (Notre Dame, Calgary)
Frank Pellegrino (Notre Dame, Calgary)
Corey Allison (Western Canada, Calgary)
Quinn Skelton (Medicine Hat)
Wade Buckley (Canmore)
Randy Hyland (L.C.I., Lethbridge)
Tom Knitter (Cochrane)
Lorne Dielissen (Holy Trinity Academy, Okotoks)
On February 10, 1968; the executive of the then Alberta Football Coaches Association (a forerunner to Football Alberta) met in Red Deer to discuss the concept of an Alberta High School Football All-Star Game to be known as the “Senior Bowl”. The proposal involved the creation of two teams in a “North” vs. “South” fashion from the 56 High School football teams in Alberta.
Due to factors beyond their control the game did not occur and the idea remained dormant until it was resurrected in 1988 at a Football Alberta’s Planning Meeting. Even then it was a full two years until Rocky Mountain House’s Craig Berger kicked off for the “North” to St. Francis’s Sam Scalise of the “South” in Commonwealth Stadium on July 7, 1990 to begin what is now an annual event.
Today, the game is not much different from the proposal made in 1968. It is a contest between the best high school football players in Northern Alberta (from Red Deer north) against their counterparts in Southern Alberta selected from the 105 High Schools currently with football programs.
Since 1990 the concept of showing off the best talent that Alberta high schools have that was dreamed of in 1968 has come true. With the continued support of its sponsors the game will continue to grow in its tradition and interest. Sometimes dreams do come true.
The planning for each years Senior Bowl actually begins in November as the coaching staffs for both the “North” and “South” All-Star teams are picked from the ranks of the high schools throughout the province.
The staff’s are filled from the provincial finalist teams in Tier I, II, III, IV and 6-Man and championship teams from leagues with no provincial final representation. In April two selection camps are held to screen the over 600 nominee players from the team leagues in Alberta and out of it two 40+ man teams were finalized. Finally over the May long weekend the teams reconvene for a three day training camp followed by an Awards Banquet and the Senior Bowl Game.
On a bright, sunny, perfect day for football, the “South” All-Star team took their fourth Senior Bowl title in a row with a 38-23 win over the “North” in front of 1528 fans at Foote Field in Edmonton. John Evans of LCI was a star of the show for the South as the quarterback may have suffered in the passing category only going 3 for 11 but made up for it with his legs rushing for 181 yards (second on all time rushing list behind Ted Kubongo from Notre Dame in Calgary with 196 set in 2016) and 2 TD’s. The North also had some record breakers with QB Jonathan Ericson from Lacombe setting the all time passing mark with 278 yards and 3 TD’s surpassing Leduc’s Ben Gorniak who set the mark of 226 yards in 2008, and Bev Facey’s Jake Withrow who set the receiving mark with 142 yards and 2 TD’s passing Josh Leung from Henry Wise Wood who’s 126 yards had stood since 2006.
Other South TD’s were added from two QB sneaks from Catholic Central’s Kai Sampson, and a rushing TD from Foothill’s Payton Price. Nathan LaVigne from Hunting Hills added the last TD for the North.
For their efforts Evans for the South and Withrow for the North were the MVP’s for their respective teams while the Lineman of the Game awards went to Kyle Thiess from Lloydminster from the North and Nils Haeni from Olds for the South. The South now leads the series 16-12-1 since the inception of the Senior Bowl in 1990.
In the 6-Man All-Star Game the South also beat the North with a 41-22 victory in Lacombe. The South MVP was Hudson Scott (Rimbey) while the North MVP was Trevor Thor (JR Robson - Vermilion)
Senior Bowl All-Time Records (as of 2017)
To check out the Senior Bowl Training Camp below are the links to the schedules for both teams:
2018 North Team Schedule
2018 South Team Schedule
The second half saw the South get their act together and continue to stymie the North offense while scoring their first TD of the game on a 43 yard TD pass from St. Francis’ Cole Belway to Cochrane’s Zach Rabe. A successful convert and single on the kickoff plus a safety added later in the third make it 13-9 for the South going into the final quarter. Touchdowns from L.C.I.’s Tanner Sudo on a 4 yard run followed up less than a minute later with a pick six from Henry Wise Wood’s Trey Dube pushed the score to 26-9. A late TD from Holy Rosary’s (Lloydminster) Tommy Yanchuk made it 26-15 (failed 2 pt. convert) for the North was too little too late and the South hung on to win their 15 Senior Bowl title in the 28 years of the game.
Defenses ruled the day at the 2017 Senior Bowl as they both racked up a pick-six TD and held the respective offenses in check until the fourth quarter. The North opened the scoring in the first quarter with a safety that was quickly followed by a 37 yard FG from Jaden Sheilan of the South from St. Francis (Calgary) making it 3-2 for the South at the end of the 1st. The second quarter was all North as the defense stood tall and added a pick six from Notre Dame’s (Red Deer) Payton LaGrange who took it 44 yards to the house making it 9-3 at the half for the North.
Post game honors went to Notre Dame’s (Red Deer) Jacob Plamondon and Henry Wise Wood’s Tyrese Best who were the North and South Linemen of the Game respectively. The North MVP was Payton LaGrange from Red Deer’s Notre Dame H.S. who had a pick-six interception, two knockdowns, and was a demon on special teams. The South’s MVP was Henry Wise Wood’s defensive back Trey Dube who had a busy day with a pick-six interception, one knock down, and a blocked punt.
In the 6-Man All-Star Game the final score was South 39 North 22.
Special thanks to the Calgary Colts coaching staff for their assistance in running the camp.
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Linemen of the Game:The 27th Annual Senior Bowl was all “South” Team as they rambled for 574 yards of offense on their way to a 39-6 win over the “North” on Monday, May 23 in Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium. Ted Kubongo from Calgary’s Notre Dame H.S. was the big star of the game with a new Senior Bowl record 196 yards rushing and one TD. Quarterback, Trey Kellogg from Okotok’s Foothills H.S. added two TD’s of his own. Austin Daisy from Calgary’s St. Francis H.S., a converted linebacker forced into action at runningback with two injuried to Avery McCuaig and Landon Rose, powered his way to the other TD and Clareholm’s Lee Fielded rounded out the scoring with a FG and two singles. The lone score for the “North” came on a 29 yard TD pass from Paul Kane’s Brendan Guy to Holy Rosary’s Garrett Kryzanowski. The convert failed.
Linemen of the Game:
NORTH - Julian Pawlychka, Paul Kane (St. Albert)
SOUTH - Tyshon Rosas, Notre Dame (Calgary)
Most Valuable Players:
NORTH - Isaiah Brown, Bev Facey (Sherwood Park)
SOUTH - Ted Kubongo, Notre Dame (Calgary)
Watch live online at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCju7IYXjxcsE5oonm8QZAYA/live
Senior Bowl Offensive Stats
In the annual all-star game for Graduating Grade 12’s held at McMahon Stadium in Calgary. In a defensive tussle early on the South lead 2-0 at the end of the first quarter on a safety. The North finally broke the scoring drought at 11:32 of s. The South answered back on the next series with a 27 yard TD pass by Notre Dame’s Colton Hunchak to Duane Neustaeder from Olds at 8:40. Two series later Davies struck again for the North with a 10 yard dart to his Facey teammate Nolan Fleming. Three plays later Hunchak struck again for the South this time on the receiving end of a 73 yard TD pass from Cochrane’s Cody Stevens. With 48 second’s left in the half, Notre Dame’s Joe Cant added a 27 yard FG for the South to stake them to a 19-15 lead at the half. The South opened the scoring in the second half on a one yard plunge by Hunchak. Two series later the lead was extended to 29-15 South on Cant’s second FG of the day from 15 yards. The South kept the peddle down in the fourth with a nice ten play drive engineered by Stevens who finished it off with a one yard plunge to make it 36-15 with 11:26 remaining in the game. That wound up as the final score with the South now leading in the series 13-12-1. Thomas Eidsvik from Lloydminster and Lane Raposo from Notre Dame (Calgary) were the linemen of the game for the North and South respectively while the MVP’s were Talyn Davies for the North and Colton Hunchak for the South.
Senior Bowl Defensive Stats
For DVD’s of the Senior Bowl contact info@icuvideo.ca .
PAST SENIOR BOWL GAME RECAPS
2014 GAME RECAP - NORTH 14 SOUTH 10
In a defensive thriller the “North” Alberta All-Stars defeated the “South” Alberta All-Stars 14-10 in the 25th Senior Bowl High School Football All-Star Game. Things started off with a bang, literally, as after forcing a two and out on the first series, the “South” defense opened the scoring as defensive back Aaron Statz from Notre Dame in Calgary, blocked the punt attempt then recovered the ball in endzone to go up 7-0. Two series later Kyle Bryne from Western Canada in Calgary put the “South” up 10-0 with a 34 yard FG to make it 10-0 at the end of the first quarter. The defenses took over from there and the “North” capitalized on a 59 yard Daniel Loggale, from W.P. Wagner in Edmonton, interception that took the ball down to the 10 yard line. From there Jasper Place’s Patrick O’Neill hit Harry’s Ainlay’s Davie Abedeyo for a 10 yard score with 45 seconds left in the half. The score remained 10-7 at the half. The second half was a defensive gem for both sides as drives were routinely stopped in their tracks by outstanding coverage’s and defensive surge. Capitalizing on another “South” turnover, Abedeyo took it over from seven yards out to put the “North” up 14-10 late in the third quarter and that score held up the remainder of the way. The “South” had their chances but a missed FG by Byrne from 43 yards out with 10 minutes left and an apparent TD pass to Kyle Moortgat from Cochrane which was called back on a holding penalty with 2:27 left in the game were a close as they came. For their efforts, Jack Hanna from Bellerose in St. Albert and Anthony Crowshoe from St. Mary’s in Calgary where named the Linemen of the Game for the “North” and “South” respectively. The Most Valuable Players were Daniel Loggale for the “North” with an interception, a fumble recovery, and a game high six tackles and Aaron Statz for the “South” with two blocked kicks and a touchdown. With the win the “North” ties up the series 12-12-1 after 25 games.
Football Alberta would like to thank the staff and administration at Commonwealth Stadium for their cooperation and leadership in hosting this game in the Big House. Them along with the promotion assistance from the Edmonton Eskimos drew in a Senior Bowl record crowd of 2,160. Football Alberta would also like to thank ICU Video for the professional job they did of the Senior Bowl webcast. See you next year in Calgary!
Click here to find the game statistics.
The link for the webcast will be http://www.ustream.tv/channel/icu-video-productions .
Linked also is the Game Program.
2013 GAME RECAP - SOUTH 31 NORTH 19
It was a well-rounded effort for the South All-Stars in the 24th Annual Senior Bowl as eight different players contributed with double digits in either rushing or pass receiving. That, combined with a solid effort from their three QB’s and their defense paced them to a 31-19 victory over the North. The North opened the scoring at 5:56 of the first quarter on a 12 yard passing TD from Hunting Hills QB Scott Pearson to St. Albert’s Brandon Thera-Plamondon. The South countered quickly less than a minute later at 6:37 of the first with a 30 yard TD pass from Notre Dames’ Brett Hunchak to Springbank’s Kevin Natenstedt, then Hunchak struck again at 9:05 of the first with a 16 yard TD pass to Holy Trinity Academy’s Ryder Stone. St. Francis QB Boston Rowe took over from there in the first half leading a drive down the field then taking it over himself for a TD at 12:59 of the second quarter. That combined with a single off a punt left the score 22-7 at the half for the South. The second half became a defensive struggle with Bowness linebacker, Jakob Jakoubec leading the way with five unassisted tackles to hold the North to a single 42 yard field goal by Harry Ainlay’s Daniel Ellis in the third. Both teams exchanged safety touches as well in the third to give the South a 24-12 lead with one quarter to go. In the fourth, both teams exchanged touchdowns with L.C.I’s Brock Ramius taking it in from 5 yards out at 13:34 and Ardrossan’s Jimmy Airey setting a new Senior Bowl single rush record with a 102 yard TD run at 14:03 making the final 31-19. For their efforts, Spruce Groves Nik Palek and Henry Wise Wood’s Justin Keys were named their respective teams Lineman of the Game and the Most Valuable Player Awards went to Ryder Stone for the South and Jasper Place’s linebacker Brad Friesen for the North. The series now stands at 12-11-1 for the South with next years 25th anniversary game scheduled for Edmonton.
It was all North in the 23rd Annual Football Alberta Senior Bowl High School Football All-Star Game. Paul Kane’s Ideen Samadi paced the North with three field goals to lead the North in scoring on their way to a 23-15 win. After trading punts for most of the first quarter the North struck paydirt using the Austin O’Brien connection with runningback Leonardo Mantuila scampering for 42 yards down to the South’s 15 yard line which was immediately followed by fellow Crusaders QB Jesse Schneider and SB Rick LeMoignan hooking up for the 15 yard TD pass in the first quarter. The next North possession saw Salisbury QB Matt Bonaca bootleg 62 yards setting up a 24 yard FG from Ideen Samadi out of Paul Kane at 13:54 of the second quarter.The South responded late in the second as Bishop O’Byrne’s Jarvis James plunged over for the TD to make it 10-7. In the third the North extended their lead to 20-7 with a Samadi FG and a three yard run from Bev Facey’s Jordan Samoil The South threatened early in the fourth but a 3rd and one gamble at the North 10 yard line was shut down by Austin O’Brien linebacker Aidan Panchyshyn. From there the North was unable to move the ball and on the ensuing South drive St. Timothy QB Aaron Elock Colye hooked up with Notre Dame’s Coel Bazinet three times before taking it over for the one yard QB sneak himself to make it 20-15 (the convert failed) with 8:03 left in the game. With 1:33 left in the game the North iced it with a 40 yard FG from Samadi making it 23-15 which was the final score. The series is once again tied at 11 wins a piece with one tie. For their efforts, Panchyshyn was named the North MVP and Taylor Brooks, a wide receiver from Foothills with four tough catches in the game was named the South MVP.
2011 GAME RECAP - SOUTH 34 NORTH 6
The North opened the scoring early in the first with 42 and a 37 yard FG’s from Camrose’s Jonathan Heidebrecht. The South responded prior to the end of the first with a 17 yard TD run by Cameron Mundle from E.P. Scarlett. Raymond’s Jimmy Ralph added a 6 yard TD reception from Highwood’s Mark Black at 7:53 of the second quarter. Marshall Broom from Notre Dame added a 39 yard FG to end the half with the South up 17-6. Jeff Schidlowski from Western Canada opened the scoring five minutes into the second half with a 8 yard TD run to open up a 24-6 lead. Jimmy Ralph and Mark Black hooked up again three minutes later for an 8 yard TD to make it 31-6. In the 4th, Marshal Broom added his second FG of the day from 38 yards to make it 34-6 to round out the scoring. For their efforts Jimmy Ralph for the South with136 yards rushing and34 yards receiving and two touchdowns and Jonathan Heidebrecht for the North with two FG’s and a stellar day punting the ball away from Jimmy Ralph were named MVP’s for their respective teams. Spencer Maisonneave from Salisbury and Daniel Lamola from Notre Dame were named Most Outstanding Lineman for the North and South respectively.
After 21 years the Senior Bowl record of wins and losses was finally tied up by the “North” with a convincing 24-17 win over the “South” to make the series 10-10-1 since 1990. The “South” made it interesting early sprinting out to a 10-0 lead on the strength of a 27 yard field goal by Henry Wise Wood’s Steven McCaffrey and a 19 yard TD pass from Foothill’s Brad Karl to Central Memorial’s Adam Osterling. The “North” then roared back in the second quarter to tie the game at the half on the strength of a fake field goal TD pass from Harry Ainlay’s Jahlani Gilbert-Knorren to Mallan Roberts out of M.E. LaZerte and a 27 yard field goal from St. Albert’s Jean-Luc Budgeaud. The “North” scored twice in the second half again with trickery on a third down gamble pass from Gilbert-Knorren to St. Albert’s Keaton Hoddinott and a bootleg by Gilbert-Knorren. The “South” came back late on a 14 yard TD pass from Karl to Braden Heffernan from Central Memorial but that’s as close as they came. For their efforts both Gilbert-Knorren and Karl were named MVP’s for their respective teams.
At Calgary’s McMahon Stadium on a cold, wet holiday Monday, the “North” streaked to a 23-7 first quarter lead on the strength of two Danny Sawchuk touchdowns and two Andrew Jevne field goals. The Peace River receiver scored on one pass reception from Bev Facey’s Adam Seniuk and one fumble recovery in the end zone while the Sylvan Lake receiver/kicker was good from 17, 24, and 32. The “South” countered back right before the half on a one yard plunge by Raymond’s Storm Bartsoff (the convert failed). The “North” opened the second half with a touchdown pass from Garrett Gleisner to St. Albert’s Aaron Watkins which was answered later in the quarter by the “South” with Bartsoff’s second touchdown of the day (2 point convert attempt failed). Jevne added his fourth field goal of the game early in the fourth to push the score to 32-19 and defensive lineman Joel Seutter from Salisbury scored on a short yardage offensive play with less than a minute left (convert failed) to make the final 38-19. Seniuk took the MVP for the “North” while Bartsoff was named the “South” MVP.
Lead by the record breaking performance of Leduc quarterback Ben Gorniak, the “North” defeated the “South” 31-21 in front of 1,425 fans at Edmonton’s Foote Field on Monday, May19, 2008.
The “South” started off strong taking their first drive the distance with Springbank’s Tom Shaw hauling in a 53 yard bomb from Cochrane’s Brent Serhyenko. The “North” then fired back immediately with Harry Ainlay’s David Berg taking the ensuing kickoff 76 yards for the first ever kickoff return for a touchdown in the Senior Bowl to make it 7-7. The “North” then controlled the rest of the first half adding a 7 yard TD run by St. Albert’s Chris Dobko and a 37 yard fieldgoal from Strathcona’s Billy Harvey to make it 17-7 at the break.
At the beginning of the third quarter it was all “South” again as Highwood’s Bryce Brandford hooked up with St. Francis’s Taylor Nill for a 13 yard score to draw to within 3 points on their first drive. The “North” answered later in the quarter with a 21 yard strike from Gorniak to Nicholas Ross from Salisbury to up the lead to 10 once again. On the last play of the third the “South” struck again on a one yard sneak by Serhyenko and that cut the lead to a field goal again and it stayed that way until 30 seconds left in the game when Gorniak hooked up with Ross again for a 17 yard TD on a gutsy 3rd and 5 call to seal the deal for the “North”.
With 9 seconds left in the game Lord Beaverbrook’s Braeden George hauled in a 37 yard touchdown pass from his schoolmate Trent Peterson for the winning score for the “South” in a tightly played game in front of 1,123 fans at Calgary’s McMahon Stadium. This was definitely a defensive struggle as both high powered offenses had a hard time getting on track. St. Francis’s Anthony DeZorzi lead the way for the “South” as the linebacker recorded seven solo tackles, a quarterback sack, and a fumble recovery on his way to being named his teams Most Valuable Player while St. Francis Xavier safety Rhys Coppens won the M.V.P. honors for the “North with two interceptions along with 124 yards in kickoff return yardage. Other scorers in the game included George again with a first quarter major again from Peterson and a first quarter field goal from Henry Wise Wood’s Karim Ould Hamouda for the “South” while Ross Sheppards Hugh O’Neill kicked two field goals and added two singles to go with Salisbury’s Duncan Hankinson’s second quarter major for the “North”.
2006 GAME RECAP - NORTH 16 SOUTH 9
On the strength of two first half touchdowns the “North” held off a late “South” rally to win the 17th Annual Senior Bowl High School All-Star Game 16-9 in front of 1,437 fans at Clarke Stadium in Edmonton. Strathcona quarterback Corbin Sharun opened the scoring on the opening play of the second quarter with a six yard TD run that was followed up 13 minutes later with a Sharun to Bev Facey receiver Kevin Wuthrich touchdown pass to put the “North” up 14-0 at the half.
The “South” opened the second half with a single on the kickoff then made it interesting late after the “North” could only muster two singles in the second half with a late TD from Henry Wise Wood’s Josh Leung on 22 yard TD pass from his schoolmate Graham Kelba with 55 seconds left. A fumble on the next “North” possession made it interesting as the “South” moved the ball down deep into “North” territory before turning it over on downs with 8 seconds left. For their efforts the linemen of the game were Bishop O’Byrnes Josh Symons for the “South” and Lac La Biche’s Brett Waine for the “North”. The Most Valuable Players of the Game were Wuthrich for the “North” and Bowness linebacker Nickalas Blevins for the “South”
Several records fell at McMahon Stadium on Monday, May 23rd as the South ran up the largest point total of any team beating the old record by 17 points. One major reason was the play of St. Francis receiver Marco Ianuzzi who recorded 282 total yards including 169 yards rushing and three TD’s on seven carries to set a new Senior Bowl record.
2004 GAME RECAP - NORTH 29 SOUTH 21 (OT)
The first ever overtime game in Senior Bowl history saw a flurry of scoring in the 1st quarter followed by a defensive struggle in the 2nd and 3rd which was finally capped off by another barrage of scoring in the 4th. The “South” leapt out to an early 14-0 lead on the strength of a 73 yard interception return by St. Francis’ Mike Viani and a 45 yard strike from Bowness’ Jason Borodenko to Henry Wise Wood receiver Ahmad Borhot. The “North” countered with a 6 yard run by St. Albert’s Devon Jones to end the first.
The fireworks came again in the 4th quarter as a “South” TD from Foothills Mark Vandal was followed by two field goals from Fort Saskatchewan’s Tyler Mariacci and a TD from Cameron Thomas out of Eastglen (followed by a 2 pt. Convert completion to Archbishop O’Leary’s Damon Fraietta) to tie the score for the “North” and sent the game to overtime where Salisbury’s Tyler Budinski rambled 17 yards for the winning TD.
The MVP’s were Borodenko for the “South” and David Raborn out of Bev Facey for the “North” who set a new mark for receiving yards with 7 catches for 129 yards.
The 14th annual game featured two distinctly different halfs of football as the “North” completely dominated the first half only to see the “South” put together a furious rally in the second half to win their first game since 1998.
Strathcona tailback Tyler O’Gorman was the star of the show in the first half as he racked up all 26 points for the “North” which included three touchdowns, three converts, a field goal and two singles to set a new record for points scored in a Senior Bowl (almost doubling the old record of 15). Then things took a complete turnaround as the “South”, lead by Henry Wise Wood QB Mark Stinson and L.C.I.’s multi-talented linebacker/tight-end Andrew Patzer, scored four unanswered TD’s in the second half to vault them pas the “North” and win the game.
For their efforts, O’Gorman took the M.V.P. honors for the “North” while Patzer was named M.V.P. for the “South”.
With the “North” clinging to a one point lead late in the third quarter defensive back Adam Skitsko out of Archbishop Jordan reached into the sky and put the game away as he returned an interception 25 yards for the TD that put his team up 21-13 in front of a new record crowd of 1,435.
This marked the third time in four years that the “North” had been victorious and the fourth year in a row that the “South” has gone home from the game they had dominated in the 90’s empty handed.
Things looked good for the “South” early as they opened the scoring on a 27 yard FG only to see the “North” score twice on a 90 yard run by Archbishop Jordan QB Jay Meraw and a 14 yard TD reception by Bellerose slotback T.J. Warren by the end of the 1st quarter. The “South” made in interesting with a 12 yard TD reception by Bishop McNally’s Jermaine Campbell late in the half and a 17 yard FG from L.J. Wall out of Ernest Manning early in the third but Skitsko’s intereception sealed the day for the “North”.
L.C.I. offensive lineman Jeff Perrett was named the “South” M.V.P. while linebacker Brad Leier out of Whitecourt with almost twice as many tackles as anyone else took home “North” M.V.P. honors.
The first ever tie in Senior Bowl history as the “North” lead 14-4 with 4 minutes to go only to be caught by a furious “South” rally that tied it up with 1:36 seconds to go on Father Lacombe’s Michael Giacalone’s 41 yard run after a screen pass.
The “South” opened the scoring in the first half with a 24 yard FG off the foot of Winston Churchill’s Matt McDonald. He also added a single later in the half after the “North” went ahead on an amazing 92 yard TD run from Grande Prairie’s Jeff Halvorson.
The second half was quiet until Strathcona’s Cam Linke hit his teammate Mark Rogers for a 29 yard TD pass with 6 minutes to go in the game to put the “North” up 14-4. This was followed by a 35 yard FG from McDonald then Giacalone’s run to tie it up. The “North” had a final chance with 7 seconds left but Sir Winston Churchill’s Derek van den Brink blocked the FG attempt from the 22 yard line to preserve the tie.
Linebacker Jason Bobst was named the “North” M.V.P. while quarterback Charles Guedo was the M.V.P for the “South”.
A thriller as for the first time in the history of the Senior Bowl the game was decided on the last play.
The game started off with a bang as Lord Beaverbrook’s Morgan Alexander hauled in an Senior Bowl record 82 yard pass from Bowness’ Brian Hill to take the lead on the first play of the game. That was quickly followed by two TD’s from the “North’s” Willie Shulba out of Archbishop Jordan with a 5 yard run and a 63 yard punt return. Lloydminster’s Brad Ollen added a FG and the “North” lead at the half 17-8.
The second half saw the “South” pull ahead with two rushing TD’s from Foothills’ Kyle Maclean and Luke Mayer out of L.C.I. but the drive of the game came late as Jasper Place’s Matt Burrows hauled in two clutch catches on 3rd down to keep the “North’s” final drive alive. Sexsmith QB Darrell Moe finished it off with a one yard plunge for the TD on the final play to win 23-22.
For their efforts Burrow’s was named the “North” M.V.P. and Mayer was named the “South” M.V.P.
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S.W.I.M – Stop & Remember
Posted on February 6, 2017 by Indietronica Staff
S.W.I.M by Yiota Siapera
We love supporting music from all around the world, so we are excited to receive some new stuff from Athens-based music project, S.W.I.M (Someone Who Isn’t Me).
‘Stop & Remember’ is a swirling assortment of analogue sounds, off-beat rhythms and transcending vocals, courtesy of Σtella.
Their first official release on Inner Ear is a 7″ vinyl single including ‘Stop & Remember’ (A Side) and ‘Leap Of Faith’ (B Side), featuring Σtella and Coti.
The girls will also be representing Greece at this year’s SXSW.
Sounds like: Nimmo
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Sillyboy – On and On
Posted on June 21, 2015 by Indietronica Staff
Sillyboy
“Who is Sillyboy and when do I get to meet him?” will be the first words coming from your mouth when you watch the video for ‘On and On’.
We have limited information on Sillyboy, only that he lives in an old detached house in a working-class suburb of Athens next to the national railway and it is this urban landscape that feeds the aesthetic of his music.
With a mysterious and effortlessly cool video to coincide with the funky, bass-driven track, we can’t wait to find out more about the talent that is Sillyboy.
The track has been taken from his latest album, ‘Stalker’ which is currently available for streaming on Soundcloud.
Sounds like: Jack White, Ben Khan, Harts
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Σtella – Picking Words
Σtella
There maybe a financial crisis in Greece at the moment, but there certainly isn’t one with their musical offerings.
Athenian electro-pop singer Σtella (pronounced Stella) is making waves.
Her latest track, ‘Picking Words’, is simple yet effective. It has a new wave vibe and a predominant bass line throughout.
Watch the video below and fall in love with Σtella like we have.
Her album, ‘Σtella’, is out on yellow vinyl, cd and digital album from Inner Ear.
Sounds like: Kaleida, Annie Lennox, New Order, Depeche Mode, The Human League, Cash+David
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Part 2: Loadtime, or, The Land of Unicorn Tears
Part 3: Runtime, Cuz Tuning Loops Is Hardcore
Plus our custom cross-browser profiling tool:
The DOM Monster
And as a free bonus:
Part 4: Coping in the User Interface
We (Amy Hoy, tech teacher extraordinaire & Thomas Fuchs, aka Mr. Scriptaculous) are here to offer you:
3 laser-focused, action-packed guides to help you squeeze every last measly drop of performance out of your rich web app
1 totally cross-browser performance tool that covers what others don't
1 bonus guide for keeping your customers happy, even when you can't speed up your app
Scores of code samples, complete with benchmark runners so you don't have to trust us—you can run 'em yourself, in any browser
Learn & Level Up
With this little basket of digital goodies, you've got everything that you need to learn, end-to-end, to solve your performance problems:
First, with Book #1, you'll learn to think about performance... and find your problems. What's the right perspective? How do you use those tools? Is the White Screen of Death a loading problem, or a runtime problem, or what? You'll learn how to write profiles and your own custom benchmarks. You'll become fast friends with your new bud, the DOM Monster!, our custom tool that uncovers problems others won't even touch.
Next, you'll kick all kinds of slow-loading butt with Book #2. We'll talk, of course, about the time-worn, accepted fixes such as caching and minifying your JavaScript. But you'll also learn so much more, including why you should never, ever, ever pack—and the Most Ridiculous Performance Fix Ever. (It really is ridiculous!)
Lastly, in Book #3, you'll learn what to do if it's your code that's slow—not your server speed, your file size, your caches, or the other usual suspects. You'll put that benchmarking know-how to work, and you'll do everything it takes to squeeze your code into the lean, mean, machine it should be. You will learn crazy tuning techniques for crazy circumstances.
Encore. In the Bonus Guide, you'll learn the last resorts: What if you can't speed up your app any further, and it still feels slow? What then? Learn how to soothe the savage customer with fixes that make your app feel snappy—and your customer, happy—even when you can't break the laws of physics to make the actual guts run faster.
As one of our happy customers wrote us, "There's so much information in JavaScript Performance Rocks! that you would need a whole bookshelf of other books to equal it."
All this goodness—that you can't find anywhere else—for the ridiculously reasonable price of $39 USD. That's less than a dinner for two at a not-particularly-classy restaurant. That's the price of one season of Lost on DVD.
That's the price of a really damn good deal, and it won't last forever. After the first 500 copies sold, the price will go up to $49.
So don't hesitate, grab your copy today and save a cool 10 smackaroos!
Or maybe you want more details. Of course you want more details. You could buy now, but we think you should keep reading. We want you to know exactly what you're getting.
Ahhh! The DOM Monster!
First, let's talk about our custom profiling tool. The DOM Monster! eats the dreaded White Screen of Death for breakfast. It looks for performance problems that the other, less primal tools don't even consider. And then it goes “Yo, you got problems!” And then it tells you how to fix 'em, cuz it's a useful beast.
It even gives you a furry-palmed pat on the head when you done good. Awwww.
I wasn't sure I needed yet another ‘JavaScript Performance’ book, but the DOM Monster blew me away and the text has been enlightening. Chris Wanstrath Github.com co-founder
Now let's talk about those 3 parts. What are they? What will you learn? How will they help you gird your loins (and your brain) in the eternal fight against Performance Issues?
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I was a bit skeptical–I have the O'Reilly JavaScript book and the PragProg Prototype/Scriptaculous book. What more could I need? But there's so much information in JavaScript Performance Rocks! that you would need a whole bookshelf of other books to equal it. And it's from a different angle: Everything (server-side and in the browser) that you'll need to make your site fast. Urban Hafner Developer
In which our brave hero or heroine (that's you!) apprentices to the cryptic-but-charming Master (that's us) and learns how to get into the enemy's head—the better to eat it alive, my dear.
(Only we're not actually cryptic. No, we spell it out so clearly you could read it in your sleep. Our promise to you: no zen koans. Although we do make a "one hand clapping" joke.)
Don't know where to start? We got you covered, with venn diagrams, screenshots and witty jokes.
It figured out all those fiddly bits in the performance plugins? You will soon see all and know all.
Realized you've never tested your web app on anything pokier than your personal OC3? Don't worry, there's a tool for that. It's a little bit like self-administering a Long, Dark Night of the Soul, but you'll come out stronger for it (and with a faster app).
Can't sleep, wondering why you suffer from the Dreaded "eBay" White Screen of Death? That's why we invented the DOM Monster, to help you sniff out and devour exactly those types of insidious slow-downs.
Given up testing on IE, Safari, Chrome, etc., because they don't have Firebug? We've all been there... and then we found out how to deal.
Noticed that Firebug & Inspector profiles aren't exactly, shall we say, tied to reality? It's true. Which is why you'll learn allllll about how to write your own custom benchmarks (take our benchmarks—please!) for those times when accuracy actually matters.
When you can pluck Performance Issues out of the air with chopsticks, wearing a blindfold, and with both hands tied behind your back, you will know it's time to move onto the next section.
Part 1 clocks in at: 76 pages.
As someone who is up to his eyebrows in some of Prototype's more advanced source code parts, you might think I wouldn't learn a lot from this book. You would be wrong.
The amount of minutiae, the sheer quantity of useful info big and small, is astounding. Safari's useful displayName function property, simple HTTPS-savvy asset caching, the favicon trick and array recycling are but a few examples of cool nuggets found in these pages.
Plus, you gotta love a book that bashes packing and the with keyword for all the good reasons. Christophe Porteneuve Prototype Core Developer
Loadtime is a sad time, a time of of enormous, slow-loading assets; of maxed-out request queues; of bloated, waddling DOMs. Of limp white screens.
Most of the world's worst web performance woes? They live and breed in Loadtime. That's why it's the Land of Unicorn Tears, because unicorns hate slow web apps just as much as the rest of us. And they have magical horns. So there.
Know what's wrong in Loadtime, but not how to tackle it? Together we'll take a leisurely (but effective!) power walk through the entire loadtime spectrum, from the no-brainer tricks to use every time, to the more obscure stuff In Case of Emergency Only.
And because we know you're the discerning type, we've documented everything with the what's, why's and wherefor's. Before & after comparisons, browser differences, and the occasional dire warning: it's all there, to help you make the very best decision.
Feeling a little too full in the asset department? We'll teach you four techniques on how to speed up your page's download speed (ranging from effortless, tricksy, to extreme).
Do those images make your web page look fat? We can tighten that right up. Learn how to shrink, squish and combine your images til they beg for mercy—without a loss of quality.
Experiencing the Dreaded "eBay" White Screen of Death? You learned how to analyze it in Part 1, and in Part 2 you'll learn how to eliminate it with a magic ray from your unicorn horn. Or, possibly, with a little massaging of asset placement and DOM diets. Either way.
Is every time like the first time for your visitors? Let's face it—the first time's awkward. You want your visitor's second (third, fourth and fifth) load experiences to be waaaay smoother (and faster!) than that first time. Learn how to guarantee it.
Are you pre-stuffing your cache? And should you?
These are just some of the problems you'll learn to conquer in Part 2. And it's arranged in order, from everyday best practices to are-you-really-sure-you-wanna-do-this?-DANGER-DANGER. We inform you and get outta your way.
(You'll also learn about The Most Ridiculous Fix Ever. You'll never guess what it is!)
JavaScript Performance Rocks! is ideal for the intermediate, advanced or even super-expert JavaScript developer.
I bought this book based on the reputation of the authors and I was not disappointed! The book synthesizes a wide array of performance topics that are usually dealt with in silos, leavening the result with real-world expertise and experimentation.
As an example, I used the book's suggestions to refactor my app's for() loops into while() loops, which are more efficient in JavaScript. The material is extremely practical and fun to read– a great example of technical writing! Mike Subelsky OtherInbox
The vast majority of the problems that the vast majority of apps will have can be solved with loadtime fixes of various stripes.
But just in case you're unique, and special, and have particularly intractable issues—or are just a glutton for punishment—we have written a third booklet, all about speeding up code when it runs.
You will learn how to write slicker, sexier, faster JavaScript from the get-go. Micro-optimize without being premature. You will learn the kinds of ridiculous optimization tactics that Gentoo tuner boys can only dream of. And yes, we will teach you to unroll loops.
This is, by the way, the hard stuff. Most other authors won't even approach it, much less wrassle it to the ground and hogtie it for you... like we do.
Not sure where to start when your code is simply... slow? You learned how to profile and benchmark in Part 1, and in Part 3 you'll put all those tricks to work.
Think your chosen framework is the fastest? Think again. Learn why you should (or shouldn't) trust speed tests, and the last argument of kings.
Wondering if your DOM is dragging? There's no need to shake, we can tell you now: All Signs Point To Yes. Learn about how different DOM structures can stop your code in its tracks, and what to do about it. There's a right way and a slow way to find nodes, crawl trees, insert and remove HTML, and even style nodes.
Script timeout warnings getting you down? Sometimes they can't be avoided (because IE is a meanie!). But they can be coped with, and you'll learn how—for each browser.
Memory usage out of control? It's true that you can't control garbage collection in JavaScript, but you can give it a nudge in the right direction. Learn how to improve your memory consumption.
Is "Ajax" another word for "slow boat to nowhere"?
Are your loops custom tuned?
Are your operators efficient?
All these and more. And yes, we really will teach you to unroll loops—if you must. But only after a thick stack of warnings!
Part 3 clocks in at: 116 pages.
Plus a wicked bonus: If You Can't Fix it, Fake It
Come across a performance problem that you really can't fix? Long-running calculations? Slow server you can't tune up?
If you can't make it, fake it. You can make your app feel faster to your customers, even if you can't fix the underlying problem. And, let's face it, that's what your customers care about.
So, in addition to the main 3 books, and the DOM Monster!, you also get a 30-page guide on what to do to drastically improve your user experience even in the face of insurmountable performance issues. How 'bout that?
I had the pleasure of reading an early version of this book. It was fantastic already, yet it has grown and grown. Far too many technical books read dry, yet this feels like a conversation; a deep conversation with two pragmatics sharing their experiences.
And, the conversation sure is broad. We get to learn about the inner workings of browsers and then how to use current tools to track things down. Then we get new monstrous help to go with analysis on load time and runtime performance. The goodies that you get keep giving, both through the code examples, and the tips and tricks that delve even beyond the JavaScript world to general purpose advice on UI. Dion Almaer Founder, Ajaxian
You'll learn why, when, where, and how to communicate to your users regarding speed and what's going on.
You'll learn how to divvy up your calculations to keep your UI responsive, even if you've got a lot of calculating to do.
Finally, you'll learn why you should shy away from a handful of anti-patterns: they seem like good ideas, but actually make things worse.
Why are there three books?
We wrote one book, and realized it was way too honkin' big, so we split it up to make it easier to read, absorb, and use.
Information won't do you any good if you have to give yourself a pep talk in order to read it.
Not just another damned ebook.
You don't like ebooks? We can't blame you. Most ebooks suck.
So we didn't set out to make ebooks—we made books that are meant for your screen.
When you open one of our three books, you'll notice first that we've designed it for comfortable on-screen reading. It's in landscape format, designed to fit your screen. You can move from page to page with your Page Up and Page Down keys, instead of scrolling.
The text column is wide enough to hold 10-15 words, the correct length as dictated by hundreds of years of document design. The fonts are generously sized (screen reading again) and sharp.
You also have a complete table of contents at the beginning of each book (for printing), and an clickable table of contents in your PDF viewer, like so:
In other words, we've put a lot of work into these suckers. And it's all for you.
You will love the presentation of this ebook – the fonts are large enough to read easily on a monitor, and the page size has an aspect ratio that’s friendly for computer display. Many ebooks are just PDFs “printed” from a paper-based portrait layout, which makes it hard to read page by page, since Acrobat doesn’t do continuous scrolling. Thanks to the very complete table of contents, its easy to use JavaScript Performance Rocks! as a reference guide as well. Robert Hays Development Manager
Furthermore...
We respect you.
And that's why we haven't crippled JavaScript Performance Rocks! with any kind of silly DRM. You can print, copy and paste, and back it up. You don't need to tattoo a password on your inner thigh for future reference.
We refuse to create a product that is broken by design. We don't go in for faux security that does nothing but annoy.
Instead, we hope that by treating our customers with respect, and delivering excellent value, that we will help people feel absolutely good about paying for what we produce.
OK, serious time over—back to irreverence!
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Amy's the most famousest designer in the Ruby on Rails world, known for her gut-bustingly funny laugh-out-loud tutorials, great explanatory graphics, and apt metaphors. She's got over 10 years' experience in explaining technical concepts in an entertaining and understandable way.
You may know her from her site, Slash7 or her writing in .Net Magazine and ThinkVitamin.
Also, she's a native English speaker, which doesn't hurt.
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Thomas' script.aculo.us framework was created during the development of one of the most highly interactive applications the Web had ever seen. And it's gone on to be used in such web sites & applications as CNN.com, NASA.gov, Me.com and more.
Thomas is currently working on script.aculo.us 2, and consulting with large companies for their craziest, stickiest JavaScript needs.
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When the commander of the National Convention's artillery is wounded at Toulon, Napoleon Bonaparte takes over.
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Napoleon travels to Paris in an attempt to secure a prominent military post for himself. He is unsuccessful and considers working for the sultan of Turkey.
Napoleon Bonaparte, second in command of the National Convention, defeats a major royalist revolt in Paris, saving the new Republic. Napoleon becomes commander of the Army of the Interior.
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[V Report] NCT stirs up expectations with spoilers
Published : Nov 12, 2020 - 07:43
Updated : Nov 12, 2020 - 07:43
Broadcast date: Nov. 11-12
Starring: NCT, DAY6, Astro, Twice
The six bandmates of NCT went live from their studio ready to give out hints for each other’s upcoming new songs.
It started with Haechan’s suggestion to talk about what they have been practicing. Johnny said that he has been busy preparing for “Work It” and Haechan said that he saw Johnny’s unit practice the whole song for the first time before going live.
“Why don’t we drop some spoilers for each other team?” Mark proposed. Despite Haechan’s protestations that they had actually promised not to do so, the idols decided to take turns to discuss new music.
After a brief hesitation, Jeno showed a move from “Work It,” turning backward in his seat.
“You were supposed to drop a hint, not reveal (the choreography),” lamented Haechan.
Jungwoo did some shaking from “90’s Love” and Johnny said that the first part of the song brings old-school hip-hop to mind and the choreography seems quite demanding.
“It is hard,” Haechan admitted and Johnny told viewers that every single member fell on the floor after the practice.
DAY6' Sungjin braves night chill
Sungjin of Day6 took his fans on a nighttime stroll, declaring he was not feeling the cold weather at all.
“I’ve always had help with broadcasting live (before), but I’ve tried it myself this time,” he said with a proud chuckle.
Tousling the hair in front that peeked out from under his hoodie, the musician told viewers that he got a perm.
“I left the hair untouched for two months and it was extremely long,” he explained. He obliged fans’ request to take the hood off and ran his fingers through the hair. He had not dried it properly and it was a total mess, he said, before wondering out loud if he was being too candid.
“I’m walking along the road I walk almost every day,” he said, assuring fans that a little exercise is enough to make him sweat regardless of the weather. His hands and feet are very warm all the time, he added.
Astro bandmates make custom Pepero
Moonbin, Jinjin, Rocky and Sanha of Astro tried their hands at making their own Pepero -- the stick-shaped cookies dipped in chocolate -- in time for Pepero Day, which falls on Nov. 11 in Korea.
Rocky first reassured worried fans that he took off his jacket to keep it out of the way of making the cookies, and he actually does not feel cold too easily.
They then showed the ingredients they had prepared, including different flavors of chocolates. Before they started, though, they tasted the chocolate pen first, following Sanha’s lead.
They paired up -- Rocky and Sanha versus Moonbin and Jinjin -- and were busy boasting their skills making food. But the task was much harder than it seemed, and the bandmates had to fight frustrations and laughter, struggling to make something out of the ingredients.
When they were done, both team put on presentations but refused to sample what they had made because they were, as Jinjin said, “a piece of art.”
Twice pushes back boundaries in new album: Kpop Herald
(JYP Entertainment)
K-pop Herald reporters Hong Dam-young and Choi Ji-won discussed Twice’s second full-length album, “Eyes Wide Open.”
As the album title suggests, the all-female band sings about the thin line between good and evil, how it is steeling itself to face the struggles and confusion, said Choi.
The new album is full of retro vibes in line with the K-pop trend. And it is significant not only because it is a studio album coming out three years after the first, but also because the 13 new tracks reflect how much they have matured in terms of music. The nonet has tried a wider variety of genres and widened the spectrum of their music, noted Hong.
In addition, five bandmates wrote lyrics on five of the tracks. A string of international music makers participated in producing the album, and Dua Lipa co-composed “Behind the Mask.” Meanwhile, the music video of lead track “I Can’t Stop Me” topped 100 million views on YouTube on Saturday, as have all 13 of the band’s music videos.
Watch the full clip at https://www.vlive.tv/post/0-19850356.
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NFL free agency is off and running, and we're keeping track of every major signing, trade and release of the 2020 offseason, with analysis from our NFL Nation reporters and grades from Bill Barnwell. The new league year begins March 18 at 4 p.m. ET, which means free-agent signings can be made official after that. The first round of the 2020 NFL draft begins April 23.
Here's a breakdown of every 2020 NFL free-agent signing by the Philadelphia Eagles and how each will impact the upcoming season:
Jalen Mills, defensive back
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Mills has agreed to a one-year deal worth up to $5 million to return to the Eagles.
What it means: Mills is expected to transition to safety, according to ESPN's Josina Anderson. This news comes on the same day the team announced that they would not pick up Malcolm Jenkins' club option for 2020, making him a free agent. There are drastic changes being made to the secondary, and Mills is going to be one of the men assigned with filling the enormous vacancy left by Jenkins. The Eagles also remain in the market for multiple cornerbacks with Mills switching positions and fellow starting corner Ronald Darby a pending free agent.
What's the risk: Mills hasn't played safety at this level, so it remains to be seen how this experiment will go. But defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz is a big fan of Mills' hard-nosed style of play, solid tackling and unflappable confidence, all of which should come in handy in his new role. Mills' biggest weakness was recovery speed, and he'll have to worry about that less now.
Jalen Mills, who turns 26 on April 6, has been a favorite of defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz since the Eagles selected him in the seventh round of the 2016 NFL draft. Andy Lewis/Icon Sportswire
Rodney McLeod, safety
The Eagles have agreed to terms on two-year deal with McLeod, who has spent the past four seasons with Philadelphia.
What it means: The Eagles' safety picture is coming into focus. They are moving on from Malcolm Jenkins, will train cornerback Jalen Mills at safety and are bringing back McLeod, who rebounded nicely in 2019 following season-ending knee surgery the season prior. He played the majority of his snaps as the deep safety when paired with Jenkins but proved to be versatile. His role could expand further now and he'll be called on to step up his leadership and production in Jenkins' absence.
What's the risk: The two-year deal limits the risk as it applies specifically to the 29-year-old McLeod, who should be able to play at a high level through the contract. The unknown is whether he and Mills -- or whomever the other starting safety ends up being -- can sustain the high level of consistent play the Eagles enjoyed from the back end during Jenkins' six-year run.
Nate Sudfeld, quarterback
The Eagles have agreed to terms with Sudfeld on a one-year contract.
What it means: The Eagles maintain continuity in the quarterback room by bringing back Sudfeld, who is close with Carson Wentz and knows the system well. Sudfeld had a chance to capture the No. 2 role last season before suffering a broken left wrist in the preseason. Once that injury happened, they went with Josh McCown. Sudfeld, who has been with the team since 2017, had some interest elsewhere but decided to return to Philadelphia to give it another go.
What's the risk: Sudfeld has thrown 25 passes in the NFL and therefore remains a bit of an unknown. If Wentz goes down, can the Eagles be confident Sudfeld can hold down the fort? There's always a chance the Eagles bring in another veteran before the season begins. McCown is in the midst of a six-month recovery from a torn hamstring. He hasn't committed to continuing his playing career yet but could be an option.
Quarterback Nate Sudfeld has played in three games for the Eagles in two seasons, completing 20 passes for 156 yards and one touchdown. Andy Lewis/Icon Sportswire
Javon Hargrave, defensive tackle
The Eagles have agreed to a three-year, $39 million deal with Hargrave, who has played for the Steelers since 2016.
What it means: The Eagles have a crazy-talented defensive tackle trio now in Hargrave, Fletcher Cox and Malik Jackson. Hargrave, 27, fits the free-agent profile the Eagles are looking for -- someone in their prime that can be a part of the core group for the next several years.
What's the risk: The Eagles have more glaring needs than defensive tackle, and there's the question of how defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz will distribute the snaps among the DTs. Jackson can line up outside some, which should help, but it's to be seen how the puzzle pieces fit together. Ideally, they would have used these resources on an edge rusher, though quality defensive ends are harder to come by. Hargrave played nose tackle in Pittsburgh's 3-4 scheme. He'll have to adjust to Philadelphia's 4-3 scheme.
Reliable nose tackle Javon Hargrave will sign with the Eagles for three years and $39 million, Mark Alberti/Icon Sportswire
Hassan Ridgeway, defensive tackle
The Eagles re-sign Ridgeway to a one-year deal.
What it means: Ridgeway, acquired from the Indianapolis Colts in a trade last April, returns to provide depth along the interior. He was a regular part of the defensive line rotation in 2019 before suffering a season-ending ankle injury in October, finishing with four tackles for loss and four QB hits in seven games. Fletcher Cox and Malik Jackson are the headliners, but Ridgeway, 25, will be a part of the equation.
What's the risk: Ridgeway dealt with multiple injuries last season, but there is little risk involved given that it's a one-year deal. He has already shown the Eagles he's a fit for the system and the locker room.
Jatavis Brown, linebacker
Brown is signing with the Eagles on a one-year deal, per Adam Schefter.
What it means: The Eagles add some competition to a linebacker group that definitely needs some help. Brown, 26, is a former fifth-round pick of the Chargers who started 23 games in four seasons. He'll have a chance to compete for playing time on a defense that has invested lightly in the position and recently parted with Nigel Bradham and Kamu Grugier-Hill. He played 50 percent of the Chargers' special-teams snaps last year and should help in that department as well.
What's the risk: The risk doesn't lie so much in Brown, but rather the team's philosophy of not investing much in linebackers. Part of the reason is because the Eagles, like most teams in the modern NFL, are in sub-packages most of the time, meaning there are typically only two linebackers on the field. Still, Philly will need to find production from a group that currently includes Brown, Nate Gerry, Duke Riley, T.J. Edwards and Alex Singleton.
Will Parks, safety
Parks, a former Bronco, reached agreement on a one-year deal, a source told Adam Schefter.
What it means: The Eagles add a versatile piece to a defensive secondary in the midst of a big transition. Parks, 25, has played both corner and safety in the NFL, offering defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz the type of hybrid player he gravitates toward. He started seven games at safety last season for Denver and finished with an interception and 35 tackles.
What's the risk: With Rodney McLeod back in the fold and the Eagles cross-training Jalen Mills at safety, it's not quite clear how Parks fits into the picture. But it at least gives Schwartz some options as he figures this new-look secondary out. And it should allow him to utilize the three-safety sub-package that he seems to like more.
Nickell Robey-Coleman, cornerback
Robey-Coleman, a former Ram, reached agreement on a one-year deal, a source told Josina Anderson.
What it means: The overhaul in the secondary continues. Robey-Coleman, who is best known for his no-call pass interference in the 2019 NFC Championship Game while with the Rams, is a starting-caliber DB who will compete for the nickel corner spot. He had seven passes defensed, two forced fumbles and three tackles for loss this past season. Robey-Coleman, 28, is the third new piece added to the defensive backfield this season along with cornerback Darius Slay and DB Will Parks.
What's the risk: The Eagles already have some decent slot corner options in Cre'Von LeBlanc and Avonte Maddox. What they really need is an outside corner to solidify the post opposite Slay. Maddox, Sidney Jones and Rasul Douglas are among the current options. Robey-Coleman has one interception over the past two years combined.
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Beautiful Harmony
June 24, 2019 11:56 | Church Planting, Reaching MuKo, Reiwa | Permalink
Have you heard about Japan's BIG CHANGE? It's a new era! Emperor Akihito has abdicated. His son, Naruhito, succeeded him to the Chrysanthemum Throne on May 1st. Along with this imperial change, the Japanese calendar is reset to Year 1, Day 1. Heisei Era gives way to the
new "Reiwa" Era. "Reiwa" means "beautiful harmony." The Japanese have decided that beauty and harmony should define this new era.
Meanwhile, we Lavermans are moving into a new era of church planting, an era with a growing new team of young workers, and new facilities to work out of in Mizonokuchi and soon Musashi Kosugi (MuKo). Praise God! Yet the truth is that the process of discussing, organizing and moving through these changes is a bit more like random chaos at times than beautiful harmony. We hope in the promises of God who makes "all things beautiful in its time." Here are a few recent highlights...
Welcome Robison Family!
We're so glad to have this new family join our Cross Project team this April. Jon and Maki, and their four kids (upper right), have moved into the upper residence at Mizonokuchi Grace House (see below). They come with a decade of missions experience in Japan, language skills and servant hearts. They will be of great help in our church planting work together here in Kawasaki/ Yokohama. They join ourselves, the Mitchells and Changs (lower right).
I believe we can reach more Japanese for Christ and plant new churches better together. So we're forming a team of missionaries and Japanese focused on new church work in southwest Greater Tokyo.
We are learning much about each other as a new team. But we've already discovered one very important thing: we are all very good at devouring pizza together! Pray for The Cross Project team.
Mizonokuchi Grace House Opens
Construction began in February, and was finished just 6 weeks later. It was made in modules at the factory, and assembled onsite in a single day on a plot of land here Denen Grace Chapel purchased last fall. There's still a lot of DIY projects on the inside, but bit by bit we are getting set up.
The dedication service was held (lower right). And the sign is now on the wall. Denen Grace Chapel now has a building to use for daily outreach, groups, meetings, and office space. This has been a long journey of much discussion, more prayer, and a lot of generous giving as a church. We're calling this building "Mizonokuchi Grace House." It will be of incredible help to our work of ongoing church planting in Mizonokuchi. It gives us space to do things we've dreamed of for this neighborhood for a long time. All glory to God!
What about that other place we rent on Sundays (burgundy photos below)? That's called Cozy Hall. We've used it for the last 15 years. It's perfect for larger groups and music events. We'll continue to rent Cozy Hall in Mizonokuchi for Sunday morning worship. While Grace House will be great for any group under 25 persons. Grace House and Cozy Hall are just a few minutes apart.
Get ready, people of Mizonokuchi, the gospel train's a'comin! It's making stops in Azamino and MuKo, too. No ticket needed, just get on board.
MuKo Chapel Construction Set to Begin
Meanwhile, the planning for our next church plant in MuKo reaches a big step. Our conviction that the 120,000+ of Musashi Kosugi (MuKo) need a church grew into a burden and vision, and moved us to action. You've been following along with us through the provision and purchase of property, and the raising of building funds for the chapel + living space above for us.
We reached our goal for needed Phase 1 construction costs in early April through the generous support of many of you in the States who share this vision. THANK YOU! Phase 2, for equipment and furnishing costs, will begin this summer.
Our final meeting with the architect is this Friday. Construction will then begin later this month. We'll be sending out an update soon with the design and blueprints so you can get an idea of what's ahead. We're excited to finally schedule this next major step in our mission to Muko. Stay tuned!
Kevin's Parents Come. Japan Blessed.
Kevin's parents have always been prayer warriors for missions. They prayed for laborers for the harvest fields of Asia. And God answered by calling and sending their own son to Japan. This was bad enough. But taking the daughter-in-law, and little grandson with in 1999 (when our family moved to Japan) was even worse. Now, 20 years later, in the fullness of time, God allowed them to come and see some of the people and places that have been impacted for eternity by this family sacrifice.
Kevin's parents spent two weeks with us in late May~June. They saw the culture and challenges, and the many, MANY people. They gazed over the vision from the 54th floor in MuKo (lower right, with Justen). They fixed our fence (upper right) and church screen box (dad), and enjoyed tea and chats with the church ladies (mom + Kaori, the interpreter).
The local hotel has improved their English immensely. And the local hardware store has gotten some international business. They added to the trade imbalance when they left with suitcases full of presents received, but Japan (and we) rejoiced by their visit here.
Gospel Music Bridges Cultures
Of all the things we have done over the years, the one outreach that continues to amaze us is gospel music. Japanese non-Christians are drawn to it. And it has continued to grow in popularity even after many years. Gospel music really is a "beautiful harmony" to the melody of the gospel message, and one that bridges cultures and languages effortlessly.
Last Sunday, Denen Grace Chapel hosted John Lucas, a gospel singer from Jamaica, who has lived here in Japan a number of years. John gave a mini concert during our worship service and held a special gospel workshop in the afternoon. Around 30 from the area attended, most were not Christians. Our concrete rental hall walls echoed with praise.
Japanese are very eclectic, picking out the best of other western cultures and integrating it into their own expression of being Japanese. Because western culture is rich with Christian heritage, these things become bridges for the gospel. God speaks in unique ways to the Japanese heart!
Construction details and dedications. Gospel music. Family and team building. Through all our activity -- yes, even the parts that seem like random chaos, or real differences -- God is doing a harmonious work. He's forming a new people, a new community in Japan that belong to him, that have placed their faith in his Son, Jesus, and that are working together as one family to serve him. Missionaries and nationals. Japanese, American, Taiwanese, even Jamaican, are coming together, moving each other toward the gospel, deeper in Christ, and worshipping as one...
NOW THIS is "beautiful harmony." The harmony that is a foretaste of heaven to come.
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Dog Day Aftermath
Last week I was accused, not without some justification, that an unnerving air of positivity had crept in to this page. How, an unnamed punter asked, can you possibly start acting like you're enjoying football when you're writing for a blog named after a song by the world renowned miserablist Morrissey?
Good point, there was a worrying tone of joy seeping through. I was sucked in like a moron again based on nothing more than pounding the Freo thirds and some crackpot slop merchants who haven't gone near being good since I was born. Who didn't see tonight's fiasco coming? Other than me. I have a feeling that tipping us to win by 62 points may come back to haunt me in the event of an end of year tiebreaker being required in our office competition...
Funny how in the space of two and a half hours you can suffer such a wild mood swing. Not about anything important mind you but that's the lot of the sports fan. This week, against nearly 30 years of hard evidence that proves I'm no good at it I decided to try positivity. Not just after a game, not just while thumping fat fingers across a keyboard in my sordid grief hole at 3am but for the entire week.
"Are you going to win?" asked the office tipsters who know nothing but seem to win every year. Any other week I'd say either "No, we are garbage" or at least talk it down to the point where there were a million excuses why we'd get done by Gold Coast. They were assured that yes, this time we were a certainty and I harboured no (outward) doubts. It felt good too. Fast forward to 4pm yesterday, sitting there at my desk making a mockery of the concept of 'casual Friday' by wearing a footy jumper when a senior, very senior manager wandered past and started mocking me about the presumed massive defeat we were going to suffer. "Cementhead is back in the midfield!" he said in a statement that you'll never hear anybody make about Patrick Dangerfield. "Come and see me on Monday and I'll tell you all the reasons why you were wrong" I gamely ventured, starting to worry for the first time whether I'd set myself up for utter Maric style depression by being sucked in even after claiming that I never would again after the Collingwood shambles.
During my brief sunshine + rainbows phase which lasted from last Saturday night until about 7.42pm Friday I chose to ignore all the signs that we were likely to lose. It was a crucial game, at Docklands, against a Victorian side who were not Richmond or Essendon, we had just come off a good win in front of a big crowd and we were wearing that horrible white away strip which is only marginally better than our long binned silver monstrosity.
To somebody thinking rationally, or at least like a depression syndrome affected Melbourne fan, they were all fairly good signs that we were going to turn in a performance of rare garbage. But no, instead I chose to channel the spirit of one of history's greatest motivators to convince myself that all of these factors weren't necessarily a bad thing, they were a good thing. Despite the results and the fact that we stunk the joint up for long periods against North and St Kilda, considering the players on offer we were a million miles in front of that last night, and surely it was time to step up at least and beat one of the other seven Victorian teams who we haven't toppled since Carlton put in less effort than you'd have otherwise expected (otherwise known as [CENSORED BY LEGAL DEPARTMENT] in the last round of 2007. I've moved four house times since then, can you see why this is so hard for me to get my head around?
So yes, I expect that at 9am Monday morning I'll have somebody who I can't tell to piss off and throw a stapler at without being unemployed by the end of the day wandering past my desk for an in-depth discussion of "Cementhead" and friends cornholing us. Maybe he'll even tell me who Cementhead is before I walk off in a huff and kick the photocopier.
Shoulders must have slumped collectively in the Channel 7 box about fifteen seconds after the first bounce when it became apparent to everybody that the match was going to be anything but a Friday night classic and would probably end up with everybody turning over to episodes of Air Crash Investigation by the end of the first quarter. When they put together the fixture at the start of the year they must have had high hopes for this as a battle between Prelim Final specialists and rising stars. They got their wish but I don't think they expected it to be Prelim Final specialists coming off a horrible start to the year against a side that go from rising stars one week to a VFA Division 2 side the next.
Unfortunately for ponytailed executives everywhere they got us on an off week, and win or lose the quality of the game based on the first quarter alone probably stuffed our chances of getting more than one token Friday game next season. They have paid a billion dollars for the rights to show it after all, they're not going to take a risk on potential sliders vs bipolar freaks in front of 12,500 people because everyone else (and I'm looking at our fans here) refuses to go to Etihad and will sit at home watching the live telecast instead.
The excitement of draw might have scored us another game next season but with our record in Friday night games ending with one stirring victory over a pox side who had the bottom falling out already and two thrashings where we were outplayed handily should see us permanently marooned in the North/Port 4.40pm Sunday shift next year - and don't you just love ending your weekend on that sort of a performance? At least if we cock it up on Friday you've got some chance of rescuing it before having to front up again on Monday.
What became blindingly obvious right from the start was that the Dogs had sat down and looked at everything which we did predictably and decide to force us to try something else. That's when I really start to get nervous, when we're expected to reach for page two of the playbook, it never ends well. Mainly because usually they get to the book, open it up and find out that all the other pages have been torn up.
They weren't going to be fooled by us starting Jamar forward and the Experience in the middle. They knew exactly who we were going to tap it to each and every time, so on the rare occasions that one of them did beat Hudson or Liam Jones (supplementary question - who is Liam Jones?) to the tap and it went anywhere near Moloney he had three people leap on top of him and any danger of a quick centre break was lost. Trengove and McKenzie were good but they couldn't get anything happening at the centre bounces while Scully was being tagged to buggery and handling it about as well as you'd expect a 20-year-old kid to. Don't forget that it was the Bulldogs who he got 39 touches, a Rising Star nomination and 3 Brownlow Votes against last year - they weren't going to fall for that again.
To be entirely fair the Dogs outplayed us in nearly every category, though the stats would lie and show it as being more even that it actually was, but they were hardly playing the sort of game that would get them anywhere against a decent side. In the first few minutes as they missed targets and generally slopped it up coming out of their backline I thought "surely we can't lose to this lot?" After all they'd only beaten Adelaide and Gold Coast, and even we'd flogged them during randomly occurring weeks of glory. Apparently we can - and how. They've got a decent run in so good luck to them if they build on last night and make the finals, they're the Victorian side with a tragic history of failure that you can afford to get behind because they're not St Kilda. Otherwise come September I'll be the biggest Eagles/Swans/Dockers fan alive.
Worst thing was that even though we weren't winning it out of the centre with any ease, or at all most of the time, we legitimately outplayed them for the first few minutes. The Jurrahcane and Jamar both missed goals they would have kicked with their eyes closed last year, but despite Barry Hall running around making Frawley look stupid despite being 30 years his senior when Watts booted that snap I started to think that everything was going to be alright.
When you follow Melbourne there is rarely, if ever, a time in the first quarter when you should start to think that everything is going to be alright. Make sure your children understand this so they can grow up good red and blue citizens, vigilant for impending disaster at all times. From the moment Jack made us all swoon with his booming goal we walked straight into a trap and played on their terms. Hall missed after a rubbish free then two minutes later after we'd been unable to move it across halfway he got another chance when he made Frawley and Strauss look stupid by marking right in the middle of them. Chip killed him after quarter time but the damage was well and truly done by then, despite the bright (or at least brightish, considering we were getting humped in the centre) start we went into quarter time two goals behind.
At least one of them was pure quality/sheer arse highlight reel stuff so I won't lie and say I didn't enjoy Cooney's wild swipe of the boot that sent the ball flying through from 30m out. He should have had it on the lead anyway after one our traditional turnover/leave everyone inside 50 ten metres on their own set-plays but the kick towards him was rubbish and boom in it went. For once it would probably have been better if he had marked it.
What I enjoyed far less was Ed Barlow having a shot to put them put them even further in front right at the end of the quarter. Notwithstanding the fact that Barlow has somehow managed to become a starting player in my rapidly failing Supercoach team, if we're going to start copping goals from him you'd might as well shut up shop. Luckily he reverted to type after taking the piss out of the Suns last week and botched it but the signs were already there that we weren't going to get anywhere near the same Melbourne who had been so good after the seven minute mark against the Tigers. This week it was our turn to put the feet up from that point and make a couple of token comeback attempts throughout the afternoon.
Wasn't entirely sure how we managed to end the first quarter two goals down, but at least it was only two goals. Anybody can kick two goals in a minute, and that's precisely what the Dogs did to really make it interesting. First was Garland giving away the 50 which you can probably argue was there but the second was pure filth. Everyone knows that the league hates Jack Trengove because he's the top draft pick who signed on and didn't flirt with taking millions to prop up a shit team in West Sydney that nobody cares about. He's already copped three weeks and two fines this year but the shepherd free against him when Higgins just ran straight into him as he was under the ball was a new low in their vendetta against him (though there might be another phase to come in that feud, more on that later).
It was a vile decision but I'm not going to come on here and bleed too much about it because it was in the same class as Watts doing exactly the same thing at the end of the first quarter last week. Richmond fans would have been sitting on their milk crates, screaming at their black and white televisions about justice being served. Only difference was that Watts strode manfully towards the ball and took it in his stride when he ran straight into his opponent and won the free, whereas Higgins threw his arms up like a hysterical 15-year-old at a Justin Bieber concert and got the free for acting like a little girl. You win some, you lose some. We lost more than a handful tonight but that doesn't excuse the garbage that was served up around the ground.
Saddest storyline of the night was the absolute shocker that Dan Nicholson turned in. Instead of commentators trotting out hackneyed cliche about players joining an "elite club" by kicking a goal with their first kick in league football, how about they start a new list of players who fallen victim to the modern curse of being featured in the papers and then turning out trash? Even worse when it's a kid. It happened to Rivers on Queen's Birthday, though I'm still not blaming him for the 3rd, 4th and 5th Cloke goals, and last night after being profiled in The Age during the day Daniel played like Alistair and almost everything he did had a brown tinge to it.
He certainly wasn't alone, the only difference was that he'd been in the papers and Sylvia, Strauss, Jurrah, Garland, Morton and Bennell hadn't been. Out of that list Sylvia, Jurrah and Garland are easily best 22 and the last two are at least experienced even if they're in shithouse form. It wasn't all their fault though, they were just the ones who either weren't getting their hands on it or were stuffing it up, what about all the handballs in the backline? Absolutely suicidal.
Nearly everybody who went inside the defensive 50 was guilty of it at some point and the Dogs were loving it. It's not like we weren't eventually getting it out of the backline and forward either, but all of a sudden the gigantic hoof inside 50 became our only attacking option and even though it was clearly not working they just kept doing it again and again. Last week there was at least a few decent leads inside 50, today the only marks we took were either contested screamers or somebody being in the right place at the right time when a panicked hoof dropped into their arms. Might have been an opportunity to recognise that Morton has no confidence left in trying to stop goals and to throw him up the ground instead but that's never going to happen so I'd might as well stop calling for it.
For all the failed hoof we did give ourselves a chance at getting back into it with a couple of goals but that was about as good as it got. It Petterd had kicked his goal instead of delivering his second blooper shot on goal at Etihad this year (was it St Kilda or North where he missed the lot from 20m out?) we'd have been back within three goals with another two and a half quarters to sort ourselves out and at least make the Dogs nervous. We even managed to be on the receiving end of one of the great comedy capers moments in history when the spudlike creature Jarrad Grant managed to stuff up the easiest goal in the history of football. Should have taken advantage and dragged ourselves back into it but instead a minute later they came straight out of their backline, down the field in about three kicks and got the goal that the vaudeville shenanigans had denied them.
Then Morton horrifically botched a handball under the pump and it was goodbye to the comeback. Fair enough if he doesn't like being put under pressure but if that's the case AFL Footballer might not be his most suited career. Get a job working as a car park attendant if you're worried about having people put the heat on you. There's probably a thousand people around the country who would at least give you value for their spot on the list with effort alone even if they weren't as allegedly "naturally skilled" as Cale. If you were drafting a team from scratch today is there anybody who'd have him over Jordie McKenzie? I don't want to rush to judge anybody lest they suddenly do a Jamar/Sylvia and come good years later but right now I'd pass up the Sad Panda for any moderately skilled battler of the McKenzie mould.
Again despite the deficit at half time we weren't dead if we could turn it around, but did anybody have any faith that we would? When Gia got the first goal after taking the piss out of Garland, then Nicholson gave the media curse double thumbs up by handing them another to start the term it was all but over. Cue the Disaster Management Plan being swung into immediate action.
When things start to go wrong for us 21 highly paid professionals are suddenly mentally transported to the deck of an overloaded Phillipino ferry which has just hit rocks and started to take on water. Suddenly everybody's running around panicking, pointing randomly and making that they know what everybody else is supposed to be doing while simultaneously trying to throw everybody else out of the way to save themselves. Once the panic has set it then suddenly players start shitting themselves the moment they get the ball before handballing to the guy standing stationary a foot away. At the subsequent bounce everyone will stand around pointing for somebody else to fill a gap which nobody does and they kick a goal from it. Back to the centre and repeat.
Good to that in the middle of all the chaos Trengove followed through with his threat not to change his playing style by doing pretty much exactly the same tackle as he did against Adelaide. Only this time the umpire took a stand for all that is good and decent in the world by not only failing to condemn him for it but also paid a free for holding the ball. It helps that Higgins/Ward/Zeno Tzatzaris/whoever it was doesn't have a head made out of fine china like Dangerfield but if the umpires are going to reward him for it then how in the name of dutch buggery can they turn around and book him for it? Rivers did one too. Again, the recipient isn't going to wobble around like a clown then turn up and kick six next week so no damage done. Either way if they find some reasoning to continue the vendetta against JT then the umpire who paid the free should cop double the suspension for paying it.
Petterd took the near Mark of the Year, and thank god he finished it, but so what? I was there the day Juice took the MOTY against North and we got thrashed then too. Thumping it into the forward line on top of everybody's head had to work at least once. It was telling that it took an epic screamer for somebody to finally pull one in. Sylvia returned from the dead to take a contested mark and goal as well to get us two in a row and launch another half hearted comeback but it didn't last for long, a minute and a half later we gifted them another goal and went into the last nearly six goals down.
Incidentally doesn't it make you want to kick something into shards when a player gathers the ball 20m out and tries to roll it through along the turf despite there being five players in the way? Just once I'd like to see somebody try to just thump the thing over their head a'la Robbo in Perth ten years ago instead of trying to thread the eye of a needle, somehow managing to avoid an oval shaped ball hitting anybody on the way through. It's like sending a soldier onto a WW1 battlefield and having him fire his gun straight into the ground in the hope that it will skim along the mud and skip up to smash a German between the eyes.
If it had been us 33 points in front at the last change I'd have been citing the Chris Sullivan Line and the various times that we'd stuffed up a lead like that to either lose or let the opposition get closer than you're comfortable with. But there is no line with us. We've come back from five goals down at three quarter time to win three times since 1897 (1, 2 and 3) and there's no name you can give to an unexpected occurrence like that.
Watts did his bit for history by kicking the first goal and leaving the door at least slightly ajar but they went down the other end, Rivers gave away a 50 that took them to the line and we were finished. The unfortunate thing, and the killer that really made this difficult to swallow, was that from there they just wiped the floor with us.
Even Jarrad Grant, the dictionary definition of uncoordinated, started taking screamers in the middle of the massacre. It was no Petterd but it was impressive just because it ended in his arms and legs as far apart as they could possibly be without one flying off and landing in the stands. As if the game wasn't already long gone it sent another wave of red and blue clad fans towards the exits. I was particularly impressed by one gent who stopped at the bottom of the stairwell, turned out around to face the big screen and launched a last, desperate act of defiance by thrusting a middle finger towards the replay before walking out.
How about losing one with heads held high at some point (but not against Port)? The only team with a worse average losing margin than us is GC and they've got an excuse. That's what makes this painful. Like an even more extreme version of the Collingwood game you could cop losing but to roll over and get pounded like that is just rude.
There wasn't even a hint of Junktime Jurrah when it was all too late. He might still be our leading goalkicker but there's no way he's been playing anywhere near 100% for the last few weeks. Would have thought that if he wasn't right, which anybody could see, the week before the bye going into a game on (near enough to) home soil where he will want to do well would have been the right time to give him a rest. With respect to a much improved effort in the last fortnight he was hardly pivotal last week so we could have used a Dunn, Bate or Emo Maric as cannon fodder for a week while he healed up. Instead he hobbles off with confidence shot and would probably miss if we played next week.
The torture came to an end with Callan Ward taking the piss out of Scully, which was a bit rude considering that they'll be shacked up together in a harbourside mansion in six months time. I think as Ward sold the dummy and ran around him to kick the goal they might have winked at each other and done a secret gesture that only two kids prematurely made millionaires by greed can give. Surely one of them whispered the phrase last uttered at a St Kilda team bonding session, "next year it's you, me and a bunch of 17-year-olds". Fair to say whatever Ward put on top of his contract it's coming off Scully's after Tom being tagged to buggery tonight. Either way they're both going to walk into rooms for the rest of their lives with this playing but if Tom's going to chuck us to become a pin-up idol to the good, law abiding folk of Macquarie Fields then good luck with having a taste of that every week for the next three years with nowt but a bunch of starving orphans as back up. At least with us he can be guaranteed that once a month his teammates might stand up enough to let him get off the leash. Where does logic come into this though? Money talks...
Speaking of contracts, if you were in charge of putting together our list for next year would you pick up the phone today and call Cale Morton's manager, laugh heartily at him for putting contract talks off when he's playing like shite and make a final offer of one year on $20 an hour and a tray full of Quarter Pounders?
As a reward for staying until the end we not only got to see a classic MFC rollover death but we were also treated to a second round of their Freo-lite, track one of the HMAS Pinafore soundtrack, nautical theme song.
Welcome back misery and dark depression, everything feels more comfortable with you enveloping me. I'm going to spend the next two weeks listening to My Chemical Romance albums and having at myself with a ballpoint pen.
The top three are well deserved despite the disaster. Watts was good early and tried hard all night. Howe slides in just in front of Frawley based on Chip making Barry Hall look 15 years younger in the first quarter.
5 - Jordie McKenzie
3 - Ricky Petterd
Apologies to Frawley and the rest can get stuffed.
23 - Colin Sylvia, Brent Moloney
19 - Jack Watts
16 - Mark Jamar (LEADER: Jim Stynes Medal for Ruckman of the Year), Jordie McKenzie
14 - Stefan Martin
11 - James Frawley (LEADER: Marcus Seecamp Medal for Defender of the Year)
10 - Jordan Gysberts, Jared Rivers
9 - Jack Trengove,Joel Macdonald
6 - Ricky Petterd, Luke Tapscott (LEADER: Jeff Hilton Medal for Rookie of the Year)
5 - Rohan Bail
4 - Michael Evans, Brad Green, Tom Scully
3 - Jack Grimes, Liam Jurrah, Nathan Jones
2 - Clint Bartram, Neville Jetta
The regular 42 second minute's silence was generally well observed, but is there any danger we might add the lost 18 seconds one of these days? If you can get people through the half a minute without yelling somebody stupid and getting punched by the person sitting next to them then the next 30 seconds should be a doddle. Wouldn't want to take away from the time that they can spend trying to take our money through Betfair though would we?
One quality Western Suburbs education required for the kid who was interviewed by that filthy fan for hire James Sherry. "How long have you been supporting the Dogs?" asked the ex-children's game show host. "10 years" replies the child who presumably has a god awful name like Jaiyden. "How old are you?" asks the filth and the kid replies "five". Aww, how cute, let's all have one etc.. FFFH then attempted the frankly ludicrous move of asking the crowd to sing Happy Birthday for the kid, but despite the woman in front of me taking a second away from eating a sandwich that smelt like a corpse pulled out of a river to briefly join in before she realised what she was doing the sound of silence echoed across the ground for a second time that night. In the end even the FFFH gave up and after a prolonged camera shot of Kyieran looking silently bamboozled they cut away to something even more family friendly, the live betting odds.
It doesn't promise to get much better for young Alyix. Next time ask him how many flags Footscray have won, that should be easy enough for kids of any age to get right. Teeing off on a five year old is a new low but that's the sort of rancid mood that this sporting abortion has put me in.
Now - Etihad Stadium, the Corporate Dome, hell on earth call it what you will but last night their food outlets managed to push my hatred of the joint to levels that I couldn't possibly achieve if we played in another 20 straight losses there. Not only were they selling a thinly veiled Dagwood Dog under the utterly ridiculous name of the "Pluto Pup", but when I foolishly decided to buy one of their rancid, floppy hot dogs in a bun that wasn't even intact all the way around they tried to make me pay $0.20 for a tiny sachet of chemical mustard probably manufactured in the former Yugoslavia.
Not content with making you pay $6 for something that costs them less than a dollar, is served by somebody on minimum wage and will repeat on you for days on end they want $0.20 for condiments? Get to shite. The only problem was that walking off in a huff at this randomly introduced policy which didn't exist any of the other four times I've been to that hole this season (including 2 x non MFC games. WHY DO I DO THIS TO MYSELF?) I forgot to take my drink with me and when they called me back collect it I had to do a five metre walk of shame back where I'd just had a tantrum. If I was them I'd just have stashed it under the counter and denied all.
Speaking of performances I sadly arrived too late to see the real life bulldog being paraded around the ground and the rumoured appearance of the Hyde St Primary School Band playing a brass heavy version of the theme from Rocky never materialised. When they started asking trivia questions where the options were Kelvin Templeton, Simon Beasley or Danny Del Re I didn't think it was that much of a stretch to just do the right thing and change their name back to Footscray.
Just when you thought the market was shut this performance has put my favourite coach back in the frame for a job in 2012.
If I see Bailey drag Morton aside, put his bald head against Cale's stick figure torso and say the words "Breathe... from your core" at some point before this year is out I'll campaign for both of them to be re-signed on the spot. Problem is for that to happen Morton has to be back in the side again. Brad Gotch could do it on Casey Fields with a hundred curious onlookers but it wouldn't have the same effect.
Also there's one guy in that ad who must surely only have gotten the call up because he looks like Simon Black.
Terror in the Top End (aka the week after next week)
Anyone want to confidently say there's no possible way we can lose to Port? Knowing this lot they'll probably show up and win by 150 and I'll get roped right back into like a total cockhead. Either way if he managed to take his head out of the oven long enough to see the way we played tonight Matthew Primus would think "bloody hell, we're a chance here".
They're such utter garbage that surely even we can't play them into form but the Northern Territory is like the twilight zone, anything could happen.
Pending any particularly storming games from nowhere at Casey the changes for mine are;
IN - Tapscott, Macdonald, Maric
OUT - Morton, Bennell (omit), Jurrah (half inj/half omit, the final victim of the curse of the Drake ad)
Apparently there's some injury concerns over the Experience, so if he's not right then Maximum comes straight back in. Almost time too for Bate to have one last crack at putting together a Brad Miller-esque end of season run which sees him given another chance against all odds. I don't think Dunn is necessarily finished yet but what's he going to add? At least if we're going to go with the idea of thumping it long to the square all the time then Maric will provide a hint o' crumb. If anybody else puts their hand up in the two's (and as I write this Casey are going tits up against Werribee) I could also go without Strauss.
What price one hard fought, fighting performance even in defeat against Hawthorn, Geelong or Carlton? We've been given the biggest fixturing free kick of the year by having the R24 game moved from Football Park to effectively neutral turf at the Adelaide Oval but I will be go off my nut if it turns out not to mean anything by the time we get there.
We deserve a government grant for continually playing shit teams back into form.
Jonnno 2 July 2011 at 22:27
It was worth going along just to see Pettard's leap right in front of us. Beautiful.
The rest of it was shite - mostly the result of our failure to compete in the middle. No service to the forward line and an easy road through for them to place massive pressure on our defence. Once they shut Beamer down we were left with nobody capable of bringing it out.
Given up on the Kaiser Kransky? Higgs
Lyall St Kilda 4 July 2011 at 13:39
Friday night. Bailey you are doomed to rot in hell. That was absolute crap! You were warned that they would do their homework. They did. What did you do? Your winning formula, it'll win again? No. Wrong. Not god enough! I watched the West Coast Eagles defeat Carlton. Not only did they destroy Carlton's forward movement but they also used not one but two strategies to go forward. What is it that that you don't understand about this coaching business? If it's not working then do we all go home? (Scoreboard). Is there nothing else in the arsenal? Is your coaching so mono-dimensional that once the opposition figures it out, that's it? Only your incompetence explains why the results are either black or white. If it works then it works, if it doesn't it doesn't. There is no grey area. We were handball crazy. Who is responsible for this? Who trains them to do this? Who runs the drills to make sure that it is automatic? Of course we cough it up too easily when we've no options. Who is responsible for the options? Who trains them to know their options? Who runs the drills to make sure that it is automatic that the options are available?
Saturday night. Bailey, just go. How did we beat Essendon? Were we just lucky? Explain to me how Essendon beats Geelong. They had the inside running on Geelong's forward movement of the ball. (Thanks Bomber.) They stopped it. But here's the clincher Dean, they worked out a new forward movement of their own that left Geelong flat footed and wondering. The score was on the board before the counter attack but it was too late. Just.
Sunday evening. Bailey a minor reprieve. The strategy that Collingwood used to beat Melbourne was repeated on Hawthorn. It shows the respect that some people have for our line up. And how to stop it. But you don't understand any of this.
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FUNNY POPPY TUNE, NICE HARMONIES
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Nice Song. Super Vocals, Guitar are exzellent,...nice Melody. All in one a Nice Song super Work. Cool is the Change in the Melody and Vocalwork.
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Liked the first one, so thought I'd catch the second. This one to me is better than the first. You got a great sound. The execution of this number is excellent. I'll look forward to further publications, enjoyed my visit to your page.
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Wow...awesome tune here...Enjoyed the vocals in this song and music production is well done! -Gary-
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"Help Somebody (Myself)" is a fun rock tune. The song is carried by a singing rock guitar and a steady pulsing rock beat. Fantastic vocals and harmonies carry the song the rest of the way through. There are some really great changes from verse to chorus and also to the fast and driving bridge. This is a cool song. Great work here.
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Multi-model and multi-sensor estimation of evapotranspiration over the Volta Basin, West Africa
Andam-Akorful, S.A., Ferreira, V.G., Awange, J., Forootan, Ehsan and He, X.F. 2015. Multi-model and multi-sensor estimation of evapotranspiration over the Volta Basin, West Africa. International Journal of Climatology 35 (10) , pp. 3132-3145. 10.1002/joc.4198
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The estimation of large-scale evapotranspiration (ET) is complex, and typically relies on the outputs of land surface models (LSMs) or remote sensing observations. However, over some regions of Africa, inconsistencies exist between different estimations of ET fluxes, which should be investigated. In this study, we evaluate and combine different ET estimates from moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS), Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) and terrestrial water budget (TWB) approaches over the Volta Basin, West Africa. ET estimates from water balance equation are obtained as residuals from monthly terrestrial water-storage (TWS) changes derived from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM)'s rainfall data, and in situ discharge from Akosombo Dam (Ghana). An averaged estimation of ET time series is derived from all the ET estimations under study, while taking into account their uncertainties. The resulting ensemble-averaged ET was then used to assess each of the individual ET estimates. Overall, out of the seven investigated ET estimates (two from the water balance approach of which one considers water storage using GRACE-derived TWS and the other ignoring it, four from GLDAS and one from MODIS), only MODIS (28.12 mm month–1), GLDAS–NOAH (32.74 mm month–1) and TWB (32.84 mm month–1) were found to represent the range of variability close to the computed averaged reference ET (30.25 mm month–1). ET estimations inferred from MODIS were also found to represent relatively lower magnitude of uncertainties, that is, 3.99 mm month–1 over the Volta Basin (cf. 7.06 and 18.85 mm month–1 for GLDAS-NOAH and TWB-based ET estimations, respectively).
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Mauricio Pochettino: Tottenham is bigger than Manchester City
Pep Guardiola arrived at Manchester City last summer as the world's top manager, having won 21 trophies at Barcelona and Bayern Munich, but has endured a bumpy ride in his first six months.
City's 4-0 loss at Everton last weekend was Guardiola's heaviest league defeat in management and left them 10 points off leaders Chelsea and outside the top four.
But Tottenham boss Pochettino has warned City will bounce back from their recent slump.
"It means nothing for City to lose to Everton," Pochettino said. "It does not change my admiration or my thoughts about him. Sometimes you can win, you can lose. That is the game.
"He needs time. He's in a position that is still that they can win titles. And he only has to wait.
Pep Guardiola's Man City has suffered a slump in form and are outside the top four
"He doesn't need to show his quality, his real quality as a coach and how he manages the team. He's shown enough at Barcelona and Bayern Munich.
"Sometimes it's about managing expectations. You cannot win titles after a few months. You need to wait until the end. And I'm sure Guardiola will fight with Manchester City at the end for big things."
Pochettino beat Guardiola's Barcelona during the Argentine's debut campaign at Espanyol in 2009. But he is yet to win a trophy after eight years in management, while Guardiola went on to claim six league titles in Spain and Germany plus the Champions League twice.
Pochettino believes a competitive Premier League has levelled things out for the two bosses and he now has a side capable of taking on Europe's elite.
Reflecting back on his time in Spain, the 44-year-old said: "We are talking about Barcelona, one of the best teams in the world, alongside Real Madrid. The gap was massive.
Guardiola is a huge admirer of Antonio Conte's style of football at Chelsea
"Now at Tottenham I don't know. Historically Tottenham is bigger than Manchester City. With the fans, it's bigger at Tottenham.
"It's true that Manchester City has a different philosophy, not a different level because this season is not complete, but they have a different way to Tottenham.
"It's too difficult to measure if there is a gap or not. Tottenham is completely different to Manchester City. With Espanyol and Barcelona you could measure the gap. But here it is too difficult to measure the gap. We are in a completely different world."
Second-placed Spurs could open up a six-point gap on City with a win at the Etihad this afternoon but Pochettino has talked down hype of a first title at White Hart Lane since 1961.
"We can't look in advance of the (current) time. The squad is very young, I'm very young still," Pochettino said.
"I am here to try to help the club achieve big things. We have unbelievable players, an unbelievable squad. They need time and patience. It's true that our objective is to win titles and to bring the club to a level it deserves."
City's first defeat of the season came at White Hart Lane in early October and Guardiola makes no secret he is a huge admirer of Pochettino and likens the way Spurs play to Antonio Conte's high-octane style at Chelsea.
New Tottenham Hotspur stadium: What will Spurs' £750m ground look like?
Tottenham Hotspur are set to move into their new 61,000-seater stadium at the start of the 2018/19 season, but what will Spurs' £750m home look like when it's finished?
Tottenham Hotspur are in the process of building a new 61,000 capacity stadium on the site of White Hart Lane, due to open at the start of the 2018/19 season
"How good are Tottenham? Brilliant," said Guardiola. "As a fan of football, I love to see them.
"It is Pochettino's third season there and they are playing how he wants. It is a really good team, strong physically, good build-up, good quality between the lines with Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli.
"They have physical and technical full-backs with Danny Rose and Kyle Walker. It is a real good team. They play attractive football.
"Pochettino's positional game is quite similar to Chelsea but they have some different movements. They move a little bit more sometimes – [Moussa] Dembele goes left. All of them know exactly where the players are and the positional game is the most difficult thing. When the ball is going to the left, the people on the right stay there and then the ball is arriving there.
"To create that you need quality in the players and time to understand that and to see where the spaces are and of course the quality to move in the spaces. And they are able to run – they make runs in behind and on the counter-attack.
"They can use long balls with Kane. They are strong enough physically but they also have the quality. The three at the back and the four at the back they use the perfect movements in the build-up with the goalkeeper and after Dembele has the quality in holding midfield, one against one and they attack. Alli moves between the lines and they arrive at the right tempo.
"They have been a good team for two or three years."
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Home Ministry cancels registration of Infosys Foundation over FCRA violation
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The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) registration of Bengaluru-based NGO Infosys Foundation has been cancelled by the Home Ministry for reportedly violating norms said news agency PTI. However, Infosys Foundation said that it has not violated any FCRA norms and was de-registered from FCRA following its request to the Ministry.
All non-government organisations (NGOs) are mandatorily required to be registered under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act or FCRA to receive foreign funding.
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The Home Ministry had last year served show cause notice to Infosys Foundation for failing to submit annual income and expenditure statement on foreign funding for up to six years despite repeated reminders, officials said.
The registration was cancelled as Infosys Foundation allegedly did not file income and expenditure statement on foreign funding for the past few years, they said.
As per FCRA guidelines, registered associations are required to submit electronically an online annual report with scanned copies of income and expenditure statement, receipts and payment account, balance sheet, etc., for every financial year within nine months of the closure of the financial year.
Associations which do not receive foreign contribution during a particular year are also required to furnish a ‘NIL’ return for that financial year within the aforesaid period, read the guidelines.
When contacted, Infosys Foundation said its de-registration from the FCRA followed a request it proactively made to the Ministry of Home Affairs.
“This (request) was done as the Infosys Foundation does not come under the purview of the FCRA following the amendment made to the act in 2016. We had approached the ministry to consider this, and thank them for granting our request,” said Rishi Basu from the foundation’s corporate marketing and communications division.
Established in 1996, Infosys Foundation supports projects in education, rural development, health care, arts and culture, and destitute care.
According to the foundation’s website, its mission is to work in remote regions of India. Sudha Murthy is the chairperson of Infosys Foundation.
The Union Home Ministry had last year served show cause notices to at least 1,755 NGOs, including a few companies, for failing to submit annual income and expenditure statement on foreign funding for up to six years despite reminders.
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Emerald Downs launches OTTB initiative
By Susan Salk on March 26, 2013
Sophia McKee, director of marketing, Emerald Downs
Striving to “take down the barrier” between backstretch horsemen and the horse-buying public, Emerald Downs recently announced three new initiatives designed to help transition ex-racehorses into new homes.
Sophia McKee, director of marketing for the Washington racetrack, says the track is working earnestly on plans for a Thoroughbred Showcase, a horseshow, and a Trainer Challenge in order to spark interest among Thoroughbred lovers, and to encourage other racetracks to follow their lead.
“I’d like to put together a program that could be adopted by every racetrack in the country,” McKee says. “One thing about the people at Emerald Downs is that they believe in doing what’s right for the sake of doing what’s right, not because they think someone’s watching.”
But, track officials hope, in this case, to attract a whole lot of attention to the track this August, when the following series gets underway.
Thoroughbred Showcase
On Aug. 31, beginning at 10 a.m., those off-track Thoroughbreds available for sale will be paraded in-hand at the Emerald Downs Sale’s Pavilion, accompanied by their owners and trainers.
The horse’s connections will answer any and all questions about the animal, including temperament, injuries, and suitability for varied disciplines, McKee says.
“We’re anticipating about 30 horses will be available, and the track will make its veterinarian available to discuss common injuries in racehorses, such as ligament issues and bone chips,” she adds.
Concurrent to the Thoroughbred Showcase, Emerald Downs track announcer Robert Geller will give a talk about the Thoroughbred breed.
Prodigious, a high-earning racehorse, for whom a new fund is named
Thoroughbred Only Show
On Oct. 5, the weekend after the racetrack closes for the season, the main track will be transformed into a stage for English and Western riding and showing, and for an unusual competition that rewards the OTTB with the slowest canter!
“If your horse passes another horse, you’re out!” McKee says.
Baby hunter and baby jumper classes and a dressage-prospect class will also be incorporated.
100-day trainer challenge
Taking a page from ex-racehorse trainer Steuart Pittman, who has had great success publicizing the remaking of off-track Thoroughbreds as riding horses through his closely followed Trainer Challenges, Emerald Downs seeks to follow suit.
“Starting in June and culminating on Oct. 5, our 1oo-day challenge will combine Steuart Pittman’s successful program and the Extreme Mustang Makeover, which retrains wild mustangs in 100 days,” McKee says. Toward that end, Thoroughbreds will be trained for in-hand classes and flat classes, and also, just for a little bit of fun in a Freestyle class similar to what the Mustangs did in their shows, she says.
Seattle Shoofly visits with a young fan. Emerald Downs offers full-service daycare to its employees
“With the Freestyle portion of the Mustang Makeovers, trainers taught their horses to jump into the back of trucks, chase cows, or work without a bridle,” McKee says. “So we’re hoping that the trainers participating in our challenge will incorporate something from their own background, whether it’s trail riding or hunter/jumper, into their own Freestyle.”
The track’s desire to do more for its equine athletes through shows and challenges is born from a deeper commitment that sprung from their loyalty to a flashy chestnut who finished in the money fifty percent of the time. Prodigious earned over $200,000 at various tracks, including Emerald Downs, before he dropped down to the $3,500 claimers at age 10.
Emerald Downs’ Vice President of Racing Jack Hodge adopted the animal, and keeps him in a prime front paddock on his property, where he spends his days greeting visitors.
And a fund in his name, The Prodigious Fund, has been established to recognize and support the Thoroughbred aftercare community, McKee says. Not just available to certified nonprofits, this fund helps “the good people doing good work for Thoroughbreds,” she adds.
And with loyalty and commitment to its equine athletes, the good work finds its reward, as these lovely and deserving Thoroughbreds come to the track to receive their salvation—a kind new owner, a home where they’re wanted, and a future employed in an easier calling.
35 responses to “Emerald Downs launches OTTB initiative”
Sarah Posey: Thoroughbred Exhibitors Association (TBEA) May 3, 2013 at 10:53 pm | Permalink | Reply
The warmblood breed associations have inspections and grade the mares on conformation and movement, many TB mares are accepted.
TBEA was established in Oregon in 1978 and our rules read…must show under their papered name …just like any other breed does in breed shows. We at TBEA believe in the versatility of the TB horse and also their ability to improve other breeds.
TB’s aren’t for everyone, but those who have the appreciation for their sensitivity and willingness love them with their whole heart!
We have classes for Tb and 1/2 TB’s which must have one purebred TB parent.There is also a hardship registry for horses of lost identity, rescues, etc.
Classes range from Halter, English, Jumping, Western, Trail,Gymkhana,Driving, Eventing, Endurance and special awards for Region 6 ODS league shows in Dressage.
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Kari Toye April 3, 2013 at 9:01 pm | Permalink | Reply
Through the last 35+ years of my career I know of so many of my horses that have gone on to great homes and great careers. I think its great that we finally focusing on a division that will give them greater regognition. I wish though, that there was a better acronym than the OTTB as many a horse might not have made it to to track. I can live with that, but I do also wish the showhorse world had some was to way to acknowledge the breed of the horse perhaps as we do for foreign bred horses : (AUS) (GB) (FR) and that a registered horse gets his new name but we should refer to the registered name. If that horse is a thoroughbred,,,,he should be AKA or something along that line. Keep up the good work, canter on…
I might also add to your ideas for the future that we add some 1/2 thoroughbred classes. This has been a saving grace for lots of our mares that have contributed to enhancing other breeds. Its a very important fact that many breeds accept the Thoroughbred mare to cross with and still be a registered animal. There are alot of AQHA,APHA,ApHA,PtHA etc etc horses out there that owe their genes to the Thoroughbred that need recognition.
Martha April 3, 2013 at 6:58 am | Permalink | Reply
Oh Sophia, bless your heart and bunches of roses to you for your planning and hard work on these programs to promote the after track
life of the Thoroughbreds, most especially the ex-racers. This is wonderful and I wish you all the success possible in showcasing the versatility of these beautiful, deserving horses.
Sarah Posey: Thoroughbred Exhibitors Association (TBEA) April 2, 2013 at 4:38 pm | Permalink | Reply
TBEA was founded in Oregon in 1978, we are not limited to OR but have held competitions and fun events since the beginning, Thoroughbreds can do it all!
One of the horses I show is a former OR stakes horse who also just missed winning the Emerald Express Stakes finishing 3rd.
Some of our members are currently licensed trainers in WA and OR (track) we also require they show under their papered names so their track heritage is not lost.
Please feel free to contact me for more information. We have held our year end awards at PM a couple of times and offered too participate in equine promotions with no response to help promote the OTTB. Thank you Emerald Down and those of you who are helping!
Sarah Posey
Marion March 29, 2013 at 9:45 am | Permalink | Reply
I’m so impressed with Sophia and all the hard work she is doing for these useful horses. Nothing against the warmblood hunters and jumpers but nothing will ever top the smart, quick learning Thoroughbred. They are keen, if you think it they are ready to do it. Once they have raced or did not work out as a race horse they still can have a very bright future do anything. I applaud you for putting yourself and this great idea out there. Marion
Nina Eckhoff March 29, 2013 at 8:35 am | Permalink | Reply
And after working so hard in the dangerous business of racing, OTTBs must be redirected for life after the track. It is the only ethical thing to do. Emerald Downs and other OTTB-centric organizations are doing great things and it brings tears to my eyes, because our girl (Princess Madeline) went through New Holland and wasn’t bought when she went through Camelot Auction, either. She was in the #10 pen and we got her for $200 just to save her. But I think she saved us.
Maddie has spent time with a natural horseman, Billy Smith (Thurman, NY) and it has done wonders for her in her retraining. She had some chiropractic issues which have been addressed and she has herded cattle, been ridden on trail rides through the wilderness of the Adirondacks (where hunters are present and she proceeded calmly) and she forded the upper Hudson River. OTTBs can truly do anything!
Betty Moore March 28, 2013 at 1:02 pm | Permalink | Reply
So long needed —so deserved and such good things– will!! come from this–they are truely magnificent animals–Will look forward to seeing how it all goes down—
Betsy March 27, 2013 at 10:36 pm | Permalink | Reply
We have two horses that raced at EMD, half sibs. One was found headed for a Canadian slaughterhouse, the other we got right off the track so that wouldn’t happen to her. They are the best horses — sweet, intelligent, calm.
susan March 27, 2013 at 10:15 pm | Permalink | Reply
Please please please make sure the meat buyers don’t get any.
June March 27, 2013 at 9:22 pm | Permalink | Reply
Great news. I have an OTTB from Portland Meadows who is 21; I got him when he failed as a barrel horse after being on the track. He has been a 4-H horse, trail horse, Carried Rodeo Court Royalty in many parades including the Portland Rose Festival Grand Floral and more importantly has been a super lesson horse helping hundreds learn to ride and enjoy horses. He is very gentle, quiet and kind. Love to find another!
Maggie March 27, 2013 at 5:37 pm | Permalink | Reply
This is exciting. Between this and the TIP awards OTTB are finally getting the recognition they richly deserve.
Highgunner March 27, 2013 at 1:09 pm | Permalink | Reply
Thanks for the story. Great to see these new initiatives by the tracks.
Betty Goodman March 27, 2013 at 3:48 am | Permalink | Reply
God Bless You !I have always wanted to be able to adopte from a race trac but really never knew how. I helped a friend with a qtr horse she got off trac, maybe one day this will be a possibilty for me. i just recently adopted two wonderful sweet mares from a kill pen that was to ship to canada slaughter . Starlight Sanctuary made it poss. there are so many good horses that just need a chance and you will be giving these Throughbreeds second chance im glad there owners are allowing it to happened that shows responsible love for the animal that tryed for them great idea.
Melanie Knight March 26, 2013 at 9:58 pm | Permalink | Reply
I have a friend who has been very active in rescuing racing Greyhounds, it is a wonderful program and benefits not only the wonderful dogs but their new families.
Way to go!
Lisa Capellaro March 26, 2013 at 9:49 pm | Permalink | Reply
It’s about time. Thank You for bringing attention to some amazing horses that might have been overlooked because of their breed. I believe a TB can and will do whatever you ask of them.
Jennifer Selken March 26, 2013 at 9:23 pm | Permalink | Reply
Love hearing about all the new programs to promote Thoroughbreds and their aftercare.
Janna Brown March 26, 2013 at 6:07 pm | Permalink | Reply
I will keep track of this event and will have to send up some of mine to show! The two that I have in mind are from ED orginally!
Karen Worthington March 26, 2013 at 6:01 pm | Permalink | Reply
I am the Show Committee Chair and will be acting as Manager for the Prodigious show at Emerald Downs. Just returned from a weekly brainstorming session for the show, and how exciting to see this post!
I’m referring to the show as, “I Love My Thoroughbred” because we’re offering ALL riders of Thoroughbreds a unique opportunity to share their horses with the world. We will even have a wall where the exhibitors can share their horse’s very own story!
kris March 27, 2013 at 12:35 am | Permalink | Reply
This is awesome news. I hope in the future they will have events like this on racing weekends before the races start so race fans can see the horses in action after they retire from racing. I’ve heard even racehorse owners and trainers saying OTTBs cannot be transitioned successfully into new careers, which is completely false. It would be great if the people who support racing were there to see how versitle these horses are after they retire from the track.
How do we find out more info about these three events? Will it be posted on the EMD webpage?
Sharon Peck March 26, 2013 at 5:47 pm | Permalink | Reply
Great job to all those involved in making this happen.
Mary Perry March 26, 2013 at 5:39 pm | Permalink | Reply
I wish our barn was closer. We are located in California. We have four Thoroughbreds. One was never on the track, she won 2010 USEF National English Pleasure Hunter Seat Champion. The other three have just started their new life. Two started showing last year and placed in local orginizations. Two are in the jumper world and the other in the hunter world. My husband and I started taking in horses that needed a home in 1990. In 2009 we were introduced to an owner whose race horses are in Washington. He is a unique individual who finds homes for all of his horses who no longer race. We have the utmost respect for him. The OTTB initiative is a God sent, and the Prodigious Fund is so needed. I know first hand how expensive taking in horses can be in general, not to mentioned if or when medical issues arise.
I love this idea and hope it is adopted at other tracks (ie Portland Meadows) as well! I showed hunter/jumper with thoroughbreds for years and now I take in OTTBs so I think they are the best! Thank you and I will follow this with great interest!
Kelly O'Neill March 28, 2013 at 12:38 am | Permalink | Reply
Hi Janna – hope you bring this article to the attention of William Alempijevic General Manager at Portland Meadows. I work for the Oregon Thoroughbred Owners & Breeders Association and hope to bring it to their attention as well.
Kelly – I will do just that! I will see if I can be looped in to the ED marketing gal to see what it involved and see what the chances are for doing something in 2014! Maybe getting support from local/regional horse rescue groups too! Thanks for the suggestion!
Deborah Hoonan March 26, 2013 at 2:31 pm | Permalink | Reply
Very cool!! Good Job, Sophia
Marianne Meeker March 31, 2013 at 3:49 pm | Permalink | Reply
It’s about time. Norm’s Nephew will be cheering….
Regina brantner March 26, 2013 at 1:41 pm | Permalink | Reply
WOW. this is wonderful. It is so nice to see a change in the way a race track looks at a horse. Ie. past the $$. I am not a fan of racing because of the past disregard of respect and responsibility for the horse. Hopefully this catches on all over the country.
Lisa Melone March 26, 2013 at 1:34 pm | Permalink | Reply
What a great idea–hope it catches on at all tracks. Kudos to Sophia for making it happen. I’d love to see the “slowest canter” class!
Heidi Carpenter March 26, 2013 at 12:49 pm | Permalink | Reply
Wonderful–I hope this program catches on like wildfire! Perhaps they should advertise the “show” and canter competition, and make the whole thing family as well as equestrian friendly.
LW March 26, 2013 at 12:47 pm | Permalink | Reply
One of the best horses I have ever owned was an OTTB. Captain raced, was injured, then was turned into a family horse. He learned english, jumping, rodeo, 4-H and therapudic riding. He is now 28 years old. Its coming close to the end for this old boy but he has lived a full life and has made many people happy and taught many people how to ride young and old. I really hope this program works. They are wonderful animals and deserve to begin again after their racing years.
Deb Johnson March 26, 2013 at 10:52 am | Permalink | Reply
would be nice to see this in place and horses out of kill pens. The ottb in my pasture got very lucky. Too many of these hard working horses have a bad end. Thank you!
Lynda March 26, 2013 at 9:57 am | Permalink | Reply
This is fabulous! The East Coast TB only shows are getting hundreds of entries, and horses with new jobs at which they can excel. I’ve had two show horses as an adult both TBs, and while neither raced both have shown in the hunters, one at some of the biggest shows in the country. The one I owned from 3 to 22 when he passed away showed in the hunter breeding classes all the way to the Regular Working hunters when the jumps were 4′ – 4’6″ and did very well.
The one I have now I bought as a 2 year old and he has done fairly well in the hunters, he has tons of talent for it but he has a bit of a temper, we are still putting the pieces together on this puzzle. He will get there when we figure it all out.
TBs have the heart, and the brains to excel at any sport beyond the track. They deserve the chance to do just that.
MacKenzie March 26, 2013 at 9:19 am | Permalink | Reply
TBDancer March 26, 2013 at 9:02 am | Permalink | Reply
The more connections to TB racing get involved in the “after the races” side of the sport, finding second careers for these wonderful horses–a task that actually takes a bit of time and some publicity and an organized approach to the “events”–the better it will be for all concerned. The biggest selling point for me is the thousands of dollars of training an ex-racehorse has received. Granted there needs to be retraining, but the basics are there–and they are often very GOOD basics–and it just takes someone with an eye to spot the good citizen under it all. This type of “initiative” provides the opportunity for all those things to come together. Excellent!
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Yes, alas, a trip to Ireland is no picnic for Tara (Lindsey Haun), one of five American teens who have crossed the pond to meet up with friend Jake (Brit actor Jack Huston), relinquish their mobile phones, set up camp in the woodland grounds of an abandoned young offenders home and get completely off their faces.
How could it possibly go wrong? Or, indeed, how could it ever have gone right. Within hours of entering the grounds the group have killed some local wildlife, encountered two lumpy-headed locals, survived a brush with a deadly fungus, unleashed the fury of a spectral monk and had to sleep in a tent in autumn. Deadly.
At first, the idea of adding hallucinogens to the horror film format seems like a smart move: the trippy graphics, loss of control and fuzzy line between fantasy and reality should all make for tense, unnerving viewing. But while the film does at first offer a drop of the choking, panicky atmosphere of Blair Witch, unfortunately it doesn’t manage to sustain the mood.
Partly this is because, except for the lead, the characters are pretty unsympathetic. Particularly the charmless Jake, an Irish boy with an English accent who you’d quite like to see murdered the minute he starts saying things like: “You have to get into the trip to get out of it.”
Partly it is that the mushroom element is disappointingly weak. If Shrooms had attempted even a touch of the mind-bending visuals of, say, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas it would have freaked its audience out nicely. Instead we had to make do with some speedy editing, a touch of double vision and the characters repeating: “this isn’t really happening” to convince us that they’re off their heads.
Which leads us to the main problem with Shrooms: The audience’s uncertainty as to whether what they’re seeing is a hallucination, a premonition or is real starts to detract from the tension until all the tramping through woodland just gets slightly tiresome.
There are some things to like about Shrooms. Lindsey Haun holds her own in the lead role and director Paddy Breathnach is clearly influenced by Asian horror genre in the film’s editing and appearance. (Long black hair is now a key component of horror: Just ask Cher.)
But the fact that Shrooms is directed by an Irishman makes the film’s triteness all the more baffling. If Breathnach is being ironic in his presentation of his homeland (evil monks, dogging and drooling inbreds) then it’s pretty well buried in a film populated by horror clichés and cardboard cut-out Americans.
Still, there are a few genuinely jumpy moments and if you manage to stick with the film to the end, it does redeem itself, slightly, with its denouement. You have to get into the trip to get out of it, man. Now excuse me while I go speak to that talking cow.
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Letter by Chairperson of the Committee on International Relations and Emigrants to the organisations and associations of Montenegrin diaspora-emigrants
Chairperson of the Committee on International Relations and Emigrants Mr Andrija Nikolić has sent a letter to the organisations and associations of Montenegrin diaspora-emigrants
Dear diaspora,
In this time difficult for the entire world, due to the pandemic caused by coronavirus, citizens of Montenegro and its diaspora are sharing the same concerns. Aware of the situation that our homeland has been facing, representatives of the Montenegrin diaspora have proved that serious tackling of pandemic implies joint operations, solidarity and commitment to the best standards of personal responsibility and humaneness.
We in Montenegro listened and read with enthusiasm every day about the donations and patriotic engagement of our prominent emigrants and diaspora associations. Love towards the homeland, demonstrated by Montenegrin diaspora this time as well, is at the same time a confirmation that diaspora never forgets their roots, but on the contrary - inspires everybody to be their best version in overcoming the crisis.
Unique and patriotic example of our humanist Mr Hajriz Hačko Brčvak has echoed in the entire region and proved that difficult times also give a birth to big heroes.
I believe that, while carefully monitoring the developments in our state, you know that for a long period of time Montenegro had been the only European state with no registered cases of coronavirus, therefore the Government, following the recommendations of the experts, was the only one in Europe to bring a decision on introducing restrictive measures for preserving people’s health even before the first registered case of coronavirus. The engagement of the responsible people from the Clinical Centre, Public Health Institute, the entire health system, but also other Montenegrin institutions involved in implementing the Government measures during the pandemic, have confirmed that our state have achieved the high level of social and institutional development. Also, it was proven that the citizens believe to the institutions, so today Montenegro has the lowest mortality rate, low infection rate and high rate of those who have recovered.
Great credit for the dedicated and organised response of the state to coronavirus outbreak belongs to our diplomatic and consular network, which has crucially helped organise the return of our citizens to Montenegro and foreigners from Montenegro, but also in providing humanitarian aid and donations from abroad and the diaspora.
Bearing in mind that the current health and social challenge is a blow to our economy, Montenegro will have a great challenge to face - how to maintain its economic stability and restore the course of strong progress achieved in the previous year and early this year. In the time ahead, a new unity of the citizens of Montenegro and its diaspora will be necessary for the economic recovery of our country. By turning to domestic production, buying Montenegrin products and spending the summer in the most beautiful place in the world - Montenegro, we will contribute to the recovery of our economy.
With a sincere wish that Montenegro and the countries where you live and work get out of the crisis as soon as possible and start the recovery, I would like to thank everyone who helped our country with its donations and engagement in dealing with the coronavirus epidemic.
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Albert the Moth
Category: Puns, Rated G, Shaggy Dogs, Shaggydog listserv
This very shaggy story was sent to the shaggydog listserv by Stan Kegel. He also sent a different tale with a similar punchline (see below).
Back in P.E.I. [a small Canadian province], where I was raised, there are few sporting heroes; Rick Vaive used to be one, but then he joined the Leafs [a hockey team]. In any event, whatever happens to the rest of her heroes, the tale of Albert the Moth, from Alberton P. E.I., will long live in the annals of sporting legend.
Albert was a sturdy farm moth, raised in a good Christian farm on the outskirts of Alberton, P.E. I. Although he never knew his mother or father, for he was a moth, and they were long dead, he would have made their antennae vibrate with pride as he was a gracious, courteous moth, especially as a child.
When he entered puberty, as teenagers of all species are wont, he fell in with a bad crowd. He’d fly around cows with his friends, annoying them like all getup. Now to us humans cows are the very ideal of kindness, comeliness and grace. To moths however, cows are real bastards; clever and scheming in their insatiable desire to hurt moths. So the cows would swat at the moths with their tails; which sent the moths’ souls to the great light in the sky when they connected, and sent their innards spraying all over their friends. This was the crowd Albert had fallen in with.
Now Albert’s companions soon marvelled at his courage. Most of the moths would fly around the cow, landing rarely to give it the boot every now and then. Albert, however, would land on the cow, scurrying on foot over it’s sensitive sensitive parts, sending the cow into a wild paroxysm of tail flailing. Albert would always wait until his doom seemed certain, then dash out of the way, to scurry ever more over the cows private privates. Such was Albert’s greatness that even while being a scourge, he did so with a nobility that surpassed that of his peers.
After a while his friends remarked upon his quickness afoot, and suggested he enter a race. It is curious that species compete at that which they are worst. Moths, who fly like arrows compete afoot; humans who excel at sleeping compete by thinking.
In any event, Albert’s friends cajoled him into competing in the “Alberton Moth Festival” foot races. Race day dawned fresh and clear; however this was irrelevant since the race was being held in an unused bedroom of an old farm house. The starter, an old fart of a moth, enjoined the Moths to take their places, and then — they were off. Albert raced across the floor, up the wall, across the ceiling, down the wall, and back across the floor. At the end his nearest rival — a husky Campbell moth from the other side of town, was half a room-length away. Thus the legend of Albert the moth, from Alberton P. E.I., was begun, for such convincing victories, especially from unknowns, were rare in the highly competitive world of moth racing. It was a shot heard around the province of Prince Edward Island.
Alberts friends looked upon him with new and crafty eyes (or, what passes for eyes in moths, anyway). No longer was he a nice simple rube to amuse them while endangering his life. No, now they were calculating; seeing Albert as a tool to be used to enable them to rise above their station.
“Albert, you should enter the Provincials” came the insidious whisper. “No!” Albert replied, “I have no interest in personal glory, I only wish to work for the advancement of all mothkind!”. The moths were taken aback; they had taken his natural exuberance at the cow game to be a sign he was as depraved as they. But they now recognized it was merely the first surge of mothhood coursing through his veins, in his green bug blood. They then plotted to destroy his innocence.
As evil liquor and spirits are to men, so bright lights are to moths. “OK Albert, we respect your decision; but come to Lee’s [in joke] anyway to celebrate your victory” the moths chorussed. “I will join you”, Albert replied, thinking the night would be one of quiet companionship and good cheer.
When he arrived at Lee’s place he discovered that Lee had been to the LCBPEI (Light Control Board of P. E.I.) where he’d picked up a 151 watt golden Jamaican light bulb. Albert was taken aback, although he shouldn’t have been since it is well known that Lees of all species are depraved, and made to leave immediately. “Stay Albert” his companions plead. “The party is for you, you don’t have to take any light, and its not illegal or anything.” So Albert stayed. And after a while he was persuaded to fly a long way from the light. Of course as the night wore on he was cajoled to fly closer and closer, until he was inches away from the burning orb. As he lost consciousness he cried out “I love you all so much, of course I’ll run in the Provincials for you.”
Two weeks later Albert was nervously awaiting the start of the race, which was being held in the legislative assembly of P. E.I., a room far larger than he’d previously run in. The competition was serious; these were athletes who trained full time. Mark from Morell was particularly worrisome, as he was ranked in the top 20 of Canada. Albert thought he was doomed to failure. Still, he resolved gamely to do his best.
The race started. Mark from Morell jumped off to a quick lead. It soon became apparent that the rest of the field was outclassed. Mark and Albert raced across the floor, then sped up the wall. They dashed across the ceiling, then down the wall. As they started across the floor Albert finally regained the lost ground, and as he ran the final leg he pulled further and further ahead of Mark, until at the end of the race he was a foot ahead of him, which is many body lengths for a moth. Up in the gallery money changed wings.
A wild keening cry was torn from Mark. “Pray tell, what’s wrong?” asked Albert. “I’ve practiced all my life to make the Canadian championship, and now I can’t go for you’ve bested me”. “Fear not”, replied Albert, “I am not going to the championships, I have other plans for my life”. “Thank you, oh thank you” replied Mark.
Alberts friends came to him. “You really whipped that wimp, you’ll clean up at the Canadians” they said. Albert tried to tell them he wasn’t going, but he did agree to come to another party at Lee’s.
Albert’s friends knew they would have to break his spirit if they were to convince him to race again. At this party there were illicit lights; thousand watt Columbian blues that STROBED. Albert was soon cavorting in front of them, his mind totally removed from reality. And then, to totally smash his innocence, his friends introduced him to a harlot butterfly, who engulfed him with her big wings; and Albert was lost totally. While weaving home Albert came across Mark who called out to him “Hail Albert, the moth with the greatest heart in the world”. Albert yelled “Eat it sh___-face; I’m going.”
Thus a proud, swaggering Albert came to Edmonton to compete in the national championships. He and his friends were out carousing, visiting moths of ill repute, engaging in drunken brawls every night. So great was Albert’s arrogance that he didn’t even train.
Another irrelevantly clear and sunny day broke on race day, this time held in Moths R Us in the west Edmonton mall. Albert had been getting bad press all week, and was greeted with a chorus of boos when he came to the line. He gave them the one wingtip salute. As the race started he sped confidently across the floor, then raced like lightning up the wall and across the ceiling. As he tore down the far wall he started to tire, for he had been doing no honest labour recently. Earl from Edmonton was coming out of the pack at him, spurred on by the yells of the maddened crowd. As they rounded the corner Earl started to pass him. Feeling his strength fail Albert realized how depraved he had become, and a great peace fell over him, and his staunch heart laboured, and his strong legs hurled him across the floor, and he won the race by at least an inch.
After the race he told his former friends “Go home; you disgust me. I am going to enter the world championships and win in the name of equality, liberty, fraternity, truth, justice and the American way”. And he left those who had gotten fat over his effort, never to see them again.
And he went into training, and met new friends. These friends were good of heart and were staunch, as was he. And one of them, a beautiful mothette with the lovely name Hermanetta, came to love him. And if they consummated their love, who was to blame them, for in truth they were planning to wed.
The world championships were being held in Richmond Hill Ontario [home of the David Dunlap Observatory, largest optical telescope in Canada] that year. In their joy at seeing all the moths the people lit the night sky with all their lights, to welcome the moths, and to give them a bit of a buzz. One of the citizens though was not in truth pleased. Holding his coke can he was heard to mutter “Great, just what we needed, bright lights shining off of millions of f—ing moths, must be 12 mag per square arcsecond out there, and the blasted things are so large you can’t even take advantage of lambda to the minus four” [astronomers don’t *like bright lights]. However even his heart was soon taken with the beauty of the moths and realized the error of his ways and became a radio astronomer[very in joke]. He then put a mighty arc lamp in the prime focus of the great telescope — turning it into a searchlight for all the worlds moths.
Race day, held in the cavernous men’s washroom at DDO, was cloudy; which was to be expected at DDO. Albert’s humble heart was filled with quiet pride to be representing his country. The great crowd stilled, and the race began.
Albert was quickly out of the block, but still behind the two favourites, Fortran of France, and Pascal of Poland. As they crossed the immense floor he slowly gained on them. However as they made the turn up the wall he lost ground to the tricky Europeans as they were experts in cornering. Crossing the ceiling he laboured and made up precious millimetres. He continued to gain down the next wall, and was even on the turn to the floor. Here he thought lovingly of the sweet embrace of Hermanetta, and pulled well into the lead. Looking up he saw that he was going to break the world record.
And then, a foot from the finish line, disaster. He tripped over his own feet and broke his leg. Fortran, then Pascal, and then the rest of the pack passed and beat him. He started weeping, first quietly, then with heart rending sobs as he realized the magnitude of his failure. Hermanetta came to him to console him; and while weeping, and in his anguish looked up and cried out: “What’s the matter? Haven’t you ever seen a moth ball before?”
The other story follows.
Back in the roaring twenties raccoon coats were the rage, especially among the college set in the ivy league schools. Just any raccoon coat wouldn’t do. It had to be a full length duster almost reaching the floor to really be in style. John, a young man with a very rich but miserly father who was entering his freshman year at Harvard was surprised to learn when he moved into the dorm that he just couldn’t fit in without a raccoon coat. He pleaded with his father that he just had to have a raccoon coat or would never make it at school. After several letters back and forth his father agreed to purchase a beautiful coat on one condition. The condition was that the coat must not be damaged in any way during the next four years. If there was any damage to the coat at all after four years the John would be disinherited and have to go find a job on his own. He would not be allowed to join the father in his very prosperous business.
John quickly agreed to the conditions without thinking of the implications. The father bought the best raccoon coat money could buy, then had several members of his staff count the number of hairs on the coat. They found there were exactly 1,524,203 hairs. A second group of staff members recounted and confirmed there were 1,524,203 hairs. The coat was then carefully sealed in a package and sent off to Harvard with a note informing the John of the hair count.
When John received the coat he was overjoyed that his ostracism by his fellow students was soon to end. Then he read the enclosed letter. He showed the coat to all his friend but was afraid to wear it under any circumstances for fear of damaging it in some manner. After everyone had seen the coat he resealed it in its box and placed it on the shelf in his closet. He often showed the coat to new friends but could never work up the courage to wear it until his senior year.
Harvard was playing Yale for the conference championship in football. He bought nine tickets to the game, three seats behind his, the seats to either side, and the three seats in front. He was going to be damned sure no one spilled drink or mustard on his beloved coat. He didn’t enjoy the game at all because of his concern for his coat. Immediately after the game he returned the coat to the closet where it had been for three years after carefully spending several hours recounting the hairs. All 1,524,203 were intact but after such a tedious job he made a mistake. He didn’t reseal the bag in which he had been storing the coat these many years.
During the night a campus moth crawled under the door of the closet, fluttered up onto the box and crawled inside. He had a feast but being a small moth one hair was all his tiny stomach could hold. He emerged from the box, fluttered from the closet and flew up onto the light fixture to get warm and have a nap. The next day the hapless student decided to recheck the hair-count. It took him hours but when finished he knew he was in trouble. There were only 1,524,202 hairs. He wailed in despair at the top of his lungs. All his fraternity brothers came running into the room expecting the worst. John recounted the whole story about his fathers conditions and his impending fate.
In all the commotion the little moth asleep on the light fixture awakened. He listened to the story in amazement. As the whole story unfolded the moth became terribly sad … Have you ever seen a moth bawl?
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John was so distraught about the damage to his beloved coat that he treated it with an insecticide. Once he had done so, he was much less careful with storing the coat safely. One evening, he accidentally left it sitting out on the porch.
Unfortunately, moths love raccoon hair so much that they can’t help themselves, and they began diving into the coat even with the insecticide. That evening, it became something of a moth feeding frenzy.
Moths would eat some of the coat and then die on the spot. The frenzy was so intense that the coat was covered, all the hair was eaten, and the coat was replaced by a blanket of dead insects.
John saw this in the morning, and was so devastated that he took his own life. At the funeral, his family thought it would be appropriate to lay the blanket over his coffin.
It was truly a moth pall.
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Works For Choir
タイトル: Works For Choir
アーティスト: Arvo Pärt
レーベル: Cugate Classics
ジャンル: Contemporary Composition, Classical, Avant Garde
"ARVO PÄRT (born 1935 in Paide, Estonia) doesn't need to be introduced to anyone who has the slightest interest in classical music, and his audience reaches far beyond the xxx circles of symphony halls. After first serialistic compositions, "Credo" (1968) was a turning point in PÄRT's life and work, being the first piece carrying a religious title and expressing a creative crisis that PÄRT answered by lesser compositions and studying medieval and Renaissance music in search for a new musical language. In 1976 PÄRT returned with "Für Alina" and introduced his new (and self-developed) style that should become his trademark sound that made him the famous and honoured composer he is now: the so-called tintinnabuli. In 1984, after the Estonian composer and his family emigrated from the USSR and settled in Germany, the album "Tabula rasa" opened the next important chapter in PÄRT's career: the ever continuing close relation to Manfred EICHER and his ECM label where many of the composer's works have since been released.
"Works For Choir" presents several compositions for choir from the period from 1989 to 1991, recorded in Vilnius with the award winning Vilnius Municipal Choir Jauna Muzika under the artistic direction of Vaclovas Augustinas. For this reissue, all tracks have been remastered at D&M Berlin for best possible sound."
A1. The Beatitudes 6:37
A2. Nun Eile Ich Zu Euch... 7:08
A3. Magnificat 5:23
B1. Summa 5:44
B2. Sieben Magnificat - Antiphonen 1.O Weisibett 2:01
B3. Sieben Magnificat - Antiphonen 2.O Adonai 3:00
B4. Sieben Magnificat - Antiphonen 3.O Sproß Aus Isais Wurzel 1:33
B5. Sieben Magnificat - Antiphonen 4.O Schlüssel Davids 2:41
B6. Sieben Magnificat - Antiphonen 5.O Morgenstern 1:12
B7. Sieben Magnificat - Antiphonen 6.O König Aller Völker 1:26
B8. Sieben Magnificat - Antiphonen 7.O Immanuel 3:39
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From 1980 to 2006, the U.S. financial services sector grew from 4.9% to 8.3% of GDP. A substantial share of that increase represented increases in asset-management fees.
Excluding index funds (which make market returns available even to small investors at close to zero expense), fees have risen substantially as a percentage of assets managed. In my judgment, investors have received no benefit from this increase in expense ratios.
The increase in fees could be justified if it reflected increasing returns for investors from active management, or if it improved the efficiency of the market. Neither of these arguments holds. Actively managed funds of publicly traded securities have consistently underperformed index funds—by roughly the differential in fees charged.
Passive portfolios that held all the stocks in a broad-based market index have substantially outperformed the average active manager since 1980. Therefore, the increase in fees likely represents a deadweight loss for investors. There are substantial economies of scale in asset management. It is no more costly to place an order for 20,000 shares of stock than for 10,000 shares. The same annual report and similar filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission are required whether an investment fund has $100 million or $500 million in assets. The due diligence required for the investment manager is no different for a large mutual fund than for a small one. Modern technology has fully automated such tasks as dividend collection, tax reporting and client statements. Academic research has documented substantial economies of scale in mutual-fund administration.
In 1980, the equity mutual-fund industry managed less than $26 billion of assets. By 2010 the equity assets of the mutual-fund industry totaled almost $3.5 trillion. Substantial economies of scale could have been passed on to individual investors, resulting in lower expense ratios. But those economies appear to have been entirely captured by asset managers. The same finding holds for asset managers who cater to institutional investors.
In 1980, the annual expense ratio for all mutual funds (as measured by Lipper Analytic Services) was 66 basis points. In 2010, the equivalent (asset weighted) ratio was 69.2 basis points. But in 2010 almost 30% of mutual-fund assets were invested in low-cost index funds, which represented an insignificant share of assets in 1980. Thus the annual expense ratios for actively managed funds rose to 91 basis points from 66 basis points. While expense ratios paid by institutional investors are considerably lower than those paid by individual investors—by about 40%—these fees have not fallen over time as a percentage of assets managed.
However, index funds and their exchange-traded counterparts have allowed the individual investor to benefit from scale economies. Exchange-traded funds that track the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index or the Wilshire 5,000 Total Stock-Market Index are available to individual investors at expense ratios of five basis points or less.
There is another way of looking at these asset-management fees. Total fund assets increased 135 times since 1980, but the total expenses paid to equity mutual-fund managers increased 141 times (to $24,143 billion from $170.8 million).
Of course, when stated as a percentage of assets, these fees do look low—close to 1% of assets. But compare them with returns produced. If overall stock-market returns average, say, 7% a year, fees of 1% point are actually about 14% of stock-market returns. Mutual-fund fees take up well over 50% of dividend distributions.
Even these recalculations may substantially understate the real cost of active investment management. A more reasonable way to assess the benefits of active management is to measure fees as a percentage of the “excess” returns produced by active managers over the returns available from low-cost index funds. Overall, these excess returns seem nonexistent.
Why do investors continue to pay such high fees for financial services of such questionable value? Many may incorrectly judge the quality of investment advice by the price charged. Individual and institutional investors may suffer from overconfidence and truly believe that they can select the best investment managers and earn excess returns, despite historical evidence to the contrary.
Outperforming the consensus of hundreds of thousands of professionals at the world’s major financial institutions is next to impossible. It has been for decades. Over long periods, about two-thirds of active managers are outperformed by the benchmark indexes. The one-third that may outperform the passive index in one period are generally not the same as in the next period. But investors can benefit from low-cost index funds and their exchange-traded cousins.
The lesson for investors is very clear: You can’t control what markets can do, but you can control the costs you pay. The less you pay to the purveyors of investment services, the more there will be for you. The quintessential low-cost investment vehicles are index funds, which should comprise the core of every investment portfolio. The high fees charged for active management cannot be justified.
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World Cyber Games Names Plantronics as the Official Headset Provider for WCG2013
September 24, 2013 | Filed under: Gaming,Gaming PR | Posted by: Kristofer Brozio
Hmm.. guess this is good news for Plantronics!
World Cyber Games Inc. (WCG), organizer of the international video game competition World Cyber Games recognized by the Guinness World Records, announced its partnership with Plantronics (NYSE:PLT), a global leader in audio communications. As the official headset of the WCG Grand Final, Plantronics eSports gaming headsets will be used exclusively on stage and during the competitive event, and Plantronics Gaming products will be featured at various events before and after the Grand Final.
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Brad Lee, the CEO of WCG remarked, "We couldn’t be happier that Plantronics has come on board as the exclusive headset sponsor of the World Cyber Games Grand Final inChina. Plantronics is well known for its support of eSports and its commitment to driving professional gaming forward and this partnership takes that commitment even further."
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A Malay trading port known as Temasek existed on the island of Singapore by the 14th century. The settlement changed hands several times in the ensuing centuries and was eventually burned in the 17th century and fell into obscurity. The British founded modern Singapore as a trading colony on the site in 1819. It joined the Malaysian Federation in 1963 but was ousted two years later and became independent. Singapore subsequently became one of the world's most prosperous countries with strong international trading links (its port is one of the world's busiest in terms of tonnage handled) and with per capita GDP equal to that of the leading nations of Western Europe.
Focal point for Southeast Asian sea routes; consists of about 60 islands, by far the largest of which is Pulau Ujong; land reclamation has removed many former islands and created a number of new ones
Location: Southeastern Asia, islands between Malaysia and Indonesia
Geographic coordinates: 1 22 N, 103 48 E
Area: total: 719.2 sq km
land: 709.2 sq km
Size comparison: slightly more than 3.5 times the size of Washington, DC
Land Boundaries: 0 km
Maritime claims: territorial sea: 3 nm exclusive fishing zone: within and beyond territorial sea, as defined in treaties and practice
Climate: tropical; hot, humid, rainy; two distinct monsoon seasons - northeastern monsoon (December to March) and southwestern monsoon (June to September); inter-monsoon - frequent afternoon and early evening thunderstorms
Terrain: lowlying, gently undulating central plateau
Natural resources: fish, deepwater ports
permanent crops: 0.1% (2011 est.) permanent pasture: 0% (2011 est.) forest: 3.3% (2011 est.)
Irrigated land: 0 sq km (2012)
Natural hazards: flash floods
Current Environment Issues: water pollution; industrial pollution; limited natural freshwater resources; limited land availability presents waste disposal problems; air pollution; deforestation; seasonal smoke/haze resulting from forest fires in Indonesia
International Environment Agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution
Nationality: noun: Singaporean(s)
adjective: Singapore
Ethnic groups: Chinese 74.3%, Malay 13.4%, Indian 9%, other 3.2% (2018 est.) note: individuals self-identify; the population is divided into four categories: Chinese, Malay (includes indigenous Malays and Indonesians), Indian (includes Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, or Sri Lankan), and other ethnic groups (includes Eurasians, Caucasians, Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese)
Languages: English (official) 36.9%, Mandarin (official) 34.9%, other Chinese dialects (includes Hokkien, Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka) 12.2%, Malay (official) 10.7%, Tamil (official) 3.3%, other 2% (2015 est.) note: data represent language most frequently spoken at home
Religions: Buddhist 33.2%, Christian 18.8%, Muslim 14%, Taoist 10%, Hindu 5%, other 0.6%, none 18.5% (2015 est.)
elderly dependency ratio: 16 (2015 est.)
Net migration rate: 12.7 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2018 est.)
Major urban areas - population: 5.792 million SINGAPORE (capital) (2018)
Mother's mean age at first birth: 30.5 years (2015 est.) median age
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24: total: 9.1% male: 6.2% female: 12.5% (2016 est.)
Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Singapore
conventional short form: Singapore
local long form: Republic of Singapore
local short form: Singapore
etymology: name derives from the Sanskrit words "singa" (lion) and "pura" (city) to describe the city-state's leonine symbol
Capital: name: Singapore
time difference: UTC+8 (13 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
Administrative divisions: none
Independence: 9 August 1965 (from Malaysian Federation)
National holiday: National Day, 9 August (1965)
Constitution: history: several previous; latest adopted 22 December 1965 amendments: proposed by Parliament; passage requires two-thirds majority vote in the second and third readings by the elected Parliament membership and assent by the president of the republic; passage of amendments affecting sovereignty or control of the Police Force or the Armed Forces requires at least two-thirds majority vote in a referendum; amended many times, last in 2016 (2018)
Legal system: English common law
Suffrage: 21 years of age; universal and compulsory
Executive branch: chief of state: President HALIMAH Yacob (since 14 September 2017); note - President TAN's term ended on 31 August 2017; HALIMAH is Singapore's first female president; the head of the Council of Presidential Advisors, J.Y. PILLAY, served as acting president until HALIMAH was sworn in as president on 14 September 2017
head of government: Prime Minister LEE Hsien Loong (since 12 August 2004); Deputy Prime Ministers TEO Chee Hean (since 1 April 2009) and Tharman SHANMUGARATNAM (since 21 May 2011)
cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister; Cabinet responsible to Parliament elections/appointments: president directly elected by simple majority popular vote for a fixed term of 6-years (there are no term limits); election last held on 13 September 2017 (next to be held in 2023); following legislative elections, leader of majority party or majority coalition appointed prime minister by president; deputy prime ministers appointed by the president
election results: HALIMAH Yacob was declared president on 13 September 2017, being the only eligible candidate; Tony TAN Keng Yam elected president in the previous contested election on 27 August 2011; percent of vote - Tony TAN Keng Yam (independent) 35.2% , TAN Cheng Bock (independent) 34.9%, TAN Jee Say (independent) 25%, TAN Kin Lian (independent) 4.9%
Legislative branch: description: unicameral Parliament (101 seats; 89 members directly elected by popular vote, up to 9 nominated by a parliamentary selection committee and appointed by the president, and up to 9 but currently 3 non-constituency members from opposition parties to ensure political diversity; members serve 5-year terms); note - the number of nominated members will increase to 12 for the 2020 election
elections: last held on 11 September 2015 (next to be held in 2020)
election results: percent of vote by party - PAP 69.9%, WP 12.5%, other 17.6%; seats by party - PAP 83, WP 6; composition - men 77, women 24, percent of women 23.8%
Judicial branch: highest courts: Supreme Court (although the number of judges varies - as of April 2019, the court totaled 20 judges, 7 judicial commissioners, 4 judges of appeal, and 16 international judges); the court is organized into an upper tier Appeal Court and a lower tier High Court) judge selection and term of office: judges appointed by the president from candidates recommended by the prime minister after consultation with the chief justice; judges usually serve until retirement at age 65, but terms can be extended
subordinate courts: district, magistrates', juvenile, family, community, and coroners' courts; small claims tribunals; employment claims tribunals
Political parties and leaders: National Solidarity Party or NSP [Sebastian TEO] People's Action Party or PAP [LEE Hsien Loong] Progress Singapore Party or PSP [Tan Cheng Bock] Singapore Democratic Party or SDP [Dr. CHEE Soon Juan] Workers' Party or WP [Pritam SINGH]
International organization participation: ADB, AOSIS, APEC, Arctic Council (observer), ARF, ASEAN, BIS, C, CP, EAS, FAO, FATF, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NAM, OPCW, Pacific Alliance (observer), PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
National symbol(s): lion, merlion (mythical half lion-half fish creature), orchid;
National anthem: name: "Majulah Singapura" (Onward Singapore)
lyrics/music: ZUBIR Said
note: adopted 1965; first performed in 1958 at the Victoria Theatre, the anthem is sung only in Malay
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Ashok Kumar MIRPURI (since 30 July 2012)
chancery: 3501 International Place NW, Washington, DC 20008
consulate(s) general: San Francisco consulate(s): New York
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires Stephanie SYPTAK-RAMNATH (since 20 January 2017)
embassy: 27 Napier Road, Singapore 258508
mailing address: FPO AP 96507-0001
telephone: [65] 6476-9100
FAX: [65] 6476-9340
Singapore has a highly developed and successful free-market economy. It enjoys an open and corruption-free environment, stable prices, and a per capita GDP higher than that of most developed countries. Unemployment is very low. The economy depends heavily on exports, particularly of electronics, petroleum products, chemicals, medical and optical devices, pharmaceuticals, and on Singapore’s vibrant transportation, business, and financial services sectors. The economy contracted 0.6% in 2009 as a result of the global financial crisis, but has continued to grow since 2010. Growth from 2012-2017 was slower than during the previous decade, a result of slowing structural growth - as Singapore reached high-income levels - and soft global demand for exports. Growth recovered to 3.6% in 2017 with a strengthening global economy. The government is attempting to restructure Singapore’s economy to reduce its dependence on foreign labor, raise productivity growth, and increase wages amid slowing labor force growth and an aging population. Singapore has attracted major investments in advanced manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and medical technology production and will continue efforts to strengthen its position as Southeast Asia's leading financial and technology hub. Singapore is a signatory of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), and a party to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) negotiations with nine other ASEAN members plus Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand. In 2015, Singapore formed, with the other ASEAN members, the ASEAN Economic Community.
Gross national saving: 46.5% of GDP (2017 est.) 46% of GDP (2016 est.) 45.7% of GDP (2015 est.) GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 35.6% (2017 est.) government consumption: 10.9% (2017 est.) investment in fixed capital: 24.8% (2017 est.) investment in inventories: 2.8% (2017 est.) exports of goods and services: 173.3% (2017 est.) imports of goods and services: -149.1% (2017 est.) GDP - composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 0% (2017 est.) industry: 24.8% (2017 est.) services: 75.2% (2017 est.)
Agriculture - products: vegetables; poultry, eggs; fish, ornamental fish, orchids
Industries: electronics, chemicals, financial services, oil drilling equipment, petroleum refining, biomedical products, scientific instruments, telecommunication equipment, processed food and beverages, ship repair, offshore platform construction, entrepot trade
Labor force: 3.657 million (2017 est.) note: excludes non-residents
note: excludes non-residents
highest 10%: 27.5% (2017)
note: expenditures include both operational and development expenditures
Public debt: 111.1% of GDP (2017 est.) 106.8% of GDP (2016 est.)
note: Singapore's public debt consists largely of Singapore Government Securities (SGS) issued to assist the Central Provident Fund (CPF), which administers Singapore's defined contribution pension fund; special issues of SGS are held by the CPF, and are non-tradable; the government has not borrowed to finance deficit expenditures since the 1980s; Singapore has no external public debt
Exports - commodities: machinery and equipment (including electronics and telecommunications), pharmaceuticals and other chemicals, refined petroleum products, foodstuffs and beverages
Exports - partners: China 14.7%, Hong Kong 12.6%, Malaysia 10.8%, US 6.6%, Indonesia 5.8%, Japan 4.7%, South Korea 4.6%, Thailand 4% (2017)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, mineral fuels, chemicals, foodstuffs, consumer goods
Imports - partners: China 13.9%, Malaysia 12%, US 10.7%, Japan 6.3%, South Korea 5% (2017)
Debt - external: $566.1 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $464.1 billion (30 September 2017 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $1.285 trillion (31 December 2017 est.) $1.22 trillion (31 December 2016 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $841.4 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $759.2 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Exchange rates: Singapore dollars (SGD) per US dollar - 1.3 (2017 est.) 1.35 (2016 est.) 1.3815 (2015 est.) 1.3748 (2014 est.) 1.2671 (2013 est.)
Crude oil - exports: 14,780 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Refined petroleum products - consumption: 1.322 million bbl/day (2016 est.)
Refined petroleum products - exports: 1.82 million bbl/day (2015 est.)
Natural gas - exports: 622.9 million cu m (2017 est.)
Telephone system: general assessment: excellent service; world leader in telecommunications and perhaps the first 'Smart Nation' where a sensor network is implemented; saturated mobile audience; roll out of 4G and 5G networks to ensure faster speeds; wireless and fiber broadband growing segments of telecommunications (2018)
domestic: excellent domestic facilities; fixed-line 34.9 per 100 and mobile-cellular 149.6 per 100 teledensity; multiple providers of high-speed Internet connectivity (2018)
international: country code - 65; numerous submarine cables provide links throughout Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe, and US; satellite earth stations - 3, Bukit Timah, Seletar, and Sentosa; supplemented by VSAT coverage
Broadcast media: state controls broadcast media; 6 domestic TV stations operated by MediaCorp which is wholly owned by a state investment company; broadcasts from Malaysian and Indonesian stations available; satellite dishes banned; multi-channel cable TV services available; a total of 19 domestic radio stations broadcasting, with MediaCorp operating 11, Singapore Press Holdings, also government-linked, another 5, 2 controlled by the Singapore Armed Forces Reservists Association and one owned by BBC Radio; Malaysian and Indonesian radio stations are available as is BBC; a number of Internet service radio stations are also available (2019)
Internet country code: .sg
Pipelines: 3220 km domestic gas (2014), 1122 km cross-border pipelines (2017), 8 km refined products (2013)
(2017) paved: 3,500 km (includes 164 km of expressways) (2017)
by type: bulk carrier 603, container ship 490, general cargo 132, oil tanker 732, other 1,569 (2018)
Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Singapore container port(s) (TEUs): Singapore (33,666,000) (2017) LNG terminal(s) (import): Singapore
Military branches: Singapore Armed Forces: Army, Navy, Air Force (includes Air Defense) (2013)
Military service age and obligation: 18-21 years of age for male compulsory military service; 16 1/2 years of age for volunteers; 2-year conscript service obligation, with a reserve obligation to age 40 (enlisted) or age 50 (officers)
Disputes - International: disputes with Malaysia over territorial waters, airspace, the price of fresh water delivered to Singapore from Malaysia, Singapore's extensive land reclamation works, bridge construction, and maritime boundaries in the Johor and Singapore Straits; in 2008, ICJ awarded sovereignty of Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh/Horsburgh Island) to Singapore, and Middle Rocks to Malaysia, but did not rule on maritime regimes, boundaries, or disposition of South Ledge; Indonesia and Singapore continue to work on finalization of their 1973 maritime boundary agreement by defining unresolved areas north of Indonesia's Batam Island; piracy remains a problem in the Malacca Strait
Illicit drugs: drug abuse limited because of aggressive law enforcement efforts, including carrying out death sentences; as a transportation and financial services hub, Singapore is vulnerable, despite strict laws and enforcement, as a venue for money laundering
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Maxwell Quartet Coffee Concert (Susan Elkin reviews)
University of Sussex, 8 December 2019
A concert programme as full as this is certainly good value for money and a very pleasant way to spend a Sunday morning: “A belter of a programme as we say in Scotland” cellist, Duncan Strachan told the audience cheerfully at this third concert in the Strings Attached Coffee Concert series. It was, moreover my first visit to the Attenborough Arts Centre at University of Sussex and it certainly won’t be the last. It’s an attractive small concert hall with lots of blond wood and a fine acoustic fronted by a rather good, spacious café wherein to buy the titular coffee first if you wish. And on a Sunday morning there’s plenty of free parking nearby.
We began with Haydn op 74 no 1. The four members of the Maxwell Quartet found plenty of playfulness in the first movement and I liked the understated elegance with which they played the andantino. Haydn tends to write showy first violin parts and of course, Colin Scobie rose ably to the challenge but it is also good to watch the palpable, visible rapport between the other three which enables the whole thing to cohere with such (deceptively?) insouciant energy.
Then for something completely different, Scobie changed places with second violin George Smith for some Scottish Folk Music – first a song and then two dance tunes arranged for quartet. Classical musicians don’t always make such music sound authentic but the “danceability” and sense of fun was faultless here. It was a nice way of reminding the audience that this quartet comes from Scotland and for a bit that’s where we were too.
With Scobie back in first violin seat we were then treated to Visions at Sea, a 2011 work by Dutch composer, Joey Roukens – a very dramatic contrast for the players to snap into which can’t be easy. With mutes on, the piece starts with a melange of harmonics and ethereal glissandi. From time to time we hear snippets of sea shanties and seventeenth century music as the piece rises to a dramatic storm and ends more or less where it began. In the hands of the Maxwell Quartet it’s an interesting musical exploration of the Dutch maritime past. It isn’t easy listening at first hearing and I assume it’s pretty difficult to play but this performance was intriguing enough to make me think I must find this work and listen to it again.
And so to the climax: Schubert D810 (Death and the Maiden) the performance of which was very arresting. I have rarely heard it played with so much colour and feeling and, again, the bonding between Harris, Elliott Perks on viola and Strachan while Scobie was playing the plaintive top line in the andante was very clear. I also admired particularly the nicely judged tutti moments when all four players come together, as if to breathe as one for a few bars, in the busy presto.
First published by Lark Reviews: https://www.larkreviews.co.uk/?p=5759
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By insisting not to leave the White House, Trump digs a nail in the coffin of the so-called American democracy
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The images of massive violence and chaos flowing from inside the Capitol Building and witnessed by the entire world have exposed the false freedoms and alleged democracy in the United States and have reaffirmed Trump's insistence on clinging to power at all costs. These events prove to the world that the US outgoing President Donald Trump will leave a dark legacy of discord and racism.
In several tweets, Trump described the election process in the United States as "worse than its counterparts in the third world countries", proving once again his willingness to use any means to reverse the results of the presidential elections and guarantee his staying in power, even if this leads to exposing the falsehood of the American democracy.
Trump has spared no effort to change the results of the US presidential election, in which he lost to his Democratic opponent Joe Biden, through questioning election credibility and alleging fraud in the vote count and through urging his supporters to contest his loss and carry out illegal acts including taking to the streets, protesting against the results and storming the Capitol Building.
Trump also pinned hope on his assistants and officials in his administration, such as the US Vice-President Mike Pence, to change the results of the presidential elections when they were approved by Congress, but his hope was crushed after Pence confirmed his inability to do this.
As a result, Trump tried again to press Pence, saying in a tweet: “All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States, AND WE WIN. Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!”
Trump sticks to the story of electoral fraud. In a tweet yesterday, he said that “the states want to correct their votes after they have become aware that these votes are based on violations and fraud.” But the table has turned against him after last night’s violence and chaos in Washington during which his supporters stormed the Capitol Building.
Republican lawmakers were quick to blame Trump for the storming of the Congress by inciting rioters to do so.
The Republican Senator Pat Tommy lashed out at Trump, saying in a press statement: “We witnessed today the damage that can result when men in power and responsibility refuse to acknowledge the truth. We saw bloodshed because the demagogue chose to spread falsehoods and sow distrust of his own fellow Americans.”
Lindsey Graham, the Republican Senator and a confidant to Trump, said in a statement: “Enough is enough... we have to end it.”
Senator Kevin Cramer, on his part, asserted that Trump is to blame for the violence in the Capitol Building. He said that Trump's election speech and call on his supporters to gather outside the Capitol, was inciting and similar to “pouring oil on fire".
As Trump insists on not leaving the White House without fighting to the last breath, questions mount about the possibility that the way he deals with the results of the presidential elections and the divisions he created in the American political circles and street will be the first nail in the coffin of the so-called American democracy.
Hamda Mustafa
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Mike: You are watching Sipping off the Cuff on TequilaAficionado.com. I’m Mike Morales and that gentleman over there…
Rick: Rick Levy in San Diego.
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Rick: The heat has moved out here.
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Mike: Well, then enjoy it. By Thursday we should have it back I think. I’m excited, dude, this is going to be your first, this is a brand new Tequila that just contacted us. It’s called El Consuelo and the neat part about this, Rick, is that it’s organic and its kosher. I don’t know if you can see that down in there but that’s the organic and kosher seal.
Rick: USDA and is it Bioagricert?
Mike: Yeah, it’s Bioagricert and right now I think they are the only one in town but I understand that the CRT will soon be getting involved in certifying tequila. I’m not sure how that’s going to work, it will be interesting whether that becomes a reality at the end of the year. Who knows? But for now, they were really cool. They sent us information on the tequila. I want to make sure. Certified by, no, not Bioagricert its Mayacert.
Rick: Ah.
Mike: I have never heard of Mayacert, I’m going to do a little research on this one for my own sake, Mayacert that’s interesting. It is organic however and it is or at least it’s being recognised as organic and it’s also kosher.
Rick: So that’s some information on their website too. So you can use Jalapeño water as insecticide around their base so you know.*
* Pepper infused water is NOT used as an insecticide on El Consuelo’s agaves. This is a website error. No insecticides are used on the El Consuelo agaves.
Mike: Yeah, yeah.
Rick: Repels insects rather than using industrial chemicals.
Mike: Well you know they were nice enough to send us information, basically a press release with a lot of stuff in it from James Goll, who I believe is the 24 Group PR.
Rick: Well the company that produces the tequila is called tequila spirits LLC.
Mike: Right.
Rick: And then James Goll is the 24 Group PR marketing contact.
Mike: Ok. You know they reached out to us and bingo we got tequila. I like their bottle it’s just a real simple bottle and it’s got a wood cork.
Mike: It’s a wood topper.
Rick: Natural cork.
Mike: Natural cork too, check that out.
Rick: It did leak a little when I got the bottle.
Mike: Yeah and you know when we got it, it was over a 100 degrees when we got our sample so we had a little bit of leakage. I’m going to use my Glencairn glass tonight, my little copita which I seem to really enjoy, look at that.
Rick: That’s a hefty pourer there.
Mike: That’s ok, it’s not like it’s going to go to waste.
Rick: Pay no attention to the man behind the wheel.
Mike: Yeah, (laughter) nice legs and tears, really. I don’t know if you can see this, my lighting here is not the best but it pours really nicely, pretty pretty legs and tears, nothing runny, not too clingy. The bottle itself, if you look at the bottle it’s got that hammered look. I think, you haven’t had it yet Rick, but Papa Bueno Tequila comes in a bottle that’s got that hammered look, it looks like its hand blown.
Rick: It’s got that same texture to the glass as well.
Mike: Yeah, I like calling it that hammered metal, it’s got that hammered metal look to it but its glass. Really nice. It handles nicely. It’s a nice bottle to pour from, really old school look at it. Now what they said in the press material is that they’re using Webber agaves sourced from Jalisco in the Mexican region of Tequila which, if you read that correctly, if you take it word for word, it sounds like they’re using lowlands tequila at this distillery
Rick: 1570.
Mike: Yeah its 1570.
Rick: And it’s in Atotonilco.
Mike: I was probably just down the road from there when we visited Embahador but that’s a highlands distillery.
Rick: But on the bottle it says release out to the world.
Mike: Yeah, but their press material it says something else and so it’s a little confusing.
Rick: PR firms.
Mike: It’s press you know, so we will assume that they are using highlands tequila or highlands agaves.
Rick: It said on the website that they are using agaves from Altos.
Mike: Oh good. Ok.
Rick: It says they are 8 to 9 years old, organic, and are trimmed close when they harvest them.
Mike: Ok, we did not get, and I’m not even sure if they are available yet, Reposado and Anejo. It seems like they are going to go way traditional with this. The reposado was supposed to be six months aged and the anejo aged for 12 months. Both are aged in cognac barrels* so it will be kind of nice to be able to taste those aged varietals.
*El Consuelo is not aged in cognac barrels. El Consuelo ages their Reposado and Anejo in once-used Jack Daniels Whiskey Barrels.
Rick: Check that out, on their website they have some contradictory information.
Mike: What do they say on the website?
Rick: They said that the reposado was aged 11 months and that the anejo was 24 months and in those they also used, in addition to cognac, American Whiskey barrels.*
*This too is incorrect. Cognac barrels are not used at all.
Mike: Well who do we believe?
Rick: I don’t know they will just have to send us the juice and let us decide.
Mike: That’s OK. This is the start of it, so obviously you know the Blanco is the root of all good or evil. I like the smell. Its got that nice fruity, floral smell right on the tip of the nose. You don’t even have to go dig very deep, very far, for it.
Rick: Right. Very fresh.
Mike: It’s a beautiful aroma.
Rick: Yeah and then you know I just cracked the seal on this today and nothing weird was coming off the top. It didn’t need to oxidise or open up or anything.
Mike: No its very clean. Very, very clean smelling. Obviously you can see the legs and tears off of my glass. It’s perfect. There is nothing that says this isn’t going to be good for you.
Rick: Yeah, and you know in their materials they really boast about doing everything in a traditional way, so you know I looked into it a little bit more. They are using masonry ovens for extraction. I was glad to see. I loved this. I see for their fermentation they are using a natural open air fermentation process and they are using stainless vats. They also say they are using a proprietary exclusive yeast, so its exclusive to El Consuelo.
Mike: Well you know what that means right?
Rick: No.
Mike: When they say proprietary, you know the first thing that comes into my head is that this is a yeast that is coming from their own agaves. It doesn’t say that they are estate grown agaves so I’m assuming that they are using yeast from agaves that they purchase and that’s the yeast that they are using.
Rick: So natural yeast from the plants that they are distilling, of course.
Mike: Right. Generally when you hear that it is because they are estate owned and then they produce their own yeast from their own plants and at least that’s the way I interpreted it. I could be wrong. They could be using, I don’t know, a Champaign yeast, but it doesn’t smell like it. It smells just, you know, if anything I get some citrus notes on it.
Rick: You know that.
Mike: That lime zest. I’m getting lime zest again; I’m going to dig in here. Wow.
Rick: Ah, that’s just excellent. I can’t find anything that I can…
Mike: Nothing to complain about.
Rick: There is nothing, there is nothing off, nothing strange, nothing peculiar its just wow, its luscious.
Mike: It’s not beefy either, it’s got a great finish. You notice that finish lingers; it’s a lingering finish, a medium to long finish.
Rick: Yeah, I’m getting that great pepper sensation around the outside, the tongue and back of palate.
Mike: Yeah, this is a star man; this is a stellar, stellar stuff.
Rick: Well it’s great to see, you know, because they seem to really be something. When I was looking at the website they were really pushing about how they are interested in their commitment to sustainability, social consciousness, and they say stuff like additive free with pure ingredients, with methods passed down through generations of Mexican farmers; their commitment to sustainability, social consciousness, for their farmers and their communities so it really seems like they are trying to develop a partnership with the growers and the distillery.
Mike: It’s their method, like you said, the method where they use the *habanero peppered water to ward off insects rather than pesticides.
Mike: It’s really interesting. Having grown my own green chillies in new Mexico I can tell you that the bugs don’t like them, ants don’t like them, there is something the heat, the oils in the chilis. It just naturally doesn’t have, it’s not like a berry or a fruit when you have birds that will eat some of it or rabbits, nobody touches chili, they leave it alone so that’s kind of cool, that’s really neat they way they have gone to that.
Rick: And they also talk about their special bottling process. I’m not sure how hard this is for the industry but they say that they wash their bottles; prior to bottling they wash their bottle in a tequila based solution.
Mike: Oh yeah.
Rick: Have you ever seen anything like that?
Mike: There are a few, as a matter of fact I just saw a video on facebook, I’m not exactly sure of the brand of the mezcal and they are showing you it’s a modern bottling facility but it only takes 3 bottles at a time which is kind of odd and they push it underneath the spouts. The spouts flood, I mean literally wash the empty bottles before they are even filled and then they are turned over and drained like right away. They move it over and then they are filled with the mescal. I’m assuming it’s a similar process with the tequila but this was really a small bottling facility so I’m not sure. I’ve never actually seen an automated bottling facility, but as far as I know, many of these bigger companies wash their bottles out this way.
Rick: This doesn’t seem to be a big distillery at all, it’s ALTOS CIENEGA UNIDOS.
Mike: You know I have my.
Rick: I think they only have 3 brands now the NOM started in June of 2010 and El Consuelo was one of the first marks listed with them but they are saying that El Consuelo was launched into 2016 but they also say that its rich in heritage but I’m not sure if they are saying that this is the process that they are using.
Mike: Yeah.
Rick: Or if this is previously brought up in Mexico and its now available in the US.
Mike: I think what happens is they’re taking some liberties with the information but, you know, the fact of the matter is they are making it in the old school way and you are right, I’m looking at the current NOM list, and from what I can see they have 4 brands that are coming out of there right now so um, that’s a good thing.
Mike: You know there.
Rick: My guess is that this NOM has been working with the folks behind El Consuelo the longest to make this happen but you know I’m glad they did this. As you know, this is really what I love to see and you know I love the kind of citrus nose and feel.
Mike: I love that finish at the end too, you know it’s not all perfumes and flowers you know its once you inspect it. You know you have had tequila and it’s not as much in your face as maybe some of the tequila’s we have had from Amatitan, but this is what its famous for. I wouldn’t call it a typical tequila, there is not such thing to me, but if you are looking for a flavour profile that you are used to getting out of Highlands tequila then drink this one because its organic and small batch. We were talking about the top 10 list for USA Today a little while ago. Had we known these people had been around, they’re probably had to find right now, but maybe next time a list like that comes around, it could be available and in much larger qualities and added to that list.
Rick: Again let’s nominate them for Brand of Promise.
Mike: Nominated for Brand of Promise in the organic category, such a lovely tequila. Congratulations to the company and everything that they are doing there. Tequila Spirits LLC, I think is the owner of the brand and did you say that the company is going to come out with traditional spirits also?
Rick: Yeah, yeah, that because of their drive that they have for sustainability and social consciousness and the production process, they are also looking to release a rum, a vodka and a gin with that same kind of commitment.
Mike: Well there you go.
Rick: That’s great, it’s always wonderful to see people trying to do the right thing and producing something that really comes out great.
Mike: We are not sure what the price points will be or are on this tequila. It’s a wait and see, but keep an eye out for it. It’s called El Consuelo, I think you’re right, Brand of Promise for the Blanco. So there you go, that’s our take on this tequila. I’m Morales here in San Antonio.
Rick: Right, well I’m Rick Levy in San Diego.
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10 Best Wah-Wah Pedal Reviews 2017
Wah-wah pedals are a must have in any music lover’s instrument collection. This device produces a “wah-wah” sound when used, and that is where it gets its name. It is employed in many devices, but there is one device that fits with it like no other, the guitar. The combination of the two is usually glorious. These sorts of combinations attract an enormous amount of attention, and hence the demand for them grows as well. Here we have a list of 10 reasonably priced but amazing quality wah-wah pedals which would make any music geek glow with excitement. Take a look and decide which one suits you best.
Top 10 Best Wah-Wah Pedals
Xotic Effects Wah XW-1
MXR MC404 CAE Dual Inductor
Fulltone Clyde Deluxe
Dunlop 535Q Cry Baby Multi-Wah
Boss AW-3 Dynamic
Ibanez WD7 Weeping Demon
Morley VAI-2 Steve Vai Bad Horsie 2 Contour
Dunlop GCB95 Cry Baby
Vox V845 Classic
Rocktron Classic
Xotic Effects Wah XW-1 (4.9 / 5) Check Price
MXR MC404 CAE Dual Inductor (4.9 / 5) Check Price
Fulltone Clyde Deluxe (4.8 / 5) Check Price
Dunlop 535Q Cry Baby Multi-Wah (4.8 / 5) Check Price
Boss AW-3 Dynamic (4.7 / 5) Check Price
Ibanez WD7 Weeping Demon (4.7 / 5) Check Price
Morley VAI-2 Steve Vai Bad Horsie 2 Contour (4.7 / 5) Check Price
Dunlop GCB95 Cry Baby (4.6 / 5) Check Price
Vox V845 Classic (4.5 / 5) Check Price
Rocktron Classic (4.5 / 5) Check Price
The Xotic Effects Wah XW-1 takes inspiration from the legend, Clyde McCoy. It is slightly expensive than its other counterparts, but the fact that it can reproduce classic sounds flawlessly makes up for the price. The pedal tension is fully adjustable, and this pedal also has a self-lubricating nylon bushing pivot which helps in the smooth functioning of the device. It has a smaller footprint than is conventionally acceptable. This pedal also has a fuzz friendly buffering circuit which helps in creating a satisfying wah sound and a gain boost knob which helps improve the entire performance. One of the biggest attractions of this pedal is that it sounds like no other and is incredibly versatile. Size could be problematic for some, but the mind-boggling sound effects and the thrill of the experience will surely cover up for it.
The MXR MC404 CAE Dual Inductor is a result of the collaboration between MXR and Jim Dunlop. The highlight of this pedal is its two separate Fasel inductors that help in producing different types of breath-taking tones. The first inductor helps in creating dark, warm and soothing wah sounds. The second inductor provides the classic wah sound which does not go as low as the first one, but the high-end signals can be dealt. These inductors come with a switch on the side which allows you to select the required inductor according to your will. A LED light is also inserted as a bonus to show which one of the conductors are in use. The sound performance of this pedal is unparalleled and a work of art. Musicians of any genre would be thrilled with this product as it provides a lot of variety and is versatile in nature. This pedal is considered to be one of the best finds of the music industry as it has the most accomplished pedal possible and is highly adaptable and bends to the desires of the musician and helps to make their uniqueness shine throughout the performance.
Clyde McCoy is the source of inspiration behind this beauty. The Fulltone Clyde Deluxe has the widest pedal sweep, true bypass switching and three settings. The first setting out of the three settings is “Jump” which helps in recreating the 1960 Vox Voodoo Chile wah tone. It adds a nostalgic touch to the pedal. The second setting is what we call the “Shaft” which is the rock lover’s paradise. It helps in dialing up bad and funky grooves. The third setting is called “Wacked”, and it produces more bright and vibrant treble punchy wah tones. We also have a buffer to ensure that all the settings blend smoothly with the fuzz pedals. The pedal has an adjustable treadle which will assist you in the customized resistance of your foot. Along with that we also have an adjustable trimmer to keep track of the gain and boost when the wah switches on. It is of great significance that one keeps practicing and learning about the adjustments that are necessary for using this instrument to its fullest extent and also to maximize its capabilities. With the right sort of handling and changes, this device will shine in all its glory and mesmerize anyone within the hearing range. This pedal works best at a high volume to reach to its maximum level. It is then that it shows us what it is made of when with its every movement our heart starts moving to its nice engaging rhythm.
This pedal allows you to fine tune your wah sound and customizes it to make it your own. The Dunlop 535Q Cry Baby Multi-Wah consists of six range selector controls from six different frequency ranges. Every single range selector is positioned according to their unique tonal characteristics. They also have an immensely valuable Q Control which helps this pedal to effortlessly switch from narrow to sharp, broad to subtle boosts. The control adds a huge deal of versatility to the pedal and makes it far more superior than its predecessors. The quality and durability of this pedal cannot be doubted, and anyone would be lucky to have this pedal in their collection.
The Boss AW-3 Dynamic is responsible for bringing about a revolution in the history of wah-wah pedals. It does not have a standard control panel operated on foot, but it just has an on and off mode of operation. A large number of sonic tweaks are available to help in the alteration of the sound output of the pedal. A surprising array of controls is seen in a Boss company pedal, but there is no reason to be intimidated by them as they are all very user-friendly and easy to comprehend and use. It has two input points- one for guitar and one for bass. They are conveniently positioned to benefit the user of the pedal. We also have an output jack and an expression pedal which help in enhancing the overall beauty of the instrument. The structure of the pedal is firm and sturdy on the outside and secure and reliable on the inside.
One might have a bit of a problem operating the controls, but once you get the hang of it, the pedal becomes easy to work. The first control starting from the top left-hand corner of the device is called “Decay”, and it helps in speeding up the pedal according to one’s desires. You can decide how strong or weak the effect on your audio signal should be with the support of this button. The second button is called “Manual+Sense” which, as the name suggests, plays the part of processing the device and the sounds produced therein to make it look like it was generated by a human being. The third switch called “mode” allows you to simulate the various ways in which a wah pedal can be utilized. In other words, it is the button which controls the variability of sounds which can be produced by the instrument. The last big button is for tap tempo. This pedal is unique in every aspect and makes this cool experiment. It freshens up the mind of the user and opens it up to a whole new set of possibilities. A lot of people would not be comfortable with the concept of this pedal, but if they give it a single try, they will realize that it is not that different from other Orthodox pedals of its time.
The Ibanez WD7 Weeping Demon has an immense amount of features and controls which is unlikely to be found in any other pedal of its time. It has a highly well-versed and sophisticated design and functionality. The main highlight of this pedal is that it uses the “electro-optical” technology instead of the potentiometers or inductors used in other wah wah pedals. This pedal is ahead of its time and produces rich and harmonically pleasing tones which are soothing to the ears. It has the ability to adapt to your preferred genre of music and gives you the option of navigating through other new genres. The control that this pedal has the sound quality is immensely superior compared to other pedals. The other thing that makes it more attractive is that it comes at an extremely reasonable price and also brings along with it bountiful versatility and beauty. It is everything a musician dreams for in a wah-wah pedal.
The Morley VAI-2 Steve Vai Bad Horsie 2 Contour is unique in every aspect such as its design, tone, ease of use, durability. The price range of this pedal is also affordable. It is perfect for today’s musicians who find their salvation in the classics. It is switchless therefore it is extremely convenient for use. The pedal also has a clear tone buffer circuit for pure guitar tone. Its unique design makes it look sleek and elegant, and its solid metal construction makes it strong and durable on the outside. It consists of two control knobs and a single button switch. It is what one could call an aggressive pedal as it was specifically designed for rockers. It provides extra sonic edge and can also be used for clean playing as well as strong volume. However, its real beauty lies in the rock genre where it can be pushed to utilize the maximum of its capacities.
The Dunlop GCB95 Cry Baby belongs to the heavy construction family of wah pedals. Its high built makes it a reliable and dependable companion. This new version has easy access to battery doors unlike the previous one where one has to use a screw opener just to get to the battery. Good vintage wah sound just like the original. It is perfect for bass and harmonics. The only limitation is that adjustments are only a few and one adjustment is not very different from the other ones. They belong to a similar genre, and no real variation is available. That does not negate the brilliance that overflows from this masterpiece. It is the go-to pedal if you want to revisit the classics.
The Vox V845 Classic is based on the original VOX pedal which was first introduced in the 1960’s. The good thing about this version of the pedal is it comes at a reasonable price and also brings along with it the legacy of the original. It has a rare sonic capacity and range which is limited to only Vox products. The sound quality in this one is fantastic. Being a classic brings along with it strength, reliability and durability. It encourages experiments and individual talent with its versatility. This pedal more than being a new beacon of hope for musicians instead comes as a reminder of the glorious classic past and reminds them to always return to their roots if they are looking for inspiration. Sentiments of an entire generation of musicians and artists are attached to this pedal, which makes it even more unique.
The Rocktron Classic as the name suggests is made specifically to be used in the rock genre. The structure of the pedal as well shows that it is done for some hard-core rock stuff. It has an easy battery access department which is a real advantage during live performances. This pedal is oriented for band performances but gives good results even for solo and studio performances. It sounds best when placed the beginning of a single chain. Its sound quality is magnificent, and no one can question reliability, strength and durability. This pedal is a must have in any rock fanatic’s collection. The rock genre fans can live the dream of playing the rock classics with the help of this pedal and can revisit the era that they so dearly cherish.
So, as you can see above Wah-wah pedals come with a multitude of options. One can easily choose a favourite depending on what sort of music they are comfortable playing. The best part is that the choice is only between the better and the best and no matter what you choose it can never go wrong with these ten featured pedals. They are all developed by world-class brands who have dedicated a lifetime to give service to the artists and musicians of the world. Every small nuance of each of the pedals mentioned above has been made keeping in mind the public demand for that particular period.
The rock lovers can find their muse in the few rock-oriented pedals. The ones looking to escape reality and delve into the vintage past with the help of music will also not be disappointed. We have the all-rounders and versatile pedals that blend from one genre to another, effortlessly, for the ones who are still confused about their choice. The only criteria for the happiness and satisfaction these pedals will bring you are that you have to be a music lover.
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The screen stared at him, a blank void, taunting him. The only visible sign of life was a single blinking cursor, waiting for his command.
He had no commands.
He knew he needed to write. He knew what he wanted to write in a vague, foggy way – yet every day he sat down at his keyboard, staring at the screen in front of him, and typed nothing. Three weeks now and not a single word could be counted.
Groaning in frustration he rose from the chair, hoping that some movement of his body might spark movement in his mind. He paced back and forth, wondering once again if his common trek across this small patch of ground was wearing a trail in the carpet. He had seen no signs yet.
On one of his rotations he stopped at the wall, standing so close his nose could almost touch the paint. Its whiteness mocked him, an enlargement of the white screen behind him waiting for his words.
This wall was a tangible manifestation of the wall in his own mind, keeping his thoughts from flowing forth. How to overcome this obstacle?
He placed both of his hands against the wall, pressing against it. Softly at first, then gradually increasing in strength until he could push no more.
The wall did not move.
In exasperation he slammed his head against the wall, as hard as he could. As his head pulled back, he saw the force of the blow had formed a dent in the wall.
Progress.
He bashed his head again, and again. The dent grew slightly larger, but progress was slow.
Then, a new occurrence, a bright red stain against the whiteness of the wall. Woozy, he felt his forehead. They came back tinged with the same red on the wall.
He had broken through the wall. His creativity now was pouring out from him – he could feel it rushing over his face, gushing down his cheeks. He was ready to write.
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Clement Weyland Bowyer-Smijth was born on 23 November 1851.1 He was the son of Reverend Alfred John Edward Bowyer-Smijth and Mary Constantia Rolt.1,2 He married Edith Maude Gray, daughter of W. Gray, in 1891. He died on 22 February 1910 at age 58.1
Children of Clement Weyland Bowyer-Smijth and Edith Maude Gray
Alice Mary Bowyer-Smijth2
Sir Philip Weyland Bowyer-Smyth, 14th Bt.+1 b. 4 Feb 1894, d. 29 Nov 1978
Lily Marcia Bowyer-Smijth2 b. 1905
[S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 465. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
Reverend Alfred John Edward Bowyer-Smijth1
M, #176592, b. 20 August 1825, d. 19 January 1887
Reverend Alfred John Edward Bowyer-Smijth was born on 20 August 1825.1 He was the son of Sir Edward Bowyer-Smijth, 10th Bt. and Laetitia Cecily Weyland.2 He married Mary Constantia Rolt, daughter of Maj.-Gen. Sir John Rolt, on 17 June 1847. He died on 19 January 1887 at age 61.1
He graduated with a Master of Arts (M.A.)2 He was the Rector at Attleborough, Norfolk, EnglandG.2
Children of Reverend Alfred John Edward Bowyer-Smijth and Mary Constantia Rolt
Ethelreda Frances Bowyer-Smijth+2 d. 9 Dec 1935
Ada Cicely Bowyer-Smijth+2 d. 6 Dec 1880
Helen Mary Bowyer-Smijth2 d. 23 May 1933
Major Sir Alfred John Bowyer-Smyth, 13th Bt.2 b. 12 Sep 1850, d. 4 Aug 1927
Clement Weyland Bowyer-Smijth+1 b. 23 Nov 1851, d. 22 Feb 1910
Edmund Caswell Bowyer-Smijth+2 b. 20 Jul 1853, d. 20 Jul 1921
George Smith1
M, #176593, d. before 9 March 1584
George Smith was the son of John Smith and Agnes Charnock.1 He married Isabella (?)1 He died before 9 March 1584.1
He lived at Ankerwycke Priory, Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, EnglandG.1
He also had four younger sons.1
Child of George Smith and Isabella (?)
Sir William Smith+1 b. c 1550, d. Dec 1626
John Smith1
M, #176594, d. circa 1556
John Smith married Agnes Charnock circa 1508.1 He died circa 1556.1
He held the office of Sheriff of Hertfordshire circa 1539.1 He held the office of Sheriff of Essex circa 1539.1 He lived at Saffron Walden, Essex, EnglandG.1
Children of John Smith and Agnes Charnock
George Smith+1 d. b 9 Mar 1584
John Smith+1 d. 1557
Sir Thomas Smith1 b. 28 Mar 1514, d. 12 Aug 1577
Agnes Charnock1
Agnes Charnock married John Smith circa 1508.1
She lived at Lancashire, EnglandG.1 From circa 1508, her married name became Smith.1
Children of Agnes Charnock and John Smith
Sir Thomas Smith1
M, #176596, b. 28 March 1514, d. 12 August 1577
Sir Thomas Smith was born on 28 March 1514.1 He was the son of John Smith and Agnes Charnock.1 He married, firstly, Elizabeth Karkeck, daughter of William Karkeck, on 15 April 1549.1 He married, secondly, Philippa Wilford, daughter of John Wilford, on 23 July 1554.1 He died on 12 August 1577 at age 63, without issue.1
He held the office of Secretary of State, during the reigns of King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I.1 He held the office of Ambassador to France, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.1 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Essex.1 He held the office of Chancellor of the Order of the Garter.1 He lived at Hill Hall, Theydon Mount, Essex, EnglandG.1
Elizabeth Karkeck1
F, #176597, d. 3 August 1553
Elizabeth Karkeck was the daughter of William Karkeck.1 She married Sir Thomas Smith, son of John Smith and Agnes Charnock, on 15 April 1549.1 She died on 3 August 1553.1
From 15 April 1549, her married name became Smith.1
William Karkeck1
Child of William Karkeck
Elizabeth Karkeck1 d. 3 Aug 1553
Philippa Wilford1
F, #176599, d. 13 June 1578
Philippa Wilford was the daughter of John Wilford.1 She married, firstly, Sir John Hampden before 1554.1 She married, secondly, Sir Thomas Smith, son of John Smith and Agnes Charnock, on 23 July 1554.1 She died on 13 June 1578.1
From before 1554, her married name became Hampden.1 From 23 July 1554, her married name became Smith.1
John Wilford1
Child of John Wilford
Philippa Wilford1 d. 13 Jun 1578
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ptychopetalum_olacoides_benth
Ptychopetalum olacoides Benth. - Oleaceae - muira-puama (port.), potency wood, Potenzholz
Tree, up to 15m high, native to South America (Guyana, Surinam, Brazil).
The roots were used by the Amerindians of the Amazonas forest to treat paralysis, dyspepsia, menstrual cramps, and impotence.
[Die Stammpflanzen der Droge Muira-puama., Anselmino, E., Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem, 1932, 623-626]
The root bark contains lupeol (up to 0.5%), mostly as ester of behenic acid (61%). Dried wood and roots of the tree (also from Liriosma ovata other Ptychopetalum species) provide the commercial pharmaceutical drug 'Muira puama lignum' (potency wood) which is traded as aphrodisiac although this effect is unproven.
[Der lipophile Inhaltsstoff von Muira puama 3., Auterhoff, H., Momberger, B., Mitt. Archiv der Pharmazie, 304(3), 1971, 223-228.]
[Hagers Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Springer 2010]
„Decoctions of the root and stem bark of Ptychopetalum olacoides Benth., Olacaceae, have been used in folk medicine for their aphrodisiac, appetite modulator and anti-tremor properties. Additionally, the plant is claimed to act as a nerve tonic by promoting recovery of cognitive and motor functions after brain injuries (including strokes) and cognition improvement (particularly alertness and memory) in the elderly.
… HPLC-UV/PAD profiles of bark and commercial extracts of P. olacoides were examined, and a protocol for the isolation and purification of three compounds present in all of the analysed extracts was elaborated. The common components were identified by NMR as vanillic acid, protocatechuic acid and theobromine, the former of which has been proposed as a phytochemical marker for P. olacoides.“
[CValidated high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the standardisation of Ptychopetalum olacoides Benth., Olacaceae, commercial extracts., olombo, R., Batista, A.N.D.L., Bomfim, G.C., Burgos, R.C., Cavalheiro, A.J., Bolzani, V.D.S., Reimberg, M.C.H., Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia, Vol.20(5), 2010, 781-788]
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0102-695X2010000500021&script=sci_arttext
„The continual exploitation of this Amazon endemic species, the use of roots, and the lack of incentives to cultivate it to supply this demand must have led to significant reduction of its natural populations. When such a situation arises, usually the market seeks alternative sources of supply, eventually triggering the replacement of the true species by another with the same indications, although it may not always be chemically similar, as occurred with the catuaba. In the case of P. olacoides, the commercial substitution led to exploitation of stems, which were initially offered as being from the species itself, as a strategy to prevent the destruction of the specimens by removal of the roots, as reported by plant drug distribution companies. However, it was gradually found that these stems came from the interior of the state of Bahia, probably originating from some species of Croton, Euphorbiaceae, and were completely different from the Amazon Marapuama.“ [but Croton echioides, the Northeastern Marapuama, also contains lupeol]
[Morphoanatomy and pharmacognostic study of the wood of Croton echioides, the Northeastern Marapuama., Novello, C.R., Marques, L.C., Miyazaki, C.R., Milaneze-Gutierre, M.A., Carneiro-Torres, D.S., Sarragiotto, M.H., de Mello, J.C., Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia, Vol.22(5), 2012, 946-956]
Martius, C., Eichler, A.G., Urban, I., Flora Brasiliensis, vol.12(2): f.60, t.3 (1872)
http://plantgenera.org/species.php?id_species=853300
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#34 Rolls into Victory Lane at the Glen!
WAKTINS GLEN, N.Y. [September 9, 2017] – Tony Buffomante secured his fourth TA2 class win of the 2017 season today at Watkins Glen International, emerging atop the 19-car TA2 field in 102-mile race around the 3.4-mile track that saw four different leaders and a restart with only five laps remaining. Buffomante, the 2016 TA2 champion, was joined on the podium by two other former champs— Gar Robinson, 2015, and Cameron Lawrence, 2014 and 2013—completing the podium.
Buffomante, in the No. 34 Bestline Superior Lubricants Ford Mustang, began the race in seventh position but worked his way up to fourth by the start of the second lap before making his way into third by lap 12. Buffomante would overtake the No. 12 Speedlogix Dodge Challenger of pole sitter Jason Hart for second position on lap 17, settling into pursuit of race leader Shane Lewis, in the No. 72 Pura Vida Tequila/ 74 Ranch Resort Chevrolet Camaro.
Buffomante’s pursuit would continue five more laps before the No. 72 of Lewis spun on the exit of turn one coming off the paint and rumble strips, giving Buffomante the lead and creating the first and only full-course caution of the race. Buffomante would hold the lead through the restart and remaining five laps, giving the win to Mike Cope Racing and stretching his podium streak to four consecutive races. The victory is the 11th of Buffomante’s TA2 career, tying him second all-time with Bob Stretch.
Finishing second was points leader Gar Robinson, in the No. 74 Pura Vida Tequila/ 74 Ranch Resort Chevrolet Camaro, minimizing the distance closed by Buffomante in the championship battle between the two.
“The 74 Ranch team is just too good,” said Buffomante. “Every time we win one, Gar finds a way to finish second. All of Mike Cope racing is fighting as hard as we can—it just seems like the only way we can get points is to win! I blew qualifying pretty bad yesterday; I was hoping to get some points there as well. Still, this one is special. I’m thinking about Mike Cope and his family, everyone down in the path of the hurricane down there. I’m happy to bring this win back for Ilmor, Wilwood, Bestline and Mike Cope—they gave me a car I could run with.”
“I hated to see that for Shane,” continued Buffomante. “We had a good race going there, he was faster in some areas, we were in others. He got loose up on the paint and the curb there, and it unfortunately ended his day. I’m thankful for getting the chance to do this; I always circle Watkins Glen at the start of the year.”
The win marks three victories in four races for Buffomante—the only miss a second place finish at Road America—as the Series enters its final stages, a span during which Buffomante performed well last year.
“This is a good time of year for me,” said Buffomante. “We don’t do any offseason testing; we don’t do any testing between the races. The only time I’m in the car are race weekends; so when they start coming at us more often we get into a bit of a rhythm and I get more comfortable. It makes us a little bit quicker. I’m looking forward to VIR in a big way. We won there last year; I love that track. Then it’s New Jersey, and I had a win there last year as well— so hopefully we can whittle away a few more points. But you can’t take anything for granted. The Robinson bunch is just too good.”
Like Buffomante, both Robinson and Cameron Lawrence, driver of the No. 19 Class Auto Chevrolet Camaro, drove from behind to secure their podium positions. Robinson recovered from eighth position after a spin of his own, charging from fourth to second over the last four laps while Lawrence drove back from eighth position to capture third with two laps remaining.
The TA2 top five was completed by pole sitter Jason Hart who finished fourth and Tom Sheehan, in the No. 97 LTK Insulation Technologies Chevrolet Camaro, a career best TA2 finish for Hart and the best of the season for Sheehan. The top ten also included Harry Steenbakkers, Doug Peterson, Curt Vogt, Phil Lasco and Elias Anderson.
Dillon Machavern, in the No. 24 Heritage Motorsports Ford Mustang, led laps 10 through 11 before the No. 24 retired due to suspension issues.
For continuing his podium streak Buffomante was awarded the CoolShirt Systems Cool Move of the Race while the Damon Racing team of Tom Sheehan was awarded the Pitboxes.com Crew of the Race, and Crew Chief Jamie Abue received the TraqGear Crew Chief award.
Trans Am’s TA, TA3 and TA4 classes will hold qualifying later this afternoon with sessions commencing at 5:15 PM ET in preparation for their multi-class 102-mile competition tomorrow, Sunday September 10, also at Watkins Glen.
The Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli weekend at Watkins Glen is being held in conjunction with the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association and its US Vintage Grand Prix weekend.
All results provisional until posted final.
Provisional TA2 Race Results in PDF
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Joseph Pulitzer Quotes
Reading and share top 29 famous quotes and sayings about Joseph Pulitzer by famous authors and people.
Top Joseph Pulitzer Quotes
Browse top 29 famous quotes and sayings about Joseph Pulitzer by most favorite authors.
Favorite Joseph Pulitzer Quotes
1. "The mythology of Doctor Who has built into it the continuation, evolution, and longevity of the character's mythical qualities through his regenerative process. I have to agree with Lou Anders, when he states: "Doctor Who is the truest expression of Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces ever conceived. The idea of an alien, come down to earth, repeatedly dying and resurrecting for the salvation of others is as close to the perpetual reenactment of the eternal Hero's Journey as you can hope to find."(6)"
Author: Anthony S. Burdge
2. "One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his inn was crowded; his hands were full; his mind was preoccupied. This§ is the answer that millions are giving today. Like a Bethlehem innkeeper, they cannot find room for Christ. All the accommodations in their hearts are already taken up by other crowding interests. Their response is not atheism. It is not defiance. It is preoccupation and the feeling of being able to get on reasonably well without Christianity."
Author: Billy Graham
3. "The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me."
Author: David Lindsay Abaire
4. "Writing again, he stressed that the events of war are always uncertain. Then, paraphrasing a favorite line from the popular play Cato by Joseph Addison - a line that General Washington, too, would often call upon - Adams told her, "We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it."
Author: David McCullough
5. "Also another time she had wakened in dead of night, thinking that something touched her, and when she looked she saw that a black scaly tail, tufted with flame at the end, like a fiend's, had switched across her and lay there burning the covers. And when she turned shrieking, to see what manner of thing lay beside her in the bed, she was at first reassured by sight of her husband's face, then saw, to her horror, that horns had risen, black and pointed, from his forehead. After that she screamed again and remembered nothing until Joseph was shaking her awake, and there were neither horns nor tail to be seen. Nor were the bedclothes scorched."
Author: Evangeline Walton
6. "… Fourier's great mathematical poem ...{Referring to Joseph Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat, one of the precursors to thermodynamics.}"
Author: Fourier
7. "Many have belittled Joseph Smith, but those who have will be forgotten in the remains of Mother Earth, and the odor of their infamy will ever be with them, but honor, majesty, and fidelity to God, exemplified by Joseph Smith and attached to his name, will never die."
Author: George Albert Smith
8. "I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)"
Author: Haruki Murakami
9. "I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing—to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics—Well, they can do whatever they wish."
10. "No touching Baby Jesus.""But we're his parents!" proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation."Mary Beth," Barb Wiggin said, "if you touch the Baby Jesus, I'm putting you in a cow costume."
Author: John Irving
11. "Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people into watching the money shot."
Author: John Scalzi
12. "For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing."
Author: Jon Bon Jovi
13. "But perhaps the greatest attraction of Mormonism was the promise that each follower would be granted an extraordinarily intimate relationship with God. Joseph taught and encouraged his adherents to receive personal communiqués straight from the Lord. Divine revelation formed the bedrock of the religion."
Author: Jon Krakauer
14. "For years he had complained that political leaders were disregarding their sworn duty to safeguard the Mormons' constitutionally guaranteed freedom to worship without being subjected to harassment, and worse, at the hands of the religious majority. Yet in both word and deed, Joseph repeatedly demonstrated that he himself had little respect for the religious views of non-Mormons, and was unlikely to respect the constitutional rights of other faiths if he somehow won the presidency and were running the show."
15. "Be less than what you are so that you can become more." ? Joseph Delaney, The Spook's Sacrifice"
Author: Joseph Delaney
16. "Still, one could argue—and many did—that Greenspan, at least, had no business being quite so shocked. Over the years, countless people had challenged his deregulatory dogma, including (to name just a few) Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman, both Nobel Prize–winning economists, and Brooksley Born, who was head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 1996 to 1999. Born eventually became something of a Cassandra figure for the crisis, since she repeatedly called for regulating the market for derivatives, those ultracomplex financial products that eventually helped bring down the economy. Those calls were silenced when Greenspan, along with then-Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and then-Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Arthur Levitt, took the extraordinary step of convincing Congress to pass legislation forbidding Born's agency from taking any action for the duration of her term."
Author: Kathryn Schulz
17. "Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve."
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
18. "The perfect human being is uninteresting. — Joseph Campbell"
Author: Laura Greenwald
19. "But most of all books (I say again and again) are like the Thirty-Mile Woman from Toni Morrison's Beloved: 'She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.' ~ Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao."
Author: Leah Price
20. "We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves. As author and mythologist Joseph Campbell suggested, "'What will they think of me?' must be put aside for bliss." We begin to feel this bliss when messages previously experienced as critical or blaming begin to be seen for the gifts they are: opportunities to give to people who are in pain."
Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg
21. "Stories are masks of God.That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother's Grimm.Stories show us how to bear the unbearable, approach the unapproachable, conceive the inconceiveable. Stories provide meaning, texture, layers and layers of truth.Stories can also trivialize. Offered indelicately, taken too literally, stories become reductionist tools, rendering things neat and therefore false. Even as we must revere and cherish the masks we variously create, Campbell reminds us, we must not mistake the masks of God for God.So it seemes to me that one of the most vital things we can teach our children is how to be storytellers. How to tell stories that are rigorously, insistently, beautifully true. And how to believe them."
Author: Melanie Tem
22. "I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke - he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him."
Author: Mikheil Saakashvili
23. "I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces."
Author: Norman Spinrad
24. "Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?"
Author: Peter Shaffer
25. "God did not give Joseph any special information about how to get from being the son of a nomad in Palestine to being Pharaoh's right hand man in Egypt. What He did give Joseph were eleven jealous brothers, the attention of a very loose and vengeful woman, the ability to do the service of interpreting dreams and managing other people's affairs and the grace to do that faithfully wherever he was."
Author: Rich Mullins
26. "So that originally, and Naturally, there is no such thing as Slavery. Joseph was rightfully no more a Slave to his brethren, then they were to him: and they no more Authority to Sell him, than they had to Slay him. [Genesis 37]."
Author: Samuel Sewall
27. "Why do you ask?""Because I can.""You can what?""I can go in the private collection!" I scurried toward him. "My father had a lifetime subscriptioin, Mr. Sheridan, and not just that, but he had special privileges. I'm certain I could use his name to get you into the private collection."Daniel's jaw fell. "Why didn't you say so before?""What?" I recoiled. "How was I supposed to know you needed it?""We could've gone ages ago!"My enthusiasm transformed into outrage. "In that case, why didn't you say you needed it?""Because I didn't know you had a subscription!""Aha!" I cried, thrusting a finger at him. "Your argument's a circle!"Daniel sprang up. "We wasted all this time-""Silence!" Joseph roared. "You are like squawking parrots, and I have had quite enough. Miss Fitt, I would ask that you take Mr. Sheridan to the library immediately. Daniel, I would ask that you keep that big mouth of yours silent."
Author: Susan Dennard
28. "There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity, and to every idea we have of moral justice, as any thing done by Robespierre, by Carrier, by Joseph le Bon, in France, by the English government in the East Indies, or by any other assassin in modern times. When we read in the books ascribed to Moses, Joshua, etc., that they (the Israelites) came by stealth upon whole nations of people, who, as the history itself shews, had given them no offence; that they put all those nations to the sword; that they spared neither age nor infancy; that they utterly destroyed men, women and children; that they left not a soul to breathe; expressions that are repeated over and over again in those books, and that too with exulting ferocity; are we sure these things are facts? are we sure that the Creator of man commissioned those things to be done? Are we sure that the books that tell us so were written by his authority?"
Author: Thomas Paine
29. "It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son."
Author: Thomas S. Monson
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CE marking: implications for timber products
This Wood Information Sheet explains the legal basis behind CE marking and the requirement to comply with the EU Construction Products Directive. The role of 'Harmonised standards' and CE marking in demonstrating compliance with the CPD is discussed.
Products which can be CE marked to Harmonised Standards currently are listed, as are those which may be found with CE marks via an ETAG. Examples of CE marking for glulam, trussed rafters and machine-graded structural timber are illustrated.
The first harmonised Standard published for timber products was EN 13986 for panel products and this is used to demonstrate the process behind CE marking. The performance requirements defined in the standard relate to the Essential Requirements laid down in the CPD and these are shown in tables.
Finally, the implications of CE marking for suppliers and users are outlined.
Timber products with harmonised standards
Example: CE marking for wood-based panels
Grown in Britain
Elizabeth Turner and Charlie Law explode the myth that British-grown timber is inferior to imports.
Article from the TRADA Timber Industry Yearbook 2014
01/01/2014 | Magazine Article
Timber on our doorstep
University Liaison Manager Elizabeth Turner has been leading TRADA Technology's involvement in three research consortia examining the commercial potential of British timber. With Technical Consultant Nick Clifford, she explains why structurally, as well as aesthetically, British forests have much to offer the designer.
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Home-grown Cross-laminated timber - Pipe dream or realistic proposition
Director of Edinburgh Napier University's Forest Products Research Institute, Peter Wilson believes that despite limited forestry resources, the possibility of the UK creating its own Cross-Laminated Timber industry is more a question of 'when' than 'whether'.
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The Trapper at Bay. Ballads of the Bivouac and the Border
Will Briggs and Owen get married in space? The TV Hospital drama you've never seen before enters its sixth season. We will surely fall down and die.' 'I can't help it. F., 167 Scandinavian, 41, 318, 321 Schachter, R., 281, 282, 283, 284, 285 Schapera, I., 125, 130, 132, 137, 138, 423, 424, 425, 428, 488 Schechner, R., xxvii Scheub, H., xxxix Schipper, xxx Schlenker, C. Nothing but an ideal ever endures upon earth. H., 375 nature, 185 as theme: in lyrics, 241, 248 in panegyric, 117, 132, 135 in riddles, 424 Ndau, 178, 272, 386 Ndebele, 132, 208, 289, 362, 385, 386, 390 Negritude, 43, 366 Nettl, B., 10, 36, 263, 304 Newell, S., xxx Ngala, 422, 423 Ngandu Nkashama, R, xxx Ngoni, 79, 121, 125,141, 149, 150, 204, 208, 210, 292 Ngubane, J.
Publisher: BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research) (March 11, 2010)
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We first heard about Liberty Trust through David Mitchell after we had returned from a year spent working in the UK in 1995. David outlined the principles behind Liberty Trust and to be honest we thought it sounded too good to be true. Craig was far more enthusiastic about the scheme than myself who (I am embarrassed to admit) was a bit skeptical about the whole idea. We decided to join anyway and Craig enthusiastically told others about Liberty Trust, some of who seemed to think it was too good to be true also, reinforcing my skepticism.
Craig decided to retrain soon after we arrived home from the UK and he spent the next 5 years in fulltime study to gain a Bachelor in Architecture. We had to move to Auckland for study reasons and purchased an unfinished home, as that was all we could afford and then spent the next 10 years living in a building site to gradually complete it as our finances allowed. We often found maintaining a mortgage and paying Craig’s student fees hard, but were lucky enough to have students live with us for about 10 years, amongst the mess, which helped financially.
Once Craig completed his study and after being married for over 12 years we decided we very much wanted a family. We were faced with another hurdle of needing fertility assistance, which was emotionally and financially stressful. Again it made us feel we were always one step behind getting on top of the mortgage noose. Our daughter Ruby was finally born (now 4 yrs), and with another dose of fertility assistance our twin boys Liam and Cooper who are soon turning one, were born. We feel very blessed! Psalm 127
During our time in Auckland there were many occasions when we thought we really need that loan now! but continued to believe Gods timing was very different from our own. Now 11 years later we have been privileged to receive an interest free loan from Liberty Trust. It came at a time when we were wondering what our next step in life should be and out of the blue we were offered a business opportunity in Te Kuiti.
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ATAC & AONISC applaud Sky’s ‘Free to Air’ Playoff decision
Posted on 09/11/2020 by Graeme Baxter
Fans’ groups in Scotland and Northern Ireland have welcomed the announcement that their respective Euro 2020 play-off finals are to be shown on free-to-air channels on Thursday evening.
Broadcaster Sky will screen Scotland’s clash with Serbia on the Sky Sports Football, Sky One and Pick channels, while the Northern Ireland game against Slovakia will be shown on Sky Sports Premier League and Challenge.
Graeme Baxter from the Association of Tartan Army Clubs said: “Both ATAC and the AONISC had spoken to our respective FAs in August about the desire to see our games made as widely accessible as possible, so the decision by Sky to show Thursday’s matches on free to air channels is brilliant news.”
Gary McAllister from the Amalgamation of Official Northern Ireland Supporters Clubs added: “This is a really good decision by Sky. With a limited number of fans allowed into our match against Slovakia and pubs currently closed, this will allow everyone to see the game in their own home and avoid the temptation for people to congregate elsewhere to see the action.”
The decision also means that fans from all four of the UK ‘home nations’ will be able to watch their National Teams on free-to-air television with England against the Republic of Ireland airing on ITV, while Wales’ friendly against the USA will be shown on S4C.
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/19692/12126185/sky-sports-make-scotland-and-northern-ireland-euro-2020-play-off-finals-available-free-to-air
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ATAC supporting Andrew Watson grave restoration project
A Scotland fan was writing an article for Scottish Epistles Football Fanzine on the Rosebery colours. One of the things that came out of this was the fact that these colours were worn in the international against England at The Oval in 1881 in which Andrew Watson was the captain, and the first international black football player.
Of course, Watson is also commemorated on the mural at the 1st Hampden (now Hampden Bowling club) for playing in the international against England there the following year which resulted in a 5-1 victory.
Andrew Watson died in 1921 and is buried in Richmond cemetery where his grave has fallen into state of disrepair. A Scotland fan who lives in the area visited the cemetery in 2020 and took pictures of the grave displayed on this site. It struck the Scotland fan, known as Ally, that this was all rather sad – one of Scotland’s most important sporting icons, who is commemorated on a mural at Hampden, who will hopefully be recognised with a permanent statue/memorial in Glasgow and who should be lauded as a pioneer of the game of football, in a unassuming resting place with no indication as to his importance. Surely the very least that should be done is that grave could be tidied up and restored to a more befitting state.
ATAC have kicked off donations with an initial £250 contribution, and we are encouraging people to contribute as much or as little as they want. Please donate what you can. It’s an incredible story.
For full details on the project, click here to visit the crowdfunding page
Andrew Watson
Son of a wealthy Scottish Sugar planter, Andrew was born in British Guiana, and brought to the UK as a child. He attended school in West Yorkshire and London, before studying philosophy, mathematics and engineering at the University of Glasgow.
After a spell as the star player and match secretary of Glasgow’s Parkgrove FC, he would go on to play for two of the greatest clubs of the nineteenth century; Queen’s Park and Corinthians. A strong and composed full back, Watson won three Scottish Cups and four Glasgow Charity Cups with Queen’s Park and played in the Corinthians side which thrashed FA Cup holders Blackburn Rovers 8-1 in 1883. Swifts in 1882, he also has the accolade of being the first black footballer to play in the FA Cup.
Watson played 3 times for Scotland, captaining the side to a 6-1 victory over England at the Oval in 1881. This result remains England’s heaviest defeat on home soil. He played twice more for Scotland (a 5-1 win against Wales in 1881 and a 5-1 win against England in 1882) before heading to London. Playing for London
Andrew was inducted in to the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in 2012. https://scottishfootballmuseum.org.uk/andrew-watson/
FSE Networking Meeting/ Nations League Update
ATAC were represented at tonight’s Football Supporters Europe Summer 2020 Networking meeting.
It has been confirmed by UEFA to FSE today, that the closed door policy for all UEFA matches applies to all club, International and U21 international matches until further notice From this evening’s meeting, we understand that September’s Nations League matches will fall into UEFA’s closed door policy announced a few weeks back.
We are expecting an announcement in August with regards the October fixtures. UEFA may decide, in the interests of sporting fairness, all Nations League matches for this year are closed doors to prevent teams having an advantage in the later games
Unsure as of yet if it applies to the October playoffs for @EURO2020 (2021).
We hope to receive further clarification from SFA & SSC next week.
FANS’ ORGANISATIONS FROM ACROSS EUROPE CALL FOR INVOLVEMENT IN THE FUTURE OF FOOTBALL
The recent return of football behind closed doors has demonstrated that fans are the lifeblood of the game. Their presence in the stands has been sorely missed, and the spectacle we are accustomed to has been absent without them. It is therefore more important now than ever for supporters to be included in discussions that will determine the immediate and long-term future of the game.
These discussions should revolve around three core pillars.
First, the safe return of spectators. The impact of the virus is not evenly distributed—different countries have understandably adopted different measures at different times. Still, the health of players, staff, fans, and the general public must always come first. This means minimising the risk of the virus spreading in all settings. UEFA, national leagues, and football associations have acted in line with this principle, but it must remain our foremost concern. To this end, the return of spectators to stadia must be accompanied by a meaningful consultation with fans’ representatives at every level of the game on health safety protocols and other operational measures.
Second, a recognition that the contribution made by fans is irreplaceable. As such, we have significant concerns regarding attempts by broadcasters to replace or imitate the unique atmosphere produced by fans. Augmented reality technology, pre-recorded chants, and other forms of artificial support represent a rebuke to match-going fans. Empty stadia are a direct consequence of a public health crisis that has impacted every single one of us and the absence of fans cannot be compensated for by a computer simulation aimed at the amusement of television audiences.
Third, multi-stakeholder dialogue on the future of football. The coronavirus crisis has yet again shown that the current model of football is flawed, unfair, and unsustainable. Football needs to change dramatically. And it needs to change for the better. Any reform process must include fan representatives, on a local, national, and European level. Fans must be engaged and involved in decisions that relate to the wider future of the game, including the necessary overhaul of governance structures and financial regulations.
There can be no “return to normal.” Lasting change is needed to make the game sustainable from top to bottom, and fans stand ready to play a part in shaping that change.
https://www.fanseurope.org/en/news/news-3/2111-european-fans-organisations-call-for-supporters-to-have-a-say-on-the-future-of-football.html
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ATAC’s Chair and Vice Chair, Martin Riddell, and Graeme Baxter, attended a meeting earlier this week at the invitation of the Major Events Team at Scottish Government, to discuss the UEFA European Championship (Scotland) Bill following its introduction at the end of September. The basis of the bill is to put protections in place for the Euro’s next year taking place, and impacting supporters, in Scotland. This involves stringent legislation on ticket touting, advertising, and street trading, along with the provision to police and enforcement officers to implement fully.
Ticket Touting and the resale of tickets for any kind of profit, for matches in Glasgow, or by individuals in Scotland, will be a criminal offence, in addition to breaching conditions set out by UEFA. We would encourage anyone wishing to attend the matches to apply for tickets through UEFA, or in the event of Scotland qualifying, the Scotland Supporters Club / SFA. Restrictions on advertising and street trading will be in place at Hampden, a perimeter surrounding the stadium, and within the event zones to be located within the City Centre.
ATAC are fully supportive of the measures being put in place to protect supporters, and will keep supporters up to date on further developments as the tournament nears. You can keep up to date on its progression through parliament by visiting the Scottish Government website
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August 22, 2017 / Tara Zdancewicz / Special Pages
Special Pages | A Few (of Many) Important Musicals from France
Editor’s note: Musical in cinema is generally considered an American genre. The very first feature “talkie” The Jazz Singer (1927) is indeed a musical, selling sound as a novelty on the big screen. While musical directors from countries other than the U.S. often admit to being influenced by big Hollywoodian spectacles, the impulse to employ the emotional agency of music in cinema as soon as sound became accessible is not unique to the Americans, as demonstrated by French director René Clair who made Under the Roofs of Paris in 1930. Throughout the history of cinema, non-American musicals have greatly contributed to the sophistication and nuance of the genre. To accompany our Elements of Cinema screening of Jacques Demy’s The Young Girls of Rochefort, we picked 6 French musical movies that we think you should know, and watch.
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Under the Roofs of Paris (Sous les toits de Paris) (1930) dir. René Clair
One of France’s first musicals was not very typical of the genre. With a somber tone, René Clair created a dismal representation of lower-class Paris that was very disparate from the cheerful, operatic musicals that were popular in France during the 30s. French moviegoers expected to be transported away from their problems at the movies, not reminded of them. The film follows a street singer named Albert that falls for Pola, a beautiful Romanian immigrant. However, two other men are also in love with Pola: Albert’s best friend Louis and the incredibly dangerous gangster Fred.
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NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The Sun City Aliante clubhouse is like a never-ending summer camp for the retired.
It's where the guys with 168 hours of free time each week — like 81-year-old Norman DeSellem, and Fred Schagel, a youthful 61 — pass the time by playing eight-ball pool while sharing the wisdom of old men and offering a dash of trash talk.
The picture windows overlook a golf course framed by mountains.
On the other side of the building, Aliante Station has risen, standing tall over the single-story homes that fill one of the newest planned communities in the valley. And this, as much as the weather or the grandkids or Schagel's 39th wedding anniversary this weekend, is the talk of Sun City Aliante, a community for people 55 and older.
The casino's towering modern architecture and glass exterior at Interstate 215 and Aliante Parkway can be seen for miles, making it the best — and maybe only — landmark in the area.
The casino will open in November, bringing 202 hotel rooms, a 650-seat concert venue, six restaurants and 16 movie screens to an area that three years ago was undeveloped desert. In the past year, Sun City Aliante — one of more than a dozen communities that make up Aliante — has neared completion with roughly 2,000 homes, a grocery store, a pharmacy, a gas station and a host of fast-food options.
The casino, in the eyes of men like DeSellem and Schagel, is more meaningful than a burger joint or another coffee shop.
"I absolutely cannot wait," says Schagel, a retired New York City Fire Department mechanic. "My wife likes the slots. Nothing big. Penny slots."
It will mark the end of the 15-minute drive across town for buffet dinners and a little light gambling at the 8-year-old Santa Fe Station.
More so, it will become a point of pride in the community, just as Green Valley Ranch Station Casino, Red Rock Resort in Summerlin and South Point near Southern Highlands became focal points in their communities.
(Aliante Station and Green Valley Ranch Station Casino are owned in a partnership with the Greenspun family, which owns the Las Vegas Sun.)
"We all moved in to retire and be active," says Mark Klein, a member of the Sun City homeowners association board. "The more activity close to here the better, especially with gas prices."
He says the homeowners board is planning tours of the casino.
But until the casino opens, all attention is on the pool table at the clubhouse. The old-timers are getting ready for another game.
DeSellem, the shorter of the two, smiles when he can't hear what you're saying. Schagel has the quick-talking mannerisms of a New Yorker. The two aren't sure how long they've been buddies, but it's been long enough to know DeSellem needs to work on his pool game, they say.
DeSellem, a retired Boeing engineer from Hawaii, has his Station Casinos rewards card and he's eager to try the new buffet. He figures with his points the prices will be similar to over at Santa Fe: about $12 for two dinners.
"You can't go to the grocery store and eat for that," he says.
They figure they'll take their wives over there a few times a week when it opens.
Maybe catch a movie or go bowling. Definitely have dinner.
There are no complaints from these clubhouse hustlers.
The pool table beckons.
"Want me to mess 'em up?" DeSellem says, preparing to start another game.
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An Interview with Djibril al-Ayad and Kathryn Allan
Djibril al-Ayad and Kathryn Allan co-editors of the new anthology Accessing the Future, were kind enough to stop by today to chat about their work. I’ll start things off as I usually do by shamelessly cribbing from their bios…
Djibril al-Ayad is the nom de guerre of an academic historian and futurist who has been editing speculative fiction for a decade, reading it for two, and writing it for three. He is the editor of The Future Fire magazine, and the owner of Futurefire.net Publishing.
Kathryn Allan is an Independent Scholar of science fiction and disability studies (specializing in cyberpunk, feminist SF, and SF TV & film), Editor of Disability in Science Fiction: Representations of Technology as Cure (2013), and the inaugural recipient of the Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. She writes for both academic and fan audiences and has been published in such places as The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives (Ed. JoSelle Vanderhooft) and Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media (Eds. David Roh, Betsy Huang, and Greta Niu). She blogs and tweets as BleedingChrome.
ACW: Welcome! First off, let’s talk a bit about Accessing the Future. Where did the idea for the anthology originate, and how did the project come together?
Kathryn Allan: Thank you for having us! I first pitched the idea for a disability-themed anthology to Djibril because I was tired of seeing terrible, stereotypical depictions of disability in the SF I was reading and watching. Djibril had previously invited me to be a reader and associate editor for The Future Fire, so we already had an understanding of our general likes and politics when it comes to SF. Once I read the wonderful We See a Different Frontier (which Djibril co-edited with Fabio Fernandes), I knew that the timing was right to make my pitch. Happily, Djibril was on board and we both dove right into writing up our call for submissions and planning the crowdfunding campaign. It was amazing to see how our collaboration shaped the focus of Accessing the Future—I brought in my disability experience and scholarship to the table, and Djibril brought in his dedication to boosting intersectional stories from international authors. In the end, our Indiegogo campaign raised $8,300!
ACW: What was your process like for putting together the anthology? You had an open call for submissions, but were any of the stories solicited in advance? How did you go about selecting the stories and creating a balance in terms of theme, tone, etc.?
Djibril al-Ayad: We were very clear from the start that we didn’t want to commission or solicit any stories—partly because we wanted people to bring themselves forward as interested in the theme, and didn’t want to prejudge that; we wanted authors from as wide a range of backgrounds as possible, especially people whom we wouldn’t have known about in advance. And of course, we prefer not directly to solicit stories when we can’t make any promises about including them. Instead we made sure we got the word out as widely as possible, both in the usual SF circles, and in specifically activist, queer, feminist, international and disability-focused fora, to be sure of receiving stories from the full spectrum of backgrounds, themes, styles and areas. What made it possible to select as balanced and inclusive a table of contents as we did was the fact that when we had shortlisted all of the stories that we both absolutely loved, that we were willing to go to the wall for, we still had more than twice as many as we had room for in the volume. So we picked stories that included a good mix of physical disability, anxiety, chronic illness, deafness, autism; happy stories and sad stories; light hearted stories and fierce stories; adventures and dystopias. By the time we’d agonized over the last few pieces to include, I think we ended up with the best selection of stories and artworks we possibly could have.
ACW: I agree! On a somewhat related note, you both come from academic backgrounds, did that factor into the creation of the anthology at all? Kathryn, your academic work specifically is focused on disability in science fiction, so I’m sure you must have had some strong feelings about helpful narratives versus harmful ones, and the kinds of stories you wanted to see. Were there any particular gaps in the literature that’s out there that you hoped to fill with the stories in this anthology?
KA: My academic background—having completed a PhD (on the vulnerable body in feminist post-cyberpunk SF) while dealing with chronic illness—definitely factored into my desire to see an anthology like Accessing the Future come into being. I read and watched so many SF narratives where a person with a disability, if they are even in the story in any significant way, are simply cured by technology, or, even worse, disability is completely absent from the future (because of genetic engineering or other such technological interventions). I really wanted to see stories where people with disabilities get to be the hero as they are; where they get to be active participants in their medical care; where disability isn’t some sort of awful, tragic thing. I so wanted to see stories about the future that include people with disabilities in realistic and complex ways because we do exist and our experiences, hopes, fears, and dreams for the future matter.
DaA: My own scholarship hasn’t really fed into my editing directly (except through giving me the discipline and eye for detail to treat texts seriously). Perhaps surprisingly the movement has been in the other direction: involvement with socially conscious SFF and literary movements has enriched my understanding of postcolonial history, feminist informatics, disability and other access issues in conferences and classrooms. Academia is several years behind the SF convention on the subject of codes of conduct, for example.
ACW: Djibril, you co-edit The Future Fire, and you’ve also co-edited several other anthologies prior to this one. Is your process more or less the same across projects, or does it change each time? Was there anything different or surprising about working on this project you hadn’t encountered in your other editorial projects?
DaA: In a sense the process is very similar every time: we divide up stories to filter out the obvious non-fits, then rank favourites, and shortlist all the stories that we both love, as I said earlier. With the magazine it’s a little bit different, because individual editors can to an extent make decisions by fiat, although in practice 90% of stories we publish are seen and discussed by at least 2 or 3 people. But even with the anthologies, as I’ve had a different co-editor each time (now on the 4th), the actual process of making up our minds can vary quite a lot. In one case we had to discuss quite a lot what our criteria were, but when it came to discussions of quality, we were almost spookily in agreement; another editor was so passionate about shortlisting stories that that part was very easy, it was drawing up the final table of content that took a bit of strategic decision-making and sacrifice. With Kathryn, in contrast, we both had so many ideas and such different perspectives that we had some real fights!
KA: Friendly fights, I should add!
DaA: Absolutely, yes! We weren’t squabbling; we were both just so passionate about these stories. I think we both learned a lot from hearing about why the other loved a story that we were at first cool about, and I know I learned a lot about disability politics from talking over a few stories that were very good fiction otherwise, but not quite appropriate for this venue for that reason. I expect the experience with the next anthology to be different again…
ACW: To switch away from writing and editing a little bit, what pastimes do you turn to when you need to recharge your creative batteries?
KA: I really love gardening and just sitting outside watching the birds and bees. When I’m able to get out and garden, it creates a contemplative mental space—I’ve done some of my best thinking while pulling weeds! Otherwise, honestly, I’m usually just consuming more SF.
DaA: Heh, editing speculative fiction magazines and anthologies is actually my down-time… Reading and writing about SF is how I unwind and recharge from teaching and grading papers; but to some degree vice versa as well—I unwind from reading and editing hundred of stories by going to overseas conferences and teaching workshops on new media, digital publishing or archaeology.
ACW: Last, but not least, now that Accessing the Future is out in the world, what other projects do you have coming up, or that you’re currently working on, that you’d like people to know about?
DaA: From the TFF perspective we currently have an open call for stories for an anthology titled Fae Visions of the Mediterranean, which aims to bring together horror and wonder from Southern Europe, North Africa and the Near East—especially including authors from the region, and microfiction in languages other than English. This year we’re also celebrating the tenth anniversary of The Future Fire, and hope soon to announce details of a fundraiser and a celebratory anthology.
KA: I have an essay in Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein’s forthcoming Letters to Tiptree anthology (from Twelfth Planet Press) that I’m super excited about. Coming out of my Le Guin Feminist SF fellowship research, I’m working on an academic essay on disability in Le Guin’s Earthsea cycle. And my big on-going project is a writing a book on disability studies and science fiction.
ACW: Thanks for stopping by! I’ve been reading my way through Accessing the Future this week, and I have to say, it’s a very strong anthology. I highly recommend picking up a copy.
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Date of Manufacture 22nd October 1962
3.8 JAGUAR E TYPE ROADSTER, NOW GETTING VERY RARE TO FIND
SOME PICTURES OF A SIMILAR CAR RESTORED IN SAME COLOUR COMBINATION, WE CAN ARRANGE RESTORATION OF THIS CAR, IN UNDER 6 MONTHS OR LESS.
This 1962 Jaguar XKE project is a running Series I roadster that left the factory finished in Opalescent Bronze over a Tan interior. The car reportedly has been in the seller’s family since 1990 and resided in West Texas until recently being relocated to Fort Worth. Refurbishment work carried out between 1997 and 2000 is said to have included engine and transmission rebuilds and a partial exterior refinish. Recent work by the seller included a fuel-system overhaul, fitment of new ignition components, and installation of new front shocks.
The bucket seats have been re-trimmed in their original Tan color. The door panels, carpet, and trim are currently black and said to be in need of refurbishment. New aluminum trim accents for the dash and center console are included, and the shift boot and radio are absent.
A factory wood-rimmed steering wheel is retained and fronts Smiths instrumentation, which includes a 160-mph speedometer and a 6k-rpm tachometer. Just under 3k miles are shown on the five-digit odometer, approximately 100 of which were added by the seller and his family since 1990.
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Barstow Harvey House | Route 66
The Harvey House Railroad Depot in Barstow, California is a unique railway station (and a cool stop if you're driving Route 66) that today holds city offices, a visitor center, two museums, and operates as an unstaffed passenger stop for Amtrak. Originally known as the Casa del Desierto, this station and hotel was opened in 1911 by the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
Harvey Houses were the result of the Fred Harvey Company, which created a chain of hotels, restaurants, and other hospitality businesses along the railroads throughout the Western United States. Fred Harvey is credited with creating the first restaurant chain in the U.S. and playing a major role in promoting tourism throughout the Southwest in the late 19th century. The railway provided the buildings and Fred Harvey's restaurants and hotels provided the quality service that travelers craved and eventually demanded.
The station combines Spanish Renaissance and Classic Revival architectural styles with some additional Moorish influences. It is said to be the finest example of a depot-hotel remaining in California. In 1975, Casa del Desierto was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Casa del Desierto ca. 1912
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[aka Walon, Wallon,]
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Walon, Wallon
Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Western Romance
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Western Walloon
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Information from: “Europe and North Asia” (211-282) . Tapani Salminen (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~600,000
Native speakers worldwide
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The number of active speakers may actually be closer to 300,000.
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In Belgium, a number of children learn the language, but many are likely to shift entirely to French.
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
In Belgium, Walloon is spoken in the greater part of the province of
Liege, in the southern part of the province of Brabant, in the province of Namur, in the northern part of the province of Luxemburg and in the eastern part of the province
of Hainaut. In France, it is spoken in the north of the department of
Ardennes (town of Givet) by a small number of people, mostly elderly. In Luxembourg, it was formerly spoken in two or three villages (Doncols, Sonlez), where the last speakers died in the 1970s.
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
Speaker number data: (1998), decreasing. Few monolinguals. 320,000 young people (1998). 1,220,000 to 1,920,000 young people can understand it (1998)
Belgium; France; Luxembourg;
Central Walloon: Namur, Wavre, and Dinant; Eastern Walloon: Liège, Malmedy, Verviers, Huy, and Waremme; Western Walloon: Charleroi, Nivelles, and Philippeville; Southern Walloon: the Ardennes region, Marche, and Neufchâteau
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50.4575,4.8559
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SOURCE: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing
SOURCE: “Europe and North Asia” (211-282) . Tapani Salminen (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
SOURCE: “World Oral Literature Project” .
SOURCE: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . , M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
3rd 2010 Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger UNESCO Publishing Paris http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas Christopher Moseley (ed.) Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.) ll_pub 600,000 100000 At risk (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available) 50.4575,4.8559
2007 Europe and North Asia Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages 211-282 C. Moseley London & New York: Routledge Tapani Salminen Salminen, Tapani. 2007. "Europe and North Asia." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 211-282. London & New York: Routledge. HHOLD ~600,000 100000 The number of active speakers may actually be closer to 300,000. French Threatened (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available) 11 In Belgium, a number of children learn the language, but many are likely to shift entirely to French. 13 Belgium, France In Belgium, Walloon is spoken in the greater part of the province of Liege, in the southern part of the province of Brabant, in the province of Namur, in the northern part of the province of Luxemburg and in the eastern part of the province of Hainaut. In France, it is spoken in the north of the department of Ardennes (town of Givet) by a small number of people, mostly elderly. In Luxembourg, it was formerly spoken in two or three villages (Doncols, Sonlez), where the last speakers died in the 1970s.
World Oral Literature Project http://www.oralliterature.org "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org. 1,120,000 100000 At risk (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
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By Mike Dorf
Today is the first Monday in October, or as we SCOTUS-watchers call it, Opening Day. Last week I wrote a Verdict column and blog post about one of the cases up for today--Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach. Here I'll note a few thoughts on the other case, the one with which the Term leads off: Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. The case was argued last year on the question of whether the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) authorizes lawsuits against corporate defendants but during the oral argument several Justices expressed skepticism about a different point: whether the ATS authorizes suits by foreign plaintiffs against foreign defendants for acts allegedly in violation of international law occurring outside the United States.
Rather than decide that broad question without first giving counsel the opportunity to address it, the Court sought supplemental briefing and argument on the following question: "Whether and under what circumstances the Alien Tort Statute ... allows courts to recognize a cause of action for violations of the law of nations occurring within the territory of a sovereign other than the United States." Thus re-framed, the Kiobel case has the potential to substantially redefine prevailing understandings about how open the U.S. courts are to claims under international law.
Readers unfamiliar with the case law that has developed under the ATS may find it surprising that a federal statute would be interpreted to authorize suit in a U.S. court brought by a foreign plaintiff against a foreign defendant alleging violations of international law outside of the U.S., but the ATS has been generally so understood at least since the Second Circuit's landmark decision in the Filartiga case in 1980. Moreover, the Supreme Court's leading ATS decision--Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain in 2004--refers favorably to Filartiga. Further, (most of) the relevant events in Sosa also took place outside of the U.S. And in Sosa, as in Kiobel, the plaintiff was not an American citizen. (Indeed, the ATS only authorizes suits by aliens.) However, in Sosa, the U.S. and some U.S. citizens were defendants and alleged to have acted in concert with the non-U.S. defendants.
The Court's reformulated question in Kiobel makes no reference to the nationality of the defendant or to other possible connections a case may have to the U.S. By seeking reargument focusing on territory but not the parties, the Court seems to have indicated that it wants to stake out a maximalist position: No ATS coverage for events occurring on foreign soil regardless of the defendants' citizenship. But one might think that there are intermediate possibilities. Perhaps the ATS ought not be construed to reach cases in which there is no U.S. involvement--cases like Kiobel and Filartiga--but still ought to apply to cases in which the defendant is a U.S. citizen or in which the U.S. or U.S. actors are otherwise involved. (Suppose an alien sues a U.S. citizen alleged to have ordered a genocide in a foreign country. A footnote in Sosa cites Kadic v. Karadzic for the proposition that the ATS has been construed to cover foreign genocide by a foreign defendant; the maximalist narrowing of the ATS would render it inapplicable even to a foreign genocide ordered by a U.S. defendant. ) One hopes that the "under what circumstances" portion of the Court's reformulated cert question provides room for consideration of non-territorial connections to the U.S.--if the Court is inclined to narrow the ATS.
Should it narrow the ATS at all? Conventional statutory construction arguments would say no. Filartiga has been well known for over thirty years, so if Congress thought that the courts had interpreted the ATS too broadly, it could have responded by narrowing the statute. Nor does the Filartiga/Sosa interpretation of the ATS appear to contradict the text or original understanding of the ATS. The text contains no territorial or party-based limit, stating broadly that the federal courts have jurisdiction over "any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States."
The original understanding of that language appears to be lost. As Judge Henry Friendly famously wrote in a 1975 Second Circuit case, the ATS "is a kind of legal Lohengrin; although it has been with us since the first Judiciary Act, § 9, 1 Stat. 73, 77 (1789), no one seems to know whence it came."
But what if the Filartiga interpretation of the ATS is unconstitutional as vesting jurisdiction in the federal courts beyond what Article III permits? Judge Friendly thought that the ATS's reference to the law of nations needed to be narrowly construed in order to keep the ATS within constitutional bounds. Justice Alito asked a question during the first oral argument in Kiobel that suggests that he is thinking along the same lines.
In cases in which one party is an alien and the other is a U.S. citizen, there is no difficulty with federal jurisdiction, because such cases fall within the bounds of Article III's diversity jurisdiction. But in alien-versus-alien cases, the only possible basis for federal court jurisdiction would be that a federal question is at issue. Some such cases could involve the construction of a multilateral treaty to which the U.S. is a party, arguably bringing into play the treaty-based federal question jurisdiction. Still, there will be other cases in which a foreign plaintiff sues a foreign defendant for acts committed on foreign sovereign territory allegedly in violation of customary international law. In such circumstances, is there a disputed federal question?
Internationalists typically say yes. They point to a famous statement in a 1900 Supreme Court case, The Paquete Habana. There, the Court said: "International law is part of our law." The orthodox reading of this statement holds that (some) principles of customary international law become federal law (absent contrary federal authority) simply in virtue of that status. Under this view--which Justice Souter's majority opinion in Sosa appeared to endorse--there is no constitutional problem with federal jurisdiction in a case like Kiobel because the case arises under the laws of the United States, i.e., under customary international law that is part of federal law.
But Justice Scalia (joined by the late CJ Rehnquist and Justice Thomas) concurred separately in Sosa, and in doing so endorsed a contrarian view in the academic literature. Under this contrarian view, customary international law is "general" law of the sort that the Court banished in the 1938 Erie Railroad v. Tompkins. Accordingly, customary international law is not federal law for the contrarians, and therefore it cannot support federal question jurisdiction under Article III.
I am not fond of the contrarian view, but even if one accepts it, one still might think that some of international law is federal law--not because international law is inherently federal law but because some international law has been incorporated into federal law by reference. The Sosa majority took the view that the ATS assumed that federal law incorporated a small number of international law norms into U.S. law: those that are specific, universal and obligatory.
Perhaps a more direct way to get to that result is to say that the ATS itself incorporated specific, universal and obligatory international law norms into U.S. law. After all, Article I gives Congress the power to "define Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations." One could understand the ATS's conferral of a right of action as an exercise of that power.
Nonetheless, I could imagine that those (conservative) Justices who take the contrarian view would respond to the foregoing point by noting that all of the Justices in Sosa said that the ATS only conferred jurisdiction; it did not confer substantive rights to sue. To be sure, the Sosa majority opinion itself seems to contradict the jurisdiction-only view at some points in the opinion, but we could well imagine Justice Scalia et al saying that they're just following Sosa in reading the ATS as not substantively incorporating international law. Thus, the revisionists could say that a federal statute could, in principle, incorporate international law, but that the ATS doesn't do so. AND, the revisionists could go on, the federal courts lack authority on their own to convert international law norms into domestic federal common law.
Will five Justices go for that version of the contrarian view in Kiobel? I think probably not, but much depends on whether Justice Kennedy perceives the case through an internationalist lens or a federalism lens. As an internationalist who joined Justice Souter's opinon in Sosa, Justice Kennedy will be inclined to resist those of his conservative colleagues who want to keep foreign influences out of U.S. law. But as a defender of state sovereignty, Justice Kennedy may be wary of what could be regarded as an expansion of the power of the federal courts, and thus the federal government.
Accordingly, it looks like the stakes in Kiobel are potentially very high.
Paul Scott said...
The link to Kiobel on scotusblog does not work.
So, do we care about this cause of action because corporate structure is creating a shell (pun intended) protecting a major US company (the US subsidiary accounts for a large portion of the British parent's revenue) against liability for criminal and heinous actions of a sister company in Nigeria?
I ask because to the extent the ATS allows civil suits completely unrelated to US interests, I think it is absurd. Is there a reason US courts need to serve as a forum for such complaints? In Kiobel, however, it is not as if there is no link at all.
But assume there is completely no link to America, what policy reasons exist for allowing US courts to serve as a forum for international law?
matt30 said...
The oral argument was just terrible. I think Mr. Hoffman (for petitioner) completely flubbed first hypo Justice Sotomayor gave him - re: proposing a limiting rule of full exhaustion of external forums for ATS claims. It has zero textual support and it departs from the well worn jurisdictional norms we've developed in our federal system.
Very weak. It was painful to read the transcript.
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"Polarity is, in essence, a constant interaction between more than one force or element. It is the movement, the striving of those forces, and the rhythm in it, that creates the dynamism. As occultists, witches or magicians we observe the underlying patterns of that rhythm, get insights and tap into it, or try to emulate it — either conscious or unconsciously."
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"I’ve danced as Kali Ma, as the Horned God, as Hekate, as an avenging angel, a siren, La Llorona, a Rusalka, Death, a peacock, a genderbending deity, a coyote, a stag, and a femme fatale to name a few. I wasn’t drawn to create those pieces strictly on a masculine or feminine context. They are pieces of me."
The Principle of Gender by Ratatoskr (2016)
"The name Feminine and Masculine in regards to polarity of energy has nothing to do with sex or even sexual identity. Would one object to the principles of electricity that is explained by a binary state in which a current flows form A to B? The whole point of working with polarities is not for the sake of the polarity: it is for creating a current, a flow; to create. We could call them Positive and Negative, but then some people would point out that Negative has too much negative association and make it sound inferior to the Positive force. This was actually said to me by a feminist, who felt that if we are going to replace the words feminine and masculine, feminine should never be called negative. Perhaps she has a point there... maybe there is a future for Anode and Cathode? Perhaps there is confusion about the notion of the principle of polarity, yes even the Kybalion makes a point of separating both principles."
Magick and gender by Ratatoskr (2015)
"[The] reason I won’t apply this silly gender separation rule is [that] if I have someone in circle who is Trans or fluid gender, I’m not going to force them to take up a role they feel no connection to. Again, nothing to do being “political correct”, more with “not being an asshole about it”. if you cannot deal with it as a High Priest of Priestess, be honest about it and refer people to a coven that has no problems with it. Don’t say “its not traditional” just because you can't deal with it."
Polarity and Diversity by Yvonne Aburrow (2015)
"As Lynna Landstreet so brilliantly put it, for her the ultimate polarity is not male and female, but the lightning striking the primordial waters and creating life. For me personally, the ultimate polarity is spirit and matter, which is a similar idea. And the most inclusive way to express the concept of polarity is to talk about the lover and the beloved."
Thoughts About Polarity (Part 1) by Wyrdwolf (2015)
A friend was reading some crazy stuff about polarity and asked “What is polarity in Wicca? Why should it create problems for gays and trans folk?”
"If we accuse the Abrahamic faiths of being too attached to the book, then surely Wicca can also suffer the accusation of being too attached to the Book of Shadows, and all the ritual ‘business’ that forms the oathbound material. That Wiccan identity is fixed in time and cannot adapt to new ideas. But surely it’s time to move past that? To show we are not people “of the book”, like the monotheists. To demonstrate that Wicca is not Procrustean by nature, and it is some of the Wica, rather than Wicca, who are afraid to accept personal identities that go beyond a binary polarity view. To be willing to adjust the words and the concepts we use to bring in greater horizons than those brave trailblazers could foresee."
Sexuality and Wicca by Melissa Harrington (2012)
This is a short description of Wiccan sexuality, written for the Springer Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, edited by David A Leeming (pp 1638-1641). It locates Wicca's ethos and practice as contemporaneous with the twentieth century secular milieu from which Wicca emerged, yet encompassing traditional Western esoteric philosophy, with some eastern influence.
Wicca by Yvonne Aburrow (2007), in the GLBTQ Encyclopedia
Wicca and other contemporary pagan traditions celebrate our existence in this world and attempt to gain spiritual insight from nature and the world around us. Wicca also honors the qualities of darkness and the powers of the moon. These are themes that have proven particularly prominent in queer spirituality and attractive to glbtq adherents of Wicca. There is also in Wicca a tradition of the Divine Androgyne (inherited from the Western mystery tradition), a being who includes both genders and perhaps even transcends gender.
Between Mirrors by Yvonne Aburrow (1999)
"I am left-handed, and I have always been interested in the two (seemingly unconnected) assertions that 10% of the population are left-handed and that 10% of the population are homosexual. It seems to me that the other 90% cannot be totally right-handed, or totally heterosexual. Rather, the left-handed 10% prefer to use their left hand for most things; there is probably another 10% at the other end of the spectrum who can only use their right hand, and the eighty percent in the middle are probably ambidextrous but culturally conditioned to use their right hand. It is the same with sexuality - 10% are homosexual, there is probably another 10% who are completely heterosexual, but the eighty percent in the middle is probably bisexual but culturally conditioned to be heterosexual. Again, there is a continuum between the two polarities, as bisexuals know."
A witch speaks - Doreen Valiente's speech to the Pagan Federation conference (1997)
"In every period of history, in every country in the world there have been gay people, both men and women. So why shouldn’t Mother nature have known what she was doing when she made people this way? I don’t agree with this prejudice against gay people, either inside the craft of the wise or outside it."
Alternate Currents: Revisioning Polarity - Or, what's a nice dyke like you doing in a polarity-based tradition like this? by Lynna Landstreet (1993)
"I had never had a problem with polarity in a metaphysical sense. My extremely eclectic religious upbringing (I did, after all, grow up in the 60s) had included a large measure of Taoism, and I had always found the yin-yang duality very evocative. I didn't really have a problem with seeing the blade and chalice as a Western equivalent to the image of the Tao. I liked having black and white pillar candles on my altar. There was something about that particular variety of polarity that appealed to me, in fact."
The Kybalion, by Three Initiates (1912)
makes an important distinction between polarity and gender.
» More articles at the Pagan Theologies wiki
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In the aftermath of the UK's vote to leave the EU, there has been a horrifying upsurge of racist incidents. Tell MAMA reported a 540% increase in reported incidents. (Reported in The Independent , Huffington Post , The Guardian , Mashable , Vice News , Washington Post , and many more. Incidents are also being collated by This is what you have done , the Worrying Signs Facebook group and Twitter account , and the PostRefRacism hashtag and account on Twitter.) It is not that every Leave vote was motivated by racism, but extreme toxic racism was expressed by the Leave campaign (which went unchallenged by the Remain campaign, which also promised to "control immigration" and boasted about how being in the EU helped us to deport hundreds of criminals - which is unjust because then they are being punished twice for the same crime). Surveys of Leave voters have indicated that their main reason for voting Leave was to "take back control" (just so they could give
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When all the terrible things that are happening now seem overwhelming, it is useful to reflect on past struggles and try to find what worked. It is clear that broad coalitions are needed between different groups, as happened with the UK miners’ strike and LGBT people — the miners supported same-sex marriage when it came up as a policy in the Labour Party. Solidarity is real. I am collecting people's memories of resistance to racism and fascism in past decades, to inspire younger activists who are scared rigid by the election of Trump and the vote for Brexit. I will post the article(s) on Medium.com and Gods & Radicals . Here are some of my memories of resistance to oppression . I have also had a great contribution to the project from Sabina Magliocco, which will be published on Gods and Radicals on 16 November. I would be very grateful if you could share something with me for the article. Please feel free to share this link with other seasoned activists. It doesn’t have
But what do you actually do?
Some people have expressed confusion about what inclusive Wicca does that is different from other Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wiccans (despite the fact that there is massive variation among covens and lineages in the rest of Wicca). But Wicca is not just about the words we use in ritual - many covens within the Gardnerian and Alexandrian communities use different words for casting the circle, calling the quarters, consecrating and so on. The point is that we are orthopraxic - we do the same actions and we use the same techniques . Gerald Gardner gave five different books of shadows to five different priestesses - consequently there is quite a lot of variation between and within the lineages descended from them. There are also various different texts available for creating sacred space. Different covens will use different versions of these within Wicca as a whole. Some covens use words based on the Key of Solomon ; some use other words. What is the same as in the rest of Wicca?
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We have evidence of its presence in the diet of the Sumerian people who used it mixed with other vegetables.
Theuse of the truffle in the culinary arts was born at the court of Marshal Contades, France, in late 1700 with the first truffled goose liver pate.
This art has been enhanced with new recipes and is particularly widespread in France and Italy.
In Italy the regions best known for the presence of truffles are the Piedmont, Umbria, Campania, Molise and Toscana. The truffle is a subterranean fungus that forms in the soil to a depth of 10-50cm assuming sizes.
They derive from the roots of the plants all the nutrients necessary for their development.
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Explore the Golfo dei Poeti ( Poet's Gulf )
What is the attraction of Lerici?
The Best Things to Visit.
Explore its Magnificent Castle.
Explore the Beaches in the Area.
How to Get There and an Interactive Map of the Area.
Town's Parking and Traffic Restrictions.
Local Services and Facilities.
Useful Phone Numbers.
What is the attraction of the town ?
Continuing along the coast from the village of San Terrenzo and beyond the Venerra Azzurra area, we find the lovely old town of Lerici. It sits on the eastern end of the Gulf of Poets (Golfo dei Poeti) and is the largest municipality on the eastern side of the Gulf of La Spezia.
Golfo dei Poeti, Panoramic view of the town and its magnificent castle
Further to the east, we encouter the charming villages of Fiascherino and Tellaro . While looking across the sea, you can see the islands that enclose the western side of the Gulf of La Spezia - Tino, Tinetto and the largest of them all, Palmaria .
View from above Lerici over the Gulf and its islands
The most prominent feature of the town is its magnificent castle , which protects the city and oPiazza Giuseppe Garibaldi, the main square
in townverlooks the bay from the rocky promontory it was raised on.
The town's seafront promenade and its magnificent castle
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Visiting the area is never disappointing! It is rich in aristocratic villas , enchanting gardens and charming beaches . No wonder, it was the favourite destination and source of inspiration for the Romantic English poets – from Shelley to Byron and D.H. Lawrence.
The area is rich in stately villas among the charming hills
The climate of Liguria allows this small town to offer a pleasant stay all year around with lots to admire and explore – from the hiking trails among the emerald-green hills that form the typical Lerici landscape ( the municipality is also part of the national Park of Montemarcello) to the suggestive architecture of the area with its rich history.
The typical tower-houses along the seafront
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The origins of Lerici can be traced all the way back to the Etruscan times and by the first half of the 12th century the town has transformed itself from a small fishermen village to a strategic seaport. During the Middle Ages, it was often an object of contention between Genoa and Pisa, as it was on their common border. It was while the town was occupied by the Pisans that its castle was built in 1241 and later extended and reinforced by the Genoese as the town came under their control for good in 1479.
Panoramic view of the town and its Castle
Over time Lerici changed its military focus into an important port for travellers, pilgrims and merchants bound for Rome, northern Europe and Santiago de Compostela. This change resulted in an increasing number of noble families settling into the area and enriching the landscape with austere and stately villas, which can be admired to this day. The town later developed into the charming tourist centre that is today.
Panorama of the town and its port
Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi, the main square in town
Visiting the area, you will be offered a good network of hotels of all categories, night life and lots of typical restaurants to choose from. Must-taste typical local dishes are: date-shells à la Lericina soup, actually fish in general, and spaghetti à la Lericina...
Via Roma, leading to the center of town
One of the many charming alleyways to explore around town
Best Things to Visit
Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Oratorio di San Rocco
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Visiting Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi, it will be impossible to miss the Oratorio di San Rocco. Built in 1287 in honour of Saints Martino and Cristoforo, it was extended around 1523 and dedicated during the plague to San Rocco – patron of the plague victims. Its tower was born as a watchtower but in the XVI century was transformed to a bell tower. The tower served a very similar function as the ‘Laterna di Genova’ and inside it you are still be able to see the emblem of Genoa which marked the port of town.
The Oratory of San Rocco
Another must-see is the Church of San Fransesco D’Assisi which dates back to the end of 1200. It preserves many works from the Genoese school, while in the nearby Oratorio di San Bernardino da Siena, you can admire a precious painting depicting Madonna with child by Domenico Fiasella.
Church of San Fransesco D’Assisi
Last but not least on your list of things to visit should be the magnificent Town's Castle . It is considered one of the most beautiful in all of Liguria, a superb example of military architecture.
The imposing Castle
Nowadays, following an extensive restoration, the castle is also the home to a Museum of Palaeontology - unique in Europe with regard to the scientific findings it offers and the exhibit technology that it uses.
Promenade along the charming seafront of the town
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The promenade that winds round the foot of the Castle and along the Vassello seafront also represents the actual "from castle to castle walk" which will lead you along the town all the way to the Castle of San Terenzo at the other end of this wide bay.
The promenade that connect Lerici with San Terenzo
If you are visiting town on a Saturday, you cannot miss the Flea Market (Marcatino del Sabato) stretching along the Vassello seafront.
The colourful stalls of the Saturday's Market
In addition, Lerici is conveniently located close to other major city centers and cultural landmarks such as the old town of Sarzana. The Old Roman town of Luni is also a few minutes' drive from Lerici, and those interested can visit the famous marble quarries of Carrara.
Rooftops over town and the beautiful Bay
From the town's port, you can take a boat trip across the gulf to the Cinque Terre , as well as excursions along the west coast to Levanto, Deiva Marina, and Portofino.
The ferry service point on the seafront
Local Services and Facilities
The Venere Azzurra multi-purpose complex has two swimming pools (one of which is an Olympic facility) as well as facilities for tennis, golf and archery.
The tourist port of the town can berth up to 2000 boats .
Villa Marigola (Venere Azzurra) once hosted the Empress of Germany and today hosts many cultural events and is a sought after conference centre.
If you are driving to the area then we strongly suggest you check out our Parking and Traffic restrictions secton as well as the Travel Resources section for a wealth of information on getting to the area.
You will also find our Useful Numbers and Services section helpful in providing essential information on the emergency numbers and other valuable services and facilities numbers available in this area of Golfo dei Poeti...
Travel Resources: Interactive Map of Town
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Topper's Dance Club Remembers Memorial Day
Page 2 - Attendees
(May 22nd 2015) Last Updated: 09/11/2019 10:38:AM
Remember: Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.
- Robin Hayes
We have arrived
The band sets up
Checking the room prior to arrival of members
The Board Handles Business Efficiently...
Serious work!
Business conducted in 16 minutes flat! Excellent!
Back To The Ball Room
The tables are decked out in the prettiest of colors.... Red, White and Blue
Members and guests arrive at the greeters table!
Mike Anderson joined us this evening
Gigi is still smiling from Catalina!
We will drink to that!
They survived Catalina's Avalon Ball
Thank you for your service to the club... Our Secretary and Vice President!
Howard Clauson will brighten up the band
Remember: The brave die never, though they sleep in dust:
Their courage nerves a thousand living men. ~ Minot J. Savage
Vicky tells Wally the secret word for this evening...
Whoever says the magic word will see the duck fall from the ceiling with $100
Dapper gents await the music to start
Whirl and twirl to great music
The first sight our members see... Makes us all feel welcome!
Bernie and Sue in red, white and blue!
Meeting and greeting is well under way!
Remember: And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
~Lee Greenwood
The dance floor is busy... A good thing!
Smiles are wonderful expressions! Tells all...
Irene and Mike hit the floor...
Visiting is underway on the sidelines
"We better get to the dance floor or we will be in trouble"
Freda and Richard join the party
Howard made the Time Machine come alive! Excellent vocals this evening
Remember: The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. ~Thomas Campbell
The gents in their tuxedos look fantastic!
Nita is re-greeting!
Toppers love to dance.... and talk!
Dinner is getting near...
Lookout... Tracy's pet moth just escaped!
Background Music: America The Beautiful
Did You Know? - "America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates, and the music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward.
Bates originally wrote the words as a poem, "Pikes Peak", first published in the Fourth of July edition of the church periodical The Congregationalist in 1895. At that time, the poem was titled "America" for publication.
Ward had originally written the music, "Materna", for the hymn "O Mother dear, Jerusalem" in 1882, though it was not first published until 1892. Ward's music combined with the Bates poem was first published in 1910 and titled America the Beautiful.
The song is one of the most popular of the many American patriotic songs.
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Islander Interview
by Chad Bowar/
South Carolina’s Islander are back with their second full-length album Power Under Control. There are several new members, including guitarist J.R. Bareis (Love & Death), bassist Ezeziel Vasquez and drummer Arin Ilejay (ex-Avenged Sevenfold). Frontman Mikey Carvajal and Ilejay get us up to speed on everything Islander.
Chad Bowar: You’ve had a few lineup changes since Violence and Destruction was released. How did the new guys come to join the band?
Mikey Carvajal: We were all friends from touring. I think that was the biggest difference from the previous lineup. It was a natural thing though, and it all just fell in place.
Arin, what was the biggest personal adjustment for you when joining Islander, and what was the biggest musical adjustment?
Arin Iljay: The mindset has been the biggest wake up call. I haven’t applied myself to many leadership positions, so joining Islander has called me into a balanced partnership/leadership role. Since childhood I’ve tended to take a back seat role, but this opportunity with Islander has really helped put to the test the different things I’ve learned over the years.
The biggest musical adjustment has been learning how everyone performs on stage and developing a bond that continues to tighten over time. A lot of musicians can play almost any parts, but I believe it takes a special bond between a full band to really make the live experience magical. It’s been a real pleasure to share the stage with the guys thus far!
How did the lineup changes impact the songwriting process for Power Under Control?
Carvajal: I think it definitely allowed for more freedom to experiment. We all had a fresh excitement going into this record. We wrote all the songs in just a week and a half, so when we recorded them they still felt very new and fresh to us. That’s my favorite way to do it. It allows for the music to come across more inspired than so planned out.
Did working with producer Cameron Webb again help provide some continuity after the changes?
Carvajal: Absolutely. He is amazing to work with. He always says that he believes punk rock can change the world. He really believes in what he’s doing, so to throw him in the mix, you know you’re going to get someone real and honest. He never tried to change us. He just helps us be the best version of Islander that we can be. He’s the real deal.
What will be your strongest memory of the recording of Power Under Control?
Carvajal: I believe the friendship. Music made with friends sounds like music made by friends.
How has the band’s sound evolved on this album?
Carvajal: We would rather have the listener tell us.
Mikey, what impact did HR from Bad Brains have on you when you were younger, and how was it to have him appear on your album?
Carvajal: HR had not only an impact on me, but all heavy music. He doesn’t get enough credit. The dude is punk rock as they come. I grew up listening to Bad Brains on the way to and from school. This is the second song we’ve had him guest on, and I just can’t get over the magic that he brings to the table. It’s like he carries lightning in his heart and unleashes it into the microphone.
What led you to crowdfund part of the cost of the album, and were you satisfied with the response?
Carvajal: Actually, a fan set that up for us. She asked if it was okay for her to do so because she knew we were having trouble with finances and could barely afford the gas to get to California. Our fans are what keep us going. We were blown away by the response. I’m honestly not sure if we would have been able to continue being a band without her stepping in at the right time. It was meant to be.
Now that you’ve been touring for a few years and building up a solid fan base, what are your expectations for Power Under Control?
Carvajal: We never go into anything with good or bad expectations. We try to just take one day at a time and meet each person where they are. One heart at a time is how we change the world.
First week sales numbers have become increasingly important. Is it frustrating that bands aren’t given the chance for a gradual build these days?
Carvajal: Yeah. It’s sad. The industry is behind on a lot of that kind of stuff. It’s sad that they still count record sales knowing that even the most popular pop artists are having trouble selling records.
Do you have a touring strategy mapped out for an album cycle as far as headlining vs opening vs festivals, etc., or is it completely reliant on what offers come in?
Carvajal: A little of both. We look at everything as an opportunity and take one day at a time.
What’s Islander’s level of awareness/popularity in Europe and other places overseas?
Carvajal: We haven’t been there yet, but I do get tons of emails and Facebook messages weekly begging us to come. So looks like that’s in the cards soon, too.
Arin, when you are playing Islander songs live that you didn’t record, do you try to stick closely to the original arrangements or do you change things up?
Ilejay: I keep it as close to the original as possible, but after playing these songs for several months I couldn’t help but hear some little variations in fills and such that I felt could bring a little more to the live show.
Describe the first time you heard an Islander song on the radio.
Carvajal: I was in and out of sleep when we were on the Mayhem Festival tour. We were so exhausted we couldn’t remember if it was a dream or not when we woke up in the van the next day.
Anything else you’d like to mention or promote?
Carvajal: Our fans. We are nothing without them. Literally.
(interview published August 4, 2016)
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ICI Assembly March Meeting Reviews Operations of the Management in the Last 5 Years
Istanbul Chamber of Industry (ICI) March ordinary Assembly meeting was held on 28 March 2018 in Odakule with the main agenda of "Review of ICI Board's 2013-2018 Operations and Activities".
Talking at the last Assembly meeting of ICI before the elections of Professional Committees and Board of Directors, Erdal Bahçıvan, ICI Chairman of the Board of Directors, said "I wish these elections to bring good luck to our Chamber and community". "As ICI, we had pioneered the efforts of returning to the production economy in Turkey within the last five years. Various steps ranging from the VAT reform sent to the approval of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Credit Guarantee Fund incentives, removal of Resource Utilization Support Fund to the investment, R&D and export incentives were taken after we voiced them."
ICI Chairman Erdal Bahçıvan
Bahçıvan also underlined the following during his speech: "ICI had become an exemplary non-governmental organization with the synergy that it achieved, the unity, solidarity and cooperation that it displayed and the brand value that it complied with within the last five years. Our industrialists that shoulder the responsibility for the development of Turkey deserve the best of everything and this will continue to be like that from now on, too."
ICI's last assembly meeting for the period of 2013-2018 was opened by ICI Assembly President Zeynep Bodur Okyay. While opening the meeting, Okyay also shared her ideas about the agenda:
ICI Assembly President
Zeynep Bodur Okyay
"As our dear Chairman Erdal Bahçıvan stated, we are struggling to make Istanbul Chamber of Industry a reference organization for Turkey in the field of industry on one side and almost like a pharmacy on duty for our industrialists on the other since we took office. Our Assembly and Board managed to act wise during stormy days and to do the right thing for our industry. Thus, I would like to thank all of you one by one.
If there is a new domestic industry move, an excitement for Industry 4.0 and a dream to write an industry-oriented success story in Turkey today, then the Chamber that we are proud to be under its roof today has a huge share in this. We are living in such a period that we can't even tolerate to lose a single day. It is necessary for Turkey to prepare itself to a new period requiring such complex and new skills with a brand new mentality. And for us, the industrialists, to be the leaders of this preparation, to lead the way as the North Star is a mission assigned to us by the history. I hope and wish that we, as Turkey, can overcome this challenge while the world constantly changes and transforms under unfair conditions. And I believe in the man power of Turkey, and especially the industrialists."
After this speech, ICI Assembly President Okyay invited Deniz Selin Ünlüdağ, a scholar of ICI Foundation who recently had a great success in fencing. ICI Foundation scholar Deniz Selin Ünlüdağ, who brought the championship medal back to Turkey after 95 years by winning the European Junior and Cadet Fencing Championship held last month, made a brief speech and expressed her happiness to be there. Thanking ICI for their support, Ünlüdağ received an award from ICI Assembly President Zeynep Bodur Okyay and ICI Chairman Erdal Bahçıvan, too.
ICI Chairman Erdal Bahçıvan took the stage to address Assembly Members regarding the main agenda of the ICI Assembly meeting and began by informing ICI Assembly Members regarding the chamber elections.
"As we had announced before, the Professional Committee and Assembly Members elections that will be held at Hilton Elmadağ Convention Center on 2 April 2018, Monday will be followed by the elections of Assembly Presidency, Board of Directors, Discipline Committee, TOBB Delegates and Professional Committee Presidents and Deputies in Odakule on 7 April 2018, Saturday. I wish these elections to bring good luck to our Chamber and community."
Bahçıvan said that they were in a struggle for and proud of carrying the honor and responsibility of managing Istanbul Chamber of Industry, as the oldest and largest industrial chamber of Turkey throughout their term covering the period of 2013-2018. Underlining that this happiness that they felt in their heart gave them a never decreasing motivation and determination to work and the support and motivating positive approach of Assembly members improved their strength even further, Bahçıvan said "I would like to take this opportunity to thank and express my gratitude to our dear Assembly Members on behalf of myself and our Board".
Reminding that they had defined their main objective for the term in their work schedule that they had shared with Assembly Members as expressing the fact that a stronger industry is the base of a stronger economical and social stability to all groups of the society and respective organizations, Bahçıvan stated that they said they will continue their operations and projects with a long term industry vision and the goal of making Turkey a strong industrial country. Bahçıvan mentioned that the last five years had been a period, where an economical approach centered around high value added industrial production stood out for all regions of the world, not just Turkey and the key to overcome economic recession was a return to industry and production.
Stating that the industrialists had achieved their mission to be a bridge between the government and the public during this period as it can be seen on the 2013-2018 Activity Report shared with the ICI Assembly Members, Bahçıvan recorded that they had submitted many requests and suggestions to the government to carry Turkish economy to a better position in general. Bahçıvan reminded that they had met with the Turkish Prime Minister, Ministers and bureaucrats in various occasions during Assembly meetings and Professional Committee Partner meetings honored by Ministers and elite guests, Ankara visits and other thematic meetings.
Naming such contacts as a valuable communication platform for expressing the issues forwarded by the industrialists and mainly the Assembly Members, Bahçıvan recorded that they pay a special attention to the cooperation mentality that they had prioritized throughout their term while using this communication platform. Bahçıvan underlined that they had always been part of the solution by expressing solution suggestions along with the problems.
Stating that they had gained a lot thanks to this mentality, Bahçıvan named an industry-oriented production economy mentality to be discussed by the government in Turkey like the rest of the world as one of the important gains. Bahçıvan stated that they are proud to say that they, as Istanbul Chamber of Industry, pioneered the efforts of returning to production economy in Turkey, too. Bahçıvan gave examples to their efforts:
"Especially the VAT reform recently sent to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the initiation and continuation of Credit Guarantee Fund incentives, the removal of Resource Utilization Support Fun in forward purchases of raw materials used in the manufacturing industry, the expansion of investment, personnel, R&D and export incentives with a brand new mentality, the reforms in employer-employee relations, the prevention of over expensive industrial fields, the tax regulations protecting the industrialists and many others are steps taken after we voiced them."
Naming themselves an exemplary non-governmental organization with the synergy that they achieved, the joint excitement that they created, the unity and solidarity mentality that they shaped and the long ICI brand value that they had embraced in the last five years, Bahçıvan continued: "We should be so happy that we are feeling the peace and honor to be achieving this together. Our industrialists that shoulder the responsibility for the development of Turkey deserve the best of everything and this will continue to be like that from now on, too. I have no doubt that Istanbul Chamber of Industry will extend to the future with trust as always and continue its contribution to our industry and Turkey."
ICI Assembly Members, who took the stage after Bahçıvan, shared their opinions about the operations of the Assembly in the last five years.
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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Material Sputtering with a Multi-Ion Species Plasma Focused Ion Beam
Abstract: Focused ion beams are an essential tool for cross-sectional material analysis at the microscale, preparing TEM samples, and much more. New plasma ion sources allow for higher beam currents and options to use unconventional ion species, resulting in increased versatility over a broader range of substrate materials. In this paper, we present the results of a four-material study from five different ion species at varying beam energies. This, of course, is a small sampling of the enormous variety of potential specimen and ion species combinations. We show that milling rates and texturing artifacts are quite varied. Therefore, there is a need for a systematic exploration of how different ion species mill different materials. There is so much to be done that it should be a community effort. Here, we present a publicly available automation script used to both measure sputter rates and characterize texturing artifacts as well as a collaborative database to which anyone may contribute. We also put forth some ideas for new applications of focused ion beams with novel ion species.
PubDate: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:05:00 +000
Optimization of Surface Roughness in Drilling Medium-Density Fiberboard
with a Parallel Robot
Abstract: This study focuses on the examination of the effect of cutting parameters on surface roughness when drilling medium-density fiberboard (MDF) with a parallel robot. Taguchi technique was applied to find the optimum drilling parameters and, later, the drilling processing. Experimental layout was established using the Taguchi L18 orthogonal array, and experimental data were examined via a statistical analysis of variance (ANOVA). Experimental results were performed by multiple regression analysis (linear and quadratic). Correlation coefficient (R2) was found 99.46% for surface roughness with the quadratic regression model. By the Taguchi analysis, the optimum values for the surface roughness were found to be a point angle of 118°, a cutting speed of 47.1 m/min, and a feed rate of 0.01 mm/rev. The optimization outcomes presented that the Taguchi technique had been successfully performed to decide the optimal surface roughness of the MDF in the drilling.
PubDate: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 07:20:00 +000
Effect of Cyclic Cryogenic Treatment on Wear Resistance, Impact Toughness,
and Microstructure of 42CrMo Steel and Its Optimization
Abstract: Cyclic cryogenic treatment, a major cycle accompanied by zero or more subsidiary cycles, was conducted on the hardened 42CrMo steel using orthogonal design method to investigate the effect of different parameters (cryogenic temperature, holding time, and cycles number) of cryogenic treatment on wear resistance and impact toughness of the steel. Range analysis was performed to obtain the influencing order of the three parameters and their optimum values. The results show that after cryogenic treatment, the steel exhibits higher wear resistance and impact toughness, whereas no significant change in hardness. For wear resistance, the influencing order of parameters is cryogenic temperature, holding time, and cycles number, and the optimum values of the parameters are −160°C, 24 h and two cycles, respectively. For impact toughness, the influencing order of parameters is cryogenic temperature, cycles number, and holding time, and the optimum values are −120°C, 24 h and three cycles, respectively. The wear topography and fracture topography were examined using scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) to investigate the wear mechanism and fracture mechanism of the steel after cryogenic treatment, respectively. The results show that after cryogenic treatment, the wear mechanism is the combination of abrasive wear and adhesive wear with oxidative wear, and the fracture mechanism is a quasicleavage fracture. The microstructure was also examined by SEM to investigate the influencing mechanism of cryogenic treatment for improving wear resistance and impact toughness of the steel. It suggests that more precipitation of fine carbides dispersively distributed in the matrix is responsible for the beneficial effect of cryogenic treatment on wear resistance and impact toughness of the steel.
Effect of Sodium Aluminate Dosage as a Solid Alkaline Activator on the
Properties of Alkali-Activated Slag Paste
Abstract: Extensive research into alkali-activated slag as a green gel material to substitute for cement has been done because of the advantages of low-carbon dioxide emissions and recycling of industrial solid waste. Alkali-activated slag usually has good mechanical properties, but the too fast setting time restricted its application and promotion. Changing the composition of alkaline activator could optimize setting time, usually making it by adding sodium carbonate or sodium sulfate but this would cause insufficient hydration reaction power and hinder compressive strength growth. In this paper, the effect of sodium aluminate dosage as an alkaline activator on the setting time, fluidity, compressive strength, hydration products, and microstructures was studied through experiments. It is fair to say that an appropriate amount of sodium aluminate could obtain a suitable setting time and better compressive strength. Sodium aluminate provided enough hydroxyl ions for the paste to promote the hydration reaction process that ensured obtaining high compressive strength and soluble aluminium formed precipitate wrapped on the surface of slag to inhibit the hydration reaction process in the early phase that prolonged setting time. The hydration mechanism research found that sodium aluminate played a key role in the formation of higher cross-linked gel hydration products in the late phase of the process. Preparing an alkali-activated slag with excellent mechanical properties and suitable setting time will significantly contribute to its application and promotion.
Effect of Dry-Wet Cycles and Freeze-Thaw Cycles on the Antierosion Ability
of Fiber-Reinforced Loess
Abstract: Compared with plain soil, polypropylene (PP) fiber-reinforced soil has markedly improved mechanical properties and can be used in slope protection projects. To investigate the reduction law of the antierosion ability parameters of PP fiber-reinforced loess under dry-wet (D-W) cycles and freeze-thaw (F-T) cycles, we took loess from Yan’an, China, mixed them with PP fiber, and did shear strength tests, disintegration tests, and permeability tests under D-W cycles and F-T cycles. The experimental results show that D-W cycles or F-T cycles had a less deteriorating effect on the cohesion, disintegration rate, and permeability coefficient of the fiber-reinforced samples than on plain loess; however, the reduction in their internal friction angle was more obvious. Under D-W cycles or F-T cycles, the cohesion and internal friction angle of the reinforced soil decreased as the number of cycles increased, while the disintegration rate and permeability coefficient increased as the number of cycles increased. The relation between the reduction in the antierosion ability parameters of reinforced soil and the number of D-W cycles or F-T cycles accorded with the hyperbolic function fitting results. The most obvious reduction effect the D-W cycles had on the reinforced soil was on the disintegration rate, followed by cohesion, internal friction angle, and permeability coefficient. The most obvious effect of F-T cycles was also on the disintegration rate, followed by cohesion, permeability coefficient, and internal friction angle. Compared with D-W cycles, F-T cycles had a stronger effect on the reduction in the cohesion, disintegration rate, and permeability coefficient of reinforced soil, but the reduction in the friction angle was greater in D-W cycles.
Failure Mode Analysis of Carbon Fiber Composite Laminates by Acoustic
Emission Signals
Abstract: Composite laminates have complex failure modes. In order to investigate the evolution of failure in the composite laminates, this paper performed an experimental study on four laminates with different layups using acoustic emission (AE) technique. Two different kinds of defects are imposed on the laminates, including a hole and a crack in the center. Tensile and bending tests are performed on the defective laminates and real-time AE signals are collected. By analyzing the spectrograms of the obtained AE signals and integrating with the dispersion curves, the evolution of failure modes for different laminates can be observed. The tests show that the defects cause multiple failure modes, which change gradually during the experiments. It is also revealed that laminates with different layups have different failure modes. More specifically, the stacking order of different plies has a greater impact on the occurrence of delamination and fiber fracture than matrix crack. The tentative research shows that there is great potential for improving the performance of the composite laminates by careful selection of ply layups.
Constitutive Characteristics, Microstructure, and Texture Evolution of
As-Cast 42CrMo Alloy in Nonisothermal Multipass Compression
Abstract: The nonisothermal multipass deformation behavior of as-cast 42CrMo alloy was studied with declining temperature, constant pass strain, varying strain rate, and interval time. The stresses are used to develop the constitutive model. As the finishing temperature increases from 990°C to 1070°C, the stress decreases gradually and the softening effect increases, which results in a large grain size and inhomogeneous microstructure. The low angle grain boundaries transform into high angle grain boundaries through absorbing dislocations. The noticeable stress softening in a high strain rate is attributed to the thermal softening, dynamic recovery, and dynamic recrystallization. The thermal softening is no longer considered to be the main interpass softening mechanism at a low strain rate. The interval time has a negligible effect on the stress, but the significant changes in grain size and texture component are caused by the interpass softening. The average grain size is approximately 40 μm, and the distorted grain boundaries and small fine grains are found in the interval times of 0.5–5 s, implying the dynamic recovery and grain growth. The near {001} and {110} orientation exerts an important influence on the grain refinement.
Evaluation of the Physical and Adhesive Properties of Natural Weathering
Abstract: Asphalt suffers from a series of aging processes in the natural environment. This is a significant factor in asphalt pavement diseases. Research of the properties of the decay processes in the natural weathering of asphalt will be helpful in distinguishing the characteristics of the various types of asphalt and in the selection of pavement materials. Neat asphalt A70, a styrene-butadiene-styrene- (SBS-) modified asphalt, and crumb-rubber-modified asphalt AR are exposed to outdoor conditions to weather naturally. This process is traced by testing the basic physical properties and the surface free energy of asphalts, using the sessile drop method. Results illustrate that the basic physical properties of asphalt change significantly during the natural weathering process and that the rubber asphalt has the superior aging resistance, while the neat asphalt A70 has a high aging susceptibility. Furthermore, the presence of the SBS and rubber-powder modifiers transforms the change trend of the surface free energy of neat asphalt. The adhesion work between aggregate and asphalt can be used to quantitatively evaluate the adhesive properties between them. Meanwhile, the presence of moisture between the asphalt and aggregate changes cohesive failure into adhesive failure.
PubDate: Sat, 02 Jan 2021 11:50:00 +000
Effect of Internal Curing with Superabsorbent Polymers on Bond Behavior of
High-Strength Concrete
Abstract: High-strength concrete (HSC) is widely used in engineering due to its high strength and durability. However, because of its low water-to-cement ratio, external curing water hardly enters the dense internal structure of HSC so that high self-desiccation shrinkage often takes place. As a result, superabsorbent polymers (SAP) are added as an internal curing material to effectively reduce the shrinkage of high-performance concrete. Meanwhile, the bond performance between reinforcing steel and SAP HSC concrete remains unknown. In this paper, the bond performance of HSC mixed with SAP is studied by pull-out tests, and the results were obtained as follows: (1) the bond strength of HSC mixed with SAP increased first and then decreased with the increase of SAP content; (2) the slip at ultimate bond strength of HSC with SAP decreased with the increase of compressive strength; (3) a prediction model of the stress-slip relationship between steel rebars and HSC was established.
Review of Experimental Studies on Application of FRP for Strengthening of
Bridge Structures
Abstract: In recent years, fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have been widely used as a new type of high-performance material in concrete structures. FRP composites have the advantages of high strength, light weight, and corrosion resistance. Based on existing studies in the literature, this paper reviews the development and applications of FRP materials for the strengthening and rehabilitation of bridge structures. The types and properties of FRP composites are summarized, and the applications and development of FRP sheets, FRP bars, FRP grids, and prestressed FRP tendons for bridge structures are discussed. Different types of FRP composites result in different failure characteristics and bearing capacities. Moreover, this paper covers the FRP strengthening methods and the response properties of the flexural performance, bonding performance, and ductility. Significant conclusions regarding the strengthening/repair of bridge structures with FRP composites are presented. The review details the current state of knowledge and research on strengthening bridge structures with FRP composites and is helpful for better understanding and establishing design criteria.
Rural Masonry Isolating Structure and LRB Experiment: Seismic Resistance
Properties and Statistical Data Curve Analyses
Abstract: The low masonry structure is the most commonly applied building type in rural China. It is possible to install small-diameter, low cost, and easily constructed laminated rubber bearing (LRB) components. Isolation technology has broad application prospects in rural buildings. We developed a small-diameter LRB in this study wherein the isolation layer is set above the floor for easy installation and replacement. We built and tested 4 walls to observe the effects of different LRB thicknesses; we assessed test respective phenomena and seismic parameters accordingly. We ran another test on five small-diameter LRB components with varying horizontal stiffness, different forms of shear strain-equivalent horizontal stiffness, and postyield stiffness while changing the fitting formula for the second shape coefficient to give small-diameter LRB design providing gist.
PubDate: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 08:05:00 +000
Effects of Sand Powder on Sulfuric Acid Resistance, Compressive Strength,
Cost Benefits, and CO2 Reduction of High CaO Fly Ash Concrete
Abstract: This article studies the efficiency of sand powder as a supplementary cementitious material (SCM) in improving the sulfuric acid resistance of concrete incorporated with high CaO fly ash. Besides, the effects of sand powder on compressive strength development, mitigation of carbon dioxide emission, and cost-effectiveness are addressed. Paste mixtures with W/B ratios of 0.25 and 0.40 were used in this study for the performances of sulfuric acid resistance and long-term compressive strength development. The test results indicated that sand powder could reduce the weight loss of the tested paste specimens in sulfuric acid solution with a pH of 1, compared to the control specimens, especially for the specimens incorporated with high CaO fly ash. The sand powder addition could also increase the compressive strength of cement pastes at the age of 90 days by 26.27% and 43.80% for W/B ratios of 0.25 and 0.40, respectively. The use of sand powder in the evaluated concrete mixture could also reduce CO2 emission by 23.23% and lower the cost of the mixtures by 8.05%, compared to the control mixture. The addition of sand powder could significantly increase the sulfuric acid resistance, compressive strength, and economic benefits and reduce the CO2 emission of high CaO fly ash-cement-based materials.
PubDate: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:35:00 +000
Influence of Particle Orientation on the Performance of Geogrid Reinforced
Abstract: To explore the initial orientation effect of ballast assembly on the reinforcement performance of the geogrid reinforced ballast, particles with random orientation and five prescribed rotational orientations were developed through particle flow code (PFC3D). The evolution laws of the pullout force and the principal directions of the normal contact force were systematically compared and analyzed. Furthermore, the mechanical responses such as pullout force, distribution of axial force, displacement vectors, force chain, and mesoscopic fabric were discussed. According to the displacement vectors of the ballast particles, the average thickness of the stable shear band is determined. The inherent relationships among the force chain, the rotational angle of the normal contact force, and the mesoscopic fabric parameters are revealed. The results show that the pullout force of specimens with the initial orientation of 45° increases monotonously during the pullout process, and the peak value of pullout force appears at the end of the test. The mesostructural analysis also confirms that the evolution of the principal direction of contact normal force is relatively steady during the pullout process, indicating that the specimen with 45° orientation possesses higher systematic stability and ductility. Moreover, the optimum interval from 56.68° to 57.30° is observed to remain in a self-adapting state for ballast assembly.
Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Stacked Autoencoder Network with
Dynamic Learning Rate
Abstract: Fault diagnosis is of great significance for ensuring the safety and reliable operation of rolling bearing in industries. Stack autoencoder (SAE) networks have been widely applied in this field. However, the model parameters such as learning rate are always fixed, which have an adverse effect on the convergence speed and accuracy of fault classification. Thus, this paper proposes a dynamic learning rate adjustment approach for the stacked autoencoder network. First, the input data is normalized and enhanced. Second, the structure of the SAE network is selected. According to the positive and negative value of the training error gradient, a learning rate reducing strategy is designed in order to be consistent with the current operation of the network. Finally, the fault diagnosis models with different learning rate adjustment are conducted in order to validate the better performance of the proposed approach. In addition, the influence of quantities of labeled sample data on the process of backpropagation is analyzed. The results show that the proposed method can effectively increase the convergence speed and improve classification accuracy. Moreover, it can reduce the labeled sample size and make the network more stable under the same classification accuracy.
Axial Compression Behaviors of the Steel Tube Confined Reinforced Concrete
Columns with Binding Bars
Abstract: An experimental study on the steel tube confined reinforced concrete (STCRC) column with binding bars under axial compression is conducted. The bearing capacity and failure modes are obtained. It can be known that the axial deformation of concrete occurred under compression. The core concrete is wrapped and constrained by the steel tube wall, and the steel tube wall is constrained by binding bars locally, so the local buckling shape of the wall between the binding bars is like wave shape. The 3D finite element model is also developed to analyze the behavior of this type of column under axial compression. Good agreement is shown between the test and predicted results in terms of the load-deformation curves and ultimate strength. The parametric studies indicate that the spacing of binding bars, diameter of longitudinal bars, concrete strength, thickness of the steel tube wall, and section dimension of the column generate different influence on the mechanical properties and bearing capacity. The diameter of longitudinal bars, concrete strength, and section dimension of the column have a great effect on the ultimate bearing capacity. The numerical results also show that the spacing of binding bars has little effect on the ultimate bearing capacity. The larger thickness of the steel tube wall leads to adverse effect on the specimen performance. Finally, the theoretical calculation is carried out, and the result is good.
Enhanced Mechanical Properties of Mg-6Sn-3Al-1Zn Alloy with Bimodal Grain
Size Disturbed in the Microstructure Uniformly through Changing the
Rolling Temperature
Abstract: The mechanical properties of Mg-6Sn-3Al-1Zn alloy were enhanced with bimodal grain size disturbed in the microstructure uniformly; the Mg-6Sn-3Al-1Zn alloys were rolled with 60% thickness reduction at different rolling temperatures. The results have shown that the Mg-6Sn-3Al-1Zn alloys are composed of Mg2Sn phase and α-Mg matrix phase. When the rolling temperature was less than or equal to 400°C, with the rolling temperature increasing, the average size and volume fraction of Mg2Sn phase and the average grain size of small grains remained unchanged, the average grain size of large grains decreased, the volume fraction of small grains increased, and the yield strength of the alloy increased. When the rolling temperature reached 450°C, the average size and volume fraction of Mg2Sn phase and the average grain size of large grains increased, and the volume fraction of small grains and the yield strength of the alloy decreased. The elongation increased with the rolling temperature increasing, but the change trend of hardness was just opposite. When the alloy was rolled at 400°C, the average sizes of small grains, large grains, and Mg2Sn phases were 3.66 μm, 9.24 μm, and 19.5 μm, respectively. The volume fractions of small grains, large grains, and Mg2Sn phases were 18.6%, 77.6%, and 3.8%, respectively. And the tensile properties reached the optimum; for example, the tensile strength, yield strength, elongation, and Vickers hardness were 361 MPa, 289.5 MPa, 20.5%, and 76.3 HV, respectively.
Strength Investigation of the Silt-Based Cemented Paste Backfill Using Lab
Experiments and Deep Neural Network
Abstract: The cemented paste backfill (CPB) technology has been successfully used for the recycling of mine tailings all around the world. However, its application in coal mines is limited due to the lack of mine tailings that can work as aggregates. In this work, the feasibility of using silts from the Yellow River silts (YRS) as aggregates in CPB was investigated. Cementitious materials were selected to be the ordinary Portland cement (OPC), OPC + coal gangue (CG), and OPC + coal fly ash (CFA). A large number of lab experiments were conducted to investigate the unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of CPB samples. After the discussion of the experimental results, a dataset was prepared after data collection and processing. Deep neural network (DNN) was employed to predict the UCS of CPB from its influencing variables, namely, the proportion of OPC, CG, CFA, and YS, the solids content, and the curing time. The results show the following: (i) The solid content, cement content (cement/sand ratio), and curing time present positive correlation with UCS. The CG can be used as a kind of OPC substitute, while adding CFA increases the UCS of CPB significantly. (ii) The optimum training set size was 80% and the number of runs was 36 to obtain the converged results. (iii) GA was efficient at the DNN architecture tuning with the optimum DNN architecture being found at the 17th iteration. (iv) The optimum DNN had an excellent performance on the UCS prediction of silt-based CPB (correlation coefficient was 0.97 on the training set and 0.99 on the testing set). (v) The curing time, the CFA proportion, and the solids content were the most significant input variables for the silt-based CPB and all of them were positively correlated with the UCS.
Chloride Diffusion and Induced Reinforcement Corrosion in Concrete with
Fly Ash and Ground-Granulated Blast-Furnace Slag Exposed to Marine
Submerged Zone1
Abstract: This paper investigates the influence of mineral admixtures fly ash (FA) and ground-granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS), the byproducts of industry, on chloride ions migration and corrosion resistance performance. A novel preparation method of wire beam electrode (WEB) was also introduced to explore the excellent corrosion-resistant capacity of concrete with mineral admixtures. By comparing concrete specimens with and without FA and GGBS, the test result of wire beam electrode, rapid chloride migration (RCM), and electrochemical tests highlight the positive impact of fly ash and GGBS against chloride ions migration, respectively. Concrete with fly ash and GGBS supplies an advanced protection effect of ordinary Portland cement; meanwhile, CO2 emission amount can be significantly reduced. Moreover, homemade wire beam electrode was proved to be a novel and reliable test method against corrosion, which has agreement with the test result of an electrochemical device.
Water Distribution in Reconstructed Soil of Nonmetal Mines and the
Ecological Effect in Xinjiang, China
Abstract: Because of the arid climate and fragile ecological environment in Xinjiang, China, land reclamation should be carried out after mining. The core of land reclamation is the water content of the surface covering soil. In this paper, the law of water distribution in reclamation reconstructed soil of nonmetal mines in Xinjiang was studied. In order to obtain the law of water distribution in reconstructed soil, we set up an observation system of the neutron probe and tensiometer. The neutron probe was used to monitor the soil water content. The tensiometers were used to obtain the matrix potential of soil for verifying the water distribution in reconstructed soil. Volumetric water content and matrix potential of reconstructed soil during 1-year period of management and irrigation were obtained by long-term monitoring. After one year’s field in situ test, 2424 sets of neutron probe data and 1368 sets of tensiometer data were obtained. By studying the above parameters, we summarized the law of water distribution in reconstructed soil of variable thickness and degree of compaction with nonmetallic waste rock filling. The results showed that covering soil was helpful to retain water content. Whether the soil was compacted or uncompacted, the soil water content at the depth of 10 cm was less than that at other depth of reconstructed soil because it was greatly affected by meteorological factors. The water content of reconstructed soil at 30 cm depth was greater than that at other depths. Under the influence of factors such as the thickness and compaction of the soil, the response time of soil water content and matrix potential to each irrigation infiltration was different. According to the characteristics of reclamation-vegetation such as alfalfa growth in Xinjiang, the thickness of surface reconstructed soil should be not less than 50 cm. Over time, soil that was compacted once was better for the vegetation. The research results could provide a reference for the land reclamation of nonmetallic mines in Xinjiang, China.
Optimization of Exothermic, Foaming, and Mechanical Properties of Modified
Polyurethane as Filling Material for Goaf Sealing Wall
Abstract: Goaf sealing wall is set in the roadway close to the stop line of working face in an underground coal mine. However, the sealing wall is prone to crack or fracture under serious mining stress, resulting in water and air leakage from goaf. In this study, the combination of polymethylene polyphenyl polyisocyanate (PAPI) and methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) as component A and polyether polyols, catalysts, surfactants, chain extenders, and plasticizers as component B were investigated to optimize the exothermic, foaming, and mechanical properties of modified polyurethane (PU) as the filling material for goaf sealing wall. Firstly, the reaction temperature of specimens with different contents of polyether polyols was monitored using a dynamic acquisition system; secondly, the effect of polyether polyols, catalysts, and surfactants on foaming property was studied; then, uniaxial compression tests were developed to obtain compressive behavior; finally, the microstructure after uniaxial compression was observed by using a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The results indicate that the pure chemical slurry is superior to the combination of chemical slurry and sand in compressive strength and deformation behavior. The optimal mass ratio of polyether triols, polyether tetraols, catalysts, surfactants, chain extenders, and plasticizers is 11 : 9 : 1.0 : 0.5 : 1.2: 6 in component B due to the maximum reaction temperature of 121.4°C, the expansion ratio of 2.6, and the compressive strength of 7.97 MPa at the strain of 10% in this study. The research provides a solution for the construction of the sealing wall, which is of great significance to safety production in an underground coal mine.
Room-Temperature Polyol Synthesis of Ag/SiO2 Nanocomposite as a Catalyst
for 4-Nitrophenol Reduction
Abstract: We prepared silver nanoparticles (AgNP) embedded in SiO2 using a green polyol approach by conducting the synthesis at ambient temperature and pH. Glycerol solutions of SiO2 and silver nitrate were stirred overnight at room temperature. UV-vis spectra and TEM images of the reaction dispersion and XRD patterns of the centrifuged solid confirmed formation of AgNP (6 ± 2 nm) were embedded in SiO2. AAS showed that, about 50% of initial silver was deposited on SiO2. The presence of SiO2 enhanced the formation of AgNP and the stability of Ag/SiO2 in glycerol. The reason for these findings was probably the ultrasonic-probe dispersion of SiO2 in glycerol, which caused chemical interactions between glycerol and SiO2. Compared to bare AgNP, the AgNP/SiO2 demonstrated higher catalytic activity toward 4-nitrophenol reduction by NaBH4. The highest apparent rate constant was approximately 1.1 ∗ 10−4 s−1, comparable with Ag/SiO2 catalysts prepared using other methods. This study proposes a greener polyol method to synthesize SiO2-supported AgNP catalyst that does not require heating or regulating pH of the reaction mixture. This nanocomposite can be used in catalytic, antimicrobial, sensing, and other applications that are using AgNP/SiO2 synthesized by conventional methods.
Research on the Influence of Nanocarbon/Copolymer SBS/Rubber Powder
Composite Modification on the Properties of Asphalt and Mixtures
Abstract: To expand the application range of modified asphalt and mixtures and effectively reduce the aggregation of nanomaterials in asphalt, nanocarbon/styrene butadiene styrene (SBS)/rubber powder composite-modified asphalt is proposed. This paper presents a laboratory study on the performance of nanocarbon/copolymer SBS/rubber powder composite-modified asphalt, and nanocarbon particles modified by titanate coupling agents as modifiers are selected. The nanocarbon/copolymer SBS/rubber powder composite-modified asphalt was prepared by a high-speed shearing method. The physical properties and rheological performance were assessed using ductility tests, softening point tests, penetration tests, dynamic shear rheometer (DSR) tests, and bending beam rheometer (BBR) tests. Furthermore, the mixture properties, including the high-temperature stability, low-temperature cracking resistance, moisture stability, and freeze-thaw splitting, were evaluated in the laboratory. The micromorphology of the base asphalt and composite-modified asphalt was examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and the reactions between the modifiers and AH-70 base asphalt were studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). The results reveal that the surface-modified nanocarbon and rubber powder additives substantially increased the softening point and penetration index of the base asphalt, with little obvious influence on the low-temperature performance. In addition, when nanocarbon/copolymer SBS/rubber powder composite-modified asphalt was used, the high-temperature stability and low-temperature cracking resistance of the nanocarbon/copolymer SBS/rubber powder composite-modified asphalt mixture were approximately 1.3 times those of the nanocarbon/rubber powder asphalt mixture. In terms of the micromorphology and reaction, the addition of the nanocarbon can increase the compatibility between the base asphalt and rubber powder, and then the addition of copolymer SBS can improve the structure of nanocarbon (after surface modification)/rubber powder-modified asphalt to form a stable network. Moreover, the physical reaction plays the dominant role in the modification process for the rubber powder and base asphalt, and chemical reactions occur in the modification process for the surface-modified nanocarbon and base asphalt.
Numerical Simulation of Conical Pick Cutting Arc Rock Plate Fracture Based
on ANSYS/LS-DYNA
Abstract: The new method of rock breaking based on the combination of circular sawblade and conical pick was proposed to improve the effectiveness of hard rock breaking. The numerical simulation method was applied to research the conical pick cutting arc rock plate by ANSYS/LS-DYNA. The conical pick cutting arc rock plate numerical simulation model was established to research the influence of arc rock plate structural parameters and cutting parameters on cracks formation and propagation of the arc rock plate and the cutting force in the process of conical pick cutting arc rock plate. The amount of cracks is positively correlated with arc rock plate thickness, the cutting speed, and distance of cutting point to arc rock plate central axis and negatively correlated with the cutting angle. The mean peak cutting force is positively correlated with the thickness of arc rock plate and the distance of cutting point to arc rock plate central axis; however, it is negatively correlated with the arc rock plate height and width and cutting angle of conical pick. The simulation results can be used to predict the conical pick work performance with various cutting parameters and structural parameters.
Real-Time Evaluation of Compaction Quality by Using Artificial Neural
Abstract: The primary goal of this study is to find an easy and convenient way to estimate the degree of compaction in real time for compaction quality control. In this paper, an artificial neural network classifier is developed to identify the different characteristic patterns of drum vibration and classify them according to the different compaction levels. At first, a field compaction experiment is designed and performed in a construction site, and the degree of compaction and the vibration are measured. Then, the vibration signals collected from the experiment are processed to extract the features of vibration patterns and labeled with the compaction level to train the artificial neural network model. At last, the performance of the artificial neural network classifier is verified against the degree of compaction measured by using a nuclear density gauge. It can be found that artificial neural networks show good performance and huge potential for the problem of compaction quality control.
Study on Stress Distribution Law of High-Efficiency Paste Backfilling
Working Face with Solid Waste in Thick Coal Seam
Abstract: The high-efficiency paste backfilling mining technology of solid waste in thick coal seam above 6 m is a complex system engineering, which involves mining, backfilling, supporting, subsidence, safety, and other aspects, so it is of great strategic significance to study the technology. In this paper, on the basis of comprehensive research methods such as laboratory experiments, theoretical analysis, computer programming, and other comprehensive research methods, aiming at the problems of low production capacity and high paste backfilling cost, taking the mining of No. 3 Coal Seam under buildings in Lu’an area as the research object, the stress distribution law of high-efficiency paste backfilling working face with solid waste in more than 6-meter-thick coal seam was carried out. The main achievements are as follows: On the basis of the theoretical establishment of the program method for the instability discriminant analysis of roof rock beam failure with the change of backfilling body unit strength with time, a numerical calculation model considering the change process of backfilling body strength is established. The stress distribution analysis of the E1302 working face before and during the mining process plays a guiding role in the actual production of the whole working face and roadway. The research results support the sustainable development of coal mining enterprises from technology, which has great economic, social, and environmental benefits, and can promote the industrialization of green mining high-tech in Shanxi Province and even the whole country and can promote the green mining technology progress of paste backfilling in coal mines in China, which is of great significance to the sustainable development of mining production and environmental construction.
Influence of Blade Profiles on Plastic Centrifugal Pump Performance
Abstract: To study the influence of blade profiles of the plastic centrifugal pump on pump performance, the impeller blade profiles were designed and drawn by the single arc method, double arc method, logarithmic spiral method, and B-spline curve method, respectively, with the known structural parameters.The shape and size of four profiles were drawn, and two-dimensional models and three-dimensional models of four impellers and volute were completed, respectively. The impeller models were printed by 3D printing technology, and the performance experiments of the plastic centrifugal pump were carried out. The numerical simulation of the internal flow field was performed. From the contours of the velocity and pressure, the vapor volume fraction distribution, and fluid-structure interaction analysis of impellers, the impeller drawn by the logarithmic spiral method was better than others. The optimization of the logarithmic spiral method was completed. The impeller inlet and outlet diameters (D1 and D2) and impeller inlet and outlet installation angles (β1 and β2) were taken as control variables, and the total power loss and the minimum NPSHr of the pump were taken as the objective functions. The optimization results were that D1 = 58 mm and D2 = 162 mm and β1 = 17° and β2 = 31°. The hydraulic efficiency was increased by 1.68%.
Analytical Assessment of Internal Stress in Cemented Paste Backfill
Abstract: To analytically describe the internal stress in a fill mass made of granular man-made material (cemented paste backfill, CPB), a new 3D effective stress model is developed. The developed model integrates Bishop effective stress principle, water retention relationship, and arching effect. All model parameters are determined from measurable experimental data. The uncertainties of the model parameters are examined by sensitivity analysis. A series of model application is conducted to investigate the effects of field conditions on the internal stress in CPB. The obtained results show that the proposed model is able to capture the influence of operation time, stope geometry, and rock/CPB interface properties on the effective stress in CPB. Hence, the developed model can be used as a useful tool for the optimal design of CPB structure.
Foaming Behavior and Pore Structure Evolution of Foamed Aluminum under the
Extrusion Constraint
Abstract: This study evaluates foaming behavior and pore structure evolution of aluminum foam by cross-sectional image processing, which was prepared by the powder compact melting (PCM) method under the constraint. The results revealed that the heating time and the heating rate are the key factors affecting the foaming behavior and pore structure of aluminum foam. The thermal decomposition of the foaming agent and aluminum melting behavior affect the foam expansion under different heating times and heating rates. The evolution of the pore structure during the foaming process includes pore formation, small-sized spherical pores, large-sized spherical pores, polygonal pores, merging, and collapse. Due to the limitation of the pipe wall, the maximum expansion height and porosity are constrained, and the macrostructure of aluminum foam is improved.
Dynamic Characteristics of the Rubber-Tailings Mixture Based on Dynamic
Abstract: The liquefaction of tailings is a common failure mode under earthquake actions. The traditional treatment measures of waste rubber have the disadvantages of environmental pollution and occupying soil resources. The combined treatment of waste rubber and tailings is very likely to have important engineering application and theoretical value, and the dynamic characteristics of the rubber-tailings mixture (RTM) are essential and indispensable for handling them together. In this paper, the dynamic triaxial test was used to study the dynamic mechanical characteristics of the RTM. The test was divided into 5 groups with 54 valid samples. The effects of the rubber particle size, rubber content, consolidation pressure, pH value, and soaking time on the dynamic characteristics of the RTM were studied and discussed. The results show that the liquefaction cycle number of the RTM is 50% higher than that of tailings, and the particle cluster effect theory of the RTM is put forward. It will provide a theoretical basis and guidance for the treatment of the waste rubber and tailings.
PubDate: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 07:50:00 +000
Removal of Pb (II) from Synthetic Solution and Paint Industry Wastewater
Abstract: This study aimed to investigate the potential of Canna indica stem-based activated carbon (CISAC) for the removal of Pb (II) ions from synthetic solution and paint industry wastewater. The effects of pH, initial Pb (II) ion concentration, and adsorbent dose were studied using an aqueous solution prepared using pure lead nitrate (Pb(NO₃)₂) on a batch mode. Dried Canna indica stem (CIS) was carbonized in a rectangular furnace at 500°C for 2 h and treated with phosphoric acid (H3PO4) at a ratio of 1 : 1 (w/v). Results showed that the CISAC had 5.4% of moisture, 5.0% of ash, 26.7% of volatile matter, 62.9% of fixed carbon, and 797.5 mg/g of iodine number. The Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) results showed that the hydroxyl, carboxyl, and phenolic functional groups were dominant in the CISAC surface. Physicochemical characteristics revealed that raw wastewater had a concentration of 4.6 mg/L Pb (II), 3 mg/L Cu (II), 171 mg/L BOD5, 2402 mg/L COD, and 619 mg/L TSS. Better removal of Pb (II) ion from aqueous solution was achieved at a pH of 5.5, initial Pb (II) concentration of 102.4 mg/L, and an adsorbent dose of 1.4 g using response surface methodology. The highest removal efficiencies of Pb (II) which was achieved from aqueous solution and paint wastewater were 98% and 70%, respectively. The experimental data are fitted with Langmuir and Freundlich isothermic models. The results suggested CISAC as a promising adsorbent to remove Pb (II) ion from paint industry wastewater.
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MF REVIEWS IX
Posted: December 18th 2019 3:54 pm
I was at the world premiere in LA on Monday. Had a great time. My Thoughts:
- George was not there - Red Flag #1.
- The vibe before and after was nothing like TFA or Rogue One. It had a brace for impact vibe to me.
- The movie seems like two movies in one, therefore it does not breath and seems choppy.
- I did not like TLJ. but it seemed more well-crafted editorially, not in terms of tone and pacing. TLJ was allowed to breath.
- In retrospect, TLJ had a better script, but was mis-directed. I would like to see what JJ could have done with TLJ script. TROS seems like a rushed script and a rushed movie, but more enjoyable to watch than TLJ. TROS plays tone and style like a SW film. TLJ played like a LOTR film in terms of pacing and tone to me.
- There are a lot of throwbacks to IJ in TROS. Some Palpatine scenes played like the Mola Ram sacrifice scenes in IJ:TOD.
- My biggest realization since TFA is that Bob Iger has no business calling shots on filmmaking or final cut because he's a CEO, not a filmmaker.
- Rey's heredity was not well done. It can easily be interpreted as a usurpation of the Skywalker line. She should have been a Kenobi and the Reylo thing could have ended the series with the marriage of the two families/clans.
- It also seems to be pushing the choose your gender/identity thing, going with the current zeitgeist. If this is the case, these last few films are beyond SJ issues. This is an agenda. Have they not learned from Ghostbusters, Terminator and SW by now? Why keep pushing this and lose money?
- BTW, People loved Ahsoka, Leia, Ripley, etc. These characters and their development was strong. It was not because we were told to like them or else.
- We may have a Terminator: Dark Fate situation on our hands. LONG LIVE I-VI.
- Maybe George will take Disney to court for breach of contract and win the company back
RogueOne1216
Join: September 25th 2016 11:51 am
Hence, next point - very strange vibe.
Much Softer
Join: October 15th 2014 4:19 am
Location: Armchair, Attic
I just saw the film and liked it. Was it flawless? No. Was any of the SW flicks flawless? Hell no.
Too early to talk about details; most of you haven't seen the movie yet.
I'll be missing the Skywalker saga on many, many levels.
Han scene is great. I wonder what the prequels could have been with an Adam Driver level actor. He is the best thing about these.
Join: December 18th 2015 7:49 pm
I have not seen the movie, but your issues really hit home with me. I have read all the leaks, etc. I find the biggest issue is that JJ had to do too much in not enough time.
Saying the film was rushed and seems like two films in one has always been my biggest concern since TLJ. There are so many issues with TLJ, but one that never gets discussed is the lack of a time-lapse. Go watch ROTS after Clones and we see how the Clone Wars hardened Anakin as he's able to best Dooku with ease after being dominated. Look at Jedi after Empire... Luke shows up and is a Jedi Knight. Or even Empire after ANH, we see how Luke has risen the ranks in the Rebellion and is training.
TLJ had no off-screen development between it and TFA. The overall story was not pushed forward off screen and we really weren't close to any sort of climax or end goal. TFA set TLJ up nicely to have a few months where Rey can grow with Luke, develop a bond, and we can learn why Luke went to the first temple, etc, etc. Snoke even says to Hux that it was time to complete Ren's training. This could have set up a nice pair of master-student relations or whatever.
I think TROS had a lot of good ideas, but they should have pulled as Harry Potter 7 and split this into two films. It didn't need to be a trilogy. This whole project never had a plan and a road map. It relied on discovery writing and the result was TFA setting things up and TLJ coming in and dismissing what had been presented in a very awkward way.
It's not that "fan theories were wrong" - I hated how critics claimed people were pissed over that. It's that no one was wrong or right. No one Snoke theory was wrong, because nothing was answered. Or the answers we were given (Rey's parents) had to be retconned and we get this tug-of-war resulting in JJ bringing back The Emperor because why not. What else is there to do?
Rian killed off Snoke but it was very obvious that Kylo wasn't fully evil. He hesitated to kill Leia in the same movie and didn't even pull the trigger. We were left with an antagonist who wasn't impressive. We never felt like he was more powerful than Rey. Actually, no, we did. At one point in the trilogy... in TFA before Rey goes all Mary Sue and speed runs the force.
Which is another problem... Rey is unlikable. People ask "who is Rey" but really who is she? Like what does she even like? Can we even describe her? What personality traits? At least I can describe Anakin's personality in the prequels and the dude develops... he faces challenges. Rey is here going through Star Wars on easy mode. That isn't fun. That isn't a good character. There is no growth.
People claim that TROS is undoing TLJ, but the truth is that TLJ undid a lot of TFA and pretty much wiped the slate clean. But even worse, the slate wasn't even just clean, it was straight up cut in half. As such, JJ had one movie to wrap up a trilogy that sadly undoes the prophecy and hurts the original films by taking away their purpose in the greater story.
There needed to be a map. A roadmap to dictate where each movie would end and what the goal was. It's clear they had no idea what they were doing with Rey. It's awkward, like Luke and Leia being brother and sister.
I honestly feel like if JJ had a chance to do 9 and 10 and combine TROS into two movies then we'd actually have something good. An actual fitting end. As such it's like we got episode 7, and episode 8 was sort of a 7.5 that hurt TFA in a big way, the trilogy and whatever other movie had to come after it and finish the story off.
The sad truth is that there was something here, but it was too much to pack into one movie without ending up with a 4 hour film.
I'll give my full thoughts after seeing the thing, but hopefully having poor expectations will help.
I think people who will have seen this movie fully will probably be better to give a valid opinion on it, so i'm going to wait until then, but from all i've read and seen, it seems like there were some very questionable choices made and I don't think this will be the slam-dunk that Disney was hoping it would be. I also hope that this really isn't the actual end of the Skywalker story, because if it is....it would be a shame.
Braltika
Posted: December 19th 2019 3:29 am
Join: December 16th 2015 9:42 am
Location: Flandres
I saw it yesterday here in Belgium. It was the premiere of the movie and the seats were half empty. I remember VII being way more crowded. Oh how the 'flame' has died out... I went in unspoiled, apart from some merch I've seen like the Sith Troopers and a few of the trailers (I kind of expected Palpatine).
Things I really liked in the movie:
- The first half felt like a great adventure quest, bit of an Indiana Jones feel to it. I really enjoyed it.
- The humour and banter. I think they did great this time. I remember the 'Hux/Hugs' joke all to well in the very first two minutes of VIII and how it ruined my entire experience for the movie.
- A few new fun characters. The horseriders being defectors just like Finn was a great idea. Babu Frik was great too.
- The turn of Ben. I felt relieved he redeemed himself.
- Small cameo of Harrison. Still wonder how fat the cheque must have been for him to come back one more time.
- Visually the movie looked great. Cinematography was top-notch. I liked the variety in the new worlds.
- A few Force powers we knew from the games are now canonized! Force Healing just like in Jedi Outcast... I see the Mandalorian did the same with baby yoda in Ep 7.
Things I did NOT like:
- The rushed explanation how Palpy came back.
- Palpy his OP lightning. like what the actual fuck.
- The Force teleportation of physical objects. Kylo should have pulled Rey's chain to examine it with the Force but not actually pull it through space. It kind of was hinted with the water droplets in Episode 8 but... damn. Is there anything the Force can't do? Soon we'll have time travel with the Force...
- There is little room to breathe in the movie. So much going on, so fast.
- Apart from Snap Wexley and Leia (from sheer exhaustion), no one dies. A gazillion Star Destroyers but everyone lives. Ok. This should have been a more weighty battle with a few important casualties.
- Lando was in there just to pull the nostalgia string. The guy is old and tired, and it showed.
- Rey Palpatine. Though I liked the message it portrayed that family is more than a bloodline.
- Palpy's convoluted plan. My god, how many steps are there to Galaxy domination really? What was the point of starting the First Order? Do the Final Order and have your planet destroying ships park next to every planet you control and DONE. Why build the Starkiller Base just to one-shot 7 or so planets? DAMN. Where did all the people in the Star Destroyers come from? A whole army hidden in a location only to be reached with two Sith compassas that were not even found at the start of the movie so how the F did they even GET THERE?
Overall, setting questions aside and letting the movie come as it is, it's entertaining and a visual spectacle. A few genuine laughs here and there and a really nice quest for the first half. It ends with a feeling of pointlessness though. The trilogy was really hurt by giving it to two different directors with no final game in mind at the start of the first movie, and it shows. It tried to fix a few things people really hated in XIII but it's just irredeemable what happened in that one.
The big baddy should have been Darth Plagueis, really. It would have arced the entire saga in a coherent way. Palpy's plan was the Empire and it failed. The way I see it is that Plagueis cheated death and gathered strength in the secret Sith Exogol. The rest could basically have played out the same. In that way all that has happened, was contained in this even bigger overshadowing threat. Revealing that even Palpy was but an apprentice... imagine the evil Plagueis must've been....
Evil_Elvis
Join: April 16th 2004 2:12 am
Just seen it. Really enjoyed it. It's not perfect but then no Star Wars film ever has been.
Doctor When
Saw it last night... it’s not very good in my opinion. It’s part course correction from TLJ and part fan service. It’s hugely disjointed and doesn’t feel connected to either TFA or TLJ, and of course it undermines the journey of both Anakin and Luke. I think they’ll be quite a critical backlash against it (it seems so badly put together), and I’d imagine that it will ultimately be more divisive than TLJ, as it only serves to underline what a missed opportunity the sequels have been collectively.
MannyOrtez
Posted: December 19th 2019 11:08 pm
Join: December 1st 2004 9:42 pm
Just saw it. It’s kind of a nonsensical mess but I’m getting too old to care about these things. It’s entertaining and has some good scenes. Zombie Emperor was awful, Abrams is an awful writer, but at the end of the day, I’ll still buy the BluRay and enjoy it from time to time.
Adam Driver saved this trilogy. He’s the best thing about it for sure.
Posted: December 20th 2019 12:00 am
Just saw it and while all of my previous thoughts are accurate I want to state once more than this film has A LOT of good ideas, but unfortunately, it has wrap everything up in one film when it would be been so much better as two.
The whole Sith world element is cool and would have benefited nicely from more screen time. The Emperor in general needed more time. Again, not explained how he survived and how he gets his strength back comes sooooooo out of nowhere.
I feel like the sequels were influenced by Harry Potter or something... objects being brought into other worlds through a force bond is so insane I feel like the "force dayad" or whatever and how rare it is should have been touched upon more. I kinda like the idea, but with too much of this series, concepts are just thrown to us.
Don't like how OP Force Ghosts are... Luke lifting X-wing is a nice callback to Dagobah but come on.
I think JJ did *very* well with what he had to work with after the MESS that was TLJ, but man did not having a roadmap really throw this trilogy off.
I do, however, want to throw an idea to everyone. Imagine if at the end of TLJ instead of the dumb broom boy sequence, we saw Kylo on a throne or something and suddenly The Emperor's message began to play setting up a big plot twist or leading into this one much better... or if the Resistance wasn't crippled so badly at the end of the second film and Lando came in on Crait with a large army to put Resistance on even footing with the First Order...
It's weird having cavalry show up in TROS but not TLJ. Again, TLJ really fucked this trilogy up so hard.
As crazy as this sounds, the sequels would benefit from special editions. TROS as a whole I think could use some sort of extended edition. I think JJ did well honestly. You look at what he inherited and I say good on him. It's not perfect. AT ALL. And this movie doesn't ever really stop, but I think he corrected the error that was TLJ. Again tho, this really needed to be two films.
10pm showing. 18 people in theater. Adam is great. I’d love to see more of Ben. Emperor was freaky. TFA felt like it was in the SW universe... TLJ veered so far off course it took a series of quick vignettes and serious dumping on TLJ to get it close to the universe, but so derivative and “poetry/it rhymes” that it’s a wash of awesome visuals only.
The hug at the end between Rey, Finn and Poe seemed like a little 3PO action was coming up.
Ending was strange.
The Rise of Skywalker is pure Star Wars cocaine.
Yeah I'm sure we'll all babble on about this and that and add our own psuedo nonsensical long-winded diatribes, but at the end of the day most of us will eventually own the blu-ray and in time to come it will be just another episode in the saga.
Agreed. It kept my attention and distracted me at the same time.
The_Somnambulist
Join: April 26th 2005 11:20 am
Fucking loved it.
I can finally enjoy the trailers, TV spots, featurettes, soundtrack, etc. Not to mention the mad frenzy of spoiler-fueled fear and excitement on this board these past few months.
Saw it last night.
I absolutely, honestly and unabashedly loved this movie. It had me by the nutz from start to finish and wouldn't let go.
I don't see it as a "course-correction." I see it as a sequel. One might as well call ROTJ a "course-correction" to ESB.
This movie actually makes TFA and TLJ better, and I really liked those too (despite a few minor qualms I had about specific details). Hell, for me it's a much better finale than ROTJ (which I've bitched about since 1983 anyway, so that's just me). ROTJ and TPM both could have used the Act I pacing that TROS has.
Also, this is one of the only Star Wars movies in which the acting did not make me cringe.
Incorporating Carrie Fisher into this movie was damn near flawless. I didn't even once think about the fact that she had died before they shot this movie.
One of my biggest questions from Ep.7 & 8 was answered - Who the hell was Snoke? It was answered as well as it needed to be. There are at least two Snokey figures in tanks early in the film, and Palpatine says "I created Snoke." That's enough explanation for me.
A couple of random observations based on what others have said here and elsewhere:
- "Palpatine's return isn't explained." Yes, it is. Or at least as much as it needs to be. This is mythology, not sci-fi. We have no problem with stuff like this happening in Tolkien or Ovid.
- "No good guys got killed in the big battle with all of those Star Destroyers." Yes, they did. Watch the movie.
The ending was powerful and beautiful on every level for me.
I'll be seeing it again on Sunday, and I'll see if anything strikes me as objectionable the 2nd time around.
Also - Did anybody else notice the Wedge (Denis Lawson) cameo?
Just got home from my first viewing. My theater was packed...not a single seat was available in the 20 minutes before the lights dimmed.
I too, loved this film. The two words that come to mind are "Epic" and "Relentless." This movie had a LOT of territory to cover, and JJ and his crew did about as admirable job as anyone could do.
Let's get this out of the way...I cringed at the kiss between Rey and Kylo. It felt totally unnecessary for a scene that already had a lot of weight. My opinion...it was there to appease the Reylo faction of fans. The actions of the two characters - Rey vs. Palpatine and Kylo saving Rey - were enough to make that scene have the proper weight.
The only good part was the quick smile Kylo had just before dying.
That was a nice touch.
Now, for the rest of this packed film.
My highlights:
Everything about this movie was BIG. Big landscapes, environments. JJ and his crew didn't hold anything back here, and the settings were magnificent.
The X-Wing being raised out of the Ahch-To ocean was a gorgeous callback to Empire Strikes Back.
The music was the same and Luke "redeemed" his earlier failure to lift his submerged ship.
Lando's reveal.
Totally unexpected and fun.
I wish he had a little more screen time, but I enjoyed every second he was on there.
I found Poe and Finn more likable and easier to cheer for throughout this film. I get why people think Finn has Force sensitivity, but I attribute some of his actions to being more mature and experienced. He knows his way around First Order ships and protocols, and that came in very handy throughout. I liked the adversity and self-doubt placed in Poe, more in this film than the previous two. Made his character journey more investment-worthy and payoff-worthy.
Palpatine... Ok, so I wasn't clear on the *how* part of his comeback...wish that had a bit more explanation to it. Or are we saying he did learn Plaguies' trick of immortality, at least when it came to being thrown down reactor shafts? His death, at the hands of Rey, had a neat callback to the deaths in the climactic scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Melting faces and heads do the trick every time.
Rey was an awesome character in this film. The way she carried herself, she reminded me very much of Luke in ROJ. She had a different, more powerful aura about her, and yet, she didn't have all the confidence and bravado. Her force lightning at the transport shocked me.
Chewie not being in that transport was also a neat callback to Raiders, when Marion wasn't in the truck Indy shot and blew up in the Cairo marketplace.
I liked that Rey didn't just sail through this film unharmed. She was beat the hell up on Exegol, and that was essential to see. She needed adversity, consequences and visible and physical pain. I felt all that through her character. But her strength growth was also easier for me to accept due to the in-universe time distance from TLJ. That element alone helped correct what was, in my mind, the biggest thing that held TLJ back, was its immediacy after the events of TFA.
Kylo Ben... was the most fascinating character to me in this film, and probably for the entire ST. One issue with TFA, TLJ was that we were told of his internal conflict, but never really saw it. It was a "tell me" not "show me" situation. We were "shown" more of that in this film, and the character and film benefited from it. Rey had become more powerful than him, and I bought it totally. He was more vulnerable and less sure of himself for most of the movie. I sort of expected him to be redeemed right after TFA, and I wasn't sure if that could be believably pulled off. In my opinion, it was.
Han Solo showing up was a fun surprise.
R2-D2 being at Leia's bedside when she died ripped my heart out. I didn't expect her passing to have as much of an emotional effect on me as it did. Her death was expected and necessary, and yet, it still hurt. Does anyone else think she was Force-projecting to get Kylo's attention during the Death Star duel, a lesser version of Luke's same trick in TLJ? We didn't see her in that scene as we saw Luke in TLJ, so maybe she did, maybe she didn't...in my head, she did, and that sets up parallel deaths for the two twins.
I came away from the film being emotionally drained, but satisfied and thankful I have survived long enough to see this story through to its completion. I probably look at Star Wars uniquely from anyone else. To me, this is a story that's already happened, and parts of that overall history are being revealed to us, one bit at a time. So I don't actively try to critique the finer points of filmmaking, dialogue, stuff like that when it comes to Star Wars.
I accept what I have been given, and I accept it as the gift I consider it to be. Are there aspects of any and all films I would change, if I were writing or directing? Sure, of course. But Star Wars has given me so much over the past 42 years, going back to when I was a 4 year old toddler seeing A New Hope in the theater. I remember that day well to this day, and I recall being so mad that Darth Vader got away. This franchise has allowed me to retain the essence of 4 year old me, 7 year old me and 10 year old me (my ages when the OT films came out) well into adulthood. What else on earth can do that?
So I say thank you to George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Richard Marquand, JJ Abrams, Rian Johnson, Gareth Edwards, Ron Howard, John Williams, Ben Burtt, Joe Johnston, John Knoll, Ralph McQuarrie, Doug Chiang, Ryan Church, Eric Tiemens, Ken Ralston, Dennis Muren, Roger Guyett, Dan Mindel, David Tattersall, Rob Coleman, Matthew Wood, Rick McCallum, Kathy Kennedy, Michelle Rejwan, Rick Carter, Phil Tippett, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Ian McDiarmid, Frank Oz, Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Ahmed Best, Jake Lloyd, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee, Temura Morrison, Oscar Isaac, Daisey Ridley, John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alden Ehrenreich, Joonas Suatumo, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke and everyone else, in front of the camera and behind the camera for this saga. What Star Wars has done will never be duplicated and everyone involved in these films are geniuses at what they do.
Thank you all for the ride of a lifetime.
For those who liked it - if you also saw the new Terminator film, you were ok with the choice to have young John Connor die in the first five minutes of the film?
Posted: December 21st 2019 4:58 am
Posted: December 21st 2019 2:24 pm
I liked he was missing fingers and such... I think they found his tattered body and brought him back to what we saw.
For a film clogged with expositional dialogue, I found the whole ‘Palpatine has returned’ to be the most god awful thing about the film. It was very much a case of ‘because he can’... Indeed, I would rather the films remain focused on Snoke and Kylo Ren. Alternatively, if Palpatine had to be used, it would have made much more sense, and given the sequels much more structure, if Kylo Ren/Hux et al where trying to find/resurrect Palpatine in TFA. As it stands, TROS feels like a rushed sequel to another set of films. It feels disconnected, both in terms of narrative and plot, to TFA and TLJ. And whilst I genuinely like a couple of things in TROS (e.g. the hunt for the Sith holocron or whatever it is), it’s too little too late IMO.
Posted: December 22nd 2019 1:45 pm
There can be no debate about it, Abrams has a supreme eye for visuals. The visual tone set to every scene was about as perfect as one could get. He needs to ratchet down the "Michael Bay action aesthetics" in a major way. What's the point of showing astounding action if most of the time it's all blurred out from speed effects and 1,000 layers of overlapping chaos? Hollywood in general, needs to cut this action aesthetic out entirely. Rogue One's impeccable depiction of what I'm describing is what SHOULD be The Standard.
Soundtrack? Perfect.
The acting? Better in every regard from the prior two outings of these characters. And Ian McDiarmid? Proves yet again why he's one of The Finest performers ever. He chews up every scene like it's candy.
But the plot?
They say that given enough time, a room full of monkeys, randomly typing on keyboards, will reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. That is certainly not true (look at the fruits of the internet). But that room full of monkeys WILL type out the script to Rise of Skywalker a thousand times over.
I started to list all of the plot holes, big and small. Several dozen "minor" plot holes, at least half that of "major" ones. I gave up, knowing full well that there were many more to be recorded. It is a nauseating endeavor, as its scale is so vast, and the wounds that they produce are so deep...
Let's just take a quick look at Palpatine, shall we...? Actually, I don't even think that it's accurate to call "him" by that name, as he states that he "...has died before..." and he also expresses that he is inhabited by "...all of the Sith..."
Henceforth, I will refer to him as "The Dark Son," and with the plural pronoun of "them."
They strongly stated numerous times that by killing them, The Dark Son will inhabit their killer's body, and then they shall rule the universe together. As Rey takes her Three Steps of Total Victory towards The Dark Son, they don't stop shooting out lightning at her lightsabers, even though it was gravely hurting them by doing so. Palpatine himself was laid out flat by Windu the last time he did it. They certainly know better than to keep doing that. Unless, of course, they WANTED her to keep reflecting the lighting till their physical form disintegrated.
And why's that?
Because they plainly stated that they had to be slain in order to inhabit the body of their killer. Maybe, technically, it wasn't Rey who directly killed them, because it was THEIR lightning that was REFLECTED BACK at them; it was THEY who were the SOURCE of the lightning. But then, why it does it REQUIRE ME to declare this? Isn't that ABRAMS' job?
Rey killed The Dark Son. As far as we know, Rey wasn't inhabited by even a single Sith spirit. Was that because her body was topped off with Jedi souls, so there wasn't any room left at the hotel? Quite timely that many of those whispering Jedi souls were never exposed to Qui Gonn's discovery of maintaining one's consciousness once one's physical form was abandoned by one's spirit. But I digress...
I could go on and on just about Palpatine. But what's the point? Not an officially sanctioned word of dialogue will change because of it.
The Final Word on the Skywalker saga.
I have to face facts.
The monkeys won.
Posted: December 23rd 2019 12:06 am
I like Kyles rants! Saw it a 2nd time tonight with 13 yr old daughter... she loved it. I think I liked it on a second viewing also. The digs at TLJ make me laugh.
Posted: December 23rd 2019 11:57 pm
I didn't really like it to be honest. It had some great moments, but it was so disjointed (and not because of the Carrie footage.)
One thing I kept on thinking while watching...it was obvious that this went through super extensive reshoots and there were so many things that were either cut or simply changed and worked around. That's how I felt at the end with Palpatine, it's how I felt with the first half of the film. It wasn't cohesive at all, just randomly jumping around from location to location and throwing shade at RJ and TLJ. Which is really funny considering I reported how JJ hates TLJ and that it totally fucked up the ST. And everyone I talk to now says that there's literally no point to TLJ now. Honestly you can just skip it and go on to TROS.
As someone who's really familiar with the editing process and who edits things myself, I can tell this is like four different films in one. which is why I buy the rumors that are going around right now, but that's for the other thread.
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The first half jumped around so quickly it made me feel carsick. I really enjoyed the middle. The shoehorning of Palpatine right from the opening scroll really underlined how off-script the middle film was, how unplanned this trilogy's arch was. Oh well.
homergreg
Join: February 18th 2017 11:23 pm
I enjoyed the ride! It was 42 years in the making, and the final chapter was fast paced, with many elements that I probably missed and I'll need to see again.
I think watching this story unfold, I had a way that I thought it should turn out, and those damn writers paid absolutely no attention to me!
I think the criticisms of the sequels, with the swerve back and forth between the story each director wanted to tell was evident, and I think that ties into this being such a loved and studied franchise, everyone sees things how they would like to tell the story. I actually find some pleasure in seeing and thinking about the differences in what each storyteller had to say.
Thanks for not weaponizing Star Wars, homergreg. Much appreciated!
And I very much agree.
Posted: January 3rd 2020 6:42 pm
CoGro, your post exceeded all my expectations. Brilliantly said.
I agree with much of this. I disagree with some of this. I hold the PT in equal regard to the OT. But I respect your knowledge and passion. You make this place better.
I knew it was coming. Great read!
Posted: January 4th 2020 11:54 am
anyone have a tl;dr? I can't read that. (eye problem)
Posted: January 4th 2020 12:59 pm
Been waiting for that. Thanks for the insight. Always my favorite commentary.
Posted: January 5th 2020 8:57 pm
Thanks CoGro and I won't lie and say I read every word but I certainly understand the sentiment.
100% the fanbase must realise that never will any SW movie EVER AGAIN live up to the magic of the OT. That time is passed and as you said it was"lightning in a bottle". Only disappointment remains for anyone who believes otherwise.
I too wondered what the ST could be about once Disney announced it. I was confused as to where the story could go. While it's my least favourite of the trilogies I still hold it very dear. I hope Disney stick to their word and end the Skywalker saga here, but I don't believe it will happen. They will revisit within the next 10 years or so.
In saying this the TROS blu-ray can not get here soon enough!
Posted: January 6th 2020 4:02 am
Notions of cohesion and oeuvre-spanning design are artistic concepts rarely applied to mainstream filmmaking. We were spoiled with an auteur like Lucas who treated these endeavors as art.
In the studio system, the reigning dictate is flashy entertainment value with a negligible interest in elaborately applied principles of design. What did we really expect from a massive corporation and their endless history of crass and cynical practices? Lucas built his whole empire in direct opposition to their whole rotten ethos and constantly voiced his criticism of it all.
Although I enjoyed the initial thrill of new Star Wars in TROS, it's remained as a kind of still-birth to me given everything that appears to have come to light about its making.
Damn shame.
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Kamlesh Patel
Exposition : Kamlesh Patel
Hey Stubborn Army! We are back once again, Oh Wait!!!!!, You have read this line enough times. Let’s start fresh today because the one we are featuring today is the one who brought a whole new horizon to the dancing world. We are talking about the first Indian dancer on two hands Mr. Kamlesh Patel.
At the tender age of 5, due to a mishappening he lost both of his legs. A small kid watching children of his age running and playing and not being able to play himself; you can understand what emotional trauma he was facing.
Kamlesh Patel just wasn’t ready to give up. He never let the negatives rule his life and found the silver lining in the dark cloud. Today he is an inspiration to billions.
His talent is shinier than diamonds , his art prettier than Picasso and his stubbornness harder than that of mountains.
Come let’s live the journey of one of the most inspiring dancer of India with his own own words.
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A Kid With No Future
Kamlesh Patel was born in the small town of Padra near Vadodara, Gujarat. Kamlesh Patel come from a not very well to do family. He had a childhood in the rural scenarios, The village gave the humbleness and groundedness, Kamlesh Patel have today.
When Kamlesh Patel was 5 , Kamlesh Patel was taken to a hospital for a simple fever. The doctor said Kamlesh Patel would need an injection. No one knew that this injection was going to flip Kamlesh Patel world upside down. The doctor injected Kamlesh Patel in a wrong vein.
Kamlesh Patel was not able to move my legs. Also Kamlesh Patel parents took to the best hospitals they could, but neither the finances nor the technology was good enough to give me my feet back. He was paralyzed down my waist.
Kamlesh Patel parents would cry, that it was their fault. Kamlesh Patel used to motivate them saying “Fate did what had to.
Our society looks at people with disabilities with eyes of sympathy and despair. Kamlesh Patel was told a thousand times that ‘He is going to have no future, ‘Kamlesh Patel can’t do anything in my life.’ Now Kamlesh Patel had two ways to take it. One, be demotivated by the so-called society and always live hating my life. Second was to take this as a challenge and prove them wrong and show them what a disabled person can do.
I chose the challenge, because I wanted to show them that I am not disabled, I am just differently abled. Every breath I took had only one purpose, To change the way the society looked at us.
Dance : The Roar to the World
The wheel of time started revolving and I started to grow more and more positive. I learned to live my life with the positives. I never let my disability dictate the tone of my life. Also I always tried to turn my shortcomings into strengths.
I was good in academics and the fuel that kept me going were the taunts from the society. Also I was always able to give my 100% because of this motivation, I came to 9th standard, with a laudable academic record.
As a kid I used to see dance shown on T.V. and always wanted to dance but the question was “ How would I ? ” because Dance is an art that is difficult for even people with two feet then how would I manage. When I became a bit mature, I thought if I will be able to do something that even so-called ‘normal’ can’t, that would give answers to society’s every question.
I came to know about ‘Thappa Dance Classes’ from a friend. It was in Vadodara, almost 15 Kms away from my house. One day I just took my tricycle and started to pedal and went straight to the dance classes.
Taking The Challenges : Kamlesh Patel
After a tiring journey of 15 Kms with pedaling only with hands, I came to a building with 4 floors. The classes were on the 4 th floor and there was no lift in the building. Climbing the stairs was a challenge but who has ever achieved something without taking challenges.
I somehow reached the classes. Thappa Sir who ran the academy, was a real gem of a person. He allowed me to come to his classes to practice and even exempted me from the fees.
I embarked on a completely new journey, I used to study in the school till 5 in the evening. Then take the tricycle for 15 kms then reach the academy at 7 – 7:30, then practice the dance steps, dancing in a corner and then again take the tricycle back home. Also I came back home at 10-10:30 in the night.
I didn’t tell my parents that I was learning dance, I used to tell them that I was going for a computer class. On the other at the dance academy, I used to practice in a corner watching all the kids, I had become a keen learner like the ‘Eklavya’
This went on for a few months. There came days when my hands used to ache so hard because of cycling then dancing and cycling back again. I even used to question myself “Why am I doing this?” Then all the questions, the giggles and the tag of ‘disabled’ would come in front of my eyes. It gave me the exact reason for “Why am I doing this? ”
Differently Abled Not Disabled : Kamlesh Patel
I kept grinding myself, so that my art can express to the world what I wanted to say. One day when I was practicing in the academy , a person came to the academy. Also He wanted dance groups for a show, he was going to organise. He saw me practicing and asked my instructor to bring me to the show too.
When sir told me about the show, I was excited and nervous too. I had choreographed a song for myself in these months, I had no costume, so I somehow mended my T-shirt in some furry outfit and wore a black jeans to the show.
When I went on the stage, people were shocked but when I performed they were just flabbergasted. Everyone left their seats to give me a standing ovation. I had tears in my eyes, I felt that the hours and hours of hard work that I had put in just bore fruit.
After this show my parents also got to know about my dance and they were also happy, because their kid was being appreciated by everyone.
Now I had got an acceptance but now It was time to turn this acceptance into expectation that whenever Kamlesh will come on stage he will bring something new with him.
I started to go deeper and deeper into the dance styles. Also I learnt forms like bollywood, jazz, hip-hop, break dance and many more. Then I customized them into my style because I can only move my hands, so I have to make such movements that can reflect both hand and leg movements at the same time.
Its All About Grabbing The Opportunities : Kamlesh Patel
I continued my journey in dance, people started inviting me for shows through which I just bore my expenses. I took every opportunity to show the world that ‘We are not disabled, we are just differently abled.’
2005, Grandmaster Saroj Khan was coming to judge a competition in Vadodara. Even I wanted to take part in the competition but when I went to fill a form, they denied to let me participate. They said “The competition was only for normal dancers.” The sentence just fired me up.
Just the day before the competition, in the press conference, one of the boys from the organizers team asked Saroj Mam that “Should they allow a disabled dancer to participate.” Saroj Mam replied “If he has dancing talent, then he should be given a chance.”
I was informed that I can participate in the competition, I had a walkman at home, I played the song on it and practiced almost all night. On the next day, I was very nervous. When the performance started, I forgot everything and just lived the moment.
When I finished, Saroj Mam was standing on her seat with tears in her eyes. She went short of words, She gave me a hundred rupee note, that became one of the most important souvenirs of my life and whenever I feel low I just gaze at the note and I am elated again.
During this time, I met a friend who later became more than a brother. He used to drive the dairy truck from Padra to Vadodara. Whenever he saw me on the road, he always gave me a lift to Vadodara. Gradually we became very good friends .
DID : “Taqdeer ki Topi”
I went on growing in the dance industry. Also I did shows at various places in and around Gujarat. I was fortunate that I got an audience of my own. Even I was appreciated by many. I went more towards classical and folk dance, so that I can popularise these dance forms too, I was struggling and hustling around till 2009.
One day I got a call from a friend in Mumbai. He said “There is a show coming on ZEE T.V. named DID. They want folk dancers for a promo shoot for Gujarat. Can you arrange a dance group? ”
I knew a few dance academies, so I said ‘Yes, I can. ’ The day came, there were DID auditions in Ahmedabad. I brought the group, the promo shoot went well. After the show kids asked me “Can we give an audition too.” I didn’t refuse. Then one of them said “Sir, You should also give an audition.” I said “No, I have a show in Siroi, Rajasthan, Also I have to catch a bus.”
Then I thought, I will catch a later bus. I went for the audition, Even I had props with me because I was leaving for a show. Even I gave the audition, I cleared 3 rounds back to back.
Then they told me that tomorrow, there will be a Mega audition. In which you will be judged by Remo Sir, Terrance Sir and Geeta Maa. I wanted to leave for the show, so I told them that I will not give the mega auditions.
One Should Be Ready To Accept Failures : Kamlesh Patel
The DID team insisted so I canceled the show. I was very nervous to perform in front of three celebrity judges but I then thought “Why should I fear ? The most that can happen is that I won’t get selected, That’s all”
With this attitude, I went to the stage. I performed well and got a standing ovation from the judges. They gave me the ticket to the Mumbai auditions. It was a new challenge to go to Mumbai and face off against the best dancers from India.
In Mumbai Auditions, we were given a task to dance in groups of five. There were 100 people and only 18 were going to be selected. They asked me if I wanted to dance alone rather than dancing in a group but I said “I don;t want any special treatment, I just want a fair shot. If I have the talent I will be selected”
We had to choreograph a dance with multiple forms and the other four people had to coordinate with me while dancing. It was a challenge but we came ove it and 3 of us were selected.
Life Gives Us Many Turning Point : Kamlesh Patel
After getting in Top 18, the first episode came and I saw ‘The Disco Dancer’ Mithoon Da live for the first time. I went on stage to perform, had a special dance in which I balanced rotating discs while dancing.
When Mithoon Da saw it, he said a sentence that changed my life forever. He said “Your level is even higher than this competition. You deserve to be a judge”
Then I was given an opportunity to sit next to Mithoon Da as a grandmaster. I got a chance to judge 17 other contestants.
After DID, My life completely flipped around. In the show a “Taqdeer ki Topi ” is given to the selected contestants. I became a known name in the 132 countries where the show aired.
I was invited for foreign shows.I was recognised everywhere. I was shocked when I went to Trinidad and Tobago and people recognised me. My hard work for years and years, now started getting me the due fame and wherever I did shows I drove the message that, “Don’t treat us specially just treat as you treat others.”
In 2011, I was given a chance to judge a dance competition named “Gujarat Dance Championship ” alongside Saroj Khan Mam. When we met on stage, I touched her feet and asked her if she remembered me. She told me that she saw my performances in DID.
The cherry on the top of the cake was that the contestants, whom we judged were none other than those who denied me to take part in the competition some years earlier.
This made me realise that , Yes I had come a long way but a lot of it is still left.
My art, My expression : Kamlesh Patel
After DID, I did get a lot of recognition but I never let it come to my head. Rather take it as a responsibility that now millions of people are looking up to me and I have to present a good example to them.
I never wanted to get married because I have problems and the one who marries me will have to suffer with them too. Also I didn’t want to ruin a girl’s life. In 2010, I met a girl who accepted me with every shortcoming I had.
She made me believe that I can be a good life partner too. Even She had to stand against her family to marry me, She is such a strong woman that even after facing resistance from her family she stood strongly by my side.
Eventually we got married and today we have a little one of our own. A cute little daughter. She is seven years old, She has brought a charm to my life.
I have been continuously doing shows since 2009. Everyday I try to learn something new and present it to the audience. Also I opened an academy in my home town so that the kids like me can get the best dance training close to their house.
I have also seen that many differently abled dancers and other artists have come forward. Whenever I meet them and they tell me how I was the inspiration for them to start. I feel that my purpose of coming to earth has somewhat been accomplished.
All in all the boy whom the society tagged as ‘A boy with no future’ has made a fortune and is not going to stop any soon.
I have been on a journey to inspire those who are differently abled like me and to change society’s outlook towards us. The next step towards this , is a movie. I want that a movie should be made on my journey and the title is going to be “Yes! I can dance.”
Also I have set up an NGO name ‘Kamlesh Patel Health Care Foundation’ that works for the needy. We try to be ‘nimit.’ Through the donations we get, we have tried to help those who were deeply affected by the Covid situation, especially those who are in the entertainment industry.
Simply, I can say “We have just walked a few steps, the whole sky is still left to fly.”
A word from me
I just want to the youth of our country that “Don’t lose all your hopes over small problems, look at people who are living with their shortcomings and converting them into strengths”
Just keep working hard, your talent is like a flowing river, no one can stop you from succeeding.
So guys this was the inspiring tale of the first Indian dancer on hands. His journey has fueled other people like him to achieve more and more.
We should take the message he has given at every moment in his life that “Don’t treat the differently abled specially, just treat them as you treat others. ”
Also We will be back with another inspiring tale next week till than.
Stay Passionate, Stay Stubborn
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The Address Book also supports Mailing Lists. A Mailing List is a collection of Contacts, within an address book, which permits a group of several Contacts to be added to a message as a single item.
The Address Book is organized rather like the main Thunderbird window; there is a narrow pane at the left which shows address books, a larger pane at top right which shows the contents on the currently selected book or Mailing List, and at bottom right, the contents of the currently selected Contact. Mailing Lists appear in the left-hand folder pane as if they were subfolders of address books, but it can be somewhat misleading to think of them as subfolders. They can be shown or hidden, depending on whether you choose to expand or collapse the folder tree.
To create a new entry ("Contact") in an address book, you can use the toolbar button, or go via the menu:
File|New|Address Book Contact...
To Edit an existing Contact, double-click it and the Contact properties editor will appear.
Additionally, when you're reading an email message, the sender's address will appear next to a star. If the star is white, or clear, then this Contact isn't in any of your Address Books. Clicking on the star will open a dialogue that allows you to add the address as a new Contact. When you've added this Contact, it will have a yellow or gold star to show that it is known. Clicking on a gold star will open a dialogue that lets you edit the Contact, either in-place, or by opening its entry in your Address Book. The dialogue also allows you to choose which of your address books you wish this Contact to be stored in.
To create a Mailing List, select the address book you want to put it into, and either use the toolbar button, or via the menu:
File|New|Mailing List...
and the Mailing List editor will appear. You can type Contacts into it, and the Address Book's auto-fill system will offer matching addresses from the parent address book.
An alternative way to fill a Mailing List is to close it, and expand the parent address book in the folder pane so you can see the Mailing List's icon. You can now drag and drop Contacts from the open address book onto this icon.
Note that a Mailing List can only contain Contacts found in its parent address book. If you attempt to add a new Contact, or a Contact from a different address book, TB will create a skeleton entry for your new Contact in the Mailing List's parent address book.
To edit a Mailing List, double-click it and the Mailing List editor will appear.
There are several ways to use Thunderbird's Address Book.
Open the Address Book, select an address book, select a Contact (or several Contacts) and click the "Write" button (in the Address Book). This will create a new message, with the selected Contacts added to the To: address boxes. This approach has two major disadvantages; it can only be used to start a new message (it's of no use when replying or forwarding) and all the addressees are placed in the To: box, which is undesirable, unless you know for sure that all of these addressees have consented to their addresses being shared amongst them. This is fine between colleagues in the workplace, but unacceptable with friends' private email addresses.
If you select a Mailing List and click on "Write", then again a new message will be created, this time with the Mailing List's constituent Contacts all filled into the new message's To: boxes. This might be useful if you wanted to omit a Contact from a group mailing.
As mentioned above, there is an autofill system. Another way to use your Address Book is to start a new message (it could also be a reply or forward). If you don't want to send using To:, click on To: and alternative sending modes –Cc:, Bcc: etc, will appear. Select one, then just start typing a name or address into the address box. Suggestions that match what you've typed will appear. Move to the correct address and click it or press return, the address will be filled in and the cursor will advance to the next line. Even though there are, typically, only four address lines on show, Thunderbird will keep adding new lines and offer a scroll bar to allow them to be seen. You can grab and drag the top edge of the message text pane down to make more room for the display of addresses.
If you prefer a visual prompt, then when composing a message, use the F9 key, or via the compose window's menu:
View|Contacts Sidebar
and a sidepane will show you a compact view of one of your address books. You can now select Contacts, and use the Add to... buttons at the bottom, or drag-and-drop Contacts into an address box, or right-click and select an option from the context menu.
Mailing Lists will appear intermingled with your discrete Contacts, and can in principle be used in place of a Contact to stand for all the member Contacts stored in the Mailing List. The sending mode will be applied to each of the member Contacts within a Mailing List, so if you send to a List using Bcc:, it will act as if each of the Contacts named in the list was individually addressed using Bcc:.
A very useful set of enhancements for Thunderbird's Address Book can be found in this add-on:
More Functions For Address Book
Another add-on from the same site,
Email Address Crawler
allows you to harvest addresses from the headers and bodies of email messages in your account folders.
More about addressing can be found here: How do I send to everyone in my Address Book?
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Rookies (T-Ball Division):
The Rookies division is a non-competitive program for girls age 4-6 as of 12/31/2018. This division will focus on learning the basics of the game, rules, positions and having fun learning the game of softball. The Rookies program will run from mid-April through the end of June. The season will start with players hitting from a batting tee and progress to coach pitch when player skill has sufficiently developed. During coach pitch, any player or coach may elect to use a tee anytime, for any player. A 50 foot softball diamond shall be utilized. There will be no scoring, no standings, and no playoffs in the Rookies division. All players will receive a jersey and a hat.
T-Shirt Division:
Not In Effect For Spring 2019
International Division:
The International division is a semi-competitive program for girls age 6-8 as of 12/31/2018. This division will emphasize on skill building in an environment that is designed to give them a feel for playing softball at the higher levels. Coaches will pitch to girls in this division, however upon agreement of team managers players will be allowed pitch to opposing batters at an appropriate pitching distance (25-30 feet, to be agreed upon by managers before game start) but will yield to coach pitching should a pitcher struggle to get the ball put in play. All games are played on a 60 foot softball diamond, there will be a 5-run maximum per inning and scoring will be recorded however there are no standings and no playoffs. The season will run from early April through early June.
Minors Division:
The Minors division is a competitive program for girls age 8-10 as of 12/31/2018. This division will emphasize on skill building but players will be taught some of the advanced skills for certain positions. Girls in this division will pitch to opposing batters utilizing a 35 foot pitching distance. All games are played on a full-size softball field, there will be a 5-run maximum per inning and scoring and standings will be recorded. Runners will be allowed to steal bases but not until the ball crosses the plate. There will be a limit on the number of steals allowed per inning. The season will run from early April through early June. Scoring, standings and a playoff system are all part of the Minors division. Minors Division players shall have "tryouts" (player evaluations) to be used for the purpose of drafting fair and equitable teams.
Majors Division:
The Majors division is a competitive softball program for girls age 10-12 as of 12/31/2018. Basic skill development is still stressed at the Majors level, but some players may be asked to concentrate on mastering the subtleties of specific positions. Girls in this division will pitch to opposing batters from a mound located 40 feet from home plate. Runners are allowed to steal bases, and there may be a cap on runs and steals per inning (to be determined). The season runs from early April through early June. Scoring, standings and a playoff system are all part of the Majors division. Majors Division players shall have "tryouts" (player evaluations) to be used for the purpose of drafting fair and equitable teams. 12 year old players, assessed capable, may be dual rostered to both a majors team and a juniors team (L.L. Regulation I/IV).
Juniors Division:
The Juniors division is a competitive softball program for girls age 13-14 as of 12/31/2018. Basic skill development is still stressed at the Juniors level, but some players may be asked to concentrate on mastering the subtleties of specific positions. Girls in this division will pitch to opposing batters from a mound 43 feet from home plate. Runners are allowed to steal bases, and there may be a cap on runs per inning (to be determined). The season runs from early April through early June, but may be adjusted to run as late as August due to school team conflict. Scoring, standings and a playoff system are all part of the Juniors division. Girls of Junior division age have the choice to play competitive softball in the Juniors Division, or recreational softball in the Prime Division (possibly both if they choose).
Prime Division:
The Prime division is a semi-competitive softball program for girls age 13-18 as of 12/31/2018. This division is purely recreational and is not part of the structure of Little League International. Games in this division are played on a standard softball diamond, with players pitching from a 43 foot mound. Scoring is part of this division however there are no standings or playoffs. Games are played in an intra-mural/exhibition manner. Girls of Junior & Senior Division age have the choice to play competitive softball in the Juniors/Seniors Division, or recreational softball in the Prime Division (possibly both if they choose).
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Industrial & Manufacturing Decorators
When it comes to decorating industrial and manufacturing properties, Swirlforce understands that a whole lot more needs to be considered than just what the finish will look like...
While the aesthetics of the project are a definite element, the products and approach used in these situations also play a highly practical role.
Our professional team works with you to ensure the specifications of the project meet all health and safety requirements, including measures such as emergency exits being painted in different colours to make them easily identifiable. Of course, we also conduct ourselves with best practice throughout each project when it comes to health and safety, which is demonstrated through our CHAS and Constructionline accreditations.
By only using the best products, we make sure that they work as hard as possible for you. For example, the cladding paints that we use, which include those made by Zinsser and Rustoleum, provide a fresh look when used on the outside of metal, plastic and wood, while protecting the underlying surface from corrosion and damage.
Get in touch with a member of the Swirlforce team and trust that the renovation of your industrial or manufacturing property will be in the right hands.
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Industrial steel painting.
Swirlforce were the first company in the country to take delivery of the electric Graco King – Z60 110v e- E-xtreme. This picture shows it back in our yard after it’s first 25,000m2 spray job.
Acid etching galvanised steel work
Industrial Plant Room 2 Pack Floor Painting
Checking DFT (Dry film thickness) and Spray Application of RIW LAC (Liquid Asphaltic Composition Coating)
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Baller Wives Is Coming To VH1 This Summer!
Get ready for some Miami heat on VH1's newest series!
Fasten your seatbelt (or maybe just slow down your yacht), because VH1 is ready to give you a taste of the luxe life in the form of Baller Wives. Set in Miami, Baller Wives follows the lives of some of Miami’s most lavish and well-known personalities, and the drama that follows them.
The show, which premieres on Monday, August 14th at 10PM ET/PT, highlights these pro athletes and their wives as they navigate love, family, business and balling in the world where relationships are complicated and the competition between neighbors is thick.
Kijafa and her pro-quarterback husband Michael Vick have been married since 2012 and have two beautiful daughters and a new baby on the way. Kijafa is the Queen Bee of the ladies and knows everyone’s secrets. The pair also serves as executive producers of the series.
Stacey and Chris Chambers, a retired wide receiver for Miami, are happily married and expecting their second child. Big believers on taking an unconventional approach, Stacey finds herself in a heated disagreement with Kijafa and has formed her own alliances within the circle.
Miko Grimes, wife of Tampa Bay cornerback Brent Grimes, is restarting her career after recently being let go from her long running sports radio show. She and Brent have a son together and have been married for seven years. With his training schedule, Miko has to deal with Brent’s absence leading up to the new season.
Jeniva finds her husband, two-time champion Asante Samuel, eager to start a new career as a boxer. With professional football behind him, Jeniva thought her years of worrying about Asante’s safety were over.
Aja is married to Channing Crowder who played as a linebacker for Miami and is now a sports radio host. This couple find themselves in the middle of the drama with Miko after she is fired from the radio station where Channing works.
Kelly and husband Julius Jones have been married for eight years and have two sons together. A former Dallas running back, Julius is adamantly against his sons playing football, much to the boys’ dismay.
Crystal is best friends with Stacey and Miko and she confides in them daily. After a rough break up with her ex, Crystal is a young mother, newly single and eager to jump back into the dating world.
Former video vixen, model and self-proclaimed party girl Emmaly is hopelessly looking for love in one of the hottest dating scenes in the country. She is a single mother of two and co-parents one child with her famous ex.
Megan is married to a professional basketball player who plays overseas in Turkey while she lives in Miami with the couple’s two daughters. Will Megan be able to continue living solo in Miami or will she need her husband to forgo returning abroad for the new season?
The baller life of these Baller Wives begins August 14th!
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Vin Moldova / Events / March 30 will be the final of the XIX Russian Sommelier Competition.
March 30 will be the final of the XIX Russian Sommelier Competition.
More than 100 contestants from 30 cities of Russia will take part in the XIX annual Russian Sommelier Competition and present their cities.
In a programme:
⁃ 3 best sommeliers on the stage of the Korston hotel and the title of the best sommelier of Russia
⁃ Salon Sommelier with wines and delicacies from partners of the Competition
⁃ 1000 guests and experts of the wine world
Three applicants for the title of “The Best Sommelier of Russia” will enter the Final of the Russian Sommelier Competition.
For them, prepared tasks of particular complexity, compiled by international standards.
Chairman of the jury: President of the Russian Sommelier Association – Alexey Sidorov.
In the jury: Anatoly Korneev, Shalva Khetsuriani, Igor Bukharov, Arthur Sarkisyan, Yulia Scavo and the 15 most respected sommeliers, winners of Russian and European competitions.
Leading the final – Pavel Shvets.
The winner of the XIX Russian Competition will receive a well-deserved reward: a golden badge of a member of the Russian Sommelier Association, a challenge cup, a medal and an honorary diploma for 1st place and the opportunity to represent Russia at the International Competition.
The Sommelier Salon will be held within the framework of the Competition, in which 40 partners will take part: the best wine producers, top wine trading companies, reputable foreign brands.
We invite all those who are not indifferent to the world of wine to take part in the Salon, where you can not only evaluate all the presented brands of wines and delicacies, talk with experts from the world of wine, but also become involved in the most prestigious event of the wine world.
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2009 29th March- Five new fluke ids and did we see the entangled calf?
Above are Nicole Reed from Bar Harbour, Maine who is a marine bilogist, volunteer with Allied Whale and whale researcher, Camilla Stringer, and Than Sr and Than Jr Butterfield on their boat Emerald Spray as we set off on a bumpy but productive day.
Below are the five new fluke ids we obtained today on Sally Tuckers and Challenger Banks. Each of the whales had orca bite marks on the flukes or dorsal fin probably incurred when they were calves, somewhere between Bermuda and their northern feeding grounds. The right hand images show close-ups of some of the bite marks. About one in three North Atlantic humpback whales have these scars, a reflection of how deadly the orcas (aka killer whales, even though they are dolphins) can be to any weak or unprotected calf. It also lends credence to my theory that the humpbacks are aggregating on the mid-ocean seamounts such as Bermuda to assemble into sizeable gams (schools) of around ten animals.
And is the photograph below on the left the entangled calf we observed on the Bermuda seamount, in fifty feet of water a fortnight ago? He was exactly where we found him two weeks ago and his behavior was very similar. Nicole saw the spout in the direction of Chubb Heads as we were heading towards Sally Tuckers. We kept a distance to observe and keep track of the calf. He tail lobbed several times and lay on his side and whacked the water with his pectoral fin and then after several minutes was joined by his mother. The calf looked like it was a yearling, seemed to have the same fluke pattern (didn't get a good id of its fluke last week). We didn't get a photo of his scarred humpback today which we could have compared and which might have confirmed his identity. And as happened two weeks ago, we lost the pair in fifty feet of water. They were very shy and elusive, but basically heading west.
If it wasn't the same calf and mother, then their behavior suggests to me that the mothers must leave their calves in the shallow waters of the Bermuda seamount (fifty feet) while they feed on the upwellings on the edge of the seamount in 120-200 feet of water. When nervous, the calf will lob tail or breach or pec slap and shortly thereafter the mother is at his side.
After we lost the mother and calf in fifty feet of water on the Bermuda platform we headed off to Challenger, bypassing two whales that seemed to be feeding on the western edge north of Sally Tuckers. Mike Haywood on Explorer was behind us and he stayed with the two whales which included a yearling who put on a fantastic tail lobbing display that we could see for almost half an hour as we continued to Challenger. On the edge of Challenger we dropped the hydrophone overboard but heard nothing and continued to the Crown. As if on cue, two humpbacks breached right on the crown of Challenger and we remained with a mother and calf. Not too long after we shadowed them, the mother breached about a hundred feet from the boat (none of us had our cameras ready) and soon an escort joined them. We stayed with them as they meandered and then slowly moved towards the south east edge of Challenger.
Thanks to Judie Clee on Explorer for letting everyone on board know that we are very keen to get fluke photos. The photo on the above left is my photo of the calf on the Bermuda seamount that was joined by its mother and then gave us the slip as they headed west. On the above right a photo from Federico Candiolo who was on Explorer. This yearling whale was tail lobbing when we bypassed it on the way to Challenger. It looks to me as if the two photos are of the same animal. Presumably while he was tail lobbing, the mother was feeding. If it is the same animal, then it would appear the mother brought the calf from its position of safety in the shallow waters of the platform (where we observed it) closer to where it was feeding (where Explorer observed it).
I believe the calf we saw two weeks ago had been entangled for some time, perhaps even since last summer. If his mother is still feeding him, then he could be relatively strong, despite the entanglement and she would be thin and weak from both feeding the calf and protecting it from predators. It would make sense that she would use the upwellings here with their food supply of krill, copepods, decapods, fish eggs and small fish to regain her strength. The calf entanglement is a reminder that we should not only be careful not to throw things overboard, but also to pull ropes and nets and plastic out of the water when we see it. Lou Hollis phoned last week to say that his garden is covered with ropes and discarded nets or cargo netting that he has pulled from the water and brought ashore. I'll see if I can get photos of this for our website.
And below is a fluke from a whale that was feeding on the windward side of the edge north of Sally Tuckers which we found on our way back, in the same position as we had observed on the way out. This might have been the mother to the calf Explorer was able to observe so closely.
Camilla's detailed notes are under 'Diary Data Sheets' section.
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Report: Colorado weed is now a behemoth with a $2.4 billion economic impact – The Denver Post
By 2020, Colorado’s marijuana industry should surpass tobacco as the state’s largest excise revenue source, but cannabis sales also should reach a saturation point. Pictured: Recreational marijuana is sold at High Country Healing in Silverthorne on Jan. 1, 2014. (Kathryn Scott Osler, Denver Post file)
By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff
Colorado’s burgeoning legal marijuana industry has quickly made gains on the state’s largest industries — including the mighty oil-and-gas sector — and contributed an economic impact of $2.39 billion in 2015, according to research released Tuesday.
The cannabis industry, the fastest-growing business sector in the state, also is credited with funding 18,005 direct and ancillary full-time jobs in 2015, according to the report from the Marijuana Policy Group, a Denver-based economic and market research firm that consults with businesses and governments on marijuana policy.
MPG, which was founded by researchers from BBC Research & Consulting and the University of Colorado but is unaffiliated with those entities, developed a “marijuana impact model” to show how legalization affects the state economy in the areas of output, tax revenue, GDP and employment.
MPG self-funded the report.
“By legalizing, the state has gained a windfall more or less for free,” said Miles Light, one of the report’s authors.
But the windfall has a window.
Colorado’s cannabis sales are largely driven by a shift from the gray and black markets, MPG said, noting that the pull from the gray and black markets account for 36.2 percentage points of Colorado’s 42.4 percent sales growth rate.
In the coming years, that growth rate will slow to about 11.3 percent as the shift of black and gray market sales nears completion and visitor sales drop off as more states legalize, according to the report.
By 2020, Colorado’s marijuana industry should surpass tobacco as the state’s largest excise revenue source, but cannabis sales also should reach a saturation point, MPG said.
Source: Read full article at Thecannabist.co
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Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Faust, Op. 60: Overture
Alfred Walter, conductor
Album: Spohr: Symphony No. 4 | Overtures
Last played Tuesday, January 12 2021 at 12:33 PM
The Tales of Hoffman: Belle nuit, o nuit d'amour
Renata Scotto, soprano
Charles Rosekrans, conductor
Album: Aria 51
Last played Monday, January 11 2021 at 05:53 AM
Erno (Ernst von) Dohnanyi
Suite in F-sharp Minor, Op. 19: III. Romanza
Tamas Vasary, conductor
Album: Ernst von Dohnanyi: Orchestral Compositions
Die Walkure: Ride of the Valkyries
Gyorgy Lehel, conductor
Album: Classical Spark: 50 Tracks to Inspire and Motivate
Last played Tuesday, December 08 2020 at 12:31 AM
Suite in F-sharp Minor, Op. 19
Last played Friday, November 06 2020 at 04:04 AM
Symphonic Moments, Op. 36
Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G Minor
Martin Schmeling, arranger
Istvan Bogar, conductor
Album: My First Classical Music Book
Last played Monday, May 25 2020 at 08:18 AM
Album: Great Classical Masterpieces | Bestselling Recordings 1987 - 2012
Last played Wednesday, March 04 2020 at 01:34 PM
Last played Wednesday, March 13 2019 at 08:53 AM
Suite in F-sharp Minor, Op. 19: IV. Rondo
Symphonic Moments, Op. 36: Tema con variazioni
Suite in F-sharp Minor, Op. 19: II. Scherzo
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BBC News : BBCNEWS : January 27, 2017 3:00pm-4:01pm GMT
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off course. she has been through a lot, and now it is time for some tlc. gel is applied to prevent her skin from drying and she is being kept warm, ready for her journey drying and she is being kept warm, ready for herjourney back drying and she is being kept warm, ready for her journey back to anglesey, before experts decide the future. some news just anglesey, before experts decide the future. some newsjust coming through from the last few moments, from the unite union, speaking about british airways. another six days of strikes will take place in february, says unite, in part of that continuing dispute about pay. no dates given as yet but we will try to see we can find out what they might be. unite says there will be six more days of strikes in february as part of that continuing dispute. time to catch up with the weather with helen. good afternoon to you. a gradual change already. it does not feel as better in most parts of the country, but there is still some of that cold here holding on, so still a little fog around the first of four was in scotland and also in sheffield. —
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off—course. menai the turtle has been through a lot, and now it is time for some tlc. gel is being applied to stop her skin from drying, and she's being kept warm ready for herjourney back to anglesey while experts decide her future. on, but now, let's catch up on the weather forecast. you have clouds on your tie! sorry? clouds! 0h, sorry? clouds! oh, yes! they are very nice, and they? cumulus clouds, in fact. oh, yes! they are very nice, and they? cumulus clouds, infact. i will show you later. pretty chilly in some areas, but we are infora pretty chilly in some areas, but we are in for a change. blue skies we have right now i'm part of the country will be replaced by cloud, and much milder air coming country will be replaced by cloud, and much milderair coming in off the ocean. it is pretty evident from the ocean. it is pretty evident from the satellite picture. you can see that streaming in here. sort of stuck by the time they get to the uk, but eventually, all of this is going to win, so the milder air here out in the ocean will eventually move in our direction and will wash awa
off—course. menai the turtle has been through a lot, and now it is time for some tlc. gel is being applied to stop her skin from drying, and she's being kept warm ready for herjourney back to anglesey while experts decide her future. on, but now, let's catch up on the weather forecast. you have clouds on your tie! sorry? clouds! 0h, sorry? clouds! oh, yes! they are very nice, and they? cumulus clouds, in fact. oh, yes! they are very nice, and they? cumulus clouds, infact. i will show you...
BBC Newsroom Live : BBCNEWS : January 27, 2017 11:00am-1:01pm GMT
been through a lot and now it is time that tlc. jealous being a pride to prevent her skin from drying and she is being kept warm ready for herjourney back to anglesey. while adding experts decide herfuture. it is half past 11. let's take a look at the weather forecast. it is still pretty cold out there across large swathes of england, some places below freezing, and a real mishmash of whether out there. some cloud, fog, and sunshine here and there. cloud to the west and southis and there. cloud to the west and south is interesting, particularly this front towards the west, because there will eventually move eastwards and introduce something a lot milder. this afternoon, 7—9d in the west it. further north and east, a cold day, struggling to get much above freezing. rain becomes more extensive overnight. snow over the pennines, more significantly over higher ground in scotland, but foremost, rain. nowhere nearas higher ground in scotland, but foremost, rain. nowhere near as as recently, but chilly enough in northern ireland for icy patches first thing tomorrow. a slow start of
been through a lot and now it is time that tlc. jealous being a pride to prevent her skin from drying and she is being kept warm ready for herjourney back to anglesey. while adding experts decide herfuture. it is half past 11. let's take a look at the weather forecast. it is still pretty cold out there across large swathes of england, some places below freezing, and a real mishmash of whether out there. some cloud, fog, and sunshine here and there. cloud to the west and southis and there....
Breakfast : BBCNEWS : January 27, 2017 6:00am-8:31am GMT
now it is time for some tlc. gel is being applied to prevent her skin from drying, and it will soon be time for her return to anglesey, where experts decide her future. i have learned a lot in that piece, not least that they serve calamari to captive totals. it has fine tastes, that turtle. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london news, i'm sonja jessup. a 15—year—old boy has been charged with the murder of quamari barnes, who was stabbed outside his school in north—west london. quamari, who was also 15, was attacked outside the capital city academy in willesden on monday, and died later in hospital. the boy accused of his murder is due to appear at willesden youth court later today. a dutch psychotherapist who has been living and working in the uk for 40 years has told bbc london she feels rejected by this country following the brexit vote. emmy van deurzen is due to receive her british citizenship today, but previously had her application rejected twice. she says the vote to leave the eu has caused her a great deal of concern. it
now it is time for some tlc. gel is being applied to prevent her skin from drying, and it will soon be time for her return to anglesey, where experts decide her future. i have learned a lot in that piece, not least that they serve calamari to captive totals. it has fine tastes, that turtle. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london news, i'm sonja jessup. a 15—year—old boy has been charged with the murder of quamari barnes, who was stabbed...
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Castel Nuovo (Maschio Angioino) Tours - page 2
Castel Nuovo, known locally as Maschio Angioino, has the imposing stone walls, soaring turrets, and crenellated ramparts of a storybook medieval castle. Built as the new royal residence between 1279 and 1282 by Charles I of Anjou, it is one of Naples' most striking buildings and home of the city’s Civic Museum.
Most of the current "New Castle" dates from the 15th century, when the Aragonese monarch Alfonso V carried out a number of renovations to the original building, including its white marble triumphal arch. At the end of the 1600s, Naples was annexed by Spain and the castle was downgraded to military fortress, but Charles III moved back in as king of Naples in 1734 and restored it to its former glory. Today, visitors can tour the castle's halls and courtyard, 14th-century Palatine Chapel decorated with fragments of frescoes from the Giotto school, and Museo Civico.
This castle is best visited with a tour guide as part of a Naples Segway tour or walking tour that includes visits to other landmarks such as the Castel dell'Ovo and Royal Palace. Alternatively, a visit to Castel Nuovo can be combined with a Neapolitan food tour or an archaeological tour of sites in Naples and nearby Pompeii.
The Museo Civico is closed on Sundays, but the other areas of the castle remain open to visitors.
The castle and museum are completely accessible to wheelchairs via elevators and ramps.
Exploring the historic halls and towers of Castel Nuovo is especially fun for kids.
There are great views from the castle over the Bay of Naples and city center, so be sure to bring your camera.
Castel Nuovo is located in the center of Naples (Napoli) near the port; metro line 1 and bus line R2 both have Piazza Municipio stops near the castle. Naples is the largest city in Southern Italy and a main transport hub, so an easy day trip from Rome or Sorrento.
The castle is open free of charge each Sunday, which means that it can be very crowded. Better to plan a visit on the other days of the week, when opening hours are from 9am to 7pm. Visit at night to see the castle illuminated.
The Museo Civico
The art collection in the castle's Civic Museum includes 14th- and 15th-century frescoes and sculptures, as well as paintings by Neapolitan artists from the 17th to 20th century.
Address: Piazza Munipio, Naples, Naples, Campania, Italy
43 Tours and Activities to Experience Castel Nuovo (Maschio Angioino)
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Naples Shopping & Pizza Private Escort Tour
This is the best way to experience the city of Naples. You will be escorted to the best places by your licensed driver, who will take care of each need you may have. With him, you will discover this astonishing city in total comfort and stress free. Learn tips and fun facts of the local culture from an enthusiast local tour leader. The day will not end before you get the best pizza in town. Time for shopping will be given so you get to enjoy the Italian fashion & style!
Naples tour
With the Naples tour we have the opportunity to spend 6 hours and start seeing the Cathedral of San Gennaro passing through the city center and visiting San Gregorio Armeno with Underground Naples and / or Cristo Velato, stop off at Piazza del Plebiscito visiting Via Roma , Palazzo Reale or in the immediate vicinity Galleria Umberto or Maschio Angioino. Finally we can visit the seafront with Castel dell'ovo and Posillipo district to enjoy a fantastic breathtaking view
Naples and the ancient workshops
Walking in the center of Naples and travel over time among ancient workshops
Naples Walking Tour with Local Guide Including the Veiled Christ
The charm of Naples is discovered walking through its streets, rich in history and traditions, and through its highlights. With local guide you will be guided in the historic center of Naples. Along the route you will admire the famous Piazza del Plebiscito, Piazza Municipio with Neptune Fountain and Maschio Angioino, also known as Castel Nuovo. The guide will tell you about the various anecdotes and the many stories which characterize these fantastic places.The tour will continue on the historic center through Spaccanapoli, the road that split Naples into two parts. Here you will admire the Gesù Nuovo Church overlooking the square , you will reach Via San Gregorio Armeno, where the craft shops famous for their cribs are open all year and Amazing and the Sansevero Chapel with its extraordinary veiled Christ from inside You can choose to do this 2.5 hour tour in a small group of up to 15 people or choosing the private option for you and your party.
The Ultimate Naples Private Shore Excursion
Only in Naples for a shore excursion? No need to stay in port when there's so much to see! Let a local host show you the best Naples has to offer on this private shore excursion. With a convenient pickup & drop off close to the harbor, you'll have time to discover the best Naples has to offer! This tour can be organised in Mandarin Chinese language.
Naples Experience Fullday from Rome
Enjoy this memorable Fullday visiting the Best of Naples, exploring the UNESCO-listed center and checking off top attractions: • Best of Naples • Lunch time in Naples (own expense) • Buffalo Mozzarella Tasting • Expert local Tour Guide in Naples Pickup and Dropoff your accommodation. Private or Shared Tour available options. Worry-Free and Safe Private Tour Experience, operated only with: • Expert Professional English-Speaking Drivers • Selected local Expert Licensed Tour Guides (when booked) • Welcoming by private licensed fully-insured air-conditioned comfortable Vehicles
Discovering Naples with neapolitan babà tasting
Naples is known as much for its cuisine as it is for its culture. With this tour, combine both with a guided walk through the historic center and a stop to sample babà au rhum, the city’s most beloved pastry. Admire sumptuous churches, imposing castles, and the impressive Royal Palace; wander lively narrow lanes; and taste this traditional Neapolitan cake—all without the hassle of following a map or guide book
Heart of Naples
This is an amazing itinerary for anyone who loves art, monuments and history. We suggest you doing it on your first day in Naples it will be a good introduction to the city so you will be able to make it better. A culinary itinerary, a local guide will take you through the narrow streets like the nativity scenes, the street of the purgatory and the one that split Naples in the Greek and Roman empire.
Naples Walking Tour with the Veiled Christ by Local Guide
Highly underrated yet rich in Italian history and culture, Naples is one of Italy’s must-visit cities. Often called an open-air museum due to its awe-inspiring historic statues, monuments and art pieces scattered across the city, Naples is a raw charming city of rich cultural assets. The tour takes you through the squares; Piazza del Plebiscito and Piazza Municipio. Secrets of these squares as well as historical background and the site importance are revealed by the expert local guide who will lead your tour. Continuing through the historic centre, the tour passes along Spaccanapoli. Meaning ‘Naples splitter’, the long road of Spaccanapoli literally divides the city into two parts. Enjoy the landscape with architecture such as the Gesù Nuovo Church overlooking the square, Sansevero Chapel home to the incredible veiled Christ masterpiece eventually reaching Via San Gregorio Armeno, with unique craft shops and boutiques.
Private Walking Royal Tour of Naples: Castles and Kings
Our meeting point will be the Gran Caffè Gambrinus, one of the oldest and most famous cafés in Naples. From there we will continue on Piazza del Plebiscito, where we will find access to the Royal Palace of Naples. The path to the royal apartments begins with the great monumental staircase:the succession of the rooms will take you on an exciting journey through the history of the city! Our second stop will be the majestic Umberto I Gallery: the large dome lets the sun's rays filter on the entire building and its elaborate floor. Next, the Real Theatre San Carlo: one of the oldest and most prestigious theatres in Europe, and still retains its original and regal beauty. The last stop of our journey will be the Castel Nuovo, best known as Maschio Angioino, symbol of Naples. Today it houses the civic museum, and some rooms are still used by the city council, as it used to be done in the past. Its proximity to the sea, finally, offers truly breathtaking views!
Private Renaissance Walking Tour of Naples
The tour of the Renaissance begins from the magnificent Triumphal Arch of Castel Nuovo: the entrance was commissioned by Alfonso of Aragon in the mid-1400s in memory of his entry into the city and the victory over French rule over Naples. The tour will continue to the area south of Spaccanapoli with a stop in Santa Maria la Nova where supposed to be buried the Count Dracula, the Renaissance Loggia of San Giovanni Maggiore and the magnificent Church of Sant'Anna dei Lombardi are thought to have been buried with a gem: the sacristy completely painted by an unpublished Vasari. Another important stop is the facade of the church of Gesù Nuovo with the inscriptions of the guilds of the Piperno masters, but our journey will end, after having crossed the whole of "Spaccanapoli" and Piazza San Domenico Maggiore where we can taste a great “Sfogliatella” or we could have a caffè, in the delightful church of S. Angelo in Nilo where on the altar there is a wonderful work by the master Donatello.
Naples Port ShorExcursion: Best of Naples Walking Tour with Friendly local Guide
Naples has so much to see, it’s hard to know where to start. This small-group walking tour is ideal for first-time visitors exploring the UNESCO-listed center and checking off top attractions. Free Lunch time time (own expense) to taste the real food of Naples! Enjoy this impressive walking tour visiting the Best of Naples with local friendly expert licensed tour guide. Departure and Return will be at Naples Cruise Port, right outside your ship. Worry-free Shore Excursion: We will ensure your timely return to the Naples Cruise Port for this activity. In the rare event your ship has departed, we will arrange for transportation to the next port-of-call. See our terms and conditions for full details.
Naples Highlights & Pompeii Private Tour
You'll begin your coastal drive south to the ancient City of Pompeii in the morning. Be guided around one of the most famous archeological sites in the world by your personal story teller for a 2 hour tour. You'll be shown the best sights within this ancient open-air museum. You'll then be driven back to the centre of Naples to start your city walking tour. Be expertly explained places like Piazza Garibaldi, the San Carlo Opera House, San Francesco di Paola Church, the former Royal Palace, Umberto I Gallery, & the Castle Nuovo. You'll be shown one of the best places to live the true Neapolitan lifestyle and enjoy a local coffee before heading back to your hotel.
Naples Experience from Naples Cruise Port ShorExcursion Guided Walking Tour
Naples has so much to see, it’s hard to know where to start. This small-group walking tour is ideal for first-time visitors exploring the UNESCO-listed center and checking off top attractions. Free Lunch time time (own expense) to taste the real food of Naples! Enjoy this impressive walking tour visiting the Best of Naples with local friendly expert licensed tour guide. Departure and Return will be at Naples Cruise Port, right outside your ship. Worry-free Shore Excursion: We will ensure your timely return to the Naples Cruise Port for this activity. In the rare event your ship has departed, we will arrange for transportation to the next port-of-call. See our terms and conditions for full details
Private Naples Walking Tour with Tourist Guide
Capital of a kingdom in different historical periods, Naples is today the third metropolis of Italy and the first in the South by extension. With our private tour we will explore the center, retracing history through its symbolic places: the Castel Nuovo, the San Carlo Theater, the Umberto I Gallery, the Royal Palace, the Piazza del Plebiscito and the famous Caffé Gambrinus. From the squares we will move to the waterfront to experience Naples in all its aspects, even the most unusual corners. Only in this way will you take home your unique and personal postcard.
Naples daylight - Day trip from Naples
This tour will give you a glimpse of this multicultural city in three different areas, including: a drive along the seaside for a view of the whole bay from Posillipo and Mergellina; a stroll through the opulent monumental district enclosing Plebiscito square, Royal Palace and San Carlo Theater; a walk along Spaccanapoli, the oldest urban settlement of Greek origins. Ancient Greek philosopher Homer, in his epic poem Odyssey tells the story of Ulysses and his travels to the Italian coasts. When approaching these waters he encountered the mermaids who tried to attract the sailors into the sea with their enchanting singing, for later killing them. Ulysses, warned already by sorceress Circe, put wax earplugs to his fellow seamen and tied himself up to the ship’s mast, in order to resist the attractive creatures: one of these, the mermaid Parthenope landed on the little island of Megaride, where it stands the Castle dell’Ovo. From here the other name for Napoli, Partenope.
Naples and Pompeii Half-Day Guided Tour from Naples
Have a great view of both locations (Naples and Pompeii) in only one day guided tour! Enjoy a fantastic guided tour of Naples and Pompeii. Have the chance to visit the most important monuments of the cities accompanied by an expert licensed guide. PS. Tour Departure starting from 2 participants.
Private 4 days Route in Campania Region from Naples with Hotel pick-up
Enjoy this private 4 days experience to get to know the most important places and monuments in Naples, Pompeii and Amalfi Coast. This tour has been divided in four separate days to offer a more relaxed and private experience. Day 1: private transfer from Naples Airport to hotel or accomodation in the center of Naples. Only one luggage per person is included. In the afternoon, 4 hours walking tour in Naples with your official guide. Pick up in your hotel or central place. Entrance ticket to San Severo Chapel included. Day 2: Private 4 hours tour to Pompeii. Pick-up from your hotel in Naples. Once in Pompeii, you will meet your official tour guide for a 2.5 hours guided tour. Entrance ticket to Pompeii included. Day 3: Private 8 hours tour to Amalfi Coast with your private driver in a luxury vehicle. Visit Amalfi, Positano and Ravello with your private driver. Day 4: transfer OUT from hotel to Naples Airport. Only one luggage per person is included. - SAVE COVID-19 SAFE
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Sheridan College, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
from Newscaf: “Canada is a leader in animation, pumping out scores of professionally trained artists every year from places such as Sheridan College in Oakville, Ont., and Vancouver’s Visual College of Art and Design. But as they enter the industry, they face a tumultuous landscape of rapidly changing technology and economic upheaval. Three of the…
Algonquin College partnership with Shopify to offer students a hands-on experience in graphic design
from Techopia: Shopify U has added graphic design to its course offerings. The e-commerce company announced a partnership with Algonquin College to offer 60 students a hands-on education in graphic design. Shopify employees partnered with instructors from Algonquin College to design a nine-week multidisciplinary course as part of the School of Media and Design. As…
Capilano University Graphic Design students transform experiences from seniors into shareable posters
from TrendHunter: “Capilano University’s IDEA School of Design, a department that’s located in North Vancouver, British Columbia, assigned its students to visit the Silver Harbour Seniors’ Centre in to interview those there. The goal was to get an understanding of their experiences and to attain useful advice that could be transformed into a graphic design.…
Selkirk College Hairstyling grad finds successful, passion-filled career in Vancouver
from the press release: “One of Selkirk College’s top Hairstylist Program graduates has cut, coloured and up-done herself to a successful career in a downtown Vancouver salon. Full of enthusiasm and ambition, she’s just 20 years old. Amber Beckjord graduated from Selkirk College’s Hairstylist Program in 2014 at the age of 17 passionate about all things hair.…
Cambrian College Graphic Design students benefit from partnership with local businesses
from the Sudbury Star: “Cambrian College Graphic Design students will be earning credits and pay cheques at the same time thanks to a partnership with four local businesses. The partnership was announced on January 13 between Cambrian College’s Graphic Design program; its applied research arm, Cambrian Innovates, and the Ontario Centres for Excellence VEBTA program. …
Selkirk College professor brings the art and culture of graphic novels to students:
from the Nelson Star: “Once condemned as a dangerous force of moral degradation, comics and graphic novels have come to be recognized as important cultural texts. “I’ve always been interested in popular culture as an expression of our deepest desires,” said Nelson professor Renée Jackson-Harper. “Graphic novels like Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and David B’s Epileptic,…
Emily Carr University graduate exhibited at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver
Emily Carr University
from The Source, a forum for diversity: “In the upcoming exhibitions, running from Jan. 13–Mar.17 at the Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), Wild Child and The Quantified Self Poems redress our preoccupation with labeling. “The two projects are conflated in some ways,” says Taşdelen. Always curious, the Emily Carr University graduate approaches his ideas through research – first through the…
Student-powered OddBird Studio has a remarkable year
The third-year Bachelor of Game Design students who fuel OddBird Studio entered the 2016 fall term at Sheridan in the same whirlwind manner that has characterized much of their past year as indie developers. They spent the first week of September in Seattle, showcasing their debut game Arrow Heads at PAX West – one of…
Sheridan signs historic agreement with Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre
from the press release: “Sheridan College took part last week in a Commercial Signing Ceremony held in Shanghai, China, and witnessed by the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Minister of International Trade. The agreement, signed by Michael Rubinoff, Associate Dean of Visual and Performing Arts at Sheridan, and Yang Shaolin, General Manager of the Shanghai Dramatic…
Contemporary Artist Kent Monkman
from Ovation, Sheridan’s Alumni Magazine: “It’s easy to be drawn into Kent Monkman’s paintings. He seduces the viewer with beautiful, richly colourful works, often depicting romantic 19th century western landscapes. But a closer look reveals images of violence and oppression central to the artist’s revisionist version of North American aboriginal history. Of Cree descent, Monkman…
Les finissants d’Arts visuels du Cégep de Sainte-Foy s’exposent
du communiqué de presse : « Les étudiants finissants du programme d’Arts visuels du Cégep de Sainte-Foy exposeront leurs œuvres dans le hall du pavillon des arts et du design du Cégep, dès le 27 mai. Le vernissage de l’exposition intitulée Callipyge aura lieu le vendredi 27 mai dès 17 h, une occasion rêvée de rencontrer la…
Les étudiants du Cégep de Sainte-Foy récompensés à l’Exposition de Design industriel 2016
du communiqué de presse : « Du 20 au 26 mai dernier, la Galerie Espaces Parenthèse du Cégep de Sainte-Foy accueillait l’exposition des finissants en Design industriel du Cégep de Sainte-Foy. Les finissants, au nombre de 16 cette année, en ont mis plein la vue aux visiteurs. Lors du vernissage, le mercredi 25 mai, plusieurs prix ont été…
Le Cégep de Sainte-Foy fête une Semaine Shakespeare
du communiqué de presse : « Du 7 au 11 novembre, tous les étudiants du Cégep de Sainte-Foy vibreront au rythme de Shakespeare, dans le cadre du 400e anniversaire de la mort du célèbre auteur. La semaine thématique organisée conjointement par les quatre disciplines de la formation générale (Français, Philosophie, Éducation physique et Anglais) propose aux étudiants…
Le Cégep de Sainte-Foy forme une nouvelle génération de graphistes avec le STUDIO Jeune coop
du communiqué de presse : « Favoriser l’insertion professionnelle de la prochaine génération de graphistes et développer les aptitudes entrepreneuriales de ces derniers, voilà les objectifs que vise la toute nouvelle coopérative scolaire du programme de Graphisme du Cégep de Sainte-Foy : Le STUDIO jeune coop. Unique au Québec, cette coopérative scolaire permet à quelque 32 étudiants de…
Les étudiants du Cégep Limoilou présente la pièce Les Marchands
Cégep Limoilou
du communiqué de presse : « Pour sa 38e saison de théâtre d’excellence, le Cégep Limoilou présente la pièce Les marchands du 23 au 25 novembre, à 19 h 30, à la salle Sylvain-Lelièvre. Une représentation de jour aura lieu le vendredi 25 novembre à 13 h 15. Les marchands est un texte de Joël Pommerat, mis en scène par Joanie Lehoux. Produit par…
Le Cégep Limoilou fête le succès du premier Show Mode socio
du communiqué de presse : « La première édition du Show Mode socio qui s’est déroulé le 23 novembre dernier au campus de Charlesbourg, fut un beau succès! Plus de 40 étudiants se sont mobilisés pour ce projet socio qui a été chapeauté par des étudiants de 3e année en gestion hôtelière : Coralie Blairon, Jennifer Chabot-Plourde, Myriam Dostie, Jean-Michel…
Le Cégep Limoilou lance un tout nouveau programme AEC Artiste 3D
du communiqué de presse : « Une toute nouvelle AEC Artiste 3D voit le jour au Cégep Limoilou pour répondre aux besoins de l’industrie. Les cours débuteront dès le 27 février prochain. C’est donc le temps de s’inscrire ! Les artistes 3D créeront les environnements et l’ambiance d’une scène, pour le cinéma ou la télé, par exemple,…
Le Collège Vanier ouvre une nouvelle librairie coopérative
Collège Vanier
du communiqué de presse : « Le Collège Vanier est fier d’annoncer que l’ouverture officielle de Jake’s Co-op, la librairie coopérative du cégep, s’est déroulée le 7 décembre 2016. La nouvelle librairie est gérée par la coopérative étudiante et est membre de la Fédération québécoise de coopératives en milieux scolaires (FQCMS). L’équipe de la librairie avait du…
Le Cégep régional de Lanaudière met en vedette les étudiants et enseignants du département de Musique
du communiqué de presse : « Les étudiants et les enseignants en Musique du Cégep à Joliette ont connu un automne haut en couleur. Plusieurs spectacles donnés, présence radiophonique et télévisuelle, participation à des événements de grande importance; c’est la tête haute et le cœur rempli de fierté qu’ils terminent cette session d’automne 2016. Lors de la partie d’ouverture de…
Le Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles lance une nouvelle version du programme d’Arts
Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles
du communiqué de presse : « C’est avec beaucoup d’enthousiasme que le Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles annonce la mise en place d’une nouvelle version du programme d’Arts, lettres et communication entre les Campus de Carleton-sur-Mer et des Îles-de-la-Madeleine, dès l’automne 2017. De la côte…aux Îles! Ce programme proposera une approche multidisciplinaire mettant de…
Les étudiants en journalisme de La Cité récompensés lors de la soirée « Reportages vidéastes 2016 »
du communiqué de presse : « La soirée de «Reportages vidéastes 2016» a récompensé des étudiants en journalisme lors d’une présentation qui s’est déroulée à l’amphithéâtre de La Cité. Douze reportages réalisés dans le cadre du cours Atelier de Journalisme Télé 1 ont été présentés. Chaque étudiant a effectué la recherche, la couverture, le tournage, le montage et la…
Vancouver Island University Culinary Arts grads find rewarding careers with luxury hotels
from the press release: “Vancouver Island University (VIU) Culinary Arts program graduate Perry Assu is living his dream. For fun, he snowboards down some of the finest slopes in the world at the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort and for work, he cooks up fine culinary creations in the luxurious Fairmont Chateau Whistler. Assu, 19, who…
Former St. Clair College Graphic Art students launch cathartic exhibit in Southern Ontario
St. Clair College
from The Windsor Star: Artist Dave Mutnjakovic started drawing as a cathartic way to deal with the challenges of living with Crohn’s disease. “I nearly died when I was 14 because I was misdiagnosed,” said Mutnjakovic. “Suddenly I started drawing and it poured out of me for six years.” Now 34, he works as an…
Red River College’s training restaurant is quickly becoming a culinary hub on Winnipeg’s hot new food scene
from Maclean’s: “It started with Deer + Almond in 2012. The small-plate restaurant popped up on Princess Street in Winnipeg’s Exchange District, offering a new option to downtown office workers and hip university students. Then, King and Bannatyne’s sandwiches drew lunchtime crowds. Next, Bronuts and Chosabi opened side by side in 2015, each tempting diners…
Architectural Technologies students learn both building sciences and interior design at Saskatchewan Polytechnic
Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s Architectural Technologies program incorporates interior design, building sciences, drafting methods, and geometry in a practical trades program. from Maclean’s: “Back in the ’70s they were known merely as draftsmen: people hunched over tables using pencils and mechanical tools to churn out blueprints for architects and contractors. But an evolutionary educational process has spawned…
Durham College Music Business Administration grad makes it to Top 40 with debut single
from Maclean’s: “Sarah Mark didn’t realize just how much she had learned in college until she got her first Top 40 hit on the radio. Granted, she had barely finished college when that happened. Her debut single “Tun Up,” a jaunty R&B summertime pop anthem, started getting serious airtime on Canadian radio stations just as…
Emily Carr University of Art and Design grad turns technicolour paintings and love of baking into edible works of art
from The Globe and Mail: “What colours come to mind when you think of a dimly lit parking garage in the heart of an urban city centre, a Saskatchewan sunset at the beginning of autumn or a big, creamy scoop of Saskatoon berry ice cream? A visual artist and pastry chef in San Francisco, Leah…
Red River College mechanical engineer designs handlebar adaptation for Canadian paralympian
Red River College mechanical engineer designs a handlebar adaptation for Canadian competing in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. from CBC: “When Chantal Givens raced Sunday at the Paralympic Games, she had a piece of Winnipeg along for the ride. The three-time Canadian paratriathlon champion, who competed in the sport’s Paralympic debut in Rio, was born missing her left hand. In an effort to…
Giant pinhole camera offers a new experience for photography students
Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD)
An associate professor from Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) developed a giant pinhole camera to offer students a view of how a camera works from the inside: from Maclean’s: “Think back to high school photography class and recall the pinhole camera. Remember nothing? A quick refresher: “When light comes into any light-tight chamber,…
Cambrian College Graphic Design grad earns top award in RGD Student Awards Competition
from the press release: “An outstanding graduate of Cambrian College’s Graphic Design program has been recognized for excellence in visual communication and design, earning top awards through the RGD Student Awards competition. Neli Nenkova’s winning work was selected by judges from the Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) and was featured at the annual DesignThinkers conference held in Toronto in November 2016. Nenkova…
Former student at Emily Carr University on display at Heritage Hall in Vancouver
Paintings by Lan Yao, a former art student at Emily Carr University, on display at the Shiny Fuzzy Muddy show at Heritage Hall in Vancouver. from The Squamish Chief: “Squamish’s Lan Yao never really found the opportunity to produce art on her own time when she worked in 3D animation in Vancouver. But, in recent…
Lethbridge College adds new way of designing to its Interior Design Technology program
Lethbridge College Interior Design Technology program launches virtual-reality component to help both students and clients better visual projects. from the Lethbridge Herald: “There’s a new way of designing, and students at Lethbridge College are getting the chance to explore it firsthand. Students in the Interior Design Technology (IDT) program are getting the opportunity to work…
George Brown College opens another BIM Visionarium lab
George Brown College opens its second Building Information Modelling (BIM) lab to help students develop digital skills in building design and modelling. from the press release: “The BIM Visionarium officially opened on Nov. 25, 2016 at the Centre for Construction and Engineering Technologies at Casa Loma Campus – the second space of its kind at the campus. BIM technology…
Vancouver Art Gallery exhibit features artists from Emily Carr University
An new exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Ambivalent Pleasures, features artists with ties to Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Of the 40 artists exhibited, 26 are either faculty or alumni of the University! The exhibit presents Surrealist strategies, a range of approaches to abstraction, and concepts which address today’s social contexts. from…
Seneca College partners with CFC and AGO on ground-breaking virtual reality exhibit
Seneca College’s School of Creative Arts and Animation, the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab, and the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) partner on Small Wonders: The Gothic Boxwood Miniatures exhibit to showcase rare boxwood carvings in 3D. from the press release: “The Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab (CFC Media Lab), Seneca’s School of Creative Arts and Animation and the Art…
ACAD receives prestigious art & design designation
Alberta College of Art and Design
from the press release: “ACAD is pleased to announce that it has received the National Association of Schools of Art and Design’s (NASAD) designation of Substantial Equivalency – their highest designation for a post-secondary institution not located in the United States. The institution is the only independent art, craft and design post-secondary institution in Canada…
George Brown College signs agreements with Design schools in Ireland and Italy
George brown college launches two exciting new opportunities for art & design students to further their education abroad, both with the Institute or Art, Design and Technology (IADT) in Ireland and with Politecnico di Milano in Italy. from the press release: “The creation of this opportunity is a significant announcement – not only for us,…
Okanagan College once again hosts Short Story Contest to encourage young writers
A challenge has been issued to local writers: go big on creativity while short on time. Okanagan College’s English department is once again inviting up-and-coming writers to step out of their comfort zones and into the frenzied creative world of the popular 3-Hour Short Story Contest, returning Saturday, Nov. 5 at all four campuses. The…
Centennial College unveils new Culinary Arts Centre
In fall 2016, Centennial College unveiled its new Culinary Arts Centre, complete with seven kitchen labs, a teaching restaurant and nine new classrooms that can accommodate 600 students. from Centennial College: “The striking new building takes the shape of a quadrangle with a central courtyard to allow natural light to reach all of the residence…
Fleming College receives design award for Haliburton school rebranding
from the press release: “The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) is recognizing the transformation and rebranding of Fleming College’s Haliburton School of Art + Design (HSAD) with a prestigious design award. Fleming College will receive an RGD In-House Design Award of Distinction at the Association’s upcoming DesignThinkers conference in Toronto on Nov. 4. Formerly known as…
UFV Library literary arts project displays “human books” to bust stereotypes
UFV’s unique literary arts project aims to display a Human Library that builds on personal experiences and outward appearances to challenge prejudices on campus. from the UFV blog: “Our mission is to present unique experiences that challenge peoples’ understanding of stereotypes and educate people on diversity,” says Lisa Morry, a UFV library technician and part of…
Four institutions sign transfer agreement for Arts students
Capilano University, Douglas College, Langara College, Okanagan College
from the press release: “Four post-secondary providers have made it easier for college transfer students to complete a bachelor of arts at Capilano University. The University recently signed agreements to enable Douglas, Langara and Okanagan college students to transfer seamlessly into year three of Capilano University’s bachelor of Arts with a major in Liberal Studies.…
Great Plains College students weld metal art for can’t miss-auction
Great Plains College
Great Plains College’s unique metal-art auction showcases student art achievements. as profiled in Maclean’s: “Chad Hittel, 21, has to step up his A game. Since he graduated in 2014 from the pre-employment welding certificate program at Great Plains College (GPC), Hittel always donates a piece of metal art to the program’s annual fundraising auction. In…
Niagara College excels in Culinary Arts
from the press release: Niagara College’s Junior Culinary Team Canada proved that it has the recipe for success, winning a gold medal in its first of two competitions at the 2016 Culinary Olympics. The team from Niagara College’s Canadian Food and Wine Institute competed in its first competition at the IKA /Culinary Olympics in Erfurt,…
University of the Fraser Valley launches “Bachelor of Arts 2.0”
from the press release: “The University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) is reshaping the venerable Bachelor of Arts degree, the foundation of many university graduates’ education. The new BA is linked to UFV’s key learning outcomes and emphasizes four core competencies as well as personal and social responsibility, and adds a mandatory online ePortfolio that highlights the…
MITT GPTech program thrives through industry collaboration
Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology
Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology’s (MITT) Graphic and Print Technician (GPTech) program not only provides students a learning experience which spans the continuum from design to ship-ready product; it also gets them hands-on experience with bona fide industry tools, including a large-format printer which Hamilton says is “in huge demand” these days. This is…
Candace Sanderson: The Sculptor
Candace Sanderson did not give herself a ‘Plan B’ when she made the decision to pursue her creative passion full time in 2012. “I always knew I wanted to be an artist even from a young age,” says Sanderson in work boots, with bright eyes and her hair pulled back into a braid that falls…
Collection et Créations sous influences
« Créations sous influences » est un projet qui existe depuis 10 ans. Ce projet, qui est une initiative du département d’Arts, lettres et communication du Cégep de Lanaudière à L’Assomption, a pour objectif de permettre à des étudiants de travailler sous la direction d’artistes professionnels. Depuis 2006, une cinquantaine d’étudiants ont ainsi produit une vingtaine…
OFFF Tour Québec
Cégep Édouard-Montpetit
Le OFFF Tour Québec, créé par le Département de techniques d’intégration multimédia du cégep Édouard-Montpetit, est un événement annuel d’envergure internationale regroupant des centaines d’amateurs et de professionnels du domaine de la création numérique. Sur place, les participants assistent aux prestations d’artistes de renom des quatre coins du monde qui présentent le fruit de leur…
Holland College student trades hockey stick for paint brush
Holland College
Three years ago, Dylan McQuaid’s résumé would have led one to expect that the 20-year-old would pursue a career in business or sports. After several years of playing hockey – the last three in the Maritime Junior-A Hockey League and the Island Junior Hockey League – he seemed destined to follow the path of many…
St. Clair College’s Jason Fabok
Windsor, Ontario born Jason Fabok is a graduated from St. Clair College’s Tradigital Animation program in 2007 and was honoured as an Alumni of Distinction in 2014! Fabok has carried his passion for creative pursuits since he was a young boy. A fan of television cartoons, he enjoyed drawing the characters and watching them come…
Le design responsable du Collège LaSalle
Collège LaSalle
Le Collège LaSalle de Montréal “a pour mission d’offrir une éducation qualifiante de haute qualité en réponse aux besoins du marché du travail et à ceux du développement des individus, dans un contexte de mondialisation”. À l’aide de divers intervenants du milieu de la mode, les étudiants en Design sont appelés à développer leurs connaissances…
Future Ways of Living Cultural Celebration and Pop-Up Lab
The unique George Brown College Institute without Boundaries (IwB), a Toronto-based educational program and design studio, works to achieve social, ecological, and economic innovation through design collaboration. from George Brown College: “The Institute without Boundaries (IwB) was founded in 2003 by the School of Design at George Brown College, in consultation with Bruce Mau. The…
I am my Ancestors…My Ancestors are me
Amber Weasel Head is a visual artist, a student in Portage College’s Social Work program, and a graduate of the College’s Aboriginal Art Certificate program and its Artisan Entrepreneurship Diploma program. “I am my Ancestors… My Ancestors are me” tells her story: “This film is about my connection with my ancestors. I am the first…
Hairdressing Fantasy Competition
North West College
North West College offers the full breadth of Adult learning opportunities, one of which is a pre-employment certificate program in Hairstyling, teaching students to perform techniques on hair, wigs, hairpieces, skin and nails. Each year, the Hairstyling students are challenged to compete in a Fantasy Competition. Judged by a panel of experts, students submit mannequins finished…
Career training and culture coalesce at MITT
When the Downtown Winnipeg Biz put out a call for street banners to celebrate the Year of the Monkey (“Fire Monkey”), students in Jan Hamilton’s Graphic and Print Technician program (GPTech) at Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology answered the call, submitting 22 amazing designs. One of those designs – by MITT student Zhiling (Lucia)…
Lakeland College Interior Design student a double winner in design competitions
Sydney Melnyk still can’t believe she’s a double winner in student design competitions. “It’s pretty crazy; I can hardly believe it,” says the Lakeland College alumna of winning first place in two National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) design competitions: the 2015-16 Charette Design Competition and the 2015-16 Schoolhouse Charm Student Design Competition. Competing against…
Camosun College’s Comic Arts Festival celebrates the artistry of visual storytelling
Camosun College in Victoria, BC, delivers a nationally unique certificate program in Comics and Graphic Novels each year to approximately 30 students. The one-of-a-kind program was created for students who have a desire to learn the language of visual storytelling, and focuses on skills-based learning for six career paths: comic book creation (print & online),…
“Carrying On” Indigenous Art Exhibition 2016
Portage College students from the Native Arts and Culture program were successfully juried into the “Carrying On” Indigenous Art exhibition at the Alberta Craft Council Discovery Gallery last year from June 18th to July 23rd, 2016. The show was also part of The Works Art and Design Festival in Edmonton, which is presented by The…
Fanshawe collaborates on motion capture suit for Parkinson’s patients
Fanshawe College of Applied Arts and Technology
Fanshawe College has collaborated with researchers at Movement Disorder Diagnostic Technologies Inc. (MDDT), a locally-based medical device company to create a prototype of a motion-capture suit and tremor arm sleeve to be used in the diagnosis and monitoring of Parkinson’s patients. MDDT collaborated with Fanshawe’s School of Design to create a prototype suit that can…
The Medicine Hat College Conservatory of Music and Dance
The Medicine Hat College Conservatory of Music and Dance is an important contributor to the Southern Alberta arts community – one that also enjoys the distinction of being one of the institution’s eldest programming areas, opening its doors shortly after the College was founded in 1965. On an annual basis, almost 1,000 multi-generational students enrol…
Full Blood Moon Entertainment: Films that Shifts Perspectives
They call themselves “The Four Horsemen.” They have more to do with film-making than the apocalypse, but the four gentlemen who make up Full Blood Moon Entertainment Inc. are working hard to create a global shift nonetheless. Today, however, they are taking a break at their shared alma mater. Sitting in dark suits in the…
Kelsi McInnes found her calling
Before Kelsi McInnes became a music therapist she first had to discover the profession existed. It all started when the Manning, AB, native was working in part-time respite care as a university student. Her client was a little girl with spinal muscular atrophy. McInnes found it incredibly fulfilling to help improve the well-being of another…
Dalen Landis is a man of many talents
As a photographer, landscape painter, custom tiler, videographer, music-festival organizer and now, professional beer brewer, Dalen Landis is not kidding when he says “I have my fingers in a few different pots.” This morning his fingers are busy filling kegs with fresh Redwillow Falls Amber Ale. A co-owner of Grain Bin Brewing, Landis has also…
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Art Medium
by Stephen R. Smith | Sep 21, 2018 | Story | 5 comments
Author: Steve Smith, Staff Writer
Rebecca stood in the middle of her little gallery and surveyed her work. She’d hoped her recent direction was going to be different, maybe spark some kind of reaction from this sleepy little town, but the series hadn’t gotten anything more than polite smiles.
Not one piece had sold. She should never have left Chicago.
Her mournful reverie was broken with a crash, as her boyfriend barreled through the front door struggling with the apparent weight of a large plastic bucket.
“Becc, you’ve gotta see this stuff,” he deposited the pail heavily at her feet, causing thick liquid to splash over the sides, “it’s from that meteorite we saw hit the woods.”
Rebecca surveyed the bucket of viscous, deep coloured liquid, and the splatters across the barnboard floor and her sandal-clad feet, a mix of anger and distaste brewing at the back of her throat.
“Lewis,” she started slowly, “what have…,” she paused, the sudden urge to touch the liquid replacing her annoyance, and she plunged one hand into the pail, pulling it back and studying the near luminescent swirling glove of colour that enveloped her to the wrist.
“It’s beautiful,” she turned and wiped a large stripe across one of the closest finished canvases on the wall. Using both hands, she began smearing the material, pushing out to the edges until the surface was covered completely. She was enthralled as she worked the material, at different thicknesses and stroke directions, it became many different colours, like gasoline on water.
“Get it all,” she turned, fixing Lewis with a stare, “I need all of it.”
Lewis simply nodded as he exited the same clumsy way he’d come in.
Rebecca dragged the bucket around the gallery, covering every canvas she could find with scenes that seemed to her to be almost alive; landscapes with people who seemed to sway of their own accord as the material shimmered in the light and shadow. She made portraits of figures with deep shadows where their eyes and mouths should be, featureless creatures whose gaze nevertheless seemed to follow her around the room as she worked.
Over the next few days, Lewis brought several more buckets into the gallery before he stopped coming at all.
Rebecca didn’t notice.
Someone came in and left with a painting, Rebecca too preoccupied to bother about taking money for it, and before long others came and left, each with a piece of her new found art. Word spread, and as quickly as she could finish the paintings, they were carried off to people’s homes, the surfaces not even dry.
When she ran out of her own canvases, she cannibalized other artwork she owned, and when they were gone she tore covers off the hardback books she’d collected and painted those.
Once she’d run completely out of the liquid, and lacking anything on which to paint anyways, she left the gallery for the first time in weeks.
Walking past her large front windows, she caught her own reflection in the glass. Branches had grown from her back and shoulders, pushing through the fabric of her shirt to reach skyward, gnarly and grotesque. Her face a spiderweb of bruised lines, undulating in waves beneath the surface. She paused to straighten her shirt collar before turning back to the sidewalk.
Across the street, she watched as one of the townsfolk sublimated while walking past the coffee shop. He turned to step off the curb into the street and, just as a sudden gust of wind blew past, he simply became smoke.
She made it perhaps twenty more steps towards the downtown before stopping, a desire stronger than any gale force wind forcing her back.
She turned and headed instead, unimpeded, towards the edge of town.
As the ‘Welcome to our community’ sign faded behind her, and the sound of the interstate was carried to her ears on the evening breeze, she knew it wouldn’t be long.
A city was calling.
Jae on October 22, 2018 at 8:48 am
There’s a vector for every imperative.
Good tale.
Hari Navarro on September 21, 2018 at 1:54 pm
A wonderfully surreal canvas in itself. Loved this.
xdhz8 on September 21, 2018 at 9:40 am
Art, and aliens, work in mysterious ways. Very nice.
Adam Gerencser on September 21, 2018 at 5:43 am
The menacing enchantment of the technicolour ooze – a crafty Lovecraftian tale.
AlaskanSalmon on September 21, 2018 at 3:36 am
Darn art majors working with alien powers to bring down Chicago…
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Meals are available at 6:30PM and can be picked up at Al Amana Grocery through Cadwaller St entrance.
Recent Events and News at Al-Aqsa Islamic Society
Jum’ah Prayers Time Update
Assallamu Allaikum dear Brothers and Sisters in Islam. The new Friday prayer times effective November 1, 2010 will be offered at two times that will allow two groups to pray. There is limited space and smaller capacity as a result of social distance measures. There is also a first come, first serve policy. The First […]
Friday, 11/20/2020, Prayer Updates
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته مسجد جمعية الأقصى الإسلامية سيبقى مفتوح للمصلين ابتداءا من يوم الجمعة الموافق 11/20/الرجاء إحضار سجادة الصلاة كمامة الوجه وان كنت مريضًا الرجاء تجنب المسجد حرصا على سلامة المصلين . صلاة الجمعة الاولى 12:30 صلاة الجمعة الثانية 1:30 العدد محدود Peace, mercy and blessings of God be upon you all. The […]
Free Food Pickup – Saturdays 4PM-6PM
FREE FOOD PICK UP BOXES OF FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES يتم توزيع الطعام يوم السبت المصادف ٢٠٢٠/٦/٦ الساعة الرابعة عصرا. في ساحة وقوف السيارات التابعة لجامع الأقصى No ID or proof of income required. One box per household but you are welcome to pick up a box for seniors or neighbors unable to come to […]
Eid Al Adha will be Friday, July 31, 2020
Assallamu Allaikum Eid Mubarak! We would like to wish you and your families a very joyful Eid. May Allah accept your prayers and forgive your sins! Eid Al Adha will be Friday, July 31, 2020 We will be performing two Eid prayer salats. The first Prayer will be at 1st – 7:00 AM sharp 2nd […]
Interfaith Response to the Murder of George Floyd | Letter of Solidarity and Commitment to Action
We, the undersigned members and leaders of religious, civil rights, interfaith, and social justice organizations condemn the murder of George Floyd who died during an arrest…Onlookers watched horrified as Mr. Floyd laid on the ground handcuffed, pinned down by former police officer Derek Chauvin’s knee on his neck begging for his life. He pleaded, “Please […]
Eid Al Fitr has been announced to be on Sunday, May 24, 2020. We at Al Al Aqsa would like to Wish you a a Very Blessed Eid! May Allah accept our fasts, approve of our good deeds, multiple our charity, and forgive our shortcomings. May He ease the suffering in our community and across […]
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Ramadan Calendar 2020/1440-41
Friday Prayer Broadcast
Our Friday prayer will be broadcasted on our Facebook page. Follow the link to the page and view our broadcast!
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Al-Aqsa Islamic Academy
Al-Aqsa Islamic Academy is a full-time private Islamic school offering classes from Kindergarten-10th grade. We aim to provide an Islamic environment for all students, enabling them to acquire academic excellence and Islamic morals to prepare them to become viable individuals able to meet the challenges of our changing world.
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Community Joins Local Mosque, Mural Arts and New Mayor to Create Art
Breaking barriers and building community through art
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Arab American CDC
The Arab American CDC works with Al-Aqsa to help assist the community with various social services such as helping aquire low income utility assistance, government benefits, tax returns, immigration, legal services, youth programs, affordable housing and much more. The AACDC office is conveniently located in the mosque. For more information, contact office manager Amna Ahmad (215)765-0607 or visit www.arabamericancdc.org
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And the Tony Nominees Are…
S2019 E6 | FULL EPISODE
Peter Nigrini, “Ain’t Too Proud” and “Beetlejuice”
In this episode of “And the Tony Nominees Are…” Peter Nigrini, 2019 Tony Award Nominee, Best Lighting Design of a Musical (with Kenneth Posner), “Beetlejuice” and Best Scenic Design of a Musical (with Robert Brill) ,“Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations” recalls his early childhood experiences of being different from everyone around him.
AIRED: June 05, 2019 | 0:03:52
All through grade school
I didn't say the Pledge of Allegiance,
and every year at the beginning of school,
it was my job to explain to my teacher
why I wasn't going to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
But I realize now that's like --
it's a big thing to expend
your entire formative years going through
what for me was a ritual in which I was defined
as something separate from all the people around me.
My name is Peter Nigrini.
I'm a projection designer, and I was nominated with Robert Brill
for the Best Set Design for "Ain't Too Proud".
And I was also nominated with Ken Posner
for the Best Lighting Design for "Beetlejuice: The Musical".
You have to be someone who is willing
to step outside of the norm.
Making art by following the rules
is sort of the antithesis of making art.
I was a passable singer. I did once act in a play.
I acted in "Tartuffe".
The night that I missed two of my entrances
and I only had two entrances was the night I realized
maybe this wasn't what I should be doing with my life.
By the time I was in undergrad,
I was clear that I wanted to be a designer.
If I were to give advice to my younger self,
it would be to take fewer theater courses.
Ultimately, making theater is a craft,
and teaching it in an academic environment
is something that I'm not so sure is the best course.
And at Dartmouth, I had that opportunity.
By the time I left Dartmouth, I designed 22 productions.
It was because I was the only guy to do it,
but that experience, just that repetition
of making things is what's critical.
I started out as a lighting designer
and as a scenic designer.
Then, eventually, years and years later,
ten years after I left Dartmouth
sort of came onto the idea of projection design,
at a time when the field was still in its infancy.
I'm so fortunate that, like,
I started doing this right at this moment
when the whole field was sort of
in the process of coming into being.
All of a sudden, we could make things
at almost the same speed as performers.
One of the things that I think is so important
is we are making live theater.
The live performers must always be the beginning
and the end of what we're doing.
And so, when I come into the room
with several million dollars worth of computers
and God knows how many projectors,
that the goal is ultimately to make all of that equipment
subservient to the live performance and the actors,
and what projection allows us to do
is borrow all those things that have been developing
over the last 100 years in the movies
and bring them back into the theater.
And I think that there's an attraction
to live performance now that's new,
that people are, all of a sudden,
realizing that things that are pre-recorded
don't have that immediacy,
and what they desperately want is a real, live, sweating,
maybe nervously shivering human being on stage.
And then, we can build around them
something that is some sort of hybrid
between an old idea of live theater
and a modern idea of cinematic storytelling.
STREAM AND THE TONY NOMINEES ARE… ON
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Camille A. Brown, Tony Award Nominee, "Choir Boy"
Daniel Kluger, Tony Award Nominee, “Oklahoma!”
Gideon Glick, Tony Award Nominee, “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Laurie Metcalf, Tony Award Nominee, “Hillary and Clinton”
Rachel Hauck, Tony Award Nominee, “Hadestown”
Jennifer Tipton, Tony Award Nominee, “To Kill a Mockingbird”
And the Tony Nominees Are…: Preview
What do the paths from childhood to Tony Award nomination look like? We are all first children trying to figure out how to live,acting our way into adulthood. Join Tony nominees Laurie Metcalf (“Hillary and Clinton”), Camille A. Brown (“Choir Boy”), Gideon Glick (“To Kill a Mockingbird”) and others as they share anecdotes from childhood, dreams, stories and moments of inspiration.
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